Elizabeth Wielinski wrote:
... the Lasallian umbrella ( like many others including DeLaSalle and
Cretin- Derham Hall) ... the qualifications that had to be met to fit
into the group. It seems that at least 25% of the student body had to
be receiving financial aide ( not wealthy) for them to qualify.
Not poor either. For a high school DLS has a pretty steep tuition. While
some of the parents of students at DLS may not be Mr. and Mrs. Gotbucks,
parents who want their kids in DLS do need to have fairly solid salaries
in order to afford tuition and other attendant costs. Even with a full
scholarship, poor parents cannot send their kids to most private schools.
However, none of this is about the issue: an MPRB that wants to give
away, under the phony rubric of "shared space," an acre or so of a
regional park to a private entity. It is hugely immaterial that it is a
private school or a private club or a private company or a private bordello.
If Nicollet Island is a public, regional park, then there are real
questions about DLS, the houses, Nicollet Island Inn, the railroad
tracks still in use, and whatever is in the old creamery on the
downstream end of the island. Frankly, with all that, a major bridge six
lanes wide and parking lots and roads, there's very darn little park in
that park. Several park boards and other public entities, have never
guarded Nicollet Island as park space. It's a joke to pretend that the
island is a park.
I would feel much better about the park reformers if I had heard them
point out how little park there truly is on Nicollet Island and what a
shame it is that an historic regional park is treated so shabbily.
WizardMarks, Central
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