To the Editor:
In my Letter to the Editor two weeks ago, I likened the advocates for the new Tisbury School to a troop of lemmings willfully jumping off a cliff of fiscal responsibility into a sea of debt. It would now appear that they have morphed into another creature altogether, the ostrich, an animal noted for burying its head in the sand to avoid reality.
In this case, it’s the fact that they lost at the ballot box. During a meeting at the Tisbury School last Monday, these sore losers floated the notion that we now need to have a revote on the Proposition 2½ debt exclusion. Referring to the winning yes vote to take the question forward at the annual town meeting, school board member Amy Houghton made the ludicrous statement, “In my mind there were two votes taken, and now it’s tied.” Not to be a naysayer, but there was only one vote taken where it counts, and it was not in her mind, it was at the polls.
The proponents of the new Tisbury School need to face reality and move forward with the majority toward finding an affordable solution to the town’s educational needs instead of wasting more of the taxpayers’ time and money with a revote.
Please urge our selectmen not to approve this step backward so that we can move ahead.
Chris Crawford
Vineyard Haven