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Be civic-minded with vote

If the local school levies don’t pass, think about the impact on the current students that are in our public school system. Let’s imagine these students as adults about 15 to 20 years from now. Without proper school funding, some of these adults will have been high school dropouts and could end up in the jail system or on the streets, where we will ultimately pay more for their incarceration and rehabilitation than what we will pay for this levy.

Do we really want to defund the schools and enfeeble this new generation of citizens from the get-go?

Right now, Spokane seems like the perfect place to raise a family, transplant or start a business; it is a perfect place to call home. We have that now, so why would we destroy our community by crippling our schools?

You can’t expect to block funding for the school levy and not have it hurt Spokane. Let’s be civic-minded and vote for the school levy, vote for the next generation of Spokane.

Joan Conger and Jesse Starnes

Spokane

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