Anderson Community Schools board member Jean Chaille says she’s disappointed that the previous school board didn’t address funding shortfalls sooner.
Ms. Chaille and the new majority on the school board are not powerless in this matter. They can, themselves, revisit the Madison County School Alliance’s detailed proposal to more than substantially decrease ACSC debt. She and the rest of the board need to support formation of the East Madison School Corporation.
Richland, Union and Section 36 of Lafayette townships are ready and willing to assume your debt and to take back our schools. That would put ACS and Anderson Township residents in the position of being on much sounder financial ground, probably eliminating the need for tax increases.
If instead this board prefers continuing the intransigence the previous school board and the superintendent have displayed to public, then as the saying goes, Pride Precedes A Fall. Do you want to test how far you can fall — again?
Would it not be more sensible to work with the people in the townships who have shown they care more about serious matters of education reform and fiscal accountability than being the biggest, baddest high school in the county?
Ms. Chaille says the real question posed to voters this November is: Do they think that we are worthy of more of their tax money?
The answer will be a resounding NO. You can be assured of this.
Stephen Sylvester
Anderson
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Letter: School board should support new district
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Viewpoint: Medical professionals instill confidence
The reason for this letter is not to inform everyone in town “all about my operation,” but far more importantly, to share my remedial experience — physically and emotionally — with gratitude and appreciation for all components of the entire Saint John’s Cancer Center team.
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Letter: Impatient drivers ignore school bus arm
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people that drive on 38th Street from Columbus Avenue to Scatterfield Road every morning for running my stop arm on the school bus that I drive.
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
As taxpayers, does the public have no say-so what happens with their tax dollars? With some proper schedule management, those existing meeting rooms can fulfill everyone’s needs.
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
Columnist Maureen Hayden asked, “Why did 3 million Hoosiers choose not to vote?” She gave a few reasons but I can think of another one.
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Letter: Elected officials should buy insurance
I may be wrong but I thought the city and county were hurting for money, and that’s why services keep getting cut or eliminated. One thing is evident. There is no shortage of money for lawsuits.
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
The truth of the collapse of a living-wage economy for working-class America is a social catastrophe and, increasingly, a severe embarrassment to free-market ideology.
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
On May 14 I attended the county council meeting in hopes that I could understand what is happening in the legislative branch of our Madison County government. What I saw was politics at its worst and I cannot applaud either party.
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
Are those who worry about the loss of the wheel tax concerned about the roads or about their jobs? Most of them could care less about people’s needs.
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Viewpoint: Medical professionals instill confidence
