mrs. brenda jackson who is a dean who has been in the district for over 30 years and she is a dean at roosevelt middle school and her work with youth and... the church. >> i have tickets if you like to attend and see miss wade thompson or miss jackson. >> thank you. >> good evening superintendent and commissioners, i am here to help to frame the conversation around when you guys start talking about para pay with the upcoming contract negotiations i am here to lend my support to the paraprofessionals and i have been one and i am a liaison and i am privy to the storis that the students hold around the city's affordability crisis, many of the families are marginalized by the immigration and language capacity and limited income, so these issues make for a stressful existence but with the housing crisis the families are concerned that they will be displaced from their homes. one thing that we know about children and when they feel anxious due to social issues outside of their control it gets in the way of the ability to self-regulate and focus which keeps them from learning. while dealing with the i