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.
Thank you to the Black Organizing Project for your leadership. As an Oakland District 2 resident and mother to a future OUSD student, I wholeheartedly support the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate OUSD police. Our children deserve more resources that will make positive difference in their lives rather than taking them away to spend on police that create an environment of fear and distrust.
As a Mental Health provider with over 20 years working with youth in schools I vigorously support this resolution to remove the police from the Oakland Schools. Police on campus is antithetical to learning. Youth from police terrorized communities carry that fear with them into the school setting. When a person is in fear, the cognitive functions of the brain turn off so that the central nervous system can focus on survival. It is impossible to reason or learn in this state. Having police on campus creating this fear in already disadvantaged communities of youth, further widens the achievement gap and increases the likelihood that these youth end up on the school to prison pipeline. Youth need more counseling, restorative justice and skills building support.
My daughter attends Sequoia Elementary and I strongly support, and urge all board members to vote yes on, the George Floyd resolution without amendments. Oakland schools need counselors and restorative justice, not police, to support our youth and keep them safe. Invest in our youth and divest from OPD in our schools.
I am a D2 resident & 2nd Grade Teacher at Garfield Elementary.OUSD must be a sanctuary for all students.School policing contradicts OUSD’s values of equity, sanctuary & putting students first.Black students are disproportionately policed in OUSD schools & in the community.Black youth made up only 30.5% of the district’s student population, they made up 73% of Oakland School Police Department’s 85 arrests & school police didn't report a single White student arrest.Our students don't feel safe with school police & dont want police in their schools. They do what and need services that address students’ needs & for us to reinvest the school police budget into increased supports for the whole child. Fun fact - OUSD reported employing only 20.5 school counselors, or one school counselor for every 1,854 students. Please implement the plan now, as-is and take the money funding school police to fund the whole student ( counselors, psychologists, therapists, RJ and more ).
I am a concerned community member in Oakland. I am writing to ask you to pass the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department and remove police from OUSD schools in accordance with The Black Organizing Project’s People’s Plan for Police-Free Schools. Policing in OUSD schools dehumanizes Black and brown students in our schools just as it does in the streets. It pushes young people away from education and opportunity, and toward increasing contact with the criminal system. Our schools should be a place of learning for youth where we prevent conflict through school counselors, not law enforcement. This is your opportunity to take action to end discriminatory school policing and turn the District away from a long history of disproportionate harmful treatment of Black and disabled students. Vote yes to pass the George Floyd Resolution as written.
I am an OUSD educator and I support the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate the OSPD from OUSD. The money used to support OSPD needs to be used to support our students with adequate amount of counselors, teachers, restorative justice coordinators, SPED programs and student-focused programs that have been overlooked by the Board of Education. Our students are always on the chopping block, please do not choose to cut off their needs once again. The districts boast that students are thriving but the programs that help the students the most are cut yet OSPD is thriving. Their presence harms our students more than help. Stop perpetuating the school to prison pipeline and listen to the current students & past students of OUSD.
Please take police out of the schools. The budget used to pay and train police officers in schools should be used to pay for more counselors and restorative justice folks to support positive healing in communities.
As a District 4 resident who looks forward to the day when my child first begins class in an OUSD school, I implore you to vote yes on the George Floyd resolution.
Schools should be places of learning, connection-making, safety and growth. The presence of police officers is antithetical to those outcomes, and actively endangers children and precludes their success -- especially Black children and other students of color. To stymie the positive growth of children is a criminal thing, something that we cannot take lightly.
You all are at a juncture in your tenures: Do you stand with the people? Or do you take direction from those who terrorize us?
I implore you, as parents and community leaders, to do the right thing. Please vote yes on the George Floyd resolution.
I am a concerned community member in Oakland. I am writing to ask you to pass the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department and remove police from OUSD schools in accordance with The Black Organizing Project’s People’s Plan for Police-Free Schools. Policing in OUSD schools dehumanizes Black and brown students in our schools just as it does in the streets. It pushes young people away from education and opportunity, and toward increasing contact with the criminal system. Our schools should be a place of learning for youth where we prevent conflict through school counselors, not law enforcement. This is your opportunity to take action to end discriminatory school policing and turn the District away from a long history of disproportionate harmful treatment of Black and disabled students. Vote yes to pass the George Floyd Resolution as written.
I am a therapist for La Clinica de la Raza at Fremont High School in East Oakland and a resident of District 2. I strongly support the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department. The presence of police in schools perpetuates the criminalization of youth, particularly Black and Brown youth, and fosters the school to prison pipeline. From a clinic perspective, the involvement of OSPD in 5150s, sexual assault reporting, and mental health interventions has been harmful and is entirely unnecessary. OSPD funds need to be redirected to funding that supports schools with restorative justice programming, de-escalation and trauma-informed care training for all staff, case management support, counselors, sports & arts programming, and after school programming. Protect and respect Oakland youth by acknowledging the harm caused by police presence in schools, and pass this resolution. Thank you.
I am a former Alameda County and San Francisco educator, former resident of Oakland and longtime advocate for families who have been the victims of police terror. I am also very close with the family of Raheim Brown Jr. I urge you to pass Resolution No. 1920-0260 - George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department. Were this in place a decade ago, Raheim Brown Jr. would probably still be alive. We must end the criminalization of our youth. In addition, I want to call out in the strongest terms the anti-People, and undemocratic nature of postponing the broadcasting of a remote meeting that is possibly the most anticipated in a decade for over an hour with no explanation from the district or the Board to the people. We recognize this affront and will be demanding accountability for it.
Fund mental and behavioral health for students in Oakland!! We don't need any police in our schools, they hurt students far more than they help. Pass this resolution without amendment!!
Thank you to the Black Organizing Project for your leadership. As an Oakland District 2 resident and mother to a future OUSD student, I wholeheartedly support the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate OUSD police. Our children deserve more resources that will make positive difference in their lives rather than taking them away to spend on police that create an environment of fear and distrust.
I ask for unanimous support for the George Floyd resolution.
More money for Oakland Schools less for policing.
Idk!!!!!
As a Mental Health provider with over 20 years working with youth in schools I vigorously support this resolution to remove the police from the Oakland Schools. Police on campus is antithetical to learning. Youth from police terrorized communities carry that fear with them into the school setting. When a person is in fear, the cognitive functions of the brain turn off so that the central nervous system can focus on survival. It is impossible to reason or learn in this state. Having police on campus creating this fear in already disadvantaged communities of youth, further widens the achievement gap and increases the likelihood that these youth end up on the school to prison pipeline. Youth need more counseling, restorative justice and skills building support.
My daughter attends Sequoia Elementary and I strongly support, and urge all board members to vote yes on, the George Floyd resolution without amendments. Oakland schools need counselors and restorative justice, not police, to support our youth and keep them safe. Invest in our youth and divest from OPD in our schools.
Please do right by the community and pass the George Floyd Resolution with no amendments.
I am a D2 resident & 2nd Grade Teacher at Garfield Elementary.OUSD must be a sanctuary for all students.School policing contradicts OUSD’s values of equity, sanctuary & putting students first.Black students are disproportionately policed in OUSD schools & in the community.Black youth made up only 30.5% of the district’s student population, they made up 73% of Oakland School Police Department’s 85 arrests & school police didn't report a single White student arrest.Our students don't feel safe with school police & dont want police in their schools. They do what and need services that address students’ needs & for us to reinvest the school police budget into increased supports for the whole child. Fun fact - OUSD reported employing only 20.5 school counselors, or one school counselor for every 1,854 students. Please implement the plan now, as-is and take the money funding school police to fund the whole student ( counselors, psychologists, therapists, RJ and more ).
I am a concerned community member in Oakland. I am writing to ask you to pass the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department and remove police from OUSD schools in accordance with The Black Organizing Project’s People’s Plan for Police-Free Schools. Policing in OUSD schools dehumanizes Black and brown students in our schools just as it does in the streets. It pushes young people away from education and opportunity, and toward increasing contact with the criminal system. Our schools should be a place of learning for youth where we prevent conflict through school counselors, not law enforcement. This is your opportunity to take action to end discriminatory school policing and turn the District away from a long history of disproportionate harmful treatment of Black and disabled students. Vote yes to pass the George Floyd Resolution as written.
I am an OUSD educator and I support the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate the OSPD from OUSD. The money used to support OSPD needs to be used to support our students with adequate amount of counselors, teachers, restorative justice coordinators, SPED programs and student-focused programs that have been overlooked by the Board of Education. Our students are always on the chopping block, please do not choose to cut off their needs once again. The districts boast that students are thriving but the programs that help the students the most are cut yet OSPD is thriving. Their presence harms our students more than help. Stop perpetuating the school to prison pipeline and listen to the current students & past students of OUSD.
Stop the school to prison pipeline!
Support and nurture!!!
Please take police out of the schools. The budget used to pay and train police officers in schools should be used to pay for more counselors and restorative justice folks to support positive healing in communities.
As an OUSD parent, I urge the Board to pass the George Floyd Resolution.
As a District 4 resident who looks forward to the day when my child first begins class in an OUSD school, I implore you to vote yes on the George Floyd resolution.
Schools should be places of learning, connection-making, safety and growth. The presence of police officers is antithetical to those outcomes, and actively endangers children and precludes their success -- especially Black children and other students of color. To stymie the positive growth of children is a criminal thing, something that we cannot take lightly.
You all are at a juncture in your tenures: Do you stand with the people? Or do you take direction from those who terrorize us?
I implore you, as parents and community leaders, to do the right thing. Please vote yes on the George Floyd resolution.
I am a concerned community member in Oakland. I am writing to ask you to pass the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department and remove police from OUSD schools in accordance with The Black Organizing Project’s People’s Plan for Police-Free Schools. Policing in OUSD schools dehumanizes Black and brown students in our schools just as it does in the streets. It pushes young people away from education and opportunity, and toward increasing contact with the criminal system. Our schools should be a place of learning for youth where we prevent conflict through school counselors, not law enforcement. This is your opportunity to take action to end discriminatory school policing and turn the District away from a long history of disproportionate harmful treatment of Black and disabled students. Vote yes to pass the George Floyd Resolution as written.
As an OUSD caregiver, I urge the Board to adopt the George Floyd Resolution.
I am a therapist for La Clinica de la Raza at Fremont High School in East Oakland and a resident of District 2. I strongly support the George Floyd Resolution to eliminate the Oakland Schools Police Department. The presence of police in schools perpetuates the criminalization of youth, particularly Black and Brown youth, and fosters the school to prison pipeline. From a clinic perspective, the involvement of OSPD in 5150s, sexual assault reporting, and mental health interventions has been harmful and is entirely unnecessary. OSPD funds need to be redirected to funding that supports schools with restorative justice programming, de-escalation and trauma-informed care training for all staff, case management support, counselors, sports & arts programming, and after school programming. Protect and respect Oakland youth by acknowledging the harm caused by police presence in schools, and pass this resolution. Thank you.
I am a former Alameda County and San Francisco educator, former resident of Oakland and longtime advocate for families who have been the victims of police terror. I am also very close with the family of Raheim Brown Jr. I urge you to pass Resolution No. 1920-0260 - George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the Oakland School Police Department. Were this in place a decade ago, Raheim Brown Jr. would probably still be alive. We must end the criminalization of our youth. In addition, I want to call out in the strongest terms the anti-People, and undemocratic nature of postponing the broadcasting of a remote meeting that is possibly the most anticipated in a decade for over an hour with no explanation from the district or the Board to the people. We recognize this affront and will be demanding accountability for it.
Fund mental and behavioral health for students in Oakland!! We don't need any police in our schools, they hurt students far more than they help. Pass this resolution without amendment!!
Please defund and reallocate to the communities in need.
Please take this vital step to end the school-to-prison pipeline and support all of our students thriving.