in fact, jim dierck has that in his school. we want to get it in every single school. >> yeah, i wanted to say, as superintendent mentioned. we do have peer courts. i have sat through the sessions myself. it does seem like it has a better impact. the second thing is coordination. once you have san francisco peer court and into the room. community response. the schools have to have and also the cbo , need to have a stronger partnership. i will give you a very quick

example. the court required that the bully stay away from the victim. so what crn did was got to the bottom the conflict. between the victim and the bully's brother. they kept in accordance. however the school district did to the respect or did not follow that mediation and went on and expelled them. they were never mediated. so it's a matter of coordinating the court's with with the cbo mediation. so have you a problem of lack of coordination where you have some great programs but they

are not supported by the court. juvenile probation. they do need to work together that is respected and used by all the agencies. otherwise students don't believe in these. in the school district doesn't follow or adhere to the outcome. >> thank you. questions? >> i go to civic center secondary school. i was wondering what quality sources do have you for young women? >> we have the wellness center that provides a lot of youth lines and they also provide you with girl's group.

i know we have mission's group. there were 4 girls for different ages of girls. they taught us about pregnancy and birth controls and a lot of stuff like that. so the wellness center is something that helps >> at the middle school level, we have safe passage centers. we have all kinds of different community groups coming in to help us with interest around stopping violence, helping kids feel better about themselves and their environment. i just want to say one last thing, that is although we're talking about all these problem, one of the great assets we have in this city in our students is their

resilience, there's a lot of terrible things that happen in our neighborhoods on a daily base. yet we still have the kids still coming to school and doing the right thing. >> hi. my name is tina collynns. this question is for everybody. how do you come up with the concepts without dealing with the economics culture boundaries. you know, maybe some of programs, some of the lpstuff i am hearing from y'all is bullshit. i where i was at. there was 8 or 9 killings. we stop by just having the centers open. then you talk about learning, the lc program, i mean, the

unified school district should be do that from top one. what i notice about y'all's school. my daughter has to go all the way to 25th and caravel to go to a good school. you don't service all your schools the same. when you talk, talk real. don't talk about the bull. my daughter, i have to get up way early. i have to take gas money and gas is going up more and more. for my daughter to get the services she needs. i have a preschool who has speech and language problems. we had assessment and the person came. i told her. they took my daughter. i told her i didn't want them to go there because it wasn't

up to my standards. it wasn't up to my code. i kept calling them. what could they do to change my daughter. up to today, she hasn't received her services. you are not servicing the way you are supposed to. you need to get to the community and really talk to the people if the community. not saying this is what these people want or this is what some of people have said. not to say, that people the pacific islanders. from my understanding, i don't see that. i have to go outside to get services for my children.

>> would any of our panelists like to respond? >> the way people are placed in our school districts is the way the community wanted it. they wanted an open choice that anybody could have an opportunity to go to any school in san francisco much so what we have is basically a lottery. you could live across the street from a school and not attend it because the way the system works. we are reviewing that system and in the next year, you will see a lot of discussion open to the public to get input on whether that's a good system. the community felt that would desegregate the community.

that hasn'ted happened yet. >> we with are having our last question. >> i didn't ask you that question. when you are going to make sure all schools are equal? the afternoon, whatever is equal. everybody is equal. >> well, ma'am, i would invite you on monday. there's a board meeting to discuss the strategic plan and you will see in that plan, it specifically addressing what you mentioned. that's open to the public. monday evening. >> okay. our last. >> the question i had was getting back to transportation,

is, what are the barriers realistically to having a public bus system for the students in the school district? i think i know some of the answers based on what the superintendent said, but having that kind of service could make a big difference is truancy and students having to get on muni doesn't benefit them. i am not here to indict muni, it's not the best ride to school every day. >> in terms of a public school bus system. i think the taxpayers, they invest a great deal into muni.

i would say as someone who in new york as an elementary student and middler schooler. i was afforded to use the public transportation, i didn't go to and from home. i used it to be to baseball. we are blessed in terms of the expansiveness. you can travel to every corner of this city at any time of the day. a school bus system going into my time when i was in atlanta. most of the students if not all rode to school buss, that was additional cost. it was additional cost to them and the students were literally limited to and from their home and to school and in some cases

may be if there was sporting events. there's pluses and minuses. right for the beginning there's a cost factor. >> due to time. as i stated from the beginning. if you have questions, please write them down. we will collect them. jeff will speak to compiling the solutions >> thank you. evet. i want to thank the entire panel. of course margaret, we want to see those lights on. my specific question is to the new superintendent, i am a representative of the new high school going to bay view, bay

view school of social justice. my specific concern is the attendance on back page from the main topic. there's no professional development and it's not monitored by the district. now connect as a capacity of 4 hundred student s and only attendance of 202. thank you. >> you know, one of the problems with that system, i mentioned that people want to have access to go anywhere they k. they bus themselves out. that's really what happened here. when we review this type of

system. we're breaking up neighborhoods without the intention of wanting to do that. the intention was good. we wanted to give everybody access to any school. but we now. it's time. years later to revisit that, wait a minute, what are we doing with this system? we are open to that discussion. as you will see in our new strategic plan. our plan is based upon one thing facing america. recently, a couple of years ago we celebrated brown versus the board of education. today our schools are more segregated. i think this is the greatest

civil rights. the achievement gap. you can't have systems that are separate but equal. you can't have systems that allow african american students and latino students out performed by special education students. our plan is called "beyond the talk". what are we going to do specifically to make sure the schools that the woman mentioned and malcomx are as good as any other school. any school in san francisco has to be good enough that we would want to go there. if it's not, it's unacceptable.

>> that's a great way to segway to solutions. >> we are here for solutions. it's true. we do have to talk. we have to do it in a way that's respectful and a way to bring people together rather than push people apart. if we expect our young people to exercise social emotional learning. we have to do it as adults. i want everyone to think about a solution that you may have to offer and if you have it on the top of your head. share it with you. i am thinking about the teen court. i have 95 attorneys. i can't speak for her has over

100 attorneys. maybe we could provide teen court. i could certainly ask my staff to participate. we can bring people to haul of justice. these are solutions. in anyway has anything. you are all rich with resources. doesn't matter how old you are. coming to a class. we can start a speaker's panel. they have this where you can come forward and share your experience. really quickly, if we have any solutions here that folks want

to offer. >> yes. the public library is interested in helps students achieve and we have wonderful resources that we would love to share with students and we're finding more and more. i think because of no child left behind, because of standardized testing, less teachers are bringing students to the library and we're not able to get into the classroom. we would really like to. there's a solution. all right. solution. >> and all of the kids we get ask about jobs, but we realize

that a lot of them are lacking in science, math and technology skills how do we get these kids resources soy they will be able to function in a normal environment? >> what is the solution? >> we /tpwhaoed to get people to have these underperforming schools more assistance. >> how do we do that? >> margaret mentioned these community school things where i know i third of our kids, they don't speak english. so there's that disconnect, like we're trying to get ahold of the parent. we need to have a place for parents to go to get training. parenting skills. we are finding it's a

systematic thing. if i kid is in the gang, maybe someone in the family is in the gang. >> can someone enter that challenge? giving that kind of support. we are focussing on solutions. >> i am a school bus driver. in answer to his question, the superintendent is wearing a prop a. as i understand it. prop a is meant to funnel more money to the under served schools where the teachers teach outside those. step one, vote for prop a. all right. we have eddy. >> my name is eddy zing, one of

the solutions i wanted to process is a speaking circuit. we would go to the schools and start giving presentations dealing with the juvenile system and responsibility and having to understand the rights.

>> on the may 30th. we are going to participate in that. i want to provide those type of the speaking circuits with utilizing excons and people in the streets. but from the latinos. we do a city-wide out reach. we go to the different schools to reach out to the wellness centers and check in with sro's, i would really love to make that happen. we are offering our services to the schools, >> edy zing is a shining example. he was down for 2 decades. let's join with eddy on that. rebecca. >> would it be possible will to

have coordinate with muni where the bus stops are. the bus is going to be there within 10 minutes of the final school bell so they don't have to wait 20, 30 minutes for a bus. and kids have to transfer. it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get home. if it would be coordinated between the school district and muni that buses arrive and coordinate transfer stops. that would help kids on muni and maybe have a person on the bus stop. >> we have time, sorry just one more. >> okay. all right. peer pressure.

>> my name is rudy corpus. give a big shout out. i think one good solution is to focus more on elementary school kids. educate them in a way they can comprehend. if they can recite a whole e-40. you know a first grader came to school with a gun. focus on the elementary school kids. that's a solution. thank you. and rudy corp

>> i have 15 job openings for kids in foster homes. we currently serve 120 kids. we have the seneca center where we are building a family resource center so the parents who go to san francisco unified school district can come get food, clothing and all of those. please, i have information on the back. take some, hand it out. call me. >> okay. now we're going to have to break for lunch. we do have lunch that we provided right outside. we have delicious sandwiches. this is an opportunity for us

to talk. once again. please fill out your form. if you have ideas. these will be incorporated by larry roberts. we are going to come back. we have youth performances. be back here. we are going to celebrate john osaki. >> thank you so this is the second part. i hope you're ready. we have a performance lined up today from the students from back va ck. they are going to go 3 songs

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