The other day I read a post where the writer was complaining that teachers are losing jobs and that education in the schools in California is deteriorating because the citizens of the state are not willing to pay more taxes.
For once I actually stopped for a moment and thought before making a comment. But I can't let it go.
Whoever has fed that line to the writer is full of _ _ _ _ [insert your favorite four letter expletive]. As a lifetime citizen and taxpayer, I have watched as dollar after dollar has been taken in the name of education and been diverted by way of mandates to everything but the benefit of students. The biggest most noticeable thing foisted upon Californians, particularly the ignorant poor, has been the lottery, which, if I remember correctly, was sold as a supplement to current education funds when it was first presented.
I wonder how much real money would be available for education if each division of government (state, counties, districts) didn't have a superintendent and staff to support before they started spending the money to educate?
No, I don't think the citizens are against paying taxes for education. I thinks the challenge is convincing them that what is already being paid is being used wisely.
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Funny how every government, of whatever persuasion, seems bent on adding more and more layers of so-called management and more and more layers of bureaucracy while spending less and less on the real object, be it education, health care (in this country), policing or defence.
ReplyDeleteThere was an opinion piece in the local this morning that essentially said that the only way that one of the smaller local schools would be able to remain open is if they let all of the teachers go.
ReplyDeleteThat just about says it all...
ReplyDeleteWell, I may have exaggerated just a hair. But the situation is almost upside down.
ReplyDeleteHere is the opinion from tomorrow's fishwrap.
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