The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. Id like to thank the Ranking Member senator white house and the collaborator its great to be here and doing this together. I was just saying i told him that it would be nice to have the answers because hes a tough questioner and he will take you to task. Id like to thank the witnesses for your attendance and also highlight two empty chairs today which i say that he invited witnesses who apparently dont share your commitment to discussing the issues. One is for tiktok. If you dont know what tiktok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers mark is reportedly spoofed. For facebook the fear is lost to social media market share and for the rest of us it is somewhat different. A company compromised by the Chinese Communist party knows where your children are, what they look like, with their voicewhat theirvoices sound like watching and what they share with each other. They claim they do
My colleagues signed a certificate of honor and of course, we were in attendance at the gala, at the banquet, but i really love working with all of you and looking forward to continuing this relationship, working together for the next 100 plus years. Congratulations. Thank you. I also would like to join my colleagues in congratulating you on 100 years. Four generations of my family have been educated including myself. I have a lot to be grateful for and a lot to be pretty appreciative of. I would thank you for your hard work but also your advocacy advocacy in making this the best Public School system that we possibly can. I know it is a lot of hard work. I see you throughout my years on the school board, but also even as a p. T. A. President for 12 terms, the hard work that you do as an Organization Also for your membership. I just want to also add my congratulations on to uesfs 100 years. Thank you very much. Supervisor mar . Thank you, supervisor ronen for this commendation. I just w
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