Antibiotics In Children: Facts And Fiction
By Jeff Cersonsky, MD, FAAP
Antibiotics became widely and successfully used during World War II. While they helped ...
THE TELEPHONE AND THE PEDIATRICIAN
by Jeff Cersonsky, MD, FAAP
How soon can I expect my pediatrician (or the covering doctor) to respond to my call to the a...
Q: How much do the toppings on a pizza affect its nutritional content?
A:
A topping of high-fat sausage and pepperoni can double the fat content of pi...
Asparagus, lamb, rhubarb, and strawberries are signs of spring. The following “Good Food Good Health” recipes are suggestions for using ...
Take Care Of Those Bones
by JoAnn Prophet, MS, RD
Building bones is not just for youngsters. The more we learn about nutrition and health the more we realiz...
Americans Brace Themselves For Beauty
FARMINGTON –– Tom Cruise, America's heartthrob, has braces. Beautiful as he is, he has nonetheless...
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Hospital Partners With Lions Club To Help Low-Vision Patients
DANBURY — The Main Street Physical Rehabilitation Center, a division of Dan...
High Blood Pressure Or Reaction To Doctor’s White Coat?
FARMINGTON — For some patients, the alarmingly high blood pressure at their doct...
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Grant Helps Children Heal
DANBURY — The Center for Child and Adolescent Treatment Services (CCATS) received a $50,0000 grant from the Per...
New Procedure Treats Herniated Disks
For Mary Texira, two years of sleepless nights are now a thing of the past, thanks to a new treatment for herniated discs a...
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!
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.
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).