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Very southern Mn | A fellow I respect here locally said there was so much disruption from some of kids in the grade school class that he felt his kids weren’t being able to learn what they were supposed to. He didn’t feel in any way that he was too good but just wanted his kids to lean at the end of year what he felt they should learn. ( a lot of the discipline is parents fault, not school administrators fault). Some of public schools are a shell of what they were, a lot of it due to parents not disciplining kids and rules that keep teachers from doing much. Little Johnie comes home and rather than be disciplined for acting out, has his parents complaining to school that he was disciplined at all.
Here in southern Mn there is a private school within about 60 miles of me that just grows and grows. So if you can send your children to public school for free and have to pay for the private one, why is private one growing? I agree in some cases athletics is a factor but there is way more to it. Here locally by getting the college kids to come home and vote, they just passed a 70 million dollar bond issue for a new school by a few votes after failing first time. There was still quite a bit of debt on old schools left as there had been a lot of upgrades to the old schools infrastructure prior. This school currently has less than 50 students per grade. New school will house K-12 which would concern me as a parent. I will pay for it the rest of my life and I have concerns that there will even be students in it in 10-15 more years. If it would close, our property taxes will sky rocket, if student numbers keep dropping, our taxes will go up quickly.
Being fair to our local school board, it was state that pushed the new school offering to pay part with fancy projections about how new school will increase enrollments which will be interesting to see how that turns out. One of issues of old school that I heard was front door was too close to cafeteria. Go figure!
I don’t believe school should be an old ratty falling down structure but new building don’t fix all of the problems. | |
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Property Taxes on Farmland... A case FOR public schools
