I’m not the only one demanding a public apology from Michael Hicks

by David Safier

If you read my post below, you'll see why I think TUSD Board member Michael Hicks needs to make a public apology. I want Hicks to retract the outrageous allegations he made in a radio interview — that Wakefield Middle School students may have been sexually abused while they were at UA. Salomón Baldenegro Sr. is also demanding a public apology from Hicks, apparently based on a different segment from the same radio interview.

Salomón Baldenegro Sr. recently shared his perspective on an interview Tucson Unified School District board member Michael Hicks did on the Garrett Lewis A.M. show on KNSR 97.1 in which Hicks lied about where he was during the school board meeting on April 26, 2011. This is the school board meeting in which the student group UNIDOS took over the dais and prevented the school board meeting from continuing.

Either Michael Hicks doesn't understand the responsibility involved in being on a School Board whose task is to watch over the education of the city's children, or he understands and doesn't care. Either way, Hicks is presenting a terrible role model for the students in TUSD by lying and by alleging university students and faculty members who believe in preserving the MAS program would abuse students who are putting themselves on the line to protest the program's removal.