As the parent of a River Middle School student, I am tired of the smoke and mirrors tactics chronically thrown at our community, but there is one common thread of truth woven into this narrative of empty promises. Financial incompetency.
NVUSD has been hemorrhaging money regardless of the approved bonds, teacher layoffs, school closures and charter dissolution. Once again, we are being asked to sacrifice our children with more closures for district self-preservation. This solution has failed us in the past and it will again.
The district heads are casting aside 600 students from their neighborhood Harvest Middle School with the promise that 200 will find success in a wall-to-wall DLI program. And while we all admire the leaders that emerge from such a program, it is no secret that the district is losing DLI students around the time of middle school to high school, so it makes little sense to send 200 kids over to a 630-student capacity campus until the issues of DLI attrition are identified and resolved.