Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Don't Agree

I appreciate the comments I have read here, but I don't feel the same way and my kids will go to Central next year.

I have girls and that may be the difference. I am sending my kids to school to get an education not an athletic scholarship. I don't think the Central football stadium is a problem and can't imagine spending two million dollars to move it a block.

I also don't want to pay to brick the outside of Central - that's the biggest difference between the two schools. Once you are inside the difference is much less apparent. Personally I appreciate the technology at Ridgeview and Central that was put in last year that has LCD prrojectors in all the rooms and a 50'' horizontal screen for all of the kids to use. And this isn't at North and Lakeview for those of you keeping score.

Year round school only increases your seats by one third & won't last very long. There are over 700 kids in trailers now, so building one school solves to the immediate problem but allows no room for the continued growing population. So we buld one school and tell the school board they can't plan because it's full with portables before it opens?

Smaller square footage schools are an option if the community wants to take the chance to get no OSFC funding, but a school can't be built for $7.5 M (at least one to hold as many kids as we need) So the risk is you build schools for less dollars & when OSFC funding is available you still have to raise the local portion first - which wouldn't count any of the smaller schools. I don't think our tax base is one that makes this a good option. I think the school or schools that are built should meet the criteria so down the road we can get state money - we sure aren't going to get it from businesses!

By Central Parent

You're in the minority

Central Parent,

Congratulations for doing the right thing. However you are in the minority of Pickerington parents. You want your kids to get an education while most want professional sports players. If you are not involved in the sports programs yet but may be you will see. All three of mine are and I can tell you that pro sports is more the rule than the exception. I read somewhere back in this forum the term ''La Cosa Boostra''. What an absolutely perfect posting that was. In trying to come to terms with what my kids have expereinced in Pick sports, that summed it up.

Hang in there and I hope your girls get a great education! I am still voting NO.

PLSD Board is not even trying

Dear Central Parent

What you are demonstrating is a severe case of tunnel vision.

You complain that the district has over 700 student attending school in portable classrooms. I believe if my count is correct this November will be the fourth time the board has presented the exact same plan to the voters and they have rejected it 2 to 1.

Do any of you feel the least bit concerned or some obligation on the board's part to listen to the very people that they are expecting to fund these schools?

You people aren?’t even trying.

I suppose when we reach say 1000 students in portables and split sessions the voters will consider under duress to approve another school levy bond issue.

I am not a psychic nor can I predict the future in any why, but clearly the current proposal before the voters is not working. The decision to build a modest football stadium and track in not really the board?’s decision or your decision. It is in the end the voter?’s decision.

Why in the hell are you people so afraid to allow the voters to make that decision?

Interesting concept

That's an interesting concept. Are you saying you'd support the educational space needed as long as they throw in a football stadium & track for Central?

Will a modest one be enough? Good lord - I hardly think it's my priorities that are screwed up here.

Where will this stadium sit & where will the teams it displaces practice? Be specific. I think you would need a unified petition with lots of parents from lots of sports signing before I'd believe that's what the community wants. I bet the soccer parents have a different twist since I'm betting it would sit on their fields.

What public steps are you willing to take to get this dream field to be a reality?



By Central Parent