Says enrollment is not declining

Is there a parrot on the Pleasant Valley School Board Of Education?

There must be, because only a parrot would keep squawking the phrase "declining enrollment" when the facts indicate exactly the opposite.

Even PVSD's new interim superintendent Luis Villegas seems to be parroting the phrase.

In a recent article in the Camarillo Acorn, "declining enrollment" is sited as one of the reasons for closing several local schools.

Certainly, PVSD employees, the school board and the interim superintendent know or should know that statistics on the California Department of Education website refute that statement.

CDE website statistics show annual enrollment actually increasing, not declining, since the 2001-2002 school year. So I say, catch that parrot and send him somewhere for "re-education."

Perhaps to the Oxnard Union High School District? Constance Orth Los Angeles