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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>The vapid Lemon-O cites:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff>"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?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>1. <FONT
color=#ff0000>Inflation</FONT>, which is greater for some things than others and
most likely impacts schools more than many other activities.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>2. <FONT color=#ff0000>Requirements
from the</FONT> <FONT color=#ff0000>unfunded/underfunded</FONT> "No Child Left
Behind," a Bush program which places additional burdens on local school
districts, but either does not fund these burdens or funds them
inadequately.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>3. <FONT color=#ff0000>More and more
parents are unwilling to take the time to participate</FONT> with helping their
children with their education thus slowing the rate of education and
causing expense for remedial actions.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>4. <FONT color=#ff0000>Public schools
have more and more non-educational problems to deal with</FONT>, many of them
wrought by inadequate/irresponsible parenting.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>5. Etc.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Also Lemon-O, it is nice of you to pass on these
nuggets of illogical rhetoric from chicken-shit Courtney's web-blot as he covers
in fear of being found out by those he thinks he is preventing from accessing
his pathetic efforts to be almost as vapid, and certainly at least as dishonest
and hypocritical as you are.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>From: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:heirdoug@netscape.net"><FONT
face=Verdana>heirdoug@netscape.net</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
face=Verdana>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:47 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Subject: [Vision2020] MSD is at it
again!</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Verdana>> My latest
installment for those under the ban!<BR>> <BR>> Wednesday, January 24,
2007 2:13 PM Right-Mind<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> MSD to send out newsletter to
residents regarding levy increase<BR>> I’ll post a copy of this as soon as I
get it.<BR>> <BR>> I’ve asked this rhetorical question before: why, when
the number of <BR>> students are increasing, do the school districts say they
need more <BR>> money; and, when the number of students are decreasing, they
say they <BR>> need more money?<BR>> <BR>> Here’s what one local
blogger had to say about this:<BR>> <BR>> But in this case, and in this
election, I think all these standard <BR>> issues are really beside the
point. The real point in this election is <BR>> one of simple affordability.
The major industry in town (the University <BR>> of Idaho) is in serious
decline. Our Moscow civic leadership has been <BR>> busy chasing new
prospective businesses out of town. Within the next <BR>> year, a good
portion of the tax base is going to move just across the <BR>> state line,
and the businesses in the new mall there will no doubt set <BR>> up some
blinking lights to summon Moscow shoppers over. Ross Perot's <BR>> famous
phrase about the giant sucking sound comes to mind.<BR>> <BR>> Another
illustration that comes to mind is the one about champagne <BR>> tastes and a
beer budget. And you can't chase all the champagne vendors <BR>> out of town,
and then complain about the beer. As a simple matter of <BR>> economics, tax
support for the MSD requires a thriving tax base. When <BR>> you cut the
latter, you cut the former. Some might want to complain, if <BR>> this levy
goes down, that it was the nefarious work of home schoolers, <BR>> Christian
conservatives, or what not. But this one appears to me to <BR>> have been
done already, without any opponents of "government schools" <BR>> lifting a
finger.<BR>> <BR>> No, this was done by the liberals running the Moscow
show. You can't <BR>> take a chain saw to the orchard, and wonder resentfully
the following <BR>> autumn about the apple shortage.<BR>> <BR>> As
reported in today's edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.<BR>> <BR>>
The Moscow School District is moving forward with plans for its $1.97 <BR>>
million supplemental levy increase, which will go before voters March <BR>>
27.<BR>> <BR>> Superintendent Candis Donicht worked with the district’s
school board <BR>> members during their Tuesday meeting to develop a draft of
an <BR>> informational newsletter that will hit mailboxes in the coming
weeks.<BR>> <BR>> The newsletter will give a brief explanation of the
indefinite <BR>> supplemental levy. It also will explain how the levy
increase works, <BR>> what it will cost taxpayers, and what it pays for
within the district. <BR>> The newsletter also will answer other basic
questions.<BR>> <BR>> Board members discussed changing the time the polls
would be open for <BR>> the election. Board clerk Annette Erickson reported
to the board the <BR>> effects of a 7:30 a.m. opening of the polls that had
been suggested at <BR>> their December meeting by board member Margaret
Dibble. The board <BR>> decided to maintain its current plan to have the
election from 8 a.m. <BR>> to 8 p.m. at the Exhibit Building of the Latah
County Fairgrounds.<BR>> <BR>> Board members also discussed how to support
and offer their assistance <BR>> to groups of parents who want to support the
levy.<BR>> <BR>> In other news, Donicht reported on the district’s first
participation <BR>> in the city of Moscow’s 18-month long-range planning
process. Three <BR>> district administrators and two board members
participated in a <BR>> facilitator training session about 10 days ago. If
selected by the <BR>> city, they will go into sections of the community to
help gather input <BR>> from residents on issues such as neighborhoods and
growth.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
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