Referendum's Reprise

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Editorial:

Faced with growing numbers of students, what should school officials in Hartford and Germantown do to provide adequate school facilities?

One is tempted to ask just what part of "no" school officials in Germantown and Hartford don't understand.

Faced with the rejection by voters of a school building referendum in April, the Germantown School Board probably will try again in November with the same referendum. Meanwhile, in Hartford, officials haven't given up their quest for a new school despite being shot down twice - in November and April referendum balloting - by a 2-1 or better ratio.

Some consider their efforts arrogance and a slap in the face to voters. Maybe. But maybe it's a sincere attempt to find the best answer to a simple challenge faced by both communities.

Germantown and Hartford schools are a part of growing communities that every year are adding more subdivisions with families that include children. Those kids have to be educated somewhere. And as families grow, classrooms grow and become crowded. School officials in both districts contend that they need new elementary schools to cope with that growth.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 5, 2008 5:12 AM
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