When I was a Senior in High School, I used to get out of school two hours early. The Shelton School District asked some Seniors with early-out if they'd be interested in tutoring failing underclassmen, rather than take their early out, for 10 bucks a day.

I figured ten bones a day was party money for the weekend, so I signed up.

After the first month of tutoring the misguided little urchins, I had their grade point averages up by an average of two full points. So all the 'F' averages had been improved to 'C' averages..........for 50 bucks a week.

The kids had done such a good job dragging their grades out of the dumpster, that on one sunny Friday, I let them leave from class 10 minutes early. And for that, they let me go.

So I laughed, and said "Fine........go back to spending 6-8K on year on failing students.........at least they'll be failing in class for that extra 10 minutes." And that's when I knew our schools would ALWAYS be failures.........because the people in charge of them are so stuck in their thinking that the changes required to make schools a success will NEVER be made. If you're not a drone who listens to and accepts the garbage that rains down from the administration above, they'll can you regardless of the results you attain.

So, whiile I generally vote in favor of school levies, I realize that money will probably accomplish nothing as long as the same donkeys are still making the decisions.