Opportunity squashed by FUESD

Janice Shultz states FUESD’s attorney’s opinion on approving a zoning resolution for The New School “would give an implied ownership of the program.” To Ms. Schultz I say, “In your dreams.”

FUESD should have jumped on the opportunity to support a successful school in their own backyard. You’d be shouting from the rooftops if one school in your district had the educational success and scores of our school. It’s crystal clear the FUESD doesn’t want The New School to survive because we make them look bad. They don’t want competition in the district because they might have to work harder to improve their test scores, maybe allocate a few more dollars for books instead of spending $2,200 on a Washington, DC, convention Anne Renshaw practically wrestled for in the meeting that evening at taxpayers’ expense. The president of the school board and another member felt it was a waste of money but in the end they all approved it – go figure. Renshaw went on to say she really cares about kids and proceeded to insult the integrity of the people running our school in front of our children.

If you knew the actual facts of the story, Ms. Renshaw, you might say otherwise, but then again, why would you be willing to support education in your own community you could really never take credit for or measure up to?

We thought it would be a good experience for students to witness how the process of meetings like these work but what they ended up witnessing was a bunch of bureaucrats unable to step forward in the name of education in their own community. If you have children attending school in this district you might want to attend the board meetings held on Monday evenings 6:30 p.m. every two weeks at Frazier Elementary to find out how you are best being served by these public servants.

Tim Hamilton