OK, let me fess up right away: the title of this post is a bit misleading. Frankly, I used it to get your attention. If you thought that I would be writing something about the school district and fiscal responsibility, I apologize. That certainly is a worthwhile topic, and I may write about it someday…but [...]
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Learning on the Job
Learning on the job is a good thing, right? So, the Sag Harbor School Board is to be commended for finally figuring out the fund-balance thing. You know, that pesky thing they have to figure out about how much padding to put in the budget to make sure they don’t run out of money in [...]
Shadow Goes Home
I usually use this space to write about issues facing our East End communities. But, every once in a while I digress from the serious side of life to honor one of those ephemeral moments that make living in Sag Hampton so rewarding. Today I joined about two hundred students, teachers, administrators and parents on [...]
We’re All Only Human…Including the Board of Education
I haven’t been to a School Board meeting for longer than I haven’t written a blog post. But tonight I’ve done and am doing both. You may know (if you read the Sag Harbor Express) that the Board of Education of the Sag Harbor School District announced a special meeting for this evening for the sole purpose of appointing …
Is This the Land of No?
Sometime it feels like we’re living in the Land of No. There are quite a few things in recent memory to which one or another Sag Hampton group has said (or tried to say) NO!
Many folks said no to the NYS Department of Transportation a few years ago when they proposed a roundabout at the wharf end of Main …
Pierson Gets It Right
Pierson High School in Sag Harbor comes in for a fair amount of criticism from the Sag Hampton community, some justified. Standardized test scores aren’t always what they might be, per-student costs are very high, course offerings are sometimes too limited for the brightest students, and questionable administrative decisions are known to have been made from time to time. But, often Pierson does things right. I want to tell you about one of its successes for which I am personally grateful. …
Why not the Killer Whales?
Breaking news in this week’s Southampton Press indicates that the Bridgehampton School district’s longtime resistance to considering a merger with a larger district may be lessening. This is big indeed if you live in Bridgehampton; maybe less so if you live in one of the districts with which Bridgehampton might combine. Even Sag Harbor, which itself is a small district, …
Not Marketing, Exactly…
There’s a curious quote in this week’s issue of the Sag Harbor Express. Following up on a story from the previous week, Editor Bryan Boyhan looks a bit more deeply at the relatively large number of Sag Harbor School District students that choose to attend area private schools, particularly the Ross School in East Hampton. Looking for the reasons behind this exodus from public education
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