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Originally Posted by speedog
Quite impressive I must say that you resort to something like your last statement above because someone can't be persuaded to have the same viewpoint as yours. I truly expected more than that considering what appeared to be a robust discussion regarding the concerns I raised in my initial post in this thread but alas, I was wrong - apparently it is a "my way or no way" world in this forum for some.
93JC, this thread is respectfuly your playground now.
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If there's anyone here who just made their "my way or no way" views clear it's
you. You've either ignored my very salient points or tried to undermine my credibility by asking whether I have kids and volunteer in my neighbourhood, as if to say you are more qualified to speak to this issue.
Your argument from the very start has been in favour of closing one of your local schools because it's not used by local kids. Your entire point of view is based on the idea that non-local kids going to your local school is 'bad' because non-local traffic enters the neighbourhood and the non-local parents aren't involved in the community like the local parents once were. All along I've said that's lamentable but on a broader municipal and province-wide level: too bad.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: closing some inner-city schools may be the best option because the
buildings have reached their end of life but closing them down because they are being fully utilized in a manner that does not meet your approval is not an option.
We do not have the money to make school capacities match their neighbourhood's ever-changing demographics. The school boards are doing the best they can to keep every single school optimally filled because it costs a hell of a lot of money to build new schools and yeah, in many cases that means having a non-local student population.
My last statement? My last statement was paraphrasing the adage "opinions are like assholes: everyone has one." I don't know why that made you decide to become a sucky-baby, it was just an acknowledgement that you have your opinion and are sticking to it, and I have my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Neither one of us is going to be persuaded to change their opinion.