The Morongo Unified School District took a major step towards addressing bullying within the school district at last night’s emotional board meeting. Reporter Andrew Dieleman has the details…
A group of anti-bullying protestors returned to the MUSD Board last night. Students and parents of students continued to make impassioned pleas to
the board to address bullying from select students and teachers within the district. One brave student gave a brief testimony of his bullying
experiences, stating that the bullying he endured was so bad that he need counseling from contemplating suicide. In response to the issue, MUSD
board members Hillary Slotta and Michael Chlebik agreed to join a newly-proposed subcommittee with the intention of addressing the bullying issue
in any way possible.
The meeting began at 5 p.m. with a work study session to discuss the formation of a district-wide public survey to determine public support for
new bonds and prioritizing projects that would receive funding from those proposed bonds. In open session, beginning at 7 p.m., the board
recognized 17 high school students who were selected as the district-wide 2018 student-of- the-year in their career technical education classes. The
board then approved the creation of a proposed public survey, which will determine public support for possible district bonds in the future, and
unanimously agreed to labeling May 9 as “the Day of the Teacher” in the district. The renaming of the Twentynine Palms Junior High School computer lab was postponed; the name-change will be re-addressed at future meetings.
