Ahh, so you've been a stick in the mud since before it was cool! Good for you, man. Not "stuck" in public schools. If private was on my radar, I wouldn't have taken up residence in Evanston, but you do you.
If the 2017 ref. failed, I'll go out on a limb and say more kids here over the past 6-7 years would've had a degraded experience thro…
Ahh, so you've been a stick in the mud since before it was cool! Good for you, man. Not "stuck" in public schools. If private was on my radar, I wouldn't have taken up residence in Evanston, but you do you.
If the 2017 ref. failed, I'll go out on a limb and say more kids here over the past 6-7 years would've had a degraded experience through larger class sizes and potentially losing their school (those were the two main risks of the then-looming deficit). The en-masse enrollment decline we've seen more recently probably gets a jump-start before Covid hit as a result, and we might be even lower than we are now. And then to bring it full circle, the private schools would've been max capacity sooner and your kid(s) might've been "stuck" in the public schools! So I guess good news for both of us nobody wanted to listen to you back then?
I understand the trust issues though. It's really dispiriting to hear so much of that sentiment growing, mainly because it's inescapable that a lot of kids (and some educators too) are about to bear the brunt of the consequences. And I'd guess some of those kids are those of your friends and neighbors, so that's where I have a hard time relating to your take of "it's not my dumpster fire but i'm going to triple my efforts to make sure that MF fully burns!"
My man- I’m not out her making sure the mf burns. I vote. Iam active in local politics and have been since before my first election. Yes, that’s right. I joined the DPOE in the mid 80s before I could even vote. I was a nerd like that. I didn’t “come” to Evanston; I’ve always been here. But now I’m an adult with a family and a house and cars and all this crap I took for granted back then and it’s a struggle. And frankly, there are like 50k voters in this town and even during this “overwhelmingly wanted” 2017 referendum, only 14.5k voters cast a yes ballot. If Evanston gave a shit, Evanston would vote. They don’t. The parents of the kids in the schools don’t vote. So I’m not going to fork over another effing 6% to an entity that among many other things stopped educating my student when it was paramount, hired inept administrators, and burned itself at the stake under the guidance of a Board that consistently flips its constituency the bird. It’s not my circus anymore, and I’m not enabling the alcoholic by giving him gift cards to Binny’s. I put several kids thru d65. Can’t do it anymore. And I’m not paying for other people’s mistakes. It will be a HARD NO on any referendum for me. This city has a budget for el Ed most would kill for. It’s time to live within it. For a population that cares so much about affordability, it’s laughable that anyone would hold their hand out asking for more, and after the huge hit we all just took with the latest increases?? Especially asking me, a resident of the ward that this Board said needed the help that led to this fiasco in the first place. Again with the (not-so-delicious) irony. Not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent.
Your beef isn’t with me or the many others on this same forum who say we don’t feel like giving money to this school district in the form of referendum tax increases. Your beef is with your fellow parent population who allowed this to happen thru voter apathy. I hope the next election is different. I hope we get an apology when every seated BoE member leaves in shame. I won’t hold my breath.
To your point, D65’s current per capita expense per child is around $24,000. This is almost double what it was 10 years ago. The national average in 2019 was $15,500.
Ahh, so you've been a stick in the mud since before it was cool! Good for you, man. Not "stuck" in public schools. If private was on my radar, I wouldn't have taken up residence in Evanston, but you do you.
If the 2017 ref. failed, I'll go out on a limb and say more kids here over the past 6-7 years would've had a degraded experience through larger class sizes and potentially losing their school (those were the two main risks of the then-looming deficit). The en-masse enrollment decline we've seen more recently probably gets a jump-start before Covid hit as a result, and we might be even lower than we are now. And then to bring it full circle, the private schools would've been max capacity sooner and your kid(s) might've been "stuck" in the public schools! So I guess good news for both of us nobody wanted to listen to you back then?
I understand the trust issues though. It's really dispiriting to hear so much of that sentiment growing, mainly because it's inescapable that a lot of kids (and some educators too) are about to bear the brunt of the consequences. And I'd guess some of those kids are those of your friends and neighbors, so that's where I have a hard time relating to your take of "it's not my dumpster fire but i'm going to triple my efforts to make sure that MF fully burns!"
My man- I’m not out her making sure the mf burns. I vote. Iam active in local politics and have been since before my first election. Yes, that’s right. I joined the DPOE in the mid 80s before I could even vote. I was a nerd like that. I didn’t “come” to Evanston; I’ve always been here. But now I’m an adult with a family and a house and cars and all this crap I took for granted back then and it’s a struggle. And frankly, there are like 50k voters in this town and even during this “overwhelmingly wanted” 2017 referendum, only 14.5k voters cast a yes ballot. If Evanston gave a shit, Evanston would vote. They don’t. The parents of the kids in the schools don’t vote. So I’m not going to fork over another effing 6% to an entity that among many other things stopped educating my student when it was paramount, hired inept administrators, and burned itself at the stake under the guidance of a Board that consistently flips its constituency the bird. It’s not my circus anymore, and I’m not enabling the alcoholic by giving him gift cards to Binny’s. I put several kids thru d65. Can’t do it anymore. And I’m not paying for other people’s mistakes. It will be a HARD NO on any referendum for me. This city has a budget for el Ed most would kill for. It’s time to live within it. For a population that cares so much about affordability, it’s laughable that anyone would hold their hand out asking for more, and after the huge hit we all just took with the latest increases?? Especially asking me, a resident of the ward that this Board said needed the help that led to this fiasco in the first place. Again with the (not-so-delicious) irony. Not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent.
Your beef isn’t with me or the many others on this same forum who say we don’t feel like giving money to this school district in the form of referendum tax increases. Your beef is with your fellow parent population who allowed this to happen thru voter apathy. I hope the next election is different. I hope we get an apology when every seated BoE member leaves in shame. I won’t hold my breath.
To your point, D65’s current per capita expense per child is around $24,000. This is almost double what it was 10 years ago. The national average in 2019 was $15,500.