Might as well get straight to the point. So this Amendment 2 that we will be voting on in November: I hope people actually have enough sense to vote NO on this.

They make it sound as if it’s going to benefit education and teachers, when in reality it is asking for our tax dollars to help fund private schools to lower admission costs. So if the poor people sending their kids to private schools can’t afford it, don’t ask every one else to help you out. If you can’t afford it, send them to public schools.

I hope everyone will vote NO on this. I personally think if you don’t have kids in the school system, you should not have to pay school tax anyway. But that’s my opinion. When you think about it, what are they actually learning? Kids have no respect for anyone (and) don’t have any manners, if you ask them to sign something, they can’t because they don’t know how. They have basically taken all the basic things out of schools: reading, writing and arithmetic.

Now the rich want normal working people to fund their private schools. So my question with this is, if the general public and tax dollars go to help fund private schools, does that not in turn make it a public school?

Tony Parker

Rockfield