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July
23, 2013
Our
children are
important
Krista Stump
Editor:
The
time is now to
build a new school for Greenville City Schools.
My name is Krista Stump and I have devoted
almost half my life to
Greenville City Schools as a teacher and administrator. You don’t
dedicate 25
years of your life to a place and not still care.
Even though I no longer draw a paycheck from
Greenville Schools I still love the staff members I served and the
students that
were under my care.
When
Greenville City
Schools closed two buildings and reorganized a few years ago, I was the
principal of Woodland Primary. While
walking through Gettysburg Elementary looking for classroom clocks that
I could
use in the modulars that had been recently delivered to our school to
use for
the increased number of students to be arriving in August, I realized
what an
old, dark, and dingy place this building had become.
Then I wondered.
Would people go to a bank that looked like
this? Would they go
to a doctor in a
building that looked like this? Would
they go eat at a McDonalds that looked like this?
Yet, we send our most cherished possessions,
our children to old and decrepit buildings.
All the other county schools have built new
schools. As
the principal of Ansonia Elementary built
about 10 years ago, I have had the chance to see first hand the
benefits of a
new building. Our
kids deserve updated
buildings like the rest of the students in our county.
So I ask you, are we willing to let our
actions say, “The children in our school district don’t matter?” Please
make
your vote say that children and their education are important in our
community. Vote yes
for a new school.
Sincerely,
Krista
Stump
Greenville
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