About San Diego Unified Parent
I’m Paul M Bowers, one of two parents of Jesse Tomás Bowers, currently in the third grade at Grant Math + Science Magnet school. This blog was grown from a seed originally planted in the weekly-ish PTA News and Events email I created for our family’s school in 2006. Since that service was taking a decidedly editorial bent, I thought it best to create an interactive blog over here, away from the opinion phobic.
As an independent blog, we’re able to freely discuss issues relating to both personal experiences at school, and management activities within the district.
The District has a Board, the Teachers have a Union, and the Administrators have an Association.
But the children have no such organization. They have no collective bargaining power. They are sometimes the pawns in the power games between the others groups. Let’s ask the questions and take the initiative to represent our children as San Diego Unified Parents.
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Sally Smith on 04 Jun 2010 at 3:42 pm #
The San Diego Unified School Board has failed to budget for basic needs for the school children. There is not money to fix clogged toilets or broken windows. The day after the 2010 San Diego County Grand Jury report revealed mismanagement and illegal activity such as over-payment of salaries not recovered, stealing the ASB money to purchase supplies that the District is legally obligated to fund, falsifying documents to pad salaries and other practices that siphon money from students, the Board rescinded layoffs. The $300,000 paid to Ed Trust West to review the Course of Study is probably going down the same drain that the previous study went. The legal office has doubled in size while classified workers – the plumbers, the secretaries, the custodians – have lost their jobs. Is there a parent out there interested in running for school board? Like Paul says, the children have no collective bargaining power. Ask around. Let’s get together and elect a parent at each election to represent children on the school board. How about getting the city charter changed to add 2 more trustees? Any ideas for that?