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Subject: School Committee Candidates

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Josie

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Date Posted: 07:47:25 05/01/04 Sat

I was able to watch the candidates� debate on TV last night and here are my thoughts.

Charlie has all this jibber-jabber about the superintendent�s salary. Fine, what is his plan? Does he think he can fire her and then hire someone else? I�m sure the Dracut taxpayers would so love to pay two salaries for the next three years. When asked what standards he�d hold the superintendent to he just kept repeating, �The same standards as any other manager.� And that means what? She can tie her own shoes? Charlie doesn�t appear to have the competence to be a school committee member.

May lost my vote when she stated that she couldn�t hold the superintendent to any standards because Mrs. Espindle has a contract. That was a complete cop-out on May�s part�apathetic and wimpy. She absolutely must hold the superintendent to standards, enforce them, and make sure the superintendent knows she works for the school committee and not the other way around.

Joe made the most sense when he provided the standards and stated the items on the superintendent�s evaluation form. However, his smug attitude has to go. He works for the voters of Dracut and needs to realize this is not a game; it is the future of our children and this town at stake.

I�m tempted to be like Brewster and vote �None of the Above� but, given the choice of smugness, apathy and incompetence, I�d have to vote for Joe and none of the others and encourage him to get rid of the smug attitude.

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