Stupid-Intendent

The Superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools, Nancy Sebring, spoke for an hour in her State of the Schools address.

Sebring said..."It's time to make the local option sales tax a fixture of Iowa's commitment to first-rate schools."

"If the Legislature does not act on this issue, we have little choice but to take this back to the Polk County voters, and we will do so before 2010."

Sebring also showed why the state of education is troubled when she said...

“The people have spoken loud and clear. It’s time to make the local option sales tax a fixture of Iowa’s commitment to first rate schools...”

When did the people say that?

It was just this summer that voters in Dallas, Polk and Warren Counties overwhelmingly defeated a one cent increase in the sales tax that was supposed to... provide property tax relief and fund regional quality of life amenities.

Now that was the people speaking loudly and clearly!

It took three attempts for the schools to pass the tax, doing so in 1999 after they convinced the people it was for the children.

(The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.--King Edward VIII) and the scientific community is united in that fact.

So far, Polk County school districts have collected about $350 million from the tax.

In Des Moines they didn't follow through on how it was sold to the voters, to improve neighborhood schools and education.

The tax increase never brought in as much money as was promised and Des Moines not only couldn't repair schools, they ended up closing neighborhood schools.

One hopes that voters in Pork County will have learned their lesson.