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These repairs should be thought of before the repairs of extra-curricular activities. As a valuable and active member of our society, I have to question what is wrong with the distribution of the Washoe County School District's funding plan. Something should be done to help the funding be equal per student per school. The problem with not allowing this equality is that some children are being held back while others are being handed a first class education. Why can't all students in Reno have a first class education? What makes one student more deserving than another? Is it ethnicity? Is it class? Why are politics still playing a role in our children's future? It's time for change.
             The proposal for building new high school's in Washoe County first came out to the public in an article from The Reno Gazette Journal in nineteen ninety-seven. The existing school's were said to be over crowded and the "best" solution was to build new high schools. An article ran in the same newspaper two years later stating that selected parents would be able to help with the re-zoning of the schools. After attending one of the committee meetings, one parent was quoted as saying, "Some parents said they would prefer their kids to go to one of the new schools because they think the education will be better at a newer building." This should send a red flag to all concerned because there is the possibility of parents zoning the schools in a way that would allow their child to go to their preferred school. The parents that have the opportunity to attend and be a part of such a committee are the parents who work during the day or don't work at all. What about the kids whose parent(s) work two, maybe even three jobs. To have only parents that can make a committee meeting between certain hours leaves out a lot of concerned parents. No to mention the families that don't speak English. Which, in turn would have the district leaving behind the students of minority in the older and more run down schools while they build newer and more technologically advanced schools for the students from wealthy families.


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