Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Here is a question for the Vermilion Parish School Board:
How can you justify loaning $250,000 to the Kaplan High softball program to build an indoor, air-conditioned batting cage?
The loan term is for 20 years, and no interest. Once two/thirds of the loan is paid, the school board will cancel the remaining one-third of the loan.
There is overcrowding in schools in the North Vermilion area. There are leaking roofs at Kaplan High and other hurricane damages at other schools. You are having trouble finding money to repair these damaged schools.
The school board also struggles to find enough money to run the school system.
If you are wondering why you can’t and never will pass a tax, it is because of spending such as building a $250,000 indoor batting cage.
PLEASE give us a reason for this decision. Was it personal?

Gerald Gaspard