Hey, guys, here's a real serious issue in Freehold Mark Rosman In the News While most of the lemmings in Freehold Borough were screeching themselves silly at the Borough Council's March 5 meeting, there was very serious business going on over at the Freehold Borough Board of Education offices at the same time. While people who do not live in Free-hold Borough were badgering Council-man Marc Le Vine to resign from the governing body because of statements he posted on an Internet Web site, school board members were being informed by district administrators that the budget ax is about to cut loose numerous personnel from borough schools. The result of the personnel cuts, if they occur as predicted, may be a less than thorough and efficient education for borough students. If the people who made the stink about Le Vine's ridiculous Internet comments made half the stink about school funding issues, they might actually get something done to benefit residents of the community. People who live in Freehold and are legally able to vote elected Le Vine to represent them on the Borough Council. If those residents now believe Le Vine harbors inappropriate beliefs about certain ethnicities, they should vote him out of office at the next opportunity. The people who live in the borough who are not legally able to vote can complain all they want about Le Vine's Internet comments, but what they really should be doing is addressing their residency status. If people are living in the United States illegally, they have a right to voice their opinions, but they have no right to vote and they certainly have no right to tell anyone to leave an elected position that was gained through a legitimate voting process. If people are living in the United States legally and have not participated in the voting process, they absolutely should go to the election booth. Maybe it all comes down to education, the type of education that students in the borough may be deprived of if serious attention is not paid to what school administrators like Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth O'Connell are saying. Librarians, art teachers, music teachers, guidance counselors and all extracurricular activities in the borough's public school district are on the chopping block for the 2007-08 school year. School officials have scheduled a public meeting for March 20 in the Park Avenue complex and they have invited elected state officials and the Monmouth County superintendent of schools to attend. This will be one of the few opportunities Freehold Borough parents have to address issues of critical importance to their children's future. If the people who complained so loudly about Le Vine's Internet message care so much about Freehold - as they claim to - then the March 20 meeting is the one they should pack, with people who live in town. Who knows? Maybe they can accomplish something real and lasting, instead of grabbing a newspaper, radio or TV headline that lasts one day. Mark Rosman is the managing editor of the News Transcript.