It's about time that MVLA finally installed field lighting for the sports fields at MVHS and LAHS. These are long overdue and will finally put our high schools on par with what almost every other high school of similar size already has. The lights will benefit much more than football. Soccer, Track and Field, Marching Band, cheer, intramurals, and others will also benefit. These scare tactics from the neighbors who oppose the lights are completely selfish and overblown!

Without lights practice times are severely curtailed and games get scheduled early in the afternoon when parents have difficulty attending. I'm all for lights, please install them.

Lights and noise and teenage packs in the neighborhoods near Mountain View and Los Altos high schools until 10 or 11pm will be bad for neighbors. Night home football games have always been played at Foothill College which has no neighbors. And Foothill College is a nice place for high schoolers to visit. For one thing, it can remind or inform them that high school is not atop the educational ladder. There is more to learn and more to do. But lights will be added because the neighbors are politically impotent.

I can say this. If they do put in lights and abuse the neighborhoods the way they did with all the trash and parking problems around the school in the case of Mountain View High School and the portable lights, they will come to regret it.

These days, school should be more than a social event one out of every few Fridays. This change is a step too far based on pure nostalgia which has no actual need nor merit.

This is not about Friday night football. This is about improving the situation of limited field space and availability due to not having lights. There might only be 2-3 Friday night football games per year. However, there will be many nights when the field lights are used for soccer, track and field, marching band, practices, etc.. These are not events which draw crowds and would have no impact on the surrounding neighborhood. It is unfortunate that there is a small group of neighbors opposing these much needed improvements for our high schools. The opposition have no facts to back up their arguments.

As Judge Judy says "Don't pee on my shoes and tell me it's raining." It's all about football. It's only in the winter months that there is any issue with darkness, and that means Football. Any other use is not the intended purpose and is even less logical.

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