We rely heavily on [inaudible] as a middle schooler it really helps to get help if your personal or home life is affecting your school life. The district is cutting 2 3 of our current support but adding support to other schools. We started to realize the fundsing gap. At rooftop ive [inaudible] of seeing a friend go through a hard time and not being able to do much about it. Also knowing at other schools they have the proper su porlt makes it much worse. People assume that rooftop is a High Performing School on average, so we have everything we need, in actually just because the district does not consider us high needs school, does that not mean we need at least some of the support other schools receive . [applause] my names im worried about drugs and alcohol at my school. Peer pressure and wanting to look cool is the reason kids might want to try drugs. We need a fulltime social worker to guide our kids to make better choices. We need the same services. [applause] good eveninging comm
Happen. [applause] next speaker please good evening commissioners and superintendents. Im the president of the social Justice Community at rooftop k 8. We plan campaigns and events we feel will help our school community. This year we got the opportunity to apply for a grant and we took it. We designed a campaign, submitted an application and got the grant. The problem we identified for our grant was the lack of womens programs. For the past few months weve done lots of research and planning around the lack of Wellness Program the School District funds. After getting all this information we decided to put it all together and this is what we got. We are very excited to present it to you. Hello commissioners, my name is cindy and i attend Rooftop Middle School. When i said rooftop what did you think of . If you think our students are rich white kids from the valley, youre way off. Rooftop has an extremely diverse population. I myself am filipino, but at any given time i could be work wg o
Promised taking care of our employees that we keep hearing about from the superintendent and the school board. I think its time the stop playing around. My students in first grade know that playing ing around time is for recess time. This is school time, we have serious work to do and there is a lesson to be learned and that has to do with prioritizing. Teachers and parents gave the district 60 million over the past four yours. Prop 30 will double your funds over the next few years. Today the golf nor put 469 million into prop 98 guarantees. Today you are wealthier than you have ever been and you offer me and my colleagues 2 percent. 2 percent into 6,000 teachers does not work. Look instead at your priorities. What have you brought this year . 175 new tsas, a floor full of administrators, curriculum experts, if you can spend money on these things, you can spend money on the people who do the work with the children who are your charges. S, if you can spend money on these things, you can
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