It feels like just yesterday that we were arranging playdates, cleaning sippy cups, changing diapers, buckling our children into car seats, teaching them to use their inside voices, dealing with temper tantrums, setting appropriate limits (that NEVER ends!), and reading them “Good Night Moon” before bed.
Like you, we juggled so many balls when our children were in younger that we did not take the time to learn about the annual school budget and rarely, if truth be told, took the time to go and vote.
But the days fly by and before you know it they are in elementary school and then, in another blink of an eye, high school.
So while it may feel like the school budget doesn’t have anything to do with you, your family or your children, we submit that it, in fact, does.
Decisions that are made today by the Manhasset Public School Board and administration have long term repercussions that will affect your children when they enter kindergarten, and beyond. Budgetary outcomes, such as eliminating programs or increasing class sizes or reduction of course offerings are not easily undone.
Now is the time to ensure that your kids get the same level of education and have the same opportunities that generations of Manhasset schoolchildren have enjoyed before them.
We urge you to familiarize yourself with the 2014-2015 school budget and, more importantly, carve out a few minutes to get to the polls and vote on Tuesday, May 20. Your child’s educational future is in your hands.
Mimi Donohue
Christine Monterosso
