To the editor:

In his “Look to the future” comments (Public Forum, March 21) about the upcoming school bond vote, T. John Rosen was disingenuous regarding Adrian Malott’s earlier comments on why he was voting “no” to this bond.

Rosen admonishes voters “to focus more on children’s futures than on policy decisions that are over and done with.”

Rosen’s children do not go to Cordley School, and he thus cannot possibly understand the differences between a building constructed in the 1800s as one of the city’s earliest high schools, and a building that is specifically designed as an elementary school (Centennial). Centennial’s footprint is Hilltop’s; it’s Schwegler’s, and it’s Sunset Hill’s. The district’s decision to close it is precisely the point Malott was making! There are many more parents unhappy with the Cordley “rabbit warren” (maze) building than either he or the district care to understand.

Rosen also dodges Malott’s point regarding the “dumbing down” of science standards due to poor performance testing, which USD 497’s funding is evaluated on (No Child Left Behind). It took place, Mr. Rosen; it happened, and Malott was citing this as yet again one of several reasons he (nor many others of us) can trust the administration’s decisions whatsoever.

Please get the point, sir, and don’t admonish this neighborhood for its loss.

Deborah Snyder,

Lawrence