Nancy Loud School 04-22-10 A1 (2)
Please see the attached documents for the Nancy Loud School and Maple Street School stairway plans. The plans will allow safe fire exits from the second floor multi-purpose rooms. Note the current fire escape at the Nancy Loud School.
this is a HUGE waste of taxpayer money…elementary schools in Rochester need to be consolidated – PERIOD…there isn’t one viable excuse not to except it shrinks the empire…
That HUGE waste of money you mentioned, Fred, I do believe explains why I never received or heard any discussion at the meeting of the full school board last night that the superintendent promised me at the building committee meeting exactly one week before and that a cost savings analysis for the school department and taxpayers if both Maple Street and Nancy Loud schools are closed. Since when is it appropriate for the people who pay the bills including the salaries of the SAU personnel are conveniently ignored while those who suck the life blood out of the taxpayers get their demands met? It’s time the so-called managers of the school department stop pandering to the unions and begin taking into serious consideration the suggestions and opinions of their employers … the taxpayers!
I’ll say this: I’m more than 90% certain that when my husband retires, we’ll be taxed out of our home. Then what? I sure am glad we moved to Rochester; when we’re foreclosed on, and have to leave, we’ll remember Rochester as the City Where We Lost Everything. Quite the legacy, and quite the way to treat your neighbor. We want what we want what we want, even if it means taking what you worked for all your life. Just my opinion, but that’s insane behavior.
Ya, Jen, I wonder who is going to foot these bills a few years down the road when the only people left living in Rochester are welfare recipients. It’s astounding to know that our school department cares more about those without enough gray matter between their ears because they’re so susceptible to propaganda and indoctrination than those who pay the bills.
After attending the School Board meeting and discussion regarding the “fire escapes”, it was again obvious to me that within our public education department there is a disconnect with the “real world”. The “real world” forces us to live within our means, our Public Education system operates with out those restraints and adds to it a sense of entitlement. I myself offered a common sense plan to review that would I believe in the long run be better for our students and our citizens. If the taxpayers cannot afford their property taxes then does that not also harm their children? Here in the season of summer vacation when our schools are closed for vacation the average citizen is working to survive and the “public servants” are vacationing. The arrogance of many of our “employees” is intolerable. When the discussion of what “real” options the taxpaying citizens were interested in the discussion quickly changed course to the 50 children out of 71 at Maple St. School that we the taxpayers are paying for their breakfasts. Why is it that food stamps, subsidized housing, welfare and the other numerous burdens placed on the taxpayer are not enough help to get a parent up to feed “their” child breakfast? We shouldn’t forget to mention the serious concerns of some on the School Board that some of these very same children haven’t been to the beach. I myself haven’t been for some time as I am to busy trying to pay for the unending stream of tax increases laid upon me by our “public servants”. Nearly $500k for a set of fire escapes is just another shining example responsible spending with the assistance of the NEA. I realize that “protecting” a principle or two’s jobs are vital to the continued union support of our School Superintendant. This is what happens when common sense is replaced with selfishness.
In addition to all this, we have to ask exactly what our children are getting in return for the $10,000/yr? (just guessing) that we spend per student. Suppose a child graduates high school–we’ve spent $120,000 estimated, and what do us taxpayers have in return? What does high school prepare someone for? What are they qualified to do if they’re not going to college–flip burgers? We spent $120,000 on a Burger Flipper? This makes no sense, unless you want to think of the school system as a giant construct where our children are held hostage so a bunch of people can have jobs. A dead givaway is that homeschoolers still have to pay school tax even though they are doing the job these people seem unable to do.
My grandchildren are in the Rochester schools now. They have no textbooks, at least none that I can see. My granddaughter, who is failing everything but science and is being promoted to 6th grade anyway, recently brought home a letter from the teacher announcing that since she did well on some standardized computerized test, she won’t have homework for the rest of the year! Ain’t that wonderful! Oh boy!! No homework for a failing student. My daughter and I went out to spend money on books so we can give the girl homework; once again, doing the job that they seem unable to do.
Maybe I’m being too picky; the fact that the school system will have two brand new half-million dollar fire escapes will undoubtly be a priceless aid for my granddaughter as she goes forward in life.