Breaking the myth that higher school taxes result in higher home values.
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5 Responses to “Analysis: Bow School Taxes Vs Bow Home Values”
An interesting conundrum: “Strongly support early discussions addressing recruitment out of town tuition students at the High School; however, the current BHS costs/pupil are too high.”
As we continue to stress lowering the teacher to student ratio with
in state expectable minimum requirements we decrease the attractiveness of attending the schools. Especially, if one needs to pay for it directly.
Should be quite a challenge to market attending while we cut one of the generally perceived advantages that can be offered – a high teacher to student ratio.
Yes, enrollment has declined while costs have gone up. This is because as enrollment increased, teachers were hired to compensate. It is therefore, only appropriate that a decrease occur now. The question is by how much? What does this have to do with our declining property values? It’s not any fault of the schools or declining enrollment that property values fell. They were overly inflated for several years. Has anyone been paying attention to the mortagage crisis, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and our wonderful federal gov. making sure that everyone live in a house wether or not they could afford the mortgage? This caused a boom in building, buying and selling homes and then one day it all came crashing down.
Back to teachers… once a job is created in the public sector, it is nearly impossible to get it taken away. Good luck reducing any teaching positions.
GET RID OF THE TEACHER’S UNION IN BOW FOR STARTERS.
The teacher’s union protects the tenured teacher’s whether they are good or bad teachers. We have some very good teachers but we also have our share of lousy teachers as well and they know who they are.
Now we have the evergreen clause in their contact laid on us by the communist democrats in the state legislature to thank for an annual garranteed increase each and every year along with the outrageous insurance benefit increases in benefits.
And then wait until the state retirement crap hits us!!!!!
Trouble with that is, bad methods are institutional. They don’t LET you do a good job because the stuff they want you to do is not working. But they keep saying it’s ‘best practices’, and it’s just like YOUR fault if you can’t make it work. You know, like when people defend communism? LOL
APOVinBOW: Do the math. It costs us between $65,000 – $100,000 in wages and benefits per teacher. We would have to charge between $12,000 – $15,000 for a tuition student to come to Bow schools. That would mean you would need between 5 and 8 tuition students just to break even when keeping one teacher on the payroll. You also need to consider the bidding war that will go on among school districts becasue they are all suffering from declining enrollments and are in the same predicament as Bow is in. I am not sure that tuition students is going to help this situation in the short or long term sorry to say. This is something that has been discussed at Budget meetings the last 3 years.
RLB: I agree with you that unions are a big problem. I also agree that we are going to potentially get hit hard when this state retirement funding hits us. People like you need to show up at Town and School meetings and vote. That is the only way things will start going in favor of the taxpayers, plain and simple.
ConservativeMOM: I couldn’t agree more. You said,”Back to teachers… once a job is created in the public sector, it is nearly impossible to get it taken away. Good luck reducing any teaching positions.” This is not impossible if people who feel as you do will get other like thinking people out to vote and to Town and School Meetings each year. This is an annual fight to control spending and separating the “wants” from the “needs” of the community and school district.
An interesting conundrum: “Strongly support early discussions addressing recruitment out of town tuition students at the High School; however, the current BHS costs/pupil are too high.”
As we continue to stress lowering the teacher to student ratio with
in state expectable minimum requirements we decrease the attractiveness of attending the schools. Especially, if one needs to pay for it directly.
Should be quite a challenge to market attending while we cut one of the generally perceived advantages that can be offered – a high teacher to student ratio.
Yes, enrollment has declined while costs have gone up. This is because as enrollment increased, teachers were hired to compensate. It is therefore, only appropriate that a decrease occur now. The question is by how much? What does this have to do with our declining property values? It’s not any fault of the schools or declining enrollment that property values fell. They were overly inflated for several years. Has anyone been paying attention to the mortagage crisis, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and our wonderful federal gov. making sure that everyone live in a house wether or not they could afford the mortgage? This caused a boom in building, buying and selling homes and then one day it all came crashing down.
Back to teachers… once a job is created in the public sector, it is nearly impossible to get it taken away. Good luck reducing any teaching positions.
GET RID OF THE TEACHER’S UNION IN BOW FOR STARTERS.
The teacher’s union protects the tenured teacher’s whether they are good or bad teachers. We have some very good teachers but we also have our share of lousy teachers as well and they know who they are.
Now we have the evergreen clause in their contact laid on us by the communist democrats in the state legislature to thank for an annual garranteed increase each and every year along with the outrageous insurance benefit increases in benefits.
And then wait until the state retirement crap hits us!!!!!
Trouble with that is, bad methods are institutional. They don’t LET you do a good job because the stuff they want you to do is not working. But they keep saying it’s ‘best practices’, and it’s just like YOUR fault if you can’t make it work. You know, like when people defend communism? LOL
APOVinBOW: Do the math. It costs us between $65,000 – $100,000 in wages and benefits per teacher. We would have to charge between $12,000 – $15,000 for a tuition student to come to Bow schools. That would mean you would need between 5 and 8 tuition students just to break even when keeping one teacher on the payroll. You also need to consider the bidding war that will go on among school districts becasue they are all suffering from declining enrollments and are in the same predicament as Bow is in. I am not sure that tuition students is going to help this situation in the short or long term sorry to say. This is something that has been discussed at Budget meetings the last 3 years.
RLB: I agree with you that unions are a big problem. I also agree that we are going to potentially get hit hard when this state retirement funding hits us. People like you need to show up at Town and School meetings and vote. That is the only way things will start going in favor of the taxpayers, plain and simple.
ConservativeMOM: I couldn’t agree more. You said,”Back to teachers… once a job is created in the public sector, it is nearly impossible to get it taken away. Good luck reducing any teaching positions.” This is not impossible if people who feel as you do will get other like thinking people out to vote and to Town and School Meetings each year. This is an annual fight to control spending and separating the “wants” from the “needs” of the community and school district.