Comments on: Time For Taxpayers To Start Paying Attention To School Dist. 64 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Save Ferris http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8187 Save Ferris Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:23:57 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8187 Anon @ 11.02 1:53 am Bueller went to Glenbrook North. Anon @ 11.02 1:53 am

Bueller went to Glenbrook North.

]]> By: anon http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8146 anon Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:52:48 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8146 I did not intend to be hysterical. Again, I am somewhat of a disadvantage because I was not here. I do not know the condition/size of the prior building. Perhaps there were capacity issues. Perhaps there were technology issues with the building (Wiring/heat etc). Perhaps the looked at the cost to build versus what they believed would need to be done to the old building. Did you or anyone ask these questions when the decision process was taking place to build it? Without any further data to go on it does not seem unreasonable to me to build a new school in the place of one that was built in 1959. I did not intend to be hysterical. Again, I am somewhat of a disadvantage because I was not here. I do not know the condition/size of the prior building. Perhaps there were capacity issues. Perhaps there were technology issues with the building (Wiring/heat etc). Perhaps the looked at the cost to build versus what they believed would need to be done to the old building.

Did you or anyone ask these questions when the decision process was taking place to build it? Without any further data to go on it does not seem unreasonable to me to build a new school in the place of one that was built in 1959.

]]> By: MIKETOUHY http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8143 MIKETOUHY Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:21:56 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8143 Anon 11.03 I could do without your hysteria!!! Plus all the other Dist. 64 buildings are older as the PW owner says, which makes it silly to have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to have rebild it when they probably would of done just fine if they had moved back into the building they originally used. Anon 11.03

I could do without your hysteria!!!

Plus all the other Dist. 64 buildings are older as the PW owner says, which makes it silly to have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to have rebild it when they probably would of done just fine if they had moved back into the building they originally used.

]]> By: PublicWatchdog http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8132 PublicWatchdog Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:45:34 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8132 At the time it was demolished, the "old" Emerson Jr. High School was the<em> newest</em> of all Dist. 64 schools; and it was being used on a rental basis by the Chicago Futabakai Japanese School, which relocated to what we believe was Rand Jr. High in Arlington Hts. At the time it was demolished, the “old” Emerson Jr. High School was the newest of all Dist. 64 schools; and it was being used on a rental basis by the Chicago Futabakai Japanese School, which relocated to what we believe was Rand Jr. High in Arlington Hts.

]]> By: anon http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8128 anon Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:55:59 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8128 Mike: I am a recent transplant to PR so I do not know the quality or condition of the old building but my guess is that you answered your won question. The building was built in 1959!!!! Mike:

I am a recent transplant to PR so I do not know the quality or condition of the old building but my guess is that you answered your won question.

The building was built in 1959!!!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8077 Anonymous Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:53:24 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8077 Will ANYBODY take responsibility for the quality of education (or lack thereof) that the the D-64 schools are delivering? Anybody? Bueller? Will ANYBODY take responsibility for the quality of education (or lack thereof) that the the D-64 schools are delivering? Anybody? Bueller?

]]> By: No longer Hmmmm http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8069 No longer Hmmmm Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:43:07 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8069 I think its a matter of economics. I don't think the point of the post is to place blame on someone for the "shortcomings" of the students. I think its a matter of economics: If we pay X amount of $$ per student - we should expect XX on tests. And btw, interesting how the teachers have a love hate relationship with test scores. When your kid is failing a class the test scores are gospel; but when the test scores are used to quantify their ability to teach suddenly the test scores are mitigated. I think its a matter of economics. I don’t think the point of the post is to place blame on someone for the “shortcomings” of the students. I think its a matter of economics: If we pay X amount of $$ per student – we should expect XX on tests. And btw, interesting how the teachers have a love hate relationship with test scores. When your kid is failing a class the test scores are gospel; but when the test scores are used to quantify their ability to teach suddenly the test scores are mitigated.

]]> By: MIKETOUHY http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8060 MIKETOUHY Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:41:40 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8060 You know another thing that came to mind while reading this and though this was before 1998, it was a few years earlier the district decided to reopen Emerson Junior High and in the process builds a whole new building. Why couldn't they have reused the previous building they used from 1959 to 1984. Just something extra worth mentioning. You know another thing that came to mind while reading this and though this was before 1998, it was a few years earlier the district decided to reopen Emerson Junior High and in the process builds a whole new building.

Why couldn’t they have reused the previous building they used from 1959 to 1984.

Just something extra worth mentioning.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8052 anonymous Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:20:38 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8052 Anonymous @ 8:52: I don't think that's the message at all. The parents in the inner city (to the extent there are any) are as responsible for their kids as suburban parents. But the schools, including the teachers who are being paid to teach and the admnistrators who are being paid to administer, also have to be held accountable for the results. Unfortunately, the teachers AND THE TEACHERS UNION and the administrators are always ready to take the credit for good results, but they want no blame for bad results. But since they're getting paid to do a job, I've got a lot easier time telling them to either produce or find another line of work. Anonymous @ 8:52: I don’t think that’s the message at all. The parents in the inner city (to the extent there are any) are as responsible for their kids as suburban parents. But the schools, including the teachers who are being paid to teach and the admnistrators who are being paid to administer, also have to be held accountable for the results.

Unfortunately, the teachers AND THE TEACHERS UNION and the administrators are always ready to take the credit for good results, but they want no blame for bad results. But since they’re getting paid to do a job, I’ve got a lot easier time telling them to either produce or find another line of work.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8049 Anonymous Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:52:33 +0000 http://www.publicwatchdog.org/archives/2008/10/31/time-for-taxpayers-to-start-paying-attention-to-school-dist-64/#comment-8049 Sure - when inner city children underachieve its the parents fault, but when privledged Park Ridge children dont measure up its the school district's fault. Sure – when inner city children underachieve its the parents fault, but when privledged Park Ridge children dont measure up its the school district’s fault.

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