Concerns of senior citizens take a new turn

By: Lauren Goldstein; Staff Writer

Springfield, IL-The school board candidates met Tuesday night with members of the Lenoir Retirement Community center. It was an unforeseeable shift in topics of discussion from previous meetings. The typical talk of the $35 million dollar bond was not the area of most concern among senior citizens that night. Year round schooling was the topic of discussion.
I argue with Board President Fay: an elimination of trailers would lead to increased costs which the city cannot afford right now. It just isn’t practical. Different scheduling would confuse the administration and the students.
Although overcrowding is ubiquitous issue it needs to be dealt with gingerly. Candidate Larry Doman would like to increase teacher salaries and eliminate overcrowding, but money is too tight to accomplish these goals at the moment.
I feel that school board candidates may be promising goals that are out of their reach at the present time. It all sounds good, but is unattainable at the moment.
Possibly in the future, funding can be raised for more classroom construction in hopes of eliminating the trailers. Due to the minimal threat of the faculty unionization, I believe this is an issue that can be dealt with after construction begins.