The responsibility for your high school tax does not lie with the teachers or unions, it lies with PA’s unbelievable setup where individual Boards of Education can raise taxes on a whim. My school district, Southwestern, teachers have not gone on strike and my taxes are raised every year. The reason for the tax increases given by the school board (when you can actually get them to give a reason, since legally they are not required to give one)is…BECAUSE. Blaming Rendell is a favorite game, but these school taxes have been around for years and the blame goes back through quite a few administrations. I agree with your disgust for the school tax and I’m sure it is shared by 99% of PA residents, but to pin it on teachers and unions is misguided. It all lies with the school boards and they will push the residents of PA as far as they can until the lid blows off. The first step in blowing the lid off is to change out Harrisburg and put in people that will strip the school boards of their unaccountable behavior. Yes, school districts need money, but let the people have some say in what goes on. The American people will generally support any reasonable program as long as they have a say in how it is run. Right now in PA, their school taxes are very much out of their control.