Comments on: Local: Cops want good schools just like everyone else

By: idonotknowme

idonotknowme — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:16:24 +0000

If we had school choice, we wouldn’t have the problem of people fleeing District 150’s borders. Better yet, if we didn’t have government schools at all, this would not be an issue. If you live inside the border of District 150 are you forced to go to a doctor in District 150? Are you forced to go to a barber in District 150? A bar? A gas station? No. And you shouldn’t be confined to those crappy government schools either.

By: BJ Stone

BJ Stone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:28:38 +0000

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:04:52 +0000

At no time during my occupancy of a mobile home in rural Pottstown was I also in the employ of the City of Peoria.

By: BJ Stone

BJ Stone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:46:33 +0000

Should anyone who blogs and/or complains about how Peoria is run be forced to live in Peoria, too?

Much has been made, Billy, about the “Peoria Pundit” living outside of Peoria quite a bit in recent years.

I think people should be able to live whereever the hell they want, it used to be (pre-Bush/Rove) a free country.

By: Mamma Hen

Mamma Hen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:38:39 +0000

I don’t blame our officers at all. School’s are much different when we were young . Today thugs don’t care about human life or their ownlives . Its all about turf and we will show them.We have high school kids in my ares and they have sidewalks , but they want to walk in the streets my husband almost hit one of the kids the other day while backing out of our driveway and they cussed at him…. There is NO REPECT, things are different . I do not blame our officers . They want their kids to be as safe as we do ours…

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:36:26 +0000

Hold on, because one town’s schools suck, you want arbitration rules to change? You have obviously never worked at place where a union was needed because of company practices. And no, pay is not the issue. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need unions and arbitrators but I’ve yet to find that happy place.

I can see why some would think a city employee should live in town. Was the employee hired to do a job or for tax income? To me it’s no different than a cat employee who has a backhoe business on the side having to buy cat backhoes because he works at cat. He might think the john deere backhoe is better but since he works at cat, he has to buy the cat.

If the city wants its employees to live in town, make the town a better place, i.e. fix the schools.

By: 11Bravo

11Bravo — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:34:25 +0000

Billy, while I am all for extra help for students, I hope you don’t intend on having the teachers whose room the students are in fulfill your plan? That’s several hours a week of extra time they would have to commit and most have a pretty full plate as it is.

By: Peo Proud

Peo Proud — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:29:13 +0000

Approximately 5 to 7 years ago, the State Legislature amended the state collective bargaining law which previously prevented residency issues from going before an arbitrator – so communities had the ability to impose them. However, with the change in statute making it another topic for arbitration – it wasn’t long before the system failed and residency requirements throughout the state were eliminated due to arbitrator decisions. I say give them the right to strike and let’s all get it on. Arbitration is great in theory and abysmal in practice.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:57:15 +0000

Here’s an idea: Guarantee 10 extra minutes of one-on-one instructional time for each kid every week.

By: diane vespa

diane vespa — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:46:23 +0000

but all they can come up with is that they need to build new buildings and cut the amount of time teachers have to teach.

Don’t forget that they are also planning on instating a uniform policy. Let’s give credit where credit is due!