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Letters: D204 didn’t need 3rd high school
Nov 4, 2010 03:48:05PM
D204 didn’t need third high school
If you follow the endless stream of e-mails and other information coming from Indian Prairie School District 204, you will have noticed something strange.
Ever since the district convinced voters four years ago into approving hundreds of millions for the third high school that we were going to desperately need by 2010, we never hear a peep from the district about enrollment anymore. Hmm.
So, let’s take a look again this year at the facts in the district’s official Sept. 30 enrollment number report, which they must file with the state.
And what do we see?
Once again, we see no growth and, in fact, overall enrollment declined by 267 students, or the equivalent of 10 more empty classrooms.
But, the “yes” voters will say, “There must be growth at the elementary or middle school levels?”
Nope.
Elementary and middle school enrollment both showed declines from 2009.
This all reminds me of the old Wendy’s commercial from the 1980s in which actress Clara Peller receives a burger with a massive bun from a fictional competitor which uses the slogan “Home of the Big Bun.” The small patty prompts Peller to angrily exclaim, “Where’s the beef?”
Only today, it is taxpayers and future generations who are wondering, “Where’s my money?”
The country is bankrupt, the state is bankrupt and apparently District 204 is morally bankrupt for borrowing hundreds of millions to buy land and build a school we did not need and cannot afford to operate.
Paul White
Naperville
Letters: D204 didn’t need 3rd high school
Nov 4, 2010 03:48:05PM
D204 didn’t need third high school
If you follow the endless stream of e-mails and other information coming from Indian Prairie School District 204, you will have noticed something strange.
Ever since the district convinced voters four years ago into approving hundreds of millions for the third high school that we were going to desperately need by 2010, we never hear a peep from the district about enrollment anymore. Hmm.
So, let’s take a look again this year at the facts in the district’s official Sept. 30 enrollment number report, which they must file with the state.
And what do we see?
Once again, we see no growth and, in fact, overall enrollment declined by 267 students, or the equivalent of 10 more empty classrooms.
But, the “yes” voters will say, “There must be growth at the elementary or middle school levels?”
Nope.
Elementary and middle school enrollment both showed declines from 2009.
This all reminds me of the old Wendy’s commercial from the 1980s in which actress Clara Peller receives a burger with a massive bun from a fictional competitor which uses the slogan “Home of the Big Bun.” The small patty prompts Peller to angrily exclaim, “Where’s the beef?”
Only today, it is taxpayers and future generations who are wondering, “Where’s my money?”
The country is bankrupt, the state is bankrupt and apparently District 204 is morally bankrupt for borrowing hundreds of millions to buy land and build a school we did not need and cannot afford to operate.
Paul White
Naperville