To the Editor:
We just approved a $6-million tax override for – mostly – the Georgetown schools this past spring.
We received mailings from the school committee chairman, and from the Mass. Teachers Association that told us it was critical to maintain our school system, and if we didn’t approve approximately $200+ per month increase on every homeowner, the schools would fail.
Fast forward a few short months, and now the same people who sold us this bill of goods say we need to look at “regionalizing” our school system, because parents continue to refuse to place their kids in a school system that has tanked (big slide over the years, has fewer extra-curricular activities at the high school, etc. ).
So, now that they drove the schools down in almost every measurably way, they now want money to explore busing children to neighboring school systems.
Meanwhile, we have at least four administrators at the middle/high school, similar at the elementary school, and top-paid superindent, not to mention all the support staff.
Why, tell me why, would I believe them now? We need new school committee members.
(Again, name withheld from print to avoid whistlebower revenge.)
