Does anyone want to rant about Texas public schools funding crisis?

[missypie]

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People who are so happy to criticize Rick Perry might have forgotten the measures he pushed to lower the property taxes in Texas.

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<p>Wish we still had the political forum, because I am critizing Perry BECAUSE of his push to lower property taxes. How can anyone support his lowering property taxes and then be upset about the reduction in money to the schools?!</p>

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Obviously, someone with a 1,000,000 home who sends his children to private schools thinks very differently from a family of renters with three or four kids in the local public schools.

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<p>That’s the thing about the district with the indoor facility in which the Packers practiced. Vacant lots go for $750,000 there. Those folks could easily send their kids to private schools, but they choose to support public. I really don’t have a problem with their spending their own money on a great sports facility that benefits others, rather than spending it on private schools.</p>

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There are no pools of free money to tap in. Ultimately, people who want more money going to schools have to accept that it will have to come out of their pockets.

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<p>I would GLADLY pay higher property taxes to avoid the drastic cuts that our district is going to have to make.</p>