圣地亚哥华文网报道：巴纳德小学韩裔校长朴东彬昨日向社区广大民众发出紧急求援信，信中告诉大家由于圣地亚哥联合学区面临的严重的预算危机将对所有学校的毁灭性影响，巴纳德中文学校也不能幸免。该校日前已有四位中文班老师收到裁员通知。
他在信中呼吁巴纳德社区和关心该校教育的人士能在圣地亚哥教育委员会5月10日和5月24日期间召开的公开听证会上发出声音，用各种方式显示过去该校的成绩、贡献和在社区中的影响，力证巴纳德磁性中文小学需要继续开办的重要性。同时，请邮寄或发电子邮件给所有SDUSD委员会的委员强烈要求挽救学校。地址分别是：
Email: board@sandi.net
Board of Education Office
San Diego Unified School District
4100 Normal Street, Room 2231
San Diego, CA 92103
巴纳德小学为圣地亚哥联合学区第一所引入中文教育的全日制公立小学，目前在校学生有300名左右。（圣地亚哥华文网SanDiegoChinesePress.com)
附校长信全文：
Dear Barnard Community,
As you are all aware, San Diego Unified School District is faced with a serious budget crisis that will potentially have devastating effects on all schools. Barnard Mandarin Chinese Magnet School is not immune from these dangers, and we as a community must unite to let the Board of Education know that we need to maintain our successful program.
Four years ago, the Board of Education approved the existence of our Mandarin Program hoping to attract more students and to prevent the school from closing due to low test scores and lack of parent involvement. Now in 2011, Barnard is one of the most successful and innovative schools in the district, and yet the Board is failing to recognize and meet the most minimal needs here at Barnard. Here are some examples:
* Layoff notices were given to our hard working teachers, 4 being our Mandarin Immersion teachers. These layoff notices need to be rescinded immediately for all our teachers due to the unique work they do for our program.
* District must fund at least one additional allocation for our Literacy Resource Teacher, Nicole Levinson. Here are some of her duties:
1. Conducts assessments to determine student reading levels within the immersion classrooms
2. Helps develop guided reading groups within the immersion classrooms
3. Implements pull-out guided reading groups for the immersion classrooms
4. Provides RTI (reading intervention) for those who perform below and significantly below grade level in 2nd – 4th grades
5.Coordinates and implements professional development and related follow-up activities for staff
6. Consults with parents and teachers to recommend at-home strategies to improve reading skills during SSTs and parent conferences
7. Developed and implemented 8 Reading Strategies Seminars for parents of our immersion students
* Restoring Transportation to meet the needs of students who have “choiced” in from all over the county to take advantage of the Mandarin Immersion Program.
How can you help? We must let the Board members know the amazing accomplishment we have achieved in such short period of time and the International recognition we are receiving as being one of the best Mandarin Language and Culture Programs in the world, and a high achieving school!
Please mail or email to all SDUSD Board Members at:
board@sandi.net
Board of Education Office
San Diego Unified School District
4100 Normal Street, Room 2231
San Diego, CA 92103
Lastly, we ask our community to attend the upcoming Board Meetings on May 10th and May 24th to be the voice for our program by speaking during public testimony time. Please be diplomatic and share all the wonderful accomplishments that we achieved in the last 3 years.
Below is the link to request to speak at the meeting.
http://www.sandi.net/boe/Forms/TakeSurvey.asp?PageNumber=1&SurveyID=41K5m3M24m2KG&21832072015467900Nav=|&NodeID=675