So I decide to actually check out the links to the various cities I linked to. [1] Why? Oh, depressed at the lost South Florida of my youth for one thing. Idle curiousity for another.
So I check out the website for Margate. [2] I find the link to the proposed elementary school boundaries [3] and my first thought is Oh my … the main graphic looks like it was faxed and then badly colorized before being posted. And I still can't quite figure out the new boundaries for Coconut Creek Elementary [4] (my old elementary school). But I can tell (I think) from the badly faxed image that were I to start school now, living in the place I did 22 years ago, I (and my friend Hoade) would be attending “O” Elementary School.
Interesting.
Then I hit the bottom of the page. And I quote …
“If you do not have access to the internet, you may phone the Student Choice/ School Boundaries Department, at 954-XXX-XXXX.”
Um … if I don't have what?
Mind you, that isn't part of the rather faxish looking graphic either.
And then I notice the actual title on the page. Go on … I'll wait …
CHLORINE PURGE NOTICE
CHLORINE PURGE NOTICE?
I am so glad not to be in the school system anymore …
[3] http://www.margatefl.com/notice.html