tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post3347911947704238020..comments2024-03-28T02:35:57.735-07:00Comments on The Emeryville Tattler: Closed Door Meeting: Will School Board End Run Around Parents/Citizens & Close School? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-82458413557520098132015-10-23T17:11:36.314-07:002015-10-23T17:11:36.314-07:00Oh and many parents and much of the citizenry is s...Oh and many parents and much of the citizenry is still unaware of the District's intention to close the elementary school. Who's fault is that?Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-92178618139614580582015-10-23T17:09:16.601-07:002015-10-23T17:09:16.601-07:00Feel for the School Board? Why? Because they can...Feel for the School Board? Why? Because they can't sleep at night or look at themselves in the mirror after they used their power over several years to stop citizens from weighing in on the closure of their school? Where, pray tell is the citizen dysfunction? For all these years they have been petitioning the School Board for a chance to weigh in on closing the elementary school as the Board promised them they could do. There are two groups here: the School Board public servants and there's the public. Please explain how the public servants not serving the public is a problem of a dysfunctional public.<br /><br />Oh, and the fact that the Board might allow a meeting to discuss the closure of the school won't cost the District anything, so cost overruns of which there already have been many (see the Tattler for details) cannot be attributed to any external forces. It's all on the District. Any negative effects on closing the elementary school will be on the Board and the District as a whole since they shut out the public on that decision. The public can't be blamed for something out of their control. Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-67466881815773930032015-10-23T09:34:04.080-07:002015-10-23T09:34:04.080-07:00Ya gotta feel for the school board, for 12 years n...Ya gotta feel for the school board, for 12 years no one complained about the pending closure of AYE, yet, now, as they are getting ready to move, a small vocal minority changes their mind and makes a stink about it. I am also sure that no matter what happens, the negative effects of closing, or not closing AYE will be blamed on the board, as well as cost overruns, and not the fickle public that keeps changing their mind on what they want mid-project.<br /><br />The citizens are just as dysfunctional as the school board and the city council. In the end, you're all acting like petulant children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com