Help The Eastside Pool Users.

My comment had been as follows:

Sarah, I think the lay offs are a direct result of unlawful exercise of authority by certain folks within PPS, even if such have not risen to a judicial action . . . yet. Let's please leave the helplessness notion as to cuts and such within the realm of knowledge and authority of men and women rather than some mysterious reality that belongs only in propaganda. Let's not plead ignorance.

The PPS refusal this Spring to request the Local Option Levy has left the district in an extraordinarily vulnerable position with regard to it's budget considerations and the CBA with PAT. The CBA is dead, it just has not been declared so . . . yet.

I will use that vulnerability to argue on behalf of the tier-three teachers, even those who have been let go, who can all make a request for a clarification of their bargaining rights. The fired teachers now have the proper motivation to listen to my pleading that their rights be protected and that the new harmony between the district and the union is all for show. And is starkly, and unlawfully, against genuine unbiased recognition of labor rights.

You would merely need to qualify your statement to assert that the views expressed are those of your own and not that of the PPS. Which is how I view them anyway, even without such express qualifier.

The Buckman pool issue is small enough (if money is the real issue) that local construction contractors could get a little PR boost by offering supplies at cost and chalk the lost profits, and labor, up to an advertising budget, with special acknowledgment from the community and government. I don't think the cost of repair is the issue.