Salary bump stops writer from volunteering
This is an open letter to Old Bridge Superintendent of Schools Simon Bosco.

All the parameters of your job that you so eloquently whined about in the article titled "Schools Super Defends 13.9 Percent Salary Increase" (Suburban, May 1) are things that, at a minimum, private-sector workers do. So I don't have any sympathy for you and certainly do not support giving you a raise of that magnitude.

We pay enough in taxes here in New Jersey, and the economy is causing many of us to struggle to make ends meet. In the private sector you would have gotten the minimum raise, given the economic climate, or perhaps no raise at all.

As a private-sector worker working to keep the New Jersey gravy train going for all workers who derive an income from taxes, I am sick and tired of hearing state workers whine about their jobs. "I can make more money in the private sector" or "I took the job for the benefits" are common whiny comments spewed from the mouths of public-sector workers. My opinion is that a public-sector worker wouldn't last five minutes in the private sector, given all that is expected from privatesector employees.

For a good number of years now, I have volunteered my time as accompanist for the Salk School and Old Bridge High School music program. That gravy train has ended. I cannot support any program under a Board of Education that so blatantly gives money away. I will not provide my services any longer to the Old Bridge music program.
Charles A. Mannino
Old Bridge