Anybody patroling the streets

[Been around-8694]

These posts are both entertaining and frustrating to read. I encourage these "posters" who use words like "tax scandal" to attend some township and board of education meetings. Each establishes it's own budget, and the school's has a greater impact on your taxes than the township's. It is obvious that you are concerned, so take an hour or two out of the month and attend the meetings.

[been around as well;-0qs4]

Attending the meetings is about as much of a waste of time as watching a sitcom. The decisions are made with little or no regard for the public. I can remember being solicited by a board member for support for one of the many "additions" to the school. I was told this was to be all they would need. Well sure enough after the vote passed we were asked for more $$$$ for amenities to furnish the addition that were not included in the original request! They are just a bunch of politicians who get whatever they want at the cost of others. I agree that the Board of Education has a much greater impact than the committee but the Bd of Ed is now and has always been"Nothing is too good for my child people".They have spent and spent and they will continue to spend until their children are out of school. We have have seen so many newcomers come and go and they leave after their childern have graduated. There needs to be some relief for those of us whose children graduated from the town hall school and who are being taxed to the hilt.