In my book right now for the school. Also, it had a positive staff recommendation for renewal as well. This school board, in earlier inkarnation approved the original charter. Do i do want to reiterate there are problems with Charter Schools. Whether you want to phrase it as pushing out students. Students do leave Charter Schools. They dont get pushed out to another charter, they get pushed out to another Public School, and we gladly take them, but if i push as a principal at my school, cleveland elementary school, and i pushed out a student, theyre not going to go to a Charter School, theyre going to go to another school. Theres no reciprocity, and that has to change. If Charter Schools can cancel out and have students leave for one reason or another thats not going to make it, its not fair that nonCharter Schools cant do the same. I think thats lost on a lot of people but that is fundamentally different thing, and it needs to change, but i will support this renewal. President walton
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
And your principal is really impressive. So i just dont want to close your door on her coming to work for the School District. If i could be open about and thats really what i believe as officials for this institution, what we have to be able to do is be up front and very focused and aggressive around getting the right people to work in our community. So i love james baldwin, too. You can teach it to the school, to the students as some of the other schools if youre looking for an opportunity. And the bars by the young man who rapped for us. So so you know, i want you all to know that we that i do listen, and i think its a very different thing to try to close an existing school and then open a new one. That is fu fundamentally different to me. Students in the high school, youre getting an up front view on how your local government work, and i invite you if you dont like the way we make the choices, to also run to be up here. That future is as available to you as it was to me. That was i
Who rapped for us. So so you know, i want you all to know that we that i do listen, and i think its a very different thing to try to close an existing school and then open a new one. That is fu fundamentally different to me. Students in the high school, youre getting an up front view on how your local government work, and i invite you if you dont like the way we make the choices, to also run to be up here. That future is as available to you as it was to me. That was instilled to me in thurgood maernrshall on the same side of the city. I want you to feel you have not aagency for improving schools in your community, for those reasons, i plan to support the staffs recommendation to approve the charter. President Walton Commissioner sanchez, then Vice President mendozamcdonnell. Commissioner sanchez thank you, president. Thank you, Kipp High School college prep. Youre awesome. For the similar reason, im going to vote to approve the charter renewal. Commissioner cook, it is fundamentally di