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From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: school taxes
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 03:50:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 03:50:04 1984
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> > I have heard people object to paying school taxes on the grounds
> > that they have no children in public school.  I do have children
> > in public school, so I'm not very objective on this subject.  
> > I'd like to see some discussion of it here.  
> 
> I have children in a private school.  (Am I objective?)
> I'm sure glad that someone paid school taxes thirty years ago.  I'd
> hate to cope with an environment where nearly all of the people I
> must work/associate with are uneducated.

I'm perfectly willing to pay school taxes (I guess that I do anyway).
I have no kids in school, but I'm sure glad that other people's kids are.
If there were no public schools, a lot of kids would be playing out on
the streets (since many parents wouldn't be able to pay for private schools).
And what does that mean?  The kids would get bored with playing stickball,
or building snowmen, or whatever kids do nowadays.  And what would they do?
THEY WOULD VANDALIZE AND STEAL ANYTHING THAT WASN'T NAILED DOWN!!!! :-) :-)
I know I would have.  (Actually, I did anyway, but that was always after
school, when I was bored.  If it were a full time occupation, I might have
gotten caught!!!! :-#)############
		    ^          ^
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		    moustache   beard
		    (These show my aged state, and prove that I cannot
		    be prosecuted for my youthful pranks, which were
		    pretty harmless anyway, since it's way past the
		    statute of limitations!)