Letter: Is it time for Barrington taxpayers to rebel?

Posted 7/18/18

To the editor:

There are many wealthy people living in Barrington, with some seeking a private school experience that affects the finances of our public schools.  

And now the town is …

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Letter: Is it time for Barrington taxpayers to rebel?

Posted

To the editor:

There are many wealthy people living in Barrington, with some seeking a private school experience that affects the finances of our public schools.  

And now the town is putting in a new parking lot at great expense at one of our three elementary schools which includes better parking for parents to drop off and pick up their children. For very young children just starting school this is understandable. But why do we have buses for older children if parents are not having their children use them? 

And then many parents are providing very expensive cars and SUVs for high school students to drive to school and park in the expansive high school parking lot; some of whom cannot seem to get to school on time. Maybe parents with children attending the Barrington Schools could also shoulder more of the public’s tax bill to accommodate their private school tastes.

We also have an architectural firm, who, when some expressed a serious concern about building another school on the same wetland that allowed the old school building to fail, said not to worry, we have a land remediation plan for the new school built on this same wetland site. And we assumed that plan was included as a line item in the bid document by Kaestle Boos Associates. But, they forgot!  

This was the whole reason why the school wasn’t going to fail. Well, maybe it should be their problem not the people, the taxpayers who have to pay for the forgotten promise of the land remediation line item for this gargantuan middle school build. 

Maybe a rebellion on the part of we the people, the taxpayers, the families with and without children would be in order.

Barbara Flanders

Barrington

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