Link to video (LEA President Fran Santos speaks all the way at the end):
https://m.facebook.com/lodi.live.9/videos/437293541259994
With all the problems facing the district, Fan Santos spent her time trying to suppress the free speech of a board member. She loves manufacturing controversies based on lies. She has demonstrated a deficiency in reading comprehension (her reading is limited to social media).
Fran Santos should get off of Facebook and try doing something productive. Fran Santos is emboldened to make a fool of herself because she is sister-in-law to Board President Nepotism Nancy (who doesn't know how to run a meeting as clearly demonstrated in the video above). Fran Santos is only employed as a Lodi teacher because of her sister-in-law Nancy Cardone's decades of nepotism.
Most teachers are very frustrated that their students are a year behind academically. Students did not receive an adequate education for over a year. That is not the teachers' fault. That is the fault of obnoxious teacher union leaders like Fran Santos, failed Superintendents like Doug Petty, and board of education members bought off by teacher unions (they sit there like lumps on a log and rubber-stamp everything bad).
School shutdowns were never based on science but rather teacher union demands. People like Fran Santos have contributed to widespread childhood depression and suicide with their forced school shutdowns. All for what? Two years later, covid is still around. With all the school shut downs and vaccine mandates pushed by the teacher unions, covid numbers were worse in 2021 than 2020.
How did Fran Santos provide pre-k students an adequate education for over a year from behind a screen or by leaving packets on a table in a school parking lot? Who is she kidding?
Fran Santos is so out of touch. Teachers are saying their students are behind. Parents are saying their children are behind. That is a reality. Fran Santos and other teacher union leaders understand that reality because they have fought to suspend any standardized testing that could show how badly students are behind from the teacher union school shutdowns.
Fran Santos pushed school shutdowns. Shutdowns killed children. Shutdowns left children with mental disorders. Shutdowns left students a year behind academically. Fran Santos should apologize to all the Lodi families she hurt with her selfish union demands.
Working Lodi parents lost jobs because they had no daycare once schools were shutdown. Many children missed meals because nobody was picking up meals for them once they were no longer physically in the school building. During the school shutdowns, Fran Santos still collected her six figure paycheck and she wasn't missing meals. Fran Santos shows no empathy for others.
