Why is raising taxes for Brandywine SD bad?
Why do people get to complain about how bad the schools are in De and then when we try to do something about it, they don’t vote to help it? Do people think that computers are free? That energy prices only increased for them and magically not the schools? That teachers aren’t allowed to get pay increases? That the buses magically use oxygen to get to and from bus stops? Why people Why can’t you vote yes, Christ it is for the children, you know the little bastards we love to complain about that will run this state and country about 20/30 years from now.
so please tell me why this shouldn’t be voted yes for?
Start canceling football programs until the parents cough up.
Or why not hit up all these corporations that are always complaining about the quality of graduates?
Because it’s plain too. dang. much. Cut the millions of dollars wasted on excess teachers for declining enrollment. People who live on Fixed incomes cannot support themselves with this increase.
Want to cut $160,000 a year? Scanlon is a good start.
Vote “NO” on June 4th.
what are you talking about EXCESS teachers? My daughter is in Brandywine High and they have roving teachers to deal with the large classes. The freshman class had/has 450 kids, they have teachers that don’t even have classrooms. they are using computers that are several years old.
EXCESS? are you kidding?
fixed incomes in NORTH WILMINGTON? oh you mean Dupont Pensions…booohooooo.
It is a shame we do not have referendums on funding of our prisons. It is also a shame that we do not have referendums on subsidizing billion dollars to corporations. It is even more a shame that we do not have referendums on how much to pay our legislators and government officials who send our sons and daughters off to war. But most of all, it is a shame that the only way we are given, to express our outrage at how our money is spent, is in a school referendum, and our own children get hurt in the process……..
very good points kavips, it really is a shame, that the ones that can’t vote are the ones that are going to be most impacted in those ordeal.
How do you tell a child that? sad, sad, sad.
You can sum it all up by saying it is a shame we don’t have initiative and referendum in our state constitution, so citizens can address many of these issues directly.
As Ind Party Chair Frank Sims frequently points out, Delaware is the only state in the entire union in which the citizens have no vote in amending our constitution. THE ONLY ONE.
Only the General Assembly can amend it. We can’t even vote to amend it to allow us to vote to amend it! In a state as small as ours this is totally indefensible, except as severe status quo protectionism.
Delaware is small enough that citizens should have the ability to be directly involved in proposing and voting on how our government is run, not just choosing among the same revolving set of political lifers.
Instead we have excessive layers of teet-suckers and miniature potentates at all levels who think they know better than the rest of us. Unfortunately when it comes to freedom of information and the nitty gritty details of OUR government…they do. And we have to drag it out of them tooth-and-nail in a byzantine process of pass-the-buck issue ping-pong. Let’s all play musical agencies to get a simple answer or an accountable person on the line! (Look at Jason’s attempts with Castle’s office. Is he not a constituent with every right to an answer?)
The self-serving political operators, elected or bureaucratic, exploit this inequity to their advantage and personal/political benefit. They hide their disgraces. They propagandize however they like. They abuse public trust. They are utterly disconnected from public interest and serious accountability. They get away with things, as a matter of routine, that should boggle the mind of any democrat (yes, small ‘d’).
As far as money, they don’t deserve a damn cent more, AT ANY LEVEL, until they clean up their act and start living like public servants instead of fat cats high on the hog, face down in the pig trough.
No working stiff gets anything close to the perks and benefits of Delaware’s governmental slugs, nor the perpetual job security they get for selling out and buying-in to a sprawling, interlocking system of mutual back scratching.
Government “luminaries” should never earn double and triple the median income of those they represent. However, the Democratic party machine in Delaware has made this the way of life. And we all pay the price, coming and going.
Real change requires real change.
don and kavips are right, and I’ve said it too: Why do people only get to vote on tax increases that support education? Do we get to vote on any OTHER tax increase?? Hell, no.
And anon: I second donviti — tell us where these “excess” teachers are. In addition, is there not an exemption for those on fixed incomes?
Also, B’wine has been the best of the big 4 at keeping the public informed, and has been quite open to scrutiny. Those who have been complaining that the district should close a school or two were asked that very THING at numerous board meetings and elsewhere, and the resounding answer was that parents didn’t want to close any schools! I mean, on this topic, what do you want the district to do?
I have always thought that the whole district-based funding is bull. The funding should be statewide and based on student count. Sure it is bad that Red Clay needs to beg and plead for a tax increase, but if you look at some of the less well-off districts, there is no reason that those children should suffer with outdated books while AI students try to decide which of 6 languages to study. BTW, this may be an exaggeration, but it ain’t far from the truth.
kavips Says
bless you sir.
well f++king said.
something else I just learned. Apparently Brandywine High School is cutting the Freshman and JV volleyball program for next year if this thing doesn’t pass.
Real nice huh? So my daughter who would be on the JV team next year is crushed. How sad is this? As kids try to get into college and need extra curricular activities to pad their applications, they have to deal with this?
After school programs are proven to reduce pregnancies, drug use and on and on, so lets save money by voting down the referrendum, but then the state has to pay more money in health care costs for teen parents.
How much are they going to save cutting that? Like $1,500?
Yeah that sucks and I sympathize, but there are after school programs and sports leagues all over the place – just not run by the schools. There is also some merit to going out and meeting a whole different bunch of people after school instead of hanging out with the same kids.