Also, the Pre-K program is "a good thing" but it does nothing to solve the school district's space problem (not enough class rooms for the thousand new students per year).
Burgess is a man with a plan and woe to anyone who tries to persuade him that there are other issues and/or he could be mistaken about priorities.
He refused to take a stand on charter schools, repeatedly. Here was an issue that directly affects the schoolchildren in Seattle and yet, not a peep.
And yet, Pre-K? He's all over that. It's interesting because at a press event for this initiative, Murray called Burgess "the godfather of Pre-K." Don't think Burgess liked that term.
(Also, media has GOT to understand that Pre-K and preschool are NOT interchangeable in this discussion of universal pre-K in Seattle. To make it easier to understand, preschool is really learning through play while pre-K is much more tightly run through a specific curriculum.)
Burgess is very rigid in his thinking and will just steamroll almost anyone if he thinks he can. Obviously, he thinks he can with O'Brien.
O'Brien needs to grow a spine. Burgess challenged him to a political battle and he just cries and whimpers. If can't get five Council votes for his proposal, it wasn't going to get on the ballot this year anyway.
Burgess is a complete hack. Always was, always will be.
O'Brien is like that old line about Montana: "There's no there there." Half the time he looks and acts like he's loaded, but you can't have substance abuse where there's no substance.
Will Burgess's Universal Pre-K benefit charter schools? What is Burgess's position on charter schools? Burgess refused to take a position on I 1240.
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He refused to take a stand on charter schools, repeatedly. Here was an issue that directly affects the schoolchildren in Seattle and yet, not a peep.
And yet, Pre-K? He's all over that. It's interesting because at a press event for this initiative, Murray called Burgess "the godfather of Pre-K." Don't think Burgess liked that term.
(Also, media has GOT to understand that Pre-K and preschool are NOT interchangeable in this discussion of universal pre-K in Seattle. To make it easier to understand, preschool is really learning through play while pre-K is much more tightly run through a specific curriculum.)
Burgess is very rigid in his thinking and will just steamroll almost anyone if he thinks he can. Obviously, he thinks he can with O'Brien.
stop with fake bs and be honest.
This article, however, may represent a step towards a cure.
O'Brien is like that old line about Montana: "There's no there there." Half the time he looks and acts like he's loaded, but you can't have substance abuse where there's no substance.