A letter to the Administration of District 150

As much as we appreciate the meals (feeding us shit sandwiches and telling us it is steak) you provides us with on a regular basis, we are getting damn sick of them. Some of us are intelligent enough to know the difference.
I understand you have a tough job. I must be so hard to find ways to enrich yourselves, friends and family by creating new positions and getting rid of the “unneccesary ones”. Really, who needs lunchworkers, custodians, and teachers? Maybe you can just throw buckets full of food on the gym floor and let the kids fight for it like animals. It will be good training to help them appreciate the shit sandwiches you’ll be feeding them when they grow up.
As someone who has been lucky enough to attend one of your “we’ll pretend like we give a fuck what the community thinks” meetings in the past, I’ll let you in on a secret. You aren’t fooling anyone. We know that it is all feel good PR and that you will do whatever the hell you want regardless of what we think or feel. You already have your minds made up before you even let the community know you are having a meeting but you want us to feel like we made a difference. Unfortunately, alot of the times it works.
In closing, if you are going to constantly bend us over at least use some lube. Shit, tweak a nipple, give a reach-a-round, something to make us feel better about handing over our tax dollars and children to the most greedy, and selfish bunch of bureaucratic fuck stains I’ve ever seen.
Hugs and Kisses,
East Bluff Barbie

Lowering my Expectations

Yesterday one of my sons got off the bus and told me that a certain kid gave him the finger. This is nothing new. There is a core group of bullies on the bus and my son is one of their targets. Then my son tell me how one of the bullies had a glass bottle that he so graciously gave to another bully to try to break over my son’s head. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. My son has already been assaulted and threatened but this really crossed the line.

I put in a call to the assistant principal but she was in a meeting so I was forced to leave a message. This morning I decided I was going to call the transportation office to find out why there is no bus monitor on this bus. The man that I talked to provided me with various excuses. The first was that there are no special ed kids on the bus. Well, he didn’t know that he was talking to a mother with a special ed kid on that very bus and knows of at least 3 other special ed kids. Then he told me they weren’t special ed enough, according to the state of Illinois, to require a monitor. He said he didn’t have a monitor to spare anyway. So I laid everything out for him with out all the bullshit. I told him that he was tell me that there was no money for a monitor and that was tough. He told me that he didn’t say that. He told me how it was all the state’s fault because they won’t provide the funding and how a bus driver is perfectly capable of driving a bus and disciplining more than sixty kids without help. I then told him what exactly had been happening to my child on the bus and he already knew which mom I was (there was a particular incident that is too disgusting to forget). Then he explained to me how there are far worse busses in the district and they don’t get a monitor. Now he is justifying bad behavior by pointiing out worse behavior and he expects that to pacify me? He told me all I can do is contact my state legislature and beg for money so my kid can have safe ride to and from school.

In a nut shell, district 150 can come up will money to buy a house that border the park and demolish them when they don’t get their way but money for a bus monitor for elementary school students is out of the question. Thank you district 150. I thought my opinion of you could not get any less but you lowered the bar and lived up to your shitty reputation.

District 150’s crisis plan

Being the first week of school, my children have brought home mountains of information from their school and the district.  My favorite came from the desk of Ken Hinton.  It was a note talking about their Crisis plan.  To paraphrase:

Don’t come to the school or crisis area

Don’t call District 150

Don’t talk to your children on their cell phones

If you want information check the District 150 website.

I don’t know about you but this sounds perfectly sensible to  me.  How can District 150 turn “Tom got shot by Jimmy.” into “Hey, Jimmy got an A in Marksmanship 101!” if the parents have access to all those pesky little facts.

What the?

My neighbor called me and told me she seen a story on the 5 o’clock news that District 150 had some secret meeting and the news media was not allowed to report on it until 10 o’clock.  Don’t you love free press?!  I’m pretty sure I can translate what is going on. 

Taxpaying Citizens:  Bend over and Grab your ankles!  Here we come and we forgot the lube!

Breaking the Ice

The city council and the school board have decided to put their differences aside and meet for the first time in awhile.  In the past they have had a contentious relationship, so here are a few subject of discussion that are sure to break the ice:

Evolution verses Creation

The war in Iraq

Roe verses Wade

Cards verses Cubs

I hope all these neutral subjects will get the talks off on the right foot.

Back to School

Just in time for back to school District 150 announced a new class for the student that may not be college bound.   The fall semester look for the high schools to offer Economics 420 – the economics of drug dealing.  The students will learn economic principles such as supply and demand.  You learn how to cut out the middle man to maximize profits and minimize expenses.  You will also learn how to hide your assets and income so that you can still apply for public aid.  It is an essential course for a successful drug dealing career.

Coming soon are the companion course to economics 420 such as marksmanship 101 and phys. ed. 150-running from the police.