Although this may seem a small issue and relatively unimportant as compared to the massive scandal and theft in the Roslyn School District I feel it also needs exposing.

I am writing on behalf of the part-time bus drivers who are not unionized as are full-timers, but are just as important in keeping our children safe on the bus.

They are called "temps," even though they may have worked for years and at least one has worked for 10 years.

The administrators who have been hired on a temporary basis to replace those who have left are called "interim," and their extravagant salaries reflect the difference.

The board of education seems not to have any constraints about the large amounts spent for their own comfort levels (i.e. three separate law firms) while taking away the existing benefits needed by the most vulnerable of their employees.

Shame on the Roslyn Board of Education. Without any negotiations it has arbitrarily removed from them the benefits they had and others still retain: vacation days, sick days, funeral/mourning days as well as their life insurance. The board of education has also hiked the cost of their health insurance four fold.

Was this to show the community that it was making cuts?

Why did the board of education do this? Because it could. Not having a union to represent them they are the most vulnerable of Roslyn School District employees and doing this was not hard.

Besides being known for the scandal does Roslyn also want to be known as the district lacking compassion? Is this what we want to impart to our students?

I and many others implore the board of education to reconsider and restore the humane and necessary benefits to the hard-working people.

With the coming of the new year we can all benefit from doing acts of kindness.

Carolyn Horowitz