Reader tired of trustees taking credit for results obtained by teachers, students and parents

Annalee Cappello, Capistrano Valley News "Gosh, if I'd known that, I wouldn't have spent the past 15 years of my life teaching English at Marco Forster Middle School, nor would I have spent the past seven years supplementing at home what my daughter has been learning in CUSD schools. I think I would have gone shopping, booked a day at the spa, or gone to the beach. After all, according to Ms. Friess's words, these seven people are responsible for the education of the 140+ students that I see every day in my classroom. I guess I don't need to be there."

Capistrano Valley News reader's reaction to the high praise extolled upon the CUSD board of trustees by in a letter by Jenny Friess published in the Capistrano Valley News on May 12, 2005. Cappello is an English teacher at Marco Forster Middle School, who was presented with the Mayor’s Award for 2005 Educator of the Year by San Juan Capistrano Mayor Wyatt Hart.