It’s that time of year again, when the local School District sneaks in a special election to pad their pockets and their buracracy while no one is looking.  I am personally getting tired of it.  The same old lies written by the same old liberals pushing us as far left and as far in debt as they can every year.  I know I’m a ‘hater’ bla bla bla.  In reality I care about education more than most people and so I despise this travesty masquerading as education.

Why aren’t the school elections the same time as the regular elections in the fall?  Because then too many people are paying attention and that is not good for them.  With secret elections in the spring they can send all of the school employees and bureauracrats to the polls and overwhelm the few in the public who are actually paying attention.

And boy would I like to be the partisan hack who writes these ballots.  Also, this year I got a special propaganda mailing from the school district “Quality Bozeman Education!”  Don’t you forget it, when you read this wonderfully ‘neutral’ pamphlet, which I’m sure we all got to pay for. . .well I mean our grandchildren.  They are of course always asking for more money in the form of levies.  The reality is that each new levy pays for the debt service of the previous levies.  Basically we need money to pay the interest on all the money we already borrowed.  And the wording is always something like “This small levy will allow us to scrape by for another year while only costing the average home owner 14¢.  It’s for the children!  If you give us the money world peace is sure to follow!  You would have to be a Hitler to vote against it!”  The reality is that the largest property owners in this and most cities are companies like Northwestern Energy, Costco and thousands of other businesses.  And I’m sure that when their costs go up they won’t raise their prices or anything, they will just take a loss.  Think again, high property taxes raise the price of everything.  And adding three more levies each year adds up.  And this is not to mention the fact that taxing people for their own property is a destruction of private property rights.  You can’t really own property in this state.  Try not paying the government rent and see who really owns the property.

Also, how is it that in a rapidly growing community school expansion involves bringing in double wide trailers, while our poor backward ancestors built massive beautiful brick structures?  Where is all this money going?  I can tell you from experience it goes into massive rooms full of unused furniture and electronics in the basement of Willson School. Or there was that semi load of legos I once saw there collecting dust.  Alas they had to spend the budget or they wouldn’t get it next year.  Government waste on technology in the name of education is astounding.  Even Steve Jobs had to admit that computers had not had any beneficial effects on education.  But they remain faithful to flushing our money down the drain in pursuit of technology.  In addition school bureauracracy is out of control.  There are buildings full of people, I’m not sure what they do but it’s not education.  I worked at a private school for a number of years, and our cost per student was about half that of the public schools, which spends about $9000 per student per year.

Oh I hope the new school looks as good as this trailer or maybe it will be one of those prison schools that are popping up everywhere.

So back to the ballot.  I really don’t care who is running this year.  ‘Public schools’ are little more than a federal government monopoly.  The local school board has given almost all of their control on things that actually matter over to the federal government, in exchange for a few dollars and the rest of their autonomy has been signed over due to politically correct peer pressure and unions.  But there was something different on the ballot this time.  The school district wants permission to purchase a piece of land for a future school.  Oh they assure us in column three that they have the money, as they ask for over half a million dollars in column two for the ‘General Fund’.  If they really wanted to plan ahead why didn’t they save up money for these new projects instead of always being behind and having to pass levies to service the levies?  That’s how normal people have to operate, but the government get’s to live in fantasy land.  Until they one day kill the growth that they depend on like say Detroit or all of California.

Also why would I want to give the government schools more domain?  We need to start shutting these things down and build private schools that actually follow our ideals.  What if a church or a restaurant had such a monopoly and were claiming more territory.  We would call them a cult or a monopoly and there would be lawsuits and government agents, but not the government school monopoly.  They hold the reigns of the next generation teaching ghastly evils in an unsafe environment, paid for by money they extort from every one of us and no one seems to have a problem with it.  Well I do.  That’s a no on any more money and a no on any more expansion, and Santa Claus and John Galt for School Board.