LOOK at what I found on the internet. Standardized test scores that show about 50% of all the children at Woodbury Elementary are failing.

With test scores like these it is my opinion that Principal Michaela Martin and School Board Chair Retta Dunlap should have given the taxpayers of Woodbury a return of the Pledge of Allegiance to the classroom. But they did not and I found these test scores on the internet while researching the Woodbury Elementary School. In my opinion, scores like these that reflect about a 50% NOT proficient or lower rating are tantamount to educational child and TAXPAYER abuse. Imagine if the town road crew only plowed one lane of every two lane road in Woodbury. How the heck would that make you feel about the plowing budget? Would you double the plowing budget for the next year or would you find people who can plow? Let me make it clear that I have the utmost respect for the hard working road crew here in Woodbury. I was just pointing out that each town department has to do their job with the tax money allocated. The road crew achieves great results with their tax dollars, the fire department does with their tax dollars, but the school does not. For all the tax dollars that go into that school, about $12,00 per student, we are only getting about half the educational job done. Essentially, we are getting a $6,000 educational product for every $12,000 spent, and that $12,000 is more than almost any other town spends.

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