By Isabel Valencia Santa Monica
The Santa Monica-Malibu School Board is clearly asleep at the switch. My children graduated from Santa Monica High School years ago. However, just from reading newspaper stories about recent events at Samohi, I knew there would be a huge crowd of students and parents at the meeting May 18. Anyone remotely following the issues could have figured it out.
How difficult would it have been to have seats set up in the City Hall lobby, as the City Council often does? Or to make sure ahead of time that the TV monitors were functioning? The school board president is responsible for the meeting. Shouldn’t she have prepared for the crowd?
I guess School Board President Julia Brownley is too busy running for State Assembly to attend to business here at home. If she doesn’t even do her present job here at home, how can she expect to serve in a higher office?
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 31, 2006. Read the original PDF.