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To the editor:
It's been over a year since the Marshall School Board closed the Marshall Area Child Care Daycare Center. Well surprise, surprise there is still a shortage of daycare spots in the Marshall area. No new day care facility has opened in the MACC space. In fact when my wife called all of the local day care centers about a space for a newborn we were told the soonest we could get a spot would be 16 months away -- 16 months.
We had a spot secured at MACC, as well as spaces for our other children under the age of 5. And, now I am hearing that the school district is going to be asking for an operating levy.
What about all of the savings that closing the daycare was suppose to provide to the district?
Where did that money go?
Let the school board answer with the truth.
Closing the day care was never about money -- it was about the school district getting out of that MATEC building and building (more money) a new facility in the industrial park, or adding programming at the college.
Simply put, the day care could have been moved to the new facility as well, but the school board chose not to do that.
I will not be voting for an operating levy, find the money.
Christopher Webb
Marshall