CHIEF LAUSD ATTORNEY DAVID HOLMQUIST- ABOVE THE LAW?
I feel like I'm living in The Twilight Zone when LAUSD's Chief Attorney David Holmquist can get away with the following statements and neither Reporter Barbara Jones of the Daily News, UTLA, or any other entity charged under law with defending the legal rights of teachers takes any exception with Holmquist putting LAUSD above the law by irrevocably determining that a teacher once charged by LAUSD, who has been found innocent by the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH), can never go back to teaching:
"We felt it appropriate to pull them from the classroom and remove them from being around students before. Just because the three-member (OAH) panel doesn't agree with that doesn't change our responsibility to the students."
"So we are continuing to house them or find other work for them that does not involve students. But they're not going to be back in the classroom."
As I sit here awaiting the results of my own hearing before the OAH, which is supposed to come in by early November- over 3 years since I was removed from my own classroom in handcuffs- I remember the testimony during that hearing of 33 year veteran Senior Investigator