One school 'saved,' but board ignores real emergency

Take a second to consider the plight of new Santa Fe school board member Barbara Gudwin.

[What ever happened to]

REZONING? Wasn't that what the task force thought should be done 2 years ago? Don't we still have vacant desks? Is the SFPS population growing, or has it remained more or less the same? How many Pinon students transferred when given the opportunity? Why don't the parents of students in the southside elementary school insist on rezoning? Why doesn't the administration and school board insist on rezoning?

[interfer]

The governor has stuck his nose where it doesn't belong. What about the other 12,800 or so kids in this district? He spends $200,000 for barely a handful kids!! Are you kidding me.They aren't even teaching at that school. All they do is play and do projects. Ask any middle school teacher about their academic ability when they get them. They are extremely behind. How can such a move be justified when this district is in such dire straits. If he's been sitting on this kind of money why are we just now hearing about it. Does he owe someone a favor? It sounds just like what the school district did when it spent over 5 million renovating Tesuque elem. for 120 kids and 7 teachers and they still don't cook in their brand new cafeteria! They get their meals already made from Alameda MS! I hope Bobbie looks into this because it looks to me that someone has totally undermined her authority. The Alvord property could have been utilized to help the entire district of 13,000 students instead of just a few hundred.

[The population]

What ever happened to wrote:

REZONING? Wasn't that what the task force thought should be done 2 years ago? Don't we still have vacant desks? Is the SFPS population growing, or has it remained more or less the same? How many Pinon students transferred when given the opportunity? Why don't the parents of students in the southside elementary school insist on rezoning? Why doesn't the administration and school board insist on rezoning?

The number of kids in the district is not growing much. WHat is happening is that the white kids are going private and the "back-fill" is with Mexican Nationals and other ELL students (English Language Learners - aka illegals). You get to pay for a graduation rate of 27% at Capital High. Oh Joy to see our tax dollars being spent on Mexican kids.

[yawn]

The population wrote:

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The number of kids in the district is not growing much. WHat is happening is that the white kids are going private and the "back-fill" is with Mexican Nationals and other ELL students (English Language Learners - aka illegals). You get to pay for a graduation rate of 27% at Capital High. Oh Joy to see our tax dollars being spent on Mexican kids.

snoring

[William E Blackburne]

The population wrote:

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The number of kids in the district is not growing much. WHat is happening is that the white kids are going private and the "back-fill" is with Mexican Nationals and other ELL students (English Language Learners - aka illegals). You get to pay for a graduation rate of 27% at Capital High. Oh Joy to see our tax dollars being spent on Mexican kids.

Here we go again with this nonsense talk about Mexian Nationals and other ELL students - aka illegals. Why don't you just do yourself a favor and shut your mouth on this one? If you think this is the primary problem on why smaller schools need to be saved, then, you really have a serious emotional problem on another personal agenda that has nothing to do with racial relationships adversely impacting your school district. Get over it. The smaller school problems in your school district really need to be put on a table for a full-scale discussion between all parents of your school district and your school administrators. The final outcome and goals is to help all children in need and how to make it better for all children that attend your school educational system in Santa Fe, not just a few hundreds on a specific location of your city boundaries.

[Too stoopid]

William E Blackburne wrote:

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Here we go again with this nonsense talk about Mexian Nationals and other ELL students - aka illegals. Why don't you just do yourself a favor and shut your mouth on this one? If you think this is the primary problem on why smaller schools need to be saved, then, you really have a serious emotional problem on another personal agenda that has nothing to do with racial relationships adversely impacting your school district. Get over it. The smaller school problems in your school district really need to be put on a table for a full-scale discussion between all parents of your school district and your school administrators. The final outcome and goals is to help all children in need and how to make it better for all children that attend your school educational system in Santa Fe, not just a few hundreds on a specific location of your city boundaries.

If you are tooooo stoooopid not to see the connection between school crowding and the immigration problem that is a direct result of the city's santuary policy, then I feel sorry for you. God must not have connected your two lobes, assuming you have them to connect if you are unable to see the correlation.

[William E Blackburne]

Too stoopid wrote:

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If you are tooooo stoooopid not to see the connection between school crowding and the immigration problem that is a direct result of the city's santuary policy, then I feel sorry for you. God must not have connected your two lobes, assuming you have them to connect if you are unable to see the correlation.

We are on two different trips. For one, thank you for calling me "tooooo stoooopid" and I appreciate your professional background on the brain system. But if you really are so smart, then, why don't you famalarize yourself with the legal interpretation of the city resolution and the state's statutes regarding immigration reform and enforcement policies and come out with a positive answer for the public school problem relating to equal distribution of educational funding for all children? If not, take a serious look at yourself in the mirror and see who really is the one that is really stupid in this trip?

[Too stoopid]

William E Blackburne wrote:

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We are on two different trips. For one, thank you for calling me "tooooo stoooopid" and I appreciate your professional background on the brain system. But if you really are so smart, then, why don't you famalarize yourself with the legal interpretation of the city resolution and the state's statutes regarding immigration reform and enforcement policies and come out with a positive answer for the public school problem relating to equal distribution of educational funding for all children? If not, take a serious look at yourself in the mirror and see who really is the one that is really stupid in this trip?

I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't seem to get my head that far up my as s.

[You need]

Too stoopid wrote:

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I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't seem to get my head that far up my as s.

do whatever it takes to improve yourself. Don't underestimate youself - you are halfway there.

[Too stoopid]

Thanks man. With people like you there to support me, I know I can get there! I think I can, I think I can.....

[WOW]

Another important discussion goes the way of assinine, pubescent name calling. There is nothing wrong with wanting your tax dollars to be spent on the education of our own American children, and nothing wrong with wanting to educate all children. However, to reduce yourselves to name calling only takes away from the quality of two pretty good points.