Society long ago figured out that funding education is important. We pay taxes and buy lottery tickets; the latter’s revenues are supposed to fund education in addition to our tax money. Yet, we elect legislators who are more than willing to spend $68 BILLION dollars on a high-speed rail system and spend untold millions funding pensions and retirement benefits for public employees — while cutting funding to local schools, colleges, and universities.

So, let’s just pass another parcel tax to make up for money the state, which, by its actions, demonstrates is not that concerned about education, takes away from the schools. How many times can school boards go to the voters with their hands out before the voters begin to say “no.”