Would the proposed change of MVWSD boundaries impact the Mountain View kids who are currently attending LASD schools?

Why isn't increasing the capacity of existing schools being considered?

Huff is tiny. If it's overcrowded let's add some more classrooms.

A whole new campus with an entire staff would be a waste of money.

To parent:

No, those who currently attend LASD schools will continue to attend schools in the LASD boundaries. Mountain View Whisman School District and LASD are separate entities.

Now, LASD may re-draw its own boundaries to address the overcrowding issues there.

I don't think making Huff have a larger student body is a safe option currently. There are _significant_ traffic and safety issues related to drop off and pick up. Now if we were to bring back busing kids into school rather than having parents doing that, then I think growing Huff's student population might be more viable.

The point isn't to fit as many kids into a campus as possible. The issue is creating walkable neighborhood schools for ALL Mountain View's children.

You're right Huff is tiny, but adding more classrooms is not really a viable option due to space constraints. Where would they go? Across the playing field? In the middle of the playground?

Huff parent, how about in two-story buildings?

(1) School revenues from property taxes for MVWSD were up by 9% or so in both 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

(2) The district had a surplus of $6 Million in revenues less expenditures in 2012-2013.

All this construction will rise the tax base and hence the school revenue even further! Everywhere but North Bayshore, it's automatic. The discriminatory status of North Bayshore will either end, or the revenue sharing from the special park district will be renegotiated. Even so, development is happening all over. Plenty of money honey.

Huff is on a large parcel of 11 acres owned by MVWSD. Even the park at the back of the property is owned by the school district. A large complex is leased to YMCA for Huff Kids Place, but shared back with the school. It's much larger than most such school childcare areas, but it belongs to MVWSD.

You could easily fit more portable classrooms on that overall parcel of land. Many different arrangements are possible and you would not need to go to 2 story buildings. About 6 acres is devoted play ground. On the edge of that adjacent to the Y buildings would be a logical place to add classrooms for general school use. Lots of schools have the childcare share playground space with Kinder play area.

While talking with couple of school board members, i found out that 4 out of 5 board members are already in favor or opening new school. The whole process is mere to show they are following process.

While in meeting they say that school has more than 500 students and student/teacher ratio as big as 21. But we dont even compare that ration with neighbourhood school district like Los altos or cupertino where student/teacher ratio is more than 24 in some schools.

School board should follow right process first. They should tell resident that why they are opening school and impact of it and then set up boundary task force to change boundary to school. School board is not share all detail to resident before they make decisions.