[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!

[Andreas Schou]

Doug --

We no longer live in the 1300s, when human knowledge advanced at a
snail's pace. Schools need books, computers, and training, and,
furthermore, need more of these things every year. New big-ticket
items aren't budgeted for every year. Even assuming that none of their
big-ticket items (like facilities) ever depreciated, which is not
true, inflation would raise costs 3% per year.

Of course, it's absurd to pay for schools from property taxes to begin
with, since it results in profound inequality of opportunity.

Also, the "local blogger" Dale is quoting is "Doug Wilson." His
masquerade as a "libertarian", rather than a "theocrat", is laughable.

-- ACS

On 1/24/07, heirdoug at netscape.net <heirdoug at netscape.net> wrote:
> My latest installment for those under the ban!
>
> Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:13 PM Right-Mind
>
>
> MSD to send out newsletter to residents regarding levy increase
> I'll post a copy of this as soon as I get it.
>
> I've asked this rhetorical question before: why, when the number of
> students are increasing, do the school districts say they need more
> money; and, when the number of students are decreasing, they say they
> need more money?
>
> Here's what one local blogger had to say about this:
>
> But in this case, and in this election, I think all these standard
> issues are really beside the point. The real point in this election is
> one of simple affordability. The major industry in town (the University
> of Idaho) is in serious decline. Our Moscow civic leadership has been
> busy chasing new prospective businesses out of town. Within the next
> year, a good portion of the tax base is going to move just across the
> state line, and the businesses in the new mall there will no doubt set
> up some blinking lights to summon Moscow shoppers over. Ross Perot's
> famous phrase about the giant sucking sound comes to mind.
>
> Another illustration that comes to mind is the one about champagne
> tastes and a beer budget. And you can't chase all the champagne vendors
> out of town, and then complain about the beer. As a simple matter of
> economics, tax support for the MSD requires a thriving tax base. When
> you cut the latter, you cut the former. Some might want to complain, if
> this levy goes down, that it was the nefarious work of home schoolers,
> Christian conservatives, or what not. But this one appears to me to
> have been done already, without any opponents of "government schools"
> lifting a finger.
>
> No, this was done by the liberals running the Moscow show. You can't
> take a chain saw to the orchard, and wonder resentfully the following
> autumn about the apple shortage.
>
> As reported in today's edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
>
> The Moscow School District is moving forward with plans for its $1.97
> million supplemental levy increase, which will go before voters March
> 27.
>
> Superintendent Candis Donicht worked with the district's school board
> members during their Tuesday meeting to develop a draft of an
> informational newsletter that will hit mailboxes in the coming weeks.
>
> The newsletter will give a brief explanation of the indefinite
> supplemental levy. It also will explain how the levy increase works,
> what it will cost taxpayers, and what it pays for within the district.
> The newsletter also will answer other basic questions.
>
> Board members discussed changing the time the polls would be open for
> the election. Board clerk Annette Erickson reported to the board the
> effects of a 7:30 a.m. opening of the polls that had been suggested at
> their December meeting by board member Margaret Dibble. The board
> decided to maintain its current plan to have the election from 8 a.m.
> to 8 p.m. at the Exhibit Building of the Latah County Fairgrounds.
>
> Board members also discussed how to support and offer their assistance
> to groups of parents who want to support the levy.
>
> In other news, Donicht reported on the district's first participation
> in the city of Moscow's 18-month long-range planning process. Three
> district administrators and two board members participated in a
> facilitator training session about 10 days ago. If selected by the
> city, they will go into sections of the community to help gather input
> from residents on issues such as neighborhoods and growth.
>
>
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