Taxpayer Abuse in (Drumroll, Please) The Timberlane School District - Granite Grok

Taxpayer Abuse in (Drumroll, Please) The Timberlane School District

The Earl of MetzlerThe Timberlane Regional School District (SAU55) has become the poster-child for taxpayer abuse in New Hampshire. Lead by the Earl of Metzler the towns of Sandown, Danville, Plaistow, and Atkinson have been plunged into an abusive relationship with political thugs. Donna Green explains the latest.

In an illegal non-public, the Timberlane School Board voted unanimously (8-0) to use $20,000 of Timberlane’s surplus money to dig SAU 55 out of its accounting hole of shame. A damning audit revealed the need for remedial work in the keeping-track-of-our -money department at SAU 55.  The solution?  Hire a consultant!

Funny how things work in education.  Failing schools get lavished with money.  Failing SAUs like SAU 55 also get lavished with money when what they need is a swift kick in the butt (metaphorically speaking) and major personnel changes (literally). The sad thing is that the elected officials who should be administering the harsh discipline are spineless jellyfish who float on the tide of infinite tax revenue. The jellyfish pulse to the tide of your diminishing income, while SAU employees, who should be unemployed, continue needing a bailout.

Metzler’s reign has included every sort of misuse or abuse of power you can imagine. From fighting to hide public documents to use of police force against dissenters to make-work jobs for family members to using intimidation to clear the boards responsible for overseeing him of everyone who isn’t a sycophantic bootlicker.

It’s Chicago politics right here in quaint little ole’ New Hampshire.

And it continues.

Donna outlines the issues with this latest farce here.

While you are there spend some time browsing the wealth of content. She’s got a years-long encyclopedic accounting of a school districts descent into corruption and chaos.

It’s not a new story, which is why you should read it if you’re unfamiliar. It includes all the warning signs which apply to any political body spending public money. Your time there will not be wasted.

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