To be clear, I don’t believe we should write off the whole thing as a sunk costs. I do believe we should explore every avenue to reduce the bleeding (to include legal pursuits against those that created this boondoggle) and then determine the best course of action that maximizes the ROI. (Fiscally and academically)
To be clear, I don’t believe we should write off the whole thing as a sunk costs. I do believe we should explore every avenue to reduce the bleeding (to include legal pursuits against those that created this boondoggle) and then determine the best course of action that maximizes the ROI. (Fiscally and academically)
I also truly dont understand the argument for needing a new 5the ward school so everyone can have a walkable school. I grew up in a rural area and bussing was a necessity granted, but never a problem. Walking 15-20 minutes in the rain and snow as we do now is no treat! I don’t understand all the arguments about how unfair it is to the kids to stand in the rain... as if walking in the rain was better? Can somebody explain that to me? Id gladly wave from the front door with my coffee as the kids kid on a bus from the corner on some days.
Also... just amateur google map sleuthing here, but I don’t see how Kingsley and Dewey aren’t already ‘walkable’. If you throw in Walker and BR and King Lab there doesn’t seem to be any 5th ward locations that aren’t already exceedingly walkable by D65 standards of distance. A proper safety plan for crossing any major streets would be a must of course, but that seems to exceedingly doable and affordable as opposed to 10’s of millions of money for a new physical school with all new staff and all new administrators and support a new physical school necessitates.
This all just seems like a made up hussle for political wins. Wins that are completely symbolic at best, and illegal ‘reparations’ at worse!
I’m not against a 5the ward school at all costs to be clear... but I am against the doing no matter the costs mindset. We must deal with the reality we have and take care of all students and families, not the reality we want to live in with unlimited resources.
To be clear, I don’t believe we should write off the whole thing as a sunk costs. I do believe we should explore every avenue to reduce the bleeding (to include legal pursuits against those that created this boondoggle) and then determine the best course of action that maximizes the ROI. (Fiscally and academically)
I also truly dont understand the argument for needing a new 5the ward school so everyone can have a walkable school. I grew up in a rural area and bussing was a necessity granted, but never a problem. Walking 15-20 minutes in the rain and snow as we do now is no treat! I don’t understand all the arguments about how unfair it is to the kids to stand in the rain... as if walking in the rain was better? Can somebody explain that to me? Id gladly wave from the front door with my coffee as the kids kid on a bus from the corner on some days.
Also... just amateur google map sleuthing here, but I don’t see how Kingsley and Dewey aren’t already ‘walkable’. If you throw in Walker and BR and King Lab there doesn’t seem to be any 5th ward locations that aren’t already exceedingly walkable by D65 standards of distance. A proper safety plan for crossing any major streets would be a must of course, but that seems to exceedingly doable and affordable as opposed to 10’s of millions of money for a new physical school with all new staff and all new administrators and support a new physical school necessitates.
This all just seems like a made up hussle for political wins. Wins that are completely symbolic at best, and illegal ‘reparations’ at worse!
I’m not against a 5the ward school at all costs to be clear... but I am against the doing no matter the costs mindset. We must deal with the reality we have and take care of all students and families, not the reality we want to live in with unlimited resources.