in the jrtc program which she enjoyed, and i, you know, i want to support her being in that program, it didn t also include, to our understanding, heavy recruitment by the military. that was not supposed to be part of the experience. her experience was at a school with her student friends and having that camaraderie and that s what the experience was supposed to be, not the other add of on that was really stressful for both of us. from that work, that s how the opt-in caveat comes on the emergency cards across the state of california. that s where that is on the emergency cards that students can actually opt out they don t need a parent to do that. students can opt in or opt out and we here in san francisco have been really diligent about making sure we get a return rate very high, in the 90 s, consistently that we are understanding that students actually want to opt in or actually want to opt out and we know that. i want to, again, thank commissioner fewer s advocacy around
resolution, i m sure that you ll pass it, or at least i hope you will and i have to tell you i m really proud to be part of a community that has taken steps over and over again to protect youth from the extremely aggress i military recruiting practices that take place all over in many, many parts of not only the bay area. we work at last count, we are working in 25 schools throughout the bay area and some of those schools have military recruiters on chasm pus every week. i think it s a tribute to all of you that we ve been able to, you know, protect our students and this is an important next step in making sure that our kids have the choices they deserve and that their private information is not being sold and used. basically, the jammers database collects the information and gives it to recruiters and it s great information for recruiters but not so good for our kids. thank you for considering this resolution and i hope you pass it. thank you so much to all the young peo
of our students that we are bringing this forward. at this time, i would like to invite the student delegate, if they so choose, to add their names on this resolution. ok. yes, of course. president kim: commissioner yee. commissioner yee: thanks for the youth that came out today to speak on this issue. i have a couple of questions, and maybe these questions probably were answered at the curriculum committee. in previous years, when we were when we realized that the completion of the forms to opt out was not getting a very good return rate, and we, the board, then asked staff to do a better job and they reported back and in previous years it indicated it s actually getting better and report on the return rate for quite a while now, so one of my questions is, just would the president attempt, how well are we doing? and then i have a second question, which is the form we re using now, will we have to provide a second form or can we use the same form to opt out of everything?
i have a couple of speakers here and excuse me if i mispronounce your name, sometimes i have trouble reading. jose cartagenas. kenneth shobric. phong wong. hector verdusco. kenny ward. luis montoya. san frd short. that is it. please come up. you have two minutes each. hello. my name is jose, i m an internet for better performance for youth. now that i m here, i would appreciate the jammers resolution to be passed here in san francisco. jammers stands for joint advertising marketing research studies. basically they collect information from social networking, credit cards d.m.v., etc., and sell it to the military for the recruiting process. thanks for your sort support in helping protect student privacy. thank you everyone, for being here tonight. i work with bay peace and i m from bosnia, which was in war with serbia through 1990 and 1995. they made every single adult male fight in the war and many families left bosnia because it was unsafe and ruined so they couldn t purs
in the jrtc program which she enjoyed, and i, you know, i want to support her being in that program, it didn t also include, to our understanding, heavy recruitment by the military. that was not supposed to be part of the experience. her experience was at a school with her student friends and having that camaraderie and that s what the experience was supposed to be, not the other add of on that was really stressful for both of us. from that work, that s how the opt-in caveat comes on the emergency cards across the state of california. that s where that is on the emergency cards that students can actually opt out they don t need a parent to do that. students can opt in or opt out and we here in san francisco have been really diligent about making sure we get a return rate very high, in the 90 s, consistently that we are understanding that students actually want to opt in or actually want to opt out and we know that. i want to, again, thank commissioner fewer s advocacy around