I can afford the extra twenty seconds. It's the kids shot at a
post-secondary education or a skilled job that I lament. A lifetime of
fulfilling jobs making change and emptying trashcans.
This is not an issue for sarcasm, but for action. The first is to support
the school referendum because the school board really will gut the schools
if we don't. The second would be to repeatedly and pointedly ask the school
board what works and what doesn't in hopes they kill off the failed
experiments a put those resources into the successful ones.
If we are going to give the Boy Scouts the boot, let us at least have the
integrity to honor their help in the past.
Rich Chandler - Ward 9
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Britt Robson
> It is a shame we can't deprive those stupid little bastards of those
> sweetheart jobs at SA, where their indecision over the cash register costs
> hard-working folks like us at least 15-20 seconds of precious time per
> day. Maybe if we turn off the funding spigot and class sizes grow, they'll
> be forced to spend more time at home studying, especially if we rachet up
> the test regimen--accountability, don't cha know.
>
> With friends like J. Burns, the Boy Scouts don't need any enemies.
>
> Britt Robson - Lyndale
>
-----Original Message-----
From: J Burns
It is dumbfounding to me (emphasis on the DUMB) that in a city where most
school age kids LUCKY enough to snag a part-time job at the local
SuperAmerica can't make change to save their lives, that the Minneapolis
school board finds the time to publicly, and in a lengthy, "I know what's
good for you" conversation no less, chastise a private organization like the
Boy Scouts, and THEN has the nerve to ask for more money to continue what
seems to be a less than mediocre performance. Further, as a resident of the
Cleveland neighborhood, I was shocked that the new
Lucy-Laney-Let's-Argue-about-the-Namey school even opened this year what
with all the controversy about the name!
I no longer wonder (as our elected council and boardmembers deal with hot
potato issues like organic food and Bhurma) why issues like grafitti, crime,
affordable housing, and the never-ending garbage along Portland Avenue
remain on the proverbial back burner...
J Burns - Cleveland, formerly Nokomis, formerly Camden
