Clare Jellick reports in the Journal Star today:
District 150 Superintendent Ken Hinton won’t continue buying properties near Glen Oak Park until he has time to talk to neighborhood groups and City Council members, he said Monday.
Hinton told the School Board Monday that he had originally intended to bring forth a recommendation at that meeting, but “for now that’s not going to take place.”
“I just want to talk to (people) and let them know where we are and what we’re thinking,” Hinton said after Monday’s meeting.
The implication is that Hinton is still trying to work out a compromise with the city and East Bluff neighbors. But if the last two counterproposals he offered the city are any indication, it’s likely this will simply be another attempt to pursuade everyone that putting the school next to a park is the best idea in education since the Dewey Decimal System.
But I’ll try to suppress my suspicion until I hear “where [they] are and what [they’re] thinking.” Maybe he’ll surprise us all.
“Maybe he’ll surprise us all.”
Fat chance.
More of the same garbage in — garbage out —- if nothing changes, nothing changes — so don’t expect anything to be different and you will not be disappointed.
I WOULD LIKE SUPT. HINTON TO COMMENT ON THE STRONG RUNOR THAT HE IS RETIRING AT THE END OF THIS YEAR AND THAT HERSCHEL HANNA HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS HIS REPLACEMENT AND THAT THE WHEELS HAVE BEEN GREASED ALREADY FOR THIS TAKE OVER. THEY OWE THIS MUCH TO THE PUBLIC-THERE IS A GREAT DEAL AT STAKE!
Perhaps Ken is being honest with us when he says “I just want to talk to (people) and let them know where we are and what we’re thinking†… afterall, he said nothing about listening.