IS THE ITEM TRYING TO OUT "POETRY" ME?

PICKING A PLAN FOR PICKERING

You have to give them PROPS for their repetition of the "P" sound. I could not have done it better. Not only do they get an "A" for alliteration it's kind of hard to argue with their argument but I do ask you when has that ever stopped me?

TRUE - The construction of the NEW Marshall is not only coming in on budget and will be beautiful.

BUT there is no WOTRING WING.

Hopefully since the PROPOSED PICKERING will be about 11/2 times the size of it this time they'll be able to squeeze it in. I have to tell you the price tag makes me shutter, $132 MILLION.

I heard at a MONTHLY MEETING for the new MARSHALL construction that the same design team had an inside track on the new PICKERING construction. Looks like somebody was clairvoyant. That's not necessarily a "bad" thing. Coming in on-tie considering the winter we had last year is a remarkable achievement.

Still I do have to return to an old question. How did KIPP build a comparable size school to the new MARSHALL for roughly a third of the cost? I was told that it wasn't holding up as well because there wasn't all the oversight and regulation required by the MSBA. I broached that statement with an official from KIPP who flatly denied it.

Another thing to think about is with the prevailing climate toward adding more charter schools makes you wonder if we are going to need that large a school and if the dwindling resources might be better spent providing more direct services?

But who's kidding who? I am all for anything that'll make the WOTRING WING a reality.