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Friday, April 11, 2008
School diversity
Reporter Linda Ebbing, who covers Hamilton City Schools, sends me the following information you may be interested in.
At redistricting forums concerning boundaries of new schools Wednesday and Thursday, some parents and educators said that the new elementary school, Riverview, should be more diverse. Both Harrison and Jefferson will be the feeder schools to Riverview. They are about 75 percent non-white and some parents argue that the students should be given the opportunity to attend more diverse schools. Administrators haven’t yet responded to the argument.
What do you think? Should children be bused out of their neighborhood so they can go to a diverse school? If you have an opinion on the matter please contact Linda Ebbing at lebbing@coxohio.com
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In tow
I’m still not sure where Mike Day got my cell phone number, but it was good to talk to him. Day owns Day’s Towing, one of the city’s four contracted towing and impound services. This explains why he was looking for me. Since Wednesday, I’d called various people about the city considering operating its own impound services.
Admittedly, Day has a lot to lose if the city starts impounding its own vehicles, but he thinks the city is just looking at the paper numbers and not the raw operations work. He said that the city should consider the fact that people try to break into impounded cars to steal stereos and people could attempt to make the city pay for damages to the car while in impound. Scrapping the car is no easier despite the fact that scrap is at its highest value in awhile - about $200 a ton. To scrap a vehicle, all fluids (gasoline, oil, freon, etc.) need to be drained from the car and disposed of in accordance with environmental regulations.
“It’s a time bomb that we hold all the time and we know,” he said.
