Honest questions, no sarcasm:
How has that extra tax money assisted in making your district one of the best in the state? I would think that would be the teachers who did that. Are you guys spending more money on salaries to get better teachers? Or is it really a result of the parents requiring both the teachers and their kids to do their assigned tasks?
How do those taxes keep the area clean? Is it a function of extra cleaning crews or is it more a function of the locals (in general) picking up after themselves and not just throwing trash about? IOW, is this a result of not having certain demographics in your area?
I'm always wary of statements about how taxes help society do what the members of that society are supposed to do in the first place. In my mind (and I could be wrong) it comes down to either the people in the area know how to act (they have a standard they live by) or the taxes are spent to cover up the lack of standards via public services. For kids and bad teachers that cover up IMO would be known as teaching to pass standardized tests while not really teaching them much of anything else.
Anyway, just some questions, not trying to get up in your shit over it. Genuinely curious.