Photos of San Leandro Undercover Police Officers

 Photos of San Leandro Undercover Police Officers  Civil Liberties, Police, Schools  No Responses »
Dec 222015
 
Photos of San Leandro Undercover Police Officers

These are three of the four undercover officers which a parent recognized at the last San Leandro School Board meetings. Parents and children rallied against a program that will put police officers in the classroom to try to gain the trust of students so that they will snitch on one another. There were about forty parents and children protesting and speaking out against this program, and at least nine San Leandro Police officers, both in uniform and out, assigned to monitor them. As the undercover police officers were not recognized until after the rally, it’s possible that some of them [Continue Reading]

Sad Lessons on Racism, Surveillance and Police Intimidation at School Board Committee Meeting.

 Sad Lessons on Racism, Surveillance and Police Intimidation at School Board Committee Meeting.  Civil Liberties, Police, Schools  No Responses »
Dec 042015
 
Sad Lessons on Racism, Surveillance and Police Intimidation at School Board Committee Meeting.

A couple of weeks ago, I got a lesson on how the school-to-prison pipeline works, explained by the two School Resource Officers (SROs) that are assigned to San Leandro schools.  Just this week,  I had another big lesson on how institutionalized racism and even sexism by School Board members combine with the surveillance state not only to make sure the school to prison pipeline runs as smoothly as possible, but to disempower anyone that would question it. Sounds boring so far? Bear with me, we’ll get to the drama quickly enough. Last Tuesday night the San Leandro School Board curriculum [Continue Reading]

This is how the School to Prison Pipeline starts in San Leandro: with Middle School Teachers

 This is how the School to Prison Pipeline starts in San Leandro: with Middle School Teachers  Police, Schools  2 Responses »
Dec 032015
 
This is how the School to Prison Pipeline starts in San Leandro: with Middle School Teachers

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting of parents of English learners at my daughter’s middle school, here in San Leandro. I don’t usually go to ELAC meetings, but that night my daughter’s choir was going to be performing at the meeting. Before the performance, we chanced upon a presentation on online bullying by the two School Resource Officers (SROs), uniformed sworn SLPD officers which work in San Leandro public schools.  In addition to giving general information about bullying, the SROs laid out how they work at the middle schools.  I spoke to them later to get more [Continue Reading]

San Leandro Schools Secondary School Reform Needs More Imput

 San Leandro Schools Secondary School Reform Needs More Imput  Schools  No Responses »
Nov 132015
 
San Leandro Schools Secondary School Reform Needs More Imput

This letter is written by former Mayor Stephen Cassidy. If you have children at SLUSD schools or are a student there, I urge you to read it. Summary – The school board is considering implementing major changes to the program for students at our middle schools and high schools starting next school year. While this undertaking is well intentioned and likely will result in positive reforms for our students, the school board has not sufficiently brought parents into the planning process and the changes are too significant for the district to implement well by August 2016.  Parents need to know [Continue Reading]

Vanity Awards Come to San Leandro

 Vanity Awards Come to San Leandro  Businesses  No Responses »
Oct 072015
 
Vanity Awards Come to San Leandro

And I win for Best Restaurant! You will proud to know that I have just been awarded the “Best of San Leandro 2015” award, in the restaurant category, for Marina Restaurant.  You didn’t know that I owned Marina Restaurant? I didn’t either, though given that I’ve been getting their spam mail for years, I might as well.  It’s time that my sacrifices on behalf of the business were recognized and I thank the San Leandro Awards Program (SLAP) for the honor. According to SLAP’s press release, the award is granted to businesses that have “achieved exceptional marketing success in their [Continue Reading]

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