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Election: Community college district asks voters for $388 million

Original post made on Oct 12, 2014

If it's not broken, why fix it? It's a question one might ask on a tour of Canada Community College on Farm Hill Boulevard in Woodside. The college district board has a $388 million bond measure -- Measure H -- on the Nov. 4 ballot.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 10, 2014, 8:58 AM

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Posted by Joseph E. Davis
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Oct 12, 2014 at 9:40 pm

Absurd, but too absurd for the SF Peninsula, with its near limitless appetite to shovel other people's money into the dumpster fire of local government? Hard to say.


Posted by education is stoopid. And expen$ive
a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Oct 13, 2014 at 10:14 am

Whaaaaa????

"Air conditioning in this classroom is loud and outdone by computer-generated heat and afternoon sun, so Canada College cools the room way down before class then turns the air conditioner off. Students start in sweaters and end in T-shirts"

Damn kids these days, afraid of sweaters. In my day, I had to WEAR TWO SWEATERS to school. Next thing you know, we'll demonize kids going to class in hoodies.

Black hoodies.

With Skittles. And Iced Tea.

We really messed up back in the 50's and 60's when we frivolously spent SO MUCH MONEY on education, sowing the seeds for the growth of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area by having such a well-educated workforce of hoodie wearing, skittle chewing nerds.

Joseph is correct. Us oldsters get nothing out of education. Stoopid choice to spend money on hoodie wearing nerds.

Send the jobs overseas or increase the number of HB1 visas and bring some more asians over to fill the jobs.

Let China and India pay for educating Intel's future employees!!

Joesph and I should not pay fifty bucks to support the next generation of nerds! Let them eat cake!


Posted by Dr. B.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Oct 13, 2014 at 7:39 pm

Bonds will be paid over several decades, and the College District has already spent $1 billion on improvements. So this is not a question of $50. Of far more importance than the money per se is the continuing failure of the District to tell taxpayers how our money will be spent. For example, the bond language of Measure H is meaningless - read it again - mentioning nothing about the $100,000,000 theater arts building planned at Skyline college. The only venue even close to that in cost is Stanford's Bing Center, a world class venue. The Grand Jury told the district years ago that they needed to provide specific information about capital project bond measures. Only by happenstance did I find out about what is really planned for the next $388 million bond. That is outrageous and why I support a "no" vote on Measure H. See www.votenoonmeasureh.wordpress.com for more info.


Posted by education is stoopid. And expen$ive
a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Oct 14, 2014 at 9:10 am

Absoluuuuutely, Dr. B.!!!

Rite on - just readin' ritin' and 'rithmetic!

All that "Ahhhhts" stuff is stoopid. The Indians and Chinese that Intel hires don't get no Arts education, and don't need it to do real work. Let Silicon Valley import their workers like any other good 'Murican company! No need to spend money on useless education for the hoodie-wearing punk kids in San Mateo County when the fer-in-ners will spend their money to train engineers to send over!

No air conditioning for classrooms! No Arts education! It's totally stoopid stuff, dude!

They don't have no air conditioning in India and look at all the engineers they send over here.

"Ipso facto, dude."

(that's from Wee Billy Shakespeare, ain't it?)

Join me and the rest of the Old Pharts Brigade (motto: "we got ours already!") and vote no on education for local hoodie-wearing, skittle chewing punk kids!


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