Council continues backtracking on Senior Citizens Commission merge
Now staff is recommending that they delay a final decision for two years. Sue Greenwald is rightly suggesting that it be killed all together. But realistically, it is best to just fight other battles. In two years, if the council majority remains with Souza and Saylor, it probably would be brought back anyway. And if the Progressives take control, the proposal will die whether it is delayed or not. So we might as well move on. The Senior Citizens have won this battle.
Dixon Downs will likely go to the ballot
The Davis Enterprise reports today that the racetrack may have enough signatures to send the decision to the voters. The group has collected over double what they need to get the measures on the ballot. The measure would go to a special election in April if approved.
Meanwhile both the city of Davis and Campbell’s Soup Company have sued over traffic concerns.
Letter to the editor on the Junior High Incident
Hey, “Letters to the Editor” are always fair game. Especially if you write on one of my hot topics.
Kayla Birt writes the Davis Enterprise today:
“If the district were to lose $100,000, every student in the Davis School District would be affected.”
I agree. All the more reason to put pressure on the school district to do their job and take care of these problems. This has been a consistent problem with the school district over the years. They are slow to respond. If it takes a $100,000 hit to the school district to wake up the community to what they are doing, then it’s well worth it.
“But suing the district does absolutely nothing to solve the problem and harms about 7,000 innocent students along the way.”
I disagree, first of all, money was only a very small part of the suit and most of the suit involves simply involves putting policies into place that will help the district stop this from happening in the future and at the same time help Zachary Fischer to go back to school.
Second, as I recall, some of the students are not innocent, so maybe the number should be 6,980.
Third, at $14 per student, perhaps this can prevent someone from going through this, then that’s a small but worthwhile cost.
—Doug Paul Davis reporting
“… money was only a very small part of the suit…
To my mind, asking for monetary compensation is appropriate, if a court (or rather a jury) agrees with Guy Fischer that the school district did not adequately respond to the harrassment of his son and did not do what was necessary to create a safe learning environment. It is appropriate because it gives a strong incentive for the district to change its policies, if its policies are proven (in court) to be inadequate.
Nonetheless, I think the comment (as reported in The Enterprise) by Fischer’s attorney, Bruce Nickerson, suggests that money is more than “a very small part” of this lawsuit:
Nickerson concluded that “As Zachary is still not in school, the damages are accumulating,” and said that if he did not receive a response, “I will surely file suit in U.S. District Court. I assure you my demand there will be much higher.”
That makes it sound like receiving money is on the priority list of Guy Fischer.
“… money was only a very small part of the suit…
To my mind, asking for monetary compensation is appropriate, if a court (or rather a jury) agrees with Guy Fischer that the school district did not adequately respond to the harrassment of his son and did not do what was necessary to create a safe learning environment. It is appropriate because it gives a strong incentive for the district to change its policies, if its policies are proven (in court) to be inadequate.
Nonetheless, I think the comment (as reported in The Enterprise) by Fischer’s attorney, Bruce Nickerson, suggests that money is more than “a very small part” of this lawsuit:
Nickerson concluded that “As Zachary is still not in school, the damages are accumulating,” and said that if he did not receive a response, “I will surely file suit in U.S. District Court. I assure you my demand there will be much higher.”
That makes it sound like receiving money is on the priority list of Guy Fischer.
“… money was only a very small part of the suit…
To my mind, asking for monetary compensation is appropriate, if a court (or rather a jury) agrees with Guy Fischer that the school district did not adequately respond to the harrassment of his son and did not do what was necessary to create a safe learning environment. It is appropriate because it gives a strong incentive for the district to change its policies, if its policies are proven (in court) to be inadequate.
Nonetheless, I think the comment (as reported in The Enterprise) by Fischer’s attorney, Bruce Nickerson, suggests that money is more than “a very small part” of this lawsuit:
Nickerson concluded that “As Zachary is still not in school, the damages are accumulating,” and said that if he did not receive a response, “I will surely file suit in U.S. District Court. I assure you my demand there will be much higher.”
That makes it sound like receiving money is on the priority list of Guy Fischer.
“… money was only a very small part of the suit…
To my mind, asking for monetary compensation is appropriate, if a court (or rather a jury) agrees with Guy Fischer that the school district did not adequately respond to the harrassment of his son and did not do what was necessary to create a safe learning environment. It is appropriate because it gives a strong incentive for the district to change its policies, if its policies are proven (in court) to be inadequate.
Nonetheless, I think the comment (as reported in The Enterprise) by Fischer’s attorney, Bruce Nickerson, suggests that money is more than “a very small part” of this lawsuit:
Nickerson concluded that “As Zachary is still not in school, the damages are accumulating,” and said that if he did not receive a response, “I will surely file suit in U.S. District Court. I assure you my demand there will be much higher.”
That makes it sound like receiving money is on the priority list of Guy Fischer.
your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one. if money is an effective club towards reforming an unresponsive school district, how is asking for more money suddenly a sign of greed? wouldn’t it be a way of ratcheting up the pressure to act?
you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late, but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.
your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one. if money is an effective club towards reforming an unresponsive school district, how is asking for more money suddenly a sign of greed? wouldn’t it be a way of ratcheting up the pressure to act?
you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late, but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.
your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one. if money is an effective club towards reforming an unresponsive school district, how is asking for more money suddenly a sign of greed? wouldn’t it be a way of ratcheting up the pressure to act?
you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late, but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.
your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one. if money is an effective club towards reforming an unresponsive school district, how is asking for more money suddenly a sign of greed? wouldn’t it be a way of ratcheting up the pressure to act?
you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late, but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.
“your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one.”
Wu,
My opening paragraph states that “asking for monetary compensation is appropriate.” I have no idea what you think I “insinuated” in my conclusion. Regardless of what you think, I still believe that it is appropriate to ask for money, and that money is not “a very small part” of the suit. Money is an important part of the suit, as it should be.
“you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late…”
A fair amount? I have cast just one single criticism on the kid, regarding his calling a black person the N-word. That is wholly worthy of condemnation, in my opinion.
“… but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.”
I made no criticism at all, here. I cannot help what it is that you see. For all I know, you are myopic.
“your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one.”
Wu,
My opening paragraph states that “asking for monetary compensation is appropriate.” I have no idea what you think I “insinuated” in my conclusion. Regardless of what you think, I still believe that it is appropriate to ask for money, and that money is not “a very small part” of the suit. Money is an important part of the suit, as it should be.
“you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late…”
A fair amount? I have cast just one single criticism on the kid, regarding his calling a black person the N-word. That is wholly worthy of condemnation, in my opinion.
“… but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.”
I made no criticism at all, here. I cannot help what it is that you see. For all I know, you are myopic.
“your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one.”
Wu,
My opening paragraph states that “asking for monetary compensation is appropriate.” I have no idea what you think I “insinuated” in my conclusion. Regardless of what you think, I still believe that it is appropriate to ask for money, and that money is not “a very small part” of the suit. Money is an important part of the suit, as it should be.
“you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late…”
A fair amount? I have cast just one single criticism on the kid, regarding his calling a black person the N-word. That is wholly worthy of condemnation, in my opinion.
“… but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.”
I made no criticism at all, here. I cannot help what it is that you see. For all I know, you are myopic.
“your beginning paragraph doesn’t agree with the insinuations in your concluding one.”
Wu,
My opening paragraph states that “asking for monetary compensation is appropriate.” I have no idea what you think I “insinuated” in my conclusion. Regardless of what you think, I still believe that it is appropriate to ask for money, and that money is not “a very small part” of the suit. Money is an important part of the suit, as it should be.
“you’ve cast a fair amount of aspersions on this kid and his family of late…”
A fair amount? I have cast just one single criticism on the kid, regarding his calling a black person the N-word. That is wholly worthy of condemnation, in my opinion.
“… but i don’t see much of substance in your criticisms.”
I made no criticism at all, here. I cannot help what it is that you see. For all I know, you are myopic.