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G R E E N Y world D O M I N A T I O N
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Task Force
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Presents:
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"Poor School Districts"
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by Lobo
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If you live in Texas, you have probably heard all of the crap about
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public school re-financing. This file is not about which of the proposed
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plans is better for our schools. It is about the fact that some school
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districts don't need any more money, they need to learn how to spend what they
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already have.
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I live in Lubbock, TX, and I go to school in the Lubbock Independent
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School Ditrict (LISD). For years, I have heard about the financial problems
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of other school districts in our state. There are many proposed plans to take
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money that would go to the 'rich' school districts and give it to the 'poor'
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school districts. LISD, I believe, is somewhere in the middle, between the
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two classifications. The most popular re-financing plan is known as the
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'Robin Hood Plan' (stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, quite a
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cliche). I just wanted to acquaint you with the situation in the state public
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school system.
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At my school, I am on the UIL Math and Science team. We go to other
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schools on some saturdays, take some tests, and basically have fun running
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around, causing trouble, then lying about who we are and which school we're
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from. It's lots of fun. There were sixteen on the team from my school, two
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from the seventh and fourteen from the eighth grade. Both of the seventh
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graders and five of the eighth graders qualified to go to the state
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competition in San Antonio. One seventh grader and one eighth grader could
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not go. The other seventh grader subbed for his counterpart, while another
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eighth grader subbed for her's. I was one of the eighth graders who got to
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attend the competition.
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One Friday, we all met at school as usual, only we brought the stuff we
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would need at the competition and the stuff we would need for an overnight
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trip. After lunch, we piled in to the Algebra teacher's van and headed for
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the airport. We met two students from another school in our district and
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their teacher at the airport. One of the students from the other school's
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mother went along. We flew (on Southwest) to Dallas, had a twenty-minute
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layover there, and went on to San Antonio. The school district payed for the
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flight. We left the San Antonio airport in a van that the teacher had rented
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(the Algebra teacher and the teacher from the other school were both with us),
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even though LISD was paying the bill. We then drove to The Windham Hotel,
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where we got three rooms. One for seventh and eighth grade girls/female
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teacher/male seventh grader's mother. One for seventh grade guys/male
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teacher. One four all four eighth grade guys. No one wanted to sleep in the
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same bed. I got a bed, another guy got the other bed, one guy slept on the
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floor, and the other guy slept on the chairs (don't ask how). Anyway, we got
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up at five in the morning on Saturday, and went downstairs in the hotel. I
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saw the bill, and the rooms were each a hundred dollars. LISD payed for them.
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They gave us money for meals, $2.00 for breakfast and lunch, and $5.00
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for the evening meal. After Saturday breakfast, it was off to the
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competition. We could only take the test that we qualified in, so i only got
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to take one. Some people took all four that were offered, some took three, so
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I think that the average is about two tests to a person. After the tests, we
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wasted about a whole tank of gas going to the San Antonio mall and returning
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to where the competition was being held. Only two of our people placed, one
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getting third place in number sense, and the other getting second place in
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math. Then, it was back to the airport.
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We flew home, and arrived at Lubbock International airport at about 11:00
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pm on Saturday. I had fun on the trip, I'm not saying that I didn't. What I
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am saying is that LISD probably spent around $1000 flying us all to San
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Antonio and back for a competition where we didn't even really do very good.
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Even though the one guy's mom payed for herself, that is a lot of money. I
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got a weekend trip to San Antonio for about ten bucks, which is what I spent
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at the mall. I just think that maybe LISD should spend their money on things
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that are really needed, like text books that weren't written before I was
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born, or desks that don't say something about how school sucked in '79 on
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them. Oh well, that's just my opinion.
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-Lobo
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Chaos (806)797-7501
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copyright (c),1993 by Lobo
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GREENY world Domination Task Force copyright (c),1993 by Lobo
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All rights reserved to The Green Wonder
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