Sup. Rivers... a "tool"

[R13]

You can look at it however ya want I guess.. I can remember when I was 20 and knew it all too. But, as I said earlier, everyone involved wants what's best for them and not for the ones that matter..you included. One day it might make sense that government (schools included) has to be funded...that's not negotiable. I know there's a sense of entitlement to many in this area, but when the dust settles folks are inevitably gonna have to man up and pay for the things they want...not everything in life is in the form of a hand out.

Nothing to refute, so you play the age card huh? Niiiiice. This isn't an entitlement issue, you've been infatuated with that for as long as I've been on here, but now you're applying it to this and it's pretty off base. No one is asking for anything more than what they need to receive a good education, not an Ipad for every kid to do their homework on or whatever, but just things most have and what these kids deserve.

I think they should ride out the recession and make do until the power plant goes online to get a concrete number concerning what normal funding levels will be and go from there. The crisis in funding is only temporary..but any consolidation is a decades long decision. I don't claim to have the answers, but I do claim to have some common sense..lol. Those that cling to the assertation that the students leave with a poor education might want to push for the hiring of better teachers and some parenting classes..cuz that where the effectiveness of education lies..it starts at home.

Recession has been over for years, we're feeling the cuts of Bobby in the Governors Mansion - there had to be cuts, just not really any to education, let alone 600+ million. You didn't really adress his question, you just see where we're at after the recession that ended and the plant going online that probably won't ever happen. And then what? Oh yeah, there's that pesky enrollment problem, they're only going to drop and drop as they have been over the years...and keeping 6 old ass schools open will bury is ever further.

My household consists of my parents and me, that means three of us. Do you think we have 6 old gas guzzlers? Nope, we have 3 newer vehicles that are good on gas...why would we need 6? Only need 3, can't afford the upkeep, the gas/costs that come along with 6. Why would the County need 6 old schools when they only need three new ones?

And again, that argument is very flawed, has some halfway decent points but mostly flawed. Why? Well you can't blame everything on the teachers, there are some bad teachers, that's a true - consolidation would probably weed them out though, even though you said you wanted ALL teachers to keep their jobs. But teachers work with what they have, the educational tools they are provided. A mechanic know how to fix a car blindfolded, but if he doesn't have the proper tools in his tiny garage, he's not going to do the best job he could with them. I've not heard anyone say the kids are kidding a bad education, I'm saying that it could be better, a lot better in some areas and consolidation offers that. Not too hard to understand, this isn't a system of equations or take a massive amount of intellect to figure out...it's pretty clear and common sense once someone takes an unbiased look the situation and pros/cons.