From grossly inappropriate curricula, to mismanagement and neglect of facilities, to public deceit regarding financial condition and subsequent staff raises, to attempting to win a bond measure with illegal ballots, to behind-scenes dealings with shameful and shameless individuals, to the careful hiding of similar-school API scores of only 5.6 or 5.7 out of 10, to concealment of classroom and club activities, to the tragic drowning death of a student during a physical education class, to the defamation of a student-council president and later of a girls stunt team, now to the hiring of a biology teacher who'd previously been arrested for soliciting prostitution on Oakland:  SRVUSD has been neck-deep in scandal for decades.   Those stories will be presented here.   

First up:  the scandal which ended the 2021-2022 school year — the superintendent's amplifying of a crudely fabricated social media post which falsely impugned the Cal High Cheer-Stunt Team as "racists."  Mr. Malloy's title for his District-wide letter last May: "Cal High Racist Incident 5.23.22."

Perhaps it is now time for the SRVUSD Board and Superintendent Malloy to reverse their 2021 adoption of Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You as a 7th grade textbook.  That adoption occurred despite the book's numerous problems, including the author's misrepresentation of crime and incarceration-rate correlations and (especially) his recommendation of "NW.A." and their celebration of thug-rapist criminal behavior in Straight Outta Compton as a source of "change and empowerment."

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SRVUSD's 2017 Activist-Driven Slander of Nathaniel Yu (Defamation at SRV High; SRVUSD settled for $665,000 in 2020) 

 

The Tragic 2018 Loss of Ben Curry  (Drowning in SRV High School P.E. class, SRVUSD liability settled for $8 Million in 2020)

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Atop those terrible stories:  SRVUSD employee [at John Baldwin] charged with possessing child porn (Aug. 26, 2022)

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And now:  "San Ramon Valley teacher, cheer coach charged with sexual misconduct against minors" (Sept. 16, 2022)

Also (another story on the cheer coach):  East Bay Times  and KRON4  (Both Sept. 16, 2022)

Follow-up:  Danville teacher, cheer coach hired despite criminal background including prostitution sting (Sept.20, 2022)

Additional Follow-Up: "Danville students warned administrators about inappropriate behavior by teacher now facing child molestation charges, new records show" (Nov. 20, 2022)

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SRVUSD Loses Records:  "Key records missing in molestation case against teacher" (Jan. 28, 2023)

 

Former SRV High Asst. Principal dismissed from Lafayette school after missing-records investigation (Oct. 8, 2023)

SRVUSD should have been especially sensitive about transferring Moseby to Diablo Vista MS, given previous child-porn arrest and sentencing of a former teacher there (Oct. 29, 2015).

Even a student publication has noted SRVUSD's carelessness and irresponsibility in such matters. (This is a Mar. 1, 2023 article.)

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