Questions:

1. Why does Concord have to pay for this and not the blessed Mount Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD)? This is a school problem impacting the neighborhoods and downtown. MDUSD should be on the hook for this. What am I missing?

2. Isn’t there a better way to spend 43 large? Why not put up web-cams around the area and shame kids for truancy violations with live, in-school video display. $20 says there’s some smart Red Devils in the computer science class that could figure this out for less than $43,000. So make it a school project with what’s leftover as a prize!

3. Sources say that plan will produce a sieve, noting there is no concern for the stadium exit at Galindo Street at Almond, where kids meet up and a lot of the drug deals go down. Instead, maybe school staff could be more properly incentivized by using the money as Bounty; where staff gets a reward for interdicting the few ne’er-do-wells from skipping classes to go to Baldwin Park for a toke or some fertive family planning in the bushes around the school.

The bitter-sweet side of this is Concord’s RDA will actually be spending monies on education! Imagine that.