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Gary: If the The Hood does not mention you in an article, you would be wise to back out of any argument with the venerable commissioner.
The school board, in toto, is having a most difficult time making sense of things, and from a governing sense, they best start finding some footing real fast. From a political sense, the sentiment in the county at large is not good. Gary, you don't need to die on that same political hill along with the those school board members that keep making these huge governing mistakes, which makes a good many of them resemble complete amateurs. One more thing Gary: The matching portion on the school that we do not need, built on the lowest point of the land, is 10,500,000.00 ... so far.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 2:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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And the larger issue here is not the size of schools but the teacher to student ratios. When you keep classroom sizes to between 10 teachers per student to 18 teachers per student then class performance is shown to increase in the vast majority of studies. This is irrespective of the size of the school. It's the teacher to student ratios that matter.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 2:38 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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John Valley: Now I agree with your analysis on why ... but the fact is its happened. Right now we can stave off tax increases if we act and part of that is planning for the future. The cost to Beaufort County is not 53 million dollars ... our matching portion is 10 million. We currently have a 40 million or so surplus in the county Treasury. So no direct cost in extra taxation. Now if we hold off ... you are looking at 60-75 million dollars down the line. That's not fiscally conservative to me.
You can limit taxation while doing this. I reject that tax limitation is an expense. Limiting property tax growth would enable business investment and economic growth that exlands the tax base and increases county revenues which would more than make uo the 10 million dollars to replace the surplus in coming years. I am 100% with you on cutting spending elsewhere. The misconception here is this isn't a proposition to take 53 million dollars for economic reviatalization or build the school. The grant is solely for the school and is 42 million dollars. Our portion is just 10 million. This is a no-brainer to me as a fiscal conservative that is looking long-term to limit spending and hold taxes down. But I respect the opposite viewpoint. What I reject is being demonized and foolishly being labeled liberal for thinking independently.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 2:34 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Ceres: I don't agree with The Hood on everything BUT, in my opinion, this comes down to analyzing the meat-n-potatoes of the "hard" data that Cheeseman and others are selling to the public like used car salesmen.
Property taxes are going up because of continued government waste, the planned construction of a new monolith mega-school and retired carpetbaggers buying up all the land which, in turn, drives land values through the roof. 10-15 years ago, the County El-ites were flaunting that Washington was going to be a retirement community. Now....it's a different story. You're seeing many parents take their children to charter schools because many of our "mainstream" public schools look like concentration camps. If we took 53 million and began a school revitalization program, I think Mr. and Mrs John Q. Taxpayer would be supportive of that than building a mega-school to house non-existent students. This is all about THEM keeping the fat and leaving US with the s*** end of the stick.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 2:15 pm
By: John Valley
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Marlboro High School in 1995 if you were asking that as well.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 1:29 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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I pay rent sir which is directly affected by property taxes. We need to pass property tax limitation legislation which limits how high a single parcel can be increased in property tax between assessments. Those on fixed incomes cannot afford massive property tax increases which are inevitable if down the line the county will be paying 10s of millions more for needed school construction in coming years because right now 42 million is coming from the Education lottery grants and considering this is the first ever allocation for Beaufort County it is not in our favor to get another grant anytime soon. We also need to make sure multiple parcel owners and business owners have some stability in the projections for property taxes and without property tax limitation you cannot serve the interests of renters, fixed income individuals, multiple land owners and business developers. It's great to advocate conservatism ... its another thing to actually accomplish conservatism. You don't do that by demonizing allies.
I graduated from Frank J Dugan Elementary School in Marlboro, New Jersey.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 1:21 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Ceres, Where did you attend grammer school and where did you graduate from?
As for your zeal to build new schools, do you pay property taxes in Beaufort County?
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 12:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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I never attended an Elementary school under 800 students. We outperformed metrics across the board. We can have a reseaonable debate on these things. There are certainly pluses and minutes to small and large schools. But you are precluding debate by labeling all opposition to one way of thinking as liberal.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 12:04 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Ceres, you are working on the wrong end of the horse. Graduate vs kindergarden. Go figure.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 11:17 am
By: Hood Richardson
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899 students is crammed? Lol. My God ... please do some research. I graduated from a school that was 1,875 students and ranked in the top 200 schools in the country. Our graduation rate was 99%. Please look at statistics before making irrational statements.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 11:09 am
By: Rational Observer
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Not everyone that disagrees is a liberal. If now I'm considered to be a liberal ... the guy who is routinely pilliared as a right-wing psycho by leftist stooges because I believe the new school is way more fiscally conservative than waiting years to construct another school at 10s of millions more in taxpayers money years from now;then something is wrong with this publication. Stop attacking Republicans. Go after the leftists with a radical trans/gender identity ideology, out-of-control Marxism and identity politics. You continue to alienate allies such as myself by demonizing any deviation in thought.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 11:19 am
By: Gary Ceres
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899 students is crammed? Lol. My God ... please do some research. I graduated from a school that was 1,875 students and ranked in the top 200 schools in the country. Our graduation rate was 99%. Please look at statistics before making irrational statements.
Commented: Monday, April 21st, 2025 @ 11:12 am
By: Gary Ceres
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