To the Editor,

Administrators at Tecumseh Public Schools (TPS) continue to amaze me. In these days, when the headline stories are foreclosures, unemployment and the slumping economy, TPS asks for $37 million more. I am glad to read so many in the community are questioning the most recent proposals. One item conspicuously absent from the fancy brochure is the expiration or retirement date. It must be extended to 2040 or something close to that year. 2040!? I sent an email to the Superintendent but have had no reply. We often hear politicians blaming other politicians about “borrowing from our children’s future”. Now TPS does the same.

I wonder how TPS will take care of the new facilities IF the voters approve this laundry list of WISHES (not needs). The maintenance staff is already stretched thin. TPS expects the impossible from a few people. Won’t extra staff be necessary to groom the new ball fields and clean additions of building space?

TPS must think that the citizens and taxpayers of this district are the next best thing to a magic genie in a bottle. TPS asked for Wish #1: a brand new $40 million high school. GRANTED! Wish #2: remodeling, additions to school buildings, etc. GRANTED! Wish #3: more remodeling, more additions (even to the NEW high school building), ball fields, practice fields, landscaping, etc., ad nauseam.

Will the voters grant this 3rd wish of TPS?? This is one voter that will say “No!”
 

Mary Keefer
Britton