DEAR EDITOR:
This is in response to the editorial in Friday’s paper on the El
Portal Charter High School test scores.
DEAR EDITOR:
This is in response to the editorial in Friday’s paper on the El Portal Charter High School test scores.
It’s kind of ironic that your article would come out the weekend before the students of El Portal take the exit examine. My son is a student there and has been since the school started. He has been enrolled in GUSD all his school life and is one of the El Portal students who is not functioning at his grade level. Has my son improved since attending El Portal? Absolutely. Is he where he needs to be? No, but he is seeing results and working hard to reach that goal.
My son has needed help and has asked for help since he started school. I asked for help for my son and got we got no help from the district. All we heard was he was doing the best he can.
My son is now getting the help he so needed and is now starting to do the best he can. He sees his progress and is excited about his future. I wonder if the editor that wrote this article has spent any time at the school, because if he or she had she or he would see that my son is not the only one there who is succeeding.
The staff and faculty is dedicated to see that the students do succeed. They prove that by being there day in and day out from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. working with the students in the classroom. They don’t take all the teacher in-service days that GUSD does either. They know they are in for a long fight, but unlike the editor who wrote this article they are not giving up. My son will graduate from El Portal and I hope the editor who wrote this article plans on covering that event.
Cara Ragan, Gilroy
Submitted Monday, March 3 to ed****@****ic.com
