Comments on: School fees decision from the Indiana Supreme Court http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/ State Representative Ryan Dvorak - Indiana's 8th House District Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: sheila branden http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-30022 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:55:49 +0000 http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-30022 I grew up in Indiana and my parents had to pay the fee back then too. Today I live in Tennessee and our taxes pay for text books. Indiana has higher property taxes, income taxes and this this crazy fee and yet their schools are average at best. Even their state college tuition is higher then many other states. Where does the money go? I grew up in Indiana and my parents had to pay the fee back then too. Today I live in Tennessee and our taxes pay for text books. Indiana has higher property taxes, income taxes and this this crazy fee and yet their schools are average at best. Even their state college tuition is higher then many other states. Where does the money go?

]]> by: Christina http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-29972 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:03:05 +0000 http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-29972 This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. We moved here from Maryland, and we have never heard of paying for textbooks. Our taxes paid for everything. Except for most field trips, and anything extra the teacher may need. We have family living all over this country and they have never heard of this kind of thing either. If 53% of my taxes (which are way to much) are going to education, and I have to pay for textbooks, then who's pocket is the rest of the money going to????? Average families can't afford these fees and we make to much for reduced or free meals. Something has to give Indiana!!! This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. We moved here from Maryland, and we have never heard of paying for textbooks. Our taxes paid for everything. Except for most field trips, and anything extra the teacher may need. We have family living all over this country and they have never heard of this kind of thing either. If 53% of my taxes (which are way to much) are going to education, and I have to pay for textbooks, then who’s pocket is the rest of the money going to????? Average families can’t afford these fees and we make to much for reduced or free meals. Something has to give Indiana!!!

]]> by: Teresa http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-27539 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:14:18 +0000 http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-27539 I checked this site because I was curious how this case had turned out. We lived in an area of Indiana that had so many poor that we all, rich and poor got free books. I think it had title one, not sure if that was the reason or not. We moved to Illinois. Not only are our fees a couple hundred dollars for some grades (some are less) but we have mandatory dental care just to be able to go to school. We were saving for braces my daughter needed only to find out we had to do another mandatory dental visit that we had to pay for out of the money we were saving for braces that my husbands insurance didn't pay. There are kids here who are repeating a grade over because they can't afford summer school UGH! I checked this site because I was curious how this case had turned out. We lived in an area of Indiana that had so many poor that we all, rich and poor got free books. I think it had title one, not sure if that was the reason or not.

We moved to Illinois. Not only are our fees a couple hundred dollars for some grades (some are less) but we have mandatory dental care just to be able to go to school. We were saving for braces my daughter needed only to find out we had to do another mandatory dental visit that we had to pay for out of the money we were saving for braces that my husbands insurance didn’t pay.

There are kids here who are repeating a grade over because they can’t afford summer school UGH!

]]> by: Michele Woolbright http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-3171 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:28:40 +0000 http://ryandvorak.com/2006/04/11/school-fees-decision-from-the-indiana-supreme-court/#comment-3171 We have moved here from Colorado. I have four children in school We are a middle class family, pay income tax and property tax. But, because my husband makes a little too much we are punished by the State of Indiana. It's the middle class that foots the bill for ourselves and the poor. We made a poor choice in moving to Indiana. Indiana needs to get with the times. We have moved here from Colorado. I have four children in school We are a middle class family, pay income tax and property tax. But, because my husband makes a little too much we are punished by the State of Indiana. It’s the middle class that foots the bill for ourselves and the poor. We made a poor choice in moving to Indiana. Indiana needs to get with the times.

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