Bond measure missed the mark

I sympathize with Liz Kramer in her letter saying that the children of Oak Park were let down by OPUSD being the only district in California to see a bond measure go down to defeat.

However, I do not agree that the parents and voters of Oak Park should blamed. The fact that a bond could be defeated in a district which voted by more than 80 percent to support a parcel tax reflects poorly not on the voters, but on the people responsible for placing such a poorly conceived measure on the ballot-the school board and the superintendent.

It is incredible that with such high-performing students taught by many wonderful teachers with strong support from the community, that the leadership of the district could have done such a bad job in diagnosing the problem with Measure B6, conceiving of Measure H6 and allowing PTA money to be wasted on their unnecessary pie-in-the-sky projects at the cost of the district's ability to make badly needed repairs.

If the board wanted to know why Measure B6 failed, it should have asked members of the community-however, it clearly did not care what the community thought and gave us a slightly pared down version of the same, poorly conceived plan.

If the board truly cares about our children, it should ask the community for its vision about the future of our schools. Donna Klugman Oak Park