These are tough times no doubt. The school committee had to make some hard choices to trim the budget to avoid layoffs and thereby increase class size and that all too important teacher-student ratio. No one would be happy with any cuts. Everybody gave a little, just some more than others.
Transportation cost which does make up a significant portion of the budget seemed to be treated with kid gloves. Despite stories of tens of thousands of dollars spent to transport students to the KIPP charter school and the phenomenal increase in the cost for placements outside the Lynn school system.
Surrendering to the prospect of making any changes to this year's massive transportation budget due to time constraints, Donna Coppola put forth the motion or the wish that a careful analysis of the transportation budget be performed in order to avoid this same problem next year.
A noble gesture that fell on deaf ears. No one seemed interested in touching this sacred cow, now or in the future.
This kind of educational foresight and planning will guarantee that we will have the more priveledged students tranported to hollow halls. We would be better served to have our children walk to fully stalked libraries with librarians. Our students would be in better shape mentally and physically. Oh yeh, our MCAS scores would be higher.
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