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It looks to me like the Whites are living in dreamland, not Green Lake, Wisconsin. Those great things in paragraph 2 don't even exist.
No kidding. Maybe the Whites can teach people how to teletransport, too.
As an alternative to having to actually drive into my work everyday as a machinist / tool and die maker, I've attempted to introduce telecommunication to my present employer.
Unfortunately, it's really hard to talk a milling machine into doing what it's supposed to over the phone!
And it sounded like such a wonderful idea. What is the name of the White's business..."Pie in the Sky" enterprises? There's 'out of the box' thinking and then there are ideas like this.
Delusions of grandeur run rampant in our fair city - the only people who profit from these types of things are those who introduce them and find gullible participants.
Yes, working from home sounds like a marvelous idea if you are independently wealthy and are the sole owner and employee of your business. Perhaps I should become a highly-paid consultant. Do any of you out there require my services? I can consult with you on darn near anything. Please let me know, we can set up an appointment.
Obviously we weren't the only ones who felt that is DEFINITELY NOT the Green Lake we live in. Shopping - only if you want beautiful but very expensive and impractical antiques, art work, etc. School: if it is so nationally known, why do we lose more kids each year to Ripon, Markesan, or Berlin than we get? Transportation - talk to any elderly person or others who can't drive and they'll tell you there is no transportation for them to get to a store to buy groceries,medicine, or other essentials they only can get at KMart or Walmart - 5 or 10 miles away. The Whites live in a dream world. OR, did Bates put them up to writing this just as he had them write such glowing remarks and pleas to raise money so the referendums would pass. Maybe he offered to share his salary raise and increased annuity with them - when by the way, Oshkosh administrators all OFFERED to take a wage freeze. Welcome to the real world - real Green Lake - Mr. & Mrs. White.
I was telecommuting to work the other day and my cell phone battery went dead...I was stranded for hours until someone brought me a phone charger. Talk about embarrassing! Can you hear me now?
Actually, I am aware of a number of people who are able to telecommunicate tied to their jobs. One works at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and does pretty much everything on laptop. He sat in my front yard last week and executed several buy and sell orders during that time. Also know a family, and the wife works for Aveda Salons. Some of her work is face to face visits, but some can be done over the phone and on her laptop, because I watched her do it while they were visiting Green Lake. Another woman I know, works for the same company I do. She works from home on Fridays, because the work she does, can be completed as long as she has a phone and laptop. Now, I will agree, many jobs out there don't fit this situation. Construction, etc, But I think the Whites were just trying to get other people, who don't live here, to consider doing so, if they are able to with the work they do. It was just another idea to try to get other people here,
Does anyone know how many people attended the GLO meeting this morning? And if so, was anyone interested in moving to GL to telecommute?
I was at the G.L.O. meeting Sat. morning and found it very interesting. I do much of my business via telecommuting. It sure beats driving down the Edens!
So now people work from home and have a special name for it. This is nothing new or particularly interesting.
It's only a matter of time before our kids are telecommuting to school, too. Think how much money we taxpayers can save! There are already public virtual schools that you can enroll your child in.
http://www.wisconsinvirtualschool.org
I would not allow my child to attend any school that supports the International Baccalaureate manifesto. Period. The IB programme will be the death of Green Lake public schools, unless we can get it removed before it's too late.
For districts which have already purchased IB, hope isn’t completely lost:
1. Elect new Board Trustees who didn’t drink the Kool Aid
2. Keep track of the money spent on IB and the number of IB Diploma recipients
3. Double check any stats put out by the district to promote IB - the tendency to double count and exaggerate by using percentages instead of actual numbers is prevalent with IB
4. Inform taxpayers who don’t have school-age children how their money is being wasted on IB
5. Write letters to your local paper
6. Question with boldness, hold to the truth, speak without fear.
As Americans, we are blessed with the right to own property and in most cases, the right to have a voice when it comes to public education. The Progressives who support IB count on the trust and apathy of busy parents to rubber stamp their agenda without question. With billions of dollars at stake, we can no longer afford to sit by silently.
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson
Many agree - our money spent on IB is THE main cause people vote no on the referendums. Would be interesting to see if Bates puts our school first instead of his PHD thesis on IB and cancels IB how many more YES votes we would get. Otherwise HE has to take the blame for another failed referendum. School Board members - quit caving in to him. We elected you to be our mouthpieces, so stand up for what we citizens want!
Spread the word - vote yes ONLY if IB is canceled. I'd bet the yes votes would win this time if it is!
P.S. and don't believe the lies about grants - did you read the article in the paper saying taxpayers ultimately pay for all the grants. Therefore OUR taxes ARE paying for IB.
You couldn't have said it better! Excellent comments!
I would just like to take these comments one step further and say that replacing Ken Bates with a different administrator would do wonders for the school, the community and the future of our students. He is a detriment to our school and his contract NEVER should have been renewed.
Maybe we could pay a new administrator less money and let him telecommute.
From what I'm lead to believe...with as little time as Bates actually spends at the school...he might as well be telecommuting! See, Ken is a 'visionary' and must have thought of all this working from remote locations way before the Whites did (and he gets paid big bucks to do it...what a wonderful world Ken lives in).
Leonard, it is equally as easy to delegate your work out to others if you are at home or work.
Who are the Whites anyway? Another flash in the pan from IL? What have they contributed to Green Lake other than gifting to the Ken Bates re-election campaign?
I heard the money that they raised "for the school" was used to pay some of the many consultants that Bates hires to do his work for him. What a joke. How can the school board justify his $180,000 salary???? Taxpayers are mad as hell.
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson
Ah, more internet misquotes.
Actual quote:
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
Not quite the same meaning.
oh my - the idea of telecommuting raises this much negative ruckus? How very sad that people can't appreciate the idea of thinking outside of the box and exploring options. Of course a single idea won't apply to everyone - that's common sense. Just because your employment doesn't qualify for telecommuting, why must you be so bitter and criticize?
Actually the meaning 'is' quite the same. You can change the words but not the context...essentially they are the same.
I agree with the Ruckus lady.
Why do we always have to attack "The Whites"? Isn't that reverse discrimination?
It is not reverse discrimination - it is the fact that the Whites have recently moved here, want to better our school and therefore the GL community - yet are finding out like so many of us who have moved here,in our case 15 years ago, there is a very strong mentality of Green Lake citizens that "we do not do things that way here."
It is not the White's job to take control of the school. However, after watching Bates bumble through the past several years and bring our school down to what resembles a wreck, someone with brains and business sense should take over the school, like a new administrator.
Hey, it was a joke. Everyone needs to lighten up a little bit. No wonder why the G.L. community is in such deep sh_t.
In the words of my son Rodney,
"Can't we all just get along"
You can change the words but not the context...essentially they are the same.
Uhm,no. The context is the context, but when you change words, you change meanings. Jefferson's words were from The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. He was writing about compeling people to support religion which they did not believe in. It had nothing at all to do with taxes.
Also, ideas and opinions are in no way the same things.
Misquotes like these are used out of context in order to support positions that the original writer never meant.
Hopefully the IB grads will learn such distinctions.
Nothing has changed in Green Lake with so much negativity. I left years ago because of the locals being so angry and their dislikle of any new community members.
I personally find that constructive criticism is beneficial. What you call negativity is simply what you don't agree with. Perhaps you are the one being negative for not agreeing with me or anyone else who thinks differently from you.
If we all pretend that everything is great (it isn't) then how can we change for the better?
I agree. We have a right to be discontented with society and government on all levels, and to say so. How can we make things better if we don't take a serious look at the flaws and try to correct them?
Pull your heads out of the sand!
Speaking of being discontented with government, I am not the only one who is totally pissed off that the city has replaced our good topsoil with total sh*t dirt/sand along Lake Street. The only thing that grows in it is weeds. I am disgusted with the city works dept. Is this the best you can do? Inexcusable.
Just be happy you are getting a new street. Some of us have crap for a street.
Understand that we get to vote for/against another school referendum in a couple weeks. Everyone is being very quiet about it - even school board. Those who went to the listening session with GL and Markesan School Boards about Markesan's invitation to SAVE MONEY and combine our 7-12 grades found it very interesting.And financially the only way to save a school in GL. Have heard of several more students deciding over the summer to transfer to Ripon and Berlin - even though open enrollment deadline is past and parents paying so their children can get a more well-rounded education.
Hopefully no one else will stoop so low as Ms. E did and USE the student who we all mourn as a leverage to "work together to support our school for students like him" What total lack of respect towards him and his parents - as well as his many friends and teachers.
Talk about a low blow. You can't get any lower than that.
And by a teacher whose salary we are paying at that. Sad in more ways than one.
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