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Posted on February 27 at 9:02 a.m.

While I share a lot of the frustration many of you have with the school system, I don't believe that voting down this tax will help solve the problem. Mr. McCollister wants to send a message to the school system, I say he needs to find a way to send that message that doesn't hamper what progress has been made. He talks about accountability, but offers no plan for how to do this in a fair way that doesn't penalize a teacher for the myriad other things that can impact student performance that they don't have control over. If we want the school system to turn around, we should find constructive means of improving it and doing what must be done, as a community, to make that change come to life, not lament the position we're in, complain about how we want things to change, and then proceed to make change as difficult as possible. By voting down this tax, you allow further decay of school facilities, take money away from the teachers you claim to be so concerned about, and leave them with fewer resources to capitalize on what strides they have made. There needs to be a more comprehensive solution to this problem that takes into account factors inside and outside of the schools themselves that affect performance and works to remedy them community wide. Taking the money away with no plan for how to fix things and hoping the problem fixes itself doesn't sound like progress, it sounds like business as usual.

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