This week's Wednesdays in the Park summer concert featured New York's Most Dangerous Band, and Rotary Park and the Common Ground was packed with music lovers and enjoyed a gorgeous evening and terrific music for nearly two hours. Everyone, from those who remember the early days of Frank Sinatra, to the very young and even the canine set seemed to be tapping along to the tunes. The most poignant moment of the concert, supported by the Islip Arts Council and Common Ground organization, was a musical tribute in honor of veterans that got every listener off their chairs and concluded with a rousing round of applause.
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Incredible music filled the air at Rotary Park Wednesday night.
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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.