The board have now released a letter to parents and the school board's website now lists all positions as vacant, with members of the county board temporarily stepping in to fill the gap. Over the weekend, more than 7,000 people signed a petition calling for resignations of all the board members due to "egregious behaviour". "It's easy to hide behind their screen and put a comment down, but when you're face-to-face with people, it's a whole different ball game," Mr Masadas said.
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The board members then criticised parents who wrote comments and complaints online. Ms Beede then swore while joking about attacking one parent who had criticised her online - but not before asking "are we alone?" and erroneously being told they were. "My brother had a delivery service for medical marijuana - his clientele were parents with their kids in school," he said, to laughter from the others. "They want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back."Īnother member, Richie Masadas, joked that some parents wanted to take drugs while their children were not at home. In the clip, School Board President Lisa Brizendine criticized parents who continue to be frustrated by the district's Covid-related school closures:
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The board members upon noticing the call was public then immediately put the call into private status.īut an NBC reporter Bigad Shaban tweeted snippets of the video afterwards. "Uh-oh," said board member Kim Beede when she was told, several minutes into the discussion that it was now public. The board members however did not know that parents had been joining the public call as it progressed. "They want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back," one member said about parents during the meeting on Friday last week.Īnother board member said that parents wanted their children out of the house so they could take drugs during the day. An entire California school board on Monday, February 22, resigned after making disparaging remarks about parents in an online meeting that was unknowingly being publicly live-streamed.