On Sunday, the 17th
I went to the West Bloomfield High School for the UnitedWeWalk.org
celebration. For the uninformed,
UnitedWeWalk is a tribute to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. I walked in
the minus 15 degree wind chill. However,
I now possess a terrible cold and cough. I tell you my tale of woe only as an
explanation as to why I am now wide awake, in the middle of the night. I’m
rummaging through some odds and ends concerning the Pontiac School District. These are items that bother me but not enough
to dedicate an entire article about them.
First, I’m looking at “School
District of the City of Pontiac, Statement of Net Position” dated June 30,
2015.
Now I am by no stretch of the
imagination an accountant, therefore all I can do is add up the numbers on this
statement, which should be available on their web site:
Total Liabilities and deferred
inflows of resources………………………$130,516.742
Total assets and deferred
outflows of resources ………………………..$
45,587,941
The
difference…………………………………………………………………………….$
84,928,803
Again, it looks like voodoo
economics to me, but then all I have are the numbers.
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Second, there is a picture that
has appeared in the newspaper several times over the last year or so and is on
most of the Districts literature. It
further demonstrates the ineptitude of the people running the Pontiac School
District. If you look closely at the caption
beneath the photo. You have to ask yourself, “Why do they have a picture of a
boiler in Almont, a city 40 miles outside of Pontiac?” OR, and even more disturbing, how in the
world does such an obvious mistake go uncorrected for over a year?
Aging boiler
at Almont Elementary School in
Pontiac. Photo from Pontiac School District
NOTE: This looks
like every other boiler in the known world &……….. it’s ALCOTT school.
Just hours after I pointed out in the blog that the Pontiac School District Paper (aka the Oakland Press)
ReplyDeleteand the District themselves couldn't even properly identify a photograph of an old boiler. To wit: For over a year
they said it was in the ALMONT school instead of properly saying it was in the ALCOTT school. Well someone
is reading the blog because in Thursday's school paper this story appears:
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20160120/cold-classroom-complaint-resurfaces-in-pontiac-officials-say-classrooms-warmer-Wednesday
The lesson here is that I've made more improvements to the Pontiac School District buildings than they have in the last 10 years.
Now, before we heap to much praise on these folks, let me tell you, a conspiracy theory I've heard is that this may not even
be a picture of the ALCOTT school boiler. I personally don't buy into this theory, however for over a year they got the name
wrong. I'll let you draw your own conclusion.
OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER, WE NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
Jim Endres for C.A.R.E., Communities Acting for Responsible Education
http://carepsd.blogspot.com/