REPORTERS NOTEBOOK: 051609 - "School District Consolidation"

Pa. Governor Ed Rendell has come up with a lot of bogus ideas over the years, but his school district consolidation proposal is really mind-boggling.
Big Ed thinks that the Commonwealth could save money by compacting the state’s 500 school districts down to about 100 or so.
I just don’t see it happening, especially around here.
If it was put to referendum in Upper Adams, for example, it’d be rejected — probably by 100 percent.
Why?
Because, it would mean that Bermudian and Biglerville would likely have to merge.
Uhmm, no.
There’s no way we’re going to send our kids to school with those heathens!
(At least they have decent water up there.)
Good luck Ed, trying to push this one through the State Legislature.
It’ll never work in Apple Town.
~ Scot A. Pitzer, Times Staff Reporter.