Thanks to those participating on the school board poll. Remember though to vote on Tuesday. A few posts down you can see my recommendations on who to vote for but please give strong consideration to Robin Jacobwitz.
I got a call asking me to put something up on the budget. Normally I am very much a supporter of helping to get the budget passed. This year, I encourage you to VOTE NO on the Budget. Eliminating 11 teaching positions is simply unacceptable. I will not vote for a budget that includes those critical job cuts.
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Wake up! I agree with voting the budget down, but only because they should be cutting more. We have less students in Kingston every year, the student body is projected to be significantly less in 5 years, yet we end up with more teachers every year. They are closing an entire school in the city of kingston because of, among other things, the decrease in the overall student body. If their greedy union does not want to give back in this economic crisis, like just about every other union and private sector employee out there, then we get by with less of them. I am so tired of the public welfare that the school system has become. and I am paying for it. Are you! Seven is not enough...I am voting against the budget because they need to cut more from it, there is too much waste in that school system. Our cost per pupil is unacceptable and this union deserves what it gets because they clearly do not get it.
I checked with Board of Elections on the number of potential voters that could exercise their right to vote in the Kingston School District. The number is staggering; 31,615 voters registered. Didn't get a chance to call the administrative offices to see how many actually came out last year. I'd guess is was about 7,000. Not acceptable.
Look, the situation was confusing this year and I bet most didn't understand what was going on because if you voted no on the budget, then it would go to contingency, which would have meant more cuts(arguably a hard deal either way but that was what was put to the voters). So your thinking is all wet but your saving grace in your ignorance here is you were not the only one who didn't understand the vote and what it meant and therefore had the wrong idea of how to vote based on what you said you wanted to happen.
No, I understood the budget very well. I read the district letter and looked at the numbers. At the end of the day I did vote yes, but my no vote would of been out of principal.
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