Trustee Gabe Medina banned from college campus after confrontation

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A California college board member is banned from getting into a highschool campus for 2 weeks after college board counterparts voted to approve a stay-away letter final week.

The Workplace of the Superintendent ready an agenda merchandise to debate Pajaro Valley Unified Faculty District trustee Gabe Medina’s confrontation with Pajaro Valley Excessive Faculty principal Todd Wilson. The confrontation was about Pajaro Valley Excessive Faculty college students becoming a member of the nationwide walkout protests towards U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) on Jan. 30.

After Medina confronted Wilson, he confronted scrutiny and a stay-away letter was created that said he could not entry college grounds for 2 weeks.

Throughout a college board assembly on February 11, Medina’s colleagues voted 4-1 agreeing to approve the stay-away letter. The vote additionally mandated that Medina and Wilson are required to have a mediated dialog.

The Workplace of the Superintendent ready an agenda merchandise to debate Pajaro Valley Unified Faculty District trustee Gabe Medina’s conduct that led as much as Pajaro Valley Excessive Faculty college students taking part within the nationwide walkout protest towards the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month.

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"One among our board colleagues was on the college and received right into a verbal altercation with a district worker. Workers reported that the board member was aggressive, getting within the staff' face nostril to nostril…," Board President Carol Turley mentioned.

"The board member was not appearing in his official capability however slightly as a personal citizen. Primarily based on these occasions, the worker and employees expressed issues about their security and well-being and have requested correct protections are in place," Turley continued.

Medina mentioned in an Instagram video that he confronted Wilson about him allegedly threatening to tow college students' automobiles for taking part in the protests .

Medina obtained each help and criticism.

"Medina has been the one member on this board who has continually confirmed up for our college students," one of many audio system mentioned throughout the public remark session addressing the stay-away letter. "He sees the scholars as individuals, not as cash indicators. He advocates for college students after they really feel they don't have any voice."

Two sophomores from Pajaro Valley Excessive Faculty, Karina Aguilar and Alyah Mendoza, learn a press release collectively criticizing Medina’s conduct.

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Pajaro Valley Unified Faculty District trustee Gabe Medina obtained each help and criticism following the board contemplating a measure to ban the official from a highschool campus after a confrontation with one other worker. (YouTube Screenshot)

" Trustee Medina, you might be sitting right here on this board as somebody that we are able to clearly not belief and open up to in relation to exhibiting up for our college and our college students, particularly concerning the incident that occurred on the day of our walkout," Aguilar mentioned. "That day you confirmed us college students what an ideal instance of immaturity and a scarcity of readability may cause inside our college neighborhood."

Medina responded that college students weren't knowledgeable sufficient prematurely about their authorized proper to take part within the protest. He issued a press release the following day expressing disappointment in regards to the end result. He cited California regulation SB 955 that enables college students to go away class "offered that the pupil notifies the college forward of the absence."

"Final night time’s vote to approve a 14 day keep away letter is disappointing, however not stunning," he continued. "I imagine the motion was pointless and disproportionate. There was no accomplished investigation, no formal findings shared publicly, and no real try at mediation earlier than escalation. That raises critical issues about equity and governance."

Throughout the Jan. 30 walkout protest, Pajaro Valley High School college students initially deliberate to fulfill within the quad on campus for a rally to listen to remarks from a company known as Your Allied Speedy Response.

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What was deliberate to be an on-campus occasion ventured into an off-campus gathering.

As Pajaro Valley Excessive Faculty college students met on campus in Watsonville, CA, they had been inspired to go away to affix the bigger protest occasion that was organized to march to a rally in Watsonville's Civic Plaza. A few of the college students joined. The board took difficulty with criticism that the scholars weren't inspired to affix the bigger protest, claiming "scholar suppression."

Pajaro Valley Excessive Faculty college students joined the nationwide walkout protests towards U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement on Jan. 30. (AP Photograph/Ross D. Franklin)

The board mentioned that college officers "can't encourage college students to go away campus" and took difficulty with Medina’s characterization of the district’s dealing with of the student-led protest.

"We're NOT what Trustee Medina represented of us on his public platforms," the district wrote in a letter.

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The board, Wilson, nor Medina didn't reply to Fox News Digital 's requests for remark.

Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox Information Digital.

Joshua focuses on politics, training coverage starting from the native to the federal stage, and the parental rebellion in training.

Becoming a member of Fox Information Digital in 2019, he beforehand graduated from Syracuse College with a level in Political Science and is an alum of the Nationwide Journalism Middle and the Heritage Basis's Younger Leaders Program.