Excerpt from That School Board by Charles Andrews
"Do I personally back this movement to recall the School Board? I could fill my next three columns entirely with instances that have brought me to this point of distrust with the district and School Board actions. I did write a column in January about my disagreement with how the plans came about to remake our high school, in particular to demolish the iconic History Building. For a lot of people, that seems to have been the last straw.
The school district keeps telling us this has been in the works for many years, it’s public information and everyone knows about it. But I have had so many people, particularly Samohi alumni, tell me they hadn’t heard a word about it until they read it in my column. That’s no accident, oversight or exception. It is a method of operating that needs to change.
We have a high school in Malibu that has, for more than a decade, had known soil contamination, poisoned with PCBs likely causing thyroid cancer. For that and other reasons, Malibu and Santa Monica are negotiating to split the school district. Goodbye the Malibu piggy bank."
Check out the complete article in the link below. If you think the School Board could do better, and study the costs and possibilities around the adaptive reuse of the history building at Samohi, then you might want to see if you can help out the folks who are coordinating the recall effort.