we have underenrollment. we're underfunded and the administration has denied us a pta. for three years they have sought that. i have only been there two. here is what i want to say: a lot of things you hear you can't provide. you can't provide extra money, squeeze it from a rock, but get out of the way and let the school have a leader, provide a leader. our principal must go. we need a leader who can absolutely lead us through a uniting our communitying and letting us raise these funds that the district can't provide. i don't blame you for not being able to provide them, but let us find the way. we're willing and able and living in a neighborhood that can produce these results. thank you for your time and i hope we can get your attention at every level. assistant superintendent has been amazing. he i think actually needs more help. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you, president fewer. i received a petition earlier today and i responded to the petition. i would like to ask deputy superintendent and assistant superintendent to please take your parent

you're going to look on a college campus and you're going to see these departments of, you know underenrolledajors, ethnic studies women's studies and so on. that's going to be something to a mainstream conservative that they're not going to be interested in or interested in subsidizing, for that matter. that's one of the traditional talking points on it. for me, that's a symptom of a much larger problem rierkts? problem, right? and that is a market that doesn't function effectively, so that consumers can say, you know, i don't want to go learn from a professor that's going to fill my mind with all sorts of nonsense and things that are going to, you know, make my parents blush, right? instead, your only choice these days as an up ab-and-coming high school graduate is to go off to a four-year college and enroll in a place -- if you want to get ahead -- enroll in a place that happens to be populated with that type of faculty. but, again, that's a function of a market that rewards that kind of behavior and that sort of product, because, you know, there are -- there's not a broader array of optio