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Free Rent at Westbrook

Did you know that our board of education is considering a request by South Shore Children’s Center for more space at Westbrook? Yeah, but South Shore Children’s Center doesn’t want to pay for the additional space. Maybe they figure why should we pay? We know people.  Instead South Shore Children’s Center wants to make ‘capital improvements’ to a restroom in exchange for free rent. When the decision was made by our boe to close two elementary schools and relocate the kids to  schools where there wasn’t enough room for them, the boe told us that it was essential to rent the shuttered schools to generate income that our district so desperately needs.

Since that time, students’ programs have been cut, some classes have been totally eliminated and our middle schools have been changed to an 8 period day-- all in the name of saving money that the district so desperately needs. Now the boe has the audacity to even consider giving free rent to the former business partner of a boe member? Are you kidding me?!  All of a sudden the district has so much money that it needs to be given away to the friends of boe members?

We need money for educating our children, not marble floors in a school bathroom!

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