Perhaps I shouldn't speak too soon, but I'm relieved that we seem to have more sense here in B'game than some of our neighboring towns. Exhibit A this weekend was in the Daily Post. Headline "Parents step in after healer". It's an odd fragment of a headline, but reading on we learn:
Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph is forming a committee with parents and teachers to advise him on the budget after he caught flack for hiring an "energy healer" who gave teachers guided meditations. The (Mountain View Whisman School District) gave $121,150 to "master energy healer" Alycia Diggs-Chavis to do sessions with 159 employees, district spokeswoman Shelly Hausman said.
Yikes. It had better be a very good energy healing meditation for $761.95 per session. One wonders what the teachers' union had to say about this. Or is the "master energy healer" a union member?
As we ponder Measure GG here in B'game let's hope our teachers are self-energized. That is the kind of nonsense that turns people off that might otherwise $upport the $chools. I will have more to follow on GG, but you can peruse John Horgan's survey of the tax landscape here. He starts:
It’s a gamble. Dedicated advocates of adding money for the operation of Burlingame’s public elementary schools believe it’s a risk, a leap of fiscal faith if you will, that must be taken. In essence, a proposed new property levy, if approved by the electorate (a total of 19,799 voters at last count), would be a new parcel tax on top of an existing parcel tax, a monetary double play.
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