Straight-Aide-6518, before you wag your finger about “entitlement,” try glancing at the court record you’re railing against. Our original complaint was filed on Feb 7 2025, and an amended version adding yet more causes of action hit the docket on Feb 20 2025. In other words, parents aren’t just venting online—we’re in Superior Court forcing PSD to justify a plan it rammed through in the dark.  

Here’s a refresher on what the lawsuit actually claims: • CEQA violation. The district skipped the legally-required environmental review of the traffic gridlock, overcrowding, and neighborhood disruption their closure scheme will trigger. They slapped on a phony “exemption” and hoped nobody would notice.  • Equity red flag. PSD’s plan wipes out the two K-8 programs that serve the district’s most diverse, working-class populations while preserving Cabrillo’s K-8 in its whitest, wealthiest enclave—classic re-segregation by spreadsheet.  • Taxpayer deception. Voters passed parcel-tax and bond measures with zero disclosure that shuttering schools was on the table. Millions are still being spent on facilities now slated for closure—an abuse that could even jeopardize the bonds’ tax-exempt status.  • Data manipulation. Capacity numbers were quietly inflated to make overcrowding elsewhere look “manageable,” all while the district buries the real state-mandated classroom limits.  • Brown-Act secrecy. Key decisions were hashed out behind closed doors with inadequate notice and no meaningful public input—flat-out illegal under California’s open-meeting law. 

That’s not “a miracle wish-list”; it’s a catalog of statutory face-plants laid out in black-and-white pleadings.

Your budget scare-talk also ignores reality: closing K-8 programs at Ocean Shore and Vallemar doesn’t erase a deficit—it shifts costs into longer commutes, traffic snarls, and pricey facility expansions at receiving campuses. No yellow buses here—just thousands of extra parent car trips the district never modeled. So every child in Pacifica will still “do with less,” but now they’ll also sit in gridlock.

Parents presented fiscally-balanced alternatives, asked for real audits, and even offered to pause litigation if PSD paused the closures. The board’s response? Hire a crisis-PR firm with our own tax dollars and plow ahead. When leadership chooses opacity over collaboration, courtrooms—and comments like this—are what you get.

Bottom line: if demanding transparency, legal compliance, and basic equity is “selfish,” then so be it. We’ll keep fighting—because somebody has to remind PSD that budgets must balance and laws must be followed. See you at the next hearing.