Local school system cancels classes so Teacher can protest State Legislation

[GrumpyOldEngineer]

So, Our local school system is doing the following today so that the teachers can go protest at the statehouse in INDY for more public school funding. Who else has a job that allows this? 
https://www.mccsc.edu/

[b]Monday, April 14[/b], [b]all MCCSC schools will move to independent, self-paced asynchronous eLearning to allow educators and staff the opportunity to participate in the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) Day of Action at the Statehouse.[/b] There will be no live instruction. Early Learning Centers South and North will be open and will operate as normal. Extended Day will be canceled. Elementary and middle school after-school activities will be canceled. 
MCCSC Food Services will provide meal pick up for students and families at Templeton Elementary School and Fairview Elementary School from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Families can request lunch pick up via online form.  
Teachers/schools will communicate lesson information to you via Canvas and ParentSquare by 8:00 a.m. on Monday.   

Apparently, their are a couple of bills up that allows for poorer school districts to steal property tax from others. So, I guess that means that our property taxes are going to increase to make up for this. Linked article below.

https://bloomingtonian.com/2025/04/10/mc...l-funding/

The reason that the local school system sees this as a threat is because they have some of the highest property taxes in the State of IN. If you look at the red/blue county map, this county is the only blue one in the Southern part of the state. There is no tax too high for them. Property tax tends to run 5 to 10 times higher than neighboring counties that have adequately funded school systems. I think that this is a ploy by the Republican controlled State Legislature to make the blue counties moderate their property taxes that are much higher than red counties. But that's just my opinion.  They have been used to taxing the locals at ever increasing property taxes with no real justification with respect to actually improving education .

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I couldn't find an education forum. The mods should feel free to move this to the appropriate forum.

[old dog]

MCCSC schools will move to independent, self-paced asynchronous eLearning

This creative la-la-land language should be enough, by itself, to fire the entire school board.

[GrumpyOldEngineer]

MCCSC schools will move to independent, self-paced asynchronous eLearning

This creative la-la-land language should be enough, by itself, to fire the entire school board.

I concur.

[Billy_Bob Patriot Master]

No school district should be able to cancel school for these types of events.  You have leave, request it. Those who get to go, get to go. The schools inconvenienced thousands of parents for their political agenda. This is inexcusable.

[GrumpyOldEngineer]

No school district should be able to cancel school for these types of events.  You have leave, request it. Those who get to go, get to go. The schools inconvenienced thousands of parents for their political agenda. This is inexcusable.

I concur.

In my wife's salon, she had to be the only person there for 2 hours because the girl with which she was supposed to work had to stay home with her children that weren't in school.

On the larger scale, we have a real glimpse at the true nature of democrat generosity. They are generous with other people's money and not their own. They are always for taking funds from other districts and counties as long as they are the recipients. In this case, they are the one's with access to excessive property taxes due to being the areas that collect several times more than other places. They don't want to give up any of their bloated amounts for the other districts. Truly generous people, aren't they?

The real lesson for the democrat counties to learn (which they won't because they are stupid) is that they are taxing their property owners way too much to fund their schools as compered to other counties.