I don’t know how the governor or his education commissioner can compare their reorganization of the school districts with New York. The Board of Cooperative Educational Services in New York was established in 1948. There are still over 700 school districts organized into 38 BOCES supervisory districts.

These supervisory districts provide services that the individual districts could not afford to provide. It should be noted that a typical BOCE has a president, vice president, member and clerk, numerous members, a district superintendent, chief operating officer, associate superintendent, assistant superintendent and numerous directors. How are we going to save all of this money if there is still all of these hangers-on?

It should also be noted that New York has 2,836,337 students and 218,612 teachers, to Maine’s 198,820 students and 16,656 teachers, according to the 2007 edition of the World Almanac.

If the governor had touted this school reorganizing concept before the election, he would have had the same chance as the proverbial heated snowball of winning. I guess the governor thinks we were born yesterday.

Also, if we’re so concerned with keeping good people in the state, why would we try to eliminate the jobs? I think the Auburn superintendent’s decision to leave was probably the smart one.

Alan Elze, Auburn