Across the Mid Columbia public schools are waiting for an answer to the same question. Will you support them? It is a simple yes or no answer, not a confusing multiple choice or essay.

Many districts with two-year levy renewal requests are waiting for you to return your ballots. If you need more information than what has been mailed to you, posted on websites, offered in public meetings or civic club luncheons, reported in the newspaper, on radio or through school events then it is time you call your school district office.

Local control of schools starts with your willingness to at least vote. Are you waiting for the state to fully fund education? So is the State Supreme Court.

What is your answer? Do not delay. Mark your ballot, put it in the mail and that will be one less thing you have to do on Valentine's Day. Tell your kids, the grandkids and the neighbor kids you voted for them and just maybe that will give them more interest and pride in their own education.

I voted yes for Pasco Schools the day I got my ballot. What are you waiting for!

Valerie Moffitt, Pasco