Letter to the Editor: Inglewood Unified is a dysfunctional nightmare

I wanted to thank you and the Wave Newspaper for shedding light on the dysfunction happening @ IUSD.  Do residents even know there are less than 8,000 students enrolled across 15 school sites?

Before I go on I wanted to apologize to you because although I had every intention to write this letter weeks ago, I couldn’t find the appropriate or correct words to express a fair and balanced approach to the alleged racist atmosphere that exists @ IUSD.

But before I go on , please let me express to you the reason I needed to thank the Wave newspaper as well as you because had the Wave newspaper not ran your story, about the systemic racism that permeates IUSD, County appointed Superintendent, Dr Erika Torres, would have simply dismissed these as ” allegations” and/or rumors, started on a ” blog”.

With that being said, let me first begin to address my concerns and hopefully explain why Dr. Torres initial reaction as allegations on a blog is dangerous as there is more than sufficient proof to corroborate these allegations. In fact what Dr. Torres failed to mention that complaints were levied not only by staff and parents but IUSD conducted it’s own outside investigation and deemed the allegations had merit and in fact placed the Principal in question on ” paid” administrative leave which seemed to serve no purpose other than a paid vacation due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to my understanding no campuses were operating in normal function.

To be quite honest in this day and age I don’t know how referring to African American employees as Monkeys and the “N” Word isn’t grounds for immediate termination but hey that’s a story for another time. Should Dr. Torres and the school board decides to address the community directly as opposed to creating a partnership with USC to teach about ” Slavery.

I must admit nothing says accountability more than prostituting the trauma of ” slavery” to deflect from being held accountable for poor  decisions.