I am a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy and I am in favor of the reparations for Black students resolution. I have only been a teacher in Oakland for 6 years, but over that time I have seen the systematic closing, merging, and co-locating of schools with predominantly Black students. This not only sends the message that our Black students are not important but it severely impacts their mental health and learning. OUSD’s failure to invest in our Black students did not just start recently and it is urgent that OUSD finally begin to repair the harm that has been done. I have had many amazing Black students in my classes and they deserve more than what they are being given by OUSD. Anyone can say Black Lives Matter, but those are hollow words if OUSD does not put their money, time, and resources into showing that Black students and families do matter. We cannot waste any more time. Vote yes on the reparations for black students resolution.
VOTE YES ON REPARATIONS FOR BLACK STUDENTS! You have the opportunity to do the right thing, the Black students, parents, educators and community leaders are ready to partner with you, have given you a road map and it is time for you to say YES! Please vote to support our Black students and families, vote YES on the resolution WITHOUT AMENDMENTS! Listen to the community.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Initiative. The decreasing number of Black students in OUSD school is shocking and the Black Working Group has done a great job of making an actionable plan to end this pushout. The demands in the Reparations for Black Students Initiative are the result of an in-depth listening campaign. This is a chance to change our pathway.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD. This is a vote for Oakland’s future, for equity, and to give meaning to the words Black Lives Matter.
Vote NO. Our truly diverse community didn’t ask for this. Black studies in K-12? Black healing centered practices? Anti-racist school culture? More like neo-racist. Excluding everyone who disagrees. Making up different standards and rules for a single group. Stop anti-black equity formula? What does it even mean? We don’t want this nonsense in our schools. It's taken over universities already. Now they are coming for K-12. Vote NO.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD. It's time! When our Black students and families are cared for, we are all cared for!
Critical race theory doesn’t belong in our classrooms. BLM ideology doesn’t represent Oakland values. Loud voices looking to be paid for punditry, looking to divide instead of uniting. It’s one thing to make sure everyone has a chance to succeed. It’s an entirely different thing to let BLM run the show. The silent majority disagrees. VOTE NO!!!
Black Reparations are necessary to tackle the inequities in education. Black students make up a considerable amount of the schools populations but aren’t performing at the rate of others. Reparations are needed to help them succeed
Listen to students, families, community members, and teachers: Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD.
The data is clear. These needs are not new, but this is a long-overdue critical breaking point. Please LISTEN to the parents, students, educators, school and district staff who worked tirelessly to create this resolution, and pass this resolution in its entirety.
"We cannot afford to ignore, or merely put a bandage on, the low achievement of minority children in racially isolated inner cities. Apathy is often the enemy of progressive action that confronts inequity and injustice... We must fear the cost of inaction more than the cost of action." (Rucker C. Johnson, 2014)
I am a middle school teacher at Melrose Leadership Academy and I am in favor of the reparations for Black students resolution. I have only been a teacher in Oakland for 6 years, but over that time I have seen the systematic closing, merging, and co-locating of schools with predominantly Black students. This not only sends the message that our Black students are not important but it severely impacts their mental health and learning. OUSD’s failure to invest in our Black students did not just start recently and it is urgent that OUSD finally begin to repair the harm that has been done. I have had many amazing Black students in my classes and they deserve more than what they are being given by OUSD. Anyone can say Black Lives Matter, but those are hollow words if OUSD does not put their money, time, and resources into showing that Black students and families do matter. We cannot waste any more time. Vote yes on the reparations for black students resolution.
I am an Oakland teacher and I support the initiative of Reparations For Black Students.
VOTE YES ON REPARATIONS FOR BLACK STUDENTS! You have the opportunity to do the right thing, the Black students, parents, educators and community leaders are ready to partner with you, have given you a road map and it is time for you to say YES! Please vote to support our Black students and families, vote YES on the resolution WITHOUT AMENDMENTS! Listen to the community.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Initiative. The decreasing number of Black students in OUSD school is shocking and the Black Working Group has done a great job of making an actionable plan to end this pushout. The demands in the Reparations for Black Students Initiative are the result of an in-depth listening campaign. This is a chance to change our pathway.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD. This is a vote for Oakland’s future, for equity, and to give meaning to the words Black Lives Matter.
Vote NO. Our truly diverse community didn’t ask for this. Black studies in K-12? Black healing centered practices? Anti-racist school culture? More like neo-racist. Excluding everyone who disagrees. Making up different standards and rules for a single group. Stop anti-black equity formula? What does it even mean? We don’t want this nonsense in our schools. It's taken over universities already. Now they are coming for K-12. Vote NO.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD. It's time! When our Black students and families are cared for, we are all cared for!
Vote YES on the Resolution for Reparations for Black Students!
Critical race theory doesn’t belong in our classrooms. BLM ideology doesn’t represent Oakland values. Loud voices looking to be paid for punditry, looking to divide instead of uniting. It’s one thing to make sure everyone has a chance to succeed. It’s an entirely different thing to let BLM run the show. The silent majority disagrees. VOTE NO!!!
Black Reparations are necessary to tackle the inequities in education. Black students make up a considerable amount of the schools populations but aren’t performing at the rate of others. Reparations are needed to help them succeed
Listen to students, families, community members, and teachers: Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD.
Please VOTE YES on the Reparations for Black Students Resolution - to repair the harm caused by decades of disinvestment - and to reinvest in Black students, families, schools, and staff in OUSD.
The data is clear. These needs are not new, but this is a long-overdue critical breaking point. Please LISTEN to the parents, students, educators, school and district staff who worked tirelessly to create this resolution, and pass this resolution in its entirety.
"We cannot afford to ignore, or merely put a bandage on, the low achievement of minority children in racially isolated inner cities. Apathy is often the enemy of progressive action that confronts inequity and injustice... We must fear the cost of inaction more than the cost of action." (Rucker C. Johnson, 2014)
I sounds like a great opportunity for young students to exercise their student, and political right.
I am a parent of a middle-school student in Oakland. Please vote YES on Reparations for Black Students in OUSD. Thank you.
I fully support this proposal to support black students in OUSD.