Carrboro: The New Jackson Hole, WY

Hey, WE weren't the folks hat broght the merger issue in! Didn't realize someone was making a joke.

Melanie

Hey, Ruby, et.al.

I apologize if I unwittingly steered the 'conversation' in the unintended direction that it seems to have taken.

It was in JEST(: syn:Joke:n.4a:'Something not to be taken seriously--a triviality'; v.2;To speak in fun, be facetious--)

Or maybe such posts are just not apropros?

H.L Mencken: "(Those living in) the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time." --Sound like anybody we know?

Cheers (or,maybe not),

Alex

When this thread started going off on development within the rural buffer, Rickie White wisely started a new thread and diverted traffic. There was no facilitator to handle the diversion into school funding. Heck, human conversations aren't linear--even if the technology is. If Alex and Melanie are willing to take the blame for this sin, I say let them. ; ~) (sorry for my contribution into this devastating breach of etiquette)

I would have spun this discussion off onto its own thread, except that there are already lots of threads on this (too many, methinks). So in the future, maybe we just need to try to catch ourselves and make a point of moving our discussion over into the appropriate category head en masse.

But I think it is interesting to record how this conversation and others morph. It seems like everyone seems to think merger is either the absolute solution to or the absolute destruction of the school system...

So I hear the good folks at FP Graham Elementary aren't exactly thrilled at the idea of having Jack be at their school. Any response from current teachers there?

Rickie

Hey--I'm not taking the rap on this one--I was attempting to stay vaguely ON-topic--IE--discussing the whole "two-Americas" thing. MY point had NOTHING to do with merger--and everything to do with funding in general.

Actually, it's all MATT'S fault.

Followed by a very UN-ladylike pbbbbt.

Melanie/reverting to third grade

Rickie--where did you hear that they don't want Jack at FPG?

Sounds pretty un-professional to ME...I wouldn't think that would be a nice way to talk about a child...

melanie

Melanie- I had merely heard that some folks who are affiliated with the school are dreading the idea of a high profile kid at the school that might require handlers/secret service. But I'm imagining the veep's kids will actually go to school in DC. Not sure what the arrangements will be.

Rickie

I posted news of the Edwards purchase on my blog, and got a couple of amusing responses:

http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2004_07_25_isthatlegal_archive.html#109111294382667314

the N&O story notes:

That was Thad Beyle's NC politics class. I in fact was IN the class that day, as I was taking it as the last class for my MA (still need to write the thesis). (well, actually she was there because I invited her to speak to the class and she flew in from Washington to speak to it) Elizabeth said to the class that as soon as the class was over she was driving out Old Greensboro Highway to look at land. After class, I chatted with her about the history of the road being known as the Football Road, and send her a bunch of historical stuff about the road. She also mentioned to me about wanting her two younger kids to go to CH-Carrboro schools. Elizabeth graduated from Chapel Hill High School in 1967, and lived in the same dorm as me 1969-1970. He older daughter Kate was a 2000 graduate of Broughton High School in Wake County, and my son Aaron a 2001 graduate of the same high school, so I was very familiar with the Edwards extensive involvement in after school programming for Broughton.

actually what the N&O story noted was:

"She also told a North Carolina politics class at UNC-Chapel Hill in April that she is very interested in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district."

the post above this one is my comments

I didn't know Elizabeth Edwards went to Chapel Hill High! How did I miss that?

Do we really think that Edwards bought 100 acres in the CH/C school district (with the help of Roger Perry) and that they plan on building a little family house there so they can run their little ones out to the bus stop every morning? Obviously I don't know their plans, but it sure looks like an investment (and future development project) to me.

Please refresh your memories and see the below link to Roger Perry's statement in regards to the suggestion that there is a "future development project" in the works for the Edwards land.

http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-505445.html

Roger has no plans to develop that property according to the article.

Can't anyone accept the fact that, hey, they are friends? Roger is in the real estate business and helped his friend secure the land, that's it.

The Hearld article linked in the post just above states:

"I don't think they have a timetable," Perry said about the prospects of the Edwards family actually building a home on the property. "I think a lot of it depends on the election, and where they are next year.

"If [Edwards] is vice president, which we all hope he is, who knows when they might do something? But if not, and he's back in private life, they might do something sooner rather than later. But they certainly have not shared any of their plans with me. My bet is that they don't know their time line at this point."

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this soubds like what what Elizabeth also told me in April. I've known her for 35 years and have no reason to doubt what she said. I think this is land for a family house, and it might be built next year, or 4. 8, 12, or 16 years from now.

And bravo for them. It's a lovely piece of property--and I hope they enjoy it.

melanie