Is this the Future?
There is an interesting article from Boston.com written a few days ago but its failing school system:
A community once celebrated as having some of the best schools in the state now has schools rated among the worst. Amid an escalating financial crisis in recent years, 68 teachers have been laid off, two elementary schools have closed, and about half the classes at the high school have been cut. There are no more elementary school librarians. Most of the school buses are gone, as are freshmen and junior varsity sports.
While I don’t think this is the future for North Reading, it is a pretty dramatic potential future for those towns that do NOT invest in their public school systems.