Letter to the Editor: ‘Who is Really Benefiting from the School Being Built’

Submitted by Jennie Webb:

Well, I hear people talking about us (meaning, the people and children who are going to be losing their community schools) of being afraid of the large schools.  (That is ridiculous anyway.) Some say that they attended them in Philadelphia and survived it and their children road to private schools long distances and they loved the rides.  Well that is the choice people made to live in Philadelphia with large over crowed schools and the choice to send their children long distances to private schools. And that’s ok.

However, the people in the suburbs did not make those choices when they moved into these Levittown and Langhorne communities; they wanted to have small local schools.  That is their choice.  I heard mothers speak to just that issue at the school board meeting on Tuesday night and they also said that there are numerous articles available which indicate that smaller elementary schools are better.

Without an immediate need, to move quickly to close three schools in our area and build a mega school, it makes me wonder what the urgency is.  If we need to close one school and consolidate in the area, I can understand that; but three schools, two which are in the Levittown-Langhorne area, does not make good sense to me. Also, the people in the Levittown area will never benefit from the tax dollars that are going to build the new mega elementary school.  How is that ok? That’s like me telling my neighbor that he is going to pay for me to remodel my home, but he will not be able to live there.  I am sure he will do that for me with no questions asked.  Right?

I can’t help but wonder who is really benefiting from the school being built, it certainly is not the children of Levittown and Langhorne. Keep our local schools open, repair them, please.  That is why parents choose Neshaminy school district with their small communities and local schools.  And, oh yes, if you want a new school in your area, you pay to have it built; I don’t want to.

Thank you.

Jennie Webb

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