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Blast from the past Mark
Mark,
I had vowed to not entertain the masses with replying to any of your postings over the last few months to reopen our diatribes of the past. Dr. Pepper seems to have picked up that cause. However, you struck a nerve with the Ridgeview comment. You see, this all goes back to our serving on the sham of a Boundary Committee together. What you wanted, and what you got is clearly the rich kid/poor kid division in our district. Now if Ridgeview parents can?’t afford sports teams, what did you expect? You won pal. Celebrate and focus on the Taj Mahal and forget about us.
?“That school down below the tracks?” will participate in your beloved athletics this year simply because the new school is not recognized as a Division One school because they entered the league out of cycle. Therefore, the seniors, if they wanted to participate on a Division One team for their resume, had to stay in the poor kid district on the wrong side of the tracks.
I am very sorry this levy passed. The administrators, board and recalcitrant boosters like yourself will never learn your lesson if the district keeps feeding you. It is easy to see now why you and Monhollen were aligned in the past. You can?’t pick a course and stick to it. You both waiver back and forth seemingly championing the most popular cause rather than what is right.
Enjoy your million dollar hot dogs in your multimillion dollar sports entertainment complex. Do your idol, Vince McMahon proud this fall. Enjoy thumbing your nose at those of us below the tracks. We know how you treat Groveport with your trash bags. We fully expect you to have them when you see us. We?’ll cast our eyes downward and take the harassment and wait for the games to be over and explain to our kids what the trash bags meant. We?’ll try to explain how thing could have turned so in just a couple of years. We?’ll point you and Wes out to them, just as we would the Udays and Qsays and tell them how these people put their own self interests ahead of the good of the people. We?’ll try to guide them into being better people than you.
Well Mark, I am off to the dollar store and the sell it again shops to get my kids ready for school. I?’ll pick up a box of white trash bags to bring past your house for you, if the gates are open.
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From the poor give it to theRich
Before I could respond anonymous stepped in pointed out the difference between Elite View High and the Poor View High. The Pickerington school board is divided by the four members from the Elite view schools and they didn?’t what their kids going to school with the black children. Sad as it may be I think there appears to be some serious racial divides in this community starting right at the school board. Even though these concerns were brought up at the boundary committee meetings they were ignored by the board. WHY?
I think this discussion started off on the pay to play formula. The figures that have been kicked around for a few months now have been that Sports costs the district in supplemental contracts around $1.2 Million per year. So our friends at the BIA came up with a $600,000 announcement. Obviously we haven?’t received a dime of that money and some of the esteemed board members are still shocked because the BIA had strings attached to further erode the quality of life in the City of Pickerington.
So if the board voted to restore sports without any BIA money even though they said they were figuring it in, that would mean that at $250 per student per activity that would require 2400 students to participate. Within days of the levy passing they restore and lower the amount for the student to pay to participate from $250 down to $167. Now remember we haven?’t seen any money from the BIA. That means if the BIA doesn?’t come up with the money the board must now cover $800,000 of these supplemental contracts. Even though they will reduce the number of coaches we will still be stuck with that $800,000 NEW EXPENSE that we had to trim just to just to balance the budget. So instead of a $ 6 Million levy we are now down to $5.2 million. That says nothing about the full day kindergarten and high school busing. Oh of course those academic courses and stupid stuff like that. I don?’t care how creative Vince is he ain?’t going have enough money to keep this district?’s head above water for over a year. So what happens instead of 2400 students participating we get down to say 1800? There goes another $100,000 out of the academic budget. Someone please explain that to Wes and Lori.
The community authority will destroy the two lots per acre initiative past last year by the voters in the city. It will destroy the quality of life in Pickerington but the idiots on our school board still fully support the clowns running the city. Mark Uher wants to make us believe he is concerned. He got what he wanted to hell with the rest of us. Yet he will expect us all to vote to pay more for his levy campaigns in the future. When do they wake up to reality?
This is nothing more that a Robin Hood in reverse. It will be robbing from Poor to supplement the Rich at the expense of the academics. What happens if we have 1200 student from Elite view High participating and only 800 students from Poor view high participating? You folks do the math.
By William
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To William
William,
Not to try to contradict someone who agrees with me, but actually according to the 2000 census, 3% of Pickerington is minority, but 20% of Tussing is minority. (Jim Brink can correct me here but I believe these are the numbers he gave me.) However, a large part of the population of Tussing comes from Columbus so they are not included in the Pickerington numbers. Anyway, the students that attend Tussing will attend the Taj Mahal eventually. So it is not a race thing but more of the money thing. Pickerington elitists like those who railroaded the Boundary Committee meetings accepted the Tussing area students as their token minority population. I hate to even go down this road or open this can of worms, but there was, at one time, maps passed around long before most of the groups had gotten the information they requested to aid their decision and recommendation that had drawn the line down 256 and across Refugee going east. This allowed these elitists to play the race card as you think they did anyway. Picture the demographics of what they had their arms around with that one. Fortunately, this attempt was just too blatant for anyone but them to swallow.
You are exactly right in the BIA destruction of last November?’s election. They made a very well-funded attempt to first keep it from the polls and then to get it voted down. They lost but were not defeated. Thanks to our fine leaders in ALL elected positions, they had enough permits to build in their pocket to keep busy while they came up with Plan B, which is this pathetic CA. Is Mark in this with them? You can bet on it. He has proven himself to be nothing more than a hired gun. Whomever needs him to attack can get him by offering the right bounty. It might be business for his seminar firm or it might be sports related, or it might be a simple as the right stroking of his ego to get him to support them.
William, they will never wake up to reality. While having nearly 10,000 voters show up at the polls to make the decision on this levy, do you really believe, given the track record of ALL of the elected officials in our area that it really passed by 59 votes? I don?’t. There were certainly election and poll irregularities reported (even by Uher) and given the history of overtly illegal actions by ALL our elected officials, one can only be suspicious of any close vote. Just ask those that were subjected to the Daryl Berry method of counting votes in the County Republican Party.
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brain washing
I hope you all have been reading the statements on this web site. Clearly our school levy committee has a data base that has 3000 names on it. Those are the names of people that are ?“likely favorable voters for levies?”. We also learned that we have an ?“over the hill?” gentlemen that organized local teenagers to call voters that hadn?’t voted during the day on August 5th. This gentleman also knew that these students had made studies in POD class about the school levy. He also knew about these teenagers parents and how they felt about the levy. Many of the teenagers had different opinions about the levy.
Clearly our Pickerington Schools appear to be giving out confidential data on parents and students. How does this gentleman know all of this? Did each of these parents volunteer to share their children?’s POD papers with the old guy? Did he quiz these kids? What business is it of his?
Now once we find out how he knew all of this information then we must be very concerned how he used that information. Clearly most of us would call and make a pitch for voters to vote for an issue in our favor. This group knows more than they should about the private lives of those people on that data base. He clearly admitted here that they knew the voting tendencies of 3000 adults in this community. Even people without kids.
How did they get this information? Since the athletic boosters are the driving political force in this community then are they using and recruiting young athletes and their parents for other things that just sports information? I known a lot of people in my life and I can?’t really say I knew how any of them voted in any election. How does this group know that?
There has been a problem with the PYAA and other groups that feed the athletic machine here in Pickerington. I have heard them referred to as the sports Nazis. I know during that time in our history Hitler used the youth in his country to work against their own parents.
I guess then the reverse part of this may be that certain athletes now will get positions on sports teams because of whom their parents are? Will the athletic politics here in Pickerington determine our future sports teams or are they doing that now?
The old dude also talked about the Ridgeview 7 graders not signing up for football. He speculated that it was because they didn?’t have the money. Or was he thinking out the problems with a low turn out of young athletic families that they could indoctrinate. Think about that, the common people around central not being so involved with sports and extracurricular activities.
Then ask yourself why they named that school Central? Are they going to give the builders enough land to build houses to build enough for yet another High School?
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