joanne abernathy, josh davidson, and rafael picasso. are any of you here? go ahead, please. >> and steve seltzer. i think that this issue of charter schools is it destroying education in san francisco and california. the school board is spending all of their time talking about charter schools. they're not talking about how to build the public schools. that is what is happening in every school district in california. the charter school chains are coming in and they are spending time on charter schools. which ones? overloading charter schools in poor african, american and latino communities. they are resegregating the schools. what is going on here in san francisco, is ethnic cleansing. the african-american community is being driven out of san francisco. they want to build condos. the region -- reasons a lot of students can't come to school is they are sick. they are sick from the shipyard. they have been poisoned. they are 50% asthma in the community. that is one of the big reasons that kids don't show up in school and we have to deal with a health crisis th

allison collins, lynn jones, joanne abernathy, melonie diaz gomez, tracy brown, lisa lee, josh davidson, rafael picasso, margaret ray as. thank you. >> you can begin. >> thank you. they are still debating. and i want my issues to be recognized. >> go ahead. >> good evening everyone. i know we have had quite an eventful night, and we have a lot going on right now but i ask that you will open your ears and your heart and please be attentive to what i will address. i first want to state that as a professional i have worked at dr martin luther king met a school and a high school. i was formerly the director of the. health leader program. >> can you state your name for the record? >> my name is leticia jones. i went to malcolm x academy. i graduated from celebrate in high school. third generation bayview hunters point and my kids are now proudly fourth-generation. all of those titles, all of the titles that i have warned -- born, what brought me into night is as a concerned parent, in my heart has been broken over the last couple of weeks as my son started new traditions elementary school, t

my name is joanne abernathy, and i'm a long time advocate for the bayview-hunters point for many years. i sit on the board of mary l. booker leadership academy. i'm sick and tired of people dividing our people against each other. >> joanne, i'm sorry. i don't have a card for you. >> well, i put a card in. >> yours wasn't one of the names -- >> well, i stood back there and asked you why my card didn't get called, and i didn't hear nothing -- >> can you hold the time, please. i'm sorry, but i have -- i have others that -- that i have cards for, so if your card was up here, then i would have called your name, but i don't have your name. >> so what do you want me to do? >> okay, you guys -- how much time do they have? you have two minutes left, so use your time how you'd like it. if you'd like for her to speak versus somebody that has the card that you've signed up for, you can, but you have two minutes left. >> okay. i'm speaking. right there, what i said there. we're getting divided by what i say is we get to make in our community and even in these meetings. it's not fair that we have to