text: In education, those who seek increases have a dilemma. The public in WA state approves everything! Only for a brief moment in 1974, and recently only in Everett for one bond was there an awareness of this fact. (OK, there have been a few very rare occurrences in between).
  So, the problem, how does one know how much to ask for? How high is up?!
  So, some time ago they determined as an offshoot of hating Mississippians that they would only ever compare to other states, and that way no justificaton to actual needs be done. It's funny, since MS has many black people who live there, but they're Christian so hate on them is OK in education.
  So, since in state comparisons someone will ALWAYS be ahead of or behind another state, then they feel justified with the totally absurd, like WA state K-12 needs even more money than $14 billion per year.
  But, why shouldn't they, since no one ever votes education requests down?
  It's a difficult dilemma, but Reykdal's "up" for the task! No?