Building an insult to students

Published 2:16 pm Tuesday, April 29, 2014

According to your Sunday front page article, some are wondering why the school bond did not pass.

As one individual I can give you a partial answer: I value education as a primary potential life-changer to which, hopefully, every child might someday be equally entitled.

As a mental health professional, now retired, I have met a significant number of teachers from this area. Almost invariably each one, in some context and with some despair, mentioned that “the money went to the top (administration)” rather than into the classrooms with the students and their dedicated teachers who struggled to do their work with insufficient and indifferent financial support.

When the new administration building went up I felt it an insult to the students, the teachers, and to all of us who genuinely do value education.

It was the expensive confirmation. It spoke to the truths that the teachers spoke during all those years.

Doris Sinclair

Everett