In Ms. Rubin’s rant she writes that teachers and administrator’s did their part by giving up compensation increases this year.
Does Ms. Rubin consider working people and small-business owners who have not seen increases in years? People who are always in fear of losing their job or businesses with no where to go if they do. Graduates who cannot find jobs and are forced to live at home with parents.
Is it only public servants that deserve increases and protections not afforded to the rest of the community?
What about taxpaying homeowners who have done the right thing for decades and can no longer afford these ever increasing tax burdens and are forced to make choices that are totally unfair to them?
Where is Ms. Rubin’s sympathy for them? She calls their concerns “wailing and moaning.” That’s helpful.
She seems to have a problem with those guys asking questions. How could they dare? How could they be possibly as clever as her?
Her theory is that home prices are worth double what they would be if not for the Great Neck public school system. I am pleased to see she is as much an expert in real estate as in education. How she figured that out I do not know and probably neither does she.
Firstly, no one is suggesting to do away with our schools or reduce their quality. Secondly, home values have increased much more in areas surrounding Great Neck. Try New York City and other areas.
Ms. Rubin writes that the school district is financially responsible for students who attend private schools. That might or might not be so but one thing I do know is that the district does not spend that money on students who do not attend their schools. How could “ some guy” be so wrong in his math.
My son was just about forced out of the system by a Great Neck middle school principal and we paid for the rest of his years in private schools ourselves without any assist financially or otherwise from this school district. They never offered.
Wailing and moaning seems to be what Ms. Rubin does and I believe she should have more respect for the homeowners and taxpayers who always have and always will support the Great Neck school district.
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by Writer’s Request
Great Neck
