-> TK> -> Incidently, the superintendant of our local school district called 
me
-> TK> -> yesterday over the local levies.  He is actually trying to reach
-> people TK> to TK> -> find out why they are not voting for them.  We
-> discussed some of the
-> TK> Bravo Jane, seems that you have gotten your point across.  If I may 
K>
-> though ask, how did the Superintendant know to contact you? I know TK> it
-> couldn't have been just the voting no. Did you also attend TK> meetings?
-> Did you stand up, and tell them your feelings? If that TK> is the case, I
-> would say that the voting no, only worked to get TK> their attention, it
-> also took you being strong enough in your TK> conviction that you were not
-> affraid to let others know your TK> feelings. Unfortunately, all this 
ould
-> have been avoided if the TK> School Board had asked for public opinion, 
nd
-> if the public had been TK> more forthcomming with their feelings on the
-> issue. Once again the TK> only ones who were hurt by the whole ordeal were
-> the children.
->
-> He was referred to me as a local activist.  He is searching out every
-> organization around here who has meetings of any kind and asking for
-> permission to speak at them (or send someone from the school system.)
-> I knew two women who were on a citizen's board working on school 
uildings.
-> Both reported that the input at times was negated by some preconceived 
ideas
-> from one person hired by the school district.
->
-> However, another young woman objected to a school bus barn in her
-> neighborhood.  We fought that together, she on her ideas, me on the fact
-> that the planned site was too wet to support what they wanted to put 
here.
-> And asked the school board to take a look uphill from the site where 
round
-> water had destroyed the edge of the road down the hill adjacent to the 
site.
->
-> In that case, sanity prevailed and they moved the proposed bus barn to
-> another site.
->
-> I agree that the children are being harmed.  I also don't think that it is
-> sane to keep destroying agricultural land when meat coming in from another
-> nation causes outbreaks of E-Coli.  So far, we haven't had a huge 
pidemic,
-> but we will.  This mad cow disease has now managed to get to the US and is
-> here, regardless of what the ranchers in Texas said.  It is termed 
something
-> else, according to what I read in the email news briefs I get from a 
ouple
-> of sources, but the net result is the same.
->
-> We have grazing land that is green all year round due to the moisture in 
the
-> soil.  And it is not good for housing developments.  The greedy developers
-> won't admit that, are doing everything they can to put as many houses on
-> every blank space on a map regardless of whether or not they should be
-> there.
I agree on most of the issues, except when it comes to hurting the children.
It is a right born to us through the blood of our fore fathers to vote 
gainst
representitives who don't agree with our stance.  When it comes to keeping
children from improved learning that's where I get upset.  Many of the 
chools
today are outdated, inadequate, and health hazards which still hold quite a 
bit
of asbestos.
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