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Letter: Asks if Silver Lake school is 'untouchable'

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March 15, 2009

I have read much of the information about the state of the Cuyahoga Falls City School District and how it should proceed in the coming months and years. This has led to a number of questions whose answers, I believe, should be of great interest to the parents and taxpayers of this district. Several people have danced around it, but I'll ask the question: Is Silver Lake Elementary School untouchable and is any question of its future existence dead on arrival based on the current makeup of the School Board?

I understand why everyone would like to keep the neighborhood school system in place, myself included. However, with the country in general and Ohio in particular weathering the worst economic downturn in three generations, can we afford any "sacred cows?" It's understood that students transferring from other districts bring a certain amount of state funding with them. Does that influx of money offset the savings that could possibly be gained in limiting enrollment to residents of the district and scaling back the number of school buildings, with their related expenses? Is it not inevitable that we will be closing additional school buildings sooner rather than later? Isn't now the time to make the hard decisions and garner the savings they could generate rather than asking an already reeling electorate to pass additional levies, which is doubtful, or cutting the services offered to our children?

John D. Halpin

Cuyahoga Falls




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    Posted by Molly_Benedum_2494 March 15, 2009
Mr. Halpin, thank you!

I could not have said it better myself.

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