THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, December 3, 1995 TAG: 9512020011
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
Reading about both the potential 33 percent greater shortfall for 1995/96 facing the Virginia Beach school system, then, on the same page, the unplanned and unbudgeted expansion of Princess Anne High being approved seems to indicate business as usual at the School Board. Haven't the School Board and City Council learned not to use funds from one ``pot'' for something other than originally budgeted?
I suppose that we will read in a few months how the acquisition fund is inadequate to meet the needs for future school growth. Then folks will ask, ``How could that happen?'' and then seek a bailout - or borrow from another ``pot.''
I have children in the Beach school system and can empathize with members of Operation Phoenix, the group from Princess Anne High School, for their desired improvements, but at what cost to the rest of the Beach school system? Understanding the opportunity during current reconstruction at Princess Anne will be lost, still, let's wait until budgets for the out years fail to show an impending deficit.
TOM BEDA
Virginia Beach, Nov. 22, 1995 by CNB