Respect voters’ decision
Don’t take action on unwanted new school
Morrisville school board’s lame duck majority could cost the small school district big money.We understand that the board majority wants to do what’s best for the children. But members need to do what’s best for taxpayers, too.
Voters made their desires well known in the fall, and they don’t desire a new school — or, more accurately, the expense of a new school.
The board’s new majority will take over in December, and it’s no secret that plans for a new school will be scrapped at that time.
Current board members know that. They should act accordingly, which means respecting voters’ desires and not obligating the financially struggling district to anything that will later have to be undone — probably at great expense.
Let's take a quick look at the election. By all measures, this was a well attended primary and a much larger than normal number of voters turned out for what is a normally sleepy primary. Ask any of the NSNs, and the overwhelming 3 to 1 margin allows them to claim that "We Represent The WILL of the PEOPLE"™.
But 75% of what? Gather around, and let's remember the three biggest lies in the world: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
If you take a handful of stones from a quarry and find that 75% of the stones in your hand are blue, and 25% are orange, you can rightly claim that 75% of the stones in your hand are blue. Nothing more than that. You cannot rightly claim that the quarry itself is 75% blue. You cannot claim that the orange stones are irrelevant. You cannot claim that there are no red stones in the pit either.
Open questions to the Courier Times editorial board: Why do you assume that the November election is irrelevant and assume that this board will be seated in December? Why do you dismiss the November general election voters so casually? Why do you think a new school is bad for Morrisville taxpayers? Why do you think the month of May is "fall" in the Northern Hemisphere? Why do you unhesitatingly regurgitate the propaganda of the "We Represent The WILL of the PEOPLE"™ NSNs rather than taking an independent and unbiased look at the facts? And why did you cover this ten days after it occurred? Shame on you, and several big "Thumbs Down!" for you.
