Having read the Newsday article "Roslyn's Red Flags," in the Thursday, Jan. 13 issue, I am absolutely appalled at the disregard of how people can spend public funds.

We here in Roslyn have been given the label of the richest school community, but nevertheless there are many who are trying desperately to maintain their homes. Taxes have skyrocketed and I read that some administrators were given bonuses of $100,000 and $161,000. Am I under the wrong impression about school districts giving bonuses? I understood that a business, when making money, at the end of the year would reward their employees with a share of the profits by giving a bonus. In a school district they are paid to do a job, they are not rewarded a bonus for doing their job. If anyone should receive a bonus, it should be the teachers.

I have lived in Roslyn for 45 years, have been on all the parent organizations of the schools that my children have attended, and was CCPA chairman. We have always fought for benefits for the children keeping class sizes small. Listening to young parents talk, I have heard that class size is no longer small - is that due to the rewards of bonuses? We are in desperate need for a larger library - I'm sure it would have become a reality, if it weren't for a few administrators who felt the need to steal from a wonderful community. We here in Roslyn are suffering in different ways for the greed of a few.

Chickie Kaufman