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<blockquote data-quote="flutterby" data-source="post: 270933" data-attributes="member: 7083"><p>See Gcvmom's thread on the News forum about narcissism in our culture.</p><p></p><p>Just feeding into it more.</p><p></p><p>I'm on the flip side of the school levy. Our school passes a levy every year. Once they passed two in one year. Property taxes have skyrocketed. Mine went up $1,000 in one year. Plus the school fees I have to pay at the beginning of the school year, plus the books we have to buy for class, and on and on. </p><p></p><p>They just passed another yesterday. While I don't begrudge the schools the money they need, we're in an economic crisis. I'm no longer a homeowner and do not pay property taxes directly, however, it will be reflected in my rent.</p><p></p><p>And when the one pamphlet being passed out in support of the levy was talking about having to cut field trips (as the biggest issue), I kept thinking of my daughter's field trip to the apple orchard and thinking that it was ok to cut it. </p><p></p><p>Yet the bond issue they passed several years ago to build a new school...the school still hasn't been built. And it's desperately needed. I'm not sure how bond issues work, though.</p><p></p><p>And then, because I'm the mother of a sped student, I think about the levies being passed every year and how hard I had to fight for the minimal services my daughter got.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterby, post: 270933, member: 7083"] See Gcvmom's thread on the News forum about narcissism in our culture. Just feeding into it more. I'm on the flip side of the school levy. Our school passes a levy every year. Once they passed two in one year. Property taxes have skyrocketed. Mine went up $1,000 in one year. Plus the school fees I have to pay at the beginning of the school year, plus the books we have to buy for class, and on and on. They just passed another yesterday. While I don't begrudge the schools the money they need, we're in an economic crisis. I'm no longer a homeowner and do not pay property taxes directly, however, it will be reflected in my rent. And when the one pamphlet being passed out in support of the levy was talking about having to cut field trips (as the biggest issue), I kept thinking of my daughter's field trip to the apple orchard and thinking that it was ok to cut it. Yet the bond issue they passed several years ago to build a new school...the school still hasn't been built. And it's desperately needed. I'm not sure how bond issues work, though. And then, because I'm the mother of a sped student, I think about the levies being passed every year and how hard I had to fight for the minimal services my daughter got. [/QUOTE]
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