For me, I just feel like there's no way that you could possibly be in a role if you're not that ethnicity. I'm not saying that you don't have the knowledge, but of course you don't have the lived experience to know what it's like to be an African American parent liaison.
There's a real need for someone at our school that can work with the Black community. But it needs to be the right person. ... There's a lot of institutional distrust ... [the Black family liaison needs to] understand them and their life and their culture and where they come from.
James Lick's then-principal proposed creating a new Black family liaison position to increase our sense of belonging for our Black students and families.
Zhao was not a suitable choice, and pointed to the genuine need of its 41 or so Black students, as James Lick's 485 students are predominantly Latinx.
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