It's Not About the Money. It's About the Kids. Part 1

The July 1, 2019 Middletown Town Council meeting included two PowerPoint presentations. The first was a lengthy series of documents intended to explain the Town Council’s refusal to join in discussions regarding school regionalization.

Included in the summary was the following statement:

There doesn’t appear to be a material change in curriculum between a high school of 600 students and 1200 students.

The second presentation was much shorter, but its focus was on the educational benefits of high school consolidation – the actual “material changes”.

Common sense says that a curriculum for 1200 students is going to be broader and deeper than one for 600 students.

Going forward, we will look at state and local data as well as data from other areas where not only are the educational opportunities more extensive, but student achievement is impressive.