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I'm somewhat dismayed at the recent turn of events with our school board. I totally bought into the notion that they were using this website to gain ideas regarding what the residents wanted to see on the ballot this coming May.
What I still cannot comprehend is the notion that we have been told time and time again that there is currently enough kids in portables to fill a new elementary school. yet following the meeting this week the board announces that they want to build TWO SCHOOLS! These people are insane.
Starting today, I am personally going to begin a door to door campaign to not only ask people to not vote for this levy but to also recall these backward thinking school board members.
Hal Jordan
By Hal Jordan
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Different point of view
Hal -
I respect your right to your opinion. Mine's different. You are right that the PLSD says they have more than enough kids to fill a new school today.
It's also been said that it takes two years to build a school. The way I see it these guys can't win. They are slammed for daring to ask for two schools - remember we voted down one large one & additions. They got over 450 kids this year mostly elementary - with two more years of growth even if it's smaller those two school will open full or close to full. We will still be using portables.
I am seeing here that people are upset that there isn't a long range plan but you don't really want them to plan past the ends of their noses.
You can't build for what we have today - you have to look into the future a couple of years. My opinion is they should be looking out futher. They will be back on with another school within 5 years & we're going to say ''how could you not see the kids coming?'' Why can't you plan correctly?
You can't have it both ways.
What your plan? One school, more portables & split sessions. Don't just say what you don't like. Put a solution out there that works. One school doesn't work. Maybe we can ask the City & township not to issue occupancy permits for any housing until we can afford to house students. The school district doesn't recruit new home buyers for this area - go to the root of th eproblem.
By Violet Mom
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The answers are here
Mom -
The answers lie in these very webpages. The postings are full of them. The problem is that the school board has no plans and they don't give a darn about what the voters think. They just want to spend and spend all the while claiming to be different from the old administration that built Pickerington North. My kid goes to North and I'm ashamed that she does considering the bind that this district is in. Heck, if it wasen't for the fact that she only has a year and a half left in high school, I'd move us out of this district.
You want my plan? Here is my plan. We have kids in portables now like we have had kids in portables for years. Build one new school in order to take the strain off and continue to use the portables. If people like Bruce Rigelman want to run off at the mouth about the safety of portables, use operating funds (which the board has already announced they going to put on the ballot in the fall) to hire hall moniters to watch over the portables. Then if the growth continues, come back in a couple years and let's talk about another school.
Mom, you really need to start looking at the running of a school district, a township and a city as if they were businesses. Every large business has a short and long term plan. It must if it wishes to stay afloat. This school board doesn't. Ask Gail Oakes where she envisions this school district in five years. Ask Lisa Reede. They can't give you an answer because they don't know. All they know is how to spend and how to waste time in meaningless meetings. The planning meeting last week? What was accomplished? What plans were made? All they did was make themselves feel good about cashing their checks they get as school board members.
Mom, you vote me onto the school board and first thing I would do is sign my check back over to the district. It's not much, but we're in crisis mode here and every little bit would help.
Hal
By Hal Jordan
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Oh puh-lease!
Hal Jordan,
You say, ''Mom, you vote me onto the school board and first thing I would do is sign my check back over to the district. It's not much, but we're in crisis mode here and every little bit would help.''
Oh puh-lease!
I voted in the last election, and I didn't see your name on the ballot. In fact, I didn't see any new names on the ballot. Did your paperwork get lost in the mail?
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