This is heatbreaking so be prepared , especially taxpayers and school choice

Here is a letter from Templeton and its heartbreaking . I hope all taxpayers, teachers and school choice  see this. I have already passed it forward to  Winchester people  to see , they have a right to know everything before being  brought into our nightmare.
Our Heartfelt Thank to Templetons Dave .

I just had a chat with a former SC member.  Ruth Millers deal for NRSD. She sought a new job due to a principal problem prior to the memorial issue

I was told there was still a year left on the contract. So I would say the pattern of can’t play well with others fits. Her budget ways shut Templeton down for almost 2 months. All parts of government were shut down. No night police force or other services were operational. Cemetery only open if digging was needed and the highway superintendent would do the digging. I don’t think it’s bad to say she was not comfortable here after that summer. What she did was use the so called nuclear option to pass a budget after a failed prop 2 ,which was  overrode by voters 3 times. The Nuclear option was to have a combined multi town vote at one meeting. This may soon play out also at Quabbin or your school system some day. It put the towns budget in a spiral fall that ends with a crash at the end of a fiscal year cycle like Templeton endured . It makes the down divided and pits school against all other town departments and festers for years to come. It causes the elimination of recreation programs that keep kids busy during the summer and jobs for the kids to run these programs. Swim lessons canceled due to no funds to pay insurance or instructors. My mother in law started and taught for over 30 years the swim program and couldn’t believe we would cut it.

Without funds that the school system took away we were unable to fund most of the town for 2 months and then some.

She  got her budget and with it got the name we now have for her here Ruthless! That combined town meeting had many flaws. Not enough room for the people who came and denial of a secret ballot vote due to length of time it may take. This process should not be allowed ever and with it should come a mandatory secret ballot process.

 I think the way to get her out is with the school choice program people on board. With her there the reason to go there is quickly going away.

The budget is key to the health of your school and school choice is a very big part I would guess you know that. Hit hard on that issue as the SC needs to hear when the smoke clears the cost to the tax payers will mean the school staff will be gutted ,to cut for the loss of school choice people. If that’s where they make the money and they ruin it ask them where will it come from if students  go elsewhere? As with the memorial issue we had here after the smoke cleared  there was  a committee formed to deal with the changes and additions of any new memorials in the future. As with all problems caused by a obtuse decision to not follow guidance we wind up needing a committee to blame next time.

You know so it won’t fall through the crack, like Ruthless said.

I wish I had a silver bullet to give you or a stake for all that matters but all vampires suck the life out of the living. So just tell the SC it’s not just about the money. It’s about the money from school choice that’s at stake and with it your ability to keep this budget alive. With Ruth it will die and never be the same again. Your partner towns will suffer the pain Templeton did with a deeper portion of overall budgets going to fund a money starved system. Every year the town will ask for overrides that fail and cuts to town services will take the hit over and over till there’s no more to cut. Templeton has just begun to heal from this and has a long road to travel. With only 40 people to turn out for a town meeting it shows who could care what happens now. The money is just the amount to dump her one time. Not for the years after the damage is done and school revenue has dropped from the school choice program will the towns begin to financially recover.

Ask about the E+D fund amount and if it could be used to buy her out if there’s any left.

From what I learned today she and another man were the only people who were in the running for the job.

I kind of think they flipped a coin! The other one was from out of state.

I will continue to dig and share what I find.

“Pauly’s Templeton Watch”  has history on this and many other issues Templeton has had to deal with  in the past.

Good luck Pioneer students and staff

Dave