"A parent of a student at the Jackson Elementary School in South Philadelphia told the SRC Wednesday that school and South Region officials tried to intimidate her from testifying before the commission.
Angelica Viceriana, accompanied by Zac Steele, a community organizer from the community organization JUNTOS, said that while she was talking to her daughter's teacher at the school Tuesday, other school staff interrupted and asked specifically to say what she planned to testify about. Staff yelled at her, then repeatedly called her after she went home, she testified.
'They told me to call other parents and not to come to the SRC meeting,' she said in Spanish through a translator. She said she was told that if she complied, 'they would pay more attention to my child’s concerns.'"
Angelica Viceriana, accompanied by Zac Steele, a community organizer from the community organization JUNTOS, said that while she was talking to her daughter's teacher at the school Tuesday, other school staff interrupted and asked specifically to say what she planned to testify about. Staff yelled at her, then repeatedly called her after she went home, she testified.
'They told me to call other parents and not to come to the SRC meeting,' she said in Spanish through a translator. She said she was told that if she complied, 'they would pay more attention to my child’s concerns.'"
