001erica whitfield here district five frank barbieri here district six marcia andrews here district seven deborah robinson here we have corn with all seven board members in attendance in addition to the board members that we have joining us tonight dr our superintendent dr donald fenoy general counsel sean bernard inspector general theresa michael and our board clerk carol bass member the superintendent's administrative staff may join us periodically as directed by the superintendent viewers and listeners can access the meeting today by either watching on comcast channels 234-235 u-verse channel 99 or by using the youtube link on our webpage at palmbeachschools.org in the event that the link is interrupted for technical reasons please switch over to the tv channels all board meetings are recorded in their entirety and posted on the district website within 24 hours we also
002offer a listening only option which the public can access by calling 561-357-5900 or toll-free at 1-866-930-7015 the meeting id is 1-561-880-1124 pound sign this meeting is being transcribed by a closed captioner so please speak at a reasonable pace i'd like to welcome any members any excuse me i'd like to welcome any public speakers who are joining us in person today while your attendance here at the board meeting is appreciated please be mindful of important safety protocols that the board now has in place to conform with covet 19 safety guidelines and school board policies one of those policies governs the wearing a mask on school board property we recognize that some members of the public are hesitant to attend meetings in this room without assurances that everyone will wear a mask during the meeting we also
003recognize that there are others who would prefer not to wear a mask to that end the board has made arrangements for those persons who want to attend without wearing a mask to join us from an adjacent room in this building and attend virtually consequently if you want to attend the meeting here in this board room you must wear your mask covering both your nose and mouth while you're here in this room i've asked school police to remind anyone observe not wearing the mask covering both their nose and mouth to comply with the requirements and have directed school police without further direction by me as chairman to escort anyone failing to follow that request from the boardroom thank you for your cooperation the school board of palm beach county supports the peaceful assembly of persons to
004express themselves regarding matters concerning district students employees in the community however if such peaceful assembly results in a disturbance those persons may be subject to arrest or other lawful action so please be respectful of all persons who are present on school board property in an effort to keep all participants and district employees safe everyone must obey all lawful orders issued by law enforcement which may include remaining or moving to a specific area or location lowering voices for safety reasons or other safety related commands please sit only in designated seats do not move any furniture and do not move about the room unless you are speaking at the podium exiting to the restroom or leaving the building please maintain social distancing at all times remain in the designated areas and leave the property once your visit
005is complete again i remind those in attendance that school police have been instructed to remove anyone from the meeting who does not adhere to these safety protocols and procedures as i have outlined please respect this cautionary warning that in the event or of interference with the orderly processes of the meeting failure to follow the safety protocols and procedures or otherwise disruptive conduct will result in removal of the person from the meeting or other action thank you for helping to maintain decorum and the orderly conduct of school board business now stand for the pledge of allegiance to be led by superintendent fenoy i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you mr
006superintendent we have one two three four five items have been added for good cause item b2 advertisement of the f fy 22 tenant of district budget good cause exists for adding item b2 to this agenda in order to publish fy 22 tentative budget advertisements and tax notices in accordance with florida statute 200.065 next item added is brd1 superintendent search good cause exists to add this item to begin the process of expeditionally expeditiously finding a replacement for the superintendent who tendered his resignation on july 13 2021. next item ci4 agreement with engineerity to service k5 students good cause exists to add this item this contract is to meet the need for growth of elementary students in the virtual elementary program for fy 22. fmt1 issuance of cop 2022a and 2024a to refund the 2012 c and
007the 2014 c cop issues this item has been added to the agenda to take advantage of the time sensitive opera opportunity to re refinance the 2014 cop issues and save the district approximately 10 million dollars in debt service costs thank you mr burke p2 good cause exists to add this item so employees can begin in their new positions as soon as possible and final item added for good cause is pg-1 2020 2021 florida educational equity act implementation plan good cause exist to add the equity implementation plan to the agenda as board approval is required prior to submitting it to the state by the july 30 21 2021 deadline mr superintendent did you have any items to withdraw mr chairman i have nothing to withdraw this time board members we have one item that's been pulled
008from the consent agenda so far it's fmpa2 are there any other ones you wish to pull at this time all right so before we approve the agenda i'll entertain a motion to reorder the agenda and what what i'd like you all to consider is once i get the sheet here we have two hours and 37 minutes i believe of recorded messages plus plus uh probably a couple hours of of people here in attendance um we according to the general consul okay there are 107 recorded messages for this meeting relating to board discussion item bd3 pursuant to policy 1.03 the board made by two-thirds vote suspend the rule requiring the playing of recorded messages so long as the board also provides that the messages that have not been played are sent to all board members to
009listen and be posted on the website and made available for the public to listen to this end i will entertain a motion for this purpose should it be the pleasure of the board motion by mrs mcqueen state your motion please what the way the way the rule mr mcquinn is at your motion yes thank you i move to um i move to um tell me what i'm doing i know what it is but um suspend the rule requiring the plan thank you suspend the rule i i i'm so sorry i thought i was just never mind okay i moved to suspend the rule thank you second by mrs andrews discussion seeing no discussion all in favor opposed motion carries 7-0 so we will take all of the people that are here this evening we'll take
010them in the normal order where they would appear on the agenda for agenda speakers so with that change uh we need a motion to approve the agenda motion by mrs whitfield check out my mrs andrews any discussion all in favor opposed motion carries 7-0 are there any disclosures or abstentions seeing now mr superintendent you have comments yes sir thank you mr chairman i'd like to use this opportunity to share a brief overview about preparations underway for the start of the new school year tomorrow july 22nd marks the conclusion of the district's k-12 summer acceleration academies which are a critical component for our student academic support plan the goal of these extensive learning opportunities is to address wide instructional gaps among students who have suffered covert related unfinished learning and to close pre-existing achievement gaps tomorrow
011students will leave the summer acceleration programs more prepared for success in the upcoming school year this video will give you a look inside of summer acceleration academies [Music] emanuela is studying the body's senses in a summer acceleration academy at highland elementary she'll be entering first grade in the upcoming school year after completing a tough year of kindergarten sounding out the words knowing what words are vowels consonants all of that was a bit challenging for her and having to learn it while you are doing it virtually was a bit difficult for her having to start kindergarten on a computer even just knowing how to use a computer may have contributed to what's known as unfinished learning for some students this summer they're working on areas they may need help with any unfinished learning that that happened
012they're making up for it now and and they're with classmates that they love teachers that they love they're having a great time students receive face-to-face engaging instruction and intensive tutoring using project-based learning including arts music physical education and stem activities these unique learning experiences are at nearly 50 school sites serving the entire district it's supported by federal funding and will help students master academic standards and be more prepared for the upcoming school year they're also focusing on social emotional learning and getting used to interacting with others again which so many students missed during the pandemic they're kind of engaging with the learning and you know that light switch is kind of is turning on for them talking about their emotions building positive self-talk and they're they're becoming confident in the classroom free breakfast lunch and
013transportation are provided schools will also have extra academic support available for any student in need in the next school year it's really appreciated because as we know the kids kind of got set back with the pandemic and being able to keep her mind going keeping it exercised i think that is a great great program students are remembering to have lots of fun while they're working on their academic goals because of school school i would be ready for next year [Music] throughout the summer district leadership has also been harder we're preparing for the new school year and updating me along the way the most recent progress update from our administrators took place on monday of this week there's a tracking document that is used across across staff users across the district to ensure task ownership is
014clear and key deliverables will be completed prior to indicated deadlines the district is currently actively recruiting teachers substitute teachers bus drivers and food service workers i invite anyone interested in working in those fields to visit the district's employment information page in an effort to update student staff parents as thoroughly as possible and answer many ongoing questions the district has produced the back to school 2021 guiding document tomorrow this comprehensive digital document will be given to the board and shared with our family staff and the community this digital document will be available in multiple languages i also encourage families to visit the district's back to school web page which is palm beach schools dot org slash back to school 2021. at this time i would like to introduce mr ed tierney our deputy superintendent who will
015bring forward our new prince some of our new principles for this year also new this year several outstanding to these outstanding principles i now invite ed to come forward and introduce our new slate of principles chairman barbieri vice chairwoman mrs brill school board members dr fennoy i am very very pleased this evening to have the opportunity to introduce palm beach county school district's newest principles the individuals joining me at the table today have a track record of success both in leadership and student achievement that have propelled them to the principal ranks so with that i'm very pleased to introduce miss furnika roll the new principal of washington elementary chairman barbieri vice chairwoman brill school board members dr fenoy in the words of the great poet maya angelou i come as one but i stand as
016ten thousand i would like to recognize those that have helped me along the way on this journey to leadership my loving husband my mom my children my north regent family dr camille long dr lee mrs brown mrs maria bishop i'm thrilled to have this opportunity to lead the generation that we are in charge of i am excited for this journey i'm a little nervous but i'm so excited and i thank you all for this wonderful opportunity mr corey freeze new principal of north moore elementary good evening chairman barbieri vice chairwoman brill school board members and dr fenoy i want to take this opportunity to recognize my mentors miss vonda daniels ellie morales dr camille long and my family for helping mold me into the leader that i am today i am a byproduct of palm
017beach county schools where i attended cypress trails elementary crestwood middle and palm beach lakes high i pledged you my absolute best to provide my students with the world-class education that they deserve i thank you for this opportunity to lead northmoor elementary school as we move forward into this next school year this will definitely be a positive experience that i will always cherish thank you this is kristin king new principal of jerry thomas elementary good evening charm chairman barbieri vice chairwoman brill and our local school member school board member barbara mcquinn and all the school board members dr fenoy and all the staff here i want to start by introducing myself my name is kristen king and i've proudly served as the assistant principal of jerry thomas and look forward to transitioning into the role of
018school principal a huge thank you to all of you board members as your role in supporting schools is so important i'd like to recognize the north regional team team north is the best and that's due to the amazing leadership of dr camille long mrs maria bishop and all the regional superintendents i would be remiss not to acknowledge the many mentors i've had in my journey as an educator especially the issa's jeff and june and miss pamela buckman each of them have led me to this moment and their continued mentorship and friendship is immeasurable in the trend of gratitude i need to recognize my sons sean and justin and my husband dave although i strive for a work-life balance i've sometimes sometimes the dedication to school has uh led me to be the more tired version
019for them than uh than they deserve but they've always handled that with such grace and i'm so grateful last but not least two very important people mom and dad and without them there would be no me so they've instilled that strong work ethic and that passion to make a difference in what i do and in case you haven't been to jerry thomas we're quite a unique campus but we're filled with amazing students and staff so i'm so humbled to serve the jerry thomas community in a new capacity and the tiger family has always been so supportive of me and our shared passion for the students we serve thank you and finally ms shonda garvenshaw new principal of coral sunset elementary good evening chairman barbieri vice chairwoman brill school board members and dr fennoy i would
020like to start off by thanking dr fenoy and mr tierney for this incredible opportunity a thank you to dr lacada for bringing me with him to the mighty south as a member of his team a heartfelt thank you to mrs wyatt for coaching and mentoring me and allowing me to take part in her leadership and planning meetings this has been an integral part in preparing me for the role of an elementary principal i can't forget my family who has supported and encouraged me on this leadership journey i appreciate and love you i am excited for this next step in my journey as i truly have a passion for educating students i look forward to joining the amazing coral set family as it is truly a hidden gem i am honored and blessed to call myself
021a dolphin i can't wait to dig in and get started thank you mr chairman that concludes my comments at this time thank you mr superintendent board member comments start with mrs mcquinn none miss ayala thank you mr chairman really quickly i just wanted to take a minute to congratulate two of the um schools in district two for winning a student video contest under the international spanish academy programming berkshire and elementary school just won first place for their video contest about confusion and linguistics and okihili middle received the third place prize for discussing um bilingual strategies and i just think these programs do so much for the enrichment of our students in our communities so i wanted to give them a congrats and give their instructors a congrats and i'm sure that they know how much
022we value the relationship we have with the embassy of spain and these programs that enrich our students lives thank you thank you thank you miss michelle mrs whitfield thank you i just want to say a quick thank you to all the teachers who chose to work during summer school i feel like we asked a lot of you this year and we asked even more giving you such a short summer and so for you to take that time and give it to your students i think we really need to we owe you a debt of gratitude for taking your time to do that for us and for the students secondly i want to thank dr fenoy for his work formally i think you know the the year has been very tough if i said a bunch
023of times and i just want to thank you for your service to the students and to palm beach county and i'm so glad that you're going to continue to live here i think that's a wonderful thing and finally to everyone who has expressed interest in being an interim for this school district it actually fills my heart with a lot of hope that there are so many people who are interested in this position and for serving the students of palm beach county even though we're going through i think some of the most difficult times in the history of the school district to have you be interested in standing up for our students just means the world to me and i just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who is willing to do this
024work during this time thank you mrs whitfield mrs andrews thank you and good afternoon to everyone and i too want to thank the students who attended this summer accelerated programs it's been a long year but the students you came and you did the unfinished learning and i am just so proud of you and i thank you for sticking with it and getting it done i also am so excited because tomorrow i'll be at the south florida fairgrounds to congratulate all of the graduating seniors i will be there to witness you as you receive your diploma i'm just so excited students because we are finishing up a year that's been pretty tough for all of us but you hung in there students and you made it happen so congratulations to the graduates and i want to
025thank all of the schools the principals the teachers the staff the bus drivers the custodians everybody you've been there the whole year and you did it this summer too to take care of all the children now they'll have a few days off so that they can get ready to start school and lastly i'm excited because we are going to open our schools very soon but teachers on august 4th and august 10th for the children and this weekend i'm going to be out there out in the community passing out backpacks passing out school supplies through the drive through and waving at parents as they tell me we're ready to get our kids back in school fully and so i want to say to all of the the donors who donated our school supplies and our backpacks
026thank you to you and thank you to the children because we're gearing up for you to get back in school and start a normal year thank you thank you mr sanders dr robinson vice chairwoman brill thank you so i just want to take a moment out to thank everybody out in the public who has called and has emailed us i know i probably don't only speak for myself but it would be humanly impossible to answer all the emails but i want to let all of you know that i read them and that i get your messages from the board office and we know that we're not going to be able to please everybody but i get it um people say to me how do you sit up there and listen to such diverse opinions and
027i say because i'm listening to the mama and papa bears i was one and there's no one more important to us than our children so i just want to say thank you so much and i will be with you mrs andrews in my happy place congratulating the the graduates from summer school tomorrow you know it's been tough and for those students that had to put the extra time in to graduate i have to say that it's all the more special and so we will be there tomorrow to applaud you thank you very much thank you miss bro i want to take the opportunity to thank the superintendent and his chief operating officer ms paul um there was an inquiry from the press as to the construction of both verdi k-12 and addison meisner as to
028whether or not they came in on budget and i was advised that both schools were under board approved or were constructed under board approved budgets and within-state doe cost per student station requirements the verde project returned about nine hundred thousand dollars after reconciliation and while construction is just completing at addison miser it is expected that there will be a return a portion of the addison meisner budget as well so thank you mr superintendent and chief operating officer juan de paul for getting those two schools in my district built under budget and and doing a great job and getting them done on time i also want to thank board members my chairman's reports there but one thing i want to point out is i had the opportunity of course to meet with with the hr dr
029lacava and mr mitchell as well as mrs bernard and mr littlejohn on monday to to organize all the materials they had organized all the materials that you all asked for last week and went over with them with me uh on monday so i want to thank them for putting all that information together for us so we had it today for our board meeting academic advisory committee there's no one here for that construction oversight review committee there's an attached report from cork we have no reports from the district diversity and equity committee we do pardon me here is charmaine postal here okay general console do you have anything to report nothing to report this week inspector general michael nothing to report right that'll take this to the speaking portion from the community we have uh elected
030officials and and uh and delegates uh president gorillas president ceo of the uh of our education foundation would you please come up to the podium can't see you around the corner back there i was looking for my clock here good evening chairman barbieri members of the school board and dr fenoy let me just say this very briefly doc if you think it's challenging to resign from the school in a school district try and step down from the education foundation board we're not letting you go doc i will hunt you down i want to share with you tonight uh two programs that are in our pipeline i'm going to speak about the go teach and also our backpack initiative the unstoppable force in palm beach county are the teachers i'm so glad justin is here tonight
031with the teachers union i am pleased to tell you tonight members of the school board that we have received 143 applications for go teach grants this is double what we had last year and it's our goal to fund almost every one of them so huge kudos to our amazing teachers who are applying for these go teach grants help us get the word out we will be accepting applications all the way through friday i want to thank the incredible judges our business leaders who help us score those grants and let me just say this to my scoring partner for the last couple years the pride of palm beach gardens artie faulk artie has asked not not to grade this year he's uh just working on his health and artie we love you get well get back
032in the saddle and i expect you to be my grading partner next year artie i will never let you go as well so we want to thank all of our business partners who help us grade those 143 applications i often share with you chairman barbieri that i could be replaced by a trained squirrel but the team of the ed foundation are the ones who make the magic happen it's my pleasure tonight to turn over the last two and a half minutes of this time to our chief engagement officer who will be speaking about the backpack initiative ladies and gentlemen ms teresa dabrowski hi good evening so it's the first day of school you're a student you're walking into your classroom you're meeting your new teacher seeing old new friends seeing the desks that you'll be
033sitting at but you realize that you don't have the essential school supplies ready to start the school year for the past two years your education foundation has supplied and provided 5000 backpacks per year to the students throughout palm beach county thanks to the business business community who supports education and that's why tonight we're proud to announce that we will be distributing 6 500 backpacks to students throughout palm beach county thanks to those business partners such as the palm beach county sheriff's office c kenneth and laura baxter foundation u.s sugar pratt and whitney white's ncci ventu's charitable foundation carrier moss jazeera net group united healthcare isafski family foundation bni contractors multi-parts nai marin hunter codman so thank you to these partners who have made this happen and also to office depot who is adopting two additional
034schools through their start proud program and we're so we're reaching more students more schools more teachers thanks to our business partners so some of you may be asking how to help or how to get involved and i know marcia andrews you're a huge supporter of our warehouse and volunteering so we definitely need volunteers folks we have 6500 backpacks to pack so if you're interested in volunteering if you're interested in holding a school supply drive at your business or in your community you can always make a monetary donation for every 25 raised we give a student a backpack filled with those essential school supplies like markers crazy racers notebooks you name it and you can even adopt a school so to find out ways of how you can get involved you can text backpacks pbc that's
035backpackspbc2414444 or also visit our website thank you so much at this just in us sugar has thrown their lot in with the backpack initiative we are your education foundation serving the schools teachers and students and the best school district in the state of florida thank you chairman barbarian members of the school board and dr fenoy thank you very much for all you do for us thank you chuck ridley the chairman of the coalition for black student achievement please come up to the podium good evening superintendent board chair school board my name is chuck ridley and i have the privilege of being the chair of the coalition for black student achievement for those who don't know us our mission is in our name the coalition has been in existence for over 23 years and have partnered
036with the school district for that same amount of time we worked to remove systemic barriers to academic success for black children and it was the coalition that partnered with this school district to build the first academic strategic plan and we did this with you back in 1999. in those 23 years we've seen several changes we're seeing changes in superintendents we've seen changes on your senior staff and middle management and occasionally not often enough in my opinion we've seen changes in school board seats but what we have not seen changes in is or to the extent required is the academic success of black children i want to lift this up because the district continues to be resilient resistant against black excellence for students we need more than words from you we need more than promises from
037you we need more than declarations that you are awake we need to see the lives of children change and with that stated with the selection of the interim superintendent the coalition is making the following demands select yes man select an interim or interim superintendent before the school district begins the interim needs to be someone that has a track record of focusing on children particularly black children and will take care of the needs of those children and finally the next superintendent when you get there should also have someone with a proven track record of leading this kind of work we have covet on the outskirts it is coming back we have lots to work on we have jim crow segregation that is still a legacy that lives and we need you to work diligently to make
038this happen now superintendent for north you know i would love to do the rattler chant right here you will be accused a lot will be said about you some good some bad that's just the way that is but i want you to go into this world and make your mark and wherever you land you let everyone know in the words of dr frederick humphrey that rattles will strike and strike and strike again peace out [Applause] the other two speakers we have are dr carlos diaz the acting chair of the hispanic education coalition and laura feldman president of the palm beach county pta ptsa and they are recorded would it please play those two recordings good afternoon superintendent fenoy and members of the board i'm dr carlos diaz acting chair of the hispanic education coalition and
039professor emeritus at florida atlantic university first i apologize for not addressing you in person but there are some health issues in my family that do not yet allow me to do so heck would like to thank miss ayala for placing the topic of the nyu study on the board's agenda today we would also like to thank mr barbieri miss whitfield dr robinson miss brill and miss anders who all supported conducting the original study i've prepared a synthesis and analysis of the study which i hope all of you have had a chance to peruse the findings of the study are significant because they were arrived at by an outside group with no specific interests within the district they're important today because many of the concerns raised by the study still remain as the current strategic process
040uh goes forward heck would like to implore that the district not lose sight of the nyu study findings and recommendations we should be able to answer the question how many of the study's findings and recommendations have we addressed and how well have we addressed them if we had chosen to bypass some findings in the study why is this so we should maintain accountability for the study's findings or else all that effort and expense was for naught as this district moves forward to a new area of leadership the hispanic education coalition stands as a partner with the board and the district administration to address macro and micro issues facing our schools good school policy depends on understanding the underlying research in education heck is available to consult with the administration and board to help craft practices
041which bring the most equitable education not just for hispanic students but for all students heck will reach out to you please feel equally free to reach out to us thank you for your time good evening chairman barbieri school board members dr fenoy and staff my name is laura fellman i am honored to speak with you tonight as the president of palm beach county council of pta's ptsas and since jen martinez florida pta president is in orlando at the teacher of the year celebration she's unable to join the meeting tonight she asked me to send her regards and express her appreciation of your efforts on behalf of all children and your continued support for tta thank you so much this past weekend florida pta held its first hybrid leadership convention online and in person this was
042a fantastic information-filled event where pta provided training and inspiration for our volunteers two highlights of the convention were brian knowles keynote speech and his presentation at the decolonizing teaching and learning creating truly inclusive learning environments for all students workshop during the convention our delegates resoundingly approved three resolutions broadening florida ptas and its constituent association advocacy platform the first resolution infant and maternal mortality and its connection to racism empowers ptas to advocate for policies programs trainings and curriculum and standards changes for all students from preschool through post-secondary programs to reduce the mortality graph mortality gap between race and ethnic groups the second resolution the school-to-prison pipeline empowers ptas for to advocate for effective research-based programs and policies to reduce and eliminate the pipeline and to strengthen the relationships between students school and district personnel families and
043communities that will support student successes and equitable access to education and career opportunities our third resolution learning loss was an amendment to our previous resolution summer learning loss these changes were made to take into account learning loss for other reasons such as difficulties through the than just the summer time frame palm beach county council of pta's ptsa looks forward to continue our partnership with the school board and schools and advocating on these issues palm beach county council is also getting ready for the new school year on august 3rd we will hold a virtual meeting for local unit presidents and we will hold an in-person training and meeting for all local unit board members on august 23rd for more information about these please contact leadership.pdc gmail.com thank you so much and have a good evening all
044right we'll start with the agenda topic speakers we have 43 approximately two hours of listening to you all so we we we appreciate the fact that you came here tonight but please watch the clock so we can get through this we have a full agenda after you're done speaking this evening so i'll call you three at a time if you'd come up to the podium in whatever order you get there just state your name for the record and again watch the clock please i'll start with jane suenko dr david simori and karen moran good evening thank you board members for your time energy and caring for the children of palm beach county i am dr david samore i have the privilege and honor to have worked for the school district of palm beach county for
04535 years ladies and gentlemen as of august 2016 in this very board room i sat with over 200 of my fellow principals and school administrators and listened to the final report of the nyu educational equity audit the district paid over three hundred thousand dollars for this audit tonight's agenda includes this item and begs the question what organizational and systematic improvements has the school district of palm beach county made in light of the findings of the 2016 educational equity audit i'll tell you the audit has been almost entirely ignored tonight i'm here to advocate for all children in the school district of palm beach county i had the honor and privilege to serve as a school administrator for the 35 years i mentioned and most of those years were spent proudly and closely working with thousands
046of children and their families who some might call the disenfranchised or the unempowered of course i'm referring to non-white population in our school district which is the majority of our school children now a study looks at a situation and then describes that situation an audit finds problems and then directs you to fix them the 2016 educational equity audit was an audit it was not a study now i know what an audit is each year my school had an audit for our school finances and it lasted for days it was thorough it was detailed and like the nyu audit which you guys paid 300 000 dollars for had findings now what were the findings i and every other principal in the district were compelled to immediately address the findings we had and correct them and we
047were threatened with our jobs if we did not we didn't have the choice to sweep them under the carpet and ignore the difficult truths as our district administration has done here with the equity audit i have described now why should this audit be treated differently is it because it recommends changes that are overdue and reveal our commitment to the status quo or is it because we have ignored the disenfranchised and the unempowered for so many years that doing the same for more years is acceptable ladies and gentlemen it is not acceptable it is my fervent belief that all children have dreams and they have vast potential i also believe that many of our district's children have their dreams and their potential severely limited or even crushed by the way they are treated by some of
048the very educators who declare their belief all children can learn yet our practices tell another story i'm confident that addressing the audits findings in a transparent and meaningful way will benefit all of palm beach county and take seriously the adage k-12 education is not good enough for anyone until it is good enough for everyone dr samurai you i don't have a clock here i'm finished thank you very much you paid for it with your pocketbook please now pay for it with your actions thank you very much good evening my name is jane swanko and i'm with the atlantic high school football program i'm a volunteer there specifically to the atlantic football team i have been asked by mrs ocampo to be on the transitioning team with her and head coach tj to make sure that
049our seniors graduate and go to college i am here on behalf of her because i am absolutely astonished astonished that you did not reinstate her contract i have worked with her for five years and at no time did i ever ever hear any kind of a racist remark what upsets me more than anything is that based on my work i'm a volunteer i'm there probably 10 to 20 hours a week helping these young men to get to college and i'm proud to tell you this year this year out of 27 graduated seniors 17 earned football scholarships four of them academic scholarships with it all of them went to college 63 percent of first generation students and you all let her go in addition to that delray beach contributes 300 000 to this program they support
050what goes on at this school i support everything about it and these young men who wanted to be here can't because they're in college they're doing what the naacp says we need to do for our kids they need to graduate they need to go to college and become a part of society and feel wanted and loved and that is our main goal at this program i am most disturbed by a letter that i received by david wiggins and i sent all of you a copy of that that i with my full disclosure on everything i phoned all of you yesterday i spoke to miss whitfield she was kind enough to call but she said you all did an investigation of which mrs ocampo knows nothing about i'm looking at this letter i'm my background is
051in investigative reporting and it didn't look right to me so i investigated this letter and i see that david wiggins i asked around in the community nobody knows mr wiggins if you go to atlantic high school they know who i am in addition to what i'm telling you on the football team also know it is the only program in the united states of america that boasts the numbers that we have with 100 graduation attendance at college and they won the championship also at the school mrs ocampo has graduated 97 percent of her students in a coveted year where she had to make wellness calls and get those kids to graduate she is number one in palm beach county at this size school and you don't reinstate her contract this makes no sense to me mr
052wiggins sends you a letter you don't investigate this these are lies that are in this letter and you unilaterally made a decision without talking to the community in delray beach about what is going on at that school you met with people that don't even participate at atlantic high school why didn't anybody call me or the many others who are supporting this in the 300 000 that they support with this program our summer program alone seventy one thousand dollars and i urge you to reconsider please reconsider what you have done with mrs ocampo thank you mr swinkle hello my name is karen moran i want to thank you for your time this evening i am a mother of three and a grandmother of eight i care about the physical and emotional health of children in the
053founding documents of our country our forefathers stated that mankind including men women and children are created equal and are given by their creator to have rights which are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our pursuit we must have truth with god there's no such thing as your opinion there's only truth two plus two will always be four even if you say it is not as we go forward with all these hot button issues i ask that you pursue truth i personally have sometimes the truth is hard to find because of cancer culture and censoring and deleting information that people need to make correct decisions you may want to write down some of these things and search out information through the search engine go and through rumble.com some of what i found is that
054mass are unhealthy diseased and simply did not work dr jim meehan says wearing mass makes healthy people sick and does not help to prevent the spread of covet 19. a study at the university of florida said basically the same thing cover 19 is treatable without the shot and can be treated with three different medications proven to be affected which are ivermectin hydrochloroquine and budesinine dr richard bartlett interviewed on newsmac has treated over a thousand plus patients with zero deaths my own doctor has treated over a thousand patients with a hundred percent recovery if you cannot find a local doctor that will prescribe for you some of these medications you can go to america's frontlinedoctors.com the pcr tests are falsely calibrated npr reported that cdc knew the pcr tests were flawed but released them anyway lastly
055i would like to see our school district concentrate on healthy reading writing and math there are some very unhealthy and unwholesome material in our schools that parents want to see removed from our textbooks and even courses that need to be removed the school board is elected to serve the desires of the parents and those who elected them and not personal interests and hidden agendas we need a course correction parents know what is best for their children and they do not want their children for sped objectionable material let us teach real truth and not the opinions of a small minority in this time of transition there needs to be unity to go forward in a healthy way a house divided against itself cannot stand please listen to the parents and the other concerned citizens and let
056us again have one nation under god with liberty and justice for all thank you [Music] amanda lipke amanda lipke jennifer showalter and kara holt i'm amanda lipke i first want to start by saying that i am not anti-mask i am mass choice i think there is a big difference all of the people here just want the basic right to parent their child if you would like to wear a mask or mask your child that is your right but you don't have the right to force that on my child especially given the data you will hear a lot of support data for this today and we have exhausted the board with support data for this simple request of mass choice for the past eight months i want to point out most of what you will hear
057to support mass choice is actual science and data not opinion case studies real account real accounts found toxins and pathogens and mass etc by medical professionals and doctors this isn't compared to the latest and past announcements that are merely recommendations no case studies attached no new news no wild discovery that changes everything so we should all mask up just a recommendation by select doctors that are generously generously funded by pharma and the government so this is my question if we have additional cases not deaths and by the way florida does not test for the delta variant so we haven't we do not have those numbers and we mask the children because they are not yet vaccinated then i ask this mainly to dr robinson when are they allowed to take the masks off when the
058numbers go down well the numbers went down in the summer and you didn't take the maths off summer school camps and graduations still had mass when they are vaccinated does this mean you will force vaccinations when available we quarantine segregation we all know that will not go over well are we going to turn into france not allowed at the grocery store to get food until vaccinated or australia lock down because cases cases go up and they have three new coping desks all people over the age of 75. am i the only one excuse me who thinks this sounds completely upside down forcing vaccination for a virus you have to take a test to know if you even have it and you have a 99 percent recovery rate i am not anti-vaxx but i do think
059it should be a choice especially for children who are not at risk dr robinson i do not know why you brought this up again for this meeting i just think the negativity the racism the infighting with this board should be more of your priority your schedule seems to be too busy with speaking engagements on whitelash with the democratic alliance which is a strong negative reaction by white people against the success and achievements of black people which i don't know what world you're living in this just seems so crazy to me yeah you belittle your fellow board members and the strategy team with your doctor title but you don't read any of the math data or science please keep it matt's choice this is liberty time's up thank you [Applause] after jennifer showalter and carol holt
060the next three would be cindy falco greg coleman delhi and lisa silva good evening my name is kara holt and i am an attorney and mother of two young children at addison meisner school in boca raton thank you for allowing us to speak today the superintendent's reopening plan is grossly inadequate to protect our unvaccinated children and staff from covid19 and that's obvious right given the fact that no medical experts were consulted to help create the plan when the superintendent was asked what medical people weighed in on the reopening plan he replied quote no medical people just our team end quote i am bitterly disappointed with this plan too as of today there is no mandatory masking no mandatory distancing no outdoor lunches or hepa filters in classrooms there is no comfort that elementary school teachers
061who will spend six hours a day indoors with our children potentially less than three feet apart will be vaccinated or masked and there are no district specific virtual learning options just this week the american academy of pediatrics has stated that all individuals should wear masks in school this fall even if they are vaccinated masking is a simple safe cheap intervention that saves lives why are you going against the science and the trusted medical experts when it comes to the health and safety of our children isn't protecting the children and staff more important than quieting the noise dr fenoy your may 13th email suspending the mask mandate stated it is important to note that if health conditions deteriorate and this decision is no longer viable i reserve the authority to change course you went on to
062say that you cannot overstate that the health and safety of our students and staff is your top priority and will always guide your decision making well health conditions have deteriorated very much so in fact due in large part to the highly contagious delta variant our positivity rate is over 11 percent cases have nearly doubled in florida over the past week and there's a 436 percent increase since last month and florida is now powering the ryzen infections nationwide with 20 percent of cases coming from florida you must change course if you meant what you said in that email and the health and safety of your students and staff is your top priority and will always guide your decision making the reopening plan would contain multiple safety measures experts recommend multiple safety measures because no one safety
063measure is perfect and no one safety measure alone can stop the spread this is basic risk management thank you cindy falco i'd like to say a prayer before i start dear heavenly father god i just come against every principality and power that would exalt itself above you father i ask that you give the people ears to hear and eyes to see and an action in their belly of fire in their belly to stand true to our declaration of independence and our unliable rights and that every person sitting on that diet father god that they can no longer lie to the people that only truth will be spoken father you are the way the truth and the life and i give you the glory honor and praise in jesus mighty name amen so many countries look
064to the united states because of our bill of rights our declaration of independence and our unliable rights which gives us our individual freedoms people like many americans citizens of australia canada france england and other countries are rebelling against further lockdowns and forced inoculations especially for their children americans are not the only ones being told what to do by government agencies who think they know what's best for us this is just not american no one wants to be sick but our government wants us to be putting our faith into a experimental biochemical weapon that they call a vaccine why do they call it a vaccine well i'm glad you asked it is because it is the only way they can distribute this evil technology into our bodies but this is no vaccine a vaccine does not
065have a patent number on it but this one does so what does that actually mean having a patent number put into your body under the guise of a vaccine that means somebody else owns you you put their part in your body and you volunteered it let's look at what's actually in the vaccine a so-called vaccine a study was done yes a study was done and here are the ingredients and i encourage you to please look these up for yourselves just don't take my word latex aluminum aborted fetal cells formaldehyde mercury polysorbate 80 and and i highly encourage you to please do your due diligence you can go to learntherist.org again go to duckduckgo as you heard before because google will not bring it up so go to learntherist.org so what do we know here are
066some facts that recently just came out 45 000 people in california in three days who took this so-called vaccine which is a biochemical warfare died people are getting coveted because of taking that biochemical weapon miscarriages unnatural periods blood clots heart failures and other neurological and physical problems this is a fact please look them up for yourself i have no gang to lie to you i here to come here today to tell you the truth and parents especially to you because you don't have to ask the school to unmask your children you have the right to unmask your children you have the right to not vaccinate your children and you should be not conforming to any of it um before i begin i'm going to give you a copy of my speech along with the latest
067affairs report and also a copy of the lawsuit against the department of health and human services and there's also the flow chart that has the citizens students and parents of palm beach county at the top of your organizational chart i'm jen schulter here to discuss reopening schools we demand a permanent ban on mask mandates we demand choice we presented thousands of scientific references on the evidentiary science that proves that that mass don't prevent the spread of covid but actually do short and long-term damage the fl also about the florida judicial declaring you can't reinstate mass mandates the university of florida's mask research findings we also pointed out your hypocrisy of not wearing mass at the fsba conference i asked you in may to provide me your data on mask effectiveness and safety i'm still waiting
068there's no need for them a recent study showed on 900 000 north carolina students only 23 cases of covid a nebraska study of 20 000 showed only two cases you want covid tests tests are a joke a french study showed 35 cycles has a false positive rate as high as 97 percent pcr tests in the us run at 35 to 45. it picks up dead nucleotides not the infection basically a can of coke contests positive you hint at requiring vaccines but why most age groups have a 99.98 recovery rate and for the under 18 that also means without any treatments the kids are safe and always have been and don't pull a dc on us they got handed multiple lawsuits for allowing kids 11 and under to get vaccinated without parental consent or knowledge but
069let's put this in perspective 331 total kids nationwide died of covet over 670 died from pneumonia two thousand from car crashes one thousand from drowning did you know that cdc director walinsky when recently before congress was asked how many of the kids who died of covid had pre-existing conditions and she said she didn't know yet she's pushing vaccines without knowing how healthy children are affected by covid you implicitly entrust the cdc but they make up their own rules wear the mask don't wear the mask now you have to wear the mask even if you're vaccinated they're fallible admitting to counting 80 000 florida pneumonia and flu cases as covid they flip-flopped on the link to heart inflammation with vaccines merck j j and pfizer fund the cdc and the american academy of pediatrics connect the
070dots i sent you a copy of the lawsuit against the department of health and human services a cdc computer programmer gave a sworn affidavit showing that there are at least 45 000 actual vares covid vaccine deaths theirs which accounts for about one percent of actual vaccine injuries is currently reporting four hundred and sixty four thousand reactions with almost eleven thousand deaths thirty one thousand hospitalizations sixty thousand urgent care almost twenty thousand severe allergic reactions fourteen thousand blood clots four thousand heart attacks and more vaccines aren't safe mass are useless the numbers prove it we have a right to choose and we will not comply with any mandates [Applause] good evening board members my name is lisa silva and i'm the mother of a gifted first grader at addison meisner i'm here in front of you
071today to thank you for the your efforts to try and make is that better yes okay thank you to try and make the superintendent's completely deficient school reopening plan something that may protect our children i'm here tonight because i don't want my son alexander to be one of the hundreds of children who have died of covid i'm here to protect him like all good parents would want for their children i know many of you are the parents or grandparents of young unvaccinated children who have not yet had the opportunity to be vaccinated when vaccinations are available hopefully late fall my son will be one who receives one he is high risk he has a birth defect and i'm gonna make sure he gets vaccinated that is a personal choice but until then sending our children
072unmasked unprotected unvaccinated to school sitting next to other unmasked children is not fair is not right that's not protection the cdc and this week the american academy of pediatrics made clear that unvaccinated children should wear mass in school you need to follow the experts you need to follow the doctors the epidemiologists don't follow the loud voices of uneducated people do what's right and follow ladies and gentlemen you will act civilly or i'll have the room cleared no more continuing what's happening in florida today these are not my words these are the recent headlines just from the past several days tampa bay times reported on monday florida now leads the nation in coronavirus cases with its biggest spike since last summer miami herald on monday rapid rise in covid patients leads florida hospitals to limit visitors
073prepare for worst in a news article and this one's my favorite from yesterday's washington post the reporter observed that the studies trying to debunk mass have been shown quote to be completely flawed in fact a study that claimed mass could harm children by forcing them to breathe carbon dioxide was retracted by its authors four days ago why because it was inherently flawed and the scientific methodology was completely lacking these are the studies that these people have been relying upon that their own authors acknowledge are lacking in science this is my favorite article because it shows why it's so important for all children to wear masks in yesterday's palm beach post and the florida today newspaper an article was reported that 11 students tested positive for covid19 at viera elementary summer camp and an unknown number
074could be potentially up to a hundred are quarantined after mass were made optional the parent of one sickened student mr hosey said the situation worries him because his own son always wore a mask time is up thank you for your time thank you for your efforts the next three speakers after mr coleman deli is megan bell dr melissa kivitz cantro i'm sorry mispronounced that kansasarow and emily bailoff members of the members of the palm beach county school board dr fenoy thank you for letting me be here my name is greg chumley i'm a parent of a fifth grader and an eighth grader in the palm beach county school district i was educated as an engineer and a time to perform statistical research in my job thus while i'm familiar with the scientific method and statistical
075analysis i am not an infectious disease expert i am however passionate about children in education and had even participated in the palm beach school district adoption review boards for both math science and language arts now this may sound melodramatic melodramatic but our country's government was designed to secure its citizens inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness we must never forget this as we implement rules regulations and laws from the local to the federal levels we are not a country founded on unrestricted freedom for if we were we'd live in anarchy with people free to do anything they desire without any regard for the consequences to others instead our society has rules designed to protect the lives liberties and pursuits of happiness of all our citizens sometimes at the cost of individual convenience
076or preference we especially do this for to protect our children we don't prevent child labor even though it might profitable be profitable to some businesses we don't allow smoking in our classrooms even though some individuals would enjoy it we limit traffic speed past our schools even though it inconveniences drivers and we now lock our schools even though it delays parents dropping off forgotten luncheons we enforce these rules to protect our children even when a vocal crowd doesn't agree with them we know that covet 19 presents serious health risks to people of all ages we know that it is highly contagious in enclosed areas we know that the combination of masks distancing and vaccinations dramatically reduces its transmission after the past 18 months there is no respectable scientific or statistical doubt about these statements i understand
077that masks can be uncomfortable and the people especially kids don't enjoy wearing them but so are seat belts and car seats yet we require our children to buckle up we do this because our children are precious and it is our responsibility to protect their rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness we cannot yet vaccinate children younger than 12 against coven 19 thus it is irresponsible reprehensible and possibly criminal not to require masks and social distancing in classrooms until those kids can be protected by a vaccine there is no question that our children's health and lives are more important than minor discomfort the palm beach county school district is obligated to provide our children with a safe and healthy learning environment the district will fail that obligation if it allows unvaccinated students to attend
078class without wearing masks [Music] okay good evening and thank you to the board for giving us the opportunity to speak here today on such an important time sensitive issue my name is melissa kivitz krantzow and i'm a pediatric emergency medicine physician as well as the mother of three young children my oldest daughter is supposed to start first grade at addison meisner in a few short weeks it is no secret that cases of covet and florida are rapidly increasing largely thanks to the delta variant which is 200 percent more transmissible palm beach county's positivity rate is now at 12 and rapidly rising things are getting worse more people are getting sick more kids are getting sick i can assure you first hand i am seeing more and more sick children with covid and more children with
079positive covet exposures and i can also assure you kids can get seriously ill with covet or have long-term complications if your child got sick i would take care of them and use everything i possibly could in my medical arsenal to get them back to health why because i took an oath as a physician to help people similarly in your jobs you have promised to provide a safe environment for all of our children and to use everything in your arsenal to keep them safe this reopening plan does not align with a safe environment the american academy of pediatrics stated as of this week they unequivocally advocate for universal masking of all students teachers and staff in all schools regardless of vaccination status and let me be clear i support in-person learning for children i know there
080are many children including my own daughter who for various reasons struggle with virtual learning but how can we be expected to send our children back to in-person school when there is a blatant disregard for their health and for the recommendations put forth by health organizations in this day and age of misinformation there are loud voices expressing their opinions everywhere and sometimes these voices can cause damage even if they're not grounded in science just recently there was an unfortunate article published in a medical journal using completely flawed science and stated that masking caused toxic levels of carbon dioxide in children it was retracted shortly thereafter because of completely flawed methods data and conclusions but with social media now being a primary source of information sharing there is a platform for anyone to make any claim whether
081it's true or not and people may become confused however if you listen to the health experts the physicians the trusted medical organizations it offers clarity the science is clear the evidence is clear universal masking is effective and safe what is not clear is why palm beach county district is going against the science and recommendations by the cdc and american academy of pediatrics when it comes to the health and safety of our children presenting masking as a personal choice discredits and undermines decades of work done by scientists and public health experts it undermines your work that you do every day in making decisions to keep our children safe please we worked so hard to keep our children safe let's continue to do so [Applause] megan bell emily bailoff allison ramper said good evening thank you for
082allowing us to speak to you on such an important topic um as masking tonight my name is emily bailoff i am the mother of twin eight-year-old girls who are returning to in-person instruction after 16 months in light of the highly contagious delta variant and the reports of a 500 percent increase in positive case numbers in florida i called their school and asked what mitigation measures are going to be taken to help prevent our kids from getting a clovid infection the response the only thing you can do as a parent is make sure your kids wear their masks our hands are tied by the school board's decision to make masks optional as directed by the florida department of education it doesn't matter that elementary school children like mine are not yet eligible to be vaccinated forget
083the reports from chief medical officers working in hospitals around the country who have been clear in stating that 99 percent of covet icu admissions are unvaccinated and younger and that florida's case numbers have doubled over each of the last two weeks now accounting for one in five clova cases reported in the united states there are no plans to create mast only classrooms or to have outdoor lunches zero reassurance that my daughter's elementary school teachers potentially standing less than three feet away from our children roughly for eight hours each day in poorly ventilated classrooms filled to capacity will be vaccinated or masked and there will be no district specific virtual learning options all of this while the american academy of pediatrics and cdc are clear in recommending universal masking in schools despite vaccination status you've said
084repeatedly that the safety of our children is paramount respectfully i'm finding that hard to believe because to me it seems that the threat of reduced state funding political pressure and quieting the noise supersedes preserving the health and well-being of our children [Applause] let me be clear by refusing to mandate all available mitigation measures you're essentially telling our children especially those with pre-existing medical conditions that they are required to get on a boat in the middle of a dangerous storm without providing them with a life jacket you're enabling the selfish reckless individuals in our community at the expense of the safety of our children and community at large while ignoring the rest of us also constituents and all of whom have the right for our children to receive a safe free and appropriate public school education
085it is well past time to stand up to the threats from the governor and from the people making loud noise in this room and reinstate mass mandates in our schools our children need you to be proactive and unwavering with this decision because after almost two years of children sacrificing everything that was once part of a normal child time is up they deserve nothing less than for the grown-ups in charge to ignore the noise and prioritize [Applause] good evening allison rampersad phd palm beach county educator mandates are not laws fines cannot be issued on mandates that are not laws there are medical and religious exemptions on mass mandates please read palm beach county emergency order number 2020-12 pages 4 and 5. florida civil rights act of 1992 chapter 760 where a public accommodation cannot discriminate florida
086statute 760.08 civil rights act of 1964 title two of the u.s civil rights act 42 u.s code statute 2 triple 0 a title 3 of the u.s civil rights act statute 36.208 to insist a person disclose their exemption is a breach of section 29 5 a the equality act of 2010 and to deny entry and or service is a breach of section 13 1 of the equality act of 2010 statutes codes and ordinances are not laws they are guidelines put in place for our public servants who have taken an oath to abide by the constitution executive orders are only for the executive branch of government i.e president and all governmental employees the cdc does not write laws they have no legislation jurisdiction and zero delegated authority emily bailoff amber costa ruby costa and baron costa
087okay good evening my name is amber costa i have two children in palm beach county schools masks don't work so me pulling this up over my nose is ridiculous i have always had a sense of curiosity for the truth which was turbocharged by this pandemic and its effects on society the mere question of anything not fitting a particular narrative is not allowed well that made me want to dig harder and if you lack the same kind of resolve if you can't take the extra time to be sure for sure sure that the advice excuse me i can't breathe in this thing an information you're basing policies on is correct or not then i can't see how you're fit for this position and how can we rely on you to choose a superintendent that will do
088what's best for all the kids of every color race and religion do you have lawyers advising you that your liability is in the spread of covid if so they should be fired because the liability is in the damage that's being done to our children by treating them like dirty prisoners you represent the people and the people are telling you they don't like their children being used as political pawns they are the safest population in regards to covid which has become the greatest humanitarian crisis known to man not because of the actual virus but because of how our representatives have responded to it and the brainwashed people stuck to the boob tube show me one study one that supports your sneaky methods bypassing our governor and state legislators laws that suspended and rescinded covet emergency orders
089by making masks part of your permanent policy how many times do you have to be told that emergency use authorization requires consent i know you're saying you're going to give us a choice this coming year but i actually don't trust you i'm not kind of i'm not sure what kind of law is being broken here but believe me i will find out and in the meantime my children will not be attending your radical liberal indoctrination institutions where you can't help yourselves but still try to sneak divisive critical race theories through the administration and deploy gender identity politics into the classrooms driving good-natured teachers away because they can't bear to be a part of the destruction of our basic fundamentals you are my representative and i say no more so i'm going to need you to
090start representing and put an end to these charades ideology is for families to discuss at home reading writing math history science and not this pseudo garbage you're getting from msnbc is what is to be taught in schools so i want to thank you for showing us exactly who you are and what you're up to so we can protect our children um [Music] hi my name is ruby and i have a brother named baron we go to palm beach county school we both agree math shouldn't be in schools anymore why did you even put math in the permanent policy they're only supposed to be used during an emergency that and that emergency is over plus they don't work and kids don't need them even if they did work because we are the safest group of people
091today i wanted to inform you that i'm your evidence that mass hurt kids and that nobody should be wearing them especially children and one time i had a cough for about a week and guess what caused it a mask you are hurting us and you don't even know it or do you at school multiple times my nose wasn't covered and i was told multiple times to pull my mask back up in my mind i really didn't want to but knew i had to and on pajama day we were playing a game at recess and i was tapping people to be on my team and my teacher told me to sit out for a few minutes because i was tapping people did i give anyone covered because i was tapping them no i'm a bus rider
092back home and after school and even on the bus side door a mask and i'm told to pull it up when i have an offer after a very long day in it other students too when a governor desantis ended mass mandates but guess what i still had to wear one at school and i was very very mad about that especially when other schools didn't have to or literally anyone else in the entire state thankfully it's summer now so i don't have to wear a dumb mask that doesn't even work and some people want to segregate us like this in schools there is a room for people that want to wear a mask and another for people who don't want to wear a mask someone said at the meeting before this which i think is me
093and horrible that they want to bring us back in time [Applause] um my name is barron um i i have some things to say the first thing i'm gonna say max just hurt people they really just do and another thing oh i that basically exposes you i've nev i barely ever wear to mass other than school i've i've never i've never social distance all you're saying is wrong and i know why because i've been doing the exact opposite this whole time look at me i'm fine i'm completely fine and i think it's against the law too it's very long wrong because america is a country of freedom what you're doing is not freedom is america's if it's a freedom of choice and this is not choice all you also all you do is all you
094do is listen to the news and not research it my mom's researched it for probably hours and and she knows a lot about it there's also a bunch of bacteria that stays in your body because a mass blocks it and your body needs to get it out to help you and make sure your body is alive and i and i don't want to hurt everybody i have a lot of friends and everybody's really nice to me and all this all these things that people are doing i know it's wrong and i don't think it's right i i wish people that didn't understand what's going on would understand what's going on right now and how bad this is i hope that this comes goes back to normal and i i can live my life normally but
095until then i will fight even though i'm even though i'm a kid going into fifth grade that doesn't mean i can't fight i am evidence of i'm a kid and i know what's going on that's it i don't know what else nicole francini wolf mike termat alana monis hi i just want to say that young child is amazing and if we have more children like him out there we can change this situation this is out of control i am a parent of a child in palm beach county as well my name is nicole francini wolfe i want the mass policy permanently cancelled there should be no segregation and no discrimination of healthy children this seems to be such hypocritical times no rational parent wants the experimental clot shot with risk for infertility and cardiac events
096this is not for children this is not for people who have a brain something so good shouldn't be forced you will be in violation of hipaa and the ada there are no metrics in place for virus mask or vax no accurate accounting system and let me just say something these people these medical practitioners you know what we have a whole group of people that know where to go to stay away from those type of practitioners you have some nerve do no harm how dare you you seem to be making decisions school board for our children as a one sis one size fits all measure with no medical advice from december 20 to may 21st of this year school is not my child's doctor nor the political guidance for a fifth grader and any other elementary
097school child one final point on mass how are we going to have leaders of tomorrow when we can't even understand each other under these mass you can't even breathe you're totally ruining the english language you need to know that power without consent is a null and void contract we will not comply we will show peaceful non-compliance i want to tell you i appreciate and support your oaths of office and i plan to keep you on task on it but i will recommend to parents to write up their affidavits of harm from this school district regarding these offenses i'd like to know who invited the gates foundation into palm beach county in august of 2019 for the new math curriculum where was the parent input and decision making process on this the master censorship platform of
098facebook by mark zuckerberg through his group zuckerberg finance center for tech and civic life ctcl gave palm beach county 6.8 million dollars in grants with leftover funds to pay for future elections call me alert our country's future is being scared by bought and paid for career politicians and educators have extreme partisan values kevin help us hi my name is mike termat i am a pretty boring guy and i don't have quite the passion that i've heard here tonight i know this is a very tricky issue for a lot of folks i'm not here to beat up on the board i've been in south florida for about 20 years i sent my kids through public schools i worked for a couple years myself in the public schools as a substitute teacher i am a police officer
099i've worked for 11 years on the road in south florida i've met a lot of families who are disturbed by the idea not of masks and not of vaccines but the idea of a vaccine mandate or a mass mandate i am currently the libertarian party candidate in the special congressional race in district 20. and so i hear from a lot of folks with a libertarian point of view but as you might imagine i hear from a lot of folks of all walks of life and i would just consider if if i were sitting where where you are i would consider the fact that while i know you need to feel risk averse and the science is a little bit unsettled right now i you know i personally believe that in the fullness of time we
100will learn that mass do very little to reduce the chances of kids getting sick because the chances of them getting sick is relatively small already but the science is unsettled and i understand that you feel that you have to be a little bit risk averse my phd is in economics it has nothing to do with virology so i'm not going to beat you up on the science but something i do know something about is risk management the idea of weighing costs and benefits and i would suggest that because you all are in charge of running a public school system you're going to have to adopt a little bit of a light touch in terms of the mandates that you promulgate because for most the families in our school district here they really have no choice
101about where they're going to go to school but the choices that they make about their kids health these choices have got to be left to the families and they have to be left to the parents so many families are feeling backed into a corner because these decisions have been politicized you don't need a lecture from somebody like me on red versus blue and how the wearing of mass and vaccines has become become highly politicized you don't need a lecture from me and the mistakes that have been made in communication and some of our decisions in terms of public policy but all this has left parents feeling at a loss trying to make the best decisions they can and when we shove decisions down their throats they really resent it and i think in the fullness
102of time it will be highly regrettable if we force them into a corner and i would just ask you to consider if we made a rule that said that you could not wear a mask and a family wanted to how would we feel about that atlanta monath julie damsker amanda silvestri and amanda jested good evening alana monach master's degree just like the cdc fda who and the un the teachers unions the health care district dr alonzo the american academy of pediatrics do not write laws they have no legislative jurisdiction and zero delegated authority all these agencies sway their opinions whichever way the money blows parents palm beach county residents research teachers unions and connections to cdc research county and school board kafir reports researched the state's rescue plan researched the 40 million dollars for wi-fi
103mesh project for the schools government overreach corruption by local elected officials oath violations teachers unions and other agencies overstepping their roles in jurisdiction is rampant i think the creators of the u.s constitution are rolling in their graves seeing what's happening today but they had faith hope and belief in liberty and freedom for all like many who are here today therefore it's much late but people need to get involved locally first and this is where you live where you raise your children and where you are directly affected by unconstitutional bad actors god created people we the people created the states then created the federal government look at the county and school board organizational charts we the people are on top to force vaccinations to get into school is called hazing that's 10 u.s code 6964. vaccinations
104work as intended to reduce population and genocide of the american people 18 u.s code 1091 and 18 u.s code 2332 a learn the u.s codes because the county and school board are all in violation of many of them our constitution does not give the government authority to shut down our economy read and learn the commerce clause i paraphrase no national emergency can suppress the constitution american jurisprudence 2d section 98 all laws which are repugnant to the constitution are null and void marbury versus madison so any mandate directed policy bill of law that goes against the u.s and florida constitutions are null and void statutes codes and ordinances are not laws they are guidelines put in place for our public servants who have taken an oath to a bye-bye florida constitution article 1 section 1 all
105political power is inherent in the people mandates are not laws they mean nothing where does it say in the constitutions that the school boards unions superintendents have any delegated authority to mandate anything choose curriculums and spend millions on useless and untested wi-fi mesh technology it does and therefore it is a right reserve to we the people our constitution ma'am your time is up time is up julie damsker amanda silvestri and amanda jested amanda silvestri i'm so disappointed to be back here yet again to discuss mass for the new school year mr barbieri said can you just give us 20 days and then we had them for 20 days and then summer school and now here we are again i'm assuming that the article in boca news was mr miss robinson speaking as the senior officer
106who stated that we you will be making science-based decisions and that some of the parents think covet is fake and that we are ignorant i found the interview to be highly unprofessional and insulting to say the least i do not think that covet is fake i know that store-bought masks do not work the virus is small and passes right through them they are not wearing medical grade masks and therefore it is pointless i have an email from the chancellor of public schools i sent it to you but never received a single response this email states that endless research continues to show that staying home when you are sick is the best proven method and the number one mitigation strategy not masks the burden of proof is on you to show us that mass work and
107that they don't cause harm and trust me you can't prove that to us another fact from the chancellor 27 county schools where mask-free last school year and 40 required math data was sent that showed no link between face mask policies and county positivity rates this was also included in my email so dr robinson and board members please know that we are not ignorant and we are very aware of what is going on around us we need to be looking at everything that is out there not fear-mongering news and fear-mongering medical advice from people who watch fear-mongering news and conduct biased fear-based research to put it bluntly dr robinson you are not a covet expert you're not a virologist or a practicing doctor and we don't care about the metrics that you discuss from the research
108that you conducted look around the state other countries didn't wear masks and nothing happened some of these counties actually had better numbers than the mass counties it is common sense we do not need math parents pay close attention to the votes today and mark your calendars for the upcoming elections we need board members that listen to their constituents and make unbiased decisions not based on politics and fear district 7 constituents stand up and run against dr robinson i would like to go on record and say that it has been brought to my attention that dr robinson attended a partisan meeting in a non-partisan position last weekend and focused on white lash which is a backlash by white people against the success and achievements of black people dr robinson white people are not against the success
109of black people and the fact that your mind thinks in this manner shows that you are unfit for that seat i will tell you what i am against i am against people in a position of power who are deliberately trying to divide innocent children 20 years is long enough we need more for our children after julie damsker and amanda justed would be jennifer weiler sean sykes and sean escoffery good evening board amanda jested i am a mother of two elementary aged children in palm beach county school i ask that you establish cobra covid prevention policies that meet our current circumstances as a county cases hospitalizations and deaths are increasing at an alarming rate those of us who have children who are not eligible yet for the vaccine want to have a choice to send our
110children to school safely and we know that their mask wearing alone will not sufficiently protect them please follow the american academy excuse me may i have order please please follow the american academy of pediatrics and cdc guidelines for example please reinstate mandatory masking and social distancing please use air filters and other mitigation measures wherever possible please encourage outdoor lunch and failing that decrease capacity in cafeterias we need to do the best we can for the safety of our children and our community and because several things have been yelled at me including stay home i would like to point out that we as parents who want to keep our children safe want to be able to send them to school in person we want to be able to have that choice and as i said their
111mask alone is not going to protect them in a crowded cafeteria or a crowded classroom where no one else is vaccinated and no one else is wearing a mask so we ask you we implore you to protect our most vulnerable citizens thank you board for your time superintendent i know that this is a very challenging time for all of you as elected officials and i appreciate your service ladies and gentlemen silence school police i can't see who's making the comments in the back of that room would you please escort people out if they don't be quiet over there while people are speaking go ahead sir state your name for the record my name is sean escoffery i have a four-year-old who should be entering the pre-k program at lighthouse elementary in jupiter next month he
112and all the other children who will be at the school are not eligible to be vaccinated so i think one of the most important questions is does the board consider covet 19 to be a threat to district students this is a question that everyone on all sides of the issue want to know the answer to in light of the worsening situation and the rapid increase in community spread i implore the board to develop some guidelines for when mandatory covert 19 mitigation strategies like universal masking will be re-implemented if the board considers kovit 19 to be a threat it's unconscionable that no mandatory mitigation strategies will be implemented for the upcoming school year conversely if the board has deemed covet 19 infections not to be a threat to palm beach county students i beg the board
113to be transparent and to let those of us who fear for our children know that under no circumstances will covet 19 mitigation strategies be mandated then we would be able to decide once and for all whether or not to pull our children out of the system instead of hoping and praying that guidance from the american peo association of pediatrics or the cdc or the worsening situation will make any difference at all please keep the kids safe my name is jennifer weiler and i am a parent as well as former 14-year palm beach county district middle school teacher who resigned just this last june due to the district's current climate i'm standing here before you fully aware that there is nothing i can say or do to change your mind i'm also fully aware that we
114are simply a nuisance to you and you wish we would stop showing up i wish we would too i wish we could but here we are you told us one thing in may yet two months later and nothing has been made official so here are my thoughts first what is our end goal it was the vaccine then the end of school now what we've reached all the goals we quietly stood back and waited for we trusted your word but now you're doing exactly what many of us feared using the clause at finoi could change his decision right before school starting when those of us who would have gone elsewhere are now trapped was this your plan from the start appease us and then change it when we are stuck and you are fully funded what
115is the goal now covet is never going away there will always be another variant and you will never have a hundred percent vaccination rate so what is the end game will my children be masked until they graduate high school second how does it make any sense that the group of people who is least affected and has a hundred percent county survival rate is going to be the only group of people in our county who are forced to be masked our children can go to disney world trampoline park anywhere without a mask except school i know you say you are trying to protect our children but your job is to educate my children it is my job to make sure that they are safe the same kids who would sit in a classroom with the mask
116all day are the same kids who will leave there and go all over the country without one third do you believe vaccinations work do you believe mass work because if you do then vaccinated staff faculty and students will be safe the children whose parents are waiting have the choice to wear a mask when a covid patient gets admitted into a hospital and lays into bed for treatment they are laying there with them are they laying there with a mask on while they are not only positive but symptomatic no they do not the doctors and nurses rely on their masks and their vaccines to protect themselves fourth i know many will argue that it's about protecting the vulnerable but the reality is our society does not cater to sick it's the vulnerable's responsibility to protect themselves
117if a child has a nut allergy even a proven life-threatening one do you ask the entire school not to bring in nuts no there's a separate table in the cafeteria where that child sits if medically necessary otherwise that child knows the importance of protecting themselves around another child who may have something lastly you and i both know you can't legally enforce mass this year the governor has said as much and we are backed by the parents bill of rights forest masking is not constitutional so you will have many of us who don't send our kids with masks you don't have simultaneous teaching to send us home to so how will you accommodate us my children cannot and will not be singled out over this so when you vote tonight i hope you will have a
118backup plan for the thousands of kids who show up without a mask we are all out here raising lions not sheep i just hope you are ready for them take a break my name is sean sykes i have four kids two of which i've pulled from the palm beach county school system i've come a few times you don't listen to anything we say so i figured i should get some comments from children that are in your palm beach county school system fear of punishment shaming and bullying i'm afraid i'll get sent to the principal's office if i get caught with my mask down it's a third grader i don't like wearing my mask all day because i can't breathe my mom tells me i have to listen to my teachers so i don't say anything
119my pe teacher made us run outside with the mask on it it was really hard for me to breathe really hard for me to breathe first grader i feel like something really bad is going to happen if i take take it down even for a second even if it makes me feel like i'm going to pass out fourth grader i can't breathe well keeping it on so so long gives me terrible headaches if i pull it under my nose to breathe for a few minutes my teachers let other students come up and tell me to put it back over my nose nine year old if i take my mask down i'll click i'll get a clip down for bad behavior this is a kindergartener it's too hot and stuffy inside my mask they're gross they
120make me cough and i'm afraid to cough and get in trouble as a third grader it's hard to hear people and listen to what teachers are saying at school and i'm afraid to tell anyone this is a seventh grader all i think about is the mask and all i and if it's on properly because i don't want to get in trouble this is another kindergartener it's hard to hear and it gets hot it wastes a lot of time during school when kids tell each other to pull their masks up it's a fourth grader it's really hard to play outside with mastodon it's really hard to breathe when it's hot outside the masks are itchy and by the end of the day it's really smelly i'm really i'm afraid to take the mask off because i
121don't want to get in trouble it's a fourth grader the mask give me headaches and it's hard to breathe and i can't understand my teacher my teacher also takes points away when we don't wear it on on the way that we're supposed to it's a kindergartener i feel like my i feel like i'm suffocating and if i take my mask down and to breathe everyone will yell at me mommy am i going to jail if i don't wear my mask now those are just a few right obviously there's many and you can contradict them too on the other side you guys do not have an easy job okay you don't either way you're screwed right people are going to be mad over here people are going to be mad over there and i'll tell you
122quickly my sister is in the on the school board for cold snack new jersey so we would get into discussions about why don't you fight to take the masks off and she said well why would i do that and i said well and she said to me she goes well the governor said that we have to keep the mask on that was it that was the state of new jersey that was the law that was the rule that was the way it was they were one of the last states to rescind it so i said well we have a governor that's rescinded it from way back when and she says well you got me there so i ask you why are we not going by what the governor has put forward okay so that's number
123one it's not a it's not a red and blue thing stay out of it okay so that's number one number two in the beginning of this whole covet thing we were told what right stay home save lives right so what do i do now right the ones that are afraid what should they do thank you michelle mitchell and adam lapierre perrier good evening everybody my name is adam lepirier i am a father of one esc student in palm beach county district um i'm here to speak about face mask tonight the bottom line is to keep face mass optional for everyone i support medical freedom and freedom of choice period sign and date that's for pro and and uh and for non-mass wanting parents not wanting to their kids to wear masks we live in the
124united states of america we have the right to choose as parents we know what's best for our children today not a doctor for the whole one size fits all type of thing with all medical interventions come risk and benefits having a speech or special needs and speech impaired five-year-old little girl she's in the prime period of her life to develop her long-term communication psychological and social skills we cannot reverse time i cannot take back the past year and a half that my daughter has suffered because she's not able to see in in and comprehend what people are saying this time this period in her life it is imperative that she can utilize and see the facial expressions of her speech and emotions of other people seeing how others speak is crucial to her progression and
125improvement of her speech it should be up to each individual to decide if their risks outweigh their benefits medical medical is medicine is not one size fits all forced medical devices have no place in free society or even our schools that is not up for the school board to choose the only guidance for mass from the cdc and american academy of pediatrics this is no state or county mandate for anyone that does not know the cdc is not a government body the cdc is an organization that takes money from the bill and melinda gates foundation in the pharmaceutical industry the american academy of pediatrics is funded by pfizer we are taking guidance from the very people that have everything to gain and profit from in this crisis we are in this is not who we
126should be taking our measures from it is a completely and totally one-sided bias that they're that that they're on i also wanted to remind everyone that all four vaccine manufacturers have been convicted of fraud in excess of 30 billion dollars all vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability mean if you are hurt or killed you cannot sued due to the 1986 national child vaccine injury act never is it ever talked about the injuries and deaths that occur from these shots it is actually silenced and that's on a daily basis there are people being silenced for expressing their experience for sole purpose of keeping these superpowers agendas alive there is absolutely zero transparency on this experi experimental vaccine thank you for letting me share before i called him michelle mitchell but before you come up at seven
127o'clock and pursuant to board policy and the agenda we need to take this non-agenda speakers from seven to seven thirty i'm gonna call the non-agenda speakers cindy falco grace greenberg and terry hughes please come up to the podium hello again parents i'm sending this and speaking this to you because you are the ones with the power it is what you say and what you do that will change the dynamics of what is happening you may not know it but you are the bosses of the school board they are your employees so when you have employees and they do not do what they are hired to do what do you do well you've gone to them several times and we gave them an opportunity to correct their wrong which has not been done so the only
128thing left to do is to fire them allow me to give you the permission as per the declaration of independence that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people that is you parents to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely affect their safety and their happiness it is you the parents right it is more than that it is your duty it is your duty as an american to stop these crimes against humanity and your children you're being commissioned by a declaration of independence to abolish and institute new government your children are counting on you you are their protectors you don't ask permission from
129your child to wear a mask uh from the uh from the school board you do not ask for your child to get vaccinated or not get vaccinated it is your duty to say no to these things to happen to your children if they don't leave as we've said your duty to fire them and to abolish this form of government then you do a sit down you do not bring your children back into the school system until you get what you want or we change the guards vote them out for today we fire them you see you have that authority you don't ask the school board questions you are the parent god gave you those children he knows that he entrusted you to protect your children against exactly what's happening now and check out the nuremberg
130code i want you to sue make lawsuits for violating their oaths of office they are in insubordination and they are not upholding the constitution which they took and swore to hold your children will be the difference for the generations to come if you do it now let your children breathe stop suffocating your children it's child abuse and i'm going to tell you again to please step up to the plate do what you need to do you are the parent you have the authority god gave it to you and you have a declaration of independence that's telling you it is your duty to abolish this nonsense now and you should fire every one of them thank you hello my name is grace greenberg the parents bill of rights encourages parental involvement in instructional materials get on
131board and question everything how qualified are teachers to handle the ill effects from the crt equity experiment i taught cultural diversity in college and in business settings you need to be an expert to handle the fallout get on a committee and see firsthand how this material affects students over time you have a right to review curriculum and make changes there should be a complete discussion on history with its culturally devastating flaws and civil liberties that seemed necessary to build a country's infrastructure and that those practices are not condoned today all lives matter every group has suffered in the world deliberately australia started out as a penal colony for slave labor the u.s was built on the premise as a new world without oppression and slavery now how did that work out settlers and armies killed
132indigenous people for their land today it continues with sex and labor slave labor preferential treatment oppressive political poise to keep people poor taxed lied to and angry we don't want that anymore let's not encourage that with crt propaganda i saw a video given to first graders on masturbation how will teachers reinforce learning about the act of touching oneself for pleasure or not exploring someone else's pleasure parts how will teachers prevent interactions with adults whom children may trust on all grade levels who will talk with a parent when a student identifies as transgender and reaches out and his her their psychological dilemma of choosing or thinking they need surgery to be free the suicide rate in the lgbtq community is extremely high this education will not prevent that and how successful have counselors been with despondent
133students and their ability to learn and function after 2021. this new year is a pandora's box parent beware report at these weekly board meetings let us know how your kids are doing a planned state of emergency shall happen very soon across the globe this is a national and global movement unhealthy five genie emf frequencies man-made bio-weapons for depopulation these are conspiracy facts some board members and teachers are sheeple and serve state and federal czars we need to break that and recruit those who stand for common law with the premise to do no harm create a civil society without a barrier and not be told that they are underrepresented or inferior people wake up your children are being mobile to communism and you can't see it because you trust these people why they have sold themselves
134to the devil some good folks have been trapped in this macabre when hope to free them look to the light thank you terry you suzanne bittescomb daniel danielle underwood hi good evening my name is terry hughes i'm a palm beach county resident and proud mother of a daughter who graduated from dreyfuss school of the arts tonight i am going to demonstrate to all of you here that any elected body that functions as a malicious unjust elected body is operating contrary to the proper flow of authority in order to understand a reflected body is operating outside the proper flow of authority you must understand what the proper flow of authority is and in order to understand the proper flow of authority you must understand where your rights come from first and foremost it is critical that
135you understand your rights are natural and they come from your creator your rights do not come from a piece of paper they are not given to you by this elected body of school board members and they are not giving to you by law enforcement and they are certainly not given to you by the cdc your rights come from nature and your creation they come from your creator whoever you believe that might be your nights are natural and each and every one of you are born with them and as you were born with them they cannot be taken away by the cdc or the school board the plot the proper flow of authority begins with god's creation of the heaven and earth and i quote from genesis and god said let us make man in our
136image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over the earth and over every creepeth of the earth so how do i know this i know this because it's in our declaration of independence we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator not by the cdc and not by the school board with certain inalienable rights that among those are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness not the pursuit of safety from covid not the pursuit of safety from vaccinations not the pursuit of equity with critical race theory but the pursuit of happiness and that to secure these rights governments are instituted among them deriving their just powers from
137the consent of the governed not the consent of the cdc not the consent of the teachers unions and not the consent of the school board or our county commissioners but by the consent of you and i i submit to you that this board is at the behest of the all too powerful teachers unions at the expense of our children's education case in point is the trifecta of indoctrination one the teaching of the marxist ideology of critical race theory two force mass mandates and segregation of our unvaccinated children three the perverse curriculum of sex education that comes straight out of the 11-point school 11-point plan to destroy western culture crt is an evil diabolical theory that indoctrinates our children into hating themselves time's up for the color of this time's up ma'am terry hughes suzanne bittescom
138laura depp hope gibson before i start my time i just want to be clear there's this non-agenda item or the agenda item because i'm on both then you called my name and i'm not sure which speak what's your name danielle underwood but i didn't get called before on the agenda items and i'm i don't think i could if you're on the list for agenda we haven't gotten to you yet on that list so this is not here would you say you're up for the non-agenda item i signed up for both i have two different things i'm talking about and i signed up for bolts this is the non-agenda item that you want to speak on currently we're doing non-agenda then all right are you going back to agenda people after okay thank you my name
139is danielle underwood now that everybody's thrown out titles being as i don't know what titles are supposed to mean for people because i think all people are created equal regardless whether they're a doctor or whatever i have a master's degree in education let's just be clear with that with a new school year approaching and students returning to in-person education what have we done to ensure that the esc students will receive the supports and services that they lost in the past year is compensatory education even being looked at what is being put in place for those esc students that are behind in reading dyslexic students seem to be disregarded and overlooked i would like to know what programs if any do we have for dyslexic students do we have any orton gillingham or any scientific research-based
140programs to offer to these students i speak time after time and again as an advocate for special needs kids i asked the sport some really specific questions and yet i never get any responses from anyone no one ever seems interested in addressing me about ese concerns which leads me to believe that you do not care some of you care more about addressing whites versus blacks and so forth when looking at achievement gaps i bet you could care less about special needs kids stop focusing on race and poverty and focus on all students parents wake up and get involved start pulling your students from the public schools until we have a board that is going to work with the best interest of all students remember we do not co-parent with the government pull your kids take
141their funding away then let's get the people to replace those that are up for re-election look into the family empowerment scholarships out there which can help you with alternative school options for your kids outside of this public school system take the power back to the people and get rid of these people in these seats that are not doing just for our kids [Applause] my name is suzanne bittescomb and i'm a resident of palm beach county and i'm a mental health practitioner i want to discuss the access for all wi-fi mesh currently being rolled out in palm beach county i want to be very clear that i do not consent to more wireless facilities being built near or within palm beach county schools nor into any neighborhoods or public spaces in palm beach county further i
142do not consent to any more radiation from wireless facilities impacting any of our neighborhoods schools or public areas in palm beach county and this would occur if this access for all project continues to be rolled out the following information is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge based upon independent researchers who have studied wireless technology wireless technology has been documented to cause radiation sickness the national institute for health spent 10 years and 33 million dollars studying it the results released in 2018 and 2019 prove unequivocally that this technology causes cancer dna changes and a variety of other symptoms most symptoms are neurological in nature and fall in a spectrum on the low end a person may have tingling in their hands or fingers and dizziness for others it is so much worse non-stop
143severe headaches heart palpitations nose bleeds and noise sensitivities with children it is important to understand that they are still developing the bones around their head are thinner and more fragile the blood-brain barrier in children has been shown to be broken broken through due to radiation exposure one of the reason researchers have been able to determine that the symptoms mentioned are due to wireless technology is because when the person turns off their wi-fi the problems disappear so the health safety and welfare of the citizens of palm beach county county is in question without further testing of this technology another key issue are the privacy issues related to wireless technology vast amounts of data can be gathered without the consent of palm beach county citizens where they go what they do who they're with et cetera please
144understand that i accept and appreciate your oath of office or i would not be here today i have expressed substantive information all wireless is in violation of the us fourth amendment all wireless is in violation of florida state constitution article one section 23 which is the right to privacy florida has 10 million dollars available through the american rescue plan act which covers long-term investments in broadband how it is used is unspecified so i assume it could be used to provide safe fast private cost-effective service through fiber optic cabling for all citizens particularly those who are underserved they are bombarded with wireless technology every single day in their neighborhoods i'm available to any of you if you'd like to further discuss this i have industry experts available who can help us get get this right for
145our students our teachers and all citizens in palm beach county thank you go ahead ma'am my name is laura deppy i'm here speaking for the fourth time again to maintain my children's constitutional and god-given right to breathe fresh air so parents i'll talk to you this time when logical decisions are not being made i've learned that it's best to follow the funding start digging into it the county elections the school district grants the research funding you'll be surprised and disgusted with what you find unfortunately money talks in our children seem to be the last ones on the totem pole i'm here for the fourth time because my children complained about their breathing nausea stomach aches this year while wearing masks at the end of the year which went on way longer than i expected with
146the mask policy i vowed never again the answer is just no where there is risk there must be a choice and it seems like most of the negative studies of masking and vaccinations are being retracted censored and silenced i'm a mother of three who started asking questions and a lot of them i've been censored from live county meetings i was nearly censored last week from leaving a message here at the district and now it's clear that the american people are not getting the correct information they need in order to make an informed medical decision we've learned that the cdc is funded by teachers unions we've also learned that the aap rec the aap recommendations that came out yesterday are largely funded by pfizer which is one of the vaccine companies do you see a trend
147restrict the people's ability to gather freedom of speech opinions guide the research in the direction of the agenda and then turn the citizens on each other when they question the choices the only bullying that i've seen going on are the people that are pro mask pro vaccinations shaming others that were killing grandma it's just not true and the children have been locked under these awful and harmful policies all year even when the data showed that they never posed a threat though it seemed like we may be up against quite a lot considering who's funding these missions what scares me more is not speaking up and failing my children by not being their voice though we decided we were done forever with mask at school and otherwise it did get to tell them that some schools
148were considering putting mass back on their children again after summer i wish i could have shown you the sadness in their faces my children have been saying they cannot breathe there was a man not too long ago part of the plot or not who said he couldn't breathe for nine minutes and there was worldwide outrage and rioting our children have been saying that they can't breathe for over a year where is the outrage the answer is no we will not do it anymore we will sit in the uncomfortableness of our decision and hold strong we may break bridges and in my eyes those bridges were made to be broken thank you for to the patriots and the freedom fighters who have taught me so much since i sat in the first meeting they're not crazy
149they're not science deniers they do their homework and contrary to popular belief they're fighting for all of our freedoms and the freedom of our children i also want to say thank you to the cuban people for giving us a glimpse of what is down the pipeline okay okay my name is hope gibson i have a five-year-old in a palm beach county school system um i have one of two speech options i'm gonna go with this one okay um what if masks were banned what if suddenly masks were not only not recommended but were outlawed out policied if you will a mandated no mask whatsoever from here on out policy with the strict impair and punishable consequences like losing your job or being forced to choose or quit to quit or resign what if masks were
150just ripped out from your faces never to be able to return again or else what if you still have the very strong beliefs that you have that masks were appropriate the mask worked 100 that masks were the only thing preventing you from facing serious health concerns or even death what if your strong beliefs were based on and backed by equally strong science medicine ethics religion or otherwise personally important criteria what if they were stripped away from you and you had no choice but to wear not wear a mask ever again even if it went against everything you thought knew or believed even if not complying with it you would be punished disciplined or penalized this tyrannical decision um of no one uh this tyrannical decision of no one being allowed to wear a mask ever
151again no ifs ands or butts would of course also extend and apply to your children as well what if your back was to the wall and you were made to feel that you had no choice or right to decide for yourself or for your family what was best for them their bodies their health their overall well-being what if you are forced to comply forced to unmask forced to go against your own will and best judgment forced to give up protecting your child forced to give up parental consent and your god-given freedoms forced to do what you were told even if it pissed you off broke your heart but tied your hands what would you do would you just sit back suck it up and go along with it would you yield would you bend over
152bow down and roll over all because the governing authority simply recommended it would you go along with a nonsensical recommendation that somehow suddenly on unconstitutionally became the binding supreme totalitarian law of the land of which you had no voice no choice no voter no say would you simply comply or would you stand up and fight against it would you stand up for yourself would you stand up for your child would you stand up for your freedom would you stand up and fight for your right to simply choose perhaps i'm giving some of you more credit than you deserve but i would bet that you would you're making it tough but i would like to think that each of you are mature no one's looking mature civilized democratic considerate reasonable compassionate freedom loving human beings if
153the tables were turned and that she was on the other foot i would expect you to fight i would hope that you would even if i disagreed with you i would respect you for wanting to have a voice and a choice for yourself and most importantly for your child if you were to find yourself in this position perhaps um perhaps you would come to the con to the conclusion that the best solution to offer in such a crisis that involves people on both sides with equally strong beliefs thoughts and opinions would be to offer them a choice a compromise a fair practical professional humane conclusion to end such a highly controversial personal and controversial personal and sensitive debacle where both sides get what they want where both sides feel their uh voices have been heard
154their fight their rights have been respected and their freedoms have been upheld because this is america and that is what we do in conclusion the definition of election is to choose someone to hold public office or some other position by voting and in case you guys forgot how elections work majority rules and i think we win thank you terry using stephanie wright i.t would you run the four recorded non-agenda speakers please yes my name is carl muhammad i'm a non-agenda speaker and i like to say um bless us to the school board members and to the superintendent and to superintend superintendent of sonora we are sorry i mean we're not sorry we are sad to see you leave but we understand that you have to make transitions for yourself and your family but we want
155to also remind everybody that ever since we've had a superintendent if we would get this aggregated data and look at the data we will see that the community our children have been on the bottom ever since they've had superintendents and we had hopes with you uh dr fenoy that possibly we might been able to really make some real substantial gains and we did somewhat and we were able to identify the edo's community and we're hoping that um you will leave some kind of uh trail to show these people how to possibly continue to have that kind of relationship with the sub group known as the america descendants of slaves and and when um sorry to put so much pressure on your superintendent but we haven't had the participation from our community that we anticipated and
156we apparently don't have too many friends in our community as well we reached out to the masons the eastern stars the daughters of jericho the herons of jericho the delta sigma theta the omega satisfies the sigma gamma rho the zeta phi beta the alpha phi alpha the politicians the capital alpha sign alpha kappa alpha and all of these people the boule and everybody else our county commissioner our county administrator and even some of the mayors that are located in palm beach county and none of them have the ability to be able to identify the adolesce community the uh descendants of the slaves and none of them have spent any time any love and respect to try to help us to deal with the problem that these systems have created for us and our children here
157in palm beach county so as you walk out the door i'm hoping that you turn around and really kind of check a few people before you go and i know that would be a great benefit for education in the state of florida remember palm beach county has always been identified as an exemplary county because we've supposedly had the courage to take on the challenges that others wouldn't take home and when i'm asked what i'm asking you today on at this school board meeting is to look at what's happening to uh inside of your system and remember when we set up this uh task force for uh those children it was one for the inside of the school district and one for the community our community is asking you as you exit if you would spend
158a little bit more time i mean these next coming months to help us to really um and get the respect that we need in order for us to continue to do what we got to do in order for uh everybody our ancestors to come back and restore my name is priscilla docking and i'm providing comments based on board meeting agenda and no agenda topic so i want to like i would like to express and stand up against the school teaching about gender neutrals and facts to my kids and as well as the theoretical curriculum that even though the governor has done it then i know there's still some places and some schools going for it and that's against the law i also want to mention that i do not want my kids to be vaccinated
159so no vaccinated or mass mandates and it would be also important if the parents that are the taxpayers would have a way of being part of the curriculum that's decided by the school board and what is going to be taught to our kids and that's all i have for now thank you hello my name is carlton carpenter and i'm addressing again the issue of equity is there a civil approach to these racial issues 500 years later in these particular white people have grown used to the abuse they have served of the people of color old habits die hard out of greed some bizarre sense of superiority and constant continuous brainwashing themselves and their young these white people continue their oppression they can claim to a role they created that depicts them as the closest thing
160to god and god's gift to the world as these white people attempt to continue to control the narrative the fact that they methodically committed genocide against 100 million or more indigenous native americans and maintained the scourge of slavery bondage and servitude over african-americans will never be swept under a rug or forgotten even if these atrocities are struck from history books in order to dismiss their crimes against their fellow human beings release them from their guilt if they happen to have any remorse for the oppression they have dealt or excused reparations that so sorely need to be paid speaking of control the fact that they have stormed their own capital on january 6 2021 speaks volumes to the fact that if they don't get their way they are willing to murder and name their own the
161fact that they are speaking against vaccine in their communities is proof enough to control is everything no matter what even genocide against their own communities is not off the table so the world can see they are running things please follow or continue to follow the science regarding covet please wear a mask or get vaccinated thank you very much hello my name is anne margo cannon this is for a non-agenda topic specifically addressing the 40 million dollar access for all wi-fi mesh project palm beach county and the school board have zero business inventing this piece of infrastructure out of nowhere there are people who do this for a living and we pay them for it and it's pretty cheap i have gigabit internet access wired to my house and it's 60 bucks that's really fast that's
162a way better internet speed than these kids are going to get so why aren't you doing the reasonable thing and prompting these companies to provide hardwired internet access to the neighborhoods that don't have it instead of coming up with some cocktail napkin design the cheapest possible way you can do it with its numerous adverse health effects and juggernaut size maintenance that is required is ridiculous are you hiring 100 contractors or employees who are going to maintain this you have no business doing this the infrastructure is already there you just need to make the companies provide it if you need to pay for it pay for it with relief money now in hand this could be done the right way this mentality has to change if you want to feed the poor you don't give them
163mcdonald's because it's cheap and easy it's also very bad for them and you don't have to pay their medical bills this is the same thing you are doing to these low-income communities and to all the children in the public school system taxpayers our families and children deserve to have a choice and to receive full disclosure of the risks we do not want to irradiate our kids and our vulnerable communities 24 hours a day 365 days a year do you realize this is what this project will do you seem like reasonable people i'm going to send you information for you to look over and hopefully you will make the right choice for our community please know the new hampshire legislature recently issued a report on emerging technologies with recommendations to inform and protect the public including
164bringing fiber to the premises and backing away from wireless infrastructure this includes transitioning schools to hardwired ethernet connections why are you wasting our taxpayer dollars on this mesh system and putting children in vulnerable communities in harm's way thank you go ahead ma'am good we're good yes ma'am great hi my name is stephanie wright thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak today the student covid policy 5.326 should be removed from the permanent board policy immediately the masking of anyone outside of a health care facility should be optional but especially for our children most mass do not prevent small particle viruses such as covid the box that the mask comes on and even says this product is an ear loop mask it is not a respiratory mask and will not provide protection against covet or
165contaminants even on the cdc's website what should you do do not wear face masks okay cdc does not recommend the use of face masks for the general u.s public to prevent the spread of coven 19. even last month osha lifted face masks in physician health care offices the update was published on june 10th and went into effect on june 24th 2021 severe illness due to covet 19 is rare among children i repeat severe illness due to covid19 is rare among children as reported by the american academy of pediatrics july 19 2021 given all the positive cases last year and this year as dr alonzo has reported which included our youth population we are likely already at herd immunity any further masking and lockdowns would cause much further harm as we are already seeing increases in
166suicides nationally among the youth i believe at the may school board meeting a person spoke of a 15 year old boy in palm beach county who had committed suicide our most at-risk population those who are older and obese with more than one co-morbidity have access to the vaccine you don't even need an appointment at publix you just walk in there's no lines covet is likely to stay much like influenza vaccines prevent severe illness and death but viruses still exist just like influenza there is a 99 chance of survival with covid in a dish in children it is even higher nearly everything we do in life has a risk riding a horse driving a motorcycle getting attacked by an alligator in 2019 one in six died from heart disease one in seven from cancer again the
167survival rate of covet is over 99 percent lastly as a mother to a high school student in palm beach county i'm still waiting to learn what the quarantine rules will be for next year a recorded health advisory committee meeting recently dr alonzo targeted single mothers stating without a vaccine children would be pulled out of school for two weeks to quarantine if a classmate contracted covid ma'am your time is up the vaccinated would be treated differently when will the parents learn what we'll go back to the agenda speakers michelle mitchell danielle underwood and edward dolezal danielle underwood for the record again um there's a solution to this mass problem i get it you guys are in a tough position you're getting people that want mass people that don't want mask what do you do you're in
168a crappy situation i get it the solution to it is choice at the people who feel and i'm going to refer to the green club because they all wear green but the people who feel that their kids are not protected by people who are not wearing masks if you feel that the mask works put the mask on your kid let him wear it my kid doesn't want to wear it or some other kid doesn't want to wear it then they shouldn't need to wear it we should have a choice if you think the mask protects you then you keep your mask on we don't want to be protected if that's how you feel so keep the masks optional make it a parental choice i don't want to hear about any kind of segregation where kids
169are vaccinated in one room kids who aren't vaccinated in another room there should be no vaccine talk whatsoever in schools that shame students it's very very pressuring to them we're just going to cause them to have more mental health issues when we start that kind of talk it's a parental decision again we do not parent and co-parent with the government we parent our own children and we should have our choice on whether our kids get vaccinated or wear a mask make it a normal school year just like governor desantis said bring everything back to normal let these kids play let them laugh let them read let them write let them learn how to do math forget talking about you know race boys girls this that teach them arithmetic teach them science teach them social studies
170teach them how to read we have so many kids who are reading deficient and we don't have any proper programs to remediate those reading deficiencies let's focus on those reading deficiencies and learn how to remediate reading and forget about talking about this cobit 19 stuff the rules must be consistent and they must be across the district every school must be the same every principal must be the same every teacher must be the same if we don't keep consistency you're going to find an influxization of parents who say i want to do school choice i want my kid to go to that school because they're not doing that this school is so it needs to be consistent across the district we need to have no crt talk dr robinson we're watching you you're on notice we
171heard about the event that you went to and how it's all about fighting for equity and education with the green group in palm beach county you want to focus on white lash a backlash by white people against the success and achievement of black people stop the racism and if you can't then just resign before we have to have you recalled you are the racist one and our kids deserve better thank you michelle mitchell edward dolezal angie wegner anita winkas okay um good evening board members and superintendent fenoy uh my name is ed bullazole and this is my fourth appearance in front of you i guess um you're hard of hearing so i just want to mention to you that on may 20th 2021 the palm beach county journal assembly served you with the writ of
172instruction here it is and the written instructions specifically ordered you that each member of the school board the school district of palm beach county are hereby lawfully instructed to vote on or before may 28 21 to rescind revoke and or terminate any and all mandates rules ordinances emergency orders any other mechanism does or intends to require the people their property or their offspring on the land of palm beach county to wear a mask of any type at any time in public strict proof in writing is hereby demanded that you have complied with the instructions that i've just mentioned publicly notified all internally externally via all public outlets without exception on or before may 28th please provide evidence and the address is there to the palm beach county journal assembly unfortunately you did not respond therefore
173you are in default which means you are public you publicly agree that you are in breach of your oath of office and you have failed to fiduciary responsibility to the students parents and community additionally and most importantly because of the foregoing you are now operating in your private capacity do you understand if not talk to attorney barbieri he'll explain it to you it's not good you are now operating in your private capacity parents come to the freedom room which is over here next door and meet the officers and members of the palm beach county journal assembly we have common law based solutions to help you with taking back control of the education policies in the county for your information mr barbieri can confirm this common law is superior again common law is superior to all
174other existing laws i yield my time go ahead ma'am good evening my name is anita winkis and i have no doubt that every parent in this room wants what they think is best for their child i have no doubt about that okay i hear in this room people saying to those that want masks well just keep your kids home and i suppose that could be said to those who don't want their children to have mass also i heard about children tragically dying in car accidents which used to be a much bigger number before we had seat belts and before we had car seats okay the journal of the american medical association recently retracted the research letter regarding co2 levels in children due to mask wearing because it was erroneous the american academy of pediatrics is
175urging in-person learning absolutely our kids need to be back in school they need their teachers right but they are also recommending vaccines and mask wearing in order to make in-person learning as safe as possible governor desantis is now urging people to get vaccinated to save lives as it's being reported by the new york times that covet is up over 400 percent in the last two weeks in the state of florida enough is enough it's 2021 and we have a school board that's listening to the loudest misinformation and disinformation in the room rather than doing what they know is right to keep our teachers staff and students safe it is incomprehensible that requiring mass is so controversial because it really isn't children under the age of 12 are not even eligible to be vaccinated and probably
176won't be until sometime in mid-winter we can't keep allowing loud denials of the reality we are in to control practices that will help to mitigate covid enough is enough thank you for your time michelle mitchell angie wegner kayla drick nina bolton hi i'm angie wegner i'd like to speak out today in favor of mandatory masking my 11 year old daughter will be starting at bach middle school this fall she was home all last year i'm doing remote from timber trace elementary and she worked so hard on her audition piece when she heard she when we heard she was accepted to this fine institution that palm beach should be so proud of we were ecstatic it was definitely a bright spot in our year unfortunately now i'm being put in the untenable position of being forced
177to choose between keeping her safe and allowing her to pursue the goal she worked so hard to attain you have the power to keep her safe we know masks work we know social distancing works we know fresh air works we know science works why would we choose to ignore experts and ignore the health and safety of children when there are cheap easy and proven solutions i've had this mask on since i got here it's not a big burden i'm not being asked to go lay down my life for my country it's it's a non-issue it's a simple thing um i get that there are a lot of loud people that have a lot of free time that show up at these meetings please take a survey of parents with kids that actually are enrolled in
178the school district and find out what they think please keep mandatory masks in place to keep our children safe you have the power to do it now have the courage to do it thank you good evening my name is kayla drick and i have a child coming into second grade in district five i'm in front of the board again this evening as i see no representation at the table in front of me so what do we have here we have a school board who has turned their voice over for the reopening plan to the superintendent the superintendent has relaxed the coveted guidelines and now he has resigned leaving everything in disarray less than three weeks left of summer and no written policy is in place no replacement for the superintendent has been procured and i
179fear that you want to move backwards favoring masks and separating kids once again the lack of stability you are providing parents students and teachers is unacceptable i'm here to voice my continual support of normal masks optional 2021-2022 school year despite the rise in covet cases you leave this building and you see that life has resumed as normal in florida citizens have been taking advantage of all the freedoms of the state enforcing any protocol related to covid goes against the governor's directive it goes against the will of the people and it goes against the best interests of our children yesterday i received an email that offered the option to enroll in palm beach county virtual school this is a wonderful option for parents still worried about sending their kids to school it's known by all that
180the best medication mitigation for covid is to stay home virtual school also provides for every parent to make the choice needed for their child i suggest that since you vetoed surveying parents last month that you leave every option on the table you did not meet with anybody your health advisory committee you didn't make decisions based on metrics or any process regarding covid other than your own feelings your district organization chart shows that your parents students and community of palm beach county are at the head of the school district it's high time that you respect that and that you keep in place an option for every parent to make their decision if some parents are truly too fearful to send their children to school they should keep them at home that is where they're safe no
181rational parent would send their child to school in a life or death situation right do you really believe that the individuals behind me are scared for their children's lives as they mask them up and send them back to school i'm sitting back here in a packed audience and they lean in and tell me to pull them my mask up it's a gemmed mask i can breathe right through it there's no coverage here this has devolved into insanity and it's led by fear if they were truly scared they would get up and leave they wouldn't be here to begin with but when they noticed the circumstance believing the masks they would get up and leave i ask you to stop playing sides i've asked you to stop playing on both sides of the fence dr fenoy
182walking into last month's meeting maskless and only putting it on once he sat down the cop outside the bathroom without his mask on the woman with the the lanyard that works here without hers on it doesn't even make sense anymore time's up ma'am nina bolton elizabeth murray karen holmes hi my name is nina boyton and i'm just going to re keep it really quick my friend rose died of cobit so i am i strongly strongly favor masks authorities should base community issues on health metrics alone you have a medical doctor on the board and i strongly strongly urge you to listen to dr robinson thank you very much have good evening go ahead ma'am over there in the other room go ahead hi i'm karen holm i'm speaking up tonight for 10 students i'm speaking
183up tonight for 10 students whose voices are small and may be difficult to hear they are telling us about physical abuse that they have experienced mike who's a senior in high school says i'm a senior and i get massive headaches that make me vomit when i wear the mask i've had to stay home and participate in distance learning to avoid getting them simply the worst school year ever and really sad considering this was my senior year they must do better for palm beach county kids next year emma from seventh grade said i hate masks because it gives me a suffocating feeling and we have it on for so many hours evan in fifth grade says i can't breathe right in the mask it's so hot i get headaches rocco age 7 says my mask gets
184sweaty and sticks to my face at recess and it's disgusting i can't breathe sienna who's age 10 reiterates my mask sticks to my face at recess and i can't breathe ellie a third grader says i'm so annoyed that i have to wear my mask in the bathroom by myself i miss going to the bathroom with my friends and i always feel like i'm about to puke charlotte a second grader says it's annoying having something on my face when i breathe in the mask comes into my mouth and i really can't breathe corley who's five years old says i really don't like breathing my air joey d a third grader says i'm scared to take my mask down when i need an air break because i'm afraid i'll get kicked out of school and finally dylan
185d who's a first grader says my mask makes me feel so sick when i'm trying to listen really hard to my teacher my belly starts to hurt and i get scared that i'm going to throw up i am sickened that my school district did this parents i highly encourage you to just say no be like nancy reagan just say no parents the school board doesn't make the laws just say no parents teach your kids to just say no when they are hurting parents just say no don't let the school board make medical decisions for your kids thank you elizabeth murray melissa borden anna alexander jennifer bomandi hello my name is elizabeth murray i've been a speech pathologist in the district for 36 years working with all special ed kids or ese excuse me all i
186want to say is that any of these quotes that are being thrown about can be in or looked at either way some of these quotes like god-given rights to breathe fresh air we all believe in god-given rights but [Music] some of it's being misinterpreted because god gave you the brains to figure out what is medically correct and what is best excuse me i'm not going to respond to the the hecklers back there but khalil gibran said that children are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself you may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their own thoughts you may house their bodies but not their souls for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow but in my personal opinion and i have a lot of brothers and sisters
187that are firefighters and nieces and nephews too also in the medical field people are actually dying of covid you may not have seen it yet but if you insist that masks don't help and you know we don't need to sanitize the desks and so on then um i'm sorry but i'm afraid you're gonna be seeing it out of the other you'll be crying out of the other side of your faces um so the only systemic barriers that i see are barriers of people forcing their kids to go to school without masks because they're going to get sick and they're going to die and also i don't appreciate being accused of having extreme partisan values when these other people are also they also have partisan values we all believe in what we all believe so being
188heckled and scoffed at and bullied up here is ridiculous and i think it's very disrespectful to the board by the way so thank you very much hello there my name is anna alexander and i am a new resident of palm beach county my family and i recently moved here and i'm also a licensed pediatric occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience i'm here today to stand for freedom of choice as a therapist i always tell the parents that i work with that they know their child best we are not asking for mass to be banned we are asking for the freedom of choice to wear a mask or not in fact we're demanding that families be allowed to decide if their child can wear a chat mask or not my own children this last
189school year were able to attend a school where masks were optional no social distancing was implemented they were in a classroom of 24 kids there was only one covid case that year the school focused on hygiene and health awareness the cdc data shows that only 8 in 100 000 children are hospitalized with covid19 this rate is lower than the flu the most recent edition of the florida department of health's school health administrative resource manual states on page 32 that the risk of covid19 to children is considerably less to adults and since every person age 12 or older is able to vaccinate if they so choose masked policies should be voluntary this is the florida department of health masks should be voluntary i know people are concerned about an increase of cases but cases do not
190equal hospitalizations or deaths let's also talk about child development and how they've been affected as an occupational therapist my heart has ached for what these kids have had to endure for 16 months the masks and social distancing are literally killing our children depression suicide rates among the pediatric population are skyrocketing during the stamp pandemic the cdc shows that emergency department visits for adolescents aged 12 to 17 rose 31 in 2020 compared to 2019 thus er visits only that doesn't even address outpatient or telehealth visits anxiety as it is in an all-time high in four and five-year-olds all-time high younger children are not developing the social skills the language skills that they need due to masks and social distancing if masks and social distancing continue to be mandated in schools this would make the third year
191affected the third school year affected by this this needs to stop now to prevent further damage to our kids families need to have the choice i asked the board to establish a clear plan i think both sides would agree we need clarity we need it written and we ask that y'all choose options for masks [Applause] elizabeth murray melissa borden jennifer bomandi jessica martinez who your mascot ma'am i am my name is melissa borden i have a mother of two children in middle school here in palm beach county i'm here to request that you permanently make masks optional starting today pull your mask up ma'am if your current mass policy was an fsa the board would have received a score of one you have failed yourself and the children to base the current policy on any
192evidence let's start with ela if the policy was an option opinion based on facts not one of you in support of mandatory masks presented any evidence of undeniable proof that mass stopped the spread or that mass do not cause any physical or mental harm when worn for six to eight hours not one bit of facts were cited your opinion papers were just that opinions based on feelings and fears last board meeting numerous parents were up here stating facts after fact on why risks outweigh the benefits of mandatory mask however you refused to listen i guess you failed in kindergarten listening skills as well second math the chancellor's office sent me an email with tables and graphs from all florida schools regarding cobin numbers 26 counties were masked optional 40 counties were mass required according to
193the cdc's march 2021 florida report of health data in school campuses campuses cases were not driven by face mass policies the view of this data showed no link between face mass policies and counties positivity rates mind you this data also included the winter months with the higher rates of hospitalizations of the most vulnerable get the continuum of the unnecessary and harmful mass policy after receiving this data from the commissioner means you failed to interpret math correctly you failed according to the cdc in the age group of zero to 24 years old this there is a mortality rate of less than 0.1 as of july 12 2021 there are 335 deaths from cobit ages 17 and under but to put in perspective a total of 49 725 children of the same age group died in 2020.
194so that represents represents 0.63673 of all children's deaths in 2020. also children represent .04 of all covet deaths you have failed to assess basic math of greater than and less than science you fail to acknowledge the long-term broad-based natural immunity protection from being previously infected by the virus you also failed to show us the dangers of inhaling carbon dioxide for hours on end as for the delta variant as stated by dr alonzo yes it is more transmissible however it is not as fatal hospitalizations and deaths are still significantly less than in the winter and summer months the delta variant is merely porn panic dressed up as signs just in time to start the push for vaccinating children real science is being called misinformation the board's utter disregard for any study paper and data regarding how
195kids should be wearing masks is incomprehensible congratulations you failed your science test make math it does my children not your child we decide what way they wear we decide their health care we decide what goes in their body thank [Applause] you school board policy ma'am that's the current policy it's a trash policy hi jennifer bamandi here and i'm actually pretty upset that i had to come back here again after already coming here and presenting this entire board with facts directly from the cdc website that says that masks don't work you remember that i've also come here and given you the evidence to prove that mask optional schools are not super spreaders but you guys don't listen so here i am back again wasting my time trying to get you to understand because it seems that
196you guys only listen dr fenoy i'm over here excuse me i'm right here seems that you guys only listen when you're speaking to like-minded individuals or you're speaking into your own echo chamber i want to be clear i am not anti-masking i am here for allowing each family to choose what is best for their families and to do what is best for the health of their children and quite frankly if this board actually cared about children and their health you would re-evaluate what you feed them every day you would give them more outside time and you would get rid of the chromebooks out of the classrooms that's what you would do if you actually cared about the kids i'm here to remind you that on your organizational chart i am at the top of the
197board i'm the top not you i do not co-parent with you i make the decisions for my children not you so i want to be clear about my next statement regardless of what this board mandates i am here to tell you as the only person in this building allowed to make medical decisions on behalf of my children that my children will be in school full time for their education as you are legally required to provide them and they will be mask-free thank you jessica martinez angelique contreras greg labad hello board and fellow parents that are here this evening my name is jessica martinez and i'm here to discuss the upcoming 2021-2022 school year over the past year and a half i have found myself more involved in the public matters than i ever thought i
198would need to be i have been called an anti-massacre i have been called an anti-vaxxer i've been called a racist and tonight i have been called yes i've been called a racist and i've also been called uneducated i did i came here to discuss that the school board is doing we parents deserve transparency from the board at all times and we shouldn't have to dig and decipher the information you're putting out i would like to make it clear i'm not an anti-massacre nor am i an anti-vaxxer i'm simply a person who believes in pro-choice i am the parent of my children and i have my parental rights to make the necessary choices for them we did not elect you the board to make medical decisions for our children such as wearing a mask we have
199elected you to develop and implement an educational plan to help them become successful adults their health and their well-being is up to me and we parents need that choice believe it or not the one thing we all agree on here is that choice our healthy children should not be forced to wear a mask and our healthy children should not be bullied into believing they're going to kill somebody for breathing the idea that they're going to catch covet and die is ridiculous and it's harsh and it's not true our children have a 99 chance of survival and so do we the one thing i do not support is the narrative that my mask protects you and vice versa i am a trainer and i have worked with cancer patients and when my cancer patients come into
200my facility they wear a mask to protect themselves from the environment they are entering they don't ask for all of us to wear a mask that is up to them the number one cause for death in our country is heart disease heart failure from being obese causing heart attacks when i go grocery shopping i can see people buying bulk junk food sodas candies you name it and i look into their carts and then they're going to give it to their children i want to scream and tell them that they're being a bad parent and they're going to lead their children into a life of health problems and obesity and worse even death but you know what that's none of my business they're the parent they're making the choice so why is this any different these
201are my children they're my choice we do not have a health care system in this country we have a sick care system my son came home from school and he caught a virus several years ago that led to pneumonia that pneumonia i didn't call the school and hold them responsible i didn't call the parent and say you're almost killed my child no i handled my child and i got him better so he would be stronger and build his immunity we deserve choice we do not want to mask mandate give us parents the right to choose what we feel is right for our children if the mask works then those sending their kids to school in a mass should be fine against mine without one thank you for your time go ahead the gentleman the woman
202in the red shirt in the other room go ahead it says my mic is off is it my phone can you hear me yes go ahead state your name again angela contreras okay thank you go ahead i live in a country that was founded on freedom and liberty that blood still runs through me i was born free and will always have the desire to stay free if you are afraid to stand up to your government then it's time to replace that government when you live in fear you have tyranny when the government fears you you have liberty stand up this country founded freedom and liberty can be changed we the people must change it we cannot rely on the politicians to do what is right anymore because they are all bought and owned and they
203are selling us out to stand up to the bullying and discrimination from our own government and take this country back it belongs to the people not greedy politicians and corrupt drug companies parents the way to take your country back is to start participating in school board meetings start showing up and being involved in things that affect your children we deserve our voices to be heard at every single moment we are not just noise we are parents that want to choose for our children we do not want our children to be political pawns like they have been this past year and a half we need to know the policies that are being made and we need to be involved every single step every single step we will know what is going on behind closed doors because
204we are there and we are involved we will be silent no more you do not get the chance to do anything behind our backs anymore we are sick and tired of the corruption and the lies and the division that this county was creating we are coming and we are coming to take your jobs we are moving you out of the way this country belongs to us my family fled communism in cuba and i will not allow that same oppressive government to rule america absolutely not parents it's time to stand up and the time is right now [Applause] what's up you guys is a super boring