Children are town's most valuable asset
When I read Rabbi Rosenberg's letter about tax credits for parents that send their children to religious schools, I remembered a time when I attended a meeting at my children's parochial school about tax credits.

I certainly was in the minority when I got up and said that I did not think my neighbor should pay for my children's religious education, because it was a choice that my husband and I had made. When my children finished elementary school, I found myself in the position of not being able to afford tuition for the four of them in a parochial school. I did research, sold my house and came to Edison. If one of them was in need of special education, there would have even been more of a need to move here.

This is America, and I had the right to make that choice. We eventually had six children who received a wonderful education in the public school system. Now we are seniors and feel just as strongly about supporting our schools, even though we no longer have children attending. We feel that children are a town's most important asset, and if the schools are not the best, neither will the town be. Edison is facing a school crisis now, and in order to maintain what we have always had, we need to make sure that the monies are there to support our fine school system.
Loretta Lord
Edison