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Voting YES for a change
Hey, the schools finally found a way to get me to vote yes on something. I vote yes to create a city school district. Why you ask? Since the BOE can't come up with any new ideas maybe if we alter our reality we'll have a new perspective.
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shell game
go ahead alter your reality, just remember there is no free lunch and you have to live with your new reality.
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Consider This
The only way splitting a school district will work is if the city, whether it's Pickerington or Groveport agree to change their charter to eliminate all future annexations. Otherwise all the cities will do is what Columbus is doing to the suburban districts, i.e., annex land in other school districts so they have the responsibility. You'll have to fix the boundaries forever.
I don't think the state is going to allow this sort of thing anyway. For a 100 years they've been consolidating school systems to achieve economies of scale. They're not going to change now.
What they are going to do is declare a failing school system to be a public emergency and either turn it over to the courts or take it themselves. They can appoint an administrator with the power to levy taxes without recourse to the public. The US Supreme Court has already ruled this is constitutional.
By Any Mouse
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Boundaries move now
Come on, Any that argument isn't going to fly here in Pickerington. Who is writing your material Terry Dunlap? We live deep enough into the City that our kids have not had to change schools or split their friendships as our kids went one direction and the kids across the street went another.
Must I remind you of the fraud in that North High School Boundary committee a few years ago? There are still hard feelings from that. Then there is the 1,750 students attending North (at near capacity) while Central has a little over 1,000. Could it be that the board was trying to entice North High School voters to support an elementary school levy? AND THEY DIDN'T!
What about the border residents like Mingo and Stemen Road? They have been jacked around for four or five years now. Where they going a go next year? The fact is the PLSD changes its school boundaries EVERY YEAR.
If Pickerington, Canal Winchester and Reynoldsburg had not annexed out and connected their boundaries half of the PLSD would be in Columbus today. Talking about re-writing history. If the State simply requires the Cities to take on the responsibility of education like sewer and water in their annexation then much of that issue is resolved.
Then if the State comes in and takes over the State's schools districts and imposes state taxes there will be a royal house cleaning in Columbus. So give up the scare tactics.
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