A Plan To Cut School Taxes Almost Completely
How about this for a plan to cut school taxes in Solanco, now listen up, this is a no brainier, close the schools, fire the teachers, give every student a new laptop computer with a high speed internet connection and enroll them in a cyber school.

This should cut the Solanco School Budget by at less $30,000,000.00, how?

Little or no building maintenance, no teacher’s salaries or benefits, no grounds keeping or grass cutting, and no bussing, no snow removal and more.

The benefits are, no snow days, no student sick days, no bomb threats, no drugs in school and school can be extended to year round with no school breaks for summer or holidays.

If the school administration and school board would get rid of the old administration building and move it to the Swift Middle School, there would be ample space for staff and parking. Other older buildings can be sold or leased out, the Solanco High School can be made into a convention and meeting type center and then the Black Rock Retreat will not have the sole honor as the only place to go for an event in the Solanco Area. It could even be rented out for graduation, birthday, weddings and other type of events that people need space for that they may not want to have at the local fire house or that is to large for their church to host.

The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania has a cyber school system in place at this time and it works well, the cost of pervading a spanking new laptop computer would be something like (doing fast math) $1,000.00 per laptop times say 2,000 students would equal $2,000,000.00 one time expense in the beginning, and then the cost of the internet would be different as there may be more then one student living in a location/same family, would be like 1,500 students times $40.00 per month times 12 months would look something like $720,000.00 per year, so between the cost of the computers and the internet it would look something like an outlay of around $2,720,000.00, plus what every the cost of the cyber enrolment would be for the first year, far less then the $33,000,000.00 yearly budget that they have now.

We keep hearing how Solanco is a progressive school system, well they can show use just how progressive they are and stop spending our money as if it were theirs.

If Solanco would be a path maker and start a pilot program like this in this pursuit of cutting taxes, then maybe, just maybe other county school systems may get on board and then who knows, even the state may, and school taxes like we know now would become a thing of the past.

It’s your school board; you elected them, your can vote them out just as well, remember, it’s a government of the people and by the people and you have the power not them.

-- Bill, Quarryville.

POSTED 060102_1446 EST