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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.

Last Sunday on October 29. 2023 we featured 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.

Today we feature Part 2 of Speak Your Truth testimony of how Perturbed Parent was able to overcome all of the improper, insulting and damaging actions by the SDUSD against their child and made the SDUSD Site personnel face the music for the multiple illegal and irresponsible  transgressions against their family..

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.

Last few paragraphs of Part 1:

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.

Here is Part 2 of the Perturbed Parent story:

I obviously didn’t want them in any psychiatric hospital for three days unnecessarily.  It is only through the grace of God that our child had been born missing two of their teeth that they were spared this horrible experience.  You see, hospital policy is to take from psychiatric ward patients everything that may be used to cause harm, including one’s retainer. 

I explained to the doctor that if my child’s retainer was removed from their mouth for three days, their teeth would move back into their natural position leaving gaps where the missing teeth were supposed to be.  They would then need braces again to push the teeth back to the place that had cost thousands of dollars to move them to in the first place.  I asked if she was going to pay for that orthodontia.  She was unwilling, and so left the retainer in place rendering my child ineligible to be moved to the mental hospital.

Apparently the psychiatric ward of Rady’s fills up regularly and their job is to get kids out quickly to make room for others.  Usually kids are evaluated at the mental hospital because they have three days for the limited number of psychiatrists to get those evaluations done.  Because my child was taking up valuable space but would not be moved, they wanted the evaluation to be completed as soon as possible.  I was allowed to remain with my child overnight and their evaluation took place at 8:00am the following day.  

The psychiatrists who evaluated my child approved their release immediately asserting that my child was healthy and no danger to anyone.  I took my child home and went directly to the school to speak with the administrators responsible for this travesty and violation of human rights.  I had had all night to learn from hospital staff about 5150s and think of the questions and remarks I had in store for school personnel.

The VP made me wait, but I finally told him I wanted him to apologize to my child for the ordeal he put them through.  I told him to explain himself, and I asked countless questions about his irresponsible, thoughtless actions of leaving my child in police custody on the second-hand hearsay of a SAY San Diego counselor when he himself had searched the backpack and found nothing.  The VP finally told me that he didn’t feel like being grilled by me anymore and said I needed to come back when the other principal players involved in these events could be present with him.  

When I stood up I said softly, “Now you must know a little of how my child felt after they were betrayed by you and left alone to be interrogated by police with no parents or other adults by their side.”

I think my remark hit home because although the officer responsible was not there that day to be held accountable, and the other VP and the SAY counselor showed no signs of remorse, he went to find my child and apologized to them at the first opportunity. 

I feel fortunate my child was a senior that year, the president of his club at school, and working with the athletic director to found an esports team on campus, so they had bounced back nicely and was able to complete their time in the district on a not-too-terrible note.  

Needless to say, they did not be participate in any more SAY San Diego counseling sessions, and although I would have liked to see some repercussions for the torture my child endured, they asked me not to make any formal complaints with the district, San Diego Police, or SAY San Diego.  My child didn’t say anything about not telling District Deeds, however, so I thought I might share with you one plausible response to your question as to how SDUSD can morally retain vice principals who sanction the abuse of students.

The answer is:

Maybe they don’t know, because to honor our student’s wishes, we don’t tell them.

Here are students rights and the laws related to what I have just told you:

  • Miranda warnings must be given before a student is questioned by a school official on school grounds and about potential criminal behavior in the presence of law enforcement.  Miranda:  the right to legal counsel, the right to remain silent.

  • To maintain a meaningful balance in school interrogation settings, legal counsel, a parent or interested adult should be present.

  • Students have the constitutional guarantee to an environment in which they are free to leave.

  • Schools have a duty to prevent student rights violations occurring in public educational facilities.

  • Schools have a duty to maintain a relationship of trust and appropriate conditions conducive to learning.

  • School officials do not need to obtain search warrants or have probable cause to search students in order to accommodate the school’s freedom to maintain order in the school.

Sincerely-

Perturbed Parent

END OF PART 2

District Deeds Translation:

We want to give our deepest thanks to Perturbed Parent for sharing their story and congratulate them for preventing even more damage from the SDUSD to their child.

A number of sentences from Perturbed Parent stand out to us:

In Part 1 they said:

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. 

And…

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.

In Part 2 they said:

Although I would have liked to see some repercussions for the torture my child endured, they asked me not to make any formal complaints with the district, San Diego Police, or SAY San Diego.

And (referring to the SDUSD)

Maybe they don’t know, because to honor our student’s wishes, we don’t tell them.

These statements by Perturbed Parent show both the motive and the method they personally employ in the loving, nurturing, care and treatment of their child.

This Parent, despite deep anxiety and anger over the mistreatment and violation of their child and their family rights, is willing to listen to their child and, unlike the SDUSD, step back from their frustration and anger so their child is not traumatized even more.

The avoidance of filing “formal complaints with the district, San Diego Police, or SAY San Diego.”  is to prevent any more physical, mental and emotional damage retribution by SDUSD  toward their child (like the “public humiliation“) if they did file complaints. 

Through that previous retribution from the school, even their child understood that retribution cycle so, instead of filing a complaint, the Parent (like thousands of SDUSD Parents do every year as evidenced by the rapidly dropping SDUSD enrollment) moved their child to another school.

Even AFTER all of these SDUSD violations against their family the kind Perturbed Parent is willing to forgive by offering the SDUSD the excuse that “maybe they don’t know” about all their institutional violations against Student and Families.

After 10 years of receiving SDUSD Stakeholder abuse stories and writing about them in this blog, we are NOT as kind.

District Deeds KNOWS that the SDUSD KNOWS!

Here is the proof.

In order to cover up and discourage any and all Stakeholder complaints, the SDUSD created the Quality Assurance Department (QAO), now re-named the Office of Investigations, Compliance & Accountability (ICA) as shown below:

DD NOTE:  Due to the SDUSD changing/deleting incriminating content on their website, we provide a “Wayback Machine” archive link along with the actual SDUSD website link so our readers are aware of any changes.

Wayback Link:  ICA Page (Wayback)

SDUSD Link: ICA Page (SDUSD)

On that page there is, believe it or not, an “Accountability” section.  However it is NOT anything like the Accountability required by our own District Deeds HAT Trick Resolution.

Here is the SDUSD ICA “Accountability” section from the ICA Page link listed above:

Guess who the “District leadership” is that your “concerns are heard and appropriately routed to“?  The “District Leadership” that will FIGHT for your rights and, as the SDUSD “Accountability” description says will “instill confidence in our community that their concerns are heard“.

Wayback Link:  ORG CHART (Wayback)

SDUSD Link: ORG CHART (SDUSD)

The ICA is highlighted in YELLOW.

The SDUSD department they report to is highlighted, appropriately, GREEN

That’s right.  The “helpful” ICA routes all of your complaints to the SDUSD Legal Department (Office of General Counsel) so they are the first to know ALL about your complaints and potentially undermine any legal action that you might take well before you even hire a lawyer!!!

THIS is what the SDUSD calls the “ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN FOR STUDENT SUCCESS“.

THIS is what WE call a “FRONT”

BOTTOM LINE #1:

The current SDUSD form of “Accountability” is just a “Front” for the legal department.

BOTTOM LINE #2:

The SDUSD actually KNOWS ABOUT all the violations described by Perturbed Parent (and many many more) and works hard, funded with your tax dollars, to use all the resources in the SDUSD to intimidate and dole out any amount of retribution required to protect themselves against any and all Student, Family, Teacher or Staff Stakeholder complaints and lawsuits.

THAT is one of the biggest reasons why we launched the District Deeds HAT Trick Resolution.

One last point that we are compelled to make.  Here is the ethnic diversity enrollment of the SDUSD straight from their own website:

District Deeds, like usual, has a few questions.

Isn’t it a coincidence that the NEW QAO department where ALL SDUSD Stakeholders are to file complaints is now called ICA?

Isn’t it a coincidence that the initials for that newly renamed department connected to the SDUSD Legal Department is only one vowel away from another government legal department that ALSO does investigations and has two of the same initials…ICE?

Could the SDUSD come up a with BETTER  department naming protocol to prevent some of the most financially, educationally and legally compromised group of families to file complaints?

Obviously the million dollar Legal and Propaganda departments are on the same page!

In the next few weeks we will be dissecting the violations shared by our SPEAK YOUR TRUTH contributors and how they are ignored/manipulated/punished by the SDUSD and their departments like Legal and Propaganda (Information Services).

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 the SDUSD ICA and Legal Department from a character in the movie “The Front”:

[Parting words to Howard] Take care of yourself. The water is full of sharks. – Hecky Brown

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