1/18/22 Free COVID-19 Test Kits

To All Buckeye Union, 

Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from USPS.com. Here’s what you need to know about your order:

• Limit of one order per residential address

• One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests

• Orders will ship free starting in late January

You may place your order at this link: Click Here

Buckeye Unified School District

1/14/22 Message From the Buckeye Union Superintendent

To All Buckeye Union, 

It is with great concern for our Buckeye Union School District community that I am writing you. Since returning from the winter break, protests against student masks have been occurring at our Buckeye Elementary site on an almost daily basis. The public is permitted to peacefully protest on public property, including in front of schools. Although many of the protestors complied with our requests to remain off school property, not all were compliant and thus we called upon the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department to provide assistance. The Deputy’s have been very helpful. 

Although the protests in front of the school are permitted, by law, many employees and families of Buckeye Elementary have expressed their concern about the activity.

On Tuesday evening, it was with great dismay that I received a phone call from Mr. Cadden, our Buckeye Elementary principal, sharing that protestors were in front of his home. Fortunately, Mr. Cadden lives in a close knit neighborhood and his neighbors immediately came to his assistance in order to diffuse the situation. These protestors chose to post their activity on social media and, as a result, many have watched the video and many have expressed their overwhelming concern for Mr. Cadden and his family. It would be an understatement for me to express the sense of shock that we who work everyday with Mr. Cadden felt about this intrusion on his home life. I want to ensure the community that the District is providing its resources to support the Caddens. 

As a community, we have had to navigate many difficult issues these past 2 years. There has been much disagreement along the way and families have respectfully engaged our administrators, teachers, staff, and Board members about the obstacles to educating children in a pandemic. As a District, we have strived to show respect for the many extreme challenges families and children have experienced. It has been rocky at times; however, the fact that we have been able to work so constructively together has meant that the focus has remained squarely on taking care of our students. 

Quite clearly, what occurred to Mr. Cadden’s family falls well outside the spirit with which I believe our community wants to support its educators. This has been made clear to me by the many who have reached out with concern and care from across our Buckeye community as well as El Dorado County at-large. 

I write you here to ask that we all continue to commit to defending a culture of mutual respect that allows for differences of perspective while supporting one another. As the saying goes, we should be hard on the issues, not the people. The culture of respect and caring in many communities has been lost to that of anger and discontent and I am most certain that is not what the families and educators of Buckeye Union desire. We ARE Buckeye Strong!

Sincerely,

David Roth, Ph.D.

Superintendent