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How the school board spends county tax money to educate our children continues to be an issue of major concern in the county, as it should be. People talk about it on the street, they call us up or come by our office, they complain about priorities with which they disagree. They do everything but show up at the school board meetings and express their opinions in a way that would have some effect.
With the exception of two concerned parents, no one came to the community input session on the 198384 school budget last week. In fact, except for these parents and a group of dedicated teachers, no one ever comes to school board meetings.
If anyone had attended meetings in recent months, they would know a great deal about space and curriculum requirements at the high school. They would have heard Robert Chappell, High School Principal, tell the board that the space shortage at the high school not only crowds bodies, it prevents program improvement. Additions to graduation requirements presently being contemplated at the state level would not find a single empty classroom at our high school, according to Chappell’s space use log.
Anyone interested or curious enough to attend board meetings would have heard Superintendent Robert Estabrook’s construction proposal, calling for the building of a new
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