Parenting & Family Quote by Bob Beauprez

“Common sense” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Beauprez opens with a phrase that pretends to end debate before it starts: if you disagree, you’re not just wrong, you’re unreasonable. That framing is classic political judo, shifting the argument from evidence to identity. Who wants to be the person against common sense?

Then comes the neat triad: “children, teachers and taxpayers.” It’s a coalition sentence, designed to make potential opponents feel isolated. Children supply moral urgency, teachers add frontline credibility, taxpayers deliver the pocketbook mandate. The subtext is that any current spending that doesn’t obviously touch those three groups is suspect, indulgent, even parasitic.

“Keeping dollars in the classroom” is the rhetorical climax because it’s vivid and hard to argue with, while remaining strategically vague. It implies there are dollars currently escaping somewhere else: administration, consultants, unions, bureaucrats, capital projects, or simply government “waste.” The line doesn’t specify which. That’s the point. Vagueness lets different audiences plug in their preferred villain, creating a shared grievance without committing to a specific tradeoff.

As a politician, Beauprez is likely speaking in a context where education budgets are contested - debates over school funding formulas, tax policy, or accountability measures. The intent isn’t just pro-education; it’s pro-reallocation and restraint. It reassures voters that compassion (for kids and teachers) and fiscal discipline (for taxpayers) aren’t in conflict, because the real problem isn’t scarcity - it’s misdirection.