As a retired teacher, I am so disappointed that the area I now live in does not care enough about the children who are not college-bound.
With the number of stores closing on the North Olympic Peninsula, further vocational training would keep our community productive, and the young adults would acquire enough skills to get jobs.
It also might keep these young people, who might be discouraged, from turning to marijuana or alcohol.
I regularly have my hair done each week and find that the employees and trainees at Studio 121 are very disappointed to see the [North Olympic Peninsula] Skills Center close [“Skills Center Likely To Shut Down,” PDN, May 17].
Requiring a school district to have 12,000 students to be in the program seems like a large amount, when students among the 4,000 students in Port Angeles School District could benefit from the program and be an asset to our community.
Sandy Axline,
Sequim