FROM THE SCWEEKLY Bendis has a documented record of hostility toward SCUP and, by extension, Muirhead. She’s repeatedly challenged SCUP’s status as a legitimate school-connected organization, privately expressing marked rancor toward it. SCUP refused Bendis’ membership because she has no children attending SCUSD schools. “This organization ... is actually controlled by a small cadre of Washington Open and Rivermark-based Don Callejon parents who actively supported the unsuccessful attempt by Ms. Flot and Ms. Strauss to oust me from the Board and thwart Dr. Koltermann’s election,” she wrote in a 2011 email to then-Superintendent Bobbie Plough, referring to the 2010 election. “SCUP’s active members who are predominantly White and Asian, predominantly highly educated, and predominantly affluent,” she continued, “represent only the most privileged segment of the District’s ethnic or socioeconomic demographic, and exclude the most challenged demographic segments.” “I do not want to see our District expend Staff resources on ‘special interest’ requests by relatively advantaged subgroups,” she said in the same email, “for reinstitution of programs that the District cannot afford to continue in our current fiscal crisis due to their drain on our budget (e.g., Elementary Music), staff time (e.g., District Science Fair) or both.” This email seems to show that, rather than helping ensure the Science Fair’s continuation, Bendis was willing to let the district-wide event die rather than see “advantaged sub-groups” continue it. santaclaraweekly/2014/Issue-36/scusd_incumbents_lawsuit_against_opponents_ballot_statement_fizzles.html
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:58:38 +0000
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