Easy Moriches cut off their noses to spite their face.

Looks like they should have gone through the merger with Center Moriches afterall. Wonder if Center Moriches will welcome them now after what happened ?

Three area school districts that send students to Westhampton Beach High School might join together to sue the Westhampton Beach School District for charging too much in tuition payments for the 2007-08 school year

http://74.205.125.148/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=U1BNLzIwMDkvMDkvMTgjQXIwMDYwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Charles Russo, the superintendent of the East Moriches School District, agreed with that assessment, noting that all of the districts had to agree to the study for it to happen.

“If it’s not in the interest of all parties at hand, it’s not going to work anyway,” he said.



IF ONLY HE REALIZED THIS    B E F O R E
they agreed to do the Merger Study with CM !

Don't forget the pink party dress and parasol!

Glenn predicted this a year ago, now all the jockeying is over and East Moriches is right back where they started, paying higher tuition with no options left.

Well now ,  ain't this a kick in the teeth for the EM BOE now.  Who is getting the last laugh now ?  Center Moriches  lmao !!
Their WHB feeble minds did them in.  They had a sure thing with CM and they blew it. Face it EM,  You will never be hamptonites. You were played like a game of slap jack.

RE: WHB will NOT Merge with EM	Reply Quote
WestHampton Beach HS-ranked #22 Long Island School 69%, Adv/Regents Diploma Center Moriches HS-ranked #100 Long Island School

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Why are you bragging about the whb school? It is not yours and it never will be apparently.....emo is only good enough to pay their bills, not be a part of it.

Anonymous wrote:

---

WestHampton Beach HS-ranked #22 Long Island School 69%, Adv/Regents Diploma

Center Moriches HS-ranked #100 Long Island School

---

Please post your source and what was the ranking for East Moriches so we can compare notes.

 

Publication: The Southampton Press Math requirements will increase for Westhampton Beach High School students By Hallie Incoming Westhampton Beach High School freshmen will have to take an additional year of math in order to graduate if the Westhampton Beach Board of Education approves the curriculum change next month. During their meeting on Monday night, August 17, board members embraced changing the graduation requirements, but did not pass a resolution. Instead, they asked School Superintendent Lynn Schwartz and Westhampton Beach High School Principal Christopher Herr for more details on the sequence and availability of math classes. A vote on a resolution will take place during the board’s September 14 meeting, said Mr. Schwartz. “The board wants to make sure we have appropriate planning in place to meet the needs of all students,” he said. The change, if adopted as planned, will affect students graduating in 2013. Mr. Schwartz and Mr. Herr want to change the graduation requirements so high school students do not fall behind other students in their math studies. “We want to continue to challenge students and keep them competitive,” Mr. Herr said. If the policy is adopted, students will be able choose from five or six courses, like calculus, Advanced Placement statistics or applied mathematics, to fulfill the third-year requirement, Mr. Schwartz said. All students in New York State must take nine regents exams, three of which must be in math, to receive an advanced regents diploma, Mr. Schwartz said. In Westhampton Beach, the algebra regents exams are taken in eighth grade, the geometry regents in ninth grade, and the final regents exam, algebra II and trigonometry, are taken in 10th grade. Last year, the 2008-09 school year, was the pilot year for that schedule. There are a number of math electives offered in high school after the two regents courses are satisfied after sophomore year. Students, however, were not previously required to take them. School Board members are in favor of the changes because they want Westhampton Beach students to exceed New York State regents requirements so they are “ready to compete” after high school, Mr. Schwartz said. “We lost the commitment to math and science,” said School Board Vice President James Hulme. “We need to renew that commitment.” Board members said they are concerned that the United States is lagging behind other countries in both math and science. Fourth-graders in the United States rank 11th out of 36 countries in math scores, and eighth-graders rank ninth out of 48 countries in the same category, according to a 2007 Trends in International Math and Science Study. Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan and Singapore all rank higher than the United States, according to the study. “We are not going to get ahead of the Chinese by teaching kids applied math,” said Mr. Hulme, adding that school districts have to pay attention to courses so their students can be competitive. “We are going to get ahead of the Chinese by teaching our kids calculus.” On Monday night, board members appeared to be in favor of adding an extra year of math to the district’s graduation requirements, starting with this year’s freshman class. “We love the idea of an extra year of high school math,” said School Board President Aram Terchunian. Board members also expressed concern over the proposed changes and the math course options now available to high school students. Halsey Stevens, a board member, asked if there would be alternatives for students who may qualify to take calculus, but may be “burned out.” Other members were concerned that students who may not have done as well as other students in math would be forced to take a course that is too hard for them. “Not everybody does calculus,” Mr. Terchunian said. There are alternative courses, like applied math, that those students could take to satisfy the requirement, said Tom Short, the director of math, science and technology for the Westhampton Beach School District. However, some board members were equally concerned that students who showed the ability to take challenging courses like calculus would opt into an easier course. Algebra will always be available to students who need to take that course in the ninth grade, Mr. Short said. The East Moriches School District, which does not send its students to Westhampton Beach Middle School, is “on board” with teaching algebra to eighth-graders, Mr. Schwartz said. Board members also mentioned adding an additional high school level science class to graduation requirements. No action was taken on that proposal Monday night. Currently, high school students have to take two years of science. The board briefly flirted with the idea this week of increasing that requirement to three classes. The board will likely revisit that idea during the 2011-12 school year, when earth science, which is usually taught in the ninth grade, is made an eighth-grade requirement, Mr. Schwartz said.

EMBOE just doesn't get it! wrote:

---

DOH wrote:

---

 

Charles Russo, the superintendent of the East Moriches School District, agreed with that assessment, noting that all of the districts had to agree to the study for it to happen.

“If it’s not in the interest of all parties at hand, it’s not going to work anyway,” he said.



IF ONLY HE REALIZED THIS    B E F O R E
they agreed to do the Merger Study with CM !

---

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
this article from July 09



Study of centralized high school gaining traction  

If the plan is ever approved, Westhampton Beach would be the only centralized high school in Suffolk County, according to Mr. LaValle. He explained that there are a few centralized high schools in Nassau County, including the Sewanhaka and the Bellmore-Merrick central high school districts.

The process of making a centralized high school district would take about three years, Mr. LaValle estimated. The study to determine whether or not centralization is feasible, let alone beneficial to all districts, would take about 18 months to finish, he said. The school districts would have to find a consultant to complete the study and agree to share its cost, which is unknown at this time.

The East Quogue and Quogue school boards last month passed resolutions in support of the study, while the East Moriches and Remsenburg/Speonk school boards approved similar resolutions this past week.

“We want to find out how centralization would change the tax base,” Remsenburg/Speonk School Superintendent Dr. Kathy Salomone said.

The tax rate in the Remsenburg/Speonk School District is projected to be $4.52 per $1,000 for the 2009-2010 school year. The tax rate in the Westhampton Beach School District is projected to be about $5.15 per $1,000 next year.

Tuckahoe School Board President Robert Grisnik said last week that members of his board were never formally informed about the proposed study or the idea of creating a centralized high school district. “We’ve received no word of it,” said Mr. Grisnik, who declined to comment further.

This week, Tuckahoe District Clerk Linda Rozzi wrote in an e-mail that her district does not intend to support the study, explaining that it wants to continue to offer its students the option of attending either Westhampton Beach or Southampton high school. Mr. LaValle said Wednesday that Tuckahoe does not need to sign off on the study for it to move forward.

Last year, the East Moriches and Center Moriches school districts, using some $50,000 in state funds, conducted a study that examined the feasibility of merging with one another. But East Moriches school officials balked at the idea of conducting a straw poll—a non-binding vote that was intended to gauge the interest of taxpayers in Center Moriches and East Moriches—which all but killed merger talks between the two school districts. East Moriches officials charged that the study was flawed. If the merger had been completed, high school-age students in East Moriches would no longer have the option of attending either Eastport South Manor or Westhampton Beach high school.

Quogue School Superintendent Richard Benson said board members agreed to participate in the study last month, and that they will wait until its completion to decide whether to support a centralized high school district.

Mr. Schwartz, the superintendent of the Westhampton Beach School District, said his main concern is whether centralization would financially benefit taxpayers in his district.

“We are presently operating almost like a central high school because we have the opportunity to educate kids from sending districts,” Mr. Schwartz said. “In Westhampton Beach, the strong belief is that centralization has to have a financial benefit.”

Tuition payments from its five sending districts composed about 40 percent, or some $18.7 million, of Westhampton Beach’s $46.6 million operating budget for the 2008-2009 school year. Currently, all of the sending districts pay around $18,000 for each student attending either the middle or high school in Westhampton Beach. But that figure could change due to a recent modification made by the New York State Board of Regents to the Seneca Falls formula, a universal calculation that determines the tuition rate for all sending districts across the state.

Westhampton Beach recently sued the state over the change to the formula, stating that the modification was done illegally. Officials have said the change will cost Westhampton Beach some $600,000 a year in tuition income.

The sending districts would no longer have to pay tuition if a centralized high school district was created in Westhampton Beach. Instead, as Mr. Terchunian explained, residents of those districts would pay taxes to both their elementary school and the centralized high school districts.

Mr. Schwartz said that if centralization did occur, the tax burden for the Westhampton Beach School District could increase—a situation that would make board members reluctant to approve such a proposal.

“Westhampton Beach is fortunate to receive tuition because it offsets the tax levy on residents,” Mr. Schwartz said. “If we lost tuition dollars without a significant increase in state aid, the tax burden would fall onto the community.”

 

---

The study with WHB didn't work out...East Moriches students still  have the option of attending 3 high schools. We "rent" not own. It's been that way for a long time.

Most residents moved here for the good K-8 program and the choice of high schools.  
   
ESM high school offers more programs and is the lowest cost of the three high schools. The kids in our development play in the ESM little league and the Lady Sharks.