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Resident urges board to restore arts after staffing losses, ties concern to levy defeat
Summary
Resident Teddy Bryan urged the board not to forget students who rely on arts programs after the district lost its high-school art teacher and faces a possible loss of band; he connected the staffing gaps to a recent levy failure and asked the community to vote in November.
During public comment, resident Teddy Bryan told the board he understood the difficulty of their work but urged attention to arts programming, saying the district is in its second year without a high-school art teacher and may have no music program this year after the band teacher's departure. "My heart breaks for those kids that found their home, their belonging in the arts," Bryan said, and he linked recent staffing shortfalls to a levy failure that he said has reduced program capacity.
Bryan asked community members to vote in November and to remember students who do not have the means to leave the district for neighboring schools. The board did not act on the comments during the meeting but heard the concerns as part of public comment procedures.
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