Suggestion: maybe you should add clarification of facts to letters with obvious errors. Ms. Robinson (Nicola Robinson, Letter to the Editor, No to more tax dollars for schools, Dec. 30, 2011) seems to confuse the schools with the city with the library system. They are very separate entities with different but overlapping funding. The city does not fund the school district. As part of the annexation of the Renton Library system to the King County Library system, the city has some continuing obligations.

Speaking of obligations, it is our civic obligation to educate ourchildren and grand- children for the future. Fail to do so and who will take care of the seniors who no longer can care for themselves?

Charles Grass

Renton

Here’s the original letter:

No to more tax dollars for schools

There are many homeowners living on a fixed income and whose main source of income is a monthly Social Security check.

For those of us who are on a budget, live in a modest home less than 1,000 square feet and have survived the recession by the skin of our teeth, why should we be the ones to foot the bill for a badly run school system?

The amount I am paying through  my property taxes is already more than I can afford.

Now we are being asked to pay more.

The city is replacing a perfectly good library in Renton, costing us an additional $18 million of our hard earned dollars; now they want us to pay for a new school that many cannot afford.

Let them find the money somewhere else.

More money, and more technology won’t fix the problem of poor quality teaching, and an inefficient school system.

Nicola Robinson

Renton