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Northwood NH News

December 26, 2012

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The Northwood  2 Purple Ninja’s Girls U12 Won The Rec Division End Of Season Tournament in Northwood on Saturday, October 27 with a ( 9-1-2) for the season. 5 teams played in Rec Division Tournament, Chichester, Concord Christian Academy, Northwood 2, Northwood 1, Pittsfield. The Girls played tremendous today with a win in the Championship Game over Concord Christian Academy 3-2, Megan Edgecomb, Kendall Nester and Emily VanGenera all scored 2 goals during the Tournament and Carly Ramsey netted 5 to the score board today. Paige Valli was outstanding in goal.  Coach Steve added, “What a great team this is! We have played 3 games today already. We can win this tournament. When I told them they could do it,  well, they did it! Members of the Championship Game are:(front row, l to r) Olivia Farrar, Mary Thoms (middle row, l to r) PaigeValli, Makayla DeButts, Kelsey Peace, Megan Edgecolm, Kendall Nester, (back row, l to r) Coach Dicky, Lillian Hodapp, Mary Lee, Carly Ramsey, Taylor Edgcolmb, Emily VanGenera, Coach Steve.

 


 

Letter

 

The tragic killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School have most Americans thinking about our children and their teachers, and how we must cherish them. This verb, “cherish,” is used in the New Hampshire Constitution to assert how the State must view education and to explain why the State has an obligation to provide an education to its youngest citizens. Sadly, from my point of view, the State has never fully stepped up to this responsibility, leaving it to each town to raise, as best it can and will, the bulk of the revenue needed to educate its children.

 

So once again, the School Board has developed a budget for 2013-2014 and presented it to the Budget Committee. And sadly, again from my point of view, the majority of the Budget Committee has seen fit to reject the School Board’s budget and return to the 2012-2013 budget, adding in an extra $69,249 to cover mandated Special Ed costs.  The rationale for this is that property tax payers don’t want their taxes to go up.

 

Of course, this approach would work in a world where costs do not rise. But this is not that world, and costs will rise.  For example, after very modest increases in recent years, Coe-Brown regular tuition will increase 4.51% to $13,462/student. And since this and many of the other spending items in the budget are not under the School Board’s control (e.g., Special Education), any increase must be met by cuts in areas where the School Board does have control (e.g., regular education in the elementary school).

 

Fortunately, the citizens of Northwood can have their say at the School Deliberative Session, and finally at the polls. And we will see if our children’s education is cherished.

 

Tom Chase, member Northwood Budget Committee

 


 


 

 











 
 

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