Congratulations to Ed Bailey, lately of the QSRE and now a member of the Morrisville School Board, replacing...um...replacing...um...
Wait a minute...when did he get elected? Or appointed? Who is he replacing?
In any event, Ed has provided the LOL Of The Day. We have been warned! Propaganda is effective only when the QSRE/Stop the School people are using it and it is disloyal and unAmerican when used against those same people.
By the way, my algebra skills show that $500,000 over 13 years, considering a student educated from K to 12 in Morrisville comes out to $38,461 per year. Is this the new propaganda based number we should we be using?
I'm also intrigued by Mr Bailey's insistence in infringing my civil rights to speak out.
Considering all options
In the Jan. 12 article, “Mixed reaction to outsourcing idea,” the reporter mistakenly refers to a “proposed transfer plan” for Morrisville High School students. No proposal is under consideration; rather, the school board is researching possible ways of providing quality education while controlling costs.
Our district is currently spending about $500,000 for every student that it graduates. Yet because of our small size, the high school curriculum is necessarily limited.
Perhaps outsourcing is not the solution for our struggling district, but let's get as many options on the table as possible. Every option will have its pros and cons, and whatever we choose, we will have to accept trade-offs. We are already accepting trade-offs even if we are not aware of them; we need to assess our options to find out what opportunities we are missing.
Those of you who supported the K-12 school need to end your propaganda war against the school board if you want your wishes to be considered. If you can only deliver 350 votes, and nothing the school board does can please you, why should they bother?
Ed Bailey
Morrisville school board
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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And he has the nerve to criticize a reporter for making a mistaken reference.
Someone should call the BCCT editorial board and suggest that they check their sources before printing letters from "school board" members. Next thing you know, Worob will be sending in letters claiming he is "King of All Morrisville", and the paper will print that as well.
Maybe Ed believes that if it's in print it must be true. Let's see him take a seat at the table tonight.
the reporter mistakenly refers to a “proposed transfer plan” for Morrisville High School students.
If a school board member calls up someone from another district and suggests a plan to farm out kids, that is a "PROPOSED TRANSFER PLAN". It may not be an APPROVED PROPOSAL, but it never-the-less is a plan, and it has been proposed.
All options are on the table? Really? How about we send the children to prison right out of Kindergarten. It's only $30,000/year to incarcerate (only numbers I could find quickly were from NM, but I have to assume PA would be close enough).
Sure, there is some trade-offs to sending our children to jail in 1st Grade, but we really are making trade-offs right now.
I guess keeping your options open includes:
1. passing a resolution to cap the tax increase at 4.4% and slam the door on requesting any exceptions no matter what circumstances arise;
2. steaming full speed ahead on defeasing $24 million of the $30 million new school bond, leaving only $6 million left to perform renovations that haven't even been studied yet.
Not to mention that their efforts are illegal. I believe it is called arbitrage. Where is counsel on this?
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