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This tread is based on the titling of a bill. That is what the judges ruling spoke to. Please keep on topic. If one wishes to write about rest room funding one can start a topic.
Pity the title did not also mention restricting the rights of the parents who support their children. Perhaps that is only important if a child tries to speak to a teacher about gender issues. Then, suddenly, parental rights become important.
Hugs,
Charlize
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I am glad your schools are flush with excess spending money, but that is not the situation here in CA. Back in 1978 an Initiative and Referendum law was passed that limited property taxes severely and basically cut funding from Property Taxes to pennies of the amounts needed to even minimally fund school districts. Even the U.S. Supreme Court which upheld the law on Federal and Constitutional grounds nevertheless wryly commented in its decision that the state electorate had lost its collective mind in enacting the law. Our schools are funded through the State's General Fund which receives other tax sources for creating the entire state budget. The General Fund and the legislature try to give adequate funding to the primary and secondary school districts as well as college districts and other obligations all from the same limited funds. There are also strict limits on assessing property taxes that actually prevent them from paying for other services directly affecting property ownership which is their proper place, and so even property related services come from our General Fund. Your property tax money seems to be ear-marked for schools which is wonderful and I hope they use it according to your thoughts, but as said we have a different problem out here in CA. I love my state but do recognize its short comings. Point of information, the tax law that is creating problems came from the same small area of the state as the proposed referendum on Trans Youth.
The numbers of those negatively affected are significant and discouraging, but the good news is that "over half" of Trans youth live in safe states, and such states do exist.
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