Almost every time I go to a kids event in New Hampshire I over hear small groups of parents having what I now consider The Obligatory New Hampshire Conversation.
It goes something like this:
I can't believe the school system is making us do this. (where this is any number of things. Usually it is relating to either class room sizes or some fee)
The response to the first statement eventually comes around to something along the lines of, they had that referendum on a tax increase but of course we voted it down. (where a tax increase would have either eliminated or greatly alleviated the issue being discussed)
Today's version was three parents bitching about next year's class sizes being significantly larger than this year's. The referendum in question voted down funding to add class rooms to one of the elementary school buildings.
It's like effing clockwork. They are furious with the way the schools are handling their tiny budgets but absolutely insulted by the very concept of giving the school system a larger budget.
It's almost as if they are incapable of seeing the connection.
As Ronald Weasly once said, "How thick can you get?"
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