[PaulaB]

They better figure our some way to fund the poor schools. Last year our school district distributed $55 million dollars to poorer schools in the Dallas/FT Worth school district. The Robin Hood law is a catastrophe. This again goes back to parent responsibility .....do right for your kids by getting an education or working hard to be able to afford property taxes in a great district. It is my tax money that should fund my kids..others are not my responsibility.

[Monty22]

It is a total socialist scam. Also, the stupid lottery was supposed to help, and now they still want more. Horse racing is ok, lottery ok.. But any more is getting silly.

[Blue Screen of Death]

The other big problem with the tax one district and give it to another district is that the person taxed has no vote in the recipient district. We fought a war about this taxation and representation thingie.

How about we educate two kids per family and if someone chooses to have more children, they pay for them. I don't like paying for some family with eight kids in the system.

[mtbopfuyn]

This again goes back to parent responsibility .....do right for your kids by getting an education or working hard to be able to afford property taxes in a great district. It is my tax money that should fund my kids..others are not my responsibility.

While I agree with you that my tax money should fund MY kids' education, I disagree with your affording porperty taxes in a great district will equal a good education. It does go back to parental involvement though. IF that parents would make sure their kids got up every morning and actually walked through the school doors at 8 AM, and IF the parents would make sure their kids don't act like wild animals during class, and IF parents discussed their homework every night, and IF parents would make sure their kids were asleep at a decent hour, and IF parents stayed home and were good role models for their kids, and IF parents just CARED then it wouldn't matter how many $$$ were shuffled into or out of a particular school.

But no, parents are too selfish with their own sorry lives to bother raising good kids who value an education. Some true examples - An 11 year old was left to run wild and was caught smoking dope and having sex with an older male on school property. Another family thinks nothing of going out until closing time on Thursday nights. They argue they're good parents because they take their kids with them, but can't comprehend that kids who don't get home until 2 AM simply can't pass Friday morning tests and wonder why each child is failing. Another kid is so screwed up because of the parent's dope parties. Several in special ed are there because their moms cared more about drugs than their pregnancies. The formative years are before they start school, so who is in charge of them at that age?

[solo gringo]

If your taxes should pay for your children then who am i paying for.I have not had a child in school for 25 years but my school taxes is twice as much as my property taxes.I think it time to educate the kids of Texas and charge anyone not from Texas that is taking advantage of our school system.Tax the consumer and not just property owners.