Comments on: Top-level OUSD staffer leaves for the Island

By: harlemmoon

harlemmoon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:07:59 +0000

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
How ironic; those who care are booted while the hustlers are continuously offered seats at the table.

By: turner

turner — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:18:24 +0000

Harlemoon,
Javetta Robinson was fired. She did not leave voluntarily. Some people give a damn. She did. In fact, having worked at OUSD, I can tell you many of the workers there give a damn. But, like you and me, they are powerless to do anything. The question is…do their bosses give a damn as much as they do?

Turner

By: harlemmoon

harlemmoon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:06:05 +0000

The list is endless regarding highly paid OUSD bureaucrats who pretended to give a damn – that is, until the next best job offer came along.
I’ve repeatedly asked what if anything Vince Matthews, Kim Statham, Kirsten Vital, Javetta Robinson might have done in their time here to warrant the salivating employers who chase after them.
When you figure it out, please let the rest of us know!

By: Nextset

Nextset — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:34:28 +0000

typo, 2nd line from bottom,
… it is not what the US people wanted US society to be. …

By: Nextset

Nextset — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:26:28 +0000

Joe Public: You have really hit the nail on the head. While OUSD maintains it’s reputation as a Ghetto Gladiator School – which SF Unified doesn’t – we have a parade of highly paid and not-that-old administrators helicoptering in from wherever who stay awhile and then go, leaving OUSD the same or worse. And never a politically incorrect word is spoken.

OUSD has a lot of students, staff and real estate and is capable of establishing an academic program such as Lowell High School. If OUSD had one academically selective campus it could change some of the atmosphere of decay. But they just don’t want to do so. I think that is an injustice to all the people within OUSD’s service area.

Brave New World.

I just got my copy of “The Bell Curve” off the shelf to give to a college student to use. I noticed the cover again – and was reminded of it’s premise that US Society is breaking down due to government policy into clans (closed societies) based on cognitive ability. I can see this happening and it is not the US people wanted US society to be. This is not a good thing.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:01:49 +0000

She did NOTHING. Just smiled pretty.

By: Jane Pub

Jane Pub — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:34:07 +0000

I too agree that Kirsten did very little for the district.

By: Joe Public

Joe Public — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:41:30 +0000

Kirsten didn’t really do much for the district. She always came across as “bothered” as to how things were and acted as if it was a nuisance doing her job. Kind of came across as an elitist.

I would also like to know what she did that was so great. Another example of someone that flew into Oakland, joined the rest of the executive bureaucrats, used our school district to be labeled as a reformer, and left us after collecting in the six figures annually with the same quagmire.

Real reformer? Yeah right!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:39:40 +0000

She has been officially assigned.
Email came from OUSD.

By: former hills parent

former hills parent — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:42:15 +0000

I would also be interested to hear about her long-term thinking, since she did not appear to do much sharing of her thoughts during the kindergarten overcrowding crisis in 07-08.