July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
4h 17m
English
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Chapter 26. Schools, Taxes, and the Future
I was shocked. I couldn’t believe what my grandmother was saying. Could she really be this indifferent? She was, after all, talking about me and my education. It’s not like I understood exactly what taxes were, but it was clear my grandmother did not want to pay them.
My mom, my brother, and I moved in with my grandmother on Long Island after my parents’ divorce and the death of my grandfather in 1955. I was eight. I guess we all figured we would do better together by pooling our resources. The problem was, it was my grandmother’s house and she never let us forget it.
Along with home ownership came property taxes and, as we all know, that’s where the money comes from to fund education and new schools. ...