many families that left were in spanish immersion program. students lost best friends, our community lost vital to fund-raising efforts. we lost our p.t.a. president. since immersion really place our school site, thank you. >> my name is colleen mcconnell and my son attends first grade at daniel webster in the spanish immersion program and we're excited to be part of this great community. our current feeder program is problematic for daniel webster. the demand for daniel webster has been on the rise since 2009. however, this is the feedback we're getting on tours. if i.s.a. is your feeder, we're crossing daniel webster off our list. while our total requests have remained about the same, our first choice requests went down a full 33% from 39 to 26 families. so our feeder, the international studies academy, or i.s.a., has ranked last in first choice requests the last two years and demand has now dropped at this school to the point that while there are more than 40 middle school students, only six families in all of san francisco put i.s.a. as t

. >> i'm megan smith, my son is in the third grade spanish immersion program. i'm not here as much for my son as i am for his classmates. my son returned from i.s.a. and found four teenagers sitting on my car vandalizing it. we will be going somewhere else. we've been trying to get into our neighborhood school for five years, really tough, but we would be sad to give up spanish because it's been great. i think we should have been grandfathered in because we didn't know when we were signing up for kindergarten that we would have to continue for three years. basically, one of his friends lives in the projects you see on 101 and i learned through him, he can't see out of his windows because they're boarded up and until going to daniel webster, i thought those were unoccupied units but those are daniel webster kids. they deserve better futures and a better chance than going to a middle school-high school combination where their lives will not get better in that situation. thank you. >> hi, my name is evelyn. i have twins in third grade. i was going to say that it w

after 28 years of shaping up half for spanish immersion in education, i feel that we not be the guinea pigs in this experiment for this year. we do not want to have another run this year is that almost dismantle their community -- horrendous year that almost dismantled our community. he loves and cares about our diverse and rich population. and most importantly our children. i feel that no one else will provide except for larry. our children do not need to settle for less. our teachers do not need to settle for less. please give us back the heart and soul of our community. thank you. >> i am lucky to get to go to a school like buena vista. i am new to all of this. i came in with a lot of enthusiasm and love from what i saw last year. i have to say it was a shock and surprise to see there was someone new in place when a big part of the reason i wanted to go there was this incredible, thoughtful, nonjudgmental, enthusiastic man, larry. it is interesting, i had a lot of stuff written down but i want to quote president yee -- he said we do not want to waste another year. we want what is be

with only 44 seats for spanish immersion, where are these kids going to go to school? president yee: last speaker. >> i'm michael rose. i have two students at san francisco public unified right now. i've got a fourth grader at star king and kindergartener at daniel webster. i can tell you from my experience that daniel webster is a successful school and we have a plan for success. stacy tried to fit it all in there in a short period of time but there is a plan for success. i encourage you to review that if you haven't already done so. we would like you to continue to support the successful program. i think you can see both by the community's involvement, by the administrators, the test scores i know are there but we see signs that cracks are starting to form. i.s.a. is a huge barrier for people what they come to school and tour. we hope you'll reconsider and create a daniel webster k through 8 program. thank you. president yee: thank you very much. i'm going to call up the next grouping now. i gave 17 minutes. paul revere group. kelly lee smith, allen alvarez, floritas

spanish speakers. same issue we have today. today we use terms bilingual or immersion. back then, they just said, do we teach them in english or in spanish? ma ferguson was asked that when she was governor in 1923 or '24. she said, how do we teach children who are primarily spanish speakers? and she responded what is the most infamous quote in texas political history when she said if english was good enough for jesus christ, it's good enough for the skilled children of texas. now, i don't know if that's true. i don't know if that's lore or legend. but it brings history right into today, and it makes people think about, you know, maybe there are some lessons to be had from what's occurred before. similarly when today you'll get to go to the archives. i think it's one of the options and we have, you know, i think the eye-watering documents over there. a couple of them are illustrative of that issue as well. i think it's out for restoration. so you may not be able to see it. but we have a leather-bound volume that's about that wide, about that thick, about that tall, and it