Letters

Editor:

By the time I arrived at Kamiak High School for the FAA Hearing, the auditorium was full and citizens were being turned away due to fire code restrictions. 

I was especially pleased to learn from those who attended that several city mayors, various council members from neighboring cities and even a scientist provided data to refute the narrow scope of this flawed Environmental Assessment.

As a teacher in another district, I’m wondering if anyone from the Mukilteo School District attended to speak for the children and our schools.  Because as far as I know they’ve said nothing to date; their silence is deafening. 

I taught in the Highline School District and know how disruptive it is to teaching in a classroom with jet noise overhead.  We had to stop our lessons until the noise subsided.

This week the ballots arrived with important and necessary levies for our schools. 

I have to ask, where do our officials stand on commercial flights at Paine Field?  When will they speak out?  We know just how devastating this will be for our schools; that it WILL require millions in retrofitting and soundproofing.

 If they want our support, we need their support to protect the investment we’ve made for our children in these wonderful schools.  If the School Superintendent and the School Board don’t speak out now and engage our parents, we may as well wait for the really big assessment that will certainly be required once the airlines begin daily flights at Paine Field.          

J. Cecile Chamberlain