Once again, the tax-vampires are hiding behind the kids to try and change the California Constitution … making it easier to raise taxes.
Let’s have no more taxpayer debt to subsidize an incompetent education system … a system which needs fixing not more funding. Public education has ballooned to a grossly overweight, top-heavy system whose girth at the administrative level has brought all forward motion to a stop. There are more administrative “experts” than there are teachers.
These are the “experts” who brought us Whole Language, New Math, Bi-Lingual, Social Promotion and the other hideous and expensive failed ideas that have crippled two generations of school kids and put their parents in tax debt.
These are the same “experts” who argued 15 years ago that the PTA should be eliminated. The parents, as being untrained were, “Interfering with advancements in education.” I was at the L.A. Unified meetings and even heard these pronouncements on the radio at the time.
Fix Public Education … don’t feed it more money. Get rid of the failing administrators and ALL the politicians who defend their incompetence.
The Malibu Times stated regarding the War On Drugs, “If something is not working … change it.” Public Education is the most perfect example of needed change. Our current leaders are reluctant to make ANY changes. They accept incompetence in their kid’s classroom that they would never tolerate at their BMW service center. They would NEVER pay for a miss-tuned car but will earnestly fund a system that, to any rational observer, is not working. The parents who can, are voting with their feet … moving to another school.
The backers of Prop 39 act like they are scraping the bottom of the barret … with their pleas for radical tax and Constitutional changes … and more tax debt. They should get their head out of the barrel and work to change the school and political leaders who are wasting our money and our kids.
Jim Glennon