The Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation’s fundraising effort is going fairly well, according to organizers. Still, we have to ask a question of the 75 percent of the parents of public school children who have yet to donate: What gives?

OK, so we know a few of the answers. Some families are struggling mightily and can’t afford to donate anything. Some are disappointed in the district — for grievances real or imagined — and writing a check right now sticks in the craw. Then there’s the third, and probably biggest, category of people who haven’t given anything yet: those souls who intend to give but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. The well-intentioned procrastinators.

It’s a group we know well, as some of us who work at The Beachcomber are card-carrying members of it. So we say to all of you souls who really do mean to step up: Do it now.

The Vashon Island School District is not perfect. None is. But it’s awfully good, it employs a crop of fine teachers, and those of us who have a child in it have a huge, vested interest in its ongoing success. Let’s do our part and continue to invest in a fine district and our children’s future.