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INTRODUCTION

Over ten months ago on New Years Day, Sunday, January 1, 2023, District Deeds made the 2023 “HAT Trick” New Years Resolution for holding the San Diego Unified School District to the reasonable, justifiable, and critical standard of Honesty, Accountability and Transparency:

Since that time we have provided our readers the HAT Trick Handbook for Uniform Complaints and spent Summer, 2023 breaking down the three components with documented proof of horrible SDUSD performance.

From the beginning of the 2023/2024 school year in August we have provided both document and video examples of the SDUSD senior leadership corruption and lies in subverting any semblance of the 3 District Deeds HAT TRICK components of Honesty, Accountability and Transparency.

We then decided to launch our Sunday Reads “Speak Your Truth” Initiative.  A summary of this initiative is at the end of this post.

The videos we provided on October 1, 2023 represented the SDUSD Family “Speak Your Truth” perspective on violations of the 3 HAT TRICK principles.

On October 8, 2023 we featured  a “Speak Your Truth” from a SDUSD Teacher with over 20 years of experience who beat the SDUSD in court for over $100,000 after they were mercilessly harassed by their Principal.

This week we feature Part 1 of “Speak Your Truth” testimony from Perturbed Parent whose family suffered student abuse at every level in a SDUSD school site.  From from the SAY San Diego counselor overblowing a students’ confidential past “negative feelings” about the school through the site Vice Principal, staff and SDUSD Police improperly escalating the issue to ridiculous levels, the truly rotten operational management core of the seriously flawed SDUSD senior leadership manifested itself and betrayed every level of trust between students/parents/community and the SDUSD education propaganda mill.

DD NOTE:  We are using they/them/their pronouns to maintain the confidentiality of both Perturbed Parent and their child.  We apologize in advance for any awkward phrases we have used to accomplish that task.

Here is Part 1 of the Perturbed Parent story:

10/16/2023

To: District Deeds

From: Perturbed Parent

In your October 15, 2023 District Deeds post you asked the question, “How can the SDUSD morally retain Principals and other leadership personnel that effectively promulgate and sanction abuses against Employees, Students and Families?”

I think the answer may be that perhaps they don’t know all of the abuses against students and families that take place in the district. Many families have language barriers that prevent them from feeling secure about speaking out. Other times the reports may not be construed as instances of abuse. In my child’s case, they asked me to just drop it and not make any formal complaints or do anything about it. I agreed not to take their issue up at the district level, but I definitely marched down to the school to hold the leadership there accountable for their actions and ask for an apology to my child. Here’s what happened:

When my child was a junior at an SDUSD high school recently, they saw a poster for SAY San Diego’s teen counseling at the school site and asked me for permission to attend. My child had previously expressed dissatisfaction with the school system many times. They frequently complain about the uselessness of the courses they are forced to take, the treatment they receive from teachers, and the hopelessness of their education improving until they go to college. I am saddened by my child’s school experience because they are identified as a GATE student, attended a Spanish immersion elementary school, and has incredible potential to be highly successful, but has had such terrible experiences that they give up when they feel there is no point in trying.

For example, when they were in the sixth grade a bully forced them to stick a a mildly insulting, but not threatening, comment about the teacher the classroom door. As punishment, the school administrators gave them public humiliation in the form of standing up in front of their whole class and then the class of the teacher whose door the note was on, and apologize for what they did. As far as I know, the bully did not receive the same punishment or any at all.

After this experience, my child attended counseling sessions at the school for a few weeks, and asked to not return the following year but to attend our local middle school instead. This they did, and dropped Spanish as their foreign language, taking up French when they got to high school.

Their junior year I agreed to let my child participate in SAY San Diego’s counseling program for teens. They met with the SAY counselor once a week on Wednesdays for the duration of the school year. Their senior year they opted to continue to meet with her, that is until she betrayed my child’s trust after their first session in the second week of school by telling one of the vice principals and the campus police something they had said to her.

I choose to hold my child’s confidentiality as sacred so I will not repeat here what they said in confidence to her, even though she blabbed it to others and started off a sickening chain of events I can only describe as torture. I will say, however, that the reason she did it was because she was obligated if she thought they might be a threat to the school or a danger to themself and others.

My child told me she had asked them how they were feeling being back at school this year compared to how they had been feeling last year; and their response had been that this year they felt much better than last year when they had been experiencing negative feelings about the school system. (I generalize for the sake of confidentiality.)

The SAY counselor released my child to go back to class.

Now this is the messed up part; had she actually believed my child to be the threat she told the school police that they were, she should not have let my child out of her sight. Her office where they meet is in the school’s front office, so it would have been easy to keep my child under surveillance while she went for help. But instead, she let them go to class, a class that was attending a school assembly, and then went to inform everyone that she thought my child posed a dangerous threat. The vice principal went to the assembly and told their teacher to send my child to the office.

When a student is called to the office, they feel they have no choice but to go there. This was true for my child; they felt they could not go home from school until the school let them go. The school did not let them go.

When my my child arrived to the office, they told my child they were going to have a conversation about what my child said to the SAY counselor. There were two police officers there already. The VP searched their backpack and wanted them to tell them what they had said to the SAY counselor. My child asked if they had to tell them, and said they didn’t want to tell them. The VP said my child did have to tell them and also kept their backpack even after finding no evidence of anything threatening or dangerous inside. The police took over the interrogation from there, and after the VP offered to get my child some water, was waved away by the police who said they didn’t need him any more. I later asked the VP if he had asked my child if they needed him anymore, but the VP of course had not, and just left my child alone with two cops to be interrogated without any adult or family member to support them.

No one let my child use their phone to call us.

The police did not read my child their Miranda rights.

The police did not wait for us, as parents, to show up before they interrogated them.

The police called in three more officers to be present outside the door, and did not inform my child that my child was free to go (which my child was, but didn’t know it).

This is the message left on my phone from the police, “This is the police. I want to talk to you about your child. They are.”

That’s it.

They didn’t tell me what they are! The VP had called my spouse leaving an equally vague message to call them back with no details. When I later asked the VP why he hadn’t said that my child was in police custody he replied that it was his policy never to leave details in messages because he didn’t know who would hear the messages, which, I grant, is a fair policy.

So it wasn’t until the police showed up to our house with my child’s backpack asking to search our child’s room that we learned where they were: in the psychiatric ward of Rady’s Children’s hospital! The police had taken my child here and left them.

Back at our house, we of course didn’t let the police search anything. We called a lawyer who met us at the hospital where our child was in isolation.

My child had been stripped of their clothing and left scared and alone to hear the screams and cries of the other children there.

Hospital personnel explained that my child had been brought in under a 5150 which meant my child was to be moved to a ward where no visitors were allowed in a mental hospital in order to be held for 72 hours for psychiatric evaluation.

Three days!

Mind you, nothing had been found in my child’s backpack and there was no evidence my child was a threat to anyone. The lawyer told us there was nothing he could do to expedite our child’s release, now that my child had already been admitted, until after my child had been evaluated by a psychiatrist.

END OF PART 1

District Deeds Translation

It is obvious from this testimony that SDUSD school site personnel and the internal SDUSD Police force have been given the authority by SDUSD senior leadership to completely trample and ignore the rights of innocent Students and Families like Perturbed Parents’.   Over the 15 year tenure of Trustee Richard “Tricky Dick” Barrera, the precious value of our Students has been reduced to the federal, state and local revenue (via self serving bond initiatives) that each individual student enrollment generates and that each innocent child can bring to corrupt political, special interest and personal SDUSD employee coffers.

Next week in Sunday Reads we will provide Part 2 of the Perturbed Parent testimony including how they successfully fought back for the physical, mental and educational rights of their child against the morally and ethically corrupt $1.4 billion SDUSD.

Please tune in to District Deeds next week for Part 2 of Perturbed Parents’ story to find out how that was accomplished!

District Deeds “Speak Your Truth” Information

On August 27, 2023 we launched a new initiative in our post titled “2023/2024 – District Deeds 10th School Year…NEW “Speak Your Truth” Posting Opportunity for ALL SDUSD Stakeholders!!!” where we asked for the real life experiences of San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Parents, Teachers, Students, Staff and Taxpayers.

Here is the “Speak Your Truth” initiative definition from that post:

“Speak Your Truth” CONTINUES to inspire honesty and bravery with SDUSD Teachers, Staff, Parents and Students and given us additional insight into the deep fear of SDUSD retribution by employees in the toxic SDUSD work environment.

THANK YOU to ALL the brave SDUSD Stakeholders who continue to share their stories with us and provide deep insights into the ongoing SDUSD dysfunctional work and education environment.

Now for our Quote of the Week dedicated to our “Speak Your Truth” Whistleblower “Perturbed Parent” and their difficult journey to fight the injustices levied against their child and their family:

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”             –  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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