This morning’s court house news officially closes a sad, ugly chapter in Sandwich school history. As time passes it will fall to future observers and pundits to judge the real results and impacts of what has transpired both in the courtroom and the school committee meeting room. Taxpayers, parents and students meanwhile are hoping for the best.
Today, school buildings are in disrepair. Students are fleeing the district in near record numbers and teacher moral is low. The entire Administration of the schools has been or will be replaced and new to our schools and community – there is no continuity. And, the overall school budget has been reduced year over year and its unlikely that any new investment in the schools will be forthcoming. To say things are bad is an understatement.
Our schools need and deserve an Administration and School Committee that brings vision, leadership, stability and competency to everything they do. This does not exist today – that’s an opinion most in town share.
Much like a home repair project undertaken is haste, the town now finds itself with a shell of a school system, its infrastructure has been gutted and its foundation weakened. The rebuilding should begin immediately. We all want to know: do we have the tools, skills, materials and know-how to rebuild and where’s the design plan we’re going to follow and who created it?
Here’s hoping that the next chapter in our school’s story is in every way better than the one we’ve just finished. Our children deserve nothing less.
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