2. You

listened to the Realtors, the teachers, the school board

members, and all the wrong people. Why didn't you listen

to the voters who elected you?

3. You

never explained to the satisfaction of the people what

you were going to spend all that millions of dollars on.

You tried to hide the fact that half of the money would

go for sport facilities, and not education. Shame on you.

I believe

if you had gone to the voters and said we will first use

the money to replace all the trailers with permanent

classrooms and, if there is money left over, we may use

it for the sports programs, then the voters would have

supported you. The first thing voters think you should do

with their tax money is to educate. Put your priorities

in the right place. Sports are not essential. They are

extra.

I firmly

believe that the sports programs should pay their own

way. The football proceeds should more than pay for the

needs of the game plus extra funds for bleachers and

bathrooms and upkeep of the facility. I think basketball

will pay its own way. If these two programs are not in

the black then raise the price of admission. As for all

other sports that are dependent on tax money, eliminate

them. Let no nonessential sport drain off direly needed

dollars.

I hope this

will guide you someway when next you bring up another

SPLOST vote. You have already cost the taxpayers

thousands of dollars on a special election that was

needless. Please don't do this again. I will campaign

against you if this happens.

Now Debbie,

let's get back to basics. Cut out all the

"EDs." Eliminate sex ed, phys-ed, drivers ed,

field trip ed, finger painting ed, claw molding ed, and

no telling what else you can come up with that will

replace education. Get back to reading ed, writing ed,

spelling ed, arithmetic ed. That will take care of the

basics. Now if there is spare time, for God's sake, teach

a class in manners; that went out the door a few years

back. At least get your students to take their hats off

while dining in a restaurant, and to stop trashing the

byways with the fast-food wrappers and drink cups. Teach

one class on respect for others.

Come time

for you to run again for the school board, tell the

voters you will listen to them next time instead of the

Realtors. And should you go for another SPLOST, be sure

you have the support of the parents of your students,

which you didn't have this time. They forgot to go vote.

Frank

Hyde

Peachtree City

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