The Big Charade

So the sleeping giant DPS has been quiet this summer? Oh if that were only true. No the morons in motion can’t seem to leave well enough alone. The school board must have had another retreat where the topic was “How Can We Really Look Like Morons This Summer?”. Well it didn’t take long for that collective mind to have their administrative clones stick their foot in crap again.
In the interest in the taxpayers of Danville the concrete palace administrators ordered that computers be updated in some schools because gosh they were four years old! Perish the thought of elementary students working on anything that isn’t the latest piece of computer gear. Never mind the fact that they mostly only do word processing and internet searches that can be handled by any basic machine. No in their infinite wisdom they swapped out perfectly good computers with the latest from Captain Billy’s Wiz Bag. Of yeah I forgot that that department (IT) is being run by that nobel prize winner Dr. O. If she only thought beyond the end of those glasses it would be a miracle. Ok so the computers are replaced so what do they do with the removed perfectly good computers? Why just dump them in the middle of the maintenance parking lot! Go by and look for yourself.

There in a pile on the parking lot are computers, printers, and monitors! Can’t miss them they are right next to the 25 or so 800 lb bags of rubber mulch that have been sitting there for over a year. Hmmm maybe we could have sold them, donated them to neighborhood centers, or given to Goodwill. No, we can just piss away taypayers money by dumping them in the rain! If this isn’t a criminal act or malfeasance I don’t know what is!

Ah but we aren't done yet. Remember all the money spent on "magnet" eye candy throughout the district. Remember this was all spent ($8 million) under the watchful (not) eye of the Concrete Princess herself, the Grand Wizard Sue Davis. Well all the fanfare about these great new labs, decorations, exhibits, etc has died down and now the truth comes out. The stuff was crap, pure and simple. The district ,under the magnet director , sent all their business to Thayer and Associates (without competetive bidding), a design firm without engineers or architects, to design these monuments to incompetence. The result? Inferior subpar exhibits made out of inferior materials that began to break down within months of purchase. So now 7-8 years later where are all these bells and whistles? Gone....for the most part. One of the costliest projects ws at Glenwood School with its "animal habitats" and menageries. Glenwood, after killing off most of the animals, had all their habitats, displays, and eye candy torn out and dumped! Where? You guessed it at the maintenance building. I bet the guys there are getting real tired of being a dumping ground. So what else? Oh the big fanfare that went into the Woodrow Wilson exhibits and the "libratoriom" that was build is now, this summer, being quietly dismatled and trashed. Why? Simple fact it never worked as a media center! Too much fluff and no stuff.

So school board members before your next slap on the back meeting I would suggest you take a look at the money you have wasted because the buck stops with you. And the citizens of Danville, listen carefully. That sound you hear? That is a giant toilet being flushed as the districts money goes down the drain. Councilpersons, are you listening?

UPDATE 8/5/09
Within three days of posting these pictures the entire pile of computers has been removed according to an inside source at the concrete castle!