“They’re not getting the same education as Plain Local Schools," she says. "My boyfriend’s kids go to Plain Local and his daughter is in the same grade as mine and she’s getting taught to play three different instruments and Spanish already, my daughter [is] learning her flute and no language at all and I don’t understand why.”

The district says the levy will help keep extracurricular programs, buy new textbooks and better classroom technology.

Canton City schools have not passed a new property tax levy in eight years.