Discipline be damned: Another S.F. middle school has descended into chaos. Marina Middle School is accused of inadequate safety practices and breaking education laws.
Since August 2021, San Francisco Unified’s Marina Middle School has lost almost a third of its staff, seen the departure of its longtime principal, and descended into what some educators familiar with the 670-student institution in one of The City’s wealthiest neighborhoods describe as barely controlled chaos.
The security, behavioral and administrative problems at Marina Middle School are not unique to SFUSD or other California public schools. Mission Local reported a climate of chaos at Everett Middle School in April, where administrative negligence allegedly led to violence and loss of staff. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in February 2020 a “Lord of the Flies” environment at Aptos Middle School, where a small group of students “managed to wrest control of the school from the adults.
San Francisco public schools follow — and in some respects have been ahead of — the state’s student discipline guidelines. Suspensions are designated as a last resort and permissible only if the school team has exhausted and documented all required interventions and supports for behavior. When asked if restorative justice training has stopped, SFUSD spokesperson Dudnick replied training and materials are available online.
Perhaps more troubling, Tupuola said, was that the administrators failed to immediately call parents “as much as 20 times” when police arrived to deal with students fighting, possessing weapons or being suspected of criminal behavior off campus, which goes against SFUSD police interrogation regulations.
SFUSD’s Dudnick wrote in an email in response to this allegation: “There are myriad reasons why a student may be walking in the hallway during class. Hypothetically, a student may walk in the hallway during class to find their mentor or other supports.” But according to current and former Marina Middle School employees, suspensions between September 2021 and December 2022 have gone undocumented, which is forbidden per SFUSD’s own regulations. Current and former staff said they cannot go on record about these undocumented suspensions for fear they would be sued or never work in California public education again.
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