The hits just keep on coming. We know the Concord School District for years failed to protect students from abuse and punished or ignored students who spoke up about abuse. We now know the Concord School Board has also been abusing Concord’s hardworking taxpayers.
For eight years we’ve been paying for an assistant superintendent who, according to reports in the Monitor, has not been credentialed by the Department of Education to serve as a top administrator. Last year she was paid $131,758. I want my money back.
The infamous $500 per hour report that took months to complete has been delivered. Will taxpayers be told how much it cost? If the Concord School Board has their way it won’t see the light of day.
Concord has a well-trained, very professional, highly qualified police department. Apparently, the Concord School Board does not share that view, arrogantly declaring, “We do not plan to release this report to the Concord police.”
Enough is enough. If only there was some mechanism for the New Hampshire Department of Education to take control of the school district, and the New Hampshire Attorney General, in conjunction with Concord police, to investigate what happened. Only then can we feel confident that children are safe, and taxpayers get what they’re paying for.
The sad truth is, the same 300 voters, in a city with 30,000 registered voters, show up for so-called “off year, nonpartisan” city elections leaving us with arrogance, incompetence, cover-ups and a “protect the bureaucrats” priority.
RAPHAEL LAHOUSSE
Concord