Cut wasteful spending

Let me start by saying I do not hate teachers, schools or students. What I dislike is giving my hard-earned money to schools just because they say we can’t make it on what we get from the state.

This is why we pay a guy at the Central Valley School District more than $140,000 per year; to find these solutions, not to pass them back to us. New windows and carpet and walls never taught me a thing, nor do I believe that it does today.

If you go into some of our schools, you will see some amazing things: marble floors, elaborate lighting fixtures and some of the latest technology. Yet it is still not enough. Will it ever be enough?

I say let’s find the waste. I bet that Superintendent Ben Small has never asked a custodian “Where can we save a few dollars?” Pay our teachers what they are worth by keeping the good ones and canning the bad ones.

I know, if we don’t pass the levy, you will have to lay off teachers and the schools won’t be safe.

Steven Clark

Spokane Valley