School Board Special Meeting - 05/06/2025

001UH UH UH UH UH UH UH >> AMOS KATHLEEN BROWN CHAIR THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD AND I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT 5:00 P.M. ON MAY SIX TWENTY TWENTY FIVE. THIS IS A SPECIAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING PURSUE IT WITH BY LAW ONE FORTY SIX IN CODE OF VIRGINIA TWO POINT TO DASH THREE SEVEN ZERO SEVEN THREE OR MORE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS REQUESTED A SPECIAL MEETING WE CALLED TUESDAY CALLED TUESDAY MAY SIX AT FIVE P.M. AT THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING BUILDING SIX AT THE MUNICIPAL CENTER TO FIVE ONE TO GEORGE MASON DRIVE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES ONE CLOSED SESSION FOR CONSULTATION LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING THE STATUS AND IMPACT OF RECENT COURT ORDERS IMPENDING FEDERAL LAW RELATED TO CHALLENGES TO FEDERAL EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO ISSUED ON ONE TWENTY

002NINE TWENTY FIVE TO PRESENTATION ON STATUS OF FEDERAL LAWSUITS RELATED CHALLENGES TO FEDERAL EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ISSUED ON ONE TWENTY NINE TWENTY FIVE THREE INFORMATION ON MOTION TO AMEND PREVIOUS VOTE NAMELY TO AMEND THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL WORD RESOLUTION TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAUSE THE BELOW LISTED PORTIONS OF THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNTIL THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED WHETHER EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO CAN BE FORCED A RESOLUTION SECTION ONE THREE FOUR FIVE AND SIX B RESOLUTION SECTION TWO THE SECOND SINCE REGARDING SUSPENSION OF ALL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE FEDERAL GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EQUITY PLAN THE EQUITY DASHBOARD IN ANY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERING THAT WOULD NOT COMPLY FOR PUBLIC

003COMMENTS REGARDING THE INFORMATION ON THE ABOVE MOTION TO AMEND FIVE A VOTE ON THE MOTION TO AMEND WITH THAT MADAM CHAIR I ASK THAT YOU CALL THE RULE THANK MANAGER PRESENT IN THE SCHOOL THE SCHOOL BOARD CHAMBER ARE CHAIR BROWN BASED HERE WEEMS MR, MR. BONESTEEL, MR. KAPLAN MR. CUMMINGS, MISS FELTON. DR. GREENE MISS MELNYK MELNIK AND MISS ROGERS >> THANK YOU COLLEAGUES AND MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC PRESENT. I ASK TO JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AS YOU ARE ABLE HEY AT THIS TIME I WILL TAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED MOVED BY MR. CUMMINGS SECONDED BY MISS ROGERS. ANY DISCUSSION SEEING NONE I CALL FOR A VOTE TO ADOPT THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED. SO MADAM >> CHAIR WE HAVE NINE EYES

004THE MOTION DID PASS FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE OF THE AGENDA HAS PRESENTED THANK YOU. THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL PREPARE TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION JUST FOR THE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND THE SCHOOL BOARD. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR CLOSED SESSION IN THE EINSTEIN LAB LAB DOWN THERE SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN STILL SIT IN CHAMBERS. IT'S EASIER FOR THE 11 OF US TO MOVE SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AND WE'LL COME BACK AND OUTFLOWS WHEN WE'RE CLUES WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH THAT PRESENTATION. VICE HER WEEMS WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE CALL FOR CLOSED SESSION? I MOVE THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD RECESS AND A CLOSED SESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH EXEMPTIONS TO OPEN MEETINGS LAW SET FORTH IN CODE OF VIRGINIA TO TALK TO DASH THREE SEVEN-ELEVEN PART A PARAGRAPH SEVEN AND EIGHT AS AMENDED

005TO DELIBERATE THE FOLLOWING MATTERS SEVEN CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL AND BRIEFINGS MY STAFF MEMBERS ARE CONSULTANTS PERTAINING TO ACTUAL OR PROBABLE LITIGATION RESEARCH CONSULTATION OR BRIEFING BRIEF IN AN OPEN MEETING WITH ADVERSELY FIGHT THE NEGOTIATING OR LITIGATING POSTURE OF THIS PUBLIC BODY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, PROBABLE LITIGATION MEANS LITIGATION HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLY THREATENED OR ON WHICH THE PUBLIC OR ITS LEGAL COUNSEL HAS A REASONABLE BASIS TO BELIEVE WILL BE CONVINCED BY OR AGAINST A KNOWN PARTY. NOTHING THIS SUBDIVISION SHE'LL BE CONSTRUED TO PERMIT THE CLOSURE OF A MEETING MERELY BECAUSE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE PUBLIC BODIES BODY IS IN ATTENDANCE OR IS CONSULTED MATTER EIGHT CONSULTATION. EIGHT CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL EMPLOYED RETAINED BY A PUBLIC BODY REGARDING SPECIFIC LEGAL MATTERS REQUIRING THE PROVISION LEGAL ADVICE BY SUCH COUNCIL COUNSEL. NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION

006SHALL YOU CAN DO TO PERMIT THE CLOSURE OF THE MEETING MERELY AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING PUBLIC BODIES IN ATTENDANCE OR HAS CONSULTED ON THE MATTER NAMELY TO DISCUSS A STATUS OPINION PENDING FEDERAL LITIGATION REGARDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO AND APPLICATIONS HER SCHOOL BOARD AND SCHOOL DIVISION REGARDING COMPLIANCE BE CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING PROBABLE LITIGATION AND PENDING LITIGATION MATTERS MUCH AND MADE BY VICE CHAIR WILLIAMS SECONDED FAMOUS MELNYK MELNIK ANY DISCUSSION SEEING THAT I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION AS MENTIONED SO MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE NINE I'S THE MOTION HAD PASSED TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION. THANK YOU. HERE OH, I WHEREAS THE SCHOOL BOARD OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA HAS CONVENED A CLOSED MEETING ON THIS DAY PURSUANT TO AN AFFIRMATIVE RECORDED VOTE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH

007THE PROVISIONS OF THE VIRGINIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT WHEREAS SECTION TWO NOT TO DASH THREE SEVEN ONE TWO OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA REQUIRES A CERTIFICATION BY THIS SCHOOL BOARD THAT SUCH CLOSE MEETING WAS CONDUCTED CONFORMITY WITH VIRGINIA LAW VIRGINIA LAW. NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THE SCHOOL BOARD OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH HERE BY CERTIFIES THAT THE BEST MEMBERS KNOWLEDGE ONLY KNOWLEDGE ONLY PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS LAWFULLY EXEMPTED OPEN MEDIA REQUIREMENTS BY VIRGINIA LAW WERE DISCUSSED IN THE CLOSED MEETING TO WHICH THE CERTIFICATION APPLIES AND ONLY SUCH PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS AS WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE MOTION BY WHICH THE CLOSED MEETING WAS CONVENED OR HEARD DISCUSSED OR CONSIDERED. IS THERE A MOTIVE MOTION ON THE CERTIFICATION OF CLOTHES MADE BY MR. CUMMINGS SECONDED BY MR. CALLEN? ANY DISCUSSION SINGING NONE I CALL FOR THE VOTES

008TO CERTIFY CLOSED SESSION. SO MADAM HERE WE HAVE NINE EYES THE MOTION TO PASS FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF SESSION THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ARE NOW ON TO THE PRESENTATION STATUS OF FEDERAL LAWSUITS RELATED TO CHALLENGES TO FEDERAL EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO WE WELCOME KAMEI THAN, SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY MADAM CHAIR VICE CHAIR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND WOODHOUSE OUR, OUR COMMUNITY SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY. MY INTENT THIS PRESENTATION JUST TO SET THE STAGE THE STAGE FOR WHERE THINGS ARE PROCEEDING YOU WILL NOT BE AN IN DEPTH LEGAL ANALYSIS WHICH IS GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME BASIC INFORMATION SO EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME PAGE AGAIN ON JANUARY TWENTY TWENTY FIVE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO ENDING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN K-12 SCHOOLING WAS ISSUED WHAT THE STATE IN THERE WAS IN RECENT

009YEARS HOWEVER PARENTS HAVE WITNESSED SCHOOLS DOCTORATE THEIR CHILDREN AND RADICAL ANTI-AMERICAN IDEOLOGIES WHILE DELIBERATELY BLOCKING OVERSIGHT AND PRINTING ANTI-AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE HARMFUL FALSE IDEOLOGIES ON OUR NATION'S CHILDREN NOT ONLY VIOLATES LONG-STAY AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CIVIL RIGHTS IN MANY CASES BUT USURPS BASIC FINAL AUTHORITY. SO THIS WAS THE OPENING INTENT OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THEN WENT ON TO LIST CERTAIN UNACCEPTABLE PRACTICES THE SECOND QUARTER OF ONE FOUR NINE ZERO WAS FOLLOWED ON FEBRUARY 14TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER WHICH EXPLAIN HOW THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INTERPRETED THE JANUARY 29TH EXECUTIVE ORDER DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER SOMETIMES FOR TUESDAY'S SCHOOLS ARE OUR ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS USED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS PRIMARILY BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC HOW AN AGENCY WILL PROCEED TO INTERPRET OR ENFORCE THE STATUTE REGULATION A

010COURT ORDER PROCEDURE THE FEBRUARY 14TH ONLY TWENTY FIVE LETTERS STATE THAT IT WAS EXPLAINING AND REITERATING EXISTING LEGAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE THE UNITED THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. OTHER AUTHORITIES THE D.C. ALL LONGER ACCEPTABLE TOXICALLY DOCTORING STUDENTS WITH FALSE PREMISES THAT THE US IS OF SYSTEMIC AND STRUCTURAL RACISM AND ADVANCE DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES AND PRACTICES UNDER THE BANNER OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY INCLUSION THE I PROGRAMS DISCRIMINATE BY PREFERENCES CERTAIN RACIAL GROUPS AND TEACHING THAT CERTAIN RACIAL GROUPS ARE UNIQUE MORAL BURDENS THAT OTHERS DO NOT DO YOU SEE ALL STATES OF THE US FROM EDUCATION WILL VIGOROUSLY ENFORCE ITS EXISTING INTERPRETATION OF FEDERAL LAW WITHIN 14 DAYS AND THAT INCLUDED COMPLIANCE WITH THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS AS A CONDITION OF RECEIVING FEDERAL FUNDING AND THAT MIGHT BE REQUIRED

011OF THE STATE EDUCATION AND THEN THE LOCAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS SCHOOLS WITHIN WARNED TO WARNED TO ENSURE THAT THE POLICIES AND ACTIONS COMPLY WITH EXISTING CIVIL RIGHTS LAW AND CEASE RELIANCE ON PROXIES AND INDIRECT MEANS FOR RACE DECISIONS AND RELIES ON THIRD PARTY CONTRACTORS AND CREATE CREATED THEY AHEAD AND CREATED THE DEPARTMENT THE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION HOTLINE REPORTING SYSTEM THAT WAS THEN FOLLOWED ON FEBRUARY TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY WITH US FROM EDUCATION THE EDUCATION ISSUE AT F.T. QS FRANK LAST QUESTION DOCUMENT THAT THEY ACCUSED THEY NOT TO OPERATE POLICIES OR PROGRAM TO TREAT STUDENTS DIFFERENTLY BASED ON RACE ENGAGE RACIAL STEREOTYPING OR CREATE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS IS SPECIFICALLY NOTED THAT SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHINGS WERE CERTAIN PRACTICES UNDER CONSIDERATION WHAT IT. WHAT IT DID NOTE IS THAT PROGRAMS FOCUS ON CULTURE AND HERITAGE DO

012NOT VIOLATE TITLE SIX MUST BE DISCOURAGED MEMBERS A CERTAIN RACE IS NOT ATTEND OR CREATED A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS OF THOSE WHO DO ON MARCH 14TH US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OPENED SIX INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST 45 UNIVERSITIES BASED ON THE DUKE COLLEAGUE LETTER ON APRIL TWENTY TWENTY FOR US FROM EDUCATION THAN ISSUED A PRESS RELEASE THAT DIRECTED EACH STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CERTIFY COMPLIANCE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDING STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S REQUIRED TO COLLECT CERTIFICATIONS EDUCATION AGENCIES STATING THAT STATING THAT YOUR USE OF THE EI PROGRAMS TO VINTAGE ONE PERSON'S RACE OVER AND OTHERS CONTRARY TO TITLE SIX AND THREATENED SERIOUS ACTION WHICH WOULD INCLUDE LOSS OF FEDERAL FUNDING RECRUITMENT OF PREVIOUSLY DISPERSED DISBURSED FUNDS AND TREBLE DAMAGES CIVIL PENALTIES UNDER FALSE THE FALSE CLAIMS ACT A MARCH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE

013U.S. FROM VACATION ALSO REQUIRE THE WAS THE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS AND THE LOCAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS CERTIFY COMPLIANCE WITH OPRAH AMPARA REGARDING PARENTS RIGHTS TO ACCESS RECORDS ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN WHICH WOULD THAT CERTIFICATION WOULD THEN BE DUE ON APRIL 30TH ON APRIL 3RD TWENTY TWENTY FIVE THE VIRGINIA PRIMARY EDUCATION NOTIFIED ALL VIRGINIA LOCAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE WRITTEN RATIFICATION BY APRIL 10TH AN EXTENSION WAS GRANTED UNTIL APRIL 24TH THAT WAS BASED ON ONE OF THE CASES THAT WILL DISCUSS JUST A QUICK REMINDER OF WHAT TITLE SIX THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SET ON THE SCREEN IS THE TITLE TITLE SIX THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 THE LANGUAGE TILL TITLE SIX IS NOT CHANGED SINCE ADOPTION OF RECORDS OF PREVIOUS AGENTS HAVE ALLOWED FOR DISCRIMINATION GETS ONE GROUP WITH A PURPOSE DISCRIMINATION TO SERVE TO SERVE

014A COMPELLING STATE INTEREST IN MOST CASES COMPELLING INTEREST IS TO INTEREST IS TO CREATE A MORE DIVERSE DIDN'T AND OR EMPLOYEE BODY TO BALANCE OPPORTUNITIES WHEN THE STATISTICS INDICATE THAT CERTAIN RACES OR ETHNIC GROUPS ARE DISADVANTAGED OR TO WORK PARTS COMMUNITY FACTORS THAT HAVE HAD AN ADVERSE EFFECT ON CERTAIN RACES WHEN CHALLENGED IN WORDS THE BODY THOSE UTILIZING RACE ETHNICITY IS TO TAKE ACTION MUST MEET A VERY HIGH STANDARD IS CALLED STRICT SCRUTINY BEFORE THE COURT WILL ALLOW THE BODY TO CONTINUE TO TAKE ACTION SPACE AND ETHNICITY. PREVIOUS US DEPARTMENT EDUCATION ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE REQUIRED SCHOOL DIVISION TO TAKE ACTION TO ADDRESS DISPARITIES BASED ON RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THOSE CASES US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LOOKS AT THE STATIC CYSTIC RELATED TO THE ACTION THAT SCHOOL DIVISION TOOK AT DIVISIONS ACTION THE RACE NEUTRAL ON ITS

015FACE RESULTING IN DISPARITY IMPACT ON ANOTHER RACE OR PROTECTED CATEGORY IN THE SCHOOL DIVISION IS REQUIRED TO TAKE ACTION TO ADDRESS THE DISPARITY ACCESS TO HIGHER LEVEL PROGRAMS REFERRALS FOR STUDENT DISCIPLINE REFERRALS, REFERRALS FOR GIFTED IDENTIFICATION, REFERRALS STUDENT DISCIPLINE ARE EXAMPLES OF THOSE TYPES OF REQUIRED ACTIONS RECENTLY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED THROUGH A DIFFERENT EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT WOULD NO LONGER ALLOW DISPARATE IMPACT ANALYSIS TO BE USED IN FEDERAL PROGRAMING BEFORE ARE THREE PENDING FEDERAL CASES THAT AFFECT EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO ONE IS IN THE NEW DISTRICT COURT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FEDERAL COURT ONE IS IN THE DISTRICT COURT FROM MARYLAND AND ON IS IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ALL THREE CURRENTLY FOLLOWED RELATIVE EXECUTIVE ONE EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOR ONE NINE ZERO AND THERE ARE OTHER LAWSUITS AGAINST DIFFERENT EXECUTIVE

016ORDERS BUT THE ONES THAT WE ARE INTERESTED ARE THESE THREE LAWSUITS WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON THESE LAWSUITS THAT ARE RELATED TO THIS AND THEY WERE FILED IN THREE DIFFERENT COURTS WHICH IS IMPORTANT AS A REMINDER THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FILL AFFILIATE, THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, THE CENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATORS FILED A LAWSUIT THIS THE STATE COURT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE THEY WERE FIVE COUNTS THAT THEY WENT AFTER THE COURT THEN DID ISSUE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AFTER HEARING AGAIN A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IS A PRELIMINARY ORDER THAT THE COURT DOES BASED ON LIMITED INFORMATION IS NOT THE FINAL DECISION IN THE CASE IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE YOU'LL SEE ON THE BOARD THAT THE COURT ORDERED THE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IT FOUND THAT THERE WAS POTENTIAL SUCCESS IN THE MERITS BECAUSE OF THE VAGUENESS WHAT CONSTITUTED UNLAWFUL

017PROGRAMS IT FOUND THAT THERE WOULD BE IRREPARABLE HARM BECAUSE WAS A POTENTIAL FOR FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS AND LOSS OF FUNDING AND IT ALSO SAID BALANCE OF THE EQUITY SAID THERE WOULD BE HARM. THEREFORE IN FAVOR OF THE PLANE IS INTERESTS ME ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR SCOPE OF INJECTION IT IS LIMITED TO THE PLAINTIFFS FOR THE NEA THEIR MEMBERS WHICH COULD BE ANY STATE AFFILIATIONS AND AGAIN IN VIRGINIA THE VIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION MEMBERS ARE ALSO MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION SO THEREFORE REPLY TO OUR APPLY TO OUR EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE IN ANY ORGANIZATION THAT EMPLOYEES CONTRACTS OR DOES BUSINESS WITH THE PLAINTIFFS AND THEIR MEMBERS SO THAT IN THIS CASE MAKES US VIRGINIA BEACH WOLF. UNDER THIS PARTICULAR INJUNCTION, THE SECOND CASE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MARYLAND. AGAIN

018THIS IS THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS THE, THE AMERICAN FEDERATION TEACHERS MARYLAND AFFILIATE THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AND UNIQUE IN THIS CASE YOU HAVE A SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH IS EUGENE ,OREGON SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR JAY IN THIS CASE THE COURT FOUND THAT THERE WOULD BE THERE WOULD BE SUCCESS ON THE MERITS BECAUSE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT VIOLATION FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE NOTICE AND COMMENT PERIODS BUT ALSO FOUND THAT AMERICA'S ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT YOU CANNOT AS IN FEDERAL AGENCY INTERFERE WITH THE CURRICULUM OF A LOCAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION THERE'S A POTENTIAL ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS DECISIONS CAPRICIOUS DECISIONS AND THERE POTENTIAL FOR FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS IT FOUND THAT THERE WOULD BE NO HARM BECAUSE POTENTIAL FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS THEY FOUND THE BALANCE OF EQUITIES INTEREST FAVORED THE PLAINTIFFS WHAT THIS CASE DID CASE DID NOT DO

019IS DID NOT DEAL WITH THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT BECAUSE IT ARGUED THAT THE PLAINTIFFS HAD FAILED TO MENTION OR PROVIDE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE ON THE CERTIFICATION SO IT DID NOT ENJOYING THE CERTIFICATION. IT DID STAY THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER BUT THE ACCUSED OF THE PORTAL WERE NOT STATE AND THEY DO NOT NEED TO AND THEY THE US FROM EDUCATION WOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO REINSTATE ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDANCE ON TITLE SIX, THE FINAL CASE THE NAACP VERSUS EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR CASE IS THAT IT TOOK A DIFFERENT VIEW THAN THE OTHER COURTS. THE COURT KNOW THAT THE FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS WERE ACTIONS OF SCHOOL BOARDS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS SINCE THEY WERE NOT ACTIONS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE COURT KNOW THAT THERE'S NOWHERE EVENTS THAT THE VIRGINIA COURT THAT THE CAUDILLOS OF

020THE FIRST MOVE VIOLATIONS AGAIN WE'RE ACTUALLY THE SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, NOT THE FEDERAL DOCUMENTS THE COURT NO THERE'S NO EVIDENCE OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD WHICH WAS CITED IN THIS PARTICULAR HEARING WOULD REVERSE COURSE IF THE DOCUMENTS WERE ENJOYING THE CARD ALSO KNOW THAT CANNOT ENJOY MOST OF THE ACTIONS AT THE UNTIL THE ACP WAS REQUIRING SUCH AS RETURN FUNDING TO UNIVERSITIES AND IMPLEMENT POLICIES. IT DENIED THE INJUNCTION ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT BASIS BECAUSE OF THE NAACP HAD NOT MADE OUT EFFICIENT FACTS FOR THE COURT THEN TURN TO THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES CLAIMS AND THIS POINT THEY WERE LOOKING AS TO WHETHER THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER ACCUSED CONSTITUTED A LEGISLATIVE RULE IT CARRIES A FORCE OF LAW AND WITHIN REQUIRED COMPLIANCE WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT OR WHETHER THIS WAS SIMPLY A MATTER

021OF LEGISLATIVE INTERPRETATION WHICH WAS NOT SUBJECT TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT AGAIN THE COURT ANALYZE INTERMENT THAT AND TERMINATE THAT THE CONDITIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE DOCUMENTS MAKE SOME GUIDANCE AND REMINDS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS PREEXISTING OBLIGATION TO COMPLY WITH EXISTING LAW AND NOT NEW INTERPRETATIONS THEREFORE THEY FOUND THAT IT WAS NOT WAS NOT A LEGISLATIVE ROLE WAS AN INTERPRETIVE ROLE BECAUSE NOT ALL AS A IT WAS NOT REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH THE AMERICANS. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT FOR IS AND COMMENT OR PUBLICATION THE FEDERAL REGISTER. HOWEVER, THIS COURT DID FIND STANDING FOR THE PLAINTIFFS IN THIS CASE BECAUSE THEY SAID THE FAA CUES AND THE DEAR COLLEAGUE WYTHEVILLE VOID VAGUENESS CHALLENGE BECAUSE THEY DID NOT GIVE FAIR INFORMATION TO PUBLIC AS TO WHAT WOULD BE A VIOLATION OF POTENTIALLY ILLEGAL DTI AND THEREFORE GRANTED THE INJUNCTION FOR

022THE VOID FOR VAGUENESS ISSUE ONLY AGAIN AS I MENTIONED THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ARE GENERALLY DEAL WITH FEDERAL ILLUSTRATIVE OF ISSUES AND SARAH WE TEND TO PAY A LITTLE BIT MORE ATTENTION TO THIS DISTRICT COURT BECAUSE IT HAS MORE JURISDICTION IN THIS AREA QUICKLY WHAT ARE WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS THESE CASES WELL THEN PROCEED ON TO BRIEFINGS ON THEIR ASSESSMENT, THE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IS AN EARLY STEP IN A CASE TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO OR PREVENT INJURY ONCE THEY GO ON THEY WILL PROCEED TO BRIEFING DISCOVERIES MEDIA DEPOSITIONS IS COULD TAKE COULD TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS AND LONGER YOU'LL THEN GO TO HEARINGS BEFORE THE CORE OF COURSE THE COURTS WILL THEN ISSUE OPINIONS IN THE MEANTIME THE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION THEMSELVES CAN BE APPEALED ON THIS ONE THERE WILL BE APPEALED TO DIFFERENT

023COURTS OF APPEALS CASES IN FEDERAL ABLE TO GO TO THE COURT OF APPEALS IN THE FEDERAL CIRCUITS AND THEY COULD ON TO THE US SUPREME COURT SO YOU SO YOU MAY SEE DIFFERENT DECISIONS ON CASE IS COMING OUT OF JURISDICTIONS AND THE JUDGES MAY OR MAY NOT STAND THAT WILL NOT NECESSARILY AFFECT THE CASE IS GOING FORWARD WHICH YOU MAY ALSO SUGGESTED THE US DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MAY PROVIDE CLARIFICATION BECAUSE IT'S VERY CLEAR FROM ALL THE COURT ORDERS THAT THE VAGUENESS ON DOCUMENTS NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED AND THEREFORE IF I WITH THE US DEPARTMENT EDUCATION OUR PUBLIC RADIO'S AND START MAKING SOME CONNECTIONS AND WE'VE AND WE'VE SEEN THAT IN THE PAST THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE CLARIFYING LETTERS IS A POSSIBLE THE US FORM OF EDUCATION COULD YOU CLARIFY LETTERS MADE THEN A

024AFFECT HOW THE COURTS MAKE DECISIONS AND AND I WILL NOTE THAT US FROM EDUCATION HAS DONE SOME RECENT INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST K-12 THAT TWO DAYS AGO THAT HIT THE EVIDENCE IN SKOKIE, ILLINOIS SCHOOL BOARD SIXTY SIX ON A RACE DISCRIMINATION MATTER AND THAT CAME OUT OF A COMPLAINT FILED BY A TEACHER THROUGH THESE ILLEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ALSO NOTES THAT CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SO THEY ARE TAKING ACTION AGAINST K-12 AND NOT JUST THE HIGHER EDUCATION THAT POINT I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD BUT THAT IS JUST LAY THE PROCEDURAL AREAS WHERE WE ARE WITH THE COURTS RIGHT NOW. MISS MALNIK MRS. LEONETTI THE, THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS TRAINING IN ALL ONE HER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS CROSS THE COMMONWEALTH CALLED

025CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICES. HAVE THEY PAUSE THAT WORK NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE I'M ASSUMING THAT LOOKING THEY'RE LOOKING AT IT JUST AS WE'RE LOOKING SO THAT HAS NOT BEEN PASSED. ALL RIGHT. I'LL YIELD WHILE I'M TRYING TO MR. CUMMINGS SO I'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME READING THROUGH THESE CASES AND ANALYZING THEM AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EVERYTHING MEANS AND ALSO JUST TALKING TO VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS AND SEARCHING THE CASES SEARCHING INTERPRETATIONS AS WELL. AND SO MY BIGGEST CONCERN THAT I HAVE THIS IS WHERE I THINK THE PUBLIC NEEDS CLARIFICATION IS AROUND THE VAGUEST VAGUENESS RULING FROM NAACP CASE AND HOW THAT CAN POTENTIALLY INFRINGE ON FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF OUR STUDENTS TO RECEIVE INFORMATION. YOU KNOW I THINK MY >> CONCERNS SPECIFICALLY AROUND IF WE ARE ACTIVELY REVIEWING PROGRAMS ONE ,WHAT IS THE ACTUAL CRITERIA

026THAT WERE UTILIZING TO REVIEW TO >> THAT CRITERIA FROM THE EXECUTIVE ORDER HAS JUST BEEN DEEMED CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE AND THREE DOES THE REVIEWING OF THOSE PROGRAMS ACTUALLY STEP UPON OUR OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF OUR STUDENTS. I MEAN THIS IS WHAT THE JUDGE SAYS AND SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND HELP ME UNDERSTAND LIKE HOW DO WE INTERPRET THAT AS A SCHOOL BOARD HOW DO WE PUT THAT INTO I'M A LOCAL I'M A LOCAL PRAGMATIST. WE BUILT SOMETHING BASED ON A LAW AND POLICY THAT POLICY WAS SAID HEY YOU'RE TOO YOU'RE TOO VAGUE NOW WHAT DO WE WHAT WHAT HOW DO YOU SPEAK TO ME ABOUT LIKE THE VAGUENESS THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE NOW FOR VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS LET'S START WITH THE FIRST AMENDMENT THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF

027COURSE IS THE FIRST AMENDMENT. THE BILL WRITES FOR THE FIRST FREEDOM OF SPEECH ASSOCIATION, THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE INFORMATION IF THERE IS ANY POTENTIAL IMPINGEMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT THE GOVERNMENT WILL GENERALLY FIND THAT THAT IN ITSELF IS AN INJURY. SO WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING IS THERE A CHILLING EFFECT. ARE YOU TAKING ACTIONS RENT YOURSELF BEING FIRED BEING FIRED BECAUSE YOU'RE VIOLATING THIS BECAUSE LOSING FUNDS ON THAT SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IN THIS CASE ON SO THAT'S WHAT THE FIRST MOMENT COMES INTO THIS ISSUE VAGUENESS BOYD FOR VAGUENESS IS DID THE GOVERNMENT'S RULES SUFFICIENT ONLY PROVIDE YOU INFORMATION FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT ALL THE RECORDS HAVE SAID THAT APPEARS TO BE TO BE A PROBLEM WITH THE LANGUAGE AS PROVIDING THE DEAR COLLEAGUES LETTER AND THE FAA AND THAT THERE

028NEEDS TO BE FURTHER INFORMATION ON THAT. SO WHAT THAT POTENTIALLY COULD MEAN IS THAT I'M TAKING I'M CHOOSING NOT TO TEACH CAUSE I'M CHOOSING NOT TO SAY THINGS BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE IF I'M GOING TO VIOLATING THAT WHAT THE COURTS SAY THEY HAVE NOT MADE IT FINAL TERMINATION THESE ARE PRELIMINARY MATTER THOUGH. THEY SAID BASED ON THE OUT INFORMATION WE HAVE IT APPEARS THAT THERE MIGHT BE A REASON FOR US TO HALT THINGS BECAUSE POTENTIALLY THIS COULD BE A VIOLATION. IT IS NOT A FINAL DETERMINATION BY ANY MEANS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT PROVIDED SUFFICIENT INFORMATION FOR THAT. SO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING AT THIS POINT THE COURTS AT LEAST WHAT I'M SEEING CONSISTENT WITH THE IS PROBABLY EDUCATION NEED TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION BIT MORE INFORMATION NOW THERE ARE EXAMPLES THE KIDS IN

029THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTERS OR SOME AND WE FIND WE FIND THEM THEY'RE JUST NOT A LOT OF EXAMPLES ONE OF THE PHRASES THAT USES USE IS ILLEGAL DGI AND THAT SEEMS TO BE WHAT THE COURT TO FOCUS ON. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN BUT AGAIN IT'S NOT DEVOID OF IT IS NOT A LOT OF A LOT OF EXAMPLES AT THIS POINT APPEARS TO BE READ A COURT SAYS YOU NEED TO DO IT DO IT NOW WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT USUALLY UNDER THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A NEW ROLE YOU PUT IT OUT THERE AND PEOPLE COMMENT WE'VE SEEN WE'VE SEEN THAT WITH OTHER ACTORS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL TWO PEOPLE SAY THEY WOULD POINT OUT HEY, WHAT DOES DOES THIS VIOLATE THAT AND THAT WOULD GIVE THE AGENCY WOULD GIVE THE AGENCY AN

030OPPORTUNITY TO CLARIFY THAT BRING THAT BACK OUT THAT'S WHERE I NOTICE AND COMMENT AND COMMENT PERIOD MIGHT HAVE HELPED BUT WE SAW ONE COURT SAY WELL IT DOESN'T HAVE TO DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IT DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH NEWS AND COMMENTARY BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT CREATING NEW CREATING NEW LAW. THEY'RE JUST ENFORCING PRIOR TO THE OTHER CAUSES SAID WHILE WE DO THINK IT SHOULD HAVE GONE HAVE GONE THROUGH, THAT WAS THE FINAL DETERMINER ON THEIR SO AGAIN, THE FACT THAT THE COURTS FOUND THAT THERE'S A LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY MAY PROCEED DOES NOT IS NOT THE SAME THING THE COURT DETERMINATION THAT THESE ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL THAT HAS TO COME AT A LATER TIME SO I GUESS MY CONCERN IS JUST AROUND THE POTENTIAL RISK OF VIOLATING OUR STUDENTS FIRST AMENDMENT SAYS THE JUDGE SAYS ON THEIR

031RIGHT TO RECEIVE INFORMATION BASED ON DECISIONS, POTENTIAL DECISIONS FROM POLICY GUIDED BY POLICY THAT WAS DEVELOPED BY SOMETHING THAT WAS VAGUE. NOW DEFINED AS CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE AND I THINK YOU KNOW AS WE THINK ABOUT YOU KNOW AS YOU MENTIONED, WE DO EMPLOY AH YOU KNOW FOLKS FROM THE NCAA NEA. SO THERE'S THE INJUNCTION JUST WALK US THROUGH FOR THE PUBLIC LIKE UNPACK THAT A LITTLE MORE WHAT THAT MEANS I THINK FOR VIRGINIA TECH SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE THE INJUNCTION SINCE YOU KNOW, WE'D BE PART OF COMPLAINT AGAINST DUNGENESS OF THE INJUNCTION ISN'T AGAINST YOU AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL COURTS YET THE GOVERNMENT NOT ENFORCE ANY WHICH CORDURA THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER OR THE FAKE NEWS RIGHT NOW THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO COME AND TAKE AWAY YOUR FEDERAL FUNDING COURTS HAVE

032SAID THEY STILL ARE REQUIRED TO ENFORCE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS WHICH IS WHY I POINT OUT TWO CASES OF RECENTLY COME UP ON THERE SO IT'S NOT AGAINST YOU'RE DOING IT IF YOU WERE TO SUSPEND A PROGRAM STOP A PROGRAM YOU MIGHT POTENTIALLY IF YOU PREVENTED GROUP FOR MEETING AND SAID YOU CAN'T MEET BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SURE YOU COMPLY WITH THIS LAW YOU MIGHT BE INTERFERE WITH THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AT THIS I'VE NOT HEARD THAT WE HAVE SUSPENDED A PROGRAM TO STOP THE STUDENT GROUP FROM MEETING WE HAVEN'T STOPPED ANY PROGRAMS GOING TOWARD THAT I'M AWARE OF YEAH I THINK SOME FOLKS WOULD PROBABLY WOULD PROBABLY MAKE A CASE THAT SINGLING OUT GROUPS AND PROGRAMS THREE VIEW WOULD ACTUALLY PROBABLY BE SOMETHING ALONG THOSE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT LAWYER SO SOMETHING I'M

033SOMETHING THAT I'M THINKING ABOUT I THINK THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE RIGHT NOW MISS ROGERS HI, HI. THANK YOU SO MUCH SALINITY FOR YOUR PRESENTATION YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, I WANT KIND OF THINK ABOUT THE RESOLUTION ON APRIL 8TH AND WHAT WE WERE ASKING AND I GUESS THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ON WHAT OUR PRACTICE WAS WITH REGARD TO THE SUSPENSION THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PLACE WERE WE IN VIOLATION OF TITLE PRIOR TO APRIL 8TH IN ANY OF OUR PROGRAMING I'M NOT AWARE THAT WE'RE IN VIOLATION I DO KNOW THAT USING WE'RE USING THE DCI NAME WAS POTENTIALLY GOING TO OPEN THIS UP TO LITIGATION BUT AGAINST POVERTY WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT SO THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE A QUEUE CAME OUT SO WE WERE ALREADY LOOKING AT BEFORE YOU RESOLUTION CAME

034IN AND WE KNEW THE BASE OF THE UNIVERSITIES THAT THEY HAD CHANGED THAT NAME OK BUT THAT WAS BASED ON THE EXECUTIVE THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, NOT BASED ON VIOLATING TITLE SIX, CORRECT? CORRECT WE DID NOT BELIEVE WE WERE IN VIOLATION OF TITLE SIX WE TOOK THAT ACTION BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT WAS A DIRECT ORDER FROM THE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION THAT WE DON'T WANT TO BE INVOKED PRIOR TO THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WE WERE NOT IN VIOLATION OF TITLE SIX I'M NOT AWARE THAT WE WERE IN VIOLATION OF THE OF TITLE SIX BUT THAT WOULD NOT AGAIN I DIDN'T LOOK THROUGH LOOK THROUGH EVERY PROGRAM OR CURRICULUM YOU HAVE AND HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S INTERPRETING IT OK, AND THEN PRIOR TO THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WHERE WE IN VIOLATION OF ANY STATE LAW WITH OUR PROGRAMING ALL RIGHT. WHY

035DON'T WE LIMIT THIS TO TITLE ENTITLES THAT'S ALL LAWS WELL, THAT'S ALL LAWS I CAN'T DEAL WITH I JUST I JUST MEAN I JUST I JUST MEAN WITH WITH WE WERE FOLLOWING OUR STATE LAWS AS WHAT I'M ASKING BUT PRIOR TO THE EXECUTIVE ORDER COMING OUT AND WE WERE FOLLOWING TITLE SIX THAT'S MY QUESTION AND AND YOU SAID YES TITLE SIX WHICH IS SUPERINTENDENT TOLD YOU THAT HE BELIEVED YOU WERE IN COMPLIANCE ? WE THOUGHT WE WERE COMPLIANCE WE DID KNOW THAT YOU THE NEW ORDERS THAT YOU CANNOT HAVE THE DCI PROGRAMS RIGHT ON THERE AND SOME OF THE EQUITY ISSUES AND WE NEEDED TO REMOVE SOME OF THAT LANGUAGE AND SO THIS IS WHERE I'M HAVING AS I'M HAVING AS YOU LIKE TO SAY, HEARTBURN IS THAT THE INJUNCTION IS AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

036THAT SAYS WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, REMOVE DEA AND SO ARE WE ACTING BASED ON AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT'S NOW IN AN INJUNCTION? WOULD THAT PUT US IN LIABILITY AND BEFORE YOU ANSWER, I ALSO WANT JUST FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS AN ASIDE I GUESS THERE'S A PUBLICATION CALLED EDUCATION WEEKLY THAT IS A NATIONAL PUBLICATION AND EVERY YEAR THEY HAVE LEADERS IN LEARNING AND THAT IS RECOGNIZED THE BEST OF THE BEST IN OUR NATION IN TWENTY TWENTY FIVE OUR OWN MR. HARRIS IS HAS BEEN NAMED THE LEADER IN LEARNING FOR OUR PRACTICES IN DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID THAT WE WHERE THE PEOPLE LEADING THE NATION ON OUR BEST PRACTICES NOT ON SOMETHING THAT WE WERE DOING ILLEGALLY. WE WERE THE LEADERS AND BEST PRACTICE AND

037SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT SKUZZY WERE WERE IN THE BUSINESS PART OF OUR MEETING SO CLAPPING AND BETWEEN SPEAKERS IS FINE BUT NOT CLAPPING AND BETWEEN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. THANK YOU ANYWAY SO SALINITY I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT IS LIABILITY IF WE ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SUSPENDED THESE PROGRAMS BASED ON AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT'S UNDER CURRENT INJUNCTION OR DO YOU WANT TO CLARIFY FOR YOU THAT INTERVENING CASE THERE WAS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CASE, THE STUDENTS FOR FREE ADMISSION VERSUS HARBORED IN THE U.N. SEE WHICH HAS CHANGED SOME OF THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW SO PART OF THIS TIME WE WERE FOLLOWING GUIDANCE AND FEDERAL LAW THAT LAW HAS CHANGED HOW THAT'S INTERPRETED IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE COURT CASES WILL DEAL WITH

038SO LONGSTANDING INTERPRETATIONS OF TITLE SIX HAVE CHANGED THE TWENTY TWENTY THREE SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE HAVING TO DEAL WITH THAT'S. THAT'S A NEW ISSUE FOR US THEY AND YOU'VE SEEN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ARE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR OWN INTERPRETATION THE NEW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES COMING INTERPRETING IT DIFFERENTLY. SO THE FACT THAT WE MIGHT BE IN COMPLIANCE BEFORE WE'RE NOT CURRENTLY SAYING WE'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE RIGHT NOW IF WE ARE FOLLOWING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THERE INTERPRETING IT DIFFERENTLY. BUT IS IT EXECUTIVE ORDER LAW. NO, IT IS INTERPRETATIONS BUT IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S NOT LAW BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THAT WILL THE THINGS THAT THE THE COURTS ARE GOING COURTS ARE GOING TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT'S LEGISLATIVE OR A LEGISLATOR INTERPRETIVE RULING BECAUSE THIS WHERE LIKE THE EXECUTIVE ORDER YOU JUST SAID IT'S NOT LAW IT DEPENDS ON

039WHETHER WE SAY ONE THE ISSUES YOU'RE DEALING WITH IS WHETHER IT IS A LEGISLATIVE ROLE, A A STATUTE THAT TO FOLLOW OR AN INTERPRETIVE RULING DEPENDING AND THAT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT THE COURTS LOOK AT BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER. NO, YOU ARE A PRELIMINARY PRELIMINARY DECISIONS WITH THE COURTS. RIGHT. AND SO OUR PRACTICES PRIOR TO THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WERE NOT ILLEGAL. WE ESTABLISHED THAT. SO I'M JUST CONCERNED THAT WE ARE MOVING OURSELVES INTO A POSITION TO BE LITIGATED AGAINST BASED ON WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING AND I'LL YIELD MISS FULTON THE ISSUE BROWN ATTORNEY LANNY HAS THIS A VISION AND IT'S TWO THINGS I WANT TO TALK YOU ABOUT BUT WANT TO START WITH VAGUENESS FIRST BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SEEM TO BE ON THE TABLE ESPECIALLY

040HAD ONLY WITH SOME OF THE MY COLLEAGUES BUT ALSO WITH YOUR STUDENTS WAS ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT OUR NEXT STEPS BECAUSE WHAT WE ARE DOING WILL IMPACT THEM WHEN WE MOVE FORWARD SO I'M BEING ASKED QUESTIONS THAT I REALLY CANNOT ANSWER BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'RE SEEING. THE INTERPRETATION HAS COME DOWN OR THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT HAS COME DOWN. IT LEADS ME TO ASK THIS QUESTION HAS A DIVISION HAS A DIVISION ANY FORMAL OR IN OR ANY INFORMAL DIRECT AND GUARDIANS OF WHAT WE ARE TO HALT STOP ON THAT MOVE FORWARD WHEN IT COMES TO THE ETAI THIS IS CONCERNED A CONCERN BECAUSE YOUR STUDENTS ARE ASKING ME NOW THAT YOU HAVE NOW THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD TO AND HAVE DONE TO GUT THE DIVERSITY THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY THEY NEED TO KNOW NOW ARE

041WE GOING TO GO AND JUST GOT TO LEAVE IT AT THAT WHAT? WHAT PROTECTION DO THEY HAVE BECAUSE WHEN THE STUDENTS VOTE ON APRIL 22ND THIS BOOK LOUD AND CLEAR NOT ONLY THAT WHEN I ATTENDED DISAPPOINTING ADVISORY BOARD WITH SEVERAL STUDENTS OVER STUDENTS IN THE ROOM AND THE MAIN TOPIC OF THE DAY WAS WHERE ARE WE MOVING WHAT OUR NEXT STEPS REALLY COMES PROTECTING THEM AS BEING THE AVERAGE STUDENT AND HAVE A DIVERSE STUDENTS THERE SO MY QUESTION GOVERNMENT QUESTION GOVERNOR, MY QUESTION HOW WE RECEIVE ANY KIND INFORMATION OR FORMAL OR INFORMAL OF IDEAS OF WHAT PLUCKED OUT WHAT WE WHAT WE HAVE WHAT WE DON'T DO, HOW WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANYTHING FROM THEM START WITH YOUR ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS REMAIN IN EFFECT AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS SAID THEY INTEND TO ENFORCE THEM. SO WE'VE

042NOT PULLED OUT ANY OF OUR ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ON HARASSMENT LAWS THAT'S STILL ON BOOKS THEY. THEY ARE STILL IN EFFECT WHAT YOU'VE GOT AS FAR AS GUIDANCE CAME OUT A LITTLE BIT IN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IT CAME OUT MORE IN THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER FROM FEBRUARY 14TH OR SOME GUIDANCE IN THERE AND THE FAA CUZ I CAME OUT IN TWENTY THERE'S SOME GUIDANCE THERE. MISS MELNIK THE OPERATIVE WORD IN THIS ENTIRE SCENARIO IS THE WORD VAGUE AND OUR DIVISION HAS REACTED TO EVEN WITH THE COURTS ARE DEEMING RIGHT NOW VAGUENESS I MEAN WE'VE WE'VE WE'VE TAKEN STUFF OFF OUR WALLS. OUR SCHOOLS ARE MISSING ART WE ARE AN UNBALANCED BOARD RIGHT HERE JUST VISUALLY AND WE WE REACTED SO QUICKLY AND WE HAVE NO DIRECTION EVERY JUDGE HAS USED THE WORD VAGUE WE'RE USING THE WORD

043VAGUE WE DON'T KNOW DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL OUR FAMILIES WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL OUR STUDENTS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL TO TELL EACH OTHER QUITE FRANKLY WE HAVE NO IDEA. AND SO IT'S WHY A GROUP OF PEOPLE JUST ASK FOR A PAUSE AND I'M SORRY AT THE PUBLIC WE GOT SO MANY EMAILS ABOUT REVOTES. IT'S NOT A REVOTE IT'S A PAUSE. IT'S JUST OK, LET'S STOP AND LET'S GET SOME DIRECTION AND THEN WE CAN WE CAN GO FROM THERE WE ARE WE ARE PAUSING PROGRAMS I DON'T WE ARE THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE INVESTIGATING RIGHT NOW AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO INVESTIGATE OR THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT IS AND THIS JUST REALLY UNFAIR TO OUR COMMUNITY . WE DON'T HAVE ANSWERS

044I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THE EMAILS THAT ARE COMING IN THE CHAIR IS ANSWERING THEM BUT IT'S A IT'S A THANK YOU FOR YOUR THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY EITHER. AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE FAIR TO MY COMMUNITY. IT'S IT'S REALLY THE ONE TIME I FEEL LIKE I HAVEN'T HAD ANY ANSWER IN THE TEN AND A FIVE YEARS I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE THAT I HAVEN'T HAD AN ANSWER FOR MY COMMUNITY AND I JUST WANT TO PAUSE AND WAIT FOR JUDGES AND THEN WE GO FROM THERE. VICE CHAIR JAMES MM. I WILL TAKE THE LIBERTY TO COMMENT ON OUR CURRENT CHAIR AS THE CHAIR BEFORE HER AND A CHAIR BEFORE THAT AND THE CHAIR BEFORE THAT ANSWERS MANY EMAILS AND I APPRECIATE ALL APPRECIATE ALL THE

045CHAIRS ANSWERING EMAILS AND SHE IS DOING SO AND CONSISTENCY WITH THE FORMER CHAIR. SO I APPRECIATE AND AS FAR AS A REVOTE I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF US VOTED ON APRIL 8TH AND NOW WE'RE HERE AGAIN YOU CAN CALL IT WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BUT I YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD AND TWENTY FOUR TWENTY SOMETHING YEARS AND THIS IS THE FIRST IS QUITE INTERESTING. IT'S DISAPPOINTING BUT SO SO PERHAPS IT'S NOT QUOTED AS A REVOTE BUT AS ITS REVISITING WHAT THE WILL OF THIS BOARD DECIDED AND VOTED ON JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO MALNATI SO THESE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIONS OR VERY INTERPRETIVE. CORRECT. THEY CAN CHANGE THEY CAN BE OVERRULED OR MOVE TO A DIFFERENT COURT AND SO DO WE HAVE AN ANSWER WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GET COMPLETE 100

046PERCENT THIS IS WHAT YOU DO OR DON'T DO OK THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL YOU. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU. I HAVE COME TO MISS MELNYK YOU MENTIONED AND I WANT TO CLARIFY FOR A PUBLIC THAT THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS THE ABILITY TO GO BACK AND TO CLARIFY SEPARATE FROM WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE COURTS RIGHT NOW CORRECT IN THAT AND THAT HAPPENS PERIODICALLY. OK, SO IT COULD BE WITH ALL OF THIS PUSH BACK THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON LANGUAGE RIGHT NOW THAT MIGHT HELP A SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN FIGURING THIS WHOLE THING OUT AND THAT'S A POSSIBILITY OF ITS MAIN CHANGE THE NATURE OF COURT HERE AND SPENDING. OK, THANK YOU I'M GOING TO GO TO DR. GREEN FIRST BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE HAS HAD THE CHANCE TO SPEAK. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR

047I'M FOLLOWING BACK UP TO WHAT BUSINESS WINDS AND MRS MELNIK INDICATED ABOUT WHAT THE REQUEST IS WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAJORITY HAS ALREADY INSTITUTED AND START IMPLEMENTING THE RESOLUTION FROM APRIL 8TH. HOWEVER, THERE THINGS IN THAT RESOLUTION THAT HAVE NOT TAKEN PLACE AND THAT IS WHAT THE REQUEST IS FOR IS PAUL'S UNTIL WE KNOW HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO BE ADJUDICATED IN THE COURT SYSTEM. WHY WE CONTINUE TO PENALIZE STUDENTS AT THE WHIM OF ADULTS TRYING TO HOLD FAST ON A LOT OF PROBABILITIES THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FINAL OUTCOME IS GOING TO BE SO AGAIN IT IS PAUSING IS NOT ASKING FOR REVOTE THINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE LIKE WE'VE RETITLE THE OFFICE OF WHAT USED TO BE EQUITY WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR YOU TO GO BACK AND RESTORE THE WE KNOW THAT'S

048NOT GONNA TO HAPPEN THINGS SUCH AS COMING OFF THE WALLS WE KNOW PICTURES ARE NOT GOING BACK UP ON THE WALLS THE POLLS IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT ANY MORE THINGS COMING OFF THE WALLS WE ALSO HAVE A POLICY REVIEW COMING UP THAT IS SIGNIFICANT AND AGAIN THIS HAS NOT BEEN ADJUDICATED YET AND IT COULD BE A LONG PROCESS IT COULD COME TO US IN THREE WEEKS BUT IN THE MEANTIME WE SHOULD NOT CONTINUE TO BE STUDENTS AROUND TODAY IS THIS TOMORROW'S BAD. LET'S PUT STUDENTS PRIOR MAKE THEM OUR PRIORITY FOR CONSISTENCY RIGHT NOW THAT THEY KNOW BASED ON HOW WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED THINGS THUS FAR WE GET IT WE KNOW WHAT'S NOT GOING TO BE BE VOTED. THE REQUEST AGAIN IS TO PASS THE NONSENSE MISS FOUNTAIN FOR THE REGION BECAUSE I HIT THE BUTTON

049TO SPEAK THAT THE GREEN HIS ADDRESS WHAT I WAS GOING TO ADDRESS AS WELL ASKING TO REVOLT OR RESTATE REVOTE OR RESTATE. WE ARE ASKING REPORT BECAUSE THE WORD IS VAGUE AND IF SOME OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS ARE SAYING WE'RE GOING TO HOLD OFF WE CAN'T USE THAT. THERE IS VAGUENESS TO WE JUST ASKING FOR, YOU KNOW, BUT NOT BIT HARDER WHEN I HEAR THE WORD ENDING RACIAL INDOCTRINATION WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS SYSTEM, IT REKINDLE A FACT THAT AND KNOW THAT HAPPENED INDOCTRINATION AND IT WAS DONE WITH AMERICAN TO PROMOTE THE PLANTATION AND IT HAPPENED TO HAPPEN IT CONTINUED TONIGHT IN THE IN THE SIXTIES STUDENTS AND THEIR AIM WAS TO FORCE ASSIMILATE THEY PUT THEM IN AN EDUCATION SYSTEM AND THEY THEY AWAY THEIR CULTURE READ IT. LOOK IT UP SIX MINUTES TO LOAD UP

050AND ALONG DOCUMENT THAT HOW THEY DID THAT. NOT ONLY THAT SOME AWFUL THINGS WERE DONE WITH A HOW THEY HAD BERIO ROUNDS OF THOSE STUDENTS MASS GRAVES STILL LOOKING THEM TODAY SO WHEN I HEARD THIS WORD RACIAL INDOCTRINATION I DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING HERE IN OUR SYSTEM BUT IT HAS HAPPEN IN OUR HISTORY DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. READ UP ON IT LOOK AT LOOK IT UP INDIGENOUS IN THIS COUNTRY SO I DON'T THINK THAT'S HAPPENING ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TOOK THE TIME OUT TO STRUCTURE AN EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY EQUITY POLICY TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WOULD NEVER BE HAPPENING. SONG WORDS ARE JUST OUT OF THE AIR BUT THAT ONE INDOCTRINATION AND I COULD GO A LITTLE DEEPER BUT TIME WILL ALLOW ME THERE HAVE BEEN SOME INDOCTRINATION DONE ACTUALLY TAKING YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR CULTURE,

051YOUR GOD IN THIS COUNTRY BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE ARE DOING IN OUR SYSTEM AND I'M APPALLED THAT THEY WOULD PUT THIS IN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ENDING RACIAL INDOCTRINATION MISS ROGERS AND THINKS I'M I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW UP REALLY QUICK, MRS LEONETTI HAS THERE BEEN A TIME THAT THE BOARD WAS ASKED OR THE DIVISION WAS ASKED TO CHANGE YOUR REVISIT DECISIONS BASED ON A CHANGE OF FEDERAL STATE LAW I'M NOT SURE WE'VE HAD QUITE THE SITUATION. I KNOW DURING WE WERE SLIPPING BACK AND FORTH VERY QUICKLY ON THINGS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T THEY WERE CHANGING RIGHT SO WHEN THINGS CHANGED THEN WE THE BOARD WAS ASKED TO CHANGE AND IT'S ACTUALLY GREAT METAPHORE EVEN THINK ABOUT LIKE ESPECIALLY DURING COVERED WHEN COVID WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT MEDICAL AND WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD MASK

052UNMASK I. I WAS I WAS A TEACHER IN THE CLASSROOM BACK THEN AND SO THE BOARD WAS CHANGING DECISIONS BASED ON THE INFORMATION THEY WERE GETTING AS IT CAME DOWN CORRECT. SO IT'S NOT UNHEARD FOR THIS BOARD TO BE ASKING FOR CHANGE BECAUSE WE HAVE NEW INFORMATION COMING FROM THE COURTS. IS THAT REASONABLE I CAN'T THINK OF A DIRECT EXAMPLE WHERE WE'VE HAD SOMETHING I'M MAKING THE COMPARISON IT'S SIMILAR TO WHEN WE HAD INFORMATION COMING OUT OF THE MEDICAL FIELD ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING AND WE MADE DECISIONS BASED THAT AND MY POINT IS IS, IS THAT I BELIEVE WE'RE NOT THIS ISN'T TO BE SNEAKY WE HAVE NEW INFORMATION. WE ASKING FOR A PAUSE BECAUSE WE HAVE NEW INFORMATION. THANK MR CUMMINGS YEAH I'LL REITERATE SOME OF THE OF THE THINGS THAT MY

053COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID THAT >> WE'RE BUSY PEOPLE . I HAVE A FULL TIME JOB OVER FAMILY THERE'S NO SNEAKY AGENDA THERE'S NO SNEAKY AGENDA TO HAVE MORE SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS WE HAVE DISCIPLINE MEETINGS. WE HAVE COMMITTEE WORK I'M MARRIED I GOT TWO KIDS ALMOST KIDS. I'M ALMOST TWENTY YEARS AND YOU'RE LIKE MY FAMILY MISSES ME ALL RIGHT. THIS IS A UNIQUE SCENARIO UNIQUE SITUATION NEVER AND NEVER. AND WE JUST LEARN WHEN IN I MEAN I'M NEW, RIGHT? LIKE WHEN HAVE WE HAD EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED THAT THEN GET YOU KNOW, COURT CASES RULING WITHIN WEEKS FROM THREE JUDGES AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN ALL JUDGES POLITICALLY AGREE WITH THEIR TWO OF THE JUDGES ON THE OPPOSITE THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SO I DON'T SEE THIS AS AN ACTIVIST JUDGE CASE I SEE

054THE RULINGS TO BE VERY CLEAR WITH THE ASPECTS THAT WE STRUGGLED WITH ON APRIL 8TH LIKE WHEN WE WERE SITTING YOU'RE ASKING LIKE WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IF WE SUSPEND THIS POLICY? WHAT ARE THE PROGRAMS IMPACTED THOSE ARE THE VERY THINGS THAT I WAS ASKING UP HERE ON DIETS AND THIS IS MY THOUGHTS FOR THE PUBLIC IS READ THE RULINGS DON'T GO READ THE BLOGS ABOUT THE RULINGS SIT DOWN AND IF YOU WANT TO BE LAZY YOU CAN UPLOAD A CHAPTER MAYBE ASK YOU TO SUMMARIZE IT AND YOU COULD AND THAT MIGHT NOT EVEN BE RIGHT BUT SIT DOWN AND READ THE HIGHLIGHTS, READ THE RULINGS THE JUDGE SAYS WHAT COURSES TAUGHT MY PROFESSORS WHO PROMOTE THE VIEW THAT SYSTEMIC RACISM EXISTS AND AT THE RACE CAN BE CENTRAL TO ONE'S EXPERIENCE AND IDENTITY BE

055A UNLAWFUL THERE'S A SCHOOL'S BLACKBERRY LAW STUDENT UNION OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS NONETHELESS TREE BLACK STUDENTS DIFFERENTLY ON THE BASIS OF RACE THE CHALLENGE DOCUMENTS PROVIDE NO ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS AND NO CLEAR BOUNDARIES OF THE FORBIDDEN AREAS TO GUIDE SCHOOLS COMPLIANCE WITH A CERTIFICATION OR TO THE LIMIT THE DEPARTMENT ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS WE ARE TASKED AS A SCHOOL BOARD WITH MAKING POLICY AND WE ARE GIVEN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT IS EXTREMELY VAGUE THAT NOW PUTS US AT RISK A POTENTIAL FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS THAT'S WHAT THE WHAT THE JUDGE SAYS THAT'S NOT MATT CUMMINGS OPINION AS WHAT IS SAID IN THIS NAACP CASE BUT I DON'T POLITICALLY AGREE WITH AND SO AT THE END OF THE DAY >> IF THEY WANT THE ISSUE EXECUTIVE ORDERS, THAT'S THEIR RIGHT. BUT GOT TO DO A BETTER JOB OF

056WRITING POLICY BECAUSE THIS PUTS THIS IMPACTS OUR LOCAL KIDS I MEAN THE KIDS ARE ASKING LIKE WHAT PROGRAMS ARE IMPACTED WE DON'T KNOW WHAT COURSES ARE IMPACTED. WE DON'T KNOW WE MAKE A GUESS AND WE MAKE THE WRONG GUESS THAT STEPS IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS I THOUGHT WE WERE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AND THAT IS CLEARLY WHAT THIS SO WE'RE ASKING FOR A PAUSE. I THINK IT'S WITHIN COMMON SENSE TO SEE WHAT IS BEING SAID AT THE COURT LEVEL AND BEING HEY WHAT'S CHANGED EVERYTHING ON EVERYTHING ON THIS RESOLUTION BUT LET'S POSIT IMPLEMENTATION UNTIL LITIGATION COMES OR BRINGING BETTER BRING FORWARD POLICY THAT IS COMPLIANT LEGALLY AND YOU KNOW, DOESN'T ADDRESS ADDRESSES THE CONCERNS WITHIN THE JUDGES AND WHAT STATED SO I ENCOURAGE ONCE ENCOURAGE ONCE AGAIN PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, PULL PUT THE COURT RULINGS

057READ THROUGH THEM >> SEE, SEE THE CONCERNS THAT THEY'VE HAD AND THOSE ARE THE REAL CONCERNS THAT I THINK AS POLICYMAKERS IS THAT WHY ARE WE HERE TODAY MATT DOESN'T WANT MORE MEETINGS IN HIS LIFE. ALL RIGHT. BUT WHAT I DO WANT IS JUSTICE FOR OUR KIDS. I WANT OUR HIS IN THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO BE PROTECTED TO RECEIVE INFORMATION AND I WANT US TO HAVE A CLEAR GUIDING DOCUMENTS TO GUIDE POLICY AND I THINK THAT IS EXTREMELY FAIR FOR US AND THESE COURT CASES ALL AGREE WITH THAT MASSAGERS MISS ROGERS, SINCE YOU'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU SPEAK A FEW TIMES IF YOU COULD JUST BE SUSTAINED IN YOUR REMARKS WITH ONE MORE PRESENTATION WERE MISLED RUNNING BEFORE WE GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT, I THINK IT IS SO THAT ONE OF THE RULINGS THE

058COURT SAID THAT THE DEPARTMENT MAY NOT DIRECT SUPERVISOR CONTROL CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION TEXTBOOKS OR LIBRARY SELECTIONS MAY ACT ON THE HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL TO CENSOR SOUNDS VIEWPOINTS A DISFAVORS TO ME THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT THE COURTS HAVE AFFIRMED THAT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL VIRGINIA BEACH WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT TEACH IN OUR SCHOOLS AND THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONTROL WHAT'S TAUGHT AND WHAT NEEDS AND WE TO RETAIN THAT RIGHT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I PROMISED WHEN I WHEN I MADE MY OATH IS THAT WOULD SERVE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR RIGHTS AS A SCHOOL BOARD ARE MAINTAINED THAT WE GET TO MAINTAIN CONTROL THIS IS PART OF MY ISSUE WITH US COMPLYING WITH AN

059EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT IS STILL UNDER LITIGATION. THANKS. OK, ALL RIGHT. MISS LEONETTI, LET'S MOVE ON TO THE INFORMATION ON MOTION TO AMEND. THIS IS THE MOTION THAT IS IN THE NOTICE TO CALL SPECIFICALLY THEY'RE ASKING TO AMEND THE PREVIOUS VOTE NAMELY TO MEN THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION WHICH WAS TITLED TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PAUSE THE AMENDMENT POSSIBLE THOUGH LISTED PORTIONS OF THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNTIL OF FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED WHETHER EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOR ONE NINE ZERO CAN BE ENFORCED AND SPECIFICALLY THE SECTION THAT THEY'RE ASKING A PAUSE AND THE RESOLUTION OR SECTION ONE THREE FOR FIVE AND FIVE AND SIX UNDER SECTION TWO AND BRING THIS UP IN THE SECOND RESOLUTION SECTION TWO THE SECOND SENTENCE BECAUSE THE FIRST

060PART OF THE SENTENCE HAD TO DO WITH CHANGING NAME DEPARTMENT THAT'S ALREADY DONE THE SECOND SENTENCE REGARDING SUSPENSION ALL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH FEDERAL GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EQUITY PLAN THE EQUITY DASHBOARD IN AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS WOULD NOT COMPLY. SO THESE ARE SECTIONS FROM THESE ARE THE THEREFORE SECTIONS OUT OF THE SCOPE OF RESOLUTION FROM APRIL 8TH SECTION ONE SO. SO WE'VE HIGHLIGHTED THOSE PORTIONS WE'RE ASKING THEY WOULD BE ASKING TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL BOARD CITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTS THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DOES IT NEED WITH LOCAL OF THE SCHOOL BOARD TO TAKE NECESSARY STEPS TO COMPLY FEDERAL GUIDELINES UNDER TITLE SEX TO NOT THE FIRST SENTENCE THE SECOND PART WHICH YOU JUST READ HAD TO DO WITH THE SUSPENSION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. THE OH NO

061OK ARE DETERMINED DON'T KNOW. RIGHT. I NEED TO GET BACKGROUND AND TECHNICAL FILTERED HAVE THOUGHT ME OFF HERE THREE ESCOBAR DIRECTS THE SUPERINTENDENT TO SUSPEND POLICY SUSPEND POLICY FIVE FOUR UNTIL THE POLICY VIEW COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR APPROVAL. NO LATER THAN MAY PREFER A TWENTY TWENTY FIVE FOR THE SCHOOL BREXIT SUPERINTENDENT DESIGNEE TO WORK WITH LEGAL COUNSEL WITH LOCAL COUNCIL FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS BEEN ANY PORTION OF THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TWENTY THIRTY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALL REFERENCES EQUITY EQUITY EMPHASIS DIVERSIFIED WORKFORCE THE EQUITY DASHBOARD RACIAL EMPHASIS FIVE SCHOOL PROJECTS A SUPERINTENDENT OR DOES IT NEED TO RECOMMEND MODIFICATION TO THE FIVE AND TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY THIRTY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH GUIDANCE FOR INFORMATION

062NO LATER THAN ME FIFTEEN TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SIX ESCOBAR DIRECTS THE SUPERINTENDENT DOESN'T NEED SUPERINTENDENT DESIGNEE TO WORK WITH LOCAL COUNSEL FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO EVALUATE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS IN PURCHASING PRACTICES, ENSURE CONSISTENCY AND WE DID NOT THE PAUSE WITH DID NOT INCLUDE SECTION SEVEN IN SECTION WHICH OF THE OTHER REFORM THEREFORE CAUSES THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE MOTION SO THAT'S WHERE AND I THINK YOU DO HAVE YOUR PACKAGE A COPY THE RESOLUTION OK SEEING A DISCUSSION WE WILL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL NOW HEAR PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS AND DELEGATIONS WHO SIGNED UP WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD PRIOR TO NOON TODAY RELATED TO THE MOTION TO MEANT THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE RESOLUTION AS DISCUSSED THE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION IS FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO OFFER

063ORDERLY FOREIGN TO RECEIVE COMMENTS RELATED TO THE MOTION DURING THE MEETING I CALL UPON ALL SPEAKERS AND ALL PERSONS IN THE CHAMBERS TO BE CIVIL AND DISCUSSION AND DECORUM WHATEVER VIEWS YOU WISH TO EXPRESS THE SCHOOL BOARD WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU AND ENSURE THAT ALL VIEWPOINTS AND PERSPECTIVE ARE HEARD THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS IS FOR ALL OF US TO STRIVE FOR CIVILITY AND RESPECT MADAM CLARK WOULD YOU PLEASE YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST SPEAKER MANAGER BEFORE ANNOUNCED THE SPEAKER'S I WANT TO MAKE A NOTE THAT SPEAKER NUMBER FIFTEEN SPEAKER NUMBER TWENTY AND SPEAKER NUMBER THIRTY SEVEN ALL CANCELED NUMBER FIFTEEN, NUMBER TWENTY AND NUMBER THIRTY SEVEN THANK YOU. OK, OUR FIRST SPEAKERS ARE OUR STUDENT SPEAKERS. WE HAVE HOPE PINSKI MADELIN SHEETS AND NASHVILLE AND IF I COULD JUST ASK THAT AS

064YOUR NAMES ARE CALLED TO LINE UP IF YOU COULD LINE UP IN THE HALL SO THAT WE CAN GET EVERYBODY UP THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS HOPING TO SKI A JUNIOR FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL IN THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY AS A STUDENT I'VE BEEN AFFECTED EVERY DAY BY SO-CALLED D.C.I POLICIES POLICIES PROMOTE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION OR INCLUSION ARE THE ONLY REASON I AM ABLE TO PURSUE MY PASSIONS FOR EXAMPLE POLICIES SUCH AS DIVERSITY HAVE ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE THE ACCEPTANCE OF STUDENTS IN MY ACADEMY BY ACADEMIC CONTRARY TO WHAT RIGHT WING RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS MAY SUGGEST, I ENCOURAGING THE INCLUSION OF MORE STUDENTS THE VOTERS ROSTERS HAVE BEEN DIVERSIFIED TO INCORPORATE STUDENTS DON'T FIT THE TYPICAL MOLD AND DOESN'T ENCOURAGE AND EXCLUDE EXCLUSION PURELY BECAUSE OF WHAT A PERSON LOOKS LIKE

065BUT INSTEAD BY THEIR ACADEMICS CLAIMING OTHERWISE MAY SEEM LIKE A MINORITY GROUPS AREN'T WEAPONS BUT THIS CLAIM WOULD BE EASILY DROPPED OFF TO SET FOOT IN MY SCHOOL EQUITY POLICIES SUCH AS POSSIBLE FOR PLANS OR OPEN EXPLOSION EXPLORATION OF DIFFERENT LEARNING TYPES HAVE ENCOURAGED MY DEVELOPMENT I'M I AM A STUDENT WITH ADHD AND ANXIETY AND I DIDN'T NOTICE MYSELF WITH IT SAYS IT ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO AND HONESTLY BACK IF I WOULD BEEN TESTED SOONER I WOULD HAVE HAD A BETTER EXPERIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING MYSELF AND WHY BEHAVE IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE SEE AS ODD AND EXCESSIVE WITH THE FIVE, FIVE OR FOUR PLAN THAT US ALL THE TIME I AM ABLE TO TALK TO MY COUNSELORS WHENEVER NEEDED AND HAVE ACCESS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT I NEED INCLUSION IS WHERE I FEEL THE REAL

066PROBLEM LIES IN THIS POLICY CLUB SUCH AS STUDENT ASIAN UNION BIBLE CLUB GSA AND WOMEN IN STEM ALLOW GROUPS TO GET TOGETHER AND SHARE IDEAS THEY HAVE IN COMMON. YOU WHAT I FIND PARTICULARLY INTERESTING ABOUT THESE CLUBS IS THAT EVEN IF YOU AREN'T THAT SPECIFIC GROUP THEY ALLOW YOU TO JOIN AND LEARN ABOUT THEM THEY AREN'T EXCLUSIVE AND THEY ARE TRYING TO INDOCTRINATE YOUR KIDS AS MISFORTUNE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO IS PROVIDE SAFE SPACES FOR STUDENTS THAT MIGHT NOT BE THE AVERAGE STUDENT WHO FEEL UNSAFE AND ALIENATED IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE I BELIEVE THAT IF YOU ARE PARENTS WHO TRULY HERE ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN YOU WILL WANT THEM TO FIND A PLACE WHERE THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE AND SAFE MANY OF YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KIDS WHO FEEL THIS WAY BUT WE

067NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE KIDS WHO ARE CONSTANTLY BEING TOLD BY PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THESE POLICIES THIS THAT THEY'RE SAFE SPACES ARE WRONG AND DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY DON'T FIT THE OLDER CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY EVERY I WORKED MY OFF TRYING TO PROTECT MY FRIENDS AND MY RIGHTS AGAINST OTHER STUDENTS WHO BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING I BELIEVE IN AND FIGHT FOR IS WRONG WHOLE CROSSING THE FLOOR AND THEY MAKE STUDENTS AND THEY MAKE STUDENTS WHO AREN'T LIKE PUBLIC PARIAHS POLICIES LIKE THIS ONE OR WOULD INCARCERATION THE CREATION OF OF A UNIFORM SOCIETY AND GET RID OF ANYONE THAT IS QUOTE UNQUOTE DIFFERENT. I FOR ONE NEVER LIVE IN A SOCIETY WHERE EVERYONE WHERE EVERYONE IS EXACTLY LIKE ME PLEASE DO NOT COMPLY WITH A HARMFUL AND USELESS EXECUTIVE ORDER SUPPORT THE STUDENTS YOU CLAIM TO FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT

068MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE MEMBERS WHO HAVE RAISED CONCERNS STUDENTS AND I'VE LISTENED CLOSELY TO US. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MADELEINE SHEETS THEN NASH PHILLIPS GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MADELEINE SHEETS AND I'M A SOPHOMORE AT FIRST COLONIAL SCHOOL IN THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY I WAS HERE WAS HERE AT THE LAST MEETING TO BACK ON THE AFTER THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTED TO BAN IT WITH NO PUBLIC COMMENT I'VE COME HERE AGAIN TO URGE THE SCHOOL BOARD TO REINSTATE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT SOME OF THE CLAIMS MADE AT THE SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOL BOARD MEETING WERE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED BEING PULLED FROM SCHOOLS AND I'M SURE EVERYONE WHO VOTED AGAINST THIS ALSO AGREES WITH THIS THAT DCI IS MAKING IT SO YOUR KIDS AND

069BY YOUR KIDS I MEAN WHITE KIDS ARE GOING TO HAVE A HARDER TIME BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO HISTORICALLY MIGHT HAVE A HARDER TIME GETTING INTO SCHOOLS LIKE ODIASE DIFFERENT ACADEMIES OR JUST FEELING OR JUST FINALLY FEELING INCLUDED IN THOSE PLACES BUT REALLY THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THIS ARE SO RACIST OF POINT YOU'RE BLIND TO IT AND I FEEL I NEED TO VIRUSES BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT YOU SIT. YOU SIT HERE AND YOU START SEEING SEEING THESE THINGS BEING MORE FAIR WHERE YOUR KID DOESN'T GET A STEP AHEAD THE MEXICAN KID AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR KID OR THE COLOMBIAN KID YOU IT'S UNFAIR AND YOU GET RID OF IT THE. THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T SUPPORT THE SAY THAT THESE KIDS AND THE THINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IS WRONG IT'S GIVING THEM TOO MUCH

070BECAUSE YOUR HIT WHO DOESN'T STRUGGLE WITH THOSE THINGS ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE OF DIE BUT YOU'RE REALLY JUST UPSET THAT THEY AREN'T STRUGGLING AS MUCH AND THEY HAVE OPPORTUNITIES IN CLUBS WHERE THEY CAN BE THEMSELVES AND ON PEOPLE LIKE THEM YOU GET RID OF IT YOU MAKE YOU MAKE IT SEEM UNFAIR BUT YOU REALLY LOVE WHEN THINGS ARE UNFAIR I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT A THING A SPEAKER SAID THE LAST MEETING THAT THERE IS NO SYSTEMIC RACISM ANYMORE AND JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING WASN'T AN ISSUE FOR YOU DOESN'T MEAN IT DOESN'T EXIST. SO SCHOOL BOARD TO NOT BOARD SCHOOL BOARD TO NOT LISTEN TO TRUMP DESPITE LIKE VIEWS ON HIM . THANK YOU. MY NEXT SPEAKER IS NASH PHILLIPS LET'S NOT GET IT TWISTED. THIS DTI POLICY IS NOW THE SOLE DOING OF THE SCHOOL

071BOARD. THE RECENT COURT DECISIONS BLOCKING TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER PREVENT FUNDING REMOVAL FOR NONCOMPLIANCE THE SIX OF YOU THAT BEFORE US ON THE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE VOTE NOW HAVE TO ANSWER FOR THIS SO AND HERE'S A QUESTION AND THIS ISN'T TO HAVE GOTCHA MOMENT OR ANYTHING WOULD THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD WHO VOTED TO REPEAL THE THREE WEEKS AGO CONSIDER THEMSELVES ANTI WORK? I'D SAY IT'S FAIR STATEMENT NOW CRITICS OF WEAKNESS OFTEN CALL MOVEMENT OVER RIGHTEOUS IN PRACTICE MOST PEOPLE'S BIGGEST ISSUE WITH THE IDEAS THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY NOW HAVE TO TIPTOE AROUND THEIR WORDS INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH WHEN I LOOK AT THE BULK OF BULK OF THE PROGRAM SET TO BE CUT OR CLUBS THAT WILL CEASE TO EXIST THE PROBLEM EXISTS NOT IN THE ACTUAL SUBSTANCE OF THEM BUT IN HOW

072THEY ARE PORTRAYED OR EVEN SPECIFIC WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE THEM LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE RED LINE SECTIONS THE FIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY PLAN, ESPECIALLY SPECIFIC WORDING THE SCHOOL BOARD NOW WANTS US TO TIPTOE AROUND FOR FEAR OF BEING TOO WOKE SECTION BE TO SAYS THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL TO BE INTENTIONAL AND ITS EFFORTS TO REPLACE FACTORS THAT MAY LEAD TO INEQUITIES INCLUDING RACISM DISCRIMINATION HARASSMENT AND PREJUDICE AND PREJUDICE WITH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS REFLECT ACCEPTANCE, BELONGING, COMPASSION, INTEGRITY, UNDERSTANDING FAIRNESS COOPERATION AND RESPECT AND RESPECT THAT SAYS IN ESSENCE LET'S MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE TREATED IN A HUMANE MANNER. HOW YOU SIT HERE AND BE ANTI-SMOKING NOW WORK AND NOW TRY TO CANCEL THE IDEAS ACCEPTANCE BELONGING AND COMPASSION AND COMPASSION? THIS IS KINDERGARTEN STUFF YOU ALL SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROUDLY ENTER

073OUR SCHOOLS AND BE ROLE MODELS AND YET A FIVE YEAR OLD HAS MORE MORALITY THAN YOU SECTION ONE F SAYS CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL FOR ALL GREAT SHOW REFLECT DIVERSITY AND INCLUDE A RANGE OF PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES PARTICULARLY THOSE OF HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN LAYMAN'S TERMS LET'S TEACH HISTORY THE WAY IT WAY IT HAPPENED. THIS IS NOT NORTH KOREA THE 11 OF YOU HAVE THE POWER TO BETTER OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM NOT DECIDE WHICH PIECES OF HISTORY DID AND DID NOT HAPPEN AND HOLD ON I ALSO SEE THAT THE SIX OF YOU WHO VOTED FOR THIS POLICY DON'T EXACTLY REPRESENT A DIVERSE SET OF BACKGROUNDS MY LATE GREAT BASKETBALL COACH MARIO MULLEN WOULD TAKE A GROUP MY TEAMMATES THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT EACH YEAR THEY ALWAYS SPOKE TO EMPOWER THEY FELT AND COACH MULLEN WAS SO

074PROUD TO SEE GREAT YOUNG MEN GRADUATE EACH YEAR I'M I AM PERSONALLY OBLIGATED TO SPEAK BECAUSE I KNOW HOW MUCH THIS WOULD HAVE MEANT TO HIM IN AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH MR. CULPEPER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO HE SAID THAT I MENTIONED NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE RELATED ANY PROGRAMMER POLICY TO HELP SCHOOLS IMPROVE IN MY LAST IN MY LAST SPEECH A COUPLE OF WEEKS GO THE REASON I DIDN'T IS BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS SO ABUNDANTLY CLEAR HALT THIS POLICY HE ALSO TOLD ME TWO WEEKS AGO THAT I ATTRIBUTE SUCCESS TO MY PRIVILEGE AND THIS MISUNDERSTANDING IS REALLY THE CRUX THE ISSUE JUST BECAUSE HE LACKS THE MATURITY AND SELF SECURITY AND HIS OWN ACHIEVEMENTS TO MAKE NOTE OF HIS OWN PRIVILEGE DOES NOT MEAN HE SHOULD CONFUSE ACKNOWLEDGMENT WITH ATTRIBUTION. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKERS ARE

075PRIVY RICHARDSON, KENNETH SUTTON AND RICHARD GOOD EVENING. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ORIGINALLY THE REASON GIVEN FOR THE RUSH TO VOTE FOR THE ADOPTION FOR THE RESOLUTION ON APRIL EIGHTH WAS THE RESULT OF WHAT IS CURRENTLY WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE LEGAL GUIDANCE AS UNCONSERVATIVE PERSONALLY VAGUE A VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT CAUSING POTENTIAL INJURY TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT THE JUDGE DID STATE THAT SHE WAS NOT SURE IN HER INJUNCTION THIS IS A JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF WASHINGTON DC IF IT WOULD PUSH THE VIRGINIA BEACH CITIES CALLS TO REVERSE THE RESOLUTION THE COURT FOUND THAT THE FEDERAL CERTIFICATION AS I SAID AND AS WAS SAID WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT IT FAILED TO PROVIDE THE GUIDANCE THERE AND WOULD TRIGGER ENFORCEMENT OR PENALTIES INSTEAD OF PLACING THE SCHOOLS AND LEGAL JUSTICE

076FOR ENGAGING IN BROADLY UNDEFINED PROGRAMS AS RESULT NOT JUST OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM BUT MANY FELT COMPELLED TO PREEMPTIVE LEAD COUNSEL SUCH AS THOSE OUTLINED IN THE EQUITY PLAN OF VIRGINIA BEACH OUT OF FEAR OF FEDERAL CONSEQUENCE DESPITE THE LACK OF CLARITY IN THE LAW YES THE JUDGE DOES JUDGE DOES EXPLICITLY CITE THE VIRGINIA EACH CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM RESOLUTION AN EXAMPLE OF INSTITUTIONS THAT WERE PRESSURED OR WHO MOVE BECAUSE OF BEING PRESSURED WITH SWIFT CANCELATIONS OF LAWFUL MANY CASES CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS THE COURTS WARNED THAT THIS CHILLING EFFECT LEADS TO THE UNNECESSARY SUPPRESSION OF PROTECTED SPEECH AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES THE MENTION OF VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS REINFORCES THAT THE EFFORTS ARE NOT A POLITICAL AGENDA BUT AN EDUCATIONAL IMPERATIVE GROUNDED IN PRECEDENCE AND BEST PRACTICES ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS THAT

077I ASK THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD PASS THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION COMPLETELY AND HOPEFULLY TO REINSTATE THE POLICY THINGS AND THAT WOULD ALIGN WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS STANDARDS IT ALSO REAFFIRMS MY COMMITMENT, OUR COMMITMENT TO SERVING OUR COMMUNITY EVERY AND EVERY STUDENT IN FAIRNESS DIGNITY AND OPPORTUNITY. I AM BANITA. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CAN HAVE CERTAIN THAN RICHARD CODY CONNER. GOOD AFTERNOON MADAM BOARD MEMBERS I DON'T I DON'T HAVE MY GLASSES MY NAME IS CAN SUDDEN I . I HAVE ADDRESSED YOU BEFORE A I'M A VIETNAM VETERAN RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY I'M A VIRGINIA BEACH RESIDENT GIBBSVILLE DISTRICT ONE AND WE HAVE LISTENED TO MANY PAST COMMENTS TOO MANY PARTS COMMENTS BOTH FOR AND AGAINST I'M ALSO THIS IS PERSONAL. I'M GETTING I DON'T HAVE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME

078TO WASTE AND WE'RE WASTING TIME TIME TIME IS PRECIOUS AND AGAIN WASTING TIME IS A SIN. WE ARE WASTING OUR TIME THINK I CAN GO CAN GO PAST IT. WE SHOULD BE DOING PRIORITY ISSUES AND CONCERNS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WE HAVE SO MANY MORE THINGS THAT ARE OUR STUDENTS NEED FROM US. OUR TEACHERS NEED GUIDANCE AND MONEY. OK, DITCH RESTRICTIONS AND GET BACK TO PROVIDING RESOURCES EDUCATING OUR STUDENTS AND SUPPORT FOR OUR TEACHERS AND GETS A LITTLE BIT VAGUE BUT MR. COMMENTS I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU. I'M RETIRED. I VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE MY COMPANY IN MY COUNTRY AND I WASN'T DRAFTED I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL SENT ALL OVER THE WORLD. I VOLUNTEERED I'VE BEEN SEPARATED FROM MY FAMILY MONTHS . I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU OF YOUR FAMILY BUT WHEN YOU ASKED TO SERVE

079SERVE WITH NO AND I'M NOT GOING TO USE IT. I'LL TRY TO KEEP MY LANGUAGE DECENT BUT BUT I UNDERSTAND YOU'VE GOT YOUR FAMILY BUT DON'T SAY IT APPEAR THAT YOU'D RATHER BE SOMEPLACE ELSE THAT MAKES ME THINK THAT YOUR DEVOTION TO YOUR DUTY HERE FOR US IS LACKING A LITTLE BIT OK THAT'S JUST FOR ME TO YOU IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO TALK TO ME ABOUT IT YOU THAT'S ALL I GET TONIGHT. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS RICHARD PICKENS CODY CONNOR CONNER AND THEN SARAH CLARK. JUST A FEW THOUGHTS LISTENING PEOPLE SPEAK I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHEN ART CLASS ART CLASS WOULD HAVE TO BE. QUESTION WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING IN THAT ART CLASS THAT HAS TO BE QUESTIONS. DO THE ART AND CLUBS I DON'T KNOW WHY CLUBS ARE IN QUESTION EITHER

080AND SEVERAL THINGS BEING SAID WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT IT WAS SHARING MR. SHARON FELTON YOU TALKED ABOUT INDOCTRINATION INDIAN TRIBES YOU REALIZE THE INDIAN TRIBES WERE THE LAST GROUP OF PEOPLE TO LET GO OF SLAVERY THERE WERE THE LAST GROUP OF PEOPLE TO DO IT SO THEY NEEDED TO BE INDOCTRINATED THERE NEED TO BE CHANGES READ THAT THE OTHER DAY I THOUGHT I THOUGHT IT WAS AN INTERESTING COMMENT I WANT TO START OFF BY SAYING VOTE NO TO PAUSE ABDI AND HAVE MY REASONS FOR THAT LAST WEEK LAST WEEK WHEN WE FINISHED SPEAKING HE ARE VERY RACIALLY CHARGED ROOM WHEN I WAS SITTING HERE AS PASTOR I WAS PICKING UP ON THAT JUST AND WHEN THAN WHAT I LEFT THE ROOM I WAS PURSUED DOWN THE HALLWAY WITH A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE ALL THE

081WE HAD TO CALL SECURITY TO GET THE GENTLEMAN TO LEAVE US ALONE VERY DISPARAGING COMMENTS AND THEN WHEN WE GOT THE PARKING LOT THIS GENTLEMAN WAS RELEASED BY THE SECURITY CAME AND FOUND US IN THE DARK PARKING LOT, TAKEN HIS JACKET IS GOING TO FIGHT US AND I LEARNED THAT I AM I AM STILL A WHITE BOY WHICH ERM I AGREE WITH THAT NO PROBLEM WITH THAT AND IT THAT. AND IT WAS CALLED RACIAL SLURS SO IT WORKS BOTH WAYS BUT I DON'T THINK THIS IS A RACIAL THING UNLESS YOU MAKE IT SUCH NOW I PULLED UP EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FIVE POINT FOUR IN PREPARATION FOR REALLY STUDYING WHAT YOU GUYS WE'RE UP AGAINST >> AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT THE GROUP IT'S CALLED THIS MEETING WANTS TO LEAVE IN AND AS I'M READING THROUGH IT

082WE'RE USING THE WORD VAGUE THE. THE WORD VAGUE BEGINS HERE THIS IS THE MOST VAGUE, VAGUE, VAGUE, VAGUE DOCUMENT ARE EVER GOING TO READ BUT ONE THING IT'S NOT VAGUE OVER 18 TIMES IT REALLY HYPER SENSITIVE TO RACIAL OR RACIAL EQUITY COLOR YOUR NATIONALITY TO MY THOUGHT IS THAT'S WHY I WANT TO GET RIDI STUDENTS COME TO YOUR SCHOOL, YOU TEACH STUDENTS MATH YOU DO ARE YOU, YOU DO WHATEVER AND YOU CAN SAVE HERSELF A LOT OF TIME IN THE SUPERINTENDENT A LOT OF TIME AND THEN THERE'S ONE THING IN ABOUT IF YOU DON'T THINK RIGHT. YES, IT'S EQUITY POLICY YOU HAVE TO GO TO A SPECIAL CLASS TO BE REPROGRAMING I'M GOING TO SAY BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT IT IS I HEAR PEOPLE THAT GO TO THESE CLASSES I THINK YOU COULD SAVE

083YOURSELF A LOT OF TIME BY GETTING RID AND I THINK WE DID FIND A BETTER THINGS TO PUT UP ON THAT WALL LIKE THE DECLARATION INDEPENDENTS WOULD BE GREAT TO PUT UP THERE AND I'M I LOVE MY EVERYBODY THERE'S NOBODY I DON'T LOVE AND THE GENTLEMAN WHO ATTACKED THE PARKING LOT OF FIBER DISCOVERY IS I WOULD IS, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOU BUT WE NEED TO TALK THESE THINGS OUT. I THINK IT'S BETTER NIGHT TONIGHT THANK YOU GUYS FOR EVERYBODY BEING EVEN THOUGH WE'RE ON DIFFERENT SIDES WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENS YOU HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND WE TALK ABOUT AND I'M GRATEFUL TO SAY THAT FROM THE LAST MEETING I'M GOING TO HAVE A NICE LUNCH WITH THE HEAD OF THE NAACP AND WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND TALK AND A

084TALKER I LOVE TO GET TOGETHER GET TOGETHER IF POSSIBLE AND JUST TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT IDEAS AND LOVE ON PEOPLE AND CARE ABOUT PEOPLE AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE FEELING TO SOUND LIKE I SAY MORE DO NOT DO NOT. AND THAT IS KIND NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER IS CODY CONNER. SARAH CLARK VICTORIA MAN >> AND I JUST I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE PLEASE DO NOT CALL OUT WHILE PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING OR CLAP DURING SPEECHES YOU CAN DO HANDS DURING SPEECHES AND GO AHEAD EXECUTIVE ORDERS AREN'T LAWS. DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTERS AREN'T LAWS AND THESE MISGUIDED THREATS TO REMOVE FUNDING BASED ON A FALSE HYPER PROPAGANDIZED INTERPRETATION OF DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, INCLUSION THAT MANY IF YOU ARE OVERLY EAGER TO CAPITULATE TO ARE NOW SUBJECT TO SEVERAL LEGAL INJUNCTIONS. IN SHORT, BECAUSE THERE TOO VAGUE AND PROBABLY LEGAL

085I'VE READ POLICY FIVE, DASH FOUR AND NOTHING IN IT PROVIDES OR DENIES ANYONE ANYTHING BASED ON THEIR RACE SO EVEN IF THESE WERE VALID DIRECTIVES THERE'S NO REASON TO SUSPEND THE POLICY OR GOT IT LIKE YOU INTEND TO DO UNLESS YOU REALLY DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A DIVERSE, EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY I'VE HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND DIVERSITY EQUITY CONCLUSION BECAUSE THEY'RE COLORBLIND BUT THEY'RE BLIND TO IS THE CLEARLY VISIBLE INEQUITIES IN OUR. BUT IT'S OK IF YOU SAY YOU CAN'T SEE COLOR I CAN EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU IN BLACK AND WHITE YOU SEE IN BLACK AMERICA THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS HIGHER AND THE AVERAGE WAGES LOWER THAN IT IS IN WHITE AMERICA. REGARDLESS OF YOUR EDUCATION LEVEL, THE MEDIAN NET WORTH THE FAMILY AND BLACK AMERICA IS LESS THAN

086ONE SIXTH OF THE MEDIAN NET WORTH OF THE FAMILY AND WHITE AMERICA IN BLACK AMERICA YOU'RE MORE THAN TWICE IS LIKELY TO LIVE UNDER THE POVERTY LEVEL YOU ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE GIVING CHILDBIRTH MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS LIKELY IN SOME STATES LIKE VIRGINIA AND YOU ARE MORE THAN FIVE TIMES AS LIKELY TO BE IN PRISON THAN YOU ARE IN WHITE AMERICA FOR MANY THE AMERICAN DREAM FAIR CHANCE FOR EVERYONE IS STILL JUST A DREAM AND WHILE MYSELF AND OTHERS AWAKEN THAT DREAM DREAM INTO REALITY YOU WOULD HAVE ROLLBACK OVER AND PULL THE BLANKET OVER OUR EYES. BUT I WILL SEE RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING THE DEA IS NOT ABOUT BEING COLORBLIND DCI IS ABOUT OPENING OUR EYES TO THE SOMETIMES BRIGHT, SOMETIMES DARK BUT ALWAYS COLORFUL TRUTH THAT IS AMERICA

087THE ABOUT ACKNOWLEDGING WHERE WE CAN BECOME BETTER AND ABOUT BECOMING BETTER. THIS COLORBLIND 1950S TELEVISION PERSPECTIVE ONLY HELPS YOU IGNORE PROBLEMS THAT COULD BE FIXED AND THAT ONLY HURTS EVERYBODY THE AMERICAN DREAM IS NOT IN BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA DREAMS AND COLORS. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CLARK VICTORIA MANNING AND THEN CLARK MURPHY GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS SARAH CLARKE AND I'M HERE TONIGHT AS AN EDUCATOR PARENT AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT THE CHILDREN OF OUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND THE VALUES OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON VALUES THAT INCLUDE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL I'M CONCERNED THE RECENT DECISION TO REMOVE DIE AND SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE THE EQUITY POLICY COULD UNDERMINE THE INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO EDUCATION THAT WE'VE WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD LET'S BE CLEAR THIS CHANGE IS NOT SIMPLY ABOUT GETTING BACK

088TO BASICS AS MANY AS CLAIMED HAVE CLAIMED IT'S PART OF A BROADER NATIONAL MOVEMENT THAT TRACES BACK TO A NOW HOTTED EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE THAT CLAIMS TO PROMOTE PATRIOTIC EDUCATION BUT IN REALITY PROMOTES A NARROW, SANITIZED VERSION OF OUR ANCESTRY AVERSION THAT LEAVES THAT LEAVES OUT CRITICAL VOICES AND LIVED EXPERIENCES THIS BOARD HAS CHOSEN TO MOVE FORWARD CHANGES ROOTED IN THAT SAME RHETORIC AND THAT DECISION HERE IS REAL AND HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES FOR IN OUR SCHOOLS AS A HISTORY TEACHER OF MORE THAN TWO DECADES, I HAVE TO ASK WHAT COULD THESE CHANGES MEAN FOR HOW WE TEACH OUR NATION'S PAST WHAT BASICS ARE WE GETTING BACK TO AND FOR WHOM ARE RETURNING TO A TIME WHEN TEXTBOOKS ERASED ENTIRE COMMUNITIES AND SILENCED ESSENTIAL PARTS OF OUR PAST? WE'VE BEEN ER BEFORE AND WE KNOW THE HARM

089IT CAUSES NOT JUST TO STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY BUT TO THEIR SENSE OF BELONGING AND THEIR IDENTITY THE CLASSROOM REMOVING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION FROM OUR POLICIES SENDS A DANGEROUS MESSAGE NOT JUST TO EDUCATORS TO STUDENTS WE SERVE . IT RISKS UNDOING YEARS OF WORK TO ENSURE ALL STUDENTS CAN SEE THEMSELVES IN THE STORY OF AMERICA ELIMINATING EQUITY FROM OUR POLICIES SUGGESTS THAT THE STORIES RESISTANCE RESILIENCE, RESILIENCE AND INJUSTICE ARE SOMEHOW OPTIONAL OR UNNECESSARY THESE STORIES BELONG IN CLASSROOMS TAUGHT BY EDUCATORS WHO ARE TRAINED AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICES ARE STUDENTS ARE MORE DIVERSE THAN EVER AND THEY DESERVE AN EDUCATION THAT REFLECTS THAT. THIS IS HOW WE PREPARE STUDENTS NOT JUST TO PASS A TEST BUT TO LIVE AS INFORMED, ENGAGED CITIZENS IN A DEMOCRACY AS BROWN MIGHT TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THESE CONCERNS

090AND HEAR YOUR AS YOU MY REPRESENTATIVE FROM DISTRICT WHEN I. I WAS DISAPPOINTED WHEN MY EMAILS WENT UNANSWERED AND I BELIEVED YOU WHEN YOU PROMISED TO LISTEN TO PARENTS BEFORE MAKING POLICY DECISIONS BUT NOW I'M NOT SO SURE I URGE YOU TO PUT A PASS A PAUSE ON THESE POLICY CHANGES OUR STUDENTS DESERVE NOTHING LESS. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS VICTORIA >> MANNING CLARK MURPHY AND HEATHER SCIP >>. GREETINGS BOARD MEMBERS AND MISS WOODHOUSE THE SCHOOL BOARD'S RULES STATE ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER SHALL GOVERN THE SCHOOL BOARD WHEN THE STANDING RULES DO NOT ADDRESS A PROCEDURAL MATTER. ROBERT'S RULES SECTION FORTY FIVE GOVERNS THE PROCEDURES FOR AMENDING A PREVIOUS VOTE THE ACTION ITEM ON TODAY'S AGENDA AND THAT STATES THAT MEMBERS CAN ONLY CHANGE THEIR VOTES DURING A TIME PERIOD IN WHICH NO OTHER

091BUSINESS HAS TAKEN PLACE. ONCE THE BOARD TAKES UP OTHER BUSINESS SUCH AS ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM OR MEETING VOTES CANNOT BE CHANGED ON THE CALL FOR THIS MEETING ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS TO QUOTE VOTE ON THE MOTION TO AMEND PREVIOUS VOTE SO IT'S CALLING FOR A CHANGE IN HOW BOARD MEMBERS VOTED ON THE PREVIOUS VOTE THE CALL DOES NOT SAY AMEND SOMETHING PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED WHICH IS A GOVERNMENT WHICH IS GOVERNED BY A DIFFERENT SECTION OF ROBERT'S RULES. THEREFORE IT WOULD BE VIOLATION OF YOUR OWN RULES TO PERMIT A VOTE TO QUOTE AMEND PREVIOUS VOTE SINCE OTHER BUSINESS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED SINCE APRIL AS REFERENCED BY MISS LEONETTI, THE COURT CASE OUT OF D.C. ACTUALLY REFERENCE THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD'S RESOLUTION THE PLANE OF TRIED TO GET THE JUDGE TO STOP THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARDS

092RESOLUTION BUT THE JUDGE SAID NO AND STATED IN HER DECISION THAT QUOTE AN INJUNCTION FROM THIS COURT WOULD NOT ELIMINATE THE RESOLUTION THAT WITH THE SCHOOL PASSED IN QUOTE THERE HAVE BEEN THREE SEPARATE AND CONFLICTING COURT DECISIONS RELATED TO THIS TOPIC AND A VAST MAJORITY OF THE PLAINTIFFS COMPLAINTS WERE DENIED BY THE JUDGES. THE ONLY RULINGS AGAINST THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WERE RELATED TO THE PROCESS BY WHICH THEIR RULES WERE ENACTED, NOT RELATED TO THE SUBSTANCE THE RULINGS ALSO DID NOT NEGATE THE FACT THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS MUST ENFORCE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS. THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HAS INDICATED THAT THEY WILL STILL ENFORCE THESE LAWS AND IN FACT AS SALINITY REFERENCED EARLIER THEY, THEY RECENTLY OPENED A TITLE SIX INVESTIGATION INTO A NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS A MINORITY VIEWPOINT ON THIS BOARD THREE

093REQUESTED A SPECIAL MEETING TO TRY TO RETURN CHILDREN RETURN CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL DURING COVID WE ALSO REQUESTED PUBLIC SPEAKERS BUT WE'RE TOLD SPEAKERS ARE NOT ALLOWED AT A SPECIAL MEETING WHEN WE BEGAN THE MEETING AND A QUORUM WAS ANNOUNCED, THE BOARD IMMEDIATELY VOTED TO ADJOURN AND ENDED THE MEETING WITHOUT OUR AGENDA BEING ITEM BEING DISCUSSED BOARD MEMBERS INCLUDING MISS MELNIK THEN LEFT THE MEETING AND WE WERE COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN THANK YOU MR. BROWN AND MISS WEEMS FOR YOUR IMPARTIAL LEADERSHIP ALLOWING ALL VOICES TO BE HEARD EVEN WITH PEOPLE WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH. IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT THIS SCHOOL BOARD ENFORCED CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS AND FOLLOW YOUR OWN PROCEDURAL RULES ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS AN IMPROPER OCEAN AND ROBERTS RULES SECTION THIRTY NINE STATES THAT IMPROPER MOTION IS TO BE RULED NULL AND VOID AND

094I AGREE WITH MR. SUTTON THAT WE'RE WASTING TIME. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS QUOTE MURPHY HEATHER SITE AND THEN CARLOS TAYLOR >> GOOD EVENING TERROR. TARA BROWN, VICE CHAIR WILLIAMS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND CHIEF OF STAFF. WOODHOUSE MY NAME IS CLARK MURPHY I'M HERE TO ASK YOU TO YOU TO TAKE A STEP BACK HIT PAUSE ON THE RESOLUTION YOU PASSED TO PROGRAMS. IT'S ABOUT STUDENTS IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE EVERY STUDENT IN OUR SCHOOL FEELS SAFE, SEEN AND SUPPORTED AND IT'S ALSO ABOUT FOLLOWING THE LAW AND DOING THE RIGHT DOING THINGS THE RIGHT I WANT TO FOCUS TO FOCUS ON TWO THINGS. FIRST, THE FEDERAL GUIDANCE BEHIND THIS RESOLUTION IS NOW ON VERY SHAKY LEGAL GROUND SECOND THE, THE WAY YOU PASSED IT DIDN'T FOLLOW VIRGINIA LAW OR YOUR OWN RULES. THAT'S A HUGE PROBLEM

095LET'S START WITH THE LEGAL SIDE AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT THREE FEDERAL COURT STEPPED IN AND BLOCK THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S ATTEMPT TO RESTRICT DEA IN SCHOOLS. THE JUDGES SAID GUIDANCE IS VAGUE, CONFUSING AND PROBABLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL ONE COURT EVEN WARNED SCHOOLS THAT SCHOOLS MIGHT BE CUTTING PROGRAMS NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE ILLEGAL BUT BECAUSE ARE SCARED THAT'S NOT HOW PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD WORK THE COURTS ALSO SAID THAT THE DEPARTMENT LIKELY WENT TOO FAR MAYBE EVEN VIOLATING TEACHER'S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND LET'S BE HONEST THE WAY THIS ALL UNFOLDED IT FOR SCHOOL DIVISIONS INTO A TERRIBLE POSITION BETWEEN IMPORTING STUDENTS NEED TO SUCCEED OR THE FEDERAL FUNDING THAT HELPS PAY FOR IT. THAT'S NOT A REAL CHOICE AND THANKS TO THE COURTS WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE IT. WE CAN FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST HELPING STUDENTS

096LEARN NOW THE PROCESS YOU VOTED ON THIS RESOLUTION ON APRIL 8TH WITHOUT GIVING US A CHANCE TO SPEAK. THAT'S NOT JUST FRUSTRATING THAT'S A VIOLATION OF VIRGINIA'S OPEN MEETING LAWS INCLUDING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND IT'S A DIRECT CONFLICT WITH YOUR OWN POLICY BY LAW ONE DASH FORTY SEVEN WHICH OUTLINES HOW WE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN YOUR MEETINGS THAT'S NOT A SMALL THING THAT'S PAPERWORK ER IT SHUTS US OUT SHUTS US OUT AND WHEN YOU SHUT US OUT YOU SILENCE THE VOICES YOU WERE ELECTED TO REPRESENT I TAUGHT IN THIS DISTRICT I'VE SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DESIGNWORKS WHEN STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES LEARN SIDE BY SIDE WITH THEIR PEERS AND EVERY CHILD GETS TO GET WHAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. I'VE SEEN CONFIDENCE I'VE SEEN RESPECT AND RESPECT AND UNDERSTAND AND DEEPEN. THAT'S

097WHAT THIS WORK IS ABOUT YOU HAVE YOU MAY HAVE HAD VOTES TO PASS IT BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU DID RIGHT BY OUR COMMUNITY. IT MEANS YOU RUSHED AND WE ALL NOTICED THE COURTS HIT PAUSE NOW IT'S YOUR TURN. SLOW DOWN LET THE LEGAL PROCESS PLAY OUT AND NEXT TIME INVITE US IN BEFORE YOU MAKE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT EVERY FAMILY IN OUR DIVISION OUR STUDENTS DIVERT DESERVE THAT OUR COMMUNITY DESERVE THAT CLAIM THAT IS TIME PAUSE NOW >> THE NEXT SPEAKER IS HEATHER SCIP CARLOS TAYLOR AND THEN DAN CHANG >> GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMS MEMBERS CHAIR WILLIAMS MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THIS IS WHAT HOUSE. MY NAME IS HOW THEIR SITE AND I AM VIRGINIA BEACH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION I AM HERE THIS EVENING TO URGE YOU TO PAUSE AND SOON

098RESCIND THE RESOLUTION PASSED ON APRIL 8TH THE RESOLUTION WAS CREATED WITH THE INTENTION TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND RESPONDS TO EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO AND THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER THE COMMON THEME OF STATEMENTS FROM THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THE RESOLUTION WHERE THAT WERE THAT THERE'S NO OTHER CHOICE WE'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE AND WE CAN'T RISK FUNDING ON APRIL 24TH THREE DIFFERENT JUDGES IN THREE DIFFERENT COURTS ISSUED RULINGS AGAINST THESE ACTS THE DISTRICT COURTS FOR THE DISTRICT COLUMBIA AND THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND RULED AGAINST THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT IN A NATIONAL STAY WAS ISSUED AGAINST ENFORCEMENT THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER CITING IT IS IN VIOLATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCUREMENT ACT THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT NEW HAMPSHIRE ISSUED A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST THE

099DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT THE USE OF THE FAA HUGHES OR THE AND I PORTAL IN ANY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE AND WHICH ANY NEA MEMBER IS EMPLOYED THE COURTS HAVE DETERMINED THAT THREATENING A LOSS OF FEDERAL FUNDING VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT AS IT TARGETS FREE SPEECH THE NEA USE THE ACTIONS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD IN THAT CASE AS WELL YOUR ACTIONS HAVE IN ESSENCE BEEN RULED OUT OF ORDER EVERY MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION IS A MEMBER OF THE NEA. THEREFORE THIS INJUNCTION DIRECTLY IMPACTS VBC KPS GIVEN THERE NEEDS TO BE A REINSTATEMENT OF ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN HALTED OR CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO THE DEMANDS OF THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER AND THE CERTIFICATION AND REQUIREMENT THESE RULINGS MEAN THE SCHOOL DIVISION IS FREE TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT CURRICULUM AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMING

100INCLUDING EFFORTS TO SUPPORT A DIVERSE STUDENT BODY STAFF AND FACULTY YOUR HANDS ARE NOT TIED. THE DIVISION IS NOT OUT OF COMPLIANCE. FEDERAL FUNDING CANNOT BE WITHHELD FAILURE TO PAUSE AND SOON RESCIND THE RESOLUTION WILL BE A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT IT IS YOUR FREE WILL INTENTION TO REMOVE THE WORDS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION FROM VBC STRIP POLICY FIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY WHICH WAS DONE BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS AND WHAT MRS. AND THAT THINGS COULD POSSIBLY MAYBE BE ISSUE EVEN THOUGH NO CLEAR GUIDANCE WAS GIVEN DISMANTLE THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AND TWENTY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK ELIMINATE, ELIMINATE THE EQUITY PLAN AND DASHBOARD AND TO ARBITRARILY DECIDE WHICH PROGRAMS YOU WANT TO ELIMINATE WITHOUT CAUSE YOU NEED TO PAUSE AND SOON RESCIND SPEAKER IS WAS TAYLOR DANCING CHANG AND THEN LATINO. HEY I GIVE HONOR TO MY LORD AND

101SAVIOR YOU SURE AND I PATIENTLY LOOK FORWARD TO HIS IMMINENT RETURN I LIVE IN THE TENTH DISTRICT AND ALL I CARE ABOUT IS THE TRUTH. PLEASE VOTE NO TO PAUSE ON THE IN REFERENCE DCI IS IT TRUE THAT READING MATH SCORES DECREASE FOR ALL STUDENTS? IS IT TRUE THE DCI VIOLATES TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 THE ANSWER TO BOTH OF THOSE QUESTIONS IS YES. DCI SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK AND VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW. AFTER MY SPEECH LAST WEEK WHEN I DROPPED SOME HISTORY ABOUT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY SOME COLLEAGUES OF MINE TOLD ME ABOUT A LADY WHO HAD MADE SOME STATEMENTS REFERENCE TO SOME OF THE POINTS I MEAN MADE. I WOULD LIKE TO BRIEFLY DRESS HER FOLLOWING STATEMENT AND I QUOTE ALL THOSE DEMOCRATS WENT FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO THE REPUBLICAN

102PARTY. NOW BASED ON THAT STATEMENT YOU WOULD THINK THAT ALL THOSE RACIST DEMOCRATS RUSHED INTO A PHONE BOOTH SPUN AROUND REAL FAST CAME OUT AS REPUBLICANS. BUT IS THAT ACTUALLY TRUE THE PROBLEM WITH THAT STATEMENT IS THAT WE KNOW THEIR NAMES THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT THE 64 WASN'T DONE IN A VACUUM MALCOLM X AND MARTIN LUTHER KING WERE THERE DURING THAT DEBATE AND THEY MET BRIEFLY NOW LET ME GIVE YOU THE RECEIPTS OF THE TWENTY ONE RACIST DEMOCRAT SENATORS THAT OPPOSE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 WHICH D.E.A I VIOLATES JUST ONE OF THEM CHANGE THEIR POLITICAL AFFILIATION FROM DEMOCRAT TO REPUBLICAN. THAT WAS STROM THURMOND IN THE HOUSE. JUST ONE CHANGE THEIR AFFILIATION FROM DEMOCRAT TO REPUBLICAN AND THAT IS A DO BY THE NAME OF WATSON JUST TO INDIVIDUALS. THE REST OF THOSE

103RACIST DEMOCRATS, STATE DEMOCRATS GOT REELECTED AS DEMOCRATS AND LEFT OFFICE AS DEMOCRATS. NOW THE TRUTH THING BUT IT'S ALSO THE BEST HEALER ONE OF THE MOST PROFOUND STATEMENTS IN ALL OF THE SACRED 66 IS WHEN YOU SURE TELLS US THAT HE IS THE TRUTH HE DOESN'T TELL US THAT HE SAYS JUST SAYS TRUE THINGS HE TELLS US THAT HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE VERY THING ITSELF. >> HERE'S A QUOTE THAT I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT CAME FROM SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND I THINK IT'S FITTING THE TRUTH IS INCONTROVERTIBLE MALICE MAY ATTACK IT. IGNORANCE MAY DERIDE BUT IN THE END THERE IT IS NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER IS DAN CHANG, THE MERIDA TENO THAN JEFFREY COBB >> BROWN SCHOOL BOARD AND MRS WOODHOUSE SCHOOL BOARD CODE OF ETHICS STATES MEMBERS WILL

104RESPECT THE DECISION OF THE MAJORITY SERVE WITH INTEGRITY IN FAIRNESS, BE RESPECTFUL WITHOUT DISPARAGE SINCE ITS PASSAGE BOARD MEMBERS OPPOSING THE RESOLUTION VIOLATED THIS CODE AN ATTEMPT TO GARNER PUBLIC SUPPORT THEY FALSELY DESCRIBED EFFECTS THE EFFECTS OF THE RESOLUTION REMOVING THE CLAIMING IT ACTS AS IMPORTANT AX'S IMPORTANT PROTECTED PROGRAMS THIS IS ALL UNTRUE. THESE BOARD MEMBERS DIDN'T TELL THE TRUTH TO TRUSSONI CITIZENS AND IMPUGN THE MOTIVES MEMBERS SUPPORTING THE RESOLUTION. FOR EXAMPLE LAST SATURDAY'S LAST SATURDAY'S DEMOCRATIC BREAKFAST KIM MELNIK FALSELY INFORMED ATTENDEES THAT THE RESOLUTION WOULD NEGATIVELY IMPACT SPECIAL ED AND DISSOLVE ACADEMY PROGRAMS THIS IS UNTRUE. LAST WEEK OF AGREEING INTERVIEWED ON A PODCAST BY MISS MISS ALLEN MADE OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS ABOUT THE RESOLUTION AND BOARD COLLEAGUES, COLLEAGUES SHE SAID THE RESOLUTION AND I QUOTE UNRAVELED 15 YEARS OF WORK IN THE SCHOOL DIVISION

105THAT WOULD ENSURE OUR STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL BUT. BUT MISS GREEN KNOWS DCI DID NOT PROVIDE STUDENT SUCCESS AS EVIDENCED BY DECLINING TEST SCORES GREENE INSULTED BOUGHT INTELLECT BY EXPRESSING HER DOUBTS THAT THEY EVEN UNDERSTOOD AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EQUALITY AND EQUITY GREEN INSULTED BY YOUR COLLEAGUES IN TERRITORY SAYING AND I QUOTE AS WE ARE SITTING HERE NOW SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES CONTINUE TO USE THE BLEEDING RED PEN TO ERASE ANYTHING THAT WAS EQUITABLE IN VBC SHE ATTACKED RED THE STANDARD PRACTICE AN AND ORGANIZATION WHEN REVIEWING POLICIES NICK NEGLECTED TO MENTION POLICIES RED LINE WHEN SHE WAS AN ADMINISTRATOR MISS ALLEN EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT BOARD MEMBERS WANTED TO GET RID OF EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING BLACK HISTORY AND DR. KING CRIMSON KING GREEN DID NOT CORRECT THIS MISUNDERSTANDING SAYS SHE PILED ON SAYING SHE WAS AT LEAST AND I

106QUOTE HAPPY TO THAT THE SCHOOL DIVISION STILL HONORING ASIAN-AMERICAN MONTH BECAUSE THEY NOT FINISHED BUTCHERING POLICY FIVE DASH FOUR THAT WOULD TAKE CARE OF ALL OF THAT ALL OF THAT THEY WOULD GO AWAY BASED ON HOW THAT POLICY HAS BEEN RED LINE GREEN ALSO STATES THE RESOLUTION AND I QUOTE IMPACTS CLUBS IN OUR SCHOOLS HISPANIC CLUBS OTHERS ALL OF THAT WILL COME WILL COME TO AN END. MISS GREEN THEY WILL NOT COME TO AN END. THEY WILL BE MORE INCLUSIVE GREEN OMONIA CANNOT BACK CANNOT BACK UP THEIR FALSE AND SLENDEREST STATEMENTS THEY MISINFORMED A PUBLIC VIOLATING THE CODE OF ETHICS DO NOT BE FOOLED DO. DO NOT PASS THE RESOLUTION. THANK YOU NEXT SPEAKER IS SPEAKER IS MARRIED TO YOU KNOW JEFFREY HOBB AND THEN SUSAN SALTY'S. JACK, GOOD EVENING. THANK FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO

107SPEAK. I WANT TO EXPRESS DEEP CONCERN NOT JUST OVER THE CALL TO POSE THE REMOVAL OF DCI PROGRAMS BUT OVER THE FACT THAT WE'RE EVEN HOLDING THIS EMERGENCY MEETING TO REVISIT A DECISION THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DEBATED VOTED ON AND FINALIZED ITS BOARD MADE IT CLEAR DEMOCRATIC DECISION SIX TO THREE TO REMOVE THE PROGRAMS BASED ON EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOR ONE NINE OH NOW INSTEAD OF MOVING FORWARD AND FOCUSING ON OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS NEED MOST, WE ARE ALL YEAR AGAIN SPENDING MORE TIME, ENERGY AND TAXPAYER MONEY REHASHING SETTLED MATTER LET'S BE HONEST THE BORJIGIN ABOUT NEW INFORMATION A REAL NECESSITY. IT'S ABOUT RELITIGATING THE VOTE SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE MEANWHILE OUR SCHOOLS OUR SCHOOLS STILL FACE REAL ISSUES LEARNING LAWS, STAFFING SHORTAGE DISCIPLINE CHALLENGES AND BUDGET PRESSURES WE COULD BE WORKING ON ANY OF

108THOSE TONIGHT. INSTEAD WE HEAR BECAUSE A FEW MEMBERS WANT TO DELAY WHAT WAS ALREADY DECIDED. MY GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER ATTEND SCHOOL VIRGINIA BEACH SHE STARTED IN SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY FOR ON OCTOBER SIX I WAS VISITING SHE DREW A PICTURE OF HER FAMILY EXCITED YOU SHOWED IT TO ME SHE DREW HER BROTHER HER SISTER, HER MOM AND HERSELF. I ASKED WHERE'S DADDY SWEETHEART SHE SAID SHE SAID DADDY IS A DIRTY WORD AND I CAN'T SAY IT. I SAID YOUR THAT YOU'RE STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU BABY. SHE REPLIED NO HE'S GONE. HE'S NEVER COMING BACK FIVE YEARS OLD. NEEDLESS TO SAY I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT PAUSING OR EVEN TAKING A CHANCE OF MAKING THIS PERMANENT WHERE IS THE READING ,WRITING AND ARITHMETIC EVERY EMERGENCY MEETING LIKE THIS TAKES TIME AWAY FROM CLASSROOMS PLANNING AND REAL PROGRESS IT

109SENDS A MESSAGE TO STAFF AND PARENTS DECISIONS DON'T MATTER. ALMOST EVERYONE AGREES WHICH UNDERMINES THE CREDIBILITY OF THIS BOARD WE HEAR PROPONENTS OF GIGGIE I CONSTANTLY SPEAK OF THREATS TO OUR DEMOCRACY AND HERE WE ARE AT THE BEHEST OF THE MINORITY WHEN THE MAJORITY HAS ALREADY RULED THIS IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY WE OWE IT TO OUR STUDENTS, OUR EDUCATORS AND OUR TAXPAYER YEARS TO RESPECT THE PROCESS HONORED THE VOTE AND USE OUR TIME WISELY. LET'S STOP SPINNING REAL AND GET BACK TO WORK THAT TRULY MATTERS. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JEFFREY COBB THAN SUSAN JACK THEN CATHERINE MALLING. GOOD EVENING LADIES. GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD. I'M JEFF COBB, A RETIRED VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL TEACHER. THANK GOD AND A PROUD MEMBER OF VIRGINIA RETIRED. I THANK ALL OF YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO

110ADDRESS THIS ISSUE TONIGHT I SPEAK WITH YOU THIS EVENING TO EXPRESS MY CONCERNS REGARDING THE REVISIONS IN POLICY FIVE DAYS FOR I BELIEVE THAT IT SENDS A VERY NEGATIVE MESSAGE TOWARDS TO PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND CONCERNS THE DOCUMENT AS NOW WORDED OR EXCUSE ME AS PREVIOUSLY WARD IT WAS A PRODUCT OF SEVERAL YEARS DISCUSSION AND SPEAKS TO THE ESSENCE OF WHAT WE DO TO JUST ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. THE PROPOSED CHANGES OR THE CHANGES THAT DID PASS USE FEWER WORDS BUT IT DOES NOT EXPRESS IN SPECIFIC TERMS THE VALUE AND PROTECTION FOR THOSE WHOM OUR SOCIETY SEEMS TO BE DIFFERENT SECTION FOR EXAMPLE PURPOSE REMOVES SPECIFIC LANGUAGE ABOUT HISTORICAL FACTORS NEGATIVELY AFFECTED PEOPLE AFFECTED PEOPLE OF COLOR THE POOR THOSE A DIFFERENT VIEWS ON RELIGION AND THOSE WITH GENDER ISSUES THE PROPOSED DOCUMENT OR

111THE CURRENT DOCUMENT ELIMINATES ALL SPECIFIC LANGUAGE DEALING WITH RACISM. UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT IT REMOVES LANGUAGE THAT CLEARLY DEFINES DISTINCTION BETWEEN EQUITY BARRIERS THAT INTERFERE OR WITH THE EDUCATION FOR HER SOME IN EFFECT GIVING VARIOUS PEOPLE'S A DIFFERENT STARTING LINE AND EQUALITY WERE THAT HAS BEEN TRANSMITTED INTO A BUGABOO BY MANY REPUBLIK ESPECIALLY TO GUARANTEE THAT ALL ACHIEVE THE SAME RESULTS THIS IS A FALSE NARRATIVE AND ONE WHICH THE ONGOING SYSTEM OF REWARDS AND RECOGNITION IN OUR DIVISION AND OTHERS SHOW IS A LIE EQUITY IS SIMPLY ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ALL START AT THE SAME STARTING LINE S.D. STRICKEN IS STRICKEN IN THE NEW POT OR FROM THE OLD POLICY ALL LANGUAGE REFERRING TO IDENTIFYING UNEQUAL OR IN PRACTICES IS REMOVED THIS CHANGE MAKES IT OPEN SEASON ON THOSE DEEMED LESS DESIRABLE OR MORE DIFFICULT

112TO TEACH THE REVISIONS HAVING TO DO WITH CHAMPION OF DIVERSITY HAVE ALSO BEEN >> REMOVED IN EFFECT THE SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOL BOARD WOULD ATTEMPT TO RAISE TEACHING AND RECOGNITION OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY MEMBERS OF CULTURES WE HAVE HEARD HAVE HEARD TIRED BROMIDES ABOUT HOW RACIST TOWARDS WHITES THE WHITES. THE GROUP WITH MOST OF THE MONEY AND POWER IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH HASN'T ELECTED A PRESIDENT AND TOO MANY OTHERS WITH RACIST TENDENCIES. I WOULD APPRECIATE THE SCHOOL BOARDS CONSIDERATION IN EITHER AT LEAST ALLEGING OR PERHAPS RECONSIDER AND THAT IS FINE. THANK OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SUZANNE SO TISIA CATHERINE McE AND THEN ABBY CAWSEY. HELLO MY NAME IS INSULTING INSULTS AND I'M AN CONCERNED PARENT GRADUATE RESIDENT OF VIRGINIA BEACH DISTRICT FIVE I STAND I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO URGE ABOARD TO PAUSE THE RECENT RESOLUTION

113TO END DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS MISS WEEMS WEEMES, YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE CONFUSED ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE FOR A REVOTE VERSUS A PAUSE. HOWEVER, ON APRIL 8TH REPEATEDLY THE BOARD STATED THAT YOU ARE MOVING QUICKLY THROUGH THIS WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT WITHOUT BEING ON THE INFORMATION SECTION OR EVEN ON THE AGENDA UNTIL TWENTY FOUR HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING ALSO STATING DURING THAT MEETING WAS DUE TO THE VAGUENESS THERE ARE SUPERINTENDENT AND EVEN OUR SCHOOL BOARD IS BROWN WERE CONCERNED ABOUT SIGNING THE ABOUT SIGNING THE CERTIFICATION NOW YOU HAVE TIME TO PAUSE AND ACTUALLY HAD THE DISCUSSION AND IMPLEMENT IT IF I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THAT THOSE REASONS WERE TRUE LAST MONTH, I WONDER IF YOU WILL HOLD YOURSELF TO THE COMMENTS THAT HE MADE BACK WHEN THE EQUITIES POLICY WAS MENTIONED

114IN THE RESOLUTION WAS PASSED IN SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY DURING MEETINGS MUSLIMS YOU EXPRESSED CONCERN YOU EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THE PUBLIC HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT SAYING I WISH THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD HAVE HAD MORE INSIGHT MORE COLLABORATION AND MORE INPUT DURING THE PROCESS INSTEAD OF AFTERWARDS HE ALSO REMARKED THE PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING THIS POLICY WAS A LITTLE SHORT OF WHAT THE SCHOOL BOARD AND COMMUNITY NEEDS THE PROCESS MR. WILLIAMS EVEN STATED I THINK EQUITY IS OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE AND I BELIEVE THE CONCEPT OF THIS POLICY HAS MERIT. CONTRASTINGLY, THE CURRENT MOVE TO DISMANTLE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION EFFORT EFFORTS SEEM TO LACK THE SAME LEVEL OF DELIBERATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY HOLD FOR ACTING WITHOUT COMPREHENSIVE INPUT ON THIS VAGUE ORDER UNDERMINES THE PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPARENCY AND EXCLUSIVITY THAT PREVIOUSLY

115ESPOUSED BUT NOW THAT'S NO THAT'S NO LONGER A FACTOR. THE RESOLUTION AS A REACTION TO AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT HAS SINCE FACED LEGAL CHALLENGES WITH COURT FINDINGS INDICATING THAT SUCH DIRECTIVES MAY NOT WITHSTAND JUDICIAL SCRUTINY. IMPORTANTLY, THESE LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS SUGGEST MAINTAINING OUR EQUITY AND DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS RIGHT NOW DOES PLACE OUR SCHOOL FUNDING IN JEOPARDY . THEREFORE THE PREVIOUSLY STATED RATIONALE FOR DISMANTLING THESE INITIATIVES NOW LACKS A SOLID FOUNDATION MATT BROWN YOU SPECIFICALLY CITED SPECIFICALLY CITED CONCERNS ABOUT SCHOOL FUNDING IN YOUR DISTRICT THAT CONCERN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY FACTS YOU REPRESENT A DISTRICT WHERE A MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR I KNOW YOUR CONSTITUENTS WILL BE WATCHING CLOSELY TO SEE HOW YOU VOTE TONIGHT AS YOU APPROACH REELECTION NEXT YEAR I ALSO WILL BE WATCHING SEEING WHETHER I WILL BE USING

116THIS TO FUNDRAISE OUTREACH IN YOUR DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTING TODAY'S DECISION YOU RAN ON A PROMISE TO LISTEN TO PARENTS THE WAY YOU FELT YOU WEREN'T LISTEN TO IN THE PAST WE NOW LISTEN TO AND REPRESENT YOUR COMMUNITY HAS PLEDGED I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST WITH THE BOARD PAUSES THE IMPLEMENTATION INTO THE RESOLUTION BY DOING SO WE CAN ENSURE THAT OUR DECISIONS ARE INFORMED EQUITABLE AND IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF ALL STUDENTS IN VIRGINIA BEACH THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME SPEAKER IS KATHERINE MALHI THEN BECAUSE THAT JANET BURNS GOOD EVENING VIRGINIA EACH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS MY NAME IS KATHERINE I'M A RETIRED TEACHER AND TEACHER AND CURRENT MEMBER OF THE VEHBI ABOARD I AM SPEAKING ON THE TOPIC OF THE RECENT RESOLUTION THAT WAS PASSED BY THIS SCHOOL BOARD QUICKLY AND WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT. I DISAGREE WITH THE DTI

117RESOLUTION. I AGREE WITH THE REASONING LAID OUT BY THE TRUMP APPOINTED JUDGE AND THE NAACP CASE WHERE VIRGINIA BEACH WAS MENTIONED TWICE QUOTE THE COURT FINDS THAT THREATENING PENALTIES UNDER THOSE LEGAL PROVISIONS WITHOUT SUFFICIENTLY DEFINING THE CONTACT THAT MIGHT TRIGGER LIABILITY, VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S PROHIBITION ON VAGUENESS ALTHOUGH THE CHALLENGE DOCUMENTS PLACE A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON CERTAIN PRACTICES, THEY FAIL TO PROVIDE AND ACTIONABLE DEFINITION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES THE I OR A I PRACTICE OR DELINEATE BETWEEN A LAWFUL DEA PRACTICE AND AN UNLAWFUL ONE UNQUOTE QUOTE BECAUSE THE PLAINTIFF HAS ESTABLISHED A LIKELIHOOD THAT THE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT IMPINGES ON ITS MEMBERS LIBERTY INTEREST IN RECEIVING PROTECTED SPEECH IT HAS SHOWN IRREPARABLE HARM UNQUOTE FROM THIS WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING WON THE COURT HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE IS NO CLEAR DEFINITION OF DGI TO IN THE

118ABSENCE OF THAT CLARITY YOUR ATTEMPTS TO REVIEW AND ASSESS POLICY STRATEGIC PLANS, CLUBS OR PROGRAMS RISK BECOMING ARBITRARY. THREE THESE ARBITRARY DECISIONS MAY INFRINGE ON STUDENTS STOPS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS PARTICULARLY THEIR RIGHT TO RECEIVE PROTECTED SPEECH AND INFORMATION IN CASES LIKE THIS WE SHOULD APPLY COMMON SENSE AND LOCAL PRAGMATISM IF THE FOUNDATION OF A POLICY GETS AN INJUNCTION OR STAY DUE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS THEN PERHAPS WE SHOULD PAUSE AND LET THE COURTS CLARIFY THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE SO WE DON'T INADVERTENTLY SUPPRESS THE RIGHTS OF OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF. VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD PLEASE CONSIDER A PAUSE ON THE DGI RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS BECAUSE THE JANET BURNS THEN SUSAN BERMAN. GOOD EVENING CHAIR BROWN SCHOOL BOARD AND MRS. WATT MRS. WOODHOUSE MY NAME IS ABKHAZIAN I'M AND I'M A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF VIRGINIA

119BEACH I LIVE IN BIRCHWOOD. I'VE WORKED FOR THE DIOCESE RICHMOND AT THE PARISH IN DIOCESAN LEVEL AND I'M CURRENTLY A YOUTH MINISTER DIRECTOR YOUTH MINISTRIES DIRECTOR AT A CATHOLIC AT A CATHOLIC PARISH IN GREAT NECK I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF VIRGINIA CATHOLICS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND ALSO TO ADD I'M A PARISHIONER OF THE BASILICA OF SAINT OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IN NORFOLK WHICH IS THE ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN SILICO IN THE UNITED STATES. MY OPINION IS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THESE ORGANIZATIONS BUT TODAY I AM NOT REPRESENTING THESE ORGANIZATIONS MY OPINION IS AS A FILIPINA AMERICAN AS A PARENT OF PAST AND CURRENT STUDENTS VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHOSE FAITH COMPELS ME TO SPEAK I AM ASKING THE SCHOOL BOARD TO PAUSE THE SECTIONS APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION NOTED IN TONIGHT'S IN TONIGHT'S AGENDA UNTIL THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE

120RULED WHETHER THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOR ONE NINE CAN BE ENFORCED IN READING THE AGENDA THE MOST DISTURBING TO ME WAS QUOTE IN EXCHANGE FOR FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE END QUOTE AS A PERSON COLOR A PARENT OF A DAUGHTER A DAUGHTER WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY, A SPECIAL NEEDS SON WHO HAS JUST BEEN ACCEPTED INTO PROJECT SEARCH AND MY DAUGHTER SOPHIE A SEVENTH GRADER BEING TAUGHT TO BE A GLOBAL THINKER AT PLAZA NYP. IF I WERE TO MAKE I WOULD HAVE MADE THE DECISION THAT YOU HAD TO MAKE IT WOULD LITERALLY LEAVE ME WITH SOPHIE'S CHOICE CHOOSING TO ELIMINATE I'D HAVE TO CHOOSE TO ELIMINATE PROGRAMS WHICH WOULD ALLOW SOPHIE AND THE MAJORITY OF OUR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS WHO ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO EITHER TO ELIMINATE THOSE PROGRAMS TO FLOURISH AS HUMAN BEINGS OR CHOOSE TO HAVE HER

121TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM SO HER BROTHER HER FRIENDS AND OTHER CLASSMATES WHO DEPEND ON THE SEVENTY FIVE MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH TO GO WITHOUT THIS CHOICE IS MEANT TO INTENTIONALLY DIVIDE US BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO YOU CAN DO THE RIGHT THING TO PROTECT AND CARE FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN BY PAUSING YOUR APRIL 8TH DECISION AND ALLOW THE COURTS TO DO THEIR JOB DCI IS NOT THE NAME OF A PROGRAM. IT'S THE LARGER VISION THAT ALLOWS US FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING, EVERY STUDENT TO FLOURISH AND SHARE THEIR GIFTS WITH THE WORLD UNLESS MY DAD WAS THE PRODUCT OF A DCI INITIATIVE WHEN HE HAD WHO SIGN WHEN HE ENLISTED IN THE NAVY IN NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE AND SUBIC BAY HE HAD TO SIGN A DOCUMENT THAT

122SAID HE WOULD NEVER RISE HIGHER THAN HIS STEWARD IN NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE HE WAS ALLOWED TO CLIMB THAT LADDER AND HE RETIRED ISN'T EASY SEVEN AS A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER AND THE MCG'S 13 FROM THE JOINT FORCES STAFF COLLEGE AND SO I AM A PRODUCT OF THAT AND IT IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU DECIDE WHETHER I AM WORTHY OF THAT AS MY AS MY CHILDREN. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JENNIFER SUZANNE BERMAN AND THEN CHRIS JUST GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JANET AND I'M A RESIDENT OF THIS YEAR BEFORE AND I AM A CONCERNED PARENT I STAND BEFORE YOU AGAIN HERE TODAY A DAY AFTER MY BABY HAS HAD SURGERY JUST BECAUSE THIS TOPIC IS IMPORTANT TO ME I ASKED ASK YOU RESPECTFULLY TO PAUSE THE APRIL THE RESOLUTION BECAUSE OF YOUR SWIFT ACTION TO

123REMOVED FROM OUR SCHOOLS OUR SCHOOLS. MANY PARENTS AND STUDENTS ARE NOW FACED WITH GREAT UNCERTAINTY REGARDING ACADEMIC STUDIES AND EXTRACURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE SCHOOLS AS YOU MAY KNOW THREE FEDERAL JUDGES FEDERAL JUDGES STATED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPTS TO DICTATE CURRICULUM AND PUNISH NON-COMPLIANT DISTRICTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE EXECUTIVE ORDER LACKS CLARITY IN THE LANGUAGE IS THE LANGUAGE IS VAGUE AND ADDITION WE STILL DON'T HAVE ANSWERS REGARDING HOW VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE MOVING FORWARD AFTER APPROVING THE REMOVAL OF THE POLICY I SPOKE TO MR. COLPEPER IN THE HALLWAY AT THE LAST MEETING AND HE INFORMING ME THAT HE RECEIVED NEW INFORMATION REGARDING WHAT THE SPEAKERS WERE SAYING WITH THAT BEING SAID EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD HAS BEEN PRESENTED WITH NEW INFORMATION REGARDING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER I ASK THAT YOU RECONSIDER YOUR DECISION TO PAUSE THE

124APRIL RESOLUTION IF YOU DO NOT PAUSE THE DECISION TO COMPLY WITH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER AS A PARENT I NEED TO KNOW WHAT CLUBS AND ACADEMIC CURRICULUMS WILL BE AFFECTED WHAT THE CHILD THAT'S IN THE GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY WHOSE CURRICULUM IS CENTERED AROUND DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION I NEED ANSWERS AS TO HOW THE BOARD IS GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH MY CHILD'S ACADEMIC STUDIES. IN ADDITION, HOW WILL TO ENSURE THAT CHILDREN WHO HAVE DISABILITIES ARE GOING TO NEGATIVELY AFFECTED OF AFFECTED BY THE SUSPENSIONS OR REMOVE DCI? AGAIN, I RESPECTFULLY THAT YOU PAUL'S THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNTIL THE FEDERAL COURTS RESOLVE THE ENFORCEMENT OF AN EQUAL I'M SORRY IN EQUAL OF EXECUTIVE ORDER AGAIN I ASK THAT YOU ALL PLEASE JUST LISTEN TO WHAT WE'RE SAYING THE STUDENTS HAVE SPOKE AND I THAT YOU GIVE OUR

125CHILDREN AN OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU HAD YOUR CHILDREN HAD AND OR YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS HAS HAD THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION NEXT MY NEXT SPEAKER IS SUSANNE BERMAN CHRIS JUST AND THEN LINDA CRISANTO THANK YOU BEFORE I BEGIN I'D LIKE TO EXPRESS LIKE TO EXPRESS MY CONDOLENCES TO MEMBER ELTON FOR THE RECENT LOSS OF YOUR HUSBAND. I MET WINFRIED SEVERAL TIMES AND HE WAS ALWAYS SO KIND AND IT WAS SO CLEAR HOW MUCH YOU LOVED HIS FAMILY AND HOW PROUD HE WAS OF THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING. MY NAME IS SUZANNE BERMAN I AM A VIRGINIA BEACH BORN AND BRED NATIVE. I HAVE TWO KIDS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND ONE IN PRESCHOOL AND I LIVE IN DISTRICT NINE I'M HERE TODAY TO VOICE MY SUPPORT FOR POLICY FIVE FOUR ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION.

126I DON'T EXPECT TO CHANGE ANYONE'S VIEWS TODAY BUT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT THAT POLICY MEANS TO ME AS A PARENT, AS A PTA PRESIDENT AND AS A VOTER POLICY FIVE FOUR STATES THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL REPLACE RACISM DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT AND PREJUDICE WITH ACCEPTANCE, BELONGING, COMPASSION, INTEGRITY UNDERSTANDING FAIRNESS, FAIRNESS, COOPERATION AND RESPECT THESE ARE VALUES THAT I WANT FOR MY CHILDREN VALUES THAT FOSTER POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY. THE POLICY ALSO STATES AT STRICT EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY MAY NOT RESULT IN EDUCATIONAL EQUITY THERE'S A FAMOUS CARTOON THAT EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE BEING EQUITY AND EQUALITY IT SHOWS CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT HEIGHTS TRYING TO WATCH BASEBALL GAME OVER OFFENSE EQUALITY IS GIVING ALL OF THE KIDS THE SAME SIZE BOX TO STAND ON EQUITY GIVES THEM BOXES ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THEIR HEIGHTS I STAND BEFORE

127STAND BEFORE YOU AT A PROUD FOUR FEET AND 11 INCHES AND THREE QUARTERS AND I TELL THAT IF YOU GIVE MY SELF AND MY HUSBAND WHO'S A SIX ONE FILIPINO AMERICAN THE SAME SIZE BOX WE WON'T BE ABLE TO WATCH THE GAME TOGETHER AND DEPENDING ON OUR CIRCUMSTANCES WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT BOXES THAT WE NEED TO STAND ON AT DIFFERENT TIMES MY CHILDREN ARE MIXED RACE AND I WANT THEM TO THEM TO BE IN A SCHOOL SYSTEM CELEBRATES NOT TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEY HAVE A HERITAGE AND A HISTORY THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE EUROPEAN SIDE AND THE FILIPINO ONE I WANT THEM TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER HISTORIES AS WELL AND TO ENSURE THAT IT'S THE REAL HISTORY WITH ALL THE DETAILS SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE SOME SHOCKING REVEAL LATER IN LIFE WHEN THEY REALIZE

128HOW COMPLEX HUMANITY CAN BE SCHOOL BOARDS AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION. THEY HAVE IN CONFLICTING AND CONFUSING EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND OTHER MOVES BY THE ADMINISTRATION INFLUENCE WHAT'S TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. HOWEVER LEGALLY EXECUTIVE ORDERS CAN'T REWRITE FEDERAL LAW OR OVERTURN SUPREME COURT PRESIDENCIES I WORK IN FEDERAL ADVOCACY I. I CAN TELL YOU FOR SURE TO THE EARLIER QUESTION EXECUTIVE ARE NOT LAW. CONGRESS ALONE BY DEFINITION PASSES LAWS. THEY ALSO ARE EXCLUSIVELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BUDGET INCLUDING THE BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT EDUCATION AND WITHHOLDING FUNDING IS CALLED IMPOUNDMENT WHICH IS ALSO LEGAL THE SCHOOL BOARD IS ALREADY VOTED TO KEEP TEACHER PAY THE LOWEST IN OUR REGION HOW DO YOU THINK TEACHERS THINK TEACHERS FEEL NOW TERRIFIED THAT THEY SAY THE WRONG THING HOW CAN THEY CAN THEY ANSWER QUESTIONS OR TEACH HISTORY ABOUT

129THE DETAILS OF JIM CROW LAWS OR SLAVERY WHY WOULDN'T THEY WORK FOR NORFOLK WHICH HAS HIGHER PAY AND HASN'T PUT HANGING THREAT OVER THEIR HEADS I URGE I URGE YOU TO DO ALL YOU HAND TO PRESERVE THE CONTENT OF THE DIVERSITY AND QUALITY AND INCLUSION POLICIES IF NECESSARY CHANGE THE WORDS BUT PLEASE KEEP THE INTENT ABOUT THAT TIME NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER IS CHRIS JUST LINDA CRISANTO AND THEN ERIC CHRIS JUST LINDA CRISANTO, EDDIE GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ERIC EDDIE AND I LIVE IN THE DISTRICT IN VIRGINIA BEACH. MY PRONOUNS HE IS I STAND BEFORE TODAY TO DISCUSS THE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE ELIMINATION OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN OUR SCHOOLS RECENT COURT RULINGS HAVE ISSUED A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST THE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP BY PRESIDENT WHICH WHICH WHICH COMPELS

130JURISDICTIONS TO ABANDON I TO QUALIFY FOR FEDERAL AID THESE DECISIONS UNDERSCORE THAT THE MANDATES BEHIND THIS RESOLUTION MAY NOT ONLY BE UNNECESSARY BUT ALSO LEGALLY QUESTIONABLE DIVERSITY ,EQUITY AND INCLUSION ARE INTEGRAL TO FOSTERING A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL OUR STUDENTS. THEY PROMISE UNDERSTANDING THEY PROMISE RESPECT. THEY PROMISED OPPORTUNITY BARRY SENDING THIS RESOLUTION WHICH I'M ASKING TO DO TONIGHT AND I THINK WE HEARD EARLIER THAT ROBERT'S WAS AWARDED DOES ALLOW US TO DO THAT. YES, THERE IS A A MOTION FOR THAT IN THE RULES. WE WE CAN ALL ON OURSELVES WITH THE OF RECENT COURT DECISION REAFFIRM OUR COMMITMENT TO AN INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND ENSURE OUR SCHOOLS REMAIN PLACES WHERE EVERY STUDENT FEELS VALUED. ONE THING THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME AS I LISTENED TO PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION THIS THIS THIS RESOLUTION WAS

131THAT THE REASON JUSTIFICATION FOR IT WAS LOSING FEDERAL AID. YOU'RE NOT LOSING ANYTHING THE COURT DECISION STATE THAT SO IF YOU WANT TO PUT A PASS YOU WANT TO CALL THIS A PAUSE TONIGHT. THAT'S FINE. BUT WE NEED TO RESCIND THIS RESOLUTION. IT'S NOT NECESSARY AND IT'S LEGALLY QUESTIONABLE SO YOU'RE SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR LITIGATION THAT'S NOT NECESSARY AND FOR EXPENSES THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO SPEND THAT WE AS A PEOPLE ARE AGAINST WE'VE SPEAKERS FROM EVERY DISTRICT IN THIS COMMUNITY LAST WEEK AND THIS WEEK AND THIS SHOULD PROVE TO YOU THAT THIS IS JUST NOT MAJORITY MINORITY DISTRICT SPEAKING. IT'S EVERY DISTRICT IN THIS CITY. SO I'M ASKING YOU RESCIND THE RESOLUTION AND IF YOU CAN'T DO THAT >>, PAUSE IT. >> THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SALLY DANIEL THAT IAN SPRINGER WOODS

132AND THEN ELIZABETH SHAW >> SHUU IN APRIL THIS BOARD WAS TOLD THAT IT HAD TO TURN ITS BACK ON THE PROGRESS WE HAVE MADE IN THE AREA OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN ORDER TO EARN FEDERAL FUNDS WHICH WE NEED TO RUN THIS DISTRICT. WELL IT HAD TO MOVE QUICK THERE . THERE WAS NO TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT AND THAT SOUNDS REMARKABLY LIKE A TACTIC OF A SORT OF A SHADY SALES PERSON AT NOW OR THAT GOOD DEAL WILL GO AWAY DON'T THINK JUST DO. AND SO YOU DID LATER THAT MONTH YOU ASKED FOR PUBLIC TO GIVE YOU COMMENTS AFTER ALL THE VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC CARES ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS. WELL, YOU HURT A LOT THEN SOME NEIGHBORING SCHOOL BOARDS STOOD UP TO THE DICTATE THEY RIGHTFULLY EXAMINED THEIR OPTIONS AND LEARNED THAT EXECUTIVE ORDERS

133ARE NOT LAW AND LAWS SUPPORT TO >> SO >> SO HERE WE ARE AGAIN TO BE HONEST SOME OF YOU WELCOME TO THE EIB YOU HAVE FOND REMEMBRANCES OF YOUR TIME SCHOOL BEFORE THAT MESSY DESEGREGATION, BEFORE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT, BEFORE GAY RIGHTS. WASN'T LIFE JUST SIMPLER THEN AS A PRODUCT OF THAT TIME I CAN AGREE THAT IT WAS SIMPLER BUT IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT BETTER AMERICA DOES NOT NEED TO REVERSE ITS STRIDES TOWARDS TREATING PEOPLE AS IF WE ALL HAVE INHERENT WORTH THE BEST AMERICA AND THE BEST VIRGINIA BEACH IS WHEN EVERYONE IS WELCOMED TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SCHOOL AND IN LIFE EMBRACE THE BEST OF AMERICA BY EMBRACING ALL OF OUR CHILDREN AND EMPLOYEES DON'T JUST PAUSE RECENT ENJOY YOUR VOTE. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SPRINGER WORDS OF THE SHORE THEN BILL DEVINS

134ALL RIGHT. IMAGINE THAT THERE IS A BOARD OF MECHANICS AND THIS BORDER MECHANICS GETS TAKEN OVER BY A CERTAIN GENTLEMAN WHO DOESN'T MECHANICS AT ALL BUT DECIDES THAT HE INEQUALITY IN THE WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE BOARD OF MECHANICS. HE SAYS THERE'S THESE THESE THESE CARS THAT NEED THIS SPECIAL TOOLS AND SPECIAL PARTS IN THIS COUNTRY HEARING NEED SPECIAL TOOLS SPECIAL THAT'S NOT FAIR. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A POLICY MAKE A POLICY THAT COVERS ALL THE CARS EQUALLY SO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A POLICY THAT SAID YOU CANNOT USE ANY TOOLS OR PARTS EXCEPT THOSE THAT CAN BE USED ON A 2012 FORD FUSION AND HE JUST HAPPENED TO ME THAT'S FUSION. BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY IMPORTANT. SO HE SAYS HE MAKES THIS POLICY AND THEN OF COURSE PEOPLE COMPLAIN THEY CAN'T GET TO WORK.

135THEY YOU GET TO SCHOOL THEY CAN'T THEY LOSE THEIR JOB BECAUSE THEIR BREAKDOWN AND THEY CAN'T FIX THEM WE WOULD. WE WOULD CALL THAT PERSON AN ARROGANT IDIOT WE WOULD SAY WHAT A RIGHT AND YET HERE WE ARE POLICY ARE POLICY FIVE THERE'S FOUR THERE'S A BUNCH OF RED LINES ON IT WAS UNDER THE UNDER THE RED LINES? ALL THE TOOLS ARE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS GET WHAT THEY NEED INDIVIDUALLY TO SUCCEED ON THE ROAD OF LIFE AND WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THEM? SOMEONE'S GUTTED IT SOME CAME ALONG AND SAID WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO TO DO ANY OF THE STUFF WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE SAYS AS A PART FOR A TWENTY TWELVE FORD FUSION YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS. THIS IS STUPID IS JUST DUMB. I'M GOING TO SAY THIS

136EVERY TIME I JUST BOUGHT YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING BE LISTENING TO THE CURRENT CONSENSUS EXPERTS ON THE FIELD WHEN YOU MAKE DECISIONS DURING EDUCATIONAL AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION NOW WHO THE CURRENT CONSENSUS OF EXPERTS IN THE FIELD? WELL, SOME ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE THE ONES THE ONES THAT THOSE THREE LAWSUITS ALONG WITH THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN ACADEMY PEDIATRICS THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ONE OF THE ONES WHO BROUGHT THE LAWSUITS AND MANY, MANY WAR AND WHAT ALL THOSE ORGANIZATIONS SAY THEY SAY THEIR VERY BEST RESEARCH COMPLETELY SUPPORTS DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION BEING WHAT MAKES THEM BETTER WHAT MAKES THEM ABLE TO RUN WHAT MAKES WHAT MAKES COMPANIES BETTER AND MORE PROFITABLE WHAT MAKES ORGANIZATIONS BETTER AND ABLE TO FUNCTION BETTER YOU NEED TO GET RID OF THIS RESCINDING YOU NEED DEPOSIT

137TO PAUSE IT AND IF YOU CAN GET RID OF THE WHOLE BANNING IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT'S ABSURD YOU CAN DO THE RIGHT THING I KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU WANT TO BE THAT BUT THAT'S A IDIOT BUT I JUST DESCRIBED BUT I KNOW THAT THERE'S A COUPLE OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED TO RESCIND THAT ACTUALLY WE'RE JUST AFRAID YOU WERE SCARED YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE WE ALREADY HAVE WE ALREADY WENT THROUGH IT YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO LOSE YOUR MONEY. YOU'LL BE OK NEXT SPEAKER IS ELIZABETH YOUR SHAW, BILL DEVINS AND THEN FITS YOU OK GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ELIZABETH FORMER. I'M FORMER VP SCHOOL'S TEACHER AND PARENT. I'M ALSO CITIZEN OF DISTRICT SIX. SO MR. CALLEN I'M IN YOUR DISTRICT AND I REPRESENT FIVE VOTERS IN MY HOUSEHOLD AND I HAD COMMENTS

138AND THIS HAPPENED LAST TIME AND I JUST LOOKED ALL OVER THEM SO FORGIVE ME IF IT'S LITTLE DISJOINTED BUT I JUST WANT TO GET SOME POINTS. I'M GOING TO START WITH WHAT I THOUGHT I WOULD END WITH JUST WE CAN MAKE SURE THIS IS HEARD I ASK THE BOARD TO ACT QUICKLY AND WITH INTEGRITY TO RESCIND OR IN THE LEAST PAUSE THE RESOLUTION PASSED ON APRIL 8TH SO I'M GOING TO JUST MAKE A FEW OBSERVATIONS AT THE LAST MEETING ON APRIL 22ND BOARD MEMBER MELINDA ROGERS HAD THE FORESIGHT TO ASK OUR SCHOOL BOARD COUNCIL LEONETTI ABOUT ANY PENDING LITIGATION THAT MAY IMPACT THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION. MISS LEONETTI RESPONDED I AM AWARE THAT THE NAACP HAS FILED AT LEAST ONE LAWSUIT RIGHT NOW I HAVE NOT OTHERS THAT THE K THROUGH 12 LEVEL EXCEPT WHICH

139APPEARS TO BE THE NASA LAWSUIT THAT WAS JUST FILED YESTERDAY NOW OF COURSE IN FACT AT THAT TIME OF THE APRIL TWENTY SECOND MEETING THERE WERE ACTIVE LAWSUITS WHICH WE JUST SAW A COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION I BELIEVE MAJORITY ON THIS BOARD AND OUR COUNSEL HAVE BOTH THE RESPONSIBILITY AND THE DUTY TO BE AS INFORMED AND PREPARED AS POSSIBLE BOTH PRIOR TO AND AFTER UNILATERALLY PASSING A CONTENTIOUS RESOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCHOOL YEAR FRANKLY SALINITY I AM A I AM A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT AS OUR COUNCIL YOU SEEM UNWILLING OR ALMOST RELUCTANT TO ADMIT THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH TITLE SIX MISS WOODHOUSE DURING THE APRIL 22ND MEETING GAVE A PRESENTATION IN WHICH SHE REINFORCED FORCED ADAMANTLY >> THAT THE SCHOOL WAS IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH ALL TITLE SICK SO I APPRECIATE THAT WE

140WERE IN COMPLIANCE SO ANOTHER OBSERVATION AND HEATHER SITE FROM VBA AND OTHERS HAVE MADE THIS POINT WAS REGARDING THAT APRIL 8TH MEETING I WAS HERE. PLEASE GO BACK WATCH IT AT THAT BOARD MEETING THE MAJORITY WAS PUSHING THE URGENCY, THE URGENCY OF COMPLIANCE NOT THE MERITS OF DCI YOU RUSH THE VOTE BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU'RE AFRAID OF LOSING FUNDS. WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY IN JEOPARDY OF LOSING FUNDS. THERE IS NO URGENCY PLEASE STOP GASLIGHTING THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY ABOUT THE VOTE IN THIS RESOLUTION. I ASKED THE BOARD TO ACT QUICKLY AND WITH INTEGRITY TO RESCIND AND THAT IS TIME. >> THANK YOU. YOUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BUILDINGS EVANS THEN JEAN FIT YOU THEN DR. RICK COLEBATCH. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS BILL EVANS FIRST OFF I WANT TO THANK AGAIN THOSE RESPONSIBLE BOARD MEMBERS WHO VOTED

141TO ELIMINATE THE INDOCTRINATION AND ACTIONS FROM THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL SYSTEM. I RESPECT YOU ALL FOR STANDING UP TO THE HATEFUL INTIMIDATION BORN UPON YOU BY MANY IN THIS ROOM. PLEASE VOTE NO AND ON PAUSING AND PLEASE VOTE NO ON PASSING THE RESOLUTION PROVED ON APRIL 8TH 2ND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER IS JUDGED VALID AND REGARDLESS OF FUNDING IMPACTS THIS BOARD NEEDS TO STAY THE COURSE ON EARLIER DECISION AND ELIMINATE DIE DCI WITHIN THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL SYSTEM. THIRD POINT DISCRIMINATION OR REVERSE DISCRIMINATION BASED UPON COLOR SEX OR SEXUAL PROCLIVITY IS UGLY AND UNWARRANTED. DTI ONLY CREATES INTENSE DIVISIVENESS BETWEEN THOSE IT LABELS VICTIMS AND THOSE LABELS OPPRESSORS AS ALREADY DEMONSTRATED IN THIS MEETING ROOM DTI HAS FOSTERED HATRED, ANGER AND VEHEMENCE CONTINUING DCI INDOCTRINATION AND ACTIONS WITHIN THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL SYSTEM

142WILL ONLY ESCALATE THIS DIVISIVENESS THIS BOARD NEEDS TO PUT A LID ON IT. FOURTH POINT DON'T EVER SWALLOW THE ARGUMENT THAT BY IS JUST ABOUT RAISING PARTICULAR SET OF PEOPLE BASED ON COLOR ON COLOR, SEX OR SEXUAL PROCLIVITY THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE OF THE STORY ACCORDING TO THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY DISCRIMINATION IS DEFINED AS TREATING A PERSON A PARTICULAR GROUP OF PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY ESPECIALLY, ESPECIALLY IN A WORSE WAY FROM THE WAY IN WHICH YOU TREAT OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY ETC. DCI OR ANY DISCRIMINATIVE PROGRAM BASED ON COLOR SEX WITH SEXUAL PROCLIVITY AS A ZERO SOME GAME THERE ARE ONLY A LIMITED SET OF RESOURCES OPPORTUNITIES FUNDS AVAILABLE THEY JUST DON'T GROW DON'T GROW ON TREES JUST BECAUSE DGI IS INSTITUTED BECAUSE OF THIS DTI COMES DOWN TO GIVING PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TREATMENT TO ONE

143GROUP AT THE EXPENSE OF THE EXCLUDED GROUP ALL BASED UPON COLOR, SEX OR SEXUAL PROCLIVITY PROMOTION SELECTIONS AND ADVANCEMENTS NEED TO BE BASED SOLELY ON MERIT MEETING STANDARDS AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS SUITED TO THE POSITION AT HAND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DISCRIMINATION BASED UPON COLOR, RACE OR SEXUAL PROCLIVITY DTI OR ANY OF ITS REINCARNATIONS OR GUISES NEEDS TO STOP AGAIN. DO NOT PAUSE IMPLEMENTATION THE DEA RESOLUTION AND JUST AS ANDREW JACKSON COMMANDER OF U.S. FORCES DURING THE BATTLE OF ORLEANS HOLD THE WALL WHERE FOR YOU MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL NEXT SPEAKER IS GENE IS JEAN FIT YOU THEN DR. CULTURE AND THEN GILBERT BLAND DIE PROGRESS ACCORDING TO IDENTITY NOT MERIT. IT PRESUMES THE INDIVIDUAL IS DEFICIENT UNABLE TO ACHIEVE APART FROM THIS SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION WHICH DIMINISHES EXPECTATIONS THIS CRUSHING DEVALUATE IN RUINS INITIATIVE

144AND SILENTLY STALKS THE RESILIENCE OF A CURIOUS AND FRUITFUL MIND. ALTERNATELY IT ADHERES TO THE OTHER LIES AND ACRONYMS WHICH THE STUDENT CAN SIMPLY SELF IDENTIFY AS A STATUS THEY CANNOT OBTAIN LEBRON JAMES IS NOT AMUSED WHEN YOU SHOW UP THE FORUM AND TELL HIM YOU ARE NOW GOING TO PLAY POINT GUARD HIS OWN SON CAN'T DO IT. I'M SURE NO ONE ELSE CAN SO WHERE ARE WE. WE ARE FINALLY RID OF THIS RACE BASED MENACE WHICH DESTROYS FORWARD PROGRESS, ACHIEVEMENT FULFILLMENT TRANSFORMATIVE GENIUS, CREATIVITY AND EXCELLENCE NEVER TELL A CHILD THEY ARE JUST LIKE SOMEBODY ELSE ESPECIALLY BASED PENETRATE AS AN AS INOPERABLE AS COLOR. NO CHILD THE SAME AS ANY OTHER CHILD NO. NO CHILD HAS THE SAME DESTINY AS ANY OTHER CHILD NO CHILD CAN ACHIEVE WITH ANY OTHER CHILD CAN ACHIEVE EACH

145CHILD IS EXCEPTIONAL. EACH CHILD IS UNIQUE EACH CHILD IS A CONSTELLATION OF ABILITIES A UNIVERSE OF POTENTIAL AND THE MATERIAL OF GREATNESS. AS HELEN HELLER AS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ASKED THOMAS EDISON THOMAS EDISON WAS TAKEN OUT OF SCHOOL DUE TO BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS. THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T HAVE RITALIN HE WAS THEN TAUGHT BY HIS MOTHER WHO INSTILLED HIM AND PROFOUND LOVE OF READING. HIS TEACHER CALLED ADULT DISTURBED AND SAID HE SAID HE DIDN'T BELONG IN SCHOOL. HOWEVER, EDISONS MOTHER BELIEVED IN HIM AND ENCOURAGED HIM WHICH LED HIM TO BECOME THE GREAT INVENTOR HE WAS HE WAS DEAF IN ONE EAR AND THE OTHER AFFECTED BY SCARLET FEVER HE WAS HE WAS SYMPTOMATIC OF ADHD WITH 10 93 US PATENTS IN HIS NAME. EDISON IS THE MOST PROLIFIC INVENTOR IN AMERICAN HISTORY. IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILD

146GET BUSY AT HOME IF. IF YOU HAVE SERVED THIS HEMLOCK TO YOUR CHILD OR ANY OTHER PRAY TO GOD FOR FORGIVENESS AND THEN TELL YOUR CHILD WITH PEOPLE MANY THINGS ARE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD IN THIS HOUSEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE AND WE ARE GOING TO SEE YOU DO GREAT THINGS THEN TELL THEM WHAT JESUS SAID LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME AND DO NOT HINDER THEM FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BELONGS TO SUCH AS THESE THEN TELL YOURSELF THINGS THAT CAUSED PEOPLE TO STUMBLE ARE BOUND TO HAPPEN BUT ALSO TO ANYONE THROUGH WHOM THEY HAPPEN IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR YOU TO BE THROWN INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WITH AN ANVIL AROUND YOUR NECK THAN TO CAUSE ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES TO STUMBLE START AT HOME THEN GO TO SCHOOL YOU WERE THE

147CHILD'S TEACHER SCHOOL IS SCHOOL IS A SUPPLEMENT THAT PRECIOUS PERSON IS READY AND WAITING FOR YOU TO BEGIN >> SPEAKING AS DR. CABOOLTURE BEN GILBERT PLANNED THEN GEORGIA ALLEN >>. GOOD EVENING NAME IS DR. KLOBUCHAR I GREW UP I GREW UP IN THE INNER CITY CHICAGO AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR WHEN FLEW OVER IN NINETEEN FIFTY SEVEN AND I RETIRE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM CHANGED WE HAD DUCK AND COVER SO THERE WAS REAL IMMINENT THREAT THAT YOU CAN HAVE YOUR BUCKET FRIED IN A MILLISECOND NUKE WENT OFF. WE HAD POLIO WE HAD A REMARKABLE DISCRIMINATION IN OUR SCHOOLS I UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY AND I WENT I HAD MY PARENTS WITH A LOT OF SUPPORT AND SCHOOLS I HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT PH.D. IN NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY I SAY THAT BECAUSE I'M NOT

148A PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR I'M A REAL PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER SO WHILE I WAS AT IN GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THEN ALSO DUTY POSTDOC WORK AT BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB COAT DISCOVERY A COUPLE OF DO ISOTOPES UP I MIGHT ADD. I ALSO JOINED THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEER AND THEN DID MY RESEARCH OBLIGATION THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS YOUR TWO THINGS THEY CLEAR MINE FIELDS AND THEY LAY MINDS AND THEY BUILD BRIDGES AND I SUGGEST THAT YOU AS MEMBERS ARE BORED HERE. YOU MIGHT FEEL RIGHT NOW YOU'RE IN A MINEFIELD AND YOU'VE GOT A REAL NEED TO BUILD A BRIDGE BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TWO FACTIONS WITHIN OUR CITY HERE THOSE THAT WANT TO SEE I STAY AND THOSE THAT THINK IT'S NOT A

149GOOD IDEA GET RID OF IT AND SO I URGE YOU AT THIS POINT IN TIME TO BUILD THAT BRIDGE AND WITH THAT WHAT I DID I PUT TOGETHER AS I MENTIONED THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE A PETITION I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO READ IT BECAUSE I GOT MORE THAN 70 SIGNATURES ON IT AND I COULD EASILY HAVE GOTTEN THOUSANDS ON IT BUT IT'S AN OFFER FOR A COMPROMISE AND A PETITION READ WE THE UNDERSIGNED CITIZENS OF VIRGINIA BEACH HEREBY PETITION TO VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD TO SUSPEND AND ULTIMATELY TERMINATE THE POLICY THAT IS CURRENTLY CAUSING RACIAL ENGENDERED DISHARMONY IN OUR SCHOOLS. OUR PRIMARY REASON FOR THAT THE USE OF THE TERM EQUITY FUNDAMENTALLY EMBRACES THE NOTION OF EQUAL OUTCOMES WHICH ARE NOT PRACTICALLY ACHIEVABLE A FAILED TO PROPERLY RECOGNIZE THE VALUE

150OF HARD WORK AND MERIT ESPECIALLY IN HIRING OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS AND IT'S STIMULATING ALL OF OUR STUDENTS TO EXCEL SO RATHER THAN SUPPORT THE REPETITION THE SCHOOL WORKED TO REWRITE THE POLICY THE ENSURE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL AND THEN ABOUT SEEK THE PROPER FUNDING FOR IT SO THAT EVERYBODY HAVE THIS TURNED INTO A WIN WIN SITUATION. SO I HAVE PLENTY OF SYMPATHY HAVE RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE HERE WHO WANT TO SEE DGI PAID I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW HANDICAPPING YOUR STUDENTS WITH THAT IS NOT GOING TO HELP THEM IN THE LONG >> TERM GOAL TRY TO GET A AND THAT IS TIME. THANK YOU >> NEXT SPEAKER IS SPEAKER IS GILBERT BLAND THEN GEORGE ALLEN, THEN SHERRY SAMPSON GOOD EVENING. I'M GILBERT LANA'I, PRESIDENT THE URBAN LEAGUE HAMPTON ROADS . I COME BEFORE

151YOU AS AN ADVOCATE FOR EQUITY IN A VOICE FOR MANY ACROSS VIRGINIA BEACH WHOSE FEATURES OPINION DECISIONS MADE IN THIS ROOM. I'M ALSO THE FATHER THREE SONS WHO HAVE GRADUATED FROM THESE HIGH SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA BEACH ATTEMPT TO SPEAK FROM TO SPEAK FROM EXPERIENCES NOT JUST THEORY AS ALSO A LEADER IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH VIRGINIA OBSERVED ON FIVE COLLEGE SPORTS BOARDS AND WAS CHAIRMAN OF FOR EXAMPLE AND RECENT EXPERIENCE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SECRETARY EDUCATION THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS I'VE MANAGED A TUTORING GRANT FOR MINORITY STUDENTS THE URBAN CORE CITIES OF VIRGINIA WE USE STUDENTS FROM OUR FOR FOUR EIGHT BCUZ AS TUTORS THESE STUDENTS ALSO DOUBLED AS MENTORS BECAUSE MANY OF THESE STUDENTS HAD NEVER MET A BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT IN THEIR

152NEIGHBORHOOD. TARGETED OUTREACH MADE A DIFFERENCE THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO ARE TUTOR. I WILL ALSO TELL YOU THAT IN MY WARD WORK IN EACH CASE HAVE BEEN A VOCAL ADVOCATE OF THE IT NOT ONLY RESULTED IN PREPARING A MORE INCLUSIVE WORKFORCE BUT ALSO TO STUDENTS ACROSS CAMPUS BENEFITED FROM ASSOCIATING WITH MORE DIVERSE STUDENT BODY AND SHARING THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS FROM LIVED EXPERIENCES BY THE WAY LIVED EXPERIENCES I KNOW UNFAIR TREATMENT I WAS BORN IN SUFFERED UNDER THE JIM CROW ERA THREE JUDGES HAVE ALREADY HALTED EFFORTS IN THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO ELIMINATE DWI RELATED POLICIES. THEIR INJUNCTION FIRMS WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW TO BE TRUE OUR CONSTITUTION CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS AND SHARED VALUES DO NOT ALLOW TO TURN OUR BACKS ON EQUITY AND LET'S VIRGINIA BEACH STUDENT PROFILE STUDENT PROFILE TODAY. MOST STUDENTS IN

153VIRGINIA EACH CITY PUBLIC ARE NONWHITE AND UNDER AGE FIVE FIFTY FIVE PERCENT OF STUDENTS OR NONWHITE YET THESE STUDENTS REMAIN SEVERELY UNDER ARE PRESENTED FOR EXAMPLE IN A GIFTED PROGRAMS ARE NOT GIFTED PROGRAMS IN MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY, THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM. IT'S NOT COINCIDENCE FOR EXAMPLE MY SON GRADUATED SON GRADUATED FROM THE IVY PROGRAM A FEW YEARS AGO HE WAS THE ONLY BLACK BOY IN HIS CLASS IN THE LARGEST CITY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. HE WAS A ONLY BLACK BOY. THESE PROGRAMS WERE INITIATIVES DESIGNED TO DISMANTLE SUCH DISCREPANCIES REMOVING DCI D FROM YOUR VISION WILL NOT TO SOLVE DISPARITIES IT WILL ONLY DEEPEN >> DTI DOES NOT MEAN FAVORITISM. IT MEANS FAIRNESS BEING HELPING ALL STUDENTS REACH STUDENTS REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL BUT RECOGNIZING IN ADDRESSING BARRIERS THAT WHOLE SOME OF THEM BACK

154SO YOU BOUGHT I ASKED YOU NOT TO STAND WITH PARTIZAN POLITICS RATHER ASKED YOU TO STAND WITH YOUR STUDENTS PAUSE YOUR DECISION THAT VIRGINIA BEACH BE A MODEL OF INCLUSION NOT EXCLUSION LET THE CITY'S SHOW THE REST OF THE COMMONWEALTH THAT WE DO NOT RETREAT FROM PROGRESS. WE LEAD IT. THANK NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS GEORGE >> ALLEN. SHERRY SAMPSON AND THEN NATALIE BRAI. GOOD EVENING TO THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS CHAIRMAN CHAIRPERSON BROWNSHIRT VICE CHAIR WILLIAMS AND MRS. WOODHOUSE. OKAY, >> ALL RIGHTY. WHEN I CAME HERE TONIGHT I HAD A PREPARED SPEECH AND HAVE LISTENED TO THE PREACHER. MY FATHER WAS A PASTOR NEVER TAUGHT ME ANY OF THIS STUFF I'M . I'M SORRY BUT HE DID HE TAUGHT ME HOW TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. SO THAT'S CONFUSING TO ME I LISTEN LISTENED TO PEOPLE

155USE WORDS LIKE INDOCTRINATION AND RADICAL ALSO FIND ALSO FIND THAT VERY DISTURBING BECAUSE GROWING UP HERE IN THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH FOR SEGREGATION EXIST WHEN I WAS A CHILD I HEARD ALL THE LIES TOLD TO ME ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. I HEARD ALL THE LIES TOLD TO ME ABOUT AFRICA BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL ME THE TRUTH THAT THEY WERE STILL THE DIAMONDS EMERALDS AND IN ALL THE JEWELS FROM AFRICA THEY DIDN'T TELL ME THAT IN SCHOOL THEY DIDN'T TEACH ME THAT IN SCHOOL >> AND THEN WHEN I HEARD THE HAD THE AUDACITY TO TELL ME HOW I RUN MY RADIO SHOW, I FOUND IT VERY OFFENSIVE SO I SAID TO HERE FOR A MOMENT AND LOOKED AT THIS THING THAT SAYS INDOCTRINATION RADICAL BABY HOURS. I WAS INDOCTRINATED IN A RADICALIZED ALL MY WHOLE LIFE

156HERE IN THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH YOU LIED TO ME. YOU INDOCTRINATED ME TELLING ME THAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE GREATEST THING AND THAT THE BOOKS ARE BETTER WHITE SCHOOLS AND THE WHITE SCHOOLS ARE BETTER ARE BETTER THAN THE BLACK SCHOOLS WHEN TEACHERS HAD TO WORK FAR HARDER AND WORK WITH US TO MAKE SURE EVERY LAST ONE OF US GRADUATED NOT BECAUSE MOVED THROUGH BUT BECAUSE THEY LOVED US ENOUGH TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US TO MAKE MAKE SURE WE ACHIEVED AND ACHIEVE SO YES YOU NEED TO PARSE PAUSE. YOU NEED TO PAUSE THIS APRIL 8TH VOTE ABOUT THE RESOLUTION DEPOSIT BECAUSE DEPOSIT BECAUSE YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN LIARS ALL MY LIFE AND YOU CONTINUE TO LIE TO DAY YOU TALK ABOUT MERIT >>. WE OVER ACHIEVE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND YOU BRING YOUR

157LITTLE RAGGY PEOPLE UP HERE AND TELL THEM THAT THEY SHOULD BE HERE WHEN THEY SHOULD BE UNDERNEATH MY FEET. YOU MADE ANGRY TONIGHT I HAVE SAT HERE IN THIS STATE IN THIS CITY FOR DECADES AND DECADES AND DECADES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE NINETEEN FIFTIES AND YOU GUYS ARE LIARS D.C.I IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF ALL THE CHILDREN TIRED WHITE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SHERIFF SAMPSON THAT'LL BE BRAVE THING CATHERINE CHEVAUX HELLO EVERYONE. POINT OF ORDER. WOMAN IS CALLING ON THINGS TO US. I'M SORRY. HANG ON IS CALLING ON HOPE IS CALLING ON RUDE THINGS TO US OR SHE HAS TO SIT DOWN OK, THAT'S ALL RIGHT. SO I ORDER IN THE ROOM PLEASE. YES TRY NOT TO MAKE COMMENTS THAT OTHER PEOPLE AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WENT ON BECAUSE I COULDN'T HEAR

158OR SEE IT BUT IF WE COULD ORDER IN THE ROOM THAT WOULD THAT WOULD BE GREAT. THANK YOU SO MY NAME SHERRY AND I'VE IS SHERRY AND I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE IN HAMPTON ROADS SINCE TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN AND I AM OPPOSED TO PAUSING THE POLICIES THE REASON BEING IS BECAUSE I CAN TELL I GREW UP MY MOTHER HAD AN 8TH GRADE EDUCATION I GREW UP WITH NO CHANCE OF GOING TO COLLEGE BUT I HAD A DREAM TO BE A DOCTOR SO HOW DID YOU DO IT? I JOINED A MILITARY AND MILITARY. I LEARNED WHEN YOUR COMMANDER GIVES YOU AN ORDER YOU DON'T HAVE THE CHOICE NOT TO FOLLOW IT UNLESS IT'S ILLEGAL UNETHICAL AND MORAL. THESE JUDGES THAT HAVE MADE THEIR STATEMENTS IN THESE THREE STATES THIS IS NOT A CONCLUSION ISSUE THERE'S BEEN NO

159FORMAL DECISIONS AND UNTIL A FORMAL DECISION IS RENDERED AND THAT'S BEEN TO THE APPEAL PROCESS I DON'T THINK IT IS UPON US TO SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO FOLLOW THOSE EXECUTIVE ORDERS WHICH HAVE THE FORCE OF LAW NOW GETTING BACK TO MY EDUCATION I BECAME A DOCTOR CHIROPRACTIC I CAME. I CAME HERE. I WENT REGENT UNIVERSITY I GOT I GOT A BACHELOR'S IN PARALEGAL STUDIES AND I GOT A MASTER'S DEGREE IN LAW. OK, NO ONE PAID FOR THAT I WORKED FOR IT AND SO CAN EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO IS HAVING CHALLENGES GETTING THEIR EDUCATION, GETTING THEIR LIFESTYLE RIGHT GETTING THEIR SITUATION RIGHT EVERY PERSON CAN DO THIS IN THIS COUNTRY WE HAVE FREEDOM AND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. THE DIFFERENCE IS WE HAVE

160THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE OUR RELIGION WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE OUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION WHAT WE DO NOT HAVE OF FREEDOM LIBERTY IT IS TO NOT BE BACK UP SORRY A LITTLE FRUSTRATED THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FREEDOM AND LIBERTY. FREEDOM MEANS WE CAN LIVE AND ACHIEVE OUR DREAMS. LIBERTY IS RELATED TO ABUBAKAR STANDARD OF ETHICAL FOLLOWING ETHICAL AND MORAL WAS OK MANY OF US IN THIS ROOM BELIEVE THAT AI IS UNETHICAL BECAUSE WHO DOES IT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE WHITE CONSERVATIVE THAT'S WHO I DISCRIMINATES AGAINST AGAINST ME. I HAD MANY CHALLENGES TRYING TO GET MY EDUCATION AND GET MY RANK IN THE MILITARY BECAUSE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND OTHER POLICIES OF THAT SORT. OK, SO THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANTED TO SAY. I WANTED TO SAY A TEXAS TERM THIS HAS DON'T PUCHER AND THAT OFF

161DESPITE YOUR FACE THAT IS TYING NEXT SPEAKER IS NATALIE BROWN. CATHERINE SCHOONOVER AND THEN JOE JOHNSON. GOOD EVENING JERRY BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMS CHAIR WEEMS AND SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND MISS WOODHOUSE MY NAME IS NATALIE BRANG. I LIVE IN DISTRICT EIGHT AND I HAVE STUDENTS WHO HAVE ATTENDED KINGSTON ELEMENTARY OLDER NATION AND ONE WHO WILL ATTEND VERSION LEGS SCHOOL NEXT YEAR THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOICE MY CONCERNS ABOUT DGI IN OUR SCHOOLS I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT SOME ALARMING POINTS FROM THE DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER THIS DOCUMENT BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION SOME VERY SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE LETTER STATES THAT OUR SCHOOLS HAVE QUOTE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST STUDENTS ON THE BASIS OF RACE INCLUDING WHITE AND ASIAN STUDENTS. OUR SCHOOLS ARE SAID TO HAVE QUOTE TOXICALLY INDOCTRINATED STUDENTS AND HAVE FREQUENTLY PREFERENCE

162CERTAIN RACIAL GROUPS. IT SAYS THAT SCHOOLS ARE USING CRUDE QUOTE CRUDE RACIAL STEREOTYPES IS THIS WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN VBC? CPS HAS THERE HAVE BEEN WIDESPREAD AGAINST WHITE CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS IF THIS IS THE CASE I'M SHOCKED THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE A STACK OF LAWSUITS ON YOUR DESK FROM MY NEIGHBORS IN THE KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH IS SEVENTY THREE PERCENT WHITE OR THE ODIOUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMMUNITY WHICH IS FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT WHITE SCHOOLS RANKED BY THE U.S. NEWS WORLD REPORT AS NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO RESPECTIVELY IN VIRGINIA HAVE YOU'VE BEEN DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MY WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS I SUSPECT YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM A LOT OF PARENTS WHO WOULD LIKE TO SUE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BECAUSE YOUR ADMITTED DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THEIR WHITE

163STUDENTS BECAUSE YOUR RESPONSE TO THE THREATS LOBBED AT YOU THROUGH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER AND THE LETTER FROM THE DOJ WAS TO ADMIT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATING AND YOU PROMISED TO STOP. I'M NOT A LAWYER BUT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO OPENLY ADMIT THAT YOU'RE COMPLICIT IN AN ILLEGAL ACTIVITY LIKE DISCRIMINATION. SO REAL TALK HERE I KNOW THE PRINCIPAL'S ADMINISTRATION CLASSROOM TEACHERS COACHES AND SPECIAL RESOURCE TEACHERS AT MY KIDS SCHOOLS AND I THINK THESE ACCUSATIONS ARE FALSE AND DEFAMATORY. LISTEN IF YOU WEREN'T ENGAGING AND IN DISCRIMINATION THEN ALL YOU NEEDED TO DO WAS TO AFFIRM THAT CPS WAS FOLLOWING ALL EXISTING LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO UNFORTUNATELY YOUR RESPONSE WASN'T TO DENY THE ACCURACY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS INSTEAD YOU ROLLED OVER BELLY UP AND EXPOSE OUR

164SCHOOL TO A SCHOOL COMMUNITY POSSIBLE RUIN JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY TRIES TO EXTORT USING UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE THREATS IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD COOPERATE MY THIRD GRADER KNOWS HOW THIS PLAYS OUT. THE REALLY WANTS TO TAKE YOUR NEW FAVORITE PENCIL BUT SAYS THEY'LL LEAVE YOU ALONE IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR LUNCH MONEY IF YOU GIVE THEM THE MONEY THEY WILL BACK FOR MORE TOMORROW MEMBERS. MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD PLEASE STAND UP TO THE BULLY. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CATHERINE SHOULD OVER JOE JOHNSON THEN DR. ERIC MAGETTE. GOOD EVENING I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO REQUEST REFRAIN FROM YOU REFRAIN FROM OVERTURNING YOUR PREVIOUS VOTE REMOVE THE RACIST AND DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES THAT ARE DIRECTED VIOLATION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING IT BECAME CLEAR THAT EVERYONE IN THE

165ROOM HAD WILDLY DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF WHAT I WAS AND THAT MISUNDERSTANDING SUBSEQUENTLY REINFORCED BY DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP AS A TACTIC TO TRICK CITIZENS SUPPORTING DIE AT THAT SAME THAT SAME MEETING WE WERE ALSO PRESENTED EXAMPLES OF THE DEEPLY DAMAGING DISCRIMINATORY CURRICULUM THAT OUR CHILDREN HAVE BEEN TAUGHT AS A RESULT OF THESE RACIST AND MARXIST POLICIES THEY ALL GET BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN SPEECHES DEMONSTRATING THE INDOCTRINATION THEY'VE BEEN SUBJECTED TO TEACH THEM THAT THEY ARE ALL EITHER INCAPABLE VICTIMS OR CRUEL ABUSERS WHICH COULD RESULT IN IRREPARABLE HARM IT WAS INSTILLED IN THE THEM THE RACISM OF LOW EXPECTATIONS MINORITIES WHO WE NOW BELIEVE ARE INCAPABLE OF WHO THEY NOW LEVER INCAPABLE OF FUNCTIONING AT THE SAME LEVEL AS NON MINORITIES WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION THEY ALSO VIEW ALL NINE MINORITIES ABUSERS BY VIRTUE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR. WE HAVE ALSO

166NOW SEEN DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES BEING FOISTED ON OUR TEACHERS THROUGH THE REQUIRED TRAINING COURSES YOU COULD SEE THE VIDEO ONLINE SINCE THEN SINCE THEN WE HAVE WITNESSED THE DEMOCRATS OPERATING ALL OVER TOWN LYING TO CITIZENS ABOUT WHAT PROGRAMS WILL BE LOST DUE TO THE REMOVAL OF DISCRIMINATORY POLICY. ACCORDING TO THE DEMOCRATS SPECIAL EDUCATION EPWS, THE IB PROGRAM, FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES, ACADEMIES, BASEBALL IT'S RIDICULOUS EVERYONE ON THIS WAR KNOWS FULL WELL THAT IS NOT TRUE. DTI IS NOT JUST WILL HELP FOR POOR CHILDREN AND IS NOT IS NOT EVERY PROGRAM YOU LIKE IN SCHOOLS AS WE'VE SEEN ITS CODIFIED RACISM. WHAT THEY FAILED TO MENTION WAS IT IF WE KEEP THE DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES THEN WE STILL RISK LOSING CRITICAL FEDERAL FUNDING FOR OUR CHILDREN. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER ARE CRITICAL FOR THE

167FUTURE OF VIRGINIA THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO PRETEND THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REMOVE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES FROM ALL ENTITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FUNDING OR THEY'LL FEDERAL FUNDING IS DESIGNED TO PURPOSELY CUT SCHOOL FUNDING THEY CLEARLY INTEND TO BLAME THE PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICANS FOR LOSS OF SCHOOL FUNDING THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE FIGHTING HARD TO LOSE AS WE HAVE SEEN HERE IN ORDER TO USE IT AS LEVERAGE IN THE ELECTION. IT'S DISGUSTING CHILDREN'S LIVES CHILDREN'S LIES AS CHEAP POLITICAL LEVERAGE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOE JOHNSON. DR. ERIC BUDGET AND THEN MELISSA LUCINDALE >>. HELLO EVERYONE. SPENT A REAL LONG NIGHT. HOW'S EVERYONE DOING MY NAME IS JOHNSON I AM A GRADUATE OF PCP'S. ALL RIGHT. COME TO YOU GUYS TO SPEAK ABOUT A LOT OF STUFF BUT BECAUSE OF ALL THE RACISM AND BIGOTRY THAT'S IN HER TONIGHT

168I'M GOING TO CHANGE IT UP SO I'M NOT TALK ABOUT WHAT I SPENT LAST NIGHT AND BY THE WAY, I CHECKED JENKINS' STILL FUNDED US THIS MONEY SEVEN MONTHS AGO. THAT'S IN THE PAST YOU CAN'T CHANGE THAT SO THIS MONEY THAT WE'RE ALL ARGUING ABOUT THAT'S ALREADY BEEN FUNDED FOR IT'S STILL THERE I WANT TO POINT OUT SOMETHING THAT A MEMBER SAID EARLIER I AND IT WAS BILLED EVANS SAID DISCRIMINATION IS WRONG. HE'S RIGHT TODAY THE SUPREME COURT ALLOWED THE PRESIDENT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE IN THE ARMED SERVICES DISCRIMINATION IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN OUR COUNTRY UNFORTUNATELY SOMEONE SOMETHING ELSE I WANT TO POINT TWO WEEKS AGO THE HONOR OF SPEAKING HERE TODAY SPEAKING HERE TODAY AND I HEARD SOMETHING VERY DISTURBING FROM A PASTOR, A PASTOR WHO SHE AND I SHARE THE

169SAME FATE WE'RE BOTH CHRISTIANS AND SO THIS IS VERY DISTURBING TO HEAR FROM HIM HE SAID AND HAD THE AUDACITY TO SAY THAT HAVING STUDENTS SKIP THE LINE AND SPEAK IN FRONT OF ALL OF US STUDENTS WHO CANNOT VOTE >> STUDENTS WHO HAVE TO BE AT A GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING OR THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW HAVING THEM SPEAK IN FRONT OF US BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE WAS UNEQUAL AND HE'S A LITTLE BIT RIGHT BUT GUESS WHAT. THAT'S OK BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS EVERYONE ELSE THEY CAN'T VOTE YET AND BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE AT A GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT SEVEN 20 IT'S OK THAT THEY ARE NOT LAST IN LINE AND SPEAK TO THE VERY LAST OF US THAT IS OK SOMETHING ELSE SAID LAST NIGHT EXCUSE ME TWO

170WEEKS AGO CHAIR BROWN AT THE END OF IT YOU SAID PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHERE I STAND ON THIS I STAND WITH FUNDING FOR OUR KIDS. GUESS WHAT? THE FUNDING IS STILL THERE. WHATEVER >> LET'S SO YOU GOT HERE. >> OH, ONE MORE THING I'M ALSO A LIFEGUARD AND IN THESE VERY DIFFICULT SINNERS WHEN YOU'RE SAVING SOMEONE'S LIFE AT THE OCEAN FRONT YOU'LL BE IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY'LL BE A VICTIM IN FRONT OF YOU AND THEN ONE HUNDRED BEAT OUT THERE BE SOMEONE WHO'S DOING WORSE SO HE MIGHT BE SUBMERGED UNDER WATER SO AS A LIFEGUARD YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFICULT YOU HAVE TO TREAT THEM IN THE WATER. YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE PERSON WHO'S DOING THE WORST. I'M NOT TREATING ALL MY VICTIMS EQUALLY IN THAT SCENARIO AND THAT IS

171OK THESE SITUATIONS ARE COMPLICATED. EVERYONE IS EXCEPTIONAL THAT IS TRUE. EVERY STUDENT IS EXCEPTIONAL >> BUT THERE ARE DEEP BARRIERS THAT WE ALL LIVE WITH THAT MAKE US UNEQUAL AND I ASKED THE SPORT TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT HARDER LOOK AT THE COMPLEX ISSUES AND PLEASE PAUSE THIS. I THINK THIS >> TIME OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DR. ERIC MIDGET MELISSA LUKES LUCENE AND THEN SUE ROLANDS GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. GOOD SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, SUPERINTENDENT ONLY CLEAR THE AIR FIRST OF ALL I DO ALL, I DO NOT HAVE A LUNCH MEETING WITH HIS PASTOR SET YOU SET IT UP WITH ME? NO I DON'T WANT TO BE WITH YOU TO DISCUSS THIS TO DISCUSS THIS NOT TO DISCUSSED IS THE STUFF SO I WILL MAKE SURE THAT'S CLEAR. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE CLEAR I'M ERIC MAJETTE I SERVE

172AS PRESIDENT SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF VIRGINIA BEACH BRANCH OF THE NAACP ARE COMING FOR BEFORE YOU TONIGHT TO SPEAK IN STRONG SUPPORT OF THE MOTION TO AMEND THE APRIL 8TH 20 25 FIVE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION. THE POLLS ENFORCEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT OF SECTIONS ONE THREE FOUR OR FIVE AND SIX AS WELL AS THE SECOND SENTENCE OF SECTION TWO AND TO THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE ALL THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO JUST TAKE A MOMENT AND STOP YOU ARE REALLY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT DIRECTION TO GO SO PLEASE ON THE ISSUE WHICH REACHES FAR BEYOND LEGAL TECHNICALITIES IT'S ABOUT THE HEART OF THE PUBLIC EDUCATION VALUES WE STILL NOW CHILDREN DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, INCLUSION, ACCESSIBILITY, COMMUNAL IS A ARE NOT ABSTRACT CONCEPT OF POLITICAL BUZZ WORDS THEY ARE FOUNDATIONAL TO A THRIVING FAIR

173FORWARD LOOKING SCHOOL SYSTEM. YOU DON'T CONTINUE TO MAKE DECISIONS IN THE DARK WITHOUT THE PROPER INFORMATION THE EIA MATTERS BECAUSE IT REFLECTS THE REAL WORLD OUR STUDENTS ARE GROWN UP IN CLASSROOMS THAT EMBRACE DIVERSE EXPOSURE STUDENTS TO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES CULTURES OF LIFE EXPERIENCES MAKING THEM MORE EMPATHETIC, MORE ADAPTABLE AND MORE PEOPLE FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EQUITY ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND ZIP CODE OR ABILITY HAS ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED INCLUDES A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ALL STUDENTS ARE RESPECTED SEE AND VALUED ACCESSIBILITY ENSURES NO STUDENT IS LEFT THE HIGHER BECAUSE PHYSICAL LEARNING OR EMOTIONAL BARRIERS THESE ARE NOT JUST IDEALS THEY JUST MEASURE VALUABLE HAVE MEASURABLE BENEFITS INCREASE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED STUDENTS, GREATER STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND REDUCE THEIR SUPPLY ONLY DISPARITIES STRONGER STUDENT RELATIONSHIP AND IMPROVE SCHOOL CLASSMATE BUT

174BETTER COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS AND INCREASINGLY DIVERSE WORKFORCE REMOVING THE EIA INITIATIVE JEOPARDIZE THESE OUTCOMES, IT TELLS US OUR BLACK BROWN IMMIGRANT LGBTQ PLUS DISABLED ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS THAT THEY DO NOT BELONG OR DON'T THIS IS NOT IS NOT ONLY MORALLY WRONG IT IS EDUCATIONAL DISASTROUS. AGAIN PAUSE TAKE A MOMENT OPPOSE THE ENFORCEMENT OF A RESOLUTION TO THE COURT HAS SPOKEN IS A WISE A LAWFUL THE TEXAS OUR SCHOOLS, OUR FUTURE. I RESPECT THE BOARD TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT. LET NOT LEAVING FILM FEAR BUT WITH THE FORESIGHT AND THANK. THANK YOU FOR NEXT SPEAKER SOLUTIONS TO SUE ROLANDS THEN JOE BLAKE >>. GOOD EVENING UNNEIGHBORLY THIS BOARD PASSED AN IRRESPONSIBLE RESOLUTION TO DISMANTLE THE I PROGRAMING IN OUR SCHOOLS BASED ON AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AND DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

175TWO WEEKS LATER IT WAS SUSPENDED THE COURTS BECAUSE IT APPEARS TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXTORTION OF K THROUGH 12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERICA AND YET OUR MORAL MAJORITY COULDN'T NEIL FAST ENOUGH THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SCREAM LOCAL CONTROL AT THE MERE MENTION OF FEDERAL GUIDELINES SUDDENLY HAVE NO ISSUE VOWING TO BIG GOVERNMENT AS LONG AS PERSON IS IN CHARGE . HYPOCRISY PARTY OF SIX YOUR TABLE IS READY >>. THE ONLY THING MORE FRAGILE THAN YOUR IDEOLOGY YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONSTITUTION NOW TONIGHT THERE'S OPPORTUNITY JUST SUPPOSED TO STOP ENFORCEMENT OF THIS RESOLUTION UNTIL COURTS CAN DO THEIR JOB THAT'S IT A CHANCE AND NOT JUMP NOT JUMP OFF THE CLIFF UNTIL WE WHAT'S AT THE BOTTOM BUT INSTEAD THIS INSTEAD THIS BOARD SEEMS DETERMINED TO START DISMANTLING D I PROGRAMS IMMEDIATELY HERE'S THE CATCH THEY CAN'T

176ACTUALLY TELL WHAT DCI IS. WHY? BECAUSE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT PROGRAMS. IT'S ABOUT POLITICS FOR A GROUP THAT CLAIMS TO HATE IDENTITY POLITICS. YOU SURE YOU WAKE UP EVERY DAY THIRSTY FOR A TASTE OF BIGOTRY YOU'RE NOT DISMANTLING BY D.C.I. YOU'RE DISMANTLING YOUR OWN CREDIBILITY ONE VOTE AT A TIME YOU IN THIS. YOU CANNOT DEFINE BUT YOU SURE ARE BENT ON DESTROYING IT. YOU CONFLATE EQUITY OPPRESSION AND INCLUSION WITH ERASURE. YOU CALL IT INDOCTRINATION BECAUSE YOU'RE AFRAID OF EDUCATION AGAIN D.C.I ISN'T MAKING OR JOB HARDER YOUR REFUSAL TO UNDERSTAND IT IS. AND SPEAKING OF WILLFUL IGNORANCE I MUST HAVE REALLY HIT A NERVE LAST WEEK CONSIDERING WIRE STORMED OUT MY SPEECH ALSO MUSLIMS BUT DWYRE STORMED OUT TO REPORT ME TO THE POLICE FOR HATE SPEECH THAT'S RICH COMING

177FROM SELF-APPOINTED DEFENDERS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT YOU'LL CHAMPION FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNTIL SOMEONE USES IT TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES AND YOU THINK THAT WAS HATE SPEECH YOU'RE IN FOR A ROUGH THREE AND A HALF YEARS BUCKLE BUTTERCUPS BECAUSE I WILL BE HERE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY HOLDING UP A MERE VERBALLY DRAGGING YOU AND YOUR HYPOCRISY INTO THE LIGHT YOU SAY THIS IS ABOUT PROTECTING KIDS. WHICH ONES BECAUSE PULLING DOESN'T PROTECT BLACK KIDS OR KIDS OR DISABLED KIDS OR HIS LEARNING ENGLISH. YOU'RE NOT PROTECTING STUDENT ARE PROTECTING THE COMFORT OF ADULTS WHO FEEL THREATENED BY FAIRNESS. SO HERE'S THE ASK JUST AND WAIT LET THE COURTS DECIDE. IN FACT DON'T FEAR LET FACTS GUIDE YOUR DECISIONS AND IF YOU'RE SO SURE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF YOUR RESOLUTION THEN WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF

178IF YOU CAN'T DEFINE WHAT YOU'RE DESTROYING YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO DESTROY IT AND ALSO I'D LIKE TO JUST MENTIONED IT'S VERY IRONIC THAT THE FORUM A FORMER SPEAKER MR. PICKENS HERE COMPLAINED ABOUT ABOUT BEING CHASED OUT THE BUILDING WHEN ONLY A YEAR AND A HALF AGO HE CHASED ME ALL THE AUDITORIUM WHEN WE WERE STILL AT THE ANNEX BUILDING AND YOUR SECURITY HAD TO INTERVENE BECAUSE HE WASN'T TAKING NO FOR AN ANSWER YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU DON'T TAKE NO FOR THAT IT'S TIME FOR OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ROLLINS JULIE AND THEN LEE GUTTENBERG SUE ROLLIN'S JOE BLAKE. HI JILL BLAKE SCHOOL EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYEE AND RESIDENT OF DISTRICT THREE I'M GOING TO ASSUME FOR A MOMENT THAT EACH OF YOU HAD THE BEST OF INTENTIONS ON APRIL 8TH THAT YOU BELIEVED THAT

179THERE WAS CREDIBLE THREAT OF THE LOSS OF A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT YOU DID NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEAPONIZE YOUR OWN PERSONAL POLITICAL BELIEFS THAT YOU INSTEAD DID WHAT YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE BE BEST FOR THE KIDS BUT THINGS HAVE CHANGED THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM HAS WORKED. THE CHECKS THAT ARE PART OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS DEPLOYED JUST AS THEY WERE INTENDED AND THE RESULT IS A LEGAL LIMBO WE WERE FOLLOWING THE LAW BEFORE HAS THE LAW CHANGED LAW CHANGED? WE DON'T KNOW IF IT HAS HOW IS IT CHANGED? WE DON'T KNOW I URGE YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT LEGAL LIMBO TAKE THE TIME TO BE DELIBERATE AND TO BE TRANSPARENT IN YOUR DELIBERATIONS TAKE THE TIME TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TRULY ARE MAKING

180DECISIONS IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS OR TEACHING CURRICULUM THAT SINGLES OUT A PARTICULAR RACE FOR GOOD OR BAD. I'VE HEARD SOME CREATIVE STORIES AND DEFINITIONS MOSTLY FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OR EVEN HAVE CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM EQUITY IN FACT IS NOT THE GUARANTEE OF EQUAL OUTCOMES IT'S THE GUARANTEE OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO PROVIDE THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP THAT PROVIDES GUIDANCE AND BUILD TRUST NOT SOS CHAOS PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SHOW US THAT YOU ARE THE KIND OF LEADERS WHO CAN LEARN NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ALI GUTTENBERG THEN HERBERT WOODHEAD, THEN DARRELL CLARKE. ELLIE GARTENBERG, PETE HERBERT WOODHEAD GIVING EVERYBODY PETE ED DISTRICT TEN DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION ACCESSIBILITY . I HAVE TWO GRANDCHILDREN IN VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS. I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND HENRICO COUNTY IN 1970

181BY IN MY HIGH SCHOOL WAS INTEGRATED THE STUDENT BODY WAS DIVERSIFIED IN SPITE THAT THE EDUCATORS AT MY HIGH SCHOOL WERE NOT ALL OF MY TEACHERS LOOKED LIKE ME. LOOKING BACK I REALIZE THAT BOTH THE STUDENTS OF COLOR AND THE WHITES STUDENTS WERE DEPRIVED OF A SUPERIOR EDUCATION. WE ALL COULD HAVE THAT WE COULD HAVE RECEIVED IF OUR TEACHERS WERE ALSO REFLECTIVE OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE WERE ROBBED OF EQUITY. THIS LACK OF INCLUSION DID NOT TRULY SERVE US OR PREPARE US FOR OUR DIVERSE WORLD THE FACT THAT NOW MORE SO THAN EVER BEFORE THESE THINGS ARE VERY ACCESSIBLE IS THE VERY REASON I AM SO OPPOSED TO THE ACTIONS THAT SIX MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD HAVE TAKEN YOU HEARD FROM THE PEOPLE AND YOU KNOW THE WISHES OF THE VAST MAJORITY ARE OPPOSED TO THIS

182RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION THAT WE NEVER WERE GIVEN A CHOICE OVER THIS RESOLUTION WAS BASED ON THE FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED AND PROBABLY ILLEGAL EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE I ZERO CREATED BY A DEEPLY MAN WHO ONLY HAS ONE TOOL EXTORTION. HE'S A BULLY AND HE USES THIS CLUB IN ALL HIS ACTIONS NEW HAMPSHIRE, MARYLAND AND D.C. ARE STANDING UP TO HIM. THE COURTS IN THOSE CASES FOUND THAT THERE IS CONSISTENT VAGUENESS NOT TO MENTION INFRINGING ON STUDENTS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT LET'S STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK OF OF DISASTER HERE PAUSE AND THEN RESCIND THIS RESOLUTION MCQUEEN'S MISS WEEMES NOT GETTING ONE'S WAY CAN BE VERY DISAPPOINTING >> THAT YOU'VE LIVED THE PAST TWENTY YEARS AND ONLY HAD THIS ONCE IS REMARKABLE NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER >> IS DARRELL CLARKE THAT MICHAEL CLARKE LAKE THEN JESSICA OWENS SO

183LET'S START WITH THE FACT THAT CHARLES SNUFKIN THIS THE APRIL 8TH DECISION REALLY SLIME BALL LIKE THAT TO KNOWING THAT GEORGE DID THAT WAY JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT DON'T Y'ALL KNOW Y'ALL WERE DOING THE WRONG THING RIGHT BECAUSE IT BECAUSE IF Y'ALL WEREN'T THEN IT WOULD IN PUBLIC AND PEOPLE WOULD HAVE HAD A SAY IN IN AND IT AT ALL BUT I CHOSE NOT TO. HMM. >> IT SAYS EVERYTHING AND IT ALSO JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT YOUR ALLEGIANCE BLATANT FASCISM HAS NEVER BEEN MORE APPARENT THE FACT THAT WHAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE SAID TODAY LIKE IT'S NOT EVEN THE LAW BUT I JUST WENT AHEAD AND DID IT OH LIKE >> I SAID IT'S A IT'S A IT'S A PATTERN. IT'S A PATTERN THAT THAT THE STUDENT THAT THE STUDENTS FIRST OF VIRGINIA TRUE

184HAS INITIATED TIME AND TIME AGAIN I REALLY WISH IT TO CHANGE THAT NAME TO BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PUT THE STUDENTS FIRST >> BECAUSE IF GOD DID THEN YOU KNOW STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE SPEAK MORE THAN 10 AT A TIME IN THE BEGINNING INSTEAD OF REMOVING THAT AND MAKING IT SO THAT THEY THEY GOT STAGGERED AFTER TEN STUDENTS INSTEAD JUST LETTING THEM ALL SPEAK BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY ALL THIS BUT >> THAT'S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE AND WHO DEFINES WHAT RACIAL INDOCTRINATION IS WHO'S SAYING THAT THAT IS RACIAL INDOCTRINATION THAT GUARANTEE IT'S SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER BEEN IN A MINORITY CATEGORY MARGINALIZED CATEGORY OR ANY OF THAT WHICH I DON'T RELATE TO THAT AND ALSO DCI ALSO AFFECTS DISABLED PEOPLE AND THAT'S ONE GROUP THAT ANYBODY ENJOYING AT IN ANY

185SECOND ONE THAT SLIP CAR ACCIDENT OR WHATEVER AND YOU HAVE TO RELY ON DGI SO IF ANY OF YOUR CHILDREN HAPPEN TO HAPPEN TO GET INTO AN ACCIDENT OR WHATEVER AND THEY'RE GOING TO RELY ON THAT. RIGHT. SO TRY TO GET RID OF THAT THEN I DON'T KNOW IS JUST >> IT'S YOUR DOING INJUSTICE TO NOT JUST THEIR COMMUNITY BUT TO YOUR FAMILIES AND >> IF YOU WANT THAT AND LISTEN TO YOUR STUDENTS TO LISTEN TO HISTORY BECAUSE HISTORY ALSO CONTINUING MY PEOPLE TRY TO TRY TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW SYSTEMIC RACISM ISN'T ISN'T REAL DOESN'T EXIST WHEN EXIST WHEN I LIVED THROUGH IT PEOPLE BEFORE ME HAVE LIVED THROUGH IT SOME HAVE BEEN SOME HAVE BEEN KILLED BY IT. SO >> YOU KNOW I THINK THE ONLY INDOCTRINATION IS BEING BROUGHT UPON IS THAT

186IS WHAT Y'ALL WANT AND THAT IS FASCISM. SO YEAH, THIS TIME >> THERE IS MICHAEL KARSLAKE AND THEN JESSICA OWENS GOOD EVENING SCHOOL BOARD MY KARSLAKE FROM MICHIGAN MY FIRST CAR WAS A SNOWMOBILE AND I'M NOT TONIGHT I WANT TO WANT TO SUPPORT THE BOARD'S SIX THREE VOTE IN APRIL EIGHT I THINK IF I'VE HEARD ANYTHING TONIGHT AND TWO WEEKS AGO. A D I THIS KIND OF UNCLEAR TO MOST EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM BECAUSE WE'VE JUST HEARD FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY ON THE ALL KINDS. DO WE UNDERSTAND IT OR NOT ONE OF THE WORDS I HEARD FROM THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION TONIGHT OR READ BY OUR ATTORNEY IS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF VAGUENESS GOING ON IT IS VAGUE. I'VE BEEN READING ABOUT AND I'M STILL VAGUE BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE NOTICED IS IT'S

187A SOCIAL PROGRAM THAT IS MAYBE NOT GETTING US WHERE WE WANT TO GO WE'VE GOT QUOTED DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS KIDS THAT HAVE BEEN INJURED HIS. THIS PREVIOUS GENTLEMAN JUST MENTIONED WE WERE ONLY A MOMENT AWAY FROM SLIPPING AND FALLING. THAT'S PART THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES DISABILITY ACT. THAT'S NOT DGI YOU CAN BE COMPLETELY DISABLED AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET EVERY BENEFIT STATE OF VIRGINIA CAN GIVE YOU THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN GIVE YOU WITH ADA I BELIEVE IF NOT YOU SHOULD GET EVERY BENEFIT FROM THAT. I'M NOT IN THE SCHOOL SO I DON'T EXACTLY KNOW THAT. BUT YOU SHOULD GETTING THAT FROM ADA SO I'M I'M IN FAVOR OF WHAT THE SIX THREE VOTE WAS I'M A LITTLE UNCLEAR ON FIRST AMENDMENT TO RECEIVE PROTECTED SPEECH CAN WE RECEIVE ANY PROTECTED SPEECH? WHAT KIND

188PROTECTED SPEECH CAN YOU RECEIVE OR ABOUT GIVING PROTECTED GIVING PROTECTED SPEECH? WHICH IS IT GIVING SPEECH SPEAKING AS WE ARE TONIGHT, I WAS RECEIVING SPEECH WERE RECEIVING SPEECH WHO ARE RECEIVING THE SPEECH FROM TEACHERS, EDUCATORS, MENTORS IS THAT SUBJECTIVE SPEECH YOUR OBJECTIVE SPEECH? WHO'S IN CHARGE OF WHAT THERE SPEAKING TO YOU ABOUT? THERE'S YOUR SECOND GRADER KNOW WHAT THEY'RE BEING TAUGHT OR ARE THEY SUBJECTED TO IT NO THERE SUBJECTED BECAUSE THEY'RE BECAUSE THEY'RE A SECOND GRADER. THEY'RE RESPECT THEIR TEACHER BUT THAT DOESN'T THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEIR TEACHERS TELLING THEM WHAT THEY SHOULD BE TELLING THEM. AND I'M NOT SAYING IS TO DETAIN ANY FUTURE. I'M JUST SAYING THAT WHAT IS PROTECTED SPEECH AS A CHRISTIAN I UNDERSTAND IT. MY SPEECH ABOUT CHRIST IS WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY MY BUDDY JEAN FIDGE IS NOT PROTECTED IN THE

189SCHOOLS TEACHER CANNOT TELL ME ABOUT JESUS CHRIST OR ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE THAT SINCE THEY'RE PROTECTED THEY CAN'T GIVE YOU THAT PROTECTED SPEECH. I'M OUT OF TIME BUT >> I'M OUT OF TIME. I'M IN FAVOR OF THE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JUST BRONWEN'S GOOD EVENING SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS PREVIOUS COLLEAGUES AT MISS WOODHOUSE AND MY VERY FAVORITE MISS TONI OTTO FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW ME I'M JESSICA OWENS. I AM VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS GRAD, PARENTS OF A GRAD AND PREVIOUS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR ROSE HALL DISTRICT LAST MEETING I WATCHED AND PARTICIPATED VIRTUALLY AND AFTER ALL THE COMMENTS PRIOR GOING INTO CLOSED SESSION WAS BROWN MISS BROWN, YOU TOOK THE TIME TO SHARE SOME PERSONAL EXPLANATION ABOUT YOUR MOTIVATION BEHIND THE ACTIONS AND ALLOWING FOR A VOTE TO MOVE FORWARD OUTSIDE OF THE EXPECTED NORMS

190OF THIS BOARD AND OUTSIDE TRANSPARENCY AND VOICE THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS ENTITLED TO. AND I LISTENED THE COMMUNITY LISTENED AS WELL AS YOU EXPLAINED BUT YOU DIDN'T TAKE THAT DECISION LATELY AND THAT YOU TOOK THE ACTION NEEDED TO PROTECT THE SCHOOLS IN DISTRICT 10 AND YOU CONSIDERED THE POSSIBLE IMPACTS THAT A FUNDING LOST COULD HAVE ON VULNERABLE TITLE ONE SCHOOLS IN YOUR DISTRICT. AND KATHLEEN, I I APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERN ABOUT THE CONSTITUENTS IN YOUR MAJORITY MINORITY DISTRICTS AND NOW THAT WE KNOW THE FUNDING TO THOSE SCHOOLS IS NOT AT RISK AT THIS TIME YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAUSE TO SHOW YOUR DISTRICT THAT YOUR ACTIONS MATCH YOUR WORDS I WANT TO THANK THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO BROUGHT FORWARD THIS MEETING PROVIDING THE ENTIRE BOARD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAUSE TO PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY WITH THE

191TRANSPARENCY THAT WE DESERVE A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE SUPERINTENDENT AND ADMINISTRATION TO REWRITE OR AMEND POLICIES THAT NONE OF YOU ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE TO EXPLAIN BECAUSE YOU DON'T YET HAVE THE CLARITY THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF TRANSPARENT A RESOLUTION WITH NO IDEA ON WHAT WILL BE IMPACTED IS NOT TRANSPARENT. LAST MEETING I TOLD I STARTED MY SPEECH SAYING I DON'T EXPECT COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY TO ACTUALLY CHANGE THE MINDS ON THE BOARD AND I STILL FEEL THAT WAY AND MY HAS BEEN ASKED WHY ARE YOU COMING DOWN TO SPEAK IF YOU BELIEVE THAT I WASN'T REALLY SURE I WAS REMINDED TODAY THOUGH BY A PERSON WHO I ADMIRE THAT EVEN IF NOTHING CHANGES SHOWING UP SHOWS THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITIES WHO ARE BEING IMPACTED BY THESE DECISIONS THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE

192HIGHLIGHTS THE SAME PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE FOR THEM IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND SO I THINK THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO SPEAK AND SHOW WHO YOU ARE. THANK YOU CHAIR. THAT WAS ALWAYS IN PERSON SPEAKER WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR ONLINE SPEAKERS POLISHING PAULA CHENG PLEASE ON MUTE >> ON AM I CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW. >> YES PLEASE YES PLEASE GO AHEAD MR. KEEPING OK I JUST WANT TO JUST MAKE A COUPLE OF QUICK COMMENTS AND ONE IS TO ASK WHY THIS SPECIAL MEANING TO SUSPEND THE RESOLUTION WAS CALLED WHEN THERE IS A REGULAR MEETING SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK THERE'S NO EMERGENCY AS THE JUDGES ENJOYMENT WAS RELEASED 13 DAYS AGO AND SIX MORE DAYS OR SEVEN MORE DAYS IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING I REALLY BELIEVE WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS IT'S POLITICAL

193THEATER THIS MEETING WASTES RESOURCES, TAXPAYER FUNDS EMPLOYEE TIME AND CITIZEN TIME AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT IS THIS MONEY CAN BE BETTER SPENT IN OTHER WAYS AND THIS TIME COULD BE BETTER SPENT IN OTHER WAYS HELP THE SCHOOL SYSTEM I ALSO HAVE TO ASK WHY SOME WHY SOME OF THE MEMBERS WHO WANT THIS RESOLUTION PUT ON A PAUSE WHATEVER THEY WANT IT REMOVED IS THE IS THE REAL TRUTH. I THINK THEY ACTUALLY HAVE LIED ABOUT THE NEED FOR THE EMERGENCY MEETING BUT ALSO SEEM TO LIE ABOUT THE RESOLUTION CLAIMING IT WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT SERVICES FOR THOSE IN SOME GROUPS FOR INSTANCE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS SO WHY DID THEY SAY THAT? WHY ARE THEY SO DESPERATE TO HANG ONTO THAT YOU ADD DIFFERENT GROUPS SUCH AS THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS SAYING THAT

194THEY'RE GOING TO BE IMPACTED WHEN IN REALITY THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE THE FUNDS ARE THEY ARE THE INTENTION FOR THAT CARE IS THERE SO THEY DO THIS TO TRY AND MAKE IT IRRELEVANT BY INCLUDING THESE AND EVEN DO WITH SUCH THINGS AS SUBVERSIVELY CHANGING THE EXPRESSION TO DEA WHEN WE ALL KNOW THAT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS NOT TRUE. WE ALL KNOW DIE HAS NOT HELPED THE COMMUNITIES INTENDED TO AND IF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE I CHALLENGE A. MELNYK WHO THIS WEEKEND LISTED SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SHE SAID WILL BE IMPACTED LIKE SPECIAL ED AND I THINK SHE SAID ACADEMIES AND OTHER THINGS AT SOMEWHERE ACTUALLY SPOKE I'M. I'M ASKING HER TO PLEASE BACK UP WHAT YOU SAY AND PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE REMOVED AND DON'T JUST TRY TO

195SCARE PEOPLE AND ONE OTHER CONCERN THAT I HAD WAS MISS GREEN BUT RECENTLY APPEARED PODCAST TALKED ABOUT THE ABOUT THE FACT THAT CLUBS SPECIFICALLY CREATED FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS SUCH AS HISPANICS AND LGBT THE ENDED BUT I HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE OF THAT TO BACK WHAT SHE SAID I SUSPECT THAT SUSPECT THAT LIKELY THESE GROUPS WILL REMAIN BUT BECOME INCLUSIVE NOT CONTINUING TO EXCLUDE OTHERS AND I REALLY BELIEVE THIS IS BETTER FOR SOCIETY BECAUSE THE LEGALITY OF TEACHING IN ENCOURAGING THE SEPARATION OF STUDENTS IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM BASED ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC CLASSIFICATIONS NOT INTERESTED ACTIVITIES THAT ARE WHAT GOES ON OUR SHOULD GO ON IN SCHOOL ACTUALLY SOCIETAL DIVISION AND THAT'S AND THAT'S A HARMFUL THING AND ANOTHER REASON NOT TO PAUSE THIS RESOLUTION SO LET'S NOT CHANGE LET'S CONTINUE THE CONTINUE THE PROCESS HAS

196BEGUN AND THAT'S IT . THANK YOU VERY MUCH OK MANAGER SPEAKER YOUR SPEAKER TOO IS NOT ALIGNED SO WE'RE GOING TO SPEAKER THREE JINI PEREIRA'S PLEASE UNMUTED YES HI. HI. CAN YOU HEAR YES PLEASE CONTINUE. >> YES YES. MY NAME IS 20 PERCENT AND WANT TO MAKE A COUPLE OF POINTS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU GUYS DO FOR ALL THE CHILDREN AND FOR EVERYBODY IN VIRGINIA BEACH, ALL THE TEACHERS MY FIRST EXPRESSED IS THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT BELONGS IN SCHOOLS EVERYBODY IS EVERYBODY IS PROTECTED BY THE DECLARATION INDEPENDENCE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT COLOR YOU COLOR YOU ARE, WHAT RACE YOU ARE, WHAT GENDER YOU ARE WHATEVER. IT DOES NOT MATTER. YOU ARE PROTECTED BY LAW. OK, AND THAT WAS WRITTEN OVER 200 YEARS AGO BRINGING THIS UP AND TEACHING THIS IN

197SCHOOL KIDS THAT DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT IT IS THEY'RE NOT MATURE ENOUGH THEIR . THEIR BRAINS DO NOT MATURE UNTIL 2001 TO TWENTY FIVE TWENTY ONE FOR FEMALES TWENTY FIVE FOUR MALES THIS SHOULD THIS SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT IS MAYBE FOR POST HIGH SCHOOL 18 IN ABAB SO I TRULY HOPE THAT YOU GUYS WILL STAY WITH YOUR REGULAR THE DECISION THAT YOU HAD ALREADY MADE PREVIOUSLY DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SAY IS I THINK DC SETTING PEOPLE UP FOR FAILURE IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND IN THE JAILS . IF YOU ARE BIOLOGICALLY A MALE WITH THOSE PART YOU ARE GOING TO GO WITH THE MAN THEY DON'T CARE WHAT PART WHAT YOU IDENTIFIED AS IF YOU GO IN THE JUVENILE SYSTEM, IF YOU IDENTIFY AS A MALE

198AND A FEMALE IT DOESN'T MATTER YOU'RE GOING WITH THE FEMALES AND SOMETIMES THOSE PEOPLE GET OUT AND IT'S SAD. IT'S REALLY SAD AND SO I THINK DTI BEING IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND ENCOURAGING KIDS TO CHANGE THEIR BODIES OR TO DO THIS AND THAT AND OH YOU'RE A BOY OR GIRL OR WHATEVER THEY'RE THEY'RE GETTING CONFUSED THE JOB OF SCHOOL IS TO TEACH READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC AND YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW MANY HIGH SCHOOLERS DON'T KNOW READING, WRITING INAUTHENTIC THEY GO OFF TO COLLEGE AND ALL THE THEY DO IS GOOGLE THEIR ANSWERS AND SERIOUSLY IT'S MY TAXPAYERS. IT'S MY TAX MONEY IT'S ALL THE PEOPLE I KNOW TAX MONEY IT'S A PUBLIC SCHOOL IF IT WAS PRIVATE SCHOOL GO RIGHT AHEAD RIGHT AHEAD. DO WHAT YOU MY TAX MONEY NOT GOING NOT GOING TOWARDS THAT

199BUT MY PUBLIC TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO FUND VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SO DEA DOES NOT BELONG IN A CLASSROOM WITH ANY TRIAL UNTIL THEY'RE 18 AND ABOVE AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE SAY SO I HOPE I HOPE YOU KEEP THE COURSE AND FOLLOW TRUMP. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER AND DO AS HE HAS COMMANDED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NICHOLS. PLEASE UNMUTED >> THANK YOU AGREE WITH I AGREE WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD'S DECISION. ADA DOES NOT EQUAL DCI IF YOU NOTICE IT'S NOT UNTIL JUST RECENTLY IN THIS PAST COUPLE OF MEETINGS THAT ADA WAS LUMPED IN WITH ALL OF THE DTI BEING REMOVED ADA AND THE I ALWAYS BEEN DIFFERENT ADA WAS LONG BEFORE DGI IT WOULD BE APPRECIATE IF PEOPLE WOULD STOP USING THAT BECAUSE THE ONLY REASON THEY'RE DOING

200THAT IS TO TRY TO USE IT TO HOOK YOU ALL INTO CHANGING YOUR VOTE AND THAT SHOULD NEVER THANK YOU VERY YOU VERY MUCH. HAVE A GREAT EVENING OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JAMIE HORIE PLEASE ON MUTE >> I CAN YOU HEAR ME HEAR ME? YES, GO AHEAD I'M SORRY CAN YOU HEAR ME >> ME? >> YES PLEASE CONTINUE HELLO CAN YOU HEAR ME. WE CAN >> CAN >> HEAR YOU PLEASE CONTINUE MISS JAMIE YES WE CAN HEAR YOU. PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR WORK ON THE TV OK WE'LL MOVE ON MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER AMANDA JOTTER PLEASE ON MUTE HELLO CAN YOU HEAR ME. >>? >> YES THIS IS AMANDA. NO THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER. OK, JAMIE PLEASE CONTINUE JAMIE YOU CAN CONTINUE. WE CAN HEAR YOU I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING. CAN YOU HEAR ME YES

201JAMIE WE CAN HEAR YOU JAMIE WE CAN HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR. OK, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR NEXT ONLINE SPEAKER AMANDA YARSHATER, PLEASE ON MUTE GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS BOARD MEMBERS. CAN YOU HEAR ME YES PLEASE CONTINUE PLEASE CONTINUE. OK, GOOD >> EVENING. BOARD NUMBERS. MY NAME IS AMANDA ORDER AND I COME TO YOU TONIGHT NOT JUST AS A CONCERN COMMUNITY MEMBER AS WELL AS A SCHOOL COUNSELOR BUT ALSO A COMBAT VETERAN SERVED THIS COUNTRY IN UNIFORM WHEN. WHEN I WAS DEPLOYED I FOUGHT ALONGSIDE SOLDIERS OF EVERY RACE, RELIGION AND BACKGROUND WE DIDN'T JUST TOLERATE DIFFERENCES WE RELIED ON THEM DIVERSITY IS NOT OUR WEAKNESS IT WAS OUR GREATEST STRENGTH AND IT THAT SEEMS STRENGTH THAT I WANT TO SEE REFLECTED IN OUR SCHOOLS. I HEAR PEOPLE USE THE ACRONYM DTI AND

202SAY IT DOESN'T BELONG SCHOOLS AND I DON'T EVEN THINK THEY KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. D.E.A IS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND THEY ARE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY I DID NOT RISK MY LIFE FOR A COUNTRY THAT'S ONLY MAKES ROOM FOR SOME OF ITS CHILDREN TO SEE THEMSELVES IN OUR EDUCATION I FOUGHT FOR AN AMERICA WHERE EVERY STUDENT ALL RACES CAN OPEN A TEXTBOOK AND SEE THEMSELVES OR WALK INTO A NEW SCHOOL AND KNOW THEY BELONG THIS IS NOT HYPOTHETICAL FOR ME WHEN I WORK FOR VIRGINIA EACH I HELPED BUILD PROGRAMS THAT MADE OUR DISTRICT A NATIONAL MODEL FOR SUPPORTING MILITARY CONNECTED STUDENTS THAT WORK MEETING THE UNIQUENESS OF STUDENTS AS THEY MOVE BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND REBUILD COMMUNITIES. THAT WAS DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION IN ACTION AND IT WORKED. IT STILL DOES THIS ISN'T

203JUST ABOUT MILITARY FAMILIES THOUGH. WALK THROUGH OUR SCHOOLS AND YOU'LL SEE WE ALSO HAVE A LARGE POPULATION OF FILIPINOS WHOSE FAMILIES HAVE SHAPED THIS COMMUNITY FOR GENERATIONS YET THEY RARELY SEE THEIR HISTORY IN OUR CURRICULUM WORK TO CORRECT THIS BE MORE INCLUSIVE WASN'T PROGRESS IN PROGRESS AND HAS BEEN HALTED BY FOLKS WHO ARE A.D.A YOU WILL ALSO MEET BLACK STUDENTS LIKE MY NEPHEW WHO MY HUSBAND AND I RAISED ONCE ASKED ME THE HEARTBREAKING WITH HEARTBREAKING HONESTY WHY DO WE ONLY LEARN ABOUT ONE KIND OF HERO IN SCHOOL THAT MOMENT STAYS WITH ME BECAUSE IT REVEALED A PAINFUL TRUTH WHEN WE EXCLUDE STORIES WE EXCLUDE CHILDREN THEY DESERVE TO SEE THEMSELVES IN OUR SCHOOL IN CURRICULUM SO LET ME LET ME BE CLEAR OR DIE WHICH IS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT POLITICS

204IT SHOULD BE ABOUT PREPARING ALL OF OUR STUDENTS FOR THE REAL WORLD A WORLD WHERE RESPECT, EMPATHY AND OPPORTUNITY ARE NOT PRIVILEGES FOR SOME BUT FOUNDATIONS FOR ALL AS SOMEONE WHO HAS WORN THE UNIFORM THIS I THINK THAT THIS SHOULD NOT THE ABOUT LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE VALUES. IT'S ABOUT AMERICAN VALUES I SERVED THIS COUNTRY AND I'M ASKING ALL OF YOU TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS SUSPEND THIS RESOLUTION AND LET'S HONOR THE AMERICA WE CLAIM TO BELIEVE IN AND BUILD THE AMERICA THAT WE WANT TOGETHER. THANK YOU BY OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JENNIFER FRANKLIN PLEASE ON MUTE. CAN YOU HEAR ME YES GO AHEAD MR. FRANKLIN THANK MISS FRANKLIN. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, JERRY. ROUND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THIS WHITE HOUSE MY NAME IS JENNIFER FRANKLIN I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THEY HAVE THE

205ROADS BLACK CAUCUS AND CONCERNED COMMUNITY MEMBERS TONIGHT I RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO PAUSE ON OR RESCIND THE RESOLUTION TO NAME THE NAME CHANGE THE NAME AND DIRECTION OF THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION THANK. THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE SPECIAL MEETING AND DEMONSTRATING YOUR WILLINGNESS TO HEAR THE COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY WHILE A FEDERAL ROLLING REMAINS UNRESOLVED WHICH COULD FURTHER AFFECT THIS ISSUE FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS I VOLUNTEERED AS A READING TUTOR FOR KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE STUDENTS THROUGH THE LIFE IN RICHMOND. AT THAT AGE MOST CHILDREN STILL HAVE A LIGHT IN THEIR EYES AND THEIR SELF-ESTEEM HAS NOT BEEN IMPACTED DEEPLY BY LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES YET. BUT YET WHEN THERE ALREADY COMPARING THEMSELVES BECAUSE SOME STRUGGLE WITH READING, I GROW FRUSTRATED AND OTHERS SEEM TO JUST GET IT MORE EASILY BUT WHEN YOU ASK THEM

206ABOUT SOMETHING THEY LOVE THEIR SPARK RETURNS AND THAT JOY IS PRECIOUS BUT BUT IT'S FAR TOO QUICKLY. A CLIENT OF MINE PEDIATRICIAN WHO HAS PRACTICE ACROSS THE COUNTRY THANKS TO THANKS TO A NAVY SEAL HUSBAND ONCE GAVE ME AN ANALOGY I'VE NEVER FORGOTTEN A CHILD'S ABILITY TO LEARN RESTAURANT FOUR LEGS OF A STOOL FOOD, SHELTER PARENTS AND STRUCTURE IF ONE IF ONE LEG IS UNSTEADY, LEARNING BECOMES OUR STORE OUR STUDENTS COME TO US FROM WIDELY DIFFERENT STARTING LINES THEIR SCHOOLS STOOLS ARE NOT ALL BALANCED THEN AT IN IEPS FIVE APPLAUSE AND OTHER NEEDS AND YOU SEE JUST HOW DIVERSE ARE STUDENT POPULATION TRULY IS. THAT'S WHY PROGRAMS MATTER WE CANNOT CLAIM TO OFFER EQUAL OPPORTUNITY WHILE TURNING A BLIND TO THE UNEQUAL REALITIES ARE STUDENTS FACE IF WE'RE WILLING TO INVEST IN STUDENTS BATTLING ADDICTION

207OR TRAUMA AND CARE ABOUT THEIR CONTINUED FOCUS ON LEARNING THAT WE MUST ALSO INVEST IN THOSE NAVIGATING POVERTY INSTABILITY OR MARGINALIZATION. STRUGGLES WITH LEARNING DON'T DISCRIMINATE BY CIRCUMSTANCE SO WHY SHOULD OUR SUPPORT WE ARE A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND EVERY CHILD DESERVES TO BE EVERY CHILD DESERVES CHILD DESERVES TO BE VALUED. WE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE STAFF WHO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR MANY IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY BUT BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN OUR KIDS THESE CHILDREN OUR FUTURE LEADERS TEACHERS BUSINESS TEACHERS, BUSINESS OWNERS AND YES EVEN FUTURE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FOR MANY LIFE HAS ALREADY HANDED THEM LEMONS WE MUST BE THE PEOPLE WHO WILL HELP THEM UNDERSTAND HOW TO TURN THOSE LEMONS INTO LEMONADE. I RECALL BEING ON THE BOARD DURING THE PANDEMIC AND WEIGHING WHETHER TO RETURN TO VIRTUAL LEARNING AFTER THE

208COVID NO STARTED RISING AGAIN OUR DECISION TO PAUSE AND STAY THE COURSE KEEPING KIDS IN SCHOOL PROVED RIGHT AND I URGE YOU TO PAUSE NOW THINK LONG TERM CONSIDER THE LEGACY YOU'LL LEAVE POLITICS OPINIONS AND PRESSURE WILL ALWAYS EXIST BUT THEY SHOULD NEVER OUTWEIGH OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO STUDENTS. EMPOWERMENT MAY MEAN MUCH TO SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER STRUGGLED WITH THOSE LEGS ON THEIR SCHOOL BUT TO A CHILD WHO HAS MEANS EVERYTHING IT MEANS HOPE SOMETIMES ONE PERSON'S BELIEF AND CAN CHANGE A CHILD'S LIFE. TEACHERS DO AT EVERY DAY I HOPE THIS FOR THEIR LEADERS WILL TO TOO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR SERVICE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SANDRA SHINABARGER. PLEASE UNMUTE. GOOD EVENING. I HOPE YOU CAN HEAR ME AT SINCE NO ONE NOT ONE SPEAKER OUT OF WELL OVER A HUNDRED SPEAKERS

209OVER TWO WEEKS OFFERED ANY HARD DATA SHOWING PROVABLE VISIBLE TANGIBLE BENEFIT OF GUY I LOOKED AT SOME TANGIBLE ANECDOTAL DATA MYSELF I'M GLAD WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE SPEAKING THIS WAY WE CAN FURTHER EXAMINE ANY ACTUAL LOSSES WORKING IF ANY REGARDING DTI. HERE'S ONE EXAMPLE WHEN I WAS NOT IN PLACE ON APRIL TWENTY SECOND SPOKESPERSON FROM THE BBA DESCRIBED A VCP WHO TAUGHT FOR 22 YEARS TWO YEARS INCLUDING YEARS THAT WAS NOT IN PLACE THE. THE TEACHER WAS DESCRIBED AS THE EPITOME OF INCLUSION. OTHER PHRASES USED WERE THAT SHE OPENED HER HEART TO ALL STUDENTS AND SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH MY SINCEREST CONDOLENCES TO HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS AGAIN THAT LATIN TEACHER DISPLAY DISPLAYED THE LEADERSHIP THAT WE ALL AGREE THIS BETH AND THAT OCCURRED WITH NO DII IN PLACE A HOSTILE WOMAN TONIGHT SAID

210HER TEACHERS LOVED THEM ENOUGH TO WORK HARDER FOR THEM TO GRADUATE THAT LOVE WITH WITH NO DII IN PLACE YET HER HOSTILE BEHAVIOR IS LINKED WITH CONVERSELY IN PLACE IN TWENTY TWENTY THREE A NOOSE WAS FOUND AT NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR OUR PRIDE POSTER WAS TORN ARTICLE IN HIGH SCHOOL . SEVERAL STUDENTS PUBLICLY VOICED HOW HURTFUL THAT WAS FOR FOR THEM A THIRD SCHOOL SORRY SAYS I'M ON THEIR BASEBALL TEAM TO THE EXTENT THAT THEIR ENTIRE SEASON WAS CANCELED THESE HORRIFIC INCIDENTS ALL OCCURRED WITH D.C.I IN PLACE ANOTHER SPEAKER ON APRIL TWENTY SECOND OFFERED THAT STUDIES DID SHOW A LARGER ACHIEVEMENT GAP WITH DTI AND SHOWED THAT I'D BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE NOW I JUST WANT TO I NOTICED THAT THERE IS AGREEMENT AND A GENERAL CONSENSUS IN THE ROOM THAT NO TWO SPEAKERS EVEN

211UNDERSTAND WHY THE SAME WAY. HOW CAN ANY LOSS GAIN BE SHOWN IT IS A SHAME THAT SOME ARE USING THAT AS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN BUT I MEAN VERY CLEVER BUT IT'S A SHAME THAT THEY HAVE TO DO THAT INSTEAD OF JUST FINDING WAYS TO AGREE SEPARATELY LET'S SEE IT WAS CONFIRMED ON APRIL 22ND THAT NO SCHOOL CLUBS WOULD BE CHANGED OR DISMANTLED AND EMAILS CAME UP EARLIER I JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT MISS MELMAC NEVER ONCE RESPONDED TO ANY OF MY EMAILS IN APPROXIMATELY SEVEN YEARS AND LET THE POLICE KNOW TO CONTINUE THE COURSE OR VOTE TO CONTINUE THE COURSE NO TO PAUSING THANK YOU SO YOU SO MUCH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FOR EVERYTHING YOU'RE ENDURING. I WANT TO MAYBE THROW OUT A REALLY LOW COMMENT WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU LEMONS JUST KEEP THEM BECAUSE

212HEY THERE FREE LEMONS. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND MADAM CHAIR WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR SPEAKER FOR THIS EVENING. MADAM CLERK I DID USE THE TEXT IN OUR SPEAKER LOG IN REACHED OUT TO JAMIE AND SHE SAID SHE WAS GOING TO LOOK BACK IN SO IF WE COULD GIVE HER ONE MORE TRY SO SHE HAS THE CHANCE TO SPEAK . THANK YOU OK >>, JAMIE >>, GO AHEAD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING WITH ME HERE I HOPE YOU HOPE YOU GUYS CAN HEAR ME YES GO AHEAD. >> I AM >> AM A CITIZEN OF DISTRICT EIGHT AND YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD STRONG SUPPORT FROM STUDENTS AND PARENTS AND TEACHERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES TO IN SCHOOLS. I WOULD LOVE TO US JOIN THE MANY COUNTIES AND STATES CURRENTLY STANDING UP TO AN ADMINISTRATION THAT USES OUR

213CHILDREN AS PAWNS AND A POLITICAL AND FRANKLY EXTORTIVE GAME THREATENING FUNDING AND STIRRING UP CULTURE WARS EVEN WHILE THE LEGALITY OF THESE ACTIONS IS CURRENTLY UNDER QUESTION AS WE'VE ACKNOWLEDGED A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF I GREW UP AROUND THE D.C. AREA IN THE 80S AND 90S SO MY CHILDHOOD IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN AREA ESPECIALLY DURING THAT TIME IT WAS RICH IN DIVERSITY AND CULTURE I CARRY THOSE EXPERIENCES WITH ME AS PARENT AND AS A PERSON TODAY IT COLORS THE WAY I LOOK AT THE ROLE OF THE WAY I INTERACT WITH PEOPLE. IT'S CRUCIAL TO A PERSON'S DEVELOPMENT AND SO IT SADDENS ME TO SEE THAT MY SON, A WHITE MALE MIGHT GROW UP BEING TOLD THAT DIVERSITY IS BAD. THAT INCLUDES AND IS WOKE AND EQUITY IS PUNISHMENT WHAT KIND OF EXAMPLE ARE WE SETTING

214FOR OUR CHILDREN AND THEY HEAR ADULTS USING DIE LIKE A WEAPON AS IF IT'S A NEW KIND OF SLUR USED TO ATTACK SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE IN MARGINALIZED GROUPS. WE ARE A COMMUNITY I BELIEVE THAT VALUES EDUCATION. WE MUST THEN RECOGNIZE THAT REMOVING DTI ALONG WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND PUSHING SO-CALLED PATRIOTIC EDUCATION IS PART OF A LARGER EFFORT TO SUPPRESS HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE AND OUR COUNTRY'S PAST HOW IT'S SHEETS ARE PRESENT AS WELL. SO I'M ASKING YOU PLEASE OVERTURN I KNOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SAY PAUSE BUT I'M ASKING YOU TO OVERTURN APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION. IT WAS MADE WITHOUT PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING NOW WAS THE RESULT OF THOSE ACTIONS THANK YOU SO MUCH AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. SO MADAM CHAIR THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR THIS EVENING. THANK YOU

215>> WITH THAT WE ARE GOING TO TAKE ARE GOING TO TAKE A FIVE MINUTE RECESS BEFORE WE GO INTO OUR MOTION HERE AND SO WE WILL RETURN AT NINE THIRTY FIVE NOW BACK FROM >> RECESS AND WE ARE ON TO A VOTE FOR A MOTION TO AMEND PREVIOUS VOTES SO I WILL ACCEPT A MOTION TO AMEND PREVIOUS NAMELY TO AMEND THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL RESOLUTION TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BECAUSE THE BELOW LISTED PORTIONS THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNTIL THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED WHETHER EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO CAN BE ENFORCED A RESOLUTION SECTIONS ONE THREE FOUR FIVE AND SIX BE RESOLUTION SECTION TWO THE SECOND SINCE REGARDING SUSPENSION OF ALL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE FEDERAL

216GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EQUITY PLAN, THE EQUITY DASHBOARD AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT WOULD NOT COMPLY MOVED BY MISS MALNIK, SECONDED BY MR. CUMMINGS BEFORE I OPEN THE FLOOR I AM GOING TO COMMENT BECAUSE WE DID GET A NUMBER OF EMAILS REGARDING ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER AND I DID RESEARCH THOSE EMAILS AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THE INTENTION OF THE THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR DOES COMPLY IN MY INTERPRETATION THERE ARE SOME SECTIONS THAT GET A LITTLE BIT MUDDY BUT WHEN IT COMES TO DETERMINING THAT SOMETHING IS OUT OF ORDER FOR ME I HAVE TO BE 100 PERCENT SURE. AND SO SINCE I AM WE WILL WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE MOTION AND DR. THANK. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND SO MY QUESTION IS FOR MISS LEONETTI YOU MUST HAVE ESP BECAUSE

217MY QUESTION OF MISS LEONETTI MISS BROWN IS RELATED TO ENSURING THAT THE MOTION IS IN COMPLIANCE IN ORDER WITH ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER THE INTENT OF THE MOTION TO EXPLAIN TO ME WAS TO AMEND IT NOT TO RESCIND NOT REALLY THE VOTE WAS TO MEN AMEND WHAT YOU HAD VOTED ON WHAT YOU HAD PREVIOUSLY VOTED ANY MISTAKE AND THAT WOULD BE MINE NOT YOURS YES. SO WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WHAT ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER BECAUSE I DON'T WANT LATER THE SOMEONE TO COME BACK AND SAY WE DIDN'T FOLLOW THIS OR SO MY QUESTION IS IS IT OR IS IT NOT I BELIEVE IT'S THE INTENT IS WRITTEN THAT WAY OBVIOUSLY THIS ARGUING WE'VE SEEN INDIVIDUALS INDICATE INDIVIDUALS INDICATE THAT THE WORDING COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT ON THEIR I THINK WHEN YOU READ THE MOTION AS

218WRITTEN YOUR MENDING WHAT YOU VOTED ON LAST TIME ASKING TO REDO THE VOTE ASKING VOTE. YOU'RE ASKING TO AMEND THE TIME OF IMPLEMENTING WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT RESOLUTION ALL WE UNDERSTAND THAT. WE'RE NOT AMENDING THE VOTE WE'RE ASKING A PULSE SO HOW DO HOW DO WE NEED TO WORDED SO THAT WE ARE OK BUT NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO AMEND CAUSING >> YOU'RE >> NOT TRYING TO REDID THE VOTE AS YOU'RE TRYING TO AMEND WHAT YOU PREVIOUSLY VOTED ON WHICH IS TIME PERIODS OF THOSE THINGS WERE GOING TO HAPPEN AND YOU'RE JUST ASKING TO STOP UNTIL COURT COMES OUT SO YOU'RE MENDING YOU'RE AMENDING THAT BECAUSE THE NEW NEW INFORMATION HAS COME OUT AND WE IN COMPLIANCE WITH ROBERTS RULES OF THE ORDER I BELIEVE THE INTENT WAS THERE

219WRITTEN OVER THERE IS A QUESTION I CAN SAY I CAN SEE THAT INVOLVES ARGUED DIFFERENT I BELIEVE YOU'RE YOUR YOUR THE WAY YOU'VE WRITTEN YOU INTENDED TO AMEND THIS AND WHAT YOU PREVIOUSLY VOTED IN. DR. GREEN, I'M NOT RULING THE MOTION OUT OF ORDER SO I JUST FOR SHARING THAT FOR CLARITY I HAVE DONE THE RESEARCH THAT I COULD I DID FIND SOME CONFLICTING INFORMATION. I MADE SOME PHONE CALLS TO PEOPLE THAT DO TRAININGS RELATED TO PARLIAMENTARIAN PROCEDURE AND IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WHILE THE INFORMATION'S CONFLICT AND WE MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE THAT AGAIN WE DON'T JUST CALL STUFF OUT OF ORDER JUST FOR FUN SO WITH THAT. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS RELATED TO THE? THANK YOU, MISS MALNIK. SO I ASK MOVING FORWARD THAT SO NOT UNLIKE THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WHICH WAS

220VAGUE AND CONFUSING SO WAS THE CALL FOR THIS MEETING AND I THINK IT IS FAIR TO OUR CITIZENS THAT WE WRITE THINGS IN A SIMPLE, CONCISE WAY THERE WAS A LOT OF CONFUSION A LOT OF EMAILS ABOUT YOU'RE DOING THIS AND I ANSWERED A FEW TO TRY TO REDIRECT TO TO HAVE I HAD A CITIZEN GO BACK AND READ LINE THREE AGAIN SO THAT I COULD POINT OUT THE WORD PAUSE. LUCKILY A WORD PAUSE WAS IN THERE BUT SOMETIMES THE LANGUAGE THAT WE PRESENT TO THE COMMUNITY IS REALLY UNFAIR AND JUST LIKE THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS AND THEY HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LANGUAGE THE WAY THIS WAS WRITTEN UP SO I'M JUST ASKING THAT MOVING FORWARD THAT WE PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO THE WAY WE PRESENT THINGS TO TO THE PUBLIC SO WE

221DO NOT CAUSE CONFUSION AS A BOARD, AS A SCHOOL DIVISION. MR. CALLEN I NEED TO GO ON RECORD AS A MEMBER OF THE SIX THAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN TO THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING AND THE PREVIOUS WEEK AND I THINK IT'S ONLY APPROPRIATE THAT AS A MEMBER OF THAT GROUP THAT I SHARE SOME THOUGHTS WHAT I HAVE WITNESSED IS THE DISPLAY A WIDE RANGE OF OPINIONS ON THIS MATTER BOTH PRO AND CON, BOTH CONSISTENT OR WIDELY DIVERSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S HEARD BY THE COMMUNITY WE'RE AT LEAST I'M COMING FROM AND THIS IS MY OPINION ON THIS MATTER FIRST THING I WANT TO STATE CLEARLY I WANT THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR ALL OF THE STUDENTS IN THE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM REGARDLESS OF COLOR OR CREED OR ORIENTATION. I WANT THE

222STUDENTS THAT EXIT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN VIRGINIA BEACH TO HAVE A VERY SOLID EDUCATION NOW ACHIEVING THAT IS ONLY GOING TO BE POSSIBLE BY HAVING EACH STUDENT SUBJECTED TO A PROCESS THAT STRETCHES THEM, CHALLENGING THEM AND PUSHING THEM BEYOND AT TIMES WHAT THEY THINK THEY'RE CAPABLE OF AND IT MAY SEEM HARD AND IT MAY SEEM UNPLEASANT BUT THAT'S WHAT AWAITS THEM IN LIFE AND I DON'T WANT TO DIMINISH DILUTE OR REDUCE THE DEGREE DIFFICULTY THAT EVERY STUDENT EXPERIENCES SO THAT WHEN THEY EXIT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THEY DISCOVER LIFE IS SO MUCH HARDER THEN I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE AT 16 I DON'T WANT THEM TO BE SURPRISED AND PART OF THAT AWARENESS IS TO BE SUBJECTED TO AND INTRODUCED TO A RIGOROUS DEMANDING PROCESS. PART OF MY CONCERN IS THE FACT THAT

223I VISIT SCHOOLS AND AM SURPRISED THAT SOME OF THE DISCOVERIES THAT ARE MADE DURING THOSE VISITS ONE OF THE DISCOVERIES WAS A CHILD CAME TO OUR SCHOOL, SAID REPRESENTATIVE OF A SCHOOL THAT WILL REMAIN NAMELESS, A CHILD CAME TO OUR SCHOOL FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA BEACH IN THE FIFTH GRADE AND COULD NOT READ AND PROUDLY THEY DESCRIBE THE PROCESS THAT THEY TOOK AND GETTING THAT CHILD TO A PLACE WHERE HE WAS ABLE TO READ BUT MY PROBLEM WITH THIS DISCOVERY WAS HOW IN THE WORLD DID HE GET TO THE FIFTH GRADE AND NOT BE ABLE TO READ WHAT HAPPENED WHERE ALONG AWAY DID THE BALL GET DROPPED BECAUSE THE IMPLIED MESSAGE WAS WE GOT TO THE END OF THE FIRST RAIN AND HE WASN'T READY AND WE PUT HIM AHEAD ANYHOW AND WE DID

224THE SAME THING FOR SEVERAL GRADES UNTIL IT WAS DISCOVERED AND I THOUGHT HOW IN THE WORLD IS THAT HAPPENING HOW ARE WE GOING TO PREPARE KIDS FOR THE DIFFICULTIES THAT LIFE BRINGS IF THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING? I VISIT ANOTHER SCHOOL A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION WITH A DIFFERENT PERSON THIS TIME THE MESSAGE WAS WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO ADVANCE KIDS TO GRADUATION BECAUSE THE PARENT IS INSISTENT THAT THE CHILD GRADUATE ON TIME BECAUSE THE ONE THING WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE IS A DAUGHTER WHO'S 19 AND SHE'S STILL THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO WE'RE GOING TO GRADUATE OR WHETHER SHE'S READY OR NOT AND SO I'D LIKE TO SHARE A STORY THAT I THINK SPEAKS TO PART OF THE POINT HERE AND I WILL ASK YOUR PATIENCE AS I GO THROUGH THIS STORY IT'LL TAKE ME A FEW

225MINUTES BUT I THINK IT'S INDICATIVE OF THE POINT THAT I'M MAKING GOING BACK TO POINT NUMBER ONE, I WANT EVERY EVERY EVERY SINGLE STUDENT IN THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM TO COME AWAY WITH A VERY, VERY SOLID STRONG EDUCATION THAT IS ACHIEVED AS A RESULT OF DIFFICULT, HARD THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ENCOUNTERED AND NOT REDUCED OR MINIMIZED AND SO HERE'S THE STORY MARIANNE WAS IN HER LATE 30S WHEN WE FIRST MET AND SHE ASKED ME TO HELP HER LEARNED TO READ LATE 30S THIS WAS IN 2007. I WAS THE NEWISH SUPERVISOR OF A TUTORING PROGRAM IN MANHATTAN AIMED AT ADULTS WHO ARE TRYING TO GET THEIR GED. MOST STUDENTS CAME IN FOR HELP WITH ESSAY WRITING OR ALGEBRA BUT MARIAN WHO HAD SEEN HER THREE DAUGHTERS THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND INTO COLLEGE WANTED TO GET BETTER AT

226READING. SHE 30. SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS AT A THIRD GRADE LEVEL BUT ONCE WE STARTED WORKING TOGETHER I DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS MORE LIKE FIRST GRADE. THIS ISN'T UNUSUAL AS YOU MIGHT THINK 48 MILLION ADULTS IN US READ AT OR BELOW THE THIRD GRADE LEVEL MANY OF THEM STRUGGLE IN WAYS THAT ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR A FLUENT READER TO IMAGINE THEY CAN'T ORDER OFF A MENU. THEY CAN'T CHECK IN FOR A TELEHEALTH APPOINTMENT OR FILL OUT A JOB APPLICATION LOW LITERACY SKILLS CORRELATE HEAVILY WITH POVERTY AND CRIME AND ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ESTIMATED TWO POINT TWO TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR OF SOCIAL SERVICES HEALTH CARE AND LOST WAGES. THIS IS AN ISSUE BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM WOULD LOVE TO ADDRESS. THE QUESTION IS HOW IT CONTINUES AND I'LL SKIP SECTIONS JUST TO

227MAKE IT SOMEWHAT IN MY TWO DECADE CAREER IN THIS FIELD I HAVE HEARD OF ONLY A VERY FEW CENTERS THAT TEACH READING USING METHODS THAT ARE ACTUALLY PROVEN TO WORK AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF A CONFLICT PLAGUES AMERICAN EDUCATION. IT IS FUNDAMENTALLY BATTLE BETWEEN A PROGRESSIVE MINDSET AND TRADITIONAL ONE. THE FORMER PRIORITIZES STUDENTS INCLINATIONS THE JOY OF LEARNING AND THE TEACHER'S INTUITION THE LATTER ONCE STRICTNESS STRUCTURE AND IN EVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM I USED TO FAVOR SAYS THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE. I USED TO FAVOR THE INTUITIVE METHOD I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE CREATIVE, MORE HUMANE BUT I LEARNED THE HARD WAY WHEN IT COMES TO TEACHING READING YOU NEED RULES AND FEEDBACK AND A PLAN TO UNDERSTAND WHY READING IS SUCH A MESS WE'VE EXPERIMENTED WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND I WON'T BORE YOU

228WITH ALL OF THE DETAILS SURROUNDING THIS BUT STEP ONE WAS SOMETHING REFERRED TO YOU AND THE ACADEMIC ARENA MAY BE AWARE OF THIS CALLED WHOLE WORDS IT GAVE WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS THE LOOK SAY METHOD THAT THEN TRANSITIONED NOT WHOLE WORDS BUT WHOLE LANGUAGE EVENTUALLY WHOLE LANGUAGE WAS DISCREDITED BY THE EVIDENCE THAT EXISTED AND IN ITS PLACE BECAME A SUCCESSOR AND THAT WAS CALLED BALANCED LITERACY BUT IT'S ALSO BEEN DISCREDITED NOW WE'RE ON TO THE SCIENCE OF READING WHICH MAKES THE CASE THAT INEFFECTIVE EFFECTIVE READING CURRICULUM IS A SEQUENTIAL METHOD COLUMNISTS DIRECTLY TAUGHT IT EXPLICITLY TEACHES THE PHONETIC CODE AS WELL AS VOCABULARY WORD PARTS AND OTHER ELEMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR FLUENT READING AND THE SCIENCE READING IS STEADILY GAINING GROUND IN CHILDREN'S CLASSROOMS ALTHOUGH PARENTS EDUCATORS ARE STILL FIGHTING TO STAMP OUT BALANCED

229LITERACY WHOLE LANGUAGE IT'S A TRUE RELIC OF THE PAST SOMETHING NO SERIOUS EDUCATOR WOULD USE TO TEACH A CHILD TO READ. IT'S PAINFUL TO REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT I ASKED STUDENTS LIKE MARIANNE TO DO THE EARLY YEARS WHEN I BEGAN TEACHING ADULTS I HAD NO TRAINING NEW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT THE DEBATES GOING ON GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF READING INSTRUCTION ALSO I WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVED IN THE PROGRESSIVE APPROACH TO EDUCATION I DISLIKE TESTS AND TEXTBOOKS THE IDEA OF THE TEACHER WIELDING KNOWLEDGE YOU'LL LOVE THIS THE IDEA OF THE TEACHER WIELDING KNOWLEDGE IN POWER OVER THE PASSIVE STUDENT WAS ANATHEMA TO ME AND APPROACH BETTER SUITED TO REPUBLICAN AND AUTHORITARIANS AND IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE NONE'S CONTINUING ON MR. CALLEN IT'S BEEN A FEW MINUTES. CAN YOU TIE IT BACK THE MOTION PLEASE THAT WE

230CAN BACK TO THE BACK TO THE MOTION. IS THIS HOW YOU THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE KNOCKED ME OFF MY IDEOLOGICAL PEDESTAL THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO HELP MY STUDENTS I REALIZED WAS TO RADICALLY DIVERGE FROM THE PROGRESSIVE PATH I TRAVEL MY ENTIRE LIFE I AM NOW AS CLOSE TO A TRADITIONAL SCHOOL MASTER AS I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED. I DRILL TEST I SAY THINGS I SAY THINGS LIKE NO, THAT'S WRONG TRY AGAIN. THERE IS A CORRECT ANSWER AND I WANT IT TURNS OUT THAT'S WHAT THE STUDENTS WANT TO HEAR IS THE POINT THAT I'M MAKING DEMANDING SETTING HIGH EXPECTATIONS NOT WATERING DOWN ,NOT DILUTING, NOT DIMINISHING WHEN YOU HEAR AS YOU GO SCHOOLS AND DISCOVER KIDS ARE BEING PASSED ALONG FOR VARIOUS ISSUES IT SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE EUPHEMISMS

231ASSOCIATED WITH DGI AND THAT'S THE LOWERING OF STANDARDS THIS IS A RESULT OF KINDNESS, CARING AS IT WAS MENTIONED HUMANE PERSPECTIVES AND ATTITUDES BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S LEADING US IN THE DIRECTION THAT WE NEED TO GO IN ITS FOR THAT REASON I STILL AM IN SUPPORT THIS ISSUE OF REMOVING THE FBI AND I JUST WANTED TO GO ON RECORD SO THAT SOMEBODY HAS AN UNDERSTANDING OF AT LEAST WHERE I'M COMING FROM. THANK YOU MISS ROGERS. THANK WHILE I APPRECIATE THE STORIES FROM OTHER PEOPLE IN EDUCATION, THIS IS NOT A VIRGINIA EACH STORY YOU WHAT YOU JUST READ WAS FROM A TEACHER WHO DOES NOT TEACH IN VIRGINIA BEACH WHO DOES NOT HAVE A VIRGINIA BEACH EXPERIENCE AND EVERYTHING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SHOULD BE ABOUT VIRGINIA BEACH SO LET ME TAKE JUST A MOMENT. SORRY

232FOR TAKING MORE OF YOUR TIME TO READ THE EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE WRITTEN ABOUT MR. HARRIS AND ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS IN TWENTY TWENTY FIVE INSTEAD OF JUST ONE CLASSROOM IN JUST ONE PERIOD TIE HARRIS IS NOW TRYING TO HELP STUDENTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS FEEL THAT SENSE OF SECURITY AND CONNECTION DISTRICT RIDE ACROSS MORE THAN 80 SCHOOLS AND THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS IN HIS ROLE AS DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION NOW OPPORTUNITY FOR VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR TWO YEARS HE MINED DATA AND USHERED IN A STUDENT LED COALITION STUDENT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING IN A PUSH TO CREATE A CULTURE WERE EVERY KID FROM TEAM CAPTAINS TO THE STUDENTS TOO NERVOUS TO RAISE THEIR HANDS IN CLASS CAN BELONG IN THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITY THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING THIS STILL MR. HARRIS KNOWS THAT HE

233HAS TO BE INTENTIONAL WITH HOW HE APPROACHES HIS ROLE HE'S OPERATING IN A POLITICAL CLIMATE DIVERSITY EQUITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES HAVE GOTTEN IN THE BACKLASH WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND IS SEVERAL STATES LEGISLATING AGAINST DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN MR. HARRIS HIS OWN OF VIRGINIA. THE GOVERNOR HAS TAKEN AIM AT SUCH PROGRAMS EVEN REMAIN RENAMING A STATE OFFICE JUST TO REMOVE THE WORD EQUITY THIS GOES ON TO SAY THAT MR. HARRIS RELIED ON DATA TO PROPOSE SUCCESSFULLY PASS AN EXTENSIVE PLAN WHICH EXPERTS SAY IS A RARITY. HE PUTS HIGH SCHOOLERS THE CENTER OF EFFORTS TO REVAMP THEIR SCHOOLS SCHOOL'S CULTURE THROUGH A NETWORK OF STUDENT LED GROUPS HE APPROACHES OPPONENTS OF DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION IN THE COMMUNITY WITH GOOD NATURED WILLINGNESS TO MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND BRING THEM ALONG FOR THE RIDE

234LEADING THE DISTRICTS TO PERSON OFFICE MR. HARRIS CAME IN WITH BIG BOLD AUDACIOUS GOAL AND THEN PULLED THEN PULLED IN COLLABORATORS FROM DIFFERENT POCKETS OF OUR OWN SCHOOL DISTRICT HERE AND COMMUNITY TO PROPEL AND REFINE THE VISION AND ADMINISTRATOR IN DISTRICT OFFICE OF PROPOSED GROWTH AND INNOVATION AND THAT IS WHO IS MR. HARRIS IS PARTNER IN CRIME I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF MISCONCEPTION ON WHAT EQUITY IS, SAYS TY HARRIS IN THE 20 TO TWENTY FIVE ADWEEK LEARNERS TO LEARN FROM HONOREE THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN IN ORDER FOR US AS A COMMUNITY TO ARRIVE AT A PLACE WHERE WE SAY WE WANT TO BE AND IT'S THAT WILLINGNESS TO HAVE THOSE TOUGH CONVERSATIONS AND REALLY DIG INTO THE WORK AND IT GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT HOW HARRIS BELIEVES

235LEVERAGING PARTNERSHIPS IS CRUCIAL TO THE WORK THAT HE'S DOING. HE'S RETOOLED EXISTING CLUBS PUTTING STEM PUT HIS STAMP, PUTTING A STEM TWIST ON GIRLS ROCK THAT'S. THAT'S OUR PROGRAM A GIRL CLUB FOR GIRLS AND EXPANDING THE DISTRICT'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES SUMMIT WHICH WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT TO INCLUDE LOCAL POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTE SO WE CAN HAVE OUR OWN STUDENTS SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GO TO SCHOOLS HERE HE LEADS THE EQUITY COUNCIL WHICH MEETS BY BI MONTHLY. WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED THAT BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THE TIGHT COALITION, THE TIGHT COALITION IS NOW REPRESENTING IN THE DISTRICT ALL TWELVE HIGH SCHOOLS WITH A PLAN TO PUSH MIDDLE SCHOOLS THE NEXT GOAL IS TO GET STUDENTS TO FOCUS HOW TO BETTER >> ON BETTER OWN THEIR OWN SCHOOL CULTURE SCHOOL CULTURE. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING

236WE'RE ASKING STUDENTS TO OWN THEIR OWN SCHOOL CULTURE >>. THE COALITIONS MEET ONCE A MONTH TO BRAINSTORM HOW TO CHANGE SCHOOL CULTURE WERE CREATING A RESPONSE TO A DISMAL NUMBER ON STUDENT BELONGING AND INTERNAL >> SURVEY THE MEMBERS OF THE COALITION AREN'T NECESSARILY THE SAME KIDS WHO RAISED THEIR HAND FOR EVERY CLUB OR TEAM. PRINCIPALS IDENTIFY STUDENTS WHO ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THEIR SCHOOLS DEMOGRAPHICS WHO ARE ALREADY ESTABLISHED STUDENT LEADERS THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE SCHOOL SO EVERYBODY'S TALK ABOUT ODD IS IS IT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING RECRUITING STUDENT LED COALITION LED COALITIONS TO HELP THE CULTURE OF BELONGING IN OUR SCHOOLS THAT'S WHAT WE'RE RAILING AGAINST THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. I UNDERSTAND THAT DII THOSE LETTERS ARE SO PERVASIVE RIGHT NOW AND EVERYBODY'S AGAINST THEM BUT

237NOBODY HAS SAID YESTERDAY I'M SORRY EARLIER TODAY TWO WEEKS AGO A MONTH AGO NOBODY HAS SAID THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OUR SCHOOLS. SO HERE IS WE'RE CREATING A COALITION OF STUDENTS IN OUR TWELVE HIGH SCHOOLS THAT ARE COMING TOGETHER SO THEY CAN CREATE A BETTER CULTURE IN THEIR OWN SCHOOL THAT'S ABOUT THEM. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING THIS IS NOT ILLEGAL. THIS IS NOT AGAINST TITLE SIX THIS IS ABOUT A SENSE OF BELONGING IN OUR COMMUNITY WHY DO WE NOT WANT THIS? I DON'T UNDERSTAND AND IF WE ACTUALLY CARED ABOUT THE STUDENTS WE SAY WE CARE ABOUT, WHY ARE NOT RESEARCHING WELL WHAT IS VIRGINIA BEACH ACTUALLY VIRGINIA BEACH ACTUALLY DOING? I SPENT SEVERAL HOURS MR. HARRIS SO I COULD FIND COULD FIND OUT I SPENT HOURS WITH HIM SO I COULD ASK QUESTIONS

238WHAT IS OUR DISTRICT DOING? HOW DOES IT IMPACT STUDENTS WHAT IS OUR STAFF THINK STAFF THINK WE HAVE THE THRIVE BLOG? IS IT WHAT IT CALLS THE BLOG YES. THAT TELLS STAFF HEY GUESS STAFF WE'VE GOT THESE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS FOR YOU AND WE WANT TO HELP THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING IN VIRGINIA BEACH NONE. NONE OF THAT GOES AGAINST TITLE SIX NONE OF THAT GOES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION. SO JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FEAR IS WITH DE WHEN NOBODY HAS ACTUALLY LOOKED AT WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OUR SCHOOLS I DID IT BECAUSE IT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME TO REPRESENT OUR STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY SUCCESSFULLY AND I DID IT BECAUSE OUR STUDENTS DO NOT DESERVE OUR PROGRAMS SUSPENDED, ELIMINATED, REMOVED WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT THEY DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE THOSE THOSE PROGRAMS TAKEN AWAY

239FROM THEM IF WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY ARE AND I'LL YIELD MR. CUMMINGS I CIRCLE BACK TO WHY I SUPPORT THIS MOTION AND CALLED FOR AN EMERGENCY OR SPECIAL MEETING I SHOULD SAY US A BETTER TERM NOT AN EMERGENCY . A SPECIAL MEETING AND IT COMES DOWN TO COURT JUDGES AND WHAT THEY SAID IN THEIR RULINGS SITTING AND READING THE WORDS THEY THEY SAID WHAT THEIR CONCERNS YES IT'S NOT LITIGATED TO FULLEST TO THE FULLEST EXTENT BUT IT DOES IDENTIFY RISK AND I SPECIFICALLY THE NAACP CASE THE NAACP CASE WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE LOSS OF CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS FOR EVEN MINIMAL PERIODS OF TIME >> UNQUESTIONABLY CONSTITUTE CAN CONSTITUTE HARM >> AND SO DESIRE TO HAVE A MEETING AND NOT WASTE TIME THEY'RE NOT DELAY IT TO THE FUTURE WEEKS IS BECAUSE I HAVE

240A DESIRE TO NOT CAUSE HARM TO OUR STUDENTS AND THAT'S NOT MY WORDS THAT IS COMING FROM WHAT IS SAID IN THE CASE WITHIN THEIR WHAT THEY SAID AND I THINK WE HAVE TO TAKE THOSE THOSE MESSAGES SERIOUSLY AND I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE OUR FIRST RISKS, WHAT OUR FIFTH AMENDMENT RISKS IF WE ARE PROCEEDING WITH A POLICY WHERE WE ARE ACTIVELY POTENTIALLY REVIEWING CLUBS PROGRAMS ACTIVITIES THINGS LIKE THAT I THINK. I THINK THAT DOES POTENTIALLY INFRINGE UPON OUR STUDENTS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN WE ARE SELECTING YOU KNOW THOSE, THOSE PROGRAMS. AND SO THAT'S A CONCERN TO ME AND I HAVE NOT >> HEARD JUSTIFICATION TO WHY I SHOULD NOT BE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT I THINK IT DOES OPEN UP I'M A POTENTIAL RISK TO OUR SCHOOL AND SO THAT'S THE

241MAIN REASON WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY. I THINK MANY OF US READ THESE CASES AND WE HEARD ABOUT IT AND IT WARRANTS CONVERSATION AND I BASED ON WHAT I'VE READ IT WARRANTS A PAUSE AND I WANT TO CIRCLE BACK JUST TO AND I'LL BE BRIEF BECAUSE I KNOW I'LL BE QUICK AND BRIEF. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THOSE KIDS WHO ARE IN FIFTH GRADE CAN'T READ, I THINK ABOUT THE RESOURCES THAT WE CAN GIVE THEM TO BE SUCCESSFUL TO FIND DEFINE THEIR ABILITY TO GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE AND THAT'S EQUITY IS I WORKED IN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMING EAST APPALACHIA THROUGH A PROGRAM WITH AMERICORPS WHERE I WORKED WITH LITERACY DEVELOPMENT AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL IN ENHANCING THOSE KIDS LITERACY TO BE AT A LEVEL WHERE THEY WERE ACTUALLY FINALLY READING AND WRITING

242GRADE LEVEL WHEN WE SEE A DEFICIT WE ASK WHAT RESOURCES CAN WE GIVE TO HELP THEM WHEN AND THAT'S THE HEART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EQUITY IT'S MARX'S AGENDA. IT'S NOT THIS CONVOLUTED YOU KNOW DEMOCRAT TYPE DEMOCRAT TYPE THING. IT'S LITERALLY WHAT TOOLS CANNOT PUT ON YOUR BELT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE READY FOR THE JOB AND FOR ME YOU KNOW I SEE I SEE A KID THEY CAN'T IF THEY'RE NOT AT THE RIGHT LEVEL THEIR QUESTIONS WE NEED TO ASK. YES, OF COURSE HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THOSE TOOLS TO GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE TO TO FIND SUCCESS IN THEIR LIFE AND SO I JUST HAD A QUICK THOUGHT BUT I DO CIRCLE BACK THAT I WOULD CHALLENGE THE PUBLIC AND I CHALLENGE MY FOLKS

243UP HERE TO READ THE CASES AND LOOK THROUGH THEM AND SEE WHAT THESE JUDGES ARE SAYING, WHAT THEIR CONCERNS ARE AND ASK WAIT A SECOND DOESN'T THIS NEED SOME MORE THOUGHT INTO THE POLICY THAT WE ARE DEVELOPING IF IT'S THE POLICY IS LABELED VAGUE I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN FORMULATE SOUND CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY FOR A SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT IMPACTS SIXTY THOUSAND SOME KIDS I MEAN I WANT OUR KIDS YOU KNOW, WE PROCEED DOWN THE ROAD OF WHAT THAT ADMINISTRATION WANTS. THEN THEY HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB OF DEFINING TERMS SO THAT IT DOESN'T NEGATIVELY IMPACT OUR KIDS AND THAT'S ALL I GOT. THAT'S WHY I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTING THE THE PAUSE THIS >> MELNIK SO I DON'T NEED TO BUY A BOOK TO TELL ME ABOUT OUR SCHOOL DIVISION OR WHAT'S HAPPENING

244IN CLASSROOMS. WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TO EXPERIENCE A LIVING BOOK EVERY DAY WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO VISIT SCHOOLS AND I COMMEND MY COLLEAGUE MR. BONESTEEL WHO WHO TOOK ON MY CHALLENGE TO VISIT ALL ALL 86 SCHOOLS IN HIS FIRST YEAR AND HE IS NEARLY AIR AND I COMMEND HIM FOR THAT. YOU LEARN A LOT WHEN YOU STEP INTO OUR CLASSROOMS DGI HAPPENS EVERY DAY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN EVERY DAY. I'M SORRY TO OUR COMMUNITY THAT DGI BECAME SUCH AN UGLY TERM BUT IF YOU STEPPED FOOT INTO OUR CLASSROOMS YOU YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA AND BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING ELSE, I WANT TO THANK ANY TEACHER THAT IS STILL WATCHING OR MAY WATCH THIS TOMORROW. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO EVERY DAY THANK YOU FOR BEING

245THERE FOR OUR STUDENTS. THANK FOR LOVING THEM. THANK YOU FOR DOING MORE THAN YOU HAVE TO AND JUST KNOW THAT AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER IN YOUR CORNER. I SUPPORT YOU AGAIN I TYPICALLY SAY THIS ON A TUESDAY NIGHT TOMORROW HE'LL BE PACKING BEACH BAGS AND NOBODY UP HERE HAS HELPED YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT'S IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE HAVE BABIES IT COME TO SCHOOL WITH THE HEAVIEST BACKPACKS YOU EVER CAPRI. MANY OF YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IN YOUR LONG LIVES WHAT SIX YEAR OLDS IN OUR DIVISION HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED AND TO BE SO CURT AND TO BE SO CRUEL IN THE ARTS AND THE WORDS IS CLEARLY BROUGHT ME TO TEARS YOU HAVE TURNED REAL LIFE INTO SOMETHING SO UGLY AND AGAIN MANY OF YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ON A DAILY BASIS

246SO I WILL BE SUPPORTING MY COLLEAGUES WHO BROUGHT FORWARD THIS MOTION I I SUPPORT THAT I OPPOSES FAIR PAUSE IS FAIR TO OUR COMMUNITY AND I WILL SAY MADAM CHAIR THE ONLY THING THE ONLY TAKE AWAY FROM MY COLLEAGUES STORY IS THE FACT THAT WHOLE LANGUAGE WAS A HORRIBLE MISTAKE AND WE IT TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING I LEARNED IN COLLEGE WE TALKED TO THE MIDDLE AND IT DID NOTHING FOR NOBODY AND SO THANK YOU FOR AT LEAST RECOGNIZING THAT FACE CREAMS YES THANK YOU. YOU. YES. MANY OF US HAVE CHILDREN WHO HAVE GRADUATED MANY OF US HAVE GRANDCHILDREN WHO ARE NOW ATTENDING SCHOOLS. MANY OF US ARE IN THE SCHOOLS AND AT EVENTS SO I THINK THAT THIS BOARD AND PREVIOUS AWARDS MOST EVERYBODY UP HERE HAS DONE A GOOD JOB NOT DOING THAT AND I

247APPRECIATE THAT I WANT TO JUST CLEAR SOMETHING UP AND AND I DID IT TWO WEEKS AGO AND STILL UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S SOME SOME MISINFORMATION THIS RESOLUTION DOES NOTHING WE WILL NOT BE DISBANDING SPECIAL EDUCATION THAT IS A FEDERAL LAW I HAVE A CHILD AND A GRANDCHILD WHO IS I HAVE IEPS AND MY CHILD WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL THAT WILL CONTINUE ARE FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES WILL CONTINUE ESL ACADEMIES TUTORING ADC RECOVERY SCHOOL REMEDIAL IN ADVANCED COURSES, FOREIGN LANGUAGES SPORTS FIELD TRIPS THOSE WILL CONTINUE SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CLEAR ABOUT THAT OUR TEACHERS WILL CONTINUE DOING A GREAT JOB THEY WILL CONTINUE LOVING OUR CHILDREN. THEY WILL CONTINUE THE STANDARDS. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO DO THE BEST AND MEET THEIR POTENTIAL SO I WILL STAY FIRM AND MY VOTE AS OF

248TWO WEEKS AGO AND I THINK EVERYBODY WHO CAME TO SPEAK WHETHER WE AGREE OR DISAGREE AND I APPRECIATE THOSE WHO WERE VERY CIVIL AND AND RESPECTFUL I KNOW THIS IS A VERY PASSIONATE SUBJECT AND I REALLY THANK ALL THOSE WHO WHO WERE GOOD EXAMPLES TO STUDENTS WHO YOU ARE LISTENING AND LOOKING TONIGHT ABOUT HOW WE SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER. AND SO AGAIN I APPRECIATE YOU COMING AND APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAD WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY. THANK SO MUCH MISS FELTON THANK . THANK YOU, CHIEF BROWN AND THANK YOU FOR OPPORTUNITY AND I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT GOING THROUGH IS PROCESS SET ME BACK TO THINK ABOUT OVER 70 YEARS AGO, 1954 HOW WE WENT THROUGH THE CHALLENGES OF GETTING EDUCATION INTEGRATED OVER 70 YEARS AGO AND IT JUST YOU KNOW, IT IS REMINISCENT OF

249THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR AND THINGS AT THE PUSHING TOGETHER AND I LIKE TO THINK MY STUDENTS WHO CAME FORWARD I THINK MY STUDENTS WHO HAD GOES ONE ON ONE CONVERSATION WITH ME AND I NEED TO LET THEM KNOW TO REASSURE THEM THAT WHATEVER BE DONE TONIGHT FOR WHAT I SUPPORT YOU. WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO EMBRACE YOUR NIECE AND YOUR PERCEPTION WHEN WHEN WHEN YOUR SPECIALTY SPECIAL EDUCATION OR WHATEVER THE PROGRAM IS NOT BEING THAT RING ATTACK. YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF WHAT THEY'RE THINKING AND HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THINGS WELL I, I STILL REMEMBER THE STUDENT ASKING ME SHE SAID NOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO NOW THAT YOU GOOD AT THE EDUCATION OF RUSTY POLICY WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME

250MORE THAN ONE SAY BELIEVE ME WHEN WE STILL WE STILL CONTINUE TO HAVE A SAFE AND INCLUSIVE BILL? I STILL FEEL VESTED IN THIS EDUCATION. YES, WE EDUCATED RENOWNED STUDENTS. EVEN MY CHILDREN WENT THROUGH AND THEY'RE VERY A VERY SUCCESSFUL AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE GOING TO BE ENTREPRENEURS AND AND WORK ON THE SHIPYARDS AND EVEN FLYING AIRPLANES DOCTORS AND YOUR LAWYERS AS WELL SO YEAH, THE SCHOOLS, THE SCHOOL GAVE THEM A STEP UP BUT I'M BUT I'M GOING TO SUPPORT MY COLLEAGUES ON THE POLLS BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S BEEN ENOUGH THINGS EVEN LISTENING TO THE STUDENTS LISTENING TO THE STUDENTS AND THEY'LL CRY THEY'LL LOOK ON THEIR FACE JUST GIVE US A CHANCE PAUL'S IT AND THAT'S LET'S WORK IT THROUGH. I AM ON THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE AND WHEN I FIRST WALKED IN AND

251I CAME BACK AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS ALMOST A MONTH AFTER BEARING MY HUSBAND AND WHEN I LOOKED THAT POLICY WHICH STOOD NOT ONLY WERE BUT A MENTAL THAT TO THE STAFF AND THE TEACHERS THEY FELT VESTED. THEY FELT AWARE I'M A PART OF THIS SYSTEM THAT POLICY DID THAT AND TO COME BACK TO SEE IT. SO MY COLLEAGUES SAID REALIGNED BUT I SAID IT WAS GUT IT GOT IT TO THE BARE ESSENCE OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WE HAVE A POLICY MEETING ON THE TWENTY AND THAT'S THAT ARE PROBABLY THE TOP AGENDA AND EXACTLY HOW WE'RE GOING TO ROLL THIS OUT. I WOULD HAVE HOPED THAT WE WERE IN LEGAL COMPLIANCE IS WE DID THIS TO ASK FOR POLLS AND LOOK LIKE LOOK AT ALL THAT WE DID

252WHICH WE STILL WE LOOK WE LOOK LIKE WE WERE NOT IN COMPLIANCE HAVING IT CORRECTLY RIGHT AS TO WHAT WE WERE ASKING FOR THAT CALLS FOR THAT CAUSE ALLEGEDLY WE CAN'T FOUGHT WITH THE BECAUSE IT'S LEGALLY WRITTEN THAT LEGALLY ASK BUT I'LL SAY TONIGHT I WILL SUPPORT MY COLLEAGUES AND VOTE FOR THE POLLS. THANK YOU DR. GREEN THANK YOU. AND I ALSO WANT TO ADD HERE ARE ABOUT A WEEK AWAY FROM BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION MISS FELTON, MARCH SEVEN, MAY 17, 71 YEARS BUT ALSO THE IMPORTANCE THE FINANCIAL PIECE. LET'S BE CLEAR WE HAVE A WORKSHOP SCHEDULED NEXT WEEK TO TALK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FUNDING IN TERMS OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN OR NOT HAPPEN AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT I THINK FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW BECAUSE A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT

253WERE OR BUDGETED LINE ITEMS THAT WERE SENT TO US UPON REQUEST FROM ALLIANCE BOARD MEETING OUR PROGRAMS OR FUNDING SOURCES THAT ARE TAKING HITS AT FEDERAL LEVEL SO PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THAT NOTHING WILL BE CHANGING FINANCIALLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THAT YOU HAVE SIGNED AN AGREEMENT OR >> NOT OK SENIOR MORE DISCUSSION MISS MORE DISCUSSION. MISS FLANNERY, CAN YOU JUST CLARIFY FOR THE BOARD THAT THE MOTION IS YES TO PAUSE NO NOT TO PAUSE CORRECT. OK ALL RIGHT SO I'M GOING TO READ THIS AGAIN BECAUSE THAT'S WE HAVE TO DO WE WILL NOW VOTE ON THE MOTION TO AMEND PREVIOUS VOTE NAMELY TO AMEND THE APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OF POSSIBLE LISTED PORTIONS OF THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION UNTIL

254THE FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED WHETHER EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NINE ZERO CAN BE ENFORCED SPECIFICALLY SECTIONS A RESOLUTION SECTIONS ONE THREE FOUR FIVE AND SIX B A RESOLUTION SECTION TO THE SECOND SENTENCE REGARDING SUSPENSION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE FEDERAL GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EQUITY PLAN THE EQUITY DASHBOARD AND AND ANY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERING THAT WOULD NOT COMPLY SO I CALLED FOR THE VOTE. MINE ISN'T SHOWING IT HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOTE NO SO MADAM SO MADAM CHAIR, WE HAVE FIVE EYES AND FIVE DAYS SO THE MOTION IS LOST RIGHT IT IS TEN NINETEEN AND WE ARE ADJOURNED >>