Polly Apologizes

I have been remiss about checking my blog e-mail. Too bad because there are some really great letters/ideas/new blogs/etc awaiting response in my virtual in-box. Life has been demanding lately, and I will respond to all of you eventually. Polly prizes both her fans and her enemies.

I especially want to apologize to Dr. John Carroll who has a new blog and also wrote me a letter I should have posted a long time ago regarding Peoria's lack of adequate fire/rescue service. I will do right by the issue Doc... just as soon as I can.

SA: I have posted regarding District 150 on more than a few occasions. I whole heartedly believe good, successful Peoria Public Schools are the key ingredient necessary to attract new businesses and tax paying brainacs to the area. In all fairness, I am related to a District 150 third grader who discussed fulcrums at length over dinner last night. After her lecture on fulcrums, she followed with a discussion of the mode, the mean and the median. These concepts were not introduced to me until college in my required physics and statistics courses... and even then they made me cry. I know District 150 first graders studying fractions. There are underachievers and problem schools in District 150, to be sure. There also good Peoria schools (Hines, Kellar, Charter Oak, Whittier to name a few), with dedicated teachers, parents, and students who accomplish and excel. We don't hear about them very often. Remember, the best middle school in the state is right here in Peoria- Washington Gifted.