Sounds almost smart

People with self styled utopias tend to be left grasping at straws when it comes time to tie their performance to revenue. "It's unfair!" the teacher's union shouts on behalf of the school districts, clutching their billions of dollars in investments they siphon interest off of for double digit annual increases in administrator pay. "It's no good for the kids!" they scream as local families face ever increasing city property tax bills at a time of record high food, energy and housing costs.

75% of my area's municipal property taxes pay for local schools - no matter that I have no children and may never have them.

Teacher's should understand issues have more than one side and people working in the real world tend to have CCTV cameras and other electronic monitoring systems grading their performance....

Baffling

What are you talking about??

So do mine.

James wrote: "75% of my area's municipal property taxes pay for local schools - no matter that I have no children and may never have them."

Same here. Not only do poor Americans get public education, so do Jose's children, and he's an illegal immigrant (though, most of his children are American citizens.) And guess what? We both benefit greatly from the fact that they all get an education at public (our) expense.

I'd like to ask the Bushies and the yellow journalists at Faux News just *who* they think is fighting the war in Iraq? And who do they think is going to be paying into Social Security as the baby boomers retire?