Please Introduce Yourself What's your connection to St. Paul public schools? mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________ Hi, Dave Thune here - I live in the west seventh neighborhood within the erik hare sphere of influence. I serve on the saint paul city council. My wife sue and i have raised 3 kids with the help of the st. paul public schools and are big fans. Interestingly, two of the kids are now in teaching and the third probably will be one of these years.
I became involved in neighborhood issues shortly after moving here in 1974. One of the first was convincing the st. paul school board not to close Monroe jr high school - a neighborhood institution. Together we closed two elementary schools and consolidated into one Monroe K-8 community school. As a city councilmember representing downtown, crocus hill, railroad island, the westside and west seventh, the state of the public schools is integral with healthy communities. To go out on a limb, I'd like to see more conversations about shared planning between individual public schools (not the school district) and the parochial and charter schools in the area. Without threating jobs (public pays decent, parochial salaries are almost inhumane) it strikes me that in tough times there may be some cooperative ventures we could undertake without crossing the public/private line. Finally, just to show that blood brother repke and i don't always agree, i'm in favor of a little rigidity and discipline in the schools... oops, the bell just rang, i've got to sign off... dave thune st. paul ward 2 > Please Introduce Yourself > What's your connection to St. Paul public schools? > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________ > > > I was born and raised in St Paul and lived there for > all but 2 of my years. I went to catholic grade > school and then graduated from Harding High school. > College was in wisconsin. I currently live in > Minneapolis and am a self-employed programming > consultant. I am not an activist, politician or > worked in any public sector. I attend the Harding > -Johnson football game every year and that would be > the last time I was at a public school. > > > I was talking to a friend in Dallas the other day > > and he was telling me > > about the team currently lobbying them for a new > > stadium (football, I think) > > and they haven't finished having the citizens of the > > city pay for the double > > expected cost stadium for (I think) basketball! > > The American Airlines Center was built for both > basketball and hockey to replace reunion arena. The > expected cost was $325 million and final cost was $425 > million, not quite double. Also, the funding was > split 50/50 public/Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars. > > > John Harris > webber-camden > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > _____________________________________________ > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
