Dive into the archives.
- RCS Approves Irresponsible Spending, Again
There is an assumption at the Romeo School board that if you don’t attend their 6 hour pointless meetings, that your opinion doesn’t count. I am certainly hoping that our community will wake up and start to see how members of the board are sitting by idly while Romeo Community School officials mismanage millions of [...]
- Tim Hortons Arrives in Romeo
When they first started building on the corner of M-53 & 32 Mile Road I hoped that they would either open a Starbucks or Tim Hortons at that location. The latter was realized this week.
For those outside of the upper Midwest or eastern Canada, Tim Hortons is a donut and coffee chain co-founded by Toronto [...]
- Mike Harding was in the house
Yesterday Mike Harding filled the pulpit at Romeo. It was fun to see Mike again and hear about his new ministry, 831 House. Here’s a little video about their ministry in Gulf Shores.
Mike was the guy who convinced Kristen and I to relocate to Romeo just over five years ago. Shortly thereafter he felt strongly [...]
- How are you doing?
The most basic of questions now has a new meaning. At least where I live. You ask a shop keeper it and he asks you. Same with neighbors, teachers, folks at church, bank tellers, waitresses, and pretty much everyone I come into contact around town.
“How are you doing?” It’s a basic, friendly question with a [...]
- Truth is offensive
Truth is a pesky thing. For some, truth is allusive because lying is just so much more convenient. For others, truth is about all they have so we cling to it.
Last week, I offended some folks at the Romeo Community Schools by posting 5 suggested ways that they could save $2.1 million without a single person [...]
- 5 Money Saving Ideas for RCS
A local resident emailed me yesterday to ask me to attend a meeting last night where the 2008-2009 budget would be discussed. I chose not to attend for two reasons.
First, the union-backed majority of elected board members (Hier, Wilson, Wreford, and Murray) don’t really want to hear the publics ideas as they’ve already got a [...]
- Megan’s Journal Entry Today
One of the things I love about my kids school is that they are trying to teach kids how to write by journaling. Here’s what Megan typed in her journal this afternoon.
Paul is crazy I don’t know why. He loves me but he is mean to me. He likes my cat more than his cat. [...]
- A horrible yet honorable story
I recognize that the news is never going to cover this story. So here’s it’s shot at getting out there. I received this email from a person in our community today. Most people would know her as a protagonist. I know her as someone with a deep sense of justice for our schools and the [...]
- All Day Kindergarten — Good for kids?
There is some legislation being tossed around in Lansing that would force school districts to offer all-day kindergarten. For those of you without a 4-5 year old in your home let’s think about this.
Paul is a typical 4 year old. He can’t do anything for longer than about 15-20 minutes without it losing his attention. [...]
- Mark Twain on School Boards
Monday night welcomes the resumption Romeo’s Monday Night Football with the regular meeting of the Romeo Board of Education.
In light of that, fellow youth worker Grahame Knox sent me this quote:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Thanks for the quote Grahame. I don’t [...]
