Protect Our Schools - Vote NO on 1033

[OutRunr47]

Vote no on 1033 if you love more of your income going to government and less income for you.

[milofonbil]

This is nonsense. Vote NO on I-1033 if you like good schools, low crime, well maintained roads and bridges, fire departments, etc.

Similar legislation in Colorado called TABOR pretty much wrecked the state there. I don't want that here.

[OutRunr47]

Why don't you go ahead and spend all YOUR money to the government. Teachers in this state are already too greedy and the state already spends close to $100 billion in education and the school are still rotten.

[Jeffco101]

Go to Jeffco101 on youtube and hear the other side. This state is full of waste!

[HiTekVagabond]

Maybe in your county.

[89Sunbird]

I'll vote it down like a pay raise for teachers!

[TheCascadian]

Slashing? Cuts? Haha, no the current spending % can continue forever.

If you want to gain hold of the reigns of our government and stop being afriad of it ,1033 is the road to control.

This is the ANTI-SOCIALISM bill.

[HiTekVagabond]

You are so right. SOCIALISM is really scary. Schools, Fire Departments, Police Departments, and Road Departments are all SOCIALIST. I-1033 is the road to total control. We can kill all of those unnecessary SOCIALIST projects. Kid, grow up.

Unlike you, we don't want to bankrupt our schools. We need them.

[TheCascadian]

A government large enough to give you everything you want, is large enough to take away everything you have.

I believe in local control of public works, not state, works which by their nature will be more transparent and more representative.

[HiTekVagabond]

And your point is?

[milofonbil]

When I Iived in Colorado in the 90's, we never once saw a tax refund from too much property tax. Even if I had, the schools did not have paper or other supplies. We as parents had to do all sorts of fund raisers like bake sales, car washes, and had to sponsor kids walking laps around school. The Academy School District 20 was one of the best until Doug Bruce swindled poeple into this something for nothing deal called TABOR. Eymans I-1033 is the same thing. Don't be duped by your greed.

[suenoir]

Smaller class size sounds like it should produce better achievement, but research shows that it does not have a great effect unless the class has 15 or fewer students. That will require more infrastructure and will never happen.

More counselors and more social workers are not the answer.

We need to spend money on curriculum and research based educational innovations. Or at least if try something new. If a dime goes to this any of these other dinosaur causes I am opposed.

[seattlepublicpolicy]

State revenue will continue to grow if the initiative passes. Less than 65 cents of every K-12 dollar is spent in the classroom.  In Seattle less than half of K-12 employees are teachers. Between 1971 and 2006 the number of K-12 students increased by 25% while the umber of K-12 employees increased by 77%. Perhaps the state and school districts need to address these serious problems in priorities before crying about a cut in the rate of funding increases.

[blind1date]

If this were still 1971, and your car still had a carburetor and an 8-track in it, and movies meant going to the theater, and you couldn't post your response here...maybe we could get away with 77% fewer K-12 employees (and a host of other things). However, this is 2009. Like it or not, life and society is a bit more complex, and we do our children a disservice if we don't prepare them for it.

[dritta]

Have you considered in your "research" that between now and 1971 there have been a lot of [federal] mandates which made schools hire more staff? Former President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" created millions of jobs for special education teachers/psychologists/therapi­sts. Those jobs didn't exist in 1971, and we were still putting our kids with special needs in institutions. If you want to go back to that, please do it in some other country than mine.

[HiTekVagabond]

"Less than 65 cents of every K-12 dollar is spent in the classroom. In Seattle less than half of K-12 employees are teachers." Does that surprise you? You have school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, librarians, psychologists, counselors, network administrators and computer specialists. I think your profile explains it all. You are 108 years old. It's been a while since you went to that one-room little house on the prairie school.