Judge Manning, Back Off!!
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
In the Tarheel state, the GOP took over the state House and Senate in 2010 for the first time since Reconstruction ended. Their work in 2011 was mixed, but it definitely had a conservative slant. They cut the budget, balancing it, and dropped a temporary penny sales tax that had lasted several yrs.
The education system did take some cuts on the state level, but they could be made up for on the county levels where needed (as they should be, if you believe the best govt is the closest level to the people themselves). Our former governor, Mike Easley (D) had started a More At Four program funded at the state level. Education scores have not really changed since it was put into place. It was another way to get ahold of kids by the State at an earlier age. Further, it took the place of poor people paying for childcare.
The new Legislature w/ veto-proof majorities slashed the funding for More At 4 to the bone, and did override the new governor’s (Bev Perdue -D) veto. Well, you would have thought pedophiles had been hired to run daycares with the reaction of the Judges and newspapers. Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr (a Republican) in a Sept 2 ruling, announced the program must be financially “uncapped” and “open to more children” particularly those in poverty.
In the Seventies, public school was funded grades 1st to 12th. Kindergartens were generally private schools. Then the state began funding K-12. Guilford county, and others probably, fund a potential yr at Guilford Tech for students meeting certain graduation requiremts. Now the state believes it is necessary to fund K4 to 12. Private preschools can do just as much as More At Four, and if your family income doesnt allow you to put your child in such a private program– TOUGH!! There is not enough tax revenue to fund state-run preschool programs.
When is enough enough for Statist Liberals?? K4, K5, free breakfast, free lunch, summer free lunch? Do the recipients of these programs pay county property taxes? Do they pay a fair share in state income taxes?? A pre-school program cannot be ‘constitutionally’ a guaranteed right? Activist judges and liberal politicians must be stood up to. Hard-working tax-payers must not continue to be forced to finance this kind of madness… Judge Manning Back Off!
