YouTube video of Catholic Schools in MIssoula promoting enrollment K-12 using Roosevelt School clips

Remember former Missoula County Public Schools high school Trustee Jim Sadler saying over and over that "Roosevelt School had seen the end of it's useful life" and that MCPS needed to dispose of this school - thus sacrificing one of Missoula's popular elementary schools?

Well, Jim Sadler and other irresponsible and corrupt MCPS Trustees - what is your response to the YouTube video promoting St. Joseph's and Loyola Catholic Schools showing video of our Roosevelt School in perfectly good shape? 

Jim Sadler, Missoula school watchdog wants an explanation.

"Move over Emma, here I come. You've had your turn, now it's my turn when naming MCPS schools!" Jeanette Rankin

As I've mentioned, Emma Dickinson School has been closed for many years now. Immediately after the closure and most likely the reason it was closed, it became the building for adult learning classes. Over the years this building being used for adults - not for the area's children as was the purpose for building the school in the first place - the school district has expanded it's classes (and its administration BTW). Do people know that the adult learning center now  has TWO administrators making approximately $80,000/year plus benefits - probably more now!!

So - now the name of Emma Dickinson has been taken off the school building.  No more Emma Dickinson School. I saw a flyer calling it the Dickinson Building. This is so corrupt.

So where does Jeanette Rankin come in. The school district is now building a NEW school up Miller Creek which was called Cold Springs school, which is a school which has been closed.

The district decided to open up bids for a new name for the school in the past few months. Some children decided that a good name for the new school up Miller Creek would be the Jeanette Rankin School. (After the first woman in the Congress and who voted against getting into the Second World War.

So, again, move over Emma. MCPS does not value you or your school. Now they are on to someone new for awhile

NOTE: If you would like to know exactly how a school was approved to be built up Miller Creek soon after the district sold Roosevelt School in 2005 just ask former MCPS Board members, Rosemary Harrison and Drake Lemm and other Trustees. And you could also ask former MCPS superintendent James Clark. All of these people could fill you in on the corruption they were causing during all their property meetings (and behind the scenes, of course).

A 2005 picture of a postcard outlining Rosemary Harrison's obmissmal record on the MCPS School Board

An election postcard outlining Rosemary Harrison's

horrific record serving on the MCPS School Board 

The postcard above accentuates 4 of the most egregious actions taken during some of the tenure of Rosemary Harrison while on the Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees.

They are 1. Closure of three schools 2. Privatizing two MCPS school buildings (Roosevelt and Prescott Schools) 3. Ignored a board-appointed middle school's athletic committee report, and 4. Admitted to breaches in open meeting law.

Important!! Rosemary Harrison was voted off the MCPS Board in this election cycle, however, Harrison has continued her relationship with MCPS as the re-founder of the Missoula Education Foundation and was also on the committee for the bond passage for 2015 making all bond decisions suspect.

Rosemary Harrison's Bombshell to Missoula - the 158 million dollar bond passed on November 4, 2015

I've mentioned in many of my blog posts both on the Prescott School Missoula blog and the  Missoula schools watchdog and Missoula school watchdog  blogs (all using the Blogger blogging program)problems caused to the school district by former MCPS Trustee Rosemary Harrison.

I feel that I need to add more about this woman who has done such harm to our school district and to our city.

Former Trustee and Former MCPS Board Chair Rosemary Harrison:

Voted to close Emma Dickinson School in the late 1990's in a rushed process (2 weeks) -

Voted to close Roosevelt School in the late 1990's in a rushed process -

Voted to lease Roosevelt School immediately after the closure to a private school for what many think was a sweetheart deal in a rushed process -

Voted to sell Roosevelt School in 2005 for what many say was again, was a sweetheart deal (sale price was based on the sweetheart lease rate) in a rushed process -

Voted to close Prescott two or three times (2001 and 2003) (these closures were reversed after the spring elections) -

Voted to close three schools in the northeast part of our city in 2004. There was a second vote on these closures due to a forced repeat meeting due to violations by her and other trustees in the closure process -

Voted to lease yet another one of our public schools which she voted to close to a private school. Harrison voted to privatize two of our public schools, Roosevelt to a religious school which violates the state constitution and Prescott School to Missoula International School. Both of these private school remain to this day in two schools which we owned for years, one school for more than a century(Prescott).

And now - because we Missoulians, some oblivious to this woman's disloyal and irresponsible actions, voted to close another school, Cold Springs.

Former MCPS Trustee, Rosemary Harrison, has another feather in her cap, on the number of schools she has closed. In this latest school closure, that of Cold Springs, she, and I am suspecting it was her, wisely on her part, avoided the "C" word (closure) by sneakily (her and Clark's modus operani during her stint on the Board with her good friend and partner in crime - former Superintendent Jim Clark) actions, voted to close another school, Cold Springs.

Missoula school watchdog, because of my experiences both as a victim of the 2004 school closures and as a watchdog of MCPS is, on this blog post with the above substantiation, am accusing Rosemary Harrison responsible for a large part if not the instigating person of this 158 million dollar bond.

For this reason, Missoula school watchdog is calling this 158 million dollar bond a scandal and is also calling for an investigation of the bond procedure with looking into the actions of Rosemary Harrison during this process and her role in the process.