I apologize if I misunderstood
Indeed, you did.
However, your argument implies that those who pay higher taxes for hospitals should receive better health care. 
bizerta, are you coming back to the thread? I’m curious to know what evidence you have, and why you care. I’m also wondering, if one of the kids attending illegally were homeless like the girl kunilou mentioned, would that change your mind on pursuing this nonsense?
The fact that you’ve informed the school and *they don’t care *means you’ve done your due diligence, now step off. Unless it becomes a rampant problem like in Elendil’s Heir’s district (in which case I am certain they’d start enforcing the rules better), I vote to mind your own gol’durned business. If you keep pursuing this, you’ll be like a motorist who goes to the cops incensed that some people were driving faster than you on the highway but didn’t get pulled over or ticketed. You took video of the cars passing you and of your own speedometer! You have ironclad evidence that they were breaking the law! Well, nobody is interested.
Sorry 'bout that.
To your second point, I believe that just like education, everyone is entitled to the best health care we can provide. However that does not mean it will be equal for everyone.
It’s simply not possible for every patient who needs bypass surgery to have the best surgeon in the world. It is possible to make sure every patient who needs bypass surgery has a compenent doctor and reccieves the appropriate surgery regardless of their ability to pay.
It’s simply not possible for all thing to be equal.
No, but we can try.
If nobody enforces the law then only outlaws will be law abiding…or something…
Yeah, I actually think you and I are pretty close on this.
I’m more than happy to pay taxes I know are taken out of my community to help others less fortunate. I’ll go so far as to say I believe my state income tax should be higher. The field will never be level but I strongly believe it’s not as level as it should or even could be.
That said, I’m still not gonna be OK with funds specifically targeted to my community being diverted through deceit.
That is indeed wrong. It is particularly worrisome in that it teaches the kids they are better than other people, so that lying to get what they want is ok.
If these “outlaw” kids are GRADUATING, I’m surprised the following scenario hasn’t been explored:
Perhaps Mom and Dad moved to a neighboring community. The kids were just a year or so from graduating. Maybe the OP has never dealt with teenaged angst. To ask a junior or a senior to CHANGE SCHOOLS, OMG!!! To make new friends, to have to figure out what teachers are the best/worst, to go to a PROM where you know nobody…
To the parent, trust me: breaking a few laws is nothing, NOTHING compared to the emotional meltdown of a teen.
~VOW
An additional hundred extra kids is a lot, perhaps requiring hiring two or three extra teachers. And given that the parents aren’t paying property taxes in the school district, I can understand why a resident would be unhappy. So if the school district didn’t have to provide teachers for those extra hundred kids, perhaps it could afford to keep the music or art teachers.
This reminds me of one possible case in which the original scenario wouldn’t actually be “illegal” at all. In my hometown, anyone who had completed their junior year didn’t have to meet residency requirements as a senior. So your parents could move to the next city over, but you could keep going to my high school (as long as you secured your own transportation, of course, they wouldn’t send a bus that far away).
My school system specifically designed this exception to prevent the culture shock of starting over at a new school during senior year (not to mention the negative impact it could have on one’s college prospects).
So, bizerta, maybe there’s an exception that you don’t know about, and the people you’ve talked to don’t feel you’re on a need-to-know basis regarding other families’ business.
There are many problems with Ohio’s method of funding public schools, but it’s not all bad. On the plus side, there is a longstanding (and overall, I think, healthy) tradition of local control of schools, and people in a community can vote to tax themselves just about as much, or just about as little, as they wish in order to provide the kind of schools they want to for their kids. Taxpayers are free to move to the school district they wish, and good schools are an important part of any desirable community. If all goes well, word gets around, state test scores become known, real estate values improve, and people have all the more reason to want to live in such places.
How closely does “good school district” correlate with “affluent neighborhood” in this system? I’d be willing to be that, just like everywhere else, the correlation is nearly 100%.
Pretty close, yes.
I wonder if those that don’t see much of a problem with this are in states in which property taxes are low. I know from past threads that some pay a few hundred dollars a year. My last house I paid about $10,000 a year. My girlfriend currently pays $16,000 per year. My ex-inlaws were paying $12,000. And most of that goes to the school budget. These are middle class suburban towns, not affluent at all. Having students attend school illegally is looked at seriously around here.
ETA in fairness my old house was in a town with a high median income but that was because there were some ultra wealthy living in a rural area in which most were middle to lower middle class.
If your state has open enrollment, just because someone doesn’t live in the local school district doesn’t mean they are attending illegally. Unless you verify that the district is being lied to, you shouldn’t accuse anyone of wrongdoing.
And if the parents are lying about their residence, why? With open enrollment, you can attend any school anywhere, and it costs nothing to change.
I expect this to be true for a number of reasons, not all of them related to money.
Regards,
Shodan
Wow.
Two grand for my house in Little Rock, a couple of hundred for the trailer in rural Pulaski county.
WTF?!
What is your state income tax? I pay about that if you include property and state income taxes. If your state income tax is high as well then you need to move man!
In Southern California, I’ve heard (from a refi specialist) that in some neighborhoods with HOA and Mello-Roos taxes, the property tax included in a monthly payment with impounds is almost as high as the mortgage payment itself.
That’s OUCH.
~VOW