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How would you split?
For starters, I live in Violet Township and am not in favor of splitting the district. Other than some tennis courts and athletic fields, I don't see any obvious advantages of North over Central. And, Central has a better field house and newer technology in the classrooms. My kids will go to Central and that'll be just fine with me.
I'm curious though, what would you propose for the students that live in the City of Columbus but within the PLSD? And, what about those that reside in Liberty Township that are also within the PLSD?
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Cut and Run
Dear Big Meany,
You couldn't be more wrong about who I am. You know what they say about assumptions, don't you?
It's interesting that Broke wrote in a posting just yesterday -
''So if new home buyers buy a new home in a recently annexed area of Pickerington are they moving there of their own free will. Why would they have it in for City Council. It seems that if they had a bone to pick with council wouldn't they move someplace else?''
This just as easily applies to you. If you're unhappy with the school district here and have a bone to pick, wouldn't you just move someplace else?
You sound like one of those NIMBYs who feel like you've got yours and you want everyone else to stay out. Talk about elitist.
I'm not cutting and running because you're (probably always) unhappy. Like I said, I moved here for the schools. You can feel free to support or not support the schools as you see fit, but you're not free to impose your will on me and my family.
A school district is more than buildings. If you try to split the school district you will look like a fool to the public, because the students are receiving a quality education. You couldn't hide behind even a pretext of having the best interests of the students at heart. It is all selfishly motivated.
By Go Away
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Newer Technology?
Give me a break on the ''newer technology'' @ Central. The Golden Palace is still brand new. What did they stock it with? Yard sale crap?
Sheeeeeeesh....some people's kids.
By HUH?
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Sitting on our hands
Go Away
Please listen to yourself and your comments. You tell me to go away and then say I can?’t dictate your life or something like that. Mt kids are teenagers and they won?’t be affected by the split sessions. Just because you are happy with the local school hierarchy doesn?’t mean everyone in the district is happy. I believe if most were happy you would see some of these levies passing.
You are making a giant leap to conclude that smaller school districts can?’t provide an excellent education for their students. They can and they are doing so every year.
As school districts grow they also develop different cultures within their communities. When those cultures began to clash you start to see the problem PLSD is facing. The school board has continued to repeat their requests for two new elementary schools and the voters continue to reject them. At some point even you will need to admit we all need to look outside the box for solutions. I know, I know, the state legislature didn?’t fix school funding. We can complain about it till we are blue in the face but it is still our children and having a closed mind on the subject only brings the split sessions closer.
Instead of ripping Groveport schools why don?’t you read the WEB site of the group trying to at least make a change. They freely admit that the process will take a long time. It is ironic that you apparently read this web site regularly and apparently post regularly. The origins of his web site were people thinking outside the box and offering solutions. They were probably in large part responsible for the change in the Pickerington City government.
Your writing seems to indicate a bias about Groveport and its residents. I don?’t know much about the Groveport school district but I would bet they all want their kids to get a quality education like the rest of us.
The fact remains that our State school systems have been going down hill (including Pickerington) because of a number of knee jerk REACTIONS from the state. In the 60s and 70s the NCAA brought forward law suits against Cities like Columbus for racial discrimination. Unfortunately the solutions offered and ordered by the courts were aimed at the school district. Columbus schools then were faced with taking 6 year olds across town to attend kindergarten classes. Along with some deeply rooted racial bias the schools district residents in Columbus started to look to the suburbs.
To save the City of Columbus and its voter base the state legislators allowed the City Schools of Columbus to allow other school district to take on the responsibly of educating the Children of Columbus. If you have been around for a while this is where the term WIN-WIN came from.
By Big Meany
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