Campus Schools

[This is posted with permission from Sara Krueger. You can click here to download the associated file.]

It is fact that the administration came up with the campus idea (C.I. PK-3, F.O. PK-3 and O.V. 4-6) to help Fair Oaks get out of AYP. Based on the attached document from Superintendent Susan Hintz which states: 'Would you please have someone research the benefits (if there are any) of the K-3/4-6 configuration? We are doing the CI/Oak View/FO configuration in order to provide more Early Childhood and to help FO out of AYP. Is there any sound educational benefit?'.

The Save Cedar Island group met with Don Pascoe on Wed., Feb. 12th at 6:30pm. In this meeting our group was told that the campus model was not created to help Fair Oaks out of their failing AYP status. Don Pascoe stated that there had not been any talk of re-structuring Fair Oaks prior to the proposal and that the proposal brought a pleasant surprise and may solve a future problem.

In a meeting that I had with Susan Hintz on 2-28-2008, she clearly stated to me that the reasoning behind the campus model was entirely due to the need for more ECFE in the district. I asked Susan Hintz point blank if the campus model was created to help Fair Oaks out of their failing AYP status and to help with the district's desegregation rule and I was told flat out NO, it is to increase the need to have more ECFE availability.

It seems clear that this is yet another attempt by the school administration led by Supt. Susan Hintz to lie to the public and keep certain information out of our hands and away from our ears. Why were we not told the truth from the get go? Why the deceit from the beginning?

Unfortunately this just leaves the question: What else were we lied to about?

After spending months and countless hours trying to prove to the administration and the school board that these proposals did not help the budget crisis, only to learn that the decisions were made beforehand because of a different 'secret agenda' by our superintendent Susan Hintz, sickens me. I am also ashamed of my elected officials, the school board, who did not listen to any of our concerns. Had they to made up their minds before the whole process started? Where there is one lie, there are usually hundreds buried even deeper.

Sincerely,
Sara Krueger
Cedar Island and Oak View parent