With any luck the Hayword Blog will also die of disinterest fever!

Poor Booth! Poor Moore! Lucky HUSD!

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According to Loose’s, the humane way to get the geese leave is to chase them periodicly with working dogs. (Foster City fired the dogs) Anyway, that’s what the Hayward School District does. During the month of July, you all paid $1120 for Loose to get the Canadian Geese at HUSD(Mount Eden’s fields). They have been working on this for 8 years in Foster City. Still have geese all over the place.

Anyway, wouldn’t it cheaper just to have the marching band walk around the baseball field and the football field? They have to practice anyway. I would also think the baseball/football season would be a bit goose relocator.

Now, I want to know if a team player were to ko a goose, how liable is the school district? After all, a violation of the migratory bird act has international implications.

I am annoyed by the content of items 2 and 3 above!
Four schools which are struggling to improve are Longwood, Cherryland, Strobridge and Fairview. They are all located in zip code area 94541. At long last Longwood is showing signs of success. It’s past record has had adverse effect upon the Market Value of my home, unless of course I seek out prospective purchasers possessed of interest in the closely located St. Joachim’s Parochial School.

It is interesting to note that the four public schools located in Zip code area 94541 are required to deal with the presence of a very high count of parenting individuals presently on parole or probation. There are no other zip code areas within the Hayward Unified school district service area which deal with such a density of parolees and probationers.

There is incredible statistical data available which supports the statement that 40% of parolees are returned to prison with the first 12 months of their release; 50% are returned within the first two years. Some argue that the California State Prison system data is erroneous and the reported rate of recidivism at the conclusion of the third year is too low and that it might range within a rate of 65% to 70%.

Regardless of the above data, Hayward and Oakland have a very high count of older housing which dates back in time, well over 100 years ago… going back to the point in time when no cement or brick manufacturers had yet arrived upon the development scene of Alameda County.

You might still find occupied dwellings in Oakland which were constructed upon rough-hewn redwood logs used as foundation materials in antiquated housing still used by low income families.

Zip code area 94541 has seen a considerable amount of low cost housing built since the conclusion of WW II. We know with certainty that this zip code area has the highest count of parolees laid down upon HUSD by unfairly imposed quotas for ‘low income housing’ while Pleasanton has historically refused construction of such housing as recommended by the Association of Bay Area Governments, ( ABAG)!

Where Oakland and Hayward school districts serve in excess of 50% of the low income housing needs of Alameda County’s parolees, Pleasanton has just five (5) of those individuals living within that City. It has lost a trial on that subject… but the fact remains that they make no effort to rectify the problem.

Consider that as a consequence of the excessive presence of paroled individuals, that their rate of recidivism affects the success of their children’s school and the School District, when they are almost constantly on the move…

I openly suggest that what needs to occur is a review of the ADA money which we know to be seriously affected by truancy and transiency in Hayward while Pleasanton does not experience that problem.

So, if Pleasanton receives the same remuneration of say $30. per day of attendance per student, the state ought now consider reducing that by 25% and award that sum to Oakland and Hayward on a rational basis. The same idea ought apply to Dublin and Livermore!

I urge readers to think about that and act in whatever manner it takes to make effective change; rather than engage in useless, destructive rant against HUSD leadership.

Perhaps even the officers of HEA might see the point. Thus to make more effective use of their waning influence in Hayward as well as in Sacramento!
Parolees are thought to have many children enrolled in HUSD schools. It is my opinion that the rate of recidivism has serious affect upon classroom truancy and transiency factors and that this is compounded by lack of attention directed to the problem.

Stop complaining about the HUSD administration. Sit down and think about the injustice done to our community when a City such as Pleasanton ignores the Association of Bay Area Governments .