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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you're describing is pretty common.  Unfortunately, it often comes from an "I got mine"  mentality that prioritizes the aging population to the detriment of the whole (think, for Social Security spending but against early education spending). I don't know you or your beliefs, but I'd urge anybody in your situation to make sure changing views are not purely self-interested or short-sighted.

- grew up in a town without a high school because the graying population bulldozed it rather than pay property taxes to fund it[/quote]

I think it more about life experience bring more wisdom to your decisions and thought processes.[/quote]
What "wisdom" is there in demolishing a school?[/quote]

High school students benefit from attending a larger high school with more classes, resources, clubs and opportunities.  A small town with few families with school aged children is not going to be able to offer the same type of educational opportunities as a high school that is fed by several small towns.[/quote]

I'm the person without the HS, and this is what I mean by short sighted.  Now those older folks want to sell their homes (or their estate does)  but young families don't want to buy into the district because their kids will be bussed to a large crowded school.   This is a town of 25K people btw,  not a village.

Not trying to derail the thread,  but this is just such a great micro example of trying to justify something that benefits one group immediately but screws everybody in the end. [/quote]

This is exactly what's happening in my hometown. Older boomers, many of whom are staying put in their tacky, overbuilt McMansions, are convinced the flattening property values and the lingering of homes on the market are a symptom of some sort of left-wing substainability initiative conspiracy (yes I've heard that phrase actually come out of someone's mouth). Meanwhile, the taxes are absurdly high but the schools have been stripped of resources and consolidated so that the one elementary school (used to be three) is not near the desireable residential areas. Even the recreation facility have been stripped of resources and many of the baseball and soccer field and parks where I used to play as a kid have been closed. Families now have to join really expensive private leagues for any activities for younger kids. It's so obvious to young people why it's not a desireable place anymore. I'm a little sad for it and I'd be sad for my parents and what will happen if they ever sell their home, but they didn't want to pay for anything they didn't personally use so that's what happens. [/quote]

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