Letter to the Editor: Strong schools make strong communities
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Supporting a public school levy is not just about helping today’s students—it’s about investing in a better future for all of us. Safe, well-funded schools reduce crime, grow the economy, and protect property values. They produce skilled graduates who contribute to the workforce, pay taxes, and care for our communities.
Some might ask why those without school-aged children—private school families, retirees, or households without kids—should pay. The answer is simple: public education is a shared social contract. Just as we all support roads, emergency services, and clean water, we all share in the responsibility of educating the next generation.
Even if your children are grown or attend private school, they will live in a world shaped by the education others receive. Their coworkers, doctors, and neighbors will come from public schools.
A school levy is not charity—it’s a wise, necessary investment in our collective well-being. Let’s all do our part. Strong schools make strong communities.All registered voters in Shoreline and LFP should vote YES for SSD No. 412 Proposition No. 1!
Amy Reed
Shoreline
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6 comments:
here we go again, the ASK, despite Washington state school performance continuing to fall despite the generous voters "dutily" emptying their pocketbooks whenever called for by endless funding increases and school levies. Let us, the public, ASK our schools to perform to budget and actually think about where costs can be reduced. Please vote NO on this initiative and help impose some fiduciary responsibility on our public school system.
Please vote no, as for the first time I plan to do. This, coming from a parent in the district with a child struggling in highschool to achieve, well, anything. A complete 180 of how they have always been, it’s heartbreaking and disillusioning. The daily in class and at-large behaviors, disruptions, chronic disrespect to self/others/teachers, kids coming to class high (my child was recently vomited on in class by another student who came in reeking of marijuana), lack of personal safety using bathrooms, and so much more. It’s crippling for too many students who wish they could go to school to learn, to be a part of something actually positive. While I appreciate your words and intent of the author of this op-ed, it is our lived experience this is outdated thought and the very things you note public schools make better, in reality, the opposite (or far too much of it) is actually true. Our public schools are rapidly decaying from the inside out. Let them. There is no saving it in its current model. And no amount of district level “support” with their bloated salaries, over staffing and smug reliance on resting on their long-tenured laurels is helping anyone. Their budget crisis reflects their own shameful and
typical myopic thought. I will not support any more of their mistakes and missteps with my tax dollars.
Still waiting for the answer to the question, why aren't you closing a school?
Totally agree 💯
Better yet, close Shoreline Center.
Schools have become daycare, and with the ADA they have to provide a place for everyone. My sons, one a drop out from, and one a graduate, from Shorecrest had wildly different experiences in school than I could have imagined. Can we talk about the back to school night when CPAs and engineers asked the teachers how to help with math homework because the books didn't make any sense and the teachers said "we have learned how to teach it, make sure your student has a good night's sleep and breakfast'". Next year the math curriculum changed - too late for my son. As a believer in public education and someone who thinks we need it now more than ever, I'm voting no.
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