Comments on: Lincoln School District Cuts 30 Teaching Positions

By: School Spirit Pays

School Spirit Pays — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:55:30 +0000

There is a private sector solution to education funding. School spirit pays has devised a way for business owners to help contribute to schools without “losing” any money. Go to http://www.wepayourway.org to find out how.

By: Angry_Taxpayer!

Angry_Taxpayer! — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:47:57 +0000

We TEA Party conservatives do wish to see government at all levels shrink back to manageable levels, but we also wish this process to be responsible. The episode depicted in this article is not a case of the LPSB getting smaller through staff reductions, but is rather a case of shifting fiscal resources from the apparently lower priority of teachers to the apparently higher priority of building a new fieldhouse for the Ruston High football team. Government at all levels constantly whines about not having enough resources and demands ever higher tax rates to feed its spending, but it always manages to find the money for the projects upon which those in power place the highest priority. In this case, football is revealed to be a higher priority than teachers in the LP school system. As a TEA Party conservative, I would like to see staff reductions and reductions in capital spending for things like football stadiums and fieldhouses. What are we taxpayers supposed to think when the powers that be come around whining about the poor state of our classrooms when they can afford to build new football facilities? After all, football is supposed to be an extracurricular activity, not the primary purpose of the school system. So yes, in cases such as this, it is easy to complain about government getting smaller precisely because this is not such a case, but is being falsely portrayed in the media narrative as such. LPNO reveals the real motivation behind such craven shenanigans.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:30:46 +0000

It’s hard to complain when government gets smaller, even the school system.

By: MrEd

MrEd — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:20:50 +0000

That’s “swears”, although sewers is not far off the mark…

By: MrEd

MrEd — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:20:04 +0000

A high school in a suburb of Dallas has a new, $60 million football stadium. A high school in Carthage, TX, has supposedly the largest super-scoreboard in high school footballdom. Longview sewars their si bigger and that Carthage’s new one is “measured wrong”.
Have people lost their minds?
Answer apparently is…Yes.

By: Cotton

Cotton — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:25:59 +0000

I humbly stand corrected!

By: Angry_Taxpayer!

Angry_Taxpayer! — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:59:12 +0000

According to Walter Abbott, apparently it’s $3.1 million! Does that answer you’re question Cotton?

By: Walter Abbott

Walter Abbott — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:23:16 +0000

The field house was constructed using money that was borrowed. The debt will be paid back by the taxpayers of Lincoln Parish.

http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/lincoln-parish-school-board-tuesday-night-8/

“In New Business, a resolution to incur $3.1 million in debt and issuance of the corresponding bonds will be considered. This is money for construction of the RHS field house.”

By: Cotton

Cotton — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:24:00 +0000

Hey Angry-Taxpayer…do you know how much of the new fieldhouse was funded through the School Board? It is my understanding that the majority of funding came from private donations.

By: Angry_Taxpayer!

Angry_Taxpayer! — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:01:59 +0000

Yet they have money to build Ruston High School a new fieldhouse!