City of San Francisco Sues Its School District for Not Even Having a Plan to Reopen Schools
“This is hurting the mental health of our kids and our families.”
Yes, you read the headline correctly. The city of San Francisco is suing its own school district for not having a “meaningful plan for how or when in-person” teaching will begin. Teachers and students have not been in the classroom since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Also, I think this is the fourth #headdesk story I’ve written related to San Francisco schools.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed the lawsuit against the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District on Wednesday.
Herrera explained, “that the SFUSD is a separate legal entity from the City and County of San Francisco.” Therefore, the district “does not answer to the mayor or board of supervisors.
From KRON:
City attorney Dennis Herrera and Mayor London Breed addressed the litigation during a 10 a.m. press conference.
Herrera said they are suing for “violation of administerial duties,” claiming the school district failed to perform its duties in preparing for a return to school. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in California.
“The Board of Education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a concrete plan to get these kids back in school. So far they have earned an F,” Herrera said. “Having a plan to make a plan isn’t going to cut it.”
Breed said keeping the classrooms closed is hurting Black, Latino, and Asian students, especially low-income students.
“This is hurting the mental health of our kids and our families. Our teachers have done an incredible job of trying to support our kids through distance learning, but this isn’t working for anyone,” Breed said.
Like Chicago, private and parochial schools opened without any problems. The majority of public schools in neighboring counties already opened.
The City has offered resources and staff to get our school facilities ready and to support testing for our educators. We’ve offered the guidance and expertise of the Department of Public Health. We are ready and willing to do our part to get our kids back in the classroom.
— London Breed (@LondonBreed) February 3, 2021
On February 11, Herrera will ask the San Francisco Superior Court in a motion “to issue an emergency order” to force the district to formulate a plan before the court decides on the case.
Herrera had to file the lawsuit before the motion.
SFUSD demanded nine conditions to happen before anyone goes back to the classroom. Only two have finished while four are “almost done.”
If SFUSD is determined to continue remote learning then why aren’t officials doing anything about the big gap in achievements?
Oh, wait. Racism is more important. The district wasted time demanding 44 schools change their names. Then the art department wasted more time dropping its acronym because acronyms are racist.
You know what else is racist? Ignoring obvious warning signs that will cost minorities an opportunity to succeed.
Friendly reminder that while they spend 7 hours renaming schools, the achievement gaps in San Francisco are over the highest in the nation. https://t.co/oeATkXZ4EM pic.twitter.com/NvIFWyILS8
— Erika Sanzi (@esanzi) January 27, 2021
In my posts about Chicago schools, I posted study after study that proves distance learning has affected minorities the most along with poorer families.
It seems that, like Chicago teachers, San Francisco teachers do not want to go back to work. They want to teach over Zoom forever.
Prove me wrong, teachers. Please. For the sake of our children and future.
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Remind me, are all the SF teachers being paid during the COVID time off? How many of them are doing meaningful remote teaching?
If they’re unionized, probably. It’s a far cry from the days when I was in HS, when the teachers all had to find summer jobs to pay the bills.
The plan comes after the cash to pay off the union comes.
“Breed said keeping the classrooms closed is hurting Black, Latino, and Asian students, especially low-income students.”
So…. Basically, everybody except rich white kids, right?
Hurting rich white kids is now known as “equity”
I feel so deprived…! Cheremoya Ave School in Los Angeles only had one lanuage in 1954 when I started Kindergarten.
Yeah, me too — though you have a couple of years on me… Actually, I think that second one is Klingonese!
Nice of them to ID the school for all of the students who can’t read English.
They have rights, you know!
But the District can manage to find time to order 44 schools and the Art Department to change names because Acronyms are Racist, right?
There’s absolutely no reason this needs to be made a racial issue. If it’s hurting “Black, Latino, and Asian students,” it’s hurting all students.
I think you are missing the point. It’s about using their own divisive language against them.
Gee, it’s almost like when these folks were fed a bunch of hyperbole from political puppets about the virus, they lapped it up and believed it!