The following is from MDUSD Superintendent Dr. Adam Clark:
Dear Mt. Diablo Unified School District Community,
I hope this message finds you well and healthy. As the District Superintendent, it is my responsibility to ensure that we work to reach the goals outlined in MDUSD’s Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), which is a state-required plan describing our overall vision for students, as well as our priorities. The first goal of our LCAP states, “All students will receive a high quality education in a safe and welcoming environment with equitable high expectations, access to technology, and instruction in the California State Standards that prepare them for college and career.” In order to reach this goal, we as an educational community need to work together to celebrate our successes and address our deficiencies.
I am reaching out to you directly to address several deficiencies. Unfortunately, we have had several disturbing events at our campuses that do not align with our values and are in conflict with our goals. These range from racial slurs, to hate graffiti and most recently, the passing out of cotton balls to mock Black History Month. All of these incidents are forms of bullying. We have also had several fights at our schools between different student groups. Bullying and fighting have no place in any MDUSD schools.
On Tuesday, February 21, at 6:30 P.M., we will hold a town hall meeting at Pine Hollow Middle School to hear from our school communities. Parents, families or community members who want to share experiences or provide input to the District Governance team are encouraged to attend the meeting at Pine Hollow Middle School. The location is 5522 Pine Hollow Road in Concord in the multi-use Room.
I hope you can attend. Thank you so much for trusting us with your students.
Thank you,
Dr. Adam Clark
When are you going to split the district, close Oak Grove and Ygnacio Valley? Both schools were top tier and now continue to fail. Promises of fixing Oak Grove for years have failed and this district continues to fail the community.
Like this district can fix anything! Lol.
I anticipate swift and decisive action.
The district forces a Black History Month on its students and then complains they are stratified and racist. Wonder where they learned it from?
Teaching the kids critical thinking skills, whether about our dark history toward indigenous, Asian, Jewish, Latin, Irish, African-American or any other culture doesn’t teach them to perform racist acts. The goal is to aspire to treat all humans as we would like to be treated. Are they hearing the opposite at home? It’s certainly not from the teachers
ConcordRez: Interesting how your stake in the ground is if we object to the current emphasis on race, then we are against critical thinking skills. Well done. The false flag BLM slogan is equivalent where if you do not support their Marxist agenda, then you are racist and don’t believe black lives matter. This is just pure manipulation. Too many fall for it. The obvious purpose for your emphasis on race is to create division. You want people to be taught they are victims, identify the perps, and strike out against them. Yours’ is an agenda based on hate and division. Oh, and again, hearing the “opposite at home” phrase adds the conspiratorial charge that parents are closet white supremacists. Nice smear.
@ Concordrez “Our DARK history towards indigenous” Sounds like someone needs to read up on Microaggression theory and how word choice can manifests our latent racist beliefs.
Please contact your local BLM chapter for more information on racial sensitivity and instructions to donate.
Rez-maybe not, but you can be very sure that those teachers teach with a bias of anti-white and anti-male. The virtual “teaching- quotes because it was NOT teaching- really opened my eyes to this. Many of the MDUSD teachers are racist and sexist in this way. I knew it was happening before, but to hear it happen is real-time was really something.
Being that our county,
not to mention, the vast majority of left-leaning politicians, teachers along with so many other so-called progressive people in our state and or throughout the nation always seem to stress that black people should always be referred to as African American, I find it interesting that Black History Month is not instead referred to or entitled African American Month, instead?
Can anyone explain why this is not the case?
Some people prefer to be called African American and some prefer Black (with a capital B!) I think Black History ensure that we are focused on all who fall under that.
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Adam Clark caused this by not standing up to the board when Nzewi and McFerrin decided to misrepresent their constituency in pursuit of clout and virtue. It worked- they advanced their positions. No one stood up to them. They just sat at meetings, nodding their heads and thanking them for the advice. And as such, their “mostly white, mostly wealthy” critics were also silenced. Clark was told this was wrong. We gave him the data. The state even gave them a choice. This was their choice. To breed EXACTLY this outcome. And to a person they are all still in their positions or better.
Wonder if the mdusd board is as racist as the acalanes board? Probably.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/high-school-asks-employees-avoid-inviting-white-peers-event-people-of-color-due-mistrust
Thank you very much for posting this. I did not see this anywhere in the local news. Their agenda is to generate as much racism as they possibly can.
Were both of them in on it?
Also, are ourJewish and Asian American neighbors considered to be “of color,” or does that “diversity and INCLUSION” designation actually EXCLUDE minorities who collectively outperform the white Christian majority?
Are both of the non-white folks on Acalanes District in on it?
The first African-American student at Acalanes came 4 years after I graduated from there in 1964.
He was somewhat ostracized at first; but pretty well received by the next year. Today there are many more Asian American students than blacks, almost as many as whites. Plinko : Thank You for that informative link.
seems the types of incidents Clark mentions are not isolated to this District.
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Trustee Nzwei does not face the flag during the pledge of allegiance, nor does she place her hand on her heart or recite the words. She only stands staring off into space. Trustee McFerrin is good for nothing more than seconding motions. Wherever one’s loyalty lies, the best interests of our students, communities, and futures for ALL should be the number one priority. It’s time to wake up from woke.
Correction: Board President Nzewi
Well, she is also a nasty, racist, bigot. So there’s that too.
There have been countless fights in MDUSD middle and high schools and to make matters worse there are groups of students filming these altercations in an effort to circulate them on social media. If you are not familiar with the recent news story involving a NJ High School Freshman names Adriana Kuch, I suggest you look up the story. Whatever this district has been doing to combat bullying and fighting is NOT working.
A lot of these behaviors and academic issues are rooted in poor parenting that produces feral, out of control kids. Taking the kids’ phones away is the only way to get their attention but parents are not serious about their students’ education.
Parents who are serious about their kids’ futures make every effort and sacrifice their own comfort to keep them away from thr feral proletariat spawn that infest every MDUSD campus.
Parents and people are serious about our future make every effort to change the board, to change the racist bigotted board politics that are being forced upon our children. Parents and people that are serious do not turn a blind eye, the stand up and fight. They rise up.
Yeah, I am a parent with children in multiple schools in this district. But we speak to our children about the politics, about history, about what is going on in the world so that they do not become the losers we see in power today. We teach them to stand up and rise up when the time is right.
What racist politics are being forced upon your children?
Concord
Here is a small list in no particular order:
My children need to be told that white folks today are bad because their great great grand parents and beyond were slave owners.
My children being told it is okay for a grown man to walk into a bathroom with a little girl because the grown man identifies as a little girl.
My children being told that this is okay to break the law because you will not be punished.
My children being told it is okay not to have accountability for their actions because they are people of color.
Does that work for you or do you need more examples?
Parent: For a couple of years whenever someone challenged that racism or CRT was being taught in the schools, I used to provide a bunch of examples. I might take me 20 minutes or more to write out a careful response. It was never acknowledged unless sometimes there were just more challenges for me to be their research assistant and explain what CRT is to them. Over time I just decided those challenges are just to waste the time and energy of those opposing the racist teachings. Maybe even chatbots are asking and not real people. Any parent with kids in the system, even if they are on the side of progressive, could give examples. I no longer trust the requests for information as authentic.