Kindness On May Day

By GAIL SLUPATCHUK

Published: May 09, 2008 12:00 AM

Kindness On May Day

To the Editor:

The Childrenâs Adventure Center received the most wonderful surprise on May Day! A colorful, beautiful basket of blooming flowers, ready to plant, from the students in the Writing and Kindness Club at Sandy Hook School.

The accompanying note said, âHappy May Day! We Hope You Enjoy Your May Day Flowers! We Think That You Are A Great Neighbor And Love That You Are So Close To Our School!â from the students in the Writing and Kindness Club at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

What a wonderful gesture and how proud Sandy Hook School must be to have such an outstanding student organization in their midst. How great that elementary school students are being encouraged to write and to practice kindness. Our congratulations to the Writing and Kindness Club for making Newtown and the world a better place through their thoughtfulness and kindness. And we are especially grateful to have been included. The Childrenâs Adventure Center also thinks you are great neighbors and we love that you are so close to our preschool â please come and visit and watch our flowers grow.

The Students and Staff of the Childrenâs Adventure Center

Florence Rubinstein, Acting Director

14 Riverside Road, Sandy HookÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, 2008

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I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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