A South County teachers union is siding with three Lucia Mar Unified School District board members who are facing the threat of a recall election for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to community members on May 5, Lucia Mar Unified Teachers Association President Cody King called the recall effort a witch hunt that would only succeed in wasting taxpayer dollars. click to enlarge File Photo By Kasey Bubnash ENOUGH IS ENOUGH At a rally outside the Lucia Mar Unified School District office on May 4, Michael Mulder, vice president of Central Coast Families for Education Reform, announced plans to recall three of the district s board members.
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Progressive-Dems have plenty of causes to push their desire for equality to new levels of activism. But all they seem to accomplish is protesting and talking. There was the whole controversy over
Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board member Chris Arend who believes systemic racism is a fallacy and yells at Spanish speakers because the district translator doesn t translate very well as well as some of Arend s ideological cronies on the board who are worried that teaching a high school ethnic studies course will unfairly target white students. (Insert eye roll.) These elected officials represent a school district that is majority Latino with a high percentage of families who speak Spanish at home.
People should be outraged, she said. They ve learned nothing for the past year. click to enlarge Photo By Kasey Bubnash ENOUGH IS ENOUGH At a rally outside the Lucia Mar Unified School District office on May 4, Michael Mulder, vice president of Central Coast Families for Education Reform, announced plans to recall three of the district s board members. Galvan s kids are both juniors at Arroyo Grande High School, and, like students statewide, they ve spent months learning online from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers and district officials throughout SLO County say they re doing what they can with the time and resources allotted, but parents like Galvan worry distance learning will have lasting negative effects on their children s mental and physical health.
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It s back to in-person learning next week for elementary school students within Lucia Mar Unified.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the school board gave the green light for transitional kindergarten through sixth grade to reopen. This is something we ve been fighting for, for months now, said Parent, Katie Morris.
It s a phased reopening, starting with tk and kindergarten on Wednesday, February 24. Grades 1 through 3 will start on March 1. The remaining elementary students go back March 8. The first day of school is going to look very different than it s looked in the past, said Paul Fawcett, Lucia Mar Unified Superintendent.