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Parents ask board to intervene after student discipline incidents at Rodriguez High School
Summary
Several public‑comment speakers told the governing board about fighting and disciplinary actions at Rodriguez High School, requesting intervention and correction of alleged miscoded discipline records that affected students' eligibility for athletics.
During the public‑comment period at the Aug. 21 Fairfield‑Suisun Unified School District board meeting, two speakers described disciplinary incidents at Rodriguez High School and asked the board and district staff to intervene.
Brenda Hatley (introduced in the public‑comment roll) described a sequence of events she said involved her grandson. Hatley said a student had approached her grandson and asked to fight; she said her grandson declined and staff told him not to fight. Hatley said that when the other student and a group of students later confronted her grandson on the yard, staff "stood around and waited for something to happen," and that after the other student attacked her grandson he served a suspension that she characterized as unfair because her grandson had been suspended for sending a text asking the other student to meet at a park. Hatley said that when her grandson returned, the other student engaged in another fight and that her grandson was suspended pending expulsion. Hatley said she sought a hearing with district staff and that she asked the board for "some type of intervention to get this corrected."
A second speaker, introduced as Latoree Roten (using the name listed on the speakers' sheet), spoke on behalf of two students, Malachi and Antoine, and described a "horrific experience" with the district's handling of transfer and discipline codes. Roten said they had been advised the district sent an expulsion code that rendered the students ineligible for sports; she said the family asked district staff to send the correct code to reinstate eligibility and that, as of her comment, she had not seen a resolution.
The speakers identified district staff they had contacted by name in their accounts (Hatley referenced Assistant Principal Hightower and later staff member "Miss Cherry"), but the public comments were expressions of concern and requests for district intervention; no formal appeals or board motions were recorded on the record during the public‑comment period.
Ending: The board acknowledged receipt of the comments and proceeded to the consent calendar; the transcript does not record a formal response or an action by the board on the specific disciplinary complaints during the meeting.
