Movie Reflection

I think it's important to know that there was really no racial boundry when it came to music. I also think it's cool how the world has changed. For example, we've come from dances such as the twist to dances such as the soulja boy. Another change is in attire. In the 50's everyone wore suits but not to long ago, the bass player, Flea, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers wore a skeleton suit while playing a show.

Issue 47

Mary Mulvany shared this speech at the October 12 SWCS Board of Education meeting.

Since the August levy failure, without a doubt, many businesses already are experiencing the downward spiral of what we have allowed to happen here. Here are just a few examples of the impact on local businesses – examples that will continue and multiply if we do not stand up for our community. Issue 47 is not just about the students or the schools.

Across four high schools, there are 600 band members. There are ten Saturday mornings each fall, where band uniforms are dry cleaned after Friday games. That alone equates to 6,000 less pieces of dry cleaning – 6,000 less sales transactions in ten weeks.

There are no fans gassing up and heading out of town each week for away cross country meets, golf meets, boys’ soccer games, girls’ soccer games, or football games. Fans in our community are not gathering to eat out before games or gathering with players, other fans and families after games. The visitors who followed other teams and stopped before or after games to grab a meal here, are now at other districts supporting their businesses. We currently have nine schools without athletes to purchase sports equipment, coaches who have no need to patronize the local awards stores, printing companies, or embroidery shops. There are no local grocery sales of food for the 15,000 people who gather across the district to watch sporting events each week and visit the concession stands.

Last year at just ONE high school alone, almost 900 dance tickets were sold for a single dance. Now there are 900 less kids making appointments at the hair salons, barber shops, limousine companies, photographers, restaurants…900 less flower orders at the local florist, and the list goes on and on.

In a recent Columbus Dispatch, six different houses were spotlighted in the Home Section. In the Jonathon Alder district, the featured home sold in 25 days. In the Hilliard district, the featured home sold in 26 days, in the Olentangy district – 28 days, and in Columbus Public – 89 days. The one in OUR school system, took 149 days to sell and at $26,000 lower than what it was originally listed for. That was the featured home! Four of the five featured homes outside of South-Western, sold for an average of just 3.25 % below their asking price..The one in our district sold for 11 percent less. That is almost four times the loss here on a home in our district. There are people who will incessantly argue that our declining house values and the time houses sit have NOTHING to do with our levy failures, just the recession and the economy in general. I guess maybe the recession just hasn’t arrived yet in those neighboring school districts?

The “no” votes change nothing. Not the state legislator’s minds. Not the state’s broken funding system. Nothing. If you vote no, the change you get, is the 63 cents a day in loose change that your no vote allowed you to keep – and at what a huge cost to you later on down the road.

You cannot build a better community, a better child, a better future, a better country by under-funding its schools. It is time to bring back the pride and stand up for what we hold most dear – our children, our community, and our future.

Mary Mulvany

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