Thursday, May 22, 2008

Keep the riff-raff out:

Districts from Florida to California are hiring private investigators, creating anonymous tip lines and imposing penalties when they believe people have registered at false addresses. The measures often are spurred by parents who feel they pay a premium in property taxes to get their children into good schools.

Because heaven forbid that the public school you paid so much money for would be, well, public.

1 comment:

Theo V. said...

simple solution: stop funding school s with property tax, start funding them with state or federal dollars only.

Or if you really want to improve them all ... perhaps make them free market with vouchers. Everyone pays the same, everyone can go to any school they want, best schools win, hardest working students win... it's the American way.