Kristina Holmes-McIntyre turned to Golden Charter Academy for environmental stewardship and culturally responsive education. Instead, she says she found a school with punitive and isolating disciplinary practices, and a staff who had more experience with criminal justice than education.

“I would describe the culture as that of an alternative behavior modification school,” Holmes-McIntyre said.

She has brought multiple formal complaints against the school, taking her allegations to the California Department of Education, social media, and the police.

In response, Golden Charter enlisted a legal team and threatened litigation if Holmes-McIntyre did not take down social media posts.

But Holmes-McIntyre, mother of two former GCA elementary “scholars,” isn’t backing down.

And she’s not the

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