Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Not quite right...

Athletic facilities are NOT eligible for OSFC funding.

The stadium at Ridgeview has been there for how many years? When my kids went to PHS, they never complained about their sports being played on a field that was not on the high school grounds. They loved the setting and the energy they felt from the home crowd. Baseball and softball and tennis have their facilities on the grounds at Central, but I never heard one complaint about having to go down the street to the stadium. It's a non-issue, except when someone feels they need to complain. Did you want North's stadium to be built a half-mile away so the two schools' stadiums would be ''equal''?

Chillicothe (at least several years ago this was still the case) has their football stadium behind an elementary school, nowhere close to the high school, unless they have recently built a new one.
I think a similar situation might still exist in Zanesville.

I pity those poor neglected Ohio State football players who have to travel from the athletic facility to Ohio Stadium on buses for their games.

Central is getting new bleachers, lights, a press box and a sound system. It is called an upgrade. No, it will not be equal to North, but it will be a lot better for players and spectators alike. I attend events at both schools, and the facilities will never be exactly the same unless you rebuild Central exactly like North. Talk to Mr. Kemper and see how excited he is about what they have going on at Central on BOTH the educational side as well as the extra-curricular side.





By Observer

Must be a very new observer

You can tell yourself all you want that this Ridgeview stadium is a ''non-issue.'' You can also say you have ''never heard one complaint'' but there are people complaining and they are more than likely voting against your school levy.

You folks also claim the only ones complaining are the adults. Then either you do not have teenagers or you live a very isolated life. In any event unless the school board addresses some of the inequities and the lies that prompted them to build the Taj Mahal then I fully expect these levies to continue to fall.

You can be smug and you can be arrogant and talk down to the district no voters but what you can't do is get a damn levy passed with your attitude.

By Listener

Should have clarified

I should have added the qualifier that I did not hear the complaints ''during the time my kids were in high school'', a period covering about 8 years for all of them. I never said the complaints weren't current. I do talk to many kids at both schools, and the stadium situation isn't high on their lists.



By Observer

The Art of Listening

I see Observer mentions that she talks to students at both High Schools and she hears no complaints.

Maybe if more people listened to the other party in a real conversation we would understand each other's position.

For the last couple of school levies we have had crushing defeats for the school. Yet everywhere I go I hear and listen to people that are the core group that NORMALLY support a levy express doubt that they will ever support another one. Apparently there is enough discontent in the community and that discontent is being shown to the school board in the form of levy defeats of 2 to 1. Apparently someone out there is not happy.

The school board ignores the ballot results and continues to shove the same old crap down the voters throat. I heard a few days ago that Lori Sander and Lisa Reade are blocking some parents emails from their computers because they don't want to hear any bad news. Maybe that might give us all a hint why our board members don't hear the complaints.

Here again the board is depending on the extortion factor and holding your child up in front of their demands in exchange for educating your child and no where in that plan are the taxpayers ever considered. They will simply wear you all down.



By Listener