Steel scare hits San Pedro High School gym

"The project went through the usual competitive bid process, Kendall said. No further details were available on the project."

of course it did, which is why china won. my question is why these contracts aren't drawn up contingent on the steel passing a preliminary test BEFORE construction.

o because that would probably cost too much money.

another case of poor products from China...when are we gonna learn? Our economy is awful because we outsourced most of our manufacturing jobs, sold off farm land, etc. We now buy crap from other countries that is shoddy and dangerous to save a few dollars. Jeez, pretty soon America will be a Third World country...the divide between rich and poor is growing and the middle class has all but disappeared...so sad.

.....and on the next project, the school district has decided to use Chinese labor to reduce costs on the new ESL classrooms.

When are economy is so bad. When we are needing more tax revenue. When we have lost so much of our manufacturing capacity. When our trade deficit with China is so out of whack....
I can't believe that sections of the Oakland Bay Bridge are being fabricated in China.

"The suspension span’s permanent steel deck sections, along with the tower and cables, will be fabricated near Shanghai, China, and then erected (or in the case of the cables, hung) starting in 2009."
www.mtc.ca.gov/news/transactions/ta02-0307/sk...

We can probably save money by outsourcing our weapons and defense manufacturing to China as well. China won't have to have battle warfare with us. They will defeat us economically.

Remember the days when Prop. BB was being debated?

If you do or don't, it really doesn't matter.

Voters continue to pass building bonds for schools for LAUSD and they don't seem to care where the money goes or how it is spent.

There is supposed to be a bond oversight committee for all of the construction bonds passed by voters.

I hope you all haven't forgotten that the bonds are basically loans voters are granted and then the voters have to pay them all back, with interest. Wouldn't you think if you were repaying loans you would want to know that you are not being duped by those spending YOUR money?

So now we have Belmont, the payroll fiasco, substandard steel, a now figurehead Superintendent, a Mayor who continues to infiltrate himself into LAUSD, a system where only about 50% of students entering 9Th grade make it up to the stage to accept their diploma when they become seniors, a budget shortfall of " $460,000,000" according to one Board of Education member, overcrowded classrooms that WILL NOT be releived by a new high school campus in San Pedro, teachers getting pink slips, and on, and on, and on.

There must be a time when those of us paying the bills rise up and state; Enough is enough!

How much longer will we be fed articles concerning the ongoing collapse of LAUSD and its inabiltiy to fix its problems?

Where to we draw our line in the sand and state that we must have more control over the failing educational system with LAUSD?

It may already be too late. It may be time to demand that the eight separate "local" regions of LAUSD break apart and then create eight separate school districts.

The LAUSD monster is too huge to continue eating up our resources at the expense of our childrens' educational future.

Enough is enough! The line is drawn. No new high school campus on the Upper Reservation of Fort MacArthur. LAUSD cannot build it within budget and they most certainly cannot maintain it and all the other schools in San Pedro wherever it is built.

calguy wrote:

.....and on the next project, the school district has decided to use Chinese labor to reduce costs on the new ESL classrooms.

You're bad! ;^) I get the joke (both of them) and I agree. Tortilla's for Mexico will eventually be imported from China.

While nobody can blame the LAUSD for excepting the lowest bid steel from China. Considering alll the problems with exports from China that stteel should have been test when it first came off the boat. But the school district should be credited for being on the ball and resovleing the problem before anyone was injured.

Living in San Pedro this article dose leave me with one question. Considering all of the construction done in downtown San Pedro this past decade. Was this same lowest bid steel from China used in the building of multiple story structures?

Who needs NUKES when they can ship pet food to kill our pets, lead painted toys to hurt our children, contaminated medicine to kill anyone, and defective steel to come crashing down on our heads. Stop buying this CR@P! This is what we should boycott!

Why is shuch an important issue for San Pedro being fist talked about on CNN? Has our local newspaper given up on us?