LRE NOTE: WHAT TIME IS IT? - for the record; i called the SCUSD public relations person ahead of schedule to find out what time the SCUSD board meeting started last week, and she wasn't sure what the time was, so she called roger barnes and he told her the peterson field segment of the meeting started at 7 PM - i then passed this info on by posting it in my web site and flyering up the neighborhood...but! after the last board meeting where people showed up at 7 PM but couldn't speak because they actually had to show up before 7 PM to speak (?) i told folks to show up at 6:45 PM instead...i showed up at 6:45 PM and the peterson field segment of the meeting was just ending!?!...so how did the lines get crossed on this time issue, or was i purposefully given false information to destabilize my valiant efforts?...you know; i already have a real issue with the standard SCUSD policy of telling people their meetings start at 7 PM, when people really have to show up before 7 PM to actually speak - as this is a dirty trick and their policies must change - but this is just pushing it way too far - SCUSD SUPERINTENDENT ROGER ADAMS can be contacted @ 408-423-2005 or radams@scusd.net - tell him to change their public speaking policy, NOW!...
and while there were a few people at the meeting who were very nice and personable, like the people from full circle farm and some folks from the neighborhood who i know, i got the coldest, zombie-like feeling from pretty much everybody else there, like these are people i would NEVER hang around with away from the meeting due to sheer differences in our lifestyles and personalities...some were casting such blatant negative judgement upon me that i could literally feel it (so now i guess i am casting it back) it was like walking into a church mass or library or something...i showed up to the meeting as a human being, but it seems like almost everyone else was some sort of highly-controlled, institutionalized zombie...it made me realize all over again why i dropped out of school; because institutions are these sort of big, coldhearted monsters that zombify and pacify the masses, and i can't think of anything that i loathe more...freedom is much more appealing to me...and yes; i did kind of barge into the meeting late, but i was simply following faulty SCUSD advice, so if anyone was put out about it they can blame roger barnes, not me...i think he deserves my rude entry into the meeting, and i don't regret a thing about it...
