There was award-winning work everywhere you looked this weekend at the BAFFA Student Invitational Art Exhibit held this weekend at the Gillette House in Sayville. Ribbons adorned top finishers in a slew of different artistic categories and many students from both Bayport-Blue Point and Sayville took first, second, third and honorable mention awards. Kayla MacFarlane, of Sayville, was given the Jacqueline C. Palmer Award for photography.
BAFFA Art Exhibit Boasts Student Talents
Event featured works of young artists from 10 local high schools.
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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.