From Monday's SF Chronicle:
" Emotions are running high in usually placid Piedmont over where hundreds of children should attend classes while an elementary school undergoes seismic reconstruction.
When school administrators proposed busing kids a few miles down the hill, out of the tony enclave and into Emeryville, you'd have thought they had committed treason.
A group of "concerned Piedmont parents" took out a half-page ad in the town paper railing against the move and noting that 24 registered sex offenders live within a mile of the Emeryville school.
"If a Piedmont student or teacher is assaulted (or worse) at the Emeryville campus and the Piedmont School District is sued...what additional liability does the school's legal counsel thing that Piedmont's taxpayers would bear?" the ad in the Piedmont Post asked."
As a public school teacher myself, nothing gets my blood boiling more than the assumption that safety issues are more important for your own kids, than other families children. If the Emeryville schools aren't safe enough for Piedmont kids, then why aren't Piedmont parents up in arms about the Emeryville kids who have no choice but to attend these schools?
Chew on that one.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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That's my old backyard. I lived in the part of Oakland just west of Piedmont back a while ago. Bet that a proper search could find plenty of the types they use to instill fear living pretty close to their little enclave. Not exactly an isolated community.
Lot of things about their fear mongering are ridiculous. The definition of 'sex offender' is overly broad, I assume lots of 'them' live in and around Piedmont, and of course the idiotic view that their kids require a safer environment than someone else's kid. Sheesh.
jesus! you've got to be kidding. what a bunch of whiners.
the other area they're looking at is on pleasant valley road - in "oakland", where traffic is already hell in the mornings. it would so screw things up - and place the burden of their seismic reconstruction into someone elses back yard.
if they're going to be such babies about it - they should stay in their own little bubble in piedmont.
That's ridiculous and frustrating. The whole concept of Piedmont irks me to no end -- let's take our tax dollars out of Oakland so we can provide our (white, rich) kids with private "public" schools and screw all our neighbors...
Bah.
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