The following video summarizes some of the benefits from a YES vote for the new high school bond. Press the 'play' button at the bottom of the video to watch the video. Please share this video with others in the community.

This 8 minute video offers a compelling reminder of the challenges encountered when envisioning education in the next 10, 20 or more years. Press the Play button to begin.

The following is an open letter from Mrs. Carolyn Frasier, wife of the late Charles Frasier, a teacher at Sandy High School and local historian dated April 20, 2008.

Winston Churchill stated that, “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Our environment–the buildings that we spend our time in–has a great impact on how we ‘feel’ when we are there. Whether it is the tradition inspired by the architecture of an East-coast Ivy League school or the more modern feeling you get when walking through the institutions of higher learning in our own state, our educational buildings have a profound influence on each of us.

Elyse Izer is a member of the School Board Facilities Task Force and a member of Value Oregon Trail Education.

I live within a stones throw of Sandy High School — Literally. I have lived there for over 12 years and in all that time I had never been inside it or did I have any occasion to be. However about 5 months ago I got interested in the talk about possibly trying to build a new High School and since I have small children that this would surely benefit I decided to find out more about it. In doing so I was given a tour of the High School and let me tell you I was SHOCKED at the things I have since learned.

The following article was submitted by Camille Hansen who was a Freshman at Sandy High School during the 2006-2007 school year.

The original Sandy High School building was built in about 1922. Of course, it's been added to over the years, but not sufficiently. Instead of tearing down the old, we just keep adding on, not wanting to deal with a change and the steps it would take to get there.