The Region One Report view on the Region One Boards failure to listen to the public last night at the Budget “hearing” or “Non-Hearing”! Cuts could have been made in the budget and teaching staff with all the cuts in over three to five years with retirements, in the meantime, cut other expenses, don’t give raises where you have the discretion not to give raises, if there is not enough money in the budget, put off the iPad revolution for a year or two (who knows, something better might come along with the advancement in today’s technology), and, in a budget year when you are looking to cut expenses, don’t add more administrative positions (that adds to the bottom line). In a successful business, when you do not have the cash, or your customers don’t have the cash to spend, you have to make decisions not as a knee jerk reaction, but planning over the long haul. This Region One Board has approved EVERY spending measure that has been put in front of it over the past four years..now they want to reverse trend in one year…on the backs of teachers? Is that planning? I think EVERYONE knows that teachers, administrative, and spending cuts must be made. Lets just make them with a long range plan, and not just teachers (the engine that drives this education train), but evenly split thru the whole budget. There is just no excuse as to the way its being done, or to the limited area the cuts are being made in. If you can honestly tell me there is not more fat in that budget that can not be cut, or if you can honestly tell me that the Region One Board is as responsive to the taxpayers that fund that school, and to the teachers who teach at the High School, as they are to the administrations request. Slash and burn reactions over thought out plans will backfire in the end.