Obama Elementary School By Michelle Malkin • March 17, 2011 02:14 PM How fitting that a school named after our profligate, post-achievement president is shutting down thanks to fiscal mismanagement and non-achievement. R.I.P., Barack Obama Elementary School The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1. Students next year will go to the district’s two other more modern elementary schools — Thurgood Marshall on the east side and Bradley on the west side. Bruce Rodman, the monitor, made the decision after the school board in recent weeks failed to support a plan by Schools Superintendent Denise Lowe to reconfigure elementary grades to create early childhood learning centers in the district, a plan which would have kept the Obama school open. Officially renamed early in 2010 after the president, the building was known as the Bangs Avenue School since it was built a century ago. The state School Development Authority had planned to build a new school to replace the historic building, but has pulled back and Lowe said recently the state would not build a new school. Reader Peter adds: “Asbury Park’s school system was taken over by the state of New Jersey a few years back (along with those of other underachieving municipalities) for gross managerial incompetence. The state has, in the meantime, poured beaucoups bucks into the district. According to Education.com, the district spends nearly $36,000 per student but pulls in the lowest test rating the site offers.” Yes they can? Not any more. Sing it with me: “Mmm, mmm, mmm…”

Some for trade, some not. READ NOTES BEFORE COMMENTING. 1. DO NOT ASK FOR THE AC8 V2 OR THE AUG. THEY ARE NOT FOR TRADE AND THEY WILL NEVER BE FOR TRADE. 2. Auction style. Don't bitch at me if you don't get the item you want. If you have the best offer, you win. 3. I'll note the names/colors of the items (in case you can't tell) and whether they are for trade/for sale. 4. All rares are for trade except for the white HCSR. 5. I like JFLRs, Dk. Red/Blue items, and prototype AC8s. Other stuff is also acceptable, swirls prefered. 6. NO NOTING 7. I have a right to refuse any offer. 8. Any payment must be received within 3 days of a completed deal. 9. A deal is a deal. Thou shalt honor that deal. 10. Unless I say so, you ship first. This does not apply to people I've already traded with or people I know well. 11. If you note on the picture or ask for any of the NFT items, I'll block you, find where you live, gouge out your eyes, and grind your testicles into a paste. (Hah, just kidding, I'll gouge out your eyes after I grind your testicles into paste, that way you can watch :P) 12. PAYPAL ONLY 13. TLG Items are acceptable for any For-Sale item. TLG items that I want: Blue Rock-Raiders torsos, any rock-raiders helmet, LOM torsos, black arm/leg/hand sets, angry heads, girl heads, girl hair, blue legs w/ kneepads, dk. red arm sets, dk. red Knight's Kingdom armor (scorpion), gold visors. I also want eclipsegrafx balclava heads (yellow) and the 'Ghost' head. Edit: also want BrickForge spartan armors (black, dk. red) (don't need helmets/visors) and minifig.cat B-12 vests. Let the bidding begin!