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From: Chris Bosse <30784811+chrisBosse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:41:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Some initial ideas

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+# Hillsboro-Deering School District Ideas
+
+* Ask Students to Come up with Ideas
+  * integrate business plans into curriculum
+* Build sheds to sell
+* Charge for Music / Plays
+  * limited number of free family tickets or family attends rehearsals
+* Greenhouse
+  * grow cash crops
+  * grow food for cafeteria
+  * space for local florists who could maintain the other plant areas over the weekends
+* Charge more for school lunches, encourage families to pack foods
+
+## Hillsboro Alone
+
+* Renegotiate contracts
+* Pay teachers more, merit-based, without union, encourage courageous, calculated, risk-taking teachers to bring about award-winning academic performance
+* Get out of Federal funding programs before they may, or may not, disappear or change
+  * dramatically reduces administrative overhead
+* Downsize from three to two buildings
+  * Makerspace
+    * sponsored by Osram
+  * Flea Markets and events
+    * Attract people to local economy
+  * local use of classrooms as meeting areas
+    * premium charge for keep stuff in rooms between meetings
+    * Osram off-site classes
+    * National Guard off-site classrooms
+    * First-aid
+    * Scouts
+    * Home school-ers co-op space
+    * Home school-ers winter gym class area
+  * Regional first-responder training site
+    * charge extra for live-actors
+  * Twitch streaming to live audiences
+  * Online and new games tournaments
+    * Attract people to local economy
+  * Movie nights
+    * black and white movies should be in public domain
+    * sell popcorn
+  * Use the building as a movie set
+    * John Hughes style
+    * nearby college movie-making courses
+    * Attract people to local economy