Where would FUHSD be without good teachers?
Although I graduated this June from a high school in the FUHSD, I've been keeping close tabs on the current FEA issues taking place. It was extremely upsetting for me to read how people in our neighborhood were responding to the situation. It seems as if people don't think our teachers need or deserve a 12 percent wage increase. Yes, I realize they may be asking for quite a lot, but these are the same teachers who have made this school district one of the best in California. For example, I was just reading an article about how SAT scores in our district were much higher than the state and national average. I was a student, and I'm not saying that all my teachers were perfect; some weren't even that good. But on the whole, I don't know any group of teachers that would deserve this wage increase more. People flock to this area for its superb schools, so why shouldn't the people responsible for that get what they deserve?
Think of it as an investment because what would our neighborhood, or anything, be without these teachers?
Anh Nguyen
Cupertino
Soccer story missed goal on CYSA
I applaud the article entitled "Goal Oriented" written by Natasha Collins in your Sept. 18 edition. Not enough can be written about soccer. It is a sport that is rapidly growing in all age groups.
I was put off by the authors very brief mention of CYSA. This league is very much a part of the Sunnyvale soccer scene. It is incorrect to report that their teams are filled out by tryout only. CYSA is a league that offers several levels of play, from recreational to the most competitive. It is the competitive levels that hold tryouts.
Even at the highest level, it is the rare team that does not play all its players. Most high school soccer players come out of this competitive level. It is a chance for those players who are more serious about playing at the higher levels to select their coach, train and compete against the top players from around this area and perhaps the state.
This is also the league that players are chosen from to become members of the Olympic developmental teams and the national teams. And the author was remiss not to remark on the number of adult (men's, women's and co-ed) and pick-up games that abound on Sunnyvale's fields year around.
Cathy Larson
Sunnyvale
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, October 2, 1996.
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