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Editorial Okay folks, it's that time of year again. Your local school boards are in the process of putting together their annual budgets and if you have a concern, suggestion or idea about how two thirds of your local property tax money is being spent, now is the time to get involved. The most irresponsible and ignorant thing to do is to stay home while the decisions are being made, head to the polls in May, uninformed and angry, and vote no! Yet, every year this happens, while the months before local school officials hunker down and try to do what they think is best for children and the community. If they get input, it is usually from those with legitimate but vested interests. Let's broaden the process. The way to do that is to attend some budget meetings, talk to your school officials and educate yourself. Review some of the new proposals as well as some of the old ways of doing things. We believe there is a way to keep costs down and educational standards up. Statewide, school district spending went up 13 percent last year; that's a huge increase and way out of proportion to the increases at other levels of government, in the cost of living and in your weekly pay check.
If we do, indeed, get the government we deserve, then we have nothing to complain about when it comes to our school spending. They are operating either with our full support and approval, or our abject neglect.
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