Consider the evidence:
Peoria District 150 School Board renews Edison contract, submits plans for a swank new school in a controversial area, guaranteed to produce numerous lawsuits, while trying to find it's way out of an $17 million dollar deficit.
City Council has cut back on the most essential of basic services, fire fighting. In the wake of disasters like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, the lesson our Council has learned is that Peoria must be immune from horrid disasters. This immunity allows Council to be completely comfortable gifting a TIF to one of America's most profitable corporations to fund an underground parking lot for a museum no one (okay, a few CAT executives and local politicians) really give a rat's ass about.
Peoria Park District just has to have a bigger, better zoo. BTW, have you seen the very tacky, albeit very expensive, "Get Behind The New Zoo" billboards in town? The Park District thought donations would come pouring in, but they haven't. Instead of taking the hint that citizens, otherwise known as TAXPAYERS, don't desire a new zoo the Park District has decided to pursue forced donations, also known as TAXES.
If it is legal for companies to require drug testing as a condition of employment, I think periodic drug testing should be mandatory for public "servants" as well.
If your mind is too open, your brain will fall out. Warning: Names, identities, descriptions, and pictures have been changed and/or used to protect the innocent as well as the guilty. PollyPeoria should not be used or quoted as a source for your senior college thesis.
Wednesday, April 5
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I don't believe that parents are fully for Edison, they just want a choice. Many of the children that are doing very well at Edison could not have gotten the instruction needed at the home school they would have attended.
The district has said over the last two years that they could replicate Edison, but nobody has. I don't believe that any one at the district has a clue how to turn the districe around as it relates to student achievement.
Why don't they ask the principal at Whittier, and Franklin how to help the district have high student achievement.
Whittier's principal and staff could have done this and we would not be discussing why this inept board continues to do what it does.
What is the old saying?: If you keep doing what you are doing you will keep getting what you are getting.
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