The founder of Alameda Concerned Parents is suing the Alameda Unified School District for violations of the state’s open government law, the Brown Act. -db
By Susan Davis
This just in — Kerry Cook, founder of Alameda Concerned Parents, which protested Lesson 9 last spring and fall — is now suing the Alameda Unified School District, as well as its Board of Education, for Brown Act violations alleged to have occurred on December 8th.
The Cooks, as you may recall from last week, are also protesting AUSD’s proposed Master Plan, because they don’t support a) art and music in the schools; b) vocational education; c) neighborhood schools; d) working with foundations to get funding for district programs; e)magnet schools; or f) replacing Measures A & H to keep the district solvent.
Soooo…now this group that fought the district tooth and nail over teaching children not to bully the children of gay parents is both proposing an alarmingly bleak future for AUSD (and one that flies in the face of what most of the community asked for during the Master Plan process, by the way) and suing the district over an alleged Brown Act violation that occurred during an agenda item that had to do with… guess which topic?
You got it: Adopting an anti-bullying curriculum.
Specifically the complaint charges that the district didn’t make the recommended Links to Literature (which is essentially a bibliography of anti-bullying materials) available for public review 72 hours before that December 8th board meeting. The complaint also alleges that the board voted on the idea of using or adapting Lesson 9 (until other curricula could be found that covered all six protected classes) without putting it on the agenda. As such, the plaintiffs want the vote reversed.
Serena Dietrich — who was one of the original signatories S.E.R.V.E. on the petitions for the recall of Boardmembers Jensen and Mooney — is also named as a plaintiff in the complaint. S.E.R.V.E. withdrew its petition in late December, specifically because the district had adopted a curriculum designed to focus on all six protected classes.
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Using the term “Local education activist” in the headline of this post is disingenuous at best. “Vehemently ant-gay religious activist” would be significantly more accurate.
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