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Unfair

The Jersey Shore School Board unanimously approved eliminating the district director of operations position and added the new assistant superintendent position for the 2017 and 2018 school year. Jill Wenrich, Jersey Shore Area School District Superintendent quoted, “This will add no additional cost to taxpayers.”

How sweet it must be to hire a middle school custodian at $13.50 per hour, $108 a day or $540 a week or $2,160 a month.

The average American must work 47 years before retiring on Social Security. A middle school teacher will retire at the end of the school year after 27 years. We taxpayers who pay the bills should have the right to some statistics, concerning how freely our tax dollars are abused in every school district in this state.

Retired citizens, some in their 80s and 90s are faced with up to $100,000 a year, if they are admitted to a home for the aged, plus they are still billed for school and property taxes if they own a home. This may sound harsh to anyone reading this letter, but the truth hurts because truth is stranger than fiction.

I rest my case, because I am an 85-year old veteran and home owner, trying to survive on $27 a day, which I receive in Social Security. After 21 years of retirement, my savings account has dwindled down to nothing, so I closed it out.

The motto for all the institutions of high learning in this state must read, “Get a teaching degree so you can legally rob the taxpayers of all the money you feel you need to live a life of luxury.”

Weldon C. Cohick

Linden

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