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Thursday, January 17, 2008

The People Are Ticked!

Today I thought I would share the contents of the mailbag with everyone. Many people blind copied me on letters that were sent to the board members, the superintendent, and the Courier Times. A few did grant permission to publish excepts here and I appreciate their openness.

It appears that the people of Morrisville are generally cranky about this rather bizarre and underhanded desperation move by the Stop the School board members. Stop the School didn't mean Close the School.

Just a reminder: the next meeting is in the MHS LGI room on January 23, 2008 at 7:30 P.M. However, my Crystal Ball tells me a larger venue will be needed.

On to the mailbag...

Letter 1: I am firmly and vigorously against your plan to "Farm Out" our students to Conwell-Egan or to any religious based school. Any tax payer dollars going to a religious based institution is a violation of the US Constitution.

I am a Roman Catholic, a taxpayer, and a parent; but I am an American first, and I believe that this scheme is nothing but an attempt to starve the Morrisville School District out of existence.

Letter 2: Oh and this point: We are the candidates that pledge to work together with the parents and residents, in an open and honest partnership in the best interest of our children’s education. Where was the working together with parents and residents when deciding to farm out the children? Perhaps PLEDGE means something different to me….again I must check the dictionary. While I am at it, I will look up OPEN and HONEST as well.

With your help we pledge:

to provide a quality education for our children. By making the students share books?
a curriculum that will enable our children to achieve proficiency on the PSSA tests and academic excellence.
state of the art technology for grades K through 12. Will we be busing the state of the art technology with the 9th-12th graders? We made need a bigger bus!
a financial management plan to assure every possible dollar goes into educational programs and materials and stops waste. Again, by sharing books?

Letter 3: I have not bought a home in Morrisville to take advantage of the small school system only to see my children bused ridiculous distances to a school where they will be outcasts.

I admit that removing high school students from the mix is certainly a novel way to raise the test scores in 11th grade.

Brainstorming is a wonderful tool. It exposes the stupid ideas rather quickly. Publicly, quickly, now, expose this stupid idea and abandon it.