Mar 19, 2012 3:12 PM
Spring is here and that means baseball, daffodils, tulips, Easter, longer and warmer days, kids playing outside and, yes, allergies. Those dreaded, inevitable allergies.
These days it seems like everyone is allergic to pollen and danders. I remember growing up with allergies and thinking, at least at the time, that they were rare. It seems that everyone is allergic to attending school budget hearings. They are like the bearded lady at the circus: you really don’t want to look but you
have
to look. And—surprise!—it looks like the Riverhead School District will be throwing another tax increase at us this year.
That’s hard for me to swallow with the recent “excessing” of 12 teachers and nine teaching assistants throughout the district. From what I hear, class sizes will be increasing and now... more
These days it seems like everyone is allergic to pollen and danders. I remember growing up with allergies and thinking, at least at the time, that they were rare. It seems that everyone is allergic to attending school budget hearings. They are like the bearded lady at the circus: you really don’t want to look but you
have
to look. And—surprise!—it looks like the Riverhead School District will be throwing another tax increase at us this year.
That’s hard for me to swallow with the recent “excessing” of 12 teachers and nine teaching assistants throughout the district. From what I hear, class sizes will be increasing and now... more
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