Updated December 22, 2006

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."

The question was: "what should the name of the high school be?" The question was not "how can the administration and the board lie about the justification for a new school, run the school district into the ground financially by building it, forcing ever-worsening cuts in services over years, and how can they continue to mismanage money and construction?" And we've fallen for the trick again.

What's in a name? ... the conscious and unconscious ignoring of real problems and issues, of mismanagement and ineptitude among those running our kids' education. At least one person had a sense of humor about the first question.

On 12/22/2006, Ann Arbor News letters included a letter about the name Skyline for the new high school. There is a model of toilet named Skyline. But now there is something worse: a big-box school that looks like a crose between a prision and a Wal-mart that cost more than anyone had money for and that required the bull-dozing of wetlands and the bull-dozing of the reason of Ann Arbor's residents and required, much like a current war, lies about the need of its very existence.