PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Bentonville Kids Need This
Posted: March 10, 2010 at 3:48 a.m.
We will be voting “yes” on April 13 for the 3.6-mill increase that will benefit all kids in the Bentonville Public Schools.
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Opinion, Pages 5 on 03/10/2010
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I am 100% for building skills for the schools. I have been in Bentonville schools many times and I can see that space is obviously cramped. However, I think that the Bentonville School District has a tendency to go overboard on their schools. Examples: Cooper Elementary, Mary Mae Jones Elementary, and Central Park Elementary. I am not saying that they have to make a tin building to through the students in, but they can do something far simpler and save the tax payers a lot of money.
Posted by: blhoward
March 13, 2010 at 5:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
I am opposed to the millage increase. I had a children in the Bentonville schools during the 2008-2009 school year. The high school and the junior high school were awful from a teacher, administration and guidance perspective. The high school refused to accept transfer credit from my son's public high school in Raleigh NC, the junior high refused to offer basic services to a hearing impared child. I would not support a millage to build another high school, is there any data to show that a second high school will be required by the time is built, which at this point will not be prior to the 2012-2013 school year? The population of Bentonville is not growing at a fast rate, it is possible that in three years time that the boom in enrollment will have subsided and the second high school will not be needed.
I have transfered the kids to an online public school where they are honor students! No thanks to the millage increase. There are other ways to handle a temporary population surge.
Posted by: fusgeyer
March 14, 2010 at 12:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
It sounds like you have more of a problem with the school not accepting the transfer credit. If a school does not offer basic services to any impaired student
thats against the law. So don't take it out on the students who just go there to learn. Remember they are the next leaders of our country.
Posted by: humble
March 14, 2010 at 2:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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