Unification isn't a racial issue

The Oxnard Union High School District constantly uses the phrase "promotes segregation" to describe one of their reasons to be against PVSD unification efforts. This is absolutely calling proponents of unification racists. OUHSD trustees are not stupid people, only arrogant. They don't say "would inadvertently create racial and ethnic imbalance" or something like that. They say "promotes segregation" as if that is one of the evil goals of unification proponents.

To date no news media have called them to account about this. The real issue is, of course, loss of tax dollars. Removal of Camarillo students may indeed change the demographics of Rio Mesa and in a lesser degree the OUHSD, but it could only improve the racial and ethnic mix at Adolfo Camarillo High School, once again showing the OUHSD doesn't care about Camarillo High, only their own community school. I would suspect that a change in demographics may also somehow affect funding, but I don't know how that works, if in fact it is a part of the equation.

Money and quality of education- not always the same thing in my opinion- are the real serious factors in the unification issue. To let unfounded charges of racism made by the highest levels of high school district management go unchallenged is unacceptable by any journalistic standard. Nels Norene Camarillo