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Parents, teachers and behavior team urge Lakeside Union Elementary to boost staffing and sensory supports
Summary
At a Lakeside Union Elementary School Board meeting, parents, teachers and the district behavior team called for more staff, clearer procedures and sensory spaces after accounts of injuries, lost instruction and strained behavior supports. The board heard a presentation but took no formal action.
Lakeside Union Elementary School Board members heard more than a dozen public commenters press the district to expand staffing, clarify procedures and invest in sensory spaces to support students with significant behavioral and sensory needs.
Parents and teachers described injuries, lost instructional time and stretched staff at elementary and middle schools across the district. A parent who the board announced as Evelyn Gutierrez and who self‑identified during remarks as “Segalvin” said classroom ratios leave some children vulnerable: “A 1 to 24 ratio is not an educational environment. It is a survival environment,” she told the board and urged investment in indoor sensory gyms and sensory playgrounds.
Todd Johnson, the father of a fourth‑grade student with Down syndrome, described incidents he said harmed his child and questioned district leadership’s response. “The…
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