Tom Sullivan, Come Back to Reality!
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SR
Posted June 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I have always been a fan of Tom Sullivan on KFBK as a local talk show host. Well today he went over the line.
Tom called for the elimination of school buses due to high gas prices. He also went on to say that it's the parents responsibility to be better parents and make sacrifices for their children. What type of sacrifices would we make Tom? Change jobs and go in later? Then tell your kids that they can't have the normal lifestyle that they have become accustomed to because their mom or d...
Schools feel the pinch in Schwarzenegger’s budget, or do they?
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SR
Posted May 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
As Laurel Rosenhall writes in the Sacramento Bee, "Schools still come up short in Schwarzenegger's latest budget".
Elk Grove teachers won't have the guidance of experienced teaching coaches next fall. A gleaming new school in Natomas will sit empty. And in Sacramento, middle schools will have fewer music classes and high school teachers will have less time to run special programs like athletics and honors academics.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's May budget proposal gives more money to schools...
Rio Linda Junior High School Reports Case of MRSA Infection *UPDATE*
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SR
Posted October 30th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Mrs. Republicrat just went to Rio Linda Junior High School to see what kind of activity is going on. Well, the school is closed up tight. She observed one janitor going room to room pushing a cart.
People who live across the street from the school were outside. Mrs. R stopped and chatted. They told her that everyone from Rio Linda Junior High went home at about the normal time and that other than A LOT of traffic (people looking at the school), everything seemed business as usual.
I hope f...
Rio Linda Junior High School Reports Case of MRSA Infection
by
SR
Posted October 30th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I have a child who attends Rio Linda Junior High School. Today my child came home with a letter from Pat Newsome, Interim Superintendent of Grant District. The letter is informing parents that a RLJH student has been diagnosed with the staph infection MRSA.
It goes on to say, and I quote:
Let me assure you that we are taking all the recommended steps and disinfecting all contact surfaces at the school. As a precaution, we are also:
-Disinfecting all contact surfaces at all other Grant Dis...
