In 2023 and 2024, I wrote a letter to the Ledger-Transcript of facts, opinions and common sense regarding the school taxes, along with more hiring of administrators and the implementation of programs of Common Core, CRT, DEI and SEL, along with the meeting I attended to hear Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut regarding enrollment decline and the proficiency standings in math and reading.

I even sent the second letter to this entire school board. There were no replies or rebuttals.

Now it’s 2025, and I am writing another letter. Keep in mind all of the programs that have been implemented and hiring of more administrators in the past two years. If proficiency is not improving, you don’t keep throwing money at it with programs that do nothing for a child’s well-being. These platforms literally put a child further and further behind. Then you wonder why there are difficulties.

Even in today’s media, headlines: “Screens Have Taken Over Classrooms. Students Have Had Enough!” “Educational Screens in Classrooms Do More Harm Than Good.” “Sweden is going back to textbooks for educating students.” “Higher Spending, Lower Results, Why More Money Doesn’t Equal Better Schools.” (Newsweek, WSJ, NH Journal, MSN etc.)

So again, more money for more unproven programs along with more administrators.

Here is a thought -- let these experienced teachers educate and focus on the student’s learning techniques, instead of looking for the concerns of mental anguish that were created by these failed programs.

Roniele Hamilton

Rindge