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Guest Opinion: Who's Really Destabilizing LBUSD?

Laguna Beach Independent

Author Thasa Zuziak
Published:
2026-04-24
Retrieved:
2026-05-12
URL:
https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/opinion/guest_opinion/guest-opinion-whos-really-destabilizing-lbusd/article_702ab25a-24f1-423d-824e-029ee2fd696f.html

Guest opinion by CSEA Chapter 131 President Thasa Zuziak. Documents a reported no-confidence vote by classified staff regarding LBUSD leadership.

Key points

  • April 24, 2026 guest opinion by Thasa Zuziak, President of CSEA Chapter 131 (LBUSD classified-staff union).
  • Argues the board majority — not the unions — is destabilizing LBUSD; frames the staff's reported 90 percent no-confidence vote as legitimate evidence of broken trust.
  • Quotes Zuziak: 'A 90% no-confidence vote is not some made-up union talking point. That is a workforce telling you loudly that trust has collapsed.'
  • Distinguishes legitimate 'governance' from problematic 'control,' 'interference,' and leadership driven by 'ego.'
  • Closes: 'When the people in a district tell you over and over that trust is broken, morale is low, students are feeling the effects... the answer is not to mock them.'

Cited by 1 event

  1. Zuziak op-ed reports classified staff no-confidence vote

    Op-ed by CSEA Chapter 131 President Thasa Zuziak published in the Laguna Beach Independent on April 24, 2026. A verbatim quote can be added once the article body is re-read against the editorial standards.