Seeing is believing.
I took the tour of Stevens school.
I had read about the problems at the school but that didn’t prepare me for what I actually witnessed.
Nolan Duce, director of facilities, did an excellent job of explaining the problems and why simple repairs will not work.
The problems have been referenced in other letters, but think asbestos in the ceilings, walls, and floors for why noisy heaters, corroded pipes, and inadequate electrical wiring can’t just be replaced.
Think lack of student safely for the multiple entrances into the school.
Erik Erikson, psychologist in the mid 1900s, wrote about personality development.
He determined there are eight stages in the life in which certain tasks need to be completed successfully in order to develop a healthy personality.
The task in adolescence is identity formation, i.e., developing a sense of self and figuring out a direction for what one wants to do in life.
Education goes a long way toward helping with this.
Having to be in a school with the kind of building and safety issues does not help.
In middle age, the task is generativity, or giving back, especially to the next generation.
Seems to me, supporting a much needed school levy goes along with this.
Susan Bach
Port Angeles