Newsweek Ranking

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John Richman Writes:
I am most proud and extremely pleased to announce that Plainedge High School has been named by Newsweek Magazine as one of the TOP 1,000 high schools in the United States with a rank of #988. For more information, please visit:


www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12532678?s=900&np=12&sort=raa


He's proud that MacArthur HS blows us away?
Something very wrong about this list if you asked me.
Oh, BTW...The tittle is top 1200 high schools not 1000 as Dr. Evil wrote.
Nice reading Comprehension on his part, eh? LMAO
Heave ho...Richmans gotta go

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Richman's ability with numbers ranks 10 with me!

That's on a scale of 0 - 100 with 100 the highest!

Take a look at the "NEW" budget "Booklet" that's identifies itself as a "Budget Newsletter" on it's front page (whatever that type of document is in the quest for a "Budget" publication). It has just been posted today on the plainedgeschools.org site! It is a Richman vehicle of communication to us! (Look at how his name has been highlighted on the last page!)

There is a column of Expense numbers for last year. All three parts of the expense totals have a number that ends in a zero. (0) Yet when the booklet adds the three numbers up it gets a result that ends in nine! (9)

Richman Math!

Least you think that is a typo go to the three parts for this year's expenses - their totals end in nine (9), five(5), and two(2). Yet the bottom line number says their total ends in five(5)! I add 9+5+2 and I get six (6), not five (5). What do you get?

Another fine example of Richman Math!

For another example of errors, the booklet says the average house is assessed at $422,000. Try telling that to Mr. Levinson, the Chairman of Nassau County's Assessor's office! The 2006/7 assessor's notice I received shows mine to be about $1,000! What's your's?

Richman numbers again!

As to the calculations about what all of this is costing in the way of Property Tax - look at how much effort is put into convincing people that the new Star Refund checks - paid directly to them and not to the school - will be deducted from the Property Tax Bill! Somehow I think the Town Collector of Taxes, Mr. Stephanich, will object to that!

Will your other refunds, or even payroll checks, be removed from your Property Tax? If so, it time to go to Circuit City and buy a whole slew of gadgets that offer Refund checks!

These direct Star Refunds are not included in the calculation of the Property Tax Levy the District sends to the Town!

Nothing in the information provided by Richman as to what the effect on your Property Tax will be rings true in the slightest! It is a blatent example of mis-direction and mis-information!

It smells like, and looks like, a sidewalk game of "Three Card Monte", or "Which Shell is the Pea under?" is being played on the voters of Plainedge. Would any one of the game's shills standing around us like to counter that?

Ed.

Richman is gone! Way Gone! Only the festering body lies, (often lies) here in Plainedge! Let's do our best to have that moved out!