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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
Unlike others on this thread you have grasped the gist of it. In actuality, we do fund local schools with property taxes. The biggest percentage of my annual property tax bill is for education. As long as we are spending that kind of dough, I want decisions regarding education to be made here within the community and not by some DC bureaucrat. Apparently, that's just too hard for some people to understand.
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I find myself agreeing with you on this .... (yes, I am sober
) ... most of my property taxes go to fund education. And I do vote to choose members of my local school board. The Federal Govt. has no say in education (apart from schools on First Nations Territory); but the Province of Ontario, which tosses in about $30 billion into the education pot does set very firm guidelines in order to insure that there are some province wide standards. There are some things that would appear strange to many, like the public funding of a Roman Catholic Separate School system ... but that comes from concessions made in 1867, in the British North America Act. However, before I po Claytonender, I will say that I also like "decisions regarding education to be made here within the community and not by some (Ottawa) bureaucrat."