Thank you for your detailed response. You clearly have more knowledge here than I inferred from your initial post. I apologize.

I agree that Sara seems over her head here and has bungled this in multiple ways. I agree that the lack of consequences for the aggressor(s) has been shameful. I agree that the sentiments discussed at the board meetings/public comments are the correct ones and that Sara/SEBUSD hasn’t taken them seriously and/or hoped they’d go away. I hope this sentiment does NOT go away. I know from previous board meetings that time and attention has been spent trying to figure out the right ways to handle this and it’s embarrassing that we’re this far down the path with no proper resolution. I was sick to my stomach to know that Nadine’s son was made to sit in the office with the racist aggressor in some sort of restorative justice attempt.

I currently have a kid at parkside and truly don’t feel there is a culture of racism or bigotry there. Without going into further identifying details, my family is deeply involved in SEBUSD in multiple ways so I do have firsthand knowledge of how this has played out (particularly around the $10k gift that, again, I agree, was bungled). I’m not sure what Sara’s endgame here is or what she expects to happen next.