{"id":4949,"date":"2015-02-04T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T23:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/parents-of-students-should-foot-the-bill\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T00:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T07:55:39","slug":"parents-of-students-should-foot-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/parents-of-students-should-foot-the-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of students should foot the bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I am so sick and tired of the endless whining about funding schools when there is a very simple solution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Why don\u2019t we let the people who have kids pay for them?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Granted, we all should pay a minimum of school taxes, no problem with that. But, after that, all parents need to pay more for the extra children they dump on the school system.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Two kids in school and you pay twice the school taxes. Three kids in school and you pay three times the school taxes, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">When there is a money shortage for schools why is my wallet attacked first?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Where are the concerned parents?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">I don\u2019t see a one of them giving any extra money for their children\u2019s education.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">And, please, no sad stories about the high cost of raising children.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">There\u2019s an old saying for that, \u201cIf you can\u2019t feed them, don\u2019t breed them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Randal Kram<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sick and tired of the endless whining about funding schools when there is a very simple solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}