The Glen Oak School controvery is starting to make my head spin.
Ken Hinton put the city’s balls in a vice and now we’re looking to spend $500,000.00 and beg him not to built at the park. Maybe Ken Hinton should’ve asked for more. He might have gotten it.
10 acres? What happened to the stance that the Glen Oak School Site absolutely had to have 15? Did it only require 15 so they could head back over to the park?
What about the homes that have already been bought near the Park? Sell them back? Buy up the rest and expand the park?
“The letter, however, stressed this proposal doesn’t mean the city has the resources to help build the other proposed new schools.”
What if Dist 150’s tax hike has to go to public vote like Blagojevich wants? How’s that going to fly?
Martha Ross says “I’m just looking at what’s best for the Children”. I’m getting tired of someone saying this in nearly every article. I guess it’s their mantra: If you are talking to the press and don’t want to answer the question, just say you want what’s best for the kids, and they’ll go away.
And where is the city getting it’s money? Manning says he’ll get it from other funding resources. It’s probably more common that I’d like to know, but if you go through a process of securing money for a specific project, how right is it to spend it on something else? I’d be a little ticked if I loaned my kids some money to buy books and they decided that they really needed a new video game instead.
This has been going on so long, I don’t know what they could possibly do at this point to recover. Maybe they should just do what they wanted to do in the first place and say the hell with popular opinion, because it’s been blown to bits anyway.
It just seems like everyone’s chain is being yanked, and it’s really starting to get annoying.
I could never be a politician, I just don’t have what it takes.Â
July 16th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Most school districts don’t care what the public wants except enough to get their votes. They’ll still end up doing whatever they want once they get the money as long as they find the legal loopholes to get it done.