Missed Deadline for University Program
Re “33 Schools Miss Deadline for UC Admissions Program,” Dec. 1.
Failure of any school to include its students in the Eligibility in Local Context program is a disservice to the community. Parents and students expect that the top 4% of seniors receive their Eligibility in the Local Context for University of California enrollment. Based on Anna Gorman’s article, one might be justifiably disappointed to learn that one school in the Oxnard Unified High School District (Channel Islands High School) failed to include eligible students in the ELC process. The truth is that even the schools that did participate failed to submit the names of all eligible students. The administrators simply did not do their job completely.
The Times article lets school administrators off the hook by naively assuming that they did include all qualified students. Parents and students hold the district to a higher standard. The Oxnard district should provide a complete accounting that will show whether or not every eligible student was listed in the ELC submissions. The district should describe who is responsible for this failure and what measures will be taken to prevent it from recurring.
If this is how they dis-serve their best students, one can only wonder about the neglect being visited on the less qualified and more troublesome.
GREG TANGONAN
Oxnard
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