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My Sandpoint High School class is celebrating 50 years since graduation. Our July reunion will be my first as a local resident and retiree. I was one Sandpoint kid who left the area for my vocation, but I am connected by an invisible umbilical cord to North Idaho. Many classmates, my six siblings, and lots of cousins stayed here and often scrambled to make a living.

Now I see that the March 14 school levy offers us a chance to do the right thing for the area, our country, and future high school grads. Now more than ever, America and Idaho need our future citizens to be informed, have excellent critical thinking skills, have a love and understanding of our country, and go forth confidently and well-prepared. This is true whether our young people remain in North Idaho, leave, or leave and then return.

We owe gratitude to our fellow community members who have been fiscal watchdogs and have pored over the school district financial records to hold administrators and educators accountable for spending our hard-earned dollars. At this point, it is time to raise our eyes from the ledger books and look at the big picture. Our educators are honorable, hard-working, and well-informed members of the community, and they tell us they need us to support them in their work with our kids.

We citizens need to show up on March 14 and vote to adopt the budget that has been so carefully vetted. Our future depends on it.

CHRISTINE MOON

Sandpoint