Real plan for Cheney High School needs further discussion

Cheney School District has a unique identity because of its diversity. A university town serves as its anchor supported by yet another small town with its commercial/manufacturing weight.

We extend to Eagle Ridge, slide over Four Lakes and down Interstate 90 and fence in Medical Lake. It is an amazing footprint that eventually feeds all upcoming ninth-graders into the high school.

District information states that passing the new bond will expand the high school to house 1,600 students. This will serve us, it says, until 2028. At an information meeting, the district compared future expansion to...