"On Monday, after a meeting with Superintendent Steve Price, coaches and advisers of the school activities agreed to work for free or at least defer payment until a levy passes for the fall season to lower students' participation fees."

 

So much for the Coaches and advisors stepping up and doing the.............

 

A disaster from day 1.

An insult to the voter.

The frantic parents and kids were used as an emotional display throughout, then immediately kicked to the curb like rubbish.

Then today, pay to play drops by 60%+.

This administration has crossed up the voter immediately following each recent election.

Could any municipal organization have less credibility?

Those who created the last two election campaigns deserve to be replaced.

The campaigns were well-funded and had the support of almost all the names.

But that alone wasn't near enough. .75 votes per student would have been a winner, instead an overwhelmgly diverse majority with no real organization other than fiscal/academic responsibility and common sense,

won out decisively.

 

Voting in the increase does what, 85% of the increase will just go to salaries and benefits.

 

No one will hold the Admin. and BOE and Schools accountable, no one will force change if the levys just keep passing with a "but it is such a small increase".  The Middletown Education system is crumbling and no one wants to make changes, just keep shoveling the money at it.

 

Just look at Dayton school teachers, they file a grievence because the school admin/BOE tells them they must do their daily planning before or after school.  Nope can't do that we aren't getting paid for it.

 

John you ever take any work home with you.  I do every day.

 

The scores in the Middle Schools is what I find the most disturbing, the Middle Schools seems to be where everything fails apart here.

 

The students are being failed by the School system and in many cases by their own family not by the citizens of Middletown.  I refuse to vote yes on anymore levys as long as 85% is going to Salaries and benefits and 15% is going to the actual running of the schools.

 

My son had 15 year old text books in Middletown, just so the teacher can have another raise when they are already making twice what the average worker in Middletown does, sorry no way.

 

Get the scores up, lets have some concessions from the Admin and Teachers Union on salaries and let them pay more of their benefits, then I will be more than happy to vote for an increase, and my son isn't even enrolled in Middletown anymore, I would still vote for the increase, but the changes must come first.

 

 

 

The video brought a tear to my eye. Its sad that such a small increase was rejected by the voters. And if the voters "see" better the consequence of the levy failure, they might "understand" better too.

 

 

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