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My school is closing.

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Gretchen.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/07conserve.html?_r=1

Yeah it basically sucks... I get one more year there just to graduate, but everyone else has to leave.  They fired 30 teachers, who have to have their families-plenty with little kids-out of there dorm houses by June.


Mar 7 2009 8:25AM
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Dainsey
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thats a bummer
+vibes
Mar 7 2009 8:28AM
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mellifluous
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word it looks like a sick school too. pond in a lounge..
Mar 7 2009 8:33AM
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KravtZ
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ouch....that school looked so sick to
Mar 7 2009 9:40AM
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Snowgoner
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ouch man that sucks

sounds  like a chill school too

Mar 7 2009 9:41AM
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infedel_one
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that suxxxx

are you Greta Dohl?? hah

Mar 7 2009 9:51AM
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gbirrd
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that sucks. that school looked pretty sick.

Mar 7 2009 12:54PM
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goneforever
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The whole situation sounds a little fishy. Closing a school that has over $1 million per student, the trustees are the owners of the steep company, and 59% of the endowment is in one stock?

Good luck and I hope you guys win the lawsuit.
Mar 7 2009 1:14PM
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lineskier10
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just go to public school
Mar 7 2009 1:29PM
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mr_grom
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sorry to hear that. that school looked sick, too. at least your a senior, though. where are you going to college?

Mar 7 2009 1:29PM
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horner
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crazy, I always see commercials for that school on TV, bummer.
Mar 7 2009 2:25PM
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dave44
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gretchen use this as an excuse to come to bc!
Mar 7 2009 4:18PM
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ATLskier
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this is what happens when you tax the upper class so much. They stop giving to things themselves...
Mar 7 2009 4:34PM
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chapz
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thats soooo fucked. its always weird when schools close, especially bigger ones
Mar 7 2009 4:38PM
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Gretchen.
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Yeah its pretty bogus..

No I'm not Greta Doll my name is Gretchen and everyone always gets our names confused and pisses me off..

Haha Dave I wish I could, but I have to graduate from high school.  Then I will come to BC.

That "lounge" is actually an entire building.. I'm not sure why they called it a lounge but it's just a little smaller than a football field, so it's a giant lounge.  That pond is actually a waterfall, but they don't turn it on since it splashes people :D

There was a trial yesterday for a temporary injunction.  The parents involved in the lawsuit requested two trials.  The first was the temporary, they wanted the judge to require the school to stay the same for one year.  That was yesterday and they lost..

The next trial is for the permanent injunction (has to stay a 4 year school for forever.)  It's on Earth Day, strange coincidence since we are an environmental school.  They have a better chance of winning this one..

The thing is that even if the parents win and the school has to go back, most of our staff is already fired and not coming back.  Most underclassmen have already found new schools to go to and filled out dozens of applications.  It's basically a huge mess.

At least they take us skiing :)
Mar 7 2009 10:21PM
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An10a_Eng
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they are shutting down a school that has over 1 million to spend per student. that is sooo fucking dumb
Mar 7 2009 10:24PM
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skeedle
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i am sorry that your school is closing but i laughed when i read the caption under the picture of the girl looking at a leaf.

"In a biology class, a student analyzed a leaf." O RLY?
Mar 7 2009 10:37PM
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wheres_my_snow
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that sucks your school looks nice
Mar 7 2009 10:43PM
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ski-swagga
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that sucks soooo bad!!

now washburn soccer wont have any competition! :P

Mar 7 2009 10:43PM
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tBatt
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I feel ya on that one. My mom is a family and consumer sciences teacher at a school in the next town over from me, and they just cut the program. No more job for her. To make it worse shes divorced, was engaged, but her fiance just passed away. Shits going downhill for her.
Mar 7 2009 10:48PM
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Gretchen.
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Damn man ++vibes to your mother ^^

Yeah I laughed at the leaf thing too.. We don't really do that.. That girl doesn't even go here anymore but she used to live with me.

Yeah Haakon you'll have to play Eagle River a bunch now :)
Mar 7 2009 10:51PM
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ski-swagga
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we will still win tho :P
Mar 7 2009 10:56PM
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Gretchen.
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Always, Haakon.. those kids should play holding their pitchforks :D
Mar 7 2009 11:03PM
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ski-swagga
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LOL :P (i love how were just commenting back and forth)

Mar 7 2009 11:15PM
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Gretchen.
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ahaha yeah..

Thanks for the vibes everyone!
Mar 7 2009 11:37PM
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poor@$$skibum
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where is that in wisconsin?
Mar 7 2009 11:42PM
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Gretchen.
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Take your right hand and look at your palm with your fingers out flat.. That's Wisconsin and the school is at the tip of your middle finger.

sorry, that was confusing.  The northern border of our school property is with the UP of Michigan.  Very northern Wisconsin.  Look up the town Land O Lakes on Google, not the butter..
Mar 7 2009 11:46PM
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