With all due respect, if one of the "options" being discussed after all these months is busing 2nd graders from the far southwest corner of the town to Cucinella in the far northwest of twon, more than 10 miles, with stops, during rush hours, with gas where it is, maybe it is time to wrap up this exercise in butt covering?

We have a representative elected BOE and financial and engineering and academic expert professionals on the payroll. All the moms and seniors have had their meetings -- what happens at the end of this? Is there a show of hands and by a layman count of 12-11 it is decided not to mothball a school?

This is basic resource administration, get off the stick. Mothball Kossman or Flocktown. If enrollment keeps dropping mothball the other one. Use some of the savings for academics and return some of the savings to the taxpayer.

Wrap it up.

I agree! A districting model based on grade rather than geography in a township this large is sheer lunacy! Imagine the family who purposely bought a house in an Old Farmer's neighborhood so they could be close to the school there, and would now have to drive all the way up the mountain to Kossman to pick their kid up from aftercare. That'll go over like a lead balloon.

They need to add SPELLING to the schools. If you want to boost enrollment...offer the best eduction in the area. Without teaching spelling or basic math we are showing people that we do not care what the kids learn..and basically school is just there for daily babysitting.

TEACH SPELLING AND BASIC MATH..and stop wasting money on things like re-organizing the schools. It does not matter where the kids got o school..if we do not have a great education set up for them people will not want to send their kids to any of our schools. Splitting up the schools all crazy will not fix the real problem.

Is closing a school considered a option? Education should be left to administration with BOE approval. The original discussion was not about the "500" students that might not be here is a few years, who knows, but the 500 to 700 that already are not here since a new school opened. Close 2 schools (Kossman Flocktown) put 5th grade back in middle school (250 less students then were there 7 years ago) and save $$$$$$$. This will make all houses much more valuable in LV and let more special teachers ( music, language and so on) be with all students all the time

This exercise is complete lunacy. Close Flocktown or Kossman. I can not believe these people have the nerve to float the idea of bussing kids accross the town as a solution to the projected school population decrease. Really? And what will that do?

What a joke of a a committee. Everyone just loves coming up with new ideas and opportunities to keep them open. Stop ignoring the taxpayers and close one or more schools and lower our taxes. Where are the comments supporting this committee?

okay here's the thing.. as the WMC is no longer welcome in WM district.. lets start with creating a k-12 district then WE can look at how to bolster our home values with GREAT schools.
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magnets,
lower taxes through combined resources (admin/boe/etc)
unique offerings,
and dropping IB for AP (saves money and gives our students more options and meet the needs of 90+% of our students).
best of all we can really look at what works and implement it.
(rather then each school per grade how about 'specialty' math/science, eng/history, arts... or use part of one (flocktown or kosman would work) as magnet for gifted - only in area we'd get people moving here for that... let's take back our schools.
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Lvmom aka La Quin, how can wt not be welcome in their own district. Do you let a small group of medham township people bully you? Most in chesters and mend boro do not feel that way so first let's not group everyone from WMM into that small group.

The way the WT BOE and school admin has directed our k-8 in the past 12 years, there is no way I would vote to let them ruin this school district even more than has already happened. Wmc is a good school, since your a homeschooler, you may not realize the opportunities it opens up for students. Let's keep it that way.

I would not want our K-8 administrators in charge of a K-12. They still didn't restore our gifted and talented program to the level it was and is way behind Chester/Mendham programs for these children. Our K-8 administrators are all about providing the red carpet for those with special needs and have lost focus on all the rest.

The current House and Class structure at the middle school also helps them spread out classroom use as to deceive those looking in and also limits their ability to offer more world languages, as one example. There was a time when LVMS offered 3 languages, and I don't think the school population was much smaller, heck I think they did have 5th grade there when they had more offerings!!! Go figure.

Close a school and bring the resources back directly to the students. I am sorry that jobs may be lost, but this is a regular occurance in the corporate world, and those who may be let go will make it just like everyone else who has had a set back in their life!