@flurb
Hey, we don’t close threads typically, but we do append/correct titles. Do you want to add something to the title like (No More as of November 2, 2026)?
Just @ me here and I’ll make the change.
How about “Please…Mess With Texas” (Peruke CD from '99)
The state has every business funding local school districts.
Otherwise we end up wit abominable nonsense like Robin Hood and massive disparity in tax bases and funding between school districts and by extension, between the education offered to students.
Making it a local-only taxation scheme only exacerbates the urban/rural divide and also makes the suburbs dramatically unfair because they often have low student numbers and high property values. Meanwhile the urban areas have huge numbers of students that outstrip the tax bases and rural districts are just screwed with low property values and funding across the board.
Better yet, just let everyone teach their own kids. That way they don’t have to waste tax money on it and they know what kind of learnin’ them kids is gettin’.
Folks thought ‘separate but equal’ was quashed sixty years ago, but here we are. It’s a hydra that never dies.
What’s with this “equal” bushwa? I want my kids to get a better eddication than those peckerwoods across the tracks!