X.-1 20-1335 Adoption by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 1920-0260 - George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department
I am an Oakland resident in strong support of the resolution to eliminate the OUSD police department. This money could be spent on smaller classes, counselors, nurses, and other resources - this is what will keep students safe and able to learn, not cops.
I support the legislation to eliminate police the Oakland Schools Police Department. Students should not feel like criminals ever and least of all in their schools.
I, as well as other Oakland Unified School District teachers and staff, stand with the Black Organizing Project to urge the board to SUPPORT THE GEORGE FLOYD RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE OAKLAND SCHOOLS POLICE DEPARTMENT and DEFUND POLICE IN THE OAKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. This funding should be allocated to increase resources around restorative justice, counseling, career opportunity, educational and emotional support. Please consider the future, safety, and security of our students and DEFUND POLICE IN OUSD!
I, as well as other Oakland Unified School District teachers and staff, stand with the Black Organizing Project to urge the board to SUPPORT THE GEORGE FLOYD RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE OAKLAND SCHOOLS POLICE DEPARTMENT and DEFUND POLICE IN THE OAKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. This funding should be allocated to increase resources around restorative justice, counseling, career opportunity, educational and emotional support. Please consider the future, safety, and security of our students and DEFUND POLICE IN OUSD!
please eliminate the oakland schools police department and all contracts and relationships with the oakland police dept and all other police forces, thank you.
Our school board has a responsibility to the education of our students, not to perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline. Especially in this moment of a health pandemic and extreme budget cuts, we need to reimagine what safety, support, and justice look like and where they come from.
I'd like to challenge the narrative presented by my colleague Lee Thomas about a police incident on the Lockwood campus. He said that police helped resolve a situation in which a "robber" hid in our school bathroom. In fact, this incident started blocks away in public housing and OPD instigated a chase that brought the incident onto our campus. In the end the suspect turned out to be an unarmed minor! The police held more than 1,000 students across 4 schools under lockdown for hours while they searched the campus, drawing their guns in view of myself and other students. School had to be dismissed early and parents were called away from work to pick them up. The whole community was traumatized by this incident. To recap - overpolicing in deep East Oakland endangered and traumatized our black and brown youth and their families. I strongly supported the George Floyd resolution. Schools should be a sanctuary free from OUSD police *and* OPD activity.
I am a special education teacher in the district and I support this effort to end the Oakland school police force. Education should be a learning envioirnment and we should be putting our effort into developing effective in school interventions, giving therapy to students who need it and bringing back restorative justice.
Children need to not fear going to receive their education. Disband the Oakland Schools Police department and reallocate funding to social workers, education supplies, meal programs, and teacher salaries.
I am a social worker practicing in Oakland. I support defunding police, ESPECIALLY in our schools. We need to increase funding for nurses, social workers, teachers, and therapists in schools--NOT police.
I, as well as other Oakland Unified School District teachers and staff, stand with the Black Organizing Project to urge the board to SUPPORT THE GEORGE FLOYD RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE OAKLAND SCHOOLS POLICE DEPARTMENT and DEFUND POLICE IN THE OAKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. This funding should be allocated to increase resources around restorative justice, counseling, career opportunity, educational and emotional support. Please consider the future, safety, and security of our students and DEFUND POLICE IN OUSD!
The adherence to an "agenda" in this meeting is silencing the community - we demand that you adopt the George Floyd resolution and use that funding to provide additional support for counselors, trauma-informed social workers and other resources for the well-being of your students.
I am an educator and work in Berkeley and Oakland. Police presence threatens the social and emotional health, and academic success, of our students– especially black and brown students. Let's divert funds spent on policing to get counselors, nurses, psychologists, and librarians in every school.
This Resolution is a strong step forward for our District. Thanks to the Black Organizing Project for their work in advancing awareness and a new vision for public schools on these issues with the George Floyd Resolution. The OUSD's adoption, can provide a path for emerging policy to move forward and inform legislation being considered in school districts, cities, counties, as well as at the state and federal level. Defunding police departments is a call to divest and reinvest resources desperately needed and long overdue. People look to Oakland for leadership in elevating proactive, healthy community development in public service - and it does not go unnoticed. Our students take pride in their voices and should know that as they graduate and advance to the next level of their education this summer - that everything has an impact, including policies rooted in and prioritizing doing justice to their public education. Thank you for taking action on these issues and approving it tonight.
I fully support the resolution. Police should not be in our schools. Kids need and deserve guidance and support to do well in school. They do not deserve to be terrorized by the police. The funds used for putting police in schools can be used to enrich the lives of students and pay teachers better.
When my baby grows up I want her to feel safe in school. I don't want her or future classmates to have a culture of fear in their schools. My wife and I both went to schools without police and we demand this generation have the same experience.
I am an Oakland resident in strong support of the resolution to eliminate the OUSD police department. This money could be spent on smaller classes, counselors, nurses, and other resources - this is what will keep students safe and able to learn, not cops.
Eliminate OSPD!!!!!
I support the legislation to eliminate police the Oakland Schools Police Department. Students should not feel like criminals ever and least of all in their schools.
Police have no place inside our schools. I fully support the effort to remove all police presence from OUSD campuses. The time is now!
I, as well as other Oakland Unified School District teachers and staff, stand with the Black Organizing Project to urge the board to SUPPORT THE GEORGE FLOYD RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE OAKLAND SCHOOLS POLICE DEPARTMENT and DEFUND POLICE IN THE OAKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. This funding should be allocated to increase resources around restorative justice, counseling, career opportunity, educational and emotional support. Please consider the future, safety, and security of our students and DEFUND POLICE IN OUSD!
I, as well as other Oakland Unified School District teachers and staff, stand with the Black Organizing Project to urge the board to SUPPORT THE GEORGE FLOYD RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE OAKLAND SCHOOLS POLICE DEPARTMENT and DEFUND POLICE IN THE OAKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. This funding should be allocated to increase resources around restorative justice, counseling, career opportunity, educational and emotional support. Please consider the future, safety, and security of our students and DEFUND POLICE IN OUSD!
please eliminate the oakland schools police department and all contracts and relationships with the oakland police dept and all other police forces, thank you.
For the safety of our children, I oppose the use of OPD in schools.
Our school board has a responsibility to the education of our students, not to perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline. Especially in this moment of a health pandemic and extreme budget cuts, we need to reimagine what safety, support, and justice look like and where they come from.
I'd like to challenge the narrative presented by my colleague Lee Thomas about a police incident on the Lockwood campus. He said that police helped resolve a situation in which a "robber" hid in our school bathroom. In fact, this incident started blocks away in public housing and OPD instigated a chase that brought the incident onto our campus. In the end the suspect turned out to be an unarmed minor! The police held more than 1,000 students across 4 schools under lockdown for hours while they searched the campus, drawing their guns in view of myself and other students. School had to be dismissed early and parents were called away from work to pick them up. The whole community was traumatized by this incident. To recap - overpolicing in deep East Oakland endangered and traumatized our black and brown youth and their families. I strongly supported the George Floyd resolution. Schools should be a sanctuary free from OUSD police *and* OPD activity.
I am a special education teacher in the district and I support this effort to end the Oakland school police force. Education should be a learning envioirnment and we should be putting our effort into developing effective in school interventions, giving therapy to students who need it and bringing back restorative justice.
Children need to not fear going to receive their education. Disband the Oakland Schools Police department and reallocate funding to social workers, education supplies, meal programs, and teacher salaries.
I am a social worker practicing in Oakland. I support defunding police, ESPECIALLY in our schools. We need to increase funding for nurses, social workers, teachers, and therapists in schools--NOT police.
I, as well as other Oakland Unified School District teachers and staff, stand with the Black Organizing Project to urge the board to SUPPORT THE GEORGE FLOYD RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE OAKLAND SCHOOLS POLICE DEPARTMENT and DEFUND POLICE IN THE OAKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. This funding should be allocated to increase resources around restorative justice, counseling, career opportunity, educational and emotional support. Please consider the future, safety, and security of our students and DEFUND POLICE IN OUSD!
The adherence to an "agenda" in this meeting is silencing the community - we demand that you adopt the George Floyd resolution and use that funding to provide additional support for counselors, trauma-informed social workers and other resources for the well-being of your students.
I am an educator and work in Berkeley and Oakland. Police presence threatens the social and emotional health, and academic success, of our students– especially black and brown students. Let's divert funds spent on policing to get counselors, nurses, psychologists, and librarians in every school.
I am in SUPPORT. Police have no place in schools. I am an Oakland resident and I have worked in childcare for years.
This Resolution is a strong step forward for our District. Thanks to the Black Organizing Project for their work in advancing awareness and a new vision for public schools on these issues with the George Floyd Resolution. The OUSD's adoption, can provide a path for emerging policy to move forward and inform legislation being considered in school districts, cities, counties, as well as at the state and federal level. Defunding police departments is a call to divest and reinvest resources desperately needed and long overdue. People look to Oakland for leadership in elevating proactive, healthy community development in public service - and it does not go unnoticed. Our students take pride in their voices and should know that as they graduate and advance to the next level of their education this summer - that everything has an impact, including policies rooted in and prioritizing doing justice to their public education. Thank you for taking action on these issues and approving it tonight.
I fully support the resolution. Police should not be in our schools. Kids need and deserve guidance and support to do well in school. They do not deserve to be terrorized by the police. The funds used for putting police in schools can be used to enrich the lives of students and pay teachers better.
When my baby grows up I want her to feel safe in school. I don't want her or future classmates to have a culture of fear in their schools. My wife and I both went to schools without police and we demand this generation have the same experience.
No cops in schools!