I'm not sure if this is even the right place to post this, but I am so stinking mad... I got to get this off my chest...
I write a column a weekly column each week for a local paper, it is mostly the news of the town I live in.... which is a small community of 750 people... It is not a rich town... mostly blue collar workers... but none the less they are hardworking law abiding citizens.
This morning... I got a call from the Superindendent of Schools (He currently oversees 3 districts... and he was trying to intimidate me about the following article... I edited the names of the people and towns for this posting... but all of it is true... even according to the Superindent. He was soooo pissed off at me... My article will not appear until Wednesday's paper, and I don't know how he got a hold of it... My editor is pissed that he is harassing me and is calling him...
Every schoolboard meeting, he hands out to the schoolboard members anything I write about the school.. and he has called me before regarding a letter to the editor I wrote... again before it appeared in the paper...
The High Cost of Education
Anyone who ever attended an Annual School Meeting knows that the cost of a public education is going sky high. Last year our town paid for 93 student's education, for a total of $1,303,225.00. Problem is up to four of the students live in other towns. At the Annual School Meeting, Miss Smith reported to the Town School Board and SAU that several of the kids listed as students in Town, actually lived in G. Town and S.field NH.
Nothing happened with it until the April meeting of the School Board, when the SAU said it would investigate it. An investigation revealed that two families were sending their children to N. Schools on our town's budget when the families live in S.field and G.Town NH. To add insult to injury, one of the students is a special education student and uses the Special Ed. van.
The School Board is at a disadvantage, since parents can register children at the schools in Newport and give a address in our town, and since most of the board members work full time it is hard to keep track of who is moving in and out of our town particularly if the students are in the 4-12 grades.
Currently the tuition rates per student to attend Newport are as follows: Elementary $10,691. 44 (grades 4-5) Middle School $10,197.20 (grades 6-8) High School $9,634.93 (grades 9-12). Tuition for Special Education was $55,000.00.
I write a column a weekly column each week for a local paper, it is mostly the news of the town I live in.... which is a small community of 750 people... It is not a rich town... mostly blue collar workers... but none the less they are hardworking law abiding citizens.
This morning... I got a call from the Superindendent of Schools (He currently oversees 3 districts... and he was trying to intimidate me about the following article... I edited the names of the people and towns for this posting... but all of it is true... even according to the Superindent. He was soooo pissed off at me... My article will not appear until Wednesday's paper, and I don't know how he got a hold of it... My editor is pissed that he is harassing me and is calling him...
Every schoolboard meeting, he hands out to the schoolboard members anything I write about the school.. and he has called me before regarding a letter to the editor I wrote... again before it appeared in the paper...
The High Cost of Education
Anyone who ever attended an Annual School Meeting knows that the cost of a public education is going sky high. Last year our town paid for 93 student's education, for a total of $1,303,225.00. Problem is up to four of the students live in other towns. At the Annual School Meeting, Miss Smith reported to the Town School Board and SAU that several of the kids listed as students in Town, actually lived in G. Town and S.field NH.
Nothing happened with it until the April meeting of the School Board, when the SAU said it would investigate it. An investigation revealed that two families were sending their children to N. Schools on our town's budget when the families live in S.field and G.Town NH. To add insult to injury, one of the students is a special education student and uses the Special Ed. van.
The School Board is at a disadvantage, since parents can register children at the schools in Newport and give a address in our town, and since most of the board members work full time it is hard to keep track of who is moving in and out of our town particularly if the students are in the 4-12 grades.
Currently the tuition rates per student to attend Newport are as follows: Elementary $10,691. 44 (grades 4-5) Middle School $10,197.20 (grades 6-8) High School $9,634.93 (grades 9-12). Tuition for Special Education was $55,000.00.
