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• On the article Ladue School District: Why Ladue High Didn't Make U.S. News' Rankings

  mjf

  12:33 pm on Saturday, April 27, 2013

  I'm just happy to read that the LSD isn't blaming this poor result on lack of taxpayer funding.

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• On the article 5 Candidates State Their Positions on Ladue School District Issues

  

  mjf

  8:41 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013

  who says the money has to be spent? How about holding it back for future reserves, or heaven forbid, lower the levy rate back to the old level and give us taxpayers some relief?

• On the article 5 Candidates State Their Positions on Ladue School District Issues

  

  mjf

  8:39 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013

  State law does not require the rate to be rolled back at the current levy rate. The recent proposition was set at the maximum rate allowed under state law to still be exempt from the rollback. So, there will be no limitation to tax revenues as property values increase. This was debated ad naseum on these boards during the last election.

• On the article Schnucks: No Source Determined In ID Theft Problem

  

  mjf

  8:05 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013

  Viki - using the phrase "if you don't have the cash, you don't need it" in relation to this article gives the impression that you don't understand the difference between a debit card (which can only be used by a person who has cash in their checking account) and a credit card (which can be used by someone who can't immediately afford to pay cash for something, and hence puts it on 'credit).

• On the article Frontenac Residents Oppose Any Commercial Development on the Old Wright School Property

  mjf

  10:24 am on Monday, January 14, 2013

  CCD - nobody has expressed interest in living there, and this land will most likely sit vacant for years to come (just like the vacant land at the corner of Conway & Lindbergh, which is zoned residential and Ladue citizens will never allow to be commercial). The Ladue School Board should have held a meeting with Frontenac residents before they pushed forward with buying the Westminister property, because in hindsight the right decision would have been to build the new ECD Center at Spoede and Clayton on the land they already owned and now can't sell. Instead, the Ladue School District is stuck with the high cost of maintaining excess property that might never be sold in our lifetime.

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• On the article On "Pink Out Night," MICDS Girls Come Up Smelling Like Roses

  mjf

  10:10 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013

  Up by 44 points with 2 minutes to play, and with running clock, MICDS kept starters in the game and maintained a halfcourt press trap defense just to run up more points and pad their stats. Contrast this with JBS football, who was up 42-0 over MICDS at halftime and had 4 TD's called back because of penalties. If JBS didn't lay off in the 2nd half, they would have hung 80 points on MICDS. Instead, JBS put the B team in and scored only 2 TD's throughout the second half for a 55-7 result.

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• On the article Online Sex Act Incident Will Not Affect Ladue Laptop Program

  mjf

  6:55 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012

  Translation of the school's PR comments: "This is going to continue to happen and there isn't much we can do to prevent it. Your kids are going to be exposed to this stuff everywhere else, so you need to get over the fact that it is going to happen at school, too." My take: the proponents of the one-to-one program say that Ladue kids need to learn to be computer-savvy to live in today's world. Isn't the fact that a 13 year old kid was able to circumvent the school's filter, created and implemented by so-called computer professionals, enough evidence that the kids of today don't need a laptop to become proficient in computer technology? Don't try to use logic with this Board, though. They have made the decision to spend our money, and no logic or reasoning will get in their way.

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• On the article Twinkies Strike: Did Hostess' Bakers Cut Their Own Throats?

  

  mjf

  6:49 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012

  Tom - I worked my way through college and graduate school at the Parker Hanifan hose clamp factory in Columbia, MO. My assumption is that the folks who were still working at the Hostess plant near the end are not unlike the people I met on the line at PH...the ones who worked hard either moved on or moved up, and the ones who were just looking for a paycheck kept doing the bare minumum until they were eventually laid off, and then they blamed "management" for their misfortune.

• On the article Twinkies Strike: Did Hostess' Bakers Cut Their Own Throats?

  

  mjf

  4:21 pm on Sunday, November 25, 2012

  Jim,
  If the conditions were so terrible, then why didn't these great employees simply get a job at another company? They weren't indentured servants. Maybe if the best, hardworking Hostess employees had left their jobs voluntarily because of poor work conditions, low pay, etc, then management would have gotten the message. At least they would already have a job somewhere else today. My suspicion is that many of the best Hostess workers DID already leave and those who remained had no opportunity for gainful employment elsewhere, with reason.

• On the article Ladue School Board Endorses Prop S, Prop B

  mjf

  6:44 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012

  Proponents of Prop 1 sold us on LSD's need to 'serve every student' as justification for why LSD's cost structure is so high vs private schools. They conveniently forgot to mention that LSD farms out the toughest students to the SSD, and now the school board is asking us to pick up an even bigger share of that tab. Is there any kind of tax increase that they wouldn't support?

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