81% of 1900 employees at the water department lost their jobs in detroit yesterday. Police in Detroit is under powered. Detroit could have used the 4,5 million dollars better than allowing kids to visit the museum as much as I favor it. But the money should come from rich Bloomfield Hills Schools not from the unfortunate millage. It still will be costly having to transport the students, teachers accompany them, park the bus and have the driver wait. The entry fee to DIA is the smallest part of cost to visit DIA. If Detroit goes into bunkrapcy all the DIA millage money can find it's way to Detroit treasury which owns the DIA. As Nancy Pelosy said: "now that you have it you will find what is in it". After all the word DIA is not mentioned in the millage language for which you voted and it is "Art Authority" not DIA "Authority" which means that new millage proposal for any of 22 Detroit institutions are in line for the zoo millage style.

Dr. Baar: It's enough with your "rich Bloomfield Hills Schools" diatribe. Your perpetual misrepresentations (and incorrect spellings) don't led credibility to what you say. Our rich schools probably offer remedial spelling for adult residents. You are an embarassment to our local community and the area at large. It's not that I disagree with you, we're all entitled to our opinions. However, your statements and allegations go beyond opinions and become accusations.

Dr. Barr,

My high school student was one of the 842 Bloomfield Hills students to visit the DIA last school year. Please note that the cost of visiting the DIA, including transportation, is placed on the students or parents of the students, NOT the district. That cost was in addition to the DIA membership fee I had already paid.

From reading your comment, it sounds like you would rather have the Bloomfield Hills School District provide $$ to the City of Detroit rather than Oakland County tax payers paying a millage to support the operations of the DIA. Your logic is unintelligible. You would have been better to simply criticize the milliage itself.

Mr. Barr,
It is a shame that you feel you are the victim of some kind of abuse. If you are on the receiving end of some nasty words that is perhaps because you have in several missives charged people falsely with crimes -- including the BHS schoolboard and administration and the administration of the DIA. You call them stupid and you call them uninformed. And these are your neighbors or fellow community members. I invite any reader of Patch to search your recorded statements. Your rhetoric is routinely overheated and, consequently, not persuasive to most (although those with a strict anti-tax agenda will always chime in for support). You told neighbors who voted differntly than you on the school bond issue that they were guilty of "crimes against children." I would like to belief you are arguing in good faith but your words undermine that claim. Here you seem to plea for "fairness" in public education. But I can't quite believe the man who charged his Bloomfield neighbors living in "small houses" were taking advantage of homeowners who have been in the district longer is now concerned about the children of Pontiac. You don't like taxes of any kind. That's fine. Argue your point -- but please stop insulting people and wrongly accusing them in writing. And don't be surprised when you join any kind of public discussion about BHS you will get a strong response.

Having read too many of Dr. Baar's comments, allegations, and accusations it seems an exercise in fantasy to actually think he acts in "good faith." He is akin to a bank robber who thought, in good faith, that the bank was just holding his money for him.

Mr. Baar you made accusations against the school board that are patently false. You whine about higher taxes when everyone's have gone down. "Millions of dallars invested in advertising by BHS and DIA." You know that's false. Based on your actions, falsehoods, and behavior (e.g. using the tragic death of a youngster to vent against the school district) YOU HAVE NOT EARNED ANY RESPECT. You are an embarassment to the community.

I must confess to having mispelled your name for months,never noticing it. It was not intentional and I sincerely apologize. I completely stand by my remarks but did not intend to use an incorrect spelling of your name. You said "millions" regarding advertising by BHS and DIA. Here's an opportunity to substantiate your claim or be regarded as someone posting false statements and then claiming it's opinion.

"We are angry because of the deception that is on going concealing facts and misrepresenting. We are angry because BHSEB gave public money for propaganda including possible financing, directly or indirectly to One Bloomfield United." Here is a fact, Mr. Barr. These are your words. It is utterly absurd for you claim attacks on "your person" and to be thin skinned about somebody not spelling your name correctly when you are willing -- without evidence -- to charge others with crimes and then have the audacity to insist they respond to your concerns.