Tookie
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Post by Tookie on Apr 9, 2007 12:40:21 GMT -5
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Copperhead
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Post by Copperhead on Apr 9, 2007 12:42:34 GMT -5
Time for regime change at the school board, ya think?
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 9, 2007 12:47:50 GMT -5
Sounds like what almost happened here:
All funding for sports was cut.
Volunteers came up with the money for a new football field.
A local yard person offered to sod it and care for it completely and guarantee it for 5 years for a very good price.
The bureaucrats in Soldotna "weren't sure that we could accept that because...", then proceeded to list things such as liability if this established man went out of business, and how unfair it was that the other sports couldn't raise this much money, etc.
We got noisy and got our way.
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Post by voxpopuli on Apr 9, 2007 15:48:36 GMT -5
Is there truly anyone surprised about this? Is there anyone really surprised at the huge numbers of parents who live paycheck to paycheck, work second jobs and sacrifice their own pleasures to pay the bills on private schooling just so their children have a chance at getting a real education?
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Post by Kordax on Apr 9, 2007 17:21:04 GMT -5
Time for regime change at the school board, ya think?
It's WAY past time to cleanse the board of some of its personnel. Add to that educrats' penchant for officious, incompetent bureaucracy & compare the public skool approach to the privates (Bright School in this case) -- there's a night & day object lesson even most public skool grads are capable of appreciating ....
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Apr 9, 2007 22:33:26 GMT -5
Tennessee isn't known for their public schools, are they?..
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 9, 2007 23:09:55 GMT -5
They're famous for them.
Or, is that infamous?
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Post by joedog on Apr 10, 2007 7:19:53 GMT -5
sounds like deja vu to me. except there is no $500k involved this time.
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Post by gridbug on Apr 10, 2007 7:37:39 GMT -5
> Tennessee isn't known for their public schools, are they?..
ROFLMAO!!!
Luckily I was just wrapping up my schooling when I moved here. If they didn't have football I doubt they'd bother with schools in TN...
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Apr 10, 2007 16:47:37 GMT -5
Ack! Who knows where the money's going to come from for private schooling for my lil' one then... As a prior thread shows....the chattanooga job market sux ballocks  |
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 10, 2007 21:06:12 GMT -5
The school here is good, and so is the income.
We have an opening right now.
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Post by Jay on Apr 11, 2007 20:04:01 GMT -5
Too far, too cold, too dark, heh  |
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 11, 2007 21:10:30 GMT -5
Too dark?
We have a lot more daylight than dark right now, and in a couple of months, it won't get dark at all.
Far? Yeah.
Cold? Relative.
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Apr 11, 2007 21:24:38 GMT -5
About the dark...I was speaking more of the winters than the summers |
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Post by joedog on Apr 11, 2007 23:09:45 GMT -5
near 24 hours of darkness??
I would never get any sleep......
Think about it......
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 12, 2007 1:13:05 GMT -5
Ironically, my wife does better in the winter than the summer. One of the things that you're supposed to be careful of is depression in the winter. Not her! She can sleep and sleep and sleep. She likes that. But, the summer, when I thrive because of all the daylight, she can't sleep. I can keep going and going as long as it's daylight.
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Jay
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Post by Jay on Apr 12, 2007 17:13:39 GMT -5
I'm a night person....but I still don't think I could get used to it being dark all the time... In the winter, when I have to wake up early and it's still dark.......I feel like it's too early and want to go back to bed..
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