The following is an open letter addressed to residents of the Seaford School District from Lorraine DeVita
To the editor:
For many years and more recently brought to light with the Seaford Avenue School sale, this district has an ISSUE with full and complete notification to all its residents. Inconsistency is the name of the game it seems. Therefore out of pure frustration and the need to provide a pro active solution to stop the excuses, I have assigned myself the task of insuring this district has a complete and thorough list of all registered voters to insure full and complete notification to all residents of the Seaford School district.
This morning I simply picked up the phone and contacted the Board of Elections. They have a LIST! Which it appears they can send to ANY school district upon that district's request and they will send it to them on a CD. This List is by zip code.
So of course there would be some weeding out to do of the addresses North of Jerusalem. As well those Seaford residents with 11793 zips would need to be subsequently added.
Conceivably this should not be a Herculean task, however the school district MUST request list from the Board of Elections I am not allowed to do so. But it appears most all of the other school districts do this annually to keep their records current.
I will be emailing Seaford Superintendent Brian Conboy with the earth shattering information as well I am enlisting your help.
In order to facilitate information being dispersed in a more timely fashion it would be of great assistance if every resident did the following IMMEDIATELY: Call or emial Mr Conboy's office at 516-592-4002 or Bconboy@mail.seaford.k12.ny.us. You can also contact District Clerk Carmen Ouellette at 592-4013. Provide them with the following information:
- Your Name Your Address
- Your Telelphone number
- Your Email address
Also ask to be placed on the ROBO call list as well as the districts email notification/distribution list, as well please VERIFY they have your proper mailing address.
If everyone could do this ASAP I would greatly appreciate it, as important information will soon be coming regarding the Seaford Avenue School sale. We need everyone to be informed. Also as we are all aware not everyone reads or has access to the Patch or even email so please if EACH of you could contact as many people as possible, especially those that you know who do not receive information and share this with them, it would then hopefully spread and everyone will have the opportunity to be an informed voter.
I will also draft a letter to the district and the board of education to have them contact the Board of elections. Be assured I WILL follow up to insure they have done so. I am tired of hearing excuses. Here's My PRO ACTIVE solution so please help me in making it happen. Let's not give anyone an excuse for not informing the ENTIRE community, nor an excuse for being uninformed. An informed Seaford makes informed decisions!
If you have any questions or further suggestions to remedy this abysmal situation please feel free to contact me at ljdcom@aol.com. Thank you.
- Lorraine DeVita
Seaford
How would you propose residents of those without children in the schools be informed?
BECAUSE, this has waited tooooo long to happen, approx 35% of this community is NOT on any list and totaly uninformed and to be fair Mr Conboy VERY rarely answers his own line. His CLERK does and she SITs right next to the DISTRICtT clerk and can if busy transfer the call or take the information and input.. Its all about EXPEDITING .. the more people CALL and contact Mr Conboy the more likely someone will actually DO something. ie ENTER THE INFO...and i am quite SURE that if enough people start calling they have wherewithall to establish a special VM box or a system where the caller can leave the info and one of our highly skilled clerical staff can retreive it and enter the info to a user friendly contact data base.I hope you ALL share this info and make sure EVERY RESIDENT is on ALL the lists. ROBO call, EMAIL and MAILING.
This really isnt rocket science people. its really very simple IF and this is a BIG if We had the wherewithall to set up a contact management system/process properly.
Avoiding the "No one told me" syndrom.
Myself no longer having a child in Wantagh schools, I am not eligible to be added to the robocall list or to certain email lists. There is a good and valid reason for this, which I perfectly well understand and accept.
I agree that it would seem that keeping the teachers union happy and maintaining ours conference four football time champs is more important then educating the majority of the kids. People have little knowledge of the reality of the scores or college destinations because we only get the propaganda of the top twenty kids blasted at us by teachers union and the board. Additionally years ago I was shocked to see the hundreds of kids in front of the manor loading onto buses to go off tomthr five catholic schools. Had to be five busses full, probably a fifth of quarter of the kids don't even get educated here. Didn't impress me as a parent and tax payer.
And to answer your quote, " their are a plethora of ways to accomlish this you just need to be informed and educated on how to do it Perhaps our esteemed IT director can discuss this indepth with you to assure you." Yes! 'There' are multiple ways the district can access resident lists. Having an entire district call them is probably the WORST way to accomplish it.
A) do you actualy THINK people who are on the list and RECEIVING the information are That Dumb to call and say "place me on the list I am ON already". a little confidence in your community members intelligence please! Common sense prevailing Those who Havent been receing information should contact the school, As WELL people who want to receive information Electronically should contact the school..and give the school their email information. People like my friend Lisa who is already well informed and on the list should obviously Not contact the school .. Make ya happy Lisa. I assumed we were working with Adults here with a soupcon of smarts!
Postal Patron Local Seaford Union free school district LMAO... a FIRST even i received IT! Hopefully everyone else has to. Now the question of the day is WHY THE HELL DID'NT THEY DO THIS BEFORE??? WILL they continue to contact us with this apparent very simple solution?? If you havent received this BLUE POST CARD pls contact BOTH the School adminsintrative office AND the POST OFFICE! Now the challenge will be for the district to get notices out in a TIMELY fashion. But i am impressed they took the time to find a solution'@ LIsa- Now do you understand WHY I left it ambiquous : for ONE & ALL to contact the school.a VIABLE solution was found rather quickly when confronted with the possibility of an AVALANCHE of phone calls they assumed they were going to get. Lisa you need to learn how to play poker ......