OAKLEY, California All members of a San Francisco Bay Area school board resigned days after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents at a virtual board meeting they didn t realize was being broadcast to the public.
The four members of Oakley Union Elementary School District Board had stepped down by Friday amid growing outrage that began with the board s Wednesday meeting. Before the meeting officially began and unaware the public could see and hear them, they used profanity and made jokes about parents just wanting a babysitter or to smoke pot in their home.
The incident garnered national attention and widespread condemnation.
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2of3Kim Beede, shown in a screen grab of a video taken by a YouTube user who declined to be identified, resigned from the Oakley Union Elementary School District board along with other members after their disparaging comments went public. Kim Beede, shown in a screen grab of a video taken by a YouTube user who declined to be identified, resigned from the Oakley Union Elementary School District board along with other members after their disparaging comments went public.YouTubeShow MoreShow Less
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“Uh-oh.”
That was what one member of the board in charge of elementary and middle schools in Oakley, Calif., uttered Wednesday afternoon when she realized her online conversation with other members had been broadcast to the public.
The members had spent two minutes mocking parents, suggesting they wanted teachers back in school so they could have “their babysitters back” and go back to smoking marijuana.
The entire time, parents who had logged in for the regular twice-monthly meeting of the board had been listening. The response to the board members’ comments was swift and furious another reminder of the rage and anguish many parents are feeling as school closures drag into the spring.