To the editor:

With the current financial crisis, the school district is remarkably stagnant in looking at alternative solutions. Why not eliminate the current high school boundaries and combine programs? Have one school with arts specialization and one school with sports specialization. This would eliminate the duplication of staff, facility costs, and concentrate the talent into each program. Why invent the wheel at each location?

Set up shuttles using the underacheiving T system so kids can traverse back and forth between campuses. Build active freshman-through-senior sports/arts programs so kids can grow their skills and expertise. With financial challenges looming for the next five years, at minimum there needs to be some new ideas brought forth other than cut/close. The extracurricular programs are one of the single most important factors in kids staying in healthy character-building activities that benefit them for life.