More St. Aidan’s Groupthink.
By Jim Conley • Jun 15th, 2007 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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What happens when you raise a concern to a group of apparatchiks? It’s dismissed out of hand.
At this morning’s Housing Board meeting to gift nearly $2 million to the Boston Archdiocese, one resident voiced concern over the influx of students to local schools from the project. It was the resident’s view that these students will likely require more services (expensive ones at that).
Housing Board Member David Rockwell pooh-poohed it all by saying: “I don’t think you can say that these students will require more services than anyone else.”
Oh really?
Here’s an excerpt from the St. Aidan’s project description [view listing] posted on the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Web site: “A resident services coordinator will refer residents to community-based agencies for parenting support, counseling, money management, substance-abuse education, and child and elder care.”
Sounds like you can say there’ll be a need for services after all.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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