I have been reading the comments regarding the lawsuit against former Roslyn Board of Education members and all I can say is enough is enough!

Members of the board of education are elected officials and they are obligated to uphold specific duties and responsibilities. They do not have the right to choose which laws or parts of the law they wish to follow. As elected officials, they take an oath to protect the assets of the community.

When the previous board collectively and individually chose not to report immediately to the insurance providers and the community at large the first and then the second theft of funds, regardless of the amount of dollars in question, they broke the law. Not only did they break the law, the board acted in a way that is unprofessional and unacceptable. You do not have to be a professional to know right from wrong. You do not need a legal degree to know that you are engaged in a cover-up.

The board of education is not a friendship circle, but rather a group of elected volunteers charged with running a multimillion dollar corporation.

No one would tolerate if a corporate board chose to withhold financial theft information from the company in which they owned stock. Well, we all own stock in our school system and it is time for everyone to put aside personal affiliations and look at the facts.

For all those who want to end the lawsuit, are you willing to set up a fund to make up the difference in the dollars the district can recoup from the suit? Why should taxpayers be forced to make up the difference because of a cover-up by elected officials?

If we do not make up the missing funds, educational programs will be compromised. The same people calling to stop the lawsuit will be the same people demanding that we increase special education funding, we keep the FLES program, we add more teachers and electives in the high school. We can't do these things without revenue. And, no one wants to increase the already high school tax we all pay.

It is not up to the community to take a vote to continue a matter currently in litigation. The board is acting on legal advice that cannot be discussed in public. They have made every effort to inform the community as to the reasoning behind their actions, and have made legal counsel available to answer questions. The polling of the community sets a very dangerous precedent for every issue that the board must tackle. A board cannot function based on poll results.

We need to move beyond the lawsuit issue and start to look at other matters that will impact the upcoming school budget as well as matters that will impact what programs we will be able to offer the children of our community.

So, before you chant "stop the suit," think of all of the items in the budget that we may not be able to afford without additional revenue to pay for them.

Rebecca Hollander