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In a national emergency, is anyone to poor to be drafted into military service? The humble graves throughout our county, with the little American flags over them, answer us: “no . one.” And we shouldn’t have to draft anyone w ho cannot * read a simple military order or the operating manual for a Pershing missile! Else Mr. Jefferson’s words will come back to haunt us.
So we do not pay taxes to educate “them”; we pay taxes to educate “us”—it is, ' and will continue to be, the price we must pay to remain free men.
“The taxpayers are paying more and more for less and less in the education of the school children and this rip-off has got to be brought under control.” I agree on this interpretation.
The “vicious circle” of buck-passing among the public school administrators, the school board, and the board of supervisors continues, year after year. In my four years on our school board the number of school children to be educated has dropped from an average daily membership of 1,158 dowm to 1,025 (according to our superintendent) or a more miserable 987 (according to the State Department of Education). The annual school budget has grown from $1.5 million to the $2.6 million proposed to the supervisors this year. Over these four
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