My county only has one planetarium. I feel so deprived. /sarc
I’m sure he knows. Look, my county has a lot of specialty programs, and my kids are both in these programs, and the programs are under a lot of pressure. Even before this round of cuts, there have been classes that are on “menu” that haven’t been offered the last 3 years.
In the end, I’ll probably spend as much on my kids for education as I would have if they had raised the taxes. I’ll have to pay for my daughter’s ACT testing, and maybe SAT testing. I’ll have to spend my time driving her and my son to school, instead of to a closer bus stop (If my daughter learned to drive and drove them, I’d have to pay more for her to park the car, and get another car, and pay all that money for insurance).
But that’s fine — why should everybody else have to pay higher taxes for my kids to get special treatment? I do hope they can keep offering a full range of educational opportunities for kids who have already completed the standard courses, because there’s little an individual parent can do to offer high school classes to kids — but wherever I can take care of my own kids, that’s the way it should be.
You sound like a loving parent. Ever considered sending your kids to the local community college for specialized education? It won’t be ‘free’ but neither are the best things in life.