my name is geraldine anderson. my son is kingtston he is in the t-shirts grain th our student's rights arum violated, so i, too, am pleading with you to take some immediate action to close this achievement gap. i, too, stand with pastor amos brown pastor of the naacp in calling for a districtwide state of emergency. as you know the achievement gap in this city is outrageous. i also read what you wrote in the huffington post and have to say i'm shocked at your response. here you have people reporting of the reality of the inequality of our school system, and you somehow manage to turn it around to accuse those people in hurting our students. they are looking out for our students and our parents. they are standing up for them. they are calling you out for not doing enough. it might seem clever for you to turn it around on them, but i i don't have time for that type of clever. we don't have time for that, our kids don't have time for that. so again we want to remind you for your invitation december 4th at 6:00 p.m. at