Student shortage being felt

This letter is a follow-up to the article that appeared June 19, "Split classes debated at Willow Elementary."

I would like to commend the outstanding fourth and fifthgrade teachers of Willow Elementary School in Agoura Hills for their amazing honesty. In light of recent budget cuts and dwindling enrollment, our upper grade teachers have been told that Willow will lose one teacher and have a fourth/fifth split class next year.

Instead of telling parents that this would be fine for our children, our teachers decided to do something out of the ordinary. They held a meeting to express their concerns for the impact they felt this would have on our children's social and academic development. At the meeting, we brainstormed with our teachers what we could do as parents to help increase our enrollment.

We are short the number of students needed to meet the minimum required by the Las Virgenes Unified School District to have allseparate fourthand fifth-grade classes. If we can find students from other districts who would like to transfer, and request Willow as the school they would like to attend, then we can meet our goal.

I believe we will be able to achieve this, and I am comforted by the thought that I know my daughter attends a school where the teachers are refreshingly honest, they take their jobs seriously and are passionately dedicated to providing the best academic experience possible for our children. Deanna Glassberg Agoura Hills