Oakdale postpones school board meeting due to safety concerns, district says
Oakdale Joint Unified School District postponed its school board meeting scheduled for Monday night due to safety concerns, the district announced on Facebook around noon.
Superintendent Dave Kline said by email that district officials are considering having the meeting on Feb. 22.
In a message to families on Sunday afternoon, Kline wrote that board members were considering whether to postpone their regularly scheduled meeting because of “threats of physical violence.”
School board members and school employees have received hundreds of hateful messages since students began protesting California’s mask mandate last week, Kline said Sunday.
An email Kline said was sent to school board members and site administrators had the subject line “Criminal Actions Should be filed against everyone one of you.”
“For every action there is a reaction, just the basic laws of physics and everyone of you s---heads would not want to be on the receiving end of the reaction; it is not pretty,” the message said.
The board’s online agenda has been replaced with a notice postponing the meeting.
This story was originally published February 7, 2022 at 12:45 PM.
