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Thump said:
It's not a 10 mill levy, it is 9.7.

If you don't even know what the millage is going in to vote you must have been living in a cave for the last 2 months.
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While driving through Columbus yesterday I heard someone call John Corby's show saying how the school district has gone out of its way to promote the levy and its impossible not to know about it. The caller then commented how this is the opposite of what happened last time when it seemed like the district was trying to keep it a secret.

If this is true, it is one of the many reasons public schools piss me off. Why did they try to keep it on the down-low last time? They probably thought that they could pass the levy with a low voter turn-out. Since that failed, they are now trying an opposite approach. Too much damn politics in the public schools is the biggest problem with our educational system, but school officials contribute to it more than anyone else.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
While driving through Columbus yesterday I heard someone call John Corby's show saying how the school district has gone out of its way to promote the levy and its impossible not to know about it. The caller then commented how this is the opposite of what happened last time when it seemed like the district was trying to keep it a secret.

If this is true, it is one of the many reasons public schools piss me off. Why did they try to keep it on the down-low last time? They probably thought that they could pass the levy with a low voter turn-out. Since that failed, they are now trying an opposite approach. Too much damn politics in the public schools is the biggest problem with our educational system, but school officials contribute to it more than anyone else.
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If I remember right I heard the reason they didnt spend as much money last time was that people bitched that they spent way to much money when they tried to pass it the first time. Basiclly you are fucked if you do and fucked if you don't. People just look for what ever reason fits to why they didnt vote for a levy
 
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Well none of the schools would need more funding if they didn't have kids like this ruining perfectly good chairs.
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This time it is YOU who should have read the entire article.

This picture was taken at a Fundamentalist Christian School. The kid is being punised for eating a sucker in class.

The chairs were placed as they are by the administration - not the kid. That apparently caused you to misinterpret what they were doing with the saw.
 
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Oh8ch said:
This time it is YOU who should have read the entire article.

This picture was taken at a Fundamentalist Christian School. The kid is being punised for eating a sucker in class.

The chairs were placed as they are by the administration - not the kid. That apparently caused you to misinterpret what they were doing with the saw.
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What article? :p
 
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Anyone know what the hell happened with issue 2?

I guess I coulda looked it up before I posted



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Sorry SIMV.... Shit aint good for ya anyway. (like I can talk Pa'ting :wink: ).
 
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Thump said:
No need to apologize, I would probably do the same.

Talk about an excessive amount of extravagence in a school.

My god, they built that behemoth and then didn't even have the funds to open it so they had tojam an operating levy down your throat.

SWCS is a little different, we took a 4 year operating levy and spread it out to last 10 years all while opening 8 new buildings.

Seems like Picktown could learn a lesson in fiscal management from SWCS.
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Completely agree. And it looks like we both got our way...Picktown's levy went down in flames, something like 69% against to 30% for, which actually really surprised me. I figured that it would pass for sure, because that was pretty much the only controversial issue in Picktown, so only the parents would vote (while everyone else sat on their lazy asses). Of course, that may have been the case, and the parents have the same mentality as everyone else.

Anyways, congrats Thump, I'm glad yours went through. Hopefully that'll be the end of it, and there won't be any bullshit or re-voting come November. And hopefully Picktown gets a fuckin' clue and quits putting these damn things on the ballot.
 
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Congrats Thump. Our budget override failed to the tune of 70%/30%. The pink slips are on the way. Next year 5th grade classes are expected to be in the neighborhood of 32 students if nobody moves in. We took a half-day Monday so that our building could be used for voting. A group of senior citizens confronted me about the reasons that teachers got "another" day off. I invited them to come sub for me whenever they got the chance...This district is educating students just well enough to get a job down at the mill, and that doesn't seem to bother most voters.
 
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Thump said:
The district would have had to pay $60,000 out of their own pocket to print of signs, etc... The November and May elections were standard elections days so there is money set aside for those elections so the district doesn't have to dip into the kitty for money.
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Just out of curiosity, where does the money for the standard elections come from?
 
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I just read on the Cincinnati Enquirer this morning that my old high school district's (Middletown Madison) levy failed by THREE votes!! How does that happen? If it is close in a instance like that, what would be the next step? An attempt to get it back on the ballot in November?
 
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