Posted on 10/31/2007 4:14:59 PM PDT by Dubya
I'm hoping for a decrease so I can get some acreage for hunting and retirement. I tell the agents that I shouldn't have to pay for mineral rights I don't get and trees are trash right now, but they just smile and sell it to another yankee snowbird that acts like it's practically free. I guess land in Delaware or New Jersey is more than $3k an acre.
Yes, but you are still paying for the dysfunctional public schools. And when you add that back in to the private school tuition, your costs are probably going to be as high over a lifetime as you are paying for a few years of usable public schools in Texas. That being said, there seems to be a good bit of overstaffing in the non-teaching positions in the public schools. Assistant principals and counselors in the elementary schools, for example; and occupational therapists and speech therapists....
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