Comments on: OUSD makes deal with Chabot Space Center http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/22/ousd-works-out-deal-with-chabot-space-center/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: C.Yee http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/22/ousd-works-out-deal-with-chabot-space-center/comment-page-1/#comment-29476 C.Yee Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:38:12 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=10387#comment-29476 I’m absolutely floored. Oakland loaned 10M to a museum. From appearances, the museum has money but won’t pay. The solution: do some hocus pocus and essentially have the loan forgiven. Sigh. Where do I sign up? I have a museum I want to build too.

Cranky Teacher is right in saying that owning a museum wouldn’t do the impoverished school district any good. It would be like reposessing a car, but without any means to start up the vehicle.

My heart aches for our children.

]]> By: Cranky Teacher http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/22/ousd-works-out-deal-with-chabot-space-center/comment-page-1/#comment-29440 Cranky Teacher Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:44:35 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=10387#comment-29440 Alice Spearman is a loose cannon, no? She wants OUSD running the joint, just to make a point? Surrrrree, that’s a good idea. What do they know about running a museum???

They’d probably just close it and turn it into office space for bureaucrats and consultants, like they did Tilden, and then lose any chance of recouping the loan.

It’s good for Oakland kids for Chabot Space to stay open under professional management, and it’s good that the loan get repaid to OUSD on a steady basis.

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