Los
Altos Town Crier
published on 6/1/05
Letters
to the editor
As a volunteer
participant in the activities, I proudly observed a kind, well-grounded,
sensitive, successful and appreciative group of graduates.
Go Knights!
School
administrators in CUSD overpaid
Frances Hills, Los Altos
I have lived in the Cupertino Union School District since 1958. My
children went to the Cupertino schools, and I was active in the PTA
and other committees. At that time, we had more schools in the district
than we do today, but only one superintendent and one assistant superintendent.
Today, with fewer schools, we have a superintendent who is paid, I
am told, about $250,000 and has five assistant superintendents - two
of whom may be given a $20,000 raise - and I am wondering why a bond
issue was just passed to prevent teachers from being laid off.
The teachers literally
went from door to door asking residents to pass the bond issue, because
they were afraid of losing their jobs. Most of them were young and
new to the area and knew nothing of what had gone on in years past.
I, for one, am
tired of schools thinking they have an endless source of funds that
they can spend unscrupulously and have top-heavy administrators both
in wages and numbers. It's time for the schools to watch their budgets,
the same as the citizenry must do. The funds belong to the citizens,
not to the schools. The school districts are only caretakers of those
funds. I am all for educating our children. I spent 20 years of my
life teaching. But I do not care to support the top-heavy administration
that we have today with excessive wages.
