Yeah. Jj. Officer johnson, chief, captain sullivan, you know, this is just such a lesson to me and i feel like in the time that i have known you on the commission, i have learned a lot and one of those things is that you have this bold idea where there is a million different points that you could just say that this is not going to work and whenever you are trying to do anything in the world and what i am just amazed by is that the level of difficulty in pulling this off. And you know, i sometimes i have to take the kids up to sacramento to testify before the assembly and i am panicked to have them in the car for 90 minutes and i am a mother of three. And so taking the leap, and bringing people into it and making them a part of this and then having just the kurage, and it is what you stand for, you stand for the future for these kids and they know that and you are a powerful stand for them and it is such a point of pride for this department, i cant, i cant tell you how proud i am to ser
Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking now. And i told the kids, and i use the phrase a lot the world is bigger than the block. Yeah. The most important piece of it, is their academic diplomas that she can get is their passport and i mean, obviously, for me, history and culture is just the basis of who i am and what i do. And so but for you to take them actually there, i mean, that is greater than anything that they read in a book and you read in a book. So we are going to make it happen again, and you know, he has already kicked himself and i am working on something bigger that i mentioned to you earlier to try to make this a. And i am working on it and i am working on it because it is just, it is just a marvelous thing and lastly, let me just, say, that all of you out there, who paint the police with one brush, this is a Police Officer who did this, okay . This is a Police Officer, and this is the police, and i dont want to hear that, all right . I dont want
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Students need from year to year. Weve discovered in the past couple of years we more and more have kids that dont have a home. And weve taken it upon ourselves to add this as part of our education f to begin to raise money to open a residential that kids need a place to life and grow and feel a part of. The thing that makes our school unique kids come into our school and constantly feel part of the community. It is so important and lost in so many ways. Once they understand what it feels like to be part of the community they never leave us so i asked a couple of graduates i can get tons of them to come to speak about the Life Learning Academy how it helped them grow and asked a parent to come to give their 23r5u7bd feeling about this school. Thank you, again. And present the rest of the speakers. Thank you clapping hello hi, commissioners im jessica cacs castro i graduated from Life Learning Academy in 2007. I was prior to this unmotivated i didnt building my teachers support me but on
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