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There is a disconnect somewhere. Despite soothing rhetoric, the Bayside, Financial North, Silicon South and Coastside County are not being adequately served by SMCCCD. The Board minutes talk about outreach and show the district spending expensive money on leasing classroom space. Incumbents talk about outreach programs in Ravenswood and elsewhere. If they listened, called or visited these outreach programs, they would know they are a joke, non existent at night, far away from neighborhoods or being investigated for financial mismanagement. Our students come from 61 different countries, low income neighborhoods and speak 49 different languages. They and are bright and motivated to earn the American Dream. KCSM offers just one English course over the airwaves. It should offer many more courses in the basic academic skills of ESL, reading, writing and arithmetic, and offer them in the evening or very early morning to self starters. It should offer more practical short term courses for licensing in specific fields like computers, insurance and securities. The technology exists for a strategic alliance with Oracle Systems or Sun Microsystems to deliver high quality courses upon demand to people's homes, libraries or workplaces as needed. There are many free facilities in high schools and community centers for SMCCCD evening courses. Let's just do it.
