Stop it. Move along.

If you know something that disturbing report it to the Columbus Police or the Columbus Public Schools.

My comments are moderated you are wasting time trying to pass on rumors about a teacher here.

I absolutely feel passionately about schools! I’m a Realtor, but I’m also a parent. I have children in schools and have volunteered in schools and have seen first hand the issues that schools face as they try to educate children, conform to state and federal regualtions, but without our elected officials in Columbus changing school funding. It’s an extraordinarily frustrating situation for parents and teachers.

>I’m not a fan of rants.

>Or politics.

>Or DaytonOS I guess.

I’ll keep that in mind.

Or politics.

Or DaytonOS I guess.

I have probably been a real estate agent too long before becoming a blogger to get carried away by passion and politics, especially when it comes to schools. Especially when it comes to judging what are good schools and what are bad schools. I don’t decide or help buyers decide what are good schools, and what aren’t for the purpose of educating their kids or for a home’s resale value. Wouldn’t that be steering?

It’s not like the Columbus Dispatch hasn’t covered the school funding issue before. I will forgive the writers if that’s not a focus in this series, although education was mentioned in the first article in the series.

I don’t think the article is written to the legislature… they can read the Columbus Dispatch series but they are probably more aware of facts about Ohio cities than the average Columbusite. It is written to the public IMHO.

The City of Columbus grew by annexing land in the pre-existing school districts… good move or not? Columbus has grown… biggest sprawler in the state because of annexing land for development. I think that started in the 1970’s??? I wonder if that will be part of the article about Columbus… if the series is going to have an article about Columbus… I’m assuming it will but I’ll wait and see.

Akron was the city today….I don’t think there was anything about the schools in that area though either, in the Columbus Dispatch series.

I did warn my readers my post was uncharacteristicly ranty.

I understand that the Columbus Dispatch is written for Columbus, and my beef is that law makers in Columbus appear, to this no-nonsense Daytonian, to be sitting on their hands instead of fixing education. Education funding in Ohio was declared unconstitutional years ago. Why has nothing been done?

As a fellow real estate professional, we both know that one of the first questions buyers ask us is for information about schools. Even buyers without children, buyers with no intention of having children, want to know about “good” schools.

If newspapers and law makers would like to improve Ohio’s cities, increase jobs for Ohio, they need to spend time discussing and creating real solutions to funding all Ohio schools equitably.

Yes, my frustration with this is such that I can no longer discuss it calmly. I don’t know why education funding in Ohio is still unconstitutional. At this point I don’t care. If my ranty little post can get a fire started under someone’s back side, then I’m happy to rant.

And as always, thanks for the mention!