in the past couple of years we have put out hundreds of these notices and all but a few have been rescined and in this next year we are expecting to have at least a some what better financial situation than we have had in the past couple of years and i think that there will be an expectation from the people in the city and the school community that we don't have this sort of pain that we have seen in the last couple of years come down on our staff and students in the school community. and so, you know, i was sort of thinking and hoping that we would get to a place where we did not have to put out any layoff notices. and in the presentation, you mentioned that mr. bushman that you do expect or you hope that we will get to a place again, even if we put out this over 100 notices where only about a handful are rescinded. so i am wondering why this is necessary. why do you feel that and in light of the fact that in the last couple of years we have recinded as many as we have and why we need to do this again and why we have had the experience that we have had and having so many of them become un

this should be rescined and we should give her the tenured position, thank you. [ applause ] >> my name is charity and i work at the philippine center and i have been there nine years and i am here in support of reinstating tina, when i started i didn't know what i was going to do with my life and meeting people like her is really parent because she helped me be who i want to be. we need people like her, we need examplary role models for teachers who want to be bilingual if we don't have people like her, she takes out extra time for us to help us build the community and teach us everything that we know. please, please, keep people like her so we can pass on the knowledge and find wonderful teachers and pass on the legacy, keep her because we really need her. thank you. >> tony. robles and i'm with the foundation and also with the magazine. with all of what has happened in the city, the landscape has changed so much and what i want to say is, you know, tina should be retained as a teacher she is an excellent teacher and she is an excellent role model for the young kids. and something tha