If it should come to pass that these people continue to plague the East Sac County School board with their ignorant proclamations of unfairness, please let all of the people in the rest of the district outside of Sac City, Iowa know that these people do not represent how most of us, (particularly those of us with children,) feel. We want a good school and are not vain about where it is physically located. Please don't let yourselves be drawn into this town vs. town fight that the Sac City Indians are trying to pick with you.
I would also like to take this opportunity to appeal to future school board candidates. Hopefully in this fall's election, in which Chris Rodman's seat is up for grabs, there will be no campaigns of the sort that saw Shirley Phillips come to office. Hopefully all candidates will openly run for office and announce those candidacies far enough in advance for the public to have the opportunity to fully wrap their minds properly around what those candidates stand for.
East Sac County School does not need another four years of Sac City people hating Lake View people over settled issues. What it does need is leaders whose only concern is providing to the people of this district an excellent school.
Besides, since Shirley and her cronies on the Highway 20 Association have seen fit to provide our town with a bypass, Sac City will surely grow
Curtis Bloes, Editor
Wow Curtis you are so wrong...when the school board made the decision to whole grade share Shirley wasn't even on the school board. That board rolled over and let WLVA dictate everything, even though the public spoke out against it. If blame needs to be put anywhere it is on that board. By the way Sac City is the only county seat in the state that does not have the high school in their town. Sac City has enough room in the grade school and middle school to accommodate all the students in the district k-12. Why not do that and close down the others schools in the district? At one time Sac Community schools had 900+ students sounds like no-brainer to me especially when it comes tax dollars, plus your getting rid of 2 money pit buildings in Lake View and Wall Lake. See how the people of those two towns would feel about that? People in Sac City feel the same way they would right now. Just like your request from Brotherton to turn over emails (how is that working for you)? Kinda tells you how up in up they are doesn't it. What else are they hiding? Sac City needs representation on the board that will have the best interest Sac City like Shirley does. I hope she does run for the position!!!!
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ReplyDelete1. You didn't read closely enough. I Didn't say she presided over the decision to whole grade share. I said the term she presided over was the most embarrassing in the history of the school board.
2. If the two districts still existed, Sac City would have 409 (K-12) students and Wall Lake View Auburn would have 509 (K-12)in 2011-2012. Way to live in the past and not do your research.
3. You aren't reading closely enough. I haven't requested any email from Brotherton at all. The only FOIA's I have made so far are from business manager John Kraft, and Superintendent Kevin Fiene. Both of them have answered promptly and I have several megs of emails that they have turned over so far, including one from you, (lol)
4. I don't think you can possibly comprehend how much I agree with you and hope that Shirley Phillips runs against Chris Rodman this fall.
I did my research I was in the school system when the average class size was 80-100 students per class! The two buildings we had accommodated the 960-1200 students plus teachers and administrators. By your figures Sac's 2 buildings could accommodate all the children in the district. What I am saying is Sac City has the best buildings and grounds, why are they keeping up 4 buildings when it could be cut to two.
ReplyDeleteYour 1. response is a pretty bold statement to be making, talk to some of the older members of the community and I believe they would give you a totally different story.
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ReplyDeleteRe: #1 Statement...Bold and true, you don't get to win that one unless you say "Here's why you are wrong" and then make a list.
2. Let's say you're correct. stuffing 1200 people into the larger Lake View campus, much less the smaller Sac building sounds like an nightmare, but whatever. How many students from the Wall Lake area do you suppose would open enroll the hell outta here once their school is 15ish miles further away? There are 918 Children attending this upcoming year, and the population is not going up around these parts.
How much of a financial hit in state funding and spending allowance do you suppose the school would take if they suddenly flipped Wall Lake the bird and said "Sac City or nothing, baby"?
Time to merge with Newell, Lake City, Holstein or Ida Grove then? You suppose all of the schools will be located in Sac City at that point?
Besides this whole, "the buildings are pieces of crap" argument, (which can be fixed, BTW, and indecently, take a look at the repair bill for all of the buildings for the last few years and compare them... just saying,)(BTW#2, no building anywhere in the district is dropping bricks on little kid's heads at this point, so can we agree that no matter what else is going on, it's not likely that anyone is going to actually die because they go into a school building???)
Your personal opinions about the buildings being POS’s aside what is the difference between people in Sac City sending their high school aged children to Lake View and people in Wall Lake View Auburn sending their middle school aged children to Sac? Logistically I’m a pretty happy that during all of my sons “can’t drive himself anywhere ” years he can literally walk to where he needs to get to in a couple of minutes.
I find myself wishing you guys would just shut the hell up before the Lake View and Wall Lake people realize what a good deal the Sac City people have, and use their superior voting numbers to change it on us!