Vote for Education on Election Day
* Every year parents are inundated with requests for fund-raising support of school-related projects. Whether it’s gift wrap sales, PTA membership, market scrip sales or saving labels, the hits just keep on coming.
Many a time a child comes to my door to ask me to subscribe to a magazine I have no time to read and I just ask, “How much of the money does your school get to keep?” Then I write a check for that amount without the guilt of cutting down one more tree.
It’s finally time we make a meaningful contribution for the good of our children and generations of children to come, by agreeing to finance the rebuilding of our school infrastructure and modernizing for the next century. The $25 per $100,000 of property value is nothing compared to the many little hits we take all year to patch up our aging school sites.
In Thousand Oaks, one of the top cities in the country in which to raise kids, we should be ashamed at where some of our children spend their school days.
Families with grown children and people with no children will benefit from the refurbishing as well. Don’t you think local businesses will get the contracts? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if we don’t have the schools to educate children here, then the smart money will go somewhere else. I personally don’t want to leave, so I’m voting Yes on Measure Q. Make education a priority in the Conejo Valley.
RUTH ANN COOPER
Newbury Park
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