Because when every property is worth millions of dollars, and even a parking space goes for half a million, the school could easily be funded using property tax well beyond what it even needs.
Instead, the school never has enough money to fund education. Teachers get paid below national averages. Test scores are below state and national averages. And then the school district asks for more money by placing the burden on everyday working class people just buying food or whatever (who dont own property worth millions of dollars) and tourists (who can be discouraged from visiting under increasing taxation) to primarily educate the children of the people who own property worth millions of dollars.
If you dont find that absurd then I dont know what to tell you
They do have height requirements in the sense that they use such standardized equipment that you cant be either extremely tall or short and still serve. Like you cant be in the navy if you cant fit in the beds on a ship, which is logical. However that same person might be able to fit in somewhere outside the navy depending on how tall they are. But if youre 7 ft tall you probably just cant serve, as youre too tall not to be a liability in some way pretty much everywhere.
That said, Im not aware of anyone whos height significantly fluctuates (outside of normal everyday fluctuations) on a month to month basis
It is highly dependent on local, state, and federal funding sources, usually in that order. Property taxes are usually where most of the money comes from in most places, but that is not universally true. For example, in Colorado property taxes are not as much of a direct source of funding for schools as they are in other places. So despite having some of the most expensive property values in the country, Colorado has some of the worst funded schools and worst paid teachers in the country as well.
I live in one of the highest property value areas anywhere in the entire country, and the local district’s primary source of funding is municipal sales taxes. It’s truly absurd.
At the state level, many states use lottery money from any given area to supplement other funding. Which sounds great on its face, but the reality is that the lotto is effectively a regressive tax of sorts. Areas that have high property values save money from lotto contributions. Areas with low property values tend to have more people playing the lotto, but that money is rarely enough to make up for a lack of funding. What most people dont understand about those programs is that they dont take the lotto money from rich areas (or pool it) and provide it to poorer area schools that need it more. The money is geographically limited to the areas it comes in from
“I call it the N word. There are two N words and you cant use either of them” Trump said to an awkwardly silent audience
This timeline has truly jumped the shark. Like on the one hand we are so fucked, but on the other hand reality has become something straight off the cutting room floor of a mockumentary series
People also arent directly paying Israel $20 a month or whatever, which can be cancelled at a whim. The most support that the average American sends to Israel is via US tax dollars. Good luck not paying your taxes just to send a message without ending up in prison, not to mention being unable to buy anything through typical means
Inb4 they say its unamerican to have a Puerto Rican do the super bowl halftime show, because theyre too stupid to realize that Puerto Ricans are Americans
Even if 1 happened, the tilt in politics would ensure that 2 doesnt happen. Every time we get a step like 1, the right wing pivots to blaming democrats for any legitimate (and plenty of illegitimate) grievances. Which is obviously lapped up by the ignorant morons and hands power back to the republicans. Over and over again this happens. We get a Clinton, then comes a Bush. We get an Obama, then comes a Trump. We get a Biden, then comes another Trump. Its just the same cycle of braindead stupidity over and over again.
Even if Democrats sweep the midterms, or somehow by a miracle get back the presidency after that, then ultimately power will be handed back to the Republicans in the following terms. The time to prevent any of this was when Democrats had full control of the government over ten years ago. But hindsight is 20/20 I suppose, and decorum was the flavor of the day. I doubt anyone imagined that established political decorum would be thrown out the window to the extent that it has been
If you leave clothes sitting in a washing machine for more than a few hours they will start to mildew and smell terrible. Then you end up having to rewash everything. Or smell like mildew I guess, if thats your thing
It is pretty disturbing that 99% of people driving havent been assessed in 10 years or more beyond “do you know what this yellow triangle is? Do you know what this red octagon is? Do you have at least one functioning eyeball?”
If theres anything the last 15 years of politics around the world should show us, its that hate speech and disinformation do very well in an open forum
Quasi-democracy is probably the best way to put it. To be an outright oligarchy that would have to be a more explicit thing. Instead we have what masquerades as a democracy despite actually functioning as an oligarchy
I wouldnt say Im even trying to boycott, but I could care less about literally everything under that umbrella except for Pixar, and I havent seen a new Pixar movie in probably 10 or more years.
What the fuck does Winnie the Pooh Workbook even mean?
Because when every property is worth millions of dollars, and even a parking space goes for half a million, the school could easily be funded using property tax well beyond what it even needs.
Instead, the school never has enough money to fund education. Teachers get paid below national averages. Test scores are below state and national averages. And then the school district asks for more money by placing the burden on everyday working class people just buying food or whatever (who dont own property worth millions of dollars) and tourists (who can be discouraged from visiting under increasing taxation) to primarily educate the children of the people who own property worth millions of dollars.
If you dont find that absurd then I dont know what to tell you