{"id":1536,"date":"2011-09-08T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-vboe-29-august-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-09-08T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:20:14","slug":"if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-vboe-29-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-vboe-29-august-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it —? @ VBOE 29 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/a>
\nResearch quality of education, property taxes, and property values
\nafter school consolidation, and you’ll find down, up, and down,
\nsaid this speaker.
\nDidn’t get his name; sorry.<\/p>\n

\nI don’t have kids, but I have plenty of friends that do.
\nthat are in Valdosta city school system,
\nand they like the direction that the school system is going.
\nThey like the quality of education that their children are getting at this time.<\/p>\n

\nMy grandfather used to say, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
\nIt ain’t broke, so why are we going to let them try to fix it?<\/p>\n

\nDo the research; I’ve done the research.
\nDo the research on other communities that have consolidated two systems.
\nWhen you get a big huge system, the quality of education goes down.
\nCheck it out. Research it.<\/p>\n

\nProperty taxes go up.
\nProperty values go down.
\nDo the research.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, the research CUEE either
\n
\ndid and rejected, according to Sam Allen<\/a>
\nabout the questions
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\nVDT claims CUEE can’t answer.<\/a>
\nThere are answers; just not ones CUEE likes.<\/p>\n

\nHere’s
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\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n

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