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Vet
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They also killed the NJROTC at Eureka High.
Oops. Guess the TS missed that one.
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Kallisti
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Uhmmmmm...
Wow...
I'm speechless...
Two schools full of happy middle schoolers getting ready to launch into high school together...completely dismantled into...what?
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Kallisti
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Wait a minute - I just caught the tail end of the article...
"Pace said that regardless of how anyone feels about the decision, she hopes the community will put its best face forward for the children. If the parents and teachers show negative feelings, the children will pick up on it"
What if it's a horrible, desasterous idea? Do we fake it for the kids so we can get them to go along with it too? How distinctly republican.
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Kallisti
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...and yes, I can spell...I just didn't look carefully enough before I hit the send key :-)
Or is that the sned key?
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LOL
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A school for only one grade?
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
So you transition from elementary school, spend one year in 6th grade trying to acclimate yourself to your new surroundings, then move on the next year and start over.
Continuity goes a long way towards the success of our children's education.
I think they need to go back to the table on this one.
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BassAckwards
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What's the plan? All sixth graders to one school, four classes, four teachers, problem solved?
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Anon
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They did not kill NJROTC. It is being funded for two years by the Navy.
They had very difficult decisions to make. Anyone present at the meetings over the past few evenings recognized this. These board members agonized over these decisions.
They did a great job faced with a horrible situation!
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LOL
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"They had very difficult decisions to make. Anyone present at the meetings over the past few evenings recognized this. These board members agonized over these decisions."
Yes, they had very difficult decisions to make.
And they made a poor one.
No one said it would be easy, but to uproot so many to favor so few does everyone a disservice.
Maybe a little more time spent in agony will improve their decision making.
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Masked Patriot
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seeing how just about NONE of them can read- why not just put them all in one big class?
then raise property tax 100% with the claim it's for Eureka's Mercury tainted children who fare better in prison than Wall St.
throwing money at government schools is much like rools of toliet paper made of money..
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Busboy
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This Board had to make some tough unpopular choices, but they had to made. I'll bet Parick Rigg's and his ETA cronies, won't offer to give up a pay raise to save the District money!
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Swimmer
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They are closing the pool??? This sounds like a vindictive move - can't tear it down so let's close it so no one can use it. Will that be before or after swimming lessons this summer? Since CR closed their pool, Arcata is the last public pool, right? Guess we'll be taking our business there.
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Parent
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I have been at the last four meetings. One day they should write another book called "Profiles in Courage" and feature the three brave board members who voted last night. It must have been terrible to face the same 40 angry & closed minded people yelling at them at all four meetings & still voting their conscience.
I wanted to speak up & cheer them on but I did not have their courage.
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A school for one year
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Winship is now going to be for 6th grade only.
If this is the best they can come up with, perhaps we need new board members.
Closed mindedness goes both ways.
Those who refuse to look at the hard work decision these members had to make, and those who accept their decision as being a good one.
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angry parent
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what? did they ever think that this would backfire and parents would put kids in diff schools outside distcrict? Actul losing money
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Peso Jimmy
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If the Navy is going to fund the NJROTC for 2 years, why did the School Board have it on the Budget Reduction Sheet as a cut? There is also the matter of a contract between the School District and Navy that the School District is obviously planning to break.
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Observer
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Maybe you should have been there. The three said they wanted more time to look at all the options & this plan bought them time the other plans did not.
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anonymous
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Ouch, sounds like a segregation plan to me.
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concerned parent
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I have a son going into the 6th grade and planning for him to continue in his sisters path of going to Zane now it will be ruined. They should have kept the school through 6th and keep the 2 middle schools. All 6th graders at one school might cause some problems. Good luck with it.
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crazy
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i think they should make one middle school a 6th and 7th then the other middle school an 8th and 9th and then the highschool 10th, 11th, and 12th
does anyone else think that would be a good idea...has that idea been proposed??
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doggdaze46
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Kallisti wrote: Wait a minute - I just caught the tail end of the article...
"Pace said that regardless of how anyone feels about the decision, she hopes the community will put its best face forward for the children. If the parents and teachers show negative feelings, the children will pick up on it"
What if it's a horrible, desasterous idea? Do we fake it for the kids so we can get them to go along with it too? How distinctly republican. Clearly a left wing liberal democrat puke!!! I suppose your answer to this whole mess would be to raise taxes? What's your solution?
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