GRAND FORKS SCHOOLS: Proposal goes to public hearing
January 9, 2012 at 5:03 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The Grand Forks School Board on Monday received preliminary recommendations to keep two underutilized north end elementary schools open and build a new south- end school. Continue Reading
If you go to the GFPS website, click on Jan 9th mtg, click on “Preliminary Report to the School Board” and go to page 12 you’ll see the recommendations for new boundary lines.
I bet the High School and middle school parents would be intersted to find out where their kids will be going.I know my neighbors would like to know that instead of South & Red River they will now be at Valley & Central.
Also disappointed that the ONLY recommendation for elementary was to rearrange kids on the north end while schools on the south end sontinue to bust at the seams in the hopes that the public will approve a new school. Disappointing.
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this is true Threed… Why not bus the children from the south end to the undercrowded northend??? What a grand Idea!!! this might just be too simple of a plan… I do believe the city just wants to spend more money on the newer end of town, while the north end will die a slow death…
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4 QUESTIONS
1. Why is it okay for south end schools like Century and Kelly to cover large geographic areas but its not okay to make consolidations in the north to do the same thing?
2. Why build another school when the problem could be solved by adjusting the boundaries and utilizing existing facilities?
3. How can we afford to build and run another school while at the same time funding schools that have less than 10 kids to a classroom?
4. Where has commonsense and fiscal responsibility gone?
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Make sure to point the blame in the correct direction cathy. When you say “the city” you actually mean the GF School Board. They pose the majority of the property taxes in Grand Forks, and as areavoice1 notes, have completely lost all common sense and fiscal responsibility.
Anyone ask the school board what happened to the state money they received to help reduce local property taxes? Well, you know they spent at least $23 million of it building new theaters at Central and Red River. That money would have come in handy to build a new school…
So, to recap:
School board can’t make any difficult decision.
School board and school administration appoint (hand pick) an “independent” citizens group which has their like-thinking.
Independent group recommends not closing any schools and to build a new one.
School board can tell citizens of GF they listened to the public and did what they were asked.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck….
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Pretty obvious that we need fresh blood in the School Board. The boneheads currently in office clearly don’t have any respect for tax money; and therefore have no respect for the citizens that provide the tax money.
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