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"content": "\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent CJ Cammack presented the results of a self-selecting survey of parents, asking their feelings about continuing remote learning across the district’s 42 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey results should have provided a level of comfort for the elected board to stay the course: 63% of the nearly 11,000 parents who responded said they preferred to have their child remain in distance learning for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the public comment period began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly an hour, parents called in to levy their frustrations at the board, urging its members to produce a plan to reopen classrooms in the Bay Area’s third largest school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 36% of the district? Are they not important?” asked Irene Shen, a district parent. “Not every parent will come here to speak but everyone will vote with their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The status of public schools in California has remained largely static in the year since the pandemic began: Most \u003ca href=\"https://maps.schools.covid19.ca.gov/public.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remain shuttered, \u003c/a>and large Bay Area districts like San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont have been in distance learning throughout the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the political landscape is shifting rapidly as local and state officials attempt to chart the course for a potential return to class. Finding a consensus among parents on such an emotionally charged issue is proving impossible, with surveys and polling providing limited guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, increasingly organized groups of parents advocating for an immediate return to class are emerging as a potent political counterweight to teachers unions that have so far resisted those calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">until members are vaccinated\u003c/a>. In San Francisco and the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, parent groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-launched-to-recall-three-S-F-school-board-15968429.php\">have vowed to derail the political careers of board members\u003c/a> standing in the way of reopening. [aside postID=\"news_11860986\" label=\"More on the state legislature and schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only sure thing in the debate over reopening schools, Cammack said, is that, “Any return to on-campus learning will not be fast enough for some, and far too soon for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Politically Fragile’ Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s no solace to policymakers who prefer to operate with more well-defined levels of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts looking for guidance from the state Legislature have so far found gridlock, as Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have yet to agree\u003c/a> on a plan to return students to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal unveiled last week by Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly would send billions of dollars to local districts to bring back grades K-6 by April 15 — if coronavirus case rates drop below 7 cases per 100,000 residents (the state’s “red” tier) and teachers are offered vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued that guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> makes it clear that schools can reopen immediately with the proper mitigation measures, and that teacher vaccinations are not a necessary prerequisite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing the pressure of a potential recall election, Newsom has grown bolder in his pronouncements that union intransigence could leave students out of classrooms until the fall. Labor leaders, who heavily supported Newsom in his 2018 run for governor, have responded by \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/tKm7Iry5brA?t=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singling him out for criticism\u003c/a> and launching their own ad campaign to promote a reopening strategy that includes vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s an easy solution to any of this,” said former state Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who chaired the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GuyMarzorati/status/1364288846213443587\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Padma Gopalakrishnan, Fremont parent\"]“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Monday hearing on a reopening bill, legislators representing predominately Black and Latino communities shared stories of residents for whom a reopening of schools would come with a new set of anxieties and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a [former] teacher, and all my friends are teachers, they’re ready to go back to the classroom, they know the importance of that,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens. “But they are afraid when they see the rates of infection in Bell Gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, California’s state government has largely kicked school reopening decisions to the local level. Both Newsom and legislative Democrats have language in their latest proposals that would require a collective bargaining agreement between local districts and unions on reopening safety protocols — essentially ensuring that political battle over reopening will play out one by one in the hundreds of districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, piecing together a consensus from surveys, interest group lobbying and parental outrage — while identifying which voices are missing from the conversation — has been just as difficult, particularly for elected board members promising to keep equity at the center of the reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Board of Education President Gabriela López speaking during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, is facing a recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/2020FallFamilySurvey/Intro?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fall 2020 survey found\u003c/a> 41% of parents planned to send their child back to school if classrooms reopened, compared to 27% who said they would not, and 31% who were “unsure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Black parents, the split was 35% to 33% against returning, with Latino parents responding with a similar 36% to 32% divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> parents found that 57% of respondents planned to return their children to in-person learning — with wide gaps between white (80%), Black (57%), Latino (61%) and Asian (36%) respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Equity Emerges as a Fault Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of reopening classrooms have rallied around the call of equity, with some trumpeting the disproportionate effects of distance learning that have left low-income, Black and Latino children \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less access to live instruction and internet-connected\u003c/a> learning. But there is no agreed-upon definition of equity, and it’s not always members of the Black and Latino communities making those calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap,” said Padma Gopalakrishnan, a parent who weighed in at the Fremont Unified board meeting. “The survey did not identify these students. We need to help them … so we need to open our schools.”[aside postID=\"news_11858457\" label=\"More on equity in school reopening\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says “Please Reopen Our Schools” at a park across from Clarendon Elementary School in San Francisco on Feb. 18, 2021, where students and parents rallied in support of reopening schools. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in response to their decision to postpone an earlier reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of “Parent Power” in San Ramon \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/10/san-ramon-unified-opens-some-schools-for-in-person-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Mercury News\u003c/a> that they plan to continue gathering signatures to force a recall election for the three board members in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parent Groups a ‘Major Force,’ but for Whom?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For school board officials, the organization of parents railing against school closures offers a rare political counterweight to the clout of local teachers unions, said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad part about the school board elections is that there is only one dominant, overwhelming power, and that is the teachers union,” said Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others view the reopening advocates, with their finely written press releases announcing camera-friendly protests in front of shuttered schools, as just the latest example of wealthy constituents finding a way to elevate their own concerns — not those of the broader community.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joan Buchanan, former state assemblywoman\"]“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who are the most persistent in communicating with [elected] offices are almost always the more affluent, connected people in the district,” said Jim Stearns, a San Francisco political consultant, who is currently advising the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union. “They almost always have an outsized voice in issues like this, and I do think that’s the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for local and state politicians is how high the heat from the reopening debate will rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the 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Maybe the local recall campaigns will turn more nakedly partisan, potentially turning off liberals who support teachers unions and don’t have an immediate stake in the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential for local school issues to escalate politically should not be underestimated. In the early 1970s, San Francisco lawyer Quentin Kopp launched a decades-long political career with his opposition to the city’s school desegregation plan — channeling the anger that white and Chinese parents held towards busing into a successful run for supervisor in 1971. Kopp’s career would take him to the state senate and a superior court judgeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, parent activist Bobbi Fiedler organized tens of thousands of parents in the San Fernando Valley against desegregation busing, and, in 1977, she toppled the president of the Los Angeles school board. Three years later, Fiedler was in Congress, after riding the same issue to knock off 10-term U.S. Rep. James Corman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, national Republicans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/openourschools-gop-targets-teachers-unions-bid-retake-suburbs-n1257899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eyeing the school reopening debate\u003c/a> as a political winner to gain back ground in suburban House districts in 2022. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent CJ Cammack presented the results of a self-selecting survey of parents, asking their feelings about continuing remote learning across the district’s 42 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey results should have provided a level of comfort for the elected board to stay the course: 63% of the nearly 11,000 parents who responded said they preferred to have their child remain in distance learning for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the public comment period began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly an hour, parents called in to levy their frustrations at the board, urging its members to produce a plan to reopen classrooms in the Bay Area’s third largest school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 36% of the district? Are they not important?” asked Irene Shen, a district parent. “Not every parent will come here to speak but everyone will vote with their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only sure thing in the debate over reopening schools, Cammack said, is that, “Any return to on-campus learning will not be fast enough for some, and far too soon for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Politically Fragile’ Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s no solace to policymakers who prefer to operate with more well-defined levels of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts looking for guidance from the state Legislature have so far found gridlock, as Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have yet to agree\u003c/a> on a plan to return students to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal unveiled last week by Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly would send billions of dollars to local districts to bring back grades K-6 by April 15 — if coronavirus case rates drop below 7 cases per 100,000 residents (the state’s “red” tier) and teachers are offered vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued that guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> makes it clear that schools can reopen immediately with the proper mitigation measures, and that teacher vaccinations are not a necessary prerequisite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing the pressure of a potential recall election, Newsom has grown bolder in his pronouncements that union intransigence could leave students out of classrooms until the fall. Labor leaders, who heavily supported Newsom in his 2018 run for governor, have responded by \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/tKm7Iry5brA?t=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singling him out for criticism\u003c/a> and launching their own ad campaign to promote a reopening strategy that includes vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s an easy solution to any of this,” said former state Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who chaired the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Monday hearing on a reopening bill, legislators representing predominately Black and Latino communities shared stories of residents for whom a reopening of schools would come with a new set of anxieties and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a [former] teacher, and all my friends are teachers, they’re ready to go back to the classroom, they know the importance of that,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens. “But they are afraid when they see the rates of infection in Bell Gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, California’s state government has largely kicked school reopening decisions to the local level. Both Newsom and legislative Democrats have language in their latest proposals that would require a collective bargaining agreement between local districts and unions on reopening safety protocols — essentially ensuring that political battle over reopening will play out one by one in the hundreds of districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, piecing together a consensus from surveys, interest group lobbying and parental outrage — while identifying which voices are missing from the conversation — has been just as difficult, particularly for elected board members promising to keep equity at the center of the reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Board of Education President Gabriela López speaking during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, is facing a recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/2020FallFamilySurvey/Intro?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fall 2020 survey found\u003c/a> 41% of parents planned to send their child back to school if classrooms reopened, compared to 27% who said they would not, and 31% who were “unsure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Black parents, the split was 35% to 33% against returning, with Latino parents responding with a similar 36% to 32% divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> parents found that 57% of respondents planned to return their children to in-person learning — with wide gaps between white (80%), Black (57%), Latino (61%) and Asian (36%) respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Equity Emerges as a Fault Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of reopening classrooms have rallied around the call of equity, with some trumpeting the disproportionate effects of distance learning that have left low-income, Black and Latino children \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less access to live instruction and internet-connected\u003c/a> learning. But there is no agreed-upon definition of equity, and it’s not always members of the Black and Latino communities making those calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap,” said Padma Gopalakrishnan, a parent who weighed in at the Fremont Unified board meeting. “The survey did not identify these students. We need to help them … so we need to open our schools.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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\u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in response to their decision to postpone an earlier reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of “Parent Power” in San Ramon \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/10/san-ramon-unified-opens-some-schools-for-in-person-learning/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the Mercury News\u003c/a> that they plan to continue gathering signatures to force a recall election for the three board members in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parent Groups a ‘Major Force,’ but for Whom?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For school board officials, the organization of parents railing against school closures offers a rare political counterweight to the clout of local teachers unions, said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sad part about the school board elections is that there is only one dominant, overwhelming power, and that is the teachers union,” said Agnos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others view the reopening advocates, with their finely written press releases announcing camera-friendly protests in front of shuttered schools, as just the latest example of wealthy constituents finding a way to 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who are the most persistent in communicating with [elected] offices are almost always the more affluent, connected people in the district,” said Jim Stearns, a San Francisco political consultant, who is currently advising the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union. “They almost always have an outsized voice in issues like this, and I do think that’s the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for local and state politicians is how high the heat from the reopening debate will rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the state’s improving COVID-19 outlook will result in the reopening of classrooms and a cooling of tensions. Maybe the local recall campaigns will turn more nakedly partisan, potentially turning off liberals who support teachers unions and don’t have an immediate stake in the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential for local school issues to escalate politically should not be underestimated. In the early 1970s, San Francisco lawyer Quentin Kopp launched a decades-long political career with his opposition to the city’s school desegregation plan — channeling the anger that white and Chinese parents held towards busing into a successful run for supervisor in 1971. Kopp’s career would take him to the state senate and a superior court judgeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, parent activist Bobbi Fiedler organized tens of thousands of parents in the San Fernando Valley against desegregation busing, and, in 1977, she toppled the president of the Los Angeles school board. Three years later, Fiedler was in Congress, after riding the same issue to knock off 10-term U.S. Rep. James Corman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, national Republicans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/openourschools-gop-targets-teachers-unions-bid-retake-suburbs-n1257899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eyeing the school reopening debate\u003c/a> as a political winner to gain back ground in suburban House districts in 2022. And many California families may already be “voting with their feet” and leaving public schools — although the data on the state’s record pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/01/california-schools-record-enrollment-drop/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enrollment drop is still noisy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the movement’s breakout potential might be limited by time and the region’s liberal leanings, Agnos says parent groups are just in their “embryonic stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863146/puerta-por-puerta-como-lideres-de-la-comunidad-afroamericana-y-latina-luchan-contra-la-desconfianza-por-la-vacuna-del-coronavirus\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]uz María Abonce arrived in San Jose more than 15 years ago. Over time, she’s been to graduations, quinceañeras, workshops and made dozens of friends throughout the eastern part of the city. Now she gets to see many of those neighbors and friends again when she knocks at their door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go out into the streets, eager to knock on some doors. Sometimes they open the door for us, sometimes they don’t. But there we are, offering what we have, COVID-19 tests and information,” she said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abonce is a promotora, a community outreach health worker with META, Mujeres Emprendedoras Tomando Acción (Entrepreneurial Women Taking Action) and SOMOS Mayfair, two nonprofit organizations that have partnered with Santa Clara County’s public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Promotoras are trusted leaders in the community,” said Analilia García, racial and health equity senior manager for Santa Clara County. “They have the trust and the relationships we as a county do not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Janet Franco Orona, San Jose resident\"]‘When community comes together, they will open their doors to one of their own.’[/pullquote]Latinos \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-demographics-of-cases-and-deaths.aspx\">account for 51% of COVID-19 cases\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, despite only making up 25.8% of the county’s population. ZIP codes with predominantly Latino residents in East San Jose and Gilroy have \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases-by-zip-code-and-city.aspx\">reported some of the county’s highest infection rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-vaccine-CAIR2.aspx?mc_cid=fe1c613fca&mc_eid=555c140dcd\">according to county data\u003c/a>, 249,442 residents of Santa Clara County have now received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Just over 20% of those people are Latinos, a number that falls below the proportion of Latinos who have either been infected or died to COVID-19-related complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials have expanded testing centers and pop-up vaccination sites \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-2-11-2021-SCC-launches-drop-in-vaccine-clinic-expand-in-areas-hardest-hit.aspx\">in highly impacted areas\u003c/a>, close to well-known neighborhood spots like La Placita Tropicana shopping center and in the Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San Jose, and the Gilroy Senior Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the county acknowledges that opening up a pop-up in a hard-hit area does not necessarily result in more of its residents getting tested or vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people, it can be a digital divide. For others, it can be a matter of time because of work schedules or not feeling comfortable going to a location,” García explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promotora program closes the gap that more traditional public health can’t reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11860906 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47058_026_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County public health worker Rocío Ramos prepares a nose swab for Antonio Orona for a self-administered COVID-19 test at his home in San Jose on Feb. 3, 2021. The county hopes the personal relationships built during door-to-door testing can become a source of reliable information about COVID-19 and thus limit the impact of disinformation about the virus and the vaccine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García points out that promotoras form personal relationships with the families they meet, something that doesn’t really happen on the county’s online testing portal. Quite frequently, promotoras end up testing entire families at once. One of those families was that of Janet Franco Orona, resident of East San Jose. She lives with her husband, mother-in-law and 1-year-old baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s gotten tested before, she’s felt a bit hesitant to take her mother-in-law, a senior, to public testing spots. “Will there be a lot of people who are already infected? Will they charge? All these things worry us when we plan on leaving the house.” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the promotora who knocked at Franco Orona’s door turned out to be an old friend and former neighbor of her mother-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When community comes together, they will open their doors to one of their own,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Abonce, eight bilingual promotoras go knocking door-to-door across East San Jose, offering residents in some of the worst-affected areas in the city the chance to get tested for COVID-19 at their doorstep through a self-swab test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Abonce waits as residents get tested, she answers any questions they may have. Many want to know about the new strains of the virus or what help the county can provide if they test positive. But now she’s getting more questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear so many things that we really wonder where these ideas come from,” she explained. “Folks tell us things like, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated because it was released so quickly,’ ‘they told me that the vaccine is just water,’ or ‘the vaccine has a chip in it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abonce worries that these beliefs may seriously reduce the number of people who get vaccinated in the communities that need immunity the most, places where her friends and loved ones live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the relationships and trust she’s built over the years, Abonce has managed to convince many neighbors to let go of these anxieties. But there are still those who refuse the vaccine, regardless of what they hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say that these are simply myths, that when pandemics or sicknesses spread, myths also tend to spread. Sometimes people make up these myths to create fear,” she said. “So we try to resolve those fears but sometimes we just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, “The best we can do is give them the information we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After getting their COVID-19 test, residents can ask promotoras questions about the virus or resources the county offers for those who test positive. However, promotoras are now hearing more fears and disinformation from residents about the coronavirus vaccine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Take It but I Do Not Trust It’: History and Vaccine Anxiety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Days before a COVID-19 vaccine received emergency authorization from the FDA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">advocates advised state authorities\u003c/a> that a vaccine distribution plan should take into account both the immediate impact the pandemic has had on Black and Latino communities in California and the lessons learned from coronavirus testing outreach in those populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">acknowledged the need to include equity\u003c/a> in distribution plans, the latest vaccination data suggests that vaccines are reaching Black and Latino residents at rates lower than the impact the pandemic has had on those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 6.7 million vaccine doses the state \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/#California-vaccines-dashboard\">has administered so far\u003c/a>, 2.9% of those who’ve received at least one shot identify as Black, while this group accounts for 6.2% of the state’s total \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\">COVID-19-related deaths\u003c/a>. Latinos represent 46.2% of COVID-19 related deaths in California, but have received just 16% of vaccinations so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11855623\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230603226-1020x605.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">Sudden changes in California’s vaccination plan\u003c/a> have resulted in confusion among residents statewide, and low dosage supply has limited the impact of massive vaccination centers, and may make it even harder for the vaccines to reach hard-hit populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maurice Foster and Paula Petty, a married couple living in Oakland, fear getting sick and have done all they can to avoid exposing themselves to COVID-19. They said California’s vaccine rollout process has eroded the little trust they have in state and federal authorities to provide a safe vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would take it but I do not trust it,” Foster said. “I do not trust the government. I’ve seen the president and the first lady take it but still. I will take it because I don’t want to die, not because I trust it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the vaccine research process was not transparent, and is concerned it may have been rushed by the Trump administration for political motives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think Black people are more vulnerable to COVID-19,” he added. “I think the government is more prejudiced towards Black people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1973px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1973\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n.jpg 1973w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1536x1154.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1920x1442.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/152258286_756817738286257_6296328330243481974_n-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1973px) 100vw, 1973px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Petty, left, and Maurice Foster, Oakland residents, have done all they can to avoid getting COVID-19. They consider taking the vaccine a necessary but dangerous risk. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, high school senior Dara Montejo Chel has learned about incidents of medical malpractice in communities of color, especially cases of unethical sterilizations among Black and Latina women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dawn Wooten, a nurse at a migrant detention center in Georgia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54160638\">filed a whistleblower complaint\u003c/a> last September claiming that hysterectomies were being performed on detained migrant women without their fully informed consent, Montejo Chel felt her anxiety shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows the COVID-19 vaccine is not a sterilization tool and strongly believes in the science of immunity – but she said the history she’s learning weighs heavy on her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to medical research, we people of color are usually the ones put at greater risk,” she said. “For a long time, medicine has not shown it cares about us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Alicia Fernández, UCSF\"]‘I acknowledge that there are many reasons patients have to not trust doctors with these sorts of issues. The history of health care abuses both in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic and other places comes up.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/alicia.fernandez\">Dr. Alicia Fernández\u003c/a>, professor of medicine at UCSF, has heard similar hesitations from her patients. Her research looks at expanding access to primary health care in immigrant and Latino communities, and she’s part of the \u003ca href=\"https://unitedinhealth.org/\">Unidos en Salud initiative\u003c/a> that’s brought COVID-19 testing into San Francisco’s Mission District and the Fruitvale District in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine hesitancy, she points out, while present across different demographics, differs based on access to adequate medical information and lived experiences. She’s identified a couple broad categories so she can address these anxieties more effectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first bucket is misinformation,” she said. Misinformation includes believing that the vaccine has dangerous side effects (like infertility or mutations), or that it was developed too quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second bucket consists of what Fernández refers to as alternate health beliefs: deeply held ideas about professional medicine or different types of care that make it difficult for an individual to go out and seek immunization. Alternative understandings of wellness can sometimes come from family traditions or a desire to provide care when hospitals are inaccessible due to lack of coverage or language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These beliefs may include never getting a vaccination, never putting anything into their body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s everything else, but Fernández explained that an overarching feeling of worry relating to health and receiving care explains many of these experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I try to do is sort out what people are feeling. I acknowledge that there are many reasons patients have to not trust doctors with these sorts of issues,” she said. “The history of health care abuses both in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic and other places comes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='vaccines']Throughout the mid-20th century, the Eugenics Board of Puerto Rico \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/\">encouraged and oversaw hundreds of thousands of sterilizations\u003c/a> of women on the island as a population-control mechanism. Many of these women were not properly informed by physicians about the procedure and believed that the operation was easily reversible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-to-one conversations between doctor and patient are critical, Fernández explains, because that is when physicians can meet their patients where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the doctor is comfortable with it, it’s important to share a little bit of our own stories of why we came to take the vaccine,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking about his own vaccine experience has been effective for Dr. Adrian James, chief medical officer at the \u003ca href=\"https://westoaklandhealth.org/\">West Oakland Health Council\u003c/a>, who has cleared up vaccine worries not just with his patients but also with his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WOHC sees almost 8,000 patients every year, many of them Black East Bay residents. Last December, WOHC announced a partnership with Covered California to tackle vaccine hesitancy among Black communities in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I let folks know that this is a community problem,” James said. “This is everyone. This is not the Tuskegee experiment, only dealing with African American men. This is a community issue, we’re asking everyone to get the vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Adrian James, chief medical officer, West Oakland Health Council\"]‘We as a people do have a reason to be hesitant. But this is not the time. There are too many people dying.’[/pullquote]James makes reference to a 1932 study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute on Black men working as sharecroppers in Alabama. These men were informed that they were signing up to receive free medical care – they weren’t told they would be part of a study looking at the effects of untreated syphilis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When details of the experiment were leaked to the press 40 years later, hundreds of participants had died never knowing they had the disease or ever received treatment. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans\">Black community leaders and health workers in Alabama\u003c/a> are organizing to regain the trust of residents who immediately think of the Tuskegee experiment when they hear about the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a people do have a reason to be hesitant,” James said. “But this is not the time. There are too many people dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Want to Be One of Those People Taking the Vaccine’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the past nine months, the Latino Task Force, a coalition made up of dozens of community-based organizations, has partnered with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and UCSF’s Unidos en Salud to provide weekly pop-up COVID-19 testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, Jon Jacobo, health chair of the task force, has been able to talk to the hundreds of Latino and immigrant residents while they wait in line to get tested for coronavirus or get their flu shot. He’s noticed that feelings about getting vaccinated, whether that is for the flu or COVID-19, can differ based on generation and immigration experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had the pop-up for flu shots back in September, the folks that would be coming in to get vaccinated were predominantly monolingual Spanish speakers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jacobo, recently arrived immigrants in line were very enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our home countries, maybe you don’t have access to free quality health care. And so now that you’re in the U.S., and this is available, it could be very advantageous,” Jacobo explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jon Jacobo, health chair, Latino Task Force\"]‘I don’t think that any of us want to go back to ignoring the inequities and the painful, glaring realities lived by the have-nots in the city.’[/pullquote]On the other hand, it’s been among second-generation immigrants and younger residents where he’s noticed a cooler reception towards the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For folks who were born here and grew up here, a lot of misinformation is present on social media,” said Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he points out that overall, these feelings are a lot less common than expected. While the results have not been released yet, the Latino Task Force managed to poll over 6,000 people at its testing site on the corner of Mission and 24th streets last month. Jacobo estimates that over 80% of those surveyed had a very favorable opinion of the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes his team can publish all the data from the survey in the coming months, but according to Jacobo, the initial findings signal that those surveyed trust local and state governments a lot less than physicians and community initiatives like the Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city needs to learn that it’s OK to not have all the answers at the moment,” he said. “Sometimes we just don’t have an answer at the moment. And we need to be comfortable with saying, ‘We are working on it and we will get it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confusion about where vaccinations are offered and lack of accessibility to these places can end up sowing distrust for the vaccine when there wasn’t distrust before, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first neighborhood vaccination site in San Francisco opened up in the Mission District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">on Feb. 2\u003c/a>, thanks in part to the advocacy of the Latino Task Force, who sought to bring a vaccination center into the heart of the Mission and a block away from the 24th Street BART station, where COVID-19 tests are offered every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizers need care providers and public health authorities as much as the latter needs the former to provide trust and credibility to vaccination efforts, Jacobo said. This coalition is effective when community members lead and shape the outreach while the other two partners actively follow and fund this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an academic physician, it’s really helped me to work more closely with community-based organizations,” said Dr. Fernández of UCSF. She thinks that the model built to combat the pandemic and provide access to the vaccine can be replicated to confront other health crises that disproportionately affect communities of color, like diabetes or obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of structural change, a lot of changing the social determinants of health, and that’s going to require all of us to work together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the coalition, that shouldn’t fall apart after the pandemic ends, Jacobo said. “I know that from here on out, we are going to be working in this city towards a new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “I don’t think that any of us want to go back to ignoring the inequities and the painful, glaring realities lived by the have-nots in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-e1613784176552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, a first-year student at City College of San Francisco, volunteers each week at the Mission Food Hub, where he’s heard from older community members how excited they are to get the vaccine. But it wasn’t until he saw task force members get vaccinated that he felt fully ready himself (when that’s an option for him). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in January, Jacobo, along with a few other members of the Latino Task Force involved in testing efforts, were vaccinated. Some volunteers got to see the moment firsthand. Among those present was Esteban Torres, a freshman at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres had felt unsure about taking the vaccine for a few weeks. But when he saw some of his friends and older relatives take the chance, he felt a flood of relief. But also a sense of responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw that, I told myself I want to be part of that. I want to be one of those people taking the vaccine, doing it for everyone in my family and doing the most I can for anyone in my community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED has brought together information on how and where to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in the Bay Area and is answering questions you may have about the process. Check out our guide, available in \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">English\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Spanish\u003c/a> here.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear so many things that we really wonder where these ideas come from,” she explained. “Folks tell us things like, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated because it was released so quickly,’ ‘they told me that the vaccine is just water,’ or ‘the vaccine has a chip in it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abonce worries that these beliefs may seriously reduce the number of people who get vaccinated in the communities that need immunity the most, places where her friends and loved ones live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the relationships and trust she’s built over the years, Abonce has managed to convince many neighbors to let go of these anxieties. But there are still those who refuse the vaccine, regardless of what they hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say that these are simply myths, that when pandemics or sicknesses spread, myths also tend to spread. Sometimes people make up these myths to create fear,” she said. “So we try to resolve those fears but sometimes we just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, “The best we can do is give them the information we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47056_024_SanJose_COVIDTesting_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After getting their COVID-19 test, residents can ask promotoras questions about the virus or resources the county offers for those who test positive. However, promotoras are now hearing more fears and disinformation from residents about the coronavirus vaccine. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘I Would Take It but I Do Not Trust It’: History and Vaccine Anxiety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Days before a COVID-19 vaccine received emergency authorization from the FDA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">advocates advised state authorities\u003c/a> that a vaccine distribution plan should take into account both the immediate impact the pandemic has had on Black and Latino communities in California and the lessons learned from coronavirus testing outreach in those populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849892/california-may-consider-historical-injustice-in-deciding-how-to-allocate-coronavirus-vaccine\">acknowledged the need to include equity\u003c/a> in distribution plans, the latest vaccination data suggests that vaccines are reaching Black and Latino residents at rates lower than the impact the pandemic has had on those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the 6.7 million vaccine doses the state \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/#California-vaccines-dashboard\">has administered so far\u003c/a>, 2.9% of those who’ve received at least one shot identify as Black, while this group accounts for 6.2% of the state’s total \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/\">COVID-19-related deaths\u003c/a>. Latinos represent 46.2% of COVID-19 related deaths in California, but have received just 16% of vaccinations so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>James makes reference to a 1932 study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute on Black men working as sharecroppers in Alabama. These men were informed that they were signing up to receive free medical care – they weren’t told they would be part of a study looking at the effects of untreated syphilis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When details of the experiment were leaked to the press 40 years later, hundreds of participants had died never knowing they had the disease or ever received treatment. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans\">Black community leaders and health workers in Alabama\u003c/a> are organizing to regain the trust of residents who immediately think of the Tuskegee experiment when they hear about the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as a people do have a reason to be hesitant,” James said. “But this is not the time. There are too many people dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I Want to Be One of Those People Taking the Vaccine’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the past nine months, the Latino Task Force, a coalition made up of dozens of community-based organizations, has partnered with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and UCSF’s Unidos en Salud to provide weekly pop-up COVID-19 testing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, Jon Jacobo, health chair of the task force, has been able to talk to the hundreds of Latino and immigrant residents while they wait in line to get tested for coronavirus or get their flu shot. He’s noticed that feelings about getting vaccinated, whether that is for the flu or COVID-19, can differ based on generation and immigration experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had the pop-up for flu shots back in September, the folks that would be coming in to get vaccinated were predominantly monolingual Spanish speakers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jacobo, recently arrived immigrants in line were very enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our home countries, maybe you don’t have access to free quality health care. And so now that you’re in the U.S., and this is available, it could be very advantageous,” Jacobo explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the other hand, it’s been among second-generation immigrants and younger residents where he’s noticed a cooler reception towards the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For folks who were born here and grew up here, a lot of misinformation is present on social media,” said Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he points out that overall, these feelings are a lot less common than expected. While the results have not been released yet, the Latino Task Force managed to poll over 6,000 people at its testing site on the corner of Mission and 24th streets last month. Jacobo estimates that over 80% of those surveyed had a very favorable opinion of the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes his team can publish all the data from the survey in the coming months, but according to Jacobo, the initial findings signal that those surveyed trust local and state governments a lot less than physicians and community initiatives like the Latino Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the city needs to learn that it’s OK to not have all the answers at the moment,” he said. “Sometimes we just don’t have an answer at the moment. And we need to be comfortable with saying, ‘We are working on it and we will get it.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Confusion about where vaccinations are offered and lack of accessibility to these places can end up sowing distrust for the vaccine when there wasn’t distrust before, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first neighborhood vaccination site in San Francisco opened up in the Mission District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11858171/san-francisco-opens-mission-district-vaccine-site\">on Feb. 2\u003c/a>, thanks in part to the advocacy of the Latino Task Force, who sought to bring a vaccination center into the heart of the Mission and a block away from the 24th Street BART station, where COVID-19 tests are offered every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizers need care providers and public health authorities as much as the latter needs the former to provide trust and credibility to vaccination efforts, Jacobo said. This coalition is effective when community members lead and shape the outreach while the other two partners actively follow and fund this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an academic physician, it’s really helped me to work more closely with community-based organizations,” said Dr. Fernández of UCSF. She thinks that the model built to combat the pandemic and provide access to the vaccine can be replicated to confront other health crises that disproportionately affect communities of color, like diabetes or obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of structural change, a lot of changing the social determinants of health, and that’s going to require all of us to work together,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the coalition, that shouldn’t fall apart after the pandemic ends, Jacobo said. “I know that from here on out, we are going to be working in this city towards a new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “I don’t think that any of us want to go back to ignoring the inequities and the painful, glaring realities lived by the have-nots in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/151211137_785673258823087_7892150034492824497_n-e1613784176552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteban Torres, a first-year student at City College of San Francisco, volunteers each week at the Mission Food Hub, where he’s heard from older community members how excited they are to get the vaccine. But it wasn’t until he saw task force members get vaccinated that he felt fully ready himself (when that’s an option for him). \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in January, Jacobo, along with a few other members of the Latino Task Force involved in testing efforts, were vaccinated. Some volunteers got to see the moment firsthand. Among those present was Esteban Torres, a freshman at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres had felt unsure about taking the vaccine for a few weeks. But when he saw some of his friends and older relatives take the chance, he felt a flood of relief. But also a sense of responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw that, I told myself I want to be part of that. I want to be one of those people taking the vaccine, doing it for everyone in my family and doing the most I can for anyone in my community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED has brought together information on how and where to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in the Bay Area and is answering questions you may have about the process. Check out our guide, available in \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">English\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Spanish\u003c/a> here.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In early February, the Oakland Unified School District allowed school sports teams to resume workouts for the first time in nearly a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Joe Bates, the head football coach at Skyline High School, that means being able to coach his team for the first time since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to see the boys. I’m excited, man.” Bates said, while recently greeting players as they streamed into the parking lot at Castlemont High School, where the Skyline team will be holding workouts for the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is no normal practice: There are no balls, no pads and definitely no contact. State and county guidelines have until now only allowed for “outdoor conditioning,” where students can maintain 6 feet of distance from each other. Skyline defensive coach Kerry Griffin says the important thing is just getting the kids back on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that way they’re not all cooped up in the house or running the streets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School football coach Joe Bates greets members of the team as they arrive for practice on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Uptick in Violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lower-income Black and Latino communities have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, where rates of both infection and violence have simultaneously soared. Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857555/gun-violence-in-the-bay-was-decreasing-then-the-pandemic-happened\">community advocates\u003c/a> attribute that rise in violent crime to the abrupt disappearance of most in-person youth programs, like sports teams and other resources, leaving many vulnerable kids more exposed to crime and gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic took hold, Oakland’s violent crime rate had been on the decline. But in 2020, the murder rate shot up by 36%. Of the 102 people killed in the city last year, 12 were students and recent graduates from Oakland schools, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devynn Trahan, a defensive tackle for the Skyline High School football team, after practice in Oakland on Feb. 3, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s way more shootings than it used to be,” said Devynn Trahan, a defensive tackle in his senior year at Skyline. Trahan lives just down the street from Castlemont, where he says shootings have become a near daily occurrence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I’m so used to it and I would hear it and I’d be like damn, that’s another life taken,” he said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Taijuan Pryor\"]‘If corona never would have hit, I think my son would have still been here, for sure. … That was my number 1 guy. I was his number 1 fan.’[/pullquote]One of last year’s casualties was Aaron Pryor, an up-and-coming running back at Skyline, who was shot and killed in September, just after turning 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If corona never would have hit, I think my son would have still been here, for sure. There’s no if and buts about it, he would have still been here,” said Taijuan Pryor, Aaron’s father.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘My Number 1 Guy’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday, Taijuan was sitting with friends and family members outside of his small house in East Oakland, where he lives with his mom and two kids. He was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt with a blown-up picture of him with his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was my number 1 guy, I was his number 1 fan,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron’s football career started at a young age, when Taijuan put him in a Pop Warner youth league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taijuan Pryor outside of his home in East Oakland on Feb. 5, 2021. Pryor’s son, Aaron, a Skyline High School football player (pictured on his shirt), was shot to death in September. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had some awesome talent, bro. He was MVP for like two years in a row, feel me. Aaron was running back all four years,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taijuan moved to Las Vegas when Aaron was 13, leaving him with his mom. But she worked long hours. And that’s when he started getting into trouble, Taijuan says. Aaron was arrested for robbery when he was 14 years old, and spent nine months in juvenile hall. And that’s when he had a big wake up call, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was like, ‘Damn dad, I should be playing football right now.’ And that really hurt him, that he couldn’t play,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Aaron’s release, Taijuan moved back to Oakland to keep a closer eye on his son, and took him to meet Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coach Bates was like, ‘Damn bro, he’s big and stocky. Where did he come from? He’s hella fast,’ ” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron started to meet with teammates for unofficial workouts in the park last spring. But just as he was falling into rhythm with his team, the pandemic intensified and those workouts happened much less frequently. That’s when Aaron fell back into his old habits on the streets, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Skyline High School football team doing conditioning drills on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t get away, or if you don’t really be focused, then Oakland is just one big old trap, man. For certain kids. And my son was one of ‘em,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron was shot on Sept. 27, just outside of his mom’s apartment. Taijuan goes regularly to visit his grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go like every two days, just sit up there,” he said. “That was my first-born child. I can’t ever get that back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Harm Reduction\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bates has joined a growing chorus of advocates around the state calling for Gov. Gavin Newsom to further ease pandemic-related restrictions on youth sports. He’s among over 60,000 people in a Facebook group called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/850089599174086/\">Let Them Play CA\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health agencies have allowed some sports programs to resume, based on the color-coded, four-tier system that California uses to assess COVID-19 transmission risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of California, including every Bay Area county, is in Tier 1, or purple, indicating widespread transmission risk. For nearly a year, that’s allowed for only limited-contact sports like tennis, track and field, and swimming. In July, state health officials said outdoor conditioning could also resume, although OUSD and many other school districts declined to allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Skyline High School football team head onto the field for practice on the grounds of Castlemont High School in Oakland on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Feb. 19, however, the California Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/outdoor-indoor-recreational-sports.aspx\">released updated guidance\u003c/a> for organized youth and adult sports, allowing outdoor high-contact and moderate-contact sport competitions to resume in the 27 counties where COVID-19 case rates are at or below 14 per 100,000. That includes sports programs throughout Alameda County, along with most other Bay Area counties (with the exception of Contra Costa and Solano counties, where rates are just above that threshold).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"school-reopening\"]The new guidelines include weekly testing requirements for athletes playing high-contact sports like football, rugby and water polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of benefits for these kids, psychological. And maybe even keeping them off the streets in more dangerous circumstances,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. While the virus remains a very real threat, Swartzberg says it has to be weighed against other public health concerns like gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a matter of harm reduction, according to Swartzberg. It’s unrealistic to expect kids to stay indoors all day, he notes, so the city or county could provide an outdoor space where kids can stay safe from the virus and out of harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harm reduction would be to say, ‘Yes there would be a risk to doing that, but the good that comes from it is better, and it’s going to help obviate them from doing other things,’ ” Swartzberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skyline High School football team practices at Castlemont High School in Oakland on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike opening schools for in-person learning — which can be costly — offering outdoor conditioning programs is relatively inexpensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Costs for masks, and probably the cost of moving the equipment,” Swartzberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Sasaki, an OUSD spokesman, acknowledged that the absence of sports is detrimental to students, but the district has been more focused on reopening classrooms — which hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve certainly learned an enormous amount about how to operate in the middle of a pandemic in the 10 months since we’ve closed up shop,” Sasaki said. “I would say certainly if we ever face a situation like this again, we might handle it a bit differently to start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skyline High School football team during conditioning practice on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Matter of Life and Death\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bates believes if the district had allowed outdoor conditioning to resume back in July — as it could have — Aaron might still be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were doing what we are doing now back then … I’m close to 100% sure that he would still be here today with us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates says he tried to keep tabs on Aaron, but in the end, the only way he was able to keep him off the streets was through football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when it happened, we felt broken because we felt a responsibility to a certain extent … and we failed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic hit, three students on the team have dropped out, and 22 others are falling behind in their classes, says Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the time being, the coaches at Skyline are just happy to have their boys back on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In early February, the Oakland Unified School District allowed school sports teams to resume workouts for the first time in nearly a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Joe Bates, the head football coach at Skyline High School, that means being able to coach his team for the first time since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited to see the boys. I’m excited, man.” Bates said, while recently greeting players as they streamed into the parking lot at Castlemont High School, where the Skyline team will be holding workouts for the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is no normal practice: There are no balls, no pads and definitely no contact. State and county guidelines have until now only allowed for “outdoor conditioning,” where students can maintain 6 feet of distance from each other. Skyline defensive coach Kerry Griffin says the important thing is just getting the kids back on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that way they’re not all cooped up in the house or running the streets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47139_003_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skyline High School football coach Joe Bates greets members of the team as they arrive for practice on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Uptick in Violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lower-income Black and Latino communities have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, where rates of both infection and violence have simultaneously soared. Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857555/gun-violence-in-the-bay-was-decreasing-then-the-pandemic-happened\">community advocates\u003c/a> attribute that rise in violent crime to the abrupt disappearance of most in-person youth programs, like sports teams and other resources, leaving many vulnerable kids more exposed to crime and gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic took hold, Oakland’s violent crime rate had been on the decline. But in 2020, the murder rate shot up by 36%. Of the 102 people killed in the city last year, 12 were students and recent graduates from Oakland schools, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47184_075_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devynn Trahan, a defensive tackle for the Skyline High School football team, after practice in Oakland on Feb. 3, 2021.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s way more shootings than it used to be,” said Devynn Trahan, a defensive tackle in his senior year at Skyline. Trahan lives just down the street from Castlemont, where he says shootings have become a near daily occurrence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I’m so used to it and I would hear it and I’d be like damn, that’s another life taken,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One of last year’s casualties was Aaron Pryor, an up-and-coming running back at Skyline, who was shot and killed in September, just after turning 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If corona never would have hit, I think my son would have still been here, for sure. There’s no if and buts about it, he would have still been here,” said Taijuan Pryor, Aaron’s father.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘My Number 1 Guy’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday, Taijuan was sitting with friends and family members outside of his small house in East Oakland, where he lives with his mom and two kids. He was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt with a blown-up picture of him with his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was my number 1 guy, I was his number 1 fan,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron’s football career started at a young age, when Taijuan put him in a Pop Warner youth league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47127_010_Oakland_TaijuanPryor_02052021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taijuan Pryor outside of his home in East Oakland on Feb. 5, 2021. Pryor’s son, Aaron, a Skyline High School football player (pictured on his shirt), was shot to death in September. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had some awesome talent, bro. He was MVP for like two years in a row, feel me. Aaron was running back all four years,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taijuan moved to Las Vegas when Aaron was 13, leaving him with his mom. But she worked long hours. And that’s when he started getting into trouble, Taijuan says. Aaron was arrested for robbery when he was 14 years old, and spent nine months in juvenile hall. And that’s when he had a big wake up call, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was like, ‘Damn dad, I should be playing football right now.’ And that really hurt him, that he couldn’t play,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Aaron’s release, Taijuan moved back to Oakland to keep a closer eye on his son, and took him to meet Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coach Bates was like, ‘Damn bro, he’s big and stocky. Where did he come from? He’s hella fast,’ ” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron started to meet with teammates for unofficial workouts in the park last spring. But just as he was falling into rhythm with his team, the pandemic intensified and those workouts happened much less frequently. That’s when Aaron fell back into his old habits on the streets, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47166_044_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Skyline High School football team doing conditioning drills on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t get away, or if you don’t really be focused, then Oakland is just one big old trap, man. For certain kids. And my son was one of ‘em,” Taijuan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron was shot on Sept. 27, just outside of his mom’s apartment. Taijuan goes regularly to visit his grave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go like every two days, just sit up there,” he said. “That was my first-born child. I can’t ever get that back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Harm Reduction\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bates has joined a growing chorus of advocates around the state calling for Gov. Gavin Newsom to further ease pandemic-related restrictions on youth sports. He’s among over 60,000 people in a Facebook group called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/850089599174086/\">Let Them Play CA\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health agencies have allowed some sports programs to resume, based on the color-coded, four-tier system that California uses to assess COVID-19 transmission risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of California, including every Bay Area county, is in Tier 1, or purple, indicating widespread transmission risk. For nearly a year, that’s allowed for only limited-contact sports like tennis, track and field, and swimming. In July, state health officials said outdoor conditioning could also resume, although OUSD and many other school districts declined to allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47148_017_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Skyline High School football team head onto the field for practice on the grounds of Castlemont High School in Oakland on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Feb. 19, however, the California Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/outdoor-indoor-recreational-sports.aspx\">released updated guidance\u003c/a> for organized youth and adult sports, allowing outdoor high-contact and moderate-contact sport competitions to resume in the 27 counties where COVID-19 case rates are at or below 14 per 100,000. That includes sports programs throughout Alameda County, along with most other Bay Area counties (with the exception of Contra Costa and Solano counties, where rates are just above that threshold).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The new guidelines include weekly testing requirements for athletes playing high-contact sports like football, rugby and water polo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of benefits for these kids, psychological. And maybe even keeping them off the streets in more dangerous circumstances,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. While the virus remains a very real threat, Swartzberg says it has to be weighed against other public health concerns like gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a matter of harm reduction, according to Swartzberg. It’s unrealistic to expect kids to stay indoors all day, he notes, so the city or county could provide an outdoor space where kids can stay safe from the virus and out of harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harm reduction would be to say, ‘Yes there would be a risk to doing that, but the good that comes from it is better, and it’s going to help obviate them from doing other things,’ ” Swartzberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47176_063_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skyline High School football team practices at Castlemont High School in Oakland on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike opening schools for in-person learning — which can be costly — offering outdoor conditioning programs is relatively inexpensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Costs for masks, and probably the cost of moving the equipment,” Swartzberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Sasaki, an OUSD spokesman, acknowledged that the absence of sports is detrimental to students, but the district has been more focused on reopening classrooms — which hasn’t happened yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve certainly learned an enormous amount about how to operate in the middle of a pandemic in the 10 months since we’ve closed up shop,” Sasaki said. “I would say certainly if we ever face a situation like this again, we might handle it a bit differently to start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47174_059_Oakland_SkylineHSFootballPractice_02032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skyline High School football team during conditioning practice on Feb. 3, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Matter of Life and Death\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bates believes if the district had allowed outdoor conditioning to resume back in July — as it could have — Aaron might still be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were doing what we are doing now back then … I’m close to 100% sure that he would still be here today with us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates says he tried to keep tabs on Aaron, but in the end, the only way he was able to keep him off the streets was through football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic state lawmakers split with Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday over the reopening of California public schools, offering a plan to resume in-person learning in April if coronavirus infection rates drop and teachers are offered vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the spread of COVID-19 slowing, political pressure has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859494/the-messy-path-towards-re-opening-bay-area-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mounted on lawmakers\u003c/a> to bring California's youngest students back into classrooms. The legislative plan, Senate Bill 86, offers schools $6.6 billion to prepare classrooms and boost student learning after months of remote instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a major step, but it is not cause for taking a victory lap,\" said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, in a statement. \"This legislation moves us closer to our common goal of getting each student safely into an optimal learning situation. It provides a plan and it provides funding — both for safe school opening and for extra attention to learning recovery.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposal was rebuffed by Newsom, who has pushed to reopen schools without requirements around vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the Legislature’s proposal represents a step in the right direction, it doesn’t go far enough or fast enough,\" Newsom said, in a statement. \"I look forward to building on the growing momentum to get our schools open and continuing discussions with the Legislature to get our kids back in school as safely and quickly as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, lawmakers are moving toward a Monday afternoon vote on the plan, which lays out guidance for schools to resume in-person instruction by April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students needing extra academic support, including foster and homeless youth, as well as chronically absent students, would be allowed to return under the state's strictest, \"purple\" coronavirus tier, which all but six counties are currently in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools located in counties that fall under the state's \"red\" tier, which requires fewer than eight new daily cases per 100,000 residents, will be allowed to open their doors to grades K-6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falling infection rates could qualify more counties for the red tier in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think with these elements in place, plus the fact that the counties are leaving the purple tier, going to the red tier and the yellow, that this is the right opportunity,\" said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, who chairs the Assembly's budget subcommittee focused on education. \"Frankly, it's time to get kids back learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Teachers Association, the state's powerful union representing educators, said it was still reviewing the plan, but praised the bill's requirements for testing and prioritization of vaccines for school staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will help stop the yo-yo effect of schools opening and closing, and ensure stability for students, educators and their families,\" the union said in a statement. \"We also strongly appreciate the Legislature’s focus on supporting students who need extra help coming out of this pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though infections are on the decline in the state, school reopenings face a plethora of hurdles, including stipulations on vaccines, testing and requirements for collective bargaining on the district level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature's plan requires local health departments to make vaccines available for employees working on-site in schools that have reopened to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, said the plan offers a long enough runway before reopening to allow any staff who wants a vaccine to get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do believe that we can find a way to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of school employees who want to go back before school begins,\" Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='school-reopening']The vaccine language is sure to provide a test for some lawmakers over whether to break with the governor. For weeks, Newsom has echoed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that schools can safely reopen without vaccinating all staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prioritizing teachers is important, but it should not hold up our progress,\" said state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, in a statement Thursday after the plan was announced. \"Allowing our children to continue their education is essential for their well-being, to achieve equity and for the overall economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, who have made school reopenings a central theme of their effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/newsom-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recall Newsom from office\u003c/a>, are likely to agree with the governor that the Legislature's plan puts too much emphasis on inoculations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The data and science recommends that we open schools without delay,\" said Asm. 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He’d later accept a plea deal that dismissed all but the less serious charge of assault with a deadly weapon — with the sentence deferred over a five-year probation term.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessica Weiss, 2014 Lowell High School graduate\"]‘I think a lot of me wanting to speak out about this comes from just guilt of being silent back then.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Lang for comment were not successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss didn’t know it at the time, but those posts would help trigger a new reckoning in the #MeToo movement focused in part on San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School. The effort empowered current and former students to call for systemic change while curating and promoting allegations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and survivors nationwide had spontaneously created accounts over the summer to share hundreds of stories of abuse experienced while they were in high school. 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And remote learning added a sense of security, separating students from alleged abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Painful Memories From High School\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Weiss, who graduated from Lowell in 2014, said seeing her former classmate publicly accused pushed her and others in her Lowell alumni community to reckon with painful memories from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a different Lowell alum, Hiromi Fujita, sexually harassed her in high school, and she’d heard other allegations about him from several friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of me wanting to speak out about this comes from just guilt of being silent back then,” Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually connected with three other women who anonymously posted allegations on June 7 that Fujita had abused or assaulted them in high school and college, prompting another woman to come forward with a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1536x1003.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Weiss, who graduated from Lowell High School in 2014, says a social media post last summer about a former classmate brought back painful memories. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jessica Weiss)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of nine former Lowell students told KQED that he was abusive or inappropriate to young women when he was in high school and college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two former students said they saw Fujita assault a female classmate on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fujita, who graduated in 2013, was popular with administrators and students. He was on the football team, involved in student government and close to the dean and principal, according to several former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district declined to comment on specific allegations against Fujita, and Lowell Principal Dacotah Swett said the school couldn’t locate records of any reported incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the allegations, Ray Cordoba, the dean of Lowell while Fujita was a student, said, “Any reports of assault are reported and dealt with accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859413\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1020x941.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-160x148.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1122x1037.jpeg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI.jpeg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiromi Fujita posted a series of tweets in early June from a now deactivated account acknowledging the allegations made against him. \u003ccite>(Via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fujita did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but he appears to have tweeted an apparent response the day the posts about him went up: “Sexual assault is not okay. The fact is that I was and have been part of the problem, especially by not speaking out for my bad actions sooner. I have sought counseling and therapy for a lot of my issues, such as control and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, who graduated from Lowell in 2014, spoke on the condition of anonymity over fears that she or her family may be physically harmed in retaliation. She said Fujita sexually assaulted her in his car when she was a junior, and she felt waves of anxiety for years just seeing cars that looked like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing her experience on social media made her feel less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost felt relieved. Maybe there was no real reason to be scared,” she said. “Hopefully we can head towards a future where we don’t have to call someone out because it’s normal now to not rape and assault people. And I hate that it has to come to this. But I think these changes need to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Students Speak Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several alumni who spoke with KQED said the elite reputation of Lowell contributed to an environment where students did not trust administrators to take their allegations seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a top-tier public school in the state of California. We exist in progressive, liberal San Francisco. That definitely led to a culture where students who experience these issues weren’t comfortable coming forward,” Weiss said. “We were a school that was very concerned with reputation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the allegations against Fujita were posted, more alumni began posting about their experiences at Lowell. Shavonne Hines-Foster, a senior at Lowell, said that soon opened the floodgates for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg\" alt=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least four current San Francisco students, 12 alumni, two teachers and a former dean have been accused online of sexual misconduct since the summer. Hines-Foster used her Instagram account to share and amplify students’ stories, and her role as a San Francisco Unified School District student delegate to bring these posts to the district’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell Principal Swett said she reached out to students who posted online when possible, and also offered students who had faced allegations counseling services and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an educator who deeply cares for all students, I am very saddened that these things take place to begin with,” Swett said. “There are limits to what I can reveal to people because of privacy acts and things like that. My main concern is to make sure that our students are getting the resources they need to heal and be supported and making sure that students aren’t ever put in these positions in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swett said the allegations made online were mostly made anonymously or by people who had not experienced the abuse firsthand and were difficult to substantiate. She said no current students at Lowell had been punished for allegations made on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster said the pandemic made it easier for people to share their stories without needing to worry about confronting classmates or their friends in person. Some students said they turned to social media because they didn’t feel taken seriously when they reported harassment or other abuse to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Administrators Grapple With Allegations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“What I hear in young people going to social media to tell their stories is that the system has failed them, that they don’t see it as a system that’s going to support them,” said Emma Mayerson, executive director of Oakland-based Alliance for Girls. “They’re saying, ‘You are not helping me, so I’m going to get my voice heard one way or another.’ And social media is a way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reported incidents of sexual violence in K-12 schools around the country increased by about 55% from the 2015-2016 to 2017-2018 school years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/sexual-violence.pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey data\u003c/a> released in October by the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. That same data shows California has the ninth highest rates of reported incidents of rape or attempted rape in schools nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in reported allegations may reflect under-reporting in 2015-16, an increased sensitivity to this issue in 2017-18, or an actual increase in incidents of sexual violence from 2015-16 to 2017-18,” the report says, noting that while overall rates of alleged sexual assault are low, “the seriousness of this violence merits attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence Abad, executive director of the Lowell Alumni Association, says he received nearly 60 emails over a matter of days this summer from alumni and others asking the school to respond to the online allegations. District officials declined an interview request, but SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick issued a statement that said, “SFUSD wants all students to feel like their concerns are taken seriously. The Office of Equity monitored the online activity all summer, and beyond, and made efforts to reach out to every student who had posted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"A 2014 Lowell graduate who spoke under the condition of anonymity and said she was sexually assaulted while in high school\"]‘Hopefully we can head towards a future where we don’t have to call someone out because it’s normal now to not rape and assault people. And I hate that it has to come to this. But I think these changes need to happen.’[/pullquote]Dudnick also wrote that the district can only investigate when the incident occurs in connection to the school, or significantly disrupts school programs or activities. She said some of the allegations posted online this summer referenced incidents off campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Complications of Social Media Campaigns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Creating and maintaining unofficial platforms for posting accusations has also proven complicated for the young people taking on this issue themselves. There has been trolling and threats of retaliation. Others collecting stories of abuse struggled to vet the influx of allegations sent their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Instagram account, @dearSFUSD, was set up in June for students to share their experiences anonymously until posts were taken down over concerns about false allegations and defamation lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, some people have seen the posts of survivors speaking out as an opportunity to use the court of public opinion for their own personal agenda,” a June 19 statement from the account said, which also encouraged people to believe what survivors are posting. “Their experiences ARE valid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posting allegations online can spread awareness about abuse and inspire solidarity, but there are also drawbacks to bypassing official systems, said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern University who has \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3366126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied\u003c/a> the impact of using social media to report abuse in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Informal reporting doesn’t provide process for the people accused,” she said. “That can be overstated as a worry and weaponized by people who want accusers to remain silent. At the same time, process has value. When these allegations are brought only in informal channels and only in the court of public opinion, I think something important is lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pushing for Structural Change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Justine Orgel, a senior at Lowell, said her focus is less about targeting perpetrators and more about showing support for victims. She said she was sexually assaulted by a student a few years ago, and that’s part of the reason she felt motivated to speak out on behalf of her peers. After she saw allegations posted online about a current student she knew, she felt obligated to push for action from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began drafting emails to high school and college administrators. She researched Title IX and the district’s policy around harassment and assault. In these emails, she defined sexual harassment, referenced board policies and Title IX, and argued that allowing people with “predatory habits” to “roam campus unscathed is a safety risk.” She called on schools to keep a record of the allegations and consider consequences for perpetrators, like suspension or barring them from sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justine Orgel poses for a portrait at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many of those allegations, Orgel acknowledged, were outside the school district’s ability to address. Some concerned alleged off-campus assaults, and most emails to the district about these incidents were sent by people without firsthand knowledge of the alleged incidents, according to Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucks to say this, but there’s very little the school districts can do,” Orgel said. “But I want structural change. I want people to find peace, and I want them to have faith that their communities believe them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orgel posted the email template on her Instagram page so that other students could email it to administrators as well. Then she went to sleep, waking up a few hours later to a barrage of messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Instagram was just super flooded,” Orgel said. She’d received hundreds of messages of thanks. “I’m the type of person where I hate not getting something done, especially when someone is counting on me. I just felt like such a sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Lowell Principal Swett sent an email to students that outlined steps the school had taken to educate and prevent sexual harassment on campus, such as awareness campaigns, training for teachers and programs to educate students about healthy relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that I had as much power as kids think I have,” Swett said. “I am very sorry that anyone has ever been hurt. It’s not fair, and we do our best to try to mitigate all of that. I have spent a tremendous amount of my time simply responding to people’s bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding Support Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even if the school district is unable to do anything about it, some students say sharing their stories and finding support online has helped them in other ways. Xufei Zhao, who graduated from Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco last spring, said a few years ago she was sexually assaulted by a family member, a student at Lowell High School. She had no idea what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it happened, a lot was going on in my mind. I was like, what do I do? Am I supposed to talk to him first? Am I supposed to tell my parents? Am I supposed to file a report? Am I supposed to … hide it from everybody until I die?” she said, remembering the shame she felt at the time. She bought a lock for her bedroom door so she could hide when the relative came over for family gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xufei Zhao, a recent graduate of the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology high school in San Francisco, says it felt like a weight had been lifted after she posted about her experience of assault online. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Xufei Zhao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED is unable to verify the allegations and is not naming the alleged perpetrator. He did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Zhao posted about her experience online, she opened up to her parents about the alleged abuse, and was put in touch with a hotline for sexual assault survivors. San Francisco police reached out to her on Instagram, and she considered filing a police report. But she says she decided against it because she already felt drained, and was skeptical filing a report would lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Teachers Are Accused\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the school district did complete at least two investigations against Lowell teachers after allegations were posted on social media, according to disciplinary documents provided to KQED in response to a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physical education teacher Thomas Geren was accused last summer of demonstrating patterns of inappropriate behavior, including unwelcome touching, staring and catcalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school found that Geren had used terms of endearment to describe students, pointed out a student’s hickies and “touched a student’s shoulders in what was an unwelcome gesture,” according to a counselling memo. Principal Swett directed Geren to refrain from physical contact with students and familiarize himself with district policies and employee codes of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geren and his attorney did not comment on the allegations or the discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate case, a student posted allegations of harassment against social studies teacher Adam Michels on Instagram in June. She wrote that she had reported his behavior during the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11858202,news_11859065,news_13891866\" label=\"More on San Francisco’s Lowell High School\"]“I received radio silence the moment my classes were switched, with no idea if this man even knew what he did was wrong,” the student, who declined to be interviewed, wrote in the post. “Please listen to me. A class and subject that I was so eagerly looking forward to taking has been tainted and ruined for me. I don’t want that for anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others had also reported Michels to administrators before the post went up, according to a memorandum written by school officials in December 2019. An unnamed colleague had complained that Michels made her uncomfortable and affected her ability to work in the same classroom as him. An unspecified number of students also complained about the teacher’s behavior that fall, which they alleged ranged from sarcasm to intimidation, condescending remarks and use of sexual innuendo, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michels “appeared responsive” according to the December 2019 memo, which says he received a verbal reprimand. But less than a year later, he would again face discipline for similar behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11, 2020 interview with administrators, Michels admitted to following several of his current students on social media, according to a follow-up disciplinary memo. He also tried to contact a student who’d posted about him via social media through another student, despite being directed not to do so. He’d used a picture of a student in his class without permission, unnecessarily touched students, teased them and made unwelcome comments about a student’s appearance, according to the memo. This time, Michels received a written reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two phone interviews and a series of emails, Michels denied ever harassing or inappropriately touching students. He said he had used students’ photos in presentations for years without any complaints until the last school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he now has a good working relationship with the colleague who complained, which he said stemmed from a dispute over music. He also said the school should have told the student who turned to Instagram over the summer the outcome of her original complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She felt like she wasn’t heard by me or the administration, that it had just been swept under the rug, and it’s not true,” Michels said. “I almost feel as though the whole post could have been avoided if there had been some process where she felt some completion or resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Emma Mayerson, executive director of Oakland-based Alliance for Girls\"]‘What I hear in young people going to social media to tell their stories is that the system has failed them, that they don’t see it as a system that’s going to support them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Swett said the school was able to inform the student her concerns had been addressed after Michels’ inappropriate behavior had continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seeing the Instagram post, an alum who graduated in 2015 wrote in a testimony for the district’s investigation that Michels also harassed her in class and online. She included embedded screenshots in the testimony, which she shared with KQED, that show Michels complimenting her appearance and expressing doubt about her intellect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her she did not fit the stereotype of Asian girls at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout … my studies, I felt a constant pressure to defy norms imposed on Asian women and prove the worthiness of my accomplishments,” the student wrote in the testimony. She asked not to be named over concerns being identified could put her career at risk or lead to retaliation by the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michels said he could not remember making the comments, which he said may be taken out of context, and that referencing a stereotype does not mean he believes it to be true. He said he would usually only message a student online if they were teaching assistants or if they had already graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he was interviewed for this story, Michels sent over a dozen emails describing the reprimand as unfair to him and criticizing so-called cancel culture and what he called “a culture of heightened sensitivity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11801840,news_11754307,news_11643771\" label=\"More on the #MeToo movement\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Principal Swett said it was very clear to her that Michels had violated professional conduct standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little concerned that your article might spread the falsehood that I sexually harass students in class. I do not,” Michels wrote in one email in November. “Even presenting the story as if it is an open question is completely unfair. I don’t meet with students outside of class. I compliment students and I tease them sometimes, but it is in front of 35 other students, and I have never sexually harassed anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Lowell students and alumni told KQED that while they enjoyed his class and thought Michels did not intend to cause harm, they could also understand how some would find his sense of humor inappropriate. One said they never saw Michels inappropriately touch anyone. Another student described him as a “very professional” teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alum who testified against Michels said she was disappointed in the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcome that happened was absolutely disheartening,” she said. “It’s just so hard. These systems protect perpetrators more than they ever will victims. I’m emotionally exhausted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Chang and Teresa Cotsirilos contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://centerforhealthjournalism.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a different Lowell alum, Hiromi Fujita, sexually harassed her in high school, and she’d heard other allegations about him from several friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of me wanting to speak out about this comes from just guilt of being silent back then,” Weiss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually connected with three other women who anonymously posted allegations on June 7 that Fujita had abused or assaulted them in high school and college, prompting another woman to come forward with a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859411\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Jessica-Weiss-1536x1003.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Weiss, who graduated from Lowell High School in 2014, says a social media post last summer about a former classmate brought back painful memories. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jessica Weiss)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A total of nine former Lowell students told KQED that he was abusive or inappropriate to young women when he was in high school and college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two former students said they saw Fujita assault a female classmate on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fujita, who graduated in 2013, was popular with administrators and students. He was on the football team, involved in student government and close to the dean and principal, according to several former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district declined to comment on specific allegations against Fujita, and Lowell Principal Dacotah Swett said the school couldn’t locate records of any reported incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the allegations, Ray Cordoba, the dean of Lowell while Fujita was a student, said, “Any reports of assault are reported and dealt with accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859413\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11859413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-800x738.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1020x941.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-160x148.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI-1122x1037.jpeg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/EZ8poNBVcAE-KnI.jpeg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiromi Fujita posted a series of tweets in early June from a now deactivated account acknowledging the allegations made against him. \u003ccite>(Via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fujita did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but he appears to have tweeted an apparent response the day the posts about him went up: “Sexual assault is not okay. The fact is that I was and have been part of the problem, especially by not speaking out for my bad actions sooner. I have sought counseling and therapy for a lot of my issues, such as control and anger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, who graduated from Lowell in 2014, spoke on the condition of anonymity over fears that she or her family may be physically harmed in retaliation. She said Fujita sexually assaulted her in his car when she was a junior, and she felt waves of anxiety for years just seeing cars that looked like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharing her experience on social media made her feel less alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost felt relieved. Maybe there was no real reason to be scared,” she said. “Hopefully we can head towards a future where we don’t have to call someone out because it’s normal now to not rape and assault people. And I hate that it has to come to this. But I think these changes need to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More Students Speak Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several alumni who spoke with KQED said the elite reputation of Lowell contributed to an environment where students did not trust administrators to take their allegations seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a top-tier public school in the state of California. We exist in progressive, liberal San Francisco. That definitely led to a culture where students who experience these issues weren’t comfortable coming forward,” Weiss said. “We were a school that was very concerned with reputation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the allegations against Fujita were posted, more alumni began posting about their experiences at Lowell. Shavonne Hines-Foster, a senior at Lowell, said that soon opened the floodgates for current San Francisco students to speak out on Twitter and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That served as a catalyst for everything else,” she said. “Students came forward about their experiences with racism, sexual assault, harassment and mental health at Lowell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg\" alt=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Shavonne-Hines-Foster-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster poses for a photo at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least four current San Francisco students, 12 alumni, two teachers and a former dean have been accused online of sexual misconduct since the summer. Hines-Foster used her Instagram account to share and amplify students’ stories, and her role as a San Francisco Unified School District student delegate to bring these posts to the district’s attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell Principal Swett said she reached out to students who posted online when possible, and also offered students who had faced allegations counseling services and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an educator who deeply cares for all students, I am very saddened that these things take place to begin with,” Swett said. “There are limits to what I can reveal to people because of privacy acts and things like that. My main concern is to make sure that our students are getting the resources they need to heal and be supported and making sure that students aren’t ever put in these positions in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swett said the allegations made online were mostly made anonymously or by people who had not experienced the abuse firsthand and were difficult to substantiate. She said no current students at Lowell had been punished for allegations made on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster said the pandemic made it easier for people to share their stories without needing to worry about confronting classmates or their friends in person. Some students said they turned to social media because they didn’t feel taken seriously when they reported harassment or other abuse to administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Administrators Grapple With Allegations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“What I hear in young people going to social media to tell their stories is that the system has failed them, that they don’t see it as a system that’s going to support them,” said Emma Mayerson, executive director of Oakland-based Alliance for Girls. “They’re saying, ‘You are not helping me, so I’m going to get my voice heard one way or another.’ And social media is a way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reported incidents of sexual violence in K-12 schools around the country increased by about 55% from the 2015-2016 to 2017-2018 school years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/sexual-violence.pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey data\u003c/a> released in October by the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. That same data shows California has the ninth highest rates of reported incidents of rape or attempted rape in schools nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in reported allegations may reflect under-reporting in 2015-16, an increased sensitivity to this issue in 2017-18, or an actual increase in incidents of sexual violence from 2015-16 to 2017-18,” the report says, noting that while overall rates of alleged sexual assault are low, “the seriousness of this violence merits attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence Abad, executive director of the Lowell Alumni Association, says he received nearly 60 emails over a matter of days this summer from alumni and others asking the school to respond to the online allegations. District officials declined an interview request, but SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick issued a statement that said, “SFUSD wants all students to feel like their concerns are taken seriously. The Office of Equity monitored the online activity all summer, and beyond, and made efforts to reach out to every student who had posted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dudnick also wrote that the district can only investigate when the incident occurs in connection to the school, or significantly disrupts school programs or activities. She said some of the allegations posted online this summer referenced incidents off campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Complications of Social Media Campaigns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Creating and maintaining unofficial platforms for posting accusations has also proven complicated for the young people taking on this issue themselves. There has been trolling and threats of retaliation. Others collecting stories of abuse struggled to vet the influx of allegations sent their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Instagram account, @dearSFUSD, was set up in June for students to share their experiences anonymously until posts were taken down over concerns about false allegations and defamation lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, some people have seen the posts of survivors speaking out as an opportunity to use the court of public opinion for their own personal agenda,” a June 19 statement from the account said, which also encouraged people to believe what survivors are posting. “Their experiences ARE valid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posting allegations online can spread awareness about abuse and inspire solidarity, but there are also drawbacks to bypassing official systems, said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern University who has \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3366126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studied\u003c/a> the impact of using social media to report abuse in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Informal reporting doesn’t provide process for the people accused,” she said. “That can be overstated as a worry and weaponized by people who want accusers to remain silent. At the same time, process has value. When these allegations are brought only in informal channels and only in the court of public opinion, I think something important is lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pushing for Structural Change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Justine Orgel, a senior at Lowell, said her focus is less about targeting perpetrators and more about showing support for victims. She said she was sexually assaulted by a student a few years ago, and that’s part of the reason she felt motivated to speak out on behalf of her peers. After she saw allegations posted online about a current student she knew, she felt obligated to push for action from the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began drafting emails to high school and college administrators. She researched Title IX and the district’s policy around harassment and assault. In these emails, she defined sexual harassment, referenced board policies and Title IX, and argued that allowing people with “predatory habits” to “roam campus unscathed is a safety risk.” She called on schools to keep a record of the allegations and consider consequences for perpetrators, like suspension or barring them from sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46522_012_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Justine_01092021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justine Orgel poses for a portrait at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many of those allegations, Orgel acknowledged, were outside the school district’s ability to address. Some concerned alleged off-campus assaults, and most emails to the district about these incidents were sent by people without firsthand knowledge of the alleged incidents, according to Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sucks to say this, but there’s very little the school districts can do,” Orgel said. “But I want structural change. I want people to find peace, and I want them to have faith that their communities believe them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orgel posted the email template on her Instagram page so that other students could email it to administrators as well. Then she went to sleep, waking up a few hours later to a barrage of messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My Instagram was just super flooded,” Orgel said. She’d received hundreds of messages of thanks. “I’m the type of person where I hate not getting something done, especially when someone is counting on me. I just felt like such a sense of urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Lowell Principal Swett sent an email to students that outlined steps the school had taken to educate and prevent sexual harassment on campus, such as awareness campaigns, training for teachers and programs to educate students about healthy relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish that I had as much power as kids think I have,” Swett said. “I am very sorry that anyone has ever been hurt. It’s not fair, and we do our best to try to mitigate all of that. I have spent a tremendous amount of my time simply responding to people’s bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding Support Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even if the school district is unable to do anything about it, some students say sharing their stories and finding support online has helped them in other ways. Xufei Zhao, who graduated from Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco last spring, said a few years ago she was sexually assaulted by a family member, a student at Lowell High School. She had no idea what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it happened, a lot was going on in my mind. I was like, what do I do? Am I supposed to talk to him first? Am I supposed to tell my parents? Am I supposed to file a report? Am I supposed to … hide it from everybody until I die?” she said, remembering the shame she felt at the time. She bought a lock for her bedroom door so she could hide when the relative came over for family gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/144581126_177955346994097_8481618358854499444_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xufei Zhao, a recent graduate of the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology high school in San Francisco, says it felt like a weight had been lifted after she posted about her experience of assault online. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Xufei Zhao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED is unable to verify the allegations and is not naming the alleged perpetrator. He did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Zhao posted about her experience online, she opened up to her parents about the alleged abuse, and was put in touch with a hotline for sexual assault survivors. San Francisco police reached out to her on Instagram, and she considered filing a police report. But she says she decided against it because she already felt drained, and was skeptical filing a report would lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>When Teachers Are Accused\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the school district did complete at least two investigations against Lowell teachers after allegations were posted on social media, according to disciplinary documents provided to KQED in response to a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physical education teacher Thomas Geren was accused last summer of demonstrating patterns of inappropriate behavior, including unwelcome touching, staring and catcalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school found that Geren had used terms of endearment to describe students, pointed out a student’s hickies and “touched a student’s shoulders in what was an unwelcome gesture,” according to a counselling memo. Principal Swett directed Geren to refrain from physical contact with students and familiarize himself with district policies and employee codes of conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geren and his attorney did not comment on the allegations or the discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate case, a student posted allegations of harassment against social studies teacher Adam Michels on Instagram in June. She wrote that she had reported his behavior during the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>By suing its own school board and school district, San Francisco has transformed a painful and emotional argument over how to bring students back into classrooms into a legal battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, stakeholders — from parents to teachers to elected officials — are citing differing sets of statistics and experiences in support of their positions, with the issue of equity emerging as a fault line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the city filed a petition for a court order directing San Francisco Unified School District to prepare to bring students back into classrooms \"now that it is possible to do so safely,\" City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're asking the court to order the school board and the school district to put in place a plan, a viable plan, to reopen safely,\" Herrera said at a joint news conference with Mayor London Breed. \"If that plan is followed, schools will reopen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was blasted by SFUSD's superintendent, its school board president and the president of the teachers union, who said the lawsuit has been filed at the wrong time and for the wrong reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD President Vincent Matthews said the central complaint of the lawsuit, that the district doesn't have a legally required plan to reopen schools, is false. [pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tia Ghose, San Francisco parent\"]'The schools needed to be reopened yesterday.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We absolutely have a comprehensive plan,\" he said at a press conference after the court action was announced. \"And this plan has specific steps around health and safety guidelines, and what our processes would be and what in-person learning would look like for our ... student populations to return as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said the city is working with the health department to approve school sites for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/faqs/inperson-hybrid-learning-plans-faqs/reopening-school-buildings\">reopening\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the district nor the city can unilaterally reopen schools, even with health department approval. The teachers union must also agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Susan Solomon, president of \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the district and the union had been \"getting closer to an agreement\" on reopening, she said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unfortunate there is the distraction of this lawsuit,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed, who has been sharply critical of SFUSD for not bringing back students after nearly a year of educating them through distance learning, said the city had no choice but to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Families right now aren't able to plan for their futures, they can't decide whether to accept a job offer because they don't know when they're going to be able to once again have their kids returned to the classroom,\" she said at the press conference Wednesday. \"This is paralyzing our city and our residents, and I know that this is a drastic step, but I feel we are out of options at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What's the Holdup?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of physically returning students and teachers to schools say there is little justification for further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Herrera ticked off reasons for SFUSD to invite its 54,000 students out from behind their home computers and back into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited assessments by city and state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that schools can safely reopen, and he held up in-person learning currently taking place at 113 private and parochial schools in the city as something that should be possible for public schools as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person school, and less than five cases of in-school transmission have been reported,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data showing a widening achievement gap in the student population was also driving the city's decision to act, he stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Black, Latino and other students of color in San Francisco, as well as those from low- income families, have lost significant academic ground compared with wealthier and white students during the pandemic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD's\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-approves-resolution-safe-return-person-learning\"> Return to School Safely\u003c/a> plan originally envisioned a phased timeline for kids to come back, with the first wave of campuses reopening Jan. 25. But the plan was put on hold because, the district said, the union had made “significant new requests” that went beyond the safety protocols set by the city's Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101881772/bay-area-parents-students-eager-to-know-when-schools-will-reopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearance\u003c/a> on KQED's \"Forum\" radio program last week, Solomon, from the teachers union, defended that position, citing issues of equity.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pecolia Manigo, Oakland parent\"]'It's not in their families, is not in their neighborhood ... It's an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It's not even seen as a potential threat ... We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\"[W]e know that in San Francisco as well as in surrounding counties, the families and communities who are hardest hit by COVID — namely Black and brown communities — are seeing much higher rates [than] the rest of the neighborhoods and communities,\" Solomon said. \"And we are emphasizing a lower community spread [before returning to schools] so that we can mitigate the effects of people being together who are in multigenerational households, who are experiencing ... higher rates of COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Ramos, a teacher-librarian at Sanchez Elementary School who has a 7-year-old daughter in a San Francisco school, says pointing to private school reopenings as a reason for public schools to follow suit is illogical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students from private schools are not coming from communities where [coronavirus] spread is so high,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the pandemic has dragged on, with little sign that children will see the inside of a classroom this school year, many parents have reached the end of their tether. The group Open Schools California has united parents from San Diego to Davis in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857557/parents-unite-from-all-over-california-to-press-for-schools-reopening-unions-are-pushing-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempt to pressure stakeholders\u003c/a> who have the power to take action to pull the trigger on reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After 11 months of school closures and a lack of political will from some state and local leaders to do what's best for school children, it is encouraging to see the City of San Francisco acknowledge the science and stand up for what's right and what we've known all along,\" said Megan Bacigalupi, an organizer with the group, in a statement responding to the lawsuit. \"That schools can be reopened safely for students and teachers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tia Ghose, a journalist who lives in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, says her two children have struggled with online learning. She and her husband recently pulled their third-grader out of public school and are now paying for in-person learning at a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The schools needed to be reopened yesterday,\" Ghose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848013/for-some-kids-distance-learning-is-rough-for-others-its-excruciating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not alone\u003c/a> among Bay Area parents in reporting their kids struggling with going to school only online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\"We see high levels of anxiety,” Saun-Toy Trotter, a psychotherapist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, told KQED in November. “High levels of depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Her school-based clinic recorded more youth suicide attempts in the first four weeks of the pandemic than it did in the entire previous year, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every parent agrees that a return to in-person instruction is a no-brainer. On Forum, Solomon pointed to an SFUSD survey that found relatively more Black and brown parents reporting they don't feel safe sending their kids back into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic is playing out in other communities with high coronavirus transmission rates. Pecolia Manigo, a parent of three OUSD students and executive director of the Bay Area Parent Action Leadership Network, told KQED recently that many parents who are pushing for schools to reopen have not felt the effect of the pandemic the way that communities of color have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not in their families, is not in their neighborhood,\" said Manigo, who is Black. \"It's an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It's not even seen as a potential threat ... We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Moreno, a \"third-generation-deep\" Mission District native with a 5-year-old daughter attending elementary school in the neighborhood, said that schools need to bring kids back, \"but they need to open when it’s safe for our students, our teachers and our community members. And that means vaccines for teachers and the support staff who make up the school community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out different plans for students of diverse needs, including impoverished students and those with disabilities, can be \"extremely resource-consuming,\" said Megan Caluza, a behavior analyst for SFUSD. One of the handful of educators on the district's working group on reopening, she says resumption of in-person learning requires more planning than people might realize.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"City Attorney Dennis Herrera\"]'Almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person school, and less than five cases of in-school transmission have been reported.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health guidelines for reopening, she said, \"aren't focused on equity, they're focused on broad public health understanding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Cacophany of Opinions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, while there are health disparities surrounding COVID-19 between different racial and economic groups, unequal responses to remote learning exist as well. As Herrera alluded to Wednesday, San Francisco public schools during the pandemic have experienced a higher rate of absenteeism and learning loss among Black, Latino, Asian and low-income students compared to those who are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, during a Board of Supervisors' debate, outgoing Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer became irate over the city's lack of progress in bringing students back into classrooms, calling it racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[F]or those of you who are currently public school parents, it is great that you have internet access. It is great that you have a home for your children, and a place for them to do online learning and distance learning,\" Fewer shouted. \"But man, you talk to some of these parents, and you talk to some of these children, and you go to those community learning hubs, it would break your heart. This is a disservice. This is racist, and this is a disservice. It is one thing to say 'Black lives matter,' it's another thing to be saying 'while they're alive.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this cacophony of opinions comes the lawsuit by the city. Will it succeed? Bill Koski, a professor of law and education at Stanford Law School, says courts are often hesitant to intervene on matters of school policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, the city's petition may represent uncharted territory.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rafael Moreno, SF Mission District parent\"]'They need to open when it’s safe for our students, our teachers and our community members. And that means vaccines for teachers and the support staff who make up the school community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my knowledge, this is a first, where a city has taken the step of filing a lawsuit against the local public schools in order to have them reopen during the pandemic,\" Koski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Solomon, from the teachers union, was asked if she thought the city and district were close enough in negotiations to see a return to in-person learning this year, she said, \"I think we can get an agreement, yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's unclear how the lawsuit will affect those talks. (\u003cem>Update Feb. 6\u003c/em>: On Friday, school unions announced a proposal that would restart in-person classes when San Francisco is categorized under the red tier of the state's COVID-19 risk-assessment system, provided vaccines are made available to all staff who work in district buildings, among other additional safety measures. If vaccines are not available, the unions would return once the city enters the orange tier, one level up from red in terms of indicating transmission risk. San Francisco is currently in the purple tier, the level designating the most risk.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the city's aggressive action has generated some bitterness among teachers. \"I already have low pay in what is one of the most expensive cities in the world,\" said Max Raynard, who teaches at Clarendon Elementary School. He said the lawsuit made him think San Francisco leadership doesn't support teachers. \"My raise each year is lower than the rate of inflation, which means I'm getting a pay cut each year. So I am doing this out of love of teaching and the students. And now people want to risk my life and the life of my loved ones?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos, the teacher at Sanchez Elementary who supports waiting to reopen, acknowledges her daughter has had trouble adapting to online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It hasn't been easy for us to keep her focused on what her teacher is asking us to do,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But little moments of wonder still occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's been inspired by the way she's learning from her teachers and recording her own tutorials on the computer,\" Ramos said. She recalls her daughter exclaiming, \"'Here's how to make a book, everybody!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All involved have one thing in common, at least. They wish for moments like that for every student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Katie Orr, Julia McEvoy and Lesley McClurg contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Less than 2% of students at Lowell are Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution comes as the San Francisco Unified School District continues to investigate racist, anti-Semitic and pornographic messages \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/anti-racism-lesson-San-Francisco-Lowell-hacked-15890373.php\">posted during a virtual anti-racism lesson\u003c/a> at the school late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowell administrators initially wrote an email to parents and students saying that the lesson had been hacked – but in a later statement changed course, saying it was “highly likely” the posts were made by a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophomore Gabrielle Grice – a member of the school’s Black Student Union – said it felt like school officials were initially trying to blame people outside the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the administration responded this way to keep up their reputation of like, ‘Oh, we’re a really good school, free of racism. We’ll welcome you with open arms.’ That type of reputation,” she said. “The more you sweep things under the rug, someone is eventually going to trip over it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Grice first learned about the racist posts she said she wasn’t surprised and that it felt consistent with her experience at Lowell. Her father is one of the few Black teachers at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you get into the classrooms and you sit down, you’re met with many micro-aggressions and things like that, people telling you, ‘You got in just because of your dad,’ ” Grice said. “The general environment is not welcoming with Black students there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-2048x1460.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/IMG_6896-1920x1368.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabrielle Grice, a sophomore at Lowell and member of the Black Student Union. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gabrielle Grice)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lowell Principal Dacotah Swett did not respond to requests for comment for this story, but posted a video message soon after the racist posts went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of our students, the full measure of disciplinary action will be taken in accordance with the district policies up to and including expulsion,” she said in the video, addressing the perpetrator(s) of the racist posts. “I am committed to working alongside our leadership groups, the [Black Student Union], and our cultural clubs to collaborate with them and determine what we can do together to heal this fresh wound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell senior and Black Student Union leader, spoke during a long and emotional Board of Education meeting soon after the racist posts were made. Hines-Foster is also a student delegate for SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all keep coddling this raggedy-ass school. Ya’ll need to stop now,” Hines-Foster said at the meeting. “It’s really the fact that students feel more comfortable coming to me to deal with this situation than administrators. That shows you a lot … This has gone on for too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Student Union at Lowell has been demanding changes at the school for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yulanda Williams, SFPD officer and Lowell '73 alumna\"]‘When we dared to say we wanted a Black Student Union, they felt like we were revolting and like we were going to become the Black Panthers or we were going to engage in some type of guerrilla warfare.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulanda Williams graduated from Lowell in 1973. She’s now a San Francisco police officer and the president of Officers for Justice, an association of Black SFPD officers. She still remembers how it felt arriving on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could feel the tension just starting to rise and the pressure starting to rise,” Williams said. She still remembers the offensive song her classmates used to sing to her: “They used to sing something that went like this: ‘Dark Girl in the Night.’ Why would you do that to me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said there were about 300 Black students at Lowell at the time, and they organized. Williams became a member of the Black Student Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we dared to say we wanted a Black Student Union, they felt like we were revolting and like we were going to become the Black Panthers or we were going to engage in some type of guerrilla warfare with everyone there,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Yulanda-Williams-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yulanda William is now a San Francisco police officer. 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