WE DID IT!

The community came together and made our voices heard! The Mountain View-Whisman Elementary School District Board of Trustees decided to keep Castro School and Slater School open one more year, and close Slater at the end of next year. The extra year gives the whole community time to adjust and plan the transition.

Most importantly ( to me , at least) is that the awful plan to close Castro School was thrown out the window. Thank god.

I can't even begin to express how proud I am of the Mountain View segment of my family and how involved we were over the past month, and especially over the last 48 hours. The CBS news blurb in the previous post was/is just the beginning of the media coverage.

Just watch the news tomorrow morning if you're in the Bay Area. You'll likely see my Aunt RoseMary (A recently elected School Board Trustee) and my cousin's husband Oscar being interviewed. You'll see me, Marisa, Angelica, David, my mom, Chris, Marco, and Elena all holding signs at the 26 hour vigil that started at 4pm on Monday (Marisa and I were there from 4pm to 9pm, 4am to 11am, and 3:30pm to 6pm!) We were on CBS, ABC, NBC, KRON, KCBS Radio, Telemundo, Univision, and who knows what the papers will show, even the New York Times was snapping a lot of photos!

But the media blitz is all really second fiddle to the meeting, and the School Board Trustees and my Aunt Rosemary, who all really pulled through for Mountain View. It feels amazing to have been a part of this, and even more amazing to be a part of this with my family...who I'm so proud of and love so dearly. I think this will day will always be one of the best days of my life.

Craziness. Beautiful, wonderful, craziness!