School Closings

Dear Superintendent,

In regards to the closing of 5 schools in the Seattle school district I have to ask, how on earth did the school district acquire a $25,000,000 deficit? Despite the current economy, someone must have seen this coming a long time ago, so why did no one pull on the reigns to stop spending and appropriately allocate funds? Closing schools is not going to fix this issue, it is only going to put a burden on parents and their children, not remedy the problem.

The city of Seattle is contemplating saving the Post-Intelligencer, but schools? Forget about it. What happened to fiscal responsibility? Or should we just pretend it never existed in the first place? We need to focus on saving our children’s education and there are thousands of voices standing up and saying the same. The opinions and needs of the people should be worth something, so please, save these schools.

Sincerly,
Nick Kirschner