{"id":2092,"date":"2011-05-02T23:06:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/theres-a-lot-of-info-i-dont-have-jon-parris.html"},"modified":"2011-05-02T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:06:45","slug":"theres-a-lot-of-info-i-dont-have-jon-parris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/theres-a-lot-of-info-i-dont-have-jon-parris.html","title":{"rendered":"There’s a lot of info I don’t have —Jon Parris"},"content":{"rendered":"A response to Leigh Touchton.<\/a>\nI’ve appended a couple of comments. -jsq\n
\nI said I wouldn’t reply… but I am! :-)\n

\nMs. Touchton, your points 1-3 make plain what I mentioned witnessing\nduring my professional experiences. My feeling was that those facts\nalone presented a strong case for dismantling the city system.\n

\nI do understand the desire for a disenfranchised group to avoid becoming\neven more marginalized… my hope was that equally shared resources and\na uniform administrative\/infrastructure system would create more parity\nand greater accountability.\n

\nThere’s a lot of info I don’t have, perspectives I need; I must say,\nbeing a native Valdostan, I was BAFFLED\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nat some of the people I saw\npublicly supporting the consolidation… my first thought was, “since\nwhen do they care about African American kids???” So there must be some\nhidden agenda or unseen hand (probably money\/power related, of course).\n

\nI work out of town, so meeting attendance would be tough for me\n(witness my sporadic attendance at Biomass demonstrations!); if you’d\nhave the time or inclination to discuss this matter further via email,\ni’d be grateful! I have your email address from a prior correspondence,\nso I’ll be in touch!\n

\nJP\n

\n-Jon Parris\n<\/blockquote>\nInteresting how questions that get answered lead to reconsideration\nin light of more information.\n

\nSpeaking of dialog, probably there are other people who would like\nto see more of this dialog in public.\n

\nAlthough I’ll probably direct people to the comments in future\nrather than promoting all of them,\nsince we have a lot of material coming up.\n

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