Comments on: Oakland parents strike, demand teacher’s removal

By: J.R.

J.R. — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:51:24 +0000

If the parents do not “stand up”, the whole debacle will be “hushed up” and “swept under” the proverbial carpet. This is the way big organizations work, and the school system is pretty big. Haven’t you noticed that these procedures are laboriously slow and drawn out, because the people in charge know that the collective public has a short attention span.

By: Cheuy_Leuy

Cheuy_Leuy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:48:56 +0000

@SUE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

OAKLAND — An audit of Oaklands use of federal stimulus dollars provided to create jobs found “inflated job numbers,” “accounting mistakes” and incidents of the money being spent on things such as field trips to a water park, a state report released Tuesday said.

Now who’s out of their minds???????????????????

By: Cheuy_Leuy

Cheuy_Leuy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:56:21 +0000

Sounds like Sue needs to take a civics class to understand why it is inappropriate for a School Board member on the Ethic committee especially, should follow democratic principles–and, why our County has a CPS unit to investigate any ‘valid’ claims of a teacher involved in any physical altercations with a student. Any clinical health worker or professional whole holds any ‘valid’ credential or higer-education degree would also agree that this type of vigilantism fally under ‘bully’ which this incident is clearly all about. I hope the Union and the teacher “SUE” for intentional infliction of emotional distress and other intentional and negligent acts with the support of a school board member….”SUE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>”

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:38:22 +0000

@Cheuy-leuy,

What was all that? It sounds kind of like my mother when she’s off her meds (bi-polar disorder, type II). I.e. lots and lots of words, but nothing that’s coherent, meaningful, or in context. And anger, lots of anger, but consistently misdirected anger.

(Dad’s got her in a new hospital, since their rural county hospital closed last year, and he’s hopeful that she’ll be able to be released and come home sometime this week or next. Then he won’t be driving 60-miles one way for daily visits with her – which worries me.)

Maybe some mental health/behavioral services could help you too?

Sorry, I’m sure this is going to provoke another angry and incoherent rant, but I honestly didn’t get anything else out of those previous posts, and I can’t help noticing the strong similarities to someone who’s close to me, and has been in and out of numerous institutions for the last 45 years.

By: Katy Murphy

Katy Murphy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:31:01 +0000

No name-calling, please.

By: Cheuy_Leuy

Cheuy_Leuy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:21:51 +0000

Why don’t you all adopt a research-based, anti-bully curriculum?

http://www.researchpress.com/product/item/5192/

How can you support networking over 750 surveillance cameras by 2011 in the District to prevent crime and then allow such a person with a “bully” mentality to run the program????????????

YOU ARE ALL STUPID STREET THUG MENTALITY NOMINDS……….

By: Cheuy_Leuy

Cheuy_Leuy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:08:44 +0000

Why is a school board member supporting this? America is democracy. Each person has the right to due process. Just because these parents perceive something doesn’t make okay to go mob and bully a teacher and a principal. I would like to know how many of these people “protesting” have US citizenship? Many of them don’t even understand America’s form of government or constitutional values. They are nothing more than a bunch of bullies rather than taking proper action. The proof is in their actions to “try” this in the Court of public opinion rather than the proper forum. Have any of them taken the Oath for Citizenship? I doubt it…and, you would think a school board member who purported took his including to uphold and defend the American constitution and a democratic form of government he is supposed to be promoting in his position. Ready to retaliate? Are you no better than the gang-member street shooter who is going to machine-gun you down if you drive into his part of town wearing a red jersey? Shame of all of you..and if you like to behave like Nextset has stated hundreds of times…”like an animal” go to the zoo for further lessons. STOP OUSD BULLIES!!!! ALL OF THEM…You never know where all of this will lead…You like to bankrupt the District on unnecessary litigation and further bankrupt the current and future generations of Oakland kids coming to school?…Oh, I forgot, the report of the Factfinder finding the same waste of money and time…Oh, why didn’t you just call CPS or police on that teacher rather than “drag” him/her out of the classroom and then bully him/her in public?
P.S. I will never send my baby to an OUSD school and I think all of the parents should strike and riot with the Teachers for many weeks…Shut this whole City down…oh, and again…don’t forget to invite the whole City of Oakland workers also ripped off and subjugated into a less than living wage while contractors took off with 6-digit salaries and equivalent or more overtime bonuses as the base salary for years…Where does all of this lead?..vigilatism and fascist like pitting of peter against paul…turn in your neighbor…when will you all turn the other cheek?

By: Katy Murphy

Katy Murphy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:34:38 +0000

UPDATE: The school district has placed the teacher on administrative leave while they investigate the latest complaint, which alleges physical abuse.

Troy Flint, the OUSD spokesman, said the district received new allegations relating to student safety which allowed them to put him on leave immediately. A parent filed a complaint with the district last Thursday, the day of the boycott, saying the teacher grabbed her son by the collar, leaving a mark on his neck.

By: Union Supporter-But

Union Supporter-But — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:19:21 +0000

My question is since three students have moved from the class (out of Oakland Unified), what if anything, as a school district, as a school, as a teacher, as a principal, as a PTA, as a community – should we do for the STUDENTS of the teacher who is not performing, not taking advantage of educational opportunities, and who is having issues.

For the students who did not learn the grade level material, and who scored 80% or better on tests last year, but have failed either portions or the whole benchmark tests this year, what responsibility do we have to them?

Do we just send them into next year with no foundation of material for this year? That is what I hear on this blog when we defend the current teacher – I hear what we owe the teacher, but I want to know what we owe the students before we kick them into the next school year.

By: J.R.

J.R. — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:59:33 +0000

Yep, they should find greener pastures. We also need to eliminate the top heavy bureaucracy of the education system(all the multiple redundant layers of superintendents at the fed, state, county and local level). The majority of funding should always reach the kids in the classroom and I am not so sure that it does.