I too have opinions and concerns regarding the Santa Teresa High School field restrictions. I felt so strongly that I sent email letters to members of the school staff and school district. The responses I received were that the restrictions stem from complaints of nearby residents. Too much noise, traffic, negative connotations associated with the plans to install lights on the football field, etc.

I agree with the comments posted by Ronald Horii. I have two teenage sons (One at STHS and the other at OGHS) and along with them have spent many years supporting and volunteering for local organized sports (Pop Warner Football, Blossom Valley Pony Baseball). Organizations such as these cannot survive or provide valued alternatives for kids after school. Although I understand the school's frustration and eagerness to make the surrounding neighbors happy, the field restrictions will cause an enormous loss of revenue for a much needed public school system. Ultimately those costs will result in cut programs or another turn of the knife in an already deteriorating public school system. It would seem to me that the neighbors who purchased homes in the area were well aware of the school location and it's posative and/or negative impact on the neighborhood.

The local organizations as well as the school programs that utilize the field will greatly suffer. The kids will greatly suffer and the community will greatly suffer. These feeder programs provide the school systems and community with trained athletes and education minded individuals. Most of the organizations that utilize the field have GPA requirements and foster the attitude of school, family and respect.

Very sad to learn that these kids will now have to look for diversions elsewhere... Crime? Drugs? Who knows, but it is not just a challenge that families deal with, it is a community problem and STHS has just adopted a policy that they do not care about the community, and only support a few homeowners who should have purchased homes in quiet culdesac's far away from already established "noise producing" facilities.

I hope this policy is overturned soon and the STHS fields can go back to it's originally intended use of generating revue and providing much needed recreation space.

J Edwards