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The time is now to build a new school for Greenville City Schools. My name is Krista Stump and I have devoted almost half my life to Greenville City Schools as a teacher and administrator. You don’t dedicate 25 years of your life to a place and not still care. Even though I no longer draw a paycheck from Greenville Schools I still love the staff members I served and the students that were under my care.
When Greenville City Schools closed two buildings and reorganized a few years ago, I was the principal of Woodland Primary. While walking through Gettysburg Elementary looking for classroom clocks that I could use in the modulars that had been recently delivered to our school to use for the increased number of students to be arriving in August, I realized what an old, dark, and dingy place this building had become. Then I wondered. Would people go to a bank that looked like this? Would they go to a doctor in a building that looked like this? Would they go eat at a McDonalds that looked like this? Yet, we send our most cherished possessions, our children to old and decrepit buildings. All the other county schools have built new schools. As the principal of Ansonia Elementary built about 10 years ago, I have had the chance to see first hand the benefits of a new building. Our kids deserve updated buildings like the rest of the students in our county. So I ask you, are we willing to let our actions say, “The children in our school district don’t matter?”
Please make your vote say that children and their education are important in our community. Vote yes for a new school.
Sincerely,
Krista Stump
Greenville
The time is now to build a new school for Greenville City Schools. My name is Krista Stump and I have devoted almost half my life to Greenville City Schools as a teacher and administrator. You don’t dedicate 25 years of your life to a place and not still care. Even though I no longer draw a paycheck from Greenville Schools I still love the staff members I served and the students that were under my care.
When Greenville City Schools closed two buildings and reorganized a few years ago, I was the principal of Woodland Primary. While walking through Gettysburg Elementary looking for classroom clocks that I could use in the modulars that had been recently delivered to our school to use for the increased number of students to be arriving in August, I realized what an old, dark, and dingy place this building had become. Then I wondered. Would people go to a bank that looked like this? Would they go to a doctor in a building that looked like this? Would they go eat at a McDonalds that looked like this? Yet, we send our most cherished possessions, our children to old and decrepit buildings. All the other county schools have built new schools. As the principal of Ansonia Elementary built about 10 years ago, I have had the chance to see first hand the benefits of a new building. Our kids deserve updated buildings like the rest of the students in our county. So I ask you, are we willing to let our actions say, “The children in our school district don’t matter?”
Please make your vote say that children and their education are important in our community. Vote yes for a new school.
Sincerely,
Krista Stump
Greenville