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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Parents and students are calling for Fresno Unified to enactment an extremity to favoritism successful the schoolroom aft a substitute teacher was removed from schoolhouse aft allegations of inappropriate remarks to students astatine Roosevelt High School.
Students recorded substitute teacher Craig Cleveland allegedly questioning them astir their migration presumption and asking to spot their IDs. The recordings, aboriginal posted connected social media, sparked outrage wrong the community.
"When a teacher similar Craig Cleveland is allowed to harass students based connected contention and their background, it is not conscionable his failure—it is Fresno Unified's failure," said 1 talker astatine the district's Board of Education gathering connected Feb. 12.
Roosevelt High SchoolValeria Rodriguez, a genitor and erstwhile pupil of Roosevelt High School, says Cleveland made students consciousness uncomfortable and unsafe with his questions, prompting them to grounds Cleveland.
"He was besides casually mentioning that helium had a person who works for ICE and who runs things successful the Central Valley," Rodriguez said. "The students felt uncomfortable, they felt similar possibly they were successful danger, truthful they started recording."
The pursuing day, Fresno Unified released a connection condemning the behaviour and confirming Cleveland's removal.
Fresno Unified is committed to maintaining safe, supportive, and welcoming schools for each students, careless of their migration status. Our schools are places wherever each kid belongs and we instrumentality that work seriously. These types of questions are not successful enactment with our district's values oregon policies and we privation to beryllium clear, this is not acceptable successful immoderate of our classrooms.
Fresno Unified School DistrictAdditionally, Fresno Unified School District says its quality resources squad is handling the concern and takes contiguous enactment erstwhile these kinds of incidents happen.
Despite the district's swift response, immoderate students stay skeptical.
"Honestly, I consciousness similar they conscionable responded rapidly to screen up their image," said 1 pupil who chose to stay anonymous.
Cleveland says his claims his comments were taken retired of context, but Rodriguez disagrees.
"We tin spot by the comments from the students, it was not taken retired of context," Rodriguez said.
Alexandria Ramos O'Casey, who spoke astatine the Board of Education meeting, said much enactment is needed beyond Cleveland's removal. She says this incidental is an accidental for Fresno Unified to acceptable a modular different districts astir the state tin follow.
"Now is not the clip to enactment a band-aid," O'Casey said. "Now is the clip to acceptable a precedent for what prevention tin look similar for each students, not conscionable successful Fresno Unified but for the full Central Valley, the full state, for the full country."
Student organizers accidental they privation different students to cognize they are not alone.
"I would promote everyone to talk up oregon to archer idiosyncratic who is trusted to talk up for them however I spoke up for my friends," an anonymous pupil said. "They are not unsocial and everyone is warring for you. You should ne'er consciousness unsafe astatine school."
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to Craig Cleveland for a connection but did not person a effect successful clip for this article's publication.
