*The start-up costs coupled with the first year opening of Sage Creek High School is equivalent to 7.5 teacher furlough days or 27 teacher jobs.

*If Sage Creek is opened students will lose.
*Course offerings, elective choices, sports, clubs, and school activities will all be reduced.
*Class sizes will be increased
*There will be fewer teachers
*Teachers will have less time to support students.
*Opening Sage Creek harms students.

*The bond to building Sage Creek High School was passed in 2005 under a very different economy.
*As a Basic Aid district it was believed that the Carlsbad School District would have the funding to operate two boutique high schools
*Those funding assumptions proved to be wrong.
*Growth projections for high school enrollment were between 3800 and 4400.
*The growth in student population never occurred.
*It was believed that Carlsbad High School was overcrowded.
*Today Carlsbad High has 3000 students and can accommodate students into the future.

*Why is the Board of Trustees insisting on opening Sage Creek High School? We do not need it, we cannot afford it, and most importantly it will harm students!