A letter shared with district faculty and staff by Round Rock ISD Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez was made public by Place 4 trustee Cory Vessa via social media Dec. 3.
The letter addressed both the recent fatal shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan as well as the "increasingly raucous" board of trustees meetings, where "passions have run high and frustrations have mounted."
Azaiez pointed to issues that have made headlines recently, including the arrest of two parents who were removed from a Sept. 14 board meeting, the Texas Open Meetings Act and safety at board meetings. In his letter, Azaiez wrote to staff and faculty that he wanted them to have accurate information regarding these matters.
Regarding the parents removed from a board meeting and later arrested by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office on misdemeanor charges of disrupting public proceedings, Azaiez wrote that he had observed some confusion about the RRISD Police Department's involvement as the entity that originally removed them from the meeting, but did not carry out the arrests.
