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Consequences: Oakley school board president resigns after open-mic disparaging of parents; UPDATE: All board members on call resign too
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Consequences: Oakley school board president resigns after open-mic disparaging of parents; UPDATE: All board members on call resign too
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:21 pm on February 19, 2021
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This seems like a shame a shame that it didn’t include the resignation of the entire board. Oakley’s school board made national news when a parent recorded what members thought was a private conversation, and captured the board’s contempt for parents anxious to get their children back in school. Board president Lisa Brizendine resigned last night after declaring that parents only “want their baby sitters back”:
John SextonPosted at 4:41 pm on February 18, 2021
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Oakley is a town in California about midway between San Francisco and Sacramento. Yesterday members of the Oakley Unified Elementary School District Board of Trustees gathered on a zoom call to prepare for a public meeting. They clearly didn’t realize that parents had already logged on to the meeting and could hear what they were saying. Unfortunately for them, one parent decided to record the meeting as it happened and uploaded video of it to YouTube.
Superintendent Gregory Hetrick talked about wanting to implement a new system for public comments which would require people to call in and leave a message which would automatically cut them off after three minutes.