i am kenneth reese. this is my wife, lisa. i stand here for two reasons. one, i am the parent of children who have come up through the san francisco school district as well as pastor in the bay viewpoint and i have did you so for over 21 years. that is okay. you can snap. that is good. mr. walton and mr. cook have attended our church on a number of occasions. feel feet to invite the rest of your crew to come to church. here is the thing that i want to share very quickly about this. in my 21 years of serving the bay view community i have buried more than 40 african-american both male and female through the church. i buried them. one of the things i have seen is that academics is a way for our children to have access to things that they normally would not have. i think yo you you are recipienf that. have been been there to see what is going on, we had a hard time trying to help our children go through the school district. he is a success story. we had trouble finding a place for him simply because the first school that they sent us to was -- was graded as a