Good News - News Schools are Needed

My two cents worth, or with today's inflation........1/2 cent worth? Although I have a son in middle school, I personally would like to see another High School. Chrisman and Truman both have trailers being used as classrooms. Why do they have trailers? Neither school has enough room for the number of students they have. This also creates a parking problem at least with Chrisman. I live behind Chrisman. I have between 8 and 10 cars a day parked along our short street. Ok....not really a big deal until you throw in the fact that our teenage kids can NOT find a trash can 10 feet away. They aslo walk right by a trash dumpster on their way of cutting through my yard to get to school. Friday night football games? This neighborhood is a joke. Thank God nobody has needed an ambulance or fire truck because they'd never fit down the street.
Now you're probably asking youorself or even yelling at me for moving so close to a high school. I bought this house after living on this street for all but 8 years of my 42 years of life. It was never this bad until about 5 years ago.
Thaks for letting me rant, even though was kinda off topic.

My daughter had Dr. Mallums the first 4 years of her elementary school. He was an awesome principal. The school had skating parties once a month and there he would be out on the floor skating with the kids. He also knew every kid in that school by first name. He would get them at where the busses would drop the kids off every morning.
 
I'll be voting for the bond. It will take my property taxes up about 20 bucks a year I believe. And I know that the schools, especially the ones out in western Independence are overcrowded.
 
Hopefully the influx of kids in the schools does mean younger families are moving into Independence. And hopefully that means increased revenues for the city and we'll be able to do more things quality of life wise to make Independence even more attractive to more families.

I'm all for the bond issue.   My thinking is:
 
a)  We of the West Side owe a debt to Superintendent Jim Hinson and the School Board, who supported bringing us "into the fold" of the Independence School District.
 
b)  I see this as an investment...both in our kids and in the reputation and desirability of the community.   There's a REASON that people avoided moving to Western Independence in HUGE DROVES in the past... and that reason was the perceived lack-of-quality in the Kansas City Missouri School District.   The ISD already has a good reputation for quality.   I'm all for improving that further.
 
 

..........well  Pastor Bob............I can see YOUR point of view as a "man of God"...........bigger flock numbers and increase to the "House of the Lord".........potentially............bus those little buggers into Sunday School before they procure paint cans for graffitti.............but from MY perspective as a person without children?.............I remember my property taxes taking a $200 hike every two years in Lee's Summit to build all those "Pentagon sized" high schools..........call me selfish for having that little operation a few years back...............now I have to pay for the indiscretions of those who forgot to wear "party hats" in the late 90's  , early 2000's?.....( I am referring to your question of "where did all these children come from?).......ROFL...........no offense  "mon seigneur" ...............