Groton’s Phase II Project a Mistake
The following remarks are based upon some comments I just received from Mr. K.E.Andersen, with whom I correspond periodically. I felt that the content was appropriate for a “letter to the Editor”…….ej
Groton’s Phase II Project a Mistake
Phase I was a botched program where cost savings were promised to us by the School Board who pushed for it. They never delivered any savings and our grandchildren will pass these costs on to their grandchildren. Phase II will be more of the same, only more so (Did you ever try to swallow a whole grapefruit?). Unless and until the Board of Ed, Town Council, Town RTM and Groton Citizens themselves make a firm commitment to actually maintain what they already have and what they contract to build in the future, this will forever be a growing and perplexing problem.
There is a lot of emotional talk about all this effort being for the benefit of the “children” but the truth is that those children’s future earnings are being spent 2 to 1 before they are even old enough to work. They will enter the educational process already in debt and will spend their entire lives afterward paying it off.
This is not the year for the Phase II school project. In fact, there will never be a “good” time for it. The present plan is flawed on many levels and needs to be further reviewed. “Bigger” is not “better.”
Ed Johnson, Groton
Phase I was a botched program where cost savings were promised to us by the School Board who pushed for it. They never delivered any savings and our grandchildren will pass these costs on to their grandchildren. Phase II will be more of the same, only more so (Did you ever try to swallow a whole grapefruit?). Unless and until the Board of Ed, Town Council, Town RTM and Groton Citizens themselves make a firm commitment to actually maintain what they already have and what they contract to build in the future, this will forever be a growing and perplexing problem.
There is a lot of emotional talk about all this effort being for the benefit of the “children” but the truth is that those children’s future earnings are being spent 2 to 1 before they are even old enough to work. They will enter the educational process already in debt and will spend their entire lives afterward paying it off.
This is not the year for the Phase II school project. In fact, there will never be a “good” time for it. The present plan is flawed on many levels and needs to be further reviewed. “Bigger” is not “better.”
Ed Johnson, Groton
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