SCHOOL FUNDING – WHEN WILL WE GET CREATIVE ?
Shame on our politicians, parents, community leaders, business leaders, teacher unions, school administrators and everyone else for being so brain-dead when it comes to public school funding. We clearly must find an alternative to the way schools are funded today and have been since the children of cavemen started going to school. There must be alternative streams of revenue in addition to property taxes, and federal and state aid.
Here are ways I have suggested in the past and may be controversial, but we need to think outside the box and do it quickly.
Parents must be asked to pay some sort of tuition when their children attend a public elementary school or high school. They must pay fees for all extracurricular activities that their children engage in.
Corporate advertising must begin now! The schools could sell “naming rights” to their school. Northlake Middle School could become Motorola Middle School. The school buses could have advertisements all over them, as