Your article, "School Bond-Levy Debated," (Jan. 17) leaves readers with the gross misconception that if voters approve Propositions 1 and 2 on Feb. 6, "Ballard schools won't get much of the pot." Untrue!

Proposition 2 renews an expiring levy and represents 24 percent of our schools' operating budget. All Ballard schools depend on that pot for basic classroom needs. Our kids would be terribly ill served if we cut nearly a quarter of their teachers, textbooks and teaching materials.

Proposition 1 replaces an expiring levy, too - a capital measure like the one in 1995 that beautifully renovated our own Ballard High School. My three children benefited greatly from those improvements as well as the reconstruction of Whittier Elementary.

I'm more than happy to do my part for children in other neighborhoods whose worn-out schools will be renovated when Proposition 1 passes. That's what their neighborhoods did for us.

I'm voting "yes" on Propositions 1 and 2 on Feb. 6. I urge you to do the same. These are not new taxes, and they refill an incredibly important "pot."

Donna Dwyer-O'Connor

Ballard High Parent