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<blockquote data-quote="Justice C. Bigler" data-source="post: 91223" data-attributes="member: 74"><p>Re: Tim McCulloch...are you alive?</p><p></p><p>Something that those in other parts of the country might not realise, is that for the better part of the last decade, the Oklahoma Legislature has been defunding the educational system here. One theory that I have heard is that the now Republican dominated Legislature has been defunding the educational system in order to extract revenge on the teacher's union (OEA/NEA) for almost exlcusively supporting the Democratic party. Who knows? But, we have had a real problem funding our schools at an appropriate level.</p><p></p><p>A couole of years ago, we had a State ballot question which would have required the Legislature to fund our schools at the average of all of the six surrounding states. I voted against it because it did not provide a way to fund that increase, and I also felt that it did not go far enough. A few weeks after the poll, I got a call from a survey group asking about how I voted for this question and why. When they asked if I supported d and increase in funding, I told them that I supported an increasen of educational funding by 10 times what it currently is. The survey guy was just speachless.</p><p></p><p>Not one school that I have attended in Oklahoma had an underground storm shelter. The only way to surrvive an EF4 or EF5 tornado is to get underground, with a proper reinforced steel door. Building an underground storm shelter big enough to safely accomodate 300-400 elementary school students and staff (and up to more than 2000 for high schools) would likely cost as much, if not more than, building the school itself. Plus we have a high water table in many parts of the state. And, the government, being the government, I'm sure would hae to piss on every aspect of building a storm shelter in a school and would drive the cost up even more. It's a bad position to be in, with no good solutions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justice C. Bigler, post: 91223, member: 74"] Re: Tim McCulloch...are you alive? Something that those in other parts of the country might not realise, is that for the better part of the last decade, the Oklahoma Legislature has been defunding the educational system here. One theory that I have heard is that the now Republican dominated Legislature has been defunding the educational system in order to extract revenge on the teacher's union (OEA/NEA) for almost exlcusively supporting the Democratic party. Who knows? But, we have had a real problem funding our schools at an appropriate level. A couole of years ago, we had a State ballot question which would have required the Legislature to fund our schools at the average of all of the six surrounding states. I voted against it because it did not provide a way to fund that increase, and I also felt that it did not go far enough. A few weeks after the poll, I got a call from a survey group asking about how I voted for this question and why. When they asked if I supported d and increase in funding, I told them that I supported an increasen of educational funding by 10 times what it currently is. The survey guy was just speachless. Not one school that I have attended in Oklahoma had an underground storm shelter. The only way to surrvive an EF4 or EF5 tornado is to get underground, with a proper reinforced steel door. Building an underground storm shelter big enough to safely accomodate 300-400 elementary school students and staff (and up to more than 2000 for high schools) would likely cost as much, if not more than, building the school itself. Plus we have a high water table in many parts of the state. And, the government, being the government, I'm sure would hae to piss on every aspect of building a storm shelter in a school and would drive the cost up even more. It's a bad position to be in, with no good solutions. [/QUOTE]
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