A local school district is gearing up to help the children of New Process Gear workers who could soon be out of a job. Counselors at the East Syracuse Minoa School District will be getting special training so they will be prepared to counsel children who may be worried about their parents job loss at the plant.
East Syracuse Minoa School Superintendent Dr. Donna Desiato says the district has a large number of students whose parents work at the plant and many of them are anxious about the future. "They see their parents in stressful situations and they worry about these parents. They worry about the well being of their family," she says.
The district also stands to lose close to $750,000 a year in property tax revenue if the plant shuts it doors. But Dr. Desiato says the human cost of losing the plant is much more difficult to overcome. "We read about it across the country," she says. "But when it happens to you and in our own backyard and there are people that we can put names and faces to than it becomes very real."
