"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and is above and beyond words" R. Ingersoll. Please don't cut the music for the 4th grade program.....

Get our kids started right and save the Kindergarten TA?s. Without TA?s, even the best kindergarten teacher cannot get 5 year olds as far as they do now. Compromised learning in kindergarten doesn?t end there?it just ripples upward through succeeding grades with obvious potential impacts in grades 1-12 and test scores but most importantly to the kids. What is at stake here is more than 10 TA jobs?it?s the foundation of our children?s education for years to come. So let?s get the kids started right: save the TA?s. I also support retention of the music teacher position.

There was no mention of all the cuts to the clubs at the middle school and high school they are proposing to eliminate at the high school, NYMSA ,all county, Jazz band chess club, Quiz club,tech club,environmental club and many other clubs that I was trying to wriye them all downat the board meeting the other night also $50.000 of modified sports which means some sports are being cut. There is only one board meeting left for people to come out and and let the board know how you feel. .While I feel there should be kindergarten Ta's I didn't see one kindergarted teacher speak up and say they needed ther TA's I went to every board meeting.

It would be great to analyze the sports budgets. They should receive base funding and then pay to play. I cannot believe that it would cost a lot of money to send the chess club to a meet. But Iam sure that sending the Football Team is very costly. I am not in anyway suggesting cuts to anything just perhaps funding should be leveraged at a base level and on top of that players should contribute.

I cannot believe that you are considering not returning we the taxpayers money back too us by lowering the projected tax levy. I as a retired senior citizen and many others like me on fixed incomes are being taxed out of this town. With the outrage that is going on in Washington with our representatives spending this country into the ground and the same thing happening in Albany the buck has to stop somewhere. Everyone knows if we don't stop the uncontrolled spending, America as we know it is doomed. We the taxpayer can't take much more. Stop spending this "new found money" and return it to the taxpayer and lower our taxes. I received a fine education when I was growing up without all the frills this school system has ie; TA's for instance, and my parents had to pay for many many club activities and trips that I took. Why can't that be done now? If you want all these extra frills then the individuals who want to enjoy them should pay for them. Not us taxpayers!!

Most of the school board does want to lower the tax levy. i don't like paying these high taxes either. Come to the meeting Mon @ 7pm at the high school and voice your concern.