MASK FREE AT ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL

                                                  

MASK FREE AT ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL

Demand Letter to Principal, KD Parman

The demand letter was delivered by two citizens, and they did so, mask free to Roosevelt High School, in Portland, Oregon, on January 10, 2022. No staff made any commands of the two citizens to put on a mask. The office staff and maintenance crew were friendly and respectful. It was not clear if a masked woman with a school badge hanging around her neck was the principal herself or not. That woman did not speak and left the area.

"Dear Ms. KD Parman,

My demand for the violence and vandalism done to my property is for the students involved to re-do my posters below. They can go to the Dollar Tree. Posters are only $1.00, markers are $1.00. The students at the next in-person school day in your gymnasium will present them to me with explaining what their thought processes were in deciding to attack and what they learned. I will speak as well.

If the students aren’t forthcoming to step forward, then I want you and the three security guards to make the posters in order to make me whole from the January 7, 2022 incident. The gathering in the gymnaisum in front of the students will clarify to all students that attacking citizens, and vandalizing private property are crimes. Further, the assembly will be used for you to speak to US Constitutional Rights and how my rights and my associates rights were violated on January 7, 2022. I will address the students as well.

My boots are at the shoe repair shop to be cleaned and restored. I’ll send you the bill for that.

Please respond that you will meet my demands so that you can resolve the January 7, 2022, event to the benefit of the students, myself, and my associate.

Sincerely,

Margo Logan 

The attack and vandalizing event at Roosevelt High School on January 7, 2022, demonstrated the failure of the Portland Public School District, the Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, Principal KD Parman and the three security guards to teach and role model that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights upholds citizens’ rights to peacefully assemble on public sidewalks and to give information to passersby and on-lookers.

When the principal was asked on January 7, 2022, to ameliorate the attack and vandalism by telling all students that criminal behavior and violating Constitutional Rights will not be condoned by the Portland Public School District and the principal of Roosevelt High School. KD Parman refused the request.

One of the citizens attacked was a former group life counselor, for six years, to foster teens, 15-18 years of age in group care, as well as having subbed in public schools for seven years, thus, as part of the demand letter she will address the student body upon presentation of the new posters the students who vandalized the two posters are to make.

If those students do not step forward to make amends, then the demand is for the principal and the three security guards to make the posters and present them at a school assembly to the two citizens attacked.

The demand letter will be sent to the Portland Public School District and for the Board of Directors at the Tuesday January 11, 2022, board meeting to order that the demand letter be accepted, and the board to direct the superintendent to direct Principal KD Parman to follow through based on the demands made in the letter. 

To be clear to the Portland community the two students involved in the attack were not Black, not Hispanic, not Native American, and not Asian. It was not a racial attack. The Black and Hispanic students at the previous and then the current event were polite and were seen to give respectful nods with a few saying, “Thank you” or “Amen”.

The rowdiest, the most taunting, mocking, finger flipping were white students, and it must be known those were in the minority.  At other visits to the school white students engaged the citizens most politely and were as concerned as the citizens who showed up out of concern for the contaminated water in Roosevelt High School.

This is a failure of the Portland Public School District, the principal and the three security guards on January 7^th , including the one security guard who took one of the posters and was not going to give it back until he was repeatedly told he was stealing private property. The strongest form of teaching is role modeling. How many students saw him take the poster? And when he went in to release students to go to lunch what did he say to the students about him taking the poster? Did he make a joke of it? Did he laugh? Did he present in such a manner that those two students would follow his role modeling in some fashion?

When the principal meets the demand letter to make amends and to make the citizen whole, including having a school assembly, three governor candidates will be chosen and asked to join the assembly to bear witness to two students doing what is right, bearing witness to the principal making this right, and candidates may speak to the healing of Portland in the year 2022. All who choose, will be mask free for the event.

 

 

January 10, 2022