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Sutter, a landmark name in Sacramento, from hospitals built, gold being found and to the fort in central Sacramento. Sutter is a name that Sacramento is familiar with. Sorry Kit Carson but your name holds no brownie points with us.

Sutter Middle School is arguably one of the best in Sacramento, so it comes as a surprise to many that anyone would choose to shake it's prodigal foundation. What about the ducks of McKinely Park? Who will relocate them when a sports complex is built over the land that has been theirs since before we were children?

Friday Nov. 4th, 2011 Sutter Middle School managed to dodge a consolidation plan that would shake the grounds of every alumni and current student for as long as their memory will last. As members of the school board announced their ideas for consolidations sparks flared and guns were drawn.

The bottom line.

Members proposed merging highly accommodated Sutter Middle School with it's lower counterpart Kit Carson. The insanity doesn't stop there. Members also proposed revamping Sutter into a residential high school and using McKinley Park as it's sports complex.

"F--k everything about that," says Sutter alumni 08 Stephen Matthews.

There are some things that saving money can't replace, and that is the memories that have been devoted to "100 years of excellence."

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Susie Shields

November 13, 2011 | 7:20 PM

What the district needs to do is quit focusing on Sutter as a solution to the lack of a comprhensive central city high school. The reason they are focusing on Sutter is they don't want to deal with the elephant in the room...St. HOPE and its occupation and glaring underutilization of the Sac High campus. The district spent $24M to completely renovate the Sac High campus - using bond measures voted for when the school was a community traditional public high school. Now, only 174 out of 1,283 students in the former Sac High attendance area go to the charter. The rest have left the district or have been accepted to specialty programs, gone to private schools, or some of the small high schools. Last year, 624 students at the high school level applied for intra-district transfers (leaving SCUSD for another district) and that is a huge loss of ADA dollars- over $3M.

The district is realizing that Sac Charter has not lived up to its many promises and that it is actually costing them a lot of money to keep them on that campus while denying the community a replacement high school that they were court-ordered to open. The district needs to do the right and fair thing and return Sac High to the public and quit trying to appease St. HOPE by destroying a district gem. Nut-up SCUSD!

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SutterMom3

November 13, 2011 | 11:03 PM

If you are against Sutter High (and you value McKinley Park as a neighborhood park and don't want it to be a high school sports complex) Attend a neighborhood meeting where School Trustee Jeff Cuneo is trying to drum up support for his idea to create Sutter High.

Mon 11/14 7:00 at Theodore Judah and Wed 11/30 at 6:30 David Lubin
He needs to hear from Sutter Supporters so he will look elsewhere for a high school.

AND email the School Board members and tell them to find another solution (perhaps the one mentioned above!) and leave Sutter Middle School alone.

Jeff Cuneo: jeff4schoolboard@gmail.com
Donald Terry: Donaldterry4schoolboard@yahoo.com
Gustavo Arroyo: gustavoarroyo1@gmail.com
Diana Rodriguez: Diana4scusd@yahoo.com
Darrel Woo: darrel-woo@sac-city.k12.ca.us
Ellyn Bell: ellynebell@yahoo.com
Patrick Kennedy: patrick@patrickkennedylaw.com
Isaac Gardon: isaac-gardon@scusd.edu
SCUSD Superintendent Jonathon Raymond: Superintendent@sac-city.k12.ca.us

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