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dannno
02-06-2018, 05:42 PM
With a musket?? Something seems fishy with this story.. even regular people are wondering out loud in the comments why PODER is involved with this.



https://www.independent.com/news/2018/jan/31/female-high-school-students-threatened/
(https://www.independent.com/news/2018/jan/31/female-high-school-students-threatened/)

Female Students Threatened at San Marcos High School


Parents and Students Demand More Information
Wednesday, January 31, 2018


by KEITH HAMM (https://www.independent.com/staff/keith-hamm/)


Parents and students are demanding more information in the ongoing investigation of a handful of male students at San Marcos High School connected to private video and chat-room threats against female students in January. According to a statement released by PODER S.B.(People Organizing for the Defense and Equal Rights of Santa Barbara youth), a social justice group protesting Santa Barbara Unified School District’s reluctance to provide more detail about the case, one of the four suspected teenagers appears in an instructional video on how to load a musket and shoot “a thot,” a derogatory term. “And he’s wishing luck to others who wanted to kill people in that way,” said PODER’s Candice Perez, who said she saw the video. Also, a private chat room featured a “list of thots that need to be eradicated,” she said. The list included “at least 16” students from San Marcos and Santa Barbara high schools, “mostly female,” she added. “Students and parents feel they haven’t gotten enough information. [We want to] send a clear message to the district that they need to be transparent.”

Bound by federal law, the district “can’t speak to any disciplinary action,” said Lauren Bianchi Klemann, the district’s public information officer. “And that’s been a big issue with parents.” She stressed that law enforcement had determined “there was no immediate threat to students or to staff, and it’s an ongoing investigation.”

“Parents of students named in the chat room were immediately contacted by the school administration to communicate actions taken in conjunction with the Sheriff’s Office,” according to a statement from the district. “[We take] seriously any derogatory or threatening statements to students. Student perpetrators are being disciplined under the authority of the California Education Code and Board of Education Policy.”

Superintendent Cary Matsuoka has issued an apology to the students and parents of San Marcos, Santa Barbara, and Dos Pueblos high schools, and La Colina Junior High. He has called a town hall meeting for 7 p.m. on February 5 at San Marcos.

oyarde
02-06-2018, 05:50 PM
What is a thot ?

dannno
02-06-2018, 05:54 PM
What is a thot ?

Thot stands for "that ho over there"

It is typically used to describe a female who engages in sex with multiple males and uses her good looks as a source of power to manipulate men. They are seen as being in training to get married to a high status male have kids and then get divorced and take half his stuff.

It is the opposite of a nice traditional girl who would like an honest committed relationship with an honest committed male partner and rear children with him.

Raginfridus
02-06-2018, 05:54 PM
Its Fedbook for that ho over there

oyarde
02-06-2018, 05:57 PM
Thot stands for "that ho over there"

It is typically used to describe a female who engages in sex with multiple males and uses her good looks as a source of power to manipulate men. They are seen as being in training to get married to a high status male have kids and then get divorced and take half his stuff.

It is the opposite of a nice traditional girl who would like an honest committed relationship with an honest committed male partner and rear children with him.

So they just need to invest in some condoms ?

oyarde
02-06-2018, 06:01 PM
The ancient Egyptians tried smearing the member with Croc dung . Not only do I not think it would work I imagine there would be risk of female infection . Those crazy gypos , even they would not shoot them .

dannno
02-06-2018, 06:02 PM
So they just need to invest in some condoms ?

Ya I don't know why anybody is mad at thots, we had a guy who showed up here and was all mad at thots..

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?516583-Forget-Ethno-Nationalist-The-Gendostate-is-the-Future


However, you're still stuck with the ultimate destroyer of liberty, efficiency and happiness: the thot.

oyarde
02-06-2018, 06:04 PM
Ya I don't know why anybody is mad at thots, we had a guy who showed up here and was all mad at thots..

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?516583-Forget-Ethno-Nationalist-The-Gendostate-is-the-Future

Ya , my Mother would have diagnosed that as repression .

dannno
02-06-2018, 06:05 PM
Ya , my Mother would have diagnosed that as repression .

He claims he has banged a lot of thots. I don't know what the problem is.

oyarde
02-06-2018, 06:06 PM
He claims he has banged a lot of thots. I don't know what the problem is.

I do not believe him.

r3volution 3.0
02-06-2018, 06:10 PM
Ya I don't know why anybody is mad at thots, we had a guy who showed up here and was all mad at thots..

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?516583-Forget-Ethno-Nationalist-The-Gendostate-is-the-Future


However, you're still stuck with the ultimate destroyer of liberty, efficiency and happiness: the thot.

People like that are a product of the new grievance industry aimed at disgruntled young white men.

...just the mirror image of the trigglypuff phenomenon.

tommyrp12
02-06-2018, 06:13 PM
Gabby Giffords’s Gun Control Group Releases Report Warning of Muzzleloaders, Other Firearms
'Cue the .50 caliber muzzleloader, which delivers a particularly lethal .50 caliber round' (https://www.nraila.org/articles/20171117/muzzleloaders-now-targeted-by-giffords-gun-prohibition-lobby)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKPObRSU5w4

Well it's a convenient incident for the opportunists to take advantage of if they themselves have no hand in it.

Raginfridus
02-06-2018, 06:16 PM
I do not believe him.
I dunno, I found his facebook:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iq5t-y9g_Cw/Ti1rgDRBCYI/AAAAAAAALe4/d1sAUM50FUQ/s1600/victorHugo.jpg

dannno
02-09-2018, 02:30 PM
Video of PODER Protesters (also embedded in the Independent article at the link)

https://www.facebook.com/sbindependent/videos/10156105678714836/

https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/

San Marcos Parents Spar With School District in Wake of Violent Video

https://independent.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2018/02/07/20180205_Social_Media_Threats_School_Meeting_03__t 958.jpg?fef15e12b784e9bbb22bf3f2924819218cda3d1a


Criminal Investigation of Six Minors Could End This Week
Thursday, February 8, 2018


by KEITH HAMM (https://www.independent.com/staff/keith-hamm/)

Parents of students at San Marcos High School remained concerned with their children’s safety as hundreds gathered in the campus auditorium late Monday to discuss the ongoing criminal investigation of six boys linked to an online video threatening the death of more than a dozen female students.

The 90-second mock instructional video features a male San Marcos student saying, “I’m going to show you how to kill a thot.” (“Thot,” pronounced “thought,” is short for “that ho over there.”) He then describes how to load and shoot a Colonial-era rifle and how to use its bayonet. He signs off with, “I hope you found this video helpful in your war against thots.” The video was posted in a private chat room, where another of the six boys posted a “list of thots that need to be eradicated,” with accompanying names and pictures of at least 16 female students from San Marcos, Dos Pueblos, and Santa Barbara high schools and La Colina Junior High School, according to parents familiar with the posts.

On Friday, January 19, the threats were brought to the attention of school administrators, who immediately called the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. Initially, administrators also contacted the families of the six boys and the targeted girls, but according to many angered parents, the greater student body at San Marcos and all the students and staff at the other campuses were not notified by school officials until several days later.

By January 24, some or all of the six boys had been suspended. Parents said Monday that four of the six boys were back in class this week, while the boy in the video and the boy who posted the list remained absent. The identities and whereabouts — and reliable information, in general — of all six remained a major point of contention among parents.


Bound by federal education code, Santa Barbara Unified School District administrators cannot speak publicly about disciplinary actions against minors, even those in the spotlight of a criminal investigation, said Superintendent Cary Matsuoka, on hand Monday to moderate the discussion and to apologize for his office’s missed opportunities early on “to inform all parents,” he said. “We just flat-out missed it, and I’m apologizing to you tonight.

You shouldn’t find out about it on the six o’clock news. We were too slow.” Matsuoka said it took four days for his team to learn the extent of the online threats and their impact on students and parents district-wide. “We underestimated the emotional impact of the threat to you and your children,” Matsuoka said.

Many in the audience pointed out similarities between the boys’ overt misogyny and that of 22-year-old Elliot Rodger before he killed six people in Isla Vista in 2014. The video and list from the San Marcos boys also became more widely known the same week a 15-year-old student at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, opened fire with a handgun, killing two. In the wake of the online threats, but without concrete information from school administrators or law enforcement, some parents opted to keep their children home. Other students returned to class only after developing an “exit plan” should an attack erupt on campus, according to a parent who wished to remain anonymous.


“We began a disciplinary process, and it’s ongoing,” Matsuoka said. “We can’t talk about who was targeted. We can’t talk about who committed it. Just know we’re doing our jobs, and we’re working as fast as we can.” Generally speaking, Matsuoka said the district isn’t required to wait for the conclusion of a Sheriff Office’s investigation before proceeding with an expulsion.

Asked if the case was being investigated as a hate crime — a third post, allegedly by one of the six boys on Instagram, featured Nazi tanks and swastika flags as part of “the war on thots” — the Sheriff’s Office was “unable to answer specific questions,” said Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover.

While law enforcement is withholding details, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Commander Darin Fotheringham — who also spoke to parents on Monday — did say that after learning of the video on that Friday, his deputies determined over the weekend that no students or teachers were in danger as classes picked up again the following Monday. Fotheringham said that determination was made after dozens of interviews and background and firearm-registry checks among the families of the six alleged offenders. Officers have also since served three warrants and seized evidence.

Fotheringham said Monday that no arrests had been made; he anticipated that the case would be wrapped up by the end of this week and sent to District Attorney Joyce Dudley’s office for review.

dannno
02-09-2018, 02:34 PM
Video of PODER Protesters: (also embedded in the Independent article at the link https://www.independent.com/news/201...ct-wake-viole/ (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/))


https://www.facebook.com/sbindependent/videos/10156105678714836/

Comments:

Sacjon (https://disqus.com/by/disqus_kg0c9XwPtw/) • a day ago (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/#comment-3749096176)Whoa, wait...... what do Aztec dancers have to do with any of this?? How is this a racial issue now?




Kid (https://disqus.com/by/disqus_XjIEAqHjgj/) Sacjon (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/#comment-3749096176) • a day ago (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/#comment-3749362650)I think the Aztec dancers were there to remind everyone how well the Aztecs treated their neighboring tribes.



Factz Checkerz (https://disqus.com/by/factzcheckerz/) Kid (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/#comment-3749362650) • a day ago (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/feb/08/san-marcos-parents-spar-school-district-wake-viole/#comment-3749429810)And each other. Or maybe it was time for their annual ritual teen sacrifice and head roll.

Anti Federalist
02-09-2018, 02:39 PM
It is the opposite of a nice traditional girl who would like an honest committed relationship with an honest committed male partner and rear children with him.

AKA a Unicorn.

Anti Federalist
02-09-2018, 02:42 PM
People like that are a product of the new grievance industry aimed at disgruntled young white men.

...just the mirror image of the trigglypuff phenomenon.

Is it still a "grievance industry" if the grievances in question are true?

specsaregood
02-09-2018, 03:06 PM
What law was broken exactly? And who is the victim?

dannno
02-09-2018, 03:22 PM
What law was broken exactly? And who is the victim?

I think authorities are being fairly realistic about the actual threat, the parents are flipping out and the school doesn't know what to do to calm the situation.

The boy had some kinda old style musket, not sure if it was a real functional replica what..

He instructed how to load the musket, fire and use the bayonet.. except he didn't have real gun powder or bullets. Or any real weapons at all.

They did make a hit list of a dozen or so thots for a hit list, which is pretty bad, but I mean the fact that they were talking about using muskets kinda shows that they weren't being totally serious about all this.

Brian4Liberty
02-09-2018, 03:54 PM
I think authorities are being fairly realistic about the actual threat, the parents are flipping out and the school doesn't know what to do to calm the situation.

The boy had some kinda old style musket, not sure if it was a real functional replica what..

He instructed how to load the musket, fire and use the bayonet.. except he didn't have real gun powder or bullets. Or any real weapons at all.

They did make a hit list of a dozen or so thots for a hit list, which is pretty bad, but I mean the fact that they were talking about using muskets kinda shows that they weren't being totally serious about all this.

It's pretty obviously a joke, and no doubt there are endless comparable jokes that could be found airing on television.

Of course school-related threats need to be taken seriously due to the true psychopaths that have acted in the past, so it does require some amount of investigation. If this guy had a show on Comedy Central, then it would be much less concerning to parents and school officials.

pcosmar
02-09-2018, 04:33 PM
I thought a "thot" as like a "clue'.

and that a "thot shot" from a musket would be like a "clue bat".

but it's hard to keep up.

oyarde
02-09-2018, 05:24 PM
I think authorities are being fairly realistic about the actual threat, the parents are flipping out and the school doesn't know what to do to calm the situation.

The boy had some kinda old style musket, not sure if it was a real functional replica what..

He instructed how to load the musket, fire and use the bayonet.. except he didn't have real gun powder or bullets. Or any real weapons at all.

They did make a hit list of a dozen or so thots for a hit list, which is pretty bad, but I mean the fact that they were talking about using muskets kinda shows that they weren't being totally serious about all this.

Where I live you do not have to have a concealed carry handgun permit to carry a black powder revolver so I kind of like them specifically for that reason . If I buy one I just try and get a couple extra cylinders with it so I can load them up and carry them too . Nobody even really considers them weapons under the law .

r3volution 3.0
02-09-2018, 08:41 PM
Is it still a "grievance industry" if the grievances in question are true?

The people buying into the whole anti-"thot," "men going their own way," faggy business are losers.

They would be losers in any social system.

They hate women for the same reason that ugly, ornery women hate men.

dannno
03-11-2018, 02:31 PM
The people buying into the whole anti-"thot," "men going their own way," faggy business are losers.

They would be losers in any social system.

They hate women for the same reason that ugly, ornery women hate men.

What total horse shit.

So a woman divorces a man because she is 'dissatisfied' (70% of divorces), takes half his shit, goes out and dates men who aren't in her league and who just want to have sex with her, and the husband must fund her slutty lifestyle, expose his kids to 30x odds of being abused, and this is the same as women who don't take care of themselves how exactly?

dannno
03-11-2018, 02:34 PM
San Marcos High School Discovers Series of Anonymous Threats


Classes Remain in Session, but Some Students Stay Home

Thursday, March 8, 2018


By Brandon Yadegari (https://www.independent.com/staff/brandon-yadegari/) (Contact (https://www.independent.com/staff/brandon-yadegari/contact/))


[Update: March 9, 3:23 p.m.] While the investigation into graffiti found on March 7 continues, three new threatening graffiti messages were found, this time in the boy’s locker room at San Marcos

High School. A student reported them to school administrators today. According to Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kelly Hoover, the messages first reported on March 7 and those found today, March 9, are not related.


The school remained open, and parents were kept updated via the district’s email system.


[Original Story: March 8, 12:52 p.m.] A new threat surfaced at San Marcos High School yesterday, a month after a handful of male students made online threats against female students. Administrators and Sheriff’s deputies are scrambling to respond.


On March 7, an anonymous tip led school administrators to a threatening message graffitied in the girl’s locker room at San Marcos High School. The message threatened a shooting on campus Friday, March 9, according to Kelly Hoover, Sheriff’s Office public information officer.


School administrators contacted the Sheriff’s Office at around 11:20 a.m. Deputies responded immediately and initiated an investigation into the source and credibility of the threat, according to Hoover. The exact language of the threat has not been made public. Deputies are first looking to students for information, interviewing students who were in the area where the graffiti was first found.


After San Marcos parents were notified of the incident via email yesterday, classes remained in session today, a decision that was “made in partnership with law enforcement,” said Lauren Bianchi, spokesperson for the Santa Barbara Unified School District. “In consult with law enforcement, at this time, San Marcos High School will be open today and tomorrow,” she added.


Though both the Sheriff’s Office and school administrators are able to lockdown area schools, Hoover indicated that neither a lockdown or cancellation of classes seemed necessary thus far.

“We’re investigating to identify the source. It could be a student just trying to get attention. It could be a student who’s trying to cause harm. At this point what we really need is for anyone who knows who’s responsible to contact the Sheriff’s Office.” Information can be called in at (805) 683- 2724, or an anonymous tip left at (805) 681- 4171 or at sbsheriff.org (https://www.sbsheriff.org/home/anonymous-tip/).


Sheriff’s deputies have stepped up patrols on campus today and on the 9th. The district hasn’t released today’s attendance numbers, but some parents have kept their children home. One said she was comfortable with her child attending school today but not on Friday.


San Marcos High School has been no stranger to threats of violence in the last few months. After the violence was threatened against a group of female students in January, the school district has struggled to respond to a host of parent demands (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/jan/31/female-high-school-students-threatened/). Embattled Principal Ed Behrens remains in his post at the school through year’s end, but the district has informed Behrens that at the end of this school year he will be removed from his position as San Marcos principal (https://www.independent.com/news/2018/mar/01/san-marcos-parents-rally-behind-embattled-principa/) and offered a teaching job.


In light of that threat and the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, all district schools have undergone lockdown drills in preparation for a potential active shooter incident. “Especially with the climate across the country right now, we’re seeing threats like this all over the country,” Hoover said of Wednesday’s graffiti discovery. “There’s a high sensitivity around reports of threats, and there’s a serious fear of school violence.”

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article erroneously stated San Marcos Principal Ed Behrens was removed from his post over his handling of the January threats. The district has not made that assertion.

http://https://www.independent.com/news/2018/mar/08/san-marcos-high-school-series-anonymous-threats/

Raginfridus
03-11-2018, 04:05 PM
The people buying into the whole anti-"thot," "men going their own way," faggy business are losers.

They would be losers in any social system.

They hate women for the same reason that ugly, ornery women hate men.This exactly.

Lamp
03-11-2018, 04:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFXOi2w468

Raginfridus
03-11-2018, 04:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFXOi2w468That was just Danke looking for cake.

dannno
03-15-2018, 09:57 AM
This srsly sounds like a few kids trolling the school...


https://www.independent.com/news/2018/mar/14/school-district-demotes-san-marcos-high-school-pri/


School District Demotes San Marcos High School Principal


Ed Behrens’ Supporters Say He’s The Scapegoat for District Incompetence
Wednesday, March 14, 2018


by KEITH HAMM (https://www.independent.com/staff/keith-hamm/)


Embattled San Marcos High School Principal Ed Behrens ​— ​set to speak Tuesday evening during a crowded Board of Education meeting that would decide his fate ​— ​received a hooting and hollering standing ovation before he even opened his mouth. From the day he was hired six years ago, he began, “My passion and vision was to create the very best high school.” From there he verbalized a glowing checklist of accomplishments ​— ​from embedded intervention programs to help struggling students to graduation rates that climbed as dropout numbers decreased ​— ​as his massive crowd of supporters responded with sustained bursts of applause. But the seemingly impervious force field of adoration, backed by a petition of support bearing 2,400 signatures, wasn’t enough to protect Behrens from a board vote of no confidence after nearly three hours of closed-door deliberation. Voting 4 to 1, with Laura Capps casting the sole “nay,” boardmembers approved Santa Barbara Unified School District’s recommendation that at the end of this school year, Principal Behrens be reassigned to a teaching position. Roars of protest erupted from the crowd. “You should be ashamed of yourselves!” others yelled at the board majority. Behrens quickly made for an exit.

The heated meeting, held at Santa Barbara Junior High School’s Marjorie Luke Theatre to accommodate more than 450 concerned San Marcos parents, students, and teachers, unfolded in the wake of a run of violent incidents during which Behrens’s leadership has been mostly praised ​— ​but also called into question. In January, a private chat-room video surfaced featuring a male San Marcos freshman describing how to kill female students with a rifle and bayonet, accompanied by a long list of female and gay male students that ought to be killed. Parents and students familiar with the video and list alleged that as many as 10 boys were involved.

Bound by privacy laws protecting minors, school administrators and law-enforcement officials will not name the suspects nor reveal to parents whether the boys have been allowed to return to classes, adding to tensions and uncertainties on campus and off. While many parents claimed that Behrens and the district as a whole failed to promptly send out widespread alerts as the seriousness of the incident took shape, others have claimed, according to one speaker Tuesday night, “He did the best he could with the resources he had, and those resources were not enough.” In that respect, supporters reiterated that they believe the district was throwing Behrens under the bus instead of admitting its own shortcomings in how to deal with cyber threats.

The district does not comment on personnel matters, but in a recent statement, it said generally that any decision “takes into account a number of different factors, including performance evaluations, with a view towards making decisions to retain or release administrators from their current position based upon the best interests of students.”
Though widely outnumbered, a group of speakers Tuesday evening did call for fresh leadership at the high school, echoing language of an active petition at Change.org. “We demand new leadership … that is transparent and culturally proficient,” the petition reads. “We demand that Ethnic Studies be a graduation requirement for all high schools at Santa Barbara Unified School District, [and we] demand that no residential security officers be assigned at any of the SBUSD schools as it has been proven to negatively affect culturally diverse students and staff.”


On March 7, as divided parent and student groups solidified in advance of Tuesday’s board meeting, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to campus to investigate threatening graffiti found on a bathroom stall in the girls’ locker room. The message, in black permanent marker, threatened a school shooting on March 9, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Three more pieces of disturbing graffiti were discovered on March 9, in the boys’ locker room, according to Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover, who added that the words threatened violence but were unrelated to the March 7 discovery.

On Monday, the campus was placed on lockdown when several students heard a small explosion.

“It happened right at the end of lunch,” said junior Jaiden Feldman. “I really didn’t register the sound, but I saw the looks on people’s faces, and people just scattered.” Feldman added that she felt relieved to see fellow students start to laugh, but “none of us knew what was going on. A lot of us were nervous, but I didn’t think there was a shooter.” Deputies with the Sheriff’s Office responded to “a call of shots heard,” said Hoover.

“Right before the school called the lockdown, a cop car came speeding into the parking lot next to my classroom,” Feldman said. “That made everybody nervous. I texted my parents that I was in a lockdown but I didn’t think it was serious. But just in case, I told them, ‘I love you guys.’”
Hoover said deputies eventually learned that the sound came from an exploding firecracker.

dannno
03-15-2018, 09:58 AM
This exactly.

Perhaps you could critique my response to that post.

NorthCarolinaLiberty
03-15-2018, 10:54 AM
We need a sub-forum on thots. They do not sound hot.

dannno
03-15-2018, 10:56 AM
We need a sub-forum on thots. They do not sound hot.

Being a thot requires being hot.

Ender
03-15-2018, 02:38 PM
We need a sub-forum on thots. They do not sound hot.

"You, dear sir, are a poet and you did not even know it."

-Sir Percy Blakeney-
aka The Scarlet Pimpernel

dannno
03-21-2018, 03:57 PM
https://independent.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2018/03/14/04302013_Christina_Marshall_05_t958.jpg


Crisis at San Marcos High School

Threats to Students and Counter-Productive Solutions
Tuesday, March 13, 2018


by HOWARD WINANT

There’s a crisis at San Marcos High School. Recently online threats have been made against female students there, which understandably freaks out parents. Unfortunately there has been an inadequate response by school leaders, who do not know how to deal with this situation in a positive way. Pressured by parents, they resort to the standard (and now Trumpian) response: armed police in the school. These are euphemistically called “Student Resource Officers” (SRO) but they are just armed, on-duty cops. In fact it is revealing that SMHS, the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD), and other advocates of police in the hallways would find it necessary to come up with that euphemism at all.

Of course the school should work together with parents, students, educators, and the community to effectively remedy gender- and race-based conflicts in our schools. But as a social scientist, I can tell you that research shows “police in the hallways” does not work. In fact, it fosters division, racial and gender-based antagonism, and increases the danger to kids in schools. If you want to learn more about this, take a look at Kathleen Nolan’s book Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School(University of Minnesota Press, 2011), which is one of the best of the new research works out there.

Not all parents and community people are reacting in this knee-jerk way. Only some people are letting themselves be governed by fear, which is ultimately irrational and counterproductive. Other parents — backed by community people and school staff, and also listening to student voices — are organizing against police in the hallways of San Marcos.

A movement of concerned parents, students, staff, and community members of the SBUSD is organizing against this counterproductive push for using the police. Looking toward the upcoming March meeting of the SBUSD Board, we are proposing the following points as action items for the meeting:



There should be no armed police (so-called School Resource Officers or SROs) on the San Marcos High School Campus. We firmly stand against SROs in our school system and urge the Superintendent and Board of the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) to do the same. The perception that the presence of cops in school would create a safer environment is incorrect. It would instead have a disproportionate impact on girls, students of color, and disabled students. If you want more evidence that police in the hallways (SROs) are harmful, not helpful, in dealing with in-school social conflicts, see the Nolan book I mentioned. There is also an online summary of the evidence that cops in school does not work, available at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/SROdata (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FFK4nPGGIkEdt9mc8xRAnO7xs37zauw1/view).





(2) We are also demanding that any already existing SROs (yes, there already are some) on school campuses in the SBUSD will receive in-depth, multi-day, recurring training in implicit bias. Any SRO on campus should also receive in-depth, multi-day, recurring training in nonviolent de-escalation and intervention strategies. Training in implicit bias, de-escalation, and intervention should begin before any cops are placed on campus and be maintained and updated in regular intervals throughout their assignment as an SRO.





(3) We demand that the SBUSD and SMHS in particular provide intervention programming to students, parents, and staff. These programs should target the misogyny, bullying, and racism that have been reported by students as being a part of SBUSD campus culture.





(4) We demand that a task force on mental-health services be formed to ensure the mental-health services provided to students are effective in promoting widespread prevention of psychological crises and limit feelings of stigma for those seeking help.





(5) We demand that a course in Ethnic Studies be included as a graduation requirement for all SBUSD high school students. Ethnic Studies includes gender studies, and the study of other marginalized groups. This has now been mandated by the California Department of Education (See the Social Content Sheet here (https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/abridgedsocialcontent.asp)). Research shows that these courses increase empathy and understanding, and improve intergroup relations.





(6) We demand that Superintendent Matsuoka visit the SMHScampus and address the student body to explain the above actions being taken to improve the safety of students and target problems within the campus culture.



Howard Winant is a professor of Sociology at UCSB and a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Santa Barbara.


https://www.independent.com/news/2018/mar/13/crisis-san-marcos-high-school/

dannno
03-27-2018, 12:03 PM
Good lord, do people not realize this is exactly WHY trolls operate?? To stir shit up???

It could have just been a stupid stream video/chat on the internet that nobody saw......

But NNOOOOOOOO.. we have to fire the principal, then we have to remove school board members for firing the principal... all cuz of some dumb video about a musket that didn't even exist!!!



Contingent of San Marcos Parents Call for Recall of Boardmembers


Hundreds Angered by Board Vote to Remove Principal
Thursday, March 22, 2018




A substantial force of San Marcos High School parents wants to recall Santa Barbara Unified School District boardmembers Kate Parker, Jackie Reid, Wendy Sims-Moten, and Ismael Ulloa Paredes, who voted last week to remove Principal Ed Behrens this June.

Citing privacy concerns, the district has not explained why Behrens will be demoted to a teaching position. Behrens’s supporters claim he’s been unfairly punished for his handling of a cyber threat in January, when several female students were allegedly targeted by a group of male students. Only Boardmember Laura Capps voted against the demotion.

https://www.independent.com/news/2018/mar/22/san-marcos-parents-call-recall-boardmembers/

dannno
10-03-2018, 10:55 AM
Principal: Fired for not over-reacting enough

Student: Misdemeanor, probation, no jail time

LOL

https://independent.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2018/05/09/SMHS_Video_Threat_2_t958.jpg?fef15e12b784e9bbb22bf 3f2924819218cda3d1a



San Marcos High School Chat Room Participant Convicted
Criminal Threat Reduced to Misdemeanor


Wednesday, October 3, 2018
by KEITH HAMM


The first-year San Marcos High School boy involved with threatening the lives of at least 16 female fellow students has been convicted of making a terrorist threat, according to a high school parent familiar with the case, adding that the original felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor. The sentence includes six months of supervised probation.


The boy was part of a private online chat room that hosted a video created by another San Marcos boy describing out how to kill female students with a musket and bayonet. The convicted boy followed up the video on social media with a list of female students who ought to be killed. According to several parents, the boy in the video was never charged. No names have been released publicly; the identities of minors are protected.


Reached for comment, District Attorney Joyce Dudley said, “As a matter of law we are only allowed to discuss any potential disposition with victims and juvenile victims’ parents.”

AZJoe
10-03-2018, 01:37 PM
If only he had called for their miserable deaths, castration, and feeding them to swine (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?527016-Georgetown-professor-Castrate-male-senator-s-corpses-and-feed-them-to-swine), the kid could qualify to be a Georgetown Professor (https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/01/georgetown-christine-fair-white-men-swine/).

r3volution 3.0
10-03-2018, 07:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCAnalgNQps

dannno
11-30-2018, 11:49 AM
(5) We demand that a course in Ethnic Studies be included as a graduation requirement for all SBUSD high school students. Ethnic Studies includes gender studies, and the study of other marginalized groups. This has now been mandated by the California Department of Education (See the Social Content Sheet here (https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/abridgedsocialcontent.asp)). Research shows that these courses increase empathy and understanding, and improve intergroup relations.





(6) We demand that Superintendent Matsuoka visit the SMHScampus and address the student body to explain the above actions being taken to improve the safety of students and target problems within the campus culture.



Howard Winant is a professor of Sociology at UCSB and a member of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Santa Barbara.


https://www.independent.com/news/2018/mar/13/crisis-san-marcos-high-school/


https://www.independent.com/news/2018/nov/29/ethnic-studies-now-required-santa-barbara-high-sch/

Ethnic Studies Now to Be Required in Santa Barbara High Schools

After Three-Year Campaign, Education Activists Achieve Victory

Thursday, November 29, 2018
by ERIKA CARLOS (CONTACT)


In a critical attempt toward reducing the achievement gap between ethnic minority students and their peers, the Santa Barbara Unified School Board unanimously voted on November 13 to require ethnic studies coursework for high school graduation. The board meeting was packed with enthusiastic students and their supporters, as well as a small, vocal group of parents who opposed the initiative during public comment, criticizing it as “race-baiting” and “anti-American.”


The new requirement, scheduled to begin in 2023, is the result of three years of activism by the Santa Barbara Ethnic Studies Now! Coalition. The group was founded by community activist Fabiola Gonzalez, who said that she wished such an education ​— ​which reflected her own heritage and experience ​— ​had been available for her and her family.


Growing up, Gonzalez struggled to find her place in her school and community. Gonzalez is a first-generation Latina American; her parents immigrated to Santa Barbara from Mexico. It was her biggest secret that she worked with her parents as a gardener when she wasn’t in school. “It was something I felt a lot of shame about,” said Gonzalez. “It was not something I could bring to school.” Ethnic student minorities such as Gonzalez are not given the opportunity to see themselves or their histories in their studies. “I always felt like that’s just how it was,” said Gonzalez. “That I had to change myself to try to fit in.”

A self-described “typical good student,” Gonzalez never received lower than a B, was active in extracurricular activities, and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 2009. Despite her good grades, she found herself struggling at City College. “There was a moment where I could have easily gotten stuck or lost and given up,” she said. Then she took her first Chicana studies course. “Those classes helped me look beyond my own life and barriers. They pushed me to work towards something greater than myself,” said Gonzalez. “But I was also frustrated that it took 19 years of my life to finally have access to an education about my own history, identity, experiences, and family.” Her older brother didn’t complete high school. “It wasn’t that he wasn’t smart or didn’t care,” said Gonzalez. “It just wasn’t the right information that he could connect to.”


A course in ethnic studies “teaches you to first of all learn about and love yourself,” she said. For Gonzalez, that meant learning about her parents and the immigrant experience. “Ethnic studies was so impactful for me because I was able to bring all of my personal history into the classroom in a way that made me feel both proud and supported by academics,” said Gonzalez. In a supportive and inclusive class environment, students have challenging conversations about power and difference. It gives every student the opportunity to learn about the diverse cultures with whom they coexist in their communities. Decades of research prove that such an environment improves cognitive ability, which in turn improves grades, class attendance, and the ability to empathize with students from all backgrounds.


Gonzalez is a testament to the success of ethnic studies. She transferred to UCLA, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Chicano studies (and a minor in education) and began a master’s at CSU Northridge. Along the way, she met activists involved in California’s ethnic studies movement, which led her to realize that Santa Barbara high school students would benefit from ethnic studies classes. She invited around 30 Santa Barbara parents and educators she hoped would share her passion for the subject. On December 14, 2015, she was surprised to see more than 40 people at the first Ethnic Studies Now! Coalition meeting at La Casa de la Raza. “It proved to me that our community not only needs this, but that it is also hungry for it.” High school students joined and energized the movement, eventually rising to become effective activists and leaders.


Just like the Parkland, Florida, students who witnessed the school massacre in February, Santa Barbara students began to speak out against the dangerous world they experience. Just in the last year, students have grappled with school lockdowns, online bullying, and violent threats against female students. In fact, local activists consider an education in ethnic studies as one possible solution to this violence among students. “If taught properly, ethnic studies classes provide at the very least a safe space for students to think out loud about these issues and share these experiences,” said Gonzalez. “Having that space alone creates a tremendous impact [against] the kind of violence that happens at school every day.”


Coincidentally, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 student strikes that led to the creation of the first ethnic studies department at San Francisco State University. A statewide model curricula on ethnic studies will be available by 2019 to standardize content and facilitate course adoption within California high schools. Oxnard and Los Angeles Unified, along with nine other districts, have already implemented ethnic studies requirements.


Gaining the social benefits of ethnic studies, however, requires more than the availability of courses. There must be permanent funding, adequate training for teachers, and sustained support both within the school district as well as the community. Santa Barbara members of the coalition are insisting that input from the whole community must be included in the implementation of the program.


During the three years of pursuing this program, coalition members worked closely with district officials to make sure their proposition was ready — ​the finalized plan involves modifying the district’s existing graduation requirements to include a five-unit ethnic studies course that’s transferable to the University of California and California State University systems. The units will not increase students’ required unit load and will be part of required core curriculum.

Boardmembers unanimously offered praise and support. “Not only is this a movement,” said Boardmember Wendy Sims-Moten, “but it is a shift in culture, the way we think, and [the way we] have conversations moving forward.” Noting that the “real work” has just begun, Board President Jackie Reid added, “Let’s get this right so that other school districts follow suit.”


Ultimately, the night belonged to coalition members celebrating their long-fought victory. “If there is one thing that ethnic studies teaches us, [it] is that we are makers of history,” said Gonzales. “And I believe that indeed, tonight, we are making history.”

oyarde
11-30-2018, 05:51 PM
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