It’s the KC School Board that should be paying

To the editor:

The schools in northwest Independence were bought and paid for long ago. They are owned by We the People. Because We the People paid for them. The Kansas City School Board doesn’t deserve one penny more because they’ve wasted our money for the past 40 years.

My maternal family has been paying school taxes in the Mount Washington area since the 1920s; my paternal family since the 1930s. My mother graduated from Mount Washington and Northeast. I (1963), my brother (1965) and many cousins attended Mount Washington and Van Horn. All through these years school taxes were paid on the properties we and our neighbors owned.

Over the years platted schools were sold by the Kansas City School Board along with other property in the northwest Independence area that the citizens had paid for. Where is the money for Bristol, Carlyle and all the others? Where is all of our property, assets and investments?

One penny is too much to pay the Kansas City School Board over some phony ownership scam. The schools are the property of the people who paid for them – the current property owners and residents. They belong to the citizens whose children have been denied an education for four decades while they faithfully paid ever higher taxes.

The Kansas City School Board has so poorly managed our schools that most of them are now big, worthless buildings with no purpose until a lot more of the citizens money is spent. The Kansas City School Board should pay the Independence Board of Education to help fix what has been left to wrack and ruin.

This phony ownership scam is designed to throw a monkey wrench into the clear desire of We the People. It only proves the clear intent of the Kansas City School Board to further damage the quality of life and value of property in our neighborhoods.

The Kansas City School Board’s damn foolishness must end!