Remember the Kingdome? Well we have been paying it off until last January … or our visitors have. The hotel and motel taxes in King County went to pay the debt not just for building the big wart but for the repairs when the ceiling tiles fell down. Now the debt is paid, what should we [[...]
Archive for October 15th, 2015
October 15th, 2015 - 1:46 am § in The Ave Scene
This is not “white flight,” it is flight of parents who can afford to make choices and do not have the time and energy needed for endless fights with the Seattle School District.
An Op Ed in the Seattle Times expressed disdain for the wide spread failure of Seattle schools to meet the criteria of “No Child Left Behind.” Seems to me that the author, a Seattle School teacher, is from the school called “blaming the messenger.” The failures of the Se[...]