Follow up to "Naked CWC student hosed down on campus"

Yesterday's CBS 2 report on the CWC dis-location mentions the incident of the naked CWC student being hosed down on campus. I wanted to follow up on this since there were inaccuracies in the CBS report and new information has come to light since I had previously reported on this.
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In early May, a CWC Mar Vista student had a major bathroom accident during school hours and ended up covered in filth. The child's parents were called and they approved CWC cleaning the child at school. A Stoner volunteer walking to the parents's center, which is located next to the CWC part of campus, saw the student outside, undressed and being hosed off by an adult. The volunteer was very disturbed by the incident and reported it immediately to Stoner administration.

    Even taking the bathroom accident into consideration, there are a many problems with hosing off a sick, naked student outside on campus including safety, privacy and health concerns.
    What kind of school policy covers hosing sick, naked students on campus? What guidelines are present to ensure the child's safety when they are being hosed? What safety measures are in place to make sure that the hosing policy is not used as a means for improper behavior? Considering that the child was seen naked on campus, what steps were taken to insure the student's privacy? How was the fecal matter cleaned from the school grounds? Is this a standard CWC policy that we should prepare to see more of?

    These issues concerned many Stoner parents and so on May 13, 2014, I made a policy request regarding this incident to see what policies and procedures CWC had in place to handle a situation of this nature. To date, I have received no direct response from CWC. I followed up with CWC a week later to make sure they received my request but received no response from CWC, instead an LAUSD official contacted me to inform me that CWC had received my request and would respond through the Prop 39 office.
    According the LAUSD official, CWC is required by law to respond to the policy request. So, when I do receive a response, I will make sure to share it here with all of you.

CBS2 - CWC forced to find new home

Last night CBS 2 ran a story about the removal of CWC Mar Vista from the Stoner Elementary School campus. The story of the CWC student being hosed down naked on campus gets mentioned.

LAUSD Charter School Forced To Find A New Home « CBS Los Angeles

IT'S OFFICIAL...or is it?

The reason CWC is not returning to Stoner is that CWC failed to comply with the law and respond in writing to LAUSD's sapce offer by the May 1st deadline.
   Yesterday, a lawyer for CWC sent a letter to LAUSD contesting CWC's failure to respond by the deadline and instead asserts that CWC did respond  a timely manner. A copy of the letter is available on LA School Report at http://laschoolreport.com/cwc-charter-tells-lausd-stay-stoner-elementary-school/

   In the letter CWC's counsel contends that CWC did respond and gives many different dates in which verbal and written "confirmation" were given. However, analyzing the dates and claims, it is clear that CWC failed to responded to LAUSD's April 1st final offer in writing by the May 1st deadline.

    CWC counsel claims that in a March 14 email, Director Held accepted the offer in writing. How could she have possibly accepted the offer on this date, if the final offer wasn't presented until two weeks later on April 1? Also, looking at the language of the March 14 email quoted in the letter, it says "On CWC MV at Stoner - this is all set with the caveat that..." If there is a caveat, then no, it is not all set and nothing was confirmed.
    CWC counsel reaches back further in to the past and claims that CWC gave notice as far back as February 28 that it was accepting the offer. Except, even the language of "acceptance" clearly shows that they had not yet accepted the offer "the Charter School anticipates accepting the space that the District has offered, conditional upon a slight modification to the offer..." Anticipate, conditional, modification to the offer...none of that could possibly be interpreted as accepting the offer, an offer that wasn't made until a month later.

   This is just another example of CWC's privileged, elitist and entitled mentally. CWC administration acts as if it believes that it is above the law and that rules don't apply to them. CWC counsel claims that "The later letter was merely a formality..." Following the law is not a "formality," it's a requirement. Any good citizen would know that the law is not a mere formality.
    We have seen this flouting of rules and regulations by CWC over and over again during the school year: first, there was the combination lock, then the gate being left open; the segregated rock concert, CWC parents and teachers entering the students only bathroom, and hosing down naked students on campus, just to name a few.
    CWC has repeatedly show that they believe they are above the law and should be given special consideration. CWC's lack of respect for the rule of law should not be rewarded. What kind of message will this send to other charters, that rules don't matter and that they can do whatever they want? What would this do to the space allocation procedure if charters could respond to offers whenever they wanted to?

    CWC administration made a huge mistake, and now the CWC community will suffer because of it.
It's not LAUSD's fault, it's not a Benitez's fault...It is the fault of CWC administration and some should be Held responsible.

IT'S OFFICIAL #4: The real reason CWC will not be returning to Stoner

LA School Reports what CWC's lack of "compliance" meant: CWC administration failed to meet a deadline.

http://laschoolreport.com/by-missing-deadline-cwc-charter-sent-looking-for-new-home-lausd/

IT'S OFFICIAL #3: Carpetbaggers

Cwc began packing their bags and rolling up their carpets today.

[Radio silence] On hiatus...

Thank you to everyone who has contacted me over the long weekend. Sorry for not responding or writing on this blog. I've been on radio silence and enjoying a quite weekend with the family. Over the weekend, I was meditating on the what the past nine months have brought and how we can move forward from here.

   The Adventures will continue...

LA School Report: "Stoner parents win"

LA School Report has written a piece on the dis-location of the co-location on Stoner ES.

http://laschoolreport.com/stoner-parents-win-lausd-removes-co-located-charter/

Stoner parents win!