It had been
unclear exactly how School Board President Marne Foster reacted to her son’s
negative evaluation to college produced by a high school counselor.
Foster disputed a Grand Jury report about it. We had gotten only accusations
from the principal of the high school he attended and the counselor who wrote
the evaluation.
But
Thursday, Mario Koran obtained internal emails that show Foster was
furious over the evaluation written about her son by a counselor at the
School for Performing and Creative Arts, or SCPA, and demanded action at the
highest levels of her son’s school.
District
policy bars school board members from giving direction to staff members. But in
an email to former Chief Student Services Officer Joe Fulcher, Foster wrote: “I
am writing you and decidedly bypassing SCPA leadership as a result of extreme
lack of confidence, distrust and disgust! There have been several issues over
the years that fall under student support services at SCPA – BUT THIS IS
IT!!!!!”…
Then she
demanded three things, including that a new evaluation be done. Fulcher came up
with a plan to address her concerns. The plan was not revealed in the emails we
obtained and they were heavily redacted. But eventually a new evaluation was
done and the principal was later removed, an act the superintendent maintains
was done independent of Foster’s concerns.
Koran’s
piece is the most complete picture yet of what happened.
September 18, 2015
Voice
of San Diego
By
Seth Hall
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