Protesters take rally to superintendent’s front lawn
Thursday, July 5th, 2012 at 10:34 am in 1 Comment
Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith and his family weren’t home on Tuesday evening when the anti-school closure rally at Lakeview Elementary moved to his house. They didn’t hear chanting demonstrators demanding that he reopen the closed elementary schools or quit his job, though they might have seen a sign left on his front porch that he was ruining OUSD. (KTVU documented some of it.)
In an interview last month, Smith told me that some of that some of the behavior in Oakland that “passes as activism” is actually bullying. I imagine he would put a rally outside his home, where his two elementary school-
