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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article failed to mention how often Dr. Jack Dale really looked foolish. I look forward to his retirement.[/quote]

I know this is very fashionable to say -- to blame Dr. Dale and ridicule him -- but as a parent new to FCPS I have to say I was really impressed with him.  Sorry!  SB members like Elizabeth Schultz & Patty Reed were shouting about how "the numbers" changed between different CIPs and while they stopped short of calling the staff a bunch of buffoons, that is clearly what they meant.  Dr. Dale tried to explain: models change, we take into account the latest data and the projections change, etc.  Anybody who's worked in the private or public sector -- by this I mean anybody who has worked -- knows that this is true.  Models change; numbers change; projections change.  As long as those changes can be explained, we shouldn't be surprised.  Schultz & Reed didn't want to hear this, and wanted to paralyze the system in order to punish the staff.  They wanted to NOT pass the CIP because the numbers were in flux.  That's irresponsible.  Dr. Dale called them out on it.  He seemed to me like the grown-up in the room.[/quote]

Reed was in a very tough position.  She knew the overcrowding at Haycock was untenable, but she represents people who would not be forced to change schools so often had planning been better and projections more accurate.  Of course she had to summon up some righteous indignation and make clear it's not a situation anyone should be happy or sanguine about, least of all Jack Dale.

Schultz is a total buffoon who sucks the oxygen out of the room any time she opens her mouth.  [/quote]

Reed was on the school board for the Freedom Hill to Lemon Road boundary vote.  Now here's a place to move the day care center:
http://www.fcps.edu/fts/adminservices/communitybldg/index.shtml

The old Graham Rd building.  Reed was also on the board when the daycare center lease was renewed.  Breaking that lease has penalties but it is with the Board of Supervisors.

That recently retired school building is 4 miles from the program loaded and low class size building Bailey's.   Seems bringing it back as a school and a large boundary change is in order.[/quote]

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