and with aroc and, you know, it knowing it aroc, i note joined in august of 2017. i have become more of a community organizer. i have spoken up against might -- about my concerns and i feel more confident to do so. i feel like with aroc president in their schools, they can do the same thing,'s oche thank you. [applause] >> evening. my name is cody and ima unity partnered with the filipino community centre. by not putting tree not -- aroc mou in, the school district is denying all arab students the right to empowered self-determined cultural education. by donating -- denying arab cultural studies and arabic language, arab students are given the message of their lives in history do not matter. because of the stated reasons i am port sfusd to call a vote to pass aroc's mou and put action to its claim to protect all students from discrimination. i will take the rest of my time to give to another individual. >> hi everyone. i am here to urge you to support the good and positive work that aroc is doing for many years, i have worked with our youth program at the filipino

aroc is a pillar in the community. it's been doing this for 30 years leading in the movement for social justice. their work speaks volumes. right? you can have teachers, students, parents speak to the impact that it has in opening up our minds and really walking the values that sfusd and you all here at the board of education have on the walls here outside, have on the materials that we give to our families at schools. we talk about social justice. we talk about inclusion. we talk about equity. this organization is walking that every day. right? it is a humongous injustice to deny the opportunity for students to get to benefit from the amazing transformative programs that aroc offers. so on behalf of our members, i want to urge you to look within yourself, in your heart. make this a reality. make it happen. it's been three years. it's ridiculous that this amount of time could go by denying them that opportunity. it's something that we haven't seen with any other organization that has such an amazing track record of doi

. >> hello, i'm a member of aroc program. we would like to thank you for putting our m.o.u. on your agenda. as aroc, we provide a space for arab youth among community that speak the tongue and don't. we empower students, fearless, united, social justice and diversity driven. for three years, the m.o.u. hasn't been passed. during these years aroc gained allies who supported youth. and await the day the m.o.u. is passed. we look forward to you vote in favor of the m.o.u. and us to put our attention back to doing our work. we're excited to have aroc back in our schools to further celebrate and preserve arab culture in these difficult times. thank you to aroc leaders and all partner organizations for having our back over the years. thank you board of ed for giving us the attention we deserve. >> my name is julie. i'm a parent at redding and here with other parents and teachers and representing folks from parents from redding who were not able to come out, many fasting for ramadan. i didn't just find out about aroc yesterday, i've known them for years, because as a parent of a ch

so i encourage you to renew aroc's m.o.u. so they can continue to provide culturally relevant education of students. who dare to express their criticism of israel and zionism. we are jews, too. and for the jewish community relations council to act like they're speaking on behalf of all jews is wrong. thank you. >> just a reminder, there are about 12 speakers and you've got 10 minutes. so monitor yourselves accordingly. you can do it however you want, but just a reminder. you now have six minutes left. >> peace and love, i'm one of the staffers islamic. to deny aroc from supporting arab students and muslim students is to say that the legitimacy and the trust that aroc has within the muslim community and arab community is not of concern or value to the city or the school district. it is to actually reinforce the imperial practice of speaking for a community that has the means and infrastructure, the capacity and power to speak for itself. i urge you to do what its representative of the arab and muslim student needs and urge you

thank you to aroc leaders and all partner organizations for having our back over the years. thank you board of ed for giving us the attention we deserve. >> my name is julie. i'm a parent at redding and here with other parents and teachers and representing folks from parents from redding who were not able to come out, many fasting for ramadan. i didn't just find out about aroc yesterday, i've known them for years, because as a parent of a child to speaks vietnamese, i'm been excited about the fact that they were -- i've seen how important it is to have strong community partners. through the survey process, there was a couple of times there was not a community partner, or there was a community partner, but not quite the right and the survey was a handful. when aroc or oka partnered with the district to get input, there were hundreds of responses. i want to speak on behalf of folks who would like to see the arab language program at redding successful. i think it's key to have a strong partner and aroc has been that partner over many years. i have not seen them bring up hate sp

we are pleased to share this aroc i am sorry. we don't have a forum. i'm not sure where all of my folks went. if you wouldn't mind calculating a moment. there is a little bio break happening, i think. here we go. you can continue. >> thank you. we are pleased to share this presentation on be hops of the sfd you family assessment committee. as the common -- culmination of our collaboration over the past five months. i want to extend a special thanks to the assessment office for the work and coordinating and facilitating this committee and keeping us on task. [applause] first of all, if there are any committee members in the audience, please stand and be recognized for your collaboration. [cheering and applause] and support of this important work. okay. the work of this committee was based on the board resolution on sfusd assessments from december 2017. the resolution outlined that a committee comprised of representatives -- representatives from the district and families exploit district assessments and make recommendations to the school board prior to t

it's the extreme speech of the leadership of aroc. when i read on-line, going to the primary source, which we teach our children to do, when i heard her saying on line, bringing down israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, that is -- goes far beyond criticizing a government. that's scary language, which is hatred and is wrong for a school district to have leadership of an organization who speaks like that. i hope you will find a way to support arab youth with a more inclusive organization at a time when both anti-semitism and islama-phobia are on the rise. we should not engage with a group that pits the two religious minorities against each other. thank you. >> president mendoza-mcdonnell: thank you for that. are there others -- i want to just give the time accordingly. are there others that are not for or against but are on the side of the last speaker? i want to give appropriate time. if you are coming up to speak, that is not specifically around the support for the m.o.u., which is an item we've al