![]() To fill a previous vacancy several years ago, the board asked qualified members of the community to submit applications and the board picked a replacement, Earnhardt said. It wasn’t known how the board would fill Vanderloh’s vacancy. “There has been an active, passionate, engaged parent community,” Earnhardt said. But after the pandemic began, and the meetings moved the Zoom platform, attendance exploded to 150 people or more. ![]() He said that before the pandemic, maybe eight to 15 people would attend school board meetings. ![]() John Earnhardt, another member of the school board, said that Venverloh was a “great colleague … very diligent as a board member and impactful for the district.”Įarnhardt said the controversy moved quickly today because it spread through electronic media and parents this year are more engaged in the district than in the past. He felt the controversy would distract from the school board in its work. “It appeared that many people were not willing to accept the apologies,” he said in an interview tonight. Venverloh said he decided to resign after the reaction he got on social media earlier in the day. On the phone this evening, Venverloh told the Post that while his wife wasn’t happy with the outcome of the presidential election, she wasn’t a racist and, in fact, is mentoring a young Hispanic girl in North Fair Oaks. I have never encouraged such thinking or opinions, and I don’t agree with them in any way whatsoever.” “Let me be clear: I did not make the remarks that have so upset the community. Her husband, in announcing his resignation from the school board, distanced himself from his wife’s comment about Harris. She continued, “There is no excuse for what I wrote, but I ask for your understanding that my state of mind was far from normal last night.” I believe that the change in my medication reduced my judgment between right and wrong when I made the posts.” “Over the past several days I have been weaning off of my meds to prepare for a hospitalization that is scheduled to start tomorrow. “Some of you know I suffer from a debilitating neurological disease, and as a result I take various medications,” she wrote. This afternoon, she apologized on social media and blamed it on a medical situation. Venverloh’s wife, Mehridith Philips Venverloh, was having a twitter conversation early this morning about Harris’s qualifications when she wrote, “All she needs to be qualified is a black (vulgar word)! No brain needed.” Venverloh, in a phone conversation tonight, confirmed verbally that he was stepping down from the board. Jon Venverloh, a former Google marketing executive who joined the school board in December 2018, said on social media tonight, “… given my wife’s social media posts, which expressed reprehensible views that I do not agree with, I know my continued service would be a distraction from the work that needs to be done in the district over the two years remaining in my term.” The president of the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in Menlo Park resigned tonight from the school board after his wife used a vulgar word to describe Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in a social media posting.
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