<p>I’d go farther than that and suggest that taxpayers not pay to support any extra curricular sports activities at all. Grass or fake turf. :eek:</p>
<p>“I’d go farther than that and suggest that taxpayers not pay to support any extra curricular sports activities at all. Grass or fake turf.”</p>
<p>What about arts? music? auto tech? green houses for FFA? </p>
<p>Just reading riten and rithmatic eh? </p>
<p>What a boring life you wish for kids…</p>
<p>We have a real estate tax cap in MA too, much like the one in CA, and between Romney and our ridiculous way of funding education and civil services, which is 70% or so through RE taxes, public education has been decimated. </p>
<p>Some towns have $600 bus fees or $1000 user fees for sports. One town was going to have to do away with high school sports entirely. Most towns have no librarians or nurses…but mandated services can’t be touched. Towns and cities have overrides that routinely fail, so town administrators are left taking from the left hand to pay for something in the right. Or cutting services…hugely.</p>
<p>I don’t blame the old folks for voting down all the overrides, and I am pro school with kids who benefit!! However, our RE taxes have doubled in about seven years. If I were on a fixed income, it would be a no brainer.</p>
<p>Don’t most communities give a generous tax break to seniors? In ours, seniors only pay about a quarter of the actual property tax amount.</p>
<p>My town is putting in the fake field turf in the center of the track at our middle school. It will be paid for by outside groups, i.e. soccer teams, that rent the facility. Could not believe it when I heard it, but it’s true. It will not cost the school district a dime.</p>
<p>Or for that matter - the taxpayers!</p>