[Durham INC] voting -- was charter schools

[Pat Carstensen]

Noting that Mary says she was the 435th voter at one of 3 polling places on the next to the last day of early voting, a LOT of us still have an opportunity to go vote on Tuesday.  Look at it this way -- if we get unexpectedly high turn-out because everyone goes out and drags 5 friends in to vote, we'll feel good.  If we end up with low turn-out, there'll be no lines!  Either way, you win if you go vote!
Regards, pat

From: mary.forchange at gmail.com
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 10:22:36 -0400
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] example palming off costs on the public
To: pats1717 at hotmail.com
CC: inc-list at durhaminc.org

Hi Pat,


As the mother of one of those children who occasionally goes over there 
when my work doesn't allow me to dash over and pick him up, and as a 
Durham County taxpayer (and regular contributor to the library via late fee cause my kids check out so many books we sometimes lose track) , and the mother of a child at Durham School of the Arts, I really don't feel that our tax payer money is 
'at risk' with the situation. It isn't any more at risk from the Lowe's Grove kids who also come over after school, or the Carolina Friend's students who go to Southwest Library to research or the folks from Urban Ministries who hang out at the downtown library. 



I welcome this safe space for children and adults to learn and be and wish there were more branches across the city.

On another note, yesterday afternoon, I was the 435 voter in early voting at that branch. 



Respect,

Mary 





On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Pat Carstensen <pats1717 at hotmail.com> wrote:







I've been hanging out afternoons at South Regional Library and noticed clusters of teen-agers showing up every day about 3PM.  After a while, I figured out they are students at Kestrel Heights, one of our charter schools.  Apparently the Kestrel Heights business plan does not include providing transportation OR watching kids until their parents get there.  


Ideally these students would be using the internet and getting homework done, but they mostly seem to be "just chilling."  They seem nice and well-behaved, but they are middle school kids, at an ages where "chilling" can become "fooling around" and then "just being dumb."  


I resent the idea that tax-payer money is at risk for anything happening to these kids and then having parents cry "inadequate supervision."
Regards, pat 		 	   		  



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