In response to Dan Gressler’ s letter, “KTEC: Levy is only the beginning” I can understand your concerns. I too wondered about the expenses. To date I have attended two KTEC presentations.

I learned that private companies throughout the country are pledging donations of equipment, and that local businesses have pledged contributions. Funding follows the students so the state will not only help fund the program, but at a 30 percent higher rate because it is for technical education. The land has been donated.

As a person resistant to raising any form of tax I became convinced that this is the time and the place to build the KTEC campus. As a retired teacher and grandmother I know it is the right thing to do.

Imagine the money this community will save by lowering the dropout rate. The Idaho school upon which this is modeled had a 98 percent graduation rate! The average graduation rate in the state is 72 percent. These skilled graduates will be taxpayers, not tax takers. Some graduates will be the next generation to begin business and employ our youth graduating from KTEC. Let us not give up the chance to do right by the youth, it may never come again.

If you seek more information about KTEC come to the Mica Flats Grange on Aug. 2. Ron Nilson, a major employer in the region, will give a KTEC presentation. Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Luna, will be on hand to answer questions about the state’s vision and role in making job skill education available to high school students. It will be at 6:30 p.m. The Grange is on Highway 95 and Kidd Island Road, is 6.3 miles south of the Spokane River. 

ANN SEDDON

Coeur d’Alene