Saratoga News

Editorial

Decision was right

The Santa Clara County Committee on School District Organization has decided it would be a mistake to redraw school boundaries in Los Gatos and Saratoga.

Scenarios 2 and 4, those options that could have dramatically changed the geographic areas served by those school districts, have been put to rest.

It is to the credit of the county committee that its decision was based on the research of its consultant. The temptation to give strong weight to the valid emotional considerations of those who hoped to move into the Los Gatos and Saratoga school districts must have been strong.

What's more, the county Board of Education clearly hoped the study would find a solution to the proliferation of requests for interdistrict transfers. It takes courage to spend time and money and to endure emotional upheaval and then be willing to announce that the result is that nothing should change.

Although changes within the Campbell and Moreland school districts remain a possibility, requests for interdistrict transfers in the West Valley will continue much as before.

The Board of Education would do well to define as unambiguously as possible "extreme geographic isolation." It is a phrase board members will soon be hearing a lot.

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