Wednesday, September 29, 1999
Wednesday, September 29, 1999 |
| How
does it feel to have sentenced kids to
mediocrity?' To the citizens of Fayette County. How does it feel to look in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and see that you were the only county that failed to pass a SPLOST to support your children's education? How does it feel to know that Clayton County has approved a SPLOST for the second time and we have voted it down twice? How does it feel to live in a county that has a highly educated voter base that would not vote their convictions either way? How does it feel to know that you may have doomed future generations of children and the current children in Fayette County to an inferior education versus surrounding counties that you look down on? How does it feel to know that you saved a few dollars in taxes at the expense of a child's education? How does it feel to know that you may now have to pay interest for 30 years on school bonds instead of a five-year sales tax? How does it feel to know that if you are a property owner that you may have doomed yourself to increased property taxes and the full burden of any bond fund payments? How does it feel to know that you have now hurt the developers and Realtors that you bought a house from by lowering educational standards in our county to make it unattractive to future residents? Did you move here because of the school system? How does it feel to know that people will surely come to Fayette County to spend money because we're the only county around dumb enough to reject the sales tax to support our children? Maybe there will be plenty of young people smart enough to be clerks in the stores. How does it feel to know that you may have taken away that educational opportunity from a child because our schools operate with very outdated computer systems that cannot run the latest programs? How does it feel to know that you may have doomed a very good educational system to mediocrity? How does it feel to have put the school board in its place at the expense of our children? These are the very people that we have made stewards of our children's education. How does it feel to be highly educated and selfish? It feels very sad. H.
Dwight Wilson
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