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J.-1 26-1500 Presentation to the Board of Education, by the Interim Superintendent of Schools, pursuant to California Department of Education (CDE) Corrective Action No. 4, an information item discussing the findings in the March 10, 2026 CDE's Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP) Case Matters Decision Letter (Case Matters 2025-0154, 2025-0108 and 2025-0284) and of the corrective actions the District is taking to prevent and remedy antisemitism District-wide.
OUSD has become nationally known as a hotbed of antisemitism and is an embarrassment. I was shocked to sign my kid up this year and have only ONE religion available on the demographic selection- “Jewish.” The last time my family registered as Jews was in Nazi Germany. Welcome to the district. My Jewish Israeli child deserves a public education in a hate-free zone. OUSD, from registration to the teachers to the classroom curriculum and administration in particular-- hold yourself accountable to standard of diversity and acceptance you set for yourself. It can’t be diversity for all- except Jews.
My comments are about equal protection — what it looks like when it works, and what it looks like when it doesn’t.
This district has had 2.5 yrs, multiple community complaints,a formal CDE ruling documenting discrimination against Jewish & Israeli students. And still, this Board has not issued a single clear directive, not disciplined a single staff member, and is actively litigating against the state and the community it harmed.
If the state found documented, systemic discrimination against any other ethnic or racial community, this Board would not be asking them to wait. It would not require them to keep proving what investigators already confirmed. It would act quickly, because the moral stakes would feel urgent and clear.
Those stakes are equally urgent here. Jewish students are not a lesser category of protected people.
The CDE proved the case.Your own internal documents proved the case. Stop hiding behind legal maneuvers and do what you are legally and morally required to do.
OUSD, I'd like to lift up the words of Buddhist Philosopher Pema Chodron re what she calls, 'angry activism': "We often complain about other people's fundamentalism. But whenever we allow anger to harden our hearts... [w]e ourselves become fundamentalists, which is to say we become very self-righteous about our personal point of view...." Angry activism in OUSD over the incredibly complex Israel/Palestine issue has become fundamentalism, which is the antithesis of what education is about: Critical Thinking. Public educators are charged with giving the kids the ability to thoughtfully chew on all sides of an issue and come to a conclusion of their own making. To simply provide a pre-digested conclusion, be it that vaccines are evil, that gay sex is evil or that Israel is evil, is to rob a child of an education. It's time to drop the self-righteous, fundamentalist angry activism and teach our kids how to open their minds to complexity.
I'm saddened to see how OUSD has allowed a double standard to prevail and harm jewish students and staff. It is to the point that many have left OUSD schools and more are considering leaving. Teachers leaving mid year to do a hostile work environment harms students and staff! The signage in schools that supports ethnic cleansing all Jews from Israel shouldn't be tolerated, that is what "From the River to the Sea" means. If Blue Lives Matters signs were in classrooms, Teachers would be placed on leave and investigated. But nothing is being done to stop this discrimination against Jewish students.
Now teavhers and staff are organizing a boycott of the required antisemitism training. Will the school board allow this?
What is being done to retain Jewish families in OUSD?
I recently decided to investigate a serial poster on Oakland's Reddit who posts things like "kill the Zios". Based on his posts in other chats (with his photo), he outed himself as...a third grade teacher at Garfield Elementary School. I drive past Emerson elementary school every day. I saw the proud display of Arab-American history month in April. Of course (of course!) nothing about Jewish heritage in May. What's covered in this write-up is the tip of the iceberg.
As a parent of young Jewish children in Oakland who believes that Jewish people have a right to a homeland (the definition itself of Zionism), you can imagine how profoundly distressing this - and all the other incidents - are.
I cannot conceive of a situation in which we will remain in district when it comes time for our children to go to middle/high school unless we go to private schools. For what its worth, I will implacably oppose any funding for OUSD until it can curb its antisemitism.
Radical Double Standards in Enforcing District Policy
Selective Enforcement is Discrimination: If an OUSD teacher hung a Confederate flag, a "Blue Lives Matter" banner,... this Board and the Superintendent would have it torn down, and the employee would face immediate discipline.
The Jewish Exception: Because the targets are Jewish and Israeli students, staff, and families, the District suddenly suffers from total paralysis. You look the other way, allow the severe, unchecked harassment of children to fester, and treat the victims with administrative disregard.
Total Failure to Discipline: While OUSD’s own internal findings legally conceded that staff engaged in antisemitic discrimination, the District has issued zero meaningful disciplinary actions against the employees responsible for this misconduct.
Has anyone mentioned who is behind the discrimination ? and who is coordinating all the inaction? the refusal to investigate?the refusal to cooperate with the lawsuits? Has anyone mentioned who is behind the scenes coordinating all the efforts to create the hostile environment,to continue to support teachers who break the law daily?
Could it be a Union? Could it be the Teachers Union pressuring new and existing teachers and staff to go a certain way. And now teachers are encouraging other teachers to boycott the trainings. We saw at the press rally before the last Bd Mtg- teachers against the CDE, against investigations where children and staff are harmed. All children in Oakland deserve a hate free school and teachers who keep their politics to themselves. School is for critical thinking not indoctrination. The Board can align with the law. Please do it.
Public school should be a place where everyone feels safe and heard. Failing to follow-up on complaints about antisemitic behavior and allowing hateful and hurtful behavior to go unchecked for 2.5 years is inexcusable and prevents Jewish students from learning and getting the education that the OUSD seeks to provide. In addition, classrooms and hallways continue to have antisemitic slogans that intimidate. Please address the issue and create an environment where every student, regardless of identification, can feel safe and can blossom.
Oakland, despite the ruling of the CDE, still doesn't protect Jewish students from antisemitism in the form of antizionism. It does ALL students a disservice to serve up political propaganda instead of offering a reasoned, historical approach. I am so glad my children, who went through OUSD, are adults now and weren't marginalized by teachers and peers during their school years.
OUSD used to be a place where kids were taught to value ALL types of diversity (ethnic, racial, religious, gender) and given the tools to engage in civil discourse on hard + emotional topics. If kids are not taught this in school than what kinds of adults can we expect them to grow into? It has been devastating and frankly shameful to call myself an Oakland resident + tax payer in the face of blatant hate and discrimination that has been perpetuated by our public school teachers and administrators against Jewish students, and to see OUSD turn a blind eye to student, parent + staff complaints. Schools should be safe spaces where our kids are met with empathy and kindness not political propaganda, identity shaming, and hate speech. Board Members: stop failing our students and our City; stop your arrogance and close-mindedness; listen to the experiences of Oakland families, and teachers; meet them with open ears and open hearts; feel saddened by their experiences; and do the right thing.
I have preschool-age children and I'm so upset by the stories I've heard from other Jewish parents and teachers. It's bizarre how quickly extremist language has been allowed to prosper and there has been a complete lack of response, or even explicit endorsement of hateful speech, from school administrators. It's so clear how different the response would be if this discrimination were against any other ethnic minority. At present it feels unsafe for me to send my children to OUSD, a terrifying and humiliating feeling I thought we were passed in 21st century America.
I’m using an alias because I'm afraid of reprisals. I’ve been an oakland teacher for over 20 years. I was horrified and stunned to come to school after the massacre on Oct 7, and find my school riddled with one-side posters and flags, calling for the elimination of my relatives and friends. I could barely focus on my work, surrounded with hatred and viciousness. My students, largely Hispanic, were anxious and uneasy in this hostile atmosphere. Hello Kitty prints, colored by kindergartners in black, white, green and red, were proudly displayed on the library wall. Slogans and signs adorned TK classroom walls! TK! This is not education. It is indoctrination. When did it become acceptable to politicize a conflict happening thousands of miles away to young children? The hostility of classroom teachers was palpable. Our principal wore a keffiyeh. Please Oakland Unified, take these lawsuits against antisemitism seriously and do the right thing. We know hatred towards Jews never ends well.
This presentation has taken far far far too long. The UCP complaints that form the basis of the CDE findings should never have had to rise to this level. If the complaints involved racism toward or discrimination of students of color, this district would have addressed them quickly and expeditiously. Instead, first you sat on the complaints, forcing Jewish families to file a lawsuit under the auspices of the OJA. Then you claimed no discrimination occurred, forcing those same families to seek redress from the CDE. And when the CDE ruled against you and validated that the underlying complaints as well as your handling of them consitutued discrimination, you just ignored it, forcing them to file an enforcement lawsuit against you. We are not asking to be treated any differently from any other community. We want our kids to be treated equally in the classroom and not singled out. And we want you to believe us when we say something is not right
The OUSD must agree to the actions put forth by the California Department of Education to stop discrimination against Jewish students and staff.
The discrimination is focused on Jews. When discriminatory and hostile actions have been complained about, there have been no disciplinary actions to ensure that these inappropriate and illegal actions will not continue. The message from OUSD leadership is that of complicity with the discrimination against and hatred of Jewish students and staff.
The recommendations from the CDE must be followed and implemented in the Oakland Schools. There should not be any propaganda banners, signs, or flags. Teachers who insist on introducing lesson plans that are not approved should face significant disciplinary action. The members of the OUSD School Board should put aside their own prejudices and act as professionals, and put the students and quality of education first.
I have lived in Oakland and Emeryville for years, and want to see our community have inclusive public education that doesn't indoctrinate or advocate hate. Unfortunately OUSD has been failing at that with regards to enabling a hostile and discriminatory environment for Jewish and Israeli-American students. This hurts all of us in the long run. It is further disappointing to see OUSD dragging their feet on making any substantive changes, and instead putting energy into fighting community groups. OUSD must hold staff accountable, remove hateful propaganda that targets Jews, Israelis, or anyone else, and implement genuine fixes.
It is past time for the Board to finally meaningfully address the scourge of hatred against Jews in our district. Live up to OUSD's stated values of diversity, equity, and learning - and get to the hard work. Correcting an insidious issue like antisemitism cannot be done through a checklist of administrative tasks. A letter does not fix hate in the hallways. Real corrective action requires listening to the lived experience of Jewish families and staff to understand how jew hatred manifests and the harm it causes, removing teachers and staff who perpetrate antisemitism and who use their classrooms to push ideology instead of approved curriculum, re-educating indoctrinated teachers, staff, and students so that hate has no home in our schools, and continually do all of the above until Jewish families feel safe in our schools. These are the very actions you would take if any other group were being subjected to hate - they must be taken now.
The CDE found OUSD didn't take timely steps to end discrimination against Jews.
Consider:
Sequoia Union High School District settled a lawsuit filed to address a rise in antisemitism.
The settlement agreement included:
• Over the next 3 years, teachers must clear any materials related to the conflict in Gaza with an independent reviewer who will be agreed upon by the district and the complainants,
• Upping its process for investigating complaints of antisemitism, which will include hiring an outside investigator,
• Changing district policy to name and define antisemitism as a prohibited form of discrimination,
• Mandatory annual antisemitism training for all district employees who work with students,
• Hiring an outside investigator to oversee the district’s compliance with the settlement over the next 3 years, and write a public report on if the district followed state and federal law.
I believe this is a good guideline to address the hatred of Jews and Israelis in Oakland schools.
I grew up on Potrero Hill. In high school, I participated in a "Sojourn to the Past" trip where I retraced the American Civil Rights Movement in the South, then spoke to middle school students about tolerance and equality, which I'm passionate about. Later, I brought my family to Oakland, which I believed had a liberal, open-minded community. However, every day I see and hear prejudicial, hateful propaganda targeted at my family's cultural origin - which OUSD has done more to encourage than to deter.
Our schools are for education, not political indoctrination. OUSD has spent over two and a half years stalling investigations and ignoring unauthorized curricula, forcing dozens of Israeli and Jewish families out of the district. Our family cannot afford private school. We need OUSD to correct the hatred they've fostered, enforce authorized curriculum, maintain professional boundaries in the classroom, and clear the visuals on the walls to protect ALL students, not just some.
OUSD is losing Jewish students because of your inability to stand up to the union. Not just 2 years ago, but NOW. I am a parent of Jewish OUSD students. I fear for the safety of my kids in our schools due to how unseriously you take concerns of antisemitism. Unfortunately, due to your inaction on the CDE report and findings as well as on the OJA lawsuit; that it took over a year to hear back about one of the uniform complaints I had to file; and the many instances of antisemitism I have witnessed at our neighborhood campus - I cannot enroll my child in a district middle school. He graduated 5th grade in OUSD this year and is now leaving our district for middle school. I believe in public education, but I do not trust you with the safety of my child. Please fix this so that his younger sister doesn’t have to do the same and also leave OUSD in a few years, and so that I can trust you to protect and educate my kids once again.
As an alumni of OUSD school and a current teacher at OUSD, I was always proud of the district’s commitment to fight hate and support inclusion for all voices. It has been heartbreaking to watch and hear the hypocritical and hateful comments from the union, other teachers and students when it came down to including Jewish voices and opinions. The district has done too little, too late. It is time for a change. Through out history societies that decide to use scapegoating instead of self-reflection and growth, fall into discord and ruin. OUSD must take responsibility to include all voices, teach students how to and not what to think, remove political propaganda from school walls and ensure that all students and staff feel safe.
OUSD has become nationally known as a hotbed of antisemitism and is an embarrassment. I was shocked to sign my kid up this year and have only ONE religion available on the demographic selection- “Jewish.” The last time my family registered as Jews was in Nazi Germany. Welcome to the district. My Jewish Israeli child deserves a public education in a hate-free zone. OUSD, from registration to the teachers to the classroom curriculum and administration in particular-- hold yourself accountable to standard of diversity and acceptance you set for yourself. It can’t be diversity for all- except Jews.
My comments are about equal protection — what it looks like when it works, and what it looks like when it doesn’t.
This district has had 2.5 yrs, multiple community complaints,a formal CDE ruling documenting discrimination against Jewish & Israeli students. And still, this Board has not issued a single clear directive, not disciplined a single staff member, and is actively litigating against the state and the community it harmed.
If the state found documented, systemic discrimination against any other ethnic or racial community, this Board would not be asking them to wait. It would not require them to keep proving what investigators already confirmed. It would act quickly, because the moral stakes would feel urgent and clear.
Those stakes are equally urgent here. Jewish students are not a lesser category of protected people.
The CDE proved the case.Your own internal documents proved the case. Stop hiding behind legal maneuvers and do what you are legally and morally required to do.
OUSD, I'd like to lift up the words of Buddhist Philosopher Pema Chodron re what she calls, 'angry activism': "We often complain about other people's fundamentalism. But whenever we allow anger to harden our hearts... [w]e ourselves become fundamentalists, which is to say we become very self-righteous about our personal point of view...." Angry activism in OUSD over the incredibly complex Israel/Palestine issue has become fundamentalism, which is the antithesis of what education is about: Critical Thinking. Public educators are charged with giving the kids the ability to thoughtfully chew on all sides of an issue and come to a conclusion of their own making. To simply provide a pre-digested conclusion, be it that vaccines are evil, that gay sex is evil or that Israel is evil, is to rob a child of an education. It's time to drop the self-righteous, fundamentalist angry activism and teach our kids how to open their minds to complexity.
I'm saddened to see how OUSD has allowed a double standard to prevail and harm jewish students and staff. It is to the point that many have left OUSD schools and more are considering leaving. Teachers leaving mid year to do a hostile work environment harms students and staff! The signage in schools that supports ethnic cleansing all Jews from Israel shouldn't be tolerated, that is what "From the River to the Sea" means. If Blue Lives Matters signs were in classrooms, Teachers would be placed on leave and investigated. But nothing is being done to stop this discrimination against Jewish students.
Now teavhers and staff are organizing a boycott of the required antisemitism training. Will the school board allow this?
What is being done to retain Jewish families in OUSD?
I recently decided to investigate a serial poster on Oakland's Reddit who posts things like "kill the Zios". Based on his posts in other chats (with his photo), he outed himself as...a third grade teacher at Garfield Elementary School. I drive past Emerson elementary school every day. I saw the proud display of Arab-American history month in April. Of course (of course!) nothing about Jewish heritage in May. What's covered in this write-up is the tip of the iceberg.
As a parent of young Jewish children in Oakland who believes that Jewish people have a right to a homeland (the definition itself of Zionism), you can imagine how profoundly distressing this - and all the other incidents - are.
I cannot conceive of a situation in which we will remain in district when it comes time for our children to go to middle/high school unless we go to private schools. For what its worth, I will implacably oppose any funding for OUSD until it can curb its antisemitism.
Radical Double Standards in Enforcing District Policy
Selective Enforcement is Discrimination: If an OUSD teacher hung a Confederate flag, a "Blue Lives Matter" banner,... this Board and the Superintendent would have it torn down, and the employee would face immediate discipline.
The Jewish Exception: Because the targets are Jewish and Israeli students, staff, and families, the District suddenly suffers from total paralysis. You look the other way, allow the severe, unchecked harassment of children to fester, and treat the victims with administrative disregard.
Total Failure to Discipline: While OUSD’s own internal findings legally conceded that staff engaged in antisemitic discrimination, the District has issued zero meaningful disciplinary actions against the employees responsible for this misconduct.
Has anyone mentioned who is behind the discrimination ? and who is coordinating all the inaction? the refusal to investigate?the refusal to cooperate with the lawsuits? Has anyone mentioned who is behind the scenes coordinating all the efforts to create the hostile environment,to continue to support teachers who break the law daily?
Could it be a Union? Could it be the Teachers Union pressuring new and existing teachers and staff to go a certain way. And now teachers are encouraging other teachers to boycott the trainings. We saw at the press rally before the last Bd Mtg- teachers against the CDE, against investigations where children and staff are harmed. All children in Oakland deserve a hate free school and teachers who keep their politics to themselves. School is for critical thinking not indoctrination. The Board can align with the law. Please do it.
Public school should be a place where everyone feels safe and heard. Failing to follow-up on complaints about antisemitic behavior and allowing hateful and hurtful behavior to go unchecked for 2.5 years is inexcusable and prevents Jewish students from learning and getting the education that the OUSD seeks to provide. In addition, classrooms and hallways continue to have antisemitic slogans that intimidate. Please address the issue and create an environment where every student, regardless of identification, can feel safe and can blossom.
Oakland, despite the ruling of the CDE, still doesn't protect Jewish students from antisemitism in the form of antizionism. It does ALL students a disservice to serve up political propaganda instead of offering a reasoned, historical approach. I am so glad my children, who went through OUSD, are adults now and weren't marginalized by teachers and peers during their school years.
OUSD used to be a place where kids were taught to value ALL types of diversity (ethnic, racial, religious, gender) and given the tools to engage in civil discourse on hard + emotional topics. If kids are not taught this in school than what kinds of adults can we expect them to grow into? It has been devastating and frankly shameful to call myself an Oakland resident + tax payer in the face of blatant hate and discrimination that has been perpetuated by our public school teachers and administrators against Jewish students, and to see OUSD turn a blind eye to student, parent + staff complaints. Schools should be safe spaces where our kids are met with empathy and kindness not political propaganda, identity shaming, and hate speech. Board Members: stop failing our students and our City; stop your arrogance and close-mindedness; listen to the experiences of Oakland families, and teachers; meet them with open ears and open hearts; feel saddened by their experiences; and do the right thing.
I have preschool-age children and I'm so upset by the stories I've heard from other Jewish parents and teachers. It's bizarre how quickly extremist language has been allowed to prosper and there has been a complete lack of response, or even explicit endorsement of hateful speech, from school administrators. It's so clear how different the response would be if this discrimination were against any other ethnic minority. At present it feels unsafe for me to send my children to OUSD, a terrifying and humiliating feeling I thought we were passed in 21st century America.
I’m using an alias because I'm afraid of reprisals. I’ve been an oakland teacher for over 20 years. I was horrified and stunned to come to school after the massacre on Oct 7, and find my school riddled with one-side posters and flags, calling for the elimination of my relatives and friends. I could barely focus on my work, surrounded with hatred and viciousness. My students, largely Hispanic, were anxious and uneasy in this hostile atmosphere. Hello Kitty prints, colored by kindergartners in black, white, green and red, were proudly displayed on the library wall. Slogans and signs adorned TK classroom walls! TK! This is not education. It is indoctrination. When did it become acceptable to politicize a conflict happening thousands of miles away to young children? The hostility of classroom teachers was palpable. Our principal wore a keffiyeh. Please Oakland Unified, take these lawsuits against antisemitism seriously and do the right thing. We know hatred towards Jews never ends well.
This presentation has taken far far far too long. The UCP complaints that form the basis of the CDE findings should never have had to rise to this level. If the complaints involved racism toward or discrimination of students of color, this district would have addressed them quickly and expeditiously. Instead, first you sat on the complaints, forcing Jewish families to file a lawsuit under the auspices of the OJA. Then you claimed no discrimination occurred, forcing those same families to seek redress from the CDE. And when the CDE ruled against you and validated that the underlying complaints as well as your handling of them consitutued discrimination, you just ignored it, forcing them to file an enforcement lawsuit against you. We are not asking to be treated any differently from any other community. We want our kids to be treated equally in the classroom and not singled out. And we want you to believe us when we say something is not right
The OUSD must agree to the actions put forth by the California Department of Education to stop discrimination against Jewish students and staff.
The discrimination is focused on Jews. When discriminatory and hostile actions have been complained about, there have been no disciplinary actions to ensure that these inappropriate and illegal actions will not continue. The message from OUSD leadership is that of complicity with the discrimination against and hatred of Jewish students and staff.
The recommendations from the CDE must be followed and implemented in the Oakland Schools. There should not be any propaganda banners, signs, or flags. Teachers who insist on introducing lesson plans that are not approved should face significant disciplinary action. The members of the OUSD School Board should put aside their own prejudices and act as professionals, and put the students and quality of education first.
I have lived in Oakland and Emeryville for years, and want to see our community have inclusive public education that doesn't indoctrinate or advocate hate. Unfortunately OUSD has been failing at that with regards to enabling a hostile and discriminatory environment for Jewish and Israeli-American students. This hurts all of us in the long run. It is further disappointing to see OUSD dragging their feet on making any substantive changes, and instead putting energy into fighting community groups. OUSD must hold staff accountable, remove hateful propaganda that targets Jews, Israelis, or anyone else, and implement genuine fixes.
It is past time for the Board to finally meaningfully address the scourge of hatred against Jews in our district. Live up to OUSD's stated values of diversity, equity, and learning - and get to the hard work. Correcting an insidious issue like antisemitism cannot be done through a checklist of administrative tasks. A letter does not fix hate in the hallways. Real corrective action requires listening to the lived experience of Jewish families and staff to understand how jew hatred manifests and the harm it causes, removing teachers and staff who perpetrate antisemitism and who use their classrooms to push ideology instead of approved curriculum, re-educating indoctrinated teachers, staff, and students so that hate has no home in our schools, and continually do all of the above until Jewish families feel safe in our schools. These are the very actions you would take if any other group were being subjected to hate - they must be taken now.
The CDE found OUSD didn't take timely steps to end discrimination against Jews.
Consider:
Sequoia Union High School District settled a lawsuit filed to address a rise in antisemitism.
The settlement agreement included:
• Over the next 3 years, teachers must clear any materials related to the conflict in Gaza with an independent reviewer who will be agreed upon by the district and the complainants,
• Upping its process for investigating complaints of antisemitism, which will include hiring an outside investigator,
• Changing district policy to name and define antisemitism as a prohibited form of discrimination,
• Mandatory annual antisemitism training for all district employees who work with students,
• Hiring an outside investigator to oversee the district’s compliance with the settlement over the next 3 years, and write a public report on if the district followed state and federal law.
I believe this is a good guideline to address the hatred of Jews and Israelis in Oakland schools.
I grew up on Potrero Hill. In high school, I participated in a "Sojourn to the Past" trip where I retraced the American Civil Rights Movement in the South, then spoke to middle school students about tolerance and equality, which I'm passionate about. Later, I brought my family to Oakland, which I believed had a liberal, open-minded community. However, every day I see and hear prejudicial, hateful propaganda targeted at my family's cultural origin - which OUSD has done more to encourage than to deter.
Our schools are for education, not political indoctrination. OUSD has spent over two and a half years stalling investigations and ignoring unauthorized curricula, forcing dozens of Israeli and Jewish families out of the district. Our family cannot afford private school. We need OUSD to correct the hatred they've fostered, enforce authorized curriculum, maintain professional boundaries in the classroom, and clear the visuals on the walls to protect ALL students, not just some.
OUSD is losing Jewish students because of your inability to stand up to the union. Not just 2 years ago, but NOW. I am a parent of Jewish OUSD students. I fear for the safety of my kids in our schools due to how unseriously you take concerns of antisemitism. Unfortunately, due to your inaction on the CDE report and findings as well as on the OJA lawsuit; that it took over a year to hear back about one of the uniform complaints I had to file; and the many instances of antisemitism I have witnessed at our neighborhood campus - I cannot enroll my child in a district middle school. He graduated 5th grade in OUSD this year and is now leaving our district for middle school. I believe in public education, but I do not trust you with the safety of my child. Please fix this so that his younger sister doesn’t have to do the same and also leave OUSD in a few years, and so that I can trust you to protect and educate my kids once again.
As an alumni of OUSD school and a current teacher at OUSD, I was always proud of the district’s commitment to fight hate and support inclusion for all voices. It has been heartbreaking to watch and hear the hypocritical and hateful comments from the union, other teachers and students when it came down to including Jewish voices and opinions. The district has done too little, too late. It is time for a change. Through out history societies that decide to use scapegoating instead of self-reflection and growth, fall into discord and ruin. OUSD must take responsibility to include all voices, teach students how to and not what to think, remove political propaganda from school walls and ensure that all students and staff feel safe.