No chance to say goodbye

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

Sad isn’t something Dallas Bailey said her son often shows.

But it was sadness staring back at her when the Cheney mom told him his blended-preschool teacher at Salnave Elementary School, Cindy Melhus, wouldn’t be returning to the class after spring break last April.

“My son is asking why didn’t she say good-bye, will I ever see her again?” Bailey told a group of parents of students in Melhus’ class who had gathered at Cheney’s United Methodist Church on May 14.

The parents were mobilizing to figure out how to get the Cheney School District to return the t...