Recently Dan Varney, the treasurer for No Lakota – accused Lakota officials of trying to manipulate voters by enticing them with $2.8 million of possible restorations of some budget cuts. “It’s how they play the game and they are trying to instill some passion in the school parents” to drum up votes for the proposed property tax increase,” Varney said.
Bravo!
According to school officials if the levy is passed, bus service will be reinstated for grades 2-6, for students who live farther than one mile from school. This is simply an attempt by Lakota schools to purchase votes in the next election using tax payer money to do it. Currently, bus service is issued only to students in those grades if they live farther than two miles from school. This school year, the district supposedly identified some routing efficiencies to provide bus service to all K-1 students at no additional cost. (Isn’t that amazing, just in time for a school levy attempt?)
“We value the community’s feedback that we heard in our Community Conversations last year,” said Mantia. “We heard this would be a tremendous help to our families, and will also help us regain lost instructional time.” Superintendent Mantia noted that the change would provide busing to an additional 2,200 students, helping minimize traffic congestion on some of the district’s busiest roads.
Also,
- Students in grade 4-6 will be offered one additional day of art, music or physical education. Currently students take classes in art, music or P.E. one time per week.
- Student participation in after-school clubs and extracurricular activities will be encouraged by increasing opportunities and reducing fees from $550 to $400 at high school and from $350 to $300 at junior high.
- Students in grade 9 would be offered a seven-period class schedule, instead of six periods per day.
- Part of the funding was allocated for advanced technologies and modernized coursework to further individualize learning, a focus area of the district’s current strategic planning work.
The school board voted June 24 to place a levy on the November ballot for the community’s consideration, and announced at that time that a major component of the levy would be for technology, including a $13.5 million multi-year upgrade to the district’s instructional technology infrastructure. School building security will also be bolstered across the district. The decisions made by the board Monday evening finalize the plans for how the levy funds would be allocated.
Here are the source articles from above:
http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/08/12/lakota-board-says-it-will-restore-some-cuts-if-levy-passes/
http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/08/13/lakota-local-schools-release-details-of-levy-proposal/
Of course all these things that Lakota is “giving” to the community are contingent on the passage of a tax increase. The arrogance displayed by these public workers is astonishing; they will give back to the community what is already theirs “IF” they vote to pay more taxes on their properties—which is simply amazing. So in that context what Dan Varney said in the paper was dead on, if all too polite. Lakota schools think that the votes are suckers, and stupid. Lakota has no respect for the average tax payer in the Lakota district, as their behavior displayed grotesquely in evidence. The definition of Lakota’s actions is pure extortion. They stated that if tax payers gave Lakota more money, they would restore services that were only lost because the school board did not manage their costs under the leadership of Superintendent Mantia. If a levy is not approved by the voting public, then those items listed above will not be granted. It is a low down dirty trick that belongs on one of those television commercials advertising products for $19.99. It’s a scam disguised as education. Its corruption disguised as community benefit. It’s wrong, detrimental, and socially corrosive.
In such a time when bandits rule our school system using our children as shields against justice, thank God there are people like Dan Varney of No Lakota Levy out there fighting the good fight defending those same children with honesty from the looters wishing to exploit them for personal gain. Without people like Varney the extortion scams advocated by public education institutions like Lakota would have no representation in the press, leaving the sinister schools to dance upon community innocence with immunity from righteousness. No Lakota Levy is an organized resistance that is all that stands between open extortion by public schools and the out-right looting of the “rich,” so-called “wealthy” property owners who will lose millions if the Lakota levy of 2013 passes.
For idiots, diabolical nut cases, open progressives and Obama voters, they enjoy the Lakota levy position of attacking the rich and giving to the poor, the silly, childish levy supporters who purchase half million dollar homes, pay over $5000 per year in property taxes still desiring more, then turn around and ask the rest of the community to give their children a “free” education at Lakota which is run by the kind of people shown above who openly believe that extortion is an acceptable campaign strategy. I’m glad there are people like Dan Varney who can hold their tongue in the face of such a travesty, but he does, and is a good man for the job. Every homeowner should be thankful that there is a group like No Lakota Levy out there defending them from higher taxes by government looters like Lakota’s administrators and their band of education thieves. In that group there are people like Dan Varney who stand as pillars of stone against the winds of chaos in a battle for the heart and soul of Lakota–the residents who pay the taxes versus those who wish to steal them.
Rich Hoffman
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“For idiots, diabolical nut cases, open progressives and Obama voters”……
That made my night, right there. LOL.
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Good, its all too true!
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Dan is something else.
My goto guy for years.
Talks me off the ledge every time, understands me, and still a serious friend.
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This is nothing short of extortion. All the local newspapers should have this on the front page of their papers. But they don’t do they? They don’t have the balls to publish real articles anymore, which is why the local papers are failing, and local blogs like yours attract so much attention.
You might go over the top sometimes (actually quite a bit) and I don’t always agree with your viewpoints. But when it comes to taxes and education you are spot on. This is extortion 100%; there is no other word for it. The administrators of the Lakota school system should be ashamed of themselves.
We pay a handsome some of money each month to the local school district; it should be by far enough money to support all the required services. It’s more than a slap in the face to be offered back services that should never have been cut in the first place, and then told we need to pay more to re-install them.
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Nice!
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The public school system is in the extortion and indoctrination business. In the case of Lakota, about 67% of the taxpayers do not have children attending the schools. Yet the teacher’s union and the parents do expect senior citizens and working people to support the system to the degree of extravagance that they desire. They must have new schools, new equipment, new programs, new sports programs, new buses etc. The older schools are just not good enough.
In spite of having everything new, data seems to prove that each generation of students has not been taught the basic skills to survive. Even IQ’s have dropped drastically from those of the people during the time of the founding of this nation.
No one should doubt that any new money given to any school district will be poured into salaries and benefits. That is the clear reason why the teachers, administrators and PTA (an arm of the NEA/AFT) work so hard to shame voters into voting to tax their neighbors even more.
It is high time to put a halt to this racket. Teachers are NOT underpaid. They have the summer and bountiful days off and still make as much as architects and lawyers. STOP them now!
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Wonderfully said! Nice to hear from you!
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I went by a few lakota schools a few weeks ago and saw a whole lot of cars in the lot. When I asked what was going on, I was told it was the teachers getting ready for the school year. I thought they had their summers off? What gives?
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They started like a week early? They’ve been off since the start of June. Two and a half months off is a summer. At least unless you’re a teacher who is trying to split hairs one week or another. What other profession pays employees 60K a year and lets them hang loose for over two months?
But thanks for the comment. It’s good to hear from you.
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Teachers are union, there is little for the districts to do to control that cost structure. Lakota maintains one of the lowest per student cost of any school. Vote no, and watch your property values decline further, as more people move out because you won’t pas this needed levy. No Lakota is driven by real estate moguls and businesses that get tax breaks to move here, and then refuse to help fund our schools. Do your research, look for the facts, not the hype. Don’t be drawn in by talk radio style rhetoric.
Click to access exp%20per%20pupil%20enlarged.pdf
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I have done more research than can be imagined and what it comes down to is profit…….who owns it, the person who produces it, or the people who want to distribute it. Think of profit as a pie. When someone makes a pie, we might say, “Mrs So & So made a pie. Let’s eat her pie.” We think of the pie as hers because she made it. Then you have the kind of people the levy supporters are, people who think that the pie is theirs also, even though all they did was show up to eat it. They would say, “Here is a pie, let’s eat our meal.” Mrs So & So might sit down quietly and not draw attention to the fact that she made the pie, because she doesn’t want to spoil everyone’s mood. The rest of the people eating the pie would eat it all up then demand more, because the pie was good. But Mrs So & So spent all her money making the pie, and didn’t make much money the first time around, so decides that she doesn’t want to do it again since the first time around was a thankless excersise. The result is that there is one less pie maker in the world. No Lakota Levy people are the producers of the community, they made the pie which the rest of the community eats. The levy supporters simply want to eat the pie…….what the producers made. When levy supporters say that No Lakota Levy only wants to hide their taxes with breaks and shelters, they are making the assumption that the profits earned by them are collectively shared by all……….that everyone owns the pie. But they don’t. If the members of No Lakota Levy did not make a pie, nobody would have anything to eat. That is the danger of this election. If taxes go up, the people who make pie, they will take their ingrediants elsewhere leaving all the levy supporters who simply want bussing reinstated for their children in exchange for a vote, with a declining community. The money for this levy is not for children. But children are exploited by these administrators and managers of the government schools purely so they can maintain high wages that they are clearly not worthy of.
Thanks for the comment. But if you vote Yes for the Lakota Levy, you are on the wrong side of rightousness. And remember that when eating pie, to wipe your mouth and thank the person who made it for you. Don’t assume that they will always be there just because there are hungry people who want to eat pie.
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That Sunday call in show had so many great facts. Proof positive that the government schools are failing in all directions. If they can’t teach reading, they are worthless.
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Worthless!
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Ease up school boards. We’re on your ass like a duck on a June Bug. Meet your neighbors. Not kidding.
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You can’t keep stealing souls!!! Someone will have to pay some day….
Liars can go to Dallas and tout crap, but you lie and steal everything!
Beck is not yours. Tea Parties may give you a pass, we dont. Come clean or reap.
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On 8/20/2013 9:57 AM, kellykohls wrote:
> I will be at this meeting/show on Thurs if anyone wants to watch. They asked me to come to the Beck/Barton workshop on stopping Common Core and told me to bring a legislator that released stop CC legislation. I invited Andy Thompson, see HB 237, and we are both going to Dallas on Thurs. This is the second such workshop and two people from each State are invited.
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> On Thursday at 4:00 P.M. Glenn will do his TV show on CC. We are invited to be part of the audience. In May when we were at the studio for the meeting Glenn did his show on CC and most of the attendees participated in the show as audience members.
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Who gave you your education? ick.
We’re all doctors. One’s with stones. Stronger than you can………..BE!
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That should be fun. I’ll see if I can get a clip.
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Who is this directed at?
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Cmon killer. Figure it out!
I’ll be nice for about a second.
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You should read and listen. It might seem like a waste but cryin like a bitch has meaning.
No more crap. Many of us are wayyy done.
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I’ll do the best I can. We went to Walmart. As I was checking out I asked her about the weather and she said that being a teacher was going to be her next day. Fine. She then went on about how she needed extra money besides her pension. This is where the free market rides but she was crossing that thin line. She thought I was onboard!
I listened to her crap then called HR. Piss and moan all day but do not do it on my freaking dime.
She lost her job, so they told me. She had every right to any money she was working for.
Too bad. Free market cuts both ways!
Either you’re in, or out!!! it’s a Bitch!!
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After I read my email, I had some context.
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