I Will Not Bail You Out With a Yes Vote

A Letter to the Editor from resident Bill Brown:

Sixty-four cents of every tax dollar and most fees go to support Reading's approximately 4,300 students. How much more do you want?

Most of the letters in the papers in favor of an override are from parents of school children that overpaid for their homes and now find out that the schools are overcrowded and that we pay below the state average for teachers.

Had you done your homework you would have found that Reading for the last one hundred years has taken pride in one of the lowest per pupil towns in the state. If you had done your homework you would have found the reason for overcrowded schools was that we tore down a two thousand capacity high school and replaced it with a twelve hundred capacity building.

Had you done your homework you would have found that the Wood End School has the smallest classrooms in the system. Had you done your homework, you would have found that the Wood End School is the most energy inefficient building in town and that the skylights have had to be replaced at a cost of over $400,000.

Had you done your homework you would have found out that that the Town is not required by state law to provide your child with all day kindergarten.

To sum it up, you flunked your homework and want me to bail you out. I do not want to give you one more penny. If you are unhappy move out.

I will not vote yes on an override to bail you out and hope others that feel the same way will vote no April 3, 2018. Let the silent majority be heard with a no to the override.

William C. Brown, Martin Road