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In 1992, just weeks before the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival, local Native American leaders persuaded Berkeley’s City Council to get rid of Columbus Day and celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11621763,news_11788540]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an idea that’s since gained broad support. These days, 13 states and over 100 cities have recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/14/governor-newsom-issues-proclamation-declaring-indigenous-peoples-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/12/governor-newsom-issues-proclamation-declaring-indigenous-peoples-day-10-12-20/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation declaring Indigenous Peoples Day the second Monday in October, long celebrated as Columbus Day. 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Some told her she didn’t belong.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fatima’s peers told me about similar experiences, including a student who was hit on the back of the head and had to be hospitalized for what was largely believed to be a hate attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, I caught up with Fatima Shah, who still lives in the Bay Area, to talk about her experiences after 9/11 and how they shaped her over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888920 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_3975-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fatima Shah, standing outside of Berkeley High School. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘We felt really vulnerable’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Standing outside Berkeley High School, Fatima Shah gasped at how young the students looked to her. 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Members of the group came to Shah’s house and convinced her dad to send the kids back to school. Though the principal was initially reluctant, Shah and other students lobbied to be able to hold a first-of-its-kind teach-in about South Asian and Muslim culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would ask me a question like, ‘Oh, who’s bin Laden?’ and ‘You’re Muslim, but why don’t you cover your hair?’ or ‘What’s the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim? You both have long hair.’” Shah remembered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah’s mom brought biryani for her classmates to try, and the group put on an all-school assembly, performing dances and talking about their faith. [aside postID='mindshift_58481,forum_2010101884955,arts_13902779' label='More Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember very clearly being very anxious because I was on the stage. I have always wanted to blend in and here I am standing out. But at the same time, I felt a lot of excitement to talk about my experiences and [feel the crowd] supporting me,” Shah recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the back of my head, I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be attacked. I don’t want somebody to throw something at me.’ I did not want to be booed off the stage because I couldn’t speak English clearly,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want other kids to know that we are as American as they are,” Shah said back in 2001, in the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070613101251/www.asianweek.com/2001_10_05/news_schools.html\">AsianWeek article\u003c/a>. “It doesn’t matter if we dress differently. They said, ‘Go back to your country, your country is responsible.’ But they don’t even know where Pakistan is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah also recalls leading her classmates through an exercise to help them understand scapegoating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other Youth Together students asked for a volunteer. They taped a sign reading “terrorist” to that person’s back, then asked others to shout out different stereotypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Foreigner, box-cutter, rag-head, Aladdin!” the students chanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latinx students said hearing from Shah and her fellow South Asian classmates taught them to see their peers in a new light, to realize that South Asian students also experienced racism and were subject to stereotypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was that person, I’d feel real bad. I’d go home and start to cry,” said Bianca Watkins, a 15-year-old quoted in the 2001 AsianWeek article. Watkins volunteered to be the target in the scapegoating exercise and admitted that she had made stereotypical comments about Arab Americans and South Asians in the past. “But I take it all back now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888881 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two hands hold up a picture in a binder of a group of smiling teenagers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/IMG_4041-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture from Khokha’s 2001 article about Fatima and Saima Shah (far right) and their peers, featured on the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, which is led by community historians. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Building alliances and allies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of her former high school, Shah looked at a picture from September 2001. It captured a group of South Asian students, smiling, some in turbans, some in salwar kameez, some in jeans. They were all wearing green armbands, another of the group’s efforts to show solidarity and create a feeling of safety and community. Students from many different backgrounds wore armbands that fall at Berkeley High to indicate that they were allies — whether that meant eating lunch with a South Asian or Muslim student or walking them home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A blond white guy will have it on his backpack. And then African American girls had it around her wrist,” Shah recounted. “It really created a community, a place for me where I felt safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said the armbands also helped her feel a sense of belonging as an American. The teach-ins allowed her to humanize herself to her classmates and focus on shared experience, not difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the students on campus today, in 2021, Shah said she has a message for them. “Become a friend with somebody that looks completely opposite of who they are in every possible way,” she said. “Become a friend with a Muslim student that looks completely different. Become a friend with ESL students that recently arrived to the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many commonalities in our experiences as teenagers. And yet there are two different planets that we live on, and it’s amazing to coexist,” she said. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Anirvan Chatterjee, community historian']‘I’m amazed that these recent immigrant kids, these working-class kids showed up in a new school, that they managed to build alliances between communities and they managed to help bring safety not only just for themselves but for every other targeted student in their school.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Shah and the other Youth Together students is one of several featured on \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleysouthasian.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeley’s South Asian Radical History walking tour\u003c/a>. Participants stop in front of Berkeley High, look at the picture of the students and hear the story of their courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m amazed that these recent immigrant kids, these working-class kids showed up in a new school, that they managed to build alliances between communities and they managed to help bring safety not only just for themselves but for every other targeted student in their school,” said community historian Anirvan Chatterjee, who co-leads the tours with his wife, Barnali Ghosh. “One by one, white, African American, Latino, Asian American, mixed-race high school students, they all started putting on these green armbands. And little by little, the rate of attacks started to come down. They helped bring safety not only for themselves but for every other student at their school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lessons Shah learned about allyship through Youth Together pushed her to pursue a career in education. 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About 5% of students’ families didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Francis, who has a first grader at Berkeley’s Malcolm X Elementary School, said she trusts that the district has the process under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been following the school board meetings and reading the documents that they send us, and I know that they’ve done a ton of work to prepare and that the city public health department has been really involved,” she said. “So I’m very confident that they’re ready for this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BAM-scaled-e1617077662182.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11867039 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BAM-scaled-e1617077662182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A long line of students and parents outside of Berkeley Arts Magnet School on Monday morning, March 29, the first day of in-person classes in over a year. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The safety of students and staff will be top of mind, BUSD Superintendent Brent Stephens told KQED. Everyone, he said, will be given a “health screener” each morning, and will be required to wear face coverings — except when eating and drinking — and remain socially distanced, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/campus-reopening/\">among a bevy of other precautions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular return, for pre-K through grade two, represents a lot of collaboration, a lot of problem solving, and we’re very happy that the day has finally arrived,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"busd\"]Alexandra Phillips, a first grade teacher at Malcolm X Elementary, said she was nervous but happy, as she welcomed her students back to campus — many of whom she’s never actually met in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, I think I’m excited,” she said. “It’s been such a long haul and so many stops and starts and reshuffles and back to the drawing board, and there was some trepidation at first. But now seeing the excitement on my kids’ faces over Zoom, I’m just looking forward to seeing them all in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If all goes according to plan, this week is just the beginning of a gradual \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/campus-reopening/\">return to in-person learning\u003c/a> for most Berkeley public school students who choose to participate. Students in third through eighth grade, and some older students in specialized learning programs, will have the option to begin returning to classrooms on April 12, and some high schoolers will begin returning on April 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is choosing to come back, and the demographic breakdown of students returning to classes is not completely representative of Berkeley’s overall public school population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Among Berkeley families, white families are selecting to return to campus at the highest rate,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865148/berkeley-distance-learning-families-feel-some-relief-after-complaints-about-being-overlooked\">highlighted previously,\u003c/a> families in Berkeley opting to keep their children at home, in distanced learning, are more likely to be from communities of color and often be in lower-income groups.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThat gap is widest between white and Black families, with about 84% of white Berkeley families with children in pre-K through second grade opting to send their children back to the classroom, compared with less than 60% of Black families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth noting that it’s the majority of every group that is selected to come back. But these differences are present and they’re concerning,” Stephens said. In a town hall earlier this month, he reassured concerned families who have opted out of in-person schooling that their children would continue to receive online instruction from their regular teachers — not from substitutes, as some had feared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been very important to us that we acknowledge that some families are simply not ready and that we must provide a high-quality alternative for those families,” Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño and Lily Jamali contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Women’s Student Union at Berkeley High School \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/03/11/womens-student-union-at-berkeley-high-sues-dept-of-ed-to-overturn-trump-era-sexual-misconduct-rules\">sued the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month\u003c/a> over Title IX rules adopted during the Trump administration that govern how schools respond to cases of sexual harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/06/851733630/federal-rules-give-more-protection-to-students-accused-of-sexual-assault\">announced last May and implemented in August under former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos \u003c/a>, offer more protections for students who are accused of sexual misconduct. They apply to colleges as well as K-12 schools. The Women’s Student Union – a student-founded and student-led group that advocates for policies to reduce sexual harassment on Berkeley High’s campus – argued in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20517245-20210308-doc-1-complaint\">lawsuit\u003c/a> that the policy discourages students from reporting harassment and schools from investigating complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest action by students comes more than a year after victims and advocates at Berkeley High organized a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801840/reckoning-with-sexual-assault-at-berkeley-high-school\">walkout\u003c/a> in February 2020 to demand changes over how misconduct was handled on their own campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ayisha Friedman, Berkeley High alum\"]‘I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart.’[/pullquote]“We were realizing that a lot of the issues that students at Berkeley High were facing stemmed from national policies,” said Ava, a junior at Berkeley High and one of the students who filed the lawsuit. “And if we could change national policies, we could help people at every school in the United States, not just Berkeley High.” KQED is identifying Ava by only her first name over fears she could face harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year since the walkout, the Berkeley Unified School District has adopted some changes in response to students’ demands. In December, the district \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyhighjacket.com/2020/features/busd-implements-title-ix-reform-demanded-by-students/\">announced\u003c/a> they had hired a full-time Title IX coordinator and investigator, and set up a committee of mostly Berkeley High School students to lead some of the changes around consent education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the district’s students and adult advocates have demanded changes in how their schools handle misconduct complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A History of Activism at Berkeley High\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Berkeley High alum Liana Thomason and her classmates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10392296/berkeley-high-students-trying-to-change-schools-sexual-harassment-policy\">started the group BHS Stop Harassing\u003c/a>. She said they founded the group after comments made during a school assembly seemed to blame harassment on the ways students dressed. But Thomason said the need was about more than just those comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unofficial story is that there had just been this culture of harassment in Berkeley High and middle school. There was Slap Ass Friday where boys would slap the girls’ asses on Friday,” Thomason said. “And it was just like, ‘This is what the world is like. That’s fine.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assembly, Thomason invited a group of female friends to her house to talk about what they saw as a culture of unchecked harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized that we had to say something. We had to let the school know that it was not OK,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maha Ibrahim, attorney with Equal Rights Advocates\"]‘Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem. It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.”[/pullquote]Berkeley High students had also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/02/berkeley-unified-school-district-inadequately-handles-sexual-harassment/\">created\u003c/a> an Instagram account on which some female students were referred to as “sluts” alongside degrading photos of them. Thomason was also motivated to address these issues after her sister was sexually assaulted at a middle school bike cage in 2014. She said the school responded by setting up a restorative justice circle that traumatized her sister even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomason’s mother, Heidi Goldstein, became an adviser for BHS Stop Harassing and is still working on these issues today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching Title IX and school district policies,” Goldstein said. “And that’s where I came to the conclusion that the whole system was just in disarray. There was no system and there really was no process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Thomason, right, a Berkeley High alum, founded the group BHS Stop Harassing. Her mother Heidi Goldstein continues to be an adult adviser for the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OCR-Letter-1-14-2015.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> with the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about how the school handled misconduct complaints, prompting an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of BHS Stop Harassing began showing up at school board meetings to demand better policies around sexual harassment and more training for teachers as well as education for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Public School District places an immense value on student safety and well-being,” former BUSD Superintendent Donald Evans and BUSD Board President Judy Appel wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sexual-Harrassment-Letter-v4c-1-7-.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to district families at the time. “Based on student, teacher, and community feedback about this and other related issues, we have come to realize that there is an urgent need to work on developing a culture focused on prevention of sexual harassment, not simply reacting to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wild West of Title IX Regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maha Ibrahim, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity in schools, has worked with Berkeley High students. She said few schools do a sufficient job responding to sexual harassment or assault claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal rules and regulations for Title IX have been written for universities – and schools K-12 were an afterthought,” Ibrahim said. “It’s like the Wild West. It’s a lot of individual adults who are shooting from the hip when approached with difficult or traumatic experiences of their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11859164 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46527_003_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_01092021-qut-1038x576.jpg']According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.knowyourix.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Know-Your-IX-2021-Report-Final-Copy.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the advocacy group Know Your IX, a survey of more than 100 students found that 20% of students who reported sexual violence to their school transferred schools, and nearly 10% dropped out entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Berkeley’s progressive image also made it difficult for some to acknowledge that some students felt unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem,” Ibrahim said. “It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to demands from students made in 2014, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ActionStepstoAddressSexualHarassment3.8.17.docx-1.pdf\">said\u003c/a> it expanded an advisory committee to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, held restorative justice circles for students who were targeted by sexual harassment and established a Title IX coordinator and compliance officer position.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Lawsuit and a Sexual Assault Reported on Campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But students say the problems continued. The district was sued by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges a student was sexually assaulted by another student during school hours in an unlocked classroom at Berkeley High in 2019. It claims the district failed to take steps to adequately ensure the victim’s safety. KQED is identifying the student as “Faith” to protect her identity over concerns for her safety. In the lawsuit, she is identified as “Jane Doe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith said she kept seeing her assailant on campus after the assault, and that he continued to sexually harass her. She said she had meltdowns for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, I’m a happy, goofy person. My teachers were just worried, and they would always just look at me and they’re like, ‘You look so sad,’ ” Faith said. “They would try to help me get back to how I used to be. And it was just hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Faith sits with hands on knees, only legs and shoes visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith, a former Berkeley High student, sued the district in January 2020 over its handling of her sexual assault allegations against a fellow student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Faith and her parents decided it was too much, and she transferred into an independent studies program. Attorneys for the district argued in a court filing that administrators worked with Faith to make sure she was safe, and they tried to limit the potential for contact between the two students. They said district personnel were responsive to Faith’s complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RG20052743-Doe-VS-Berkeley-Unified-School-District.pdf\">sued the district\u003c/a> in January 2020 before she left Berkeley High the next month, and she said students at the school began talking about the case, trying to guess the identity of Jane Doe. She said it was scary, but that she also felt resilient knowing she had helped spark a larger conversation about safety on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want there to be a change, especially being a person of color. I became a person of color who was also assaulted,” Faith said. “It was just something I had to speak up on, because my voice is not heard by a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Names on the Bathroom Stall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Berkeley High students had already thought the school had a culture where sexual misconduct was swept under the rug, but the lawsuit Faith filed seemed to break something open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the lawsuit was filed, a group of Berkeley High students began writing the names of alleged perpetrators on a bathroom stall. In black ink, they wrote “Boys To Watch Out 4,” followed by several names and the words “rapist” and “abuser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_0893-e1616451221449.jpg\" alt=\"Ayisha Friedman sitting outside, arms crossed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayisha Friedman organized a walkout over sexual harassment and assault at Berkeley High in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ayisha Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayisha Friedman, a senior at Berkeley High during this time, said she saw the list during first or second period. Reading the list, Friedman thought about her friends who’d been harassed or assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said a lot of the boys were popular and known for inappropriate behavior around young women. She said the list was impossible to ignore. By the end of the school day, a picture of the stall had been shared on Instagram, and it felt like everyone in the school had seen it and had something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that goes both ways. That goes people who were defending these women and who are saying, ‘I believe you, I am here for you,’ ” Friedman said. “And then people on the other side who were like, ‘Anybody could have written this. And this is a lie.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Walkout Gets the District’s Attention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several students who spoke to KQED described a climate at the high school where victims who reported their assaults to administrators were questioned or doubted by their peers. Students wanted the school district to do more to support victims and keep them safe on campus. Friedman and others began organizing a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond, one of the organizers, reported her own sexual assault about a week before the walkout in February 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was in the midst of a really hard situation. But we were all coming together and working on something that we really cared about,” Redmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she found a supportive community during a time when others were gossiping about her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so tense,” said Sophia Kerievsky, another organizer and friend of Redmond. “I remember people were pointing at me in the courtyard, and just really attacking my character, and especially her character. It was this strange energy. It was a lot of girls who were standing up for her, and then a huge group of boys standing by his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BHS_Rape_Walkout-17-1-1-scaled-e1616451482414.jpg\" alt=\"BHS students behind podium during walkout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1353\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School students organized a walkout in February 2020 to address sexual harassment and assault on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mia Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day of the walkout, Redmond wasn’t sure how many people would show up. So when she looked out at the courtyard, she was stunned by the support, and said the entire courtyard was filled with students, staff and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in it. At the time I was feeling a lot of lack of understanding,” Redmond said. “And it definitely gave me a group of people who I was like, ‘I can trust these people. These people support me, and I want to support these people.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Practical and Philosophical Set of Demands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The students drafted up specific demands, such as more resources for the Title IX office handling misconduct complaints, expanded consent education and policies stating that perpetrators found to be guilty by the school would be suspended from school-sanctioned events. They wanted to create a culture where victims could heal, and for the school to continue the conversation long after they had graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Brent Stephens had begun working for the district less than a year before the walkout, and he said many of the students’ requests were practical, and that change felt necessary. There had also been high turnover in the district’s Title IX coordinator role, with at least six different people working in that position from 2015 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, he said, had done their homework, and met with teachers, staff and adult advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when they came with a set of demands, they were sort of philosophical in nature, but they were very pragmatic as well,” Stephens said. “It was … a political moment, but it resonated with what I and many others saw as legitimate needs of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Continues Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after the walkout, schools shut down because of COVID-19. And as everyone focused on the pandemic, the momentum began to fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student now at Branham High School in San Jose, decided to find another way to restart the conversation. Over the summer, she made a TikTok video showing the faces of alleged perpetrators at Berkeley High and Lowell High School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student, created a TikTok video to continue a public conversation around sexual harassment and assault in high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Annette Kwon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When the quarantine started, everything died down,” she said. “And I just felt like it was necessary that the topic stays relevant, because if it had faded out once again, nothing would change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video received over 100,000 views, and soon students throughout the Bay Area launched Instagram accounts for people to post their experiences of harassment and assault anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond remembered seeing dozens of stories of harassment and assault posted on an Instagram account called BHS Protectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like everyone was coming together again, and addressing the issue again that we had done in February,” Redmond said. “It was powerful to see not only so many people at Berkeley High being able to tell their stories, that they couldn’t talk about before, but also other schools following that, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Education Coverage' tag='education']But for others, the account was also overwhelming, especially during a pandemic that left so many people isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people were like, ‘I’m in a pandemic, I’m in my room 24/7. This is already messing with my mental health. And everyday I open my Instagram and I’m reminded of my own trauma,’ ” said Ayisha Friedman, another walkout organizer, of people she knew who had seen the account. “Where does the conversation go? You’re stuck in your room with no support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish McDermott, a spokesperson for the Berkeley Unified School District, said in a statement that administrators reached out to those who posted about incidents of sexual harm, discrimination or racism, and those who were named in the posts. She said administrators also informed police and Child Protective Services about the account and specific allegations that could be traced to any students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account has since been removed, and now students who participated in the walkout are hoping some of the cultural shifts inspired by their organizing will last when the pandemic is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>District Announces Changes, and the Culture Begins to Shift\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ultraviolet Schneider-Dwyer, a senior at Berkeley High, said that before the walkout a lot of the incidents of harassment and assault occurred during parties where young people were too intoxicated to consent. She’s hopeful her peers will no longer tolerate that culture after so many students shared their experiences of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be more social consequences than there are administrative or academically,” she said. “At the same time, I’m just making sure that they’re not doing it out of fear of not being accepted, but they’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Mia Redmond is a part of a committee to give students a chance to provide the school with input on issues like harassment and consent education. She feels like the district is taking students’ demands seriously. She’s graduating this year and plans to continue her advocacy after high school. And she said it will be up to future generations of Berkeley High students as well as administrators to make sure the changes she and others started will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t say for certain whether [the walkout] changed the culture at Berkeley High, but it definitely brought up a conversation that wasn’t being had before,” Redmond said. “It was such a monumental thing in Berkeley High history that everyone who experienced it, they’re not going to forget about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/protecting-kids-from-abuse/\">This story\u003c/a> was reported in collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. It was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berkeley High students had also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/02/berkeley-unified-school-district-inadequately-handles-sexual-harassment/\">created\u003c/a> an Instagram account on which some female students were referred to as “sluts” alongside degrading photos of them. Thomason was also motivated to address these issues after her sister was sexually assaulted at a middle school bike cage in 2014. She said the school responded by setting up a restorative justice circle that traumatized her sister even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomason’s mother, Heidi Goldstein, became an adviser for BHS Stop Harassing and is still working on these issues today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching Title IX and school district policies,” Goldstein said. “And that’s where I came to the conclusion that the whole system was just in disarray. There was no system and there really was no process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Thomason, right, a Berkeley High alum, founded the group BHS Stop Harassing. Her mother Heidi Goldstein continues to be an adult adviser for the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OCR-Letter-1-14-2015.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> with the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about how the school handled misconduct complaints, prompting an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of BHS Stop Harassing began showing up at school board meetings to demand better policies around sexual harassment and more training for teachers as well as education for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Public School District places an immense value on student safety and well-being,” former BUSD Superintendent Donald Evans and BUSD Board President Judy Appel wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sexual-Harrassment-Letter-v4c-1-7-.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to district families at the time. “Based on student, teacher, and community feedback about this and other related issues, we have come to realize that there is an urgent need to work on developing a culture focused on prevention of sexual harassment, not simply reacting to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wild West of Title IX Regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maha Ibrahim, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity in schools, has worked with Berkeley High students. She said few schools do a sufficient job responding to sexual harassment or assault claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal rules and regulations for Title IX have been written for universities – and schools K-12 were an afterthought,” Ibrahim said. “It’s like the Wild West. It’s a lot of individual adults who are shooting from the hip when approached with difficult or traumatic experiences of their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.knowyourix.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Know-Your-IX-2021-Report-Final-Copy.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the advocacy group Know Your IX, a survey of more than 100 students found that 20% of students who reported sexual violence to their school transferred schools, and nearly 10% dropped out entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Berkeley’s progressive image also made it difficult for some to acknowledge that some students felt unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem,” Ibrahim said. “It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to demands from students made in 2014, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ActionStepstoAddressSexualHarassment3.8.17.docx-1.pdf\">said\u003c/a> it expanded an advisory committee to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, held restorative justice circles for students who were targeted by sexual harassment and established a Title IX coordinator and compliance officer position.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Lawsuit and a Sexual Assault Reported on Campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But students say the problems continued. The district was sued by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges a student was sexually assaulted by another student during school hours in an unlocked classroom at Berkeley High in 2019. It claims the district failed to take steps to adequately ensure the victim’s safety. KQED is identifying the student as “Faith” to protect her identity over concerns for her safety. In the lawsuit, she is identified as “Jane Doe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith said she kept seeing her assailant on campus after the assault, and that he continued to sexually harass her. She said she had meltdowns for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, I’m a happy, goofy person. My teachers were just worried, and they would always just look at me and they’re like, ‘You look so sad,’ ” Faith said. “They would try to help me get back to how I used to be. And it was just hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Faith sits with hands on knees, only legs and shoes visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith, a former Berkeley High student, sued the district in January 2020 over its handling of her sexual assault allegations against a fellow student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Faith and her parents decided it was too much, and she transferred into an independent studies program. Attorneys for the district argued in a court filing that administrators worked with Faith to make sure she was safe, and they tried to limit the potential for contact between the two students. They said district personnel were responsive to Faith’s complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RG20052743-Doe-VS-Berkeley-Unified-School-District.pdf\">sued the district\u003c/a> in January 2020 before she left Berkeley High the next month, and she said students at the school began talking about the case, trying to guess the identity of Jane Doe. She said it was scary, but that she also felt resilient knowing she had helped spark a larger conversation about safety on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want there to be a change, especially being a person of color. I became a person of color who was also assaulted,” Faith said. “It was just something I had to speak up on, because my voice is not heard by a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Names on the Bathroom Stall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Berkeley High students had already thought the school had a culture where sexual misconduct was swept under the rug, but the lawsuit Faith filed seemed to break something open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the lawsuit was filed, a group of Berkeley High students began writing the names of alleged perpetrators on a bathroom stall. In black ink, they wrote “Boys To Watch Out 4,” followed by several names and the words “rapist” and “abuser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_0893-e1616451221449.jpg\" alt=\"Ayisha Friedman sitting outside, arms crossed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayisha Friedman organized a walkout over sexual harassment and assault at Berkeley High in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ayisha Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayisha Friedman, a senior at Berkeley High during this time, said she saw the list during first or second period. Reading the list, Friedman thought about her friends who’d been harassed or assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said a lot of the boys were popular and known for inappropriate behavior around young women. She said the list was impossible to ignore. By the end of the school day, a picture of the stall had been shared on Instagram, and it felt like everyone in the school had seen it and had something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that goes both ways. That goes people who were defending these women and who are saying, ‘I believe you, I am here for you,’ ” Friedman said. “And then people on the other side who were like, ‘Anybody could have written this. And this is a lie.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Walkout Gets the District’s Attention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several students who spoke to KQED described a climate at the high school where victims who reported their assaults to administrators were questioned or doubted by their peers. Students wanted the school district to do more to support victims and keep them safe on campus. Friedman and others began organizing a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond, one of the organizers, reported her own sexual assault about a week before the walkout in February 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was in the midst of a really hard situation. But we were all coming together and working on something that we really cared about,” Redmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she found a supportive community during a time when others were gossiping about her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so tense,” said Sophia Kerievsky, another organizer and friend of Redmond. “I remember people were pointing at me in the courtyard, and just really attacking my character, and especially her character. It was this strange energy. It was a lot of girls who were standing up for her, and then a huge group of boys standing by his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BHS_Rape_Walkout-17-1-1-scaled-e1616451482414.jpg\" alt=\"BHS students behind podium during walkout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1353\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School students organized a walkout in February 2020 to address sexual harassment and assault on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mia Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day of the walkout, Redmond wasn’t sure how many people would show up. So when she looked out at the courtyard, she was stunned by the support, and said the entire courtyard was filled with students, staff and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in it. At the time I was feeling a lot of lack of understanding,” Redmond said. “And it definitely gave me a group of people who I was like, ‘I can trust these people. These people support me, and I want to support these people.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Practical and Philosophical Set of Demands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The students drafted up specific demands, such as more resources for the Title IX office handling misconduct complaints, expanded consent education and policies stating that perpetrators found to be guilty by the school would be suspended from school-sanctioned events. They wanted to create a culture where victims could heal, and for the school to continue the conversation long after they had graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Brent Stephens had begun working for the district less than a year before the walkout, and he said many of the students’ requests were practical, and that change felt necessary. There had also been high turnover in the district’s Title IX coordinator role, with at least six different people working in that position from 2015 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, he said, had done their homework, and met with teachers, staff and adult advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when they came with a set of demands, they were sort of philosophical in nature, but they were very pragmatic as well,” Stephens said. “It was … a political moment, but it resonated with what I and many others saw as legitimate needs of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Continues Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after the walkout, schools shut down because of COVID-19. And as everyone focused on the pandemic, the momentum began to fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student now at Branham High School in San Jose, decided to find another way to restart the conversation. Over the summer, she made a TikTok video showing the faces of alleged perpetrators at Berkeley High and Lowell High School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student, created a TikTok video to continue a public conversation around sexual harassment and assault in high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Annette Kwon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When the quarantine started, everything died down,” she said. “And I just felt like it was necessary that the topic stays relevant, because if it had faded out once again, nothing would change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video received over 100,000 views, and soon students throughout the Bay Area launched Instagram accounts for people to post their experiences of harassment and assault anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond remembered seeing dozens of stories of harassment and assault posted on an Instagram account called BHS Protectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like everyone was coming together again, and addressing the issue again that we had done in February,” Redmond said. “It was powerful to see not only so many people at Berkeley High being able to tell their stories, that they couldn’t talk about before, but also other schools following that, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley parents who were upset about the school district’s plan for families who have chosen to remain in distance learning even as in-person classes resume saw some of their concerns alleviated this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After families learned last week that children who stay in distance learning would lose their teachers and might be taught by substitutes, a group of predominantly Black and Latino parents expressed outrage that distance learners were being relegated to a “second-class” educational experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anger was fueled by a lack of details and a tight timeline to make a decision about whether to send kids back in person, which galvanized parents to form a new parent advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at town hall meetings for parents this week, Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Brent Stephens assured families that although the majority of distance learning students will be assigned new teachers, they would be full-time Berkeley Unified teachers, not substitutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re our teachers, they have a lot of experience,” Stephens said, adding that distance learning students will be matched with teachers of the same grade level, and those who receive special education, reading intervention or other specialized services will have the same teachers they do now. An extra virtual class per day will also be added for distance learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big change is that parents will now get two opportunities to switch which of the two programs they’re in, once before students begin returning in person on March 29 and again in early May. Parents were previously told their decision would be final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like things are moving in the right direction,” said Malcolm X Elementary School parent Roberto Santiago, one of the parents who had concerns, in a text. “I am feeling better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Ocampo Stout is opting to keep both of her kids home, in part because she has a son with asthma. She and other parents of kids who go to Sylvia Mendez Elementary School were especially worried about how teacher reassignment will affect students in the school’s Spanish immersion program. But at the town hall, Stephens said bilingual teachers from the same school will be available for those who stay in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a relief for Ocampo Stout. Still, she expressed frustration that the reopening fight in Berkeley had devolved into what felt like parents fighting for their own kids to get back at the expense of hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was talking about equity, and then when it comes down to it, we’re just going to ignore that part,” she said. “I don’t dismiss the importance of opening up. I understand that there are kids that are seriously depressed, there are kids that are suicidal. It’s about understanding and being compassionate — the world doesn’t revolve around you, there are other people here, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Stephens said reassigning students was one of the most difficult decisions the district had to confront. “I recognize it’s not the same,” he said. “We struggled a lot with this decision. We realize there’s an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will aim to keep continuing remote learning students who are in the same class together, but they may now be grouped with kids from other schools. Under the plan, far fewer students returning in person will be assigned new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, only 18% of families are opting to keep their kids in distance learning, according to the district. But some parents say they felt pressured into sending kids back in person, because the distance learning option seemed so inferior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt lots and lots of pressure,” said Maria Moreno, whose son goes to Sylvia Mendez Elementary. Her son has asthma, and she would much prefer to keep him home for the rest of the school year, but was so worried about him losing his teacher that she’s sending him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to try it and see what happens,” she said. “But honestly, I’m still scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After much debate, Lizet Lopez, whose three children attend Thousand Oaks and Ruth Acty elementary schools, made the same call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sending her kids back in person even though it makes her uncomfortable. “If they told me I will have my teachers and therapists if I stay online, I would stay online,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant differences have emerged in which families are opting to put their kids in a classroom again and which are remaining remote-only: 28% of Black families, 23% of English learner families and 26% of socioeconomically disadvantaged families are opting for distance learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2021/03/reopening-information-sessions-and-solidarity-reapertura-sesiones-informativas-y-solidaridad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accordinging to district data\u003c/a>, compared to 13% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t feel comfortable sending our kids back into this environment because systemic racism already hurt our kids, so what’s it going to look like when you add a pandemic?” Santiago said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s keeping his kids home out of safety concerns and to make space in the physical classrooms for those who really need to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district announced elementary schools would reopen in person five days a week, parents who spent months organizing rallies and pressuring local and state officials to reopen celebrated a major victory, but some Black and Latino parents were alarmed by a perceived lack of attention to students who will stick with learning from home, leading them to call into question the commitment to equity espoused throughout the reopening debate. Late last week, Santiago and other parents formed the group Berkeley Unified Distance Choice Advocates to bring together parents and teachers as advocates for families who are not sending their kids back to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the district took steps to address their concerns, parent Ludovic Blain said a racial inequity existed. “White parents’ demands were met fully 100%,” he said, referring to those who organized for reopening. “Now we’re left with the scraps to try to piece together a semblance of distance learning.” Months before a reopening deal was reached, the teachers union warned of such a possibility in arguing for a measured approach to reopening that was often criticized as too slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blain is not ready to send his 11-year-old son back into a classroom at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School, due to “data-based hesitancy,” he said. As an African American, he’s watched the virus take a disproportionate toll on his community, and his wife is vulnerable because of a recent surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the situation appears improved for students like his son, who is in the Spanish immersion program, he’s feeling better, though his frustration with the process hasn’t ebbed. “This is all coming out a week \u003cem>after\u003c/em> families had to choose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11865153 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1536x1026.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents who’ve advocated to reopen schools for in-person classes are now focused on getting middle and high school students back to campus full time.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lei Levy, who leads a Berkeley parent group that pushed for reopening, expressed regret that the reopening process seemed to pit parents against each other. She takes issue with the characterization of parents who fought hard for the reopening of schools as predominantly affluent and white, and argues framing the issue as a fight between white parents and parents of color is an oversimplification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just happy that we’re finally at this place that both sides are being considered equally, because it felt like for so long only the distance learning families were being considered,” Levy said. “That’s why our group came into existence; we saw that nobody was advocating for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she welcomes having another group of parent advocates join the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents feel like, ‘Oh, wait, now I have to start advocating for my kids?’ Yeah, you do. We all have to step up right now because lazy policy is being steamrolled over us,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distance Learning teacher assignments will be announced beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated with new enrollment decision data released by the district Friday evening. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big change is that parents will now get two opportunities to switch which of the two programs they’re in, once before students begin returning in person on March 29 and again in early May. Parents were previously told their decision would be final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like things are moving in the right direction,” said Malcolm X Elementary School parent Roberto Santiago, one of the parents who had concerns, in a text. “I am feeling better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladys Ocampo Stout is opting to keep both of her kids home, in part because she has a son with asthma. She and other parents of kids who go to Sylvia Mendez Elementary School were especially worried about how teacher reassignment will affect students in the school’s Spanish immersion program. But at the town hall, Stephens said bilingual teachers from the same school will be available for those who stay in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a relief for Ocampo Stout. Still, she expressed frustration that the reopening fight in Berkeley had devolved into what felt like parents fighting for their own kids to get back at the expense of hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was talking about equity, and then when it comes down to it, we’re just going to ignore that part,” she said. “I don’t dismiss the importance of opening up. I understand that there are kids that are seriously depressed, there are kids that are suicidal. It’s about understanding and being compassionate — the world doesn’t revolve around you, there are other people here, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Stephens said reassigning students was one of the most difficult decisions the district had to confront. “I recognize it’s not the same,” he said. “We struggled a lot with this decision. We realize there’s an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will aim to keep continuing remote learning students who are in the same class together, but they may now be grouped with kids from other schools. Under the plan, far fewer students returning in person will be assigned new teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, only 18% of families are opting to keep their kids in distance learning, according to the district. But some parents say they felt pressured into sending kids back in person, because the distance learning option seemed so inferior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt lots and lots of pressure,” said Maria Moreno, whose son goes to Sylvia Mendez Elementary. Her son has asthma, and she would much prefer to keep him home for the rest of the school year, but was so worried about him losing his teacher that she’s sending him back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to try it and see what happens,” she said. “But honestly, I’m still scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After much debate, Lizet Lopez, whose three children attend Thousand Oaks and Ruth Acty elementary schools, made the same call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s sending her kids back in person even though it makes her uncomfortable. “If they told me I will have my teachers and therapists if I stay online, I would stay online,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant differences have emerged in which families are opting to put their kids in a classroom again and which are remaining remote-only: 28% of Black families, 23% of English learner families and 26% of socioeconomically disadvantaged families are opting for distance learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/2021/03/reopening-information-sessions-and-solidarity-reapertura-sesiones-informativas-y-solidaridad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accordinging to district data\u003c/a>, compared to 13% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t feel comfortable sending our kids back into this environment because systemic racism already hurt our kids, so what’s it going to look like when you add a pandemic?” Santiago said earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s keeping his kids home out of safety concerns and to make space in the physical classrooms for those who really need to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district announced elementary schools would reopen in person five days a week, parents who spent months organizing rallies and pressuring local and state officials to reopen celebrated a major victory, but some Black and Latino parents were alarmed by a perceived lack of attention to students who will stick with learning from home, leading them to call into question the commitment to equity espoused throughout the reopening debate. Late last week, Santiago and other parents formed the group Berkeley Unified Distance Choice Advocates to bring together parents and teachers as advocates for families who are not sending their kids back to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the district took steps to address their concerns, parent Ludovic Blain said a racial inequity existed. “White parents’ demands were met fully 100%,” he said, referring to those who organized for reopening. “Now we’re left with the scraps to try to piece together a semblance of distance learning.” Months before a reopening deal was reached, the teachers union warned of such a possibility in arguing for a measured approach to reopening that was often criticized as too slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blain is not ready to send his 11-year-old son back into a classroom at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School, due to “data-based hesitancy,” he said. As an African American, he’s watched the virus take a disproportionate toll on his community, and his wife is vulnerable because of a recent surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the situation appears improved for students like his son, who is in the Spanish immersion program, he’s feeling better, though his frustration with the process hasn’t ebbed. “This is all coming out a week \u003cem>after\u003c/em> families had to choose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11865153 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1020x681.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut-1536x1026.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46594_012_KQED_Berkeley_SchoolSitIn_01132021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents who’ve advocated to reopen schools for in-person classes are now focused on getting middle and high school students back to campus full time.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lei Levy, who leads a Berkeley parent group that pushed for reopening, expressed regret that the reopening process seemed to pit parents against each other. She takes issue with the characterization of parents who fought hard for the reopening of schools as predominantly affluent and white, and argues framing the issue as a fight between white parents and parents of color is an oversimplification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just happy that we’re finally at this place that both sides are being considered equally, because it felt like for so long only the distance learning families were being considered,” Levy said. “That’s why our group came into existence; we saw that nobody was advocating for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she welcomes having another group of parent advocates join the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents feel like, ‘Oh, wait, now I have to start advocating for my kids?’ Yeah, you do. We all have to step up right now because lazy policy is being steamrolled over us,” Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distance Learning teacher assignments will be announced beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Repulsive. Bullying. Disturbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the words Berkeley parents are using to describe an attack-style video posted over the weekend by a group calling itself “Guerilla Momz.” The video shows Berkeley Federation of Teachers President Matt Meyer dropping off his daughter at in-person preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín issued a statement about the video on Tuesday, calling to calm conflict and division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have the same goal and want what is best for our children,” he wrote. “Stalking the President of the Berkeley Teachers Federation and his young child unnecessarily stokes divisions and creates polarization at a time when we need unity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11862469\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Guerilla Momz group claimed hypocrisy on the part of a union leader who fought for teacher vaccinations for safety reasons before returning his teachers to classrooms, and for publicly questioning how well kids could adhere to masking requirements. The video soon went viral. Local outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862469/after-leading-school-closures-berkeley-teachers-union-president-spotted-dropping-daughter-off-at-in-person-preschool\">KQED\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Video-of-Berkeley-teachers-union-chief-taking-15990654.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/01/video-berkeley-teachers-union-president-criticized-as-hypocrite-for-taking-kid-to-school/\">Mercury News\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/03/01/covid-group-calls-berkeley-teachers-union-leader-a-hypocrite-for-taking-child-to-private-preschool/\">KPIX\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/berkeley-teachers-union-leader-criticized-after-video-surfaces/2480330/\">NBC Bay Area covered it\u003c/a>, splashing the video across television sets around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also retweeted by Donald Trump Jr., and landed on the homepage of national outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-does-california-teachers-union-president-send-own-child-person-school-1572992\">Newsweek\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2021/03/01/california-teachers-union-head-slammed-for-taking-kid-to-school/\">New York Post\u003c/a>, Fox News and conservative websites like The Blaze and Breitbart, where it was derided by political conservatives. Soon, people across the nation furious over the pace of school reopenings set their sights on Berkeley, and its teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that fury took an emotional toll on some Berkeley teachers and parents. And some firmly disagreed with groups pushing for reopening schools that any “hypocrisy” had taken place at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GuerillaMomz\">Guerilla Momz\u003c/a> seized specifically on one issue: a high-profile union official with the power over thousands of families’ futures who publicly argued teachers needed vaccines in order to safely mingle with children from varying households, and that schools could not be reopened until that criterion was met, but who then freely allowed his own child to mingle with other households and caregivers who may not necessarily have been vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, they argued his public statements did not meet his private life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Peter Ross, Berkeley Unified parent\"]‘Rather than attacking our teachers, community members should be advocating for more resources for them. What is at risk here is the community’s overall support of a healthy education system that serves all of our children.’[/pullquote]But many in the community instead seized on the idea of a public school versus private, and argued there are no public preschools for children the age of Meyer’s toddler, rendering the argument a nonissue. They also saw a union leader working hard to represent the voices of his union members, and did not believe his role in deciding school reopenings met the threshold to publicly debate his private choices. They said he was a parent who, like many parents, faced few good choices about how to provide child care for a toddler while balancing work and community life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If folks want to do something, the productive thing is to create a community dialogue where you bring together different stakeholders and you do it in a constructive, positive way, not hiding behind anonymous Twitter names,” said Peter Ross, a Berkeley parent. “Instead, put your name out there and do something productive, bring folks together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents and teachers alike also critiqued the reopening schools groups for amplifying the voices of predominantly white, affluent parents who were crying out for “equity” in the name of marginalized students while ignoring the needs and desires of those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED heard from many who were disheartened and felt their voices were lost in the outcry of more privileged parents who have been the most vocal for reopenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have collected some of the testimonials, here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“My heart is heavy. My community is falling apart. My instinct is to run away and hide. I don’t like that.” — Sara Hougan, Berkeley Unified parent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frankly revolting to attack teachers at this time, because every educator I know is working more hours with more stress to care for our children than they ever have before. Vilifying our teachers and their union is completely unproductive. Rather than attacking our teachers, community members should be advocating for more resources for them. What is at risk here is the community’s overall support of a healthy education system that serves all of our children well.” — Peter Ross, Berkeley Unified parent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What exactly is the hypocrisy? …that some teachers have found private child care for their young children so that they can do their jobs while working tirelessly to figure out the incredibly complex issue surrounding school’s opening in person? Is the hypocrisy that there is a small, minority of parents who have used their privilege and power to create a public narrative which claims to speak for us all, but actually doesn’t?” — Allison Krasnow, Willard Middle School eighth grade math teacher, via her blog\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really upsetting as a parent to sort of see the narrative building of parents versus teachers, because I don’t actually think that’s a fair representation of where we truly are as a community. I’m a parent volunteer and so I do a lot of work on the PTA working closely with the principals to find out exactly how parents can volunteer. Support is going to be the only way we can be actually helpful. I don’t see how fighting is going to be helpful. — Chaghig Walker, Berkeley Unified parent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who serves two elementary schools, I’m in touch with families every single day, I know that the sentiments and the concerns about returning to in-person school are there. They’re real and they’re complex.” — Laura Rivas, Berkeley Unified parent and a family engagement specialist for the district\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just deeply distressing because it goes so far beyond the bounds of decency. And my fear is that it breaks a really important bond that we have with our teachers. We entrust them to teach our children, not just all of these subjects, but how to be good people and how to make friends and how to have a social consciousness … To bully them in this way is horrifying to me.” — Christine Staples, former Berkeley Unified parent and PTA leader\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Taking note of the outcry of parents and teachers, Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Brent Stephens addressed the video in a message to the school community, condemning the video as an invasion of privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing is served by treating members of our community, including our teachers … as the enemy,” he wrote. “We compromise our collective well-being if we don’t respect one another and treat each other with compassion. We have a path forward. It’s one we have to walk together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='school-reopening']The group behind the video declined to identify its members for fear of retaliation, prompting others to criticize their unwillingness to extend the same courtesy to Meyer and his young daughter. Though the 2-year-old’s image is blurred in the video, Meyer told KQED being followed and filmed frightened her and other children in the vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862469/after-leading-school-closures-berkeley-teachers-union-president-spotted-dropping-daughter-off-at-in-person-preschool\">he told KQED\u003c/a> one of the self-identified moms following his family “scared my kid and the others in the vicinity. It was super inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s school district and teachers union announced a tentative agreement in February, saying teachers should be vaccinated to pave the way for a hybrid system of in-person and remote learning that is set to begin rollout in this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Guerilla Momz did not identify themselves, and their message comes in a broader movement that some parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">are concerned about coming overwhelmingly from affluent white voices\u003c/a>, parents and teachers worry the voices of Black, Latino and Asian families are being lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various Bay Area school district surveys in San Francisco and the East Bay show those communities are less enthusiastic about returning to in-person learning than white families, to various degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated March 2\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read a KQED editorial statement about this story\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfxgDx9xFA&feature=emb_title\">video\u003c/a> surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has fought for what he called the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-unified-announces-tentative-plan-to-return-to-hybrid-learning-this-spring\">gold standard\u003c/a>” for the teachers he represents — saying Berkeley schools should only reopen to in-person learning when educators are vaccinated, among other criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tentative plan between the Berkeley Unified School District and Berkeley Federation of Teachers in mid-February would see preschoolers through second grade returning to class at the end of March and other grades staggering back to in-person learning through April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-unified-announces-tentative-plan-to-return-to-hybrid-learning-this-spring\">according to Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Berkeley parents have claimed that the union is moving too slow and are pushing for earlier school reopenings. They have long argued — and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed — that schools are safe to reopen without vaccinations for all teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jonathan Zachreson, founder of Reopen California Schools\"]‘Why is that safe for him and those people who work there (at the preschool), but not for all of the kids in Berkeley Unified and the teachers? The answer is: It is safe.’[/pullquote]Looking to prove a double-standard by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union president, they followed Meyer and his 2-year-old daughter to her preschool, camera in hand. The footage they captured has ignited the ire of parents groups fighting teachers unions — and Meyer in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Shelene Stine treats COVID-19 patients at Highland Hospital’s Department of Internal Medicine, but she’s also a parent of 3-year-old twins who attend the same preschool as Meyer’s daughter. Stine also has a 5-year-old attending kindergarten at a Berkeley Unified School District school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The divide between the quality in-person teaching her twins receive at the preschool — which includes “play-based learning” — compared to the senses-dulling video screens her 5-year-old looks at for distance learning is a yawning chasm, she said. She has spoken at rallies to reopen public schools and written public letters to the Berkeley Unified School District to push them to reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley teachers have claimed that kids may not honor masking requirements, which Stine says her personal experience contradicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a physician. It is definitively the scientific agreement that it is possible to deliver safe in-person education,” Stine said. “It’s infuriating to know Matt Meyer says kids can’t wear masks when kids in his preschool wear them all day long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer, for his part, said the incident was an intrusion on his child’s privacy. While the group who filmed his family, who call themselves “Guerilla Momz,” did blur out his daughter in their video, they managed to spook her, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my two-year-old in preschool. Unfortunately, there are not public schools for kids her age. We are excited that we will be reopening soon with a plan that our members and the district supports,” Meyer said in a text message to KQED Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that of the people following him and his daughter, one “scared my kid and the others in the vicinity. It was super inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email addressed to the Berkeley Unified community on Monday, BUSD Superintendent Brent Stephens said the Guerilla Momz video “invade[d] the privacy of a family in our school community and target[ed] one of our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephens appealed to both parents and educators for calm and mutual respect as the district prepares for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In less than a month, we will have the opportunity to be together again on our school campuses,” Stephens wrote. “We will need each other in order to stay safe. Looking to what’s ahead of us … nothing is served by treating members of our community, including our teachers – and the teacher who represents them as their union president – as the enemy. We compromise our collective well-being if we don’t respect one another and treat each other with compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GuerillaMomz\">@guerillaMomz\u003c/a> group declined to identify individual members by name, fearing retaliation against their kids at school. But they refuted that they scared his child, claiming they were walking quietly to avoid catching audio on the video they recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d heard for a while that he sent his kid to private preschool and we’ve been hearing him make crazy claims at the school board meetings — it was ‘too dangerous’ for schools to open because kids wouldn’t wear masks. Meanwhile, his kid is wearing a mask at school,” the group said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though KQED is not identifying the preschool Meyer’s child was attending by name, the school’s website says for every one teacher there are four to five children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has surfaced at a unique political moment. Groups representing parents have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\">emerged as a major political force in California\u003c/a> and are vehemently pushing for school reopenings putting them at odds with teachers unions who largely want vaccines before they feel safe restarting in-person instruction. Those parent groups have protested in Berkeley, called for the ouster of school board members in Oakley, California, and rallied against San Francisco Unified School District teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equity has emerged as a fault line in those discussions, with white parents overwhelmingly wishing for the return to in-person instruction \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">in SFUSD surveys\u003c/a>, while Black and brown parents show less enthusiasm about returning and Asian parents are on the opposite end of the spectrum, feeling cautious about the return to in-person instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in this environment, is Meyer’s move to bring his daughter into preschool truly hypocrisy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More on Education' tag='education']Yalda Modabber thinks in-person preschool could pose more risks for those teachers. She’s the executive director of the El Cerrito nonprofit preschool and elementary school \u003ca href=\"https://golestankids.com/\">Golestan Education, \u003c/a>and its accompanying educational consultancy firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her career as an educator, Modabber spent 15 years as an immunologist. She is also the parent of two students, ages 14 and 17, in the Berkeley Unified School District. And she is on an advisory panel for Berkeley school reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modabber didn’t want to speak specifically about the preschool Meyer’s child is attending because she hasn’t looked into it. But in general, she is concerned about the safety of preschool teachers, even \u003cem>more so \u003c/em>than that of elementary school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The older the children are, the more able they are to control their bodies and they need less physical comforting. So in a preschool setting, you have children that will throughout the day need to be comforted and held,” Modabber said. “And so there’s no way to maintain that proximity (like social distancing).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did caution that smaller children aren’t as likely to spread COVID-19 due to lower lung capacity and fewer of the cell receptors that make viral transmission more viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So in seeing this video, I’m sort of torn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Shelene Stine, Highland Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine\"]‘It’s infuriating to know Matt Meyer says kids can’t wear masks when kids in his preschool wear them all day long.’[/pullquote]On the other hand, with Berkeley’s school district, “we’re talking about 10,000 students and the class sizes are large. So you have one teacher for 20 to 30 kids. It’s very different from a preschool or day care where they may have one teacher for six kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the comparison of public schools with more children to private ones with fewer class sizes, Meyer agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said that his job is to advocate for the will of the teachers in his union, and where he sends his own children is a “personal choice.” Preschools, he said, are “a completely different universe from an elementary school in terms of size, services provided, outside space and public health guidelines. I don’t have elementary school-aged children,” he said. “So I haven’t had to make those choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many parents, those distinctions are a moot point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely opposite of what he’s pushing,” said Jonathan Zachreson, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ReopenCASchools/status/1365963005679181829\">Reopen California Schools\u003c/a>, which counts Berkeley parents among many of its members. “So why is that safe for him and those people who work there (at the preschool), but not for all of the kids in Berkeley Unified and the teachers? The answer is: It is safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley parent Mara Kolesas, \u003ca href=\"https://marakolesas.medium.com/false-oppositions-unions-equity-and-education-as-a-public-good-7fe0731c592a\">a former PTA Berkeley Council president\u003c/a>, said while she understands the anger felt by parents — and agrees schools should be opened — following Meyer’s 2-year-old with a camera crosses a line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not agree with it at all,” Kolesas said. Conflating private preschools and public schools is one mistake, she said. Another is mixing the political with the personal, which to her dilutes the clearer message that most science agrees schools can reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, you don’t need to attack people personally, you need to address it politically. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Looking to prove a double-standard by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers union president, they followed Meyer and his 2-year-old daughter to her preschool, camera in hand. The footage they captured has ignited the ire of parents groups fighting teachers unions — and Meyer in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Shelene Stine treats COVID-19 patients at Highland Hospital’s Department of Internal Medicine, but she’s also a parent of 3-year-old twins who attend the same preschool as Meyer’s daughter. Stine also has a 5-year-old attending kindergarten at a Berkeley Unified School District school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The divide between the quality in-person teaching her twins receive at the preschool — which includes “play-based learning” — compared to the senses-dulling video screens her 5-year-old looks at for distance learning is a yawning chasm, she said. She has spoken at rallies to reopen public schools and written public letters to the Berkeley Unified School District to push them to reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley teachers have claimed that kids may not honor masking requirements, which Stine says her personal experience contradicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a physician. It is definitively the scientific agreement that it is possible to deliver safe in-person education,” Stine said. “It’s infuriating to know Matt Meyer says kids can’t wear masks when kids in his preschool wear them all day long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer, for his part, said the incident was an intrusion on his child’s privacy. While the group who filmed his family, who call themselves “Guerilla Momz,” did blur out his daughter in their video, they managed to spook her, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my two-year-old in preschool. Unfortunately, there are not public schools for kids her age. We are excited that we will be reopening soon with a plan that our members and the district supports,” Meyer said in a text message to KQED Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that of the people following him and his daughter, one “scared my kid and the others in the vicinity. It was super inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email addressed to the Berkeley Unified community on Monday, BUSD Superintendent Brent Stephens said the Guerilla Momz video “invade[d] the privacy of a family in our school community and target[ed] one of our educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephens appealed to both parents and educators for calm and mutual respect as the district prepares for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In less than a month, we will have the opportunity to be together again on our school campuses,” Stephens wrote. “We will need each other in order to stay safe. Looking to what’s ahead of us … nothing is served by treating members of our community, including our teachers – and the teacher who represents them as their union president – as the enemy. We compromise our collective well-being if we don’t respect one another and treat each other with compassion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GuerillaMomz\">@guerillaMomz\u003c/a> group declined to identify individual members by name, fearing retaliation against their kids at school. But they refuted that they scared his child, claiming they were walking quietly to avoid catching audio on the video they recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d heard for a while that he sent his kid to private preschool and we’ve been hearing him make crazy claims at the school board meetings — it was ‘too dangerous’ for schools to open because kids wouldn’t wear masks. Meanwhile, his kid is wearing a mask at school,” the group said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though KQED is not identifying the preschool Meyer’s child was attending by name, the school’s website says for every one teacher there are four to five children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has surfaced at a unique political moment. Groups representing parents have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\">emerged as a major political force in California\u003c/a> and are vehemently pushing for school reopenings putting them at odds with teachers unions who largely want vaccines before they feel safe restarting in-person instruction. Those parent groups have protested in Berkeley, called for the ouster of school board members in Oakley, California, and rallied against San Francisco Unified School District teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yalda Modabber thinks in-person preschool could pose more risks for those teachers. She’s the executive director of the El Cerrito nonprofit preschool and elementary school \u003ca href=\"https://golestankids.com/\">Golestan Education, \u003c/a>and its accompanying educational consultancy firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her career as an educator, Modabber spent 15 years as an immunologist. She is also the parent of two students, ages 14 and 17, in the Berkeley Unified School District. And she is on an advisory panel for Berkeley school reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modabber didn’t want to speak specifically about the preschool Meyer’s child is attending because she hasn’t looked into it. But in general, she is concerned about the safety of preschool teachers, even \u003cem>more so \u003c/em>than that of elementary school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The older the children are, the more able they are to control their bodies and they need less physical comforting. So in a preschool setting, you have children that will throughout the day need to be comforted and held,” Modabber said. “And so there’s no way to maintain that proximity (like social distancing).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did caution that smaller children aren’t as likely to spread COVID-19 due to lower lung capacity and fewer of the cell receptors that make viral transmission more viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So in seeing this video, I’m sort of torn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the other hand, with Berkeley’s school district, “we’re talking about 10,000 students and the class sizes are large. So you have one teacher for 20 to 30 kids. It’s very different from a preschool or day care where they may have one teacher for six kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the comparison of public schools with more children to private ones with fewer class sizes, Meyer agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer said that his job is to advocate for the will of the teachers in his union, and where he sends his own children is a “personal choice.” Preschools, he said, are “a completely different universe from an elementary school in terms of size, services provided, outside space and public health guidelines. I don’t have elementary school-aged children,” he said. “So I haven’t had to make those choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many parents, those distinctions are a moot point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely opposite of what he’s pushing,” said Jonathan Zachreson, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ReopenCASchools/status/1365963005679181829\">Reopen California Schools\u003c/a>, which counts Berkeley parents among many of its members. “So why is that safe for him and those people who work there (at the preschool), but not for all of the kids in Berkeley Unified and the teachers? The answer is: It is safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley parent Mara Kolesas, \u003ca href=\"https://marakolesas.medium.com/false-oppositions-unions-equity-and-education-as-a-public-good-7fe0731c592a\">a former PTA Berkeley Council president\u003c/a>, said while she understands the anger felt by parents — and agrees schools should be opened — following Meyer’s 2-year-old with a camera crosses a line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not agree with it at all,” Kolesas said. Conflating private preschools and public schools is one mistake, she said. Another is mixing the political with the personal, which to her dilutes the clearer message that most science agrees schools can reopen safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, you don’t need to attack people personally, you need to address it politically. When you start getting personal, you mix up dimensions, and you don’t get to discuss the real thing,” Kolesas said. “Here, the real thing is (Meyer) put fear before science, and the right of teachers before the right of kids. That’s the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zachreson, the founder of Reopen California Schools, said parents will view Meyer’s actions through the lens of their own experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With smaller children “they’re probably interacting even more than you would at school,” Zachreson said. “So it’s the hypocrisy that’s really frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated March 1 to incorporate remarks from Berkeley Unified Superintendent Brent Stephens.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters Vanessa Rancaño and Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Editorial Statement\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nKQED stands firmly behind the reporting from Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez about the Berkeley teachers union president. However, we have decided to remove the embedded video from the story, and include a link instead. While the reporting added context to this issue — and to the video specifically — embedding the video didn’t add to the journalistic value of the story and we erred in embedding it in the first place.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is about one of the core issues affecting the well-being of many families amid the pandemic, and it’s about someone who has power in the reopening conversation about Berkeley’s public school system. When a public figure is influential on an issue — and helping to shape the outcomes — the contrast between public and private behavior is newsworthy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than a century ago, Berkeley pioneered rules prohibiting affordable, multifamily housing from certain areas, and with it, created a new class of neighborhoods reserved exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s one of a handful of cities in the country, and the latest in California, to challenge those rules as it seeks to tackle its housing affordability crisis and address decades of racial segregation in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing researchers and advocates for low-income residents warn that just allowing more housing in single-family neighborhoods is no panacea. To achieve truly inclusive communities, they say zoning changes have to be coupled with strong renter protections and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Vice Mayor Lori Droste \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/EvWI4yxxfO?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced the legislation\u003c/a> earlier this month to change the city’s zoning rules, and make it easier to build fourplexes throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council last month unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city, becoming the first city in the state to begin the process of removing barriers to small, multifamily housing in all of its residential neighborhoods. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/envision-san-jos-2040-general-plan/general-plan-4-year-review/opportunity-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a> are considering their own proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. In San Francisco, nearly three-quarters of all residential land is devoted to single-family homes and duplexes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it could soon be a policy that touches the entire state. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced a bill last year to allow up to two duplexes in most single-family neighborhoods. It passed both houses of the Legislature, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally ran out of time\u003c/a> before getting the final vote it needed to head to the governor’s desk. It’s back this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices,\" said David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. \"But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley']'It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices ... But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Droste said she felt morally compelled to do away with single-family zoning in Berkeley because of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racist origins\u003c/a>. She represents the city's Elmwood neighborhood, which became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-single-family-home-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first neighborhood in the country\u003c/a>, in 1916, to adopt single-family zoning. The rules prohibit property owners from building more than one home on one lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started out as explicit racist policies to keep Chinese laundromats and African American dance halls out of Berkeley,” Droste told KQED. “And then later, it morphed into redlining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study \u003c/a>from the UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute found that Berkeley has some of the most segregated neighborhoods in Alameda County today. The neighborhoods that first adopted single-family zoning in Berkeley are more than 75% white, while the county as a whole is a little more than 31% white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you increase the percentage of single-families zoning, you really increase the percentage white, and the percentage Latinx or Black goes way down,” said Steve Menendian, director of research at the Othering and Belonging Institute. “So, there is a really strong exclusionary effect by race that's clearly related to single-family zoning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1327\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-800x553.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1020x705.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS23969_GettyImages-623874284-qut-1536x1062.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker stands on the roof of a home under construction at a new housing development on Nov. 17, 2016 in San Rafael, California. Despite what seems like a lot of apartments going up in the Bay Area, there are typically more single-family homes permitted each year than multifamily homes in California. \u003ccite>( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers say the widespread use of single-family zoning has exacerbated California's housing shortage and contributed to skyrocketing rents and home prices by putting strict limits on what can be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, 82% of all residential land is dedicated solely to single-family homes, leaving just 18% available for duplexes, fourplexes or apartment buildings, \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-san-francisco-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a survey by the Othering and Belonging Institute\u003c/a>. [aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true not only in sprawling suburbs, but in big cities as well. In San Francisco, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/family-friendly-city/Housing_for_Families_with_Children_Report-011717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-quarters of the land\u003c/a> is restricted to single-family homes and duplexes. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s working on legislation to allow fourplexes on corner lots and within a half-mile from train stations, as a way to increase affordability in the wildly expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't want everybody who works in a school or a shop or who cleans the floors of the hospital, the folks who serve the food in the restaurant ... to all have to be commuting hours to get to their jobs in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “And I think most San Franciscans recognize that that means having more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his colleague on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, disagrees. Preston said merely allowing developers to build more homes on each lot is no guarantee that the homes will actually be affordable to low-wage and blue collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's a fantasy,” Preston said, adding it’s government-subsidized affordable housing that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston, along with other advocates for low-income residents, fear private developers will look first to low-income communities, which have relatively lower property values, to convert single-family homes into fourplexes. And that could displace renters who would be unlikely to afford the new housing, said Tony Roshan Samara, program director of land use and housing for the social justice advocacy organization Urban Habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default in this country is to go to market solutions,” Samara said, “even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.” [aside tag=\"soldout\" label=\"SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Tracy, a project manager for the city of Portland, Oregon, said the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/vol_3_appendix_b_displacement_risk_and_mitigation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looked at this question\u003c/a> when it was considering its own policy to allow fourplexes on most lots throughout the city, which was adopted last August. It found that enacting the zoning change would lower the risk of displacement for low-income renters by up to 28%. In other words, it would help retain low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy said allowing more homes to be built on one lot reduces the number of single-family homes that have to be demolished to make room for more housing, and it increases the amount of options available to renters across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A low-income renter who is displaced from a single-family home may not be able to afford one of the new units built in its stead, Tracy said. But they might be able to find affordable housing elsewhere within the city because there will be more homes available overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more units you allow, the fewer times you need redevelopment to occur,” he said. “You're creating more units at different prices, and that has a cascading effect on the competition for other housing types.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if only a small fraction of the property owners in California converted their single-family homes into duplexes or fourplexes, it would vastly expand the amount of housing available, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Tony Roshan Samara, the director of housing policy for Urban Habitat']'The default in this country is to go to market solutions, even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheer volume of land we have reserved for single-family homes means that we don't need to see too much of it actually turn into four units to actually realize a pretty significant impact on our housing supply,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-an-analysis-of-sb-1120/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tener Center study\u003c/a> that found nearly 6 million properties would be able to take advantage of SB 9, which would allow for up to two duplexes on lots where only one home existed before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bill becomes law and just 5% of those property owners converted their single-family homes into duplexes, it would result in nearly 600,000 homes. For context, California cities and counties issued nearly \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/433#:~:text=California%20housing%20permit%20activity%20picked,down%206%20percent%20from%202018.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">111,000 residential building permits in 2019\u003c/a>, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tracy and other city officials who have considered such strategies said it takes years for these kinds of zoning changes to result in building enough housing necessary to actually bring down the cost of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Minneapolis, which approved a policy to allow triplexes across the city in the fall of 2019, there were 42 applications to convert single-family homes into duplexes or triplexes in 2020, said Paul Mogush, the city’s manager of community planning. That’s out of about 3,000 to 5,000 permits for all kinds of housing types, including apartments and single-family homes alike, that are approved in any given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected this to be an incremental change,” Mogush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS25187_GettyImages-88900792-qut-1536x974.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window July 8, 2009 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Samara said there will still be pressure on low-income renters facing rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of those suffering from housing insecurity are renters,” he said. “So you go there first and stabilize [renters]. That means renter protections: rent control, just cause for eviction protections, a right to organize, protection against landlord harassment, all that stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will help renters in the short term, Samara said, but those protections also have to be coupled with more funding from federal, state and local governments to increase the amount of subsidized affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Portland, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/bps/rip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zoning change included an incentive\u003c/a> intended to spur more affordable housing development. Builders have the option to add up to six housing units on a lot, if half are available to people who make 60% of the area median income or below. In 2020, that worked out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020-ami-rents-phb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$55,260 for a family of four\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unlikely that for-profit developers would take advantage of that provision, Tracy said the city heard from a number of nonprofit affordable housing developers who said the policy would help them develop affordable housing in neighborhoods where they hadn’t been able to do that before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard from our affordable housing providers saying, ‘Hey, you know, this helps us stretch our dollars further, provide more units and more places and gives us a sort of leg up on trying to compete for different parcels out in the city,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, the proposed legislation would consider allowing developers to build more units in exchange for providing affordable housing to people making 80% of the area median income or below. The legislation also calls for the city to conduct anti-displacement risk analysis before the zoning changes are adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is considering a similar policy to include affordable housing as part of its strategy as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover Wehman-Brown, a spokesperson for East Bay Housing Organizations, said it’s possible to allow more housing to be built while also strengthening tenant protections and advocating for more funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be able to do those things in tandem,” Wehman-Brown said, adding that if that doesn’t happen, “We’ll get it wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than a century ago, Berkeley pioneered rules prohibiting affordable, multifamily housing from certain areas, and with it, created a new class of neighborhoods reserved exclusively for single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s one of a handful of cities in the country, and the latest in California, to challenge those rules as it seeks to tackle its housing affordability crisis and address decades of racial segregation in housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But housing researchers and advocates for low-income residents warn that just allowing more housing in single-family neighborhoods is no panacea. To achieve truly inclusive communities, they say zoning changes have to be coupled with strong renter protections and increased funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Vice Mayor Lori Droste \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/EvWI4yxxfO?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced the legislation\u003c/a> earlier this month to change the city’s zoning rules, and make it easier to build fourplexes throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento City Council last month unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/sacramento-moves-toward-becoming-one-of-1st-u-s-cities-to-eliminate-single-family-zoning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved a draft plan\u003c/a> to allow fourplexes throughout the city, becoming the first city in the state to begin the process of removing barriers to small, multifamily housing in all of its residential neighborhoods. Officials in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisor-s-creative-proposal-Make-it-15910055.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/envision-san-jos-2040-general-plan/general-plan-4-year-review/opportunity-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a> are considering their own proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860317\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. In San Francisco, nearly three-quarters of all residential land is devoted to single-family homes and duplexes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it could soon be a policy that touches the entire state. Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, introduced a bill last year to allow up to two duplexes in most single-family neighborhoods. It passed both houses of the Legislature, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-09-01/california-assembly-sb-1120-duplexes#:~:text=SB%201120%20came%20out%20of,they%20were%20single%2Dfamily%20neighborhoods.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">literally ran out of time\u003c/a> before getting the final vote it needed to head to the governor’s desk. It’s back this year as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It signifies a significant shift from previous land use practices,\" said David Garcia, policy director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. \"But it's not going to necessarily change the affordability issue overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true not only in sprawling suburbs, but in big cities as well. In San Francisco, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://default.sfplanning.org/plans-and-programs/planning-for-the-city/family-friendly-city/Housing_for_Families_with_Children_Report-011717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-quarters of the land\u003c/a> is restricted to single-family homes and duplexes. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s working on legislation to allow fourplexes on corner lots and within a half-mile from train stations, as a way to increase affordability in the wildly expensive city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't want everybody who works in a school or a shop or who cleans the floors of the hospital, the folks who serve the food in the restaurant ... to all have to be commuting hours to get to their jobs in San Francisco,” Mandelman said. “And I think most San Franciscans recognize that that means having more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his colleague on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dean Preston, disagrees. Preston said merely allowing developers to build more homes on each lot is no guarantee that the homes will actually be affordable to low-wage and blue collar workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's a fantasy,” Preston said, adding it’s government-subsidized affordable housing that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11860315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41304_001_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston, along with other advocates for low-income residents, fear private developers will look first to low-income communities, which have relatively lower property values, to convert single-family homes into fourplexes. And that could displace renters who would be unlikely to afford the new housing, said Tony Roshan Samara, program director of land use and housing for the social justice advocacy organization Urban Habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default in this country is to go to market solutions,” Samara said, “even though we have over 100 years of evidence that they don't work.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly has seen plenty of riots and civil unrest in his native Ivory Coast. But the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week shocked and saddened the 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not really sure if there will be any real inclusion or acceptance of diversity or end to racism in this country,” he wrote in an email to KQED. “Despite the constant praise of the U.S. as being a country that upholds democracy, this is a clear statement that the U.S. today is like a developing country – susceptible to coups and such actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For international students like Coulibaly, attending school in the U.S. – and especially California – has long been held up as a dream. The state’s universities draw people from all over the world, many of whom arrive on these shores full of notions of inclusivity, openness and opportunity. Grappling with the caustic political climate is one challenge Coulibaly and fellow students from Africa studying at UC Berkeley have faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” said Coulibaly. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sustained by Dreams of California, Met With a Different Reality\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was just a little kid when civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in the early 2000s. Coulibaly said his family was forced to flee their home in the western city of Man as a militia swarmed in. It was a terrifying time – but the war subsided and life went on. Coulibaly was a good student, so he was sent to the capital city when he was just 13 years old to get a better education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leaving my family, especially my mom, was extremely hard,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said what kept him going as a teenager in the big city all alone was the far-off dream of going to school in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was what was in my mind – the place where diverse people support each other and come together and flourish,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly was thrilled to get a scholarship to UC Berkeley as an undergrad. But he said it didn’t take long for his expectations to part ways with reality. One day at the library, he overheard a couple of fellow students saying they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That day really, really like broke that idea of diversity that I had in my heart,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the racism he’s experienced on campus, Coulibaly said his life experiences don’t necessarily match up with those of the members of the school’s Black student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through while being in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Idris Muktar Ibrahim, UC Berkeley grad student studying remotely from Kenya\"]‘I’ve never been made aware of my skin color. I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Coulibaly started studying for his doctorate in engineering this past fall, most of the friends he’d made as an undergrad had finished their degrees and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like, ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s gonna pass’ and stuff like this,” Coulibaly said. “So I had a lot of breakdowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than going out for occasional runs and bike rides, Coulibaly spends most of his time indoors. He said he’s just focused on getting through the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-seventh\u003c/a> of the overall UC system student population) comes from outside the United States. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year at Berkeley, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a master’s in journalism student at UC Berkeley who’s been studying remotely from Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wild ride began during orientation when he came down with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student didn’t immediately seek medical help because he said there’s a culture of shame around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kept it to myself,” he said. “I didn’t tell family. I didn’t tell anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim eventually regained his health. But he continued to struggle, trying to keep up a day job to help put his siblings through school, at the same time as studying in the face of constant power and internet outages. And that’s to say nothing of the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim’s journalism classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. his time and run until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would start the class like, high momentum, high energy,” he said. “But by the time it’s midnight, I’m like out. I’m done. I can’t even concentrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently decided to quit his day job, working as a reporter for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle\u003c/a>, so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ibrahim is nothing if not a survivor. He grew up in Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s toughest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it made us mature at a very early age,” Ibrahim said. “We were forced to be adults when we were supposed to be kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crime was an everyday occurrence. Ibrahim was in high school when his father – who had instilled in his son a love of books – was murdered by gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was like my turning point,” Ibrahim said. “And I started writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started submitting video stories about crime in his neighborhood to local news outlets and eventually started working regularly as a reporter, covering difficult topics like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xpcz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread rape of Kenyan women\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plane crashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’s witnessed a lot of violence in Africa. But he’s worried about what’s in store for him in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never been made aware of my skin color,” he said. “I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement have been a hot topic of discussion in his UC Berkeley journalism classes. But like fellow African student Coulibaly, he’s found it hard to relate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t actively participate in the discussion because I don’t understand the context,” he said. “I don’t relate the same to the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that he himself might be a target of racial violence frightened Ibrahim for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the reasons that got me thinking, like, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to move to America?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his fears, Ibrahim has decided to come to the U.S. anyway. There’s something about what Berkeley, in particular, represents that’s pulling him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19-related travel restrictions permitting, he just found out he’ll be flying out next week – in time for the start of the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley, I’ve always read, is a liberal university, is a center of democracy and protests,” he said. “So I want to see this for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Coulibaly started studying for his doctorate in engineering this past fall, most of the friends he’d made as an undergrad had finished their degrees and moved on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like, ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s gonna pass’ and stuff like this,” Coulibaly said. “So I had a lot of breakdowns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than going out for occasional runs and bike rides, Coulibaly spends most of his time indoors. He said he’s just focused on getting through the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/fall-enrollment-glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-seventh\u003c/a> of the overall UC system student population) comes from outside the United States. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year at Berkeley, at nearly 7,000 students. But \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the numbers plunged\u003c/a> for the fall 2020 semester, down to less than 6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And getting a remote education has come with a whole different set of challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46483_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.24.02-qut.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley international student enrollment over the years \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a roller coaster, basically,” said Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a master’s in journalism student at UC Berkeley who’s been studying remotely from Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that wild ride began during orientation when he came down with COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was dying,” Ibrahim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 28-year-old scholarship student didn’t immediately seek medical help because he said there’s a culture of shame around the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I kept it to myself,” he said. “I didn’t tell family. I didn’t tell anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim eventually regained his health. But he continued to struggle, trying to keep up a day job to help put his siblings through school, at the same time as studying in the face of constant power and internet outages. And that’s to say nothing of the 11-hour time difference between his home in Nairobi and the U.S. west coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852658\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46481_Idris-Muktar-Ibrahim-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley journalism student Idris Muktar Ibrahim is currently studying from Nairobi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Idris Muktar Ibrahim)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim’s journalism classes on Zoom typically begin at around 7 p.m. his time and run until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would start the class like, high momentum, high energy,” he said. “But by the time it’s midnight, I’m like out. I’m done. I can’t even concentrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently decided to quit his day job, working as a reporter for the German international broadcaster \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deutsche Welle\u003c/a>, so he can focus full time on his studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sacrifice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ibrahim is nothing if not a survivor. He grew up in Korogocho, one of Nairobi’s toughest neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it made us mature at a very early age,” Ibrahim said. “We were forced to be adults when we were supposed to be kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crime was an everyday occurrence. Ibrahim was in high school when his father – who had instilled in his son a love of books – was murdered by gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was like my turning point,” Ibrahim said. “And I started writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started submitting video stories about crime in his neighborhood to local news outlets and eventually started working regularly as a reporter, covering difficult topics like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xpcz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread rape of Kenyan women\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/the-gaping-hole-left-by-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302/av-52707218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plane crashes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said he’s witnessed a lot of violence in Africa. But he’s worried about what’s in store for him in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never been made aware of my skin color,” he said. “I’ve never been made aware of where I’m from, or opportunities, or being privileged or not being privileged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibrahim said systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement have been a hot topic of discussion in his UC Berkeley journalism classes. But like fellow African student Coulibaly, he’s found it hard to relate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t actively participate in the discussion because I don’t understand the context,” he said. “I don’t relate the same to the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that he himself might be a target of racial violence frightened Ibrahim for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the reasons that got me thinking, like, do I really want to do this? Do I really want to move to America?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his fears, Ibrahim has decided to come to the U.S. anyway. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the UC Berkeley campus shuts down for the winter break, student Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly usually returns home to spend the holidays with his family in the western Ivory Coast city of Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow the traditional way,” Coulibaly said to KQED about his family holiday traditions in Africa. “Just getting some chicken, and then cook and eat together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 23-year-old graduate student studying for a Ph.D. in structural engineering is stuck in Berkeley because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been hell,” Coulibaly said. “I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly']‘It has been hell … I never really thought I would have to go through something like that. And especially alone.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With cases of the coronavirus increasing around the globe and a no-travel advisory in full force across the Bay Area, many people are making the difficult choice to spend the holidays without family and friends. But for international students like Coulibaly, who infrequently see their families throughout the school year due to distance and cost of travel, it’s an especially bittersweet time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly ultimately made the decision to stay in the Bay Area due to the complicated travel guidance both here and at home, and because of concern about the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life at UC Berkeley has never been easy. Coulibaly has been at the school for a while. But while he made many friends as an undergrad, they’ve mostly all graduated and moved on, while he stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So starting the grad program, I really felt isolated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pandemic has only made those feelings of isolation worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While being an international student in the U.S. can be difficult overall, the situation is particularly acute for African students at Berkeley. There are \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/student-stats2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only around 60 students from Africa\u003c/a> at the school right now — about 1% of the international student population — and half of those are undergraduates. With such a small population, it can be hard to connect with people who have shared life experiences, especially during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11852656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1020x649.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46482_Screen-Shot-2020-12-22-at-19.15.57-qut.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley 2020 international student enrollment by country \u003ccite>(Courtesy Berkeley International Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Coulibaly said it’s been tough to fit in with Berkeley’s Black and African American student groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the people that look like you, you don’t really understand the struggle that they have been through being in this country,” Coulibaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Coulibaly has a generous scholarship, he’s had to work side jobs on campus to send extra cash back home to his family in the Ivory Coast, though this type of work is currently on hold while the school is closed for winter break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also been navigating issues of racism and discrimination on campus, like the time he overheard a couple of students say they would never date a Black guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never experienced that before coming to the United States,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coulibaly said he’s reached out to his campus counselor and psychiatrist for help. But he wishes he could get more emotional support from his family. He said there’s a lot of stigma surrounding mental health issues in his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way mental health is taken back home, just like ‘you will be fine’ or ‘it’s going to pass’ and stuff like this. So I had a lot of breakdowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Coulibaly said, he’s just focused on getting through the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m listening to African music from home and cooking. That’s all I can do,” he said. “And I’m hoping that this situation gets better and be at least able to go home next winter break.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Remote Learning, Thousands of Miles Away\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike Coulibaly, many of the international students that chose to enroll this year haven’t even set foot on campus because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://opa.berkeley.edu/campus-data/uc-berkeley-quick-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-sixth\u003c/a> of UC Berkeley’s student population comes from outside the U.S. And \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they pay\u003c/a> more than twice as much in tuition fees and living expenses as their \u003ca href=\"https://admissions.berkeley.edu/cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-state counterparts\u003c/a>. International student enrollment was at an all-time high during the last academic year, at nearly 7,000 students. 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