001next item special reports benchmarks Miss Hilda Irani good evening president or uh board trustees uh superintendent Maliko my very short presentation this evening will give you an overview of public 144 section 98b which is the building Benchmark assessment goals and this is required by Michigan Department of Ed that twice a year in February and in June that we share with you what those goals are and what our plans are moving forward so per the requirements of the law building all of our school buildings are to create academic goals and with those goals they have interim targets those goals are tied to benchmark assessments for grades k through eight we use uh we set our goals and they are set for our January and as well as a June Target date in our high schools because
002they do not have AKA or a benchmark assessment that we will be using their grade one semester grades okay with the goal setting process the state will award funds to the district to reimburse us for the cost of The Benchmark assessment so in our case we use NWA map and so we will be reimbursed for the cost of that as part of the trade-off of administering this with the Michigan integrated continuous improvement process otherwise known as mykip which is our school Improvement our continuous Improvement plan our District academic goal of increasing student achievement expects buildings to have an interim and and Target which in turn satisfies the requirements of this law so it's nice that everything fits under that mykip umbrella so not only are we meeting the needs that we feel are appropriate for
003our district and for our building and our students of course we are also fulfilling parts of this all right so what is our progress so far towards the goal let me give you a quick summary where we're at each of our buildings had an interim goal for both math and reading this the data was disaggregated by subgroup and all of this has been posted on our district website under the transparency reporting page for all for every one of you back in the fall we met with building leadership teams to establish these goals and to set a stretch goal for kindergarten through eighth grade these goals are based on the fall nwea in both reading and in math and for our high school students we use the semester one grades as I mentioned earlier during the
004June board meeting I will be back again to give you an update and to show where we're at in terms of these goals to give you a little brief overview of where we're at so far in terms of reaching our goals uh you have here in front of us are high school grades for the last few years um here you have on the last column there you can see for January 2023 for grades 9 through 12. overall the percentage of students passing their classes is in line with previous years at 94 percent and I would consider um given every I would look at this really as our Baseline year given where we were uh you know pre-pandemic we're right back to 2019 we're very close to that uh you'll see in 2020 there that second
005semester at uh orange bar there that would have been uh the year where we were of course uh we've gone virtual and as a district we felt that we would be more lenient in terms of our a grading system and so hence there were no failing rates um and then the year after 2021 of course that was when we were virtual and then we came back hybrid so grading there was a little bit of you know took some adjustment but going forward I feel like we have a solid base and we can only go up from there uh in June I will share growth data for NWA to give you a fall to Spring comparison for our kindergarten through eighth grade finally I want to talk briefly about assessment accountability so um we know that
006testing season is upon us with weda testing going on right now soon we will have mme which would involve sat PSAT act workkeys and then we'll transition into m-step the district does not have the option to eliminate any of these assessments as much as everyone feels like you know it's us it's not we are following federal and state guidelines and this is part of you know doing us doing what we what we need to do um I know that we feel a few years back we were able to reduce the amount of testing that we did but everything that we offer now and we administer in our schools are her mde and federal guidelines and finally um we recognize that we have you know we've had some questions about this so I felt the need
007to bring this up while mde and the district supports parents in making choices for their children there is no acceptable way under state or federal law to opt out of state assessments so um in 2021 during the post-pandemic there uh the requirements are that 95 participation rate was weighed by the U.S Department of Education but after 2022 and going forward we're back at that 95 percent uh rate so at our building levels at the district level we need to have 95 percent of our students taking those appropriate assessments per their grade level and that is do I have any questions that I could answer for you trustee Barry thank you for that report of course if we can go back to that chart with uh with the goals I'm struggling trying to read it I
008know I apologize it's posted on our district website it's in there right after so you can zoom in I know and my eyes can't handle it I'm looking at a particular building here sure so that goal of 70 75 percent of different categories in Reading I'm concentrating on reading here what does that mean so uh building administrators and their leadership teams looked at the historical data in NWA and set a stretch goal So based on where they felt their students were at and then they added to that as what they would hope to achieve if not higher by the end of the school year and they set an interim Target so what they hope to be at for January or for February and then by the end of the year okay you and I and
009a couple other administrators met this last week on something similar yes we ran out of time I wanted to get into dig deep into it sure hopefully you know from the professionals like yourself but uh other things were going on in that meeting and I didn't get a chance so when I and thank you for all the information so when I was doing my own work looking at uh you know my school data and I'm looking at the reading I'm concerning on third grade here okay for obvious reasons of course by the third grade we know our current governor is deciding to go what direction she wants to go but looking at the numbers of those buildings is is these numbers right here like these goals right here are they attainable I mean when was
010the last time we've seen this kind of numbers that you are presenting us at this report well like I said they're looking at their historical data so are they attainable yes I feel like high expectations is always something that we should have for our students for ourselves I don't think we should ever Settle yeah and so I think with solid instruction with consistency and alignment of our resources and our curriculum I think we can get there I you know I know our teachers can do it I have every faces well I have no doubt our teachers can do it but at the same time you're saying you're looking at uh data uh so just explain to me one time maybe I'm a little slow tonight so the numbers I'm looking at right here that are
011on the State website okay and I don't want to mention buildings but the same building I'm looking at over here let's concentrate on all reading okay not the breakdowns so the grade levels that you're the scores you're looking at here are based on their NWA scores what you would see on the parent dashboard on my school data okay it would be based on m-step okay so it's a different assessment this would be current students what's on the parent dashboard would be last year's students okay but this information is also out there too it is this is on our district website correct this is on our district website what I'm saying is what I saw on the state websites also out there for it is it is yes it is last year's assessments correct yeah look
012parents looking to move into this District so we're moving out of districts they're looking at the same information you're right so I guess uh how do you how do I get some buy-in that maybe we shouldn't be paying attention to these scores pay attention here what is the difference I mean there is alignment between the two just know in terms of one was from last year one is from this year so that does make a difference in terms and it's a different assessment uh m-step is measuring our Common Core State Standards NWA does as well but it's really what's happening with that ongoing group and I feel like it's you've not seen But if you want to add on to what I'm saying please yes measures performance against grade level Essentials or grade level Common
013Core and we know that many students are below grade level that's why I'm step scores tend to be lower than nwea NWA is a norm reference test which means they compare students performance amongst the peers who took the task that year so they it go it's measured using the normal curve so that you can always have 50 percent of students above the normal curve and 50 below so their performance and NWA the numbers tend to be higher well but that doesn't mean they are performing at that level in terms of proficiency it's a growth test it's a norm reference test so it's harder to achieve the same numbers on m-step because they're using grade level assessments regardless of where the kid is coming from regardless whether they are El students English language students special ad
014or proficient students they're all tested against grade level NWA is not adapts to to the students level there goes down to the students level and the first time the students fails three questions then it stops at that level if that makes sense Mr Ronnie just by all means it has nothing to do with it I want to get back asking these questions I want to get back to the good old days when we're asking you know you just mentioned the graduation reads at 94 that started the law that discussion started a long time ago we won't get into the history of that but I want to get back to that kind of work so the more I understand here the better questions I can ask and maybe if we need to be doing something so
015when you tell me the unstep is just another assessment so I'll put all this aside here and I'll just take two elementaries two elementary schools one in Dearborn and one in a nearby District and I'm looking at here that's 76 of our students our third graders in this Elementary in Dearborn are not proficient or partially in m-step from last year these are third graders these are these I want for I want I want pre-covered okay because I don't want to hear anything about I agree with you you went back to 29. even though there's like so many articles by our state superintendents saying State scores have been approved for the majority of the school district okay so this is an elementary that's our responsibility in 76 percent are re you know their scores are like
016non-proficient or just partially just just barely got over the hurdle where my own sister my own sister who said to see her leave Dearborn but in a nearby District I'm looking at the third graders by the way non-proficient or partially proficient and we were given a grade of a c that's a very generous grade so at an elementary school third graders because relatives that live in this District the same thing in this District and things get flipped around only 31 percent are not proficient or partially for proficient and that that's that this that that that building got a great of an A so there's some word of caution yes we're comparing between districts please thank you we need to know the makeup of the classroom how many El students how many special education students uh
017class size are you looking at a grade level of 100 students are you looking at a grade level of only 60 students so I mean all of those are factors that come into play um are these students how long have they been in the country remember students are exempt only for one year and then they're expected to take those same assessments as their counterparts I deliberately said their relatives in the two districts so probably you know like the kids that we're looking at mostly were born here okay I'm not going back 10 12 years ago where people are telling me you know the immigrants coming from Syria or Palestine or whatever and I'm going to want to go back to days where tell me what people were telling me again I am so looking forward
018to this conversation I'm going to get an education here I'm probably going to get some college credit for it from recovery and also there it is course and accelerate students learning to reach professions there it is that's what I'm looking for so just a little bit of History back when I started asking questions about the graduation rates there's only a couple of our colleagues who are you know here and people were looking at me like what the heck's he talking about then we got to the point where how do we improve the graduation rates and here we are right now we're bragging about a board and a superintendent that did this kind of work you know 10 11 years ago I'm not looking to say dear why you know you know where I'm at in
019Dearborn how do we how we hold ourselves accountable to these goals that you're putting up I am so looking forward to that how do we recover from this during our discussion last week I mentioned a few other districts right when I started comparing it gave me I've never now I know now I know when uh you know ladies in my life say I got a migraine I was like heading there you I backed off on that I said I'm just going to concentrate on our own on our own babies that's what you got to do yes what can we do to move our move yes that's what I'm looking forward I do want to continue this discussion if it's here or across the hall or some serious conversations having so thank you very much Mr
020Ronnie I just wanted to add also we're focusing on acceleration recovery in terms of growth to reach reach proficiency so making growth is not enough but also the communications with principals is and actually we had a session today with our principals is growth toward proficiency and that's why when you look at the accountability system in Michigan they gave different weights to different components and the growth component they gave it the highest which is 34 for proficiency they gave 29 it's it's much harder to reach proficiency but it is expected to make growth within three years toward proficiency yes thank you and and I want to go back just a little bit in 2016 the Michigan legislator passed a law there require schools obviously get third graders to read by third grade level before you move
021them on okay uh in 20 18 2019 school year we recognized probably about 30 students that we should hold back but we decided to go a different direction we found waivers for them I'll have some questions for the superintendent under uh request for information on that but if kids can't read I don't have I'm preaching to the choir dot dot dot so if I'm a third grader now I'm not reading at third grade level later on if I'm still behind and I understand the stigma about holding a student back I fully get it but what about that stigma when a third grader can't read at a third grade level and what time he or she gets into the sixth and seventh grade and they're even falling further behind and they start looking around and there's
022thinking what's wrong with me then they become the behavior of children then when they get to high school we don't have a couple hours to talk about what happens there so we need to get it we need to get it right and I did the magic word you said how do we get there right so I'm looking forward to some serious you know discussion how do we get there thank you very much sorry for taking up so much time president thought trustee battle scarf oh well I'm going to kind of piggyback on um trustee Barry's question because I also was looking at this chart and wondering if these are stretch goals they're not they're not test scores they're not reflective of it's what the hope is for exactly what's the consequence for buildings that don't
023even come close to reaching that stretch goal is there a concept I mean really is there all reality if we're if we're required to provide this to the state in order to get funding is there a consequence I mean we can pick any number out of the sky and say we want to get but in reality all it is is providing a number you know what do we do with it actually the consequence is in the form of revisiting their school Improvement plans and realigning their practices to make sure that they're providing targeted intervention to students who are not Meeting those goals there's no consequence from the top down from mde to the district but what we do is we meet with the principals the executive directors held us she's doing a great job filling
024in big shoes when then Patterson left but again there are frequent meetings with the principal and we mentioned my Kip earlier uh Michigan integrated continuous improvement process this is something new instead of writing long reports and submitting to the state what we've been doing is we're implementing it at the district level between the three feeders in all of the schools and systemizing the practices again to move away from Intervention into acceleration how do we teach using grade level Essentials and challenge the students with stretched stretch strategies to reach a grade level instead of providing intervention resources that are below grade level so this has been a very heavy Focus this year with the teachers and with principles so all the executive directors I'm assuming are are gathering this data as a company and then assessing
025what where where the issues um need to be focused at which buildings right correct and we're tying these to the principles goals and the teachers goals as well okay thank you trustee Berry thank you for bringing that up uh Dusty patrickoff consequences I'm not too concerned with the consequences from the federal government or the state you know we need to hold each other account over here we have some of the greatest teachers working in our district I know it can be done I guess I we need some honest discussion what do we need to do to support those teachers in the classroom and I know it all comes down to funding what have you but we're in the business of educating our future and if we're not concentrating on our second and third graders that's
026just going to set us up later on for different kind of work okay in our city which most people live in my community we're dealing with some issues right now mental health true you know reckless driving you know I can keep going on and on and you know I can I can I can share with you a question that I asked Jack Riley about six seven years ago said I said Jack well I can say that to him but Mr Mayor the last three the rest three people that committed suicide in the city do you know their names you said no I don't they said you know why because they're not involved we're losing those kids those are the kids that yes by the time they get to the seventh and eighth grade they're looking
027around like they start feeling like that there's truly something wrong with them we failed those children we the district nobody here nobody up here by the time they get into High School we know what happens there suspend suspend suspend then later on when they get in our community who's paying the price the community so we all care about this community and we want most interesting so maybe instead of looking at it as consequences you know let's figure out let's hear from our true soldiers out there the teachers say what do you need to get these students to the next level thank you trustee watts can you speak to those students that are that are identified as perhaps needing additional support for reading do we have additional resource teachers who are specific to the classroom or
028to the building that help with that so depending on the need whether you're speaking to special needs or just below grade level we have several positions at every building from instructional coaches you have your Early Childhood Specialists uh you have let me see your English language developmental Specialists your elds who am missing Title One staff so every building I think we are blessed in this district with resources and so it's just a matter of identifying what those needs are and providing the alignment of our staff and what we need to adjust that I think we have what it takes like I said our teachers are amazing I know that I've worked with them for many years I love what I know what we can do it's just we've got a couple curveballs that came to
029us one being coven and then the hybrid and then all of that so playing that catch up but then like Foxy mentioned that acceleration to get us back to where we need to be and also systems we have to to provide acceleration using systems across the board thank you you had mentioned the ability to get uh refunded by the state for the nwea but I know that we're piloting in some buildings I ready correct does it work the same way exactly the same way and it's another assessment that the state would for this uh law would cover so if we did decide to change directions next year based on um the assessment committee and our Administration and our parent and student feedback then that would be and currently with the NWA we've switched it from
030three times a year down to two times correct correct we do a false we do fall we do spring in the winter we do uh kindergarten through third grade just reading and that is per the read Bible third grade law that we have to do that trustee Moses question on the optow you said there is no acceptable way under state or federal law to allow and hops out but parents have done that in the past where they've they are they have refused and that's how I mean that's really it's a refusal and that brings up participation rate down which the minimum threshold for the participation rate is 95. if it goes below 95 then the question was asked earlier what was the consequence there would be a consequence for the district if we have less
031than 95 percent participation yeah is that 95 at a district level do they look at a building level building by building and subgroup by subgroup like El students need to have 95 special ed students 95 and all of the subgroups and he's building my building because then it plays into account with school index and school grades and then it affects the district as well despite comment so Ronnie I'm so looking forward to the discussion I said it a couple times already I'm also looking forward to these reports four or five years from now you have some great great mentors and you're going to do an amazing job so thank you very much thank you all right thank you very much thank you next item it's the board on agenda and non-agenda items for Action we're
032assigned in by 7 10 pm by submitting a blue card to the board secretary you may speak at this time the board may not be in a position to respond to non-agenda items therefore speakers should not anticipate an immediate response to their comments or questions for the benefit of all concern do not mention the names of students or School District employees please keep your comments as brief as possible there's a three-minute limit on comments made to the board Thomas bisek would like to come to speak to the board about thoughts of the last few board meetings while he is on his way up I want to make sure everyone knows that there are also comment cards written in Arabic if anyone needs one thank you all right good evening everyone um looking back on the
033last few board meetings um as a student watching there's just a lot of negativity and criticism directed at the board the district um so I just kind of want to balance that with some positivity with that being said I want to thank you guys for staying strong up there I know it's kind of hard with all that criticism being directed towards you to stay up there very stoic um keep your cool so I commend you guys for that and I would also like to thank the Librarians who have been going through that tedious book review process um that must be hard for them I know at Dearborn High they've been working hard to go through the books any of them that have been flagged for any potential reasons so I also want to commend them
034for that thank you thank you next night I'm sorry next card um Al-Qaeda would like to speak to the board in behalf of its behavior and collaboration I don't see fives in here right now so come back in case you just stepped out for a moment the next one is Kathy Martin from Dearborn Heights uh she would like to speak to the board about bullions and racism good evening um I have spoken before you before as an employee and as a concerned citizen and I was really hoping that I could come and talk to you today as the newly elected Union president but I have to talk to you as a mother um my job my children have attended Dearborn schools since kindergarten and um being biracial they have had to deal with things that
035other people have not had to deal with I've tried to use the proper channels to address this my son is now in ninth grade he no longer attends Dearborn schools but my daughter does and again this year things have Arisen and I've tried to use the proper channels and she has to report it and she does and I decided that I was going to let it lie until you know see what happened however Friday she gets in the car and says Mama they're doing it again my daughter is being called the n-word my daughter has been told to get back on the bus and on Friday they were like hey have you solved that bus problem yet and it's just it's too much she goes to school to learn not to be bullied and I
036haven't seen any changes and it's I and then I have to tell her oh go report it so not only is she having to deal with this she has to relive her trauma by going and Reporting it and it's not always handled in a very us appropriate way and I don't know what can be done to stop this but I just need it to stop I I I can't have my daughter coming home hearing these things being said about her so I know the district is doing you know Dei and all these things it's not happening fast enough something needs to be done it's not just my daughter I have reached out to other parents parents have been reaching out to me for a couple of years and um Unfortunately they don't want to speak
037and I've tried to hold back on speaking but I can't anymore so I'm not just speaking about my daughter I'm speaking about other students of color or you know black students in the district so it's a problem at a lot of the schools and please please please do something to make it stop thank you [Applause] oh um hi you don't want to speak all right okay um next Dolly Ali would like to come to speak to the board about Community projects from Dearborn hello good evening trustees my name is La Li Dearborn resident byproduct of Dearborn Public Schools as well as having four children in The District Two of which at saline Elementary so there's a few things that I'd like to discuss but I am limited on time so I'll try to go over
038them very quickly one regarding the Fielding Town Halls that happen I attended the fortune one president Thorpe you were there um there was only five community members most of them were administrators and Fielding employees so very few people showed up and honestly as someone who was part of the VIP infrastructure team as well as the focus group I was really hoping at least at the Town Hall that there would be some type of plan presented and it seems after so long several months they keep soliciting back with no real fruits to that investigation or research so I'm hoping that the board will try to get information from them tangible information that shows what their plans are after all these research that they've done I want to shift oh in addition to during that um um
039uh session what we I also learned that there was October 2022 um Capital Investments there was about 99.5 million dollars spent um and the inequities of that distribution of funds is just very apparent um about 60 went into West Side schools and only nine percent went to East Side schools including uh the south end only twenty five thousand dollars of capital investment went to Salina School in itself so the inequities we talk about diversity Equity inclusion I really want to focus on the equity portion and making sure that schools marginalized schools get the appropriated funds needed to fit their infrastructure as well and then lastly I want to talk about a community project that I introduced to the Salina District on December 20th of last year uh me and a colleague of mine from the
040Ecology Center I went and visited saline Elementary in hopes that we could use the school yard to collect rainwater for a research that we're doing to understand the pfas contaminants in air or on land and what started as a conversation with the principal um really just intrigued by the opportunity to have this done led to a formal request to the district to allow us to collect rainwater simply putting a bucket on the school yard to collect rainwater water that was back in December it took up until January 30th to get a response and the response unfortunately was a rejection and allowing us to put an empty bucket on a school yard literally just to collect rainwater throughout that time I have yet to understand the reasons why they haven't explained to me why they won't
041allow us to put an empty bucket on a school yard I know we got a few seconds but I hope that you guys can look into the reasons why uh submitting that information allowing to do the research so I don't know if I can elaborate a bit more but time's up but I've got it written down and and we'll talk about it when we're done thank you next Jackson Wagner from Dearborn would like to come to speak to the board about book bands so this month is Black History Month schools all over the country we've lessons about black history into each school day throughout the month unfortunately for AP African American study students in high schools this year's Black History Month has been marred by uh the threat of censorship by um Florida's governor Ron
042DeSantis um and when he threatened um you know the College Board removed content from their AP African-American studies course um you know content from multiple authors particularly because DeSantis had targeted them um you know LGBT content when DeSantis was in Congress he wrote A bill to ban Muslims from entering the U.S that bill was the template for Trump's Muslim ban as Governor DeSantis went after LGBT content then when he went after he went after African-American content and in the meantime his lackeys started a group called moms for Liberty moms for Liberty pushed book bans all over the country and dearborn's book banners got their book list from that group they didn't come up with the list by themselves they admitted when they were interviewed by Vice news that they only read Snippets they didn't even
043read the books that's what this board is so afraid of you know do you want the fascist governor of Florida and his cronies to decide whether or not students in Dearborn get to enjoy their constitutional rights you know look up Island Trees school district V Pico where the Supreme Court decided that students in high school have a right to receive speech and that it is unconstitutional for school boards to ban books you know they can't even be bothered to read the books that they want to ban and you let them intimidate you into Banning some books is this board content with only ever being remembered for their cowardice you know I have ancestors who fought in the U.S Civil War they fought and died to end slavery in this country they fought for a future
044where everyone could enjoy freedom of speech they fought against Southern States like Florida which denied Humanity to anyone who wasn't an adult Christian white man this country ended slavery and entered Jim Crow but the struggle for equality and justice is far from over and if those of us in Dearborn can't unite against men like the santis who want to destroy us all then none of us will be safe Dearborn deserves better than this let's confront dearborn's racist history and recognize that diversity is our greatest strength thank you next Dr mozip would like to come to speak to the board about inequity in DPS from Dearborn foreign good evening and thank you for the opportunity um so today we heard from the superintendent the commitments to diversity equity and inclusion from the district I want to
045put two examples and ask where is equity in these two examples first example is investments in infrastructure as one of the speaker mentioned we went to Fortson listen to this exercise that your investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in that's going to be worthless at the end because the community is not trusting you with the money there would not be a bond so I'm not sure where you're investing money when there is money to be invested you did not listen to the community you did not solicit any feedback you guess went and invested you just put 100 million dollars into the buildings so I'm gonna pass this this is from your website and I ask you to look what these schools located at East versus West and see where the money went into because when
046I looked at it I was stunned to realize where the money went in try to figure out the reasons that what listed on the website try to understand those reasons did they get funded elementary schools because that could be a vision of guests to make sure air-conditioned schools with elementary schools were there all two schools in the East End McDonald's receive twenty four thousand dollars um sorry Mabel's they received 24 000 only out of this 10 100 million dollar and McDonald's received zero an elementary school receiving zero while other elementary schools receiving six and seven million dollars uh Salon has listed Salina intermediate is listed as fully air conditioned which is not the case I hope you can go back and ask the questions the other inequality that I would like to raise and ask
047the board that something that we have raised for years is the participation of students and after school programs especially at at Salford High School go walk during the day in the school and go walk during the afternoon and see who participate in the school after schools many Arab American students majority of them do not participate in after school programs most of them get bussed to the school and they don't enjoy the after-school programs when we ask many questions and we raise these issues many times to administrators I'll leave you to ask because if you think about Transportation it's not the issue because there's busts that leaves after school if you think the students don't want to participate because that would be the claim that you would get couple of you were at Salina celebrating the
048champions of volleyball team that win and it's not the first team that won Champions in Salina there are many champions from that school but they don't give the opportunity the one that tried to get the opportunity they get benched throughout the season just like the football player that got into the team to your promises thank you next Samurai lukman would like to come to speak to the board about several issues from Dearborn hi Sarah lookman Dr Maliko indicated that DPS leads the way diversity Equity inclusion several month times it was mentioned the agenda mentioned expressions of concerns for those in the Middle East but you failed to show concern or commitment to diversity Equity or inclusion to that same group of people within your board of education I'm not going to remain respectful to those
049of you who have disrespected an entire Community yes you've disrespected an entire class of people that serve as the majority of DPS parents 20 000 students so they have Malibu Barbie the Wicked Witch of the West and a guy who's in board meetings as nap time conspire with the former board president to use Mr Thorpe who I have high regard and respect for you used him you threw him under the bus so that you can send a message to Mr mozib that you reign supreme that he needs to bow down to your majority let's cut the BIOS out for now you have never raised the concerns you raised to any other candidate for board president in recent history ever so forgive me if I call a spade a spade and tell you that your actions
050are apparently and inherently and blatantly racist this is what we talk about when we say systemic racism you guys don't even realize that you're doing it when you're doing it and you don't realize when you're allocating budgets in the millions towards exclusively towards one side of town how is racist and the bottom line is that what you did was shameful and disgusting I'm disgusted by your actions absolutely disgusted we tell our kids to be kind to get along we tell our school Personnel to set an example for our children explain to me the example you're choosing to set when you interrupt each other incessantly when you're bullying each other when you're constantly correcting the pronunciation of someone who speaks like more parents in this District than you do or when you disrespect one another and
051in front of each other's children how dare you put your personal feelings above the greater good how dare you allow your ego to lead how dare you create the divisiveness and image of exclusion when you are supposed to be leading in diversity and inclusion how dare you purport to be a leader a representative of the people when you've allowed your personal grievances to lead how are you supposed to address the racism that this poor mother complained to you about when some of you on the highest level don't even realize that you're doing it yourselves shame on you you should be ashamed of yourselves and your actions I'm embarrassed for you keep your beef out of my school district out of my child's School District do better for crying out loud grow up thank you [Applause]
052um so two additional blue cards came through but it was after the time so I will write I will read their comments um America Yaya would like uh she did not want to well this is her paper um I am writing and support and solidarity with Doc with Mr adol mosa in regards to what occurred in the organizational meeting earlier this year it was not only wrong and disrespectful to him but to the entire Middle Eastern Community the same Arab American community that has been wronged insulted and banned from opportunities within district for decades as a board you all need to admit the fault that was committed against Otto he was stripped of his presidency and it is a slap in the face to the entire Community let's not forget all of the efforts and
053impacts the Middle Eastern Community has had on Dearborn and the school district it is adults turn for presidency and the blatant race of racism of this board is evident the current president must step down and adol should be leading at this time and then the last one was from Miss Mona Marie she said I do not wish to speak to the board but would like to make the following comment I'm disappointed in the board's actions in one of their previous meetings Automotive should have should have and should be president right now thank you