Parents who have had it with teachers dragging their feet getting
back to work will surely be infuriated over this call. Board members of a
school district in Oakley, California, which is in the San Francisco
Bay Area, were caught mocking parents during a video call and could only
respond with “uh oh” when they realized all of their remarks were being
broadcast live. I’ve said it for a while now and I think a lot of other
people have done so as well. Teachers are lazy. They worried about
COVID even though the science says it’s safe to reopen. The science is
clear. Reopen the damn schools. Kids don’t get it and they don’t spread
it. And now, even with teachers being vaccinated, they still don’t want
to work.
Where I live, in Northern Virginia, the teachers cut
the COVID vaccine lines. They still want to stay home. And yet, these
are the same people who complain about their salaries. You don’t work
year-round and now you’re just refusing to work. Period. Sorry,
teachers, you earn every bit of scorn from parents. Kids are committing
suicide and experiencing a horde of mental issues due to lack of
in-person learning, and we have these clowns taking swipes at parents
(via ABC 11):
In
the video, board member Kim Beede uses expletives in talking about
parents. The board also talks about making parents call in and record
their public comments rather than making them appear live in a meeting
and the recording would cut them off at exactly three minutes.
Board
member Lisa Brizendine said in the video that the public forgets that
there are real people on the other side of the letters.
"They
don't know what goes on behind the scenes," said Brizendine. "It's
really unfortunate they want to pick on us. They want their babysitters
back."
1) When
officials at the Oakley Union Elem. School district thought they were
meeting privately, they used profanity to insult & threaten parents
upset by the district's prolonged school closures.
Here's when they realized their mtg was being broadcast to the public.
"Uh, oh." pic.twitter.com/OXbHWq9FMy
2)
Before she realized the public was listening in, School Board President
Lisa Brizendine criticized parents who continue to be frustrated by the
district's Covid-related school closures:
"They want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back."@nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/Z0jaRQWKn9
3) School Board Trustee Richie Masadas then appeared to link parents' frustration over close closures to drug use.
"My brother had a delivery service for medical marijuana and his clientele were parents of kids at school."@nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/vgAhY90lmG
4)
What school board officials thought was a private chat, also included
Superintendent Greg Hetrick trying to sell the board on new technology
that aims to limit public comment by cutting off parents "mid-sentence."
"It just cuts them off mid-sentence and it's done," he said. pic.twitter.com/6hK3huf3Hb
5)
Notice how quickly the video feed shuts off after school officials
realize their profanity & insults were broadcast to the very same
parents they were disparaging.
Makes you wonder if the board still plans to adopt that "new technology" to limit public comment.@nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/szqd3TpWUb
The
fallout was immediate. This isn’t about education. It’s about power as
always. This is what they say when they think the cameras are off. I’ll
say it again. They’re lazy. They don’t want to work. You don’t get into
education for a payday. Sorry, that’s not how these careers pan out
unless you’re shamelessly corrupt—and there’s a lot of that too on these
school boards. It caused the school board president to resign. Good. He
should be sprinting for the exit after this call. Who the hell do these
people think they are (via NBC Bay Area):
President
of the Oakley Union Elementary School District Board of Trustees has
resigned after being caught on video making disparaging comments about
parents during a live public meeting Wednesday night.
Superintendent
Greg Hetrick was describing a proposal to limit public meeting comments
to three-minute audio clips made in advance when trustee Richie Masadas
noted, "It's easy to hide behind a screen."
Apparently unaware
that the public video feed was still live, trustee Kim Beede said "Are
we alone? If you're going to call me out. I'm going to f--- you up."
[…]
Hetrick
issued a statement Thursday saying, "Last night at the Oakley Union
Elementary School District Regular Board Meeting there were unfortunate
and truly inappropriate comments made that were heard by many. These
comments are not typical and more importantly they are not what the
community should expect from our school district."
He added, "The
comments made were not in alignment with our Vision and are definitely
not what any of us stand for as leaders. I know that we lost trust with
the community. I will not make excuses for what happened or why it
happened. I am the superintendent. I am responsible and accountable and I
am truly sorry for what took place ... I know that our students deserve
better from us."
Oh, shut up—you got caught you
clown. Eat it. Deal with it. Now, screw off. Everyone on that board
should frankly go to hell. Vacation is over. Remote learning doesn’t
work. You have to get back into the classroom. If you can’t do that,
find another job. Sit down, shut up, and listen to the science which is
telling all of you that keeping schools closed is unnecessary. Any
argument to the contrary is wrong and grounded in idiocy and political
nonsense. This is how the unions are flexing their muscles, leaving your
kids in a mental trainwreck. Some real cast of characters we have here
spearheading the education system.
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