Remember the 1980?s hippie slogan that read: ?Wouldn?t it be great if the schools had all the money they needed and the Pentagon had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber??
More money, buckets of it, that?s what they claim will fix our public schools. The message hasn?t changed and is bleated each year with more emotion. The Wake County School Board knows the routine.
Some Wake County residents claim they would pay a little more if the money went straight to the classroom, but therein lies the root of the problem. If the money is obviously not making it to the classroom, where is it going? Clearly we all know the answer, but no one wants to lasso that elephant in the room. Instead we keep throwing it more peanuts and try to give it a pedicure.
It?s unfortunate that these citizens, despite their reservations, blindly support and accept a bloated system that becomes more cumbersome each year. A public school monopoly has forced them into a corner.
Given more information and choices, I have to believe that these respondents would have answered the reporter differently. If the News and Observer contacts me, I?m ready with my answer, ?Let?s hold a bake sale, ?cause the public schools have all the money they need and it?s gonna take a bomber to clean that house.?
