Those who love the Fire Island Pines community on Fire Island will be happy to hear that the rebuild of the LaFountaine building is completed, following a devastating fire last November. The harbor remains one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, on the barrier beach and it's certainly well worth taking a day off this summer to visit. Here's a look during a daycation trip Patch enjoyed this weekend.
Daycation: Fire Island Pines Continues to Rebuild
The bucolic barrier beach community is as beautiful, and welcoming, as ever this summer.
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John Thompson May 19, 2013 at 10:26 pm
And so the taxpayer is once again asked to give more to an already out of control and bloated…Read More system. Every year the school districts on Long Island receive increases of millions of dollars to their budgets, and still they want to bleed the taxpayer for more.
As two income families struggle to pay exorbitant tax bills, we’re asked to pay even more? We’ll here’s a novel idea, how about if the teachers union’s began demanding less?
This early retirement baloney must stop, salaries should be capped, administrators and their staffs must be cut by at least eighty percent. In addition, educators and staff should have to pay for their own medical and retirement plans just as the rest of us must.
Here on Long Island, families are suffering and sacrificing, and many are being forced to leave due to taxes which are out of control. It is time for educators to cease hiding behind children with threats of decreased student programs, and to make an honest and realistic observation as to why things are as bad as they are.
To blame parents for not paying enough into the system to support the schools is ludicrous. The real problem lies in a system which is self serving, and run by incompetents blind to the harm they are inflicting upon our children and families.