Click here to subscribe today or Login.
Thank you for recognizing me in the Times Leader’s coverage of last week’s Wilkes-Barre Area School Board meeting. However, my reason for attending the meeting was not about me, but the children from the city’s Heights section and Wilkes Barre Township, an area where I grew up, delivered soda for Star Beverage and taught school.
The students at GAR Memorial Junior/Senior High School are not included in the consolidation for the new school on Washington Street. I reminded the board that a committee of teachers and stakeholders in the district suggested a three-school jointure as stated on the district website.
GAR could remain open as a junior high school for the students from South Wilkes-Barre, the Heights and Wilkes-Barre Township. The new school would require four floors instead of three. However, the district would save money because it would not need an annex to the Kistler Elementary School for the Meyers junior high students.
Of the nine board members, Ned Evans supported the idea and Dino Galella was against it. No comments on the proposal were made by the other board members.
The taxpayers deserve to know who is for or against this idea, since it was proposed by a planning committee whose members spent many hours discussing it. The news media should inform the public of the results.
John Zubris
Plains Township