I would like to take this time to THANK YOU to the ones that voted YES for the bond levy. I have worked for the Mineral County School System for 22 years and am now retired. I worked in service personnel and was not a teacher. I worked with the kindergarten students and am now a foster grandparent for Keyser Kindergarten. They have four classes, three with 23 students and one with 30 students in a classroom. If we got one more student he/she would have to be transported to Fountain or New Creek Primary because Keyser cannot take anymore kindergarten students. Next year, I have heard that we will be losing another kindergarten classroom, so that means that there will be three classes of 30 in each. That would be 90 students and we have 99 students now. Where would the overflow go? First grade class can only have 25 students in each classroom. Why can kindergarten have 30 when they are only five-years-old? PLEASE think of our young children when you vote again. If our county doesn't pass this levy another county will get this money from the state. They are planning another bond levy in May so please go out and vote for our children, they are our future.

Retired Kindergarten Aide,
Darlene Helmick
Keyser