THE SRV EXPOSITOR
"The past and the present are within my field of inquiry." — Sherlock Holmes,
in The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Expositor [ek-spoz'-i-tor]: a noun form of the verb expose — thereby, a person or a mechanism who/which lays out something for public view, explaining it or expounding upon it. Here, the focus of attention will be the San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD), to include its policies, programs, and practices.
SRVUSD has major problems in its administrative leadership, its activist staff personnel, its curricular choices, and some of its school-day activities. School priorities should be the teaching and learning of knowledge and skills. But here, as in so many other school districts across the country, the priority is too often indoctrination instead.
The District's objectionable programs include overtly racist "anti-racism"; LGBTQ grooming of even transition kindergarten 4 and 5-year-olds in a program which SRVUSD personnel have called "queering the classroom"; secretive Prism Clubs (LGBTQ Clubs) for 4th and 5th graders; subversive "Ethnic Studies; and vile, depraved pornography in high school libraries (and increasingly now in classrooms and middle school libraries).
And meanwhile, SRVUSD spending growth has far exceeded combined rates of inflation and enrollment change. Compared to 10 years ago, enrollment is down by 3500 students. But spending, adjusted for both enrollment decline and inflation, was up by approximately $137 Million (compared to 2015) as the 2024-2025 school year began.
Nevertheless, SRVUSD sought even more money last year, with Measures E and F. Measure E sought to add a sneaky inflation escalator to the existing parcel tax. Measure F tried simply to add $98 to the existing $144 annual parcel tax. Fortunately, voters rejected E and F, but did renew the existing parcel tax for nine more years, in Measure Q.
The District spent something exceeding $300,000 in taxpayer funds on polling and tax-promotion consulting. PTAs added about $130,000 in the "private" campaigns — tax-deferred dollars from these groups.
In the meantime: State test scores [CAASPP (English and Math) and CAST (Science)] continue to lag 2015 to 2019 scores, even as the District pushes Grading for Equity (though no longer calling it that) and makes depraved pornography available to students in school libraries.
The test scores are so bad that SRVUSD avoids posting school-by-school and year-by-year comparisons. So we make those available here (at the Grading for Equity page).
And further regarding dollars and sense: SRVUSD is back to its usual pattern of claiming destitution — until it's time for the next pay raise. The reality is shown in two illustrations: huge dollar amounts spent on consulting and other "contracting out," as the 2024-2025 school year got started with essentially the same number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) as in 2015, despite 3500 fewer students now than back then (2479 now vs. 2483 back then)....
In general terms: SRVUSD's shameful record of nonfeasance, misfeasance, and sometimes mal-feasance over the years is extensive, and the effort to compile and post segments of that record continues. As an example of the kind of content being collected and archived, see a story from this site's Scandals page, regarding former Supt. Malloy's indefensible role in slandering members of the Cal High Cheer-Stunt Team in May, 2022.
And again, see the alarmingly poor CAASPP testing results, most recently for 2023-2024. The District seems to be hiding the school-by-school results, likely to avoid comparative review by parents and other taxpayers. But srvEXPOSITOR is making them available, as linked above.
Those bad results make it clear once again that SRVUSD needs fewer race baiters, indoctrinators, porn purveyors, and prevaricators. What's needed is better educators, i.e. true professionals who are dedicated to the teaching and learning of beneficial knowledge and skills.
Otherwise, "Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity." — Thomas Sowell
Table of Contents
Demographics: SRVUSD, preoccupied with racial designations, identifies 65% of its students as “people of color.” Of those, two-thirds are of Asian extraction. And they are the District’s highest achieving students!
Personnel: With far fewer administrator and teacher employment days per year than most workers across the U.S. — and extensive benefits — SRVUSD administrators and teachers are very well compensated indeed.
“Queering the Classroom”
(Their Term)
"Grading for Equity”
(Includes Test Scores)
Pornography in High School Libraries, increasingly now in classrooms and even Middle School Libraries. Why is this happening (?), since one of the earliest, prime directives taught in Educational Psychology 101 is that CHILDREN DO NOT THINK LIKE ADULTS. But all too often, it seems that SRVUSD is operated by adults who think like children. We hope it's that simple — a case of professional immaturity rather than sheer evil.
Other Scandals: From the drowning of a student in P.E. swimming class, to concentrated defamation of another student, to Supt. Malloy’s amplifying of a false social media post to slander Cal High Stunt Team members, to the grossly irresponsible hiring and placement of a sex offender, to pornography in high school libraries..., SRVUSD is covered up in scandal.
SRVEA-CTA-NEA: Radical teacher-union puppeteers pull SRVUSD strings, with a perverse philosophy articulated by CTA in 1984: “Who dares take on religion, free enterprise, patriotism, and motherhood? We do — and we must!”