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We began our 2023 New Year Resolution of San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) HAT Trick of Honesty, Accountability and Transparency through our Uniform Complaint Handbook (UCH).  Our UCH provides definitions, strategies and actions that SDUSD Stakeholders can take to expose the abuse, neglect and incompetence suffered by their children at the hands of the SDUSD.

We took the next step last week by launching the SDUSD HAT Trick Analysis featuring the letter H for the SDUSD “HONESTY” analysis in the June 4, 2023 Sunday Reads, This week the letter “A” for ACCOUNTABILITY takes our analysis center stage both literally and figuratively.

To quickly recap, here is our simple SDUSD HAT Trick formula for our 2023 New Year Resolution:

The core conclusion that must be accepted by ALL SDUSD Stakeholders is that without the HAT Trick components, there can be no REAL trust or community involvement/collaboration in how well our children are being taught despite the millions of dollars of Propaganda and Legal defenses that the SDUSD uses to frame their “false positive” “Trust” narrative.

This week we analyze the SDUSD HAT Trick component of ACCOUNTABILITY with information from the five following articles:

Times of San Diego: 4 Former La Jolla High School Students to File Sex Abuse Suit Against District

Wayback Archive Link:  4 Former La Jolla High School Students to File Sex Abuse Suit Against District

Channel 7 San Diego: Former La Jolla High Students Settle Sex-Abuse Lawsuit Against Ex-Teacher, San Diego Unified

Wayback Archive Link:  Former La Jolla High Students Settle Sex-Abuse Lawsuit Against Ex-Teacher, San Diego Unified

Voice of San Diego: How Predatory Teachers Stay on the Job

Wayback Archive Link: How Predatory Teachers Stay on the Job

San Diego Unified School District: News Release: San Diego Unified School District files suit against JUUL Labs, citing E-Cigarette epidemic and disruption to student education

Wayback Archive Link:  News Release: San Diego Unified School District files suit against JUUL Labs, citing E-Cigarette epidemic and disruption to student education

Voice of San Diego:  What’s The Big Deal with Community Schools?

Wayback Archive Link:  What’s The Big Deal with Community Schools?

DDTIP:  Many publications, and especially the SDUSD Propaganda Department, delete the articles/press releases we refer to in our blog.  To counter that strategy each week we will list articles like the ones above with an internet archive link from the Wayback Machine (WM) site so that you can always access the articles we post.

SDUSD “ACCOUNTABILITY” Definition

Here is the definition of “accountability” from Dictionary.com:

The typical use of the term “Accountability” in the SDUSD and education in general is usually restricted to “academic progress” just like the definition above delineates.

However COMPLETE “Accountability” for all educational institutions also means that ALL school districts MUST provide a safe learning environment against all threats to the the safety of Students and Employees alike.

Recently SDUSD’s La Jolla High School, one of the per capita wealthiest high schools in San Diego County, settled a lawsuit regarding sexual harassment as far back as 2003 according to news articles from Times of San Diego and Channel 7 San Diego.

For 14 years, from 2003 through 2023, both the SDUSD central office and school sites, including La Jolla High School, created and distributed state mandated school safety plans and Title IX declarations.  Those SDUSD documents claimed that the SDUSD would be accountable for staunchly protecting all Students from the exact violations that ALL the La Jolla students endured for the 14 year period between the time Ms. Gant was initially assaulted in 2003 until the Teacher involved retired with no consequences in 2017.  It took six more years, until 2023, for the SDUSD to be FORCED to finally accept “Accountability” for their negligence in enforcing Title IX declarations over that same 14 year period.

So how much has the SDUSD and La Jolla High School (LJHS) changed over that 20 year period in relation to the Title IX safety issues?

To get that answer we decided to took at the most recent, SDUSD approved, LJHS 2022/2023 School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) that provides the blueprint for school site performance mandated by the California Department of Education California Department of Education (CDE).  We found that the first mandated item on both the LJHS and the CDE was “Stakeholder Involvement”

We found the following in the LJHS SPSA under item 1:

After 20 years and a 6 year lawsuit against the LJHS/SDUSD regarding improper sexual violations at LJHS, there is ZERO reference to that issue in the primary area in the LJHS SPSA where that would be emphasized.

So we did a search on the document for “harrassment”, “sex”, “abuse” and  “Title IX”.  We found nothing.

We then searched the document for “accountabilty” and we found it!

One time in the document in “Appendix B” from the SDUSD central office….  Obviously the point we are making is that despite 14 years of multiple Title IX violations capped off by a 6 year lawsuit that issue STILL did not warrant any mention of an  initiative to directly address the problem in the 2022/2023 LJHS SPSA or in the SDUSD.

Now let’s look at the challenge of holding the SDUSD accountable for sexual abuse or any other Education Code/Title IX violations in communities that DO NOT have the financial and educational resources of LJHS who has a 2% dropout rate according to their SPSA.

How do you think a family with language/financial challenges in City Heights or Barrio Logan or Valencia Park or Paradise Hills would be able to hold the SDUSD accountable for the very same violations?

Would all of them also have the capacity for an expensive, complicated lawsuit against the multimillion dollar SDUSD legal department?

We all know the obvious answer to that question.

Instead of successful lawsuits against the SDUSD, they get fake, forged SPSA’s (like Lincoln High School) and generic statements in Channel 7 San Diego from the corrupt SDUSD propaganda department like:

The district will continue to review and update its policies annually to remain current and consistent with the latest improvements in best practices and laws, officials said after the settlement.

There have been a massive amount of Federal, California, and SDUSD “policies” to prevent sexual predators over the last 20 years with ZERO actual ACCOUNTABILITY from anyone to actually ENFORCE them!

Instead of successful lawsuits against the SDUSD the neediest communities just get “Pass The Trash” when a SDUSD employee violates a child in their school. According to an article from the Voice of San Diego titled  How Predatory Teachers Stay on the Job, in California that is impossible to stop:

In those communities, instead of having the SDUSD “stay in their lane” by focusing on safety and protection of Students against sexual predators and the core need to get ALL students to their appropriate grade level and beyond in the primary subjects of reading, writing, math and science, they get distractions like random lawsuits against JUUL Labs for E-Cigarettes  and a “Community Schools Initiative” that creates MORE BUREAUCRACY rather than MORE EFFECTIVE teaching and learning.

Two “media attracting” distractions that demand no accountability!!!

THAT is why REAL SDUSD Accountability, in ALL items DIRECTLY related to SDUSD Student education and learning, is one of the primary components of Honesty, Accountability and Transparency in the District Deeds 2023 HAT Trick Resolution.

The SDUSD HAT TRICK – HONESTY-ACCOUNTABILITY-TRANSPARENCY

Next week we will be closing this SDUSD HAT Trick Definition series of posts with an analysis of SDUSD “TRANSPARENCY”.

Now for our Quote of the Week regarding Accountability:

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” – ― Mahatma Gandhi

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