We are days away from making a monumental decision concerning the future of our high school students in the City of Oak Harbor.

I have been a resident of this city for than 35 years. I have been a member of most of our service organizations in that time. I served for four years on your city council and made a run for the mayor’s office. This should indicate that I am concerned about the present and future of this city. We cannot import everyone we need to run and administer this place, and if we are going to home grow our future leaders we need to provide them with an environment to learn that is first class.

If anyone has taken advantage of the opportunity to tour the school these past couple of months you certainly know that we do not offer that at the present time. The school is overcrowded and has far too narrow hallways, bordering on dangerous in case of emergencies.

I have heard just about all the rhetoric that there is to be heard. I have had almost all the naysayer news that I need. In talking to people and promoting the modernization of the school I have had all the regular complaints and doubts. People do not trust the administration. If they have no complaints about the administration then they attack the school board. If you don’t like the board, step up and run for one of the positions. They can’t even get enough interest to have a good showing at their meetings, where you have the opportunity to express your displeasures.

It is time we put the students of this community ahead of all our distrusts and dislikes. I personally would not take the administrator’s job on a bet. The City of Oak Harbor is a tough house to play, and very difficult to please a majority. A friend told me, when I ran for mayor, that if you do a mediocre job you will have 25 percent of the people upset and if you do a great job you will upset 60 percent.

Let’s put the students of Oak Harbor first in our minds and first on our ballots and give a resounding passing vote to their modernization of our current school.

Bob Morrison

Oak Harbor