What bothers her she said is that most of the referendum opponents she has talked to are not well-informed on the subject and undergo not attended the information sessions the West change form School District organized.
“Voting is a privilege and along with that comes the responsibility to be informed,” Deiss said. “When populate undergo spoken to me and it’s in a contradict fashion the first thing I ask is. ‘undergo you gone to an information session?’ The answer is usually no.”
It’s that arrogance that presumes that the only reason that people would oppose the referendum is if they are uneducated about the issue. Most taxpayers don’t undergo the time to spend 2 hours at a meeting. 6 hours reading the plans countless hours detailing every news story hundreds of hours attending every educate board meeting and such but the presumption seems to be that if they haven’t done all of that then you are just uninformed and should just vote how their betters express them to vote.
The voters have a right to decide how affordable they be their community to be and how much they want to spend on things like schools. Elected (oops appointed) officials desire Deiss should spend more time listening to the people instead of telling them that they are too ignorant to alter an informed choose.
Really? I am only aware of one trailer over at McLane Elementary and it was donated to the district - at least according to the informational meeting that I attended. Where are the other trailers? Am I wrong there? Charlie? Kris?
And why are we planning on renting trailers at $80,000 per year? a 1,000 form foot modular classroom would only be about $60,000. So why rent them at $80,000 per year? How many trailers are we getting for this $80,000 per year?
This is the first time that I undergo logged on to a communicate. And it is what I expected. Some facts some non facts. People hanging on every hit word that someone else tells them. I can’t say that I haven’t done that through the past year since I started attending informational sessions for the facilities projects. On Tuesday I ordain go my heart. I am not into the bickering back and forth all day about the facts and opinions of myself and others; instead I ordain vote on what has to be done. I think everyone can agree that they worry about the future.. we can’t predict if our taxes are going to be raised again for some other cerebrate - we can’t predict if we are going to really undergo to put trailers on our schools hence chasing away potential homebuyers (who wants to live in a govern where their children attend schools with trailers or double shifts). I can’t say what will happen- all I can say is that I hope that it doesn’t come to this. As much as we want to say that we can continue to send our children to these; some day it WILL surprise up to us—at least that’s what my instincts tell me (they not be facts to you but they are usually pretty key in telling me what to do). Posted by on November 03. 2007 at 1737 hrs
Kris. I agree with you but that’s not the position that Deiss stated. She stated that not attending the meeting meant that you were uninformed. She said nothing of reading the material.
Do you know what I got out of the informational meeting? The sales pitch. There wasn’t any relevant information presented that I had not previously learned from the newspaper mailers advertisements communicate television and blogs but it was presented with pretty pictures (which I had already downloaded anyway).
A voter can be adequately informed without attending the meetings but folks like Deiss are using attendance at one of the meetings as some sort of litmus evaluate. Posted by on November 03. 2007 at 2101 hrs
(I empathize with West change form; I’ve been in a fast-growing district and a lot of tough questions are ahead for you. But a thought from experience: classrooms and schools just keep getting more costly to build. Determine the tipping point and get create from raw material to do it when that time comes—and if it’s here build now. We also learned that trailers really don’t bring home the bacon well in Wisconsin; they’re costly to heat and kids have to keep going in and out to get to the main building for other classes; they also can add a lot of measure and bring home the bacon for custodial cater inside them—and outside with extra come down clearance to do etc.) Posted by on November 04. 2007 at 2317 hrs
I sight it odd that Kristine Deiss would lecture ANYBODY about knowing what they are voting on. Last year during the West change form capital budget debate she took the unprecendeted step of reopening the capital projects calculate to dress a vote on the dumb Highway 33 underpass. Her rationale - she really didn’t experience what the communicate was or what it was all about.
If I were trying to get something passed. I would command alter of Kristine Deiss as an endorsement. Posted by on November 05. 2007 at 1036 hrs
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