http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/two-school-merger-issues/Content?oid=3147342 Comments On: Two School-Merger Issues by Joe Saino en-us Copyright 2013 Memphis Flyer. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Memphis Flyer readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Memphis Flyer. wil@desert.net (Memphis Flyer Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
A reasonable point of view.

What do you propose to do about the value of the 40 schools (of the 44 total) that were taken off the SCS books and transferred to the MCS books as their assets when the city annexed? Should any compensation be given to the suburban taxpayers outside Memphis for their continuing payments for those schools after they were transferred?
Posted by ArlingtonPop]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:15:41 -0500 Memphis Flyer Schools in Germantown would become a Germantown asset or liability exclusively.

As a relative newcomer to the Metro area with a student in a Shelby county school this chaos is both confusing and alarming.

Why is it that Memphis is permitted to say "we aren't capable of running a school system, you educate our kids."
Posted by devnull]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:19:02 -0500 Memphis Flyer
Same observation for giving the munis a tax break on their County taxes.

Your proposals would enable re-segregation along class lines proxying for race. The better path for class stratification (Sociology 101), which is NOT the same as racial discrimination, is to discontinue school busing, based on the now unitary status of the system.

Failing that, a truly good parent can pay private school tuition, the way we used to do it in America before so much creeping socialism instituted by tyranny of the (then) majority soaked all of us for the proletariat's baby-sitting service, which enabled women to work outside the home more and pay more taxes our pols could use to buy votes and make war.
Posted by Steve Tapp]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:25:03 -0500 Memphis Flyer Posted by TJonesMfs]]> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:48:49 -0500 Memphis Flyer