Great story of your neighborhood; we did a similar thing moving into five houses in Fitler Sq. in mid 1970's with four others; the buildings had not been occupied for 25 years; corner of 24th and Naudain. Paid $28,000 for the shell I bought.
Since 56% of our property taxes now goes directly to the School System, I most emphatically do not agree with Dan's opinion and comfort about paying taxes. School System has far too much money already; $4.6 Billion for 200,000 students, squandering millions and millions and millions, and the two neighborhoods we have lived in had such low rated schools, literacy, truancy, and violence that no one goes there unless you have no choice.
How can anyone managing our public schools tolerate that irresponsibility for one minute destroying the lives of so many of our own students for such colossal tax and urban cost?
Our public schools have a brilliantly altruistic mission that we pay taxes to educate the children of our neighbors for them to be ready to graduate and move up in life. Why be pleased with a system that fails to even attempt to accomplish that for thousands of students, decade after decade, which leads directly to many other expensive and dangerous urban problems for all of us?
We need a mission, "Come Hell or High Water" to graduate 100% of our students well prepared for their next step up in life. Only then, should we be pleased to pay the 56% of our real estate taxes to our own public schools.
From reader Len Lear:
Would your drink the water donated by Donald Trump?
One should be careful about drinking Trump's water (or carrying it). It may be dirty.
Great story of your neighborhood; we did a similar thing moving into five houses in Fitler Sq. in mid 1970's with four others; the buildings had not been occupied for 25 years; corner of 24th and Naudain. Paid $28,000 for the shell I bought.
Since 56% of our property taxes now goes directly to the School System, I most emphatically do not agree with Dan's opinion and comfort about paying taxes. School System has far too much money already; $4.6 Billion for 200,000 students, squandering millions and millions and millions, and the two neighborhoods we have lived in had such low rated schools, literacy, truancy, and violence that no one goes there unless you have no choice.
How can anyone managing our public schools tolerate that irresponsibility for one minute destroying the lives of so many of our own students for such colossal tax and urban cost?
Our public schools have a brilliantly altruistic mission that we pay taxes to educate the children of our neighbors for them to be ready to graduate and move up in life. Why be pleased with a system that fails to even attempt to accomplish that for thousands of students, decade after decade, which leads directly to many other expensive and dangerous urban problems for all of us?
We need a mission, "Come Hell or High Water" to graduate 100% of our students well prepared for their next step up in life. Only then, should we be pleased to pay the 56% of our real estate taxes to our own public schools.