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Post by doctorwho on Feb 14, 2010 17:43:57 GMT -6
The message is up at Neuqua as well. I heard, from a 204 teacher, that all the schools were asked to put it on their signs. Some of the HS teachers were talking about it to students and already telling kids what's going to be cut. The teachers seem to want the kids to cry and the parents to panic. This is a result of either, A: what we got for our $17,000 check to the referendum consultant whose only goal is to pass referedums. ( of course we told the paper we haven't discussed a ref yet --) B: direction from the lack of leadership team as to how they want this to go down Either way it shows just how far we have fallen on the moral compass from even 10 years ago as a SD.... it's very sad. Somehow they confuse fear mongering with leadership. |
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Post by refbasics on Feb 15, 2010 14:34:40 GMT -6
The message is up at Neuqua as well. I heard, from a 204 teacher, that all the schools were asked to put it on their signs. Some of the HS teachers were talking about it to students and already telling kids what's going to be cut. The teachers seem to want the kids to cry and the parents to panic. ------------------------------------------------- i guess i will have to have the 'talk' with my 2 kids about how things are different now....the 'go-go' (fake) economy is gone... it is NICE to have certain things at your school but they COST $$$.. and are paid for by the taxpayer... and even by taxpayers who don't have kids in the school system! lots of people have lost jobs or have become underemployed(therefore no tax $$$) .... kids should NEVER be involved, or co-opted into school funding issues...  |
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Post by casey on Feb 15, 2010 16:09:14 GMT -6
Here's from today's Daily Herald: dailyherald.com/story/?id=359299Dist. 204 hopes signs shame state into paying debtBy Justin Kmitch | Daily Herald StaffContact writer Signs like this one highlighting the state's debt have popped up at all Indian Prairie Unit District 204 schools. Christie Willhite | Daily Herald Staff Indian Prairie Unit District 204 hopes a little shame goes a long way toward making the state pay its growing debt. Every sign at each of the district's 33 schools now tells anyone who passes by "The state of Illinois owes District 204 $7.8 million." The $7.8 million was due to the district by the end of the 2009 calendar year, and officials believe the state's $13 billion debt will force the legislature to further reduce payments to individual school districts. For Indian Prairie, the estimated $500 to $700 reduction per student will result in $14 million to $20 million in additional budget cuts, which Superintendent Kathryn Birkett said likely will result in program cuts and the release of some nontenured teachers. "I've asked every school to add this to their signs because I think it's important that our community knows the state is now $7.8 million in arrears to us," Birkett said. "Every parent, every citizen, needs to know that." State representatives who serve the district - which covers portions of Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook and Plainfield - say they recognize the effort to let residents know the reason for the budget crunch. "I'm OK with their signs and I like that they're engaged in the political process, but we're asking them to sit tight until we have the cash flow to write those checks," Naperville Republican Rep. Darlene Senger said Friday. "They can keep the signs up as long as they think they need to, but the money is on its way." School board member Dawn DeSart, a Democrat who will challenge Senger for state representative in November's general election, said she has been asking Birkett to put the signs up for weeks. "The state owes us that money and people need to know that," DeSart said. "I was chosen by the voters to sit on the school board and that's my top priority. The state needs to take care of our kids and our schools." Democrat Rep. Linda Chapa La Via of Aurora chairs the House Appropriations Committee for elementary and secondary education; she hopes the signs don't give the wrong message. "I get why they feel the need for the signs, but I'm afraid it makes us look like we don't want to give them the money," Chapa La Via said. "We'd love to be in a situation to give it to them, but we can't give what we don't have." So she offered an alternative. "The other side of those signs should be telling people to call their legislators and demand that we work together to get this crisis fixed before we get into a hole we can't get out of." |
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Post by casey on Feb 15, 2010 16:16:43 GMT -6
So she offered an alternative. "The other side of those signs should be telling people to call their legislators and demand that we work together to get this crisis fixed before we get into a hole we can't get out of." Nope. People should be calling the SB and SD and demand we work together to get this crisis fixed. Quit blaming someone else, Kathy Birkett. It is not the state that put us in this position and YOU know it! |
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Post by casey on Feb 15, 2010 16:20:00 GMT -6
"The state owes us that money and people need to know that," DeSart said. " I was chosen by the voters to sit on the school board and that's my top priority. The state needs to take care of our kids and our schools." You weren't chosen by THIS voter! That's for darn sure. Also, I find it ironic that she points out she was chosen to sit on the school board. Yeah, only until she decided to try to run against Darlene Senger for a representative seat. |
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Post by brant on Feb 15, 2010 20:46:45 GMT -6
Why is DD still on the board? She obviously has no interest in the SD since politics was apparently her one and only goal. If she cared about the district then she would have stepped down when she announced her intention to work for Madigan instead. Just another case of a SB member putting his/her needs before the kids.
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Post by doctorwho on Feb 16, 2010 6:33:33 GMT -6
Why is DD still on the board? She obviously has no interest in the SD since politics was apparently her one and only goal. If she cared about the district then she would have stepped down when she announced her intention to work for Madigan instead. Just another case of a SB member putting his/her needs before the kids. Gee, you don't think she could be motivated to put those signs up in Darlene Senger's area for personal political gain now do you?  -- of course only in Illinois could a Democrat attack a totally Democratic run state government and then have it try and reflect on the GOP Again I find these signs at best political showboating- at worst pandering to the emotions of children to upset them ( and hopefully their parents) so that our 'poor' mistreated SD can pass the next referendum. What other reason to put them up on ES's ? Are they going to explain the budget crisis to a 6 year old ? There is no bottom to the moral well in 204. |
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Post by Arch on Feb 16, 2010 7:10:35 GMT -6
Well, everyone else will just have to take one for the team then... and sit down and shut up.
That is what we were told... we took one... time for them to take one too.
Of course, they'll cut everything else first EXCEPT sports... which is the 204 good ole boy network that is the exception to "no exceptions"... because they're not going to want to let that shiny new stadium sit idle... or honk off the coaches that worked so hard to make sure the trauma was minimized for some players who just had to stay at NV.
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Post by doctorwho on Feb 16, 2010 7:40:56 GMT -6
Well, everyone else will just have to take one for the team then... and sit down and shut up. That is what we were told... we took one... time for them to take one too. Of course, they'll cut everything else first EXCEPT sports... which is the 204 good ole boy network that is the exception to "no exceptions"... because they're not going to want to let that shiny new stadium sit idle... or honk off the coaches that worked so hard to make sure the trauma was minimized for some players who just had to stay at NV. You might lose some B teams - but likely that's it..you mean every district crying poor has not installed field turf ? that will play well in the fall --" come see our new $150M high school- and look at that excellent field turf ! We're broke you know ? " |
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Post by Arch on Feb 16, 2010 8:06:41 GMT -6
Well, everyone else will just have to take one for the team then... and sit down and shut up. That is what we were told... we took one... time for them to take one too. Of course, they'll cut everything else first EXCEPT sports... which is the 204 good ole boy network that is the exception to "no exceptions"... because they're not going to want to let that shiny new stadium sit idle... or honk off the coaches that worked so hard to make sure the trauma was minimized for some players who just had to stay at NV. You might lose some B teams - but likely that's it..you mean every district crying poor has not installed field turf ? that will play well in the fall --" come see our new $150M high school- and look at that excellent field turf ! We're broke you know ? " And it's all the State's fault... SO make sure you elect Dawn DeSart so the Democrats can have even more people in Springfield to ensure the state stays broke since they are the ones that drove us there to begin with... Makes perfect sense. |
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Post by brant on Feb 16, 2010 9:38:19 GMT -6
Well, everyone else will just have to take one for the team then... and sit down and shut up. That is what we were told... we took one... time for them to take one too. Of course, they'll cut everything else first EXCEPT sports... which is the 204 good ole boy network that is the exception to "no exceptions"... because they're not going to want to let that shiny new stadium sit idle... or honk off the coaches that worked so hard to make sure the trauma was minimized for some players who just had to stay at NV. You might lose some B teams - but likely that's it..you mean every district crying poor has not installed field turf ? that will play well in the fall --" come see our new $150M high school- and look at that excellent field turf ! We're broke you know ? " I remember during the Gregory incident a large group of parents at the SB meeting wanted to hear what the SB was going to do about it and instead was treated to a rambling report about how great the new astro turf was coming at MVs stadium was coming along of which the SB was more interested in. The Springbrook PTA president really called them on it. Shows where their priorities are. |
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Post by doctorwho on Feb 16, 2010 11:17:23 GMT -6
You might lose some B teams - but likely that's it..you mean every district crying poor has not installed field turf ? that will play well in the fall --" come see our new $150M high school- and look at that excellent field turf ! We're broke you know ? " I remember during the Gregory incident a large group of parents at the SB meeting wanted to hear what the SB was going to do about it and instead was treated to a rambling report about how great the new astro turf was coming at MVs stadium was coming along of which the SB was more interested in. The Springbrook PTA president really called them on it. Shows where their priorities are. you made the crucial mistake of believing that the SB was here to serve the people of the district-- |
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Post by EagleDad on Feb 16, 2010 13:25:27 GMT -6
What's next - "Vote for Dawn Desart for Representative" signs on the front of the school or in your kid's take home folder?
She's using our school signage for a political message, and to promote herself, plain and simple, and Birkett is mandating it.
I don't care for it one bit, and feel it's totally inappropriate, not to mention low class.
I am definitely voting for Senger.
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Post by brant on Feb 16, 2010 13:26:00 GMT -6
I remember during the Gregory incident a large group of parents at the SB meeting wanted to hear what the SB was going to do about it and instead was treated to a rambling report about how great the new astro turf was coming at MVs stadium was coming along of which the SB was more interested in. The Springbrook PTA president really called them on it. Shows where their priorities are. you made the crucial mistake of believing that the SB was here to serve the people of the district-- Yeah aren't I the sucker. Most SBs are here to serve the people of the district. Not these clowns. Petty partisan politics is the rule here. |
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Post by brant on Feb 16, 2010 13:37:39 GMT -6
I remember when DeSart was running for the SB. She made the comment that WV is an "old, old, school". I thought it was a rather odd thing to say since most of the schools in the suburbs and city are older. Now that I think about it there must have been something political in what she was saying. Like closing down the school she graduated from? I think she would crawl on her knees in the gutter to get what she wants. (Sorry for my crudeness)
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