spoiled, that just reinforces a lack of care, which they experience from their environment and i hope this resolution brings back that care. so, we can have a better future hon restly for the city and -- honestly for city and california and america. >> next speaker, please? >> good evening, i'm the youth coordinator at the saddle market community. and we are in support of the resolution providing housing and culturally competent service to homeless students and their families and that's sponsored by the commissioner, we thank you for working with our community on this issue. and our student needs better support in the school and also outside school, including having a home that is habitable and room to do their homework. they need culturally competent servants that can speak their

language to provide full support to them and their parents. for me, when i was in high school, i always go to someone that i can relate to, that can speak the language, so they need that also. this resolution is one of the ways we can provide to the over like 2400 homeless families so i urge you to please support it. thank you very much. thank you, i grew up in san francisco, also went through sfusd. i work for the action network. i support this resolution supporting homeless children, youth and families. in addition to critical resources needed for programs and services, we also need sites for affordable housing, for homeless, youth and family in san francisco.

we urge the school district to be proactivetive in dedicating sights for affordable housing. it is crucial that the public lands are identified and dedicated for future use as affordable housing sites. thank you, all. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good evening, i want to thank the commissioner for putting forward the resolution, we're supportive of it. bess bessie car michael is home to one of the highest percentage of families. for the filipino community, what it means is mostly newcomers or families that are tripped up in home like mary jane. so this resolution is really important in identifying strategies that can support these families. one of them that identifies strategies talks about assuring that their families have sa

strong support network. one of the things we'd like to consider with bessie carmichael is to designate it as newcomer school, so they'll be attracted to bessie. there are those who are not informed, so not only do they not know it's an important option for them for their children, but also that -- that they have a hard time actually getting in when they try to advocate to get in. so i don't know if it's a policy, but in helping advance some of the strategies ensuring that the most vulnerable families facing homelessness have a strong support system. thank you. >> thank you. speaker, please. >> hello, i'm here in support of the resolution. i'm artistic director.

i've been early childhood teacher for the past 17 years. finally, i'm a freelance teaching artist, so since 2015, i taught first graders theater arts. so through ybca arts program i have the honor to introduce the joy of theater and performance for the first graders. i do this for a total of ten sessions for one whole semester. let me tell you about these beautiful kids, they're brilliant, eager to learn and much more. i love these kids. they greet me with big smiles and it brings me pain at the end of the semester when i have to say goodbye. when you're in the classroom and meet these kids so full of hope, you want to tell them they can dream, but this is a false hope.

we as the adults need to keep their hope alive. there was a harsh reality i was able to witness this past semester. the number of students who come into the classroom with trauma was obvious and concerning in 2017. these traumas manifest in their behavior and their capacity to learn and affects everybody in the classroom. so in san francisco we are one of the rich efs cities in the world, let's do the right thing for the kids. let's give them the true hope they deserve. i would like to support considering bessie as the newcomer designation that would help us with resources. i'm here in support of the resolution. thank you. >> good evening commissioners, my name is alexis, and i'm a

mother of a student in the school district at bessie carmichael and i'm a school social worker with the district in the bayview. one thing, yes i support the resolution, why not? one, if we believe that education is a basic human right and fundamental right to any human being living, that we actually have the ethical responsibility to ensure that the 4.2% and when we're looking at the 2400 students that were identified as transient, that is not the picture. we live in san francisco. we are in a housing crisis. so it is ethical responsibility of all of you here, along with those who support the resolution to say yes, i'll do everything i can to ensure that the land use, also that the district has an ethical responsibility to take a

stake for the families that truly need the support. as i mentioned, i am a school social worker in the bay view. i report just this this school year alone, we've lost 10 of the 13 students at our school that are homeless. this is not new. if you ask anyone and i will just speak for -- yeah just in terms of my line of work -- in san francisco and in the bayview, that is a repetitive cycle of seeing families come in and out of our district and other districts. so i come to you all to really consider what is your ethical roles and responsibilities to really ensure that you provide access and equity to these families that are struggling. we just heard from a family earlier today, how hard it is, right? so putting yourselves in their

shoes around what are the steps to really ensure equity. and lastly, want to echo the support as a mother at bessie carmichael to ensure that they're redesignated as a newcomer school to filipino families to ensure they have access to resources when they first he want our school district. thank you very much for your time. and please support this resolution. >> clerk: thank you. >> my name is tony. i'm a local children's author. i would like to thank member haney for introducing this resolution. i'd like to urge you to give bessie, the newcomer designation. if we don't give families the tools, the basic tools that they need to give to in order to thrive, in order for the

families to thrive, we're setting them up for failure. i know having lived here all of my life, san francisco has become very family unfriendly. we have families who are homeless, families crammed into rows, it doesn't make a good situation for young people who are under enough stress as it is to succeed in school. we know these children need better support. definitely need more housing for our families, homeless families, families that might be living in a situation where they're living like the lady who said earlier, 10, 12 people in one home. you know, there are a lot of things that need to be invested because we know that what you put into something is what you get out. and at any rate, i also work as a tenant advocate and seeing the

situation with housing, the affordability crisis and the lack of housing is just wreaking havoc on our young people that should be enjoying their youth and thriving and not having to worry about things like that. thank you. >> my name is sun bear. i'm the father of a kindergartner at bessie and living in sro. i can't tell you how detrimental it's been watching my son have to go to school with bedbug bites, and how he gets himself in trouble so he can be put in the corner so he can have his own little space. i said why are you getting in trouble? he said i like to have my own pace, bubble, because he doesn't have that at home. i hope you pass the resolution and thank you for hearing me. >> jennifer, director of the

coalition on homelessness. and i want to thank mr. haney for spear heading this effort. schools play a really interesting role in the homeless crisis in that for a lot of ways, they're the home for homeless children. they're the community. they provide a sense of support. continuity. one of the most damaging things that besides homelessness that happens to kids is frequent moving from school to school and that has a tremendously negative impact on the outcome. homelessness itself has a tremendous negative impact. if you look at the different levels of housing, whether folks are living in the streets, shelters, cars, in hotels, whether they are doubled up living in garages, all these differing places where you don't have the security of a regular

place to sleep has a very traumatizing impact on kids. they also tend to be witness to a lot of things that they wouldn't be otherwise. in terms of violence, they often have irregular relationships with people where they're not able to have the social bonds. all of this stuff presents itself in the classroom in a dramatic way. for families, they're really nervous about child protective services. they're really nervous about interacting with government entities and so often times, their homeless status is only uncovered in the school environment. the nurses, the social workers, the teachers often know what is going on with the families before any other place in the system has become aware. and so that's why the effort is key, because it's so important

for the school environment, for us to build on the school environment and make sure that kids get the stability and support they need to thrive. so they're able to finish high school, they're able to meet their educational milestones, that they're able to succeed, because as we know, if they fall behind in school and these things happen, it has a trajectory out into adulthood, where they end up having issues with homelessness and other stuff as adults as well. so this is really critical. thank you and we'd encourage your support. >> thank you. >> good evening. my name is raul. i'm here representing the sro families collaborative and hearing support of the resolution for homeless youth and families. as many of us know, san francisco is perhaps the most

affluent city in the united states, we have approximately 10,000 homeless individuals out there and the real tragedy is that one-third of them are children. about 1 in 25 children in the san francisco unified school district is homeless and that is a really tragedy in a city that has a budget of $10 billion and only 3% of these resources to fight homelessness. these people that live in s.r.o., i was touched by the example of sun bear. we're talking about small rooms, that right now they cost over $1,000 with no bathroom, no kitchen, no space for children to do their homework or have any privacy. so here we are having a whole generation that are not meeting developmental milestones because they're not properly housed. once again, i am hearing whole support of the resolution and i hope this passes and i really thank mr. haney for spearheading this resolution.

thank you. >> thank you very much. that is the end of public comment. at this time i'd like to invite my colleagues to make comments. commissioner walton. >> thank you, one, i want to thank everyone who came out in support of the resolution this evening. commissioner haney and i and the rest of the colleagues have had several conversations with many organizations across the city. not just about homelessness around the city, but homelessness that affects your students and their families and what we could do to address that and so what you see here is an opportunity for the district to go above and beyond the status quo. we have programs in place to fight homelessness in schools, but this gives us an additional opportunity to do more. it will increase resources for the schools that have higher

population of homelessness and the district can identify sites for affordable housing. that is something that i know is atypical of school districts. you don't typically see school districts working on affordable housing, one. definitely not working on affordable housing for homeless families and making sure we provide those opportunities, but we're never satisfied with being a typical school district. we understand the needs of the community. we understand the needs of the students. that are bigger and broader than what most districts may have to deal with. and we know what the crisis in this city, it's important to put our best foot forward as a district. we should be proud to have increased focus on providing opportunities to house our families and to make sure our students have a sustainable home environment, because as you heard from testimony, without a place to do homework, without

place to call your own and some of us take that for granted, it is hard to focus on anything, let alone being your best self in a classroom. i want to commend commissioner haney and everyone who worked with him on this resolution, because this is more than a resolution, it's about the work and what we need to do once this passes and moves forward. thank you for being here, thank you for supporting our students and families and let's get this passed so we can focus on the work next. >> thank you, i want to thank all the folks who came out to testify. i want to thank my colleague commission haney for his leadership on this. there is -- i couldn't agree with jennifer more. our schools are a safe haven. there is hidden problem of women who are homeless because they

don't necessarily access the shelter system. they are unstably housed with their children on peoples' couches, car, it's very difficult to identify. and so i would love to support the work in helping to brainstorm outreach strategies for particularly mothers and their children who can be very difficult to reach. so thank you again for bringing this forward. i hope you all consider adding our names, the rest of the colleague's names to the resolution. thank you. >> i'd like to thank commissioner haney and everyone involved in the progress of the resolution. they've been committed to ensuring the well-being of the students. and i think that our support on the resolution will reinforce

that commitment and we want to continue to be a source of support and we will bothing voting yes on the resolution and would like to be added as coauthors. >> commissioner haney. >> definitely, i know this is a priority for some time for the student advisory council, so i want to thank you all for your leadership on behalf of your fellow students. i want to thank all the folks who came here tonight for waiting, testifying and sharing your own experiences. i especially want to thank sam cam and all the folks from bessie carmichael who were here. we thank you on your leadership and partnership on this. i know there were a number of organizations represented. i want to say quickly, we are at a place now in our city where it is impossible for us think about

ensuring the education of all of our children without thinking about housing. and we've had this conversation here in these chambers a number of times when it comes to educator housing. so many of our teachers and staff are being pushed out of the city, having to commute from hours away. and it's impacting directly the reality in our schools. as much as that is true for educators, that's also true for families. someone made the comment that 22,000-plus students who are homeless are not actually representing the full scope of families and students who are being squeezed and experiencing challenge in the schools because of the situation with housing. i had the opportunity with jenny to visit one of the family shelters where we have a dozen families in a church basement.

the children share the space together, sleep on the floor and have very little space to study and they have to wake up and go to school the next day. we had the opportunity to visit sros in chinatown. and to see, as was said, the small 8 by 10 spaces where multiple children and their families live struggling to have the privacy, the space needed to study and sometimes to sleep. and again and again you see the situations in our city. and it is imperative on us as a school district to do everything this we possibly can with our resources, with our land, with the staff, to make sure that we are working to end family homelessness, at the same time that we're supporting the young people in our schools who are directly impacted. that's what this resolution is about. i want to thank kevin truity,

mary richards. this is just the beginning of moving from a situation that was based on compliance of saying this is how many homeless students we have and this is what we do, to bringing everything we have to ensure their success. changing resources with school sites with higher percentages of homeless students. making sure the staff have the ability to train how to get families into housing and partnering with organizations in the city. and lastly, using our land, where possible, to be able to open a conversation about actually building housing for families. so i hope this is a systems change and also a culture change on how we see our responsibility to some of our students who sadly in a city as wealthy as this are a very large number of students. 1 out of every 25. if we filled up classrooms, it

would be 125 classrooms full of students who are experiencing homelessness here in san francisco. many of them are concentrated in certain schools like bessie carmichael where 1 in 8 are experiencing homelessness. i hope there is impact that is seen immediately and that's our commitment to fight with you, along side you. i hope to see additional supports and resources for bessie, because sometimes that school gets left off the radar. with such a high percentage of homeless students that needs to be resourced appropriately and i hope this resolution gives us a vehicle for that. thank you to my colleagues and would add everybody's name to it. i want to also thank walton and mcdonald who has talking about

issue for as long as i've been on the board and pointing out we need to put resources behind it and you've been leading this every, not just this board, but the city as well. i'm thankful for your leadership and joining new working on this. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner haney. i do want to thank you for taking the lead on this and putting pen to paper and recognizing what we need to do for our students. i had the opportunity to share your original resolution with our late mayor ed lee, who as you know was working on the family homelessness piece as well. and over this last year, we've had effort to raise $30 million with our partnership with hamilton families and the office of homelessness and supportive housing. when we first started to talk about what it means to be a

homeless student in san francisco, we had about $160,000. and with that, he was passionate around the injustice around this, but with the $160,000 for the 2000 students, we were able to provide bus passes to some parents, uniforms, books here and there, and some simple items that do not change your situation. and i think what commissioner haney and commissioner walton speak to in this resolution is about changing lives, not just addressing what can we do to help you in this situation that you're in by making it be a little bit better by buying your

uniform, but providing you the resources you need. think about how to wrap our arms around you to make sure you're successful in school. that's what this resolution speaks to and on a personal level, because the filipino community is deeply burdened by this challenge. bessie carmichael in particular as you all have heard. and we do get the additional support of a social worker. but we've got to do so much more and i think what this is going to force us to do is force us to think about how to reallocate our resources and that the realities of the school district are reflective of what we want

to do for our students. we talk about a lot of things all the time and i think what i'm better at is raising money than i am writing the actual policy. so i'm really glad we'll be able to marry the two and do better for our students. thank you all for coming out to support the resolution and i appreciate the generosity of being able to put all our names on this, because it's something we all deeply believe in. roll call, please. >> cook? >> yes. haney? yes. norton? yes. sanchez, yes. walton, yes. mcdonald, yes. that's unanimous. >> congratulations. thank you. ok, we still have a lot of speakers and a lot of items. i'm going to move this along.

the next item the board policy for action. i would like to, if it's ok with my colleagues, move up the extracurricular and co-curricular activity item because we have a lot of speakers here that are students. and so if i can please have the superintendent or actually daniel to read the recommendation into the record for just the extracurricular and co-curricular and then we can have public comment and go on. >> so this item seeks the board approval of policy extracurricular and co-curricular activities. it limits them to those that have been central to the success of the activity. the policy also codfys much of

the law, you cannot discriminate in allowing them to participate in activity. significantly, the rules committee suggested amendment from the rules committee, you will see in quotes on the page of this item, it is that unless specifically authorized by law, no student shall be charged a fee for his or her participation in educational activities and to ensure that all have access to educational extracurricular and co-curricular activities. students shall not be charged to perform recitals of exhibitions of student work, except they may be charged for athletic competitions. that is the amended language as recommended by the rules committee. >> thank you. i need a motion and a second

please on this. >> you're right. so i am going to -- we have a lot of public comment on this. i have over 50 speakers on that. and so -- >> [cheering] >> so what i would like to do, i imagine many of you have something similar to say, so instead of, what i'd like to do is call the names, if you can come up. i want to try to wrap up this section of the public comment by 8:30. so i'm not going to put a time limit on you, but if you have something a little bit different or more to say than your peer, then say what you need to say, but if we can just run through and get you up here to make your comments i'd appreciate if you

would be -- just coordinate your comments. so, i'm going to read off those of you that called in. so chris teresa book walter, come on up, jason chan. hesinka. lorraine. chloe wong. >> can i just make a suggestion that we ask to hear from students first because it's about students? >> yes, i thought all of these were students. i have parents on the orange cards. thank you, commissioner norton. we would like to hear from the students first. >> point of order, everybody registered to speak will be granted two minutes if they so choose. >> no, i'm telling you that i want to wrap this up in 25

minutes, so you will not be given a full two minutes, but you can coordinate. i think some of the students will say a couple of words. so aerial, jennifer, jacob. i'm going to stop there for now. if you can get lined up and come on up and state your name. go ahead. >> hi, i'm from abraham lincoln high school, i belong to the drama club and would like to tell you about our amazing club. we put on two shows per year. they're amazing. we have an amazing community that helps support us in terms of family and relationships outside of school. we do all the work ourselves. we are a cast and audition and we rehearse religiously and it means so much to us. last year we put on a show called sweet charity.

i did all the costumes for the entire show and we had what, 32 kids that were cast, each with three costumes, so that was a lot of work. >> 30 seconds. >> i did it all because i love drama so much and it means so much to me that we get to put on these performances every year. now, that being said, we sell tickets for these shows and it is used as a way to fund our next performance so we can keep on doing these things, however that is not all we do. we are the ones that run the talent show at our school and that gives people who aren't necessarily a part of drama club a platform to show their talents and all of their friends and family members come to support during this time. and it's after school and we get a great turnout every year and it is probably our number one source of fundraising. now, taking that away means that we don't get enough money to do things like put on two shows per

year and i don't get to do these amazing sparkly dresses and put people in cost actuals all -- costumes all the time. it would cripple our drama department if we didn't get the fundraiser done and it helps to keep us afloat and supports us for the years to come, because again, it is our main source of funding. so it would mean that our club wouldn't be able to do all the awesome stuff it does. my fellow club members are here today. they have a few more points to say and i would really like the board to reconsider taking the legs out from under us, please. >> hello, i'm a senior at abraham lincoln high school. to add onto what my friend was talking about, it's really

unfair for us that sports and other extracurricular activities get to charge people to see their games and to see their shows, but we can't charge people to see our plays and performances and that's where where you are money comes from. we don't get a lot of money from the school to put on the shows. and these shows are very expensive. we did a musical last fall as my friend said, sweet charity and that was very expensive. and we were already in deep water as it is because of the last spring play, the vagina monologues we didn't get enough money for that, because we asked for donations and it wasn't effective. if we ask for donations for the rest of the plays, we're not sure we're going to meet our goal or make a profit.

and this really -- this really helped me find myself again, because last year i joined drama and -- i'm sorry -- and it really helped me find myself again and find out what i want to major in life, and i really do enjoy performing and i wouldn't be here right now if i didn't care. because i care for all the other people who don't know what they want to do in life and drama is an escape to show off who you are and express yourself. i can't find anything that i'm good at except for drama, so i hope that you consider helping us and -- yeah, vote no. thank you. >> i don't think i can one up

that. but, hi, i'm for abraham lincoln school for the drama department and i want to say unfortunately a whole lot of students cannot afford anything -- i wouldn't say anything -- but they really cannot afford a whole lot. and if that is the case and they want to go to the shows, we have a lot of alternatives, like if they show us they have a free lunch waiver, we can let them free of admission, but letting a whole lot of other students, free of admission, that is nice, but it takes away our ability to put on productions and the ability to put on great productions, because not a whole lot of this is free and it's expensive, sadly, but personally for me, i really care about the drama department. i really do. without the drama department i wouldn't be here. i wouldn't be standing. i wouldn't have the confidence to say please help us. so please help us. thank you.

>> hello, i'm also from the drama department. i am a senior. and again, i'm just kind of reiterating the facts, but i wanted to more talk about i'm a senior and this won't necessarily affect me this coming year, but i care so much about this drama department and this drama department doesn't just affect kids in high school. it affects them going on to college and later on in life. we have alumni here who came with us because they still care about this drama department they participated in high school years ago. they came back to support just to support this little drama club they were in, in high school and that was put on by our amazing director who does so much for us. she puts on this amazing department. she puts it all together. she may be whacky, but she makes

us whacky as well. so this drama department, this is where we get most of our funding. and it's really important to us, again as chloe said, it's really nice to make this free and their extracurricular activities and these are great educational opportunities for students. a lot of teachers give extra credit to go to the performances because they're fantastic and fun to go to and funny a lot of times, but they're a big fundraiser for us. and it's important to get the money for us. and just i talked to the head of the pe department this morning. and he said that -- i said, what are the tickets do for you? because the sports department, they get funding from the school but what do the ticket sales do? they help support our system. they help pay for the equipment and help pay for the uniforms. and that's exactly what it does

for us. our uniforms are just costumes. our equipment is tech equipment, the lights we use. for stage that is as big as this room. for our funding is just as important as sports. we don't want it to make it -- we don't want to make it about sports versus arts. we want to make it about sports and arts, the two together. as a drama department, we go watch the sports and the sports come and watch us. we've had the entire football team in the audience and hooting and hollering for us. and we want to work together as a community. we want sports and arts together and as i think you can probably tell, drama is very important to all of us and these little drama clubs and these productions mean so much to all of us. and it would really mean a lot o. if you can just help us with

this. thank you. >> thank you. let me just remind you that you've used about almost half the time, and you've had four speakers. i know you're emotional and want to share this, but be mindful of the time. >> hello, i'm from lowle high school and these opinions and emotions are from every single student here, not just the ones speaking. there are a few things -- there is one thing mainly that i would like to bring up. and that is that while this mainly affect the extracurricular, the after school musical and plays, a lot of students find their way to choir, to dance, to drama, through the extracurricular activities. if they're not present for students to be inspired by and to learn from, i for one found my way. i entered high school not

knowing what i wanted to do, but from watching the school play and musical, i found what i wanted to do in high school. and i fear that if this resolution passes and if people are -- if schools are not allowed or not able to produce these shows because they simply do not have the funding, that many, many students will lose out opportunities that they could have had. thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to read off a few more names. sandra. joshua. bill. emma. cleo. charlotte and james. >> hi, my name is jessie, i'm a junior and i represent our technical theater department, comprised of 40 students. if this resolution passes

tonight, our current production of sues cal tt will have to halt, because without the funding we receive from ticket sales, which make up 60% of the audience in the productions, will have to stop all production of our musical. which is upwards of two months work from the student actors, technicians, designers and musicians and i think it would be a loss to the community that is so strong. and it has brought so much joy to people's lives. basically everybody up there is from lowle and if this passes, everybody who is participating in the musical, it will be over. i think that's really, really sad. >> could you be please only come

up when your name is called. there are a lot of names. >> i'm a senior from lowell high school. i've been playing football and been in drama, i can tell you that the drama program does just as much for kids and building identity as sports do. you can see it here, 50 plus kids. if it pass, we lose a musical. there are kids that can't afford to do outside programs that may want to pursue something in the arts in college. they don't have an opportunity to get that experience. it's a bad idea to cut this funding. i implore you to vote no. >> hi, my name is joshua. i'm a junior at lowell high school.

a lot has already been said, but i will say this and this is very technical and you know probably much more about it. but according to the california education code, av 1575, it is illegal -- a violation of that education code to interpret pupil fees as any voluntary fundraiser activity or donation. and what i'm trying to say here, a lot of these revenue that we gather, it's highly encouraged, true, but it is voluntarily and when you get down to it, it is a fundraiser for the amazing programs we have, to continue to inspire the people to go into the arts and really find their way in life. so, not only is it incredibly important to every single person coming up to speak, but -- and again this is where your expertise trumps mine, but it may be against the california education code.

so if nothing else, i do ask you to consider that in your decision. thank you. >> hi, my name is cleo. i'm a senior at lowell high school. i wanted to tell you guys that my most valuable experience in high school has been my involvement in the theater productions at my school. i wanted to ask you guys and wanted to how if measure 6415 passes how it's going to promote equity for students if it takes away the opportunity to participate in free theater production. 6145 will make access to the arts inwe cequitable. performances should be subsidized by the sfusd for the performances we put on,

equalling the ticket revenue for this. if the point is equity, students should be able to attend performances, or exhibitions of student work for free, i don't understand how a fee can be charged for student athletic professions. it prioritizes the athletics over the arts department. and lastly, i wanted to say while working on my last production in high school, i was applying to colleges all as a theater major, and it wasn't a path that i imagined for myself beginning high school, but being involved in theater productions is what made me choose that path. thanks. >> hi, my name is velma. i'm a junior at lowell high school. i just wanted to reiterate that

all of the funding comes from our ticket sales and we're barely staying afloat as is. i can see our teachers saying so many of this already comes out of their pockets and they dedicate a lot of time after school without pay. i'm a member of lowell dance company and advanced drama and participate in the musical after school. and without this funding, these programs will no longer exist and many students, as well as myself cannot afford to take theater and dance anywhere else. and the public school system provides really great opportunities for low-income families that can't afford to pursue their passions in other ways and i think it is inequitable to take away these programs are from students like myself who won't be able to pursue their passion.

thank you. >> hi, my name is emma. i'm a sophomore at lowell high school. as a student at lowell high school, i can tell you that drama has changed my life. when i first started high school, i barely knew anyone. none of my closest friends were going to my same school and i felt alone. my mom told me throughout my childhood, her starring in guys and dolls in her high school production. when we held fiddler on the roof, it was my first time singing in front of people and putting myself out there. when i was in the show, i knew i had found my family. they welcomed me with open arms and for the first time in high school and the first time in my life i felt i truly belonged. i have finally found by passion in life and it would devastate me to not have it in sfusd

schools. losing this opportunity would break my heart. i and my fellow classmates heard today during school this meeting was going on, we knew we had to be here to talk about how this program is supposed to support equity in our schools, when fast it would be taking it farther and farther away. it is definitely unfair that the sports games and other activities would not get applied the same resolution. drama and other arts have always been persecuted and this just another example of why this resolution should not pass. please, please, don't say yes. thank you. i'm in the choir program for the last two and standing here as one of my former drama teachers

when i'm asking to you please reconsider your decision. for me, i have always been able to find peace in myself and be able to feel comfortable and my most authentic self when i am on stage, when i am portraying a character that may have no resemblance to anything i experienced in my life, but i'm involved completely in what they have gone through and my own version of their own story, because i can get on stage and look out at a sea of people and perform something that i have put a lot of work into and care about. sorry. and this summer i actually lost my mother, which was very difficult because i had lived with her for my entire life. the one thing that -- sorry --

the one thing that i found solace in when performing my first show without her being there was knowing that i had a wonderful community of people that i already had made and to be able to know they could be just as proud of me as she would have been. when i say this, i mean it completely. you are not creating equity, you are creating borders. i hope you can make your decision, because i couldn't imagine another student who has gone through anything similar to what i've gone through and the department, and couldn't have this outlet to say they could have somewhere they feel safe, so please, please, do not pass this resolution. i thank you for letting me speak. >> thank you. so, i think this is probably a good time to take a break. i am -- i've been asked to first

of all thank you all for coming out, it's meant a lot to hear your voices and for us to understand the impact this decision would have on many of you. and in consultation with my colleagues i've been asked to pull this resolution at this time. so we will not be voting on this at this time and we're going to delay the vote on this and we wanted to just thank you all for your comments this evening on this. and so -- >> when will it be brought up again? >> the next regular meeting. i think we need to have a little bit more conversation around this and get some further information. i think one of the things that we -- some of my colleagues had asked was if we could get a fiscal analysis on the impact this would have on many of the schools. so that's something we want to be able to research more.

please stand by. so --

[ inaudible ] >> 30 seconds, right now. >> thank you very much. ab 1575 does not require the steps that you're asking to take. it's based on a supreme court case called hartsell versus conors in which the supreme court of california says you cannot charge a fee for participation in a school activity. that is not what's going on here. what is going on here is attendance, being a spectator at what the supreme court has said is a spectator activity.

the supreme court has said you can actually charge for this. also, in the packet you're looking at, you're citing to 12 on r 02, and you need to be looking at 17..01. this is department of education fiscal management and advisory in which again they sicite bac to the california supreme court. that's what the city and county of santa barbara was doing before they got in trouble. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. thank you. so we're going to postpone this item, have further discussion, and then, we're going to bring it back as a -- to the next one [ inaudible ] >> so we'll hear this again in

two weeks at the next school board meeting. thank you. so i -- okay. thank you please exit quietly 'cause we still have a lot of business to do. so thank you. i appreciate that. our next item is science instruction. miss haute? sk . >> this item seeks board approve of policy 6142. >> i'm sorry. can you please leave the room quietly in we're still in session, and we still have a lot of business to take care of. thank you. >> this item seeks board approval of board policy 614293, science instruction. this, again is just to codify the legal requirements for science country clurriculum. it now incorporates the board resolution which is resolution number 15526(a) 2 in support of

expanding computer science to all students in all schools. you can see on the cover page the specific language that was included perthe amendment. >> and can you remind the board the committee recommendation? >> yes. so the committee forwarded this with a positive recommendation, except that they requested that staff specifically include the applicable language from the computer science resolution i mentioned. >> great. thank you. there's no public comment on this. anyone have any comments or questions? seeing none, roll call, please. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: seven ayes. next item, history and social science instruction. >> so this item asks the board

to approve board policy 614294, history and social science. this item also codifies the legal requirements for history and social science curriculum, and the rules committee forwarded this with a positive recommendation, except that they requested that specific resolutions of the board be incorporated where relevant. and i won't read them all to you, but you can see on the cover page the four resolutions that have now been incorporated. >> thank you. there's no public comment on this, could you remind the board on the committee recommendation, please? >> this has been forwarded with a positive recommendation, provided that the relevant provisions of the specific board resolutions were included, and staff has now done that. >> great. thank you. any comments? commissioner merase? >> i want to thamnk the staff for their quick turnaro