Re: Ken Moffett’s April 4 commentary, “Doing the right thing for all PVSD students”:

Interim Superintendent Ken Moffett is trying to paint a picture of glee that he thinks is flowing through this community over recent school closures.

Does he really think staff and the families who have been displaced are feeling his “glee?” Is the Los Primeros Structured School happy to be moving and opening its doors to neighborhood children? How happy were Santa Rosa Technology Magnet School families who have sought legal counsel in regard to the loss of part of their program? Are Los Altos Middle School families happy with losing their school? Are Los Senderos Open School families so happy that a group of parents has filed for a charter school? At what school is Moffett finding all of the calmness he talks about?

Los Senderos families have been pushed off onto the Rancho Rosal campus as if that is what is deemed best of us. Our school program is not moving intact. There is no Everyday Math program at Rancho Rosal.

So far, the only positive thing that everyone is saying about our new “open” school is that it is a beautiful “state-of-the-art” facility. Is this “state-of-the-art” building going to teach my children in the open school philosophy like we currently have?

The Camarillo Academy of Progressive Education is going to be the form of alternative education that appeals to Los Senderos families. In just one week’s time, there have been more than 300 children put on the intent-to-register list for this charter school. CAPE is needed in our community to further our children’s education.

The Pleasant Valley School District board should approve the CAPE charter application. After all, in Moffett’s own words, “It is never the wrong time to do the right thing.”

— Kelly Ogg, Camarillo
(The writer is a parent of a student who attended Los Senderos Open School. — Editor)