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Santa Cruz Adult School
319 La Fonda Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
phone: (831) 429-3966
fax: (831) 429-3061
School Board
of Education Information
(Board Members'
names, phone, email)
319 La Fonda Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
phone: (831) 429-3966
fax: (831) 429-3061
School Board
of Education Information
(Board Members'
names, phone, email)
Newspaper Articles
Santa Cruz Schools trustees approve $55 million budget (6/17/2010)
Tumbling Tots (5/25/2010) - Good Times
Layoffs and reductions approved by Santa Cruz City Schools Board (3/3/2010)
March 4 Day of Action: Historic day for education? (3/1/2010)
Preliminary SCCS budget approved; adult ed, maintenance slashed (2/11/2010)
Santa Cruz adult education faces budget cuts (2/5/2010)
Adult Education could suffer worst in Santa Cruz City Schools budget cuts (1/28/2010)
SC City Schools stand up to state (12/20/09)
Claudia Grossi: Adult Education program deserves a better fate (12/20/09)
As We See it: Long-term cost to adult ed cuts (12/13/09)
Trustees vote to make some cuts now, later (12/11/09)
Pajaro Valley adult school hard hit by budget cuts (12/11/09)
Santa Cruz school trustees approve compromise on cuts (12/10/09)
Learning more than English: Adult School students from around the world become proficient at American life (10/26/09)
SC school trustees set $3.4 million target for more cuts (9/24/09)
Adult School taking a hit when students need help the most (4/19/2009)
Tumbling Tots (5/25/2010) - Good Times
Layoffs and reductions approved by Santa Cruz City Schools Board (3/3/2010)
March 4 Day of Action: Historic day for education? (3/1/2010)
Preliminary SCCS budget approved; adult ed, maintenance slashed (2/11/2010)
Santa Cruz adult education faces budget cuts (2/5/2010)
Adult Education could suffer worst in Santa Cruz City Schools budget cuts (1/28/2010)
SC City Schools stand up to state (12/20/09)
Claudia Grossi: Adult Education program deserves a better fate (12/20/09)
As We See it: Long-term cost to adult ed cuts (12/13/09)
Trustees vote to make some cuts now, later (12/11/09)
Pajaro Valley adult school hard hit by budget cuts (12/11/09)
Santa Cruz school trustees approve compromise on cuts (12/10/09)
Learning more than English: Adult School students from around the world become proficient at American life (10/26/09)
SC school trustees set $3.4 million target for more cuts (9/24/09)
Adult School taking a hit when students need help the most (4/19/2009)
Photos from the School Board Meeting on 5/27/09
Cuts around the State
School Board Meeting 5/27/09
Students showed support with signs and speeches.
This school has connected me to people all over town and provided a source of income. The parent ed program has made me a much better mom.
ReplyDeleteTamara Catto - ESL Teacher
The ESL classes have made me a confident person when talking to american people. I can now help my fellow Mexicans to do things such as find someone to fix their car, to buy things, or to translate for them. Jesus Cruz - ESL student in level 3.
ReplyDeleteLearning English is very important because I am thinking in the future I can get a job and make enough money to support my family. I want to be a car mechanic and fix people's cars.
ReplyDeleteJose Salguero -ESL Student level 3
The ESL classes have helpd me to know lots of people from different countries. My plan now is to learn more englishs for a better oportunity in this country and a better job
ReplyDeleteFederico Padron ESL student in level 3.
Learning English helps me at my job. It will help me get a better job in the future. I want to go to Cabrillo College and be a mechanic. My wife and her sisters are learning English here too. Their children are in preschool. They can help them better now. They will be better moms.
ReplyDeleteAntonio Alvarez Rocha -ESL student in level 3
The Adult School is very important for us because we're learning English.
ReplyDeleteAlso with the help of the school we can talk with the different people in the United States and with speaking English we can get a better job in the future.Jaime Linares-ESL student in level 3.
hi I'm Eliseo, the Adult School is necessary for all the Latinos because we need this school. We need this school to get better jobs. My plan is to help older people.I need to learn English so I can talk with different people and so they can undertand me. Please don't close the Adult School.Eliseo level 3 ESL student
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz Adult school helps me to pratice my English. I plan to study Accounting in Cabrillo college. It is important to know English then I can understand my course and become an accountant.
ReplyDeleteELS Student Level 3
the adult school is important in my life because in the future I want to go the university and the adult school theaches us to speak and write english. Many people need the school, please don't close it because we want to learn. Ludwin Centeno, level #3.
ReplyDeleteThe adult school is very important for me because it helps me to understand American people.It helps me get a better job for the future.Please don't close the school.DORA ESL-Student level 3.
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz Adult School helped me to talk to people in my community.
ReplyDeleteDiana Gonzalez - ESL student in Level 2
This country is big in everything and your education is first. All people who come to this country need to speak English to integrate into society. For this we need this school. I think it is necessary that we have schools to make this country big.
ReplyDeletePlease don`t close the adult School because we need to learn English. The adult school helps everybody because we get a better job. If we get a better job we help our family.
ReplyDeleteOsvaldo sanchez cruz.
ESL student in level 2
The Santa Cruz Adult school is necessary for all Latinos because we need this school. We need this school to get better jobs. I need to learn English.
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz Adult School has helped me in different ways because when I arrived in this country I could not understand English and anywhere I went the people spoke to me in English I could not understand them. Now I can understand the English a little bit, but I would like to speak it very well.
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz Adult school is very important school for people. The Santa Cruz Adult School helps me to talk to people in my community. It made people know English better and better.People who can't go to college can go to Adult School first to learn English.
ReplyDeleteESL LEVEL 2
The Santa Cruz Adult School helps me for my job. I can speak with people who speak English and it helps me a lot in me life.
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz Adult school helps me with English.I work in a restuarant. Now I can talk to many people and can commnicate with American people. I can go to everywhere by myself. Because I can speak English, my life is getting better.
ReplyDeleteESL LEVEL 2
I think Adult School is important. Don't close
ReplyDeletethe Adult School because it is important to
learn English and better understand American
People and get a better job.
The Santa Cruz Adult School helped me talk to my friends. It helped me to get a good job. It helped me with my family. It helped me when I go to the doctor.It helped me when I go to the store.ESL Level 2
ReplyDeleteThe School helps me with my children and with their homework. It helps me to get a new and bettre job and future. I can talk to pcople in my commurity.
ReplyDeleteLearning English gives me contact with people. I can talk and read in English. I didn't know English words, but now because of Adult School I can go to the doctor, drug-store, market and watch TY. Knowing English I feel very happy and I am a part of my community. Adult School teachers work with us very much.Thank you teachers. Please don't close the Adult School.
ReplyDeleteplease do not close the santa cruz adult school. I am a senior citizen who because of the devastating economy, is looking for a job. I am a poor candidate for any job in this community because of my lack of computer skills. The classes have been invaluable to me, I have learned alot, made friends, and they have instilled a great deal of confidence in me on my upcoming job hunt.
ReplyDeleteI am 52 years old and very behind in the tech/computer "dept." I have a new full time job that requires me to know how to use the computer. This class at the Adult School has helped tremendouosly to get me up to speed! The location, style, affordability, and great teacher, have been absolutely perfect for me! It would be SUCH a HUGE and SAD loss if it were to close!!
ReplyDeleteHaving the computer class at the adult school available to the community has been a real treat.Having spent 30 years building a successful business, I found that I was lacking in my computer skills.The classes I have taken have been fantastic. Please save these programs.
ReplyDeleteplease don't close the santa cruz adult school. i'm a senior citizen who had no computer skills till i attended computer class at the adult school. i need to learn computer knowledge to be able to function in todays world.
ReplyDeleteI discovered Santa Cruz Adult school this year, and I am so impressed with the wide variety of classes that are offered. I took two classes, one was a photography class that I took for personal enrichment, and the other is a computer class where I could improve the computer skills that I need for my job. I have been recommending this class to all my friends who lack the technical skills needed in todays job market. Now more than ever we need this invaluable resource, as so many adults are being forced into new jobs due to the high unemployment.
ReplyDeletePlease do not close the adult school it helps every body to get a better educacation.
ReplyDeleteFor mi it has been a terrific help to learn
computer I want to continue my education
Thank you for yur consideracion
I have been attending Adult Education since 1959 and it has helped me tremendously. The teachers who taught the computer classes are so knowledgeable and dedicated, especially Tina Sanders who gives us her time and talents. Please reconsider about closing the S.C. Adult School. I am a senior citizen turned 82 this past May. The class helps me to keep my mind with challenging projects. Please......Please
ReplyDeleteThank you.....Lillian M. Pinheiro
I would be deeply saddened if the Adult School
ReplyDeletedoes not continue as it is, and has been since I moved here thirteen years ago, an important part of my life. Not only have I learned many new skills, especially through the excellent computer classes, but I have throughly enjoyed the art classes taught by knowledgable teachers. These classes have opened new vistas for me, enabled me to find my way as an artist, and put me in touch with many like-minded people who need the social contact we find in the diverse courses. I hope you will think long and hard before shutting down such a valuable community resource.
Learning about the computer at my age has been so much fun. I am 57, I work in a liquor store.I need to better my skills in computers. Any good job requires computer skills. To be able to afford this class has helped to get the skills with the computer. I need a better job so I can help keep my daughter, who is in college. Being low income, I don't know if she will be able to get help, the colleges are also in trouble. How do we keep our kids in school, parents are working two jobs. Please listen to the people, you need to know what we need. Keep the shool going so we can keep are kids going.
ReplyDeleteFor 90 years Adult Ed has enriched our community in helping to develop social and technical skills and to inspire creativity as an integral part of a civilized society.
ReplyDeleteA loss of any programs - Parent Ed, Older Adults, ESL, Citizenship, Computers, Art, Basic education in the jails is a loss to all.
In economic hard times your continuing support is even more essential and deeply appreciated.
I'm studying English because I want to speak with the people in a proper way. I want to feel integrated in this culture. It is very difficult to work and have friends if you can't speak English.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing my best to speak English well and I have the opportunity to do it in Santa Cruz Adult School. I can't pay for English Classes and here I can study for free. The teachers are very sweet and they are very interested in us, in our English, and about our live. They are learning about us, the real life, and this is the most important. Can you imagine a city or a country where the people can't understand each other?
Washington Plada - ESL student
we need to lern english because we need to talk with differents peoples in this country , and we need use the english for helptin our family when they need our help.
ReplyDeleteERICK MARTINEZ. STUDENT LEVEL 2
Hi my name is Mariela. I am a student in the 2 level of ESL. The school is very important because I can find a better job and I can help little kids with homework.It's good when I go to the hospital because I can talk with the doctors.
ReplyDeleteWhen I came to this country I was very scared about speaking English but with the help of Adult School now I can speak and I want to learn more, so I need Adult School. ESL. MARY RUELAS. STUDENT LEVEL 2
ReplyDeleteMy name is Yanira Cruz.
ReplyDeleteThe school is really good for when you go to the hospital.
I can help other people and the school hepls to get a good job.
The adult school is very important with my life because when I came to USA I didn't speak English and it was very dificult for me but when I started to learn English I had many oportunities to get a job.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU ADULT SCHOOL
Elsa Valenzuela said......
ReplyDeleteI canfind a better job and you can help other people. The school helps to get a good job. The school heplme know different place, how to read signs. For me is very, very import study english. Please don close the adulto school it help, every bady to go a better education.
June 02, 2009 7:22
The Santa Cruz Aduld School help me because when I learn English I can get a better job and help my family and other pleople.
ReplyDeleteOscar Ayala-ESL Estudent in level 2.
The adult school helped me to get a better job.
ReplyDeleteThe adult school help me when I go to the doctor to comunication.
The adult school help me when my children need help with their homework.
The adult school help to get my GED because I needed it in my job.
Pedro Chavez said.....
ReplyDeleteI can get a better job
I can help other people
I neeb communcation for mi business mi business
Is lanbscaping.
ANA RIVERA
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz Adults is very important, because I cant get better job, I sigle mother help with my two daugther's in homework's . I have my plan to study in the college.
Hi my name is Bertha. I am a student
ReplyDeleteI Can find a better job and I can help little kids with their homework. I can help other people .
the school helps me do all of this.
the school helped me get a good job. the adult school helped me when i go to the dentist to communicate.
ReplyDeletesalvador gomez level 1b
MY NAME IS JOSE MENDOZA .
ReplyDeleteTHE SCHOOL HELPS ME TO GET A GOOD AMERICAN FRIEND.
I CAN HELP MY SON.
I CAN READ A NEWSPAPER ALL DAYS IN THE MORNING.
THE SCHOOL HELPS ME WHEN I GO TO DIFFERENT PLACES .
I can get a better job. I can help other people.
ReplyDeleteThe school helps me to get a good job. The school helps me to know different places and to read signs.
The first things is I need to learn English to get a better job.
ReplyDeleteI need English to talk with people, and help other people and help the kids with the homework.
It's very important in this country.
and I want to make friends with American people who speak English. DON'T CLOSE ADULT SCHOOL.
GRACIELA GUZMAN ESL LEVEL 2
The Adult school is very important because we're learning English and get better jobs. In the future I can help my kids with the homework.
ReplyDeleteJackeline morales.ESL adult level 1B
hi it's very important to learn english because we can get a better job and also understand some people better when we go to the doctor and buy Some things at the store. Sometimes we can help other people.my name is juana jimenez
ReplyDeleteesl student level 2
I can help other people.
ReplyDeleteThe school helps me drive to different
places and know how to read road signs. I can get a better job. The adult scohool helps me for speaking and writing.
Francisco Juarez ESL student in level 1b
I'm studying English because when I arrived in this country I couldn't understand the American people and I was looking for a job they said to me that I should speak English. Now I can't speak English very well but I understand a little bit but I would like to speak and understand English better every day because in the future I would like to have a better job.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Mendoza - ESL student
I want to study English for many reasons. Frist because I live in the United States where everybody speaks in English. Everywhere I go in the United States the language is English, in my work, at the doctors, with friends, with the family, for example with my grandsons they speak only English. This is a problem to live in the US and to not speak in English. For example in my case I started to study late after my kids were grown. Now I have time to study. I am learning now but not enough. This is the reason I want to continue to study and to be independent and find a better job. Please don't cut this service. I have become a US citizen.
ReplyDeleteAlicia Libra
The school mi learn english and helps mi at my work. ruben serna
ReplyDeleteI can help my son with homework and for the shoping in the store. I talk with my husband and son.
ReplyDeletethe santa cruz adult school.
ReplyDeleteenglish helps me talk with people and the people at my work.
I can help my children with homework and english is necessary in my life to talk with people.
ReplyDeletei can help my son when he goes to school.
ReplyDeleteEnglish helps me when I go to a meeting for work.
I can help my children with homework.school helps me with my life at the store, at the doctor, at the market,at work.
ReplyDeleteIf it had not been for Computer Literacy1(#6002), I would not have been able to go online, find this link and post this comment! Bill Strickland has a way of teaching that takes the fear and embarrasment out of learning computers. His analogies and abilities to simplify things are great. And he has an unlimited amount of patients.I can't get this anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteEducation was always important for my family. It is never late to study.
ReplyDeleteWhen I came to the U.S. I hardly spoke any English even though I used to study it in school.
I'm planning to go to Carbillo College in a Fall to study an Accounting. It is very hard to study in language that is not your native. So I decided to go to Adult school to improve my English. Santa Cruz Adult school helps me a lot. I made a progress. I took an English test at Cabrillo and I got into English 100 which in medium level that most Americans get into usually. I'm very happy! I thank you all people at Adult school and my teacher Peggy Miles for an opportunity to get a higher education and get a good job in a future.
Please don't close the school. People need to learn language so they can help their families and this country in this hard times like right now!!!
I need to come to school to learn English. So I will be able to find a good job. And it's very important to me because I need to talk to my son's teacher at his school and know how is he doing and how can I help him.
ReplyDeletePlease, don't close the Adult school!
The Adult School gives the great oppotunity to a lot of people to learn english. That is really important for everyone who wants to get a job. The Adult School helped me a lot with practicing my english which made me a lot more confident. Now i'm not afraid of talking to people i don't know. That is such a good feeling. You can involve yourself into the community. I'm glad that I can go to this school. The teachers, everyone who works here and all of the students are just so nice. It's fun come to this place everyday.
ReplyDeleteThanks to the Adult School!
From a former student:
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you remember me. I was your student long ago at Cayuga Street. I finished my BA in psychology last month at S.J.S.U. Thank you so much! I always remember you.
I think that the Santa Cruz Adult School is not only important for us to learn English but also it is important because it helps us to better understand this culture and makes our integration in this society easier.
ReplyDeleteDuring this school year I learned a lot of grammar, vocabulary and spelling, but the most precious thing for me is the respectful and beautiful atmosphere in which people from all over the world know each other. This kind of experience makes me a better person, more tolerant and empathic with different cultures.
This school teaches us English and more, how the world can be a better place to live in peace and harmony.
I am from Haiti.I have been living in Santa Cruz for one year.I came here to get married to my American fiancee. Now, the USA is my second country. For this reason,it's important for me to learn English because it's the way I can integrate in Santa cruz life.
ReplyDeleteI have been studying English at the Adult School since I arrived in Santa Cruz.So the Adult School Staff is doing a realy good job for this comunity.
please don't close this school.
Right now I live in America, in my lovely Santa Cruz. It's very important for me to understand american people and feel mylesf confident and equial. I appritiate very much the value of Adult School. I appritiate support from American government.
ReplyDeletePlease! Don't stop doing this important job for people who need it. Don't close the Adult School.
Let God bless America!
Best regards,
Luidmila
The more people know English the better. English became the most spoken language in all over the world. It brings a lot of prestige to the USA. People all over the world respect the USA and the Americans.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it is very important to be able to help our children to integrate into american society, to help them learn well at school, to prevent them from bad companies, drugs and so on.Parents must speak English well in order to keep our children's respect, to be united with them and thus, to bring up good citizens for the country.
Santa Cruz Adult School has been for me the a great help to fit and understand this society in which I felt no part of.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to learn English I have learned to understand the way Americans think and act. I am eternally grateful with my school because when I came I felt that I wasn't going to fit. But now I can get involved in many things, study in Cabrillo and even help my sister to study English.
Please do not close this school. If you close it the community of no-English speakers will be stuck without opportunities to get a better life.
When I came to Santa Cruz I could never imagine the great work that the adult school is making not only of learning English but also integrating people in American culture.
ReplyDeleteIn those classes we have learned more that English. This is a very important meeting point for the forening comunity to be in contact, to help each other and provide information about the life in the city and the opportunities for finding a job, a house or the more basics things in the common life.
It is very important for the community to keep the adult school open. I'm sure education is the most important tool for the integration not only for students, but also for their children and the future generation, who will speak English at home, understand the national culture,and share the points of view of the American population. Only then will they become citizens.
Of course I have learned a lot of English language, that was my most important goal when I came, and now I can say that in the two month that I have attended classes I really have learned the basics of the English language and now I can try to learn by my self.
I only would like to be able to take classes again next year to learn more.
Thanks a lot
I think that communication is the most important thing in our society. The Santa Cruz Adult school helps people to to get a better job, to go to a college.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have any skills in English before I came to our school. I felt "deaf" and "mute" my first months in the USA. And only after one year here the school helped me a lot. Now I can speak, understand, even read books! I've found a lot of new friends. I'm not "deaf" and "mute" any more. :-) The teachers here are great! The classes are very helpful
People need this school. Please, don't close it. Let people learn more!
To know English very well is very important for me, because I want to speak with many different people, to get a good job here and I know that without a good English I even can`t feel confident myself.
ReplyDeleteSCAS helps me very much to study English and I ask you DON`T CLOSE THIS SCHOOL, PLEASE!!!
And I know that many people whose native language is not English need this school.
The Santa Cruz Adult School has long been an excellent resource for our community. The English as a Second Language classes have provided a gateway through which newly arrived non-native speakers can learn the language and cultural skills needed for getting jobs, helping their children in school, pursuing higher education, and contributing their skills and talents to their new country. Please continue to support these valuable classes which benefit not only our students and their families but which benefit our entire community.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, how many percent of USA population are foreign people already,come from different countries. Most of us come to work in better opurtunities,for educations of our children,for being able to help them. First thing, most important thing is english of course, for us to be succesful.For us, for our children,for our family and for USA.We are going to work for USA in the future, because WE ARE LIVING IN THE USA .
ReplyDeleteI am coming here every day from Boulder Creek that is 18 miles away, that's why I need good english for living here.
Santa Cruz Adult School is a very good, succesfull school ,very good program.That's why I am coming from 18 miles away like lots of friends.
WE NEED ENGLISH, WE NEED SANTA CRUZ ADULT SCHOOL.
I want to say a big THANK YOU to everybody who works and studies at this school!
ReplyDeleteThis school helps me not only improve my English but also to let me know more about American life style. I really appreciate everything that I've got here in school.
And special thank you to my teacher Peggy Miles who has done soooo much for us.
Thank you!
I AM A NEW STUDENT.i need adult school for my work ,for my family,please don't closes our school.
ReplyDeleterene mota ESL student in level 1.
I am anew student.
ReplyDeleteI need adult school for my work and for my life in the united states.
please dont close our school.
Juan luis zapian ESL student in level 1
I am a new student.
ReplyDeleteI need adult school for my work and for my family and for my life in the united states please dont close our shool.
my name is armando barranco
ESL student in level 1
I am a new.student.i need adult.school.
ReplyDeletefor my life.in the united.states.please.don't
close.our school.
my is ganga.magar.esl.student..
in.level.1
I an a new student.
ReplyDeleteI need Adult School
for my work.
for my family.
for my life in the United States.
Please don not close our school.
Is necesary open School. Is necesary for we can have culture, red books, librery.
Abad Suarez ESL studen in level 1.
IAM A hew.
ReplyDeletestudeht.
Iheed Adult school.
foor my work.
for my childeh.
for my life in the united states.
my name is alifonia loaeza. ESL student in level 1
ia m a new student mneed adultschool for my inglish.
ReplyDeletelang my tran esl student in level 1
I am a neww student . I need adult school for my children/
ReplyDeleteplease dont close our school.
juliana salazar ESL studeny in level 1
As a local senior citizen, I look forward to attending new classes & expanding my horizons, so to say. Please leave our adult school to give us the opportunity to do just that and letting us feel a part of the community. My neighbors select classes also & sometimes we attend together making it a fun thing to do. Again please leave adult school available for us. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI've lived in SC for 15 years and have utilized Santa Cruz Adult Sch numerous times - being a single parent raising 2 boys, the school has been critical toward my finding and maintaining longterm employment, and to furthering my education as well as my children's education. We pay taxes, we pay for classes - to terminate the school or to make the classes prohibitively expensive is like shooting yourself in the foot --
ReplyDeletestupid and self defeating. Keep Santa Cruz forward thinking, don't lose SCAS!
Thanks,
Karrie
This school help me in my work speak to the other persons in the manager too and also in doctors appointments. Sometimes in the stores when I need ask sometings about food or when I looking something especial.
ReplyDeleteThe Santa Cruz adult school has helped me by doing some writting, reading, and sentences estrcture. By talking to other adult students and learning what they do at work.
ReplyDeleteIt will help my self in the future with a promotion and better by finances and one of my way be able to help other students with their English.
I believe my gramar has imprube and my writing also.
The Santa Cruz Adult School has helped me alot in my jobs and in my comunication with people around and it's helping me to make more friends, and having better times with a different people from other countries and having more conversations.
ReplyDeleteSCAS helps me to improve my English, but also improve my understanding of American culture.
ReplyDeleteI know that language is one of the biggest skills to work but it's also indispensable to communicate and live plentifully, please do not close the school, we want to learn how to communicate with you.
I HAVE IMPROVED MY ENGLISH A LOT, NOW I FEEL SURE OF MY SELF TO ENJOY COLLEGE. SCAS HAS GIVEN ME ANOTHER IDEA, HOW TO MOVE ON AND TO LOOK FORWARD TO MY DREAMS.
ReplyDeleteI'm a mother of three kids and Santa CruZ Adult School has helped me to help my kid in their homeworks. Also Santa Cruz Adult School help me to comunnicate with people. Now I can read book to my kids, and I will get a better job in the future.
ReplyDeletePLEASE don`t close our school, mothers need to help their kids in homeworks. We wants kids who in the future are successful persons, we don`t want kids in gangs PLEASE help us to be better persons in this country. We really need your help.
THE SCAS HAS HELPED ME TO INCREASE MY ENGLISH BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT HAS HELPED ME TO BE A BETTER WORKER,TO HAVE A BETTER COMUNICATION WITH ALOT OF DIFERENT PEOPLE.
ReplyDeleteSCAS HAS ALSO HELPED ME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT A
AMERICAN CULTURE SO PLEASE DO NOT CLOSE SCAS
scas helped all the students of different part the wold. I'm study here for 2 years, I need to learn more English .I live here ,I need a good job.I like this country and I am a legal immigrant. Thank you for Adult School.
ReplyDeletescas helped all the students of different part the wold. I'm study here for 2 years, I need to learn more English .I live here ,I need a good job.I like this country and I am a legal immigrant. Thank you for Adult School.
ReplyDeleteHello everybody! I've been study Engish since 07 and it's a wonderfull thing because thanks to that im not afraid of talk to someone lese also it's necesary to get a job so i don't think is a good idea to closed the school because you are not just closing a school you are closing DOORS OF OPORTUNIES for people who needs to learn English so we can have a better place in sociedity. Thanks. PLEASE DO NOT CLOSED THE SCHOOL.Sorry for the gramar i think I NEED SOME SCHOOL.
ReplyDeleteI came here to scape the war in el salvador. Santacruz adult school was my first oportunity to learn to speak english now English is my second lenguage and it is changin everything in my life because I've got new oportunities for my job,friends,business. But the most important thing I found my way. I'm shure without santa cruz adult school my life will be empty. PLASE DO NOT CLOSE THE SCHOOL . CARLOS E LARIN ESL STUDENT LEVEL FIVE
ReplyDeleteI'm a student of level four, I want to thank to SC adult school, and to all the teachers who works hard teaching the second leguage as is the English. I'm so happy even my English isn't perfect. but,I think soon I'm going to improve it, I'll do every effort to achieve it. that's why please don't cut the support to the SC adult school. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAs anyone can see by reading these posts, the impact of Santa Cruz Adult School on the lives of our community is HUGE! I am deeply saddened to think that what we have built over the years is in jeopardy. SCAS embodies the best in education: It is the bridge for such a diverse population to: opportunity, connection, a place where unique talents are recognized, where we can celebrate the joy of our commonality. We can and must work together to save our school. Thank you Tina, for creating this blog and letting our voices be heard. Lori Colman: ESL teacher at SCAS since 1978.
ReplyDeleteHi,I'm Jose Vega,the most important thing in this moment for me and my family is Adult School.I want the best future for my two daughters (11 and 8 years old) who go to Soquel Elementary. At the Adult School I learn English and with more English I can help my daughters.Please don't close the Adult School PLEASE!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease! don't close the Adult School because many people need school.The teachers
ReplyDeleteare very good and help use study good.
If I understand and speak good english,I can help my children with homework, I can go to work, I can do a good job, I have money, I will pay taxes and I buy insurance.i don't need government help for food or medicine.
I think during evry body needs to help one another with everything ,you can do that!
government together we will overcome this difficult time.
Thank you very much!
we need Adult School too much. For example in mi job i have a boss but when i started working with him I was speaking English 1O % I promise to speak more English and the Adult School helps me
ReplyDeleteHi I'm Rose Andrades. The Adult School is very important for my preparation in the future. I need to learn for my daughters, because this Adult School helpsme and can now help my daughters too. It is also very necessary for me to find a job. Please don't close the Adult School. ESL level 2.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE IMPPROVED MY ENGLISH.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE MADE NEW FRIENDS.
WHEN I GO SHOPPING AT THE AMERICAN STORE I COULD SPEAK ENGLISH A LITLE BIT.
I AM HAPPY BECAUSE VERY SOON I WILL SPEAK ENGLISH VERY WELL.
OLGA HUNT.
It is important because I need to speak English for understanding the people when I buy things at the store. I like to understand my boss. When I work in my bakery, the manager talks to me and sometimes I don't understand him. At the school I learn and now I can understand him.
ReplyDeleteBEFORE I COULDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH.
ReplyDeleteBUT I HAVE BEEN GOING TO SC ADULT SCHOOL,
I AM GETTING BETTER WITH MY ENGLISH STEP BY STEP.
THEN I CAN GO SHOPPING,TALK TO MY IN-LAWS,MAKE FRIENDS.
IF THERE WEREN'T SC ADULT SCHOOL, I COULDN'T ENJOY US LIFE. THANKS TO MY TEACHER AT SC ADULT SCHOOL.
The Santa Cruz Adult School for me is very good because I don't speak nothing and here I am learning. Today I speak a little English. This is in six months. For me it is very fast. excellent.
ReplyDeleteSC Adult School has been so good for me because it has helped me talk a lot, it makes me improve my skills like listening and writing. Now I feel more comfortable in many places, I don't feel insecure anymore. I think that SC Adult School it's a good opportunity for people who come from another country and peolpe want to learn and be a good person!
ReplyDeleteI REALLY LIKE ADULT SCHOOL =)
My family is in my country. When my daughter has homework in English she calls me. Mom, how we say sorbrino in English? Any question my daughter asks me, I can help her. Sometimes my daughter writes messages in Spanish. And says mom please write in English.
ReplyDeleteThe Adult School Has helped me How to read and Speaki much better and helped me to improve my English and have more opportunities to find a better job Thnk you for giving us this opportunity Sencerely, Isidro Santiago
ReplyDeleteIt has passed 2months since I moved here in Santa cruz.2months ago, I was afraid of speaking to Americans like shop clerks or waiters.However,Iam not afraid of it now as before and I can go shopping downtown alone because I have gone to Santa Cruz Adult school.Thanks for my teacher,my friends and Santa Cruz Adult school.My English has improved day by day!
ReplyDeleteIt has passed 2months since I moved here in Santa cruz.2months ago, I was afraid of speaking to Americans like shop clerks or waiters.However,Iam not afraid of it now as before and I can go shopping downtown alone because I have gone to Santa Cruz Adult school.Thanks for my teacher,my friends and Santa Cruz Adult school.My English has improved day by day!
ReplyDeleteWhen I moved here in Santa Cruz in 2007 I wanted to go back to school to have a better goal so I found out about from the Cabrillo College. So they had told me about this Adult school. I decided to try it out some english class. I had been going to this school about almost 3 years now and i had met many new people that came from different countries , became good friends with. I like this school ,because it make my life and writting and english better . I also like my english teacher Mrs. Lori because she had been helping me with my english and for my friends always have treated me with a lot pf respect and kindness. I' am happy to be here.
ReplyDeleteWhen I came to the USA my firts time. I kenw that it was totally different than my country. I was pretty scared when I arrived to San Francisco airport. The immigration police asked for my documents, then I looked at him and he realized that I did not understand any English. I felt embarrased and scared at the same time. When I left the immigration officer's desk I could breathe again. At the time my English was almost none. After my first week I came. My husband took me to the school and registrated me. I thought that learning English would take me a couple of months, but it was not. When I started learning English I realized that there were a lot of things to learn.
ReplyDeleteI remember my teacher Dolores Said,"It is not enough to speak, you should speak and write English If you want to get a better job in the future".
Then I came to Santa Cruz Adult School. EWvery day I had been coming to school for the first seven months without skipping any classes. Unfurtunately I stopped coming to the school when I started working. I felt deep inside me that I needed to learn more than I knew. Even my daughter had a hard time to learn ESL. She felt the same way as me. She and I worked together doing our homework and my husband helped us with the pronunciation. Somewhere along the line I have learned it enough to go shopping, working and speaking with my new friends. I hope to learn it more and be able to speak without fears anywhere, with anybody. The Santa Cruz Adult School's studants are lucky, including me, because we have wonderful,patient, lovely, generous teachers, Because every body comes to this school to learn and understand English.
Thanks a lot to all of you and God bless you forever.
Mi life changed When I came to school because I could help my children whit their homework I could speak whit their doctor,before I couldn't speak English well.I like my class because the teacher is friendly and the students too,I have met many friends from different countries and it is good for me because I can practice my English.The computer class helps me too in a good way.
ReplyDelete"Adult School" is near Safeway and a convenient location. There are many learning classes and you will be able to select what you need to study. Especially, you will be favorite that you have a friendship between many classmates. They are a diversity of culture and race, gender. I came from Japan 2 months ago. As soon as I and my family joined in English class,we had many kind friends. While breakdown time, some classmate gave us some information and advice about shopping around, renting an apartment, going to hospital...and so on. My teacher is very gentle and active. We are encouraged by her everyday. If you want to know anything, please send to school office Email. Let us go to sign in!!
ReplyDeleteI have been very happy since I came to the U.S. I have never felt painful,lonely,sad......
ReplyDeleteBecause I have been to the adult school where I can meet an excellent teacher,Ms.Lori,and many friends.
I like listenning to Lori's easy English.I wish every people would speak to me like Lori.
If I couldn't go to the adult school, I would worry about how to improve my English every day.
I am deeply grateful to this adult school because I am very happy now in the U.S.
FOR ME THE SANTA CRUZ ADULT SCDOOL HELPED FOR BETTER COMMUNICATION ITH OTHE PEOPLE AND MY JOB, READ MY BILLS, MAGAZINES, SEE THE MOVIES AT THE CINEMA...
ReplyDeleteMy English Class has helped me to:communicate here in the u.s ,help my son with his homework,read important documents and get better job opportunities.
ReplyDeleteMy English Class has helped me to:communicate with the people that live here in the U.S,speak english,to help our children at school.The Adult School is very important for the latino people because we live in The United States and we have to speak English.
ReplyDeletebecause the Santa Cruz Adult School no afraid to speak english with many people, i can use in my daily life, at work, stores, my family......
ReplyDeletemy english class has helped me to communicate here in the united states
ReplyDeleteI would like adult english clasess to continue as it helps me to better my english skills, and because of this it provides me with knowledge and anderstanding at my work place, public places, and overall it helps with my daily life. I ask, to please keep adult education and english clasess.
ReplyDeleteThank you Anna Hernandez
Thank you to those far-sighted people in the Santa Cruz Adult School who purchased the Posit Science Auditory course for instruction several years ago. I have just completed a semester in Adult School using this program and can recommend it highly to anyone wanting to sharpen the connection between the hearing mechanism and the brain, a connection necessary for retaining, organizing and using information in memory. Instructor Donna LaValley very capably led our class of 20 through this series of computer exercises, and enhanced the program with challenging puzzles, mind-games, and reading material. A mind-expanding, worthwhile course for baby-boomers and others who wonder if they are losing their "edge."
ReplyDeleteThank you! Roxie Westbrook
I need English Class because it helps me improve my English for daily life. I like English very much.
ReplyDeleteI want the English class to continue in this area. I don't want English class cut. I need to learn English to communicate with my boss.
ReplyDeleteI want the English class to continue because it helps me support this country. It also gives us better communication in our jobs and to speak with other people.
ReplyDeleteI don't want you to cut the English class because it is necessary for all people. We think English is the best way to communicate for all our family.
ReplyDeleteI was married very young and had a wonderful time going to school in San Jose at the MAEP! I received my diploma and went on to college and have had a wonderful life. In 1972 there was no assistance at all for young single mothers, but the mature teaches at Adult Ed gave me the insperation and they taught me the skills to grow and be successful.
ReplyDeletePeggy and Barbra's teaching styles are wonderful. They always make their class active and entertaining. All students can improve their English at different levels.
ReplyDeleteI want to thank them for all their help
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