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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entire School Board approach to education policy needs to be done away with. What are the benefits to having an elected board who only get their position through name recognition and political party fundraising?

We'd be far better off having real professionals with real degrees who are hired competitively into Board-like roles to represent each district. This would also remove bias and conflict of interest as each representative would likely be independent instead of having hidden agendas for their children's pyramids.[/quote]

I remember when the SB wasn’t an elected position and so many people were thankful that it was changing to an elected one. [/quote]

That was decades ago and whatever hopes people had that elected members would turn out to be an improvement have long since been dashed.  You could not come up with a worse group of people than the current members - and the way in which they are going about increasing their own salaries is just more evidence of this.  They stick kids in trailers and want to be paid more than many full-time employees.  They are disgusting. [/quote]

“They stick kids in trailers.”

No, Fairfax County residents do that when they vote against taxes (meals tax anyone?).  The construction budget isn’t nearly enough to fix the facility problem, and redistricting is the only thing that makes residents more unhappy than taxes.  [/quote]

We are being taxed to death in the country. You can’t raise my personal
Property taxes double digits every year and expect me to vote for an additional
Meals tax on top. [/quote]

Property taxes aren't going up. Your property value is going up because this is a desirable place to live.[/quote]

Property taxes are going up. When I look at my statement from last year there is more money for taxes than last year. Do you also say that the price of eggs also aren't going up just because it's increasing in price due to popularity? How about Disney World? When it goes up in price do you just say that it didn't really go up, it just increased in popularity? Where do people get these types of ideas?[/quote]

But it's inaccurate to say "my taxes are increasing." No they aren't. The value of your home is increasing, but it's being taxed at the same rate.

If I make more money this year than I did last year, does that mean taxes are increasing? No, it just means I'm making more money so there is more that is being taxed.[/quote]

What kind of an idiot are you?  If your tax payments are increasing, your taxes are indeed increasing. If you want to say tax rates aren’t increasing, just say that.

Especially giventhat taxes are based on property values, which may increase at a faster rate than incomes, people will justifiably think you’re nuts if your don’t acknowledge taxes are increasing. [/quote]

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