Principle Over Party

This falls in the no surprise category. The small group of parents and teachers who came to the meetings recommended a referendum. See the stories about it in the following local papers:

• News-Sun: Antioch group recommends elementary school referendum (Excerpt below)
• Daily Herald: Antioch group tabs education goals
• Antioch Review: Nav34 recommendations presented to board

An advisory group of parents and staff studying the issues facing Antioch School District 34 for the past seven months recommended the district hold a bond referendum to build more classrooms to relieve overcrowding and the district’s reliance on 16 mobile classrooms.

Considering the slowed economy and two failed referendums since 2006, the earliest the district would pursue a referendum would be March 2009, said District 34 Superintendent Scott Thompson.

“It’s too soon to do in November,” he said. “We have to determine when the right time is economically.”

What Superintendent Thompson means by November being too soon is they the district does not have the needed time to get their propaganda out in favor of a Yes vote. This is especially true since their last 2 attempts have been beaten.

District 34, like virtually every other school district in Illinois doesn’t listen to the taxpayers. They continue to put referendum after referendum on the ballot until it is passed. They’ll do surveys and these consensus groups together to make it appear that they are listening to the taxpayers, when these attempts are just masquerades of propaganda to get what the district wants.

Our public government schools are overfunded currently. They do not need more money. They need fiscal responsibility to stop the spending problems instead. One way to force this is to Fund The Child. Designate a specified amount of money for each and every child. The parents then get to choose the school they want their child to attend and the money then follows. This puts the parents in charge of the purse strings instead of the bloated and self-serving school bureaucracy. The schools will actually have to earn the money by innovating and actually producing results.

You can take a survey about District 34 at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JGFWf8RgmyTbEJ3Chjoadw_3d_3d
. Let them know what you think.

In todays Daily Herald they report about a Wauconda School Board member pleading guilty to domestic battery.

Wauconda school board member Nicholas Batson was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 2 years probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.

Batson was facing up to 14 years in prison on two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old female relative at his Wauconda Township home on Dec. 5.
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“This conduct to which he’s acknowledged is bad, but in my mind he is not a bad person,” Menaker said. “The school board has not discharged him.”

The last statement about the school board not discharging him is ludicrous because they can’t. All they can do is ask him to resign but they have no power to force him off.

This is just another example of why the citizens need recall for all elected officials. Unfortunately, the elected officials are not going to give us this option willingly. The only way to get recall is going to be via a Constitution Convention. To make that happen, there needs to be a Yes vote this November. For more information on the ConCon vote see YesForIllinois.com and the IllinoisCitizenCoalition.org websites.

I have been following the whole man made global warning debate for several years. It has been entertaining to say the least with all the arguments from both sides.

It seems that now the Physicist world is reopening the debate as to whether global warming is man made or not. The Al Gore consensus seems to be falling apart.

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