THE SRV EXPOSITOR
"The past and the present are within my field of inquiry." — Sherlock Holmes,
in The Hound of the Baskervilles
To assure seeing any recent new postings for this site, readers should refresh pages in new visits.
Expositor [ek-spoz'-i-tor]: a noun form of the verb expose — thereby, a person or a mechanism who/which lays out something for public view, explaining it or expounding upon it. Here, the focus of attention will be the San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD), to include its policies, programs, and practices.
From "Grading for Equity," to the large collections of depraved pornography in the District's High School Libraries, to overtly racist anti-racism materials, to subversively skewed but now required "Ethnic Studies" course, to its concealment of new "transgender identities" of even its youngest children (after they've been subjected to "queering the classroom" LGBTQ+ grooming lessons), SRVUSD presents many developmental risks to the students in its charge.
Some recent news is directly below. That is followed by a Table of Contents (with links) to the site's pages. There is a short, general introduction after that. Thanks for visiting. We hope you find the site informative.
IN THE NEWS: SRVUSD SETTLES SEX-ABUSE CASE FOR NEARLY $7 MILLION
“Despite obvious indicators of inappropriate conduct, the district failed to intervene, investigate, or report its suspicions to the appropriate authorities,” said plaintiffs' attorney Lauren Cerri of the July 22nd, 2025 settlement. DanvilleSanRamon.com reported this story on July 30. The case involved two plaintiffs and their allegations of abuse by a District teacher during 2009-2011.
See the OTHER SCANDALS page for more recent examples of reported abuse within SRVUSD, including behavior resulting in the 2022 arrest of an alleged perpetrator whose trial has been postponed eight times.
One of the many dozens of pornographic books in SRVUSD high school libraries is a salacious novel which portrays the seduction of a 12-year-old boy by his female teacher. Isn't it time for SRVUSD to begin paying attention to its own Board Policy #4219.24, which prohibits "displaying or transmitting sexual objects, pornography, pictures, or depictions to a student"?
IN THE NEWS: META CONDEMNED FOR "ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL" CHATS WITH CHILDREN
In contrast with SRVUSD libraries (and those in other school districts), Meta [Facebook] is condemned widely for having "endowed AI personas with capacity for imaginary sex." Lisa Honold, director of the Center for Online Safety, "said parents would not allow an adult in real life to say to children what Meta allowed for in its bots. 'They would be called a child predator and be kept far from kids'" (she said). Meanwhile, SRVUSD (and California law) permit obscene materials in schools, among "legitimate... educational activities." No law requires such smut in schools, but permissive SRVUSD runs wild with the state's perverse OK for it.
IN THE NEWS: SRVUSD BUDGET DEEMED "HIGH RISK" IN FINANCIAL REPORT
"[T]he results of a study by the California Department of Education’s Fiscal Crisis Management Assessment Team point to ongoing concerns about the district’s financial management and its ongoing deficit spending, including a marked decrease in General Fund reserves in recent years, a lack of oversight ability from the county, and a lack of fraud prevention practices." See the July 28, 2025 DanvilleSanRamon.com story.
IN THE NEWS: AP EXAMS "RECALIBRATED" TO RAISE SCORES
Surprised by large numbers of college-credit scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams, in SRVUSD and other school districts? The rest of the story, which you may not hear from schools themselves: like the SAT scoring system a few years back, AP scoring has been "re-calibrated," to guarantee higher scores. See "The Great Recalibration of AP Exams." See also: the "Grading for Equity" page of this website.
Quoting: "Whereas the vast majority of students used to score a 1, 2, or 3 on this exam [these AP exams, in other words], the vast majority now scores a 3, 4, or 5." That's right: grade inflation has now hit AP testing.
Next up, predictably: a "recalibration" of California's CAASPP test scores, to show artificial "improvement" in those tests too, thereby to allow California schools more easily to present a false front to parents / voters?
Table of Contents
(But read on for an introduction to this site, following the listing of its pages....)
Demographics: SRVUSD, preoccupied with racial designations, identifies 65% of its students as “people of color.” Of those, two-thirds are of Asian extraction. And they are the District’s highest achieving students!
Personnel: With far fewer administrator and teacher employment days per year than most workers across the U.S. — and extensive benefits — SRVUSD administrators and teachers are very well compensated indeed.
"Equity," considered a "Strategic Direction" by SRVUSD's administrators, is the general area in which the District's classroom and co-curricular programs (along with high school library pornography) turn most noticeably from the teaching and learning of beneficial knowledge and skills... to INDOCTRINATION.
“Queering the Classroom”
(Their Term)
"Grading for Equity”
(Includes Test Scores)
Pornography in High School Libraries, increasingly now in classrooms and even Middle School Libraries. Why is this happening (?), since one of the earliest, prime directives taught in Educational Psychology 101 is that CHILDREN DO NOT THINK LIKE ADULTS. But all too often, it seems that SRVUSD is operated by adults who think like children. We hope it's that simple — a case of professional immaturity rather than sheer evil.
Other Scandals: From the drowning of a student in P.E. swimming class, to concentrated defamation of another student, to Supt. Malloy’s amplifying of a false social media post to slander Cal High Stunt Team members, to the grossly irresponsible hiring and placement of a sex offender, to pornography in high school libraries..., SRVUSD is covered up in scandal.
Scandal Archives: SRVUSD and some of the District's personnel have behaved despicably for decades. This page will recall some of the many scandals which preceded today's sordid record.
SRVEA-CTA-NEA: Radical teacher-union puppeteers pull SRVUSD strings, with a perverse philosophy that was articulated by CTA in 1984: “Who dares take on religion, free enterprise, patriotism, and motherhood? We do — and we must!”
SRVUSD Finances: Spending growth rate over three decades has far exceeded combined rate effect of inflation and enrollment change (enrollment decline since 2017-18)
SRVUSD: An Introduction
SRVUSD has major problems in its administrative leadership, its activist staff personnel, its curricular choices, and some of its school-day activities. School priorities should be the teaching and learning of beneficial knowledge and skills. But here, as in so many other school districts across the country, the priority is too often indoctrination instead.
The District's corrupted programs include overtly racist "anti-racism"; LGBTQ sexualizing of even transition kindergarten 4 and 5-year-olds in a program which SRVUSD personnel have called "queering the classroom"; secretive Prism Clubs (LGBTQ Clubs) for 4th and 5th graders; subversive "Ethnic Studies"; and vile, depraved pornographic filth in high school libraries (and increasingly now in classrooms and middle school libraries).
And meanwhile, SRVUSD spending growth has far exceeded combined rates of inflation and enrollment change. Compared to 10 years ago, enrollment is down by 3400 students. But spending, adjusted for both enrollment decline and inflation, was up by approximately $137 Million (compared to 2015) as the 2024-2025 school year began.
"Test Scores Fall, Unions Want More...." "An iron rule of education politics is that the more test scores decline, the more money the teachers unions demand. So it goes in California, where student test scores keep falling despite ever more money flowing to public schools" (Wall Street Journal, 02-18-25). See SRVUSD's scores.
SRVUSD sought even more money in 2024, with Measures E and F. Measure E sought a sneaky inflation escalator atop the existing $144 annual parcel tax. Measure F tried simply to add a flat $98. Fortunately, voters rejected both E and F. Unfortunately, however, they did renew the existing parcel tax for nine more years, in Measure Q (Nov. 2024).
The District spent something exceeding $300,000 in taxpayer funds on polling and tax-promotion consulting. PTAs added about $130,000 in the "private" campaigns — with tax-exempt dollars supplied by these groups.
In the meantime: State test scores [CAASPP (English and Math) and CAST (Science)] continue to lag 2015 to 2019 scores, even as the District pushes Grading for Equity (though no longer calling it that) and makes extensive collections of depraved pornography available to students in school libraries.
The test scores are so bad that SRVUSD avoids posting school-by-school and year-by-year comparisons. So we make those available here (at the Grading for Equity page). And like other school districts throughout California, SRVUSD is caught up now with "Ethnic Studies," the District's excuse for institutionalizing its corrupted "D.E.I." programs. Their "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" propaganda in fact = Division, Exclusion, and Indoctrination.
Further regarding dollars and sense: SRVUSD is back to its usual pattern of claiming destitution — until it's time for the next pay raise. The reality is shown in two illustrations: (a) the fact that the 2025-26 school year will start with more full-time equivalent employees (FTEs, 2577) than in 2014-15 (2483 then), despite 4,500 fewer students now than back then; and (b) enrollment is down 14% compared to 10 years ago. Inflation has increased costs by a little over 34%.
But salaries and benefits have increased 72.3%. They evidently have no shame — whether in a curricular or a fiscal sense.
In general terms: SRVUSD's shameful record of nonfeasance, misfeasance, and sometimes mal-feasance over the years is extensive, and the effort to compile and post segments of that record continues. As an example of the kind of content being collected and archived, see a story from this site's Scandals page, regarding former Supt. Malloy's indefensible role in slandering members of the Cal High Cheer-Stunt Team in May, 2022.
And again, see the alarmingly poor CAASPP testing results, most recently for 2023-2024. The District seems to be hiding the school-by-school results, likely to avoid comparative review by parents and other taxpayers. But srvEXPOSITOR is making them available, as linked above.
Those bad results make it clear once again that SRVUSD needs fewer race baiters, indoctrinators, porn purveyors, and prevaricators. SRVUSD students meanwhile remain at serious risk, morally and intellectually.
What's needed is better educators here and across the country, i.e. true professionals who are dedicated to the teaching and learning of beneficial knowledge and skills, along with the moral development of their students.
Otherwise, "Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity." — Thomas Sowell