Drumming up business for the blog.

Let's think about things for a moment. Just a moment. I wouldn't want to create a lot of stress and cause anyone to miss a day of work for the District.

One of my current employers expressed a need for parking to accommodate a year-end party at our broker's residence on December 1st. Of course, I recommended Beverly Elementary as a place where guests could park and a limousine could ferry them to and from the party. I knew there would be a charge and wanted to test my replacement. Our office staff immediately contacted the school and they were promptly told that the school is a public facility and that our office was welcome to use it without charge. A notification was typed up and sent to all of our staff at our three offices. Everyone knew to park at Beverly Elementary.

Then a certain blog entry was posted that caused a rather simple set of minds to quickly revoke the access that was already granted. But it wasn't done with just a simple "no". Someone felt the need to report that public schools are not public property and then spewed forth a number of other inaccuracies in a very rude manner. Very humorous and clearly a severely uninformed public servant with no concept of public service.

Of course, an announcement had to be sent out to our more than 200 agents rescinding the information about Beverly Elementary. Think of what we now had the opportunity to tell everyone. Think of all that bad publicity for our local school district. Isn't it a shame?

Good thing we had already lined up more reliable parking. It's a spot we've been using for the last five years without charge.

Disclaimer: I am sure Ms. Hall is very qualified in a vast spectrum of things, just clearly out of her element in the public sector. But thank you for being so predictable.