DCSS: Not in Crisis

Yet.

Though Greek bankers could learn some innovative shell game strategies from DCSS, our school system has not yet reached a Grecian Crisis Point. They still have too much wiggle room. Witness the recent decision to retain janitors with gold plated benefits rather than put daily cleanup in the hands of commercial competitive bidders. Normal people would have found this and closing the Fernbank operation simple, no-brain decisions, but normal folks have a brain and cannot truly relate to the decision makers running DCSS, who are unencumbered by logic, reasoning or in many cases, principles. As vessels of intellect and integrity these people are leaky buckets at best and on an average day, perhaps a colander is more likely to hold water than they are to make an informed, logical decision.

It is clear that we must drive the system into crisis in order to harden the resolve of the community to establish priorities and demand these be upheld. To do this we must do what many consider unthinkable: raise taxes. To the maximum allowed by law.

Though it is counter-intuitive the only way to back the political panderers into a corner is to eliminate all potential for future revenue expansion. They must be allowed to piss away every penny (including the ill-advised eSPLOST) we can send them, every dollar from every bond they can possibly issue, and every fee they can pile on.

We must gorge them on cashflow until they drive the system to bankruptcy. Only then can we clear the delusional fog that hobbles parents' thinking. Only then will the lies masked by the bumper sticker mentality of "it's about educating our children" be exposed. Only after the current system is burned to the ground can we wipe off the ashes of this failed experiment and rebuild.