Classrooms need new carpets

To the editor:

Ronald Reagan was president, Nintendo Entertainment Systems was released, “Back to the Future” was a hit movie and my child’s school was laying carpet. Fast forward to 2009 and all these categories have changed numerous times but my child’s classroom carpet has remained.

Finger Lake Elementary has carpet that is 25 years old. My son was in first grade this past year and I noticed the floor condition while picking up after lunch — awful.

Children in the first grade still have accidents of all proportions. At least a few times a year a child will throw up and it lands on the floor along with food and drinks that the children have spilled. The carpet has absorbed all these items over and over again. The janitorial staff is wonderful, but they are not magicians. The stains on the carpets are here to stay. Thank about the daily story time and the students gathering on the rug — they are sitting in filth.

So when the school board is considering spending monies to buy 20 more acres for Academy Charter so they can park better, I believe the health of the children that attend Finger Lake Elementary takes precedence.

We need new carpet in every classroom.

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today,” Abraham Lincoln.

Kathleen Yerbich

Wasilla