important to keep in mind that, you know, as many challenges as the authority has, we still have a thriving community and we have lots of young people like you who are moving forward and are going to do great things in the community and in your lives. and, so, i think it s always important to keep focusing on the positive, about the amazing community that we have and we re going to turn this around and everything is going to go in a positive direction. you know, i also just want to congratulate the partner here to the housing authority, that is our school district. our public school system is so on the way up and, you know, it started with elementary schools, moving up to our middle schools, and the back bet i am now after the school sign-up letters went out, i m happy to share this, getting people who are so mad that their kids didn t get into mission or balboa high school. [cheering and applauding] and we weren t necessarily getting those five or ten years ago and that
district, mr. richard karanza. (applause) so, good afternoon, good morning, congratulations to the class of 2013. how about another round of applause for them, huh? this is great. (applause) anything that i could add would just be redundant. i mean, when you hear the mayor speak, when you hear supervisor breed speak about her experience, i just want you to understand that where you start is only where you start, right. it s how you finish and how you finish strong. we are so proud of the fact that you re all leaving here today, you already have a diploma that says san francisco unified school district, right? that s your gate that s your ticket, that s your key to the future. and only you know what that future is going to be. i want you to come back and take my job, seriously. you need to do that to give back to our community. now, a couple of you asked, so, what happened, why are you on crutches? i could tell you, except i promised carl that i wouldn t talk about our a