Held Hostage By School Boards

To the Editor:

It was with great pleasure when I read that the budget failed for the second time. I was then shocked to read that there was consideration to increase the amount of money for the Board of Education and that there was concern that the school budget was low. May I remind everyone what public education has brought us in this country? It has taught children how not to say Merry Christmas. It has taught children how not to say “under God” when reciting the pledge. It has taught children that Heather has two “mommies” and that every kind of promiscuous, deviant sexual encounter is permissible as long as you have a condom in your pocket. Those are just small samples of the lunatic left wing, politically correct trash that is forced on children today. Your tax dollars at work.

The education budget should be cut by 50 percent. Use that money for grants, low interest loans, vouchers, rebates, or any other method you can think of to be given to parents so they can use it to send their children to a private or parochial school. I am confident that there would be a stampede of parents and students leaving the public school system. If you do not think so, why have the school administrators and unions been opposed to any such programs for so long? Then when those students have left the public school system you can close schools, reduce staff and really cut costs.

It is time that parents and communities everywhere stop being held hostage by the Boards of Education whose only response to their own incompetence and failures is give us more money.

I encourage all residents of Newtown to vote No on any budget with any tax increase or any increases in spending. Enough is enough.

Ernest Vitarbo

20 Turkey Hill Road, Newtown                                       May 24, 2010