Comments about ‘Jordan-west makes a counterproposal’

Give the East 100 percent of the assets and liabilities. Give them the full enrollment and dissolve the 'old' district school board over the next six years and vote in new board members like we always do. Call this 'new' District Jordan School District and be done. It is the best thing we can do for the children.

If we could get over the Oink-Oink-get-all-I-can-get mentality that BOTH sides, particularly the west, have, we could solve this and have two better districts.

Buildings shouldn't be considered assets???! Come on west side wake up!

Chuck, the east is demanding 50 percent of the assets, yet they only have 40 percent of the students. The east started this whole fiasco and continues to demand more, more, more. This whole thing has been about greed from the beginning--and it's NOT the greed of the west side.

To Chuck (Racer)

I agree that both sides need to be less greedy because this ill-advised split is going to cost these poor kids on both sides for years to come. The proper thing to do is leave assets where they lie including the district office buildings. They should be divided historically, not 50-50 or 60-40. Yes that leaves some schools with more, particularly schools like Draper with their art collection, East Midvale with their T1 technology or Daybreak with their high tech campus. But it is how things would have been without the split.

The district still needs to meet both sides needs in the interim. Money will be all spent as it always is to keep things moving. There won't be excess funds to split because of this, so those types of assets won't have to be split, only allocated based on enrollment as they always have.

Chuck IS on the East. Does that put his comments into perspective?