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Dear City Council,
It has come to my attention that this fair city of Hopkins intends to shutdown the Katherine Curren Elementary School in light of the recent financial difficulties. I believe that there are other options that have not yet been explored that are just as valid answers to a budget deficit; such as changing lunch food away from organic foods, which only make the schools lose money. The schools could also renew old fund raisers that have not been used in a long time.
Ever since organic foods started to be sold at my high school, Hopkins High School, the price has risen repeatedly, each time due to the lack of revenue being generated by the lunches being served. At each of items peak almost every food item cost about twice its initial price, vitamin water cost $2.25 at its peak and initially cost $1.25, chocolate covered pretzels cost $.85 initially and at its peak cost $1.75. With each price increase, less people buy lunches and instead bring his/her own lunch from home in order to avoid the high prices, which only accentuates the problem, until the lunchroom reaches a cost were they make a small profit from the students who always eat school lunches. At which point, they can lower the price and finally start to retake only some of the children who switched to bag lunches, but many of the students do not like organic foods and decide to make a permanent switch to bag lunch. If, the school decided to make the switch back to non organic foods, then the school could reclaim many of the students who switched to bag lunches as well as lowering the price for buying food.
At Hopkins High School, one of the teachers, (name removed at his/her request), mentioned to me an old fund raiser that I thought sounded like fun. They had many of the students at the school fill out forms detailing his or her own like and dislikes, and this information was entered into a database. Shortly before Valentine’s Day, students could pay to have a program similar to the ones used in online dating used to find someone with whom they are compatible. (Name removed) said that it was quite innocent and cute for students to find out who they might be compatible with, and I, as a high school student, would be interested in trying it.
My sincerest apologies if this letter does not adhere to the standard format to send letters to one’s city council, but this is the first letter I have ever sent to a legislative body such as yourselves. If I have sent this to the wrong administrative organization, then please return this letter to me and instruct me on where I need to send this letter.
Sincerely,
(My real name)
I teach math and whenever I help someone I teach them shortcuts that aren't normally taught for at least one more year.
Also, I am a student at that same school, and it is pretty unusual for a student to be helping in math, since the math teachers have a hard time finding a student that understands the material well enough when they want an Instrustional Assistant.
FYI
I for one think this was a brilliant idea, no one actually knows what The Mysterious Collaboration was supposed to be, but now it is certainly something pretty cool. Therefore, I think Darkaardvark should get to keep the points and that this should become the true task.
Shouldn't we get some sort of legal advice to make sure we don't get in trouble w/the police when someone tries this?
(Like with the Kidnap Me Gently Task)
Also, do we have to fake a kidnapping, or can we just con someone?
I was looking at the HTML stuff and clicked the submit button instead of the preview button.
I was planning on submitting proof for this tommorrow anyway.
Can we do tasks that have been retired?
3 more votes and you could become a senator.
I think 'KABOOM' is the standard onomatopoeia for any sort of bomb/explosive, not 'pchooooo'.