To the Editor:

I write as someone who has just been defined as a member of an “older crowd,” yet I still have a son going into eighth grade in the Princeton school system.  I have lived in Princeton for 41 years, and raised a daughter who also attended public school here. From my own experiences and what I have observed or heard from family over the years is that quality of education has little to do with facilities but mostly to do with teachers and to some degree size of classes. Money could be better spent, and far less of it, hiring more good teachers and not “improving facilities,” buying or building for cafeterias, administrators, recreation, maintenance, and transportation.

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Mercer Street