In response to the 10% budget cut of Franklin School District: When are we going to look to the future? Nobody rises to help the schools, and they’re the first place to be hit in the city of Franklin.
Cutting the school budget isn’t the first and best way to solve the problem. What we need are new people on the board with fresh ideas who can come up with ideas for raising funds for the schools instead of just taking money from them. Start with 10% of funds from all city fundraisers going toward your children’s education before anything else.
What are we going to do to give these kids a good and proper education? Our young people are suffering, their opportunities are suffering and our future is therefore suffering because our young people are our future. Without giving them all the tools to succeed and grow, the future is at stake.
As long as I can remember, the city council has always cut from the schools before anything else, and clearly this is not solving the problem, as Franklin schools are ranked pretty low in the state of New Hampshire. With a low-ranking school system with a low budget that continues to be cut, we can’t attract more people to move to Franklin, and the growth and prosperity of the city suffer.
To the Franklin schools and their supporters, I say don’t succumb to the naysayers. Our students deserve better and our teachers deserve better.
FAY MAHONEY
Boscawen
(The writer is a 1953 graduate of Franklin High School and a former Franklin school board member.)