I gave up tilting at this particular windmill a very long time ago. Teachers, other parents, and the OUSD website were all better ways to learn about scheduled meetings. Lately, Katy and this blog have joined the list.

I send an email about this fact to both Mr Matthews (got a read receipt in 5 minutes and no reply at all) and to Ms Mayor (got a read receipt in 30 minutes and no reply at all). (I also sent a letter to the editor to the Chronicle, Tribune and the East Bay Express.)

The hypocritical OUSD is trying to keep all of us out of the process.

That would be regrettable. And the meeting would be rescheduled.

“It was a regrettable mistake for which we are deeply apologetic. It’s certainly not the intention of the district or the board to disenfranchise any group, particularly due to religious convictions. Unfortunately, that has been the effect of our actions, and we’re sorry for that.”

Yet, OUSD is not rescheduling the meeting? Is this a disconnect for anyone else? OUSD admits that its scheduling error disenfranchised families in our school community but it is still moving forward with its meeting?

I’ve seen some wackadoodle OUSD responses, but this really takes the cake.

It seemed like OUSD central office is always making regrettable mistakes: sending out the notices about these meetings after most of these mtgs have already taken place, scheduling meetings during religious/cultural holiday.
OUSD administration, quit blaming the post office for your own shortfalls. The post office has never been late with my mail.

I believe it is their intention to leave the public out of public education.

Flint said: “It was a regrettable mistake for which we are deeply apologetic. It’s certainly not the intention of the district or the board to disenfranchise any group, particularly due to religious convictions. Unfortunately, that has been the effect of our actions, and we’re sorry for that.

“We’re taking steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again, and that board meetings and other events of substantial interest do not conflict with major religious holidays.”

Flint said the Yom Kippur conflict came to his attention last week, and that there were concerns about moving the date of the meeting on short notice. Should the date have been changed anyway?

The problem of meeting announcements arriving in the mail *after* the meeting date – yeah, they really need to do better! But it’s been like that for as long as DH and I have had anything to do with the district. Older son is in the 11th grade at Skyline, and he started in a CH preschool class when he was four. So, I won’t be holding my breath waiting for the district to fix this problem… I’ve heard the same excuse blaming the post office for the mail not getting delivered in a timely manner for way too many years, and I’ve had bigger things to spend my time and energy on fixing – or at least trying to fix.