TUSD leaders keep a happy face….students at risk
This week, the TUSD Whistleblowers released another letter in which they call into question Dr. H.T. Sanchez’s “directive to site administrators, which is that they are NOT to discipline students for “low-level” incidences and they are to decrease the suspension days for students for higher level violations, and particularly, they are NOT to discipline Hispanic and African American kids, or, to at least lesson discipline for them.”
The Whistleblowers claim that Sanchez’s directive, delivered by Abel Morado, Interim Deputy Superintendent, has caused eruptions in discipline problems at Palo Verde, Pueblo, Secrist, Booth Fickett, Soleng Tom and other TUSD schools.
As evidence of the claims, this week a staff member at Secrist sent a letter to Sanchez outlining the dangerous situation at the school site along with his letter of resignation:
It would take too long to tell you everything I’ve witnessed at Secrist so I’ll simply provide a few examples:
• A 6th grade student who was sent to ISI for 5 days for fighting was paper arrested for the same offense just 2 weeks later, after which he was sent to ISI for another 5 days. Within a week he did the same thing again, pulling yet another poor soul into his vortex of anger. This particular student’s record of aggression and physical violence dates back to the student’s time in elementary school.