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No, a proud day for Guilford County would be a day where all the thugs were thrown out of the classrooms, all the NCLB stuff was thrown in the trash, and the teachers were set free to teach. A day when all the deadwood administrators were put in classrooms to help the people who actually teach. A day when no student or teacher was afraid of physical harm. A day when deadbeat parents were told that their kid's lousy attitudes were not the school's fault.

Instead, we will get more "buildings that teach." What is the lesson? That the taxpayers are an endless fount of money for politicians to spend at will.

Some people and parents believe in thier community and school efforts . . . HIGH FIVES TO THEM for not giving up!!!

Others must look themselves in the mirror and ask what more can I do to help my children . . . and my community . . .

Apathy: a state of indifference — where an individual has an absence of interest or concern to certain aspects of emotional, social, or physical life.

This is a first for me. I've never been thanked by the perps who robbed me...

Go get 'em mamab. Very few media except the Rhino Times actually explain the hidden costs of this bond including the interest on the bond and on going maintenance costs for the new schools.

http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/Articles-i-2008-05-01-178129.112113_Hidden_School_Costs_Add_Up.html

"The $4.9 million (per year) operating cost joins the $269 million the county will spend in financing in the hidden costs of the $457 school bonds – costs that voters won't see on the ballot. Voters will have to add those costs to the $457 million figure in deciding whether or not to approve the bonds, which would fund five new schools and 22 other school construction projects."

I like this one:

"Stone said the operating cost is at least partly the result of design choices like the two-story atrium at Northern Guilford High School.

"It's too much," Stone said. "We know it's going to cost money to maintain the schools. But part of that operating cost is in the grandeur, the frills over function that they're building into the schools. I know a 30-foot glass ceiling that you've got to air condition in the summer has got to cost more than a 10-foot ceiling."

One quote says it all:

"Fancy buildings don't make sense if the schools are producing functionally illiterate graduates."

"Fancy buildings don't make sense if the schools are producing functionally illiterate graduates."

Amen to that!

The Guilford County school board is completely disconnected from reality.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money was passed last week and two days ago this article comes out:

"A proposal to pay Guilford County Schools bus drivers, custodians and teacher assistants a "living wage" does not appear to be high on the priority list of the Board of Education."

$4.9 million for raises is taboo and $80 million high schools are lusted after. What is te point of getting an education in a society like this? There's no need anymore as reason has been tossed out the window and inmates run the asylum.

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NRSTAFF/214518085

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Celebrate your victory, Ms. Bachmann. Our system is "majority rules" ... and that is as it should be. But be chary of "whooping it up" too much.

You were not given a "Reaganesque" landslide mandate. As you yourself point out, much time, effort and money was spent on a "Yes" campaign. Yet 450 out of every 1,000 who voted said "No." And that was with no organized opposition campaign at all.

I'd be happy to lay 7 to 3 odds that had the underwriters of these bonds, i.e., the property owners, been the only eligible voters, your margin of victory would have been considerably smaller ... and most likely would have been a margin of defeat.

So, make sure your stewardship of these funds is given the detailed attention that you gave to the campaign to secure them, lest Atlas shrug the next time around.

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reality tour: I do believe in many fine individuals within communities and schools. I do not believe in school administrators. I'm assuming by "believe in" you mean to have confidence in or to believe to be competent.

I'm just wondering if Dan and Bishop include themselves among the "illiterate graduates"?

neo, your post is hilarious. Tip of the hat!

"I'm just wondering if Dan and Bishop include themselves among the "illiterate graduates"?"

I can read three different languages, et toi?

Take heart Dan. At least THE LIBERAL CANADIAN has come around to the fact the government indoctrination/diversity centers are producing "illiterate graduates".