Why is the Auburn City Council continually fighting with the Auburn School Committee? Isn’t having a strong educational system important for revitalizing a community? Without raising the budget, the City Council keeps appropriating a higher percentage for itself and less for the schools.

Every year, the council keeps saying the school is top heavy and administrators need to be cut. Does the council determine who gets cut in the school system as well?

It reminds me of U.N. sanctions against a hostile country. In an attempt to squeeze out the “terrorist” administrators, they continue to cut the school’s budget in some sort of assistant principal embargo. Since the school never cuts them, they just keep cutting their budget. What’s next? A unilateral takeover of the schools? A militia of teachers and principals hunkering down at the school grounds?

Recently, Andrew DeFilipp wrote a blistering guest column defending his father’s embargo wishes. He is three years into college in Orono and all of a sudden he has the answers (which are the same sanctions that his good old father wants).

I don’t have many answers for this quagmire, either. I do know that when I was in college, I was even more ignorant than I am now. It is interesting, however, that when Andrew DeFilipp was in high school many of the programs that were available to him are no longer there for the kids today.

The only true answer for this community to get their wishes is with their vote.

Douglas Farrago, Auburn

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