School Bond Measure: Why I vote NO...

I am voting No on the School Bond Measure...

I am tired of Bonds, and Debt Financing and have every expectation that the Next Bond will be spent on projects other than the stated purpose.

I do not agree with the location of HS3
I do not agree with the need for CHS to look like a Internment Camp.
I do not agree with the funds spent to Cage the Foot Ball field because of ill behaved individuals.
Cancel the games, toss the ill behaved Parents and set higher social expectation for the communities conduct.

Have you attended a graduation at CHS... It is a mob of disrespectful people... How did that happen... In part it was facilitated by letting the first person get away with acting badly. Building a Cage around the field rather than stopping the bad actions of individuals.

The School Administration not offering a Dignified Alternative Graduation demonstrates support for the decline in public appreciation for education and civil conduct that is not on the edge of a riot regardless of the occasion.

Here are some options of School Management that will eliminate the need for building HS3 and remove the overcrowding of the Campus.

If you view the Campus as a business there is no reason for the Class Rooms to be empty half of the day... Yes teachers need a place to work their 8 hours and be available for student assistance. I believe that there is sufficient room to make an office space for each teacher adjacent to their class rooms...

Have a Morning High School and a After Noon High School and have a double staff.. ( This will require a larger staff parking lot or structure)

Have a better designed students services building including a cafeteria/library/computer lab facility that is also adjacent to the School Administration Offices... as the hub of the school not a tangent to it.

This is IF you want to have a HUGE School like CHS or HS3 of 2000 students or more at one location.

An Alternative would be to have spin off of the Morning and Afternoon hours of School and have Spin Off sites. Say, at the K-Mart near the Apartments along Mt. Vernon and Washington St. Why not use Eminent Domain to take this un-used property and put in facility for 300 students to attend a Charter School type program administered by CJUSD? Or the empty retail space near Big Lots. or the soon to be empty Stater Brothers Market in Grand Terrace...

Imagine a Neighborhood School... gads... no need for a long expensive bus ride... drat..

Some will say.. but my son wants to play football... OK,,, sign him up where football is worshiped CHS will be the Official School and the other Spin Off Sites are adjuncts to that Campus. Worshiping the Football God does not mean that we can't accommodate other students needs in other facilities. If the school facility doesn't have a field for track or gym... let them Dance, or ... be in a Marching Band/Drill Team for PE..

Yes this will cause a shift in when the school maintenance has to be done. This means that the majority of work will be done at night... YES this is a good thing... this will put school staff on campus and this means break ins and so forth will be minimized.

How about students cleaning their own campus? Gads... mess it up clean it up... assignments for general operations and say, litter once pick up trash for 1/2 hour... or work with janitor for 1/2 hour. Write on a wall... you get to scrub, paint or help clean the restrooms for a week.

Yes, even construction can be done at night... provided the local city will allow a waiver for the noise at night... or weekends. This is not a year round schedule it is a 12 hour day for the use of the facility.

Now, why think about this now...
I don't like debt spending. I don't like rewarding a population with additional debt to not spend where it was intended. I don't think alternatives have been investigated, and more of the same will only give us more of the same.

What we have now is not working... Why would I send the bad shopper to the store to buy bad food again and again and then be shocked that there is no food to cook?

Of course we are looking again an Election where one of the people was 5th from the bottem of his class and the other was at the top of his. So Perhaps Schools aren't so important afterall.

This community of the USA / Parents/ Students/ and apprently Voters don't care that the current President nearly failed out of school. Predict that a High School Dropout will be elected in the near future.. Our own City Council has members that have Deploma Mill Degrees and no one cares.

Well, you can guess it. Gramps has sold his house in GT and will be moving in a week. It is important not to be here when the CRASH Comes... no the Crash has come the sound just has not reached us quite yet... wait a few seconds... you'll hear it too.

Some one who wants to keep the blog running.... let me know... I'll let you have the pass words..