In response to your op-ed from last week (“The result doesn’t always justify the means”), is greed really the rebuttal to recent petitioning for Bridges? Abandoning Conejo Valley Unified School District because of greed ?

Whoever wrote this opinion, which had no name, must have come off of their rocker. Please explain how a letter writing campaign is any different from writing to your state and local officials for change? Those are organized campaigns. What’s wrong with asking for public outreach and support?

Charter schools offer variet ies for parents who are unhappy with the current school situations.

Many districts in the area have cut funding from so many programs that parents are unable find what they’re looking for in public schools any longer.

Charter schools, being that they are given money directly from the state, have the ability to produce those types of programs that parents want because they are given money directly—not distributed by a district head honcho who says one school should get more money than another and so on. Bridges offers parents a different educating opportunity, as do most charters, a different learning opportunity that’s different from the stereotyped, district set-in-place program.

The district expects every child to learn at the same pace and expects each child to regurgitate information whether they understand it or not. They’re forced to move on.

Many parents are tired of that philosophy and have been overwhelmingly supporting Bridges’ approach to teaching. I have seen that at both parent meetings I’ve attended.

Parents want options . No parent should sit at home and think a school or district knows what’s best for your child. Parents need to educate themselves on what’s available for education whether through the district or through a charter. Only parents know what is best for their own child.

Options like charter schools give parents the opportunity to compare schools to each other and find the best fit for their child.

Apparently, according to the writer, it’s wrong for parents to band together for wanting different options for their children.

Now that, my friends, is a sad thought.
Lauren Todd
Thousand Oaks