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Karl's avatar

I went to see the musical at ETHS last weekend and if the stellar arts programming is part of what my taxes go for, I have no complaints. I guess I feel (and feelings have little basis in fact, but nonetheless) that d65 offers little to such a wide swath of their population, they don’t deserve any more of my hard earned dollars. In 8 years, my mortgage payment has gone up almost $1000 per month. This is at 3% interest rate. Yes, some of it is an increase in insurance, but the rest is taxes. I know it’s not all d65, but everyone keeps touting d65 as a reason to live here and bear the higher cost of living. It’s unaffordable. One more increase and I’ll have to sell up and get out. But hopefully I will be able to go somewhere that the local school district isn’t run by complete boobs and I won’t have to deal with the additional expenses of private school. That certainly was never part of the plan when I purchased a home here.

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Tracy's avatar

I was curious since foundation fundraising came up here in a previous post and had a guess. The auditorium improvements and lighting was funded by the ETHS foundation.

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We sat behind lighting tech and it is truly amazing. This not some kid moving a spotlight around at the stage. It is duly impressive. So thanks to the foundation for that! In all, ETHS has always been super impressive. With 27 gyms, the field house, the athletic fields, the literal building of houses on site, the auto center, the culinary program, the music and arts offerings- very strong theatre programming. And some world-class educators and robust academic offerings. And imho sped is better at ETHS, too. But also things like driver simulation lab and just the cars and ability to take drivers Ed, language and science labs, computer technology, graphic arts, the robot lawn mowers, the list goes on. Hell, even the faculty lunch room is impressive. I would be proud to serve another Saturday detention in Bacon Cafeteria this week. Of course that’s the flip side- the kids don’t know what a Saturday is because apparently there is no discipline going on in the schools these days. I just can’t list impressive things off the top of my head about d65 in this same way and I know it’s actually an apples to oranges situation. But ETHS has all of this amazing stuff that requires the $$ and d65 still has an IMMENSE budget for only 6500ish students and yet…

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