Yes, but...

Radio Free Hamilton editorializes that it's Time for Merger Study to Flunk Out

There is no good reason on this or any other planet for the HCS Board of Education and its counterpart organization in the Morrisville-Eaton Central Schools District to continue entertaining thoughts of the two districts merging.

None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Acun. Ninguno. Nullus.

As soon as the study is returned by the State Education Department, both boards ought to stick a fork in the proposal, declare it done, not waste the public's time with a vote and move on to more important things.

And I want to re-register my strong agreement -- the merger is not a solution to the problems we face -- but at the same time, I want to re-re-register my concern that the problems are quite real: there are bad financial and demographic trends which apply to this school district, to Upstate NY school districts, to rural school districts generally. We have a way of doing things, a model of education: that model is slowly coming apart, fastest in the rural regions, and we should be well along in the process of re-thinking and replacing it. We're not.

We're really not.