During the Tuesday, March 7, 2017, Board of Education Meeting, Trustee Psychologist John Lee Evans had a hard time dealing with reality.

During the hearing to deny the renewal of the Arroyo Paseo Charter High School (APCHS), the only high school in City Heights. Evans was forced to face reality and then proceeded to deny that reality with an insult.

During the APCHS hearing, Students and Staff pleaded through heart-rending testimony with Trustees John Lee Evans, Richard Barrera, Kevin Beiser, Mike McQuary, Sharon Whitehurst-Payne and Supt. Cindy Marten to save the school that has served as an educational life raft and last chance to many students bullied and rejected at SDUSD public schools like Serra and Hoover.

After the Staff and Students testified, Educational Rights Advocate and District Deeds Guest Writer Sally Smith called out the Trustees for allowing Supt. Marten to create a toxic SDUSD environment that makes charter schools like APCHS necessary for victimized students.

Apparently. the TRUTH of Mrs. Smith’s statement hit too close to home for the thin skinned “professional” John Lee Evans:

The end result that Mrs. Smith predicted came true…Trustees John Lee Evans, Richard Barrera, Kevin Beiser, Mike McQuary and Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, with the recommendation of Supt. Cindy Marten, voted 5 – 0 to revoke the Charter, sink the life raft for all future students being bullied and abused at SDUSD public schools and close the only high school located in City Heights.

That shows how far, as Evans says, “speaking from your heart, speaking respectfully” gets Students, Parents or any Stakeholder in the 1 minute to speak granted by the Board to save your educational future.

With the current Board and Superintendent, it gets your charter, and your stakeholder rights, revoked!

We leave it up to Trustee Psychologist Evans, “in private practice, working with children, adolescents and adults“, to determine what disorder would cause a highly educated, privileged, physician to deny obvious facts presented honestly by by some of the most vulnerable students in the SDUSD, avoid his obvious responsibility to maintain those students “life raft”, and then insult a dedicated SDUSD Stakeholder, Volunteer, and Taxpayer who further explained those facts to him with the simplest words possible:

You failed them. You failed them. You failed them, not this school.  You failed them.  – Mrs. Sally Smith

District Deeds has 3 suggestions for the eminent “doctor”:

Physician, heal thyself!

Look in the Mirror and take responsibility – You DID fail them!

Fire Supt. Cindy Marten the source of your disorder!

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