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Shotgun Wedding
Dear Editor:
In what can only be labeled as muscular arrogance, a Cold Spring writer recommended forcing a 'shotgun wedding where the bride and groom are dragged kicking and screaming' to school consolidation between Garrison, Putnam Valley and Haldane.
Without any data in his hand, it is not comforting that the writer's response to one community's tax issue is somehow solved by making another community complicit. That 'consent of the governed' was good enough for the colonies but is not good enough to be introduced into his argument, tells me that he has not done his homework on an idea convenient for some, but costly for many others. I'm involved with people, youth and organizations in these communities and I do not care to tell them I know what's best for them and their tax dollars.
Citing the State of Maine as his model, an article in the BangorDaily News.com ( Jan. 2007) said Maine's consolidation plan "would force the state's (Maine) 152 school administrative districts to consolidate into 26 megadistricts". If this is his ultimate vision in the Hudson Valley it is completely understandable why he would not seek the consent of the governed when dispensing it.
Tim Donovan
Garrison
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