Is There Any Limit

To Spending On Schools?

To the Editor:

I was dismayed to read a letter in the Letter Hive last Friday (May 16) supposedly written by a sixth grade child, lecturing us senior citizens and financially strapped young families on our civic responsibilities. It is alarming to think that one so young should have such an unfeeling attitude. I suppose living in a wealthy enclave like Equestrian Ridge, it is hard to imagine that a few thousand dollars a year increase in our taxes is too much to ask of senior citizens living on a fixed and decreasing income, or young families struggling to get by.

It’s not that I dislike children or want them to have a less than adequate education, but I do resent the annual fleecing of the public by the school system. I have lived here for almost 40 years and every year the school budget goes up almost ten percent. We have paid our taxes faithfully for 40 years. Is there any limit? Or should we, as little Jenna suggests, sell our home and leave town?

Carolyn H. Downing

10 Saw Mill Ridge Road, Newtown                              May 19, 2003