Dear Editor:
I am stunned and saddened that leaders of our community and school board dont support SWOS and the 3A bond proposal. Good schools are one basis of a thriving community, and frankly, you are not setting a very good example of leadership by acting like the glass is half empty and you have to guard against the loss of funding that you might potentially get in the future. The Re-1 schools did not get a BEST grant but SWOS did. For goodness sakes, support the amazing potential of this grant and what we as a community can do to improve our schools. If we can make a difference with the smaller of the proposals, perhaps we can prove to ourselves and the state that we can make a larger school bond issue work. But voting against 3A is a vote against our community.
I support the Southwest Open School (SWOS)! It hurts my personal sense of community and pride in my region that we have a school system that does not and can not support our youth 100 percent! The buildings and infrastructure of SWOS needs the larger communitys financial and goodwill support. If we dont have decent schools, we dont have a thriving and desirable community period, end of story. We start dying as a community.
Read the information. Tax dollars are not supporting the grant that SWOS received, so dont let our countrys taxation bitterness turn you away from supporting your community. I dont have children, I dont even live in Cortez, so I cant vote for this bond issue. I pledge my own funds proportionately as I would have paid if I lived in the school district to support SWOS.
Be proactive! Support our youth, and especially youth that we might lose if we dont support our alternative system for providing that critical high school education and diploma. They are our future and our hope. Treat them that way! Support SWOS and their bond issue.
Robby Henes
Dolores
Via CortezJournal.com