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ExxonMobil earns Record $10 Billion Profit in Quarter
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<blockquote data-quote="John Mastrocco" data-source="post: 545307" data-attributes="member: 54595"><p>Dale,</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That I will agree with as well. But there are some districts that weren't having funding problems for a long time and the extras got in there deep. ie: The district my daughter was in was pretty flush with cash for a long time. Then shortfalls started due to falling property values (10 years worth in Oklahoma City from 1983 until 1993) which were the major funding source for the schools, and the administration did the best they could identifying which programs to keep and which ones to drop. But of course, nothing was good enough and someone was pissed no matter what got dropped. But they always made sure the basics were funded first and went to the extras only then. Now that property values are going up failrly well, they are able to re-add a lot of the extras they used to have. But this time they are trying to decide which are the most bang for the buck. (ROI may work for business because it's easy to put a number to it all. But when it comes to education it's all so ephemeral it's not all that clear, so ROI is the wrong term to use.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now, I will agree that if you didn't have enough to fund the basics, you have no business funding anything except the basics. (But I'm one of those that includes sports as extras so I usually get told to stuff it. :lol: ) But if the basics are funded and there are limited resources left for some extras, identifying which extras will be funded can be a real bitch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Mastrocco, post: 545307, member: 54595"] Dale, That I will agree with as well. But there are some districts that weren't having funding problems for a long time and the extras got in there deep. ie: The district my daughter was in was pretty flush with cash for a long time. Then shortfalls started due to falling property values (10 years worth in Oklahoma City from 1983 until 1993) which were the major funding source for the schools, and the administration did the best they could identifying which programs to keep and which ones to drop. But of course, nothing was good enough and someone was pissed no matter what got dropped. But they always made sure the basics were funded first and went to the extras only then. Now that property values are going up failrly well, they are able to re-add a lot of the extras they used to have. But this time they are trying to decide which are the most bang for the buck. (ROI may work for business because it's easy to put a number to it all. But when it comes to education it's all so ephemeral it's not all that clear, so ROI is the wrong term to use.) Now, I will agree that if you didn't have enough to fund the basics, you have no business funding anything except the basics. (But I'm one of those that includes sports as extras so I usually get told to stuff it. :lol: ) But if the basics are funded and there are limited resources left for some extras, identifying which extras will be funded can be a real bitch. [/QUOTE]
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