Dear Editor,

By allowing the closure of small rural schools, our government is hindering the development of rural areas and Saskatchewan.

Our government is spending $1.5 million dollars on a campaign to help lure people into moving into Saskatchewan, but at the same time they are pushing people away by creating major issues with our education system.

I am currently a grade 11 student at Kennedy Langbank School. Growing up in a small town without a school, I realize that our community is decreasing in population, and that someday there will be no warm, supportive, and full of life community to come home to. Yes, come home to. I have always dreamed of keeping my family in or around our community, but without a school it would be idiotic to force my children on such a long bus ride.

By closing our school you are killing another town. Families will have little or no choice but to send their children at least 30 minutes on a bus to go to another school. Families who are not tied to the community will leave, and there will be no hope in trying to attract new families to a community with no school.

How is it that our government is willing to spend an extravagant amount of money to make Saskat-chewan seem attractive to outsiders, instead of keeping the people at home happy and secure?

Megan Johnston
Langbank