HERE ARE A FEW WRSD STATS PRINCETON TOWN MEETING VOTERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Unfortunately for taxpayers throughout the 5-Town WRSD, the Town of Princeton is chock full of babbling Limousine Lefties always willing to screw themselves and their taxpaying neighbors when it comes to funding the out-of-control spending racket known as the Wachusett Regional School District. They equate quantity—more spending—with school quality. That is an unproven premise at best, and an outright false one at worst. With a median family income of $152,884 according to the 2020 census, a lot of them are content to shell out, mindlessly, every year, for rank upon rank of WRSD ‘payroll patriots,’ many of whom are probably unable to make it in the competitive ‘dreaded private sector.’ Oh yeah, how many folks in ‘the dreaded private sector’ get summers off and retire with taxpayer-funded pensions and medical coverage???

So here are a few WRSD facts for Princeton’s reflex-spending Limousine Lefties:

The WRSD was founded in 1955. It took SIXTY (60) years for the WRSD to reach $81.3 million in total spending. That was in Fiscal Year 2015. WRSD total student enrollment was already falling in FY 2015 from its peak in FY 2010.

The WRSD total budget request for FY 2025 is $121.9 million, up a WHOPPING $40 million in just TEN (10) years despite total student enrollment dropping more than 10% since FY 2010.

WRSD total student enrollment peaked in FY 2010 at 7493.

WRSD total student enrollment this year—FY 2024—was 6676.

WRSD total student enrollment has fallen by 817—WELL MORE THAN 10%– since FY 2010.

That drop in WRSD total student enrollment is equivalent to 54.5 EMPTY CLASSROOMS given the WRSD’s stated student-teacher ratio of 15:1.

The WRSD employs approximately 1000 ‘payroll patriots’– WRSD Staff Directory (google.com) — or 1 for every 6.6 to 6.7 students.

Despite statutory authorization to cut its workforce corresponding with the VERY PRONOUNCED drop in total student enrollment– General Law – Part I, Title XII, Chapter 71, Section 42 (malegislature.gov)— the WRSD HAS NOT IMPLEMENTED ANY REDUCTIONS IN FORCE IN AT LEAST TEN (10) YEARS.

IN FACT, THE WRSD ADDED EIGHT (8) EMPLOYEES IN FY 2024.

The WRSD is out of control. It is now a JOBS PROGRAM, at TAXPAYER EXPENSE, for many unable to hack it in ‘the dreaded private sector.’

J.G.