Robert Down Elementary News Today

“I think that what you’ve seen across the state is that it’s been harder for the students to recover in mathematics from the effects of the pandemic than it has been for them to recover in English language arts,” said the district's director of curriculum, Buck Roggeman. “That makes sense because the content of math builds on itself from one year to the next. So with a break in progression, I think it’s going to take longer for the mathematics scores to recover than it will for ...

Valerie Anthony, a veteran and mother to three boys who attended the school, says her boys were subjected to numerous racial incidents over a two-year span at the school.

Valerie Anthony stood in front of Robert Down Elementary School in Pacific Grove on Thursday and spoke, at times through tears, about the impact that racist comments had on her three boys who attended the school.

“I think if the NAACP had engaged with us sooner on this, they would see what the district has been doing,” said the district's interim superintendent, Josh Jorn. “Unfortunately, it takes time for the trickle down effect for some of the practices, policies, procedures and professional developments that we’ve initiated to trickle down all the way to our student population, which is where this instance began.”