The bill proposed, House Bill 1675, on the front page of the Times News of July 6, 2019, is not what we as Pennsylvania citizens voted on in November 2017. Those results were 53.9% in favor of the Homestead Exclusions Amendment! School property taxes were to be frozen in the first year and to be eliminated in the second year. Both deadlines will not be met. Just increase the sales tax across the board.

Also the schoolteacher tenure program must be abolished. New York and New Jersey did just that! If teachers were in the business world, these prima donnas would learn a lesson. Also a principal up to and including a superintendent should live in the school district. Local qualified people are passed over. Now we have principals driving from Moscow to Slatington.

Webster’s definition of a prima donna is a temperamental person who takes a delusional and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.

No politicians should ever ring my doorbell!

Ron Scheffler

Slatington