I hope that the school board will take a hard look at the best location for the new elementary school. Please work with the city's Housing Element. This shows that much of the growth is intended in the El Camino/Ventura corridor.

Please take a hard look at preventing elementary students from having to cross major streets such as El Camino or San Antonio Rd. New boundaries may be in order even though there will be a lot of push back from parents. Please make a decision that is best for the city traffic issues and the safety of the students.

So today San Jose police announced that beginning salaries for police officers, which require no college degree, are $80,000. If we paid our teachers more and had more and better teachers, we'd need fewer police. It's sad that our society has so little regard for the importance of good teachers. The best and brightest students continue to glut law and business schools.

It's not merely the influence of good teachers; it is overwhelmingly the example of parents. For the most part kids emulate their parents in many, many way. If the parents read, they read, et cetera. That cannot be ignored or overemphasized.

Seems a bit outrageous to give Skelly a bonus on top of a contract extension he negotiated with the Board last year after failing to reveal to them that our district had been cited by the Office For Civil Rights for violating the rights of a middle school student. I don't know of many employers who would retain an employee much less reward the employee with a bonus after the employee failed to reveal huge facts such as the one mentioned above. It is very inappropriate to reward Kevin Skelly in any way for his failures to perform his job properly. It would be a good idea if some kind of investigation into Skelly's failings as well as those of the board.

For someone as undeserving of his current salary as Kevin Skelly, why give him a raise? [Portion removed.]

In any other business situation, he would have been shown the door years ago. At the very least, he deserves a pay cut.

The BOE should be censured for hiring this guy sight unseen without a background check. Talk about engaging in risky behavior!

BTW, muttiallen is 110% correct!

Thank you parent Amy Kacher for working on the Calendar Advisory Committee. Can you tell us more about the creative options you would've liked to see the Board consider? I'm curious to hear about the options the Board wasn't willing to entertain.