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On Friday it was confirmed that board members Brizendine, Kim Beede, Richie Masadas and Erica Ippolito had submitted their resignations and in a joint statement with Hetrick said that they “deeply regret” the comments that they made about parents during the meeting. The mayor of Oakley, Sue Higgins, also called on the entire school board to resign on 19 February. After incident, it really has me thinking that they don’t.”
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one member of the group noticed that the meeting was being streamed to the public it was quickly changed to a blank screen that read ‘practice session in progress.’Īfter the video was made aware to the public a petition was launched, that has gained more than 7,000 signatures demanding that the board members resign as a result.Īshley Staff, an Oakley Union parent, told ABC 7 News: “I thought the board members were also advocates for my child and had her best interests at heart. NBC reporter Bigad Shaban documented some of the more alarming moments from the meeting including board members mocking parents, one who claims the parents are smoking marijuana and Superintendent Greg Hetrick proposing the introduction of a technology that will cut parents off calls after three minutes. ABC News reports that students in the area have been learning remotely for almost a year due to Covid. Much of the meeting, which took place on 17 February, features the board members, including the president of the school board, Lisa Brizendine, speaking poorly of parents who had raised frustration about their children returning to in-person learning during the pandemic. The meeting has also been posted anonymously on YouTube. In scenes not dissimilar to the viral Handforth Parish Council meeting, the Oakley Union Elementary School District in Contra Costa County, San Francisco Bay area announced that their board members, as well as District Superintendent, had stepped down just two days after the meeting was made available to the public. An entire school board of trustees in California has resigned after a number of them were caught openly criticising parents on a video call that was accidentally streamed on YouTube.