People cheat on the lab portion of the CCIE by sending in people to memorize the lab topology and various questions. Then afterward they report back to other with the topology, features etc... It's no different than memorizing the written questions except while there are hundreds of written questions that can be selected for your exam, there's probably only a dozen or so different lab exams.
I do like how VMWares forthcoming VCDX exam will have a verbal component. Similar to how one has to verbally defend their PhD thesis. I for one would like candidates to be able to explain why they made a certain decision or the benefits of going with one design over another. Rather than just seeing how quickly you can configure up the features or memorize test questions.
350,000 a day? or 127,750,000 per year... as of July 2008 there are 303,824,640 people (adults and children). So these guys believe that if every person in the US has a phone, 1/3 of them toss it out every year?
Maybe someone ought to be doing something to reduce the number of phones we "retire" every year. Since most cell phone contracts in the US are 2 years, and the phone is "free" with a 2year contract, one might be able to assume that most of the US retires their phone every two years.... I know many people that, when the battery life starts to decline, find it cheaper and easier to get a new phone than to get a new battery. They just call up their cell phone provider and get a new 2yr contract extension and *voila* get a new phone.
What would keep Google from taking Firefox's source code and copying it or using it as a reference for upcoming features? Could google decide to "borrow" the code/technology for Firefox's awesome bar?
We the consumer, demand cheaper priced products, why should we be surprised when manufacturers look for methods of reducing their costs? You don't exactly see them firing up manufacturing plants in Tokyo or Manhattan.
I am a shareholder of MSFT and Intel. If selling more WinTel solutions causes the stock prices of MSFT and Intel to go up that is a GoodThing(TM).
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When you buy thousands of routers you get them customized to your exact needs and you get whatever support arrangement you desire including complete drawings and source code.
Do you think that companies like AT&T who have 10s of thousands of switches/routers get IOS source code from Cisco? Do you think that ATT would waste resources on having people "reviewing IOS source code"?
You get features/enhancements added because you buy so much, but you don't get schematics and source code...
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It is clear that Google already has expertise in chip design
What expertise have they demonstrated? Android doesn't mean much. That means they could design a router? Now creating a router that only supports a couple of protocols that they specifically need as opposed to the general purpose routers that require IOS/JUNOS and all the features they support.
However if Cisco can go out and make servers, than I'm sure google could hire enough people to build a router.
I've always wondered what do people do that have dropped their landline service for cell/VOIP/Cable only service when they have a multi-day power outage? We've seen these outages after Hurricanes in the South/texas areas as well as ice storms in the midwest and northeast. In the recent ice storm (~2weeks ago) in NewEngland, all hardware stores had large signs up out front that said 'No Generators', I even heard of one guy that drove from NH to CT to get a generator.
When I upgraded to 10.5.5 two issues appeared on my macbook pro (coreduo 15"):
* Battery meter would get to between 40-60% and then the laptop would abruptly poweroff. When I was at 10.5.4, the battery meter would drain, as expected, down and warn as expected when it got to 10% or so.
* After about 30seconds of being powered on, the keyboard and touchpad would become unresponsive. External keyboards/mice continue to work.
Both of these issues are documented on apple's forums.
I live in the SanFrancisco bay area (Boston transplant) but I still frequent the Boston Globe's website. Why? Because the writers for The Globe, especially the Sports section write about those teams that I still follow. While national sites like ESPN are fine, but I actually like to read the articles written by specific journalists. If a new journalist comes on board, there's a good chance that I'll read them too. However, am never going to resort to some redsox google search http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=red+sox+blogs or http://news.google.com/news?um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&nolr=1&q=red+sox&btnG=Search+News.
Yes this is all about local news, but I like how newspapers like The Boston Globe, NY Times, WallStreetJournal are in effect filters or portals to news that meets a certain criteria. A criteria set by the paper, which may or may not be your own. Go ahead use a 90s buzzword like "News Portal". While some of the content is from AP/Reuters, quite a bit of it is not.
My biggest concern with some transition from newspapers to "Joe Blog", is that in the first case the person had to be hired by the newspaper based upon their skills and credentials. I assume this to equate to a certain level of quality. I don't want to have to _mine_ blogger.com or blogspot to find someone writing about the topic. Who a) probably doesn't do independent research or b) have the connections. I can blog all day long based upon how I feel about a particular subject, but I'm not talking to athletes, coaches or general managers.
Besides, I have no real concerns if I spill some milk on my morning paper; but I'm not going to eat my cereal next to my laptop.
What precautions and regulations would these so called garage hackers take when disposing of such experiments? Sure one could say that the garage computer hackers of the 70s, took all the solder and buried it in the backyard or through it in the trash. But what is the potential of the environmental impact of a couple of circuit boards going in a landfill versus someone pouring down some modified bacteria? Also, don't forget in the 70s we were pitching TVs into the garbage.
Before you go off the handle, go do some research on "invasive species" that are occupying and dominating areas like the Florida everglades. Foreign Fish and Eels are ending up in the everglades because people are dumping their home aquariums into the local streams http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/swampeel/
Btw, dumping aquariums aren't the only issue, this type of issue extends to how people dispose of Prescription Medicines http://www.medicationdisposal.utah.gov/
So I understand that some games are better played on a PC because the input devices (keyboard/mouse) are just better than a 10button pad. Simulators/MMO etc.. Sometimes have a dozen shortcuts mapped beforehand is a bonus. However, the PC isn't attached to the TV in the livingroom, nor is it hooked up to my stereo, nor can multiple people play on the game at the same time (ie: party games).
Why can't the console folks just start shipping keyboard and mice adapters (so you can plug in a standard keyboard/mouse into some box and the box wirelessly connects to the console) so we can play WoW on our living room?
I somehow doubt that in a high school curriculum that they could get away with a class based entirely on theory. In college, we didn't have CS classes that did not involve some form of programming (to demonstrate comprehension) until our midlevel CS courses. This is still training for a trade. Why not teach tax law instead?
CS is the application of other skills (math, critical thinking etc..). However, how would CS be different from teaching any other "trade" (plumbing, carpentry, metalshop, autoshop..) None of which are requirements by any Federal program. Want to make something a requirement, how about "Understanding credit cards", "Balancing a checkbook" or "Understanding an Auto Loan or Home Mortgage". Most kids graduating from highschool have no idea how to do this stuff. I sure as hell did not.
While I fully believe we should we teaching kids how to use computers (writing papers, email, researching using the web etc..). I'm a bit skeptical on advocating CS as a requirement. Sure many schools have elective classes (I took Pascal/C back in the early 90s in highschool) and could see at as partially fulfilling the "foreign language" requirement.
Typical of the post dot-com environment. People need to start looking at what the phrase total compensation means, and take it to mean "salary + bonuses + stock" Take your cash incentives (salary, bonuses) add in HR benefits (health/dental/optical) plus all the other discounted benefits (daycare, gyms, educational reimbursement etc..) and then the stock purchase plans (either awarded options or ESPP) and 401k.
Well, Google's stock isn't doing too well this year (from $716 down to $300), so there are quite a few people that are thinking, "The stock needs to triple before my options are above water...". Now if the choice from senior management is either no bonuses, or layoffs; most people will take no bonus rather than no job.
I do think giving a phone is just a form of lip service and is a slap in the face. Can you imagine Cisco giving out Linksys routers instead of bonuses? Apple giving out $200 worth of iTunes songs? HomeDepot giving out a free Ryobi drill set?
What really blows my mind is that most people choose their phone because of features/functionality and service provider. The actual cost of the phone itself usually isn't a factor since the service providers often give them away at a severely discounted price.
Can't wait for xmas morning.... Instead of opening a box and finding XYZ game which my kids can instantly play, they get to go to a menu and begin the 5hour process of downloading a game.
While we complain about the price of a PS3 ($500 USD), after a year your broadband costs have exceeded that. That is if you have broadband.
I agree on the topic of 'on-demand' viewing/rental of movies via the cable/satellite/netflix, as I've got a shelf of DVDs collected over the years that I probably haven't watched enough times to justify the $20 I paid for them. But a game, I'll play much more often and for a longer period of time, and if I don't like it, I'll sell it to recoup some of my money.
Lastly, how many games can you have "rented" out at a time? I would hope that if I'm forced to download everything, that if I delete a locally stored game, to free up space for a new game, that I can later redownload the old game if I want to play it again.
The risk, though, is that we train kids to be subservient to authority,
Subservient or respect authority?
When a cop follows you in their car with the lights on, if you pull over are you being subservient or are you respecting the law and the power granted to the officer?
During the school year, the student does not *yet* own the laptop and using a school owned laptop and accessing a school owned wireless/wired lan to access a school owned internet connection. The students should expect to be monitored. If they don't want to be monitored, then they can buy their own laptop; get a wireless 3G card and use it from off of school property.
I'd really rather have kids grow up believing it's NOT ok for big brother to monitor what they're doing 24x7.
I love the people that say, "The school should install firewalls to protect the students from outside predators/spam/viruses, however, the students should be able to access any external content they want. Btw: I'm going to assume that your kids will have free reign to surf any site they want, and watch any TV program they want as well. Why should they respect your authority and why should YOU monitor what they do. This is called parenting.
"Big Brother" in the 1984 sense was the government spying on people out in the public. Schools are not as public as a random street.
Parents are looking for the "silver bullet" when it comes to making their kids successful in school.
Buy books/pencils and supplies? Nah. Fund more reading or math specialists? Nope. Enable each school to have its' own Gym, Art or Music teachers? Nope.
Figure that since "buying computers for every student" is full of buzzwords like "Academic Networking" or "Collaborative Teaching Methods"; parents and the board will give computers to every student but will not:
a) put in any plan in place of how the students will use them productively b) train all the teachers so they can know how to use them c) enable the teachers to develop lesson plans that actually leverage them, besides "Write a paper on it" or "go research XYZ" (btw this is what Libraries are for). d) Realize that developing an effective lesson plan can take multiple school years; so giving the teacher a summer to plan isn't going to fly. e) If a student gets a used laptop will their be a perception of them being at a disadvantage?
I've always loved reading through http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/ which is a collection of articles and photos of damage (personal or to TVs/Windows/tables/lights) while playing Wii.
I find this a little scary too: Microsoft also plans a certification program for SSDs
Ever hear of the MS HCL http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/default.mspx? They certify tons of hardware. Take a look at it, I don't see MSFT trying to embrace-extend-whatever EMC/HDS/IBM/HP disk arrays, Cisco/Brocade FibreChannel switches.
I want a high quality OS, that has many expensive alternatives and ALSO not pay for it: Linux I want high quality applications and NOT pay for them as well: MySQL/Postgres/Gimp
How do these companies make money when they give away their products? They sell services and support.
So all of you that push FREE open source software; congrats you got it on the iPhone as well. Developers need to find another revenue stream than trying to sell a million copies at pennies per copy until someone wants to sell something for cheaper that is "close enough."
Cost of goods go up with inflation, but so do the property taxes. Point being there are a lot of things that can be done to remediate inflation like a buyer's consortium, or direct negotiation with vendors. Some school districts do very well in these matters.
This is the single biggest problem we've got. You assume that while property values go up, the amount of property tax paid actually increases. However, in many states, hence districts, the owners property taxes are based upon the price they paid for the house when purchased and then can only go up a slight amount every year, if a tax assessor actually visits the house. A rate which does not keep up with inflation. Compare this with if the property is sold, then the property tax paid increased dramatically. I know plenty of people that have lived in their houses 15-20yrs, when the house was worth I pay a book rental fee which is actually quite reasonable. But this is still in addition to my taxes. I pay for the book, then pay for the upkeep of the stable with an additional 'hidden' tax.
So this isn't a problem for those that can afford a "book rental fee" but now we have to set up programs for those that cannot afford it. Might as well add in a "kickball rental fee"; as we create a dichotomy between the haves and have-nots, as public schools are targeted for everyone, now we're going to tax those that want to actually use the public schools even more with additional fees. Are you OK with subsidized breakfasts or lunches for those that cannot afford it?
As our population ages, and they will not have children currently in the public school system, we'll see them starting to vote down academic referendums. As the only people voting to increase taxes aimed at schools will be those that are directly involved in it, teachers or parents of students.
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People cheat on the lab portion of the CCIE by sending in people to memorize the lab topology and various questions. Then afterward they report back to other with the topology, features etc... It's no different than memorizing the written questions except while there are hundreds of written questions that can be selected for your exam, there's probably only a dozen or so different lab exams.
I do like how VMWares forthcoming VCDX exam will have a verbal component. Similar to how one has to verbally defend their PhD thesis. I for one would like candidates to be able to explain why they made a certain decision or the benefits of going with one design over another. Rather than just seeing how quickly you can configure up the features or memorize test questions.
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350,000 a day? or 127,750,000 per year... as of July 2008 there are 303,824,640 people (adults and children). So these guys believe that if every person in the US has a phone, 1/3 of them toss it out every year?
Maybe someone ought to be doing something to reduce the number of phones we "retire" every year. Since most cell phone contracts in the US are 2 years, and the phone is "free" with a 2year contract, one might be able to assume that most of the US retires their phone every two years.... I know many people that, when the battery life starts to decline, find it cheaper and easier to get a new phone than to get a new battery. They just call up their cell phone provider and get a new 2yr contract extension and *voila* get a new phone.
What would keep Google from taking Firefox's source code and copying it or using it as a reference for upcoming features? Could google decide to "borrow" the code/technology for Firefox's awesome bar?
Isn't that, like, almost the name of the Steven King movie? The one wih the rabid dog?
No no no. You're thinking of Carrie.
WRONG The book was Cujo.... Carrie was about the telepathic girl.
We the consumer, demand cheaper priced products, why should we be surprised when manufacturers look for methods of reducing their costs? You don't exactly see them firing up manufacturing plants in Tokyo or Manhattan.
It's a Global Economy, get used to it.
I am a shareholder of MSFT and Intel. If selling more WinTel solutions causes the stock prices of MSFT and Intel to go up that is a GoodThing(TM).
When you buy thousands of routers you get them customized to your exact needs and you get whatever support arrangement you desire including complete drawings and source code.
Do you think that companies like AT&T who have 10s of thousands of switches/routers get IOS source code from Cisco? Do you think that ATT would waste resources on having people "reviewing IOS source code"?
You get features/enhancements added because you buy so much, but you don't get schematics and source code...
It is clear that Google already has expertise in chip design
What expertise have they demonstrated? Android doesn't mean much. That means they could design a router? Now creating a router that only supports a couple of protocols that they specifically need as opposed to the general purpose routers that require IOS/JUNOS and all the features they support.
However if Cisco can go out and make servers, than I'm sure google could hire enough people to build a router.
Get with the times, 2G is going the same way as Pulse Dialing did for land lines.
Try finding a under the desk sliding keyboard tray that will accommodate that keyboard.
I've always wondered what do people do that have dropped their landline service for cell/VOIP/Cable only service when they have a multi-day power outage? We've seen these outages after Hurricanes in the South/texas areas as well as ice storms in the midwest and northeast. In the recent ice storm (~2weeks ago) in NewEngland, all hardware stores had large signs up out front that said 'No Generators', I even heard of one guy that drove from NH to CT to get a generator.
When I upgraded to 10.5.5 two issues appeared on my macbook pro (coreduo 15"):
* Battery meter would get to between 40-60% and then the laptop would abruptly poweroff. When I was at 10.5.4, the battery meter would drain, as expected, down and warn as expected when it got to 10% or so.
* After about 30seconds of being powered on, the keyboard and touchpad would become unresponsive. External keyboards/mice continue to work.
Both of these issues are documented on apple's forums.
I live in the SanFrancisco bay area (Boston transplant) but I still frequent the Boston Globe's website. Why? Because the writers for The Globe, especially the Sports section write about those teams that I still follow. While national sites like ESPN are fine, but I actually like to read the articles written by specific journalists. If a new journalist comes on board, there's a good chance that I'll read them too. However, am never going to resort to some redsox google search http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=red+sox+blogs or http://news.google.com/news?um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&nolr=1&q=red+sox&btnG=Search+News.
Yes this is all about local news, but I like how newspapers like The Boston Globe, NY Times, WallStreetJournal are in effect filters or portals to news that meets a certain criteria. A criteria set by the paper, which may or may not be your own. Go ahead use a 90s buzzword like "News Portal". While some of the content is from AP/Reuters, quite a bit of it is not.
My biggest concern with some transition from newspapers to "Joe Blog", is that in the first case the person had to be hired by the newspaper based upon their skills and credentials. I assume this to equate to a certain level of quality. I don't want to have to _mine_ blogger.com or blogspot to find someone writing about the topic. Who a) probably doesn't do independent research or b) have the connections. I can blog all day long based upon how I feel about a particular subject, but I'm not talking to athletes, coaches or general managers.
Besides, I have no real concerns if I spill some milk on my morning paper; but I'm not going to eat my cereal next to my laptop.
What precautions and regulations would these so called garage hackers take when disposing of such experiments? Sure one could say that the garage computer hackers of the 70s, took all the solder and buried it in the backyard or through it in the trash. But what is the potential of the environmental impact of a couple of circuit boards going in a landfill versus someone pouring down some modified bacteria? Also, don't forget in the 70s we were pitching TVs into the garbage.
Before you go off the handle, go do some research on "invasive species" that are occupying and dominating areas like the Florida everglades. Foreign Fish and Eels are ending up in the everglades because people are dumping their home aquariums into the local streams http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/fs/swampeel/
Btw, dumping aquariums aren't the only issue, this type of issue extends to how people dispose of Prescription Medicines http://www.medicationdisposal.utah.gov/
So I understand that some games are better played on a PC because the input devices (keyboard/mouse) are just better than a 10button pad. Simulators/MMO etc.. Sometimes have a dozen shortcuts mapped beforehand is a bonus. However, the PC isn't attached to the TV in the livingroom, nor is it hooked up to my stereo, nor can multiple people play on the game at the same time (ie: party games).
Why can't the console folks just start shipping keyboard and mice adapters (so you can plug in a standard keyboard/mouse into some box and the box wirelessly connects to the console) so we can play WoW on our living room?
I somehow doubt that in a high school curriculum that they could get away with a class based entirely on theory. In college, we didn't have CS classes that did not involve some form of programming (to demonstrate comprehension) until our midlevel CS courses. This is still training for a trade. Why not teach tax law instead?
CS is the application of other skills (math, critical thinking etc..). However, how would CS be different from teaching any other "trade" (plumbing, carpentry, metalshop, autoshop..) None of which are requirements by any Federal program. Want to make something a requirement, how about "Understanding credit cards", "Balancing a checkbook" or "Understanding an Auto Loan or Home Mortgage". Most kids graduating from highschool have no idea how to do this stuff. I sure as hell did not.
While I fully believe we should we teaching kids how to use computers (writing papers, email, researching using the web etc..). I'm a bit skeptical on advocating CS as a requirement. Sure many schools have elective classes (I took Pascal/C back in the early 90s in highschool) and could see at as partially fulfilling the "foreign language" requirement.
Typical of the post dot-com environment. People need to start looking at what the phrase total compensation means, and take it to mean "salary + bonuses + stock" Take your cash incentives (salary, bonuses) add in HR benefits (health/dental/optical) plus all the other discounted benefits (daycare, gyms, educational reimbursement etc..) and then the stock purchase plans (either awarded options or ESPP) and 401k.
Well, Google's stock isn't doing too well this year (from $716 down to $300), so there are quite a few people that are thinking, "The stock needs to triple before my options are above water...". Now if the choice from senior management is either no bonuses, or layoffs; most people will take no bonus rather than no job.
I do think giving a phone is just a form of lip service and is a slap in the face. Can you imagine Cisco giving out Linksys routers instead of bonuses? Apple giving out $200 worth of iTunes songs? HomeDepot giving out a free Ryobi drill set?
What really blows my mind is that most people choose their phone because of features/functionality and service provider. The actual cost of the phone itself usually isn't a factor since the service providers often give them away at a severely discounted price.
Can't wait for xmas morning.... Instead of opening a box and finding XYZ game which my kids can instantly play, they get to go to a menu and begin the 5hour process of downloading a game.
While we complain about the price of a PS3 ($500 USD), after a year your broadband costs have exceeded that. That is if you have broadband.
I agree on the topic of 'on-demand' viewing/rental of movies via the cable/satellite/netflix, as I've got a shelf of DVDs collected over the years that I probably haven't watched enough times to justify the $20 I paid for them. But a game, I'll play much more often and for a longer period of time, and if I don't like it, I'll sell it to recoup some of my money.
Lastly, how many games can you have "rented" out at a time? I would hope that if I'm forced to download everything, that if I delete a locally stored game, to free up space for a new game, that I can later redownload the old game if I want to play it again.
The risk, though, is that we train kids to be subservient to authority,
Subservient or respect authority?
When a cop follows you in their car with the lights on, if you pull over are you being subservient or are you respecting the law and the power granted to the officer?
During the school year, the student does not *yet* own the laptop and using a school owned laptop and accessing a school owned wireless/wired lan to access a school owned internet connection. The students should expect to be monitored. If they don't want to be monitored, then they can buy their own laptop; get a wireless 3G card and use it from off of school property.
I'd really rather have kids grow up believing it's NOT ok for big brother to monitor what they're doing 24x7.
I love the people that say, "The school should install firewalls to protect the students from outside predators/spam/viruses, however, the students should be able to access any external content they want. Btw: I'm going to assume that your kids will have free reign to surf any site they want, and watch any TV program they want as well. Why should they respect your authority and why should YOU monitor what they do. This is called parenting.
"Big Brother" in the 1984 sense was the government spying on people out in the public. Schools are not as public as a random street.
Parents are looking for the "silver bullet" when it comes to making their kids successful in school.
Buy books/pencils and supplies? Nah.
Fund more reading or math specialists? Nope.
Enable each school to have its' own Gym, Art or Music teachers? Nope.
Figure that since "buying computers for every student" is full of buzzwords like "Academic Networking" or "Collaborative Teaching Methods"; parents and the board will give computers to every student but will not:
a) put in any plan in place of how the students will use them productively
b) train all the teachers so they can know how to use them
c) enable the teachers to develop lesson plans that actually leverage them, besides "Write a paper on it" or "go research XYZ" (btw this is what Libraries are for).
d) Realize that developing an effective lesson plan can take multiple school years; so giving the teacher a summer to plan isn't going to fly.
e) If a student gets a used laptop will their be a perception of them being at a disadvantage?
I've always loved reading through http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/ which is a collection of articles and photos of damage (personal or to TVs/Windows/tables/lights) while playing Wii.
I find this a little scary too: Microsoft also plans a certification program for SSDs
Ever hear of the MS HCL http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/default.mspx? They certify tons of hardware. Take a look at it, I don't see MSFT trying to embrace-extend-whatever EMC/HDS/IBM/HP disk arrays, Cisco/Brocade FibreChannel switches.
Take off the tinfoil hat....
Let's see...
I want a high quality OS, that has many expensive alternatives and ALSO not pay for it: Linux
I want high quality applications and NOT pay for them as well: MySQL/Postgres/Gimp
How do these companies make money when they give away their products? They sell services and support.
So all of you that push FREE open source software; congrats you got it on the iPhone as well. Developers need to find another revenue stream than trying to sell a million copies at pennies per copy until someone wants to sell something for cheaper that is "close enough."
Cost of goods go up with inflation, but so do the property taxes. Point being there are a lot of things that can be done to remediate inflation like a buyer's consortium, or direct negotiation with vendors. Some school districts do very well in these matters.
This is the single biggest problem we've got. You assume that while property values go up, the amount of property tax paid actually increases. However, in many states, hence districts, the owners property taxes are based upon the price they paid for the house when purchased and then can only go up a slight amount every year, if a tax assessor actually visits the house. A rate which does not keep up with inflation. Compare this with if the property is sold, then the property tax paid increased dramatically. I know plenty of people that have lived in their houses 15-20yrs, when the house was worth I pay a book rental fee which is actually quite reasonable. But this is still in addition to my taxes. I pay for the book, then pay for the upkeep of the stable with an additional 'hidden' tax.
So this isn't a problem for those that can afford a "book rental fee" but now we have to set up programs for those that cannot afford it. Might as well add in a "kickball rental fee"; as we create a dichotomy between the haves and have-nots, as public schools are targeted for everyone, now we're going to tax those that want to actually use the public schools even more with additional fees. Are you OK with subsidized breakfasts or lunches for those that cannot afford it?
As our population ages, and they will not have children currently in the public school system, we'll see them starting to vote down academic referendums. As the only people voting to increase taxes aimed at schools will be those that are directly involved in it, teachers or parents of students.