A message from Adam Scaife

40+ years of listening and accepting the very vocal minority position has gained us nothing in our school district. It has continued to place our students "LAST" in the surrounding districts. Our board members should not be so interested in the LENAPE student scores once they arrive at LENAPE but in the scores of the students prior to arriving at Lenape.

Getting back to the basics has been preached by this and previous boards for the past 30 years. Where have these basics gotten us? Dr. Kerr did not hire or employ himself. He has made very sound, documented, and private consultant backed recommendation for appropriate change. Why does this new board not recognize this? They are of the same mold as previous boards of provincial mindsets. Does it not meet with their own personal agendas that have continued to stifle our educational system? We all know the answer to this question.

Are only those of us who are willing and wanting to let go of provincial mindsets able to see that we must change for the betterment of ALL Students and Taxpayers? Dr. Kerr is a Superintendent that has looked and is looking toward the best interests of ALL of the students and ALL of the tax payers.

Our district has completed MANY studies in the past, not just the hayes large or previous study, that back Dr. Kerr's direction. These multiple studies have cost the taxpayers much in the form of money and time and the students lost opportunities all in the name of maintaining a local identity that only a few cling to. Why do so many students leave the area following graduation from high school and college? Why is our district continuing to dwindle while districts nearby grow their student population?



Adam Scaife
East Franklin Twp.
511 Butler Road
Kittanning, PA 16201