Students need to be taught in a modern building that meets today's needs

Dear editor:

I fully support the upcoming school bond election for the completion of Mountain Home High School.

Our children deserve to be taught in a functional building that meets the needs of the technological advances that were not even thought of when the current high school was built.

The current high school was built in 1954, some 54 years ago and I am sure when it was built, the community thought it was the "Taj Mahal."

The students of Mountain Home High School need to be taught in a building that has current equipment. Those students who enroll in vocational classes need to be educated with the proper tools so that they are not behind when they graduate MHHS and enter the industrial work force.

The students deserve a gymnasium and auditorium in their own school to hold practices and be able to participate in the same manner as the other high schools in our Southern Idaho Conference.

The students need to be proud of their high school, and so does the community.

To those who say they no longer have children attending the schools in Mountain Home, and they could care less because their taxes would be going up. I remind you that someone paid taxes in this or another community for your children and your grandchildren to go school.

To those who say we cannot afford this school now, the construction costs went up almost 5 percent in the seven months since we voted on this bond in September of last year.

I have always been an advocate of our youth in the many organizations I have been affiliated with, and believe our children need this high school to be completed, to have the chance to compete in the world today.

It is time for us to vote YES on the school bond election April 29, to give them that chance.

Daniel Lasuen