Education is an investment in youth, future

Education is opportunity. My dad did not finish high school. As a teenager he was young and strong and healthy and able to get good paying jobs in the sawmills and the woods. But later, after his service in the Army Air Force in World War II, he had injuries to his back that made the physical work impossible.

My dad and my mom both impressed on my three brothers and myself that education created a path for opportunity. With their encouragement my three brothers and I all graduated from Sandpoint High School, attended college and received bachelors degrees and graduate degrees. We have all been blessed with work that is meaningful and pays a living wage. Regardless if the post high school education is vocational, technical, apprenticeship, or academic college, it is a proven and consistent pathway to successful careers and productive work. My personal experience is one of the main reasons I am a strong advocate for Proposition 1, the Quality Education Act that will be on our Idaho ballot on Nov. 8.

Education is an investment in our youth and an investment in our future. Please join me in voting for prop one this November.

STEVE JOHNSON

Sagle