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Article: Letters to the Editor
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- Oakland Tribune
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- July 2, 2009
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Don't represent majority
I am responding to Serena Dietrich's letter "Board ignored
concerns" and the opinion piece by Kerry Cook, "A call for task
force to find common ground on Lesson 9."
Ms. Dietrich contends that "the will of the majority of
stakeholders was ignored." No evidence supports this claim. I
attended the meeting at Alameda High School, where 90 percent of the
speakers that I heard voiced their opposition to the curriculum.
However, 80 percent of the opponents were Asian and that 75 percent
of that subset were women. The speakers did not reflect the
composition of our community.
It also seems unfair as far as how the speakers were chosen. The
opposition arrived at the City ...