John Foster and Sara Diamond didn’t leave the Oakland Unified School District because they were unhappy with their school choices.
They say they wanted an alternative to Oakland schools for practical reasons. Foster worked in San Francisco, where his daughter Claire’s day care was also located. So father and daughter had a routine of commuting together from East Oakland.
“I would take her with a baby carrier and I would read to her on BART, and for several years that’s how we did it,” said Foster.