Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:00 am | Updated: 11:48 am, Wed Nov 25, 2009. To: The editor
From: Frank W. Ebright
Fair Hill
Once again, Cecil County Public Schools Superintendent Carl Roberts is seeking money for the school system. Part of that is for cameras in schools, costing somewhere between a quarter- to a half-million dollars. He also wants 11 new administrators, cost unknown.
Is the ultimate goal one administrator per student?
During the Bolender administration, the schools chief got whatever he wanted without question. The budgets weren’t really justified, just submitted and approved. That must stop.
Instead of cameras, start a Cops in the Classroom program. If the bloated administrative staff cannot control the students, maybe a deputy in class could. Cameras will not, so let’s hire more deputies and give people jobs.
The new school board, the county commissioners, and the public need to ask some difficult questions and make Mr. Roberts defend his budget request.
In our county, education is the largest budget. So far, it has had the least accountability. If someone questions school spending, he’s accused of “trying to deprive the kids of a good education.”
Let’s defang that myth by having Mr. Roberts justify the millions of dollars requested for education, along with the double digit increases.
Perhaps he can explain to us why we need cameras to watch students. Many other items in Cecil County need funding more urgently than that.
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