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The new Superintendent of government schools for SAU 13, Jay McIntire, after introducing himself at tonight’s Selectmen’s meeting as one of the more highly paid taxpayer-funded employees, stated that as part of his new job, he was looking to cut costs at the administrative level and find a new, more economical home for the SAU’s operations. As long as we’re going to have government schools, they might as well be slightly less expensive – good for Jay so far. Upon Selectman Farnum’s suggestion that a portion of the local sinkhole of taxpayer money, the K.A. Brett elementary school, could possibly be used for the SAU’s operations, Superintendent McIntire stated that it would be far too easy for a child’s parent, displeased with something or another to do with their child’s education, to be able to go right to the Superintendent’s office down the hall if the principal couldn’t or wouldn’t tend to the parent’s concerns.

If Jay has unhappy parents at his schools, and he apparently doesn’t fancy dealing with their problems, it would seem to be a simple solution for everyone involved if parents could keep their earnings taken from them to fund the government school system as well as Jay’s paycheck, and instead send their child to a private or home school that would perhaps meet their needs better. Not every family can afford to be required to pay for a government school as well as a private school at the same time, and thus unhappy parents without extra funds are left to send their kids to a school whose Superintendent objects to having to deal with them at their convenience.

Update: Superintendent McIntire responds, stating lack of financial freedom for parents in school choice is unfortunate, and he really doesn’t object to parents… Read the rest of this entry »