Passage gives students another hard choice | The Columbus Dispatch

Wow. A whole 138 students left? Why with all he press I thought that thousnds left town? All the property values are shooting up right now since the levy passed. Didn't you read all the news of people selling their houses in Dublin & Upper Arlington to move to Grove city?

20 whole students from Central Crossing? Those were the ones that speek english!

What a joke!

They made the choice to leave. Live with your choice. You chose yourselves over the community so see ya! Bye, bye!

Maybe you could find room for the Blue Jackets in your new sports homes?

Leave them where they are, that's 138 less students the SWCS will able to prostitute in May and Nov 2009 when they cry for more money.

it isn't as if we the no voters could stop SWCS from putting yet again and again and again and again a levy up for vote because they use tax payer money to beat us.. wankers.

And I noticed how the school board memeber said how teh voters.. The voters had told this idiot simpleton and the rest of the board members to cut their shinny salaries, make budget cuts before comming and asking us for money.. Little different than a crack user comming to the community saying if you don't give me money, you don't support the kids I have.. well sorry jack*** it isn't about the kids, it's about the school board memebrs having 4 principles at one school, its about 16+ dollar an hour bus drivers with great benifits in an economy that has really sucked for a few years now.

It's about the fact selling a house to get out from under SWCS is about impossible thanks to bankers and wall street and their greed. Woopd forgot the lousy way the state is ran (not that I am picking oh ohio, just the people running it some have a lot to be desired..marc dan tome noe just to ring a few loosers in ohio government) not to mention how our own govenor handled the marc dan fiasco our gov was a wanker in it to boot.

Anyhow I can't say yes voters are intelligent, but I can understand SWCS no doubt made life as rough for the parents as they could to push them into voting yes, which again is a bunch of wankers and lazy no good for nothing can't cut our salaries or our benifits that are super majorly good compared to the civilian sector.. Oh yeah by the way a SWCS bus driver can flunk out of 8th grade, turn 21 and get a job driving a school bus for $16.40 an hour with awesome benifits vac/sick time/ all holidays, and hard as heck to fire once past probation.. I know some LPN (lic practical nurses) that go to school for 11 months in a fast paced course and get paid little more than that (maybe a dollar or two) with worse benifits some times! How the hell is that right? Tell me SWCS yes voter wankers tell me spit it out! that's what I thought makes little sense..

anyhow I hope you idiots voting yes realize SWCS can by all rights come back at voters next year and any time after with a new levy again and again with kids as sheilds, using property tax payers money to grind them down as they have in past.. Sure we can vote no time and again as we have and the SWCS can keep using imoral ways to keep beating the no voters and screwing us because it is called legal.

Yes voters..

think of it this way..
Say I have 14 kids, and I do crack, gamble a lot, and get lots of welfare to top it off.. But I can't seem to win enough to pay for my gambling habit nor my drug habit (bad money management hey), so I first ask the community around me to give me more money to support the kids (sound familiar, it should).. But I get turned down, so what do I do, I find a way to make the community pay me with little way out( there is two doors out..one labled damned if I do. And a second door labled damned if I don't).. how would you feel? Would you appreciate getting forced to fund my poor money management? Well would you.

"You chose yourselves over the community..." wow and omg! Certainly I would view it as the community and school district left ME high-and-dry, so what alternative do I truly have? If I were a student-athlete w/ a real chance at landing a scholarship for college, I would recognize I must play so recruiters can evaluate me.

No way is it an easy decision to leave the place you know and where you have friends. I feel bad for these students. No easy choices for them or for the adults who must vote on funding.

Dawn wrote:

"You chose yourselves over the community..." wow and omg! Certainly I would view it as the community and school district left ME high-and-dry, so what alternative do I truly have? If I were a student-athlete w/ a real chance at landing a scholarship for college, I would recognize I must play so recruiters can evaluate me.
No way is it an easy decision to leave the place you know and where you have friends. I feel bad for these students. No easy choices for them or for the adults who must vote on funding.

WOW! ZOMG! I haven't checked back with these threads for a while, but I see the beat goes on. Ladies and Gentlemen, in case you hadn't noticed, its O-V-E-R. Yeah, they'll be back again at some point for more money, but last Tuesday's vote, narrow though it was, effectively ended this controversy. Until it passed, this levy was going to be placed before the voters again and again, which is both the duty and legal right of the Board of Education. Yes, Fred, Terry, Laura et al., it won't be enough for the school district to carry on for all time, and there will be another levy on the ballot in the not-to-distant future.

This district has passed only a handful of such measures while other communities vote in school levies regularly, and avoid the need for such expensive measures. Times are tough but I never could see how defunding education could possibly lead to better times for the majority.

Teachers well-paid and endowed with proper health care and other benefits? Good. Sports teams and their coaches on the way back? Good. Full school transportation up and running? Good. Let's hear it for the greatest good for the greatest number. The kids can't vote, and if you tack that 20,000 to the tally of yes voters this time around, I suspect you will see what that greatest number is.

If this latest tax proves to be the straw that breaks your financial back, or if you just don't like paying it, that is unfortunate, and I have no idea what you should do. If life was easy, everybody would do it.

Legal right doesn't mean they were morally right lets get that straight not that guy. If you haven't figured that out yet in life you belong on the SWCS baord (wankers board).

Secondly wow omg woman, I might be wrong, bot you sound very young in your reply there. And hence I doubt you pay property taxes, work for the roof over your head, work for food, and so forth with out having help from mommy and daddy...

As for the community paying for the children, that is one of two points the SWCS wants you to focus on, and the kids of course because they make great sheilds and diversions to the real problem..

Just as my story pointed out about the crack user / gambler with 14 kids forcing the community to pay taxes to that person because soem how they held the legal cards to force such (not really moral, but again law isn't always concenred with morallity) no doubt would make you happy. And as such I was trying to make the yes voters realize it isn't just about the kids of course the kids think it's about the kids, and the yes voters get caught up in the kids, but it's about the wankers for SWCS board members and the fact that they are spending very poorly in a very, very bad economy; an economy that has thousands unemployed, home forclosures slamming the city, and the peopel running things aren't helping very effectively.

thirdly mr not the guy, let me come take your tax money and use it against you to get more money out of you for what ever cause I wish because I vote it legal to abuse you hopw about that? Hey it got called legal, so I an't be wrong.

I agree whineing about it does no good, but pointing out to the idiot yes voters who keep being suckers to the SWCS, I hope they will take their eyes off from what is legal to what is moral. and that the yes voters will notice the concept of lousy spending and that when the next time SWCS comes back (next year or two probably) the idiot yes voters will have clue and vote no.. but granted Idount they will get aclue and the legal rights of the baord as not the guy points out will be pushed yet again by the tax dollars used against the no voters to break them time and again..

So yes I agree kids should deserve chances to pay sports and such, but I ould rather have kids knowing morality not to set others on fire because they got reported for stealing a bike. I owuld rather have kid comming up that know history and don't let anotehr chenny and bush rule or if such ahppens they know to remove theme. I would rather have kids enlightened enough to not let another IRAQ war happen becaue hey there never has been any WMD EVER found. NEVEr found. Which means a flase war that is still going on..

I woudl rather have kids be moral enough to not knife others in the back for money which i s so commonly done now. People run companies people make laaws and I would prefer a kid to know history, and morality as well as how to read and wriote rather than to know how to throw a ball and hit some one..

I am not trying to be mr morality I am simply pointing out that there are possibly more important issues than kicking a ball or hitting some one in school as well as how tax dollars can be and should be better spent.

sorry for not checking my spelling on my long last post..

OpEdNews: Dennis Kucinich - Writer
Washington D.C.(November 6, 2009)– Following a statement on the
Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
today made the following statement:
"Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money
for war?
"The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war,
trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance
companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of
taxpayer's money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small
businesses money to survive.
"People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their
investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for
war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs
on Main Street.
"Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
relatively little money to build things in the US.
"The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an
additional $50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version
of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a
Republican version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies...
When we were promised change, we weren't thinking that we give a dollar
and get back two cents."

wankers wrote:

Secondly wow omg woman, I might be wrong, bot you sound very young in your reply there. And hence I doubt you pay property taxes, work for the roof over your head, work for food, and so forth with out having help from mommy and daddy...
As for the community paying for the children, that is one of two points the SWCS wants you to focus on, and the kids of course because they make great sheilds and diversions to the real problem..
Just as my story pointed out about the crack user / gambler with 14 kids forcing the community to pay taxes to that person because soem how they held the legal cards to force such (not really moral, but again law isn't always concenred with morallity) no doubt would make you happy. And as such I was trying to make the yes voters realize it isn't just about the kids of course the kids think it's about the kids, and the yes voters get caught up in the kids, but it's about the wankers for SWCS board members and the fact that they are spending very poorly in a very, very bad economy; an economy that has thousands unemployed, home forclosures slamming the city, and the peopel running things aren't helping very effectively.

Perhaps it wasn’t clear that I responded to the shameful comment from George Dubya who wrote the second posting where he exhibited indifference towards some 17 year olds who had to make a hard decision that involved potential college scholarships. While I sounded “very young,” I am mature enough to recognize your derision when you wrote about my “mommy and daddy…” I don’t believe I’ve called them “Mommy and Daddy” for a good 35 years, assuming I switched to “Mom and Dad” around the age of 5. My comments were almost all about what a 17 or 18 year old needed to do. However, at the end I did state it was a hard decision for the adults who vote on these funding issues.

Thankfully I do not live in SWCS district and it is one of districts I do everything possible to not live in. This sort of school district trouble is murder on the value of a home, so even people who don’t have children in the schools take some punishment. This latest controversy is simply another reason to avoid it. The administration has made it clear they will threaten extreme measures and then carry them out when the voters do not cough up the cash. They did it with split sessions a number of years ago and now did it with all extracurricular activities. It seems as if the relationship between the school administration and the community has continued to be acrimonious. I can only wonder what they will threaten next.

I, too, live in a school district that whines and cries about money and the voters defeated several school levies in a row. However, this school district (so far) hasn’t used the tactics SWCS employs. Instead they had a “special election” that was in early August one year. That would be when families go on vacation and is, therefore, relatively easy to forget about. My analysis is the superintendent basically slid it by with the odd date of the election and was successful in finally getting just enough votes to toss on some more taxes after being told “No” repeatedly.

Finally, I've worked with those crack mothers with 14 children. They should be stripped of parental rights and not see a dime from the gov't (AKA tax payers). And, yeah, I really DO think that.