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This past Thursday, August 12, 2021 marked the official halfway point for the San Diego Unified School District “community engagement sessions” for the selection of a new district Superintendent.  There have been 10 Cluster specific “sessions” and 6 of 10, 48 member Superintendent Search Committee meetings.

For this Sunday Reads we will analyze the SDUSD Superintendent search “progress” so far and how much the community is really being engaged through these propaganda sessions.

We have selected the most relevant portions of the article provided in this post but District Deeds strongly urges our readers to click on the title (in red) and read the full articles for themselves.

Community weighs in on San Diego Unified’s future as school district opens search for new superintendent

BY TYLER FAUROT
PUBLISHED AUG. 5, 2021 UPDATED AUG. 6, 2021 10:22 AM PT

Quote from article:

A series of 30 town hall meetings intended to help build a profile of the ideal candidate for superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District and shape a vision of the district’s future got underway last week, including a July 30 online gathering for the district’s La Jolla, Mission Bay and Point Loma school clusters.

“In the first 10 meetings, we’re not asking specifics about the superintendent, we’re asking for basic information to have a foundation to build toward that,” said Janice Case, California director for the National Center on Education and the Economy, a not-for-profit group that advocates for education policy based on economic changes. NCEE representatives led the July 30 meeting in conjunction with the Superintendent Search Advisory Committee for SDUSD.

And…

Case, who attended the meeting, said the format was an efficient way of gathering a variety of ideas.

“There are 50 people in this [virtual] room right now, but of the people who are here, an additional 40 to 50 thoughts have been shared in the first 10-minute exchange,” Case said. “If we were just passing a mic around, there would be no chance to get all those ideas shared. With this platform, we’re able to hear from each and every one of you.”

The first of two prompts presented at the meeting was “What are some examples of things we should continue to do to support the students at SDUSD and what are some areas we need to improve?” The highest-rated response was “Need to improve in the area of providing mental health services.”

In early August, the highest-rated response to that question from all meetings was “Board of education needs to show how they are listening to parents during board meetings. Feels like change is not happening based on community feedback.”

And…

“The part you contributed today is a critical part of this process because you’re laying the foundation for the conversation that will lead to us understanding the characteristics and qualities of a superintendent that we should be looking for in order to ensure that we are on the right path for this district,” Case told the participants.

And…

With the information gathered from all the districtwide town hall meetings, which continue through September, the 48-member Superintendent Search Advisory Committee will help develop the job posting for the superintendent position. It expects to list it by November.

The advisory committee then will screen applications and recommend about 10 candidates to be interviewed by the district board. After those interviews, the board will select three final candidates.

Community forums will be held to provide feedback, and the board plans to appoint a permanent superintendent in December.

District Deeds Synopsis:

Despite typically being a virtual mouthpiece for the corrupt SDUSD, this article by La Jolla Light (LJL) is very revealing.  It makes us wonder whether the word “Light” in the masthead stands for a beacon or a feather.

The Superintendent Search Advisory Committee link in the article connects directly to the SDUSD propaganda release in the district website.

(Editor Note:  Here is an archive of the SDUSD website link protected from SDUSD propaganda changes: SAN DIEGO UNIFIED BEGINS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR FUTURE OF SCHOOLS, SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH)

Information in that SDUSD propaganda release combined with the LJL article gives us a much fuller picture of what we described almost 2 months ago in our June 20th Sunday Reads titled: SDUSD Superintendent Selection Process a Scam? YOU be the Judge!!! 

We first checked the SDUSD Propaganda release where Trustee Tricky Dick Barrera said the following:

“We are inviting everyone in this community who cares about public education to participate in our series of public input sessions and to share with us their vision for great public schools and the qualities they would like to see in a superintendent to lead us toward that vision.”

Now let’s read the quote in the LJL by Ms. Case from the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), the organization assigned by Trustee Tricky Dick to run the meetings.

“In the first 10 meetings, we’re not asking specifics about the superintendent, we’re asking for basic information to have a foundation to build toward that”

So, instead of identifying “qualities they would like to see in a superintendent” like Barrera spewed, the 40 attendees from the “La Jolla, Mission Bay and Point Loma school clusters“, representing 10’s of thousands of students, were scammed by Tricky Dick into attending a 2 hour meeting that addressed NOTHING required of the new SDUSD superintendent, just the old, worn out Barrera “vision” fantasy.

A blatant Trustee Tricky Dick Barrera lie to all “La Jolla, Mission Bay and Point Loma school clusters “stakeholders and all the attendees of the 9 other Cluster specific “community engagement sessions”.

Another big reveal was about the attendance of the meeting…in this case 50 participants from some of the more affluent areas in the SDUSD.  Ms. Case seemed extremely enthused about the ZOOM Platform.

“There are 50 people in this [virtual] room right now, but of the people who are here, an additional 40 to 50 thoughts have been shared in the first 10-minute exchange,” Case said. “If we were just passing a mic around, there would be no chance to get all those ideas shared. With this platform, we’re able to hear from each and every one of you.”

What Ms. Case apparently ignored is that only 50 individuals cared to attend from the most affluent areas of the SDUSD that have almost universal access to computers, the internet and the knowledge of how to technically participate in the “[virtual] room“.

That is a horrible turnout for a virtual meeting of this magnitude based on a Barrera lie, and yet Ms. Case is bragging about how much better it is than being able to communicate in person!

On top of it all, check out the meeting details:

That’s right, a “community engagement session” at 10:00 am on a Friday!

What better way to completely diminish any and all community input.

The only upside is that MORE SDUSD Stakeholders from Mission Bay, La Jolla and Pt. Loma DIDN’T waste their time by attending this sham.

But, as expected, Trustees Sharon “fly by the seat of our pants” Payne and Tricky Dick Barrera did even worse in their areas.

The last 2 meetings of the 10 are listed below:

District Deeds was provided information from attendees from each meeting.

Totally disconnected from the community she represents, Trustee Payne approved scheduling the Lincoln Cluster “community engagement session” at 10:00 am on a Thursday!  Payne also attended the meeting.

One quick question:

Does Payne have any clue as to the needs and challenges of students and families in the communities she is supposed to represent?

She got a lesson right in her face on Thursday.

Here are pictures of the Lincoln Cluster “community engagement session” meeting room:

The results of the Lincoln meeting speak for themselves:

9 Stakeholder Attendees

When a community member asked the organizer last week about the lack of Zoom for Lincoln, Crawford, and Morse along with the poor scheduling of the meeting, she responded that “they didn’t want folks to feel beholden to their clusters.”  We are not sure if the Lincoln Cluster organizer referred to by our source was Ms. Case or just nameless Trustee Payne surrogate.  Whichever it was needs to join Payne in some remedial community engagement training.

To wrap up the first 10 meetings,  the San Diego cluster appropriately closed out the Tricky Dick “community engagement session” scam with a whimper AND a twist.

Check out the San Diego  “community engagement session” info one more time:

Still no ZOOM option but at least a better meeting time from 6-8 pm, right?

WRONG!

The meeting location listed is 2875 Oceanview Avenue.

We could not find 2875 Oceanview Avenue on Google Maps but we DID find 2875 Ocean View Blvd.

Here is a picture of the location from Google Maps:

Do you notice anything strange?

Look again…Do you see anything missing?

That’s right!

Not only the incorrect address (Blvd, not Ave.), but no address on the building!

So if you were a Stakeholder NOT “beholden” to your cluster and traveled from another area to attend the meeting with hopes of confronting Barrera, you wouldn’t be able to find the meeting address.

Lazy and sloppy Barrera.

And the results of this intentionally poor planning and mismanagement?

Here is a picture of the San Diego Cluster meeting room:

6 Stakeholder Attendees

Tricky Dick held a meeting and nobody came!

But there may be a silver lining for the San Diego Cluster.

Maybe Barrera inadvertently benefitted the community by publishing a meeting site for the San Diego Cluster on a street that doesn’t exist and has no address number posted.

He saved them from wasting two hours of their lives on his useless, “community engagement session” scam although they may have wasted two hours driving around trying to find the meeting!

All that is left in this “stage” are 10 more anonymous location “community engagement session” Zoom meetings of no consequence.

Based on all the above evidence, at the end of all the “community engagement session(s)” we will have absolutely ZERO verified data regarding Superintendent requirements from the SDUSD family communities.

Then we move on to the 48-member Superintendent Search Advisory Committee to help develop the job posting for the superintendent position.

We are to believe that the 48 icons hand selected by Barrera for that committee will stand up for the unknown community requirements in selecting the 10 finalists for Superintendent.

But wait…a local news flash from KUSI titled “The search begins for a new San Diego Unified School District Superintendent”

Here is a quote from the story:

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Thursday was the first virtual community session to get get the public’s input and ideas on the kind of person they would like as the next superintendent for San Diego Unified School District.

There will be 20 sessions and the first 10 are virtual according to Chair of SDUSD Superintendent Search Committee Christopher Rice-Wilson.

Applications for next super will be accepted in October and November.

The Advisory Committee will pick the top 10 candidates then the board will narrow to three.

And here is a picture of the interview:

WAIT!

That “Chair of SDUSD Superintendent Search Committee Christopher Rice-Wilson.” looks familiar!

We saw him two weeks ago

Remember our “Eyewitness Report: Lincoln High “Forum” Dog and Pony Show BLOWS UP! Humiliated Coward Trustee Richard Barrera Runs/Hides from Community Questions!“?

Guess who the Barrera hand picked moderator was that night that refused to ask community questions of Barrera for an hour and 20 minutes resulting in the blowing up of the Lincoln High “Forum” Dog and Pony Show” disaster:

That’s right!

That “Chair of SDUSD Superintendent Search Committee Christopher Rice-Wilson.”!!!!!

That Mr. Rice-Wilson who will be chairing the Tricky Dick Barrera crony 48-member Superintendent Search Advisory Committee that “Will pick the top 10 candidates” for the next SDUSD Superintendent.

We wonder which members of the 48 person committee will be refused comments or questions by a Barrera edict to Wilson like he did with the Lincoln “Dog and Pony Show”.

What an arrogant, lazy, sloppy Barrera error to use the same crony for both scams.

After this, we are not sure how any SDUSD Stakeholders could believe that the SDUSD will use any form of REAL community engagement to choose the next superintendent.

The “community engagement session(s)” have been infected by Barrera.

The 48-member Superintendent Search Advisory Committee has been infected by Barrera.

The flunky, subservient Board of Education Trustee flunkies have been infected by Barrera.

Could YOU be next to be infected by Barrera?

Listen to Barrera’s own words of warning:

“Put on your mask”

That’s right, when dealing with corrupt, liar Trustee Tricky Dick, “Put on your Mask” and put in your earplugs!

Always remember…anything spewing from corruption infected Barrera requires some sort of prophylactic.

Now for our quote of the week dedicated to the celebration of Barrera strategic errors that expose the truth:

“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.” – Walter Lippmann

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