maintaining their hair /tapblg, culture and language leads to empowerment and more active participation of parents in the successful education of their children. this can only be achieved with a culturely relevant curriculum and competent teachers and administrators. although parents are demanded that district offer language instruction and hire more filipino teachers and administrators, such as those of [inaudible] it is very sad that such personnel are very few, if at all present. distinguished board members, it is long overdue that the unfortunate gnat situation of filipino students in san francisco be corrected. please ensure that the educational needs of this rapidly growing population are met by hiring the much needed qualified filipino teachers and administrators. thank you for listening. >> good afternoon. my name is pablo, i'm a parent of a 4th grader [inaudible]. i'm writing this letter because i felt that my daughter's teacher received a very unfair evaluation. to give you an overview of what my daughter's teacher, miss valet hoe has done this year, in come /paeurplt to her p