No urgency, no accountability, no real updates
To the editor:
I wrote the following letter to the Lee County School Board on Nov. 1 concerning the lack of communication to parents at The Sanibel School on Sanibel:
To the Lee County School Board,
I am writing to express my deep frustration regarding the complete lack of communication about the reopening date for The Sanibel School. Your weekly updates every Friday at 5 p.m. have done nothing to clarify when our school will resume operations, and this is unacceptable.
The impact of this ongoing uncertainty is severe. My family, like countless others, is losing sleep and enduring daily hardships not only with our homes, but with late bussing. (Busses the kids wouldn’t even have to take if you reopened the school and had any sense of urgency.)
I drop my kids off at Heights Elementary every morning now. It’s 25 minutes there, an hour back to my office on Sanibel. I lose an hour and 25 minutes of work every day. Why? Because the Lee County School Board has no urgency.
It is imperative that you provide a definitive reopening date for The Sanibel School. We need this information now to plan our lives and alleviate the immense stress we are facing.
It is not an election year for most of the school board of Lee County, and as this in no way effects their daily life, I for one am sick of being at the mercy of a board who is incompetent. The same board that was incompetent for Hurricane Ian and not supporting the barrier island schools of Lee County. At least they’re consistent.
The Lee County School Board needs to give the parents of Sanibel a timeline, the Sanibel city government needs to help the parents of The Sanibel School by demanding the same answers that we are. Where are you, city of Sanibel officials? The Sanibel School staff, teachers, and Sanibel Recreation Center has shown nothing but helpfulness, support, and smiles during this time. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.
I look forward to that 5 p.m. email today. However, if it doesn’t have a reopening date, one thing is very clear — no urgency, no accountability, and no real updates = Lee County School Board.
Erin Field
Sanibel