Student input may be valuable in evaluating schools
A hard-earned computer taken at Mercer Island High School is taken, owner hopes for return.
I like to refer to Fran Call’s letter to the Mercer Island Reporter, Feb. 15, 2012, “Gone are the days voters always say ‘yes’ to schools.”
For the past two years, I have taught at Lakeridge and am a Mercer Island resident. I wanted to work for the Mercer Island School District because I wanted to teach in the community in which I live and also where my daughter attends school.
I am writing to ask my fellow Islanders to vote yes on April’s school bond. I confess that I was a skeptic initially, but after examining the evidence I decided that the district’s plan was well-conceived and demanded my support.
If my math is correct, 56,000 voters in Issaquah are being asked to pony up $3,910 each for a school bond, yet 16,000 voters on the Island are being asked for $12,312 each for a similar but somewhat nebulous scenario.
Seattle KingCounty Realtors® (SKCR) have endorsed a bond proposition to modernize and expand facilities in the Mercer Island School District. The measure seeks $196 million to fund several rebuilding and renovation projects over the next five to eight years.
Seismologists knew comparatively little when our schools were constructed in the 1960s.
I was very disappointed by the Mercer Island School Board’s decision not to fund the $3,000 to place the almost $200,000,000 school bond measure in the voters’ pamphlet.
One hates to bite the hand that fed it, but this former Mercer Island teacher is alarmed. Why is it that our School Board is rushing to ask for so much of our money, but does not seem able or willing to give us adequate information about how it will be used?
Reference the picture on page 2 of the Nov. 30 newspaper. How easily everyone is misled by the union. The facts, according to the Washington Policy Center, are that the state education budget has not been cut.
Tully’s new drive-thru is great. This will slow down everyone’s pace; cars, bicycles and pedestrians. When returning to the Island, Tully’s coffee, service and laid-back atmosphere always make me feel at home.
It is very interesting that two days before election ballots are sent out, a letter read by candidate El Jahncke at a City Council meeting attempts to refute facts in the recent million dollar lawsuit against our city.
