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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine paying all your high taxes for decades, only to have your local school closed down and your students bussed miles away to another community.   Like putting away money for a new car, only to have it given to your neighbors on the next block over, who offer to let you come and use it instead of getting your own.  
I hope they prevail.
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Did you just figure out you live in a society? Taxes fund public schools, but they are not tuition payments. You pay them even if you don’t have kids. And kids who live in cheap apartments and pay very little taxes still get to go to the same school. You pay taxes to the county, and the county decides how to spend it based on who we all vote for. Just like you don’t get better postal service or trash collection or national defense based on how much you pay in taxes, you also don’t get better schools.[/quote]

I don’t think anyone is confused about how taxes work. No one is saying taxes are tuition or that paying more should get you a better school.

The issue is simpler than that. People expect a public system to plan responsibly and follow through on what it said it was going to do. When that doesn’t happen—and the solution ends up being something much more disruptive—it’s fair to question it.

“You live in a society” doesn’t really answer that.  Of course decisions are collective and resources are shared. But that doesn’t mean every decision is automatically the right one, or that communities shouldn’t push back when something doesn’t make sense to them.

At the end of the day, this isn’t about wanting more than anyone else. It’s about expecting consistency and reasonable planning from the system everyone is paying into.[/quote]

Exactly! Which is why the same people who are bashing Wootton are going to be screaming when their school gets closed in the next round. If it happens to Wootton and you didn’t care, don’t be crying when it happens to you.[/quote]

I’m a Cold Spring mom and fully expect to have our school closed in the next round. I am grateful because the school isn’t up to modern standards. [/quote]

Be careful what you wish for. When cold spring closes, I don’t think yall are staying with Churchill… JY won’t be on the board anymore to cut backroom deals [/quote]

Where would the Cold Spring kids go if it closed? Beverly Farms and Wayside? Is there any room at Ritchie Park?[/quote]

Ritchie Park will be heavily underutilized once the Fallsgrove people are moved out because of the non-contiguous island assignment. So yes, RP will need new students to maintain itself open. [/quote]

Fallsgrove goes to Ritchie Park? That's crazy.[/quote]

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