Antioch District 34 Group Recommends Referendum
This falls in the no surprise category. The small group of parents and teachers who came to the meetings recommended a referendum. See the stories about it in the following local papers:
- News-Sun: Antioch group recommends elementary school referendum (Excerpt below)
- Daily Herald: Antioch group tabs education goals
- Antioch Review: Nav34 recommendations presented to board
An advisory group of parents and staff studying the issues facing Antioch School District 34 for the past seven months recommended the district hold a bond referendum to build more classrooms to relieve overcrowding and the district’s reliance on 16 mobile classrooms.
Considering the slowed economy and two failed referendums since 2006, the earliest the district would pursue a referendum would be March 2009, said District 34 Superintendent Scott Thompson.
“It’s too soon to do in November,” he said. “We have to determine when the right time is economically.”
What Superintendent Thompson means by November being too soon is they the district does not have the needed time to get their propaganda out in favor of a Yes vote. This is especially true since their last 2 attempts have been beaten.
District 34, like virtually every other school district in Illinois doesn’t listen to the taxpayers. They continue to put referendum after referendum on the ballot until it is passed. They’ll do surveys and these consensus groups together to make it appear that they are listening to the taxpayers, when these attempts are just masquerades of propaganda to get what the district wants.
Our public government schools are overfunded currently. They do not need more money. They need fiscal responsibility to stop the spending problems instead. One way to force this is to Fund The Child. Designate a specified amount of money for each and every child. The parents then get to choose the school they want their child to attend and the money then follows. This puts the parents in charge of the purse strings instead of the bloated and self-serving school bureaucracy. The schools will actually have to earn the money by innovating and actually producing results.
You can take a survey about District 34 at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JGFWf8RgmyTbEJ3Chjoadw_3d_3d
. Let them know what you think.
