i'm a parent student at ruth sota. we're recommending that they pay for the additional resources to support the students and families at ruth in dealing with this turbulent, emotional situation caused by the termination of this teacher. it's not fair for a school to use its limited sources. handling something like this, which nobody in our country can handle, let alone on a micro level like this, to pay for the services needed to address this, for african-american students and other colors, we'd like to get help. we're requesting professionally facilitated meeting that includes superintendent matthews and the staff of office of inclusion and equity with the members of the student body and their families to discuss the ongoing racism that students encounter at ruth asawa sota and to find a path going forward for transforming our school. i noticed that bill, cappen hagen's name was mentioned up here. he was at the event where all the parents got together. and it was a lions den. not for the faint of heart. so what we're

thank you. >> i am the parent of a senior at ruth asawa sota. we would like to -- further recommend that sfusd create a series of one or two-day conference for students, teacher and staff to look at racism. the lack of privilege for some and lack of privilege for others. we'd like to explore cultural humility as a best practice when working with others in an educational setting and implicit bias that occurs in our classrooms. our children are constantly under attack with micro aggressions that are not being addressed and it's so subtle, half the time people don't even realize they're committing them. we further recommend that students who attack and bully others must be counselled immediately, along with their parents. there must be consequences for this behavior. students are going to be students. but we must really, if we're saying we have a zero tolerance policy, we need to make sure it is a zero tolerance policy. the words that we hear in the district stance when we say things like the difference between hate speech and hate crime, it's a ve

i'm a parent student at ruth sota. we're recommending that they pay for the additional resources to support the students and families at ruth in dealing with this turbulent, emotional situation caused by the termination of this teacher. it's not fair for a school to use its limited sources. handling something like this, which nobody in our country can handle, let alone on a micro level like this, to pay for the services needed to address this, for african-american students and other colors, we'd like to get help. we're requesting professionally facilitated meeting that