And amanda from the Mayors Office of hope for all of the hard work on this topic. And we are also going to touch on evictions from the publicly funded units. The letter was raised and it has been a topic of discussion for a long time, and we raised it in the previous hearing, a few months ago. I think that we are starting to see the action on the concept and i do believe that this is critical, and if we are going to really take a stab at reducing our Homeless Population here in San Francisco. And you know, and do you know that it runs in the housing letter have been working well and that, some have not been working well. And you know, as you paint the picture of someone who is, usually on our streets and obviously not wanting to be in that situation, you think about the first step off of the streets and into some kind of stabilization, and whether that be the shelter bed or stabilization room and from there, into some type of Supportive Housing. And then from there into permanent subsi
Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. Up next, Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action policies in education do little to help the truly disadvantaged. She says these policies should be replaced with affirmative action admission policies based on where a child grows up instead of the color of his or her skin. This is about 90 minutes. We are going to go ahead and get started. Welcome to the joint center. My names spencer overton, im the interim president of joint center. I want to start off by thanking brian smedley, carla gallant as well as the rest of the joint center team that pulled this together. Thanks, jerry span, as well as roger clegg for responding, coming in and responding. In april of 2013, i pestered sheryll aboutvw lunch. Sometimes d. C. Can seem so focused on the next position or titles, and i felt like, hey, this is someone who i admire, we can kind of have lunch, build intellectual community, throw around ideas. But sheryll was busy. She said, he
To reflect reality. They have disabled generations from understanding language in a way to contact reality and does have disabled them from using. The down of American Education makes also its a good thing some possible or at least very difficult. I dont know how many people could have followed the argument i just made. Why . Because that takes an Attention Span longer than a few minutes for a few seconds. The American Educational system destroys Attention Spans, among other things, sl is historical knowledge, it better, it better. My name is mary. Im an independent observer. Youre talking about peace, but im beginning the impression that we are promoting are justifying more. You are making an error in the assumption that the natural state of one species is to stay in the natural state of calm for, perpetual conflict. As a matter of fact, there are studies. I dont remember the name of the psychologists, but it was presented to president lincoln. Like i said, i dont remember the names.
Family, for a long time. And she told me, she asked i thank her for the courage it took to come forward. She said, i dont know how to tell you this, but i think theres so much going on. She told us her son had come to her and told her there was a picture jill had sent to him in december naked in her body and it had been passed to another boy and then to another boy and put up on the internet. He told me he had these pictures of jill and he was telling everybody that they were on his email account. So everybody went on the email account and they saw and they sent them to themselves just to have them just to, i dont know, just to. We were very surprised when she told us about the picture. We had no idea. Jill was very private, we couldnt understand why she would send Something Like that to a boy that she wasnt a boyfriend, it was just a friend. Our first thought, this isnt true. We first thought this cant be true. Then i thought, i need to at least know, i need to at least pursue this an
Class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how it handle it and really talk to your children about it can be fun, it can be dangerous, these new toys that we have. Wow. All right, id like to introduce the members of our panel today, rob is here, rob, could you come on up, rob neighbor, please join us. Th