Editor:
School Board Chairman Jason Redick, please reconsider your plan to make children on High Deck and Whiskey Butte walk to Highway 20 to to be picked up.
It is not fair to make kindergarteners walk up and down these roads to stand on the edge of a busy state highway. Those of us who live in the area know all the cats, dogs, deer, raccoons, foxes and other furries that wind up as roadkill along Santiam Highway.
There are no sidewalks and often little shoulder for children to wait on, and it is just too dangerous for our children be standing along the busy highway.
When Sweet Home voted to consolidate Cascadia School District into its district, there was a huge bank account in the Cascadia School District and Sweet Home district promised to always provide bus service to Cascadia in exchange for it.
Cascadia has a very high percentage of senior (retired) taxpayers for each school age child. We also have about five home-schooled children.
Cascadian taxpayers are not going to stand for the 12 to 20 children we pay for being left out on the highway in the nasty winter weather. I would like to see you walk up Whiskey Butte and High Deck roads to the homes of the little kids you expect to walk up and down them every day.
If you do not change your plan, please send me information on Charter School and/or how to take back our own school district.
Ruth Powers
Cascadia