On 11/9/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They can be as perturbed as they like, but in this country, schools are > public property, funded via direct taxation on property owners, whether they > have kids in the system or not. > As an example, I have paid about $400.00/year over the past 25 years as a > home owner to support the public school system, yet I have had no children > of my own taking advantage of it. > This is not someting I was given any choice about. > It's not much, but it makes me an "owner". >
I don't think that makes them public property, Bill. I'll have to look this up to be sure, but schools aren't owned by the gov't per se, but by local school boards. To say they're public property is certainly an over-simplification at best. Try walking into a school and wandering around the hallways and see how long it takes to have someone ask you to leave. I'd say, that's how it should be. There are all sorts of signs around Toronto schoolyards saying that they're off-limits after sundown or 9pm or whatever. I don't have a problem with that, do you? I also don't have a problem with anyone who doesn't have proper business with the school being asked to leave school property at any time. And, I don't think the law does, either. -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
