Gay Marriage: Yes or No?

[adriane23]

SciFiBoy said:

adriane23 said:

mrstickball said:

SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

Property tax and school population are big factors in the disparities between public schools.

build more schools in those areas, shockingly simple solution to the over population problem, and taxes should be progressive otherwise they are pretty pointless, if you need to, raise them to pay for the education system or cut budgets in other less important sectors, lets face it, theyre arent many things more important than education.

I agree that education is the most important thing, but raising taxes in dense urban areas that are predominently low to moderate income would cause more problems than it would solve and probably won't help the schools enough to justify a tax increase. Adding more schools would be too expensive which is why they consolidate school districts to keep the teachers (sometimes) and school programs. They could tax the large corporations that have headquarters in densely populated counties.

 

EDIT: Better make sure I'm staying on topic. Yes on Gay Marriage (just don't call it marriage).