Good afternoon and welcome to the october 29th, 2019 meeting board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the role. role call . Brown is not present. Walton not present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, coleena mendoza and michael balbazar who record our meetings and make transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes,. President. I have one to communicate from supervisor walton, who is conducting his civic duty today jurierjury and may attend later. Colleagues, can i have a motion to dismiss. Motion made and without objection, supervisor wallson is excused. Today we are approving minutes from september 24, 2019 meeting. Seeing none, can i have a motion to
Right thing. [applause. ] if you could all line up. I came here earlier. I thought it was an naacp meeting. This is the first time i have been in a School Board Meeting in more than 30 years. I took my daughter out of San Francisco Public Schools more than 30 years ago for the same problem that exists today. She is fine because i took her out. I am sure she wouldnt have been if i left her in it. I think that the problems are seriously systematic, and i was really surprised you took it upon yourself to come to a school where the africanamerican girls and we could not manage to have a conversation with the principal, we could not manage to get a meeting space for these young women to meet, they feel isolated. They didnt have africanamerican History Month at marina junior high school. This is just last year. If shamann hadnt intervened we wouldnt have the programs. I get to see what is going on. On a real micro level, last week we got a boy who is a senior with straight i asked to see his
Engaged. Dont be scared to say how we feel. Finally, we should you talk about transparency, mr. Superintendent, let us know what you are doing. How you are spending the money. Who are you recruiting to help with the problem . We do that we might be able to say that we have done a good j job. Never leave it until it is done. Do it well or not at all. It is time for us to stop half stepping and start high stepping so that when black children succeed all children succeed. When black children are excellent in getting awards not just for sports, singing, rapping. We can do more than that. We have got a brain and we have got to expose our children to achieving in the academic and scientific programs. More importantly, make sure they also know how to behave in school. Teacher need to know how to not be scared of black children. Love them and respect them and dont overlook them in the classroom. I was out to lincoln the other day. I must say this. I know where the problem is. Some think i am b
Do it well or not at all. It is time for us to stop half stepping and start high stepping so that when black children succeed all children succeed. When black children are excellent in getting awards not just for sports, singing, rapping. We can do more than that. We have got a brain and we have got to expose our children to achieving in the academic and scientific programs. More importantly, make sure they also know how to behave in school. Teacher need to know how to not be scared of black children. Love them and respect them and dont overlook them in the classroom. I was out to lincoln the other day. I must say this. I know where the problem is. Some think i am burying the dead and marrying couples and preaching sermons. I am going to these schools unannounced. I have been doing it for 40 years. What we need to do is to just get these programs in the schools immediately and not come up with some excuse to say we got to have more time. We will had enough time and the time is always r
Has family around her and is doing the best she can to copy. She told me she was shot in the back and lucky to be alive. Reporter the lone survivor of the carnage, vicky garner is in good condition. Disturbed individual, wanted to take it out on his former coworkers, a senseless deed and my wife was there at the wrong time. Reporter gardner with the local chamber of commerce was being interviewed when the gunman identified as vester flanagan, a former disargument lettered reporter station fired nine shots. Its senseless that her life and adams life were taken by a crazy person with a gun. Reporter alisons boyfriend, chris hurst, a news anchor began sharing memories on abc good morning america. I want everyone to know that she was not only a fantastic journalist and well on her way to a remarkable career but she was good at everything she attempted. Reporter flanagan sent abc news a lengthy fax, that he suffered from Racial Discrimination and bullying at work. His family issued this sta