The taxes do not need to be raised, what needs to happen is we need to stop being wasteful with the money we have. There is no reason that we need 200+ computers turned on and running everyday, at every school. What happened to the old fashioned way of learning or researching?? Use the text books and utilize the library and turn off those computers and save the electricity- stop spending money on things to “try” and fix the state we are in now- make smart decisions that WILL change it! revert back to the old ways of things- we did fine then, and we will not!

Anonymous—I dont think you have to worry about electives like foreign language being messed with, but the other electives- we could let go if needed. what happened to the days of your personal teacher giving your gym, music, and art during school- we didn’t always have to make it its own class! 

raising taxes isn’t going to fix anything! its going to hurt families. People work all day, every day, several jobs to make ends meet and are barley getting buy. Things are already to expensive- why keep hurting families? I’d rather be able to live and teach my children and help in ways i can, rather then stress every day whether or not i am going to have enough money to last the month or how I am going to tell my children they cannot do certain things because we cant afford it.

yeah the increase might be a little bit- but every little bit you can save, could make a big difference.

People need to remember there will be consequences either way.  If taxes are raised, things in the community schools will be better (for example, more individual attention for your student at school; less supplies you have to buy on your own, better programs overall, more electives available.)  If taxes are not raised, parents will have to deal with having to buy more school supplies, their student not getting enough individual attention when class sizes are high, and their child might have to wait to take some electives if there are not as many class sections.  I’d be mad if my kid had to wait a year to take an elective; for example, taking a language his freshman year, and then the courses are full his sophomore year, so he had to wait til his junior year to take the 2nd year, and senior year to take the 3rd year.    The advantage of not having a tax increase would be more money in your wallet.  But is it worth it?  Just some food for thought.

I think people need to step back and take a look at taxation as a whole (Federal/State/Local). Proportionately, the local taxes are usually the lowest of the three. Local taxes aren’t the problem.