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Although the News Tran-script has not been successful in obtaining a consultant’s report that may set out some of the costs to Marlboro to pull out of the Freehold Regional High School District, comments made last week by a township official should put that idea to rest.

In announcing that the Town-ship Council will not appeal a judge’s decision that will allow some Marlboro residents to be assigned to Colts Neck High School, council President Ellen Karcher was asked her opinion of an idea put forth by some people for Marlboro to quit the FRHSD and establish its own high school.

"My gut feeling is that it would be so prohibitively expensive for us [to build a high school] and provide the same quality of education to our students. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that it would be tremendously expensive for us to acquire property, build a school, outfit it for 2,000 students and staff it," Karcher said.

Until we see numbers to the contrary, we must believe that is the case and that talk of Marlboro leaving the district should end.

It’s obvious that a high school owned by Marlboro could not provide all of the special learning programs now being offered by the FRHSD. In the end, Marl-boro’s students might lose more by being cut out of the district. We can’t believe that is what a majority of parents want.