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Jo-Ann Erhard May 22, 2013 at 11:52 am
Thanks Greg for you kind words and support. I am glad it passed and by a nice margin.
Greg Bashaw May 21, 2013 at 05:07 pm
The community of North Bellmore should know that YOU Mrs Erhard are an ASSET to this community, and…Read More you volunteer YOUR time away from your duties to your family in order for this community to make informed decisions!... I salute you... and thank you.
Beverley McKenzie May 22, 2013 at 11:55 am
Thanks to local mediums like this , I found out about this event on the actual day of the event. So…Read More glad I attended , inspite of the huge crowd it was organized, went smoothly and was so worth the wait. Curtis of course was Wonderful, so humble so accomodating and of course so generous. Very proud and grateful to the patch and my son"s future high school JFK, we need more events like this and we need them covered.
Sina May 20, 2013 at 07:01 pm
Board of Ed: Imagine if we as homeowners maintained our properties in the manner in which you…Read More maintain our school district properties, it would bring down the property values in our entire community. I've been asking myself, why then do we accept this from our school district? We are charged an exorbitant amount of school taxes by you, yet we continue to accept mediocrity from you on so many levels. The kids and the community must come first, we've paid long enough. It's time to give back to the taxpayer and I DON'T mean in the way of an appropriated fund balance. Give back the funds you've already collected from us by upgrading the fields, it needs to be done, it's time!
Concerned Parent May 20, 2013 at 11:15 am
Dear Board of Education;
You are only doing an analysis to our fields NOW that a Superintendent is…Read More starting on July 1st? And you admit these concerns have been coming up at many of your prior meetings! You should be ashamed of yourselves. This like telling a student to study the night before the SAT's and letting them skip 9th, 10th and 11th grade. You have not educated yourselves on the topic of safe fields, cared enough to tour the fields, or have kept our schools as competitive as our neighbors. Your letter is embarrassing! GIVE US ANSWERS at the next meeting! We can only hope that the new Superintendent has vision for our future student-athletes and that Board members who have vision for the future will come forward and speak out and make changes.
Nancy C May 19, 2013 at 07:39 am
Our children are taught about stranger danger. The child did the right thing. Not all contacts…Read More will involve kidnapping, but molestation is a lot more common. And years ago when I was growing up, no one warned us. If you have to be so politically correct so as not to give a description of someone, then our children & society will be in real danger.
Zach T May 18, 2013 at 09:56 am
Who in god's name would go to a supermarket when we have Peapod??
Supermarket's are out in the…Read More dangerous real world, it's so much easier to just have someone deliver my groceries to my nice cozy south merrick home, and have my live-in maid put them away for me
scott cohen May 18, 2013 at 08:35 am
I meant to add that with 3 kids each playing 1-3 sports each I know lost of elementary student…Read More athletes.
scott cohen May 18, 2013 at 08:31 am
@sab & ellen,
please allow me to rephrase that, I do not personally know any high school…Read More student athletes, I do know some of their parents. And yes I would love Turf fields, however if elected it is not "what I want" it is what the taxpayers, students, parents etc. are for, which is why I posted here, why I have spent countless hours as a candidate walking door to door, attending meetings trying to find out what the taxpayers, students, parents etc. want along with what is best for the students, taxpayers. What is financially feasible. Let’s not forgot other organizations rent time on these fields and their concerns need to be addressed or they will take their money elsewhere. So if all of those factors come to be a yes I will vote for them if not , no.
Again it is not about what I personally want.
@Ellen, like I said to Sab. I will vote.
I do not believe this a great forum for this. I think you all should attend your board meetings, held once a month in every district. Make your voices heard, or write a letter to the boards expressing your concerns. Be official and be heard!
Ellen Gluf Brach May 17, 2013 at 11:08 pm
@Scott....you think we should maintain the crap that we have and you don"t know one student…Read More athlete! I happen to be a physical education teacher, and I have two student athlete's and know a whole bunch more that will tell you they WANT turf and so do their parents!
Dan DeLilla May 18, 2013 at 10:40 pm
So Lu Scala never had any children so it might be safe to say you have never been to a PTA meeting…Read More or a School Board meeting or a budget presentation so then you would have no idea how the money is spent good or bad. I'm sorry that your neighbors make more than you but like anything else you get what you pay for there are educational requirements for teaching and administration jobs, I'm sure you would be happy if all the school personnel could be replaced by minimum wage earners or better yet we could close all the schools after all you have been out of school for 40 years so you don't need them anymore, but thats not how it works. Why is always the uninformed that speak loudest and longest?
Lu Scala May 17, 2013 at 08:49 am
I never had any kids.. and am the last kid who went to to the Bellmore Merrick school system.....its…Read More been almost 40 years since I was a Mempham grad..and it is very disharting to hear that my many many high tax dollars..are not enought for these kids I have been sororting all these years!!! Who is getting all the money??? Its all bull.. aI live inbetween teachers.. how is it they can afford high end cars, housekeepers, landscapers, ect??????... the money is being spent in the WRONG WAYS TO THE TEACHERS, AND MOST OF ALL THE ADMISTRATION, THE SCHOOL BOARD ECT... I AM CALLING FOR A MASSIVE AUDIT AND GET0 per year.. they afe not worth any more then that.. THE MONEY BACK FROM ANYONE WHO WAS PAID MORE THEN $75,00....
patti May 16, 2013 at 08:28 pm
A bit of a surprise considering kids come home with a supply list a mile long (and average $40-$75).
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