I wrote this yesterday on my newsblog.
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/its-for-the-children-isnt-it/
It’s for the Children, Isn’t it?
More taxes, of every sort, local and state. Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker wants to raise sales taxes to pay mostly for a new recreation complex on South Farmerville. Our new Governor Edwards says you all have to sacrifice more for sales and income taxes to pay for the tens of thousands of state employees, their retirement, and their medical benefits.
But is the money now going to government efficiently used?
We decided to take a close look at what the costs are to educate children in Lincoln Parish Schools, compared to the cost of educating children at one of the premier private schools in North Louisiana, Cedar Creek.
According to the latest audit for Lincoln School District, the 2014 cost per pupil is $13,603, almost double the cost of 2005. Notice also that there were 20 fewer teachers in 2014 than in 2005.
See here the document.
See here the complete audit.
Compare those costs with the tuition costs at Cedar Creek of $6,290/yr or $6,570/yr, depending on grade level. Additional costs are a $650/yr student fee for books and supplies.
See here the document.
So where does the money go? It’s for the children, isn’t it?
Our schools are run-down, the books old & tattered, and we have many teachers raking in six figures (by adding to their “value” with fake degrees from online universities - “diploma mills” - and “bilingual/bi-cultural” classification). They retire late because it is an easy part-time job that can be done well into their 80s.
The “for the children” mantra is losing its appeal because predominantly white taxpayers can easily see that the student bodies are quickly becoming very “non-white”; millennials see little reason to pay for others’ children’s education - and here in NJ that prevents them from buying homes. Instead, they flee the state - and are replaced by more Third Worlders.