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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh you die hard limousine liberals are so holier than thou!

I am not for a tax break or saying the neediest schools should go without-simply that Cluster 1 deserves their fair share of lower class sizes and resources too! I am all for a meals tax to raise revenues, but I do pay my fair share of property taxes and my kids schools shouldn't always get the short end of the stick just because my school board representative thinks I am "wealthy" and can afford to supplement everything the schools lack. So there![/quote]

Hard to be a limousine liberal when your primary breadwinner spouse is currently unemployed, as mine is.  But this ideas that kids in affluent areas are somehow getting the short end of the stick is no more than a republican canard designed  to get people riled up.    We don't supplement AT ALL and our kids are getting one of the best educations in the country.  The problem is panicked people who have overinflated expectations about what a public school education, or for that matter, any school education can do to make their particular child competitive.

It's a tougher world, no doubt, but our local schools aren't the problem.  We have one of the highest concentrations of educated people anywhere, which is an incredible peer group to have your kid be part of.  The problem is too many parents can't accept that their kids aren't standout superstars, so they think, somehow if only the public schools were doing more to support these unrealistic expectations, it would all be different.   It won't.  Demographics are changing and public schools are in demand and have a public trust -- they've got to teach everybody.  And while properly funding our schools, via a meal tax or higher property taxes or whatever is important, it's not going to change the reality.  The sooner kids can learn to work hard and succeed in this world as we find it today, but better for them and all of us in the long-run.  [/quote]

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