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It’s for the children

My column for the West Bend Daily News is online.  It’s called, “It’s for the children.”  It’s about spring in Wisconsin.  Here’s a part:

It’s going to get up to 70 degrees this week and the smell of spring is in the air. I love to drive around town this time of year and see all of the colors sprouting in yards. The blues, yellows, reds, greens, and other colors are like a fresh coat of paint on West Bend after the months of dreary snow.

Oh, and I also mention the school board election next week.

Posted by Owen at 0644 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. The average West Bend family has some choices for next year about what to do with their non-existent extra income.  More money for the School District employ….er Kids.  Or spend that money to cover their higher health insurance premiums?

   Decisions.  Decisions.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 30, 2010 at 0801 hrs
   
   
   

2. Anyone can promise to improve quality while charging less, but unless they can show how they will make significant changes in the system to allow that to happen, the promise is an empty promise.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 30, 2010 at 0852 hrs
   
   
   

3. FL:  Maybe check out Weigand’s blog.  He gets into that there.  He’ll give his suggestions tonight at the forum.  Coming?

   Note the repeat performance associated with Corazzi’s name…FAIL.

   Posted by GAMazy on March 30, 2010 at 0916 hrs
   
   
   

4. The only time I ever hear the phrase “Its for the kids,” or its variant in the title of this post, is when the right is sarcastically berating public school educators. Try a different trope. That one is getting tired and predictable.

   Posted by Mike on March 30, 2010 at 2120 hrs
   
   
   

5. Mike,

   I don’t use, ‘it’s for the kids’.... I prefer to refer to the kids as the teachers’ human shields…

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 30, 2010 at 2140 hrs
   
   
   

6. The only time I ever hear the phrase “Its for the kids,” or its variant in the title of this post, is when the right is sarcastically berating public school educators. Try a different trope. That one is getting tired and predictable.

   Kind of like “no blood for oil” eh?

   

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 30, 2010 at 2140 hrs
   
   
   

7. At the forum last night Corazzi mentioned he came from Europe before re- locating to West Bend.

   Enough said, it all makes sense now.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 31, 2010 at 0841 hrs
   
   
   

8. The incumbents are campaigning as a de facto ticket as are the challengers.

   This is a disingenuous statement as it implies the incumbents came out of the gate as a ticket. Owen knows that’s not true. It was Weigand and Marquardt that approached this election joined at the hip and the incumbents reacted.
   Personally I don’t care at all for candidates that don’t stand up on their own.
   I won’t put up any signs because I think they’re stupid, but I will be voting a split ticket. Given the close vote in the primary, I’d further contend that this would most closely reflect the will of the people.
   Once again, too many folks (on both sides) like to see everything in black and white. That way they don’t really have to think much.
   My advice, look at the individuals and make your choice.

   Posted by Charlie Hillman on March 31, 2010 at 1142 hrs
   
   
   

9. How is it disingenuous?  Is it not accurate?  I used the present tense of the verb.  I did not intend to imply anything about how any of them entered the campaign.  I would suggest that any implication you derived from that statement is not correct.

   Posted by Owen on March 31, 2010 at 1203 hrs
   
   
   

10. lynn corazzi lost an election so he’s unqualified- good thing for him Owen didn’t write in Lincoln"s day or no Honest Abe for us (no job to report)

    kathy van erhden won a bunch of elections but she’s horrible because nothing good happened in those 9 years (no job to report)

    Dave Wiegand loves puppies, has a job and hasn"t has anything to do with the district -save for sending a child this year to the HS (but that’s another good thing)

    Randy Marquardt is also employed ,wants clearer communication,brotherhood and the 3r’s
    (and officially supports the teaching of creationism in the schools WB News 3/31/2010)

    i could have written your article for you the day the “Conservative Duo” sent in their apps

    Wiegand could win- I like him personally.

    Marquardt’s answers could come from any candidate running in any school board race in America with zero insight into how the system actually works.And if you’re for creationism in the schools-you are a litigation time bomb.

    Endorse One- i get it, endorse both and your betray your own standards of minimal competency

    A columnist with considerable insight endorsing a candidate with none

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 31, 2010 at 2202 hrs
    
    
    

11. officially supports the teaching of creationism

    Yes indeed. Owen talks about the “severe differences in philosophy”, yet fails to mention this. Odd. It does seem like a big difference. I wonder what kind of creationism? Buddhist? Hindu?

    Posted by Charlie Hillman on April 02, 2010 at 1118 hrs
    
    
    

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