To the Editor:

Mr. Cochrane and the Board of Ed tell us there are 200 more students at the high school than the high school has room for, and so they have included funding for four new classrooms in their latest bond proposal of $27 million. There are, however, 280 students from Cranbury who need not be there, so any overcrowding is the result of the Board’s policy of admitting these students. Despite this, just a few months ago the BoE signed an agreement to continue educating students from Cranbury for another 10 years. They have offered no credible rationale for continuing this policy. The tuition Cranbury pays does not even cover the costs of educating the students it sends, let alone providing surplus funds for new classrooms to house them. 

We still haven’t finished paying off the $86 million high school construction project that ended in 2007 nor the $11 million for add-ons that we approved in 2012. Granted, $27M is a lot less than $130M, but it is still a lot of money, and I will still vote NO.

Ken Fields

Linden Lane