Our community faces serious effects if this bond issue fails
letter to the editor
Our community faces serious effects if this bond issue fails
To the Editor:
To my fellow North Royalton residents: My husband and I have lived in North Royalton for many years, raising our three children here. They have grown up participating in sports and other activities in this community, and I was active when they were younger in the North Royalton Early Childhood PTA. However, my children have not attended North Royalton City Schools.
Therefore, some might think parents of private school children would not be voting for Issue 11, the bond issue that would allow for construction of a new elementary school and improvements and renovations to the high school and middle school, but I believe this bond issue is for us all, regardless of if you have children in the school system or not.
Our children attend three different Catholic schools, but I still feel that paying just over $9 a month per $100,000 of my home’s property value is crucial in supporting the school district. Yes, it is an extra expense, but what will happen in our community if this bond issue fails is far more concerning to me. We moved from one home in this city to another a few years ago, and if we do not support this school district and its buildings that more than just students and teachers use each day, our property value will decrease.
North Royalton has a great reputation and I am proud when my children are playing sports along the community’s public school children. We chose not to send our children to public school because we want them to have a Catholic education, but I still strongly support this district and this bond issue. These children deserve to have new and improved buildings with quality technology, heating and air conditioning and security.
If this fails, not only will these things be denied them, but busing will be cut, including busing for my youngest child who relies on the district’s transportation to get to St. Albert the Great School each day. Also, the schools will not be open to community groups after hours, staff members will lose their jobs and great programs, including gifted and some foreign language classes will be cut.
Whether you have kids or not, and no matter where they attend school, there are serious effects facing our community if this bond issue fails. Please join me in voting for Issue 11. It is truly for us all.
Julie Reardon
North Royalton
To the Editor:
To my fellow North Royalton residents: My husband and I have lived in North Royalton for many years, raising our three children here. They have grown up participating in sports and other activities in this community, and I was active when they were younger in the North Royalton Early Childhood PTA. However, my children have not attended North Royalton City Schools.
Therefore, some might think parents of private school children would not be voting for Issue 11, the bond issue that would allow for construction of a new elementary school and improvements and renovations to the high school and middle school, but I believe this bond issue is for us all, regardless of if you have children in the school system or not.
Our children attend three different Catholic schools, but I still feel that paying just over $9 a month per $100,000 of my home’s property value is crucial in supporting the school district. Yes, it is an extra expense, but what will happen in our community if this bond issue fails is far more concerning to me. We moved from one home in this city to another a few years ago, and if we do not support this school district and its buildings that more than just students and teachers use each day, our property value will decrease.
North Royalton has a great reputation and I am proud when my children are playing sports along the community’s public school children. We chose not to send our children to public school because we want them to have a Catholic education, but I still strongly support this district and this bond issue. These children deserve to have new and improved buildings with quality technology, heating and air conditioning and security.
If this fails, not only will these things be denied them, but busing will be cut, including busing for my youngest child who relies on the district’s transportation to get to St. Albert the Great School each day. Also, the schools will not be open to community groups after hours, staff members will lose their jobs and great programs, including gifted and some foreign language classes will be cut.
Whether you have kids or not, and no matter where they attend school, there are serious effects facing our community if this bond issue fails. Please join me in voting for Issue 11. It is truly for us all.
Julie Reardon
North Royalton
