Education

Why we care about education

In Rudyard Kipling’s classic Kim, his character Teshoo Lama wrote: “Education is

a great blessing if of the best sorts, otherwise, no earthly use.”

We want the education in Abington School District to be a blessing for our kids.

We want our kids’ education to be of the best sorts: great teachers, great

curriculum, great books.

We need to read more about educational successes in the Abington School District

than about fights in the schools, guns at football games and learning loss.

We should focus our money on improving our kids’ test scores, improving our

teachers’ expertise in their course knowledge and improving the curriculum.

There has been no credible case presented for how spending $121 Million in 2017

improved the education of our kids and test scores in our high school.

There has never been one meeting that explained how spending $285 million on an as yet

unplanned capital building project will improve the education of our kids.

If our schools focused on the basics of reading, writing, math and the sciences and

improved discipline in all our schools we would see consistent improvement across

the board.

Everyone agrees that the middle school has been neglected by the

administration for too long. It needs an upgrade. We need to slow down this

process, focus on what can realistically be accomplished, make a great plan, then

move forward.

You don’t start a construction project by borrowing $285 million before there are

detailed drawings and plans. No one can predict the future, so any construction

should focus on what needs to be done to improve education for our kids now.