When you advocate for a school which is occupied by a private school you get the Missoula police talking to you

Prescott School Missoula must be doing something right. Whenever psm is in the Prescott School neighborhood, a police man pulls up and wants to talk.

The police in Missoula have all been very nice to Prescott School Missoula. They state that Missoula International School has called them, most likely Julie Lennox, headmaster of MIS, and that psm is causing some sort of consternation for them.

What Missoula International School is saying by their actions is that they want to be left alone without any opposition to enjoy what is one of Missoula's almost hidden treasures, Prescott School.

Prescott School is not, however, hidden for psm. Prescott School is on psm's mind very often.  psm thinks of the scandal and the hijacking of our treasured neighborhood school by nefarious school board members.  

Prescott School has served Rattlesnake children for MORE THAN A CENTURY! Prescott School was BUILT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN.

 Missoula International School, however, contrary to what its leaders say in meetings and in letters is not taking very good care of the Prescott building. See You Tube video for pictures of the overgrown knapweed on the playground and the lack of grass due to lack of watering. It is not a win-win lease as MIS wants  you to believe either. See page on top of this blog, "MIS' Sweetheart Lease".

Anyway, to get back to the Missoula police talking to psm every time psm is in the neighborhood. MIS is actually trying to scare psm away from the premises and to discourage psn's visits to the Prescott School neighborhood.

MIS officials know that psm would not hurt a child. After all, psm has raised three sons and now has a granddaughter, loves kids, and is working hard so that the public school children in the Rattlesnake have a neighborhood school to attend.


MIS will call the police when psm is using the First Amendment rights to picket. MIS will call the police when psm is filming the traffic patterns in the area. This also is a right of all Americans. People cannot expect to have the right of privacy while riding in cars ( remember, psm is not filming children, just vehicles - the people in the vehicles do not show up well in the videos as the windows are darkened in most vehicles now days).

The goal of any filming is to illustrate with pictures the ASTRONOMICAL growth of MIS. A police man in one of psm's many visits with these nice public servants, did inform me that taking pictures of the children is not a good idea. (At one point psm was taking a picture of the playground to illustrate the huge numbers of MIS children, however, it was NEVER to single out the children, just to let people who were to view the picture the mushrooming growth of the lessee, MIS. For that reason psm will not use that picture.)

The vehicles turning onto Elm Street to go to Prescott (MIS) are huge in numbers!!! psm phoned the district and encouraged Superintendent Apostle to get down to the intersection of Elm Street and Van Buren and see what is happening to this school district as a result of this lease. psm is quite sure Apostle has not done this (or any other Trustee or administrator).

psm has counted about 85 cars a day streaming onto Elm Street and then taking a left into Prescott School. 85 vehicles streaming into Prescott every day. Each child within those vehicles taking away funds from MCPS (the number of children over 33 - the 2004 enrollment figure - students is the concern here).  2011 estimates of the loses to the district were in the $500,000 range by a math expert and now the loss is higher due to increase in MIS enrollment of about 40-50 more students. A woman from MIS during a church service talk which psm listened to stated that MIS enrollment is now at 190 !!! - which includes preschool is assume)

Our neighborhood school is being occupied by a private school and because of this children in the Rattlesnake wait to catch a bus to go to go to Rattlesnake School. Children in the Rattlesnake wait to catch a bus to go to Washington Middle School. Children in the Rattlesnake NEVER get to attend Prescott School. This has got to stop!

Yes, Missoulians, you are being taken for a very, very expensive ride by Superintendent Apostle and his gang of not-so-merry men and women.

And psm, as stated above, psm does not mind having friendly chats with our great Missoula police men.

edited 4-29-2014