School Bonds
Feb. 4th, 2009 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielThis originally started out as an e-mail to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ginnith, but partway through I thought, hey, livejournal.
While I was at the library today, the latest ML paper was delivered. On the front page it says, "Royal City rejects bonds." At the preliminary count, they lost. Which means that the bond committee will have to look at the situation again and figure out what their options are.
It also means that 1) people don't want to pay more taxes (a fact that is not surprising to anyone), 2) people let their opinion of the superintendent cloud their judgment, and 3) the future of the children could be screwed.
I'm a bit annoyed. People kept getting stuck on the fact that the admin building would be redone. That was only a small percent of the project. Instead, they let the fact that they do not like the current administration move their focus from the big picture - improving the school and providing for current and future students - the small one.
At last night's city council meeting, the mayor said that we tend to not look past the one or two year future mark. We don't think about or like to think about what our plans now could mean 20 years down the road. (Which occurs to me now is maybe something to be worried about coming from a mayor.) What I see in this situation is people only focusing on the things they dislike now and forgetting that this superintendent won't always be a part of the district, but there will always be students at the schools. And if the town continues to grow, there are going to be more and more. Where on earth are they going to go in a building that became too small really quite rapidly? And how on earth is anything supposed to get done if no one will set aside personal dislike and take a look at the big picture?
ginnith, but partway through I thought, hey, livejournal.While I was at the library today, the latest ML paper was delivered. On the front page it says, "Royal City rejects bonds." At the preliminary count, they lost. Which means that the bond committee will have to look at the situation again and figure out what their options are.
It also means that 1) people don't want to pay more taxes (a fact that is not surprising to anyone), 2) people let their opinion of the superintendent cloud their judgment, and 3) the future of the children could be screwed.
I'm a bit annoyed. People kept getting stuck on the fact that the admin building would be redone. That was only a small percent of the project. Instead, they let the fact that they do not like the current administration move their focus from the big picture - improving the school and providing for current and future students - the small one.
At last night's city council meeting, the mayor said that we tend to not look past the one or two year future mark. We don't think about or like to think about what our plans now could mean 20 years down the road. (Which occurs to me now is maybe something to be worried about coming from a mayor.) What I see in this situation is people only focusing on the things they dislike now and forgetting that this superintendent won't always be a part of the district, but there will always be students at the schools. And if the town continues to grow, there are going to be more and more. Where on earth are they going to go in a building that became too small really quite rapidly? And how on earth is anything supposed to get done if no one will set aside personal dislike and take a look at the big picture?
