School boards in some Pennsylvania school districts, knowing that their kids would be taking classes by “distance learning, “ bought Chrome Books for every student in the district. Those districts tended to be suburban, with high property values and a school budget that permitted those purchases.
Other districts, often located in areas of rural poverty with low property values or in inner cities with low property values, could not afford such a policy, which meant their students often had difficulty keeping up with their classes and basically lost a year of education.
This is what is wrong with depending on local property tax to fund education. In the meantime our Republican-dominated legislature is passing bills forbidding “vaccine passports,” limiting victims of sexual abuse from seeking redress, trying to make it easier to carry concealed weapons, and limiting the number of drop boxes for early voting.
If your Representative is a Republican, I don’t care how good his or her constituent services are, I don’t care how many state forms she or he filled out for you, or how many grants she or he got your local fire department. Your Republican legislator is voting in lockstep with a party that does not reflect the the interests of the citizens of Pennsylvania.
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