allow this agreement to move forward . thank you. >> thank you.>> hello, astrid . >> caller: can you hear me? my name is astrid, i made eye school junior i'm calling to make public comment about tonight's closed session conference.if this contract moves forward over 60 full-time teaching positions could be cut and ap programs that do not fulfill graduation requirements would be cut 11,000 sfusd students participate in ap classes annually . at some schools the money from the bonuses is also used to supplement other programs like art, languages and resources. these are all classes students out of passion and interest . that is not up to students and teachers so i urgethe board to vote against this agreement .

>> i had to promote you to panelist inorder to speak so your video will be on . you can go ahead. i see you but ithink you are on you . >> can you hear me?>> you can speak up a little bit but we can hear you. >> caller: helloschool board, i am bree lincoln from, elementary school .you are trying to take away the teachers that help us with our education and who we love. there is a way you can fix the money. one way you can keep all of the school sites, this would save

the school districtmillions of dollars. children are born every day . more people can get a public education at these teachers and staff mean so much, please don't take them away. >> thank you. so kw. kw. kenzie, same thing.you are beingpromoted to panelist in order to speak . you can go ahead. are you there? you can go ahead.

>> good evening everybody. i am tansey. i am online learning but i will be back in person. to my own school. learning means a lot to me. i am able to go to thesame school with all my siblings . i get a lot. of help from ms. avery, my readingteacher . she does so much to help me. learn how to read better and how to improvemyself on the reading . please don't cut any money from puritan. thank you. >> thank you. hello, rachel.

>> caller: my name is rachel roberts, i'm a sheridan parent with adaughter who is 16 . i just enrolled my youngest daughter. >> is your student going to speak right now because this ace is for students only. you'll be able to speakpublicly after thestudent section . >> caller: thank you . hello, kylie. i will promote you to panelist to speak so your video willbe on but you can go ahead . >> caller: hello. my name is kylie. i'm a student at jackson williams and i don't want our teachers to go. especially our mentors. our teachers work veryhard for us . we need them to learn and get an education. my kindergarten teacher taught me to read and at a very high

level. my first grade teacher was very nice. and inspiring. my mentor also helped me be a great reader and now we play a lot of games and talk about life. help these teachers, thank you. >> i do. thank you. hello, catherine. are you a student? >> i am reading a letter on behalf of one of my students so i'm reading a student letter. hi, my name is angeli and i'm a student.com and i heard about the budget situation that's going on in our school district . i feel so upset because some of our teachers may leave and the

future of our school and my friends could beharmed. both my little brother andi speak spanish and english . because of this , he and i both need help with our reading and other subjects that we struggle with. the teachers at pop have worked with us after entering school to help usimprove our reading . do not take our wonderful teachers from cop kids. we just want to learn. thank you. hello, alan. >> caller: i'm here. i'm alan wong, senior atabraham lincoln high school and i wanted to bring up , bring attention to the demand letter that we've been working with. i'm a part of the chinese progressive association, a.k.a. cpa and together with the student advisory council we have been working to improve and expand on the demands that

havebeen made based on student surveys . we've also called other teachers around schools to ask what they feel like we need in our education and we just want to make sure everyone is up-to-date and considering our future plans including potential options for virtual transparency around wrist distribution including tests and pcr tests as well as better enforcement strategies for safety protocols in preparation for spring break. thank you. >> hello, ameena. i had to promote you to panelist aswell so your video will be on . you can go ahead .

are you ready to go? thank you. >> caller: my name is ameena, i'm a student at, and i don't want you all to take our teachers because when i was in first grade kindergarten, her name is ms. mil and she worked with me when i was shy. i made friends and when i walked in she helped me and i love her a lot so don't take ms. miller awayfrom us please. thank you . >> thank you. hello, beatrice. can you see?

>> let me see something. okay. for somereason i can't turn on my camera . >> because you are an attendee you don't have camera access. >> i go to mission high school and my mom is in the sfu as the district and right now they're currently laying her off because of her new managers ... she has a lot of seniority and she's been working nights for a while. for some reason there laying

her off and they did this the last time but they did this the last time and she should have like enough seniority to stay in the district because i believe she deserves it and she's been working there for a while and she has a lot more experience than most other people and i would really like her to be heard. >> hello, danny. you can go ahead. >> my name is danny and i'm a student at, elementary school. i do not agree with the fact here because also as a student. [inaudible] all staff and

teachers are unique. please keep our staff and teachers . >> thank you. hello, selena. >> i am a student and i understand all districts face a financial deficit but our school, staff and teachers. >> could you identify yourself, are you a student and what school doyou go to ? >> i am a student at lowell high school.>> go ahead. >> just to see the thing again. sorry. it's her first time so she's a littlebit nervous . do you want tostart from the beginning ? just say it again.

just introduce yourself. okay. you have tointroduce yourself first . >> i understand the school districtsface a financial deficit but our schools, teachers and students shouldn't be sacrificed . >> thank you hello, sherry. >> my name is sherry and i'm a senior at lowellhigh school . time and time again we see policies created that negatively impact people that our schools are created to serve, without the impact from these people and while i most likely will be attending a

sfusd school there's thousands of students who are and thousands of students who will miss out on unique programs like your resources, programs that have helped me and thousands of others help to find their way through high school. i firmly believe we can't trace theseopportunities and i hope a district that claims to support students that we will uplift students by providing opportunities for them to learn instead of cutting them . >> thank you and president lopez, one more. should we do one more president lopez? thank you. hello, claire. claire, are you there? looks like that concludes publiccomments for students . >> as a reminder, students can

still make comments throughout tonight's agenda. item 3 under section c is comments from the general public . on all items that are not on tonight's agenda , commenters will have one minute to speak and we will have up to 20 minutes of public comments time. >> again, this ispublic commen period for anyone items that are not on the agenda raise your hand if you care to speak . that will be repeated in spanish and chinese . [speaking spanish] >>. [speaking chinese]

>> thank you. hello, darcy. >> caller: this is darcy blackburn andwe're speaking withsharon in school. there's a number of parents lined up . is this the line for us to speak ? >> i needed to start from the beginning with your group and it lookslike the first person wasn't on. i may circle back to you all . >> should i start? >>you should wait and i'll announce when you can speak . hello, chris. >> i'm a special educator at washington high school calling in to speak about the schedules for next year sincethis is the

time to speak on things not on the agenda . i'd just like to point out that we have two amazing portrait resolutions at play with an issue around gradually. we have ethnic studies and arts resolution from a few yearsago . i love the ethnic studies resolution and i love the arts resolution but unfortunately they don't do well together when you look at a student's class schedule and a six period school day. at this point when ethnic studies come down the pipeline as a graduation requirement is going to be difficult for students to actually be able to enroll in higher-level arts classes and other collectives that really make high school so much funand really allow them to customize their experience and tailor it to what they want to learn most . from an and teachers perspective it also makes it hard with a six.

schedule and this added requirement for students to take collectives so please consider allowing school to go to a seven day bell schedule or a seven period bell schedule . >> jennifer. >> can you hear me? i'm calling to implore the board to require the superintendent and policy team to release immediately the number of kindergarten consolidations and general class closures at the elementary schools. i firmly believe based on both doctor matthews history in oakland and my own understanding as a teacher in california over 20 years that the district is gearing up for mask site closures one year out. moreover these decisions do not appear to be made based on the best available data or are equity values. we heardtonight from two schools that have high amounts of low income students . i am a teacher and despite rising kindergarten request including more than enough first-place request to build our classrooms we are slated to

lose numerous classrooms next year and we have been told that only first rounddata from epc will be used . given we and many other schools have families thedistrict does not reach during the first round we expect and demand better . >> thank you. hello,supriya . >> thank you for taking my call. i have a child in elementary school and a child in middle school at sfusd. i'm calling with two comments, the first is that the school district clearly inform schools that masking is only required indoors and not outdoors . despite the fact neither sfusd require messing outdoors the large majority of schools are still requiring it and to have our kids wearing masks when it's not considered important

for health or safety pretty much anywhere else, we need to give them a break and let them take offtheir masks when their outside and where it's safe . second thing is i really would urge again that board urge the district to move forward on longer-term outdoor planning for the schools at sfusd. however much time it maytake to get the bonds issued , the bond funding that we talk about there's no reason that net needs to delay planning and it has been since october now since the board passed that money, past the bond funding to be allocated foroutdoor use and nomeeting at all has occurred, nothing has occurred in terms of schools for parents that i'm aware of . thank you . >> forgive me if i mispronounced kathy. >> i am a parent at lakeshore and i'm asking you not to fund

the schools based on their popularity . make sure the wonderful school that i fell in love with just because i had a chance to tour it and the families do not have the chance to see it and obviously they've been included in their list so please do not make decisions of funding and cutting our wonderful teachers from school that will we love so much. >> thank you. hello, megan. >> behavior analyst in the school district and i'm imploring districts to consider all of the many things on educators plates right now and offer more assistance specifically around the power system and the way pay stubs look. there's a lot of confusion around our pay and of allthe

things we need to think about right now , our students, keeping our schools stable, being paid so we can pay our bills is one of those things we'd like to not have to stress about . there are so many more important things so offering in person support with regard to the self help website many times we've not found as much help as we needed and we're going to each other to help but it's not enough and it's very stressful in a very stressful time so we need more support so our educators can focus on the important stuff that our schools need. >> i'm going to start with the sheridan group. you have 12 people on this list. the first three are not on the list so i'm going to start with the four and go from there. go ahead. rachel.

>> caller: my name is rachel robles and i am a sheridan parents with a daughter in san francisco. i just enrolled my youngest daughter for kindergarten next year but ilearned the district is planning to remove the kindergarten classes . it is possible she will have to go to another school and sheridan may not have enough space for her. it's important she attended sheridan schools because it's the closest to her house and having to travel another distance run home to take a child to school is a big deal for me because i'm going to say it. often i have to choose between food or paying for gas. and i'm going to say it again. sometimes i have to choose between food and paying for gas.so if i have to bring my child farther to the school from my house, why? myoldest daughter has been in sheridansince kindergarten . i already know the teachers and

they are excellent . >> i'm sorry, everybody was not on a panel should you, mute herself. thank you. hello, rebecca. >> caller: my name is rebecca. i have two boys that attend sheridan elementary school and my oldest started off in a special day preschool classes from the beginning of our journey it has felt like a home to our family whether it's making adjustments from special education, preschool to general education kindergarten class or helping to get the right accommodations for their success, sheridan has gone above and beyond inevery way . i believe sheridan elementary

school helped facilitate emotional and educational growth in a personal way i could not have received elsewhere.my boys enthusiastically talk about how much they love their teachers, gardening, drumming and theater courses and all other activities at sheridan along with their lifelong friendships made with peers . i would hate or anyone to miss out on an opportunity to send their children to our school and that is exactly what i fee when i heard this decision had beenmade to reduce the incoming kindergarten population from twoclasses to just one. over time that would meet essentially putting the school in half . i ask that younot allow that to happen . thank you for your time . >> chris. christopher back . >> caller: i have a child in sheridan elementary.

given that sheridan will slowly be losing classes, it made me want to speak up. sheridanhas been absolutely essential and meaningful for my family . the entire faculty and all the amazing programs have made my and my child's life possible. there has got to be a better way of addressing a budget shortfall then denying kindergartners and children starting their educationalpath to not be able to have sheridan , sheridan has been a crown jewel of the neighborhood and in my personal opinion as a behavioral specialist it would be a catastrophic outcome for the emotional andsocial development of the children who will be living here in san francisco in the future . please find other way we can keep sheridan alive inthe future for the children coming up . thank you.