from the NRSD website:
“The Narragansett Regional School District in partnership with the communities and parents, Think about that for a moment.
"In partnership with communities and parents"
I think their partners just told them to do something, accept $19.5 million dollars as a budget base. Apparently that partnership is a one way street. Not only did the school committee just ignore their partners, they belittled them, chastised them and talked them as if they were little kids who do not know what is best or right. I mean, those partners only pay their bills.
As has been pointed out here before, using the dollars provided from DESE or Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and some dollar figures provided by the district, along with what two towns have said they will provide, added up, those dollars equal $19.8 million dollars.
Message to the school district - Take the $19.5 million before you really piss off your partners. Watch the you tube meeting of the last school committee meeting and you can view how they acted. Personally, I look forward to speaking to the district at the next district wide meeting, as opposed to being quiet at the last one. I hope they bring their car seats.
School committee wants to sit at a table and belittle Templeton residents; who paid for that brand new school, who provides the school resource officer, who is providing the fields that apparently the district is using for sports activities, where does the district office sit. The answer to all of those points is Templeton! So school committee, you may want to stop belittling Templeton by telling us we do not support the schools, we do not pay our fair share or someone pays more than we do.
I see in your spread sheet budget from first meeting in February, a dollar figure of $56,113.00 for practice bus to Gilman, as in Gilman Waite fields (you know, that long project to develop a recreation area for Templeton.
Lastly, I hope the district makes plans for many snow days because if Templeton has to make cuts, the roads may not be plowed in time for it to be safe to have school buses on the roads. Lastly, how about them wood chips, are they still at $28.00 per ton? Were they ever at $28.00 per ton?
The pile of dollars is only so big and there are more things to cover than there are dollars; hence, everyone has to feel the heat, even teachers and kids, it is called reality. Speaking of reality, if you live on Wellington or lower South Road, welcome to reality come the first day of school.
