( DO WE NEED A GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS?

I DETEST THE IDEA OF A RECALL. NO MATTER WHAT THE RATIONALE FOR A RECALL (EXCEPT THOSE CAUGHT WITH THEIR HANDS IN THE ‘TILL’!0, THE EXPENSE OF AN ELECTION DIRECTLY INVOLVING AN ELECTION OUT OF THE NORMAL SEQUENCE OF ELECTIONS, IS QUITE LARGE AND WOULD IMPOSE ITSELF, BY LAW, large expense UPON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

IN 1994 A DISGRUHNTLEWD GROUP LED BY A FORMER, seriously DISGRUNTLED PRINCIPAL, ALMOST ACHIEVED IT’S GOAL OF CAUSING A RECALL ELECTION. I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT WHEN THOSE GUYS SET UP THEIOR CARD TABLE AT VARIOUS SUPER STORES AROUNR TOWN, THAT I, AS AN INDIVIDUAL, PICKETED THOSE CHARACTERS, CAUSING ‘FRONT PAGE’ PUBLICIRT, NEGATIVE TO THEIR ACTIONS.

NOW NEARING 80 YEARS OF AGE, I WONDER IF I HAVE THE STAMINA TO UBNDERTAKE THAT TASK AGAIN. ESPECIALLY SINCE NONE IN THIS SEEMINGLY DISINTERESTED TOWN CAME OUT TO HELP ME IN THAT BATTLE. NONE, NOT ONE TEACHER, NOR ONE UNION ORIENTED HUSD EMPLOYEE, WHOSE POCKET BOOK WOULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED, CAME OUT TO HELP1 NO PARENT, TEACHER OR OVER BURDENED TAXPAYER WAS SUFFICIENTLY INTERESTED TO LEND A HAND!

THAT IS WHY I AM SOMETIMES SEEN AND HEARD USING THE TERM ‘DOWN’TOWN WHEN DESCRIBING OUR BUSINESS CENTER.
WAKE UP FOLKS!

WHAT THIS TOWN NEEDS IS ASSISTAHNCE FROM CONCERNED CITIZENS IN THE NEEDED AID TO HUSD. BRING IT IN THE FORM OF VOLUNTEERISM, ON A CONSISTANT BASIS, IN AREAS OF ACTIVITY WHICH SERVE TO REDUCE CLASSROOM TRANSCIECE AS WELL AS JUST PLAIN ACTS OF ‘HOOKY’ AND WORST OF ALL, ‘DROPOUTS!!

DID YOU KNOW, THAT ON ANY SCHOOL DAY 7% OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE ABSENT AT AMAJOR COST, IN LOST ADA MONEY, iF THAT IS NOT BAD ENOUGH, SEE ANOTHER 5% of middle school students absent with out excuse and 3% of elementasry students are absent! That very high rate of absenteeism costs HUSD $5,000,000 per year in lost support of money emanating from the state of California

One can only wonder when attention, especially by PARENTS AS WELL AS teachers, will be drawn to that problem….

Perhaps we need a ‘town hall meeting’ ?

Do not be too hard on the Lady, she might quit and then HUSD would be in a canoe on a swift river without a paddle.

If you had been observant you would know that MS. DURAN attended an educators conference where she let it be known that a job was open,,, thus speeding up the replacement search. THAT INVOLVED A TRIP TO MONTERY AND BACK….. YOU WANT SHE SHOULD HIRE A TAXI?

Be aware that when Vigil was hired she expressed reservations. Probably because HUSD was the 9th occasion that he had been hired aS A SUPERINTENDEDNT, HE SOON BRAGGED THAT HE HAD, AT THAT TIME, ONLY BEEN FIRED ONCE IN A JOB EXPERIENCE COVERING FOUR STATES OF THE 50 IN cONTINENTAL USA

I TEND TO AGREE WITH DURAN’S ASTUTE REMARK …. LOOKING BACK ON MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD OF WORK….JUST WHO WAS IT THAT MADE THE DECISION TO HIRE A JOB HOPPER?

SO, STIFLE CHEAP CRITICISM, IF YOU ARE ABLE!

Wow! If that is the case.,things are really tough!

As for me, I’ll just keep raking the leaves and turning over the rocks, certain in the knowledge that something will ‘turn up’ and that things will change for the better…. it is not un-like that last scene scene in ‘Gone with the wind’ where Scarlet’s last spoken words from the movie are …. “Tomorrow is a better day!”

Small ideas from grass roots folk…. will bloom large soon! It is just that the general public needs to “buck up” or “hold heads high…” Above all, stop cursing Pres. O’Bama. Look for ways to be helpful toward HUSD.

Volunteer! Push your kids into volunteer service. Let them out the front door with the advice that they need to make friends by being a friend to all.

Did you Read Supt.’ lengthy opinion piece in the “MY WORD” piece with the editorial page of the Review?

If not, go out and acquire the issue of February 10, 2010.

Tell us all what you think?

Seems like the D.O. is still top-heavy when it comes to $$. Reynoso said we are spending almost 5 grand a DAY on business managers, and basically pushed the staff to work for their money without hiring outside consultants. And $935/day is obscene, even though Duran is better than any of the supts. we’ve had in the 10 yrs. I’ve been with the district.

As for Vigil, don’t let the door hit you on the way out . . . He must be laughing all the way to the bank. Turns out history DOES repeat itself, at least in Hayward.

i have only been to stoneridge a few times. its ok. i rather shop at southland or bayfair…