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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

A Letter To The Editor: County Spending Comment

Hi Joe:

After seeing all the waste and abuse you have posted about the County and BOE lately, I was visiting a friend last night and was shown and information sheet for BMS Drama Club. (PDF attached)
Note Mon. June 2: The students were in rehearsal from 2:45 to 8, (wow, must be some show) and then the students were asked to put up $5 to eat!!.

Wouldn't it be nice if the BOE could have picked up the tab for this?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey y'all, come out for the show and at least support the students!

Anonymous said...

The Board of Education will not pick up the tab for something worth while like this? Worthless BOE!!

Anonymous said...

No they should not pick up the tab for this. Where do we stop providing the free stuff to people? Do we feed the ball players lunch or dinner on days that they have a game? Do we pay for meals if there is an activity at school on a Saturday?
You signed up to be in the drama club so you make arrangements to provide your own meals.
The BOE should do the same thing when they have meetings. Enough with feeding people for free.......it is not free the tax payers are left footing the bill and many can't afford to put food on their own table let alone someone elses

Anonymous said...

If the county would have paid for this then they would have only gotten ripped off again. My daughter is in the play. She was told to bring in 5 dollars to eat. After all the kids brought in money there was a little over 125.00. The teacher went out and and bought 7 pizzas from Little Ceasers Pizza.Four were pepperoni. Nobody seems to know where all the extra money went. Maybe it was 90 dollars for gas

JoeAlbero said...

1:02, Then I STRONGLY suggest YOU go to the next BOE meeting and at the top of your lungs SCREAM that you are fed up with all of this spending. Especially those ADULTS who are supposed to be setting examples to the younger generations about fiscal RESPONSIBILITY.

Saying the BOE "should do the same" proves to me you are a COWARD. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT PEOPLE.

Anonymous said...

If you believe the food money is spent on kids doing activities like this one, you are mistaken. Of course taxpayers shouldn't food the bill for food at school events. But sometimes it's hard watching tens of thousands of dollars being spent year after year on some groups while zero is spent on others. Be fair to all kids, board of ed, and don't lavish money on food for any of these events.

Anonymous said...

1:13
Maybe the students should pool their money together and order delivery for themselves. Lesson learned, don't just give money to others to handle for you without having any say on how it is spent.

Anonymous said...

Little Caesars isn't even real food. Many of the locally owned pizza joints make a real pizza and if asked nicely may have even given a discount for a large order for a group of students doing something productive. Try calling La Roma, Ponzettis, Specific Gravity or Lombardis.

Anonymous said...

Thick heads. The point of this was to show, that with ALL of that restaurant, bar and gift card spending... now they're asking for the students to chip in. PROVING it's not for the kids, as everyone knows. 1:02, you are a dense one.

Anonymous said...

Hey Joe! I love your comment about how it's the adults' responsibility to teach these kids about "fiscal responsibility."

Actually, the adults responsible for such matters would be PARENTS, but since that often doesn't happen, that now falls in the laps of the school employees... much like feeding the kids and providing their clothes and school supplies.

Anonymous said...

why didn't the kids just pack a lunch?

Anonymous said...

The one who wrote pool money in go back to school. It's pull. Get over it nothing is free at least the kids are doing something good and not hood.