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seriously jump ahead. And I really appreciate you staying tonight and I appreciate all <br />the people in the audience staying tonight. Thank you very much for your time. <br />Atul Peres da Silva: Good evening, my name is Atul Peres da Silva, and I'm a dad <br />from Chapel Hill. Two points I have and I'll try to keep them brief. The first point - I was <br />born and brought up in probably one of the poorest countries in the world. My mom and <br />dad struggled to put food on the table. But the one thing that my mom and dad always <br />insisted was to have a good education. And to me, having money is not the answer. <br />It's family, it's community, it's friends, and it's hard work. That's what counts. You can <br />have all the money in the world and you can have the worst students. Money is not <br />going to buy you education. To me the biggest crime that we have committed is we <br />have not addressed the question of equity in funding. We are trying to answer one <br />question with another issue. Please salve the question of equity in funding, but don't <br />make merger the issue. That's not the issue. The issue is if you are interested inequity <br />in funding, resolve it by all means. There is a lot of uncertainty out there, and by trying <br />to answer one question by raising another problem, you're fooling yourselves. You are <br />five very intelligent people. I think you can make the choice and figure out what's <br />important. Point number two - I live in the northern corridor, and I can pretty much <br />assume that all five of you don't have children that are age five or six. If you do, I'm <br />amazed. Hopefully you don't. So I'm going to start by asking all five of you to close <br />your eyes and to pretend it's 2005, middle of August, and all five of you are still in office, <br />and eve of you have made the decision last year in 2004 to go through with the merger. <br />Tomorrow morning is the start of the new school year, and each of you has asix-year- <br />old child. Close your eyes and think of going to your child and saying, "Honey, <br />tomorrow you've gotta get up and go to school and we're so excited because you're six <br />years old and you've just finished kindergarten and you're going to first grade." And <br />they look at you and you say, "But you know what? You've got to get up 45 minutes <br />earlier." And they look at you and they say, "But why mommy, why daddy, why do we <br />have to get up so much earlier?" "Well, because I made the decision, you're going to <br />have to drive longer." And they look at you with tears in their eyes and they say, "But <br />why mommy, why daddy? Why did you make us have to drive so much further?" I want <br />you to think of that when you make your decision. Don't think of your political career, <br />don't think of where you are today, and don't think of where you are tomorrow. But think <br />of the future and think of the children, because they are the future and they will decide <br />where we go in the future. <br />Jim Henniger: My name is Jim Henniger. Can we just promise we're not going to <br />bus? No bussing. Now we've got a whole another conversation going. My grandfather <br />came to Chapel Hill in the 1920's and bought the dry goods stare on Franklin Street. It <br />became the Andrews Henniger store. My father grew up in the Chapel Hill school <br />system, graduated from Chapel Hill High when it was aver where the dental school is. <br />So I've been through three mergers now, this is my third. I'm getting to be kind of an <br />expert. My first one was in the 60's; it was a court ordered merger. I was living in <br />Durham. My oldest son went through the merger there. There are a lot of <br />commonalities going on and one of those is emotion. We've all seen that. Another one <br />
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