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More important than $

By Dennis Williams/Bowie
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:23 PM CDT
In today's edition of Range News - a Mr. Sidney Brooks wrote another of his whining diatribes about closing the Bowie School to save money. Over the past few years, I have seen the results of the Bowie School system. Three examples are my own grandchildren. I don't care what the cost is.

I grew up in a small town just like Bowie. Eleven were in my senior class in high school. That school was almost closed. But the wise board members knew that upon closing, not only would the one-on-one caring education stop, the community would start to fall apart. The school in a small rural town is the hub of the community. It holds the fiber of the town together. Something larger towns no longer experience, sadly.

OK, Mr. Brooks, our taxes went up. The return on that investment is priceless: our children, our grandchildren and all the things that are held together by the simple presence of the school.

Stop whining, Mr. Brooks. Like it or leave it.


Dennis Williams

Bowie



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Kittie Preas Koukalik wrote on Jul 16, 2008 9:34 AM:

" Mr. Brooks has been whining about the Bowie school for about a decade now. I cannot imagine why he doesn't just move. Maybe this whining crusade is just all he has in his life. Sad huh? "

Sidney Brooks wrote on Jul 16, 2008 2:24 PM:

" Mr. Williams I don't who you are but based on the intellectual level of your letter you could be a graduate of the Bowie School. As for your smart-alecky "like or leave it", I have lived here 31 years, how long have you been here? It is easy not to care "what the cost is" as long as somebody else is paying the bill. "

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