I.-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 urge you to adopt the George Floyd Resolution. Police don’t belong in schools. In my day, it would have been unthinkable. I hate to think of sending my daughter to an institution that feels more like a prison than a place of learning.
I am a public health attorney living and working in the City of Oakland. My husband and I are expecting our first child this Fall. I urge you to adopt RESOLUTION NO. 1920-0260 to eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department and to initiate an inclusive, community-driven process to create a new District Safety Plan. I believe that these actions will make young people in Oakland more safe, and will promote their long-term physical and mental health and well-being. Thank you for your service and for your action on this important matter.
I express my support of the George Floyd resolution and urge you all to vote in favor. Students deserve to learn that justice does not equal punishment and they deserve more investment in creative programs, Art, music, books, nurses, mental health support, and more. They deserve to not have to interact with police, who represent histories of oppression and are merely present to control and attempt to force children to abide by the status quo. Please support the passing of this resolution. Thank you.
As an educator of 20 years and a parent of a student entering OUSD in August, I am writing to urge everyone on the board to pass the George Floyd Resolution as is. Every child deserves to feel safe at school. It's the job of every adult in the building to make that happen. My son is only four, but he has already had enough life experience to make him afraid of police. Please, consider your duty to ALL the students of Oakland, not just to the voters in your area. We need counselors, not police or security officers. Let's show our students with our actions that we truly believe in their potential, and we're here to support them, not surveil them.
As a parent and former teacher, I strongly support the George Floyd Resolution. Police do not belong in schools. Oakland's students need mental health supports, counselors, restorative justice, and other supports, not police whose presence can harm Black and Brown students in particular. As the district struggles with where to cut budgets, make the obvious choice by reallocating funding from the Oakland School Police Department to the supports students have been asking for and need with greater urgency as a result of COVID-19 and the continued impacts of racism and anti-Blackness in our society.
As a social worker who works in a Middle School, I urge you to support the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department (with no amendments). Police do not belong in schools; they do not make schools safer, and they prevent school from being a safe place for Black and Brown students. End the Oakland School Police Department. Reallocate these funds to wellness, restorative justice, and other educational supports that students really need.
I am a D2 resident, and have lived in Oakland for 23 years. I strongly support the passage of the George Floyd Resolution without amendment. If the goal is to create safe learning spaces for our children, that will be far better accomplished by investing that money in counselors, therapists, libraries, music and art, sports, and a range of after school programs. End the criminalization of Black and Brown students in the Oakland Unified School District. Invest in restorative and transformative models of school safety. Get police out of OUSD once and for all.
I am in support of the George Floyd resolution to remove the OSPD from our community’s public schools. Rather than continue a history of oppression, we need to uplift our Black and Brown community, starting by providing a safe school environment. These funds can be directly reallocated to provide more supportive services for our students, including
mental health services and restorative justice. Break the school-to-prison pipeline. Defund OPD.
Thank you to the Black Organizing Project for all the amazing hard work!!
As an OUSD first grade teacher, I support the George Floyd Resolution to remove all police force out of OUSD. We need to invest in Ethnic Studies and Restorative justice programs!
I have long failed to understand why the police are employed to enforce rules in educational environments. It is clear that the time is long past due to rethink how schools handle safety and discipline when it comes to their students. Trauma impairs learning, and the presence of police in schools reinforces systemic traumas, thereby hampering learning. Schools should be providing a net for students to learn inside of - a space where mistakes provide opportunities for learning and growth, not a fast track to incarceration. Please adopt the George Floyd Resolution and remove all police presence from OUSD campuses. Invest in restorative justice, invest in the community, invest in the children. Divest of the police!
I strongly support the George Floyd Resolution and I urge you to pass this resolution without amendments. It is clear that cops don't belong in our schools. As a trained social worker, we learn to follow the lead of the community. Educators, students, social workers & school counselors, parents, & the larger community have come together to ask you to remove police from OUSD. Kids thrive when we reinvest that money into social/emotional supports and creating true environments of learning. The community has been very clear- police have no place in OUSD. The response is clear- pass the George Floyd Resolution as is- without amendments.
Please adopt the George Floyd Resolution to remove all police from OUSD schools. Police have no place in our schools! They do nothing to contribute to students' learning--quite the opposite. Please redirect this funding towards real student support in the form of social workers, restorative justice practitioners, etc., so that all students can thrive.
As a District 2 Oakland resident, I support and strongly urge the Board to pass the George Floyd Resolution. These funds should be redirected to highly needed mental and emotional health resources for students. I support Black Organizing Project's vision for school safety, including eliminating the school police department by August and reinvesting that money in mental health, restorative justice, and educational resources.
Oakland school police have a racist history of policing, punishing, and criminalizing Black and Brown students. It's imperative that OUSD remove police presence from Oakland schools and discontinue this racist legacy. Over the past month, Oakland residents have gathered in support of removing police presence from Oakland schools. Protect your students, be on the right side of history, and pass this resolution.
Please remove all police presence from OUSD schools. Why do we even need to police children? How does that support the mission of providing quality education to our K-12 students? Why are we spending $2.8 million of our city's tax dollars paying for anything other than services that directly benefit our students' education? Please dissolve the OUSD police force and please remove all cop presence from OUSD campuses.
I have friends who are OUSD educators and I 100% support the George Floyd Resolution. I urge you to end all contracts with Oakland Police and get rid of Oakland School Police. There are many other more important areas the funding can be directed to—mental health resources, special education resources, just to name a couple. Keep police out of schools, allow all children—but specifically children of color as they are most targeted—feel safe and supported at school. Thanks for listening.
I previously have reached out to both the superintendent and the board member for my district (Ms. Hinton Hodge). To reiterate again: keep police out of OUSD!
Please adopt the George Floyd Resolution as stated, without amendments. I am an OUSD alum, as well as a current OUSD parent, and I know our children are safer when we invest in restorative justice and community support rather than paying for policing systems in our schools.
I am an Oakland resident in District 1, an educator who has volunteered in OUSD schools, and a parent of an incoming OUSD kindergartner. I strongly support adopting the George Floyd Resolution as is, with no amendments. Students of color cannot feel safe in schools with police. We should be doing everything we can to keep our students out of the carceral system, not bringing law enforcement to schools where students are supposed to be thriving. OUSD must divest from all policing in schools and invest in programs and services that truly support students' mental health, well-being, and learning.
FLY has partnered with OUSD over the past 5 years. We teach Oakland’s students about the law and their rights, and we provide them with opportunities to develop leadership skills, give back to their communities, and work with caring adult mentors. We stand with BOP and those within the OUSD who want to address and redress the violence, injustice, and lasting harm caused by school policing. Some of that harm has come in the form of under-resourcing of the schools while millions are spent each year on maintaining a policing culture. The time is now to redirect the $2.3 million annual policing budget to strategies that will bring about a culture of learning and achievement that increases students’ safety, health, well-being, and educational attainment. Together we can send a clear message to Oakland’s school children: We can change failed policies and begin rooting out racism and bias and reversing inequities. We can and will invest in your future. Support the George Floyd Resolution!
As a special education teacher and parent I urge you to adopt the George Floyd Resolution for police free schools.
I urge you to adopt the George Floyd Resolution. Police don’t belong in schools. In my day, it would have been unthinkable. I hate to think of sending my daughter to an institution that feels more like a prison than a place of learning.
I am a public health attorney living and working in the City of Oakland. My husband and I are expecting our first child this Fall. I urge you to adopt RESOLUTION NO. 1920-0260 to eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department and to initiate an inclusive, community-driven process to create a new District Safety Plan. I believe that these actions will make young people in Oakland more safe, and will promote their long-term physical and mental health and well-being. Thank you for your service and for your action on this important matter.
I express my support of the George Floyd resolution and urge you all to vote in favor. Students deserve to learn that justice does not equal punishment and they deserve more investment in creative programs, Art, music, books, nurses, mental health support, and more. They deserve to not have to interact with police, who represent histories of oppression and are merely present to control and attempt to force children to abide by the status quo. Please support the passing of this resolution. Thank you.
As an educator of 20 years and a parent of a student entering OUSD in August, I am writing to urge everyone on the board to pass the George Floyd Resolution as is. Every child deserves to feel safe at school. It's the job of every adult in the building to make that happen. My son is only four, but he has already had enough life experience to make him afraid of police. Please, consider your duty to ALL the students of Oakland, not just to the voters in your area. We need counselors, not police or security officers. Let's show our students with our actions that we truly believe in their potential, and we're here to support them, not surveil them.
As a parent and former teacher, I strongly support the George Floyd Resolution. Police do not belong in schools. Oakland's students need mental health supports, counselors, restorative justice, and other supports, not police whose presence can harm Black and Brown students in particular. As the district struggles with where to cut budgets, make the obvious choice by reallocating funding from the Oakland School Police Department to the supports students have been asking for and need with greater urgency as a result of COVID-19 and the continued impacts of racism and anti-Blackness in our society.
As a social worker who works in a Middle School, I urge you to support the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department (with no amendments). Police do not belong in schools; they do not make schools safer, and they prevent school from being a safe place for Black and Brown students. End the Oakland School Police Department. Reallocate these funds to wellness, restorative justice, and other educational supports that students really need.
I am a D2 resident, and have lived in Oakland for 23 years. I strongly support the passage of the George Floyd Resolution without amendment. If the goal is to create safe learning spaces for our children, that will be far better accomplished by investing that money in counselors, therapists, libraries, music and art, sports, and a range of after school programs. End the criminalization of Black and Brown students in the Oakland Unified School District. Invest in restorative and transformative models of school safety. Get police out of OUSD once and for all.
I am in support of the George Floyd resolution to remove the OSPD from our community’s public schools. Rather than continue a history of oppression, we need to uplift our Black and Brown community, starting by providing a safe school environment. These funds can be directly reallocated to provide more supportive services for our students, including
mental health services and restorative justice. Break the school-to-prison pipeline. Defund OPD.
Thank you to the Black Organizing Project for all the amazing hard work!!
As an OUSD first grade teacher, I support the George Floyd Resolution to remove all police force out of OUSD. We need to invest in Ethnic Studies and Restorative justice programs!
I have long failed to understand why the police are employed to enforce rules in educational environments. It is clear that the time is long past due to rethink how schools handle safety and discipline when it comes to their students. Trauma impairs learning, and the presence of police in schools reinforces systemic traumas, thereby hampering learning. Schools should be providing a net for students to learn inside of - a space where mistakes provide opportunities for learning and growth, not a fast track to incarceration. Please adopt the George Floyd Resolution and remove all police presence from OUSD campuses. Invest in restorative justice, invest in the community, invest in the children. Divest of the police!
I strongly support the George Floyd Resolution and I urge you to pass this resolution without amendments. It is clear that cops don't belong in our schools. As a trained social worker, we learn to follow the lead of the community. Educators, students, social workers & school counselors, parents, & the larger community have come together to ask you to remove police from OUSD. Kids thrive when we reinvest that money into social/emotional supports and creating true environments of learning. The community has been very clear- police have no place in OUSD. The response is clear- pass the George Floyd Resolution as is- without amendments.
Please adopt the George Floyd Resolution to remove all police from OUSD schools. Police have no place in our schools! They do nothing to contribute to students' learning--quite the opposite. Please redirect this funding towards real student support in the form of social workers, restorative justice practitioners, etc., so that all students can thrive.
As a District 2 Oakland resident, I support and strongly urge the Board to pass the George Floyd Resolution. These funds should be redirected to highly needed mental and emotional health resources for students. I support Black Organizing Project's vision for school safety, including eliminating the school police department by August and reinvesting that money in mental health, restorative justice, and educational resources.
Oakland school police have a racist history of policing, punishing, and criminalizing Black and Brown students. It's imperative that OUSD remove police presence from Oakland schools and discontinue this racist legacy. Over the past month, Oakland residents have gathered in support of removing police presence from Oakland schools. Protect your students, be on the right side of history, and pass this resolution.
Please remove all police presence from OUSD schools. Why do we even need to police children? How does that support the mission of providing quality education to our K-12 students? Why are we spending $2.8 million of our city's tax dollars paying for anything other than services that directly benefit our students' education? Please dissolve the OUSD police force and please remove all cop presence from OUSD campuses.
I have friends who are OUSD educators and I 100% support the George Floyd Resolution. I urge you to end all contracts with Oakland Police and get rid of Oakland School Police. There are many other more important areas the funding can be directed to—mental health resources, special education resources, just to name a couple. Keep police out of schools, allow all children—but specifically children of color as they are most targeted—feel safe and supported at school. Thanks for listening.
I previously have reached out to both the superintendent and the board member for my district (Ms. Hinton Hodge). To reiterate again: keep police out of OUSD!
Please adopt the George Floyd Resolution as stated, without amendments. I am an OUSD alum, as well as a current OUSD parent, and I know our children are safer when we invest in restorative justice and community support rather than paying for policing systems in our schools.
I am an Oakland resident in District 1, an educator who has volunteered in OUSD schools, and a parent of an incoming OUSD kindergartner. I strongly support adopting the George Floyd Resolution as is, with no amendments. Students of color cannot feel safe in schools with police. We should be doing everything we can to keep our students out of the carceral system, not bringing law enforcement to schools where students are supposed to be thriving. OUSD must divest from all policing in schools and invest in programs and services that truly support students' mental health, well-being, and learning.
FLY has partnered with OUSD over the past 5 years. We teach Oakland’s students about the law and their rights, and we provide them with opportunities to develop leadership skills, give back to their communities, and work with caring adult mentors. We stand with BOP and those within the OUSD who want to address and redress the violence, injustice, and lasting harm caused by school policing. Some of that harm has come in the form of under-resourcing of the schools while millions are spent each year on maintaining a policing culture. The time is now to redirect the $2.3 million annual policing budget to strategies that will bring about a culture of learning and achievement that increases students’ safety, health, well-being, and educational attainment. Together we can send a clear message to Oakland’s school children: We can change failed policies and begin rooting out racism and bias and reversing inequities. We can and will invest in your future. Support the George Floyd Resolution!