Posted on 10/26/2012 9:51:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Hope it fails, home schooling will increase by 90%.
They said the same thing about Prop 13 40 years ago and yet the educational system subsequently went on to rake in more money than ever and expand in all directions.
Does it really make a difference? If it passes, the union will just appeal it and it will be overturned.
BTTT
I thought the lottery solved all the funding needs /sarc
Instead of hitting us with another tax, make some cuts at the administration level. Give us back our union dues (if the NEA gave the dues back to the schools instead of Dem campaigns and propositions, the teachers would have what they need).
No more taxes!
Okay, Smartypants.. If Jerry Brown’s tax hike is defeated, just where are the Democrat politicians supposed to get the money to buy the votes of the illegal Mexican hordes and their anchor babies, huh? Well..?
I know what will fix this.
Let’s import millions of more third worlders.
The few anti-Prop 30 ads that are aired appear to avoid to do the PC thing and don’t draw reference to the millions of illegals who have to be educated, school lunches, translators, bi-lingual teachers, Latino gang violence in schools or any of that.
Instead of reducing the tyranny, Kalifornia will begin registering all long-guns in 2014. I will be very busy in 2013 trying to replace all the items lost in various boating accidents.
Those kids do not have rights, our kids not only have rights, they have advocates and attorneys.
Discipline went out the door when federal law interceded to demand all children equal access, and outcomes.
Exactly! And they can start cutting at the top, with the superintendant and his office.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you but we had some pretty severe lighting storms in my area and the internet has been down for quite a while, s##t happens as they say.
I would sure like to see the line item maintenance costs for the repair/replacement for those solar panel systems. I did a cost/benefit analysis on solar panel generating and storage systems for the District I worked for in Southern California, and no matter how much the vendor tried to hype them they just weren’t worth the money. We would have gotten a lot more out of them than you could in an area like the East Bay but the maintenance/replacement costs were just to damn high. Plus the fact that most people who don’t work inside the system have no idea just how destructive the kids can be. Most folks think maintenance is new paint, roofs and repairs to equipment that wears out over time; wrong, most of the money is spent to repair vandalism that occurs on a daily basis. I had 3 high schools, 4 middle schools, 15 elementary schools and 3 administrative offices plus the Transportation yard for a total of 26 facilities. I had an annual departmental budget of between 12 and 16 million a year; depending on new construction, and at least 60% of that was eaten up in repairs to facilities, (read vandalism).
I was finally directed by my boss to quit writing my annual report because the Superintendent and the Board of Education didn’t want to hear about the costs of letting the little darlings get away with bloody murder on their buildings.
That was about 15 years before I retired; so every thing just got written off as standard repairs. I still ran the numbers for my own use but they never got published again.
The last report I did the year I retired, I had over 2 million dollars just in graffitti removal and repairs and I retired before school was even out for the year.
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