Sorry, it's Houlihan the JG talks about in this morning's editorial. He's been brought in at $2000 a day to help counter the opponents of the building project who "did an effective job of questioning the abilities and priorities of school leaders". Isn't that amazing? A handful of obscure residents with no money during the space of a month goes against the largest employer in the city, their morning newspaper, their $400,000 Indianapolis consultant, their handpicked yellow ribbon task force, their wealthy community sympathizers, the building contractors and trade unions, the Asher Agency, the mayor, etc. etc. and convinces the taxpayers that the district's spin is bogus. If we're that good, why don't they just offer us $2000/day to change our tune?
As far as the high schools go, its hard to see how much they can improve when half the incoming students come through the middle schools through social promotion. They're not ready for high school. It seems like the reform has to come from the bottom up and that takes time. That's OK. Let's just hope a lot of people aren't spinning their wheels prematurely on high school redesign.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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I have seriously considered moving just so I could vote for one of you guys this year. Keep up the good work!
Do we have an itemized running total of how much money has been wasted to date by FWCS in this whole process?
We could have hired a lot of new teachers and fixed a lot of plumbing I would bet.
Perhaps we need to cut some administrative salaries to cover that loss.
lol. FWCS= $$$$$$$ waste
My mouth dropped when I read about the latest consultant.
If you do a good job - you don't need to pay a consultant to come in (for 2k per day) - and tell people that.
Besides - why in the world would anyone believe it?
Pay me 2k per day - I might tell you whatever you wanted to hear :). What a deal!!!
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