The Davie County Enterprise Record takes no position on tomorrow’s school bond vote:
Does any other newspaper in America enjoy this level of involvement by its readers? Is there another community more articulate, more involved than ours? The letters have been insightful, passionate and brimming with ideas.
Next week we get to settle this argument.We won’t tell you how to vote. We will leave that to our many letter writers. Besides, who hasn’t already made up his mind? But we will urge you to participate in this defining moment. Let no one say they were asleep this time. Let no one say they just assumed … If you want a school in Advance, vote for it. If you want Davie to provide one school for its young people, come forward.
We will implore the Board of Education to listen to the voters this time. If this bond is rejected, the board should take drastic steps to improve Davie High and end this decade of indecision. One school or two, Davie High should have been maintained better than this. We should not have heard pleas that the school is unsafe and that its buildings are in disrepair. The board did nothing to improve the school after the last referendum, waiting four years to bring back a nearly identical proposal. Visiting parents of rising freshmen should not be appalled at the facilities.
We deserve better.
The effect of a newspaper’s editorial stance on voters was debated last fall when a bond for Greensboro’s War Memorial Stadium came up for a vote. I argued at the time the N&R’s stance wouldn’t have much influence. But to take no position at all –and thus avoiding criticism — isn’t serving readers well, either.
