This letter informs the Amityville School Board that we oppose any proposed budget cuts that would eliminate transportation to private schools.
As Amityville residents, we have been diligently paying our taxes for years and have asked for minimal use of the schools. We send our children to other schools for various reasons but in doing so save the school district’s budget tremendously. As of now, you have a near $122MM budget with ~2750 children. That equates to an expenditure of approx. $44K/child. The district transports roughly 550 children to other schools that are privately funded for $2.2MM. This equates to roughly $4,000/child. This is the most economical thing for your budget. If all of these private school children went to AUFSD, you would need to come up with another $24MM in funding (550 X $44,000).
Additionally, you are contemplating the cuts to schools that, as you say, fall just outside of the 15-mile limit. Based on my measurement details, our school district sits at 14.9 miles from Chaminade at its closest edge. Granted that is not a student's home right now, but it may be one day, and it proves the point that we are not discussing a distance of 25, 30, or 40 miles. We are debating in the tenths of a mile.
For years, as taxpayers of this district, we have approved bonds for projects that have been disastrous to the district’s finances (Park Ave). We have endured mismanagement of funds, rescues from the state, and layoffs of friends and family, and all the while, we have voted for your budgets and paid our share of expenses while asking for very little from the school district.
Your proposed actions to cut the transportation are short sited and also ill timed. Many students and parents have recently chosen to begin Chaminade in the Fall or re-join. We have just paid our tuition in February and are just learning about these proposed cuts.
We would ask that what you do for our children is not to cut this portion of the budget.
Updates
March 18, 2025
We hit 250 signatures today. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and email our school board members to demand they keep the bus service.
Reached 250 supporters
March 18, 2025
March 15, 2025
The momentum behind this petition is proving that our neighborhood will not accept these reckless budget cuts. Post this link on your Facebook wall right now to keep the pressure on the board. Email your local representatives today and demand that they protect our transportation services.
Reached 100 supporters
March 14, 2025
42 Comments
Families that pay insane high school taxes and save the Amityville School District a lot of money by sending their children to private school should not be burdened with the additional expense of transportation to the private school when it us a reasonable distance away from Amityville.
It needs to be e figured out. Put a bunch of catholic schools together and meet up at a hub like I did when I was a kid going to sacred heart. We shared a bus with kellenberg
The existing bus transportation was a key factor in our decision for which high school our son would attend. It is deeply concerning that, due to budgeting mismanagement within the Amityville School District, families who rely on this transportation are now being penalized. Eliminating this service creates unnecessary hardship, impacting student safety, accessibility, and the ability for families to make informed educational choices. We strongly urge the district to find a more equitable solution that does not place the burden on students and families who planned accordingly based on the existing system.
Our taxes are through the roof. As senior citizens in this district probably are paying just as much in taxes as anyone else and we have no children in the district. The least we can expect is some compensation for our grandchildren. Please assure that busing to chaminade will continue.
There are numerous valid reasons why the bus transportation for Chaminade students should not be cut and only one reason the school board is choosing to cut it. The safety of all students should be a top priority and yet the the Board is choosing to put these children at risk to save a few dollars.
This decision is unacceptable and must be overturned immediately.
You must continue to bus chaminade students, that’s the least you can do after these families are paying same taxes as families of Amityville students
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This letter informs the Amityville School Board that we oppose any proposed budget cuts that would eliminate transportation to private schools.
As Amityville residents, we have been diligently paying our taxes for years and have asked for minimal use of the schools. We send our children to other schools for various reasons but in doing so save the school district’s budget tremendously. As of now, you have a near $122MM budget with ~2750 children. That equates to an expenditure of approx. $44K/child. The district transports roughly 550 children to other schools that are privately funded for $2.2MM. This equates to roughly $4,000/child. This is the most economical thing for your budget. If all of these private school children went to AUFSD, you would need to come up with another $24MM in funding (550 X $44,000).
Additionally, you are contemplating the cuts to schools that, as you say, fall just outside of the 15-mile limit. Based on my measurement details, our school district sits at 14.9 miles from Chaminade at its closest edge. Granted that is not a student's home right now, but it may be one day, and it proves the point that we are not discussing a distance of 25, 30, or 40 miles. We are debating in the tenths of a mile.
For years, as taxpayers of this district, we have approved bonds for projects that have been disastrous to the district’s finances (Park Ave). We have endured mismanagement of funds, rescues from the state, and layoffs of friends and family, and all the while, we have voted for your budgets and paid our share of expenses while asking for very little from the school district.
Your proposed actions to cut the transportation are short sited and also ill timed. Many students and parents have recently chosen to begin Chaminade in the Fall or re-join. We have just paid our tuition in February and are just learning about these proposed cuts.
We would ask that what you do for our children is not to cut this portion of the budget.
Updates
March 18, 2025
We hit 250 signatures today. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and email our school board members to demand they keep the bus service.
Reached 250 supporters
March 18, 2025
March 15, 2025
The momentum behind this petition is proving that our neighborhood will not accept these reckless budget cuts. Post this link on your Facebook wall right now to keep the pressure on the board. Email your local representatives today and demand that they protect our transportation services.
Reached 100 supporters
March 14, 2025
42 Comments
As a parent of 4 private school educated children, I would have been devastated if the district had decided not to provide bussing to their individual schools.
Families that pay insane high school taxes and save the Amityville School District a lot of money by sending their children to private school should not be burdened with the additional expense of transportation to the private school when it us a reasonable distance away from Amityville.
It needs to be e figured out. Put a bunch of catholic schools together and meet up at a hub like I did when I was a kid going to sacred heart. We shared a bus with kellenberg
The existing bus transportation was a key factor in our decision for which high school our son would attend. It is deeply concerning that, due to budgeting mismanagement within the Amityville School District, families who rely on this transportation are now being penalized. Eliminating this service creates unnecessary hardship, impacting student safety, accessibility, and the ability for families to make informed educational choices. We strongly urge the district to find a more equitable solution that does not place the burden on students and families who planned accordingly based on the existing system.
Our taxes are through the roof. As senior citizens in this district probably are paying just as much in taxes as anyone else and we have no children in the district. The least we can expect is some compensation for our grandchildren. Please assure that busing to chaminade will continue.
There are numerous valid reasons why the bus transportation for Chaminade students should not be cut and only one reason the school board is choosing to cut it. The safety of all students should be a top priority and yet the the Board is choosing to put these children at risk to save a few dollars.
This decision is unacceptable and must be overturned immediately.
You must continue to bus chaminade students, that’s the least you can do after these families are paying same taxes as families of Amityville students
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As a parent of 4 private school educated children, I would have been devastated if the district had decided not to provide bussing to their individual schools.