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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all the emphasis that Superintendent Murphy places on technology, I sure wish those CIP meetings could be conducted in some other way besides in person meetings after 7 on a weekday.

I'm an overextended mom who participates in 3 committees (that meet either once or twice each per month), the PTA, other random volunteering, I'm the room mom, have a weekly date night with my husband, and I have friends I occasionally like to have dinner with.  So I'm sorry I didn't participate in the CIP forums, but I did fill out the survey.  I have now also read ALL of the background materials to the CIP.  I wrote to the board and spoke at a school board meeting, and did a LOT of reading.

To me, it seems like this CIP process was a bit stacked from the beginning because there are discussions about not being able to afford a new high school given the bond requirements pretty early on.  So it seems like that was off the table, but it needed to be ON the table.

I'm sorry that I've upset you for not getting involved earlier, and you're right that it's always easier to find fault with what the people who showed up did than it is to create something yourself.  That's a fair observation.  But, dude!  Dual shifts in high school?  No.  Just, no.[/quote]

Yes. They have known all along that we don't have bond capacity to commit to starting to build a new high school for at least six years so have been talking about other options all along. That's not "stacking the deck." That's math.[/quote]

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