Dist. 303 should avoid paying for PR

I read Aug. 17 on your "Fence Post" page two different letters denying Superintendent Donald Schlomann's pleas for District 303 to hire a $11,000 a month public relations consultant for 12 months, and I wonder how I missed that one whenever it came out in the news.

But then I remembered the prior school board's plan to ship people from the east side of the river to the west side so they could get away from the comparatively ignorant east side and rub elbows with the superior folks of the west side (this while interestingly shipping a larger number the other way, for space considerations, but whatever).

Clearly after 26 years on the east side I've been dumbed down and things just go whizzing by me.

So, while I propose it's me that's hired as the consultant, I don't have the nerve to ask for more than $7,995 a month, saving $3,005 of waste a month or $36,000 for the year -- great public relations.

My second idea is that the school board avoid really dumb ideas and generally self-destructing, which realistically means it could never meet again. If members of a high school government class took over their job as a class project, things would have to improve as they'd be after grades instead of each other. The public would like this.

My third idea is to cut short my first idea and get rid of the public relations consultant (I'd want my contract bought out for a mere $10,000 and bunch of secret vacation days) as having one is unbelievably bad public relations.

Jonathan Fischer

St. Charles