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[Jakes Progress]

64. No matter how you duck it

your position is untenable. You paid school taxes in your district. You did not pay taxes in another district. If you paid for a room at the Motel 6, you cannot go to Holiday Inn and get a free room. If you paid for a toll on the Jackson Toll Road and did not use the road, you would not be entitled to ride free on the Washington Toll Road. Is someone gave your neighbor $5000 for a car they didn't want, would you be okay with them taking yours?

These are not difficult concepts. But I can see where you would want to avoid them.

And what are you on about now. Why did you have to write personal checks in order for your daughter to attend a school that you said was free and open to all state residents? I just read over your threads and you indicated that your child was in a free public charter school. Now it seems that what you answered to the list of questions wasn't all correct? See what happens when you start working around the facts and using hints and dodges instead of straight answers.

All that said, I do feel for your situation. I can see why would do what you did. But to attack public schools and to attack public school teachers and to celebrate the systematic privatization of schools is not excused by dire circumstances. People have to do what they do to get their children raised. In my days in the classroom, I have turned an eye to kids I knew weren't in the district because I knew the parent's situation. I've provided extra lessons for kids who wouldn't make it otherwise. I've housed kids whose parents were dealing with legal or substance or abuse issues. But none of those parents took that an an opportunity to attack public schools or to rant about how they were being mistreated.

Be grateful you have an out. Instead of working for a system that would destroy public education, work to make a decent education available to all children, not just yours. Go the the board meetings in the district where you pay taxes. Advocate more funds for teachers and materials and buildings. Stand up against attacks on teachers and against programs that drain money from the public schools.