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Questionable Contract for Southwestern College?
Aren't school boards an antiquated idea from the 1700's? It gave local communities control over the education of their children back when communication was practically impossible. Today school districts are too large and the issues too complex to keep local control by laypeople. Let's just eliminate school boards altogether. CSU and UC's seem to make it work without local boards, we can too. We spend way too much time, energy and money on a system that is broken before we ever get started. Good luck with your recall, Sweetwater. You deserve change but that is a tough way to go. Even if you can successfully get a recall election for McCann, Cartmill and Ricasa, do you have candidates you can endorse to replace them? Not that many qualified people are willing to put their political necks on the line for either SUHSD or SWC these days.— July 17, 2012 6:16 p.m.
Questionable Contract for Southwestern College?
While I don't agree with some of the decisions that have been made at SWC, I'm not ready to throw in the towel just yet. Give Nish a chance before you start lumping her in with the likes of Chopra and Zasueta...she hasn't even been here a year and walked into a huge mess. She is smart, hard-working, and I believe looking out for the best interest of the college. As for the contract for the Educational and Facilities Master Plan, even if this company was the best bang-for-the-buck or the most qualified, it wouldn't have been my choice to go with them. It wasn't hard to predict that we would see comments like the ones we're seeing here. The president and the board gave you a soft ball pitch…what an easy target, even if your concerns are based on perception of dirty dealing rather than reality. I was at that board meeting and it was not well attended…I'm pretty sure that most all of you that commented were not in attendance. I'm not sure why you are bashing Peraza when he is the one constantly questioning these contracts and voted no on this particular one. These negative comments are wearing me out...I'm going to wait until I have something to complain about while I keep my eyes wide open.— July 16, 2012 3:01 p.m.