STL Post - Schools should cease litigation and teach

Schools should cease litigation and teach

As a parent of a child in the Rockwood School District, I am incensed that our district leaders see fit to squander our tax dollars on litigation for more money to educate our children when they refuse to account for the dollars they already have mismanaged on behalf these children.

I call on district leaders to cease litigation and get back to the task of educating our children. The Rockwood School district receives $7,600 per child each year. That amount of money is equivalent to the tuition of many high-quality area private schools. Yet the district is participating in a lawsuit, funded with taxpayers dollars, to sue for more taxpayers dollars. Who authorized this litigation expense?

I call on the residents of the Rockwood School District to demand cessation of frivolous trial expenditures and determine a system of accountability for our schools' education plans.

Kirk Mathews | Wildwood