Letter: Syosset deserves new school board
Joshua Lafazan, center, celebrates with friends and classmates after winning a seat on the Syosset Board of Education. (May 16, 2012) Credit: David Pokress
It was only a matter of time until voters finally sent a message that school superintendent salaries and benefits topping $500,000 are unacceptable ["The kid rocks Syosset," News, May 17].
Even before the Syosset school district inappropriately tried to use a misunderstanding regarding absentee ballot lists to attempt to hurt Joshua Lafazan's candidacy -- which probably brought out many voters in disgust at the district's action -- the many lawn signs supporting Christopher DiFilippo, another administration critic, demonstrated voter anger.
The school board will now be forced to discuss nonlabor issues in public on the record, and any decision to enhance the compensation or retirement packages of the superintendent or the deputy superintendent will be subject to appropriate scrutiny.
Leonard D. Kirsch, Syosset
Editor's note: The writer was a Syosset school board member from 1996 to 2007.
