How wonderful it is to live in a community that chooses hope over despair!
In the coldest part of winter, you ventured out to say yes, we believe in our children, we believe in our community, and we are willing to bet on, and invest in, a hopeful view of our future.
Let us continue to be involved, and pay attention as the school building project moves forward, so that our voices of hope will be included in the actual construction and use of this facility.
The Pequot Lakes School Board has committed to the idea that the schools belong to, and are there for, the community. They will need our help and input to accomplish this goal.
For my grandchildren, and those who are coming, thank you to the community and parent volunteers who worked so hard to spread the message and to the school district staff and teachers who gave of their time to provide clear and factual information about this project. And thank you to the overwhelming number of district voters who chose hope.
Meg Bye
Pequot Lakes
Comments (14)
Add commentReferendum phase II
Are you ready for the second referendum, shortly to follow? After the building is complete, where is the money going to come from to fund the new spaces? If you don't remember, we have just completed a series of cuts, lay-offs, and non-hires because we didn't have the money to fund what we already had. Can you say Forestview North or better yet, REFERENDUM II: The sequal. Coming to theaters shortly.
Referendum phase 2
Plain jane,you are so right.
That school board does not have a clue about the
real world!!!
I hope ref#2 will be during a nice time of year when
every one can vote!!!!
They will keep asking for more&more&more.
phase 2
If it doesn't pass in the summer, they will just have a do over in the winter!
phase2
Good,something i can plan for every winter!
Response to PlainJane's comment
PlainJane, if you had bothered to attend one of the district's public meetings, you would have heard that the improved facilities themselves will result in opperational efficiency savings that are expected to offset the increased space/personnel costs you are referring to. You should really change your online name to ComplainJane, since all you seem to do is complain and yet offer no valid alternative suggestions.
Response to don146's comment
Don146, every resident DID have the opportunity to vote in this referendum via an absentee ballot if they were not in the area on the day of the vote. If they chose not to vote, that was their own CHOICE.
web3
How do you know that we didn't attend? Just because you spew forth some vague facts and figures doesn't mean that these facts and figures are, in fact, actually the truth, nor are we REQUIRED to BELIEVE that your utterances are the Gospel. Was anyone who attended your meetings suppose to experience a "divine transformation?" Sorry, it didn't do it for me.
VALID ALTERNATIVES? Are you kidding? People, smarter in and on these topics than you or I, put forth solid alternatives long before Eagle Disaster was built.(this was BEFORE vote #1) These alternatives would have served the District's growth needs far into the future. These ideas fell on DEAF EARS. Result: Eagle Disaster is built and a couple of short years later (if not sooner) Eagle View is already in trouble! Exactly what the "other" side had predicted! NOT a wise use of $20 million tax-payer dollars!!!
This and the total destruction of the Democratic Process is why we "Complain." And when they come back for the "operating referendum," you will hear some "REAL" complaining.
But it's nice that you still remember the company line!
Plain Jane
"Eagle Disaster",I love it and how true.33,000,000.00
will make all those little darlings so much smarter.Yes web 3
we will have another push in a year or two,and it will be in
the winter!!!
Response to PlainJane's comment
PlainJane, you seem to be living in the past, since you keep bringing up the building of the elementary school. Wake up to the present situation and go visit the schools to see the CURRENT situation they are in. Things that happened in the past can't be changed, but better choices can be made now. Like how the voters in the past forced the school board to build the elementary school smaller than was necessitated by the growing enrollment reports. So now the voters have made a better choice to fund the facilities that the school district needs to give the children a good education.
Seriously, stop complaining so much and get involved if you have so many pearls of amazing wisdom to share. I certainly haven't heard any wisdom coming rom you in the comments you make on this site and on the Echo's site. And the meetings held by the school district are not my meetings, since I do not work for the school district.
Web3
We study the PAST so that we do NOT continue to make the same STUPID mistakes over and over again. I have NEVER, EVER, said that there wasn't a problem! My (and MANY others) stance is that these people are INCAPABLE of making CORRECT and fiscally prudent decisions that will affect the ENTIRE school district for MANY YEARS to come. HISTORY tells us (and Eagle Disaster proves it) that when you screw up on a project like this, you DO NOT get a "do over." You are stuck with your product.
You MUST work for the District because you totally ignored most of the points of my entry (just like the district does) and addressed only the point that FITS THE "COMPANY LINE." (reference point - "DEAF EARS")
But, then again, you like they, ignore because THEY HAVE NO ANSWERS outside the COMPANY LINE!
Web3
PlainJane,
Very Very Well Put!!
Response to ComplainJane's comment
ComplainJane, I do not work for the Pequot Lakes school district, I have never worked for the school district, and I am not related to anyone else who does work for the school district. I care about education and the children's future, and I believe that a good education will give the children more opportunities in the future than they will have if we let the quality of the school district decline.
Response
No one wants to deny the kids a education but people
are sick of the fluff and frills.It is a version of what is
going on in WISC.The public can not afford any more
and wants education to get back to the basics
including onlt a few nec sports.
It seems these school admins are in a contest for
the biggest and best facilities!!!
The public is sick of monster buildings and fluff!!!
don146
I totally agree!
But that's what they believe. We, the taxpayers, should fall down and write blank checks any time that these administrators deem fit, all in the name of "THE KIDS" and "QUALITY EDUCATION."
And I also agree that each administrator wants his/her name engraved on a new EDUCATIONAL SHRINE. "I BUILT THIS"!!!!!!!! "I AM IMMORTALIZED"!!!!!!!
Are you worshiping the ground they walk on yet?