Mrs has left a new comment on your post "Back to square one...": I do! We homeschool, but that doesn't mean we don't care about what's happening in the public schools. We also have several friends who are teachers. They have a tough row to hoe.
No, no, no...old friend...I meant no offense to home-schoolers. (You have costs, too, AND your children do not cost the district anything.) The idea that taxes are "lost" is fallacious. It furthers the view that only parents of school-age children should pay school taxes. Free education is based on the premise that all taxpayers make it possible for all children. (Pennies per thousands of dollars in real estate.)
I served a very affluent district for 21 years and we had about five strikes. Yes, we wanted more salary, but that was only a strategy...the only one board ever understood. One superintendent actually told a reporter that our teachers only worked about "three hours a day!" Leaders like that were hired just to keep salaries down!
I once served dinner to a taxpayer who owned 500 acres of very rich farmland in central Illinois, and he left $1.50 total for feeding his family of six at a fund-raiser! Leaders there sure did a good job of keeping us "down."
Your group does a fine job of doing what public schools have failed to do. Love, Jim.
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Hey GJ, I didn't take your message as a slight against homeschoolers AT ALL. I was in total agreement with you!
Sometimes with email, it's hard to read because you don't hear voice inflections. My heart goes out to my teacher friends and all teachers.
In fact, if anyone would like to help a teacher directly, ask them what's on their "wish list" for next year, then help them buy it!
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