Closing University school is insanity

The School Facility Goals Committee spent six months developing a process to determine the best candidates for school closure that would be unbiased, using primary and secondary criteria.

After hearing the results of this process on Feb. 5, Conejo board members discussed the results and then decided to change the criteria without regard to the previous lack of bias, disregarding the intention of the primary criteria to look first at the number of neighborhood kids disrupted. If you're going to put the number of students who choice into a school into the equation, you need to also look at the number of students who choice out of a school.

The unbiased process has become flawed. It's unethical now to close two schools that are a result of this flawed process. The school board needs to reconsider its decision to close schools under these circumstances.

No children, school or community should suffer the consequences of an unjust process. Instead they should redraw the boundaries, cut costs elsewhere and put our children's education first.

Closing national Blue Ribbon schools should never be an option.
Melissa Ricketts
Thousand Oaks