Intellectual Blinders

No new schools for Wimberley

The Wimberley ISD won't be getting any more money from taxpayers, at least for now.

Sixty percent of Saturday's voters said no to a $45 million bond proposal.

The district won't be getting new schools to replace the ones school they say are at capacity.

"You have to pass a bond if you're talking about a new facility, because you're looking at something in the magnitude of anywhere from $15 to $25 million," Wimberley ISD Business Manager Randall Rau said.

A successful bond would have meant a new elementary and high school, and renovations to existing schools. The district expects enrollment to double in the next 10 years.

"I felt like it was really important that it pass, and I'm disappointed that it didn't," bond supporter Brenda Cusack said.

"What we're doing is just kind of sitting and trying to figure out what happened, what went wrong," Rau said.

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If schools didn't have to rely on public funds to operate, shit like this wouldn't be an issue. The costs of running an educational institution would be limited to the operators and their customers. The financial problems with each free school or free school district wouldn't always have to spill over into the next one like they do with today's public schools.

But, no. The very consideration of seperation of school and state is tantamount to treason.

Posted by Drizzten at May 19, 2004 04:46 PM