I read with interest the article about overcrowding at Rosa Parks Elementary.

As a former parent, grandparent and staff member at Emily Dickinson Elementary, I can sympathize.

At issue here seems to be the responsibility of the developer of the entire community that is Redmond Ridge. When this massive housing development was approved, supposedly the developer would be responsible for infrastructure, including road improvements and schools.

Instead, for years, Dickinson absorbed the new students from Redmond Ridge. When finally Rosa Parks was built, was it with developer money? Don’t believe so … nor does it appear that any new school will be paid for by the developer(s) of Redmond Ridge.

Why should the school district, already strapped for cash, have to build more schools when this should be the responsibility of those who built the bazillion homes out there?

Why don’t the parents, who are rightly concerned, take this up with these people and not the district?  Was not this the agreement under which this “planned community” was allowed to be built?

Jeanne Brown, Redmond