#MelvoinWatch
A Bureaucracy Loses Sight Of The Children It Is Supposed To Serve
Under Nick Melvoin’s leadership, LAUSD’s Local District West shows a pattern of ignoring the serious concerns of public school parents.
“I felt ignored and not taken seriously.”
- Parent at Marvin Elementary
When parents send their children to school, they should not be “worried for [their] safety.” If they confront a principal with these concerns, they should be listened to and made to feel like the issues raised will be addressed. For the school’s leader to “shut the door in [their] faces” or for parents to be otherwise “ignored” is unacceptable.
Parents at Marvin Elementary are making serious allegations about incidents at their school and how the principal handled them. One states that their child “was stabbed with a pencil directly by the eye while being verbally threatened.” Another alleges that “while on the playground” their child has “been called names like the N-word several times and told to go back to the 1800s”. A flier distributed by parents says that “there was a gun threat by a student who said he would bring a gun to school”.
