Reply To: School Board Monitors in Lakewood & East Ramapo

In Bloomingburg NY while Shalom Lamm is the builder and the front man the Satmars are the ones financing and the power behind him. Do you really think he would attempted this project unless Satmar was backing him to the hilt.

The point being made is just as over there the Sullivan County agreed to a monitor in NJ if it’s found that the state took over the district merely to deny Jewish students school busing they may also be subject to a monitor. The key thing is what was the monitors intent. Does he really believe that poor hardworking public school parents will take off time from their work to take their children to school. Or that public school students as young as 5 years old will have to walk less than 2 miles each way to school, no matter what the weather is, through busy intersections without traffic lights or crossing guards and in some places not even sidewalks. The district is paid based on the number of students who attend each school day. Lower attendance means less state aid, which in turn increases the deficit.

You say the election board members didn’t do due diligence what about the school monitor? Does the monitor have the student’s best interest in mind when he wants them walking through dangerous intersection without traffic lights or even crossing guards? What will the deficit be at the end of the school year? The way things are going the deficit maybe $25 million because it keeps on doubling.