<p>Emeraldkity and other Northwesterners,</p>
<p>What does this mean, and how much did you collectively pay to come up with it?</p>
<p>Myself, I still prefer “See-@-L: Soak it up”</p>
<p>Say Wa?</p>
<p>Youre asking me?</p>
<p>[I</a> can almost feel the city’s population growth decreasing.](<a href=“http://community.livejournal.com/seattle/4030747.html]I”>Seattle's new slogan has made the AP Odd News on Yahoo.: seattle — LiveJournal)</p>
<p>I doubt if anyone will ever admit to coming up with it</p>
<p>Yeah, the ‘Emerald City’ moniker was bad enough.</p>
<p>All I can think is “supernatural” + “metrosexual”.</p>
<p>I am anticipating a new umbrella wielding/coffee guzzling/wifi surfing/impeccably dressed character on the tv show “Heroes”</p>
<p> Emerald City grew on me</p>
<p>Whats wrong with * We get less rain than New York?*</p>
<p>Except for today.</p>
<p>Gray in the Northeast today too.</p>
<p>by and by or bye and bye…</p>
<p>You Seattle people are just <em>so</em> amusing. Congratulations on your new city slogan!</p>
<p>“Seattle; we don’t get tanned, we rust.”</p>
<p>but thats a state motto-
Whenever I think of Missouris ( the show me state)
I think of the Portland mayor and his appearance in the poster to increase awareness of the VDAC ( veneral disease action council)
[Expose yourself to art](<a href=“http://www.photographicimage.com/merchant.ihtml?pid=620&step=4”>http://www.photographicimage.com/merchant.ihtml?pid=620&step=4</a>)
;)</p>
<p>Gray is the state color here.</p>
<p>I just read about the Raj Manhas resignation online.</p>
<p>Teacher friends of mine in Seattle didn’t have much good to say about him, but the Seattle School System seems dyfunctional with or without him. I really have a hard time realizing how different [i.e. flawed] the schools have become. I left and came east with a great foundation provided by the public schools. But SPS have been in steep decline since the 1980s. Hard to believe that a region with the highest ratio of college graduates in America would allow this to happen.</p>
<p>While the district is willing to cluck about its diamonds, Roosevelt High School and Garfield High School, it has done little else for the rest of its schools. Okay, there are new buildings elsewhere (Ballard and Sealth). New buildings don’t impress me. Students’ creativity and achievement impresses me.</p>
<p>Re Manhas
He had a no win job
He wasn’t the right person in the first place- he is an engineer for pitys sake- hardly generally known for their people skills
But the school board the district and the community have been at each others throats for so long that I don’t think they will be able to get anyone sane to step up.
( I have been totally pulling back from attending board meetings and such- there really isn’t any point, because no one is listening to anyone else and hasn’t been for some time)</p>
<p>I think he should have implemented CAICEE suggestions - you don’t appoint committees to advise you and then ignore their advice
<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003029082_trish31.html[/url]”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003029082_trish31.html</a></p>
<p>Dont wait for the community to come to consensus- its seattle- we can’t form a circle or throw food out from our fridge that we know no one is going to eat till it goes bad- get a group of 5 people and you will get 5 different opinion and nothing will ever get accomplished</p>
<p>( the teachers union didn’t help- they asked for and got more money than the district had- so they had to cut back someplace- then they( SEA) voted to reject the school closure proposal even though we haven’t closed schools for 16 years and the student population has dropped significantly due to perception better schools/quality of life in the suburbs- cost of housing and increase in available private schools that are perceived as having more stabilty)
But anyway- I like Seattle- but if I had realized what a joke the district was- I may have reconsidered our decision to move here-
Oh well- she just has till 2008 then she is out.
( and if she hadn’t gotten into Garfield- I expect we would have went private- that or Hale- I hear alot of good things going on there)</p>
<p>Can you tell I am a little bottled up?
Maybe I * should have * went to those board meetings and let loose!</p>
<p>It’s an anagram of A rut Montreal…</p>
<p>The problem may be the need to break the district up into smaller more managable sections. They are having a hard time trying to be everything to everybody. </p>
<p>It is odd to see Garfield and Roosevelt touted as great schools. They were anything but back in the 70’s. Garfield was a war zone, a scary place to go as your bus was often pelted with large rocks and it was not uncommon to see a handgun or two. Now 30 years later, they compete with the best private schools in the area for merit scholars. Roosevelt was little better back then. </p>
<p>The district may have to actually say “no” to one parent group or another, no matter how loud they shout at school board meetings. They need to get back to the best use for the most people, not the most use for the least amount of people. It’s unfortunate, but that how it is.</p>
<p>As far as a hook phrase for Washington, it should be…</p>
<p>Washington, please stay away. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>As far as a hook phrase for Washington, it should be…</p>
<p>Washington, please stay away. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Well, I must say that as a result of the years I’ve spent here at CC reading about the woes of Seattle, my starry-eyed love affair with the “idea” of Seattle has crashed like the Hindenburg. Thanks, Emerald:( My impressional of Seattle now? Chilly, rainy, and perennially contentious.</p>
<p>I’m SUCH a ditz. I thought “Emeraldkity” was, well, like a cat with green jewels hanging off of it, strategically implanted in its fur, etc. This thread has goofed up my mental picture of Emeraldkity forever. </p>
<p>Couldn’t everyone have left well enough alone?</p>
<p>Garfield has a legendary jazz band, top 5 in the country.</p>