You know what frugality I would have liked to see? The school reno project passing however many years ago with state funding so we wouldn't have had the $90+ million project. Versus shaving, what, generously estimating here, a few thousand dollars off the price of educating each of our less than one thousand students in our district? Diana Giles rd
On Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 4:10 PM Jennifer Saffran <jennifer.saff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to remind people that, yes, Lincoln is, on average, a > privileged town, but that doesn’t mean everyone in it is “privileged”. (By > privileged, I assume that means a high per household income.) It is easy to > see the incredible beauty and assets of Lincoln and its residents as > somehow set apart, to be, as it were, even a bit self-congratulatory. Along > with an awareness of “privilege”, another “Yankee cultural value” is also > thrift. My point is that referencing to well-worn ideas of identity is not > really a way to make school funding and planning decisions. Lincoln is one > of MANY districts in the Commonwealth of Mass. that are excellent. Not all > are on the Route 2 corridor, either. Luckily, in MA, we have many excellent > school districts to use as models of success. > > For example, in one of the many emails, Southboro was listed as the top > performing school at the elementary level. My children were educated in > that district. Class sizes were capped at 22 per licensed teacher, and 24 > at the regional high school (ARHS—Algonquin). The year my son graduated, > they sent 5 students to Harvard. Additionally, ARHS has received the > Special Olympics International’s designation as a Special Olympics Unified > Champion School TWICE. There are only 160 of these schools in the nation. > > My point is that it is possible to be excellent in many ways, meeting the > needs of all students, without disregarding what is considered “best > practices” in other school districts who have documented successes. I would > invite us all to look outward as well as inward when making plans for the > upcoming years. > > >
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