Recently there have been several issues which seem to have polarized our community with respect to the school district. We believe that improving communication between the community and the school board could help ease some of this discord and potentially provide a forum to resolve conflict and restore confidence in our leadership.
We are asking the Coast Unified School District Board of Trustees to create a community liaison committee consisting of board members, teachers and parents to discuss and work towards solutions to the many issues facing our school district.
If you agree then please take a minute to sign our petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/683/436/064/communication-community-input-and-transparency-is-that-too-much-to-ask-for/
Monday, March 26, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Dear Bert Etling...
Thank you Lee for standing up to the real bullies! Hopefully Bert will see fit to publish your letter, but for now I will publish it here!
Bert -
That Sanders piece you ran was insightful. I regret Greg Sanders has not attended a school board meeting once in Chris Adams's tenure as Superintendent. It would be great to get his thoughts on the impact of long term English language learners to a community. Personally, I had to review our ELL program and performance with the Director of the CA Department of Education Language Policy and Leadership Office, the head of the AMAO office, speak with three benchmark school districts and consult an ELL Advocacy group before I was comfortable speaking publicly about these topics. I will presume Chris Adams or Pedro Garcia brought Sanders up to speed on the complexity of these issues.
Sander's claims that Superintendent's own kids are being bullied is troubling. Having attended the SLO county anti-bullying conference hosted by Dr. Crocker I would go further and say, The Cambrian needs to investigate bullying at our schools immediately. It is rampant.
I know firsthand because I am the parent of not one, but two, bullied children. My children were not bullied by other kids though but by Superintendent Adams and his wife.
Superintendent Adams distributed a letter to his staff in his staff meetings calling me, their father, a liar. He proceeded to claim I was attacking the district staff by asking questions about our ELL program. Bert, you remember this letter, The Cambrian published it the following day and still has not fact checked his statements. Not to be outdone, Julie Adams cyberbullied my ten year old daughter in an email she sent to the district staff and half of Cambria. In addition to being distasteful and mean spirited it turns out her disclosures about my disabled child violate state ed code, FERPA laws, IDEA law and the CUSD Board bylaws. These laws exist to protect my child's privacy and the information is held only at the district office. I expected the Board to launch an investigation but they have initiated nothing. Everyone involved in special education in SLO County who has learned of this disclosure has been appalled by this conduct. If you need to review Julie's email for your investigation it is still online at Calcoast news. It is not hard to find, the private information Julie Adams disclosed about my child can be seen alongside allegations of sexual harassment by an area police chief!
By definition bullying uses a power imbalance, intends to cause harm and is repeated so it seems, I too, may be a victim of the Adams' bullying. If you want to interview me I will happily tell you how I feel about the matter. Perhaps Greg Sanders and I could speak at a Rotary meeting together and discuss whether such behavior passes the Four-Way test? It would be a good lesson on ethics for the kids of our town.
We need your investigative journalism to put an end to this nonsense. First, find the elusive Pedro Garcia and then launch your investigation into bullying.
We are all counting on you Bert.
(from Lee Chamberlain)
Bert -
That Sanders piece you ran was insightful. I regret Greg Sanders has not attended a school board meeting once in Chris Adams's tenure as Superintendent. It would be great to get his thoughts on the impact of long term English language learners to a community. Personally, I had to review our ELL program and performance with the Director of the CA Department of Education Language Policy and Leadership Office, the head of the AMAO office, speak with three benchmark school districts and consult an ELL Advocacy group before I was comfortable speaking publicly about these topics. I will presume Chris Adams or Pedro Garcia brought Sanders up to speed on the complexity of these issues.
Sander's claims that Superintendent's own kids are being bullied is troubling. Having attended the SLO county anti-bullying conference hosted by Dr. Crocker I would go further and say, The Cambrian needs to investigate bullying at our schools immediately. It is rampant.
I know firsthand because I am the parent of not one, but two, bullied children. My children were not bullied by other kids though but by Superintendent Adams and his wife.
Superintendent Adams distributed a letter to his staff in his staff meetings calling me, their father, a liar. He proceeded to claim I was attacking the district staff by asking questions about our ELL program. Bert, you remember this letter, The Cambrian published it the following day and still has not fact checked his statements. Not to be outdone, Julie Adams cyberbullied my ten year old daughter in an email she sent to the district staff and half of Cambria. In addition to being distasteful and mean spirited it turns out her disclosures about my disabled child violate state ed code, FERPA laws, IDEA law and the CUSD Board bylaws. These laws exist to protect my child's privacy and the information is held only at the district office. I expected the Board to launch an investigation but they have initiated nothing. Everyone involved in special education in SLO County who has learned of this disclosure has been appalled by this conduct. If you need to review Julie's email for your investigation it is still online at Calcoast news. It is not hard to find, the private information Julie Adams disclosed about my child can be seen alongside allegations of sexual harassment by an area police chief!
By definition bullying uses a power imbalance, intends to cause harm and is repeated so it seems, I too, may be a victim of the Adams' bullying. If you want to interview me I will happily tell you how I feel about the matter. Perhaps Greg Sanders and I could speak at a Rotary meeting together and discuss whether such behavior passes the Four-Way test? It would be a good lesson on ethics for the kids of our town.
We need your investigative journalism to put an end to this nonsense. First, find the elusive Pedro Garcia and then launch your investigation into bullying.
We are all counting on you Bert.
(from Lee Chamberlain)
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