Updated: For the Children

[Updated with election results, below.]

Yesterday, I received this PDF via The Network.  It appears to be a script to be read over the phone to the parents of children attending Eden Prairie Public Schools.  It concerns the proposed property tax levy on the ballot for next Tuesday's election.

I don't live in Eden Prairie, so I have no firsthand knowledge of the situation.  I do know how much the state's Democrats have put into taking credit for all the additional taxpayer funding they voted for Minnesota's public schools.  They also claim that all that additional spending would result in lower property taxes.

Eden Prairie did not get the memo, it appears.  What ever additional funds the schools received from the state were not nearly enough for the Eden Prairie schools, who are asking for additional tax funding from local residents.

As I have discussed before, the problem with America's schools, in general, cannot be attributed to insufficient funds.  Funds may be badly allocated, but there are plenty of resources devoted to American education.

We pay managers like the principal in Eden Prairie to manage our public resources to produce good results.  Raising taxes is always the easy way out as it avoids those tough choices that should be made by management.  Appeals "for the children" are always an effective way to play on voters' emotions.

Management at Eden Prairie schools abuse their position as public servants to lobby parents for more managerial resources using official school channels of communication.

Update:  After the voted were counted, the property tax increase lost by the comfortable margin of 56 percent to 44 percent.