Lay off first responders and install expensive art

Ann Arbor Michigan is laying off firefighters.
No big surprise there; it is happening all over (partly as a political) tactic.
The ugly surprise is that they are funding an $850K piece of water sculpture at the same time.
One reason things like this happen is the rigid way government funding is controlled.
If money is allocated for pink flamingos, you can't spend it on paving roads unless you go through a difficult process.
Lack of flexibility is exactly why we don't want government health care.
This is the kind of thinking you get when the government caters to an elite, rather than the people.
They are more than willing to guilt us into raising our taxes by threatening first responders and teachers (the teachers thing doesn't work as well these days).

Segregated field trip not segregation?

When you invite only black students on a field trip to visit a black Rocket Scientist, you are really stupid.
When you 'discuss' the negative reactions of those not invited when the students returned to class in a way described as 'yelling', you are really stupid.
Why do so many obviously ignorant people achieve positions where they can make such monumentally stupid decisions?
If all of the students went on this trip, they would all learn that a black student can achieve a respectable, well paid position by applying him/her self.
It is great that the school is trying to help minority students after 'seeing achievement results' for the school, but starting a program called AA Lunch Bunch and having other students seeing them get special attention irrespective of individual achievement is a mistake.

I think that this Principal needs to take some Racial Sensitivity training.
If he had only asked himself: "How would people react if I did this for White students?" he would have seen the problem.

On a side note; I tried to Google AA lunch bunch and got hits for Alcoholics Anonymous groups.