The Boston Public Schools, undergoing declining student enrollment and a corresponding decline in state funding because of its declining student enrollment, have decided to swallow a reality pill and implement major payroll cuts, despite the mau-mauing parasitical teachers’ union’s objections. Yeah, cry me a river!
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON WITH THE PAYROLL-BLOATED, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR YEARS. ITS TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT HAS DROPPED BY MORE THAN 1000–14.5%– SINCE FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUT ITS BUDGET HAS SKYROCKETED FROM $81.3 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 2015 TO MORE THAN $129 MILLION THIS FISCAL YEAR, A 59.3% INCREASE IN JUST 11 FISCAL YEARS.
HOW HAS THE WRSD BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS HIGHWAY ROBBERY OF DISTRICT TAXPAYERS???
ANSWER: BECAUSE THE ABSOLUTELY IRRESPONSIBLE VIRTUE-SIGNALING DOPES ON THE 5 DISTRICT TOWNS’ SELECT BOARDS AND FINANCE COMMITTEES HAVE RECOMMENDED AT ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGS, YEAR AFTER YEAR, THAT THE DISTRICT’S TAXPAYERS FUND THIS WRSD MONSTROSITY AND THEREBY MAKE UP FOR THE STATE’S FUNDING CUTS TO THE WRSD, CUTS THAT ARE REALITY-BASED AND TIED TO THE WRSD’S DECLINING STUDENT ENROLLMENT.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE STATE IS DEALING IN REALITY WHILE THE 5 DISTRICT TOWNS’ SELECT BOARDS AND FINANCE COMMITTEES EXIST IN DELUSIONAL ‘LA-LA LAND,’ EVER READY AND WILLING TO ABSOLUTELY SCREW THE DISTRICT’S TAXPAYERS.
The outright cretins constituting the Sterling Finance Committee admitted as much in their delusional, self-congratulatory article published on page 20 of the June 2025 Sterling Meetinghouse News, reciting May 2025 Annual Town Meeting results.
SEE https://sterlingmeetinghousenews.com/virtual-paper/ (select the archived June 2025 issue and keep advancing to page 20).
If you believe ANY future Annual Town Meeting Sterling Select Board or Finance Committee recommendation to increase funding for the WRSD, THEN YOU ARE AS IDIOTIC AS THEY ARE.
This year the absolutely out-of-control payroll-bloated sub-standard WRSD has forced Holden, Paxton, and Rutland into Proposition 2 ½ property tax override votes at their upcoming 2026 Annual Town Meetings. Let’s hope that their respective Select Boards are intelligent enough to make the Fiscal Year 2027 WRSD budget request, AND NOT THEIR TOWN OPERATING BUDGETS, contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 ½ property tax overrides. When it comes to their intelligence levels, though, don’t hold your breath.
NOTE: In the past the WRSD has NEVER prevailed when Paxton and Rutland made passage of a WRSD budget request contingent upon passage of a town-wide Proposition 2 ½ tax override.
Stay tuned.
J.G.
STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, OVERWATCH 