School board members pass off their responsibility to the negotiating team, giving them an escape route not to take further action to “hold the line on salary and benefit expenses.”

Negotiators seem to be responsible to make sure that teachers and administrators contracts, which guarantee salary raises, step raises and benefits, are protected.

Teachers and administrativors are supposed to provide quality education to each student, and each student has the right to expect to get a quality education from those same teachers and administrators.

It appears to be as plain as the nose on your face. Look back. Every year, when cuts are made, it has always been programs, sports, music, home economics, shop, business ed and every other type of educational and extracurricular program the board and administrators can find to dump.

In their desperation to protect incomes and benefits of educators in SAD 13, funding cuts will extend into closing bathrooms and the cafeterias, even the library and transportation.

What’s left, I ask you? The answer is not much. What then? Then we have no schools and must bus all students.

At that point, there will be no jobs for administrators, teachers, office personnel, staff employees, bus drivers, janitors, maintenance workers, grounds keepers, nor anyone else. Why? Because by then, all students are being educated in other school systems.

Talk about failing. That is failing to educate our own young people here locally.

What is the quickest way to destroy a town? Answer: Destroy its school system.

Frances Warrell

Moscow

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