Let College Community serve only their own

Posted on Nov 08, 2009 by Jeff Tecklenburg.

Let’s plan the school year 2010. The Cedar Rapids School District needs to move its school boundaries, which would include everyone north of Highway 30. We, the taxpayers of College Community, are fed up with building schools to educate your students.

Fifty years ago when College Community took in the school districts of Ely, Fairfax, Shueyville and Swisher, Cedar Rapids informed us that we had to build our own high school. They weren’t taking our teenagers any longer at Wilson High School. We went ahead and built the school without any argument.

Now, it’s pay back time. This year, we have 500 open enrollments. No more. This, in itself, is equivalent to a school. Whatever happened to when families moved the children went to the school nearest them?

To College Community, my husband is the only one left of the original school committee. Their goal was to eventually build a walkway between Lincolnway and the first school. With the large housing development behind the school, it’s time to put in sidewalks for all the kids to walk to school. That would save the expense of four to five school buses, which, in turn, would be a huge savings for the school district and they could put the money to good use elsewhere.

Dorothy Krivanek

Cedar Rapids