Citizens Preserving America's Heritage

05/14/2018

Time to take action and vote. Vote for transparency and common sense. Vote for Charles Styler on May 15 for Southampton School Board
Southampton Middle school from 10 AM to 9 PM

04/27/2018

School Trustee race is Tuesday May 15 at the middle school. Make your voice heard and vote for transparency, responsible open government and vote for a Vet Charlie.

10/28/2017

How can a school board trustee in charge of the education of our children not put her hand over her heart during the pledge of allegiance. What teaching is she allowing the students to be taught?

10/25/2017

10/25/2017

Strange things go on at the Southampton School. What routine maintenance looks at the lead in dust? When is the last time they checked for this. WHERE is the source of the lead coming from? Parents ask questions.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159376753325316&id=429632365315

Southampton Public Schools website in Southampton New York.

10/08/2017

http://abc7ny.com/2503788/

Columbus Day is just around the corner, and festivities are already kicking off this weekend for Monday's parade up 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

10/07/2017

Monday is Columbus Day. Do you believe in the USA some schools like Southampton refuse to say day off for Columbus Day. Is this freedom?

08/28/2017

People always have to stand up to make change for the better.

The Levittown school district announced Friday that it would reprint its school calendar to add back holidays in response to the “needs and wants” of

08/03/2017

Letter to the editor in this weeks Independent.

Dear Editor:

"Columbus Day Cop Out"

Last week the Southampton BOE decided to put religious holidays and others back on the school calendar for 2017-18, but left Columbus Day out by name, preferring to call it a Federal Holiday, instead. Schools closed.

Many have taken to social media over this, specifically on 27east.
Here is a sampling of the community's comments on this subject:

"Why is the school district in the calendar business?"

"... 30-45 minutes of a board meeting spent discussing how to print/publish a school calendar, to let students and parents know about events, days when schools are closed, etc. ...seems a bit of a waste of resources and time. Just print the holiday. It's Columbus Day. The school board can't change the name because some people are offended. If this is the only issue then don't close the school that day and say nothing. Many businesses are open that day. Parents work. FOUR HALF DAYS FOR STAFF SCHOOL Development Day and only use two half-days? And parent teacher conferences the day before Thanksgiving break?
Gimme a break."

" Or they could just print "Federal/School Holiday" for all the holidays and be done with this conversation."

"Just because the Southampton DOE refuses to call it Columbus Day doesn't change the fact it IS Columbus Day."

"Columbus discovered the Americas for the Europeans. His arrival, although not his originally desired location, changed the scope of the globe and opened up the west to European colonization. This is why it is a holiday in the U.S. and parts of South America. No one is debating that natives suffered as a result of his arrival. Columbus [sic] voyage led to the eventual mapping of western sea routes and the mapping of the Americas by Vespucci. Other navigators and explorers would follow, such as Hudson, and John Cabot. His voyage opened the doors to a great age of discovery in which numerous scientific advancements were made in nautical navigation by the Europeans. Columbus's voyage is one of the more significant events in the history of the world. Unfortunately, political correctness has marked a new age in non-discovery, and inverted intolerance."

" While we hear so much about bullying of students, here we seem to have a case of the students bullying the School Board."

"If Kwanzaa is in there, why not Secretaries Day and National Cup Cake Day? All equally contrived."

"Well at least the BOE Snowflakes have agreed to acknowledge holidays that the community and school district enjoy. C'mon
ladies and gentlemen....only one to go. Say it with me, then you can all run to your safe places....Columbus Day!!"

"LONG LIVE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS !!!!!!"

Thank you, community members! I couldn't have said it any better.

As far as I'm concerned, I would rather see National Grandparents' Day acknowledged on the Southampton School Calendar than the made-up holiday called Kwanzaa. Grandparents' Day is the second Sunday of September.

Joan Tutt
Southampton
Citizens Preserving American Heritage

08/03/2017

07/29/2017

School board reverse themselves and put religious holidays on the printed calendar for the school. Thank you school board thank you voters.

06/24/2017

Another resignation of local board members this time in Riverhead School District. Their reason was because open committee laws were not followed. I E lack of transparency. This was one of the main reasons for the resignations.

Questioned by a resident, board members said nothing about accusations leveled by two longtime colleagues yesterday, which Superintendent Nancy Carney called 'misinformation' and declined further public comment.