Thank you, very much. Okay. Lets move on to the next item which is item e, parent Advisory Council, pac report. Representative . And it is ruth, again. We are going to milk this last week. This is my last report to the board as the parent of the Advisory Council. Kind of really flowing from what the Student Advisory Council was just talking about, one of the pacs priorities is addressing the issue of High School Graduation requirements and especially just looking at where the students who are in 11th grade right now who are the first students to have to meet the athrough g requirements where they are at. First of all the pac is very concerned about the number of students who are not on track to graduate right now. And really especially about the disproportionate on the african, latino and other students. It is making, we are really making an effort to learn more about the plans to respond to this urgent problem. And it feels the parents like a crisis and actually i have been in a numbe
And a rules meeting and we thought that the commissioners would not want to go to three meetings in one week, i dont know why they wouldnt. But any way we just assumed it so we are going to mark the cal calendars for the first monday in november, we hope that you can join us georgia. Thank you for coming and giving your report and thank you for coming up front to introduce yourself. We are going to move on to the next item. Thank you very much. Next item is f, Public Comment on consent items. There are, i believe, two or three speakers. Dennis, kelley . Ramison and harris and Susan Sullivan . Thank you very much, im dennis kelley, in San Francisco. And i join you in your flashing your orange and black tonight. I will let you know that i have made a wager with the president of the Detroit Federation of teacher and the Michigan Federation and i would urge you to reach out to john telfer the superintendant in detroit, although he had a heart attack at the beginning of this month and we ho
Friend. On behalf of pack, ruth you are a rock star and, want to present you with these flowers, and i dont have anything else to say but we love you. So ruth, we do have a certificate that we will bring up in a second and also on behalf of the entire school board, we also have a gift certificate. I am totally shocked and really appreciative. And i was saying to maranda before how much i love that part of commendations are thanking the people that they are getting recognized for and that is truly how i feel about the pack. I have worked hard over the last eight years and i am proud of what we have accomplished but it was my job. I got paid to do that. I felt that i was accountable for doing a good job at what i was doing. And everybody on the pack is a volunteer. And i just feel it was such an honor and a privilege to work for you guys and i learned, i learned so much from that. And so many people stayed on for extra time, until they termed out and went way beyond the expectations that
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