Another school site proposed

There is an alternative site in the city of Agoura Hills near Ladyface Mountain that has been suggested as an ideal site for the new Heschel School campus. It offers maximum security, a prime location away from residences, pre-approval for building, easy access from the freeway and would not require a roundabout or generate opposition from neighbors. Yet the people of Heschel refuse to consider it.

Any cost differential would surely be washed by eliminating a two-lane roundabout and lengthy court battles, not to mention the scorn of their neighbors.

So why do they refuse to consider this compromise?

When a group of people has two equally desirable alternatives to choose from and opts only for the one that will have a negative effect on the lives of others, what are we to think?

Here are a couple of possibilities. One is that they are in lock step in their denial and belief that Old Agoura, which already hosts a public high school and several preschools, will be unaffected and that it is selfish for the owners of rural horse ranches not to want sports fields, bright lights, parking lots and traffic in their backyards.

Why would those claiming to offer a spiritually based education disregard who they will hurt when there is a way in which they can hurt nobody? Could it be that they just don't care?
Sharili Brown
Agoura Hills