Luckily, I found out about the last minute change in venue before I left my house, but UNFORTUNATELY, the change in venue occurred too late for the LASD board members to attend because they had to adhere to their publicly committed venue due to the Brown act. Where did this leave us? With just enough time to listen and learn the following:
- Apparently, LASD has locked BCS out of the new rooms at Blach until the facilities agreement is signed. Unfortunately, this is preventing teachers from preparing for a successful start to the year, which is not what anyone wants.
- I don't know why the agreement is needed now, and wasn't before. I also don't know why it hasn't been signed. Basically, I don't know anything about it.
- I don't know why BCS moved the venue of this board meeting, but it had the unfortunate effect of spiraling a once promising collaborative meeting out of control into a useless waste of time
- Joe H was visibly upset with Doug for his lack of collaboration on this matter, which is quite unfortunate since they had appeared to develop a mutually respectful relationship up to this point
- No presence of LASD, including Jeff B, the board, etc, so none of the planned agenda items were discussed in the open session
- There seemed to be some discussion about a nice program that BCS held for low income students, but unfortunately I missed most of it because I had to step outside in my disgust at both board's behaviors
All around, a colossal waste of time for all. We can count this as the "two steps back" portion of our "one step forward" dance... :(
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