The sky is purple

To the editor: I am amazed at how the administration along with some of the current school board members keep telling the public that the sky is purple and in actuality we all know sky is blue. This past school board meeting was very enlightening. The meeting was moved up two weeks and changed into a voting meeting so that the Biondo land purchase can be moved along at record speed. We are completing the due diligence in three weeks, something that has in the past taken three months. When I asked why, I was told the seller of the land will be able to get a tax break. I thought the buyer was in control of the sale. Not only are we moving at lightning speed, but when we had appraisals of the property, the lowest was $1.2 million, the second was $2.2 million, so someone please tell me why we are paying almost three million? This seems to be a veiled attempt to rush through this land purchase before the election and without fully looking at all of our options. Another fact that came out at the meeting was that this school was going to be bigger and better so that it can accommodate some of the children from Dingmans and Shohola. Let me please understand this, last month parents from Milford were outraged, as they should have been, when they thought they heard someone mention sending their children to Shohola. But the plan in all reality, as a board member stated, was to send children from Dingmans down to Milford. Some of our elementary school children are now riding 45 minutes. Is that not long enough? Please someone tell me why the incumbent school board thinks that this is fine. I thought the school board represented all the children in the district. Why did they purchase the land in Dingmans, if they had no intentions of building to alleviate the crowded classroom? The plan was to build in Milford and ship our children even further than they are traveling now. Information was presented on how detrimental construction work would be on the Milford campus, but yet we have worked around ongoing construction in Dingmans in the past when the middle school and primary schools were built. Again, some one please tell why the incumbent board thinks it’s okay for the Dingmans schools to operate under construction conditions and not the Milford campus. The next school board meeting will be at the Dingmans Middle School in the auditorium on Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Please attend and voice your opinion. We need change. We need a school board that has their priorities right, a board that will do the right thing for a district as a whole, and not just someone’s agenda. Vote for and only for: French, Kupillas and Wladar for a change. Diane French Milford