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his daughter and friends comSchool hands them out to 5th graders, said plained about a boy who touched girls on their chest, stood too close to them Palo Alto’s Ohlone Elementary School decided in 2024 to give all fifth then things go in unexpected directions and followed them to the bathroom. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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role-played, for example building a hotel with rooms that sold different things, like a miniature economy. But the girls also go into some trouble, like seeing how many times they could conjugate the f-word and roasting other students, Craig said.
Principal Elsa Chen called Craig and 10 other parents in for a meeting. Chen told Craig his daughter couldn’t use the f-word and handed him a five-day suspension notice, according to Craig. Craig said he learned that Chen held his daughter for two hours and had her write and re-write a confession. Parents called in for a meeting Craig said the second confession didn’t Teachers eventually found out, sound like his daughter and believes locked the devices and sent out a notice Chen told her what to write. to parents, Craig said. In the shared Google Docs, Craig
Lawyers: Ex-sheriff is elusive BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent
Former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus has allegedly dodged process servers in a lawsuit claiming she damaged a sheriff’s captain’s reputation by spreading rumors that he was having an affair. Capt. Eamonn Allen filed the defamation lawsuit against Corpus and the county in December, saying allegations that he had an affair with
Corpus’ former assistant “are entirely false.” When the lawsuit was revised in April, Allen’s attorneys tried serving Corpus with the revisions and a summons. But multiple attempts to serve Corpus with the legal papers at her home were unsuccessful, as were attempts by mail, according to Allen’s lawyers, Young Park and Tara Hattendorf of Justice for Workers. Allen’s lawyers [See EX-SHERIFF, page 18]
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If Measure D passes, Los Altos Councilman Pete Dailey he’ll support apartment says he will immediately and absolutely propose allowing multifamily zoning in neighborhoods BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
housing in residential neighborhoods if “You’re making it a bigger deal to voters approve a ballot measure to preme than it needs to be,” resident Nancy serve downtown parking lots. Supporters of Measure D accused Martin said. “We can cool this down and be Dailey of scare tactics at Tuesday’s much more creative and positive with meeting.
each other,” resident Alice Mansell said. Dailey said the city’s state-mandated 2023-2031 Housing Element is in jeopardy because the plan committed the city to allowing housing downtown. Dailey said state housing officials would require council to update the Housing Element, and 80% of Los Altos is single-family homes. “It’s pretty [See STAKES, page 19]
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13 girls corroborated harassment Craig provided a statement to the Post signed by 13 students that detailed their allegations against the boy, including him making sexual noises, trying to kiss students and following girls around campus. Craig said he and other parents appealed the suspension and asked the district to address the sexual harassment, but they received only a boiler[See LAPTOPS, page 18]
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graders laptops with no content controls for school and personal use. Things went in surprising directions. Parent John Craig, who is running for the school board, said his daughter CRAIG and her friends built a social network on Google Docs with tens of thousands of pages. Left on their own, the kids, ages 10 and 11, had normal conversations and