Reader says The schools are going to have to become more efficient, and offer less.
Talk to the Prinipals at the various schools. They will tell you that the cap on the budget is starting to have real effects on what they can do. The BOE “budget” is already “subsidized” by hundreds of thousands of dollars a year (if not more) from individual, activity and sports related fund raising that goes on from the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. Fees for supplies, field trips, classroom upgrades, etc….all of which used to be “in the budget” are now additional costs. With a 2% maximum increase in the budget and something like annual 1.5% salary raises and continued rising costs in health care, the end effect is going to be “cuts.” And those cuts are going to have to come from a lot of different places. Cuts to administrators, cuts to teachers, cuts to programs, cuts to class offerings, cuts to drives ed, cuts to athletics, etc…. The schools are going to have to become more efficient, and offer less.
And if they don’t become efficient, more empty nesters and households with no children will sell and move out due to increasing taxes.
The net result will be more children in school and more expenses.
The best way to keep things in line is for the BOE to show some discipline and for once, give a shit about those who subsidize those with children in school.
There are 3 of us on this block alone at the breaking point with taxes. If we sell, there are 3 homes=11 bedrooms= lots of more young ones in the Schools.
Increasing class size is a very efficient way to stop the overspending.
why would you pay these taxes for overcrowded classrooms ?
Larger class sizes worked for years.
If your kid is stupid and needs ‘hand holding’, pay for your own tutor.
“These” taxes are less than Ramsey or Glen Rock.