The Shootout: Support a tax increase or not?
By Mike Bauman
School Board members have suggested District 6 must have a tax increase in order to continue to offer its current level of service. Would you be willing to support such an increase? If not, what should the district do? What would you like to say to your school board members?
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My post disappeared. I won’t jump to conclusions though that it was deleted. Many things could have happened causing it to be deleted. I’ll try it again though. I just stated that I would actually answer this question and offer ideas if there wasn’t the chance of retribution from Brett Reese’s and Chrisann’s scorn. I think there’s many ideas to be had, but I feel people are afraid and unwilling to voice them. If your ideas, opinions and ideals differ from one board member, you better be ready for the attempts of one board member to be publically ridiculed and humiliated on the radio, in the Greeley Gazette, or on the Greeley Report blog. That inhibits and hinders public participation. I chose to remain anonymous due to that reason and unfortunately I am not alone in that belief.
Dear BOE,
You don’t listen to us when we come talk to you. You give no respect to yourselves or others on your board. You provide a deaf ear when suggestions are made on how to improve our schools and ignore petitions presented that prove that a program was working.
You pay people not to hear us. You fail the grade in manners and respect. Your disregard of our children and the services we need for them are hushed up and spun by Roger Fielder when you don’t know how to answer our disgust of the system or method of application in running the BOE.
You didn’t ask me if I wanted you to leave the administration building and that shows me that you are afraid of the right to bear arms. You don’t understand that if you are in fear it does not stop. You have been cowards in firing over paid administrators and have lacked the creativity to cross train people in your administration that could do two jobs or expand their job descriptions by proving themselves in taking on duties that could have been spread to them in the first place.
You have stifled free speech and cause harm by failing to offer apology to a child so they can heal from something you helped to create.
Do I think you deserve a tax increase. You have said no to the charters so what do you think my answer would be. I would rather home school and work with a virtual school that is a blue ribbon school than your public school because of your inability to think outside the box. Now your asking for us to think for you.
Your the “educated” ones. Until I see you on my front porch and those to work a neighborhood for your tax increase you are not worth my time. I have put my time in on coming to your meeting and being treated and ignored like fodder.
Happy Elections.
Bumpkin, Your just a plain coward. I list my name and Your fear is what prohibits yourself for being credited with any good ideas or ideas period. Your just in the mass and undistinquishable by choice. That is what makes the difference between a leader and follower. MLK would agree.
I would only support it if they made clear what they were going to spend it on. I think the BoE and Lang have some secrets. Why do they approve every spending issue that comes before them with without even questioning it. Wouldn’t it be really easy to hide a few thousand here or there to line a pocket. Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but it is a concern to me.
Chris, what is wrong with the BOE holding meetings in local schools? I like the idea. I wish it hadn’t come about in the manner than it did. Chris is it just that, “You didn’t ask me if I wanted you to leave the administration building?” I see nothing but positive moving the school board meetings into local schools. It will provide better access for parents. It also is a great opportunity for school’s PTOs to to rally for support and interest in education and school functions. I’ve always maintained that it’s the parent’s level of involvement and interest in their children’s education that creates successful kids. If more parents got involved with their child’s education and truly cared with follow-up and interest at home, we would see test scores of traditional k-12 schools rise to the level of charters and private schools where parents are involved with their kid’s education. This move offers a starting point to spark some interest. The BOE is on the parent’s and the children’s turf now. Parents who attend meetings will get an insight into the complex organization the district has to run. I feel parents will feel more at ease attending school board functions at their local school and will be more encouraged to offer informed suggestions. The more parental input, the more of a chance to make an impact.
I’ve been a proponent of computer based learning in public schools for years. School districts have been run like corporations for years. Just like corporations, those that don’t keep up with technology, modernize and appeal to a wider variety of consumer demands will or have failed. Technology is a threat to the ‘corporate’ school district. CBL poses a threat to teacher’s jobs, but presently kids are using technology daily. MANY classes could be taught using relatively inexpensive technology. It opens up time and saves resources for other offerings that would appeal to a broader range of students.
Chris, in the Tribune we wrote about tax credits as vouchers for parents who want to home school, or send their kids to private schools. You support it, I do not. I oppose this idea because you need to have a income tax burden in order to benefit from a tax credit. My opinion has nothing to do with the difference between low income or no income. Simply, if you are not in a wage bracket where you are subject to paying income taxes, you will NOT realize a tax credit. The idea of a tax credit as a voucher will only benefit people who could afford to either stay home and educate their kids, or send them to a private school because they make a high enough wage to have to pay income taxes. Is that fair? It’s a tax loophole for well to do parents. I’m glad they will benefit, but what about everyone else? I think there are better ways and means that would benefit parents who want to home school that would be viable for the district as well. May I ask why you don’t homeschool?
And lastly, to get any sort of good reasonable outcome, you need to be reasonable.
Bumpkin, Your just a plain coward. I list my name and Your fear is what prohibits yourself for being credited with any good ideas or ideas period. Your just in the mass and undistinquishable by choice. That is what makes the difference between a leader and follower. MLK would agree.
Reasonable, like I have seen you post. Negaitve and hatefull and filled responses about Reese and continue kicking of a horse.
Telling and implying to people that they are on drugs, dtaking 1/2 cocked conversations and supporting thenegative when you don’t have all the facts, you don’t respond reasonably and that was proven with the Urioste comments you made. The continued slamming and making comments about tpeoples and their mental health state as your some sort of armchair psychoclogist, judgements about their positions without respect. My proper name is Ms. Eikenberg which you show no respect for. You do not know me well enough to call me Chris. Yet, you want to spew in both the tribune and the gaz for what purpose. Your boredom? You have shown no love nor compassion for anyone that comes against your opinion nor allow or promote the right of people to agree to disagree. You will feel obligated to pound your chest to reponsd to this respond to this post , but I won’t waste my time as you have not shown that your REASONABLE.
Therefore, your comments will no longer be read.
Chris, I could call you Robin as sometimes you forget how you sign your name, but per your request I will call you Ms. Eikenberg to sooth you. Fear does not prohibit me from being, “credited with any good ideas or ideas period..” I am credited and benefitted suitably for my ideas. I don’t look for any sort of gratification from anyone else when I share a thought, or idea. You can even relate my ideas regarding improvement for Discern 6 as your own if you wish and if you were to ever enter into any constructive dialog with the BOE.
Additionally Ms. Eikenberg, you are also in error writing, ” You will feel obligated to pound your chest to reponsd to this respond to this post .” As I detest’grammar police’ who troll boards, that is not the error that I’m addressing. I will simply reply to ask you if you agree, or see any value with any portion of my last post.