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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- Math Meeting on April 1st
My life is wrapped up around middle school and high school students and their parents. Whether it’s families I come into contact with from church or people I meet in the community they all seem to say the same thing about mathematics at Romeo Community Schools: The curriculum stinks.
When you dig a little deeper into [...]
- School board meeting rough notes
Bear in mind… these are live notes. These are just notes from when I was sitting in the meeting. I may or may not write on some of these later.
- Solutions for Snow Days?
Romeo was not alone in canceling school today. My opinion on snow days and dirt roads is well documented and tiresome. The effects on commerce and families is obvious.
So let’s talk solutions.
This is Michigan. We are a state surrounded on three sides by Canada and the Great Lakes. Winter weather shouldn’t effect commerce and education [...]
- Quick notes from the Romeo School Board Meeting
Our superintendent, Joe Beck, did a great job during this meeting. (Over all I’d give him an A for his work tonight.) In particular, I felt he did a great job answering a ladies question about a school bus issue. The lady is asking for him to answer in public things that he doesn’t know [...]
- Romeo School Board Agenda Out: Someone Lied
On February 11th, I sat in on the school board meeting. About 3 hours into it a “very serious accusation” [to quote board member Jennifer White] was made against Sue Hier, Board of Education president.
As the majority of board members, supporters of Mrs. Hier, scrambled to react and table the discussion as quickly as possible… [...]
