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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Maureen learned her former Oakland School for the Arts teacher was being investigated by police over allegations he sexually abused a student nearly two decades ago, she was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen, 34, said the arrest of Jeremy Taylor brought back painful memories of what she believes were inappropriate relationships staff at the school developed with students — including the relationship she had with a teacher that led to their marriage seven years after she graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a document provided by Maureen and reviewed by KQED, Maureen married Wesley Cayabyab, who worked at OSA while she was in high school, in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is not using Maureen’s real name because she fears retaliation and harassment by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen, a member of OSA’s first graduating class, remembered how she and other students confided in Taylor while they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor was fired last February after an investigation by a firm hired by the school found a “preponderance of evidence” that he had a sexual relationship with a student. Prosecutors allege he sexually abused the student in 2005. Through his attorney, Taylor, who was arrested in May, has denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the alleged victim filed a lawsuit against OSA and the Oakland Unified School District, claiming school officials “did nothing in response to obviously suspicious and dangerous behavior, allowing the abuse to continue and escalate in severity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11921799,news_11911375,news_11935859\"]OSA was founded in 2002 by then-Mayor Jerry Brown as part of his mission to open a charter school that provides a rigorous arts education. When the school opened on Alice Street near Oakland’s Civic Center neighborhood, turnover among staff was high, and former students say they were under tremendous pressure to protect the school’s image. The school, which serves more than 800 students in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870187/room-302-home-of-oaklands-own-tiny-desk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disciplines ranging from voice to dance\u003c/a>, is now in the Fox Theater building, on Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many alums have achieved success, including Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars of HBO’s \u003ci>Euphoria\u003c/i>, and the chart-topping pop and R&B singer Kehlani. But the school’s two-decade history has been marred by allegations of harassment and misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained a copy of a report by Oppenheimer Investigations Group, which probed sexual abuse allegations against Taylor and included statements from former students who recounted a troubling environment at OSA, dating back to the school’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story, KQED reviewed dozens of pages of documents, journal entries, yearbook pages, emails and screenshots related to the period — 2003 to 2006 — described in the investigation. In addition, KQED has reviewed records from subsequent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen and former students who spoke with KQED described a culture that allowed for inappropriate relationships between staff and students. They want to prevent current students from experiencing similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If no one talks about the fact that that happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents,” Maureen, who divorced Cayabyab in 2018, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a hand is seen against a yearbook page focusing on a bald white teacher with glasses and a beard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jeremy Taylor in a yearbook for Oakland School for the Arts. Taylor was fired in February 2022 following allegations he sexually abused a student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer’s investigation referenced a marriage between a teacher and former student after the student graduated as an example of a culture at the school where boundaries were not enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen shared emails she said Cayabyab sent her over a 17-month period while she was a student. Cayabyab told Maureen she was attractive, called her “sweetheart” and described getting lunch with her and making her late for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reciprocate on the feeling of love: I love YOU, just not this country,” he allegedly wrote on Nov. 4, 2004, one day after George W. Bush claimed a reelection victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, an OSA spokesperson, said records show Cayabyab, 40, was a “technical theater teacher” from 2003–2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment by text, Cayabyab, now a medical simulation specialist at Stanford University, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley-cayabyab-b276501/\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a>, responded, “Your sources have exaggerated the facts to make themselves look impeccable and want nothing more than to use me as a scapegoat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"'Maureen,' Oakland School for the Arts alum\"]‘If no one talks about the fact that [inappropriate relationships] happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents.’[/pullquote]Taylor, the subject of the most recent investigation, taught economics, U.S. government and Advanced Placement psychology. In an email sent to OSA families in August, Mike Oz, the school’s executive director, wrote that no current employee “had any knowledge of allegations or instances of sexual misconduct, grooming or boundary crossing by Mr. Taylor prior to January 3rd, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, 47, pleaded not guilty in December to committing a lewd act upon a child. His lawyer, Elizabeth Grossman, said the abuse allegations are a “total fabrication.” Recent OSA graduates said Taylor was popular on campus, and students had crushes on him, sharing memes of him online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The criminal case is a tragedy,” Grossman, a criminal defense attorney who specializes in disciplinary matters in schools and universities, according to her website, said by phone. “It’s an example of an excellent, dedicated teacher having his career ruined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to allegations of inappropriate behavior by former staff, including multiple allegations that have not been previously reported, Borg said current school leaders have “very limited insight” into incidents that occurred during the school’s infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[O]ur leadership team has aggressively worked to review archived records, discarded computer drives, spoken to witnesses and reviewed other sources to discern the truth,” he said. “Where we have conducted investigations that yielded credible information, we have taken action and cooperated with law enforcement. Every accusation or complaint, formal or not, receives immediate attention and is fully investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What was normal and what was not’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oppenheimer report describes a pattern of grooming behavior by Taylor, and a campus where leadership created “a culture of loose boundaries” that “likely enabled Taylor’s relationships with his students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student whose account was included in the report told KQED that the ways other faculty at the school behaved with students made her relationship with Taylor seem normal. She attended OSA from 2003 to 2005, and asked not to be named over concerns that former OSA staff could threaten her legally for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two hands are seen holding a yearbook with a title 'Our new home'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Maureen’ holds a yearbook from her time at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was very apparent to me and my friends that there were teachers at our school that could possibly like students,” she said. “But looking back at it as an adult, you don’t hug a student and massage their back, and all these red flags, and [make] it look like a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered talking to Taylor about her personal life for hours on the phone. When rumors spread on campus that she had a sexual relationship with Taylor, she said school staff joked about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more humiliating to have my teachers laugh and poke fun instead of calling my parents first and seeing if there was something going on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten former students told KQED that Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, also behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. None of the former students alleged sexual abuse by Miller, who worked at OSA until 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alum who graduated in 2008 told KQED she frequently went out to eat with Miller alone while she was a student, and they called each other frequently. She asked not to be named because she fears retaliation from Miller, who, \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmiller11/\">according to his LinkedIn bio\u003c/a>, has been employed as a deputy legislative counsel in California’s Office of Legislative Counsel since December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young person with long dark hair stands with her back facing the camera in an orange sweater, in front of a school\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An alum who graduated from OSA in 2008 said she often went out to eat alone with former teacher Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, and they called each other frequently while she was a student. She’s one of several alums who told KQED that Miller behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He would hug me a lot, kiss me on my forehead, call me ‘sweetie,’ tell me he loved me,” she said. “There was a lot of ‘I love you,’ and that’s also part of OSA culture. At the time, it was almost normal for teachers and students to say ‘I love you’ to one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after Miller took another job, she would leave school during lunch to intern at the theater company his wife founded in Antioch. He often drove her home and held her hand during the rides, she said. She shared emails with KQED from 2007 and 2008 where Miller wrote, “I love you” and “I miss you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=education_535503]Maureen said Miller once pulled her into his lap and would also kiss her forehead. She said he would call her beautiful and compliment her body. Alums said Miller was once a prominent figure at OSA who influenced students’ artistic futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, 47, denied any “improprieties with any student or former student at any time” in a statement. In an interview, Miller said he did not recall holding a student’s hand during rides home, and when he did call students it was for professional or academic reasons. He said body image is always an issue for performing artists, and it would not have surprised him if he told a student she was a beautiful girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hugging, the nicknames — I would describe it as a top-of-a-head kiss, not a forehead kiss, in moments of triumph, moments of great excitement — I’m sure happened,” he said. “This was a school of huggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a yearbook photo shows a white male teacher smiling and pointing\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jason Miller in an Oakland School for the Arts yearbook. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, according to Borg, Miller was on OSA’s “legal counsel team” that provided guidance on the school’s policies for Title IX, the law that protects students from sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex. OSA students walked out of class to protest the administration’s response to alleged sexual harassment by other students in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the protest, Miller spoke at an OSA board of directors meeting. He said he was working closely with staff to make sure the rights of all students were protected, and outlined the process for reporting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg said Miller stopped working on “OSA matters” in September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A revolving door of teachers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former teachers who spoke with KQED about OSA’s early years recalled a dysfunctional environment. Teachers were young and inexperienced, and many did not stay long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the most unstable schools I ever [encountered] in my life,” recalled Bronwyn LaMay, who said she worked at OSA for less than a month in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with long brown hair wearing a green overcoat poses in a park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronwyn LaMay poses for a portrait at Weekes Community Center Park in Hayward on Nov. 22, 2022. While working at OSA, LaMay said she felt ‘completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LaMay, now director of the San José Area Writing Project and a lecturer at San José State University, said she reported another teacher whom she believes sexually harassed her to school administrators soon after she started the job. But she said she resigned when it was clear the school was not going to take any steps to protect her or take the complaint seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team,” said LaMay, 47. “It’s incredibly important how you talk to people, how you treat people, what kind of space you hold, the kind of norms you set, what kind of policies you do or don’t allow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim’m West worked at OSA from 2002 to 2004, teaching creative writing and literary arts. He developed close relationships with students and set his own boundaries. As an openly gay teacher aware of how homophobia has fueled false accusations of predatory behavior, he said he kept the door open when meeting with students. He believes policies like that should not have been left for individual teachers to set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a kind of warm, fuzzy, affectionate culture at OSA that I think would have been inappropriate in a lot of school contexts, and wasn’t appropriate then,” said West, 50. “The culture of silence around that — it could enable, very easily, people to abuse those boundaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that after a slam poetry event, Loni Berry, the school’s first director, called him to his office and told West that hip-hop was not a real art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in Oakland, and kids were having to manage so much of what was going on without a lot of support,” said West, now executive director of the LGBTQ Institute in Atlanta. “Teachers were filling the gaps of that, and it was becoming a toxic culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Berry, who started a production company in Bangkok, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one administrator at OSA expressed concerns that Taylor was privately counseling students, according to the Oppenheimer report. And in 2005, the mother of the student allegedly sexually abused by Taylor complained to a school administrator about lengthy phone calls between Taylor and the student, according to the lawsuit filed by the former student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim’m West, former OSA teacher\"]‘There was a kind of warm, fuzzy, affectionate culture at OSA that I think would have been inappropriate in a lot of school contexts, and wasn’t appropriate then. The culture of silence around that — it could enable, very easily, people to abuse those boundaries.’[/pullquote]The alleged victim described to investigators how she had large blocks of time when she could easily leave class and spend time with Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor left OSA in 2006. He briefly taught in North Carolina before returning to OSA in 2007, according to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billie-Jo Grant, an expert in school employee sexual misconduct prevention, said it’s important for schools to examine the policies they had in place when older abuse allegations resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Were we providing training? What did we do when we hired someone? What did we do when a concern or a complaint came up? What was the messaging around harassment, misconduct?'” she said. “Those would be the areas I would look for in these older cases, peeling back the layers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2021, OSA students created the Student Safety Committee to push the school to address sexual harassment and assault on and off campus. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921799/students-shared-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-oakland-school-for-the-arts-then-chaos-broke-out\">The group organized a walkout\u003c/a> in September of that year, demanding regular assemblies on sexual harassment and assault as well as improvements to the sexual education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school released a statement refuting most claims of sexual misconduct. Student organizers said the response from administrators left them feeling unsupported by the school and even more wary of reporting abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and OSA administrators are also facing two lawsuits involving Black students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and that the school did not take steps to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg claims the school has improved the quality of training and procedures related to sexual harassment and assault, and updated its policy around responding to complaints since the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Richardson, who graduated in 2020, hopes Taylor’s arrest is a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA has a history of choosing to ignore problems, whether they be racial [or] sexual assault,” she said. “[We’ve] dealt with so many issues where we weren’t able to find comfort in staff or any authority. It’s been a pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>OSA was founded in 2002 by then-Mayor Jerry Brown as part of his mission to open a charter school that provides a rigorous arts education. When the school opened on Alice Street near Oakland’s Civic Center neighborhood, turnover among staff was high, and former students say they were under tremendous pressure to protect the school’s image. The school, which serves more than 800 students in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870187/room-302-home-of-oaklands-own-tiny-desk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disciplines ranging from voice to dance\u003c/a>, is now in the Fox Theater building, on Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many alums have achieved success, including Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars of HBO’s \u003ci>Euphoria\u003c/i>, and the chart-topping pop and R&B singer Kehlani. But the school’s two-decade history has been marred by allegations of harassment and misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained a copy of a report by Oppenheimer Investigations Group, which probed sexual abuse allegations against Taylor and included statements from former students who recounted a troubling environment at OSA, dating back to the school’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story, KQED reviewed dozens of pages of documents, journal entries, yearbook pages, emails and screenshots related to the period — 2003 to 2006 — described in the investigation. In addition, KQED has reviewed records from subsequent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen and former students who spoke with KQED described a culture that allowed for inappropriate relationships between staff and students. They want to prevent current students from experiencing similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If no one talks about the fact that that happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents,” Maureen, who divorced Cayabyab in 2018, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a hand is seen against a yearbook page focusing on a bald white teacher with glasses and a beard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jeremy Taylor in a yearbook for Oakland School for the Arts. Taylor was fired in February 2022 following allegations he sexually abused a student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer’s investigation referenced a marriage between a teacher and former student after the student graduated as an example of a culture at the school where boundaries were not enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen shared emails she said Cayabyab sent her over a 17-month period while she was a student. Cayabyab told Maureen she was attractive, called her “sweetheart” and described getting lunch with her and making her late for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reciprocate on the feeling of love: I love YOU, just not this country,” he allegedly wrote on Nov. 4, 2004, one day after George W. Bush claimed a reelection victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, an OSA spokesperson, said records show Cayabyab, 40, was a “technical theater teacher” from 2003–2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment by text, Cayabyab, now a medical simulation specialist at Stanford University, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley-cayabyab-b276501/\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a>, responded, “Your sources have exaggerated the facts to make themselves look impeccable and want nothing more than to use me as a scapegoat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Taylor, the subject of the most recent investigation, taught economics, U.S. government and Advanced Placement psychology. In an email sent to OSA families in August, Mike Oz, the school’s executive director, wrote that no current employee “had any knowledge of allegations or instances of sexual misconduct, grooming or boundary crossing by Mr. Taylor prior to January 3rd, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, 47, pleaded not guilty in December to committing a lewd act upon a child. His lawyer, Elizabeth Grossman, said the abuse allegations are a “total fabrication.” Recent OSA graduates said Taylor was popular on campus, and students had crushes on him, sharing memes of him online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The criminal case is a tragedy,” Grossman, a criminal defense attorney who specializes in disciplinary matters in schools and universities, according to her website, said by phone. “It’s an example of an excellent, dedicated teacher having his career ruined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to allegations of inappropriate behavior by former staff, including multiple allegations that have not been previously reported, Borg said current school leaders have “very limited insight” into incidents that occurred during the school’s infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[O]ur leadership team has aggressively worked to review archived records, discarded computer drives, spoken to witnesses and reviewed other sources to discern the truth,” he said. “Where we have conducted investigations that yielded credible information, we have taken action and cooperated with law enforcement. Every accusation or complaint, formal or not, receives immediate attention and is fully investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What was normal and what was not’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oppenheimer report describes a pattern of grooming behavior by Taylor, and a campus where leadership created “a culture of loose boundaries” that “likely enabled Taylor’s relationships with his students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student whose account was included in the report told KQED that the ways other faculty at the school behaved with students made her relationship with Taylor seem normal. She attended OSA from 2003 to 2005, and asked not to be named over concerns that former OSA staff could threaten her legally for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two hands are seen holding a yearbook with a title 'Our new home'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Maureen’ holds a yearbook from her time at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was very apparent to me and my friends that there were teachers at our school that could possibly like students,” she said. “But looking back at it as an adult, you don’t hug a student and massage their back, and all these red flags, and [make] it look like a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered talking to Taylor about her personal life for hours on the phone. When rumors spread on campus that she had a sexual relationship with Taylor, she said school staff joked about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more humiliating to have my teachers laugh and poke fun instead of calling my parents first and seeing if there was something going on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten former students told KQED that Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, also behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. None of the former students alleged sexual abuse by Miller, who worked at OSA until 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alum who graduated in 2008 told KQED she frequently went out to eat with Miller alone while she was a student, and they called each other frequently. She asked not to be named because she fears retaliation from Miller, who, \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmiller11/\">according to his LinkedIn bio\u003c/a>, has been employed as a deputy legislative counsel in California’s Office of Legislative Counsel since December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young person with long dark hair stands with her back facing the camera in an orange sweater, in front of a school\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An alum who graduated from OSA in 2008 said she often went out to eat alone with former teacher Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, and they called each other frequently while she was a student. She’s one of several alums who told KQED that Miller behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He would hug me a lot, kiss me on my forehead, call me ‘sweetie,’ tell me he loved me,” she said. “There was a lot of ‘I love you,’ and that’s also part of OSA culture. At the time, it was almost normal for teachers and students to say ‘I love you’ to one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after Miller took another job, she would leave school during lunch to intern at the theater company his wife founded in Antioch. He often drove her home and held her hand during the rides, she said. She shared emails with KQED from 2007 and 2008 where Miller wrote, “I love you” and “I miss you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Maureen said Miller once pulled her into his lap and would also kiss her forehead. She said he would call her beautiful and compliment her body. Alums said Miller was once a prominent figure at OSA who influenced students’ artistic futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, 47, denied any “improprieties with any student or former student at any time” in a statement. In an interview, Miller said he did not recall holding a student’s hand during rides home, and when he did call students it was for professional or academic reasons. He said body image is always an issue for performing artists, and it would not have surprised him if he told a student she was a beautiful girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hugging, the nicknames — I would describe it as a top-of-a-head kiss, not a forehead kiss, in moments of triumph, moments of great excitement — I’m sure happened,” he said. “This was a school of huggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a yearbook photo shows a white male teacher smiling and pointing\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jason Miller in an Oakland School for the Arts yearbook. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, according to Borg, Miller was on OSA’s “legal counsel team” that provided guidance on the school’s policies for Title IX, the law that protects students from sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex. OSA students walked out of class to protest the administration’s response to alleged sexual harassment by other students in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the protest, Miller spoke at an OSA board of directors meeting. He said he was working closely with staff to make sure the rights of all students were protected, and outlined the process for reporting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg said Miller stopped working on “OSA matters” in September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A revolving door of teachers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former teachers who spoke with KQED about OSA’s early years recalled a dysfunctional environment. Teachers were young and inexperienced, and many did not stay long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the most unstable schools I ever [encountered] in my life,” recalled Bronwyn LaMay, who said she worked at OSA for less than a month in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with long brown hair wearing a green overcoat poses in a park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronwyn LaMay poses for a portrait at Weekes Community Center Park in Hayward on Nov. 22, 2022. While working at OSA, LaMay said she felt ‘completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LaMay, now director of the San José Area Writing Project and a lecturer at San José State University, said she reported another teacher whom she believes sexually harassed her to school administrators soon after she started the job. But she said she resigned when it was clear the school was not going to take any steps to protect her or take the complaint seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team,” said LaMay, 47. “It’s incredibly important how you talk to people, how you treat people, what kind of space you hold, the kind of norms you set, what kind of policies you do or don’t allow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim’m West worked at OSA from 2002 to 2004, teaching creative writing and literary arts. He developed close relationships with students and set his own boundaries. As an openly gay teacher aware of how homophobia has fueled false accusations of predatory behavior, he said he kept the door open when meeting with students. He believes policies like that should not have been left for individual teachers to set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The alleged victim described to investigators how she had large blocks of time when she could easily leave class and spend time with Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor left OSA in 2006. He briefly taught in North Carolina before returning to OSA in 2007, according to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billie-Jo Grant, an expert in school employee sexual misconduct prevention, said it’s important for schools to examine the policies they had in place when older abuse allegations resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Were we providing training? What did we do when we hired someone? What did we do when a concern or a complaint came up? What was the messaging around harassment, misconduct?'” she said. “Those would be the areas I would look for in these older cases, peeling back the layers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2021, OSA students created the Student Safety Committee to push the school to address sexual harassment and assault on and off campus. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921799/students-shared-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-oakland-school-for-the-arts-then-chaos-broke-out\">The group organized a walkout\u003c/a> in September of that year, demanding regular assemblies on sexual harassment and assault as well as improvements to the sexual education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school released a statement refuting most claims of sexual misconduct. Student organizers said the response from administrators left them feeling unsupported by the school and even more wary of reporting abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and OSA administrators are also facing two lawsuits involving Black students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and that the school did not take steps to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg claims the school has improved the quality of training and procedures related to sexual harassment and assault, and updated its policy around responding to complaints since the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Richardson, who graduated in 2020, hopes Taylor’s arrest is a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA has a history of choosing to ignore problems, whether they be racial [or] sexual assault,” she said. “[We’ve] dealt with so many issues where we weren’t able to find comfort in staff or any authority. It’s been a pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sept. 30, 2021, hundreds of students at Oakland School for the Arts walked out of class to protest sexual misconduct both on and off campus. Students marched to nearby Uptown ArtPark, where organizers said they read a list of demands that included calls for the school to hold regular assemblies about consent and improve the sex education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya McCall, 17, who was a senior at the time, helped plan the protest. In an interview with KQED, she said dozens of students lined up that day in the blazing heat for a chance to share their experiences with harassment or assault. Classmates hugged, wore blue to show solidarity and cheered, “We believe you,” and “You’re not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just so much love and support that you don’t know what to do,” McCall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that feeling didn’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a senior at Oakland School for the Arts, Maya McCall helped organize the walkout to protest sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the young people who attended the walkout were allegedly retaliated against by students or their family members, according to accounts by classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain boys were allegedly called rapists and bullied by other students, according to several parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Sherman-Colt, the school’s executive director at the time, sent an email to the school community that in response to bullying, “there have been several fights and physical or verbal altercations on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the accusations made against students “almost exclusively [targeted] black heterosexual males.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the response from the school created a false division, and undermined the trust of women of color who had experienced abuse and spoke at the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Oz, the current executive director of the school, declined to be interviewed, but wrote in a March 20 email, “My leadership team and I are one hundred percent focused on providing the support and services our students, families and faculty need as a result of the walkout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11859164,news_11911375\"]The upheaval at OSA is not an isolated event, but part of a national movement by students to get schools to take concerns about sexual harassment and abuse seriously, and to create safe ways for students to report incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with inaction by administrators, students in California and around the country have also tried to protect themselves or their friends. In February, a Fortuna High School student was suspended after she wore a T-shirt with the name of an alleged perpetrator and a text message he reportedly sent defending his behavior. Student activists in San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Gatos have said classmates faced social consequences, were harassed online or were threatened with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to understand what led to the September walkout at OSA and the chaotic aftermath, KQED spoke with 24 students and alumni. Almost all of them said the school had failed over the years to respond adequately to sexual harassment or abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The publishing of this reporting, which includes several months of interviews and the review of dozens of records, comes just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/04/oakland-high-school-teacher-charged-with-molesting-student-in-2004-remained-with-school-for-17-years-after-alleged-crimes-despite-warnings/\">Bay Area News Group reported\u003c/a> that a teacher at Oakland School of the Arts, Jeremy Taylor, had been “arrested and charged with molesting a then-14-year-old girl throughout her freshman year, in 2004.” The alleged crime was reported to police last year, according to police records. But Taylor, who was described as “creepy” by a student, was no longer in “active status” at the school effective Jan. 13, according to a memo obtained by KQED that was sent to OSA families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to OSA families sent Sunday, Oz wrote that the school was notified of allegations against Taylor by Oakland police on Jan. 3, and Taylor was put on “inactive status” that day and “never returned to teach at OSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;font-weight: bold\">A refuge for young artists\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit charter school was founded in 2002 by then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown to promote the study of arts. Middle and high school students study subjects like theater, dance and fashion design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars on the hit HBO show “Euphoria,” attended the school. So did Leila Mottley, author of “Nightcrawling” and the youngest writer ever selected by Oprah’s Book Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several students and alumni who spoke with KQED described OSA as a refuge for young artists, they also believed the school at times used its reputation as a safe space and progressive art institution to dismiss harassment or abuse. Several said they were not taken seriously when they reported abusive or inappropriate behavior. Others said they did not complain to administrators because they did not expect support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland School for the Arts student Imarra Hunter at a park across from the school in Oakland. Hunter loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after she said a school security guard sexually harassed her. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imarra Hunter, 23, graduated from OSA in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after a school security guard sexually harassed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter said she was in the hallway getting a drink of water when the guard, Tamaris Usher, asked her why she needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘I need to take some water with my birth control,’” Hunter recalled. “Once he (saw) that I was taking birth control, he then called me a ‘whore.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter and her mom reported the incident to Donn Harris, OSA’s executive director at the time of the incident. According to Hunter, Harris said his goal was to save the security guard’s job and offered to station the man in a different part of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Harris asserted that the school took the allegations seriously. Records show the school placed Usher on leave the day Hunter reported the incident. A termination notice shared with KQED shows Usher was terminated after nine days and not allowed on campus during the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s mom sued OSA in 2016 for failing to protect students from sexual harassment. The complaint alleged that school administrators knew that the security guard “had previously accosted other female students in a similar manner, but was neither disciplined nor terminated for such behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was settled in 2017. Usher declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter, who majors in theater and communication studies in college, says she’s still wary of getting close to male administrators or teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hate for them to feel comfortable enough to say anything degrading,” Hunter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman in jeans and a green hoodie leans against a brick wall\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Susanna De Angelis Nelson in downtown Oakland. After they reported sexual harassment by another student to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Hunter filed her lawsuit, Susanna De Angelis Nelson, 18, was in middle school at OSA. They said they loved being surrounded by art and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was literally in heaven,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in high school, they saw another side to campus life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018-2019 school year, De Angelis Nelson said a student made repeated sexual comments and touched them without consent. After they reported the sexual harassment to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t love the fact that (administrators) say their No. 1 priority is for students to be safe, but that’s the exact opposite of what they’re doing,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019-2020 school year, several students told KQED they learned classmates were sharing nude photos of female students via social media in what was allegedly known as the “Pokemon Traders” group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with purple hair, a tank top and jeans sits on a bench in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts student Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, a member of the school’s Student Safety Committee, says the administration did not support students who spoke out about harassment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students said the school was aware of the group chat. Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, 17, a rising senior at OSA, said because the school did not communicate about the situation with the student body, rumors began to spread. She remembers walking down the hallway and seeing people staring at the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The least (the school) could’ve done was give the girls support, which I really don’t think they did,” Kanner-Gomes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, a spokesperson for OSA, did not respond to questions from KQED about the group chat or how the school handled allegations made by students. But, in a written statement, he said, “Students do not always fully understand the complexities of what has occurred. Equally important they don’t always fully grasp the privacy and due process regulations we are required to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teaching institution, we are striving to make sure all of our students feel safe and have agency,” he added. “Much of our restorative work has included education and training in the areas of consent, proper use of social media, bullying, cyber bullying, and procedures to report abuse and how these submissions will be handled.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maya McCall\"]‘The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous.’[/pullquote]For the students who started the Student Safety Committee, the tipping point that compelled them to organize was an April 2021 Instagram post in which a former OSA student detailed allegations of sexual assault by a popular alum. The post generated an outpouring of stories by other students and alumni who said they had been harassed or assaulted in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justine Courtenay-Huang, 19, a senior at the time, saw the need to create a space for survivors and advocate for protections at the school. Courtenay-Huang created a group chat on the instant messaging app Discord for students to host movie nights, share experiences with sexual abuse or harassment and brainstorm ways to make the school safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like an exhale. Like you’ve been holding your breath for a really long time and finally get a little breath in,” Courtenay-Huang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re tired. We’re fed up.’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The group chat evolved into the Student Safety Committee, which met with school administrators over Zoom — this was during distance learning — to press for solutions. When students returned to campus in the fall of 2021, they said, they wanted more education about sexual harassment and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Kanner-Gomes and De Angelis Nelson were all committee members. But they said they didn’t see any progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said when she returned to campus, she saw sexual harassment resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous,” McCall said. “We’re tired. We’re fed up.”[aside postID=\"news_11907261\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x765.jpg']So the Student Safety Committee led a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said the protest that was meant to create safety and community led to conflict the school was unprepared to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the walkout, members of the Student Safety Committee began hearing reports that some girls who attended the action were being threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting a bunch of people telling us, ‘I’m being threatened,’ and we’re getting screenshots of threats,” said McCall. “So then we’re like, ‘Oh crap, like, what do we do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, organizers with the Student Safety Committee said they tried to warn school officials that people were likely to get hurt if they didn’t take their concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai–Ge Min, 18, remembers speaking to a revolving door of administrators and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just begging for attention, begging, like, ‘Please, we’re getting these messages, help us.’ And not really anything was being done,” Min said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with short hair and glasses in a blue shirt sits cross-legged in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts alum Tai-Ge Min. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson at OSA did not respond to questions about how OSA responded, but said, “There are clear procedures in place when there is a reported issue and all issues are investigated thoroughly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School closed for a day, but when students returned to campus, emotions were still raw. Classmates said it was like waiting for something to go wrong, and then it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were at least two physical attacks on campus. A parent said her son, a new member of the Student Safety Committee, had bruises on his neck from being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classmates said another student was physically attacked after he made memes about the group chat where explicit images were allegedly traded. The memes named specific boys and mocked the administration’s response, and students said the boy who made the memes was suspended for cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said she was in the hallway with a friend when boys yelled misogynistic, homophobic comments and charged at them. She said staff held the boys back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to questions about the alleged incidents. Several parents criticized OSA’s response in a letter to the school’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration, in essence, did nothing to prevent the assaults that occurred,” they wrote, adding that it was unclear what would be done to make their children safe at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also cited the so-called “Pokemon Traders” group chat as an example of the school’s past failure to address sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue was not addressed system-wide by the administration,” the parents wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Race and gender\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the turmoil on campus, Sherman-Colt, who left her job as executive director earlier this year, wrote to the OSA community that students had been suspended for assault, harassment and cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA is continuing its investigations, reflections, and development regarding sexual violence, racial injustice, and white supremacy culture — all of which have impacted the school community this week,” Sherman-Colt wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherman-Colt, now the chief program officer at Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa Monica according to her LinkedIn profile, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmosphere on campus and online was already tense, and some students said the email only made it worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a virtual board of directors meeting on Oct. 14, 2021, several parents gave impassioned speeches about how Black boys at the school were being bullied and harassed by their peers without evidence they had done anything wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One parent, whom KQED is not naming to protect his son’s safety, pleaded for people to take these concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"A girl sits on a park bench.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Aisling Baus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever someone speaks about Black boys being called rapists online and in school, in front of teachers and walking the hallways, no one talks about the mental anguish that they will go through the rest of our lives,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parent declined to be interviewed for this story, but sent KQED a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to believe that this kind of racial violence and discrimination would occur in 2022 in downtown Oakland at a school that was founded to serve students of color,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other parents of boys accused also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, McCall and other members of the Student Safety Committee gave a presentation to explain their perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff has been focusing on the race of the accused instead of the race of the victims, who have all been women of color,” McCall said. “You can protect us, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting Oz said, “I feel bad. I feel stupid in this moment for not predicting the gravity of that situation more accurately. For that I want to take responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oz addressed a parent who asked how to choose which side to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The side is to support our students,” he said. “We’re a school. We support all of our 796 students. That’s what we do here. Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigators: Most claims ‘not backed by evidence, unfounded’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soon after the walkout, the school announced it had hired an outside firm to investigate allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven months after the walkout, school leadership sent an email to the campus community that said most allegations made after the walkout were either “not backed by evidence, unfounded, or in some instances a result of mistaken identity or assumed guilt by association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mike Oz, executive director, Oakland School for the Arts\"]‘We support all of our 796 students … Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.’[/pullquote]It’s unclear, however, which allegations or how many were reported to the school and investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email went on to say, “We still have members of our community, specifically the falsely accused African American boys and their families, hurting, and this must be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Levenson, an advisor for BHS Stop Harassing, a Berkeley High School student group, had volunteered to assist OSA after the walkout. She called the school’s statement brave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I say that through the lens of someone who has sat with so many survivors of sexual harm,” she said. “You do not get to destroy someone’s life because you’re mad or because you had a bad experience or you experienced assaults. That’s not how this works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai-Ge Min said OSA’s focus on false allegations missed the bigger picture, and left survivors who still needed support out of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Min said some classmates did not want to file complaints about abuse because they did not trust the school to support them, or were worried the administration would notify police. But because few classmates wanted to make formal allegations, Min said people accused victims of making up elaborate stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice has never really come to anyone at OSA,” Min said. “But those girls, however you define justice, they never got any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah Kimble-Price with Bay Area Women Against Rape worries about the long-term impact of OSA’s communications about the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg\" alt=\"Two girls sit on the ground in front of a large building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adaleyd DeLeon (left) and Justine Courtenay-Huang, co-founders of the Student Safety Committee at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want people to be describing or mischaracterizing something that’s not happening. But for a lot of young people, it is happening,” she said. “This communication, the subtext here is that you may not be believed, and that is devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the concerns that led to the walkout continue. Before the school year ended, an anonymous user shared a graphic and offensive post on Instagram that said the girls involved in the walkout weren’t raped or “worthy of getting raped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to a question about the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Min and De Angelis Nelson graduated in the spring, but Kanner-Gomes plans to bring administrators carefully crafted ideas on where the school can improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Here’s what we think you can do. We’re here to work on this with you. Can you please just really listen?’’’ she said. “If we do that, it’s a lot harder to ignore us.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sept. 30, 2021, hundreds of students at Oakland School for the Arts walked out of class to protest sexual misconduct both on and off campus. Students marched to nearby Uptown ArtPark, where organizers said they read a list of demands that included calls for the school to hold regular assemblies about consent and improve the sex education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya McCall, 17, who was a senior at the time, helped plan the protest. In an interview with KQED, she said dozens of students lined up that day in the blazing heat for a chance to share their experiences with harassment or assault. Classmates hugged, wore blue to show solidarity and cheered, “We believe you,” and “You’re not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just so much love and support that you don’t know what to do,” McCall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that feeling didn’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a senior at Oakland School for the Arts, Maya McCall helped organize the walkout to protest sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the young people who attended the walkout were allegedly retaliated against by students or their family members, according to accounts by classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain boys were allegedly called rapists and bullied by other students, according to several parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Sherman-Colt, the school’s executive director at the time, sent an email to the school community that in response to bullying, “there have been several fights and physical or verbal altercations on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the accusations made against students “almost exclusively [targeted] black heterosexual males.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the response from the school created a false division, and undermined the trust of women of color who had experienced abuse and spoke at the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Oz, the current executive director of the school, declined to be interviewed, but wrote in a March 20 email, “My leadership team and I are one hundred percent focused on providing the support and services our students, families and faculty need as a result of the walkout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The upheaval at OSA is not an isolated event, but part of a national movement by students to get schools to take concerns about sexual harassment and abuse seriously, and to create safe ways for students to report incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with inaction by administrators, students in California and around the country have also tried to protect themselves or their friends. In February, a Fortuna High School student was suspended after she wore a T-shirt with the name of an alleged perpetrator and a text message he reportedly sent defending his behavior. Student activists in San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Gatos have said classmates faced social consequences, were harassed online or were threatened with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to understand what led to the September walkout at OSA and the chaotic aftermath, KQED spoke with 24 students and alumni. Almost all of them said the school had failed over the years to respond adequately to sexual harassment or abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The publishing of this reporting, which includes several months of interviews and the review of dozens of records, comes just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/04/oakland-high-school-teacher-charged-with-molesting-student-in-2004-remained-with-school-for-17-years-after-alleged-crimes-despite-warnings/\">Bay Area News Group reported\u003c/a> that a teacher at Oakland School of the Arts, Jeremy Taylor, had been “arrested and charged with molesting a then-14-year-old girl throughout her freshman year, in 2004.” The alleged crime was reported to police last year, according to police records. But Taylor, who was described as “creepy” by a student, was no longer in “active status” at the school effective Jan. 13, according to a memo obtained by KQED that was sent to OSA families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to OSA families sent Sunday, Oz wrote that the school was notified of allegations against Taylor by Oakland police on Jan. 3, and Taylor was put on “inactive status” that day and “never returned to teach at OSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;font-weight: bold\">A refuge for young artists\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit charter school was founded in 2002 by then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown to promote the study of arts. Middle and high school students study subjects like theater, dance and fashion design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars on the hit HBO show “Euphoria,” attended the school. So did Leila Mottley, author of “Nightcrawling” and the youngest writer ever selected by Oprah’s Book Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several students and alumni who spoke with KQED described OSA as a refuge for young artists, they also believed the school at times used its reputation as a safe space and progressive art institution to dismiss harassment or abuse. Several said they were not taken seriously when they reported abusive or inappropriate behavior. Others said they did not complain to administrators because they did not expect support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland School for the Arts student Imarra Hunter at a park across from the school in Oakland. Hunter loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after she said a school security guard sexually harassed her. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imarra Hunter, 23, graduated from OSA in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after a school security guard sexually harassed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter said she was in the hallway getting a drink of water when the guard, Tamaris Usher, asked her why she needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘I need to take some water with my birth control,’” Hunter recalled. “Once he (saw) that I was taking birth control, he then called me a ‘whore.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter and her mom reported the incident to Donn Harris, OSA’s executive director at the time of the incident. According to Hunter, Harris said his goal was to save the security guard’s job and offered to station the man in a different part of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Harris asserted that the school took the allegations seriously. Records show the school placed Usher on leave the day Hunter reported the incident. A termination notice shared with KQED shows Usher was terminated after nine days and not allowed on campus during the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s mom sued OSA in 2016 for failing to protect students from sexual harassment. The complaint alleged that school administrators knew that the security guard “had previously accosted other female students in a similar manner, but was neither disciplined nor terminated for such behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was settled in 2017. Usher declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter, who majors in theater and communication studies in college, says she’s still wary of getting close to male administrators or teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hate for them to feel comfortable enough to say anything degrading,” Hunter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman in jeans and a green hoodie leans against a brick wall\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Susanna De Angelis Nelson in downtown Oakland. After they reported sexual harassment by another student to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Hunter filed her lawsuit, Susanna De Angelis Nelson, 18, was in middle school at OSA. They said they loved being surrounded by art and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was literally in heaven,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in high school, they saw another side to campus life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018-2019 school year, De Angelis Nelson said a student made repeated sexual comments and touched them without consent. After they reported the sexual harassment to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t love the fact that (administrators) say their No. 1 priority is for students to be safe, but that’s the exact opposite of what they’re doing,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019-2020 school year, several students told KQED they learned classmates were sharing nude photos of female students via social media in what was allegedly known as the “Pokemon Traders” group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with purple hair, a tank top and jeans sits on a bench in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts student Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, a member of the school’s Student Safety Committee, says the administration did not support students who spoke out about harassment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students said the school was aware of the group chat. Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, 17, a rising senior at OSA, said because the school did not communicate about the situation with the student body, rumors began to spread. She remembers walking down the hallway and seeing people staring at the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The least (the school) could’ve done was give the girls support, which I really don’t think they did,” Kanner-Gomes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, a spokesperson for OSA, did not respond to questions from KQED about the group chat or how the school handled allegations made by students. But, in a written statement, he said, “Students do not always fully understand the complexities of what has occurred. Equally important they don’t always fully grasp the privacy and due process regulations we are required to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teaching institution, we are striving to make sure all of our students feel safe and have agency,” he added. “Much of our restorative work has included education and training in the areas of consent, proper use of social media, bullying, cyber bullying, and procedures to report abuse and how these submissions will be handled.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For the students who started the Student Safety Committee, the tipping point that compelled them to organize was an April 2021 Instagram post in which a former OSA student detailed allegations of sexual assault by a popular alum. The post generated an outpouring of stories by other students and alumni who said they had been harassed or assaulted in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justine Courtenay-Huang, 19, a senior at the time, saw the need to create a space for survivors and advocate for protections at the school. Courtenay-Huang created a group chat on the instant messaging app Discord for students to host movie nights, share experiences with sexual abuse or harassment and brainstorm ways to make the school safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like an exhale. Like you’ve been holding your breath for a really long time and finally get a little breath in,” Courtenay-Huang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re tired. We’re fed up.’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The group chat evolved into the Student Safety Committee, which met with school administrators over Zoom — this was during distance learning — to press for solutions. When students returned to campus in the fall of 2021, they said, they wanted more education about sexual harassment and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Kanner-Gomes and De Angelis Nelson were all committee members. But they said they didn’t see any progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said when she returned to campus, she saw sexual harassment resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous,” McCall said. “We’re tired. We’re fed up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So the Student Safety Committee led a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said the protest that was meant to create safety and community led to conflict the school was unprepared to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the walkout, members of the Student Safety Committee began hearing reports that some girls who attended the action were being threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting a bunch of people telling us, ‘I’m being threatened,’ and we’re getting screenshots of threats,” said McCall. “So then we’re like, ‘Oh crap, like, what do we do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, organizers with the Student Safety Committee said they tried to warn school officials that people were likely to get hurt if they didn’t take their concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai–Ge Min, 18, remembers speaking to a revolving door of administrators and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just begging for attention, begging, like, ‘Please, we’re getting these messages, help us.’ And not really anything was being done,” Min said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with short hair and glasses in a blue shirt sits cross-legged in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts alum Tai-Ge Min. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson at OSA did not respond to questions about how OSA responded, but said, “There are clear procedures in place when there is a reported issue and all issues are investigated thoroughly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School closed for a day, but when students returned to campus, emotions were still raw. Classmates said it was like waiting for something to go wrong, and then it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were at least two physical attacks on campus. A parent said her son, a new member of the Student Safety Committee, had bruises on his neck from being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classmates said another student was physically attacked after he made memes about the group chat where explicit images were allegedly traded. The memes named specific boys and mocked the administration’s response, and students said the boy who made the memes was suspended for cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said she was in the hallway with a friend when boys yelled misogynistic, homophobic comments and charged at them. She said staff held the boys back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to questions about the alleged incidents. Several parents criticized OSA’s response in a letter to the school’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration, in essence, did nothing to prevent the assaults that occurred,” they wrote, adding that it was unclear what would be done to make their children safe at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also cited the so-called “Pokemon Traders” group chat as an example of the school’s past failure to address sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue was not addressed system-wide by the administration,” the parents wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Race and gender\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the turmoil on campus, Sherman-Colt, who left her job as executive director earlier this year, wrote to the OSA community that students had been suspended for assault, harassment and cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA is continuing its investigations, reflections, and development regarding sexual violence, racial injustice, and white supremacy culture — all of which have impacted the school community this week,” Sherman-Colt wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherman-Colt, now the chief program officer at Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa Monica according to her LinkedIn profile, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmosphere on campus and online was already tense, and some students said the email only made it worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a virtual board of directors meeting on Oct. 14, 2021, several parents gave impassioned speeches about how Black boys at the school were being bullied and harassed by their peers without evidence they had done anything wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One parent, whom KQED is not naming to protect his son’s safety, pleaded for people to take these concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"A girl sits on a park bench.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Aisling Baus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever someone speaks about Black boys being called rapists online and in school, in front of teachers and walking the hallways, no one talks about the mental anguish that they will go through the rest of our lives,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parent declined to be interviewed for this story, but sent KQED a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to believe that this kind of racial violence and discrimination would occur in 2022 in downtown Oakland at a school that was founded to serve students of color,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other parents of boys accused also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, McCall and other members of the Student Safety Committee gave a presentation to explain their perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff has been focusing on the race of the accused instead of the race of the victims, who have all been women of color,” McCall said. “You can protect us, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting Oz said, “I feel bad. I feel stupid in this moment for not predicting the gravity of that situation more accurately. For that I want to take responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oz addressed a parent who asked how to choose which side to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The side is to support our students,” he said. “We’re a school. We support all of our 796 students. That’s what we do here. Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigators: Most claims ‘not backed by evidence, unfounded’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soon after the walkout, the school announced it had hired an outside firm to investigate allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven months after the walkout, school leadership sent an email to the campus community that said most allegations made after the walkout were either “not backed by evidence, unfounded, or in some instances a result of mistaken identity or assumed guilt by association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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