For your service ruth, and i think the commissioners also wanted to say a few words and we have a little certificate and token of our appreciation. We will just go from left to right. So ruth, i want to say, you know, since i was in the ones that wrote the resolutions to have the Parent Advisory Council, i think that it was you that took the baton and just ran with it, with your deep commitment to parent voice and attending all of these late night meetings we always see you, sometimes you are the only one in the audience and i have seen you so many times just sit with parents and prep them. Or the especially the parents where english is the second language to present in front of us. I think that you have really empowered so many of our parents through the work in the years. I want to say a personal thank you and also thank you for stepping up and working with us now to do a districtwide parent empowerment plan, thank you, ruth, much, much, much, luck to you. I just want to as you proba
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 we had set at the beginning. So i just really appreciate the recommendation, i cant even articulate how moved i am by this. And i do feel like i also have to acknowledge the support of the funders who have allowed the pack to build staffing and infrastructure that help us be functiona
Done. I am so grateful for the contribution to the strength and the stability of the Parent Advisory Council. I think that it is remarkable work and i couldnt be happier that you were joining our staff and thank you, deeply, from me. So, im just going to echo what everybody else has said, i am so appreciative with the work that you have done with the pack and just how the facilitator and the staff person you just have been really so respectful of different parent voices and it is a very Diverse Group and just how the pack has managed to continue on in a it provides really Important Information for us on the board and your facilitation and support of the pack has made that continue to happen and so thank you and i look forward to working with you as a member of the district staff. Thanks so much. You are stellar on the outside working with us and you will be stellar on the inside working with us and i want to just thank the pack for letting her go. You will continue to work closely with
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 number of meetings and i am glad to say that the district is responding to it as a crisis and has an action plan in place for both the shortterm and also we
And she is tenacious and really selfdepricating and i think of her as a mentor as well as a 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 peop