Comments by doctipster
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Posted on May 9 at 11:14 a.m.
Im okay with a golf course. But I don't want to pay for something I don't use. Let the people who use the course pay for it. I don't expect people to buy my gas, they don't use my car. otherwise I'll start setting the can outside my door and everyone in the city can start kicking in for my gas too....
Think about it. The only people b**ching are the ones who use the golf course Let them pay for it.
Posted on April 23 at 9:58 a.m.
about damn time they cut some administrative jobs. Think about this ya'll... Here they are joining the middle and high schools, cutting out completely one elementary school and yet all we have seen is teacher cuts... What about Secretary and office cuts. Upper echilion cuts... WE as fergus falls residents and District 544 should be asking the right questions....
Why cut teachers when it is obvious you need to eliminate some administrative staffing.
Posted on April 10 at 9:38 a.m.
Or, youre going to be voting constantly on operational bonding every four or five years so that they can sustain the way they want to run the school.
Posted on April 9 at 1:03 p.m.
Im sorry, I guess my spelling should be attributed to our great fergus falls school district. Or maybe its just the fact that i usually just go on a rant and rave and don't proof fread what i type before i comment.
That being said.... The second poster you are wrong. I gladly accepted a new school, voted for it in fact, I did not vote for the extra money for a new hockey arena however. The school was just being a bit greedy there.
No matter how much you do to this old dumpy school people are never going to flock to fergus falls and 544 will never get more students than it loses through open enrollment.
1) Fergus regardless of how much I like this town, is a retirement community. We probably have 60-70 percent of our community retired, The young people like myself are looking to either move out fast, or end up being sucked into a community that doesn't pay squat for wages. Thats not the city nor the districts fault. Im just saying that kids know where the money is and ITS NOT FERGUS FALLS. so therfor, they move away, and don't come back until it gets closer to retirement.
So you need to build a new school to even think about drawing students in.
2) We have a school board that has proven year after year that they can't operate a budget. THey can't even balance one because we are constantly cutting classes and teachers. We have a drivers training course here and it looses money. You have to treat schools like a business. You have to. And if you constantly are losing money on a product, you STOP making it. We have 3 other drivers training programs within 45 miles.... use there's and quit wasting money.
Lets not forget the two new clases that we are starting next year.. Chinese language. Ummm cmon get real, more crap we don't need. I'd rather get one of those teachers back and offer something useful. Anyone going to Hong Kong anytime soon. If they are they sure as heck are not going to be living and working in Fergus Falls.
You all stick up for this district, you just wait in ten years they are going to be bankrupt and you are going to be the ones footing a 100 million dollar loan out to them because by then they will realize they just can't keep enrollment up without building new. SAD PEOPLE OF FERGUS... JUST SAD....
Me, on the other hand, will be long gone, if if not I won't have to worry about my kids being in District 544.
Funny how everyone wants to pick out so much of what i said but won't even mention the fact that all these kids are going to be in the SAME SCHOOL.... course you probably all know and realize thats a big mistake just don't want to go against our corrupt system...
Posted on April 8 at 12:55 p.m.
Bravo.....
Now let us commence on ripping what you said apart. Disection is the key.
The problem I have is they have remodeled an old building. A building that still will contain harmful asbestos. So what, it will look pretty from the outside, and hold more kids in a school designed for only middle school but thats okay as well.
In truth you shouldn't really comment. You are 18. You don't own a home in this district, you don't pay the increase on property taxes. In fact you probably are going at least out of town for college if not out of state.
You speak of reaping benifits. How is this multi million dollar school benfiting us. The school District is doubling the cost of all day kindergarden, doubling the cost of being in extra curricular activities, whats next are they going to double the cost of school lunches. I mean they can only raise the cost of so many things.
Then theres the teachers they constantly lay off every year. Usually about 15-20 teachers a year. Sure they hire some of them back, if they are lucky and those good teachers haven't already moved on to another district. Our children will follow, more and more parents sending their children to Underwood, Rothsay, and Ashby.
what a shame isn't it. But this is the school you so profoundly praise. Just wait until some senior decides to pick on and torrement some 6th grader, How do you think that will end. Becuase you and I know it will happen. And we have seen what young kids in our society that have been outcasted and picked on in school do, Need I remind everyone of Columbine, Paducah, Santee, the list goes on and on. But the Fergus Falls school district just wants to ignite this by placing juniors and seniors in the same school as sixth seventh and eighth graders.
Sure some of you will say, I went to a school that was K-12. Thats great. But it wasn't in a city with a population over 10,000. It just doesn't happen. Those were smaller communities with graduating classes of 30, 40, and 50. not 250. Kids in those age groups are not meant to be in the same school. It will be a modern day Glatiator School where it will be a breeding ground for physical and mental abuse...
So, are you still proud of your school
Posted on April 3 at 11:46 a.m.
At least she won't have to worry about the school district cutting her job and laying her off like the other twenty teachers... and then re hiring in the late summer....
Posted on March 29 at 1:49 p.m.
obviously if the rest of the residents of fergus falls agree with you I would never get elected to a school Board. And I never said I wasn't on any past school task force's... But task force members seem to always be "Big Buisness" so to speak... Members this past task force included a couple middle/big shots from ottertail power, The owner of Quality Circuts, Owner of Heikes Auto, So you see who really this affected most. Quality Circuts owner was a big reason the referendum for the new school failed. He launched a huge campaign against it. Full page in the daily journal, and threats to move his company.
Posted on March 27 at 1:43 p.m.
I don't think so lookitup. I think he hit it right on the head. There are 3 driving schools within an hour of fergus. Why keep something that is costing us money.
Schools are a business. Like it or not...
Posted on March 27 at 2:33 a.m.
concerned...
I have held discussions with a few of the board members as well as a few of the members of the last task force. Our first mistake was to waste money on rebuilding these old school buildings. I know we all want neighborhood schools and we all don't want to see such lovely building disappear. But lets be real. They are old, not worth fixing, and in ten to twenty years they are going to see that and want more money.
Now what should have happened if the school board would have listened. Is that we should have built a school out on Hwy 59. Join districts with Pelican Rapids. Call it Maplewood Area High School or somthing along those facts. Build it out there, and you grab students Pelican Rapids, Dent, maybe Frazee, Vergass, Rothsay,... But this allows for more funding. To get students to want to come to your high school you need to offer them something. Parents go for new schools, innovative technology, not program cuts and teacher cuts....
best of all, it allows each of the cities to grow. It has pretty much been a proven fact that cities tend to grow towards the high schools. Best example would be Minnewaska Area High School. If you knew of Starbuck and Glenwood before the school was built you would know that both those towns have grown immensly towards that high school. Both cities in essance are growing. We here in fergus are offering a crappy old school with a few band aids on it...
You want Balance... We just gave them 32.5 million dollars, Can't see why they need more and if they did, they should have been straight up with people. I bet they wouldn't have gotten this thing passed if they would have told people
"By the way after you pass this we are going to have to cut jobs, increase feees, and still be under operational debt.
WHAT GOOD IS A REBUILT HIGH SCHOOL IF YOU ARE IN OPERATIONAL DEBT...
we are still right back to where we started from....
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Posted on May 9 at 11:18 a.m.
Cats suck.... They shed, and are pretty much good for nothing. Our world is not going to take a downward spiral because of one lost cat.
P.E.T.A.= People Eating Tasty Animals....
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