Good Luck to them working with school officials. They will be dealing with strong walls that cannot hear, see, nor feel the pain that our students and parents experiencing bullying feel, and these walls cannot be broken. They only pretend to bend, but then back to that a strong "wall". Thanks for trying. Remember they will be working with katherine Baker, yes the very same person who failed to protect the student's rights. Now she is educating parents and leading these Safemeetings as a member of the Welcoming Schools "Safe Welcoming Schools task force". Those meetings will be a waste of time as long as she and Damian Huertas are members.

God bless any and all parents who are stepping in to try and help facilitate change. We cannot give up hope that this community will wake up and see the light. I just hope that no child is seriously injured either by bullies or at their own hand before we really listen up and make some changes.

Christina and Mary: I admire and respect you for stepping up and doing what needs to be done. Maybe Ken Dauber and WCDBPA will be a source of help to you as well. They seem to have had it right all along and seem to be tirelessly and ceaselessly working behind the scenes to affect change. Thanks to you Daubers and WCDBPA! The OCR presentation was very illuminating. I just wish that Kevin and Camile had stayed home so that all the parents who may have wanted to speak could have done so without any fear of retaliation.

To God is on the other side,
Thanks for bringing out the fact that Kevin and Camile were there. That was awful, but it worked for them, there were parents who wanted to ask questions, but once they saw Kevin, they backed up. He is so tall, he stands out. He should have stayed home, but I guess he had some intimidation to do, and he did a good job.

Bravo, Christina and Mary! I was disappointed to read the officials were trying to downplay the issue of bullying and the subsequent Office for Civil Rights investigation. So glad that you raised the visibility of the issue again and are lighting the way for all. Transparency is what is needed. Let's get this ombudsperson on board. . . .

Thank you, parents volunteers!
As to the ombudsman - Will it be a paid potion? if so - who will pay? PAUSD? Salary, health, retirement? To who the ombudsman will report?
I can not see how an ombudsman can be independent if it will be a paid position, and salary and benefits will be coming out of PAUSD budget, or controlled by PAUSD officials.
The following is copied from - (Web Link ombudsman in organization: "... Many private companies, universities, non-profit organizations and government agencies also have an ombudsman (or an ombuds office) to serve internal employees, and managers and/or other constituencies. These ombudsman roles are structured to function independently, by reporting to the CEO or board of directors, and according to International Ombudsman Association (IOA) Standards of Practice they do not have any other role in the organisation..."
Will the ombudsman report to PAUSD Board? Superintendent?

Hmmm. A Federal regulatory body is giving a single briefing, and posters above claim that the Superintendent and a school board member shouldn't be in the audience to listen.

And if they weren't there, the very same posters would no doubt claim that it was a travesty that the leadership wasn't there to listen to the information.

It is actually quite tiresome to take the time to even participate in such a biased discussion, but silence might be misconstrued as support...

I asked above, a month ago - "...Will the ombudsman report to PAUSD Board? Superintendent?"
I am more convinced than before that my doubts raising this question had solid grounds.

The most recent revelations that the district is blocking OCR from interviewing students at Duvy should give Mary and Christina some pause. While the district is telling you that they want collaboration they are proceeding behind closed doors to obstruct a federal investigation and spinning to poison the relationship between parents and OCR with Barbara Mitchell planting thefalse suggestion that OCR is goig t interrogate your kindegartner. Something must be done. Mary, Christina, others who organized the OCR event help us. What about the kids who are being bullied? Is there nothing we will do for them? What about the Duveneck child who was bullied? Are we prepared to just forget him? The whole cmunity has to support that child and put the district on notice that they cannot obstruct the investigation. We need to know the truth And OCR is our only way to find out.

Sorry for you ladies sooner or later you will be finding out that taking to skelly and the board is like taking to the hand, they will try to keep you busy, just like they did with the counsiling system and Gunn (nothing), but they kept pretending they will do somenthing about it. Thanks for you hard work, time and dedications to this issue.

How sad that the district had the CAC as an ally and partner and now has alienated them completely with the districts defensive, bumbling, and litigious strategy. Cutting Angela off was the last straw. This district is run by nincompoops.

Dauber, Vincent, and Schmidt for school board: putting kids first.