Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government.”

I would like to commend the Carlton School Board for providing voters with detailed information on various building and consolidation scenarios. The public’s request for this information was made clearly known through their Community Advisory Committee’s Strategic Planning Report, and the board has responded.

The school board has now given voters the information they need to make an informed choice. However, as individual board members they still face a choice: kill the two...