your actions. last year, i lost an innovative, intelligent creative paraprofessional and chose not to wait around until the layoff notice was rescinded. i m forced to provide the same level of education without that intelligent, creative, innovative paraprofessional. i ask you to make cuts as far away from the classroom as you can. be as creative as you can. i know you can do it, because again, according to you, we are making decisions in the best interests of our students. thank you. [applause] good evening board members. i m julie travis. i m at chavez school. we are funded by state. also we have funds that we are using to staff our schools. but i really want to speak up for those people that are not in the zone. and i have been at this school district for eight years well as a parafor three years and teacher for eight years. seniority is seniority no matter what. i have never received a layoff thank goodness. i m always in the protected ranks and happen to be at a zone
hold on a second. so, i m, trying to do some flexibility, but i really need us to keep to the time limit as much as possible. how can an english teacher be wordy? i hate to do this, but i brought you some gata. the class sizes are significantly larger. the dollars we spend per student are at least, at least, $1600 lower than spent in the zone schools. in the three-zone high schools combined, there are 1,556 e.d.y. students. at galileo there are 1393 students. skipping seniority replace instability at the zone with unacceptable instability elsewhere. our contract with you is not the way to fix this. all right, one last comment. if you don t reverse your opinion, congratulations on winning the unconditional, the unconditional support and congratulations of michelle. [applause] she gave it to you publicly and it s all over. shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! shame on you! i m a teacher at the early education school for the last 15 years. i want to