Opinion: Wayne School District Is 'Bankrupt,' Resident Says

To the editor:

It has suddenly occurred to me that the district is bankrupt, I mean really folks, let’s be honest here after so many years of tampering with the districts prerogatives you have to admit that past school boards and administrations have piloted this district into the equivalent of driving the district on the financial rocky shores, and as they did the jumped in to only the best equipped lifeboats for their personal survival. Case in point when the most recent superintendent left he was able to cash in just the same.

Which makes me wonder what this superintendent is thinking after the comments he made directed at the board for its deliberative process that lead to the vote for all day kindergarten that some of you now express regrets over now that the special interest groups have begun to weigh in clamoring that their pet programs not fall victim to the looming budget cuts that this superintendent says he is not going to make anyway, as of course Ms. Perry readies her life boat?

But at any rate it sure comes across to me that being as how the superintendent and the business administrator are facing very difficult choices over the cuts, that they would rather bail. And it is my view being as how the superintendent has seemed to have been looking to abort all day kindergarten in his own particular way all along, he has probably come to the place where he thinks for him personally this year’s budget is a no win situation for him, and that somehow all day kindergarten is either a deal breaker, or the straw that breaks the camel’s back in some other way, or that all of this is an opportunity for him to reveal his true agenda to everyone else to get fired, and so he just used a flamethrower the other night to assault the opposition.

Well, as a Vietnam veteran who served under an Army General whose battle plan was burn villages in order to save them, let me remind you all that did not work then, and it will not work now for the superintendent, or some of you.

So being as how the sheet Ms. Perry clearly shows this is an impossible budget to achieve, I think you need to declare the district insolvent, and put it under the bankruptcy chapter and by doing so there will be an opportunity to reconstitute a new district. A nuclear option of a sort.

There really is no other way to handle this in my humble opinion.

Stewart Resmer

Wayne, NJ