Yes vote if ugly trailers are replaced at schools

Yes

vote if ugly trailers are replaced at schools

I can promise my

vote in favor of the SPLOST in September, if the school board can tell

me when the "permanent" trailers will be

removed from schools like Huddleston Elementary and Booth

Middle School.

So far,

there has been a lot of talk about quality facilities for

new people moving into Fayette County, but none about

eliminating these eyesores for the rest of us.

Use the

first SPLOST money to build permanent rooms instead of

trailers, or give the trailers to the new school sites.

There seems to be no respect for the homeowners,

taxpayers, students and parents who support the existing

school program.

The city

would never allow property owners to park these rusting,

ugly cheap trailers in our front yards - but they

are allowed in the schools for years.

Now there

will be 97 trailers in the system, to compensate for poor

planning. The school board seems much more interested in

talking about football fields and dress codes than about

quality classrooms, based on the news coverage. That

might be an explanation for poor academic performance

against national standards.

I hope

other parents and taxpayers will voice their concern over

this misguided prioritization in Fayette County. Impact

fees are the answer for new developments. They are used

all over the United States, and they are fair to current

taxpayers.

If the

board will spend as much time on what goes on in the

classrooms, and how we support real education, we will be

much better off. Please get back on track.

There

should have been a football field in the Starr's Mill

plan to begin with, and now board meetings are consumed

with talk of unnecessary and ineffective dress codes

- as if that will make us all feel safe.

Meanwhile,

we have a shortage of computers, school starts in the

middle of August, teacher and bus driver pay is not

competitive - and my confidence level in giving the

board additional funding power sinks to a new low. Did

anyone ask parents about these priorities? I have to

wonder.

Dr. DeCotis

(school superintendent John DeCotis), here is your chance

to do the right things. Let's see a better plan to use

this tax money for all of us.

Steven

E. Forsyth

Peachtree City

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