Author: Carolyn Inmon

Irvine Community News & Views is launching a new series of articles, discussing the current situation at IUSD and TUSD schools, now that students have shifted to an e-learning environment.

Students, teachers, and parents are having to adjust to the “new normal” of online classrooms.

With America awash in guns and gun violence, the shocking fact is that school shootings have become the “new normal.”

In 2018 and 2019, the country suffered through a combined, record-breaking total of nearly 200 school shooting incidents.

When teachers and the community stand shoulder-to-shoulder, marching in support of school kids, good things usually happen.

This story is worth re-telling, because it is a powerful lesson all of us should remember: Citizen activism works! When the City proposed a 20 percent cut in City support for our schools, teachers, and students, the Irvine community responded, and leaders listened.

Important Update: Citizen engagement in Irvine has stopped a proposed 20 percent cut in annual City funding for our schools, teachers and students.