Last Tuesday, this paper carried what amounted to a minority report from Conway’s Municipal Budget Committee on the plan to replace the prematurely crumbling windows in Kennett High School. It was nice to see some independent thought from that committee, because most members now seem content to act as the Amen Corner for anything town and school administrators propose.
The window fiasco, a blunder by a previous school board, emphasizes the pitfalls of trusting amateur board members blinded by their worship of anything disguised as an educational enhancement. It was such a board that advocated a massive new high school, filled it with a distracting array of curricular impedimenta and legions of new staff, then locked us into an irksome multi-town agreement to pay for it all. A similar board accepted these shoddy windows to reduce the apparent impact of its multi-million-dollar underestimate of the cost of the new school.
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