They raised taxes to build the lavish football stadium, but are now considering cutting teachers due to a budget shortfall. Education does not have a priority problem...................
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/sports/30allen.html
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Just keep sending them your money. They know what they're doing.
Our local wit, you know who I mean, got it about half right in his column today.
He opined that the local School Board was concerned about losing some $2.8 million from the State in funds to help run the schools next year. Remember that number--
$2.8 million.
Last week's paper brings us the happy news that the superintendent wants to spend approximately $1.6 million on a new gym with a few attached school rooms.
Then recall that the ISD paid some $700,000 for the old Emmanual church, mainly for the gym, since an architect earlier told the board that the main building was not fit for a school or classrooms. There was a long list of deficiencies that could not be fixed.
Sooooo . . . .lessee here, if one were to add $700,000 and $1.6 million, even with a PISD math education, one would arrive at a sum of (wait for it!) $2.3 million.
Subtracting that from the $2.8 million shortfall, one realizes that had the spendthrifts at PISD had been better stewards of the tax money entrusted to them and had they planned better, neither they or the wit would be wringing their hands over money problems at PISD. At least, not as MUCH money.
The new gym and the church purchase were/are absolutely unnecessary expenditures which should have been used to educate students, rather than provide for EXTRACURRICULAR activities.
By spending the money in this way, the school board is now in a very precarious position. They are going to have to raise the money, that the State will not provide by the only means available to them - more taxes or a bond election.
It is now time for the school board to understand that the taxpayers are not going to stand for this silliness any longer. Either stop spending for unneeded projects or expect to be voted off the school board.
So the local wit evidently has gotten the message better than the school board. He is starting to understand that we are being spent down the river. Sadly, while he had the opportunity to speak out against the waste and spending at PISD, he didn't have the nerve.
I suspect him of being a closet conservative, but too weak to spit it out in the paper.
It's time to be BOLD, folks. Either stand up to PISD and tell them what you think, or get out your checkbooks and say not another word.
The taxlady cometh!
Questions?
Has the number of students in the PISD increased enough in the past few years to justify the spending on additional facilities?
Why is so much money being spent on athletic facilities?
Are all able students meeting the National Fitness Standards? These can be achieved outside or inside without adding any new athletic structures.
Why does the PISD not publish how all students are scoring on national achievement tests?
Why does the PISD not publish the scores being made by students on Advanced Placement tests?
How many PISD graduates each year do four-year colleges and universities accept?
How many PISD graduates take remedial courses before they can take regular college credit courses?
How can any group of intelligent people vote to spend our tax money in a period of great uncertainty? Responsible people are making cuts in their budgets.
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