Dear Editor,

I writing today because I am sick and tired that two elected bodies can't think of anything except themselves or saving face. Rob Means addressed some of this with his letter to the editor last week. Milpitas is growing and growing fast as the city has planned with its downtown strategic plan.

Have they included the school district, from day one, with the plan? Not from what I've heard. The city is just looking at growing and growing... and fees and dollars.

Well, when you grow in housing, you grow in population, which includes the most innocent citizens, the children.

Where did the city think they were going to go to school? Wouldn't a new housing area be more attractive if it had a new elementary school located right in the middle of the development? Why would parents want to buy a house, townhouse, condo, or rent an apartment if their child will have to be bused across town to go to school?

My daughter has been in the Milpitas Unified school system for five years now but even before she started school I had heard that the city and the school district do not work well together and that there was some kind of grudge that was so old that no one really knows what it was for any more. Well, I'm telling you all that you need to get off your high "elected" horses and start to work together, for the sake of the children that are currently or will soon be citizens of Milpitas. Why tarnish our beautiful city with your infighting? Show

the children, by example, that people can put their differences down and work together for a common cause... them and their education.

Michelle Eacret

Mount Diablo Avenue