Comments on: DUSD Community Conversation Scheduled For June 1st

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The topic of this article is the Community Conversation and, in particular, the impact of the state budget on our schools.

I understand and can relate to the feelings on a new high school, but I'd really like to know if anyone went to the Community Conversation and, if so, can they post any information on the discussions that took place.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Anonymous on June 9, 2009 7:59 PM:

They sold their house and bought one in Pleasanton. You are right. They do not think it is worth the hassel for a mediocre high school education.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think if they feel Dublin High School is worth the commute, they'd happily put up with it. Are they renting their home out or selling it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just learned that another family is moving out of Dublin Ranch and going to Pleasanton. This is their last week in Dublin Ranch. The reason for their moving is quite simple: It is too hard to commute to Dublin High School for classes for their middle-school child. BTW, their child is very good so he is taking some high school classes in advance.

I felt a little bit sad about this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Anonymous on June 1, 2009 5:36 PM:

I am the same Anonymous on June 1, 2009 5:24 PM. What you said sounds like a good action plan to me. I share your short term goals and long term vision. We need to get the current School Board members to sign on to this though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I believe we have short term issues and long term needs in terms of high school.

1. I sincerely hope that the DHS becomes a top notch school in the near future. The DUSD should publish how it is planning to accomplish this.

2. In previous posts, many people posted transportation issues for East Dublin students to DHS. This should be addressed.

3. We should start thinking about how we can build a new HS in East Dublin in the next 8-10 years. As many folks pointed out, it is a costly and time consuming effort and the planning should start now instead of hitting a wall once we outgrow the capacity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Anonymous June 1, 2009 4:52 PM:

I, for one, am willing to pay higher property tax for a second high school in East Dublin, if it comes down to the money issue. Both Pleasanton and San Ramon have higher property tax to support better high schools. I think we Dubliners can do that too. I am not willing to invest more money in the current DHS without them showing any significant progress yet.

Current financial crisis in California is just one excuse. Forget about the absolute progress in API score and let's just compare the relative progress between Dublin and Pleasanton/San Ramon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Anonymous on June 1, 2009 4:42 PM:

I do not know why everybody on the School Board takes whatever outdated statistical data as the Bible. We know a lot of times people are very wrong in predicting economic and demographic trends.

On the other hand, they do not consider the possibility of having higher percentage of family having high school students when you have a better high school. This is exactly what happens to Pleasanton and San Ramon. At built-out, Dublin is projected to have almost 70K population, more than what either Pleasanton or San Ramon has now. But yet, both of them have two high schools now.