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That is very nice of you to volunteer.   I have an idea that I wish could happen.   Schools have become too expensive to support for the tax payers and the wages and retirement plans for the school district employees is the main cause.  Its all for the kids but the money always seems to go to payroll.

Teacher’s aides get at least 17 dollars an hour to start without any experience, Secretaries start at a much higher number than that and office assistants about the same as teacher’s aides.

So this is my idea.  Any person (who can pass a background check) that is willing to volunteer gets a certain amount of a tax deduction equivalent to if the were actually a paid school district employee.  These people could volunteer with currently paid teachers aides and office assistants and eventually once those teachers’ aids and office assistants retire or quit the volunteers can take over the job as a volunteer.  There would be a need for someone in each school to verify if they really did volunteer and if so how many hours so they would know what they could write off on their taxes.

This would save literally millions of dollars over time and get people back to being connected with the schools.  Lowering the tax burden for the citizens and since the volunteers would not be taking the jobs away from the people outright but rather taking over once those people who are currently there are retired, I see it as a win win situation.

What do you think?  It would help you I am sure with an extra very nice tax deduction.