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'For' Arguments add argument RankAvg: 4.5 Rankers: 79 You can't put a price on our young people's future.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.5 Rankers: 104 There's nothing more important than our children's education.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.3 Rankers: 233 PUSD will receive $20 million in state matching funds that will otherwise go to other school districts   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.1 Rankers: 278 Every single penny can only be spent to improve local schools.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.0 Rankers: 277 The Poway schools are excellent, why mess with what works.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.8 Rankers: 313 There will be an Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee and mandatory annual audits to ensure the money is spent properly.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.5 Rankers: 213 Proposition C does not increase tax rates.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.2 Rankers: 68 The more educated people are, the more money they make, and the more tax revenues go up   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit Add New Argument For Log in to create your own entry. (750 characters remaining) Insert Link Bold Submit Reasons for rejecting a new 'For' Argument include: Isn't an argument For Prop. C Doesn't make sense, illogical, ambiguous Profane or abusive Advertisement/Spam

'Against' Arguments add argument RankAvg: 4.8 Rankers: 625 ALL of PUSD board received contributions from school bond contractors. From Union-Tribune, lower right sidebar, 'Public Records': "Research of public records at the county Registrar of Voters shows that all five current Poway Unified School District board members accepted campaign contributions from major recipients of Proposition U bond money."   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.7 Rankers: 738 PUSD can't provide an itemized list of estimated expeditures, they sent me here.  When pressed further, they still haven't called back.  They are asking for a blank check just because they think they can get it, using a few examples to justify a much larger amount.  Not a single hard number for anything - not on any of the restroom renovations "as needed", nor on expected computer prices on thousands of computers, etc.  Don' t they know if renovation is needed or not?  Surely, their estimates must be based on some number, somewhere.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.6 Rankers: 482 Poway Mayor Cafagna received contributions from school bond contractors. "In 2003, Barnhart and Wilkes were also gifting Poway mayor Mickey Cafagna."   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.5 Rankers: 700 $179M without building a single new school, this doesn't pass the smell test.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.5 Rankers: 512 Hey, teacher pay of $74 per classroom hour COSTS PUSD $26.75M MORE PER YEAR than $60 per classroom hour would. (2007/8 teacher salaries + share of benefits, p.7) / (1732 teachers x 184 days x 6hrs) = $74.34/class hr.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 4.0 Rankers: 5 The PUSD is so top heavy with Superintendents and Assistant Sups, that the organization is in danger of toppling over. The money wasted on their projects is criminal and now they want us to open up and give them millions more that won't be accounted for. To those who agree with this new tax I say shame on you. Everyone complains about the taxes we pay, the price of gas, milk, food, housing, etc. Now is the time you can finally say no and put a stop to this unmitigated spending and waste.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.9 Rankers: 366 This fiasco is obviously the result of bad management and greed   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.8 Rankers: 513 14-18 YEARS of additional $55/100K of assessed value is a HUGE TAX INCREASE over not paying it. For median home value of approximately $500K = $3,800-$4950.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.4 Rankers: 285 PUSD's $25M reserve(pg. 2) seems like more than enough to handle any crisis situations.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.3 Rankers: 570 It sure looks like they're double billing! Their technology plan, pg. 67,68 includes listing their Obsolescence Plan for computers TWICE for 2009-2010, and 2010-2011.  They show increasing budgets for software/hardware even as computers and software prices continue to plummet.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.2 Rankers: 291 THEY NEVER ADMIT THEIR OWN INCOMPETENCE.  $198M Prop U with $100M in matching State funds in 2002 was supposed to cover everything they're asking for now.  They always just come back for more money.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit RankAvg: 3.1 Rankers: 642 It's not worth $179M + another $300M-500M in interest in order to qualify for $20M of State money.   MyRank - Persuasiveness- 5. Highest 4. High 3. Medium 2. Low 1. Lowest      Submit Add New Argument Against Log in to create your own entry. (750 characters remaining) Insert Link Bold Submit Reasons for rejecting a new 'Against' Argument include: Isn't an argument Against Prop. C Doesn't make sense, illogical, ambiguous Profane or abusive Advertisement/Spam

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