Quote Originally Posted by fire7882
I just wanted to point something out.

South Fulton schools don't have the $ for new books an infrastructure because they have to pay their teachers up to 15% more because nobody wants to work there. If the students had a little respect and the parents actually gave a damn about their kids’ education and life, things might be different. At the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, Fulton County had close to 100 openings for school teachers and I’m not sure if they were all filled.
Excellent point.

Another thing to consider is competition.

If we were allowed to send our kids to the school that actually TEACHES their students best (i.e. standardized test scores) via a VOUCHER for what we PAY for in property taxes......then the crappy schools would either shape up or close. What is wrong with that? Oh wait, not EVERYONE that attends school PAYS property taxes do they??? Hmmm, well that's a problem for those people then huh.

I could send my kids to the mack daddiest private school just about anywhere if I got a voucher for the amount of property taxes I pay to send them there. THEN when gov't schools empty maybe they'll realize that schools are designed to TEACH and not as pawns in politics.

I could go on, but I'm gonna stop there......