Here is why you are FOS. You and I both know that people in /yonkers, Mt. Vernon and New Ro pay very high taxes too yet have busing and bad schools.
Yes, and I agree that you may be overtaxed for the services the town offers, but it is up to you and the rest of the parents to fight with your mayor and his cronies to keep him/her in check. We do that here in the northern part of Westchester County. I am lucky in the sense that I live in a very active community full of lawyers, and accountants and (absolutely) nothing gets through them when a town mandate is brought forth. The mayor KNOWS he is being watched, every document scrutinized and every employee supervised. Once in a while you hear of a maintenance guy milking the OT for a month, but when found out he gets Da Call and end of story. Now, this requires an ACTIVE community, one that does not mind taking a day off to sit at a town hearing for 2 hours and taking notes and actually paying attention and then sharing the knowledge. This is what is missing in some of the hamlets in some other parts of WC.
Why should you be able to get a better "public education" for your kids than those in Yonkers or /mt /vernon?
And you know what? I agree. Now, why the unions get the blame for the failure of your educational system is beyond me, STILL. Putting the blame of the failure of your education system on the unions is like putting the blame on the Player's Association for the failure of the NBA. Laughable at best. A successful education system requires the active participation from parents. The problem is some parents think schooling is like the military.
BTW - do you read lohud.com???
No I don't. I do know lower Westchester's schools and it's system has deteriorated somewhat.
There is a scandal a day with the unions and the gross overtime abuses the taxpayers in Westchester have to deal with.
Read lohud.com and every week a new scandal comes out about the overtime abuse by the unions.
Look, the only story I've read about union excesses in Chappaqua I've read in Northern Westchester (newspaper) about some sucker who stiffed the system of $ 1,300 by double booking part of his
per-session. Heck, Spitzer's sex-related expenses cost a lot more (per jerk mind you).
New York and CA are losing domestic population to the southern states.
And this is because of the unions?
I know the population of the city has stabilized somewhat since the 50s, but it has a lot to do with a whole generation of baby-boomers (aka "snow birds") moving to Florida and some lost souls seeking cheaper real estate (because their companies have moved to Florida or other southern states).