Letter: Do what’s essential for children

The ConVal withdrawal committee voted no to Dublin’s and Francestown’s request to withdraw from the district after the district spent over $ 100,000 to close the those same elementary schools. It is feasible and suitable for my wife to homeschool my sixth-grade grandson, but Dublin and Francestown do not have the ability to educate their children?

The discussion of money and closing buildings relates to the quality of the educational system. My brothers and sisters are leaving the school district because it is failing with state test scores under 50% at a price tag of $37,000 per student. The public schools are controlled mainly by the bureaucracy of the Department of Education and teachers’ unions. The bureaucracy needs to take care of their own interests before the people they serve to survive. It is a noisy gong that cannot love. A town and its citizens will put their children’s needs first. Let’s go back to the 1967 administration cost per student.

Hanging on the wall at School Committee meetings is a mission statement teaching the children the essentials to survive. Thoreau wrote that he “went out into the woods to learn the essential facts of life and not when he came to die discovered he had not lived.” Is it essential to have males and females to sustain life? My brothers and sisters have lost faith in the bureaucracy’s ability to know what is essential for the needs of our children.

I have faith, hope and love in the men and women in the withdrawal committees to take back our school system. The contract of 1967 is broken. Bankrupt the system, vote the budget down and put the district into receivership. Do something and show our children your love.

Michael Williamson

Sharon