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Comment Doodlings – Should not local control mean local financing (because RESPONSIBILITY)?

I guess Mr. Chase doesn’t believe in local control in education. Which also means that with local control, it means local responsibility for funding the decisions that come from local control if a town decides it wants full time kindergarten.

That was my comment left at Tom Chase’s LtE in the Concord Monitor (after the jump; hey, if yer gonna debate Libs, ya gotta go where they flock) on berating Republicans for not financing full time kindergarten. He seems angry that some Republicans whose districts already have full time kindergarten voted down HB1563 – I have no clue why because OBVIOUSLY their towns decided they should shoulder their own expenses, why should they pick up the tab for someone?

And what is the morality behind increasingly having some pay more and more for the many?  When does it stop – what is the limiting factor?  At least the Republicans SAY that they favor local control – so I’d chalk it up to being in step with what the Rs believe: local means local.

Letter: Explain kindergarten vote

Explain kindergarten vote I read Rep. Sherman Packard’s “My Turn” (Sunday Monitor Forum, March 27) with a mixture of anger and disbelief, especially the assertion that “members of the N.H. House are elected to represent constituents in their district and vote in their communities’ best interests.”

If this is how Rep. Packard believes his Republican colleagues should and do vote, explain to me why many with full-day kindergarten in the towns they are supposed to represent voted against HB 1563 to fully fund kindergarten.

In fact, four Republicans on the Education Committee, Chair Rick Ladd (Haverhill), Glenn Cordelli (Moultonborough), Allen Cook (Brentwood) and Victoria Sullivan (Manchester) voted against this bill in committee, in spite of the fact that their towns have full-day kindergarten.

It made it out of committee because Rep. Jim Grenier joined the Democrats in supporting it. Two of his town – Goshen and Lempster – have full-day kindergarten.

Once before the House, the bill was defeated on a mostly party-line vote, with many Republicans voting against their full-day kindergarten “communities’ best interests.” Rep. Packard also asserts that the Republicans were “able to pass a budget that meets the needs of our state.”

“Communities’ best interests” – it is obvious that the citizens of those towns put those Republicans into the NH House to serve them, Mr. Chase.  And many of them have been returned multiple times so it seems logical that their fellow townfolks agree with what they are doing.  “Best Interest”, much to your dismay as I said above”, does not equate to someone else paying for MY bill.

Or your’s, either.

Try to sell that to voters as the red-listed bridges in Northwood and elsewhere around the state are closed for want of funds to repair them.

TOM CHASE
Northwood

Hmmm, given that budgets prioritize scarcity, and your obvious priority is education, I’m betting you’d still have this “evergreen” problem of bridges and roads when everything is all said and done.

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