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Originally Posted by Mike P
Have you been to the Cape in the last 10 years, Joe?
When my wife taught at Bourne HS, they were averaging 3 ODs a week. I doubt that Mashpee, Barnstable and D-Y Regional are any better. All of those quaint little motels along Rte 28 house welfare cases all off-season, and summer cottages get rented to Section 8 tenants. Where do you think those kids go to school?
Our school systems are no bargains.  |
My wife works in the Falmouth system and I worked for a number of years at the D-Y schools. There are very dedicated people in those systems and the section-8 students are dropping off fast from when I was working over there. Barnstable has the big problems, the other towns are still producing good educational programs for thier kids.
In Falmouth we can't seem to get a building committee together that knows anything about public construction, too much ol time good ol boy back room sh!t.
D-Y can't get thier act together on budgets, been that way since the early nineties when the state decided to add a pile of unfunded mandates for special education and the rivalry between both towns just continues to get in the way of the funding of thier school programs.
I have been in the school business for almost 20 years now, still at it over here in ORR. The problem is not the schools but the parents who produce these little darlings preferring to send thier kids to school so someone else can discipline them rather than be bothered with it themselves.