WESTMINSTER WEST-To recycle the title of Erica Walch's letter, two stories speak volumes.
1. "West River Education District hosts forums on proposed elementary school merger" [Around the Towns, Sept. 18]: School Board members and administrators go on a tour to present a plan to close Jamaica Village School and Townshend Elementary, and consolidate them into NewBrook Elementary, to save money and improve education.
With higher class sizes, longer bus rides, and a few assistant principal salaries added at NewBrook Elementary?
2. Ms. Walch's solution to public education funding is to eliminate the free and reduced lunch program. Seriously?
How about all but one teacher get fired, and all grades get consolidated into a one-employee schoolhouse - with one teacher to instruct all the children in all the subjects in grades 1–8?
Does this sound good to you?
Where did Erica Walch go to school?
Josh Lurie
Westminster West
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