Category: Public School
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Where have 500 students gone?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 Money, Money, Money, what will we do without Money” seems to be what’s on the minds of the local School District, not on the failure of thelocal district to educate it’s charges. In the 2019-2020 school yearthe district’s enrollment stood at 3,981 students in all…
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Is Del Norte High School Really Open?
By Lady Warrior – February 23, 2021 On February 16th, 2021, schools reopened for students to go back two times a week for a little over 3 hours. Students prepared for the opening for a whole week by watching videos, making pledges, learning consequences, and how to walk down a hallway correctly. The first week back, you…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION – 3RD IN THE SERIES
By Donna Westfall – February 19, 2021 What do you do when you pay for something and when it arrives, it’s the wrong thing? Most times, you return it. What can you do when our public school are teaching socialist and communist propaganda and our children lack critical thinking plus can’t read adequately or do…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #2
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 17, 2021 As I was writing the past couple of articles regarding our woeful publicschools, it occurred to me, with some prompting, that most people inthis community have no idea exactly how the school district’s currentbudget nearly fifty million dollars is being spent. If statistics areany measure,…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #1
By Donna Westfall – February 16, 2021 Last year I paid our property taxes by walking into the County Offices and handing them my letter of protest along with my check. Here’s the essence. “I don’t like paying taxes when I’m not getting what I’m paying for. In this case, our children in public schools…
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With 57% proficiency in reading, and 27% proficiency in math. Do teachers deserve a pay increase or a pay decrease?
BY Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 14, 2021 It looks like right on cue we have the annual curbside gathering of theDel Norte Teacher’s Association along Highway 101 at the fairgroundsprotesting about how little pay and benefits that they receive. Granted, last year’s whine was cut short by the pandemic, but sureenough almost before…
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School District Wasting Money for a Change?
By Samuel Stait, Reporter at Large – February 2, 2021 It was recently reported that the Del Norte Unified School District wasto order two new seventy two passenger electric powered school buses toadd to its current fleet of diesel powered buses. The cost in total forthe two buses, just under a million dollars of previously…
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PART 1: How and why to get rid of the Teachers Union in California
By Donna Westfall – January 24, 2021 Interesting article in The EPOCH Times today’s date regarding Amazon trying to block voting by mail. Where have we heard that before? Why would they want to block voting by mail? It has to do with creating a union which needs to go to the vote. There are…
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Problems, Problems every where you look
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 15, 2021 – Cartoon Credit to Guy & Rodd. I suppose it shouldn’t be all that surprising that in a small ruralCounty in California that there seems to be problems wherever youlook. A Solid Waste Authority that in itself is a waste. 2. An Airport Commission that…
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What’s Del Norte High School Up To?
By Lady Warrior – January 15, 2021 Since late March 2020, the local public high school has been all over the place with its curriculum. Del Norte High School (DNHS) has tried to adapt to the new standards, distance learning, and unfortunately, I have had to go through almost one year of them with constantly…