School boards bear brunt of blame for budget mess

I have been living in Brick since 1991. From that time, the Board of Education should have started to increase the budget for the schools a few cents each year. If that had been done, the taxpayers of this town would not have such a burden now.

The current problem is because the school board never budgeted the monies that we needed for the Brick schools all along and that's what has stagnated the school system in this town.

We can't get qualified math and science teachers, but we're worried about hiring a school security chief and a secretary for a $150,000 a year when we have a detective placed at the high school that does an excellent job.

When Mary Ann Ceres retired as assistant superintendent of curriculum, the board never filled her position. That was a bad choice on their part and goes to show you what rally matters to them. But the board will expand sports, like we don't already have enough of that in this town.

So now the working-class people of Brick have to keep footing the bill because of the school board and poor administration. Honest working families of this town are struggling to make ends meet in these difficult times. There has to be other areas to make cuts to improve education.
Robert Bruno
Brick