At 05:48 PM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
>Where do my taxes go then? I pay as much as you do.
Tami:
Well, as I stated, our taxes go to a variety of things, state,
county, and local... roads, maintenance, emergency medical services,
police, fire, etc. etc. If a parent *voluntarily* (key word, that)
choose to send their children to private schools, they have made a
choice to opt out of the public education system. They cannot then,
in all good conscience, turn around and ask for services from
them. Removing their children from their local public school
directly reduces the amount of money that school district receives
from the state (in every state I have direct knowledge of) and
possibly also from counties and cities, if they use a per-pupil
funding formula (so many dollars to each school based on the number
of students enrolled in that school, which is by far the most common
funding formula used by counties and municipalities). Of course,
your state may use a different funding formula.
Mark
>Tami Fontaine LMS at Plymouth Christian
>
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>Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 6:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Target+Vent:Private sch. request to use public
>school library
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>>No publicly-funded school has an 'obligation' to service students
>>of parents who have voluntarily sent their children to private
>>schools. Yes, the parents 'pay taxes', which go for many things
>>besides schools....police, fire, roads, etc. On the other hand,
>>public schools are funded on the basis of the students they
>>directly serve, i.e the average daily attendance figures (ADA)...
>>so much money each year per student attending. This also includes
>>Federal funding.... so many dollars per eligible student served in
>>special programs per year. The students in the private school
>>across the street are NOT generating ANY income for your
>>school. Those parents and that school are in effect asking for a
>>free ride. Ask them (politely) if your students could come and use
>>their bathrooms each day (and of course, you would not provide any
>>toilet paper, soap, or cleaning services), or if they could come
>>and borrow the desks and chairs from several of the classrooms at
>>the Christian school. After all, that is exactly what they are
>>asking to be able to do...use resources they did not pay for and
>>deny them to those who did.
>>
>>I would stress to your principal the smallness of your budget and
>>the thin-ness of your resources...along with the fact that every
>>book borrowed by the kids across the street is one less for his or
>>her school's students to use.
>>
>>Sorry, but this is a sore point with me. Implicit in the action of
>>voluntarily removing your children from a public school and sending
>>them to a private school is the acceptance of the fact that you are
>>also giving up any claim on services provided by the public school.
>>
>>
>>At 09:39 AM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
>>>Our public school library has been asked if the kids
>>>from a Christian school across the street may come over to check out books
>>>from our library.
>>
>>Mark Williams
>>Consulting Librarian
>>Professional Services for Conferences, Districts, Workshops
>>markwilliams@makaw.net
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