Your Letters 5: Proposed Future Site of Our New Sullivan West School
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Sandy Wayne
P.O. Box 11
Fremont Center, NY 12736
July 2,2001
To the Editor:
In my opinion the school board and Johndrow probably took statistics,
which takes numbers and changes the outcome to what you want it to show. If
there is nothing wrong with the new site why don’t they come out in the open
with information? They had reports before anyone so they had to know what was
in them.
Why must you use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information? Wouldn’t you think they would gladly hand over information without filling out
forms? Then you have to wait for them, since they have 5 days to get them to
you. Some reports are over 100 pages and at $1.00 per page it would run into
some money too. To be fair you can go to the school and after filling out the
paperwork, sit there and read the reports and see the drawings of the school
and pay only for those pages you want. Maybe it should be suggested that
complete copies of all reports should be given to some parents in each area.
That is if there is nothing to hide.
Seems like Johndrow and the school board do not like answering
questions asked them in a group setting. Why? How can the answer be different
to individuals when asked separately? The only time you would think people
would do this, is if they are hiding something. What would happen if you, the
parents and taxpayers, went to school board meetings and expected answers
given to all questions asked, all the time? Shouldn’t they want to give us
answers if every thing is fine? Take back your right at the school board
meetings and get answers. Aren’t they supposed to do what is best for our
children’s education?
Why did they say they wouldn’t do some things and then do it? Examples
would be that kids would not be transferred or that sports would not be
combined [unless needed to make a team] before the new school was built.
Actions speak loader than words. This has happened and was announced in the
school bulletin so therefore the actions of the board and Johndrow do not
equal the words they speak. So why and how can we believe what they say?
When some concerned parents went to the site, with permission, they
didn’t think they would find what they did. After all, being told they could
go look at the site at any time, they didn’t think there was any thing wrong.
Maybe that was why they said they could go anytime. Believing just that they
didn't go to the site for a while. Just goes to show you that every thing
should be checked out.
They thought what they did see, and what might be under the ground,
could put the health of children at risk. They brought it out into the open. If problems happen years from now, or not, their conscience is clear.
Newspapers have stated that schools who did not know of toxic
contamination and schools who did know of contamination and thought it was
cleaned up, do not show effects until years later. By the time children show
signs of sickness, it is far too late. And those who used it as a rung up the
ladder have left and leave you to handle it alone. Could it happen here the
same way? Shouldn’t we try to protect our children as much as possible? It is
becoming increasingly difficult in today’s world.
Why are they pushing so hard and fast? So we can’t find out anything
else? Why and who got into a website vote and change the results? Why are they
so upset about what people are finding out? That is again, if nothing is being
hid from us, nothing is wrong. Could they be hiding something more serious
than what has been uncovered already? There are so many questions that come to
mind.
Since the people behind the articles seem to want to make this a
personal agenda, I would like to make it very personal. Believe that a new
school building, along with all of the hazards, from more dangerous road
travel, to higher taxes, to possible contaminates makes for better education? Even after everything that has gone on? Fine. Don’t believe that a new school
building, higher taxes, etc. makes for better education? Fine. Believe that
for less money per student we could upgrade our existing community schools and
have better education? Fine. Believe that it couldn’t? OK. Do you get what it
comes down to? YOU!
Personally it is up to you as parents, grandparents, and taxpayers to
decide for your own family. I will not insult your intelligence by telling you
what to do, what to believe. You can and should form your own opinion. It will
be part of the never-ending circle of life that you give to your children. How
you want recorded what you did is your concern.
Every one will have to live with what is done for years. Just in taxes
alone. Maybe that will be all. Maybe not.
Since an educated guess is needed here [Ken Uy didn’t use any
names] and because others have taken that it was pertaining to me, who was seen
on the Lake Huntington site, I just have to wonder if the rest of the
information in the article was just as correct. Personally, I have never been
there.
Sandy Wayne
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