My bad.
In my April 10 post "Who will stop them? LAUSD says 'Hold my beer,'" I got so thrown by giving props to Superintendent Carvalho and so into the weeds on LAUSD's history of protecting students on school campuses from ICE that I whiffed on what I now see as the most important point: the actions of administrators and staff on site and in the moment.
Specifically, the principals and front office staff of Russell Elementary School and of Lillian Street Elementary School stood strong and refused to yield when pressured by teams of agents seeking specific students.
It's one thing to go through trainings. It's one thing to be given a script to follow and/or a list of protocols. Those are important and speak to the institutional imperative to protect students from immigration terrorism.
It is a different thing altogether to implement the training and follow the protocols in the face of these belligerent thugs who have been doing things like this, and this. This took real courage, and the individuals at Russell and Lillian Street who denied these agents entry to their campuses have real courage. Well done, folks. You have set a powerful example for all of us to follow.
Supt. Carvalho identified the schools and alluded to their principals and staffs in a news conference on Thursday (the incidents apparently took place on Monday). He described the encounters in some detail, and you can see it here:
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