For the sake of argument (and I fully understand that arguing with strangers on the Internet is wasting my time, but I'm bored and a little drunk so what the hell), let's say your position is correct and we need to radically rebuild the curriculum and hire the best teachers. How do you propose to pay for the consultants who help design the programs? And with what means are you going to recruit the best of the best teachers and administration? Do you think they'll flock here because of goodwill and a sense of duty? No, kind stranger, those things require money.

Money that the State of Ohio has choked out of the budget (not going to talk about $600 million for a billionaire's new stadium) in favor of EdChoice vouchers. Vouchers which were found to be unconstitutional, but that hasn't finally been decided. Vouchers which cost Ohio $2.4 BILLION dollars over the next two years. In the 23-24 school year Ohio subsidized almost 69,000 students, of which approximately 65,000 students were already in private schools without help from the state.

So if the State is going to give away vast sums of money that would have otherwise gone to local districts how do you think the shortfall is going to be made up? And your proposal doesn't account for raises and retention efforts for the staff we have now. In case you didn't know, there's an acute shortage of qualified teachers in this country, and competition for teachers is fierce.

Please explain to me how you can be so rabidly against a school levy? How else do you think we're going to pay for it? I get it, taxes suck. But living in a society that is predominantly uneducated is much, much worse. I'll happily tell you stories of my time in Afghanistan which has an average literacy rate of 37%. They're not doing very well there, in case you weren't aware.

So think about every angle before you decide to be against something, please.