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Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:29:41 -0000

I was wondering when "dudes in speedo's" would be mentioned...lol

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Gavilan is a developer, and it should start thinking like one

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:05:34 -0000

In general, government agencies make lousy developers. They lack the expertise, they are usually controlled by Boards, and from my experience, a Board makes for a poor negotiator. Too many opinions and no ability to quickly decide anything. When GUSD sold it's land to a local developer who promised to set some aside for a school, they sold it at farmland prices. When they attempted to build the school, the developer sold it back to them at the housing land price, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. School and College Districts would best be advised to stay out of the development game. Just use the land for schools and colleges and nothing else. Don't play shell games and promise some future windfall that won't ever happen. It's always a mistake.

While I agree the City Council should treat all developers the same, including education districts, I also believe they have the power to force better deals than to just let these public entities get fleeced. Once it's obvious someone has been taken advantage of (public money), they should quietly negotiate something to mitigate that. They could have withheld housing allotments to force a better deal for the schools. It would only have saved everyone's tax money that way. For the good of all.

But for education to get into development of something other than a school...bad idea!

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Let's get two times the cheer!

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:08:36 -0000

I'm starting to agree with you more and more...lol. Good times!

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:05:37 -0000

"When 96% of the schools population is affluent White and Asian students, it is very easy to attain a high API."

Is that your honest belief? That it's about race?

I say it's about approach. Tone. "Doing the right things" and having high expectations for all students. I find race to be an excuse. And a poor one.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:58:12 -0000

It sells a lot of papers. It has it's purpose.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:55:59 -0000

In High School I missed many days of school with the Band. We were National Champions. I graduated with degrees in Math and Engineering. It's about individual responsibility. It's about personal drive. People can make a lot of excuses, but if you want to succeed in life, you just have to work for it. A couple of days a year one way or the other won't make any difference at all. There is no need to be fanatics about it. Missing class is not good, but it's also not the end of the world. Keep a balanced perspective.

Your nephew learned a lot in wrestling that will help him in life, like hard work and commitment to goals. Give him time and encouragement and I'm sure he will succeed. While I enjoy Math, there is more to life than Geometry.

You might have him apply to be a lineman at PG&E. They make $120,000 a year and have excellent health and retirement benefits. America needs linemen. That goes for girls also! It's a hard job but it pays really well and can lead to a great career. And they will teach him basic geometry. It's needed for some construction work.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:48:36 -0000

What was said by the Board President was taped at a meeting. Plus, I'm sure the parents that were sitting in the meeting can confirm the statements made. You can believe what you want to believe. I'm just presenting facts. I certainly don't recall saying you attacked any gay students. I would, of course, expect you to stand up for the rights of LGTB students! You said I hurt your children when I spoke up in defense of the Day of Silence. I'm sorry you felt the need to drag my daughter into your column over that issue. I know what it was all about, so don't think I took that lightly. It was pretty underhanded.

I have called for you to be more public in support of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Bisexual students! Speak out on the issue! Be heard! Take a stand for these kids! You can do this and serve the community best be breaking down a few barriers. There is no need to hold back. We both know the risks of speaking up, but it needs to be done. Don't be meek, it's not your style. Make it all worth it. You know I have spoken openly about this in the past and you were a paid columnist who belittled me for it. Set the record straight, that you support these students and you will fight for their rights openly!

I'm sorry you thought I hurt your children speaking about the Day of Silence. I would never do anything I thought would harm a child. My perspective was different on the issue, and please understand I didn't see it that way. In the future, if you want to drag my daughter into your columns, why don't you call her up and get to know her as a person. She's hardly a clone of me. She's her own girl, and deserves her own respect as a person. She's not a pawn for our debates. Thank you.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:27:57 -0000

The Principal allowed the cheerleaders to wear their uniforms. I support that. Glad you do as well! Frankly, I wouldn't know a thing about GUSD cheerleaders uniforms if it WASN'T PASTED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER! It's just exploiting the situation to sell papers. Who really cares? It's the worlds biggest non-issue. The cheerleaders were ALLOWED to wear their uniforms. End of story. The length of the uniform is not really an issue to me, personally. I couldn't care less. I just see a pattern of dragging them into things for no good reason with false controversies. Watch for that in the future. Your eyes are open now.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:21:10 -0000

I was being sarcastic. The whole thing is a joke. It's just an excuse to put a girl on the cover of the paper to sell more papers. Get it? It's about $$$.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:13:14 -0000

We'd better get together a winking policy. If a girl winks at a guy in class, it might cause test scores to drop!

You'd better be careful or the whole student body will decide to tank the state mandated tests and ruin the school!

God forbid they discover they HAVE THE POWER!

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:10:09 -0000

http://www.gilroydispatch.c...

Here's the link to the full article. I guess you decided to cut out all the personal attacks you threw at me at the opening of it. Noble of you!

My point was that 3 days away from school was not excessive, and to visit the Capital was a great thing. We needed to shut up about it and move on to something meaningful. It was petty. Sad and petty. If you honestly claim GUSD is performing poorly because of the FFA trip, then it's hopeless. It would have been better for those students at that meeting to be at home studying instead of fighting for their trip. We wasted those students and those parents time with this.

The real issues facing GUSD have to do with teacher recruitment and retention and performance at the Site leadership levels. We were "drafting last" because the District has a reputation for wackiness like this field trip thing, for hating on educators in the local papers (your articles), and for low pay.

So, when did YOU stand up to the local media and tell them to STFU with their negative garbage?

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:51:41 -0000

I'm glad you learned how to spell my name correctly. You're improving! I blame bad editing for letting that slip up go in the past. Accuracy wasn't ever part of the Dispatch's strong points.

Why again were you sitting around worrying specifically about the wrestling team and the cheerleaders? What about the football team? Other clubs? Is there some study you put together noting missed hours of school that you had prepared? Who were the top 10 missed hours programs in your study? Were the wrestling team and the cheerleaders the worst offenders? How did you come to that conclusion? In short, what drove you to pick on them?

Did you know one of the top performing high schools in CA takes a week off from school time and takes the entire class to Washington DC for a week? Did you study the affects field trips have on students? What studies did you compare? Or did you jump to a conclusion? What data did you review before you made up your mind?

I have always maintained that to go to a place and see it for yourself is more informative that reading about it or hearing lectures about it. I stand by that belief. I'm for as full an education as can be provided. I wish every student in Gilroy flew to Washington DC for a week rather than sat in classrooms reading books. They'd learn 100 times more and be 1000 times more inspired in their lives. Finances, as you know, does not allow for that.

So yes, we do disagree. You want to lock up students like prisoners under flourescent lights listening to droning lectures, and I want to take them into the world and show them what's really out there. Fundamental differences, indeed. You probably support Tom Bundro's decree that the cheerleaders were going to fail in college because they went to Hawaii for 3 days. I find that a ridiculous assumption.

There's nothing wrong with advocating for class time. But to be an inflexible extremist about it, and to single out certain groups is poor, poor policy. Frankly, it's offensive.

La Canada, as you know from your research, taxes parcels to fund the local schools like I advocated for in Gilroy. You criticized me for it. I tried to bring success to GUSD, but people like you blocked every sensible thing I suggested. I know what it takes to win. I tried to share that with you. You don't want to win. You want to attack and complain. Apparently you complain about the choir but do nothing about it? WTF is that about? You're on the friggen BOARD, do something with your power! You want it both ways. You want your kids to get the best, do the Choir, and "pretend" to speak against it. Meanwhile, other parents kids are in other programs and you stop their field trips.

Do you think all the words you write can make people forget what you've done? Really? Trust me, they all remember you. Your record is clear.

Thanks for learning how to spell my name. Now, please stop talking about my beliefs as if you understood them or could even fairly represent them. Apparently neither is true.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:11:01 -0000

Ahahaha....totally AGREE! Rock and roll aint' dead yet, man!

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:08:31 -0000

A trip to Washington DC. The Nations Capital. They tried to deny the trip saying it would hurt the students academics. A trip to the nations capital would hurt the students academic careers? That's insane. Luckily we overturned that stupid move. Every student should visit the Nations Capital! It's worth a month of school! The FFA trip was a yearly event that had been something they had always done. They should have congratulated those kids instead of dragging them and their very upset parents before the Board to chastise them and threaten them. It's a movement on the Board that's quietly backed b the Dispatch, that's why several of their ex employees sit on the Board. You never heard about the Brown act violation that occurred when they tried to influence the final vote on the Cheerleaders did you? No, you didn't because you don't get the real story here. Of course that's because it involved an ex Dispatch employee and a relative of the editor. This paper is a farce of lies and misleading stories. You never heard about the reporter fired for revealing the Brown act violation to me did you? No you did not. Yes, sadly, there are people with so little to do that they apparently sit around and do this crap. I was shocked. Why did Appuzzo write 8 months before the vote that the cheerleaders wouldn't be going on their trip? Who the hell in Gilroy was sitting around months prior worrying about some cheerleaders trip? Apparently some sad people.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:49:54 -0000

Years ago? Like 1785? Are you Muslim? Should they wear scarves on their head and cover their hair?

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:48:29 -0000

The obvious answer was to let the girls that wanted to dress like the cheerleaders to try out and if they were good enough and high enough grades, they could wear the uniform. If they didn't make the cut they could cry all they wanted about it. It's a school uniform. Not just any random skirt.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:45:20 -0000

Bill, that's some middle aged man writing that to rile you up. He's play acting. Probably Derry himself. Don't fall for it. No kid really gives a crap what's in this paper...

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Skirting modesty issues

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:42:52 -0000

The Dispatch attacks cheerleaders yet again! First it was Denise Appuzzo's claim 8 months prior to a vote that the cheerleaders would be blocked from their Hawaii trip...gee, how did the Dispatch know this unless they were part of the plot? 8 Months prior? That took a lot of planning. Now they trump up this crap.

La Canada High School, where my daughter attends has no such ridiculous dress codes. API 899. Yes, 899.

Not 7hundred something...ridiculous.

Stop this ridiculous attacking of cheerleaders and FFA. It's stupidity. It's childish. It's petty. You embarass the whole community with your childish antics.

Just leave the cheerleaders alone and stfu about it already. You've ruined a once proud city.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Let's get two times the cheer!

factbringer — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:04:42 -0000

There's a plan to try to drive out the Rio Nilo, so they made a lot of laws against music and dancing downtown. It's backfiring, and causing no businesses to open up there. That's what you get with those kinds of plots. Idiots.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Please give an affordable option

factbringer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:19:54 -0000

The Saudi's can pay the debt when we send them the bill for propping up their King and protecting him from Bin Laden, the REAL reason for the 9/11 attack!

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Please give an affordable option

factbringer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:29:37 -0000

Obama never said any such thing. You're just making it up. I thought you were against Medicare? Why do you care if it's cut? It's just a socialist program. You're certainly too proud to use it.

If your precious for profit insurance companies can't compete against the government, what good are they?

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Please give an affordable option

factbringer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:27:23 -0000

Then let's end Prop 13, it favors the elderly. They don't need any social security or handouts like you said. They need to "tough it out" and "get jobs". Are you really for ending social security and medicare? Maybe if we had followed Gore's plan to fix social security we would be fine now instead of invading Iraq like idiots.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Gavilan suspends campus expansion

factbringer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:46:39 -0000

"It's beyond me"

Hint- We can tell.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Please give an affordable option

factbringer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:59:47 -0000

I think WW II was a good war to fight. I think we should have left after it was over though.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Letters: Please give an affordable option

factbringer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:58:48 -0000

There are no rich people in Gilroy. Rich is owning the New York Yankees or Kaiser Aluminum. You're referring to peasants with nicer houses.