BUSD board should be ashamed

To the BUSD board — Bob Turner, Lou Riddle, Tim Coen and Dick Olsen — and to Superintendent Jef Schleiger and Asst. Superintendent Wayne Jones:

You ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Your irresponsible and politically motivated decision to close BCAL will cost you dearly in your coveted positions. The word is out in the community and beyond: “How could they do such a thing as to shut down a school in the middle of the year?” There is no remedy for this huge quagmire you have created. Parents have been out scrambling at Christmastime to find respectable schools in which to place their children....