They Didn’t Learn ‘Rithmetic
You know the old saying about what we learned in school—readin’, writin’, and ‘rithmetic.
Looks like those running the public schools these days missed out on math class.
Why are all these large school districts running multi-million dollar deficits? Why are they taking out loans? Why are financial reports submitted to school boards and the public flat out wrong about various pieces of information?
I don’t care where you stand on the Education Savings Accounts the state enacted, whereby a portion of state dollars follows a student from their public school location to an alternate educational location. The fact is that these districts would have still been well in the hole financially, even if all those funds were still in their accounts.
And as I’ve noted before, those districts warned that enrollments would drop, and their revenue would shrink, if ESAs were adopted; so when they were, years ago now, why did they not take action to control spending, since they very thing they forecast was coming true?
You’d like to think those running schools and educational institutions generally were smart—them being so educated and all. But what a disaster, with layers of well-paid administrators asking for more and more taxpayer dollars when they’ve proven they can’t manage what we’ve given them.
Feels like a child who spends freely and charges it to their parents…they’re used to unlimited funds and don’t know what to do when their parents cut them off. Entities that receive tax dollars are used to a never-ending supply from we the taxpayers. Given the school example, it’s well past time for that to end. Something our lawmakers should consider as they debate school funding…and property tax reform.
