The total unreserved funds for the period, including fed and state funds is a whopping $17 million dollars.

Don’t know about the school district, but their unreserved fund balance has been way up in the multi-millions of dollars.

I’m guessing this money is held at about 1-2% interest. I really need my share to help pay my heating bills this winter.

I cannot see how this does anything more than place us against them. If we are not able to trust officials placed in these positions to be honest, what is to come of us. Have we reached the point where all that is important is to lie, mislead and otherwise try and make the hardworking taxpayers of S.C. feel that we are not doing enough for the children. I for one, and I am sure there are others, don’t want to feel that I am struggling to make ends meet while some educrate, or for that matter, politician,is sitting back saying, ” I feel comfortable in what I did, because I did it for the children.” You really think I believe that!

That old song is getting ancient. There are, I would like to think, solutions without being vague and evasive.

Fees, candy sales and every kind of fund raiser you can think of is becoming a burden. Think of the relatives and neighbors who fork out many dollars for magazines, candy and who knows what all. Like in my case 6 grandkids and neighborhood children who out doing what good citizens are expected to do. Support your school, but at what result. Bad relations, suspicion and every word that comes out of our schools mouthes.

And as usual you have your critics who think this is ok. Reasonable is just that. That is very subjective. Ask anyone who can hardly pay their property tax, not because of county taxes for police and need services, but because of the additional taxes due to the school portion of their tax bill. If citizens don’t get a handle on this, you could have your legislators trying to stick their collective nose into your business of running schools. Stop your silly accusations, unless you have proof of what you are saying, and let’s have open, meaninful dialogue that could solve a problem. All this adds to the mix is confusion. Delivering impartial news, that is reliable, dependable and verifiable is important to the system we live and operate under. Once that bond of trust between people and media is broken. We are in 3D. (deep,do,do)

We all want truth, but for some reason, honesty seems to the missing element.

Watch for the same lesson with The Mace Group. You get what you pay for, and it comes back with a bonus when you pay part under the table.

Are you putting all that on your tax returns? Just wondering.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced

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Our schools know they cannot depend on our Republicrats and Demopublicans to provide stable funding for children. They certainly know the elected officials that Howie has bought with his carpetbugger money will be the first to throw kids under the bus for the voucher scam. Hear us Howie and your children.

In SC, the School Districts that can afford it have saved for this rainy day.

Their chidren are being protected and educated. The taxpayers are protected. Nothing illegal, nothing excessive, nothing wrong.

But that will not stop sic(k) willie. Nor randy Randy.

They will pander their paid politic@L cr@p as long as we let them get away with it. Join us!

Demand sic(k) willie identify the Midlands’ elected official he claims has a Strom problem. Join in demanding sic(k) willie explain his claim that Governor Sanford paid off the family of a “poor little black girl.”

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flaire and Balanced

This site preaches over and over again about being fiscally responsible. So you have a number of agencies and school districts that are practicing fiscal responsibility by NOT spending EVERY penny. Somehow this is a BAD thing??

I believe, like the 1991 law states, that reasonable is just that … reasonable. It is REASONABLE for a school district to accrue a “rainy day” fund. It is REASONABLE for a school district to practice fiscal responsibility. It is REASONABLE to save money.

So where is the issue FITS?

The other issue I have with these stories is this: The source of the savings. The implication is that all of this money came from Columbia. That may not be the case and it certainly has not been properly pointed out … until now.

More sources please!

- SSHM