District 204 growth slows

[blankcheck]

I'm not talking about the Suns polls. I'm talking about others from around the district who have many of the same concerns that some people have on this board. One person can also pose as different people on this board as well.

[Arch]

blankcheck said:

I'm not talking about the Suns polls. I'm talking about others from around the district who have many of the same concerns that some people have on this board. One person can also pose as different people on this board as well.

The difference is when those are discovered and if they are done in a way that is an attempt to represent more than one person, they are banned here

I don't believe the sun takes any such action to discover nor even cares about multiple misrepresentations from the same source.

[warriorpride]

archwinsome said:

blankcheck said:

I'm not talking about the Suns polls. I'm talking about others from around the district who have many of the same concerns that some people have on this board. One person can also pose as different people on this board as well.

The difference is when those are discovered and if they are done in a way that is an attempt to represent more than one person, they are banned here

I don't believe the sun takes any such action to discover nor even cares about multiple misrepresentations from the same source.

The Sun sure don't seem to care about the same 4-5 people flooding the LTEs with the same drivel.

[Arch]

Touche'

[blankcheck]

If that is how you feel - that these 4-5 people flood the paper with drivel, you can always write in yourself to let your thoughts be known.

[Arch]

blankcheck said:

If that is how you feel - that these 4-5 people flood the paper with drivel, you can always write in yourself to let your thoughts be known.

There's that and about 2,000 other ways to let one's thought be known.

[slp]

archwinsome said:

blankcheck said:

If that is how you feel - that these 4-5 people flood the paper with drivel, you can always write in yourself to let your thoughts be known.

There's that and about 2,000 other ways to let one's thought be known.

blankcheck, good point but I observe that while many others send in LTEs which go unpublished, the papers continue to publish LTE's from the same group of 4-5 people.

That doesn't seem right in my view.

[warriorpride]

blankcheck said:

If that is how you feel - that these 4-5 people flood the paper with drivel, you can always write in yourself to let your thoughts be known.

Thanks for letting me know what I can do. I find LTE's to be 95+% complaints. I honestly don't have much to complain about.

[d204mom]

d204mom said:

blankcheck said:

I have made other comments aside from just the stock photo. My point is that it was a SALES job on the 204 voters by a very clever 204 PAC committee (along with the help of a marketing firm or at least members of the 204 committee were). They pulled at the heartstrings of the voters with overcrowding, 10,000+ enrollment figures, etc. The enrollment figures speak for themselves. Since 2005, we have been on the decline as far as elementary student enrollment goes. You all do not want to admit that but look at the figures. Since 2005, we are down by 286 students.
So lets see - enrollment down, land price out of sight - ??

Hey blankcheck -
I was reading the archives and finally found the marketing firm you keep refering to.

It's not a marketing firm, it's a firm called Community Opinion.
www.communityopinion.com/news_new.html

They did a phone survey to determine why the first ref didn't pass. It is unclear if they gave any advice on how to pass the referendum, but this little article was interesting:
www.communityopinion.com/news_CCTimes.html

"Or it offers Machiavellian tips on how to manipulate voters. It all depends on who's doing the reading -- parents and educators or taxpayer associations, who recoil at the very notion of professionally run school financing campaigns."

Anyway, I thought it was interesting that D204 agreed to allow this company to reference our survey on their website when they seem to be a little controversial regarding voter manipulation. It just looks bad by association, even if this company didn't plan the pre-election strategy. Like I said, Vickers claimed they did but who knows?

[d204mom]

HEY speaking of Naper Sun polls, Metea Valley won the poll for biggest story of 2008! We are winners!

Readers predict Metea Valley will be biggest story of 2008.

January 6, 2008Sun staff
Almost half the napersun.com readers who participated in an unscientific online poll say they expect that District 204's plans to build Metea Valley High School will be the news story with the biggest impact on the city in the new year.

The board of Indian Prairie School District 204 has been debating where to build Metea since a jury determined the Brach-Brodie property would cost almost $31 million, double what the district had planned to pay for the land.

Forty-nine percent of those who voted picked the Metea Valley story.

An additional 25 percent of voters chose the civil rights lawsuit that Councilman Richard Furstenau has filed against the city of Naperville. The other stories on the poll were: the search for a new city manager, Edward/Plainfield hospital and School District 203's facilities referendum.

The unscientific poll began Dec. 31 and ran until Friday afternoon. The poll asked, "What do you see as the biggest story to impact Naperville in 2008?" It received 443 votes.




It's time to leave our losing ways .... BEHIND us!

[Arch]

Another runner up was also "How many days a week must my handbag match my dog's sweater?"

Film at 11.

[wvhsparent]

d204mom said:

HEY speaking of Naper Sun polls, Metea Valley won the poll for biggest story of 2008! We are winners!

Readers predict Metea Valley will be biggest story of 2008.

January 6, 2008Sun staff
Almost half the napersun.com readers who participated in an unscientific online poll say they expect that District 204's plans to build Metea Valley High School will be the news story with the biggest impact on the city in the new year.

The board of Indian Prairie School District 204 has been debating where to build Metea since a jury determined the Brach-Brodie property would cost almost $31 million, double what the district had planned to pay for the land.

Forty-nine percent of those who voted picked the Metea Valley story.

An additional 25 percent of voters chose the civil rights lawsuit that Councilman Richard Furstenau has filed against the city of Naperville. The other stories on the poll were: the search for a new city manager, Edward/Plainfield hospital and School District 203's facilities referendum.

The unscientific poll began Dec. 31 and ran until Friday afternoon. The poll asked, "What do you see as the biggest story to impact Naperville in 2008?" It received 443 votes.

Funny thing is most of the sites are not even in the City of Naperville.......

[d204mom]

wvhsparent said:

d204mom said:

HEY speaking of Naper Sun polls, Metea Valley won the poll for biggest story of 2008! We are winners!

Readers predict Metea Valley will be biggest story of 2008.

January 6, 2008Sun staff
Almost half the napersun.com readers who participated in an unscientific online poll say they expect that District 204's plans to build Metea Valley High School will be the news story with the biggest impact on the city in the new year.

The board of Indian Prairie School District 204 has been debating where to build Metea since a jury determined the Brach-Brodie property would cost almost $31 million, double what the district had planned to pay for the land.

Forty-nine percent of those who voted picked the Metea Valley story.

An additional 25 percent of voters chose the civil rights lawsuit that Councilman Richard Furstenau has filed against the city of Naperville. The other stories on the poll were: the search for a new city manager, Edward/Plainfield hospital and School District 203's facilities referendum.

The unscientific poll began Dec. 31 and ran until Friday afternoon. The poll asked, "What do you see as the biggest story to impact Naperville in 2008?" It received 443 votes.

Funny thing is most of the sites are not even in the City of Naperville.......

I tire of the Naperville bashing. If you prefer to get your D204 news from the Aurora paper feel free to ignore these posts.

It is ridiculous to suggest that the location of Metea Valley is not of interest to Naperville residents.

[gatormom]

d204mom said:

wvhsparent said:

Funny thing is most of the sites are not even in the City of Naperville.......

I tire of the Naperville bashing. If you prefer to get your D204 news from the Aurora paper feel free to ignore these posts.

It is ridiculous to suggest that the location of Metea Valley is not of interest to Naperville residents.

Didn't sound like a bash to me or even a suggestion that the location does not matter to Naperville residents. Seemed like a comment and nothing more.

By the way, the Beacon which covers Aurora does a terrible job of reporting on 204. Those of us in Aurora really have no choice but to read the Sun for news about the district.

[doctorwho]

wvhsparent said:

d204mom said:

HEY speaking of Naper Sun polls, Metea Valley won the poll for biggest story of 2008! We are winners!

Readers predict Metea Valley will be biggest story of 2008.

January 6, 2008Sun staff
Almost half the napersun.com readers who participated in an unscientific online poll say they expect that District 204's plans to build Metea Valley High School will be the news story with the biggest impact on the city in the new year.

The board of Indian Prairie School District 204 has been debating where to build Metea since a jury determined the Brach-Brodie property would cost almost $31 million, double what the district had planned to pay for the land.

Forty-nine percent of those who voted picked the Metea Valley story.

An additional 25 percent of voters chose the civil rights lawsuit that Councilman Richard Furstenau has filed against the city of Naperville. The other stories on the poll were: the search for a new city manager, Edward/Plainfield hospital and School District 203's facilities referendum.

The unscientific poll began Dec. 31 and ran until Friday afternoon. The poll asked, "What do you see as the biggest story to impact Naperville in 2008?" It received 443 votes.

Funny thing is most of the sites are not even in the City of Naperville.......

I don't think whether the site is in Naperville matters nearly as much as how many Naperville residents ( which by name alone the Sun is supposed to represent) it affects, directly or indirectly depending on site selection. The gross number of Naperville students in 204 vs the number in 203 is not all that different.

Someone has to cover what goes on in 204-- I admit from just watching the coverage when my oldest was in WVHS- I couldn't believe that the Beacon just seemed to ignore 204 much of the time. And the Herald - inconsistent at best.