SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to send a letter to school officials expressing their concerns about the Southwest Harbor School Committee’s decision to allow the son of a Mount Desert Island High School teacher who lives in Lamoine to attend the town’s K-8 school as a tuition student.

Selectmen had invited school committee members to the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday to discuss the situation, but none attended.

“What I heard is they are too busy to come see us,” chairman Skip Wilson announced.

The school committee departed from its policy on tuition students at a meeting in June, at which, in a unanimous decision, members agreed to accept the son of Bronwyn Kortge as a kindergarten student at the Pemetic Elementary School when school begins next month. Ms. Kortge is supposed to pay $1,000 in tuition. The committee approved the tuition arrangement for one year.

Selectmen have expressed several concerns about the school committee’s decision.

For more details see the Mount Desert Islander on newsstands Wednesday afternoon.

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