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The San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education is under new leadership as of its most recent regular meeting, with longtime trustee and outgoing board president Rachel Hurd passing the reins to Area 3 Trustee Laura Bratt.
The trustees decided on the rotation in leadership at their Dec. 13 meeting, which marked their annual election of a leader for the body for a year-long term.
“I am grateful to be the new board president for this next year,” Bratt said as the board reported on the decision made as part of their early closed-session meeting. “Thank you to Rachel for all of her hard work over this last year.”
Bratt is set to lead the board for the upcoming year, which will also mark the final year of the four-year term she was elected to in November 2020.
The SRVUSD board decides on its president with an annual reorganization discussion and a vote by the five-member body.
Laura Bratt supports pornography in SRVUSD’s high school libraries and classrooms.
In February’s Board meeting, Bratt cued up Dougherty Valley High School librarian Allison Hussenet to proclaim herself and other librarians as skilled “experts,” ensuring “that the books in the library that you curate, that you research for, that you work in, have the best books for those students in that educational environment.”
Hussenet endorsed that characterization, of course: “Our team is all duly-credentialed teachers…. We go through intensive training. We have to get an entirely new credential, and in some cases a master’s degree in order to hold our position as teacher librarian. So I WOULD say I consider us experts.”
Later, even after hearing one of many speakers against library porn read text from an illustrated how-to sex manual (portraying sexual activity of every sort, and encouraging sexting as well as visiting monetized porn websites), Bratt criticized the multiple OBJECTIONS to SRVUSD library porn as “very marginalizing” (while coming practically to tears).
Then, referring to the book Gender Queer and its own perverse illustrations (separate from the how-to sex guide mentioned above), Bratt said that LGBTQ students need “a safe place for them to find that book, to discover that book, to read it, to learn from it.”
My comment at the time: What was once a plea for LGBTQ tolerance has become a demand for LGBTQ porn.
In October, when the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was up for adoption as a classroom TEXTbook, despite drug use and sex activities including an explicit sadomasochism scene, Bratt said the book, although it’s “a fictional story,” was allowing readers to “see other people’s experiences.” She was “probably about a third of the way through” [which would include the lewd, crude S&M], and was “enjoying it.”
She then joined 3 of the other 4 Board members in approving the novel as a textbook. See https://www.srvexpositor.com/pornography .
so, make sure you vote when their term is up?
Scott Hale:
You kind of evaporated in the other story after being asked how many sex abuses by SRVUSD employees need to happen before management should have to answer. I say one is too many. What’s your take?
And what doe any of this matter when Laura Bratt doesn’t care about her constituents. All she does is echo whatever the management tells her to echo. There is no point of her on the board. It’s just another vote to rubber stamp anything the district wants without any questioning.
yeah, I don’t caught up in never ending threads. BUT you did ask question. My take? Not happening in any of the schools my son attended or is attending currently. There has been no hue and cry from stakeholders. Are you a stakeholder? Do explain just how you are; it’s kinda a mystery beyond throwing stone after stone with no solutions.
At SRVUSD’s Dec. 13th Board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0pvktyDFg , beginning at 1:32:35) excerpt readings by five speakers (including myself) exposed some of the pornography found in the District’s high school libraries.
Extensive porno-filth collections contaminate all four of them. The tax-supported smut is maintained and made available to adolescents by librarians portrayed as “professional” and “expert” by themselves and by Board members, especially Laura Bratt and Shelley Clark.
Before proceeding with a porn-exposure reading, speaker Lisa Disbrow reminded the Board of FCC’s definition and warnings for obscene radio and TV content: the First Amendment doesn’t protect such material, ruled the Supreme Court in 1973, if it appeals “to an average person’s prurient interest,” depicts or describes sexual conduct in a “patently offensive” way; and, if taken as a whole, lacks “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value” ( https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-profane-broadcasts ).
Those criteria fit the five novels excerpted in public comment — and dozens more in SRVUSD libraries.
The readings were during open-subject, non-agenda public comment. Board members are not to react on such items because they are not “agendized.” But SRVUSD’s outlook on library porn is exposed at https://www.danvillesanramon.com/square/2023/12/12/srvusd-board-to-consider-college-and-career-readiness-plan and https://www.srvexpositor.com/pornography .
Shelley Clark’s views, like Bratt’s, were on display at February’s Board meeting. Clark defers to “experts and educators to vet the books,” despite porno collections already disqualifying them as sensible arbiters. And she says “Banning books is a dangerous business…. Where would it stop?”
But the books aren’t banned. Idiot and pervert parents can readily procure them for their kids. And the real question is what degree of depravity it would take for librarians here to reject a book.
Scott Hale:
So you don’t care about sexual abuse in schools by teachers? Got it! Makes sense given your comments here that you are indifferent toward child abuse. And trying to turn your lack of empathy back around on me is just even more disgusting. “No solutions” is the stupidest thing you’ve possibly ever wrote here. There is a simple solution – an independent investigation. After the report from that investigation, fire all district staff that purposefully covered up sex abuse at SRVUSD and violated state mandatory reporting statutes. Then prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. It’s a very simple solution that for “reasons” you pretend doesn’t exist.
Why are you so eager to protect government employees that are sexually abusing minors?
There is no point to Shelley Clark or Laura Bratt as trustees. Both of them defer to management for any and all decision making. Laura Bratt typically goes as far as having district staff write her correspondences for her. Shelley Clark or Laura Bratt don’t care about their constituents, they only care about making political friends.
>So you don’t care about sexual abuse in schools by teachers?
I generally don’t respond to anonymous trolls on this forum. but really? You post with the maturity of a child.
You post you own agenda; you take a single event and paint the entire district with that brush. I again ask you to state just how you are a stakeholder in this district.
the problems you continuously post about ‘issues’ that are not happening at all schools; and if they were a lot more would be done vs just troll posting.
be a adult and state just how your opinion actually means anything.
In what universe is having multiple employees arrested for sex abuse a “single event?” One already pled guilty and the other in on trial in March.
https://patch.com/california/lamorinda/s/idlyn/danville-elementary-school-worker-charged-child-porn-possession
https://edsource.org/updates/students-had-warned-school-about-danville-teacher-now-facing-molestation-charges
One allegedly victimized people at more than one school. So 3 out of 30 schools have sex abusers? For the record, that’s 10%. Oh and don’t forget the sex abuser that was arrested several years ago at the same school.
https://www.marinij.com/2014/11/19/danville-judge-unseals-graphic-child-porn-complaint-involving-math-teacher/
So what is your point? Attack the messenger when you don’t have anything offer? And who is immature again?
SRVUSD’s own Board Policy #4219.24 prohibits display or transmission of sexual objects, pornography, pictures, or depictions to students. But in SRVUSD high schools — and in at least one middle school — that reasonable prohibition is increasingly honored more in the breach that in the observance.
17th Century philosopher François de La Rochefoucauld’s maxim applies: hypocrisy is an homage which vice pays to virtue.
Local media, especially the San Francisco Chronicle, the East Bay Times / Mercury News and their component predecessor papers, and some TV stations have exhibited the same fork-tongued duplicity for decades. They denounce as troglodyte “book banners” the parents and other taxpayers who criticize pornographic material in schools, but refuse to print or illustrate the material being rebuked.
Meanwhile, “educators” who supply pornography to children (including adolescents), ignoring a basic premise of Ed Psych 101, believe that children think like adults — because they are adults who think like children. They’ve disqualified themselves upfront as arbiters of appropriateness.
Mature adults (as distinguished, say, from teacher-librarian porn providers) can conceptualize and discuss sexual matters in the symbolic and abstract. But children operate in the concrete. For them, words trigger pictures, and pictures trigger action, i.e. experimentation, with insufficient consideration of consequences.
NIH and other research institutions — effectively backing the centuries-old wisdom of genuine adults — have recognized that the prefrontal cortex (the brain’s rational segment) is immature in teens, who are often risk takers as a result.
SRVUSD teens who’ve spoken up to support the porn have learned (or been taught) to rationalize such material as something readily available on phones. Sadly, that’s become all too true. But when adults SUPPLY the porn, that becomes effectively a come-and-get it-here stamp of approval by (wrongly) respected adult authorities.
Mike: What is the solution to your multiple issues with SRVUSD? You know, beyond voting?
SRVUSD is a Potemkin school district, with a false front of jargon-festooned “Deep Learning.” News-media sycophants and stooges play along, allowing SRVUSD to conceal poor academic performance, e.g. by omitting 2015-2019 CAASPP test-result contrasts with present low numbers ( https://www.srvexpositor.com/grading-for-equity ).
That replicates the reporting of California’s Academic Performance Index scores up to 2014, and hiding of second-level comparisons of individual schools to 100 demographically similar schools instead of every other same-grade school in California. In those subsidiary rankings, SRVUSD averaged only 5.6 out of 10 at the end.
Unlike DanvilleSanRamon.com, most media severely restrict needed factual responses.
Meanwhile, even worse than test-score gamesmanship are SRVUSD’s secretive indoctrination programs, from inapposite pronouns and LGBTQ read-alouds in elementary schools to depraved pornography in high school libraries and classrooms, along with all-level “Gender Support Plans” and overtly racist “anti-racism.”
Behind SRVUSD’s façade, the San Ramon Valley Education Association, a California Teachers Association union local, pulls Board and administrator puppet strings, implementing a CTA dictate: “Who dares take on religion, free enterprise, patriotism, and motherhood? We do — and we must!” (Guidelines for Academic Freedom in the Public Schools,” 1984 ( https://www.srvexpositor.com/srvea-cta-nea ).
Presently, voting IS the mechanism required for reform — in the short term, support for school board candidates who insist upon the teaching and learning of knowledge and skills, rather than radical ideologies and enhanced funding of failure (e.g., via extra-expense special parcel-tax elections).
Eventually, genuine school choice, wherein tax dollars follow students to schools of their families’ choosing, is the necessary and sufficient solution.
Schools and teachers should compete. Students, parents, and society at large would win.