Same game... different name. What's in a name? Mulvany or Myers... it's all the same! In his Nov. 22 letter, Bob Mulvany succeeded in furthering sentiments placed in motion by outgoing San Jose Unified School District trustee Carol Myers, sentiments which aim at dividing a district.

The last thing a district in deficit needs is division. Hopefully SJUSD has taken this bashing as an opportunity to look at bringing together parents concerned with their children's futures.

Superintendent Don Iglesias has emphasized the district's interest in the common good, with consideration toward the benefits and burdens of the process, while assuring the community that it will be fair in the decision reached.

Myers and Mulvany's derisive approach at twisting data to target other schools for failure taints the ethical mandate the district has sought in its approach to consolidate schools. The Ad Hoc Advisory Committee was to meet in closed session, during the week of November 22 to discuss the weighty issue of reaching a recommendation on which elementary school to close. How timely for the letter to come out in the newspaper on the morning of this meeting. May the district and the Ad Hoc Committee rise above such mudslinging and be true to the ethics of the process as detailed to district parents at the start of the school year.

Amy Huddlestun

Lynhurst Way

Correction

The letter published in the Nov. 24 issue of the Willow Glen Resident should have shown the following numbers under Econ. Disadvantaged category, SJUSD 45 percent and Hacienda 9 percent.