Speak Out 9/5/15

Saturday, September 5, 2015

R-1 needs

more custodians

I would like to comment on the lack of custodial care for the school system and I'm deliberately using the phrase "lack of custodians" because I've noticed for years that the amount of work they have to do and wondered why there's not more help. Why more people couldn't be hired?

One big issue is bathroom cleanliness. I know of one school in particular in which the rest rooms are neglected to the point that some of the students wait until they get home to use the bathroom. They are so short-handed the rest room toilets appear to have dirty rims and just all around nastiness. It seems shameful that all the money they spend for sports and other things that the restrooms can't be a priority!

The school board needs to ask students at all the schools and they'll find out which ones have the dirtiest restrooms.

It isn't the custodians fault. They do clean them when they get a chance, but they are all simply given too much to do in one day to one person and this has been going on at one particular school for several years. Employees talk about it just as if it's common knowledge and even acknowledge that it's not the custodians' fault--it's the lack of personnel. So I can't understand why it's not prioritized. Sit down in some of these meetings that you guys are having and say, look, the toilets, at least, need to be clean! It just doesn't make sense. The floors are not the dirtiest things in the schools.

Leave your

spouse at home

Recently my husband received an invitation to his 50th graduating reunion. The agenda ended at the Bloodworth Mansion. It stated that if you have a non-PBHS spouse leave them at home! My husband was so offended! He said that he really didn't like those people when he went to school with them and he could see their manners haven't changed in the last 50 years.

I told him that I didn't mind if he went by himself, but he said that is was offending to him and the other classmates.

Obama under

mountain radar

Isn't it something how General Motors managed to get the name of that mountain changed to what it calls some of its vehicles? [Laughter!] But it serves to deflect public focus from other things. So what's Obama doing now under the radar?

Thanks to

honest ladies

I'd just like to say thank you for the two ladies who picked up my wallet yesterday and returned it to Lt. Jefferson who returned it to me. I appreciate very much.

Religious

freedom gone

Somebody needs to inform that clerk over in Kentucky that there's no such thing as religious freedom since the Communists took over.

Shocking to

Mrs. Minetree

You know, Speak Out, I don't know where Mr. Hon went to high school, but he obviously did not have Mrs. Minetree for an English teacher. You can just read the first sentence of his little article and see that because I'm pretty sure that lady would have been all over him for using "you know us educators." Pretty sure she would have wanted him to put "we" there. Of course, when you're dealing with an old coach what do you expect?

Election advice

is dump Trump

To anyone out there who is interested in the upcoming primary election process, I have two words for you: dump Trump.