Dear Editor

The future, born out of the mind of intellectual dreamers, is still strong and worth looking forward to. Buckeye Local has the tools they need to teach, if they are willing to use them. I just graduated from Buckeye Local a few years ago, and all I did was throw a wadded ball of paper back and forth with my teacher. Yet, I sit here wondering why most people have to take refreshment courses in college to be able to even start college.

With the steel mills just getting back on their unstable feet, I see hope for my family. That is until deep pocketed individuals like you want more and more money from citizens of these communities who simply do not have it. If I did have it, nothing would make me happier than helping the youth of my community. My father’s friend has had his taxes raised $300 more a year because of the new Martins Ferry school and yet they are still financial struggling.

Perhaps it’s not the money, but the schools themselves. Change needs to come from within the schools, and I don’t mean by buying fancier computers. If the teachers didn’t find it absolutely necessary to fit so much into their curriculums, more students would be passing and not struggling. I sincerely don’t believe the district has grown at all, as previously stated. I believe that I read somewhere that said enrollment is down in Buckeye Local, but then again the lockers should be checked.

I myself have a degree in Science Technology and a gambling license to back that, and yet I’m still unable to find a secure job. Why don’t you Mr. Lucas R. Parsons, find me a job so I can help out my community by paying taxes. I can’t help it if my pockets aren’t as deep as yours.

Buckeye Local Graduate,

Joshua Mozie

Yorkville