The Beautiful Letter by Rao
January 29th, 2007 11:17 PMI live in the 'small town' of Hopkins, Minnesota. I have never known it to be a small town in my lifetime even though we still claim to have small town charm. On mainstreet, there is a little clocktower were every one of its four little faces reads a different time; it stands in one of the last remaining regions that still posses that old small town charm. To me that little clocktower is what this town once was, small and charming. But, now my town has grown, it now has a SuperTarget, an Old Navy, and countless other big fanchise stores, all croping up overnight around this lone clocktower as the buildings from my childhood fall around it, the hands tick away the minutes until its own destruction.
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Dear City Council,
It has come to my attention that this fair city of Hopkins intends to shutdown the Katherine Curren Elementary School in light of the recent financial difficulties. I believe that there are other options that have not yet been explored that are just as valid answers to a budget deficit; such as changing lunch food away from organic foods, which only make the schools lose money. The schools could also renew old fund raisers that have not been used in a long time.
Ever since organic foods started to be sold at my high school, Hopkins High School, the price has risen repeatedly, each time due to the lack of revenue being generated by the lunches being served. At each of items peak almost every food item cost about twice its initial price, vitamin water cost $2.25 at its peak and initially cost $1.25, chocolate covered pretzels cost $.85 initially and at its peak cost $1.75. With each price increase, less people buy lunches and instead bring his/her own lunch from home in order to avoid the high prices, which only accentuates the problem, until the lunchroom reaches a cost were they make a small profit from the students who always eat school lunches. At which point, they can lower the price and finally start to retake only some of the children who switched to bag lunches, but many of the students do not like organic foods and decide to make a permanent switch to bag lunch. If, the school decided to make the switch back to non organic foods, then the school could reclaim many of the students who switched to bag lunches as well as lowering the price for buying food.
At Hopkins High School, one of the teachers, (name removed at his/her request), mentioned to me an old fund raiser that I thought sounded like fun. They had many of the students at the school fill out forms detailing his or her own like and dislikes, and this information was entered into a database. Shortly before Valentine’s Day, students could pay to have a program similar to the ones used in online dating used to find someone with whom they are compatible. (Name removed) said that it was quite innocent and cute for students to find out who they might be compatible with, and I, as a high school student, would be interested in trying it.
My sincerest apologies if this letter does not adhere to the standard format to send letters to one’s city council, but this is the first letter I have ever sent to a legislative body such as yourselves. If I have sent this to the wrong administrative organization, then please return this letter to me and instruct me on where I need to send this letter.
Sincerely,
(My real name)
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