Frustrated & irritated.
Anybody else have a POV on this?
I pay property taxes...A LOT of property taxes!
The bulk of which, go to the ISD.
I first noticed this several years ago when I received an unsolicited email from the school my oldest niece’s children go to (in California, no less!). In short it was a “fund raising” letter made personalized by invoking the name & a photograph of her kid. It continued in later years as her other two kids reached that certain school level (junior high). Guess I’m a bad great-Uncle... I didn’t donate! Sorry, just didn’t feel the need to support the California school system!
Now MY grandkid (a County over - in Denton county), has sent basically the same kind of ‘fund raising’ email. The boy is in First Grade! Thus, the first sentence of this post.
Seems the common thread from these emails is, they’re after money to support extra-school activities. I have no idea what that means for a first-grader(!)... maybe ‘field trips’(?)... who knows?
In addition to McKinney passing a bond fund to build, what some are now saying is the most expensive high school football stadium in the country (not just Texas) - about $82-85M, once original land acquisition costs and related city infrastructure costs are included (road & utility construction in the immediate area to support the stadium). The larger bond fund the stadium was part of, also included money to buy new high school band uniforms. Imagine paying on clothes for thirty years!
The ISD school board (& voters) have lost their minds! I guess this new email fund raising scheme just replaces the old candy bar or bake sale stuff we had when I was growing up. But sorry, I’m not buying it!
*** Rant over *** (ok, I’m chilled out now)
Anybody else have a POV on this?
I pay property taxes...A LOT of property taxes!
The bulk of which, go to the ISD.
I first noticed this several years ago when I received an unsolicited email from the school my oldest niece’s children go to (in California, no less!). In short it was a “fund raising” letter made personalized by invoking the name & a photograph of her kid. It continued in later years as her other two kids reached that certain school level (junior high). Guess I’m a bad great-Uncle... I didn’t donate! Sorry, just didn’t feel the need to support the California school system!
Now MY grandkid (a County over - in Denton county), has sent basically the same kind of ‘fund raising’ email. The boy is in First Grade! Thus, the first sentence of this post.
Seems the common thread from these emails is, they’re after money to support extra-school activities. I have no idea what that means for a first-grader(!)... maybe ‘field trips’(?)... who knows?
In addition to McKinney passing a bond fund to build, what some are now saying is the most expensive high school football stadium in the country (not just Texas) - about $82-85M, once original land acquisition costs and related city infrastructure costs are included (road & utility construction in the immediate area to support the stadium). The larger bond fund the stadium was part of, also included money to buy new high school band uniforms. Imagine paying on clothes for thirty years!
The ISD school board (& voters) have lost their minds! I guess this new email fund raising scheme just replaces the old candy bar or bake sale stuff we had when I was growing up. But sorry, I’m not buying it!
*** Rant over *** (ok, I’m chilled out now)