Quality of Life vs. Schools?

That's what Fox 17 News seems to be pitching in their story on the Liquor By the Drink funds going from the City of Hendersonville to Sumner County Schools. 

Check the video and you'll note that the piece opens with this statement:

 "And some money that could go to improving your way of life will now have to be sent to schools."  

Not sure what, exactly, they're trying to do here.  Pit citizens of Hendersonville against the very same school system that educates their children? Or suggest to taxpayers that somehow the negotiated settlement is a raw deal for them -- even though the money benefits the school system that, again, educates the children of families in Hendersonville? Maybe they want to create conflict in a story where a reasonable solution between two governing bodies has been reached - now, that does seem rare in Sumner County. 

But to suggest that the quality of life in a community is somehow divorced from the quality of its public schools is just downright wrong.  Strong schools are the backbone of any community. And when two governing bodies reach a reasonable solution to a tricky issue, that should be cause for praise, not invented conflict.