They're closing Pathfinder!?
Apr. 21st, 2005 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSomehow, our last superintendent of public education managed to pull an Enron of a sorts and now our school district finds itself no longer flush with cash but instead $22 million dollars in debt. This is not a good thing. The school district is looking to pay this debt off over a ten-year period by closing down schools. We got the list today. One of those schools is Pathfinder, where Yamaarashi-chan attends.
This sorta pisses me off. Although it was unlikely that Yamaarashi-chan was going to be attending there one way or the other in the coming season, Pathfinder was a really good school. I thought the principle was doing a phenomenal job at what must be the world's most thankless position. Along with attentive parents who want the best for their kids, he's got apathetic parents and busybody parents (those who want what's best for other people's kids), he's got the legislature on another side, and the school union on a third.
Yamaarashi-chan is going to be disappointed either way. I hope the principal lands on his feet; he was one of the good guys.
[Edit: This is the proposed budget, but most of the school council seem to think it's mostly a done deal. Still, there's a chance it won't go through completely, and Pathfinder will be spared. I wouldn't hold my breath.]
Odin! Between this, the recent rejection by the state Senate of gay rights legislation, and the three-cent gas tax increase, it's a crappy year all around for the local legislature.
[Edit 2: Pathfinder is a done deal. The most skeptical of school closings member of the school board agrees that the Pathfinder project "should be shut down or moved." Suck!]
This sorta pisses me off. Although it was unlikely that Yamaarashi-chan was going to be attending there one way or the other in the coming season, Pathfinder was a really good school. I thought the principle was doing a phenomenal job at what must be the world's most thankless position. Along with attentive parents who want the best for their kids, he's got apathetic parents and busybody parents (those who want what's best for other people's kids), he's got the legislature on another side, and the school union on a third.
Yamaarashi-chan is going to be disappointed either way. I hope the principal lands on his feet; he was one of the good guys.
[Edit: This is the proposed budget, but most of the school council seem to think it's mostly a done deal. Still, there's a chance it won't go through completely, and Pathfinder will be spared. I wouldn't hold my breath.]
Odin! Between this, the recent rejection by the state Senate of gay rights legislation, and the three-cent gas tax increase, it's a crappy year all around for the local legislature.
[Edit 2: Pathfinder is a done deal. The most skeptical of school closings member of the school board agrees that the Pathfinder project "should be shut down or moved." Suck!]
