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SOTA students and parents demand separate creative-writing director after administrative consolidation
Summary
Students and parents at the School of the Arts (SOTA) told the Board of Education the school’s decision to combine the creative writing and spoken arts director roles will stretch one teacher across both programs, undermining instruction and equity; speakers called the hiring process opaque and urged the district to fill a full-time creative writing director with benefits.
Students and families of the School of the Arts (SOTA) pressed the San Francisco Unified School District board on a hiring decision they said will weaken a 20-year program. Multiple students said the district consolidated the creative writing director role into the spoken arts director position, creating one teacher’s responsibility for roughly 50–60 students.
"Not being able to have one teacher focusing on us at a time is not only unfair to us," said Julia, a rising SOTA freshman, describing how the merge would limit the department’s instructional depth. Senior Starly Tagati said the hiring process had been "inequitable, disorganized, and not transparent," and said…
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