Your vote will be about kids’ future

We love to provide the best learning environments possible for our students. We are master crafters, thrift store shoppers, beggars and borrowers dedicated to providing interesting activities and inviting classrooms.

We often spend our salaries on posters, games, materials and technology to create memorable educational experiences. We’re not complaining, we’re living the dream of being teachers and being a part of building positive community members. We thrive on over coming obstacles and finding creative ways to engage our students.

One challenge we can’t surmount by ourselves is the over-crowding and unsafe environments that our students face. Would you like to have your 5-year-old bused to a school miles and miles from your home school? Would you like your child to have to learn in a boys’ locker room that has been blocked off for a “temporary” classroom? How about a school without a gym or where the electrical systems can’t support the technology needs? Would you like your child to be in a school where you can’t hang anything from the ceiling because it has asbestos in it? Scarier still, would you like to have your child in a school where strangers can walk in without being seen? All of these situations exist today in our outdated buildings. The time is now to improve this situation. You have the opportunity to vote to make the needed improvements.

On Tuesday, you will vote for or against our children’s safety and well-being. You are not voting for teachers, salaries or materials. You will be voting to give our students safe, efficient learning environments. The bond is strictly for buildings, classrooms and renovations that our children need to succeed. We encourage you and implore you to vote “yes” on the Central Valley School bond. Vote “yes” for our children and our future.

Deb Griffith

Teacher, Spokane Valley