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Despite appeals to School Board trustees, some Morgan Hill

After a weekend of interviews, School Board trustees and their

Thomas: We're going to do whatever we're going to do here tonight, but we're not looking at the impact that it has on the total program. I've visited Live Oak High School and the way that SASI and Pinnacle have been operating, they don't talk. The impact that has on clerical staff trying to get report cards out which are late, which don't allow parents to know where their child is in the class, it's very disturbing. I mean, this is the group we come to again and again. It's the better part of valor. We can hit you first, and I'll have to say that the elegance of it is, that you have been willing, we've sat down mutually and said we want to work with you, we want to make this as palatable as possible. I don't know, in some ways I guess I'm saying get a backbone, be stronger. But you know what you're doing, you're doing what you think is best for the district, and I admire you for that, but at the same time, you're not protecting yourselves enough, and I worry about that at the same time. And at the same time, you're not protecting yourselves, you're hurting, I believe, what our overall educational mission is at the school, with our secretaries, with our bus drivers making sure they are delivered on time, so I'm concerned.

For the first time in recent memory, Morgan Hill School District