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I am voting “yes” on the supplemental levy on March 14. The faculty and staff of LPOSD do incredible work on a shoe-string budget. The kids can use extra counseling and the present counseling staff, fantastic as they are, can use the help. A modest increase in the budget would help deliver better educational product. It is more than acceptable.

To skeptics and detractors. Yes, there is much work to be done on updating the curriculum for the 21st century. We desperately need a curriculum which features more physics, chemistry, mathematical rigor, computer programming, critical thinking and engineering. However, we are thin in these areas more because of voter and parent apathy than LPOSD enthusiasm.

Yes, the building levy was a disappointment in terms of timing, scope and financing. A better thought out proposal more realistic to this economy and its financial burdens would have been better supported. However, LPOSD’s vision for a great set of schools for all kids remains exciting.

This Supplemental Levy is not a reach, nor supplemental. Rather, it is essential to the operations of LPOSD and the services it provides to our children.

The supplemental levy is a no brainer. Vote yes on March 14.

PETER KRIZ

Sandpoint