The Cupertino Courier Letters Elitist CCS sours accomplishments When my son went to high school, he ran track. Occasionally he would mention the CCS acronym--always with a reverence and respect that both his sister and I picked up on. It seemed to stand for what good sportsmanship stood for, along with hard work and recognition. Sports did not run his life but they were important to his memories of high school. When my daughter got to Monta Vista High School, she chose girl's water polo. It has been hard for her to balance her schoolwork, job, and her sport but she has done her best to be an active contributing member of the team. From what I understand on Sunday, the coach, who is new to the elitist group of CCS, was to get the paperwork in for the team. He only had an address for the place. He got lost but called twice to let them know he was on his way well before the meeting was over. This was even recorded on a machine that puts the time on the call, so we know he did call. This message was not forwarded. He arrived late and they had just given the place that our girls had earned to the Valley Christian girl's team instead. The parents are all enraged, and when they met with the principal of our school and the head coach, the response was that the football coaches would never entrust to just one coach the paperwork responsibility for CCS. No one bothered to tell the girl's coach this. Obviously the administration of CCS cares nothing for the young athletes they are supposed to be encouraging. It seems the premium is put on paperwork and not the young adults that are growing up in our schools. Any results I see reported on sports for CCS I will look at very cynically as to what that statistic really means. Encouraging a young person to be an athlete for its own sake is still noble, I feel. However, as far as the state titles, I feel they have been made far less an honor by this. The sweat and work of these young girls and their well-meaning coach will be a far better tribute than any cheapened CCS title since all the Monta Vista girls did their best and tried and succeeded. CCS doesn't put merit on these things. Sara Frank, Cupertino [ Back to Contents Page | Cupertino Courier Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Cupertino Courier, November 18, 1998. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.