Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Families and Education Levy

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Families and Education Levy:

Families and Education Levy

by Melissa Westbrook

There's a story about it in the Seattle Times this morning and boy, are the comments angry. The arguments against seem to fall in three categories:

• mismanagement of the district and accompanying scandals
• doubling of the levy amount during a recession
• spending money on anything not directly related to the classroom (social services like health care, family support, etc).

What to think? I'm going to play devil's advocate here and put out some questions. (This does not mean I necessarily believe these questions to be true but I'm trying to get an idea of what the thinking may be out