Letter to the editor: School insurance expenditures
To the editor:
As per last week’s Mirror, the Tonganoxie school board is contemplating spending $25,000 more on the insurance than is required.
I understand that the school board hired a consulting firm to recommend an insurance agency. He recommended an out-of-town insurance company that submitted a lower bid.
So how much did that cost? I think we could spend $25,000 and what we paid the consulting firm on a teacher’s salary or any number of other things. I think if the board wants to spend the extra money, they should pay for it out of their own pockets.
George Warren,
Tonganoxie
Letter to the editor: The role of public schools
To the editor:
Public schools are a form of glue for neighborhoods and small communities.
Once schools are closed so goes the community, the local grocery store, gas station, auto repair shop, grain elevators, maybe a small newspaper and jobs, jobs, jobs. Public schools can hold all of this together.
Public schools are a very social gathering point and provide good jobs for communities. The current public school financial situation puts all small towns at risk. Kansas does not need more ghost towns.
Rural public school districts have always received much more money per student than the larger metropolitan districts. This was done in order to attract teachers and administrators to farming communities. No one complained until now that money is short. Your small public school is at risk as the larger metropolitan areas have closed some neighborhood schools — believe me, neighborhoods are NOT happy.
Richard Heckler,
Lawrence.