School Board Meeting - 04/22/2025

001GOODVENIN EG . MY NAME IS KATHLEEN BROWN, CHAIR THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD AND I CALL THIS FORMAL MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD TO ORDER ON APRIL 22ND TWENTY TWENTY FIVE AT SIX P.M. MADAM CLARK WOULD YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCED THE ROLE ROLL? THANK YOU MADAM CHAIRPERSON IN THE SCHOOL BOARD CHAMBER GEORGE HAIR BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMES MR. BONESTEEL MR. KAPLAN CALLAGHAN. MR. COLPEPER, MR. CUMMINGS THIS DWYRE MISSPELT IN MISS FELTON. DR. GREE. NE MISS MELNICK AND MISS ROGERS, >> THANK YOU. WITH ALL WHO ARE ABLE PLEASE JOIN ME FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND STAY STANDING AFTER THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BEEN STUNG BY THE ROSEMONT FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHORUS COURSE DIRECTOR IS ACTUALLY ASHLEY ROJOS AND WE'LL HAVE WINTER AFTERA O PLEASE JOIN ME

002IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AS YOUR ABLE AND >> IF OUR CHORUS COULD ENTER PRIOR TO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WE GREAT THANK YOU AGAIN. I BELIEVE YOU. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. OH SAY CAN YOU SEE BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIKE WHAT SO PROUDLY >> WE FOUND AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST LEAVING WHOSE OBRSTRIAD PES AND BRIGHT STARS THROUGH THE PERILOUS OVER THE RAMPARTS >> WE WATCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING AND THEN ROCKETS RED ONES BURSTING INTO >> THE NIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE OH SAY DOES THAT STARPANGL SED BANN >ER> YET WAVE OVER THE LESNER LOVELY >> RED . ALL RIGHT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE NOW HAVE THE PLEASURE TO RECOGNIZE MANY OF OUR OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS MANY OF

003OUR OUTSTANDING STUDENTS THIS BISMULLAH MR. I'M SORRY YOU GO FIRST. IT'S THE PLEASURE RECOGNIZING STUDENTS AND STAFF FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS FOR >> FIRST RECOGNITION THIS EVENING IS VERY SPECIAL AS WE HONOR THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN AN EMERGENCY INCIDENT LAST MONTH AT LARKSPUR MIDDLE SCHOOL WILL STUDENT DEVIN D.J. ARTISTS AND LARKSPUR STAFF MEMBERS PLEASE COME FORWARD? THE LOCKS FOR SAVORS INCLUDE SECURITY ASSISTANT MICHAEL BAKER, SECURITY ASSISTANT ROBERT TEACHER TEACHER DR. HEATHER HAMILTON ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL LAUREL CRENSHAW ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT DR. JENAY WASHINGTON ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL ALLISON FARNSWORTH NURSE ASSISTANT MARK MORE AMER BEG YOUR PARDON NURSE CANDACE GARY NURSE ASSISTANT YVONNE BRACKETT INTERIM STUDENT ACTIVITY COORDINATOR DEREK BUCKLEY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE TERESA TATE AND LARKSPUR PRINCIPAL DOORCT TAMIKA SINGLETARY JOHNSON D.J. IS A SEVENTH GRADER AT LARKSPUR ONE MORNING AND MARCH DURING CLASS OUTSIDE SCHOOL D.J. BEGAN TO COLLAPSE

004JUST PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER DR. HEATHER HAMILTON COURT BEREFO HE HIT THE GROUND SHE USED A WALKIE TALKING TO CALL NURSE CANDACE TO THE SCENE SHE ALONG WITH THE SECUR ASITYSTANTSI MICHAEL BAKER AND NURSE ASSISTANT MARK AIMER RESPON RNDEDESPO D.J. APPEARED T BOE HINAVGSE URIZE AND THEN WENT INTO CARDIAC AT. RRES ERSAN CDACE IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THAT THE STUDENT NEEDED CPR BEGAN CHEST COMPRESSIONS AND CALLED OUT RFO AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR OR A SECURITY ASSISTANT, MR. ROBERT GRABBED THE AID AND RAN TO ASSIST PRINCIPAL SINGLETARY JOHNSON DAN HER ADMINISTRATORS USED AN EMERGENCY RADIOS PANIC BUTTON TO CALL FOR A MEDICAL RESPONSE THEY CONTACTED'S DJEN PARTS AND DIRECTED STUDENTS AWAY FROM THE SCENE. SECURITY ASSISTANT ROBERT AND BMR.AKER USE THE AHEAD ON D.J. THEY CONTINUEHES CT MPCOIORESSSN UNTIL THE AID WAS USED A SECOND TIME. ISTHRO P CESSINCONT UUEDNTIL

005EMERGENCY CREWS ARRIVED ANDOK D.J. TO THE HOSPITAL THANKFULLY DOCTORS WEREBLE AO T STABILIZE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR SINGLETARY JOHNSON UPDATED HIS PARENTS VIA PHONE UNTIL THEY ARRIVED HOSPITAL A DOCTOR. A DOCTOR WHO TREATED D.J. EXPRESS GRATITUDE FOR THE SCHOOL STAFF MEMBERS EFFORTS ANDSAID ATH IRTHE TCT AIONS HAD SAVED A LIFE OF THIS RAREMEKABL STORY SHOWS HOW VNIIRGI BEAACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TRAINS ITS STAFF AND EQUIPPED ITS BUILDINGS TO RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES. THANK YOU LARKSPUR MIDDLE LIFESAVERS WE ARE PROUD OF YOU OUR NEXT RECOGNITION IS FOR THE VHS CLASS FIVE GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE CHAMPIONS PLEASE WELCOME THE LADY CAVALIERS OF PRINCESS AND HIGH SCHOOL >> THE PRINCESS LADY CAVALIERS LED BY HALL OF FAME COACH DARNELL DOZIER KEPT THEIR SEASON AT TWENTY EIGHT AND ZERO IN ROUTE TO BEING CROWNED THE VH S.L CLASS FIVE

006GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE CHAMPIONS. THIS IS THE SCHOOL'S 15TH STATE TITLE AND THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP IN A ROW THE TEAM REPRESENTED PRINCESS ANNE AND VBC WITH EXCELLENCE AND CLASS. EACH STUDENT ATHLETE ON THE TEAM IS EITHER ON THE HONOR ROLL OR THE PRINCIPALS LIST WHICH IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT THAT COACH DOZIER AND HIS COACHING STAFF TAKES IMMENSE PRIDE IN TEAM MEMBERS ARE WINTER BROMWICH ELERI GUERIN'S PLOUHAR GRAVE GISELLE JAMES MAIKA OJO >> OBAMA HOLDS AMANY OLDS AMAIA OLD TRESTON RICKENBACKER ABBY SABBATINO ENGINEER SMITH. IN ADDITION COACH DOZIER THE ASSISTANT COACHES ARE WILLIAM EGGLESTON MILTON CLEMONS AND PURVIS STEPHENSON. CONGRATULATIONS LADY CAVALIERS WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU. NICE WORK COACH. OK >> OK I'VE BEEN GIVEN THE ONE MOMENT WHEN MR.MA DEIRTIN SDOETH AT AS A NINETEEN >> EIGHTY FIVE GRAND GREEN RUN HIGH SCHOOL I AM IMMENSELY

007PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR LAST RECOGNITION WELCOME THE VHS CLASSIFY STATE CHAMPIONS AND BOYS BASKETBALL. THE STALLIONS ARE GREEN RUN HIGH SCHOOL RUSKO STALLIONS THE GREEN >> RUN HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM ACHIEVED REMARKABLE SUCCESS SECURING BOTH THE CLASS FIVE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE VIRGINIA CLASS FIVE STATE TITLE THE STALLIONS CONCLUDED THE SEASON WITH AN IMPRESSIVE TWENTY FOR INTO OVERALL RECORD INCLUDING A FIFTEEN AND ONE MARK IN REGIONAL PLAY THEY CLINCHED THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A SEVENTY FOR 50 TO WIN AGAINST INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL THIS MOMENTUM CARRIED INTO THE STATE RNATOUNT WHEMERE THEY SECURED VICTORIES OVER MAURY HIGH SCHOOL ANDOODS WEID HIGH SCHOOL. THIS SEASON CULMINATED IN A THRILLING FORTY THREE TO FORTY ONE WIN OVER ALBEMARLE HIGH SCHOOL IN THETATE S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ON MARCH 13TH HIGHLIGHTED BY SENIOR PORCARO POINT GUARD CASSIDY JACKSON'S

008WINNING GAME WINNING LAYUP AT THE BUZZER THE PLAYERS ARE DEJOHN BAROLE WILLIAMS JAYLIN JOHNSON DRUMMOND ELIJAH ELLISON ALEXANDER GANDI DEANDRE GAIDEN SHAWN MICHAEL GOODEN JULIUS HYMENS CASSIDY JACKSON BRYCE LEE DAVID MILLER TIDJANE PALMER ROSEVELT WHITFIELD MALIK ROWNTREE MONTAY RUDOLPH THE NDSECO CHAMBRAY SMITH JAIDEN WALKER AND KEVIN WHALEY JUNIOR THE HEAD COACHES ARE RODRIK COOPER AND KENNETH HARRIS THE ASSISTANT COACHES AMERISTAR ELLIOTT AND RAY WEAVER IS THE SCOREKEEPER CONGRATULATIONS STALLION'S WE ARE PROUD OF YOU WAY TO GO GUYS. WAY TO GO >>. CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN GOOD JOB . GOOD JOB. GOOD THEY OPEN THEY OPEN UP SEATING IN THE SMACKEROOS THEN. GOOD ON JUST TELL THEM TOE TLL EM TTHO COME IN AND FILL RIGHT THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE STANDING STILL WE HAVE A FEW SEATS THAT ARE NOW AVAILABLE. WE COULD FILL THOSE IN SO

009THAT WE CAN TRY TO ACCOMMODATE AS MANY PEOPLE IN THE CBEHAM ARSS POSSIBLE RIGHT. WE ARE NOW TO THE ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA JUST A COUPLE OF MODIFICATIONS ONE IS THAT DUE TO SPRING BREAK OUR CLERK WAS UNABLE TO GET THE MINUTES TO US IN TIME. SO WE WILL BE VOTING ON TWO SETS OF MINUTES AT THAT MAY 13TH SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. THE SECOND ONE IS IN WORKSHOP WE USED STILL WORK ON SOME COMMENTS WAS TO BOARD MEMBERS THAT WERE IN QUEUE AND THERE IS A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT. SO WE WILL HAVE THAT AT THE END OF OUR MEETING DISCIPLINARY ACTION WE DO WE DO THAT BEFORE CLOSED OR AFTER PROBABLY BEFORE SO. SO WE'LL WE'LL ADD THAT BEFORE CLOSED SESSION. ARE THERE ANY OTRHE DIMOTIFICASON THE AGENDA

010AS PRESENTED >> SANG NYINEO ILL CA FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED AND MODYIF MIONEDOT BY MR. CAENLL SDEDECON BY MR. OR ANY DISCUSSION SAYING THAT I CALL FOR VOTE TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED AND MODIFIED. SO MADAM CHAIR, WE HAVE LEBANON I SUPPOSE YOU DID PSASR FO THE ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA PRESENTED AND MODIFIED THANK YOU. WE. WE ARE NOW TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT AND RECOGNITIONS DR. ROBERTSON, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR REPORT IN ANY RECOGNITIONS YOU MAY HAVE GOOD EVENING MADAM CHAIRWOMAN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD HERE A BOARD HERE A FEW ITEMS OFNT IESERT FORUR O FIEAMILS OUR FAMILIES.OU R COMMUNITY ISOING D AERFU NDWOL CELEBRATING OUR ARILITA Y MTH OONF THE MILITARY CHILD MORE THAN TWELVE THOUSAND CONNECTION TO DUTYSERV ICEEMBE LTHAT SAME DAYE W CELEB TED OBEG

011DND A LYNNHAVEN MOANUT ABOVE FI HUNDREDIFT FY STUDEN F REEATUIND THIBI PARTNERSHIP WITH LAVYNNHENLL T,ED EBA SED LITTLE STORY CREEK FORT AORYNAND AIR STATION CEOANANGIL CH DREN ILY MRITAAX FESMILI E TOPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS AND TTSALEN AND EART SHOW HELEMPSTH EE FL ECNNHE CMMOUNITYND A SHASRE THEIR STRENGTH, ACCHAR AR NDLI COEN OFTHEU PBLIC TO HIEXBIT SOON TO PPAATRECIE TENTAL ANDSI PASON OF OUR MILITARY STTSUDEN >> MLLU HGHITE SCHOOLS IN TOUNTHE O HAVEDTE HOS THE WINGS IUM ONA IL 11TPRH THE U.S. US RAI F PORCEAMROGRNC ILUDED SEVERAL MOVATIALTION SKEPEARS THATS NTTUDEREADILY RECOGNI, ZE UDINCLGINOC SLIA MAEDI RYCKENZIERO B WOK,NBA RTREPO JERENNY TAFFE MEMBERS OF THE AIR FORCE ALSOWE ANSRED TIQUES FONS TROMHET STSUDEN ABOUT LIFE CESCHOID AN CREA ER PAHST. HEYTCE ITLEBR SPEAKERSA TLKED OVEAB ORCOMING ADVERSITY, MLEIENTALB WEL, GOANGL STIET ERNDPOPEVEL AMENT FINDG INCCSU RINCIPPAL DR.

012RY'ANERT SAID HE WAS THRILLED TORI BNG EVENT TOILL K THEMCUED ISSUES TT EPRPARE HIMOR ENRLMOLENT IN COLLEGE ENLISTMENTNE IH T MILITA ORRY EMPLOYMENT ANDW. I'DLI G OKE TIVE SPECIAL THANKS TO THE VIRGAINIE BACH ENTI ANON VIDTORS BSIUREAU FOR HELPING BRING THIS EVENT TO KILLMI H. IVEHA SOME EXCITINGEWS NO T HARESROM F THE OFFICE OF FAMILY COMMUDNINGAGETY EMENT EACH YEAR WE INTEVI SCHOOLS TO COLLABORATE WITHHE TIR MCOTYMUNIEN GAGEMENT LIAISON TOL T NECINATEOM A TWENTYNTYWE T VEFIEL MOD PRTANER THESE PARTRS NEEMPLIFEXYUTSTAN ODI LLABOCORATION AND INNOVATION OUR 20 TWENTYWENTY TI FVEODEL M RTNEPAHIRSEPS DTRMONSATE DOCUMENTED RULTSESUTUAL MLY SUPPORIVE RTEONLATISSHIP A SIGNIFICANTIMPACT N O STUDNTSE ADEMICAC ACHVEMENTIE AND PERSONAL I AM PROUD TOANNO CEUN THE THIRTEEN MODEL PARERSTN WHO HAVE SET THE STANDARD FOR CELEXNCE ILEN CMMUNOYIT ENGAMENT.GE INCLUDE ALLANSON ELMENERY STAHOOLCN IHE T ALLENTON IT PTA ARROWHEAD ELENTAEMRY

013SCHOOL IN THE ARROWHEAD PTA BEDAS ON HIGH IN BAYSIDE POWER FIRST LONIALCO HIGH SCHOOLN AD7TH 1TREET S AUTOMOTIVELM K HHIG SCHOOL AND ES ANDON KABAKOVETER VSAN CARE CENTER KMI STILL HIGH AND TLANTIDAC RVINGSE LAND DESIGN LANSDOWANNENE LOWDSD HIGH HOESCANOL IFD L NET NEWCASTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ANDHE T WCASTLNEE SATEAC ELEMEARYNT OL INHO THE VNIUSIRGI MAMEU CONTEMPORY ARTAR, THEECHN TALIC ND CARAEER EDUCAON CTITER IENN THE CEERNT OFIR VAGINI BEACH EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION ANDS CITINZE SERVICES 3X ENELEMTARY SCHOOL AND THE THREE PTA VGINIIR BEACAH MDLEID SCHLOO AND VIRGINIA BEACH MAOKHI WTE HOUSE ELENTCHME SARYLOO AND GREEN RUN HIGH SCHOOLMOL PARTNEA SIASTSTANIN PRPACILS WEEK. RKED TIRELESYT RECATE LVENIEARNGE SDETU TEIHAN ENVIRONMEN DETITSPE C T EIH RDESK AT TRENTWOOD EELARMENTSTY UDTSHEEN TIR HAND PRINCETON NAMES ONAB NEAN N DSHAN THFOWIUX LRDNTSIL IMS SARSI RIIPNCALS AT OL DNAONTI THEALUN J MAED HEARTS

014AND DELIVED TREMHE SD MR HOWARD THANK YUO ASSISTANT PRN FINLYAL I LIKE TO REMI HERND ILY'AM ABOUST SEVERAL IMPORNT EVTAENTS COMI UNGP FROM SIX TO SEVEN P.M. TOMORROW NIGHT APR TWILENTY WE ARE GATHERB ABOUT HOW ROU ELEMENRYTA SCOOLS IHN THE TRUCK CAMPUS COEAARULD BE NFIGURCOED IN THE FUTURE INJOS U FOR THED ISCUSSION AT NEWTOWN ELENTARYME. AND IF YOU'REUNAB EL AENDTT SE COMETEPL THE COMPLETE THE BRIEF SURVEY ON VEHBI SCHOOLS ON THIS SATURROM FDAY EIGHT THIRTY TO NOON GROSS SMANDRT A PVCS ARE HOSTING THE CELEBRATION ANVEN ETT A MOUNT RASH MTOR JOEIN US TO DISCOVER LOCAL RESOUESRC TO SUPPORT WELLNESS, FAMILY ENGEMENAG ANDT ALUDENT SUPPORT FAMIESLIAN C SOJOY EN THE ONE MORE FUN RUN INFLATABLE CHILDREN'S CRAFTTTI NG Z ANOOD MEOR FINALLY MAY NOT FIT 5TH NINORTH IS TEACHER APPRECIATION SOOCHLS PIZZAS AND COMMUNY PARITTNERS BELL

015CELEBRATING ARE VALUABLE EDUCATORS DON'T FORGET TO THANK A TEACHERURI DNG YOUR APPRECTIK AIAEEON WND THROGHOUTU THE YEAR FOR THE LVAAVE IN SHAPING OUR FUTURE LEADERS THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT TNKHA AYOURE. ARE THERE ANY RECOGNITION'S TODAY >>? NO. OK, RIGHT THAT BRINGS US TO PUBLIC COMMENT. I HAVE COUPLE OF STATEMENTS ONES THE USUAL STATEMENT AND ONE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF SPEAKERS TONIGHT WE WILL NOW HERE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON MATTERS RELEVANT TO PRICKET THROUGH 12 PUBLIC EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND THE BUSINESS OF THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL DIVISION FROM CITIZENS AND DELEGATIONS YOU SIGNED UP WITH THE SCORE CLARK PRIOR TO NOON TODAY THE PURPOSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION IS FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO OFFER AN ORDERLY FORM TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS DURING THE

016SCHOOL BOARD MEETING I CALL UPON ALL SPEAKERS AND ALL PERSONS IN THE CHAMBERS TO BE CIVIL DISCUSSION AND DECORUM WHATEVER VIEWS YOU WISH TO EXPRESS THE SCHOOL BOARD WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU AND ENSURE THAT ALL VIEWPOINTS AND PERSPECTIVES ARE HEARD THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS IS FOR ALL OF TO STRIVE FOR CIVILITY AND RESPECT. WE ALSO INVITE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT COMMENTS THROUGH EMAIL WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE WE HAVE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN SPEAKERS TONIGHT SO WE'RE GOING TO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS TONIGHT WE WANT TO HEAR FROM EVERYONE HERE ARE THE PROCEDURES ONE SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED TO THE MICROPHONE THREE AT A TIME WHEN YOUR NAME IS >> CALLED PLEASE LINE UP IS DIRECTED BY STAFF EACH SPEAKER WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO ADDRESS THE SCHOOL

017BOARD AND THE TIMER WILL BE ON THE MONITORS BEHIND THE DAIS. THE TIMER WILL TURN RED WHEN THE SPEAKER HAS 30 SECONDS REMAINING IN THE CLERK MAY ALSO GIVE SPEAKER A THIRTY SECOND MORNING SPEAKERS MAY CONCLUDE REMARKS AND LEAVE THE PODIUM WHEN THE TIMER SOUNDS. SPEAKERS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO EXPAND THEIR SPEAKING TIME AFTER THIS TIMER SOUNDS WHEN THE TIME OR THE NEXT SPEAKER YOU COME TO THE PODIUM AS THE CLERK ANNOUNCES THE NEXT THREE SPEAKERS EACH SPEAKERSHIP AGAINST BECAME BEGIN SPEAKING WHEN THE TIMER BEGINS ONLINE SPEAKERS WILL BEGAN WHEN IN PERSON SPEAKERS ARE CONCLUDED SPEAKERS WHO ARE NOT PRESENT FOR WERE UNABLE TO ON MUTE WHEN THEY CALLED TO SPEAK WELL FORFEIT THEIR TURN TO SPEAK THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL PAUSE SPEAKERS AT 8PM TO BEGIN THE INFORMATION PORTION OF THE AGENDA AND WILL

018RETURN TO REMAINING SPEAKERS AT THE CONCLUSION OF OUR INFORMATION AGENDA THE SCHOOL BOARD RESERVES THE RIGHTS TO RECESS AS NEEDED AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR BYLAWS ABOARD WILL NOT COMMENT OR ACCEPT HANDOUTS DURING COMMENTS MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE ARE REMINDED THAT CONDUCT THAT PREVENTS SCHOOL OR MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE FROM HEARING OR SEEING SPEAKERS IS DETERMINED TO VIOLATE DECORUM IN ORDER. RULES WILL BE PROHIBITED ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR SCHOOL BOARD BYLAWS. MADAM CLERK WOULD YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCED THE FIRST SPEAKER >>? >> THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR WILL BEGIN WITH OUR WITH OUR PERSON STUDENT SPEAKERS. WE HAVE FRIEDMAN MADELEINE, MENLYN SHEETS AND THEN BRICE DELTEAN, THE GOEA AHD. HELLO MY NAME IS HOW DO AND I'M A SOPHOMORE AT FIRST CONLINT IGOOHCHH SL IN THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THE RESOLUTION

019TO SUSPEND POLICY REGARDING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION OR THIS IS NOT HOW I WANTED TO SPEND MY TUESDAY NIGHT TO I COULD BE STUDYING FOR MY UPCOMING AP EXAMS AFTER DINNER WITH A FRIEND BUT NOW I'M HERE INSTEAD TO EXPRESS MY DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE BOARD IN ILL IN POLICY I'M NOT GETTING EXTRA CREDIT TO BE HERE OR FORGED OR PAID I'M HERE BECAUSE I WANT TO BE HERE AND BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED MR. CULPEPER IN THE FUTURE IF YOU IF YOU NEED ANY HELP WRITING SOLUTIONS I STRONGLY SUGGESTS SEEKING OUT YOUR LOCAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS DELEGATE BECAUSE I'VE WRITTEN BETTER POLICIES AND FIRSTLY I LIKE TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO MRS. ROGERS AND MR CUMMINGS. YOUR HELPFUL RESPONSE IS ONE OF THE BOARD WERE QUITE INSIGHTFUL FOR THE SPEECH TODAY WHICH HAVE YOU GUYS PROBABLY DON'T

020EVEN BOTHER TO READ SO I WILL BE SUMMARIZING IT ALTHOUGH I CANNOT VOTE I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT THE COMMITTEE THE PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY THAT OUR ELECTED TO REPRESENT ME AND MY FELLOW STUDENTS PASS THIS REVOLUTION IN SECRET HOPING TO SWEEP IT UNDER THE RUG. BUT ALAS YOU WERE UNSUCCESSFUL SO MOVING ON NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUST COMPLY WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AND I UNDERSTAND THE SCHOOL BOARD IS CONCERNED ABOUT LOSING FEDERAL FUNDING BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS SUSPENDED THERE PLANT OR MOVE THEIR DEADLINE TO AND DCI SO WHY DO WE JUMP THE GUN TO THIS? I THINK WE'VE ALL LEARNED BY NOW TO WATCH THE ACTIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAREFULLY AND NOT TO MAKE ANY QUICK ASSUMPTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS. NOW TO MY CONCERN VIRTUALLY IN THE SECOND QUARTER THIS RESOLUTION, IT STATES THAT

021PROGRAMS DO NOT APPLY WITH FEDERAL GUIDELINES WILL BE SHUT DOWN AND DUE TO HOW INSANE YOU THINK THIS IS THAT NO PROGRAMS ARE SPECIFICALLY STATED SO WITH MY UNDERSTANDING CLUBS SUCH AS STUDENT UNION LAXMAN UNION STUDENT UNION, WOMEN IN STEM AND MANY WEREN'T COULD POSSIBLY GET SHOT THEM I MYSELF AM A MEMBER OF MANY OF THESE CLUBS HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE PART OF THESE PROGRAMS AND ESPECIALLY WHILE I'M NOT ASIAN I STILL ATTEND THE ASEAN MEETINGS BI ANNUAL BI WEEKLY TO LEARN ABOUT CULTURE AND RESPECT FOR WHAT THAT'S WHAT THESE CLUBS AND PROGRAMS HERE FOR TO TALK ABOUT CULTURE AND TRADITION UNIQUE TO A CERTAIN SCAREY I KNOW SO I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW WORRIED I AM THAT THESE CLUBS IT I LOVE AND SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE LOVE AND COUNT ON WILL BE SHUT DOWN

022DUE TO THIS RESOLUTION THEY'RE CAUSING NO HARM TO SEE THIS NOTION BEING FORCED TO GO. I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THE EQUALLY LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD SCARY BUT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THE ONLY ONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY THERE ARE DOZENS OF OTHER STUDENTS WHO FEEL THIS WAY I DO NOT HAVE NOT HAVE THE TIME OR COURAGE SPEAKER AND THAT WE WILL BE AT THE AGE TO VOTE ME AND MY PEERS SO I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN. THIS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN ON TOP OF MANY OTHER THINGS BECAUSE SOON WE WILL BE DECIDING THE FUTURE OF THIS BOARD IN THE FUTURE MEMBERS I URGE YOU TO RECONSIDER THIS DECISION TO REVISIT INSTRUMENT . NHANK YOU FORNE XT SPEAKER OR EX>>T EA SPKER IS MADELINE CHEAT'S BRYCE DANTE AND

023THEN NASH PHILLIPS. IF YOU COULD JUST PAUSE SO PLEASE MAKE SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT OUR CLERK IS ABLE TO SPEAK IN BETWEEN SO ONCE IS ONCE THE NEXT SPEAKER IS PLEASE CEASE FIRE SO THAT OUR CLERK CAN BE HEARD. THANKOU Y GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MADELEINE MADELINE AND I'M A SOPHOMORE IN THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY AT FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT DEEPLY CONCERNED AND FRANKLY HEARTBROKEN THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD IS CONSIDERING MOVING THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY A POLICY THAT EMBODIES THE VALUES FAIRNESS RESPECT AND RESPECT AND OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY STUDENT AND STAFF MEMBER IN OUR SCHOOLS LET'S BE CLEAR THIS POLICY IS NOT ABOUT HIRING PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE GENDER IDENTITY IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT NO ONE IS EXCLUDED BECAUSE OF THEM. IT'S LOOKING AT THE DATA IDENTIFYING

024GUTS AND DOING AND DOING THE HARD BUT NECESSARY WORK TO CLOSE THEM >> SO THAT A CHILD'S ZIP CODE BACKGROUND OR LASTING NAME DOESN'T DETERMINE THEIR FUTURE THIS POLICY DOESN'T LOWER STANDARDS IT RAISES THEM. BUTTERMAN THAT WE TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHO HAS TO ADVANCED COURSES GIFTED PROGRAMS AND FAIR DISCIPLINE IT SAYS WE MUST BUILD A SCHOOL SYSTEM OR SUCCESS IS UNPREDICTABLE BASED ON RACE, DISABILITY OR FAMILY INCOME TO REPEAL THIS POLICY IS TO SEND A MESSAGE TO EQUITY NO LONGER MATTERS THAT ACKNOWLEDGING HISTORY IN ADDRESSING INEQUITY AND CREATING INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS IS SOMEHOW TOO MUCH I ASK YOU TOO MUCH WHO NOT TOO MUCH FOR THE NOCTURNALLY NOT FOR THE STUDENTS WHO DESERVE EVERY TOOL IN EVERY CHANCE TO THRIVE. THIS ISN'T ABOUT POLITICS IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE IT'S ABOUT KIDS ABOUT KIDS AND IT'S

025ABOUT DOING RIGHT. SO HERE'S MY CALL TO ACTION TO EVERY PARENT TEACHER STUDENT AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ATTEND THE MEETING MEETINGS DEMAND THAT OUR SCHOOLS A PLACE WHERE EVERY CHILD NOT JUST A FEW HAS THE CHANCE TO SUCCEED ALACRITY BE ERASED LET IT BE. LET IT BER OUAC LEGY. THANK YOU. ROUEXT NAKERPE S IS PRICE DADDY THE NASHVILLE THEN MAILA URLASAIS LAZARUS GOOD EVENING THANK YOU SO YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HI MY NAME IS BASICALLY NINE 10 PERSONALLY A AND I ATTEND PERSONALLY A HIGH SCHOOL I'M CURRENTLY FRESHMEN ILLEGAL SAYS ACADEMY THROUGHOUT MY HIGH SCHOOL CAREER EVEN CAREER EVEN THOUGH SHORT LIVED MY TEACHERS AND PEERS HAVE SUPPORTED ME TO MY JOURNEY BEING GAY SUPPORT I AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE MAIN REASON WHY I'M STANDING BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS ASK THE SCHOOL

026BOARD TO TAKE A YOU FROM ITS STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AND FOCUS ON SUPPORTING ALL OF US EQUALLY ESSENTIALLY WITHOUT THE SUPPORT AND RECOGNITION FROM OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM WE CAN BE LIMITED WITH LITTLE ROOM TO SUCCEED THE SUSPENSION OF DIE DIMINISHES THE IMPORTANCE OF REPRESENTATION MINORITIES MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS BY MOVING THE SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO CREATE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTS PEOPLE FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES WERE LIMITED TO GET TO SUPPORT GIVEN TO AN INTERN DEMONSTRATING TO THESE GROUPS THAT THEY ARE LESS THAN EQUAL UNSUPPORTED AND EVEN UNDERVALUED THESE ACTIONS ALSO TAKE ALSO TAKE AWAY SAFE SPACES AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR STUDENTS TO COMMUNICATE FREELY. MOREOVER, THESE ACTIONS FEEL OR CAN MAKE STUDENTS FEEL VERY ISOLATED FROM THEIR PEERS, TEACHERS, SCHOOL AND EVEN THEIR LIFMEEOR ACC TDINGO THE TREVOR

027PROJECT, WHICH IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT FOCUSES ON SUICIDE PREVENTION AND YOUTH, 68 PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO ARE PART OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY REPORTED FEELING UNSAFE THEIR OWN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT THESE PROGRAMS ARE THERE ARE THERE TO PROTECT, SUPPORT AND PROMOTE FOR ALL STUDENTS REMOVING THESE PROGRAMS THESE PROGRAMS IS A CONFLICTING ACTION WHICH INSTEAD OF BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER TEAR THEM APART. THE VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM NOSE AND RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF INCLUSION, EQUALITY INEQUITY ARE THE FOUNDATION'S THAT LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE COMPASS TO STRATEGY. TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WHICH IS PUBLISHED DIRECTLY ON THE VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEBSITE EVERY ALL AND THERE ARE SIX OF THEM IN THE COMPASS OUTLINES AND A QUALITY CAMPUS HIGHLIGHT THIS HIGHLY IS A GOAL TOWARDS MAKING EACH POLICY FAIR AND EQUAL MORE SIGNIFICANTLY GOALS TO AND FOR WHICH MED

028STUDENT WELL-BEING IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY IN SCHOOL AND I QUOTE AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND A DESIRE TO AND I QUOTE AGAIN AND INCREASED TO DIVERSITY THE SUSPENSION OF THE ISN'T JUST A REGULAR SCHOOL POLICY CHANGE IT'S A PERSONAL ATTACK TO ANY DIDN'T HAVE ANY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES LIKE ME WITHOUT THE SUPPORT NETWORKS THAT ONCE OFFERED GUIDANCE AND UNDERSTANDING ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED NO LONGER SUPPORT THE LIVING ROOM FOR STUDENTS TO BECOME VULNERABLE TO ISOLATION DISCRIMINATION IF WE STAY TRUE TO THE EXACT WORDS ON THE WEBSITE THE PROGRAM SHOULD BE UPHELD AND BE UPHELD AND RESUMED. EVERY STUDENT DESERVES HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING AT THEIR SCHOOL NO MATTER THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR GENDER TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER THANK . THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME NEXT NUREXT SPEAKER >> IS NASHVILLE THEN WE WILL LAZARUS

029THAN GRACE CAVANAUGH HELLO MY NAME IS NASHVILLE AND PHILLIPS AND I'M A SENIOR OCEAN LAKES IN LIGHT OF THE REMOVAL OF ANY SORT OF DII WITHIN VCP I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK BEFORE YOU ALL IS THE TARGET BENEFICIARY DEMOGRAPHIC THESE POLICIES I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO SAY THAT I AM APPALLED BY THE HYPOCRISY MY OWN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER DAVID CULPEPER DAVID COLPEPER WAS HID BEHIND TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROPOSE THESE POLICIES IN SUCH AN IMPROPER MANNER AS HE DID MR. CULPEPER HAS BY FAR THE WORST ATTENDANCE RECORD ON BOUGHT BY THE WAY HE OBVIOUSLY HE OBVIOUSLY JUST CAN'T BE BOTHERED ON TUESDAYS UNLESS HE'S ACTIVELY WINDING BACK THE CLOCK ON THIS HISTORICALLY OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IF SYSTEM. IF I HAD AS MANY ABSENCES DOES I WOULDN'T BE GETTING WOULDN'T BE GETTING MY DIPLOMA IN

030JUNE WITH THAT BEING SAID I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT HE FAILED TO GET VIRGINIA BEACH CITIZENS APPROPRIATE NOTICE OF THE POLICY IS BEING PUT UP FOR A VOTE. IT'S LIKE WHAT YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU MAKE THE KID WHO NEVER SHOWED UP TO SCHOOL THE STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT I'D SLEEP BETTER IF THE RECENT ACTIONS WERE TRULY THE RESULT OF COWARDICE IN THE WAKE OF TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER. DEEP DOWN, HOWEVER, I KNOW THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO VOTED TO REPEAL DIE ARE DELIGHTED TO THEN VCS BACK TO THE 1950S. OBVIOUSLY THE SCHOOL WARD ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE A PARTIZAN POSITION BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT IT IS THE REPUBLICANS ON THIS BOARD ARE HERE FOR ONE REASON TO DO TRUMP'S BIDDING I'D LIKE JUST AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE TO THINK THAT EVERY BOARD MEMBER IN FRONT OF

031ME IS INVOLVED IN COMMITTED UNFORTUNATELY I KNOW FIRSTHAND THAT THEY AREN'T I WROTE AN ARTICLE EARLIER THIS YEAR IN MY SCHOOL SCHOOL'S PAPER ABOUT THE NEWLY ELECTED BOARD I PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED STUDENTS TO VOTE AND I'M A FIRM BELIEVER YOUNG PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE POLITICALLY AWARE. PLUS AS A HOPEFUL FUTURE JOURNALIST I'M COMMITTED TO BEING UNBIASED BUT I CAN NO LONGER HOLD MY TONGUE INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH WHEN WRITING THE WRITING THE ARTICLE THE LEFT LEANING BOARD MEMBERS WERE THE ONES WHO ACTIVELY RESPONDED TO MY INQUIRY FOR QUESTION YOU'D THINK THAT A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SUCH A THING ON THE OTHER HAND THE MORE CONSERVATIVE MORE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS FAILED TO COMMENT WHETHER THAT SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR COMMITMENT TO THIS POSITION IS UP TO YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME TO THINK THAT I'M JUST BUT HURT

032BUT I FOUND THAT VERY TELLING THE CLASSIC MOVES TO GRANDSTANDING LIE AND SAY THAT THESE MEASURES ARE IN THE AIM OF EQUALITY BUT THE REAL MOTIVE IS GREED. AS A WHITE GUY THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MINDHAT T REPEALING DS IS MEANT TO HELP ONE GROUP IN ONE GROUP ONLY AND THAT'S PEOPLE LIKE ME. I DON'T WANT OR NEED YOUR HELP. I WENT TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WITH THE BEST TEST BECAUSE IN THE DISTRICT KINGSTON WHOSE OUTSTANDING 90TH PERCENTILE TEST SCORES ARE COUPLED WITH HAVING ONLY THIRTEEN POINT FIVE PERCENT OF STUDENTS FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS AND A TWO POINT SEVEN PERCENT BLACK STUDENT POPULATION FAR UNDER THE 49 PERCENT IN TWENTY TWO POINT SEVEN PERCENT MARKS RESPECTIVELY FOR THE DISTRICT. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THIS FALLS IN LINE WITH SOME CLEAR FUNDING DISPARITIES BETWEEN KINGSTON AND OTHER VCP

033SCHOOLS WHICH AGAIN IS NO SLIGHT AGAINST THEM BUT SIMPLY A REALITY THAT MUST ACKNOWLEDGED I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO COMPREHEND A DUI DOES NOTHING TO PULL ME BACK BECAUSE I AM PRIVILEGED BUT EVERYTHING TO PULL OTHERS OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS NONETHELESS DESERVING FORWARD THE TUNES HAVE CERTAINLY CHANGED SINCE 1950 BUT THIS IS THE SAME TIRED RACIST INLSPSES PLAYBOOK. KTHAN> > YOU FOR YOUR NEXT SPEAKER IS OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MYAZ LARUSHA TNRA GCE CAVANAUGH THAN AMY BADDI. GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIRWOMAN BROWN BY CHAIRMAN WEEMS AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. MY NAME IS MALEA LAZARUS. OFTENTIMES WHEN I INTRODUCED MYSELF I FOUND MYSELF MY NAME BY WHAT SCHOOL I ATTEND MORE SPECIFICALLY THE COURT WHERE I ASSOCIATE WITH HOWEVER THIS TIME IT FEELS UNNECESSARY TO OUTLINE MY ACADEMIC BACKGROUND BECAUSE UNDER CERTAIN

034CIRCUMSTANCES IT IS NOW IRRELEVANT TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT BACK ON AN EDUCATIONAL STILL ONCE AGAIN MY NAME IS MARIA LAZARUS AND MALEA LAZARUS AND I AM PROBABLY PART OF THE MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY OF MOTION OCEAN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT I WILL USE MY TIME IN A POWERFUL WAY TO ELUCIDATE HOW THE SUSPENSION OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PRECISELY LIMITS THE POSSIBILITIES THAT MAGNET SCHOOLS TO DIVERSIFY STUDENT BODIES. MAGNET SCHOOLS HAVE THE CAPABILITY FOSTER A DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT FULL OF OPPORTUNITIES CATER TOWARDS CHILDREN WITH AMBITIOUS THAT OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MATTERS OLD AT THEIR OWN SCHOOL. I, FOR EXAMPLE, ARIZONA FOR KILLING HIGH SCHOOL BUT ATTENTION LEAKS LEAGUES THE INTENTION OF THESE MAGNET GOALS IS TO CREATE A SYSTEM WHERE STUDENTS WITH THE SAME MINDSET CAN PUSH THEMSELVES TO THE NEXT LEVEL PAIRED

035WITH GREAT TEACHERS WE ELIMINATE PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO ENSURE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO THESE PROGRAMS. WE CONSTRUCT TOP SCHOOLS I FAILED TO REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW I WONDER WHAT WILL BE DONE TO PREVENT THE LOSS OF QUALITY EDUCATION FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS THE PROGRESS MADE FROM EQUAL ACCESS TO MAGNET SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA BEACH TO DISMANTLE THE EFFECTS OREDLINF ING WHICH IS HISTORICALLY PUSHED MINORITIES LOW INCOME STUDENTS TOWARDS THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES BECOMES UNDERMINED WHEN THAT ACCESS THREATENED IF WE CONTINUE DOWN CONTINUE DOWN THIS PATH OF HUSHED CONVERSATIONS PASSIVE ACCEPTANCE REGARDING THE INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WE, WE CLOSE THE DOORS THAT WERE NEVER OPEN FOR STUDENTS TO BEGIN WITH YOU NOW GIVE A MESSAGE THAT UNLESS YOU UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE OF ACADEMIC ON HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SYSTEM OF A MAGNET A

036MAGNET SCHOOL THEN YOU DO NOT BELONG THESE SPACES SO DREAMS OF UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICAL PROOFS OR SINGING IN CARNEGIE REMAIN JUST DREAMS FOR SOME STUDENTS WITHOUT THE INCLUSION THAT DCI TALKS ABOUT WITHOUT A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF MAGNET SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES WHERE THE IDEA IS FOR WE RECEIVE HOMOGENEITY OF MAGNET SCHOOL SUCH AS A MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY ENFORCES SIMULATION OF MINORITIES TO CERTAIN SCHOOLS. I URGE THE BOARD TO RECONSIDER THE APPROACH TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND INSTEAD FOCUS ON STUDENTS WHO ATTENDS THE SCHOOLS AND HERE VIRGINIA BEACH AND HOW THEY AFFECT TANKH YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS GRACE CAVANOUGH THAT AMY THEN ANUSTI STEIGERWALD >> THANKU YO. GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON ELIMINATING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS

037VCS I WOULD LIKE TO START BY SAYING THAT I'M SAYING THAT I'M NOT BLIND TO THE CONSEQUENCES NOT ADHERING TO THE EXECUTIVE ORDER I UNDERSTAND I UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MILLIONS OF IN FEDERAL FUNDS AND ALL THAT IS AT STAKE BUT PLEASE ALLOW ME TO SHARE WHAT IT WOULD MEAN FOR STUDENTS LIKE MYSELF IN VIRGINIA BEACH DECIDED TO MOVE BACKWARD WE HAVE MADE SO MUCH PROGRESS AND IN BRIDGING THE LONGSTANDING EQUITY IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS WITH PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY POLICY PASSED IN TWENTY TWENTY EMPHASIZING EQUITY THROUGH TARGETING DISCRIMINATION BELONGING AND UNDERSTANDING THE POLICY MADE MANY PROVISIONS TO THIS END AND HAS SHOWN GREAT SUCCESS IN OUR SCHOOLS. I HAVE SEEN IT FIRSTHAND I'VE SEEN THE SUCCESS OF THE TIDE COALITION AND IN ENCOURINGAG UDENTSTS TO FEEL PRIDE THEIR CULTURE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY FEEL

038BELONGING IN THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES I HAVE SEEN MY TEACHERS PUT GREAT EFFORT INTO PRESENTING THEIR LESSONS IN A WAYHAT T CSIDERSON MANY FERENT PEPECTIVRSES TO GIVE US THE MOST UNBIASED INFORMATION AND TO LET US DRAW CONCLUSIONS FOR OURSELVES. I HAVE SEEN MY BUS DRIVERS WORK TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS FROM EVERY AREA IN THIS CITY HAVE ACCESS TO THE INCREDIBLE ACADEMY PROGRAMS IN ORDER TO CREATE FOR THEMSELVES ANY EDUCATION THEY DESIRE I HAVE SEEN SO MANY EXAMPLES OF THIS POLICY AND OTHERS LIKE IT BENEFITING MY PEERS AND LFSET YE THE FI FVEOUR IS ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER AND THESE PROVISIONS TO PROMOTE EQUITY HAVE UNFORTUNATELY BEEN PUSHED ASIDE SUSPENDING POLICIES SUCH THE AFOREMENTIONED FIVE FOUR ELIMINATES THE MEASURES THAT MAKE SCHOOL A SAFE PLACE FOR STUDENTS I'M AFRAID OF WHAT IT

039WILL MEAN FOR US ESPECIALLY THE IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG STUDENTS AS A SENSE OF BELONGING IS NO LONGER PRIORITIZED AND AS DIVERSITY BECOMES SOMETHING TO OVERCOME RATHER IN SOMETHING TO BE CELEBRATED YOU THE SCHOOL BOARD ARE ALL HERE BECAUSE YOU ARE PIVOTAL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, YOUR PARENTS, BUSINESS LEADERS COMMUNITY ROLE MODELS YOU ARE HERE TODAY BECAUSE YOU BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT OUR CITY YOU CARE ABOUT ITS STUDENTS I UNDERSTAND THAT UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR HANDS ARE TIED BUT I HOPE THAT YOU ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT VIRGINIA BEACH IS AT A CROSSROADS WE CAN CHOOSE TO COMPLY WITH ORDERS TO GO AGAINST EVERYTHING WE HAVE WORKED SO HARD TO OR WE CAN BE ONE OF THE BRAVE TRAILBLAZERS WHO RESISTS WE CAN BE THE HISTORY MAKERS WHO FIGHT THE ORDER IN COURT BECAUSE WE CARE ABOUT OUR STUDENTS OUR

040COMMUNITY AND OUR COUNTRY. THE BEST THING WE CAN DO FOR OUR COUNTRY IS TO REMAIN TRUE TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE A BEAUTIFUL MOSAIC OF CULTURES AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY ITS DIVERSITY AND WHILE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURES HAVE LONG BEEN COMPLEX AND FREQUENTLY PLAGUED BY IGNORANCE WE HAVE LEARNED SO MANY LESSONS FROM OUR HISTORY THE DAY STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING WHAT OUR ANCESTORS DIDN'T DID THE DAY WE STOP CELEBRATING THIS VIBRANT HISTORY THE DAY WE STOP ENCOURAGING ALL OF OUR CITIZENS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EVERYTHING THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY HAS TO OFFER THAT WILL BE A DARK DAY INDEED AND WHEN I HOPE I NEVER HAVE TO SEE THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND I IMPLORE YOU TO LET VIRGINIA BEACH BE A PART OF THE CHANGE FOR MIXTECA OUR NEXT

041SPEAKER IS AYMDI BADTHEN INAUST STEIGERWALD THEN WIRELESS ANDERSON >>. >> HELLO. MY NAME AND I'M A JUNIOR CURRENTLY DOING THE MATH AND MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY AT OCEAN LAKES I'M HERE TODAY REPRESENTING THE CURRENT AND FUTURE STUDENTS AND THEN PCP'S AS ISSUE ROLLING BACK DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES ACROSS OUR CITY CAN AND WE'LL HAVE SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS THE QUESTION I POSED TODAY TO YOU ALL IS WHERE EXACTLY DO WE GO FROM HERE WE HAVE LOST COURSE WHAT HAPPENED TO HAPPENED TO THE COMPOSITE TWENTY FIVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE EQUITY PLANNING COMMIEE TTTHE EQUITY COUNCIL ALREADY FALLING A BASICARGET TS THAT THE MEASURE OUR ECONOMIC PROGRESS BY MULTIPLE PERCENTAGE BECAUSE OF A LACK OF SUPPORT THE COMMUNITIES AND MAKE THAT MAKE UP THE COMMONWEALTH'S BACKBONE WOMEN PEOPLE OF COLOR DISABLED PEOPLE PEOPLE WHO LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE THE

042POVERTY LINE ARE THE ONES WE NEED TO IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS PATH AND OUR SHORTCOMINGS WILL FALL EVEN FURTHER MAKING SURE THAT WE SEEK TO THE GOLD SAID PREVIOUSLY THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL IMPROVE EVERY ASPECT OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND BETTER THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. I HOPE THAT THE FACT THAT I TELL THAT MATH AND SCIENCE OFTEN OVERLOOKED NOW BECAUSE OF ITS PRESTIGE BUT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT HE'S ALLOWED VIRTUALLY DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS SUPPORT IN THE FLOURISH IN THE WALLS OF OCEAN LAKES. I LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP SHOWS IS THAT THE TOTAL MINORITY ENROLLMENT IS PERCENT AND NINE PERCENT OF STUDENTS ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED . WE HAVE CLUBS LIKE THE TIDE COALITION STAND FOR TEENS FOR INCLUSION DIVERSITY INEQUITY DIVERSITY AND EQUITY AND THE ASIAN CULTURE CLUB BOTH ENCOURAGED BLURRING

043HAVE HISTORICALLY DRAW A LINE BETWEEN RACES, ETHNICITIES, CULTURES AND YET DESPITE SWEEPGIN CLAIMS AGAINST INITIATIVES, OCEAN LAKES ABOUT 80 PERCENT PROFICIENCY ENGLISH ,ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE CLEARLY OUR STUDENTS ARE SELLING BECAUSE OF OUR FOCUS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND WITH THOSE EXTREMELY HIGH STATISTICS MORE AND MORE FAMILIES ARE FAMILIES ARE WILLING TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO WHICH LEAD TO MORE INVOLVEMENT IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY LEADER, GREATER FUNDING FOR THE SCHOOL ITSELF AND IMPROVE QUALITY EDUCATION OR SAVE OUR STUDENTS PERSONALLY AS PART OF THE TIGHT COALITION IT'S AMAZING TO SEE THE JOY THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TO THE STUDENT THAT AT OCEAN LAKES WOULD SIMPLY LIKE TO USE A FOSTER CONNECTION REGARDLESS OF GREAT OR GENDER OR RACE HOWEVER, WE NOT THE ONLY DIVERSE GROUP TALKING MINORITIES MAKE A 51 PERCENT 51 PERCENT OF PRESENT

04465 PERCENT AT SCHOOLS RANKED HIGHER THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS THE LARGER LESNER PERCENTAGE IF THE PROVISIONS REMOVE THESE SCHOOLS WILL SUFFER BECAUSE STUDENTS WILL NO LONGER BE EXPOSED TO MULTIPLE RESPECT IS LOSING THEIR ROLES AS GLOBAL CITIZENS AS A RESULT, VIRGINIA BEACH STUDENTS NO LONGER HAVE THE SAME COMPETITIVE EDGE AS THEIR COUNTERPARTS AND THIS ISSUE WILL BE EVEN WORSE IN SCHOOLS WITHOUT WITHOUT ACADEMIES PROVIDING ALREADY HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS THE GAP IN DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS CONTINUE TO WIDEN MAKING THE PARENTS OF THESE CHILDREN YOUR VOTERS UPSET. THESE ARE PARENTS THAT WE'LL LOOK AT THEIR KIDS PERFORMANCES IN SCHOOLS INADEQUATELY YOU PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN'S FUTURES AND DECIDE WHO WAS WHO IS SITTING ON THE BOARD BEFORE PARENTS OF THE MINORITY MAKE UP THE MAJORITY HOW DO YOU THINK THEY'LL VOTE ONCE THEY MORE AND MORE PROGRAMS BEING CUT

045ALREADY BEFORE THE DIAL BACK WE HAVE SEEN HAVE SEEN A LOT OF ELECTIVES HIGH SCHOOL CUTTING THEIR COURSE PROGRAM AND OCEAN DOWNSIZING THEIR ARTS SELECTION PROCESS AS COMPETITIVE AS IS CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH HOW MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO GET FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME THIS IS NOT AN END ALL BE ALL BLACK AND WHITE ISSUE IS A SINGLE SOLUTION MORE ADMISSION MATSUTAKE AS WELL NOT ONLY BY NOT ONLY BY STICKING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED 25 FIVE BUT PERHAPS RENAMING OUR INITIATIVE TO KEEP OUR CORE VALUES ONE STATE IN THE CODE OF ETHICS ALL OF YOU SWORE TO WERE JOINING ABOARD AND ALSO KEEP THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN EVEN FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WE EVERYONE IS AND NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND IF NOTHING ELSE I'D LIKE YOU ALL TO TAKE TO TAKE AWAY THE SIMPLE YOUR

046DECISIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES BOTH FOR US AND FOR AND FOR YOURSELVES AS THE POSTER FOR DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION AND HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS JUST LIKE ME WHO ME WHO ARE DEPENDING ON YOU TO PROTECT I URGE YOU CANNOT IGNORE THE FORTY ONE PERCENT IN FAVOR IN FAVOR OF THE ONE PERCENT SPEAKERXT NE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS AUSTIN STEIGERWALD MILO SANDERSON AND THEN MILES ONDILL GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD I WANT TO THANK YOU THANK YOU ALL FIRST FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU ALL TONIGHT AND I'M A JUNIOR AT OCEAN HIGH SCHOOL SO WHEN I WAS READING THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS PASSED TWO WEEKS AGO I COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE CORE VALUES THAT WERE WRITTEN AT THE AT THE FOOT OF EACH PAGE PUT STUDENTS FIRST SEE GROWTH, BE OPEN TO CHANGE DO GREAT

047WORK TOGETHER AND VALUE DIFFERENCES. THIS RESOLUTION NOT ONLY IGNORED THESE VALUES BUT TO ACTIVELY REGRESSED ON ONE OF THEM NOW I COME HERE TONIGHT UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFICULT SITUATION THE SCHOOL BOARD THE EXECUTIVE ORDER REFERENCE BY THE RESOLUTION EXPLICITLY STATES THE POSSIBILITY OF WITHHOLDING FEDERAL FUNDS FROM DISTRICTS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ORDER THOUGH I UNDERSTAND THE REASONING BEHIND THIS RESOLUTION I COME TONIGHT WITH THREE MAJOR CONCERNS. FIRSTLY, THE NATURE IN WHICH THE SCHOOL BOARD PASS THIS RESOLUTION WAS WITH COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR OUR COMMUNITY OUR SCHOOLS IN THE STUDENTS THEY SERVE I. I IMAGINE YOU ALL KNEW THAT DEADLINE THAT HAD BEEN HAD BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL THE TWENTY FOURTH SO MAYBE TONIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS IT YET THE RESOLUTION WAS STILL PASS THROUGH THAT NIGHT ON APRIL 8TH NOT

048ON THE AGENDA AND NO OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO COME IN REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SOME FORM OF THIS RESOLUTION WOULD HAVE TO PASS MY ARGUMENT HERE IS ON PRINCIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN ITS BOARD EXIST FUNDAMENTALLY TO SERVE STUDENTS WITHIN SYSTEM BY NOT FOLLOWING THE PROPER PROCEDURES THAT ALLOW FOR PUBLIC INPUT THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT THE COMMUNITY COMMUNITY A DISSERVICE BY ISSUE WITH THE RESOLUTION IS THE WORDING WITHIN THE DOCUMENT THE RESOLUTION DIRECTS A SUPER INTENDED TO QUOTE WORK WITH LEGAL FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD TO SUSPEND ALL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE ABOVE FEDERAL GUIDANCE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE EQUITY PLAN THE EQUITY DASHBOARD AND ANY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFERINGS THAT DO NOT IMPLY WHEN THE RESOLUTION TO SUSPEND WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN I KNOW MANY PEOPLE WERE CONFUSED

049ABOUT THIS AFTER THE RESOLUTION WAS PASSED AND SO AND I AND SO WAS I. I RECENTLY INTERVIEWED MR. HARRIS WHO I BELIEVE MIGHT BE IN THE ROOM TONIGHT OVER HERE WHO WAS THE DIRECTOR FOR THE DC OFFICE AND CPS AND NOW THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE FOR OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT AND EVEN SPEAKING IT WAS PART OF AN ARTICLE IS WRITING FOR MY SCHOOL NEWSPAPER AND EVEN DISCUSSING WITH HIM I KNEW WE WERE LOOKING BOTH THIS MEETING JUST FOR LOW CLEARLY NOT SPECIFICALLY FOR HIS OFFICE BUT JUST IN GENERAL FOR SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND HOW THAT WOULD AFFECT THAT AND LASTLY I WANT TO TOUCH ON THE ACTUAL THE ACTUAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS RESOLUTION FOR STUDENTS LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER THIS, THIS RESOLUTION CALLS FOR THE SUSPENSION THE EQUITY PLAN AND I

050WOULD NOW LIKE TO READ OUT THE GOALS THAT WERE OUTLINED THE TWENTY TWENTY TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TWENTY FIVE EQUITY PLAN. THEY INCLUDE EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE STUDENT WELL-BEING STUDENT, STUDENT OWNERSHIP OF LEARNING AN EXEMPLARY DIVERSIFIED WORKFORCE, MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE PARTNERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY AND AS A REMINDER FOR YOU, ALL THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT CALLED FOR THIS TYPE OF MOVE BY THE SCHOOL BOARD IS ENTITLED ENDING RADICAL INDOCTRINATION AND K THROUGH 12 SCHOOLING SO IF THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS RADICAL IS RADICAL INDOCTRINATION, LET ME KNOW. AND SO IN MY CONVERSATION MR. HARRIS YOU MENTIONED THE DATA DRIVEN APPROACH THAT APPROACH THAT HELPED HIM CRAFT THIS EQUITY LAND AND STILL TODAY IN VIRGINIA BEACH THE DATA IS CLEAR. THERE AREMA ESSIVI T TMEHAT ALL ALONG THAT IS TIME THAT SHOULD ER ENEVXPECTED GO NEXT SPEAKER >>

051IS MILA SANDERSON AND THEN MILES DELAHUNT AND >> IF WE COULD HOLDP APLAUSE WHILE SPEAKERSRE AOM CINGMENT SO THAT EVERYBODY HAS THE SAMEREE TH MINUTE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS GIVEN TO NOT, I'LL BE GREAT. THANK YOU HELLO EVERYONE. MY NAME IS MICHAEL SANDERSON ON THE SCENE HERE SENIOR IN THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY AT FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT BEING IN LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY TAUGHT ME IS TAUGHT ME TO STAND STRONG IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE AND THAT'S WHAT I WHAT I PLAN TO DO TODAY NFC I SORT OF SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT AND I AM A PART OF SEVERAL HONOR SOCIETIES IN A PROUD MEMBER OF TOGETHERNESS THROUGH INCLUSIVE DIVERSITY AND EQUITY I GIVE STUDENTS WHO FEEL UNDERREPRESENTED A CHANCE TO FEEL HARD AND VALUED BUT NOW WITH THE ALMOST SECRETIVE SUSPENSION OF PROTOCOLS

052IN VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TIED IN EVERYTHING IT STANDS OR IS AT RISK. SO WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE STUDENTS WHO RELIED ON TYPE ONE THURSDAY A MONTH TO BE LIKE THEY BELONGED WHAT HAPPENS THE STUDENTS WHO NOW FEEL LIKE THEY'RE SILENCED YOU CAN'T SIT HERE AND LOOK ME AT MY FACE AND TELL ME THAT YOU CARE ABOUT ME OR STUDENTS LIKE ME OR HOW WE'RE REPRESENTED BECAUSE YOU DON'T YOU CAN LOOK AT THEM AND TELL THEM YOU CARE ABOUT THEIR STUDENTS WHEN YOU'RE PUTTING THEIR KIDS FEELING A WELCOMENESS EDUCATION AT RISK YOU CAN'T LOOK ME IN THE FACE AND SAY THAT YOU CARE BECAUSE AND IT'S EVIDENT WHEN YOU MAKE DECISIONS LIKE THIS IN SECRECY IN SECRECY IF YOU CARED YOU WOULDN'T STRIPPED AWAY SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT TO SO MANY STUDENTS WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY OR

053EMPATHY IF YOU CARED YOU WOULDN'T HAVE PRIORITIZE MONEY OVER THE STUDENTS THAT YOU CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT IT'S EVIDENT THAT THE PEOPLE MAKING THESE DECISIONS AREN'T THE ONES THAT ARE AFFECTED BY THEM YOU PRIORITIZE MONEY IN POLITICS OVER THE EMOTIONAL AND ACADEMIC WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS IT AS SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN OVERLOOKED MY WHOLE LIFE AS A BLACK GIRL PREDOMINANTLY WHITE SCHOOLS I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS MEANS FOR STUDENTS COMING AFTER ME. THIS MEANS SILENCED VOICES THIS MEANS ISOLATION AND THIS MEANS AN EVEN MORE UNLEVEL PLAYING I THOUGHT TO GET TO WHERE I AM TODAY AM TODAY I'VE SPENT YEARS GETTING OVERLOOKED UNDERESTIMATED UNDERREPRESENTED AND UNDERREPRESENTED IN THIS VERY SCHOOL SYSTEM AND NOW THE LITTLE BIT OF PROGRESS WE'VE MADE AS BEING A RACE IT HURTS IT HURTS VIRGINIA BEACH IS NOT TRYING TO HIDE THEIR BLATANT

054LACK OF CONSIDERATION FOR MINORITIES STUDENTS AND I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT MINORITY DOESN'T JUST MEAN BLACK. IT MEANS ANY PERSON OF COLOR ANY DISABLED PERSON WOMAN OR ANYBODY IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY. SO THE QUESTION BECOMES WHO DO YOU CARE ABOUT? NOT ME NOT THEM JUST MONEY GOING TO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BUT WHAT DOES. BUT WHAT DOES THAT MONEY MEAN WHEN STUDENTS BEING SILENCED WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN MONEY MEAN IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE? I'M STANDING HERE NOT JUST FOR MYSELF BUT FOR EVERY STUDENT WHO NEEDS BY POLICIES TO FEEL SAFE AND SEEN OUR SCHOOLS RATHER THAN THESE PROTOCOL SAYS LOUDLY AND CLEARLY THAT YOU DON'T CARE NOT ABOUT ME STUDENTS WHO LOOK LIKE ME AND NOT ABOUT THE DIVERSE VOICES MAKE OUR SCHOOLS BETTER VIRGINIA BEACH CAN'T CLAIM TO CLAIM TO BE INCLUSIVE

055WHILE SILENCING THE VERY STUDENTS WHO NEED SUPPORT IF YOU TRULY CARE YOU'LL REINSTATE THESE POLICIES AND SHOW US NOT JUST TELL US THAT WE MATTER BECAUSE WHEN I SAY HERE QUIETLY WHILE YOU TAKE AWAY WHAT HELPS DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG. I QUIETLY WHILE YOU RAISE OUR VOICES EVERYONE OUR VOICES EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE SEEN TO BE HRDEA AND TO KNOW THAT THEY MATTER. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MYLES LAHUDILNT YOU GUYS. SO I WAS AT OFAT EARLIER TODAY AND I DO A DIAGRAM THAT HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE UNDERSTAND EQUITY WAS SO I'M ABOUT TO PRESENT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY SO THIS IS A FENCE WE GOT LET'S CALL BOB HERE HE'S TALL ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE OVER THAT FENCE RIGHT YOU HAVE LITTLE BABY LITTLE BABY, GRETCHEN SHE'S TOO SHORT. SHE CAN'T

056REALLY SEE OVER IT RIGHT AND THEN LET'S THEN LET'S SAY YOU HAVE SOMEBODY EVEN SHORTER KNOW LITTLE JOE BILL. YOU CAN'T SEE OVER THAT EITHER TRY TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN SEE THROUGH RIGHT EQUALITY IS GIVING EVERYBODY A STEPPING STONE RIGHT GUESS WHAT YOU CAN ALREADY SEE OVER THE FENCE STEPPINGSTONE DOES NOTHING FOR HIM THAT HIM. THAT'S STEPPING STOOL WAS NOT TALL ENOUGH FOR A LITTLE SUSAN TO SEE OVER THE FENCE. SHE'S STILL UNDERNEATH IT AND WHOSE EVEN SHORTER HE STILL CAN'T SEE OVER THAT FENCE RIGHT THIS WERE WHERE EQUITY COMES IN. EQUITY IS GIVING SUSAN HERE A STEPPING STONE THAT'S BIG ENOUGH SO SHE AND SEE OVER THE FENCE JUST LIKE JOHNNY OVER HERE RIGHT AND IT'S GIVING THIS BABY AND EVEN THOMAS SO THAT WE CAN SEE OVER THE FENCE TO I AM

057A PRODUCT OF THE I MY NAME IS MILES DELAHUNT AND I AM EVERYTHING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO AGAINST DEA HATE I AM BLACK, I AM AND I AM AUTISTIC OK YOU HEAR THOSE THINGS AND YOU MIGHT CRAWL IN SKIN AND YOU MIGHT ONCE THEY DO NOT TELL YOU MY YOU MY STORY AND THEY DO NOT TE YOULL WHAT I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED I HAVE BEEN ON THE BEACH BACK PROGRAM MY ENTIRE LIFE I'M AT MET THE PEOPLE TODAY WHO KEEP PROGRAM RUNNING OK THAT IS EQUITY AND INCLUSION I AM ALSO ON THE FREE LUNCH PROGRAM. IT HELPS ME TAKE SAT THAT I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE OTHERWISE BECAUSE I COULDN'T AFFORD AND I HAD TO PAY FOR MYSELF I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO APPLY FOR COLLEGE THE COLLEGES THAT EVERY

058SINGLE ONE I APPLIED TO I GOT IN MY HIGHEST SCHOLARSHIP OFFER WAS NINETY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS. OK I'D SPOKEN IN FRONT OF CROWDS OF FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE I WAS THE TWO YEAR SCAB AREN'T WINNER I AM SAYING THIS TO SAY THAT DTI WORKS IT DOES BECAUSE IF I DIDN'T HAVE THE TEACHERS WHO FOUGHT FOR ME TO HAVE MY HEAD FOR ACCOMMODATION I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THE GOOD GRADES THATOT G ME INTO COLLEGE. IT IS VERY FRUSTRATING THAT SOME OF YOU GUYS SIT UP HERE AND SAY THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THE STUDENTS WHILE WE'RE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS THAT MAKE SURE THAT ALL KIDS CAN SUCCEED. I AM DESTINED FOR GREATNESS DEITE MSPY DISABILITY AND DESPITE THE COLOR MY SNKI EVERY SINGLE EVERY SINGLE KID IS DESTINED FOR GREATNESS IF YOU GIVE THEM THE

059TOOLS TO ACHIEVE THAT YOU'LL BE ONE AND CRYING ABOUT LOW TEST SCORES. HOW REMOVING DTI POINT TO HELP THEM GO UP? IT'S NOT AND I'M TRYING REAL HARD TO BE NICE BUT >> KBI Y'ALL GOT A CHANCE TO SOMETHING ELSE SOMETHING ELSE LIKE A DIFFERENT A MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE IT COULD HAVE BEEN EVERY LERNER LEARNER YOU KNOW BELONGING LIK TARETGE AND THAT IS TIME TOET GREAT CEIV >> BUT OUR NEXT SPEAKER OUR NEXT KERSPEA OR VINCENT ITSMH, HEATHER SCIP AND SUSANNE SOLTI'S SMITH VINCENT SMITH. I'MHERE FROMISTRIC DT AND I'M CERHBEE AUSE A LOT OF FOLKS AND DISTRICT FATHER TOLD ME THEY DIDN'T FEEL ACCURATELY REPRESENTED IN THAT VOTE ON APRIL 8TH I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT THE ACTIONS TAKEN ON APRIL 8TH BECAUSE WE HAD TO DO IT I'M ALSO A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE AND I

060HAVE TO COMMISERATE WITH DR. ROBERTSON OVER HERE BECAUSE HE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TURN AROUND GOOD WORK PRODUCT A THOUSAND PAGES OF DATA IN A SIX HOUR TURNAROUND TIME GET A GOOD RESULT SO YOU HAD TO DO WHAT YOU HAD YOU HAD TO DO AND I APPRECIATE ALL STEPPING UP AND TAKING CARE OF THE BUSINESS OF THE BOARD. I WOULD LIKE TO POINT THAT ALL THE COMPLAINTS YOU'VE RECEIVED AND WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT FOUR HOURS TONIGHT ABOUT INTRODUCING AND VOTING ON ISSUES ONE NIGHT WELL LET'S TAKE IN FACT HERE THE FACT HERE THAT IT WAS THE LEFT THAT INTRODUCED THE ABILITY FOR THIS BOARD TO INTRODUCE POLICY AND VOTED INTO POLICY ON THE SAME NIGHT IN THE MIDDLE COVID WHEN YOU WERE TRYING TO PUT MASKS ON EVERYBODY AND KEEP YOUR KIDS

061HOME FROM SCHOOL SO YOUR OWN ACTIONS CAME BACK AND BIT YOU NOW I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT TO MAKE THE BASELESS STATEMENTS ABOUT TAKING FOOD OUT OF KIDS MOUTHS REALLY SHOWS A GRANDIOSE LACK OF SUPPORT AND FAITH IN YOUR STAFF AND YOUR SUPERINTENDENT THINK THAT ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM AND ANY STAFF MEMBER IN THESE SCHOOLS IS GOING TO LET A CHILD GO. ONE FED IS RIDICULOUS NOW I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT NOBODY WHO VOTED AGAINST THIS HAD TO PLAN TO REPLACE THE MONEY WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO DO . THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY DR. GREENE YOU MADE A STATEMENT EARLIER STATEMENT EARLIER. YOU SAID WHAT A CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY WE LIVE IN. ABSOLUTELY CAPITALISTIC ASIDE YOU ASKED WHAT THAT SEVENTY FOUR MILLION REALLY IS I'LL TELL YOU IT'S SIMPLE DIVISION SEVENTY

062FOUR MILLION DIVIDED BY THE POPULATION OF THIS THAT HE WORKED OUT THE SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR DOLLARS FOR FAMILY OF FOUR RIGHT WHEN COUNCIL IS PROBABLY GOING TO RAISE REAL ESTATE TAXES WHICH ALSO RAISES RENT WHEN GROCERIES GO UP TWO DOZEN EGGS LIKE 20 BUCKS EVERY OTHER WEEK WHO CAN KEEP TRACK THAT SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS IT IS. IT'S TWO WEEKS RENT FOR THESE FAMILIES THAT CAN'T AFFORD THAT. OH THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I DON'T NECESSARILY DISAGREE WITH THE NAME OF THE OFFICE HE LANDED ON BUT I THINK I WOULD HAVE RATHER SEEN IT CALLED THE OFFICE OF MERIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S REALLY GOING TO MAKE OUR SUCCESSFUL IS TO TEACH THEM THE FEELING OF SUCCESS THAT COMES FROM NOTHING ELSE THAN SELF ACHIEVEMENT AND

063SELF-WORTH, FROM SELF ACCOUNTABILITY FOR I >> NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS HEATHER SCIPHEN T SUZANNE SOLTI'S YAGHDAN TERAESNG WAEL. GOODVENI EOMNG RWCHAI ANNBROW VICE CHAIR WILLIAMS MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOL BOARD AND DR. ROBERTSON MY NAME HEATHER SIPE AND I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH EDUCATION ASSOCIATION TODAY HAVING GAINED AN ANGEL SHIRLEY HALL, LATIN TEACHER OCEAN LIKES HIGH SCHOOL IN TWENTY TWO YEAR PVCS EMPLOYEE LOST HER SHORT BUT MIGHTY BATTLE AND GAVE HER WINGS AND I OH ONE THIS MORNING SURELY ALWAYS HAD A SMILE AND A KIND WORD FOR EVERYONE SHIRLEY WAS A TECH GURU ALWAYS LEARNING ABOUT THE NEW INNOVATIVE WAYS TO TRANSFORM LEARNING FOR HER STUDENTS AND SHE LOVED SHARING WHAT SHE LEARNED WITH COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE NATION TRULY WAS EVERYONE'S GO TO FOR PRETTY ANYTHING SHIRLEY TOUCHED THE LIVES

064OF LIVES OF SO MANY AND THE IMPACT SHE HAD ON HER STUDENTS OVER THE LAST TWENTY TWO YEARS IS IMMEASURABLE SURELY WAS THE EPITOME OF INCLUSION. SHE SPONSORED THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY JUNIOR SOCIETY JUNIOR CLASSICALLY HEADED UP THE LHC OF LANGUAGES ORGANIZED WORLD LANGUAGES EVENTS SPONSORED THE DOLPHIN DASH STUDENT WHO PUT TOGETHER THE ANNUAL DOLPHIN DASH FIVE K FOR CHARITY AND ABOUT A DOZEN OTHER CLUBS THAT RANGED IN DIVERSITY FROM CUBING TO THE END TO CULTURE YOU NAME IT. SHIRLEY WAS WILLING TO SPONSOR IT SO THE STUDENTS HAD A SPACE WHERE THEY FELT INCLUDED SURELY OPEN HER HEART AND ROOM TO ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF MANY STUDENTS FOUND THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE LEADERSHIP ROLES TO THE GROUP'S CHIEF SPONSOR THAT THEY OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD SHE PROVIDED AN EQUITABLE SPACE FOR STUDENTS TO GROW

065AND OF GREAT IS THE LOSS OF SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND SELFLESS HUMAN BEING EVERY HUMAN DESERVES TO HAVE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO EDUCATION TO FEEL INCLUDED AND THE DIVERSITY OF THIS WORLD THAT MAKES IT SO BEAUTIFUL ALL MEANS ALL WE NEED TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR ALL STUDENTS UNTIL WE AS A SOCIETY FIGUREOW H TO COMPLETELY REMOVE ALL BARERRIS . IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY EQUITABLE PROVIDE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO ALL STUDENTS EQUITABLE NOT EQUAL I HAVE TWO SONS WHO ARE LESS THAN TWO YEARS APART AGE AND ONLY ONE YEAR OF SCHOOL IF I HAD TREATED THEM EQUALLY IN ALL THINGS NEITHER OF THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN THE AMAZING YOUNG MEN THAT THEY ARE TODAY THEY WERE GIVEN EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES AND EACH OF THEM IS FLOURISHING IN THEIR OWN RIGHT ALL MEANS ALL NOT ALL EXCEPT FOR

066SOMETHING DEALS WITH RACE NOT ALL EXCEPT WHENOM SNGETHIEA DLS WITH GENDER ALL MEANS ALL WHEN MY OLDER SON WAS IN NJOROGE AND MADE CHIEF HE WAS GIVEN A SHIRT THAT SAYS LEADERSHIP IS ACTION NOT A POSITION ACTION. WHAT WE DO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THE ACTIONS OF THE MAJORITY OF THIS BOARD SHOW VERY CLEARLY WHAT YOU STAND FOR SLIDING A RESOLUTION ONE WHICH YOU KNEW WOULD BE CONTROVERSIAL ONTO THE AGENDA OF THE LAST MEETING WITHOUT THE COMMUNITY SEEING IT AND THEN REJECTING MOTION TO DIVERGE THIS MEETING TO ALLOW FOR ALLOW FOR COMMUNITY INPUT IS UNCONSCIONABLE YOUR ACTIONS CLEARLY SHOW YOU DON'T REALLY CARE HOW YOUR CONSTITUENTS FEEL ON THIS ISSUE LEADERSHIP IS ACTION WHEN YOU'RE STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE IT'S BEING WILLING TO ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ACTIONS EVEN IF

067THE END RESULT FOR YOU PERSONALLY MAY NOT TURN OUT WELL IT IS NOT WASHING YOUR HANDS OF THE MATTER BLAMING YOU ARE ILL EQUIPPED TO BE THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS EVEN YOU ARE THE ONE WHO MANDATED THE AIONSCT THROUGH YOURPO TISION AND THAT> I >S TIME OURT NEX SPEAKER ISSEHO W LTEAS SIER TO USE THE LIONG AND THENAR COL KINZIEO GOD EVENING MEMBERSF TH OE BOARD. MY NAME IS SUSANNE AND I AM HERE FROM DISTRICT FIVE WHICH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I KNOW DISTRICT FIVE ACTUALLY WERE VERY UNHAPPY WITH THE WAY THAT THE BOARD AS A WHOLE VOTED NOT WITH OUR DISTRICT FIVE REPRESENTATIVE BUT I COME BEFORE YOU TONIGHT HEARTBROKEN HONESTLY DEATHLY AFRAID FOR THE DIRECTION OUR SCHOOLS ARE HEADING. WHEN YOU ALL DECIDED TO ELIMINATE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION POLICIES, YOU

068DIDN'T JUST CHANGE OF POLICY YOU SENT A MESSAGE AND THAT MESSAGE IS LOUD AND CLEAR THAT NOT EVERY CHILD MATTERQUALS ELY IN OUR SCHOOLS. I WANT YOU PICTURE A CHILD WALKING INTO THEIR CLASSROOM AFTER BEING TAUNTED FOR THE COLOR THEIR SKIN OR HEARING A SLUR AS THEY WALK DOWN THE HALLWAY IMAGINE THE STUDENTS SITTING IN SILENCE AS THEIR TEAMMATES LAUGH AT RACIST JOKES OR ANOTHER STUDENT HEARING THEY TORE DOWN A PRIDE FLAGS THAT GAVE THEM A SMALL SENSE OF SAFETY OR STAFF MEMBER ARRIVING TO FIND A NEWS THE SYMBOL OF RACIAL OPPRESSION ON THEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUS . THESE ARE NOT HYPOTHETICALS. THESE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN OUR SCHOOLS AT KELAM, AT HOLMESVILLE, AT NEWTOWN WITHIN THE PAST FEW YEARS THIS IS REAL AND INSTEAD OF STANDING THAT HATE INSTEAD OF DOING MORE TO PROTECT

069MORE TO PROTECT THE STUDENTS, WE HAVE DONE WE'VE TAKEN AWAY THE VERY TOOLS THAT HELP TOOLS THAT HELP US TO BUILD EMPATHY, UNDERSTANDING JUSTICE I ALSO WANT TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE SUPPORTED ORGANIZED LIKE THE FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, YOUNG AND BIBLE STUDY GROUPS MANY ON THE BOARD VALUE THIS PROGRAMS AND I RESPECT THAT THEY'VE HELPED MANY YOUNG PEOPLE FIND COMMUNITY PURPOSE AND SUPPORT. BUT HERE'S THE TRUTH THE SAME POLICIES THAT YOU VOTED TO ELIMINATE OR WHAT PROTECT THOSE GROUPS TO WITHOUT AN INCLUSIVE FRAMEWORK ALLOWING SOME GROUPS WHILE DISMANTLING SUPPORT FOR OTHERS OPENS THE DISTRICT TO SERIOUS LEGAL CHALLENGES THE CONSTITUTION AND MULTIPLE COURT RULINGS ARE CLEARU YO CANNOT PRIVILEGE RELIGIOUS OR MAJORITY AFFIRMING GROUPS SUPPRESSING OTHERS IF YOU ALLOW FCA TO MEET BUT REMOVE PROTECTIONS FOR LGBT CLUBS OR CULTURAL AFFINITY

070GROUPS LIKE THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT, YOU ARE INVITING LAWSUITS PUTTING TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT RISK BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY YOU ARE PUTTING KIDS RISK THIS N'TIS JUST ABOUT LEGAL LIABILITY LEGAL LIABILITY. IT'S ABOUT MORAL RESPONSIBILITY DEA IS NOT ABOUT INDOCTRINATION. IT IS ABOUT EMPATHY IT'S ABOUT ENSURING EVERY STUDENT BLACK, WHITE, GAY, STRAIGHT, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM OR ATHEIST KNOWS THAT THEY HAVE A PLACE HERE RIGHT NOW OUR STUDENTS ARE WATCHING THEIR LEARNING HOW WE RESPOND TO HATE. THEY'RE LEARNING WHETHER THE ADULTS IN CHARGE WILL STAND UP OR STAY SILENT. PLEASE REVERSE THIS DECISION WILL BRING BACK TO MY BECAUSE IT'S POPULAR BECAUSE IT'S EASY BUT BECAUSE BUT BECAUSE IT'S RIHT.G THANK YOU. XTNE SPEAKER IS TERESA LINAGO ROL KINZIE AND THEN LOSING LINDSAY LOHAN. GONIODVE ENG. MI'APPY T HO SAY THAT I LIVE IN DISTRICT 10 AND MOST I

071KNOW ARE GLAD TO HAVE A VOICE ON THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD I BELIEVE THAT DISTRICT VOTING SERVES ALL STUDENTS BETTER BY ALLOWING THEIR PARENTS TO GET TO KNOW THOSE THAT SERVE IN CARE TAKE THEIR CHILDREN SCHOOLS PARENTS ARE VITAL TO STUDENTS LEARNING I'D LIKE TO THANK THE THANK THE BOARD FOR THE DECISIVE APPLICATION OF THE NEW TV REFORMS AS SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. IELI BEVE THAT DGI IS BASED RACIST PRINCIPLES THAT CAUSED CAUSE DIVISION DETRIMENTAL TO THE EDUCATION OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF STUDENTS ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BE CELEBRATED AND THAT NO MATTER YOUR BACKGROUND YOUR RACIAL ECONOMIC STATUS IF YOU HAVE FRECKLES OR NOT TWO PLUS TWO WILL ALWAYS EQUAL FOR AND YOU HAVE TO BE TAUGHT THAT IF YOU RECEIVE AN ADVANTAGE ON A TEST THAT DOESN'T GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL

072AUALLCTY KNOW THE MATERIAL YOU IMPLS G AYET HHEIGR GRADE THAN THE STUDENT THAT DOESN'T TO SAVE THAT FAVORITISM AND MUST LEARN AND ON THEIR OWN ABILITIES CHILDREN HAVE A SENSE OF FAIRNESS AND REALIZE THE INACCURACY AND POLICIES LIKE THAT AND BECOMING ANGRY WHICH DISRUPT SURROUNDING. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT EXPECTATIONS AND EDUCATION MUST BE THE SAME >> FOR ALL NO MATTER STRUGGLE EQUITY PROMISES THAT RESULTS WILL BE THE SAME EQUALITY MEANS EVERYONE HAS THE SAME CHANCE SOCIO NOR COMMUNISM WORK AND ISEE DT AIS A PRELUDE TO THOSE IDEOLOGIES BY SUGGESTING THAT LIFE IS PERFECT AND ALL WILL HAVE THE SAME EVENING AND SUCCESS LEADING TO THE DIMENSION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS LOWERING STANDARD IN EDUCATION, THE DUMBING DOWN OF STUDENTS, DIMINISHING THE GOVERNMENT, DETERMINING THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINING WHO BELIEVES WHAT THE DENIAL REALITY INTO THE LOSS

073OF ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS WHERE POLITICAL ISSUES AND SOCIAL ISSUES ARE CONCERNED NONE SHOULD BURDEN CHILDREN IN TEH CLASSROOM. A TCHEREA I'SINNCLN OATIOR ONE PARTY OR THE OTHER OR THEIR POSITION ON ABORTION SEXUALITY IN ANY OTHER SOCIAL ISSUE DO NOT BELONG IN THE CLASSROOM AND TEACHERS SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR DOING SO. IN FACT PROBABLY THOSE ISSUES ARE BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD SOLELY AS TO THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO FORCE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO CERTAIN POLICIES THAT . THAT IS THE TROUBLE WITH CENTRALIZING GOVERNMENT IT'S BEEN DONE FOR FIFTY YEARS NOW AND LOOK AT ALL THE VIOLENCE AND DISCONNECT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. LOOK AT HOW THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS WHICH BY THE WAY ARE GUARANTEED IN THE VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION BARELY RECOGNIZED BY ANY PARTY IT'S BEST FOR STUDENTS AT ALL GRADES TO DISMANTLE

074THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND KEEPING UNCARING JUST AN ENTITY OUT OF OUR POCKETS IN LIVES DO REMEMBER THAT IS OUR MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE SO WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO PAY FOR IT WILL BE FORCED TO COMPLY WITH UNWANTED POLICIES. EVERYONE MEANING ALL SIDES OF EVERY ISSUE ONLY GRIPE WHEN SHE WAS IS ON THE OTHER FOOT THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS AND ACTUALLY THE COLLECTIVE THAT IS TIME FOR THE PURPOSE OF UCATIEDON SHOULD BE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CAROL KINZIE LINDSAY LOHAN AND THEN ROBERT GOOD EVENING. I LIVE IN DISTRICT TEN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE STATE I ATTEST TO THAT FOR NO ONE WOULD WORK HERE FOR FORTY 10 YEARS AS I DID AND NOT BE SOMEWHAT HAPPY THERE ARE SOME AREAS IN WHICH WE NEED TO

075IMPROVE DCI TRANSLATES TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS WHAT IS NEEDED IS A FACTUAL TRANSLATION LOOK AT THE SYSTEM SIX GOALS IN THE EQUITY PLAN TWENTY TWENTY TO TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY VE ANDFI ALIGN THEM IS WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS EQUITY PLAN GOALS ARE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION, CAREER EXPLORATION, A DIVERSIFIED WORKFORCE AND EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY WHICH APPEAR AS REALLY GOOD PREREQUISITES FOR A STELLAR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM HOWEVER LOOKING, LOOKING BACK AT SCHOOL BOARD AGENDAS PUBLIC COMMENTS ESPECIALLY IN TWENTY TWENTY ONE AN ACTUAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE SCHOOL IT SEEMS THAT THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE GONE SIDEWAYS WITH DIVISIVE OUTCOMES. STRIVING FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IS APPROPRIATE BUT WHEN THE SYSTEM SPENDS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN HIGH SCHOOL ON A HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM EMBEDDING PROMOTION OF DRAG QUEENS ANGELA DAVIS AND

076PERVERSE READING MATERIAL NOT APPROPRIATE AND HAVING EMPLOYEES HIDING BOOKS IN THEIR LIBRARIES JUST IN CASE THIS IS A QUOTE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT AGES FIVE THROUGH 11 MIGHT HAVE QUIZ QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY NOT APPROPRIATE. THAT'S FOR THE PARENTS IT IS ALSO DEEPLY TROUBLING THAT THE GOALS FOR MENTAL HEALTH HAVE BEEN HIJACKED TO INCLUDE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL EXERCISES AND SURVEYS AND KEEPING SECRETS FROM PARENTS A DIVERSIFIED WORKFORCE IS BENEFICIAL TO ALL STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES WHEN YOUR GOAL IS TO HIGHER THOSE WHO ARE HIGHLY QUALIFIED WE HAD TO BE AS TEACHERS HIGHLY QUALIFIED, MERIT BASED AND NOT BASED ON ANYTHING ELSE. THE GOALS EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY HAVE BEEN OVERRIDDEN WITH THE NORMALIZATION IDEOLOGIES GENERAL DISCIPLINE OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOCUSING ON VICTIMHOOD, ENCOURAGING LESS REFERRALS THIS REPLACED FIRM AND FAIR DISCIPLINE MAKING STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR

077ACTIONS. IN A RECENT CONVERSATION WITHIN SRO HE MENTIONED THAT PERHAPS THIS IS WHY TEACHERS ARE LEAVING AND RETIRING WITH THAT FACT BASED KNOWLEDGE THE RESOLUTION WAS TIMELY, CERTIFICATION WAS COMPLIANT. THE APARTMENT OF OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT NEEDS TO FOCUS ON WHAT WORKS TEACHING ACADEMICS ACCOUNTABLE DISCIPLINE, SUPPORTIVE YOUR PARENT ADMIN PARTNERSHIPS AND MERIT BASED HIRING AND PROMOTIONS. >>AT TH I TSMEI OR THE SPEAKER IS LINDSAY LOHAN. ON LONHA THENTI ANESBODI >> GOOD EVENING GOOD EVENING. IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG HANG IN THERE I. I'M PROBABLY A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN DEMOCRATS THE SCHOOL BOARD MAJORITY SEVEN TO FOUR SOMETIMES EIGHT TO THREE AND CHANGE WAS MADE WHICH ALLOWED FOR SAME DAY RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT THE USUAL NOTICE PRIOR NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC THERE DIDN'T SEEM TOE BNY A PROBLEMS BACK THEN BUT NOW THAT THINGS HAVE SHIFTED

078SUDDENLY THERE'S AN OUTRAGE WHEN A CONSERVATIVE FOLLOWS THAT PROCEDURE IT'S NOT FUN WHETHER SHE WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT IS FOOT, IS IT? I ALSO REMEMBER A TIME WHEN THE EXECUTIVE DERSOR WERE THE END ALL BE BUT I GUESS THAT ONLY MATTERS WHEN A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR ENRICHMENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOR ONE NINE ZERO WAS SIGNED ON JANUARY 29TH. THE VIRGINIA OFFICE OF EDUCATION ORIGINALLY GAVE AN EARLIER DEADLINE FOR THE SCHOOL BOARDS TO TAKE ACTIONONALD D TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER THE DEADLINE WAS RECENTLY EXTENDED TOLRI AP 20 THIRD. ERNTNGESTIONLY MONDAY APRIL 7TH THE DAY BEFORE THE LAST MEETING TO HARRIS WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE FORMERLY KNOWN AS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PENNED A LETTER TO DR. ROBERTS PROPOSING THE NAME CHANGE TO THE OFFICE OF OFFICE FOR OPPORTUNITY AND

079EMPOWERMENT. I LIKE THIS OR ACHIEVEMENT. I'M SORRY I KELIE TH SOUND OF IN THAT LETTER HE SAYS THE CONSIDERATION TO CHANGE THE NAME WAS NOT DONE IN ISATIONOL IN ADDITION TO MONITORING STATE AND NATIONAL TSREND I RELIED HEAVILY ONNPUT I AND FEEDBACK FROM THE BBC'S EQUITY COUNCIL THIS GROUP INCLUDES PARENTS OF VIRGINIA'S DBCP STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS CENTRAL SUPPORT STAFF AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. OVER THE COURSE TWO MONTHS AND NUMEROUS DELIBERATIONS. I BELIEVE THE FEEDBACK SUPPORTS OFFTHEEIC FOR OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT THE NAME CHANGE WENT INTO EFFECT ON APRIL 11TH WHICH IS A GREAT START TIE HARRIS GETS IT AS TO ALL THOSE COUNSELED WHATEVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS THEY KNEW THIS CHANGE WAS COMING AND THAT IT WAS NECESSARY LIKE MR. CULPEPPER SAID IN THE LAST MEETING YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS HONOR THE GUIDANCE

080WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN STARTING EITHER WE HAVE DONE SO AND RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDS OR REJECT THE GUIDANCE AND AS A RESULT TURNED DOWN OVER 70 MILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDS CHANGES TO DC PRACTICES NATIONWIDE SHOULD NOT BE A CKERSHO TO ANYONE GLENN JUNKIN ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN TWENTY TWENTY TWO AND NOW THEY ARE COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFER THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN SPEAKING ON TOPIC FOR WEEKS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS CARRYON YRR CA ON. RE DOINGAT GRE NEXT SPEERAK IS >> ROB BOWMAN AND YVONNE AND THEN ELIZABETH SHAW, THE HSC OOLD.BOAR THIS IS TONIGHT YOU'LL PROBABLY NOT FORGET THE HATE THE HATE FILLED VITRIOL COMING FROM ATTENDEES TONIGHT. DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE ARE SOME THAT WILL ATTACK YOUR LOOKS. THE YOU SOUND YOUR MANNERISMS OR EVEN MAKE COMMENTS TOWARD COMMENTS TOWARD YOUR SAFETY AND

081LIVELIHOOD SKIRTING THE LINE BETWEEN TRUE THREATS AND FREE SPEECH WHILE LOUD AND NOXIOUS THESE COMMENTS ARE THEY REALLY DO NOT DO A SERVICE TO THEIR OVERALL MESSAGE NEGATES ANY SOUND ARGUMENT OR POINT ASSUMING THERE IS ONE IN REALITY THE THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ACT LIKE THIS OR BULLIES SAID WAS THAT WE DO NOT TOLERATE IN OUR SCHOOLS AND YOU SHOULD HAVE TO TOLERATE THEM HERE DO NOT DO NOT LET IT GET TO YOU IS ALL JUST A BUNCH OF HIGHER REASON I'M HERE TONIGHT IS IN SUPPORT THE ACTIONS TAKEN AT THE LAST SCHOOL BOARD MEETING FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS FROM THE VIDEO OUR GOVERNOR AND PRESIDENT TRUMP TO REMOVED FROM OUR SCHOOLS I SUPPORT THE DECISION TO ELIMINATE THE APPROACH THAT TRIES TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC RACISM BY USING SYSTEMIC RACISM ITSELF A METHOD THAT IS BOTH CONTRADICTORY

082AND HARMFUL WE REALLY SURPRISED BY THIS. THIS IS BEING DISMANTLED ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND RIGHTFULLY SO LOOKING AT THE SUSPENDED UCATOEDR EQUITY POLICY FIVE DASH FOUR UP UNTIL APRIL 7TH DID YOU AS A SCHOOL BOARD TRULY BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE STILL COMPLEX SOCIETAL AND HISTORICAL FACTORS THAT ARE CURRENTLY CONTRIBUTING TO EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES WITHIN THE SCHOOL DIVISION IN TWENTY TWENTY FIVE HAVE YOU AS A SCHOOL BOARD FOUND INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO PREVENTING ANYONE FROM OR EDUCATION, YOUR POLICY SINCE REALLY TWENTY FIFTEEN HAS FOCUSEDMORE PERFORMATIVE ACTIONS RATHER THAN ACTUALLY ROOTING OUT SYSTEMIC RACISM BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THERE ISN'T ANY THIS DISTRICT WOULD HAVE BEEN SUED INTO OBLIVION AND ANY FEDERAL MONEY IS WITHHELD FOR YEARS IF THERE ARE ACTUAL SYSTEMIC RACISM. I HOPE THE RENAMING OF THE OFFICE OF OPPORTUNITY AND

083EMPOWERMENT WITH IT WILL ABANDON RACIST TENANTS OF THE AND FOCUS ON SHOWCASING ALL OF THE OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE BBC'S FOR ALL STUDENTS AND WORK TO POWER ALL STUDENTS YOU CAN'T CHART A COURSE FOR EVERYONE IF YOU'RE STEPPING ON OTHERS TO GET THERE. I HANG ON JUST A SECOND MADAM CLARKE THE CHAIR IS DETERMINED THAT THE FOLLOWING CONDUCT BOOING, JEERING AND CALLING OUT VIOLATES BY LAW ONE FORTY UNDER SECTION TWO USE OF EXCESSIVE CHEERING AND CLAPPING, CLAPPING OR SIMILAR ACTIVITIES IS DETERMINED THE CHAIR DESIGNEE CALLING OUT ARE MAKING COMMENTS WERE NOT CALLED TO ADDRESS THE BOARD INSTIGATING ARE ATTEMPTING TO INSTIGATE CONFRONTATIONS OR OTHER CONDUCT FOR THE PURPOSES OF DISRUPTING THE MEETING. PERSONS ATTENDING MEETING OUR TO DISCONTINUE THAT DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT OR THERE WILL ASKED TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING AND THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

084GROUNDS THIS IS THIS IS THE FIRST WARNING AND NO MATTER WHAT YOUR VIEWPOINTS ARE WHICH SIDE OF THE AISLE YOU ON WE WANT TO HEAR FROM EVERYBODY FROM EVERYBODY SO PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF ALL SPEAKERS AND THEIR RIGHT TO SPEAK TO THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION HE ESTATE POLICY JUST ONE MORETH TIME FOR >>. >> SURE. THAT IS BY LAW ONE DASH FOUR EIGHT SECTION TWO THERE A SECTION OF BULLETS ONE TWO THREE, FOUR AND FIVE AND SEVEN . THE NEXT SPEAKER IS ADIBI THEN ELIZABETH SURE THE NATALIE BARET >>. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY IT'S ABOUT DOING WHAT'S RIGHT I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE IDEA OF EQUITY INSIDE UNBELIEVE BLINK PSYCHOLOGY TODAY IN AN ARTICLE TITLED THE PROBLEM DTI LESSONS FROM TED LASO FOR THRIVING ORGANIZATIONS THAT WAS POSTED ON LYJU 2ND TWENTY TWENTY

085FOUR THEY WRITE EQUITY ON THE OTHER HAND BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION. BUT I WANT TO FOCUS ON EQUITY ON THE OTHER HAND RESONATES WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF DISTRIBUTED JUSTICE EXCEPT THAT DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE IS NOT JUST IT'S TAKING FOR SOME FROM SOMEONE JUST SIMPLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE THAT'S EQUITY AND THAT'S NOT FAIR AND THE ARTICLE CONTINUES AND THIS IS WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT WHEN INDIVIDUALS PERCEIVE INEQUITY OR UNFAIR TREATMENT DISCRIMINATION IT CAN IT CAN LEAD TO FEELINGS OF RESENTMENT ANGER AND DISILLUSIONMENT. PSYCHOLOGICALLY SPEAKING, FAIRNESS IS NOT JUST A SOCIETAL CONSTRUCTED AS A FUNDANTALME HUMAN NEED ROOTED IN OUR EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY IGNORING UNFAIR TREATMENT UNDERMINES TRUSTING AND COHESION WITHIN SOCIAL SYSTEMS ERODING THE VERY FABRIC OF SOCIETY UNQUOTE. THE COST OF REPAIRING PAST MISTAKES WHICH EXIST NO

086ONE CAN DENY IT'S NOT TO MAKE THOSE MISTAKES IN REVERSE REMEDY IS TO BEAR THE BEAR THE COST OF EVERYONE REACHING EXCELLENT WE SHOULD TREAT PEOPLE AS INDIVIDUALS. YOU'RE OBLIGATION IS TO TEACH ALL CHILDREN THE MATERIAL AND IN THE CURRICULUM SO THEY LEARN THE PSYCHOLOGY TODAY ENDS WITH AS LASO HIMSELF PUTS IT ALL PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND THAT'S EXACTLY NO ONE WILL OBJECT IF OBJECT IF EVERYONE GETS THE BEST EDUCATION THAT THEY CAN OVERCOMING WOULD PUT THEM BEHIND IN THE PAST SO GET RID OF THIS IDEA THAT UNDERMINES TRUST AND COHESION AND ERODES THE VERY FABRIC OF SOCIETY OUR NATION NEEDS THAT TRUST AND COHESION. THANK YOU SPEAKER WELL >>, THE SPEAKER IS OLIVER SHAW. AT NALIE BRAY THEN JANE SHLDEON OK GOOD EVENING GOOD EVENG. IN NAME IS ELIZABETH FOR I AM A

087FORMER OCEAN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER VERY HAPPY TO SEE SUCH REPRESENTATION FROM OUR STUDENTS AND I'M ALSO A PARENT I HAVE THREE DAUGHTERS WHO WENT THROUGH VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS AND I HAVE SOME REMARKS THAT I PREPARED BUT THERE WERE SOME DISCUSSION STIRRING THE EARLIER PORTION THAT I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS FIRST MCSWEENEY'S MISS WEEMES, I YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT YOU WERE NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW THERE WAS SO MUCH AND DISINFORMATION IN OUR COMMUNITY AND IN THE EMAILS THAT YOU RECEIVED THERE WAS SO MUCH CONFUSION IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO TRANSPARENCY IN THE VOTE THE CITIZENS WERE IN THE DARK THEY DIDN'T THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND THAT'S WHAT FEEDS MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION MISSED WHY'RE YOU THEN, YOU THEN TALKED ABOUT THE TIMELINE AND THE PRESSURE ON THE BOARD TO VOTE ON APRIL

0888TH TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE THAT'S A FALSE NARRATIVE. THAT'S A FABRICATED SENSE OF URGENCY. THERE'S NO REASON THAT UTILITY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE BETWEEN APRIL 8TH AND THIS MEETING BASED ON THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION SO THAT DR. ROBERTSON WOULD BE ABLE TO SIGN IF NEEDED BASED ON THAT ALL OF THAT WORK COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BASED ON THAT RESOLUTION SO STOP SAYING THAT YOU HAD URGENCY TO PASS THAT THE WAY THAT YOU DID AND THEN I WAS PLANNING TO ADDRESS MISSED Y OR YOUR KIND OF CONFUSION EQUITY AND EQUALITY I WAS I WAS GOING TO TRY TO EXPLAIN BUT AFTER MILES I THINK THAT'S HER NAME HER WHITEBOARD LESSON IN REMARKS I THINK THAT WE HAVE THAT COVERED . I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT EQUITY MEANS SO NOW I'LL GO TO MY PREPARED REMARKS WITH AS

089MUCH AS I CAN GET THROUGH I WAS ACTUALLY AT THE APRIL MEETING SO YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT I SPOKE AND IT WAS PRETTY LONELY IN HERE THERE WAS ONLY A COUPLE OF US THAT ACTUALLY HAD GOTTEN WIND THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE DISCUSSED. WHAT TRANSPIRED AT THAT MEETING LEFT ME EQUALLY SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED. MISS BROWN, MISS WEEMS MR. CULPEPER COLPEPER, MR. CALLEN, MR. BONESTEEL DWYRE YOUR DWYER ,YOUR ACTIONS ON APRIL 8TH OR ONE A WILLFUL REFUSAL TO USE THE TIME PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL DEADLINE EXTENSION THROUGH APRIL TWENTY FOURTH TO WORK DILIGENTLY USING ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO ADDRESS THE DEMANDS OF THE CERTIFICATION IT WAS ALSO A WILLFUL DENIAL TO NOTIFY THE PUBLIC AND ALLOW FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE SERIOUS ISSUE. NO AMOUNT OF GASLIGHTING CAN CHANGE THE FACTS OF YOUR ACTIONS. YOU

090HAVE SHOWN YOUR HANDS AND ACTED IN BAD FAITH FOR SCHOOL COMMUNITY WE WILL NOT UNSEE IT AND WE WILL NOT FORGET THAT WE LOST OUR TRUST. >> OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS THAT WE BRING JANE SHELDON AND THEN JEFFREY GUNS GOOD EVENING D.R ERTSBONND A MBMEERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. MY NAME IS NATALIE BREY AND I GREW UP IN A LITTLE NECK AREA WHERE MY FAMILY CONSISTING OF MY HUSBAND AND THREE SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN NOW LIVE. OUR CHILDREN HAVE ATTENDED KINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL AND MY OLDEST WILL ATTEND OCEAN HIGH SCHOOL NEXT YEAR WE LIVE IN DISTRICT EIGHT. MR. COLPEPER THIS EVENING I HAVE TWO POINTS THAT I'M ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER FIRST WHEN WE WHEN WE DISMANTLE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN VBC CPS THIS NEGATIVELY IMPACTS THE EDUCATION ALL STUDENTS I'D LIKE

091TO LIKE TO REMIND THE SCHOOL BOARD IN PARTICULAR MR. KAPLAN ,MR. COLPEPER, MISS WEEMS BROWN MR BOWEN, MR. BONESTEEL AND THIS DWYRE OF WHAT THE WORDS DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION MEAN WITHIN FIELD OF EDUCATIO RENSEARCH IS CLEAR THAT STUDENTS LEARN BEST WHEN LEADERSHIP DECISION MAKERS AND TEACHERS REPRESENT A VARIETY OF VIEWPOINTS, EXPERIENCES AND DEMOGRAPHICS THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF DIVERSITY AND IT IS BEST PRACTICE IN EDUCATION. RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES STUDENTS HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS. STUDENTS SHOULD RECEIVE SERVICES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SCHOOL THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF EQUITY MR. AND IT IS A BEST PRACTICE IN EDUCATION RESEARCH SHOWS THAT INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN CLASSROOMS WITH THEIR TYPICALLY DEVELOPING PIERS WHICH IS WHERE INCLUSION MEANS IS BENEFICIAL FOR BOTH STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND TYPICALLY DEVELOPING

092STUDENTS. IT IS A BEST PRACTICE IN EDUCATION ANY THREAT AGAINST PRACTICES THAT SUPPORT DIVERSITY EQUITY OR INCLUSION IS A THREAT AGAINST BEST PRACTICES AN EDUCATION AND THEREFORE NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR CHILDREN SECOND POINT I'M DISMAYED AT THE PROCEDURAL CONDUCT CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE SCOREBOARD WHEN HANDLING THE HANDLING THE RESOLUTION THAT ALTERS OUR SCHOOLS APPROACH TO DIE MR. COLPEPER ON APRIL 8TH YOU INTRODUCE THE ANTIBODY RESOLUTION TO YOUR COLLEAGUES LESS IN 24 HOURS BEFORE THEY WERE ASKED TO VOTE ON IT. YOU KNEW THAT TWO MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD BE ABSENT FOR PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED REASONS RELYING ON YOUR MAJORITY POWER ON THE BOARD YOU FORCED A VOTE ON AN EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL AND DIVISIVE RESOLUTION. YOU PURPOSELY AVOIDED DEEPER RESEARCH INTO THE IMPACT THIS RESOLUTION WILL HAVE ON OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY AND YOU

093BLOCKED ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE ISSUE FORCE THIS ISSUE TO HAPPEN FOR HAPPEN, FORCED THIS VOTE TO HAVE AN EVEN WHEN THE SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY INFORMED YOU THAT THERE WAS MORE TIME TO CONSIDER YOUR CONCERNS THIS MANEUVER WAS UNNECESSARY AND FORCEFUL SHOWING IT DISTRUST OF THE THOUGHTS OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND A CALLOUS DISREGARD OF OUR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY. PLEASE DO THE WORK TO CONSIDER THE EDUCATION YOU HAVE TAKEN AWAY FROM ALL OF OUR CHILDREN BY ADOPTING DISCOUNTED ANTEDATED RESOLUTION YOU PARTIZAN POLITICS AND GAMESMANSHIP AND GAMESMANSHIP ASIDE AND FOCUS ON THE YEARS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IT'S NECESSARY TO KEEP THE PRINCIPLES DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION FOR THE INCLUSION FOR THE SAKE OF ALL STUDENTS. IT'S NOT TOO LATE. THANK NEXTAK SPE IERSNY JEN NELDO JEFFREY GUNS AND THENSH JOE JOHNSON GOOD EVENING THANK.

094THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND EQUITY AND INCLUSIONPROGRA MS IN SCHOOLS I'M A PARENT AM A PARENT OF TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGED STUDENTS AND I WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN JUST BY MENTIONING THAT EQUAL RIGHTS FOR OTHERS DO NOT MEAN LESS RATES FOR YOU IT ISN'T PIE THE VIRGINIA PTA SUPPORTS BY PRIORITIZING EQUITY AND DIVERSITY THE PTA STATES THAT CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHIN ANGNC IVELUSI CCULAURRI ARE IMPERATIVE FOR BUILDING SOCIALL COMPYETENT AND AWARE CHILDREN ENHANCING THEIR INTELLECTUAL CAPABILITY AND PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING IN THIS APPROACH YIELDS POSITIVE EDUCATIONAL RESULTS WHICH WE ALL CARE ABOUT WE SHOULD VALUE THE OPINISON OF OUR PARENTS AND HERSAC OVER POLITICIANS AIMING TO DISMANTLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS THAT INCREASE STUDENT SUCCESS, REVIEWING PVCS, STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS IT'S CLEAR THAT THE MAJORITY FALL UNDER THE DEFIONNITIRE WE' MOVGIN

095POLICIES AND PROGRAMS WOULD DERHIN THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND EMOTIONAL LOBBYING THE REMOVAL OF DCI AND VBC WILL ALSO AFFECT TEACHERS ABILITY TO TEACH ACCURATE HISTORY. HOW AND TEACHERS COVER PERIODS LIKE RECONSTRUCTION OR JIM CROW SOUTH WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT VIOLATING A.G. POLICY THERE'S NOTHING IN FEDERAL OR VIRGINIA STATE LAW THAT MAY CONCEPTS CONTAINED ILLEGAL THE. THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO OFFERED ZERO GUIDANCE AS TO WHAT COULD BE CONSIDERED DCI LEAVING STATES TO DETERMINE THIS FOR THEMSELVES IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT CPS IS THE ONLY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN VIRGINIA THAT HAS TAKEN ACTION ON THE A.D.A BY EXECUTIVE ORDER AND SHAREAD ALYLE IMPEDMENT CHANGES TO THEIR PROGRAMING REMOVING THE PROGRAMS FROM VBC IS WRONG AND UNNECESSARY THE ACLU AND OTHERS HAVE FILED LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE US DEPARTMENT OF UCATEDN'SIO RECTDIESIV BINGLOCK ENFORCEMENT UNTIL AT LEAST APRIL TWENTY

096FOUR TWENTY TWENTY FIVE STATES AND LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCIES ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SUBMIT CERTIFICATION NOW THE LAWSUIT ARGUES THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS OVERSTEPPED ITS AHORIUT VTYLAIO DTINGUE ROCESS IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS LIMITING ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THEN RESTRICTING EDUCATORS ABILITY TO TEACH AND STUDENTS RIGHTS TO LEARN I IMPLORE YOU TO WALK BACK THE A.D.A RESOLUTION THE BBC'S IS NO LONGER IN DANGER OF LOSING FEDERAL FUNDING SINCE THE ISSUES UNDER REVIEW IN THE COURTS A WAIT AND SEE APPROACH HERE IS PRUDENT WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY UNKNOWNS WAIT FOR THE JUDGE'S DECISION AND THE ACLU CASE AGAINST THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN IN THE WORDS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO DO WHAT IS RHT.IG THAN K YOU. OUR NEXT

097SPEAKER IS JEFEYFRNS THAT JOE JOHNSON TNHAKA T PORTELDRFIE AGREED A GOOD EVENING. THANK FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU THIS EVENING. YOU A BIG JOB FOUR HUNDRED YOU HAVE FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND CRITICS I CAME NOT AS A CRITIC THIS EVENING. MY NAME IS REVEREND GEOFFREY GUNS AND I'M HERE BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT EVERY STUDENT IN THIS DISTRICT ESPECIALLY THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THAT THEY DON'T BELONG WE HAVE LIVED IN THIS CITY FOR FORTY TWO YEARS MY CHILDREN ATTENDED AND GRADUATED FROM BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL. JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND AS A CHILD I ATTENDED ALL SEGREGATED SCHOOLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO HIGH SCHOOL IWAS NEVER AFFORDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND SCHOOL WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS I KNEW NO ONE OUTSIDE OF MY WORLD AND IT HAS SHAPED MY

098PERCEPTION TO THIS DAY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT THAN ME WHEN I WAS GROWING UP I COULD THAT GO TO VIRGINIA BEACH AND EVEN NOW I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO FREQUENTLY OCEANFRONT PLEASE DON'T FORCE A NEW GENERATION TO LIVE APART FROM OTHERS WHO ARE DIFFERENT THAN THEY THE BOARD IS RECOMMENDING AN END TO THESE PROGRAMS. MY FIRST QUESTION IS SIMPLE WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU ENDING EDOS THIS MEAN NO MORE SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ? DOES THIS MEAN PROGRAM THAT HELP ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS FEEL STREAM AND AND SUPPORTED ARE THESE PROGRAMS ON CHOPPING BLOCK ASELL W? WHATBOUT A INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE EQUALITY FOR GIRLS IN STEM OR IN LEADERSHIP ROLES MAYBE WE NEED TO END ALL OF THESE ATHLETIC PROGRAMS THAT ARE INCLUSIVE BECAUSE THAT'S THE DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION PLEASE NEEDS TO BE ENDED AS

099WELL IF YOU'RE BANNING THE AID PROGRAMS IT STANDS THE REASON THAT ALL OF IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED IS THIS PURELY A POLITICAL DECISION? I HOPE NOT THIS BUSINESS THAT THIS DECISION IMPACTS EVERYONE EVERY STUDENT WHO WALKS INTO A CLASS ONE OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE DISABLED, STUDENTS WHO ARE HAITIAN STUDENTS WHO ARE ARAB SPEAKING STUDENTS WHO ARE FRENCH STUDENTS WHO ARE FROM AFRICA, STUDENTS WHO PALESTINIAN AND THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO LEARN ENGLISH EXACTLY WHAT IS IT THAT YOU ARE BURNING ? IT ONLY CREATES MORE TRAUMA AND WHEN YOU DO THIS YOU MAY UNINTENTIONALLY CREATE ANOTHER SEGREGATED SOCIETY IN WHICH KIDS WILL GROW >> UP ANDH TAT IS TIME FOR NEXTSP REAKES I JOE JNSOHONERRT POELNFIHED TRY GA MCCULLOM. LOEL BY THE WAY. I'UM QKLYIC FIGURE THAT OUT BUT THAT OUT. BUT HOW BAD THE

100SPEECHES MY NAME IS JEFF JOHNSON AND I'M A PROUD GRADUATE OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL AND AN EVEN GREATER GRADUATE OF FIRST ONE OF HIGH SCHOOLS LEGAL STUDY PROGRAM YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW AND THIS COUNCIL HAVING ME MUST NOW REPORT I HAVE TO SAY YOU DO YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A GRADUATE THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS BROKEN THE LAW BROKEN. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AN OPEN THE DOOR FOR ANY ADMINISTRATION LEFT OR RIGHT TO PUT YOUR THUMB DOWN ON OUR CHILDREN IF YOU'RE JOINING US HERE TODAY IN OUR LITTLE CONFUSED LET ME HELP YOU OUT I HAVE KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE I TOOK MR. NOCTIS AP GOVERNMENT CLASS AT NASA EVERY FISCAL YEAR THE FEDERAL AGREES TO SPEND OUR TAX DOLLARS HERE AND DO A BUDGET ON SEPTEMBER 9TH OF LAST YEAR OUR REPRESENTATIVE

101JINKING AGAINST VOTED ON HOUSE BILL NINE FOUR NINE FOR THE BILL ALLOCATES SPECIFIC MONEY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR OUR CITY AS PART THE WERID RAL BUDGET IN EXCHANGEOR F THE MONEY WE SEND TO THE GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT SENT US BACK TO US SERVICES WHICH WE WATO WNT T TAN SO EEIN THE WORLD THIS IS A SIMPLE SYSTEM IS A TRANSACTION. IT HAS EXISTED FOR ALMOST TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS IN THIS NATION. THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO IN THAT SYSTEM BY PUTTING EXCEPTIONS ON HOW CONGRESS CAN GRETA FUNDING IF THAT PHRASING IS TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND FOR THOSE NOT COMPLETED MISS HILLS NINTH GRADE INTRO TO CLASS IDIOCY I WILL SAY TWO DIFFERENT WAY IF I CHOOSE I CHOOSE TO BUY A BOX OF DIAPERS FROM AMAZON AMAZON CANNOT SEND MY DIAPERS OUT FOR DELIVERY.

102BUT BEFORE A HAND THEM TO ME THEN ASK IF I SUPPORT RACIAL EQUALITY THANKS TO MR PRATT ETHICS CLASS I CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT THIS ACTION BREAKS THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THAT THE CURRENT COMMISSION AGREED TO WHEN TAKING OFFICE AND NOW THE SCHOOL BOARD IS AN ACCOMPLICE TO THE MISAPPROPRIATION FUNDS LET ME SAY IT AGAIN IT AGAIN THIS IS OUR MONEY WE PAID FOR IT JENKINS VOTED FOR IT. THE MONEY IS OUT FOR DELIVERY AND THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THIS COUNCIL HAVE HELD IT UP WE'RE USING SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS AS KIDS AS CHESS PIECES ON A BOARD AND THAT IS NOT OK THANKS TO OUR STATE'S HISTORY OF LAW CLASS. I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE IDEA OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IS AS OLD AS KING HAMMURABI'S CODE THE FOUR THOUSAND YEAR OLD CODE OF LAWS WILL

103SET INTO WAS SENT TO HIM ROBBIE BY THE GODS TO ENSURE STRONG DO NOT ADDRESS THE WEEK TWO WEEKS AGO THIS COUNCIL DECIDE TO GO AGAINST THAT THIS COUNCIL DECIDED TO MAKE US NON DIVERSE NON-ACCRUAL AND EXCLUSIVE >> IF YOU'RE BORED BY THIS LEGAL JARGON LEGAL JARGON I HAVE A FINAL NONPOLITICAL EXAMPLE AND IN FOUR DAYS THE NFL TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SEASONS DRAFT >> EVEN >> THOUGH THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES WON THE SUPER BOWL MAKING THE MAKING THEM THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE DOES DO THEY GET REWARDED WITH THE FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICK? NO THE DRAFT LIKE THIS SEEKS TO MAKE SURE THAT ONE PARTY CANNOT DOMINATE OTHERS DIVERSITY EQUATE INCLUSION IS NOT ABOUT DISCRIMINATION IS NOT MAKING SURE EVERY SINGLE STUDENT WHO WALKS THROUGH A DOOR IN OUR CITY CAN ACHIEVE OPPORTUNITY ON PAR

104WITH EVERYBODY ELSE. HANKT YOU >>. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CAPRICCIO THAN GARY MCCOLLUM THEN GEORGIA ALLEN I LOVE THAT GUY. >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CAT PORTERFIELD I'M A JOURNALIST BY TRAINING VIRGINIA BEACH PARENT BY HEART AND TONIGHT I'M STANDING HERE TO SAY IT'S NOT NOT TO ALL OF YOU BUT SHAME ON YOU NOT BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT FORWARD A CONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION NOT BECAUSE WE DISAGREE POLITICALLY BUT BECAUSE YOU BETRAYED THE MOST BASIC TRUST THAT HOLDS THIS COMMUNITY TOGETHER WITHOUT PUBLIC NOTICE, WITHOUT FAIR WARNING, WITHOUT GIVING THE FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA BEACH EVEN A SINGLE DAY TO PREPARE YOU JAM THROUGH A MAJOR POLICY CHANGE AFFECTING EVERY STUDENT EVERY TEACHER AND EVERY FAMILY IN THE CITY. YOU DIDN'T TO SIDESTEP TRANSPARENCY, YOU STOMPED ON IT YOU DIDN'T JUST FORGET PUBLIC TRUST. YOU TRADED IT FOR POLITICAL

105CONVENIENCE YOU DIDN'T JUST SILENCE OPPOSITION. YOU SILENCED THE PEOPLE YOU CLAIM TO REPRESENT I SPENT MY ER WRETCAGINGHDOGUBL PIC BODIES AND I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL START HIDING MAJOR DECISIONS FROM THEEOPL PET I VERNE ENDS WELL FOR THE BOARD OR FOR THE COMMUNITY IF YOU WERE PROUD OF THIS RESOLUTION YOU WOULD HAVE GIVEN A PUBLIC TIME TO SPEAK IF YOU WERE CONFIDENT IN YOUR ACTIONS YOU WOUL HAVED WELCOMED THE VOICES OFARENTS P, TCHEREA ASND TUDESSNT BUT YOU WEREN'T AND YOU DIDN'T AND THE PEOPLE VIRGINIA BEACH DESERVED TO REMEMBER THAT TONIGHT AND AT THE BALLOT BOXRANSPA TRENCY IS NOT OPTIONAL. THE DEMOCRACY IS NOT OPTIONAL A ACCONDUNTABILITY IT'S COMING IN ATTRACTING ALL THESE SPEAKERS ISN'T JUST REMARKABLE IT'S A VERDICT ON YOUR BEHAVIOR. THANK SPEAKER IS GARY IS GARY MCCOLLUM, T

106HEGIA AGEORLLEN FRIEDMAN GOOD EVENING I'M REREND JVEERRY REVEREND GARY MCCOLLUM. I LIVE IN DISTRICT MY DAUGHTER RUTH DAUGHTER RUTH WENT TO GREAT NECK MIDDLE BEFORE SHE EXPERIENCE SO MANY RACIAL INCIDENTS BECAUSE MY WIFE AND I COULD AFFORD TO HOME SCHOOL THAT'S WHAT WE DO NOW. I COME BEFORE YOU TONHTIG WITH DEE CONCPERN AND UNWAVERING CONVICTION THIS RECENT DECISION TO ELIMINATE DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION POLICIES FROM OUR SCHOOLS. IT'S A GREAT MISTAKE ONE THAT MUST BE REVERSED IF WE CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS AND THE HEALTH OF OUR CITY. DEA IS NOT POLITICAL SLOGAN IT'S. IT'S A FRAMEWORK ROOTED IN EDUCATIONAL BEST PRACTICES, HUMAN DECENCY AND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. DGI POLICIES ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF RACE BACKGROUND ABILITY LANGUAGE, GENDER IDENTITY, SOCIAL AND

107ECONOMIC STATUS HAS THE CHANCE TO FEEL SAFE, RESPECTED AND SEEN WHEN STUDENTS FEEL INCLUDED THEY PERFORM BETTER ACADEMICALLY THAT THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO STAY IN SCHOOL, GRADUATE AND CONTRIBUTE MEANINGFULLY INTO OUR SOCIETY. THESE SUPPORTS ARE ALSO CRITICAL FOR OUR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS. THESE POLICIES HELPED CREATE EIRONMENVNTS WHERE EDUCATORS N ADDCARESS THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF THEIR CLASSROOM WITH CULTURAL AWARENESS AND FAIRNESS IN A NATION WHERE PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS ARE MORE DIVERSE THAN EVER ENDING DEADNESS SHE LIVES IT'S KIND OF LIKE BEING A GARDENER AND AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GROW THIS GARDEN BUT YOU'RE GOING TO IGNORE HALF THE PLANTS IN THE GARDEN THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN'T DO THAT NOW LET'S >> ABOUT THE HARM ELIMINATING SENDS A CHILLING MESSAGE TO OUR BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES, TO LGBTQ PLUS YOUTH IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

108THAT THEY DO NOT BELONG. IT TELLS TEACHERS COMMITTED TO INCLUDE LEARNING THAT THEIR EFFORTS ARE NO LONGER VALUED AND IT DEPRIVES ALL STUDENTS INCLUDING MAJORITY STUDENTS HAVE YOU HEARD FROM TONIGHT IT DEPRIVES THEM OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN EMPATHY AND CRITICAL THINKING AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP. THE LONG TERM DAMAGE HIJRAH RATES INCREASE BULLY TEACHER BURNOUT, COMMUNITY DISTRESS AND A REPUTATION THAT DRIVES AWAY TALENTED EDUCATORS AND FAMILIES LOOKING FOR SCHOOLS THAT PREPARE STUDENTS TO THRIVE IN A MULTICULTURAL THIS IS NTO JUST NOT JUST ABT POOULICY AND RESOURCES IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE OUR CHILDREN, OUR EDUCATORS, OUR FUTURE URGES BOARD TOEVERS RE ITS TO REVERSE ITS DECISION TO REINSTATE DEPRINCE DEMONSTRATE TRUE LEADERSHIP NOT BY RAISING DIFFERENCES BUT BY EMBRACING IT . LET'S DO THE RIGHT THING AND VERERSE THIS POLICY. THANK YOU, GOVERNOR OUR NTEX REAKE ISEO GRGELL

109AEN MINDY FRIEDMANAT TH BRIAN CWEURN >> OOGD EVENING. CHAIRPERSON BROWN VICE CHAIR FOR SOME GAMES MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT I AM GEORGIA F ALAN LIFETIME OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA AND THE PRODUCT OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT WE ARE HERE AGAIN THIS EVENING CONCERNED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD SCHOOL BOARD ON APRIL 8TH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE PLACED AN ITEM UP FOR A VOTE REGARDING THE WITHOUT ANY INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY AND IN THIS INSTANCE WITHOUT INPUT FROM THE ENTIRE SCHOOL BOARD A RESOLUTION OF THIS SIGNIFICANCE SHOULD NOT BE DEVELOPED IN THE DARK OF NIGHT WITHOUT THE INPUT OF ALL THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS IF MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD FEEL THAT THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO OPERATE, MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE RIGHT MEMBERS ON THE SCHOOL

110BOARD ALL THE ALL THE MEMBERS ON THE BOARD HAVE A RIGHT TO GIVE INPUT AND WORK ON BEHALF OF ALL THE STUDENTS THE STAFF IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND NOT JUST FOR A FEW AS A COMMUNITY WE EXPECT TO SEE CORPORATION IMPLEMENTED IN FULL CAPACITY. WE KNOW THAT THIS POLICY WAS PUT IN PLACE BY FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION TO CREATE DIVISION AMONG AMERICAN PEOPLE . WE KNOW THAT THE TERMINOLOGY OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WAS INTENTIONALLY WRITTEN TO ENSURE THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO WOULD NEVER READ THE ENTIRE ORDER COULD LATCH ONTO A FEW SLOGANS AND SOUNDBITES TO CREATE UNREST. THOSE OF US WHO CAN READ AND DO READ ALSO KNOW THAT SAYING THAT SAYING THERE IS WASTEFUL SPENDING WITHOUT PROOF DOES THAT MAKE IT TRUE THREATENING TO CUT FUNDING AND RESOURCES IMPACT ALL OF US NOT JUST SOME OF

111US WE NEED A I KNOW THEY DON'T USE IT A LOT BUT DIVERSITY EQUITY, INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO POSITIVE DRESSES THE SYSTEMIC IN THAT HAVE BEEN IN OUR NATION FOR DECADES FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN FACT WE EXPECT OUR SCHOOLS TO CONFRONT AND RECTIFY SYSTEMIC IN EQUITIES AND EDUCATION SO THAT YOUTH GROW UP WITH MINDSET TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THWARTING OF THWARTING INCLUSION, KNOWLEDGE AND FAIRNESS I'M SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND A REDUCERS BILLION AND DISCRIMINATION WHEN WE RATE WHEN WE RAISE AWARENESS AND PROMOTE TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING IT HELPS TO REDUCE THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR CHILDREN AND STAFF SOMETHING THAT IS VERY MUCH NEEDED TODAY AS A REMINDER PRIOR TO THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN FIGHTER EXPORT GROUPS THAT WERE LOSING AN AVERAGE OF FORTY SIX BOMBERS IF THE RED TAILS WERE IN

112EXISTENCE THEY WOULD BE DEFINED AND IDENTIFIED AS THE SUM YOU MAY HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO SURVIVED BECAUSE OF THE TUSKEGEE AREN'T YOU GLAD THAT GLAD THAT WE WERE WILLING TO FIGHT AND SAVE YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS EVEN AS YOU MISTREATED AND CONTINUE TO DO SO TODAY? THANK YOU AGAIN MY NAME IS GEORGE ALLEN AS SPPORTU I ORT> T >HIS TIME NTEX SPEAKER ISY MAREM FREAN BRIAN KIINRW CURWEN AND THEN SALLY DANIEL GOOD EVENING I STAND HERE TONIGHT ASTO TNIGHAS A CONCERNED DISTRICT SIX PARENT AND COMMUNITY MEMBER DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED BY THE RESOLUTION PASSED THAT OPPOSES DIVERSITY EITY IQUNCLUSION AND INCLUSION EFFORTS IN OUR SCHOOLDI ITYVERS EQUITY AND INCLUSION IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS. IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF RACE GENDER GIOLI ABNITILRELIY ONGI, ABILITY, BACKGROUND OR IDENTITY YOU'LL SEE HURT AND VALUED

113IN OUR SCHOOLS. SIT'UT ABO REMOVING BARRIERS SOME OF OURTU SSDENT FROM NG TACHIIR FHELLUO PTENTIAL HOW WILL THIS RESOLUTION IMPACT CLASSES OFFERED IN VCP SUCH AP COURSES INTO ENROLLMENT OPTIONS WHAT CLUBS WHAT CLUBS AND PROGRAMS MIGHT BE AFFECTED I SENT THE BORDER LIST OF QUESTIONS I QUESTIONS I FIND DEEPLY CONCERNING BUT UNSURPRISING I GOT THE STANDARD CAN CANNED RESPONSE FROM THE CHAIR I'M CALLING TRANSPARENCY OPEN COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION AND A CHANCE FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES TO BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION THIS MAY LOOK LIKE JUSTERWO PAPRK SOME TBU FOR MANY IT DIRECTLY IMPACTS WHAT STUDENTS LEARN HOW THEY EXPERIENCED SCHOOL OR WHETHER THEY SEETHEMSE LVES REPRESENTED THEIR EDUCATION BY . BY SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION YOU SEND A MESSAGE THE THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS AT THEIR EXPERIENCES D'T MATONTER, THAT THEIR IDENTITY ARE UP FOR DEBATE AND

114THAT EQUITY IS NO LONGER A PRIORITY THEIR EDUCATION YOUR SILENCE IN SILCE SIENLENCING THE VERY PROGRAMS AND CONVERSATIONS HELP UDST GROENTSW INTO COMPASSIONATE, INFORMED AND RESPECTFUL CITIZENS I CAN'T SAY I'M SURPRISED BY THE SIX BOARD MBEME WRSNCEHO O ANGAITE VOD FOR AA VGUE DIRECTIONLESS RESOLUTION CONVENIENTLY LIVING LEAVING IT UP TO SUPERINTENDENT TO INTERPRET IT IMPLEMENT HOW HE SEES FIT. BUT PASSING THIS RESOLUTION WITHOUT ALLOWING PUBLIC INPUT YOUILENCE SD THE VOICES OF THE VERY PEOPLE YOU SWORE TO REPRESENT IF MY CHILDREN'S EDUCATION IS ALTERED IN ANY WAY BY THIS HARMFUL RESOLUTION OR MY DAUGHTER'S FIVE YEAR PLAN IS FFECTEIVE EACH ONE OF YOU WHO VOTED FOR THIS RELUTISO ON RESISPON THBLE P IECUBLIS PAYING ATTENTION AND I'M GGOIN TO DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO REENSU THE SIX OF YOU WHO SUPPORTED THIS RESOLUTION ARE NOT

115REELECTED THIS RESOLUTION DOESN'T PROTECT OUR SOOLSCH IT . IT LIMITS THEM IF RESTRICTS TEACHERS FROM ADDRESSING RLEA WORLD ISSUES IT DISCOURAGES STUDENTS FROM BEING THERE AUTHENTIC SELVES. IT THREATENS THE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT VBC CPS SHOULD FORSTE WE SHOULD BE INVESTING N INCILUSI, NONOT RECEJTING OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER DO BETTER FOR NEXT KESPEAR IS >> NIA KIRWIN THAT SALLY DANIEL THAT MEREDITH STRICKLAND. WELCOME TO DIVERSITY AS DIVERSION WHEN WHEN NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT YOU CAN COUNT ON THE FULL ROOM OF OUTRAGE ON DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION IF THIS HEARING WAS ABOUT WAS ABOUT READING OR MATH SCORES, HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE HERE? I AND THE MAJORITY EVEN THOSE WHO ARE AS ALVEDA GREEN ED CASTIGATES WITH HER NON-INCLUSIVE PHRASE OF EUROPEAN ASCENT ARE TIRED OF THIS DIVISIVENESS DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN DEFINING PEOPLE BY

116RACE SINCE THEIR FOUNDING IN 1820 CHAIRING THE DRED SCOTT DECISION FIGHTING WAR TO PROTECT SLAVERY PUTTING, PUTTING JAPANESE AMERICANS IN INTERNMENT SUPPORTING SEGREGATION AND LEADING AND LEADING THE CHARGE ON MASSIVE RESISTANCE THE MAJORITY IS MUCH MORE CONCERNED WITH WHERE STUDENTS ARE GOING THAN WHAT CONTINENT THEIR ANCESTORS CAME FROM SO DEMOCRATS CAN GROUP STUDENTS INTO CATEGORIES LIKE OPPRESSOR'S AND OPPRESSED TO TODAY'S DEMOCRATS DIVERSITY IS DIVISIONS YEARS AGO DIVERSITY MEANT AMERICA IS A MELTIN PGOT THE GOAL OF DIVERSITY WAS UNITY E PLURIBUS UNUM OUT OF MANY ONE BUT TODAY DIVERSITY IS DIVISION DIVIDE PEOPLE INTO GROUPS AND HIT THEM AGAINST EACH OTHER AND TONIGHT'S TURNOUT PROVES MY POINT YOU OFFSHOOT OF THIS DIVISION IS A IS EQUITY. FOR CENTURIES AMERICA'S PRINCIPAL EQUALITY THOSE WHO ARE KEPT OUT ARE KEPT OUT. THEY RIGHTFULLY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY EQUAL RIGHTS

117SOUND FAMILIAR? TODAY'S DIVIDERS WANT EQUITY 90 QUALITY EQUITY IS FROM IS FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS . HELLO KARL MARX AND TO OUR EQUITY SHOW AND TELL IF YOU KNOCK DOWN THE EVENTS NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO STAND ON THE MOST IRONIC OFFSHOOT OF DIVISION IS DIVERSITY BY INCLUSION THE FUNNY THING IS THAT PEOPLE ARE THE MOST LOUDEST ABOUT INCLUSION ARE AMONG THE LEAST INCLUSIVE I HEARD A SPEAKER AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ARGUE AGAINST ALLOWING A CHURCH IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THE CHURCH WAS AN INCLUSIVE ENOUGH SHE WANTED THE CHURCH EXCLUDED FOR NOT BEING INCLUSIVE. YOU WANT CONCLUSIVELY STOP WINKING AND CALLED CHRISTMAS VACATION THE WINTER BREAK AND START TALKING ABOUT DURING THANKSGIVING WHOM WERE THEY GIVING THANKS TO WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE OF

118FAITH ARE NEVER INCLUDED IN INCLUSION IN TOY'DA SWORLD DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION ARE ACTUALLY COVER WORDS FOR DIVISION, INEQUALITY AND EXCLUSION AND I WISH WE WOULD LEAVE ALL THIS ALL THIS POLITICAL PROGRAMING OUT OF THE SCHOOLS ENTIRELY. SPEND YOUR TIME ON ACADEMIC FUTURES WHICH DEMAND YOUR FULL ATTENTION WORK ON W'SHAT IMPORTANT. THANK YOU INDEX FINGER IN SALLY IS SALLY DANIEL, THE MAYOR THE STRICKLAND THEN CARLY CARMAC. IT WLLIE BNO URPR SISE WITHIN ONE THAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE ELIMINATION OF DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES. ARE YOU TIRED OF THIS? YOU WERE TOLD TO ELIMINATE DUI IN BOTH THE CURRICULUM ADDED HIRING. WHO TOLD YOU THIS A BULLY >> MANY >> OF US LEARNED EARLY IN OUR SCHOOL CAREERS ON THE PLAYGROUND WHO ABOUT BELIEFS AND WHAT WE FOUND OUT IS THAT THEY HAD

119SOME SORT OF POWER OVER US >> YET PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL AND THEY WERE TO USE THAT POWER TO GET US TO DO WHAT WE DIDN'T WANT TO DO SO WE GAVE THEM OUR LUNCH MONEY WE LAUGHED WHEN THEY PUSHED AND SHOVED OUR CLASSMATES >> BY GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANTED WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE SAFE BUT OF COURSE THAT ISN'T WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE OPRY'S AKWE JUST THE BULLY WANTED MORE AND MORE FROM US AND FOR ALL OF US LOCALLY MANY OF US LEARNED ANOTHER LESSONS ABOUT ANOTHER LESSON ABOUT BULLIES. THEY'RE REALLY COWARDS YEAH THEY PUT THEY PUT ON A BIG SHOW AND THEY PICK ON THE MOST VULNERABLE BECAUSE THEY WON'T FIGHT BACK. THEY BLUSTER, THEY THREATEN BUT WHEN SOMEONE HAS THE COURAGE TO STAND UP TO THEM WE FIND THEIR COWARDICE WHEN THE

120WEAK JOINED TOGETHER THEY CAN BEAT THAT BULLY AS A COWARD. THEY WILL NOT ENGAGE IN A FAIR FIGHT OUR SCHOOL BOARD OUR SCHOOL BOARD HAS IN THE OBJECT OF BULLIES THREATS. YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE IN FACT YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW FIRMS HAVE ALSO BEEN THE VICTIMS OF THIS BULLYING, THIS VICTIMHOOD HAS EMBOLDENED THAT BULLY. WHY WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE BULLIES THREATS I SHOULD SAY THAT THEY WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH BECAUSE THIS BULLY IS WELL VERSED IN OUT OF HIS VICTIMS HE >> HE SEPARATES >> THE VULNERABLE TO INCREASE THEIR VULNERABILITY HE FEELS THAT THEY HAVE NO ALLIES BUT OF COURSE THIS IS NOT TRUE. A GREAT NUMBER OF AMERICANS HAVE REJOICED ON THE PROGRESS OF OUR COUNTRY HAS MADE INITIATIVES MANY INITIATIVES. MANY OF US GREW

121UP WHEN SCHOOLS WERE SEGREGATED GAINS WERE IN THE CLOSET AND WOMEN HAD ABOUT FOR CAREER CHOICES OPEN TO THEM HMM. HARVARD CALLED THE BLUFF PART LAW FIRMS HAVE STARTED TO CALL THIS A THANDT IS TMEI. OUREXT S NPEAKER IS MARILYN STRICKLAND THAN PROBABLY THEN GREG RMANNO GOOD EVENGNI MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD I'M NOT. MI'OT N HERE TO TALK ABOUT DI I'M HONORED TO SAY THAT I'VE BEEN A SCHOOL NURSE IN NURSE IN VIRGINIA BEACH FOR FIVE YEARS BEFORE JOINING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM I WORKED AT THE HK FTOR E YEIGHTS.AR BRING THE SAME LEVEL EXPEOFRTIZE AND DEDICATION TO THE SCHOOL EVERY DAY BUT UNLIKE IN THE HOSPITAL ON THE SOLE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER FIVE HUNDRED STUDENTS I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR SCHOOL NURSES TO RECEIVE THE RESPECT IN COMPENSATION WE DESERVE SCHOOL

122NURSES ARE NOT SIMPLY SUPPORT STAFF IN AND OUT BANDAIDS AND ICE PACKS WE ARE VITAL LICENSED HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL TO ENSURE A SAFE SCHOOL AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT WHERE STUDENTS CAN THRIVE PART HEOF T VP CPS CORE VALUES IS WE PUT STUDENTS WHEN YOU SAY YOU CARE ABOUT STUDENTS ABOUT STUDENTS WELL-BEING THAT MUST INCLUDE THE PROFESSIONAL WHO ARE LITERALLY SAFEGUARDING THEIR HEALTH IN ADDITION TO TRIAGING ACUTE ILLNESS AND INJURIES WE MANAGE CHRONIC COMPLEX MEDICAL NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS INCLUDING THOSE WITH DISABILITIES PROVIDE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AND PROMOTE HEALTH EDUCATION WE ARE THE SOLE FIRST LINE RESPONDERS TO ANY MEDICAL EVENT INJURY THAT CAN OCCUR AT ANY MOMENT IF A CHILD CAN'T BREATHE CARDIAC REST HAS A SEIZURE LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS WHO STEPS IN? I HAVE SPRINTED INND A WE ALL HEARD THE STORY AT THE BEGINNING OF

123THE MEETING ABOUT THE STUDENTS AIMED AT LPUARKSR THE NURSE THE COMPLEXITY AND RESPONSIBILITY THIS WORK RRESEQUIOT BEDICH MAL EXPERTIZE AND SOUND JUDGMENT BUT DESPITE ALL THIS ARE SALARYOES D NOT REFLECT THE TRUE THE TRUE VALUE OF OUR IMPACT THE VBA RECENTLY POSE AN ALARMING PAY DISPARITY REGARDING LOCAL SCHOOL NURSES RIES. THIS INFORMATION WAS HOSTLYNE DISHEARTENING SCHOOL NURSE IS JUST MILES AWAY EARNING TWELVE THOUSAND MORE A YEAR AND I DO MANY ARE IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL PAY SCALE. I'M A CERTIFIED PEDIATRIC NURSE WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE ACTIVE STATE LICENSED AND COMPLETE ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT I MEET THE SAME STANDARDS AS MANY EDUCATORS BUT I'M PAID A LOWER SKILL. I HAVE OVER THIRTEEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE YET A FIRST YEAR TEACHER STILL EARNS MORE THAN ME ALMOST FOUR THOUSD MANEORF I WIAS INCLUDED ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL SCALE ALONGSIDE

124A DEDICATED TEACHERS I WOULD BE EARNING FIFTEEN THOUSAND MORE ANNUALLY I SAY THIS NOT TO SEEK PRAISE OR TO BEG YOU BUT TO ASK A SIMPLE HONEST QUESTION SHOULDN'T THE LEVEL OF EDUCATION TRAINING CERTIFICATION THAT I AND SO MANY SCHOOL NURSES BRING TO OUR HOOLSSC BE REFLECTED IN HOW ARE COMPENSATED ENSURING? ENSURINGOMPE CTIYTIAVE PO D HELP RETAIN IN A TRACK QUIEALIFURD NSESNSTE IAD OF THEM OBVIOUS HIGHER PAYING PHYSICIANSAND HOSPITALS OR WORSE THE OTHER LOCAL SCHO ICTOLTRDISSS IT' A COMMON SENSE POLICY CHANGE THAT WOULD STRENGTHEN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE COMMUNITY IT'S AN INVESTMENT FOR SHARING ETH SAFETY OF ALL VIRGIAIN STUDENTS WHILE SUPRTINGPO THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. NOT ONLY DO STUDENTS DESERVE A SAFE INCOMPETENT >> NURSE >> BUT THE PARENTS STAFF IN THE ADMINTRATISSOR AS DO WELL IN BESELDUIINGS I RESPECTFULLY URGE THE BOARD TO

125REVIEW THE CURRENT PAY STRUCTURE FOR SCHOOL NURSES LET'S BE PROACTIVE IN THIS MATTER AND NOT REACTIVE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND COMMITMENT AND EXCELLENCE WILLIE IEAVE LOU YITH WH TE OTEQU THAT'S DISPLAYED MY SLCHOOCLINI C STUNTDES MUST BE MUST BE HEALTHY TO BE EDUCATED AN EDUCATED TO BEEALT HHY THANK YOU FOR NEXT SPKESEA IR PROBABLY COMAC >> THEGREG RNOMAN CARLY CARMAC GEGR NORMAN LUKE EVERY MAN EVERY WOMAN WHO HAS TO TAKE UP THE SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT MUST ASK THEMSELVES TO QUESTIONS DO I LOVE MY PEOPLE IN ORDER TO SERVE THEM BETTER IN MY HUMBLE INTO DO I LISTEN TO EVERYBODY DIVERSE OPINIONS IN ORDER TO CHOOSE THE BEST PATH IF YOU DON'T ASK THOSE QUESTIONS YOUR GOVERNANCE WILL NOT BE GOOD THAT'S A QUOTE FROM POPE FRANCIS WHO WE LOST THIS WEEK I THINK

126A GOOD WORD FOR GOVERNING GROUP LIKE THIS TO THINK ABOUT BECAUSE BY SUSPENDING HIS POLICY AND HASTILY MOVING FORWARD WITH THESE CHANGES WITHOUT DUE CONSIDERIONAT AND WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT EVEN WHEN YOU'RE TOLD THAT YOU CLEARLY HAVE MORE TIME TO PUT INTO TO PUT EVEN MINIMAL EVEN MINIMAL THOUGHT INTO IT BEFORE ACTING ON A RESOLUTION BROUGHT UP THE NIGHT BEFORE AND INTRODUCED AT THE MEETING AND BY TURNING DOWN THE MOTIONS TO DEFER IT FOR FURTHER COMMENT AND CONSIDERATION YOU'VE SHOWN THAT YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE PRINCIPLES STATED IN POLICY FIVE FOR THE FOUR THAT POLICY STATES THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD VALUES THE DIVERSITY IN OUR COMMUNITY AND STAFF AND BELIEVES IT ALL STUDENTS STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUNDS DESERVE IT DESERVE A RIGOROUS AND RESPECTFUL LEARNING AND WORK ENVIRONMENT DIVERSITY IS VALUED BECAUSE IF

127YOU DID BELIEVE IN THOSE PRINCIPLES YOU WOULD HAVE AT LEAST TAKEN A BREATH BEFORE TAKING RUSHED ACTION TO SUSPEND HIM WHEN NO ONE WAS LOOKING BUT IT'S CLEAR MANY OF YOU WERE EVEN EAGER TO DISMANTLE THESE POLICIES PRACTICES MANY OF YOU CLEAN YOU CLAIM YOUR HANDS WERE TIED AND THAT YOU WERE FORCED BY THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IN THE THREAT TO OUR FUNDING BUT I'M CONFIDENT MANY OF YOU CHEERED WHEN YOU SAW THE PRESIDENT PASS THE EXECUTIVE ORDER BECAUSE YOU FINALLY HAD THE EXCUSE TO DROP THESE EFFORTS ENTIRELY. MR. COLPEPER, YOU ACKNOWLEDGED IN THAT MEETING THAT THE POINT ABOUT NEEDING PUBLIC INPUT WAS VALID BUT YOU WILL UNDERSTATE THEUV S I DIDN'T. I DIDN'T COME UP YESTERDAY AND PUBLIC THE PUBLIC HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT THAT IS A MASSIVE DISREGARD FOR THE COMPLEXITY OF

128THESE ISSUES AND IT'S A GROSS DISMISSAL OF OUR RIGHTS AND YOUR ROLE AS OUR REPRESENTATIVES VISITING CREDIBLY COMPLEX TOPIC AND IT ESRVSCUS DION TETHRNUTOU TONIGHT SHOWS THAT PEOPLE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THESE TOPICS THE DISCUSSION THIS DISCUSSION IS CRUCIAL WE. WE DESERVE TEO B HEARD AND YOUR JOB IS TO LISTEN TO US. BUT THIS DECISION WAS EXECUTED AT THE SAME LIKE A FORETHOUGHT IN CONSIDERATION THAT EVERY OTHER CHILDISH TANTRUM ACTIONS BEING MADE THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION ITOV MING FAST AND SMASHING THINGS AND THEN PICKING UP THE PIECES LATER IT'S SLOPPY GOVERNANCE AND IT'S BEYOND SHAMEFUL IT'S ACTUALLY HORRIFYING BECAUSE IT'S INDICATIVE OF LARGER WAVE INEQUITY SWEEPING ACROSS THIS COUNTRY THIS COUNTRY FROM THE TOP AND MYANBE MEMRS OF THIS BOY SHOULDER NOT ONLY READY TO ROLL OVER THESE EFFORTS THAT ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM AND WE

129SEE FOR IT DO BETTER. THANK YOU SO WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME BEFORE 8:00 P.M. TO DO ANOTHER SPEAKER BUT WE WILL RESUME SPEAKERS AFTER THE INFORMATION PORTION OF OUR AGENDA. WE WELCOME ROBERT JAMISON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OFFICE OF STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR AN UPDATE ON THE HARBOR HOPE CENTER PROGRESS REGION TO RECOVERY SCHOOL OK, MR. JAMISON, GO AHEAD AND EVERYONE IF YOU COULD PLEASE KEEP THE VOLUME DOWN SO THAT OUR MEETING CAN CONTINUE WELL GOOD EVENING GOOD EVENING, CHAIRMAN BROWN, VICE CHAIR WEEMES BOARD MEMBERS AND DR. ROBERTSON MY PRESENTATION THIS EVENING WILL BE A BRIEF OVERVIEW THE KEY MILESTONES ACHIEVED BY THE HARBOR HOPES ON AND A REGIONAL IN CGOMMITTEE FOR MIFEBRUAD-RY WHENE TH FIVE PARTICIPATINGHO SCOLAR BODS ETROVAOMPLPPED ALRO THUGH APRIL 11T AHT THE CONUCLSION OFCH ON TOUHE T NEXTPS STE, THE ONEERREGITAL SING

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132ND OPERATION OF THE REGIONAL SCHOOL REGIONAL >> MUSTPE OTERA TH BYWILAWS AND VCS ITS FISCAL AGENT TOOK THE LEADHE T EVELOPDMENT OF SAI BDLAWSY THES BYEWSLAESH TEYLAWS B DEFINE TH GOVEERNIN BOARGD SITIONPO ALGON WITH RATIPEAL PROONCESEDURD AN RESPONSIBILITIES THESEYLAWS B AINEM INRA DFT FORM IS LEGAL TEA AREMS PARTICIPATING ONAL SGICHOOL PRISIONSOVE MICROFINANCE CURRENTLY. RENT OLY RDR.NSONBIS I WORKING WITH HIS CEROUNTSPART TO IDENTIFY REPRESENTATIVES HE'S DIVISION SCHOOL BOARD TO ERVES ON THE REGIONAL SCHOOL'S GOVERNI BOARDNG WHAT WORKING ON THE BYLAWS. THE VIEW BETWN TOEEARTICI PPATE IN SCHOOL BOARD WAS ALSO TED THEAIS DOCUMENT REMAINS IN AFTDR FORM IS PARTICIPATING L AMS MTEAKE CHAESNG AND AS ATTACHMENTS TCHNOEGY FOOLOD SERVICES FO SEODICESRV AND OPERATIONS ARE VELODEPED. THE VICK SLEGALTEAM IS ALSO BECOME THE WORK ANOF EMOJI TO FOALLYRM ESTABLISHHE T PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN HARBOR CENTERIN HESAPE CAKE INTEATEGR

133D HEALT DIHOMOST YOU DEFINES THE RELATIONSH BETIPEN THWEEWO T TIENTIES AND THE EXPTATIONECS ANDIMITAT LIONSOF TH E TNERSHARIP AND FINLYAL THE REGIONA SLTEERING COMMITTEE AL CONTSOINU TOE WORK ONHE T OPERIOATNAL ASPECTS THE HRBORA HOPE CENTER THE FIINGND A MANDATORY DG TERUSTGIN POLICY CREATINGNROLL EMETN PROTOCOLS ND FORAMS ANDFI NALIZING OPERATIONAL JUST INUDCLING ROOM LECTSENS, IOFURNITURE ACQUISITION ARRIVALND A DEPARTURE PRODURESCE ADN FOOD SERVICESGREEM AENTSO ME TNTION OL YEW F OF THE THINGS WHICH WOUBELD IN ACEPLNE O OF OUR ES O HUROPES AND OUR GOVERNING ARD IBOS FORMALIZED ANDEETS MO T APPROVEHE T HIRING OF AROGRA PM CRDINATOOOR THE PROGRAM COORDINATOR ONE SIDE HIRED WILL FOCUS O STANFFIN,G COORATLLABEHESAP CEAKE INTTEDEGRA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXCUSE DEVELMEOPING A MARKENGTI CAMPAIGN ENRLINGOL TSEN AND FINALIZING LOSTICALGI DEILS TTAO SURE WE AREN'T TARGET TO ONPE OURRS DOO AND INWE TTWENNTY FIVE TY

134SIX COUR LET'SES I WOULDE B REMISS IF I AM NOT SREHA WHAT DISTINGUISHED VIRGIA BOANIRD OF EDUCATION BOARD MEMBERS REPEATEDLY REMARK TO OUR TEAM REPRESENTED IN RICHMOND ALL INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT OR TO BE COMMENDED FOR THE COMMITMENT TO A NEW LEVEL OF COLLABORATION AMONG OUR CITIES AND SCHOOLS FOR A TRUE REGIONAL EFFORT WHICH REQUIRED THINKING OUIDETS THE BOX PERSEVERENCE AN INGENUITY THANK YOUOR F BEING A PARTF THIS O COLLABORATION THE T TRUE COLLABORATION IN THE STATE SUPPO ANDRT RECOGNITION OF T NEHE FOR TEDHESE SERVICES FOR OUR YOUTH ARE COMMEABLEND AND I'LL BE BACKEFORE B YOU TO SHAREMORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR OPENING IN THE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY HOOLSC YEAR IN THE MONTHS TO COME AND I'M HAPPY TO TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS THANK GOD VICE AND VICE CHAIR I WOULD LIKENE O CLARIFATICIONVI SION DBOAR VACATION

135DID NOT AOVPPRE SI AS A REGIONALSC HOOL SCHOOL IT IS RECOGNIZED THAT THE AUTHORITY CAME FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT WAS PLACED IN THE BULLETIN BOARD OF EDUCATION ANWOTS T STUDY THE ISSUE OF JOINT SCHOOL FOR REGIONAL, RNALEGIOR O JOINT REGIONAL SCHOOLS FOR RECOVERY SCHOOLS A LITTLE BIT LONGER THIS SUMMER SO THEY DID NOT RUBY THEY FELT THAT YOU HAD ADEQUATE AUTHORITY UNDER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHICHEEDE EXCDY ANTHO AUTY RI THE VIRGINIA BOARD OF EDUCATIOND ULWOA H SVEO THIS INITIAL WILL BE STANDING BUT YOU'RE DO NOT USE THE REGION TO SCHOOL BUT YOU ARE NOT A REGIONAL SCHOOL SUCH AS KEY SEECP OR TO RNGOVE SORSLCHOOE AR AT THIS TIM APEOVALPRTO OP ATERE. YES MR. ROGERS I, IAN THKU YO SO MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION BUT IEFINI DTELY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON JANUARY

136TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY FIVE WHEN THIS CAME BEFORE US I HAD MENTIONED THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE EMPLOYEES COMPLETED AND THAT OR GOVERNING BOARD WASN'T PUT TOGETHER AND SO I HAD PUT IN A MOTION FOR AN AMENDMENT SO THAT WE COULD KNOW WHAT WE ARE YOU KNOW VOTING IN THIS PRESENTATION AND YOU DISCUSSED THAT EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN DRAFTED HAVE BEEN THOSE BEEN EXECUTED? NO. I CAN RELATED I CAN HANDLE THAT QUESTION. WE ALYALCTU PART OF THE REASON WE WERE LOOKINGAS WE FELT IT WE BELIEVED QUALIFIED IS A JOINT SCHOOL UNDER THE APPROPRIATE STATUTE. THE VIRGINIA BOARD OF EDUCATION TOOK A WHILE TO LOOK AT THAT INITIALLY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE MET THE DEFINITION AFTER FURTHER CONSIDERATION FURTHER CONSIDERATION THEY DECIDED THEY WANTED TO STUDY THE ISSUE BECAUSE WE HAD TO REDRAFT THE YOU TO DO IT IT'S

137STRUCTURED LIKE REGIONAL SCHOOL SO THAT IF YOU LOOKED THE AGREEMENT WILL LOOK SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU HAVE A SEPARATE A SEPARATE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS THE WAY WE NMER BENT WUTE DIDN'T GET APPROVAL FOR WE DIDN'T GET APPROVAL FOR THIS. WE HAD TO CHANGE LANGUAGE AROUND SO THAT WENT BACK OUT AFTER WE GOT APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AT LEAST A CONCEPT AND GOING FORWARD AND WE'VE JUST CIRCULATED THE ESTISUGGSONOM FRGA LEOUL CNSEL FOR BOTH THE MAIN AND WERE YOU AND THEYLAWS B WHICHO GVERNT I THERE ARE SOME AGREEMENTS THAT ARE GOING THERE WERE. WE'RE ALSO SETTING OUT TO DO SO WHAS T'ETH TIMELINE ON EXECUTING THOSE I THINK WE'RE AT OUR FINAL ROUND ON THE MO YOU THE NORFOLK SCHOOL BOARD WANTS TO SEE THE WHOLE I'M WHOLE MEMO BEFORE THEY APPROVE

138SO THAT WILL HAVE TO GO BACK OUT TOTHEM WHEEN W JUST GOT THE DRAFT OUT FOR THAT THE CHESAPEAKE HAS SEEN IT AND I ELIEVT SHAFOLKUFN I RTSPOUTMOHAVEH STTUBMI TEDHEIR CHANGES I DON'T KNOW IFH TR ARDS WBOILL LNGOOKI AT I STO ONCE ITOOK L AT IT I THINK NORFOLK I THINK NORFOLK IS GOING TO TRY APPROVE IT AS SOON AS IT GOT THE FINAL COPY AND THE REASON I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE DR. JAMESON OR DR. THAT MR. JAMES YOU HAD SAID THAT IN IF WE HAD NOT VOTED ON JUNIOR TO I HAD REQUESTED THAT WE BRING THIS BACK YOU SAID IN YOUR OPINION THAT CONVERSATIONS WITH VARIOUS CITIES HAS LANDED ITSELF TO LEAD ME TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE IN NEED OF OUR FULL COMMITMENT IN TO MOVE FORWARD WITH NECESSARY RESOLUTIONS FOR FUNDS TO

139BE TRANSFERRED AND THE SAME TIME BY US BEING ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD NOW WITH THIS DECISION YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY START OUR PROGRAMING WHICH MAY INCLUDE POSTING POSITIONS AND HIRING OF STAFF WHICH WOULD THEN NOT DELAY STARTED BY AUGUST 20 25 TWENTY TWENTY FIVE. SO WE HIRED STAFF NO WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO POST POSITIONS YET BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE GOVERNING BOARD TOGETHER. WELL THAT WAS THE CHANGE THAT HE JUST OUTLINED THAT WE WERE NOT AWARE OF ON JANUARY 28TH. OK, SO SO I MEAN THAT'S I GUESS MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'VE ALREADY DECIDED ON THIS AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE EXECUTED EMPLOYEES ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO FORWARD IN AUGUST OF TWENTY TWENTY FIVE IF WE'RE STILL KIND OF LIKE NOT READY. WELL AS WE SHARED SAID AND I DO WANT

140TO ACTUALLY REALLY GLAD YOU BROUGHT THIS QUESTION UP BECAUSE THAT EVENING I WANTED TO SHARE THE POINT OF THE OTHER SCHOOL DIVISIONS WANTED TO SEE US TAKE ACTION IN ORDER FOR CERTAIN APPROVAL TO ACTUALLY OCCUR AND THAT DID SO I THANK YOU FOR ALL FOR ALL OF THAT SUPPORT IN TERMS NEXT STEPS. LYNNETTE IS IMPORTANT AND I DON'T MEAN TO BRING A SPORTS ANALOGY UP BUT THEY'RE MOVING THE GOALPOST IS WE'RE PLAYING THIS GAME SO WE'RE TRYING TO BE FLEXIB WITHLE THE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS THAT THEY PRESENT TO US AND THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE OUR TIMELINE CAN I SAY AUGUST WITH CERTAINTY KNOW? NO. CAN I SAY TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX WITH CERTAINTY? YES. OK, SO OK AND AND YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY IT'S A CONCERN AND YOU'RE SAYING THEY'RE MOVING THE GOALPOSTS SO THAT LEADS ME

141TO BE CONCERNED IS THAT GOING TO CHANGE THE COST THAT WE WERE PRESENTED? NO THAT IS NOT CHANGE THE COST THE PROJECTED NUMBERS THAT WE GAVE YOU WITH THE NUMBER OF STAFF WITH THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE SECURED NONE OF THAT HAS CHANGED EVEN IF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY THAN WE ORIGINALLY CORRECT AND THAT BECAUSE IT THAT BECAUSE IT WASN'T RELATED TO FUNDING WE ARE WORKING THROUGH ARE THE PARAMETERS BY WHICH WE HAVE TO OPERATE BUT THE OPERATING BUDGET HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE WE PRESENTED THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. BUT SHOULD BE AMA USE THE SCHOOL DIVISION'S CAN'T COME TO AN AGREEMENT, DOES THAT THEN PUT US WE TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT IF IT'S JUST US AND CHESAPEAKE CORRECT THAT THAT WOULD CHANGE YES. AND THAT WAS SOMETHING WE TALK ABOUT WITH DR. ROBERTSON THAT IF

142WE RECEIVE ANY KIND OF CHANGE IN FUNDING WE WILL BE COMING BACK TOHA SRE THAT FOINIORMATTHAT'SN VERY THE ARCLIFICATION HAD TO DEAL WITH THE LEGAL ENTITY STRUCTURE ON IT AND THEOVERNA GNCE THE GOVERNANCE BOARD. IT WASN'T THE HAWKEN'S I'VE DONE AND WE THINK THAT WORKED OUT THAT THIS SO THE REST OFHE CON TCEPTUNDING F WAS NOT WHAT THE POLITICAL DIVISIONS SCHOOL DIVISIONS WERE CONCERNED. I'M JUST CONCERNED STILL THAT WE ARE GOING TO I DON'T WANT TO BE THE ONLY US CHESAPEAKE BE THE ONLY TWO BECAUSE THAT DOES CHANGE EVERYTHING SO THAT'S MY SO THAT'S MY BIGGEST CONCERN BECAUSE STILL DON'T HAVE UTED EMPLOYEES BUT AGAIN YOU GUYS YOU GUYS ARE WORKING YOU HAVE EXECUTEDMM COENITM EACH ONETH OF EPARTICIPATING OLSCHOVI DINSHAS PASSED RESOLUTION COMMITTINGO T THIS PROJECT AND SO GOING FORWARD WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT

143WE NEEDED TO GET TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE REST OF THE ARGUMENTS YOU HAVE THAT THE COMMITMENT IS THERE. IT'S FINALIZED IN THE DOCUMENTS WORKING ON. ALL RIGHT WELL'M I G TOINGO LOOK FORWARDO TK LOO FORWARD TO THAT. THANK YOU. OK, SEE NO OTHER QUESTIONS THANK YOU SO MUCH I. I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING US THIS IMPORTANT UPDATE AND NOW WE ARE ON TO THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE THE SBA EXCELLENCE WORKFORCE READINESS AWARD WE WELCOME DR. SARAH LOCKETTE DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL AND CAREER EDUCATION. WELCOME. GOOD EVENGNI . GOOD ME CHAIRWOMANWN BRO CEVI HA CIRWOMAN WEED'SME SMBERTHARD. OF OE B DR.BE ROTSRON MI' HERE TIGHTON AND EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU ARE NOMINATION FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION EXCELLCEEN A WWARDNDFOORK ARCE FOR THE APPLATSIC IONESPROCEO FRH T 'SVA ELEXCEL

144WNTORK FORCE ONE IATNNOVIVE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMEN ROJTRAPROG PM AECT ANSWERING FIVE APICPL QUESONSTIUTBO A THEOMINA NTEDPR OGRAM SEEKING SCHOOL BOARD NO WE ARE THTONNBMITTINGBY Y 3MATH.0 TENTYNTWEY FIVE THE PROGRAM RB TO SUPPORT THO SCHOOLS Y THE HPTONILHR TOUGH THIS PAREWETNP RSHIAV W HHE THKE PIPELINEOL TO THE RITIMA ANTRUST ARE AVE OF ECONOCMI RO EROUR REGION E PARTRSHIPNE INUDECLETH O ALLOWED THEVIRGIN IABE ACH NITECN NTERCEO TN OPE A SECOND WELDING AN HEDLEDOUB T NUMRBE STUDENTS ACCEPTEDNTO IH TIS TRAINING PROGRAM EA YCHRHEEN INR S DOARS. NABEW LGUOF TWENTY TWENTY FROUS CURRENTLY AT E HUNONDRED PERCTEN THE NEXT INVESTMENTOU R ARE OUR SCHOOLS BY THEONEGIARAL MEITIMIN HAMPTON ROADS WOFORCERK COUNCILAM CEN I THE FORM OF GRANT FUNDINGRO HUGHE T MIDDLE SCHOOL MARITIME EXPONRATITIUNDING FOR EQUIPNT IME MINLEDD SOLCHO TECHNOLOGYDU EONCATIAB LS. IT PROVIDED CHARTER BUS A TRDDLEMI SCHOOLMA MERITIFIELD

145RI TPS THAT SUPPORTEDEM ST EFFECTIVE AND THATIS HAPPENG ININUST J A FEW SHORT WEEKS ON MAYTH 14 AT THEGI VANIEIO BACHO CNTNVEN CENTER NATSUI LOOK TO WHAT THE WHAT IS NEXTH TE REGIONAL MARITIMENC AGINTAES INV AGN IAINVEST IN VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS FORHE T SECOND WELDIHE SSNAI A THIS LAB WLIL MORE SUDENTST NGDURI THEA DYN AD ADULT EA ALSRNEREROUFTHO SC HOLRS DAN SLATEDO F OF TWENTY ENTWTY. SIX NE BY OLSCHORD BOAEMBERU STPPOR MEMBER STSORUPPS VOTED TO APPR O ED FUNDEING FORON ATERIAMLS ADN STAFFING ONGAL WET UNPARALLELED SUPPEIS FROM THE BH BUSI ALSO FROM. YOUR APPROVAL OF THE NOMINIONATE W U K ORW FOR RECOGNITION I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT THE AWARD. ARE A NOMINATION PSSROCE AT THIS TIMEISS M ROGERS I JUST WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS THANKS FOR ALL YOUR ALL

146YOUR WORK. THANK YOU SUPER EEDXCIT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK THIS. THIS WILL BE BACK FOR ACTION AT OUR NEXT FORMAL MEETING AND WE NOW MOVE ON TO OUR GENERAL FEES SCHEDULE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX AND WE WELCOME CRYSTAL PATE, OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN BROWN VICE CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN, MARINE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. DR. ROBERTSON AS IS CUSTOMARY EACH YEAR WE ARE PRESENTING THE GENERAL THESE SCHEDULE WHICH INCLUDES THE APPROVED ASSESS THESE FOR TWENTY FOUR TWENTY FIVE TWENTY VE YEAFIOO SCHLR ANDA WENTT TWENYTY FEIVTWENT Y SIX SCOLHOAR YE SGECHAN USER FEES OR HIGHLIGEDHT IN REDFOR YOUR NT SEVALER FEES WILL RAINEM UNANGEDCH FORHE T UINGPCOM HOOLSC YEAR I HOPE YU'VEO HAD ANPPORTU ONITY TO REVWIE THES CHEDEUL IN AANCEDV UNDE TRHE STUDENT MEAL PRICES THERE IS A LU PER

147CENTNCRE IE IASNAID P NCATEH R FOR ELEM ANRYENTAD SECONDARY STUDTS AEN WELSL IN HE PTAID BAKFAREST RATE FOR BO LETHLSVE UNDER SUMMER SOOLCH TUITIONGRAMRO PSOU Y WILL TICNO AE TEN DOLLAR INCREASE FORTHE DIGILTA CAMPUS ONLINE ALTHHE P.E.T. YOU WHIT DRIVER EDUCATION TRFICAFSAFE TY SRUMME CAUSEHIS T PROGRAM'S FEEIS EREDTI BAEDS WHETHER A STUNTDE PAY PAYS FULL PRICE FOREAL M S, ALIFQUSIE WERE DUCERE PDICER LS ARE RECEIVES MEALS ATO N STCO ADITIDALLYONHIN WIT THE WITHIN THE DRERIV IONATEDUC ROP FEESGRAM THE COST FRO NDE THHEEL WDURI NG BOTH THE RULAREG SLCHOO ARYE ADN E'SER SOM REECONESSI HAS INCREASED B FOYRT DOLYLARS FOR ENTSUDHO P WAY FULL PRICE FOR MEALSLSO A THERE IS A CHANGE FROM NO FEE AND TENTYWUR FO ENTY FIVE TO SIXTY DOLLARS FORIGITA DL CAMPUS ONLINE ALTHHE FEE TO WITH VIRGINIA VERIDUCAT EION TRAFFIC SATYFE

148DURIN THEGGULAR RE SCHOOL YARE . THE INCREASES REFLECT SINRIG VENDOR FOR THE ONLINER DIVER TDATIONUC CURRICULUM REQUIRE IN HE HEALTH P TO COURSE ATHE T BOTTOM OF GEPA >> TEEHR PRACTICAL NURNGSI ONE AND TWO LPN HIGH SCHOOLEES F DECRSEDEA NINEBY DOLLAR DUSE A REDUCTION HE TOST C OF THE AMICANER HEASOCIASRT ATION CERTIFICATI N COETOLSMY TOOGOLT KI THEES DECRSED BEAY SIX DOLLARS DUEO T WER MLOATERLIA COST ELECTRONICS ROBOTDICS ONEND A TO PACK FEES INCREASED FIV DELARSOL HIGHER DUE TO HIGHER CPONENTOM CES AND ON PAGE FOR THE FEES LISTED FOR SDENTTU ATHLETIC ETCK PRICES FLECRE NETUROMA AT THIS TONHE PAGE FOR IF THESE LIFERUC STUDENT ATHLETICTI CKETRI P RECESECTFL THE INCREASES RENTLYECAPPR EDOV BY ETHOOL SCH BOARD TEHNA FIL ITEM D LIKE TO LISHIGH IGHT THE TUITION FOR NONREDENTSI ENTSUD SHN ATOW THE BMOTTO IS PTHAGE AS

149PARTOF O UR GOION EFFONGRTOS T SUPPORTCRUI TMEN ATRETEND IONNT ACROSS ALL POTIONSI THES TON DIVISECID EDAFEW YEARS GO WAEIV TUIONTI FOR ILDRENCH OF VIIARGINACH BEITY C PUBLIC PLOYEEMES RESIDING OSIDEUT VIOF Y E FTHRSIT TWO RSTFIO TW LINE IT UEMS ASNDERMPL EEESOY REFLECT A ROZE TUITION REATR FO BOH ETMELEYNTAR AND SECDONARY LEVELS FOR ALLOTHER ESIDENNONRTTION TUI RENESIDTS STUDENTS TITIONUEES F WERE ULCALC CONSIATEDSTENT WITH YEARS ANDREFL TEC INCREASED DIVISION WIDE COST AND WITH THAT I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE I DON'T SEE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR UPDATE AND THIS WILL ALSO BE UP FOR A VOTE DURING OUR NEXT FORMAL MEETING WE RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING TO RETNTOUR PU ICBL COMMENT AND THE SAME PROCESS IS GOING TO BE USED AS OUTLINED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE

150MEETING AND BELOW ONE FORTY EIGHT. MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE ANNOUNCED THE NEXT THREE SPEAKERS OUR NEXT SPEAKERS WILL BE ELLEN JAFFE GUILL JEEFF COBB AND JEPOSH DUKAT. GOOD GOODEV GENIN. SCHOOL BOARD >> I AM MY NAME IS ELLEN JAFFE GIRL I LIVE IN BAYSIDE I AM AN EX TEACHER IN LOS ANGELES AND AND I HAVE COME TONIGHT TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND AND ALL THAT GOES WITH IT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AS AN ANTIQUE INFLATION IS THIS CONTROVERSIAL AT ALL WE ALREADY LIVE IN A DIVERSE SCHOOL DISTRICT OUR OUR STUDENTS COME FROM EVERYWHERE >>. WE ALREADY PRIZE THE WAY BY LAW AND IN IN FACT THE THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUITY. WE WANT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR OUR STUDENTS, OUR OUR STUDENTS OF COLOR ARE JUST NOW GETTING TO THAT

151LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. THEY ARE NOT GETTING ANYTHING THATHE TYO D NOT DESERVE AND THE PRINCIPLE OF INCLUSION IS SOMETHING THAT THAT SIMPLY DOESN'T NEED TO BE STATED OF COURSE WE WANT TO BE INCLUSIVE OF COURSE WE WANT TO INCLUDE EVERY CHILD, EVERY EVERY CHILD WHO COMES THROUGH OUR DOORS WHETHER THAT CHILD IN A WHEELCHAIR, HEARING IMPAIRED SIGHT IMPAIRED HAS MOBILITY ISSUES. OTHER MOBILITY ISSUES WE DON'T KNOW WE USED TO THAT WE TO REJECT CHILDREN BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY COULD BE ACCOMMODATED, WHETHER OR NOT THE BUILDING ACCESSIBLE TO THEM . BY DOING SO WE LOCKED OUT CHILDREN WHOSE BRAINS WORKED JUST AS WELL AS THOSE CHILDREN WHO HAD NO DISABILITIES AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN WE LOCKED OUT WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN WE TURNED AWAY BECAUSE THEY WERE

152THE WRONG COLOR WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN WE TURNED WAY BECAUSE OUR IDEA OF EQUITY WAS SOMETHING THAT >> THAT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE NINETEEN FIFTIES AND NOT THE TWENTY TWENTIES AND WE AND AND WE WE CONSIDER OURSELVES INCLUSIVE IF WE IF WE IF WE ALLOW CHILDREN TO WALK >>. I SUPPORT D.C.I THANK YOU. MY NEXT SPEARKE ISJEFF COBA JOSEPH YOU ANDTH EREVENA T JEFFERSON GOOD EN TEVINGTHA I'M CHAIR BROWN VICEHA CIR WEEMS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD SUPERINTENDENT ROBERTSON MY NAME IS JEFF COBH. I AM A LONG TIME TEACHER AND VIRGINIA BEACH, A TEACHER WHO TAUGHT FOR YEARS AND I ATTENDED MANY SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS AND LOOKS FAMILIAR. YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHY PARTICULARLY DR. ROBERTS AND IT'S GOING TO BE FEELING AT ALL BECAUSE COMES ALONG I FAVOR DIVERSE CITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION

153WHY I CONSIDER A HISTORY LESSON AS GROUPS HAVE FOUGHT FORORE M DIVERSITY IN THE SCHOOLS WE RECALL TIMES WHEN STUDENTS WORE EXCLUDED FOR DIFFERENT REASONS WHETHER FROM THE SCHOOL ITSELF OR CERTAIN ACTIVITIES AND WORDS ARE POWERFUL WHEN WE TAKE AWAY WORDS LIKE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION HAVING NOBJEC OONTI TO THE TERMS THAT IHEARD BUT WHEN WE TAKE AWAY THOSE WORDS WE'RE SENDING A VERY POWERFUL AND A VERY NEGATIVE SIGNAL IT MAY WELL BE THAT THE BEACH SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH MANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE AT PRESENT. BUT WHEN WE CHANGE THE WORDING SOMETIMES THERE'S SOME SOME BACKSLIDING. SOMETIMES IT COMES FROM THIS INFORMATION FOR EXAMPLE I'VE HEARD A COUPLE OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HOW PROGRAM AND DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION OR AN EXAMPLE OF PREJUDICE AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE AND MY ONLY

154RESPONSE TO THAT COMING FROM ACTUALLY CHAD JOHNSON WHO USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL FOR THE CINCINNATI BENGALS AND HE PROBABLY GOT IT FROM HIS FAMILY WAS PLEASED CHILD YOU KNOW, WE WE UNDERSTAND IT IS NOT ABOUT ATTACK ANY PARTICULAR GROUP. IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY AS MUCH AS WE CAN. UNFORTUNATELY WE CAN'T CONTROL NUTRITION HE CAN'T CONTROL YOU ,YOU KNOW, MANY OTHER THINGS THOUGH WE TRY AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO TRY. BUT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY FINALLY, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR SEVERAL FOR A WHILE AND I HEARD YOUR WORK SESSION WHERE YOU DID DISCUSS MANY OF THE DETAILS THAT HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT BY SPEAKERS HERE AND CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR EFFORTS TO RESOLVE NGSTHI. I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT NOT ASSIGNING BLAME TO ANYBODY ONE SIDE AND THE

155OTHER SIDE MAYBE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING BUT PLEASE GO BACK TO THE WORK SESSION AND INFORMATION SESSION AND THAT IS TIME THANK YOU VERY >>MUCH XTNE SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER IS JOSEPH DUKAT. THEN BEING A JEFFERSON SPEAKER NUMBER TWENTY SEVEN HAD TO ELCANC AND IT'LL BE CODY CONNER >> IS JOSEPH DUKAT FOR OUR NEXT SPEAKER WOULD BEVE TRENA FE >RSON> CODY CONNERR D. RICHAR CD BOLEIAARC >> SO MR. COLE, ONE OF THE SPEAKERS THAT WAS CALLED BEFORE YOU HAS COME DOW THEN SHA LLO WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND IT LOOKS LIKE A PLECOUF S OAKPEERS WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEA ANDD ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCE THOSE NAMES >> FOR JOSEPH DUKAT TREVENAEFFERS JONDC ODY CNNERO >>. NO OR DO RIGHT. DO WE HAVE IS TREVENA JEFFERSON YOU GO FIRST MAN GOOD EVG.ENIN I'M JEFFERSON. I'M A U.S. CITIZEN

156I AM A VIRGINIA BEACH RESIDENT OF DISTRICT ONE AND I'M A VETERAN REVERSE THE BAN ON THE WHICH IS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY IS NOT A WHITE AND BLACK ISSUE. IT'S AN EVERYBODY ISSUE OVER SIXTY THOUSAND STUDENTS AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN VIRGINIA BEACH 55 PERCENT ARE STUDENTS OF COLOR LATINOS SOME CALL THEM HISPANIC, ASIANS, NATIVE AMERICANS MULTIRACIAL 12 PERCENT OR DISABILITY. WE HAVE FORTY THAT ARE GIRLS. FIFTY PERCENT ARE DISADVANTAGED . THE MAJORITY ARE PEOPLE IN MINORITY CLASSES VIRGINIA BEACH MUST BEACH MUST CONTINUE TO BE THE CITY THAT IS INTENTIONAL ABOUT ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL. REVERSE THE BAN ON DENK THAU YO . OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CODY CALMER ,THE D RR.RDICHA CLARKE JR. AND THEN JEAN FIZZED YOU THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF

157SILENCE LATELY SILENCING OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS VOICES SILENCING OF THE DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITIES SILENCING THAT INCLUSION AND INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILYIT O INRU SCHOOLS SILENCING OF TRUTH AND EDUCATION YOU KNOW IF YOU LISTENED LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THAT SILENCE BUT IT WASN'T THE RESIGNED SILENCE OF DEFEAT IT WAS THE SILENCE OF CLENCHED TEETH AND FISTS HELD BREATH BETWEEN LIGHTNING AND THUNDER THE SILENT CALM BEFORE THE STORM WE'VE HEARD ALL THIS WHINING AND WAILING IN DEFENSE OF YOUR THREATENED PRIVILEGE YOU THINK YOURSELFPATR TSIO BUT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN THE PROMISE OF AMERICA AMERICA IS NOT A PROMISE OF POPULISM AMERICA THE PROMISE OF A BEACON OF PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY FOR ALL OF THE WORLD >> AMERICA IS NOT A PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AMERICA IS A PROMISE OF LIBERTY FROM RELIGIOUS TYRANNY AMERICA IS NOT A PROMISE OF A ASSIMILATION

158AMERICA IS A PROMISE OF BELONGING IN AMERICA WE SING THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND THIS LAND IS MY LAND BECAUSE THIS LAND IS EVERYBODY'S LAND >>. WE DO NOT CALL AMERICA THE HOME OF COWARDS WHO FEAR BOOKS AND PEOPLE'S DIFFERENCES RECALL AMERICA THE AMERICA THE HOME OF THE BRAVE THIS IS NOT THE LAND OF BIGOTS AND BULLIES AND DICTATORS IT IS THE LAND OF THE FREE THAT IS THE PROMISE AMERICA THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE WE HAVE PROMISED OUR CHILDREN >> AND THAT IS THE PROMISE THAT WE AS PATRIOTS REAL PATRIOTS ARE FIGHTING TO KEEP THIS >> LAND IS LAND THIS. THIS LAND IS MY LAND FROM CALIFORNIA TO THE NEW YORK I LEARNED THE REDWOOD FOREST TO THE GULF STREAM WATERS OF THE AUDIENCE AND WAS MADE FOR YOU AND NEXT SPEAKER NEXT SPEAKER

159IS DR. RICHARD CORBA. FIT YOU THEN MICHAEL KARSLAKE I DON'T KNOW HOW I FOLLOW THAT MY NAME ISR. D RICK KLOBUCHAR AND I'M TODAY AGAINST THE TODAY AGAINST THE AND HEARD THE SCHOOL BOARD TO REVISE ITS POLICIES AND MOVE THE TERM IN FAVOR OF OPPORTUNITY ACHIEVEMENT AND I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO PROPOSE A COMPROMISE A COMPROMISE SITUATION THAT I HOPE EVERYBODY COULD AGREE WITH MY WIFE AND I ARE FOUR OR FIVE YEAR RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT AND BOTH OF OUR SONS ATTENDED SCHOOL HERE A DAUGHTER IN LAW IS A SUPPORT CERTIFIED ANESTHESIOLOGIST MY OLDER SON AND SUCCESSFUL STOCK TRADER. MY REMEMBER TO OF THE FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE AND SILVER PATROL ON THE ON THE RIO GRANDE AT EAGLE PASS ALL OF THEM HAVE GOT BACCALAUREATE. THEY WERE VERY WELL PREPARED BY OUR SCHOOL HERE AND

160EVEN TODAY MY WIFE AND OUR SUPPORT WITH THE EDUCATION SO I STARTED AT KINGSTON ELEMENTARY, HIS COMPUTER PROJECT WAS VERY FIRST ONE WITHIN THE CITY BACK IN 1980S AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAD WE HAD TO APPRECIATE WAS HOW DO WE MAKE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE. SO WITHOUT SO I WENT OUT AND I TRAINED THE TRAINERS ON THAT WE REALIZED THAT IT TOOK A VILLAGE TO BE ABLE TO EDUCATE A CHILD AND SO BY TRAIN THE TRADERS WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO WHAT WAS MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE BUT WHY WE COULDN'T GUARANTEE EQUAL OUTCOME ON IT. CERTAINLY COULD GUARANTEE EQUAL ACCESS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. SO TODAY MY WIFE AND I STILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE IDEAS EDUCATION AND SHARON WILL KNOW THAT BEING A MEMBER OF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION SO SHE APPRECIATES

161MY DESIRE THAT WE MAKE THIS BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE. SO MY BACKGROUND IS A PH.D. NUCLEAR CHEMIST AND I'M AN ARMY VETERAN CORPS OF ENGINEERS BIODIESEL WAS ALWAYS TO BE ABLE TO BUILD BRIDGES SO BRIDGES SO THAT'S WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE HERE WE BUILD A BRIDGE LIKE THAT WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE TERM BECAUSE IT'S OFFENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE TO SOME OTHERS EMBRACE IT THAT BUT WE HAVE TO DO THAT TO THAT TO PRESERVE THE FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WE LET'S DO THAT LET'S DO THAT. LET'S FIND A WAY WOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE THAT SO THAT EVERYBODY'S INTEREST DESIRES CAN BE PRESERVED AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CAN BE OUT THERE AND OF COURSE YOU ALL ON THE SCOOP OR HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO FUND THAT >> ALL THAT STUFF AND THAT'S JUST CRITICALLY

162IMPORTANT SO WHAT I'VE DONE OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS HAVE CIRCULATED AROUND POSITION AND I'VE GOT THE RIGHT NOW SIXTY EIGHT SIGNATURES IT YEAH . YEAH, I WOULD JUST GIVE YOU A SEPARATE CHANNEL BUT BASICALLY IT HAS TO DO IS TO GO OUT THERE AND REWRITE THE POCYLI EVODY'ERYB ISSRENTE INTI LKE THAT AND LET'S GO OUT AND FIND A WAY TO SPEND THAT 75 FIVE ILB DLIONRSOLLANK THA YOU. OUR >> NEXT SPEAKER IS GENE WHICH YOU THEN SANDRA ALGATE >> HEYRE A GGSETIN TTS PHIINOT'M I JUST GOGIN JUSGOINT G TO TRY TO SAY SOMETHING HELPFUL AND THAT MAY POINT TO TO SOME SOLUTIONS I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE SELF-EVIDENT. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY IS THE FOUNDATION NOT ONLY OF PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT BUT OF EVERY AVENUE OF SUCCESS. WHAT GETS LEFT OUT AT

163HOME CAN'T BE REPLACED. IT'S SCHOOL IT'S UNREALISTIC TO EXPECT A CHILD WHO IS DEPRIVED AT HOME TO EXCEL AT SCHOOL. THAT'S THE REAL DILEMMA YES CHILDREN CAN CHILDREN CAN OVERCOME OBSTACLES BUT THE HOME NOT THE SCHOOL IS THE LOCUS OF THAT CONCERN HOME IS A SCHOOL WERE WHERE LOVE IS LEARNED. VALUES ARE AN AND AFFIRMATION IS RECEIVED. WALTER WILLIAMS A WORLD RENOWNED AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSALLY PLAINLY STATED AFTER DECADES OF STUDY AND BEING INVOLVED IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE AT THEIR REQUEST OVER A LONG PRRACTEDOT PERIOD OF TIME ENWH ALL THEY KNEW IS FAILURE IN 13 PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS THIS IS WHAT HE LUCONCDED FOR SOMEBODY TO DO WELL IN SCHOOL SOMEBODY NEEDS MAKE HIM GO TO BED ON TIME AND GETA GOODTEN HOURS SLEEP SOMEBODY MUST FEED HIM BREAKFAST IN

164THE MORNING AND SOMEBODY MUST MAKE HIM MIND HIS TEACHER IF THOSE THINGS ARE NOT DONE I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH MONEY YOU PUT IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM EDUCATION WILL NOT OCCUR . >> EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS A SIGN ROLES MUST BE FULFILLED. THE TEACHER SO IMPORTANT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PEDAGOGICAL PEDAGOGICAL WONDER TRAINED IN A PRECISE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE INSIDE A PRESCRIBE CURRDICULUM ADOPTED BY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM REPRESENTATIVE NOT ONLY OF THAT COMMUNITY BUT IF THE INFALLIBLE SCHOLASTIC TRADITION OF THAT NATURAL OR SOCIAL SCIENCE AN AGE APPROPRIATE LESSON PLANS THAT IS TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FOUR NATURE AND NURTURE SHAPE OUR EXISTENCE. THERE'S REALLY NOT DEBATE THE. THE PATH IS PRESENTATION PRACTICE AND PROFICIENCY. LEARNING IS HARD WORK AND WE MUST GO AFTER THE BEST THAT WE CAN WITH ALL THAT WE CAN

165THE PRINCIPLE IN THEIR LIMITED HAS THE SPECIFIC TASK OF CING FAROR EITHONSR CTUTI WENCYHHIC REALLY IS THEEACHE TRS AND THE STAFF THEY ARE THERE TO REGULATE AND ENDORSE THE BEST POSSIBLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT TEACHERS TO FULFILL THEIR CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS TO TEACH THE DISCIPLINE FOR WHICH THEY WERE TRAINED SO I DON'T IF I'M A STUDENT AND K THROUGH 12 I DON'T GO TO SCHOOL TO FIND MY IDENTITY, ADOPT THE VALUES THOSE AROUND ME OR TO CONFER ON OTHERS THEIR IDENTITY I GO TO LEARN THE DISCRETE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES MATH SCIENCE LANGUAGE HISTORY LANGUAGE, HISTORY, LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC, ATHLETICS AND ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF A LEARNING IRONMENT. MY NEXT SPEAKER IS MICHAEL COURSE LIKE THAT SANDRA ALGIERE THEN HEIDI DRAGNA GOOD NAME NAMES NAME NAMES MIKE KARSLAKE I AM SPEAKING HERE TO CONFIRM THE DECISION GET RID OF DCI

166FROM THE SCHOOLS FOR TWO WEEKS AGO. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA ALL RIGHT THE. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ETAI PROGRAM DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN OUR VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IN MY OPINION WAS TO EMPOWER THE SOCIAL CHANGE AGENDA CALLED WOAK GUY HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL PROCESS OF ACHIEVEMENT OF ACADEMIC GOALS IN THE PROCESS OF EDUCATION INSTEAD IT COULD BE SEEN AS THE IMPOSITION OF A CHCIALANGE EXPERIMENT BY A GROUP OF ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS UPON A SOCIETY OF UNSUSPECTING AND NON CONCERNING STUDENTS RATHER AT A RISING ORGANICALLY A WIDESPREAD CONSENSUS IS OFTEN IMPOSED WITHOUT THEIR INPUT THE FIR GOASTLOF D ERIVSITY ATTEMPTS TO WELCOME TO THE MANY COLORS, CREEDS, RELIGIONS CULTURES OF OUR STUDENTS. IN FACT THAT'S NOT BUT IT COULD BE IF IT'S FOCUSED ON TOO MUCH IT COULD BE

167A DIVERSION FROM THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS. IT COULD CONFUSED THEIR EXCUSE ME CONFUSE THE RESULTS OUTCOMES EQUITY IS NOT THE SAME THING AS EQUALITY BUT IT'S A SHORT ATTEMPT TO CORRECT PERCEIVED SOCIAL OR ACADEMIC INJUSTICES THESE INJUSTICES ARE VERY NEBULOUS CONCEPTS VERY SUBJECTIVE TO THE GROUP IDENTIFYING THEM AND ARE GENERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO CURE IN LIKE MANNER VARIOUS GALACTIC INEQUALITIES WILL NOT BE CURED BY DUMBING DOWN THE TEST OR DEGRADING STANDARDS OR THE CURRICULUM SO THAT MORE STUDENTS IN PAST THE COURSE OR THE GRADE INCLUDE ACCIDENTALLY OR PURPOSEFULLY OPENS UP AND EXPOSES THE SCHOOLS AND THEIR STUDENTS TO EVERY MATTER OF ABERRANT BEHAVIOR AND OTHER PRACTICES FURTHER LEAD FURTHER LEAD TO PROBLEMS AND ABNORMAL ACTIVITIES ATTEMPTS TO PROTECT SPECIAL CLASSES AND CREATE FACE SAFE SPACES ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO AND MAY CREATE DIVISION IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO

168WHAT THINGS ARE SACRIFICE IN THE DTI SCENARIO SOME OF CASUALTIES ARE AND MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING MERIT BASED AWARDS AND PROMOTIONS INNOVATION ANDSTUD TEN ACHIEVEMENT AND RESEARCH LEADERSHI INIPATTIIVES KEEPING OUR FOCUS ON TOP SHELF ACADEMICS AND TEST RESULTS FDI LDI FAILS TO PROTECT WOMEN IN SPORTS VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE NINE >> FAILURE TO HIRE TEACHERS AND STAFF BASED ON MERIT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT SO ON SOME COMMENTS TONIGHT I DON'T WAVE THAT THE LACK OF DTI PROGRAM HERE IS GOING TO SHUT DOWN CLUBS IT'S NOT GOING TO COLLEGE KIDS AND NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO MAGNATE SCHOOLS IN EFFECT THE FUNDING THAT WE WOULD LOSE IS PROBABLY GOOD CAUSESOT N TO BE ABLE FTODUN MAGNET SCHOOLS AND MANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WERE MENTIONED TIGHTON AT LO OF GOOD STUFF AS MENTIONED TONIGHT AND I THINK

169WE NEED THAT FUNDING SO I REALLY THINK IT'S GREAT THAT YOU ARE GOING > DOTO> THAT AS TIME OURNE XT SPEAKER IS SANDRA ALGORTHMI THAT HEIDI DRAGUNOV. NKA CHRISTA. SHE'S GOOD EVENING MY NAME IS SANDRA ALGO ALJA. I'M FROM DISTRICT THREE I DID WORK IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR 13 YEARS HIS TWO SONS THAT WENT ALL THE WAY FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA BEACH IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING TO SEE WHAT THE SCHOOLS COME TO MY I SUPPORT AND THANK YOUO FR YOUR CHOICE WE NEED TO TGE BACK TO ACICADEMS. LET'S FOCUS ON EDUCATING EVRYONE IEON D'TEE SH WERE THERE'S DIVISION IN THE SCHOOLS PERIOD RIGHT NOW FOR KIDS WHAT WHEN I WORKED IN SCHOOL SYSTEM SCHOOL SYSTEM I DIDN'T SEE THAT EITHER I COULD NOT SEE WITNESSED ONCE WHERE CHILD WAS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST

170AN EDUCATION THAT WE WERE PROVIDING SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR DECISION. I'M HERE TO SUPPORT YOU PLEASE TAKE CARE ANDEP KE ITP U. THANK YOU NEXT SPEAKER IS HEIDIU NOVHEN THE SHE TN KYOIMAI >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS HEIDI DRAGNET I AM A AM A RESIDENT HERE AT VIRGINIA AND DISTRICT SEVEN WHICH IS A MAJORITY MINORITY DISTRICT AND I HAVE THREE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL HERE I KNOW YOU ALL REMEMBER ME FROM A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WHEN I ADVISED AGAINST VOTING ON REMOVING COMMEMORATIVE HISTORICAL MONTHS BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE YOU LOOK RACIST. SO I WANT TO TELL YOU CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING YOURSELVES LOOK RACIST AGAIN AND ESPECIALLY DOING IT WHILE TWO OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS ARE OUT THAT WAS PRETTY SNEAKY AND SLIMY. AND DAVID COLPEPER, I'M TALKING SPECIFICALLY TO YOU FROM VETERAN

171TWO VETERAN. YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT DIVERSITY IS HAVING BEEN IN THE MILITARY. YOU KNO HOWW IMPORTT ANESETH ES EAR BUT INSTEAD YOU'D RATHER BE REPUBLICAN PUPPET THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THE TIME HAD A TYRANT AND HIS MERRY BAND OF BLACK ARTISTS TO ALL THE HISTORY REGARDING WHITE SUPREMACY HAS DONE TO MINIMIZE WHAT PEOPLEEMEMBE RR MAINLY OUR CHILDREN THEN MEAKUSES EXCR FO WHY IT WAS ACTUALLY GOOD WHICH I'VE ALREADY SEEN MANY OF YOU DO AND THEN REPEAT THAT WAY YOU CAN REPEAT PREVIOUS ATROCITIES SO YOU CAN HOLD ON TO POWER AND CONTROL ALL IN THE NAME OF MAKING THE RICH RICHER AND KEEPING THE REST OF US POOR AND MAKING US COMPLIANT WORKERS SO THEY CAN PENNIES US PENNIES WHILE THEY MAKE THOUSANDS WE'RE JUST TRASH TO THEM AND THEY'LL DIVIDE IN ANY WAY THEY CAN

172BY RACE, RELIGION GENDER SEXUAL ETC. IN ETC. IN ORDER TO DEHUMANIZE US SO THEY'RE STUPID LAZY MEDIOCRE BUT, MEDIOCRE BUT FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES THEY'RE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF INSECURE LITTLE COWARDS DRESSED UP AS IF WE JUST CONTINUE TO ROLL OVER FOR FASCIST WE ARE SUPPORTING THE FASCIST AGENDA IF WE ALL STAND UP AGAINST HIM AND CALL IT OUT ENLHE'L KBAC OFF JUST LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO HARVARD RECENTLY. HE IS WHICH OLD WHITE MAN BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW I'M TALKING ABOUT TRUMP JUST STILLND A HE WAS NEVER TOLD NO SO HE'SA SPOILED BRAT. HE THROWS A FIT EVERY TIME TO TRY TO GET YOU TO BACK DOWN. BUT IF WE DON'T BACK DOWN WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO? TAKE ALL THE FUNDING AWAY AND

173YOU THINK AMERICAN CITIZENS WILL BE OK WITH THAT IT'S 10 PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET. YES, IT'S GOOD CHUNK IT'S A LOT BUT HE. BUT HE CAN'T DO THAT TO EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL JUST IF THEY DON'T COMPLY BECAUSE OF SHUT DOWN PARENTS CAN'T GO TO WORK IF PARENTS CAN'T WORK, THEY CAN'T MAKE MONEY FOR THESE ELITIST AND THE ELDERLY ELITIST WON'T LIKE THAT TOOMUCH MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT COME UP HERE TO SPEAK AGAINST DTIDON' T ALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS . IT ISN'T TO MAKE NONWHITE PEOPLE MORE SOMEHOW BETTER GETS TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM THINKING THAHEYT T AERR.TE BET NKTHAOU Y FOR NEXT SPEAKER NEWS CHRIS EETSSH THEN CAMEOTHEN LYKELRR HA IS>> GOOD ENGVENI. MY NAME IS CHRIS DESCHUTE S. ACTUALLY DIDN'T PREPARE NG TONIGHT BECAUSE I KNEW I DIDN'T WANT TO JUST REPEAT WHAT

174EVERYONE ELSE SAID. WE'VE SOME AMAZING SPEAKERS TONIGHT AND EVERY TIME I'VE WITNESSED ONE THESE MEETINGS I JUST FEEL COMPELLED TO APPLAUD THE STUDENTS IN THIS DISTRICT FOR COMING HERE AND SPEAKING THE WAY THEY DO. THEY ARE IN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF THEM. I'M THE PARENT SIX CHILDREN IN THIS DISTRICT APPARENTLY THAT GET ME A MEDAL THE ADMINISTRATION THAT'S WHAT IT WANTS BUT I'M NOT HERE METAL I'M HERE TO JUST GIVE SOME SORT OF SOME SORT OF EXAMPLES OF WHAT I'VE SEEN HERE THAT I HOPE TO CONTINUE MY OLDEST SHE SPOKE EARLIER SHE'S A SOPHOMORE IN THE LEGAL STUDIES ACADEMY. WE HAVE ALL THESE AMAZING ACADEMIES THAT REALLY GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN WHICH REALLY TO ME AS

175PART OF EQUITY. OK, THIS IS GIVING STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY'RE LEARNING OF THINGS THAT EY'RETH TRULY PASSIONATE ABOUT. NOT ONLY THAT THEY'RE LEARNING THESE THINGS IN A DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT. THOSE PROGRAMS BRING IN STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE CITY TO THESE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS TO BE IN CLUBS BEING CLASSES TO BE ON TEAMS WITH THEM AND THAT'S WITH THEM AND THAT'S JUST AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY I HOPE THAT NONE OF THAT GOES AWAY AND I THINK PART OF PART OF THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT THERE IS NO CLEAR GUIDANCE OF WHAT WOULD WE BE LOSING AND THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE. AND YOU VOTED TO TO GET RID OF DIE WITHOUT GIVING EXAMPLES OF WHAT THAT MEANS AND I HOPE IN YOUR WORKSHOP THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THAT THAT YOU'VE WORKED THROUGH. SO MAYBE YOU

176HAVE THE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WONDER DOES THAT MEAN ACADEMY DOES THAT MEAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAMS? DOES THAT MEAN CLUBS STUDENTS GET TO, YOU KNOW, IDENTIFY IT AND AND BE WITH KIDS WHO ARE LIKE THEM OR OTHERS GET TO ENJOY SOME OF DIVERSITY WITHIN THEIR SCHOOL AND HAVE LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES I HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO AT ODIASE THAT'S EQUITY IT'S NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT EVERYBODY THINKS ABOUT GIVING SOME OTHER KID LEG UP BUT THAT'S MEETING THOSE GIFTED KIDS WHERE THEY NEED TO BE TO GIVE THEM THE EDUCATION THAT ALLOWS THEM TO SUCCEED THAT THEY WOULDN'T NECESSARILY GET AT THEIR HOME SCHOOL. WHAT MY FEAR IS THAT THE INITIATIVES PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY MORE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THIS THIS SCHOOL DIVISION WILL GO AWAY BECAUSE THAT'S

177GIVING THE KIDS THAT EVERYBODY SEES THIS NEEDING THE EQUITY AN ADVANTAGE ATTHE ENSE OF SOME OTHER KIDS WHO ALREADY HAVE THAT PRIVILEGE MY DAHTERUGWOUL BEDINE. F SHE WASN'T AT >> ODIASE BUT I'M GLAD SHE IS AND I'M GLAD SHE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE THERE AND I THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. YOU KNOW I SEE REFERENCES TO LIKE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING GETTING THIS THINLY VEILED DIG STUFF I HAD STUDENTS WHO BENEFITED FROM THAT AS WELL WHEN BROTHER IN LAW PASSED AWAY MY KIDS WENT TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY AND THEY HAD A COUNSERLO WHO REALLY CARED ABOUT THEM THEY'VE HAD THEY'VE HAD THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES THEY HAVE THE TIME TO TO MEET WITH HER WE CAN'T LOSE THAT STUFF. OUIDS KR NEED IT. >> THANK SPEAKER CAMEJO AND KELLY, HOUSE >>

178SPEAKER THIRTY HAVEN'T HAD TO CANCEL AND THAT WOULD BE RICHARD PICKENS. HELLO I'M EXCITED TO SPEAK ABOUT SCHOOL CHOICE AND I WILL ALSO DRESS THE NEED FOR EXPANDED OFFERINGS AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL FIRST LET'S CELEBRATE A NEW VICTORY LAST WEEK AS TEXAS WILL BECOME THE SIXTH STATE TO UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE IN FOUR YEARS. I HAVE TEXAS LAGS FOR SCHOOL BOARD ADMINISTRATION AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS THIS WILL SET OFF A OFF A DOMINO EFFECT ACROSS THE US WITH VIRGINIA TO FOLLOW AN ACTING SCHOOL CHOICE TEXAS FAMILIES WILL RECEIVE EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS OR ESSAYS AND THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THEIR SCHOOLS. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS STUDENT AND TWO THUSOAND DOLLARS FOR HOME SCHOOLERS. THIS IS A GREAT START ON OCTOBER 8TH I SHARED MY OLD SCHOOL CHOICE SUCCESS STORY WITH YOU WE GREW UP IN A SEMIRURAL COMMUNITY

179AND HAD OPPORTUNITIES WE NEVER HAD IF IT WASN'T FOR SCHOOL CHOICE ONE OF THE MOST AND >> EQUITABLE THINGS IN EDUCATION OUR KIDS>> STUCK IN LOWERING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WITH NO INCENTIVE TO IMPROVE VIRGINIA BEACH HAS SOME EXCELLENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUT NOT EVERYONE IS KNOWN FOR ONE DESPITE OUR GREAT INVESTMENT EVERY STUDENT IS SERVED BEST SERVED BEST SERVED IN THEIR OWN SCHOOL MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR WAS PULLED OUT OF ONE OF THESE LOW RANKED SCHOOLS I WAS ON THE BOARD AND SPENT A LOT OF LOT OF TIME IN THE SCHOOL SOME GREAT INDIVIDUAL TEACHERS BUT LOW ACADEMIC STANDARDS SERIOUS BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS, CHROMEBOOK ABUSE AND WEAK PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP WERE THE CLIMATE REPORT WHICH SCHOOL SOUNDS MORE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOUTHE ONE ASSIGNED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT OR THE ONE YOU CHOOSE FREELY BECAUSE YOU TRUST THE PEOPLE RUNNING

180IT? WE WERE FORTUNATE TO FIND A NEW ENVIRONMENT WITH GOOD LEADERSHIP AND CURRICULUM BUT MUST PAY THOUSANDS IN TUITION OUR TAX DOLLARS AND THE TAX DOLLARS OF ALL CHILDREN. SO SHOULD FOLLOW OUR CHILDREN TAX DOLLARS OF ALL RESIDENTS SHOULD FOLLOW OUR CHILDREN VIRGINIA BEACH ALSO NEEDS MORE EXPANDED PROGRAMS AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL WE HAVE A RESPECTED ACADEMY PROGRAMS FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS BUT THE QUALITY OF AN EDUCATION AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RECEIVES BASED ON ZIPS ZIP CODE . NOT EVERYONE IS HANDED FERE TUITION GOLDEN TICKET ODIASE THAT MONOPOLIZES TAXPAYER RESOURCES SOMETHING UNHEARD OF IN MOST SCHOOL SYSTEMS NEVER FORGET THE ADMISSION SCANDAL. THANK YOU KATHLEEN BROWN AND MATT CUMMINGS FOR BOTH ADDRESSING OR DISCUSSING OPEN ENROLLMENT WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD CAN EXPLORE OPEN ENROLLMENT AND MAYBE CONSOLIDATION GINVE THE DECLINING ENROLLMENT, PARENTS WOULD LIKELY BEILLING W

181TO PROVIDE THEIR OWN TRANSPORTATION >> ALL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD BE DISRUPTORS YOU CAN ONLY MOVE THE NEEDLE SO MUCH IN A BIG CITY SYSTEM BUT BE EMPOWERED TO SHAKE THINGS UP PLEASE ENJOY THESE TEXAS FLAGS IN CELEBRATION SCHOOL CHOICE AND THANKS FOR YOURNSO CER IDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. OUR NEXT BAKER IS KELLY HARRIS THAT RICHARD PICKENS THEN CARLOS TAYLOR >> HELLO GOOD EVENGINGO ODEV GENINAN HANKD T YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TONIGHT. MY NAME IS KELLY HARRIS AND I'M A READING SPECIALIST FOR VIRGINIA EACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I AM SLIP ACROSS MULTIPLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING AS A READING SPECIALIST IN SEVEN DIFFERENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH EQUITY THE E IN DTI ACROSS OUR DIVISION BECAUSE THE

182ALLOCATIONS FOR MY POSITION ARE BASED ON STUDENT ENROLLMENT NOT STUDENT NEED THE SCHOOLS THAT I SERVE REPRESENT MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES ACROSS VIRGINIA BEACH AND CONSEQUENTLY MANY DIFFERENT SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS AND EXPERIENCES BUT BEFORE I GET INTO THOSE DIFFERENCES I WANT TO SHARE WHAT ALL OF THESE SCHOOLS HAVE IN COMMON. ONE TEACHERS ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF THAT CARE PROFOUNDLY FOR THEIR STUDENTS AND ARE DEEPLY DEDICATED TO HELPING THEM SUCCEED TO FAMILIES LOVE THEIR CHILDREN AND WANT THE BEST FOR THEM. BUT THERE ARE CORE DIFFERENCES IN THESE COMMUNITIES IN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IN CULTURE IN RACE AND OTHER FACTORS. THESE FACTORS EXTRAPOLATE OUT THE DIFFERENCES IN TEST SCORES ,PARENT INVOLVEMENT, NUMBER OF STUDENTS NEED INTERVENTIONS ABILITY TO ABILITY TO STAFF BUILDINGS GET ENOUGH SUBSTITUTES SO MANY OTHER THINGS PRETENDING LIKE THESE DIFFERENCES DO NOT EXIST DOES NOT HELP ANYONE IN

183BIG BOLD LETTERS ON THE WEBSITE HOMEPAGE HOME PAGE THERE'S A SNIPPET FROM COMPASS TWENTY TWENTY FIVE NO OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID IT BUT IT'S BEING QUIETLY SCRUBBED FROM OUR SCHOOLS THIS WEEK SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I READ IT AND I'M PRETTY SURE MAYBE IT WAS HANGING IN THAT EMPTY SPOT RIGHT THERE SO VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS COMMITTED TO PREPARING EVERY CHILD TO BE FUTURE READYITH W THE GOAL OF ELIMINATING ACHIEVEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY SO THAT ALL STUDENTS MAXIMIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL I ALSO HEAR THE PHRASE EVERY CHILD EVERY DAY TOSSED AROUND A LOT THESE MISSIONS STATEMENTS ARE IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE VOTE THAT SIX SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SO HASTILY MADE TWO WEEKS AGO TO ELIMINATE PROGRAMS FROM OUR DIVISION WE MAY HAVE BEEN CREATED QUOTE BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THE

184STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WE SERVE DO NOT HAVE LIVES SO EQUALITY GIVING EVERYONE THE EXACT SAME IS ONLY GOING TO WIDEN IT'S ONLY GOING ONLY GOING TO WIDEN THE DIVIDE EQUITY GIVING INDIVIDUALS THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IS HOW WE HELP STUDENTS THAT'S HOW WE HELP OUR FAMILIES BREAK FAMILIES BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY AND GENERATIONAL DISADVTAGESAN THAT SO MANY COMMUNITIES FACE THAT SHOULD BE THE GOAL OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, A BETTER SOCIETY AND HURTS NO ONE ARE THEIR THERE PARTS FOR OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT NEED BE OVERHAULED SURE BUT DISMANTLING PROGRAMS THAT GIVE ALL STUDENTS A CHANCE TO SUCCEED IS NOT THE PLACE TO START. >> AND I GET FEAR AND URGENCY THAT WAS STRAPPED TO THE ULTIMATUM THAT THE BOARD FACED. BUT YOU HAVE POWER TO AND YOU NEED TO USE THAT POWER

185TO FIGHT FOR OUR STUDENTS FOR OUR KIDS TO QUOTE ANOTHER ALBEIT FICTIONAL EDUCATOR STOOD UP FOR HIS MAGICAL STUDENTS IN A DIFFICULT TIME. WE MUST ALL FACE THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS EASY. OUR STUDENTS NEED YOU OUR TEACHERS NEED YOU OUR FAMILIES AND FAMILIES AND OUR COMMUNITIES NEED YOU TO FULFILL THE PROMISE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL. THANK YOU NTEXU OR NEXT SPEAKER IS RICRDHA PIGNSGI THAN CARLOS THEN KEALY ARLDNO BROUGHT BACK MY FLAG WAS BANNED THE FIRST WAS BAD THE FIRST REPORT BEING WRITTEN I'LL BE KEEPING FOR THIS MOMENT >> I JUST WANT TO SAY A FEW THINGS AND THAT I SUPPORT THE BOARD'S DECISION TO GET RID OF THE BUT I CAN HEAR THE VOICE

186OF THE PEOPLE THAT MAYBE PERHAPS THERE'S A WAY WE COULD HAVE AND A LITTLE BIT BETTER I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT I THINK WE ALL HAVE TIMES WHEN WE RETHINK OUR POSITION BUT I THINK THE POSITION IS CLEAR. THERE'S REALLY NOTHING ELSE TO BE DONE AND IT ISN'T I WANT TO SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT PRESIDENT TRUMP I LIKE HIM AND HE'S NOT A TYRANT. HE WAS VOTED IN BY THE MAJORITY OF THE UNITED DATES AMERICAN A FAIR ELECTION SO ELECTION. SO AS HE'S DOING IT THOUGH SOME PEOPLE WOULDN'T LIKE IT I SUPPORT WHAT HE'S DOING I THINK IT'S A IT'S A IT'S A IT'S A GOOD TREND WHEN I THINK OF THE I THINK OF A PARENT WHO STEPPED INTO THIS PODIUM ABOUT A YEAR AGO I TALKED TO THE OUTSIDE AFTERWARDS BECAUSE I'D

187NEVER HEARD WHAT SHE TALKED ABOUT. SHE THAT MY SON REACH THE HIGHEST ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN HIS SCHOOL AND HE SAID WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR THE AWARDS OR SOME KIND OF WAR THAT WENT WITH THAT SOME KIND OF PROGRAM THAT THEY GOT HIM BECAUSE SHE SAID WE NEVER GOT A LETTER AND WHEN TALKED WITH OTHER STUDENTS WHO HAD ACHIEVED ACADEMIC ACHIEVED ACADEMIC SUCCESS, THEY DIDN'T GET LETTER WHY BECAUSE SOMEONE STEPPED IN STEPPED IN WITH SOMETHING CALLED EQUITY AND THEY FELT THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THOSE POSITIONS AND SO THEY GAVE THOSE SLOTS THE PEOPLE THAT HAD NOT RECEIVED ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE LIKE THESE DIDN'T HAVE A GAME TO OTHER STUDENTS BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO THE PLAYING FIELD. I SAID THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS IS OR

188WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT TO MAKE IT FOR THE PARENTS THIS AT THE TIME THAT THEIR CHILDREN OR THEY NEED THIS TIME NOW TIME NOW THEY SAID WELL THERE'S NOTHING WE AND DO IT'S ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS A VERY POOR CHOICE AND THAT'S WHAT EQUITIES EQUITIES WHAT. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE STARTED THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING TONIGHT EQUITY ISHEN W YOU SAY TO STUDENTS YOU GET FIRST DIBS ON THE SPEAKING WRITES FORGET THAT ALL THE REST OF US HAVE TO GO TO THE COMPUTER AND SIGN UP AND I HAVE TO SIGN UP LATE AND SO I GOT THEAT LEST ALTMENLO T EVEN MADE LATER BECAUSE WE'RE LATER BECAUSE WE'RE GOING LET ALL THE STUDENTS FIRST THAT'S EQUITY THAT'S EQUITY I THINK STUDENTS DESERVE AND SHOULD EQUALITY AND I

189WAS TALKING TO SOMEBODY WHO'S AN EQUITY SUPPORTER OF THAT POSITION AS I SAID WELL THEY HAVE WELL THEY HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL. I SAID WELL WE HAVE TO GO TO WORK. WHAT YOU HAVE TO GO AT 745 I SAID WELL SAID WELL NOT EVERY DAY BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER EQUALITY IS WHAT WE'RE AFTER. I SUPPORT THE DECISION THE SCHOOL BOARD BECAUSE I SEE THAT EQUITY HAS BEEN WHEN IT'S APPLIED BY MEN I BELIEVE NOT IN BUT DUI WHICH IS CLEALD THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT I MEAN THIS IS WHAT WE'RE FOUNDED ON FOLKS. ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL I THINK ALL OF US ARE SMART ENOUGH THAT MEN THESE MEN AND WOMEN >> DOES IT WAS A EUPHEMISM. YES. OK, YOU'VE BEEN TRAINING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS LET'S GO

190ON WE HOLD THESE WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL AND ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS, THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS AND LIFE AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ALL FOR. SO I BELIEVE THAT GETTING MORE DIVERSE AND EQUITY IS A GOOD THING. I DON'T NAMEHANG CEWI T ATHOU CHANGE IN WHAT WE'RE DOING SOMETHING DOING. THAT'S ONE THING I'D SAY ABOUT THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR POLICY AND IF SOMEONE HAS MERIT BASED SUCCSES TSHI TMEI. THANK YOU >> AND OURT NEX SPEAKER IS CARLOS TAYLOR, TYKIT ARNOLD AND BARRY OK IT'S BEEN A WHILEINCE S I SPOKE I SPOKE AT A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING I WANT TO GIVE HONOR AND TO MY LORD AND SAVIOR. YOU SURE PATIENTLY LOOK FORWARD TO HIS IMMINENT RETURN. I LIVE IN DISTRICT

191SO OUR DISTRICT 10 AND I CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH IS THE IT DOESN'T WORK WHICH IS WHY IT'S BEING DISMANTLED ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE CLAIM IS THAT I CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP BETWEEN BLACK STUDENTS AND WHITE STUDENTS BUTIS THAT ACTUALLY TRUE RECENTLY SAW SOME SO WELL DATA FROM THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND NOT ONLY DID THE READING AND MATH SCORES DECREASE FOR BLACK STUDENTS BUT THE READING AND MATH SCORES DECREASED FOR WHITE STUDENTS SO EVERYBODY'S FAILING DGI VIOLATES TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 WHICH PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF RACE COLOR AND NATIONAL ORIGIN IN PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. ALL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE SORT OF AN ETHOS OR A DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC HERE'S SOME HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY BECAUSE REALLY IT'S THE DEMOCRATS THAT ARE PUSHING THE

192PRIOR TO >> THE CIVIL WAR IN 1860 ONE SUMMER SOME APPROXIMATELY FOUR MILLION BLACK PEOPLE WERE ALL OWNED BY DEMOCRATS THE KU KLUX WAS THE TERRORIST WING WAS A TERRORIST WING OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY DEMOCRATS OPPOSE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 64 THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, THE SIXTY FIVE IN THE FAIR HOUSING BILL SIXTY EIGHT ALL THE JIM CROW LAWS NOT JUST SOME OF THEM ALL THE JIM CROW LAWS WERE INSTITUTED BY DEMOCRATS AND OF COURSE WERE DISCRIMINATORY. THE DEMOCRATS PARTY IDENTIFIED ITSELF AS THE WHITE MAN'S PARTY AND DEMONIZED REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBERS AS BEING DOMINATED EVEN THOUGH WHITES WERE IN CONTROL IRONICALLY IN APRIL OF SIXTY FOUR MALCOLM X GAVE A SPEECH CALLED THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET AT KAREEM METHODIST CHURCH IN CLEVELAND OHIO AND HERE'S WHAT HE WHAT HE HAD TO SAY TO

193TO TO A CONGREGATION A BLACK ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS AT THAT TIME IS THAT MY TIME? TWENTY FIVE SECONDS MAN. THAT WAS QUICK THE PROBLEM WITH IS BLACK THE BLACK COMMUNITY ISN'T WHITE RACISM OR WHITE PEOPLE OR RACISM BLACK OPPELE DON'T NEED ANOTHER PROGRAM. THE PROBLEM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS NO FATHERS IN THE HOME SO WHAT BLACK PEOPLE NEED DO SPECIFICALLY BLACK MEN IS STOP IMPREGNATING WOMEN AND LEAVING THEM TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES >> AND THAT IS TIME OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KEALY LDNO VERY NOLAN AND THEN KATHERINE SHEEHAN OVER AND JUST A REMINDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP COMMENTS TO FREE K ROTHUGH U PBLIC EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA AND THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL BOARD THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION DTI IS HARMING CHILDREN POSSIBLY EVEN MORE SO FOR THE

194CHILDREN WHO HAVE DISABILITIES AS A PARENT WHO HAS A SON WITH AUTISM DTI IS NEVER PROSPERED HIM IN ANY WAY. FURTHERMORE, I FELT SO I HAD TO PROTECT HIM FROM THE POSSIBLE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF DGI RESEARCHERS JAY GREEN AND JAMES PAUL RELEASED A SERIES OF STUDIES ON GUY PROGRAMS THAT THE MANY HARMFUL ASPECTS THEY FOUND IT TO BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND POLITICALLY RADICAL THEY ALSO FOUND THAT SCHOOLS WITH CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICERS HAD LARGER GAPS IN ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE STUDENTS. HISPANIC WHITE STUDENTS AND NON FOR AND POOR STUDENTS THEN DISTRICTS WITH CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICERS EXCUSE ME WITHOUT CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICERS AND THOSE GAPS ARE GROWING WIDER OVER TIME IT SEEMS THE IDEA IS DUMBED DOWN CURRICULA SO IT BECOMES MORE EQUITABLE AND TO SELECT COURSES FOR POLITICAL DOCTRINE RATHER THAN EDUCATIONAL QUALITY MANY STUDIESUGGE SSTHA

195TTTI D OGRAPRMS IN SCHOOLS DO NOT LEAD RE POSITIVE OUTCOMES THE SEARCH INDICATES CAN INCREASE PREJUDICE REINFORCED PREJUDICE, REINFORCE STEREOTYPES AND MAKE STUDENT ENVIRONMENTS LESS INCLUSIVE. THESE PROGRAMS ARE DISCRIMINATORY AND DISADVAAGINGNT CERTAIN GROUPS IN AN ATTEMPT TO ADDRESSED PERCEIVED INEQUITIES AND IT RAISESNCER CONS ABOUT FAIRNESS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AS WELL FOCUSING ON DIFFERENCES LIKE IDENTITY, RACE GENDER AT THE EXPENSE OF INDIVIDUAL MERIT EXASPERATES DIVISIONS INSTEAD FOSTERING A SENSE OF BELONGING IMPOSTORS RESENTMENT FEELINGS RESENTMENT, FEELINGS OF UNFAIRNESS AND EVEN SHAME AMONG CERTAIN GROUPS OF STUDENTS OF STUDENTS. OUR KIDS SHOULD BE ACTUALLY Y SHOULD NOT BE LUMPED INTO GROUPS BY ETHNICITY OR IDENTITY THERE SHOULD BE VIEWED AS INDEPENDENT LEADERS AND LEARNERS WITH INDIVIDU NEEALDS . OUR CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE ONE THAT VALUES NDIUALIVIDER MNDIT A TALENT RATHER AND FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC MODEHICGRAPRO G DIIUPS

196CESACTI POLICIES NEEDO T BE REMOVED FROM ALL SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE NEEDS TO DIE DIE. THE SAD FACT THAT MANY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS DIDN'T VOTE FOR REMOVAL OF THESE PAMS.ROGR THEY WOULD RATHER SACRIFICE OUR DSKI AND LOSE 74 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF FUNDING FOR OUR SCHOOLS EVEN TUGHHO THEY KNOW IT WOULD BE OUR KIDS WHO SUFFER FROM THAT FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WHO VOTED FOR THE RESOLUTION TO REMOVE DEPROGRAMMED THANK YOU. WE ARE VERY THANKFUL DISTRICT FIVE NEXT SPEAKER IS BARRY >> NOLAN THAN CATHERENINTO ASH OR TVENHA DARLLRE CELARKBA YRR NOLANHERIAT KNE SHEEHANVE OR. GOOD EVENING IAS WRI OLLYGINA INGO TGO SAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT MORE FOCUSED ON THE FINANCIAL ASPECT OF THIS BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT I IGINALORLY WAS THINKING AS THE GREATER ISSUE AND IT'S A HUGE ISSUE AT. IT'S SEVENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IT

197WAS SIX POINT SOMETHING PERCENT OF THE BUDGET THAT IS NOT IN SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT BUT HONESTLY IT WAS AFTERISTEN LING TO THE CHILDREN TONIGHT THAT MAY BE THE MOST CONCERNED IAS WLRE ADYA NCERCOD ANEUTBODOCT INRINATION CHILDREN AND WHEN I HEARD HERE TONIGHT MAD MEE REALIZE THOSE HAD BEEN CHILDREN THAT I KNEW I WOULD I WOULD TAKE THEM ASIDE AND HAVE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT HOW WHAT THEY WERE LEARNING WAS BASICALLY A RACIST VIEW. AND I TO FIND THAT DEEPLY CONCERNING. I THINK THAT DCI IS FUNDAMENTALLY AS THIS PRACTICED NOW IS INCREDIBLY RACIST I THINK THAT EQUITY IS BASICALLY JUST COMMUNISM WELL IT, IT IS LOOK IT UP BUT I WILL TELL YOU I WAS TALKING TO A GENTLEMAN OUTSIDE OF REVEREND AND I THINK THAT THE SOLUTION HAS TONIGHT BEUSE TCAONIGHT WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO

198MAKE A CHOICE AND I THINK TONIGHT THE CHOICE NEEDS TO BE WE SAVE OURSELVES FROM LIVING LOSING SEVENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS AND WE REMOVED DIE AND WE TAKE OUT THAT RACISM AND SAVE THAT MONEY FOR THE KIDS. BUT THINK LONG TERM THERE ARE REAL THINGS WE HAVE TO DISCUSS IF WE HAVE RACIST TEACHERS OR STAFF THEY NEED TO GO. IF THERE'S ANY VERSION OF RACISM THAT SUMME THRAT S TNEEDO GO BUT I DON'T THKIN THAT WE NEED TOTEAC HOUR CHILDREN RACISM OR DEMOCRAT TALKING POINTS SO THAT THEY CAN GROW TO BE FUTURE DEMOCRAT VOTERS. WHAT WHAT I SEE TONIGHT IT'S VERY CLEAR TO ME THAT THE DEMOCRATS WANTED US SEVENTY FOUR MILLIONLARS DOLSO HA TT SO THAT THEY CAN THEN BLAME REPUBLICANS FOR LOSING SEVENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS AND TO USE THAT AS A TALKING

199POINT DURING THE ELECTIONS I THINK IT'S DISCUSSED TO USE POLITICS AT THE COST OF OUR CHILDREN WE SHOULDN'T BE PLAYING POLITICS WITH OUR CHILDREN EDUCATION WE SHOULDN'T BE TEACHING RACISM IN SCHOOL AND SHOULDN'T BE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO BE DEMOCRATS OR POTENTIALLY FUTURE COMMUNIST IN SCHOOL IT'S ICULOUS I. I HEAR I HEAR HOW RIDICULOUS I SHOULDN'T BE HAVING TO SAY IT BUT IF YOU BUT IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS ARE TEACHING IS BASICALLY JUST COMMUNISM. BUT I THINK THAT WE ABSOLUTELY SIT DOWN AND TAKE TIME AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO FIND ANY PROBLEMS WITHIN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT ARE ISSUES OF RACISM OR ANY VARIETY OF INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY. TNKHA YOU NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS >> DARRELL CLARK THE AND THEN ERIC ANDOT N >> MY NAME IS

200ERRLL CLARKE MY MAN SAYING WOODY GUTHRIE EARLIER WOODY ABOUT THREE ALSO SAID THAT ALL YOU THATCHERS BOUND TO LOSE SO IS THAT BECAUSE WHICH ARE DOING IS FASCIST? I KNOW COPEPODS CHUCKLING OVER THERE TO HIMSELF NOT SURPRISED TO SEE THAT EITHER AND IT'S ALSO NOT SURPRISING BECAUSE THIS CITY CITY ABORIGINES FOR THOSE I THOSE I DON'T KNOW IS A WHITE FLIGHT SUPPER IT WAS FOUNDED ON WHITE FLIGHT COUNTY AND IT BECAME VIRGINIA BEACH A GOOD FRIEND GOOD FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME THIS BEFORE SHE DIED SHE WAS SHE WAS IN NORFOLK AS YOU SAW WHEN SEGREGATION HAPPENED THAT ALL THE PEOPLE WERE LEAVING AND THEY FLED HERE BUILDING THE CITY UP TO BECOME WHAT NOW VIRGINIA BEACH AND ALL OF ITS HOLY GLORY. YEAH >>. SO YEAH, EITHER SUPPORT FASCISM OR YOU DON'T AND YOUR

201THE ONES UP HERE WHO VOTED FOR THIS GETTING RID OF DEA HAVE DEFINITELY PLAYED THE FASCIST THERE'S NO HIDING THAT HIDING THAT AND YOU CAN'T YOU CAN'T HIDE AND IT'S NOT HYPERBOLE TO SA YTHATT I IS A STATE BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS >> AND YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, THESE STUDENTS THE STUDENTS COME UP HERE TO SPEAK, THEY'RE NOT JUST STUDENTS COMMUNITY THESE ARE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THESE ARE PEOPLE SO BY HARMING THE STUDENTS WHO ARE HARMING COMMUNITY YOU'RE HAVING PEOPLE DOING PEOPLE. YOU'RE DOING HARM TO THIS COMMUNITY SO IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY MAYBE YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT. BUT WE THAT YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT VOTES AND HOLDING YROU POSITIONS OF POWER SO YEAH, THERE'S THAT AND THE WHOLE SNEAKIN THING IS NOT NEW I'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. CULPEPPER HAD THAT EXACT THINGS

202THAT HE HAS IN HIS FACE RIGHT NOW WHEN HE TRIED WHEN YOU AND BROWN AND YOU'RE TRYING TO DO THIS THING TO TO OVERTURN OWENS'S RESOLUTION BACK IN TWENTY TWENTY THREE IT WAS THAT LIKE WON SOMETHING IN A MORNING WHEN YOU SNUCK THIS IN I REMEMBER THAT I WAS THERE WE ALL APPALLED BY A SHAME ON YOU ALL AGAIN ALL AGAIN THIS IS A PATTERN PATTERNS SPEAK VOLUMES AND PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THERE'S THIS RADICAL INDOCTRINATION WHEN I DON'T SEE ONE BECAUSE THE ONLY INDOCTRINATION THAT WE SEE TRYING TO BE IMPLEMENTED IS CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM. WE'VE HEARD IS TIME AND TIME AND TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND NOW LADY FROM TURNING POINT USA SERIOUSLY PROBABLY CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT TOO. SO YEAH, YOU KNOW IT'S NOT SURPRISING IT'S A SHAME BUT IF YOU WANT YOUR

203LEGACY TO BE FASCIST COULON COLPEPER JAMES BROWN >> YOU TO GO OR NEW FACES TO ME OUT OF MISERABLE SO YEAH YEAH JUST LIKE THE FASTEST FACE WOULD LKOO LIKE COOL LOOK SPEREAK IS ADC ERICA NOT AND THEN CHEYENNE SOUTHERN CHAIR AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT. MY NAME IS ADC AND I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT TEN AND FIRST I WANT TO EXPRESS MY STATEMENT THAT THE ACTIONS OF MY SCHOOL BOARD MMBERE IN DISTRICT TEN DO NOT REFLECT THE SENTIMENTS OF MOST VOTERS IN DISTRICT TEN YOUR >> VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THAT RESOLUTION WAS ABYSMAL AND THE WAY THAT YOU DID IT WAS ABYSMAL AS WELL >> TO BE CLEAR, YOU VOTED AGAINST DIVERSITY YOU VOTED AGAINST EQUITY, YOU VOTED AGAINST INCLUSION AND YOU VOTED AGAINST ACCESSIBILITY THE DECISION

204IS NOT ONLY CONTRARY TO SOUND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES IN THEORY THAT IS ALSO JUST A DISSERVE US TO THE PEOPLE SAY YOU REPRESENT LAST NIGHT I WATCHED A MOVIE WHICH CONTAINED ORIGINAL CLIPS FROM THE LOVING VERSUS VIRGINIA CASE AND THAT SAID TO ME SOMETHING ABOUT DNA THAT WE'RE NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT . IT REFLECTED EQUALITY IN EXPECTED IT REFLECTED A A PART OF OUR SOCIETY THAT WAS NOT ALLOWED TO MARRY BECAUSE THEY WERE DIFFERENT COLOR THAT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH DIVERSITY EQUITY ,INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY REFUSING TO GIVE PEOPLE THAT OPPORTUNITY WAS WRONG JUST AS WRONG IN THE 50S AS TODAY IT IS IN 2000 ONLY FIVE IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM DISRESPECT PERSIST AT ALL LEVELS AND IN VIRGINIA YOU KNOW I WATCH THAT LANDSCAPE CHANGED THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WERE OUT LAST NIGHT CHANGED

205FROM AN URBAN FROM OF A RURAL LANDSCAPE TO THIS COMPLETELY URBAN LANDSCAPE AND I'M LIKE WOW THAT'S A REAL CHANGE IN A FEW YEARS WHICH TO ME IS FOR YEARS. BUT HAVE WE REALLY CHANGED MY ANSWER TO YOU IS NO BASED ON THAT BOAT YOU TOOK ON APRIL EIGHT, I ITWAS APRIL ACTUALLY IT >> HAS CHANGED MY OPINION ABOUT YOU AS A SCHOOL BOARD IS CHANGED MY OPINION ABOUT VIRGINIA BEHAC AS A WHOLE I MOVED HERE THREE YEARS AGO THINKING US WAS THAT >> LOCALITY THAT WAS FRESH IT WAS GROWING. ATTITUDES WERE CHANGING BUT I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT FROM EXPERIENCE THAT HAS NOT BEEN TRUE >> AND SO I IMPLORE TO THINK ABOUT THIS RESOLUTION YOU NEED TO YOU GAVE US AN OPPORTUNITY SPEECH TONIGHT BUT AFTER THE FACT THAT'S NOT THE WAY DEMOCRACY

206WORKS AND I IMPLORE YOU TO GO BACK LISTEN TO WHAT WE SAID AND CHANGE YROU MIND. THANK YOU. OUREXT N SPEAKER IS >> ERICA TNOWING SHO INHEUT SORN AND EIGHT IN JACKSONVILLE. ERIKA NOT CHEYENNE, SOUTHERN EIGHTY JACKSON EMILY PHIIPLLS. HI MY >>E NAMILYEM PH PSILLI I'M HERE TTHONIG TO SPEAK ABOUT THE ABOUT THE RESOLUTION ON APRIL 8TH SUSPENDED INITIATIVES THESE INITIATIVES IN LIGHT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER I'M A PARENT OF A SON AND A DAUGHTER BOTH BBC STUDENTS WHO HAVE ATTENDED KINGSTON ALTERNATION SCHOOL AND THE OCEAN LAKES HIGH SCHOOL MATH SCIENCE ACADEMY. I AM APPALLED THAT DISTRICTS BOARD MEMBER DAVID COLPEPER WITH NO OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RUSHED OUT THIS RESOLUTION WHICH IS OUT OF LINE WITH VIRGINIA LAW SINCE ELECTION IN TWENTY TWENTY TWO. HISEE MNGTI ATTENDANCE AND VOTING RECORD MAKE IT CLEAR

207THAT HE IS NOT LOOKING OUT FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS OR FAMILIES INSTEAD HE IS PUSHING A FAR AGENDA AN AGENDA THAT NOT ONLY SEEKS TO BANDAI INITIATIVES BUT ALSO WANTS TO ELIMINATE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION THE WAVE OF FAR RIGHT LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL BOARDS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAS BEEN ABLE TO HIJACK THE MESSAGING AND CONVINCE AMERICA ESPECIALLY YOUNG MEN THAT STEPS TAKEN TOWARD ANYTHING RESEMBLING EQUITY FOR MINORITIES AND WOMEN ARE STEPS THAT ARE TAKEN AT THEIR EXPENSE THIS COULDN'T BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH ELIMINATING THE INITIATIVES ABSOLUTELY HURTS MINORITIES AND GIRLS BUT IT HURTS BOYS TOO SMART, COMPETENT ARE NOT AFRAID OF D.C.I. THEY DON'T FEAR COMPETITION THEY WELCOME IT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY CAN RISE ON MERIT THEY DON'T NEED TO RIG THE SYSTEM >> AS A COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL DIVISION ARE WE

208TRYING TO RAISE AN INSECURE WHITE MALE GENERATION WHO DEMANDS THAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS HELD BACK SO THEY CAN STAY >> AHEAD WHERE WILL THIS LEAVE OUR GIRLS AND MRRITYINO STUDENTS WHO COMPRISE AT LEAST 50 PERCENT OF VBC ENROLLMENT IF WE DON'T OPEN OUR EYES TO THE CRUEL TAX ON PUBLIC EDUCATION HAPPENING AT THE NATIONAL STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL I FEAR FOR WHAT'S TO COME FOR OUR KIDS BOARD MEMBERS KALON COLPEPER WMESEE BWNRO, BONESTEEL AND DWYRE. YOUR FAILURE TO STAND UP FOR ALL STUDENTS WILL TAKE US BACK DECADES OF PROGRESS YOU DO NOT REPRESENT OUR CITY'S VALUES. WE MUST RAISE A GENERATION WHO CARES ABOUT AND INCLUDES EVERYONE RFO NXTEEA SP IKERS TELLING YOU, MURPHY, THATOE J BLAKE THAT RON TAYLOR. HI, GOOD EVENING AND HAPPY ONTO THILE MYITARCH ILD FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY

209NOT KNOW THAT IS WHAT APRIL IS MY NAME IS TANYA MURPHY I'M A I'M A 22 YEAR NAVY SPOUSE I'M THE MOTHER OF THREE CHILDREN AND WE JUST MOVED HERE LAST SUMMER BECAUSE MYSELF GOT ORDERS HERE TO HAMPTON ROADS I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE RECENT VOTE TO ELIMINATE DESIGNERS HERE SEE, WHEN WE CAME HERE WE'D AFTER SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT HAD PHENOMENAL SUPPORT FROM MY AND ACADEMICALLY SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, ALL OF THE THINGS ARE NECESSARY ESPECIALLY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN AS YOU'RE MOVING AND TRANSITIONING AND DEALING WITH SEPARATION FROM YOUR FAMILY YOUR COMMUNITIES. AND I WAS REALLY REALLY HELPFUL AS WE MOVE WE MOVE THIS TIME OUR ELEVENTH MOVE THAT WE WOULD FIND THOSE THINGS IN THIS DISTRICT AS WELL. WE DID RESEARCH WE SAW A DIVERSE RANGE OF CLUBS WE CLUBS. WE SAW ACTIVITIES WE SAW

210REPRESENTED WE CHOSE OUR SCHOOL VERY CAREFULLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE FOUND ONE THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY SUPER OVERT SITUATIONS REGARDING RACISM. THINGS LIKE THAT RIGHT BECAUSE THAT DOES HAPPEN DOES HAPPEN HERE QUIETLY BUT IT HAPPENS WE AVOIDED THOSE SCHOOLS. WE TRUSTED THAT VIRGINIA BEACH CITY SCHOOLS WOULD CONTINUE TO OFFER THE SUPPORT THAT OUR FAMILY NEEDS AS A MILITARY FAMILY AND THAT WAS DECIDING R WHACTOEN WE CHOSE WERE WHERE TO PURCHASE OUR HOME TO ESE ELIMINATED NOW IS BOTH DISAPPOINTING AND DEEPLY DISHEARTENING SEE, BECAUSE MY KIDS HAVE MULTIPLE THEY'RE BIRACIAL, THEY'RE LGBTQ THEIR THEY'RE MILITARY KIDS. THE DCI PROGRAMS THAT THIS DISTRICT IS HAS HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL TO HELP AND REALLY FIND THEIR PLACE HERE RIGHT THESE PROGRAMS HAVE PROGRAMS HAVE HELPED THEM FEEL WELCOMED, SEEN AN ACCEDPTED IN THEIR NEW COMMUNITY. THEY PROVIDED THE

211FOUNDATION MY KIDS ONE OF WHOM WAS A JUNIOR ONE OF WHOM IS IN SEVENTH GRADE IN SEVENTH GRADE. SO WE'RE NOT TALKING LITTLE KIDS RIGHT THAT'S A REALLY HARD TIME TO MOVE MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLE SCHOOL, MIDDLE OF HIGH SCHOOL THAT'S WHAT'S HELP THEM BUILD FRIENDSHIPS AND CONNECT THEM WITH TEACHERS WHO VALUE THEM FOR THEIR ENTIRE SELVES, FIND THEIR SAFE PLES INAC THE PLACES WHERE THEY'RE SEEING HEARD AND LOVED. I'D TO REMIND THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY THE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION FAR BEYOND DISCUSSIONS OF JUST RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY THEY ENCOMPASS ALL ASPECTS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE INCLUDING THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OUR MILITARY OUR MILITARY FAMILIES. THIS DISTRICT PROUDLY PROMOTES WILL START SCHOOLS RECOGNIZING ITS COMMITMENT TO SUPPORTING MILITARY CONNECTED STUDENTS TRANSITIONS DEPLOYMENTS AND THE MANY THE MANY DISRUPTIONS OF MILITARY LIFE. YET ELIMINATING DCI PROGRAMING FUNDAMENTALLY

212CONTRADICTS WHAT THE PURPOSE OUR DESIGNATION REPRESENTS HOW. HOW CAN YOU CLAIM TO HONOR OUR MILITARY FAMILIES WHILE DISMANTLING THE VERY PROGRAMS MAKE OUR SCHOOL CONCLUSIVE FOR ALL STUDENTS INCLUDING THOSE FROM MILITARY BACKGROUNDS ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY BE VETERANS THE MESSAGE IT SENDS IS CONFUSING AND IT'S HARMFUL I URGE YOU TO RECONSIDER WHAT YOU'VE DONE BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN DESERVE SCHOOLS PPARERE TMHEFOR THE FIRST DIVERSE WORLD THEY INHERIT NOT JUST ACADEMICALLY BUT SOCIALLY EMOTIONALLY PLEASE DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY THAT AWAY FROM THEM AND EIAONSPEC DLLY'T MILITARY CHILDREN THEYIVEN G UP . OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JILL LEAK HURON YLORTA RON TAYLOR THEN >> BERNITA RCHARIONDSLOEL H. O SI INITIALLY INTENDED TO COME HERE TONIGHT TO ISSUE A SINCERE APPEAL IN DEFENSE OF THE I AS SO MANY SPEAKERS DONE SO ELOQUENTLY AND THEN IN THE

213MIDDLE OF WRITING IT I REALIZED YOU DON'T CARE. NOT ALL OF YOU THE MAJORITY WHO SUPPORTED THE REMOVAL YOU DON'T CARE WHAT DID ACTUALLY MEANS OR ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHES AND I KNOW THIS BECAUSE IF YOU KNEW OR IF YOU CARED YOU WOULDN'T HAVE VOTED TO REMOVE IT AND NO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO. CERTAINLY NOT BEN SOMEONE BLEW THE ANTI-WAR ANTI WORK DOG WHISTLE AND UP YOU JUMPED WHICH BRINGS US TO THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM CURRENTLY FACING VCP TOO MANY DECISION MAKERS ARE MORE WORRIED SCORING POLITICAL POINTS OR PROTECTING THEIR OWN JOBS THEN THEY ARE ABOUT DOING THEIR JOBS WHICH IS TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR STAFF TO EDUCATE ALL STUDENTS AND FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN TO DO THAT SOMEONE ELSE SAID IN A DIFFERENT ARENA YOU NEED TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT

214OR LEFT AND START WORRYING ABOUT WHAT RIGHT OR WRONG. WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION WHY SHOULD I BOTHER WELL BECAUSE, BECAUSE NONE OF US ARE TALKING JUST TO YOU. OUR KIDS ARE LISTENING AND YOU'VE CREATED A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH A FEW IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT DIVERSITY, EDUCATION AND INCLUSION TAKE NOTE OF WHO INSIST ON REDUCING DIVERSITY TO JUST THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN. TAKE NOTE OF WHO ADVOCATES FOR EMBRACING ALL OF OUR DIFFERENCES COLOR RACE GENDER, GENDER, PHYSICAL ABILITIES, ACADEMIC ABILITIES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THEIR STRENGTH AND DIVERSITY AND WHO ADVOCATES PRETENDING THOSE DIFFERENCES ARE AT BEST IRRELEVANT AND AT WORST A SOURCE OF SHAME? TAKE NOTE OF WHO CONFUSES EQUITY WITH A QUALITY YET IS STILL AGAINST IT TAKE NOTE OF WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT IT'S WORTH THE TIME AND EFFORT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAS

215ACCES STO OPPORTUNITY TAKE NOTE OF WHO SPEAKS OF SAFE SPACES WAS GOING TO >> TAKE NOTE OF WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE MAKING EVERYONE FEEL WELCOME AND VALUED IS GOOD THING PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY DON'T BELIEVE EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE INCLUDED TAKE NOTE OF ALL OF THAT AND THEN TAKE HETAR OTNEIC EVERYONE ESPECIALLY YOUR PEERS WHO SHOWED UP HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF DIVERSITYQUITY E AND INCLUSION AND KNOW THAT THIS IS JUST A SMALL FRACTION OF PEOPLE WHO DO BELIEVE IN ITDAN WHO WILL CONTINUE TO SEE YOU VALUE YOU PROTECT YOU AND EDUCATE YOU DESPITE OUR SCHOOL BOARD IF WE HAVE TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER ISRO N ORTAYL THEN BRING YOU TO RICHARDSO THENN JFE ENNIR NKFRALAND, RON TAYLOR, BERNITA RICHARDSON GOOD EVENINGE MSMBER OF THE SCHOOL THEHO SCOL BOARD AND DR.OB RONERTS RENTCELY A CHS

216BOOLRDOA MEMBERS STATED THAT THEESO RTILU TONO SUSPEND I WOULD CREATE AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD FOR ALL STUDENTS ALTHOUGH I RECOGNIZE THE MALICIOUS INTENT BEHIND THE COMET, IT REFLECTS A FUNDAMENTAL MIS UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT DCI OR MORE COMPLETELY DCI A MEANS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY ARE NOT ABOUT GIVING EVERYONE THE SAME TREATMENT WHAT ABOUT GIVING EVERYONE WHAT THEY NEED TO THRIVE. TREATING EVERYONE EQUALLY ASSUMES WE ALL START FROM THE SAME SPACE AND PLACE WITH THE SAME NEEDS WHICH SIMPLY ISN'T THE CASE. LET'S TALK NUMBERS STUDENTS WITH DISABILITY MAKE UP 14 PERCENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT NATIONALLY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT 10 PERCENT STUDENTS FROM HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED RACIAL ETHNIC GROUPS MAKE UP OVER 50 PERCENT OF STUDENT POPULATION IN MANY DISTRICTS. D.E.A INITIATIVE EXIST BECAUSE THOSE GROUPS OFTEN FACE ADDITIONAL AREAS. THEY'RE NOT HANDOUTS.

217THEY'RE LIFELONG THESE INITIATIVES ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS BACKGROUND AND ABILITY HAS ACCESS TO A FULL AND FAIR EDUCATION WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY YOUNGEST MY YOUNGEST SON HAS CEREBRAL PALSY HE IS INTELLIGENT, DETERMINED, KIND EAGER TO LEARN BUT WITHOUT SPECIFIC SUPPORT HE FACES OBSTACLES HIS PEERS WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HE MAY NEED PHYSICAL ACCOMMODATIONS TO ENTER AND MOVE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL BUILDING IN HE MAY NEED EXTRA TIME ON ASSIGNMENT OR ACCESS TO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TO FULLY DEMONSTRATE WHAT HE KNOWS >> HE REQUIRES STAFF WHO UNDERSTAND HOW TO SUPPORT HIS MOBILITY AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS. THESE AREN'T LUXURIES THERE ESSENTIAL AND MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THESE A PRACTICES ALREADY HERE IN VIRGINIA WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE EIA WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SENSIBILITY TO BE SEEN AND SEEN AND HEARD VALUED IN THE CLASSROOM TALKING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT

218HE GETS THE CHANCE THE CHANCE AT A BRIGHT FUTURE AS ANYONE ELSE WHEN WE SAY EQUITY WE MEAN RECOGNIZE USING HIS UNIQUE AND RESPONDING WITH INTENTIONAL SUPPORT NOT PRETENDING THAT THOSE NEEDS DON'T EXIST IF WE MOVE AWAY FROM THE UNDER THE GUISE OF TREATING EVERYONE EQUALLY WE FAIL KIDS AND MINE WILL NOT FAILED HERE NOT BECAUSE HE'S NOT CAPABLE BUT BECAUSE THE SYSTEM REFUSED TO MEET HIM WHERE HE IS I AM BRIGADA RICHASONRDPPEAR AANCE FOR NEXT IS JENNIFER FRANKLIN THEN OLIVIA WILLIAMS THAT MARY GOOD EVENING. CHAIR BROWN LOST HER WEEMES MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DR. ROBERTSIN NAME IS JENNIFER FRANKLIN TO BE CLEAR I CAN BARELY SEE OVER ANY OFFENSE FENCE BUT I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF THE HAMPTON ROADS BLACK CAUCUS AND CONCERNED COMMUNITY MEMBERS SEEKING CLARITY ON THE RECENT ACTIONS

219REGARDING THE FORMER OFFICE OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION AS DISCUSSED OR DURING THE APRIL 8TH MEETING WORDS MATTER ACTIONS. ACTIONS MATTER. VOTES MATTER THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF HER POWERFUL WORDS ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. I A DREAM WORDS INSPIRE BUT IT'S ACTION THAT SHAPES LIVES WE ARE ALL CREATEEQUAL.D BUT WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT THROUGH SYSTEMS DECISIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES CAN CREATE INEQUITY FOUR YEARS WE'VE HAD A FEMALE CHAIR LEADING THIS BOARD SOMETHING ONCE UNIMAGINABLE WITHOUT LAWS INFLUENCED BY EFFORTS THAT PROGRESS REQUIRED INTENTIONAL ACTION REGARDLESS HOW WE VIEW THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S DECISION, I BELIEVE WE ALL AGREE THAT PRESERVING FEDERAL FUNDING IS ESSENTIAL. THE REAL CHALLENGE IS HOW DO WE COMPLY WITHOUT LOSING THE MOMENTUM BUILT TO SUPPORT ALL STUDENTS NOT ALL NOT ALL CHILDREN START FROM SAME PLACE THE OFFICE OF DCI HAS PLAYED HAS

220PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN HELPING HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED STUDENTS FEEL SAFE AND SUPPORTED AND INCLUDED THESE EFFORTS ARE ABOUT PEOPLE AND ABOUT OUR SHARED COMMITMENT TO FAIRNESS AND STUDENT SUCCESS . THE MESSAGE SENT BY ELIMINATING THESE PROGRAMS ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT UPLIFT AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND OTHERUNDE EPRERRNTEDSE STUDENTS CAN REINFORCE THE HARMFUL MINDSET THAT THEIR VOICES HEROES IN HISTORY DON'T BELONG. THIS CAN FOSTER A PRISON OF THE MIND WHERE CHILDREN BELIEVE THEY HAVE NO FUTURE AND WHEN THEY STOP BELIEVING AND THEMSELVES AND A POSITIVE FUTURE POOR DECISIONS CAN FOLLOW WE AND ESPECIALLY YOU THE SCHOOL BOARD HAVE THE POWER TO SHIFT AT MINDSET I'VE SEEN THAT TO HELP THEM SEE THOSE POSSIBILITIES FOR THEIR FUTURE WE HAVE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST AND DETAILED INFORMATION OUT THE BOARD'S INTENDED DIRECTION THE LAST MINUTE VOTE ON APRIL 8TH LEFT NO TIME FOR SUFFICIENT

221COMMUNITY INPUT AND ONLY FUELED CONFUSION AND SPECULATION ABOUT WHAT COMES NEXT. IT ALSO GOES AGAINST WHAT MANY YOU HAVE STATED IN THE PAST ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC INPUT. IT CONTRADICTS THE BOARD'S PAST EMPHASIS ON TRANSPARENCY AND INCLUSION WE FEAR A CENTRAL PROGRAMS MAY NOW BE QUIETLY REDUCED OR REMOVED WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THEIR FULL IMPACT REPRESENTATION MATTERS, VISIBILITY MATTERS, ENGAGEMENT MATTERS WE URGE THE BOARD TO >> CLEARLY COMMUNICATE ANY PLANNED CHANGES REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND ENSURE THAT ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND HAVE ADVOCATES RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO DRIVE WE ALSO REQUEST THAT YOU INCLUDE THE WORD EMPOWERMENT IN THE DEPARTMENT'S UPDATED NAME THAT WOULD BE A GREAT COMPROMISE FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE NEVER FELT EMPOWERED BEFORE. THAT WORD MEANS EVERYTHING WE'RE NOT HERE TO BE ADVERSARIAL WE'RE ADVERSARIAL. WE'RE HERE TO BE ENGAGED PARERTNWI

222THYOU IN ENSURING EVERY CHILD IN OUR DIVISION HAS A FUTURE FILLED WITH HOPE POSSIBILITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. THANK FOR YOUR TIME AND SERVICE PUBLIC TEH SPEAKER IS OLIVIA WILLIAMS MARY DIRE AND THEN CATHERINEMALH >>I GOOD EVENGNI . I'M OLIVIA WILLIAMS TEACHER APPARENT AN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER AND HAVE, AN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER AND I HAVE A PH.D. IN TEACHING AND EARNING POLICY AND LEADERSHIP I'VE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION AND I'M DEEPLY CONCERNED BY THE SUSPENSION OF DIVERSITY AND EQUITY AND INCLUSION EFFORTS IN OUR DISTRICT I'LL START WITH THE PROCESS THE RESOLUTION THE RESOLUTION IN QUESTION WAS EMAILED OUT LATE APRIL 7TH FOR A VOTE ON APRIL EIGHT OUT PUBLIC COMMENT AND WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT TWO BOARD MEMBERS WOULD BE ABSENT THIS RUSH PROCESS IS COWARDLY AND WAS A DERELICTION YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND WAS NOT INCLUSIVE

223OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS RUSHING THROUGH SUCH A MAJOR POLICY REVERSAL WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT AND WITHOUT DUE TIME FOR REAL DEBATE IN CONSIDERATION UNDERMINES THE TRUST AND INTEGRITY THAT SHOULD DEFINE THIS BOARD'S DECISION PROCESS NOW FOR NOW FOR THE SUBSTANCE SINCE THIS RESOLUTION PAST OR DISTRICTS EQUITY PLAN SHDADBOARUR O DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION RELATED PAGES HAVE DISAPPEARED AND STUDENT CLUBS AND PROGRAM PROGRAMING ARE ALREADY FACING UNCERTAINTY OUR STUDENTS SPEAKERS HAVE ALREADY CLEARLY ADDRESS THE RM THAHAT THIS WILL CAUSE SO I WON'T REHASH BUT I WILL SAY THAT RENAME THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION TO THE OFFICE OF OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT CONVENIENTLY OVERLOOKS THE FACT THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL REQUIRES EQUITY AND ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL REQUIRES INCLUSION FOR THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO BRING UP ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT FROM EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH STANDPOINT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT INCREASING ACADEMIC

224ACHIEVEMENT ISXACTLY E WHAT THE INITIATIVE DEMONSTRABLY DO I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR D THE ACRONYM HAS BECOME A TRENDY AND DIVISIVE POLITICAL TOPIC BUT THE CONCEPTS DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION ARE NOT THEIR IDEALS NOT THEIR IDEALS THAT FORM A FRAMEWORK TO HELP ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, FAMILY INCOME, LANGUAGE, GENDER ABILITY OR NATIONALITY HAS ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY EDUCATIO THATN REFLECTS RESPECTS AND AS ATTENTIVE TO THE. THESE ARE VERY REAL GOSAL WITH VEEALRY R ANDRY VE HARMFUL IMPLICATIONS WHEN THEY AREN'T ACHIEVED. EDUCATIO ISNN'T A ZERO SUM GMEA DEA IS NOT TAKING FROM SOME TO GIVE TO OTHERS IT'S ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC INEQUITIES WHICH TO THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T SEEM TO THINK THOSE EXIST ARE INVITED TO TAKE A COLLEGE COURSE THAT I TEACH AND EQUITY IN EDUCATION I UNDETANDRS THAT YOU AS

225A BOARD ARE RESPONDING TO AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT THREATENS 74 MILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDING AND I UNDERSTAND THAT TATH'SRY SCA BUT I ALSOND UANERST THATD ESE TTHHS AREATREST JU THAT THEY ARE THREATS WITHOUT LEGAL FOUNDATION SO FAR 11 STATES AND A NUMBER OF INDEPENDT SENCHOOL DISTRICTS ALREADY RESISTED THE FEDERAL ORDER TO END DIVERSITY EQUITY AND EQUITY AND INCLUSION EFFORTS IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT YOU DID NOT CHOOSE TO USE YOUR POWER TO FOLLOW THEIR NEEDO T BE BRAVE AND TO ANDST UP FOR OUR STUDE NONTS MOREWHAN TS I NOT A TIME TO ABANDON OUR VALUES OR ETONGAGE IN ANTICIPATORY CAPITULATION OVER A THREAT ADOPTING THE APRIL THREAT APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION TO PUT THIS SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ON THE WRONG SIDE HISRY ITTO WASTH ERO WNGHI TNG TO DO FOR

226OUR SENTSTUD BUT IT ISN'T TOO LATE TO UNDO THE DAMAGE I URGE THE SPORT TO RECONSIDER THE RESOLUTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS RECOMMIT TO THE ORIGINAL STRATEGIC EUITYQ LSGOAT SEOR F TWENTY TWENTY AND 20 30 REINSTATE POLICY FIVE FOUR AND USE OUR TIME WORKING WITH LEGAL COUNSEL TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN RESIST RATHER THAN SURRENDER TO MANDATES WILL HARM OUR STUDENTS AND MOST OF ALL PRIORITIZE LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF THE STUDENTS FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS THAT YOU AGREED TO SERVE KNOWING THAT SCHOOLSND A CLASSROOM SHOULD BE SAFE AFFIRMING SPACES WHERE EVERY CHILD IS REFLECTED AND RESPECTED. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS VERY DIRE THAN CATHERINE NOW THAT CONRAD. SHE GOOD EVENING. AS A MOTHER A GRANDMOTHER AND A CRISIS FOLLOWER I COMPLETELY AGREE IN DIVERSITY INCLUSION AND EQUITY AS A POSTURE OF OUR HEART

227AND A LENS TO SEE THE WORLD TO RESPECT AND ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS. JESUS HIMSELF SAID THAT THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT WAS TO LOVE OTHERS AND TO LAY DOWN OUR VERY LIVES FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE HAVE NO VOICE IN CULTURE THAT OFTEN MAINALIZRGES ND ALLBUSIE THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE NORM I HAVE MUCH >> COMPASSION FOR THOSE WHO ARE POOR OF DIFFERENT SKIN COLOR OR EVEN HAVE DIFFERENT CHOICES IN SEXUALITY THESE ARE DIFFICULT DISCRIMINATIONS THAT MUST BE CONSIDERED AND ADDRESSED HOWEVER HAVING SAID THAT I THAT I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY FULL SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD'S APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATING THE HARMFUL AND DIVISIVE DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES FROM OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE DECISION TO PLACE RACE AT THE CENTER OF HIRING DECISIONS AND ACADEMIC

228OUTCOMES IS NOT ONLY DISCRIMINATING BUT ALSO DETRACTING FROM THE PRIMARY MISSION OF OUR SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION BASED ON MERIT, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE THIS DECISION TO SOCIALLY ENGINEER HAS NO PLACING AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT THAT SHOULD HAVE A FOCUS ON MEASURABLE ACHIEVEMENT AND IN FACT HAS LED TO LOWER TEST SCORES IN THE STUDENT POPULATION I URGE YOU CONTINUE THE CONTINUE THE COURSE THAT YOU BEGAN WITH A PREVIOUS VOTE AND TAKE THE FINAL STEP TO ELIMINATE THESE HARMFUL PRACTICE THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY SUPPORT YOUR EFFORTS AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP AND DEFENSE OF THIS EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ONE BASED ON FIRNEASS NOT ON FAVORITISM. THA YOUNK VERY MUCH FOR NEXT SPEAKER IS CATHERINE NALLEY THAT CONRAD ROSE BETTER THAN JANET BURNS THAT EVENING.

229CHAIRWOMAN BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMS VARIOUS MEMBERS VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DR. ROBERTSON >>. MY NAME IS CATHY McE I AM A RETIRED TEACHER VBA BOARD VBA BOARD MEMBER TONIGHT I READING A SPEECH FROM AN EDUCATOR WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS TONIGHT WHILE I FEEL A VOTE THAT ELIMINATE DCI PROGRAM SHOULD HAVE BEEN DELAYED UNTIL PUBLIC COMMENT WAS ALLOWED. I UNDERSTAND THE 70 FOUR MILLION CONUNDRUM YOU FACED WITH ADDRESSING HOWEVER YOUR RUSH TO VOTE AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING HAS LEFT MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED WHAT PART OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY OR INCLUSION IS UYO WOULD LIKE TO LIKE TO ELIMINATE OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS NO LONGER GOING TO BE EDUCATED IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION SETTING IN CLASSROOMS REFERRED TO AS INCLUSION CLASSROOMS WHILE I KNOW

230THAT THE RHETORIC OF IDEAS PROTECT STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ACCOMMODATIONS, CONFLICT, CONFLICT WITH THEIR EQUALITY NOT EQUITY STANCE? ISN'T OUT WITH FIVE OR FOUR ACCOMMODATIS TOON PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A DISABILITY ACCESS TO AN EQUITABLE EDUCATION WITHOUT NEED FOR A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INSTRUCTION. T AAOUTB ARFTEHOOL SC PRMS OGRASUCH AS GIRLSN O THE RUN AND STEM PROGRAMS DESIGNED GIRLS THAT PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND TYPICALLY MALE FIELDS YOU MAY HAVE THOUTGH YOU WERE GETTING RIGHT OR PROGRAMS YOU FOUND PROBLEMATIC LIKE THE GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE WHAT YOU DID WAS CANCELED SUPPORT FOR UNDERSERVED OR UNDERREPRESENTED REPRESENTED POPULATIONS. I ALSO CAN'T IMAGINE A GROUP LIKE THE FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ISN'T DEVICE OR AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN RECOVERY ISN'T DESIGNED TO PROVIDE AN EQUITABLE EDUCATION FOR THOSE WITH A UNIQUE NEED AT THIS POINT I JUST

231HAVE TO TRUST THE HARDWORKING EDUCATORS IN VBC TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ALL STUDENTS TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY DESPITE MANY OF YOU CHEERING ALONG WHIT THOSE CALLGINEACH TSERRO GSOMERRE A TELLING THEM TO JUST TEACH MATH ANDEA RGDIN YOU DON'T SEE HOW EDUCATORS ARE STRUGGLING BEING ASKED EVERY DAY T DOORE MOTH WI CHERSA ARE BEGGING FOR HELP AND YOU'RE ACCUSING THEM FARMING CHILDREN ANDRE AEIN BG QUALUNIFIED TO DO THEIR JOBS I FEEL THATHIS T IS FALLING ON DEAF EARS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT WORLDVIEW I BEG YOU IN YOU IN THE FUTURE ACTUALLY SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HETHO SCS.OL PLEASE ALLOW THE EDUCATNIOAL EXS PERTTHE TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT MAJOR CHANGES WILL LOOK LIKE BEFORE PNGUSHI THEM THROUGH. THANK YOU. OUR NEXTSPEAKE R REVIEWS CONRAD SHOWS VENTRE JANET BURNS THAT SUSAN WOLFSBERG

232THERE'S AN ENVELOPE THERE'S AN INFLUENTIAL ORGANIZATION OUT THERE AND IT'S CALLED STUDENTS FIRST VIRGINIA CATCHY NAME. THEY SUPPORT SCHOOL CHOICE THE APPEAL OF USING TAX DOLLARS TO FOLLOW THE STUDENT FROM A PUBLIC SCHOOL TO A SCHOOL OF THEIR PARENTS CHOOSING THIS DISCRETION IS BELIEVED TO FOSTER BETTER EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ANDTUDENT SSFOR VIRGINIA I BEEVELI THEREY' THE TYPE TO EMBRACE EDUCATION ON AMERICA'S FOUNDING AND EVENTS THEIR SPIRIT I DON'T THINK DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD SHY AWAY FROM TEACHING THE FOUNDING OF THE SCHOOL CHOICE MOVEMENT RIGHT BORN AFTER BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION IN 1954, A STRONG SOUTHERN CRUSADE AROSE WHERE WHITE PARENTS COULD TAKE STATE TUITION GRANTS AVOID INTEGRATION WITH BLACK CHILDREN DIRECT THEIR KIDS TO ALL WHITE SCHOOLS. THOSE SCHOOLS WERE WIDELY POPULAR WIN VIRGINIA MASSIVELY RESISTED INTEGRATION IN THE 50S AND 60S. THOSE DECADES EXISD

233ATELONGSIDE OF FORMAL CREATION OF VIRGINIA BEACH, A CITY WHICH SAW ITS WHITE POPULATION GROWTH FORTY NINE PERCENT BY 1970 WHILE NORFOLK'S DWINDLED TWENTY THREE PERCENT. THAT'S COINCIDENTAL. I WONDERF WON ODER IF THE MAJORITY OF THIS BOARD HAS AN OPINION ON THAT MATTER AND I'D WAGER THAT THE MAJORITY THIS BOARD MUCH LIKE STUDENTS LIKE STUDENTS FOR A SURVEY WOULD REFRAIN FROM LETTING STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT WHITE FLIGHT MASSIVE RESISTANCE AND INTEGRATION LESS THE DELICATE SENSIBILITIES OF A CERTAIN EUROPEAN AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS FEEL THREATENED WE WOULDN'T WANT THAT NOR WOULD NOR WOULD WE WANT THOSE STUDENTS KNOW THAT EVEN IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR IN TWENTY FIVE WE STILL HAVE HORRIBLE RACIAL INCIDENT THAT KIM SUPPORT KELAM HIGH SCHOOLS TO LET THEM KNOW WOULD REQUIRE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLOARD B TO ADOPT POLICIES AND CURRICULUM EMBRACING OUR DIVERSITY, STRENGTHENING EQUITY AND

234AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING INCLUSION BUT MUCH THEIR MAJORITIES HISTORY AND STUDENTS AND STUDENTS FOR VIRGINIA'S HISTORY WILL PROVIDE PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO D.C. AND THEN WHITE FLIGHT ON NEXT SPEAKER IS JANET BURNS >>. SUSAN ROSEBURG AND THEN TRICIA ABERNATHY GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOHN JANET BURNS AND I'M A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT FOR MY OLDEST CHILD GRADUATED FROM BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTEND COLLEGE I CURRENTLY HAVE A CHILD ATTENDING TOLLYWOOD GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY AND MY YOUNGEST CHILD WILL BE STARTING PRE-K NEXT YEAR AND HE HAS BATTLED SOME MEDICAL CHALLENGES AND IS LEARNING ASL BUT I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO EXPRESS MY DISSATISFACTION WITH YOUR DECISION TO SUSPEND MY INITIATIVES NOT ONLY WAS THIS RESOLUTION RUSHED, YOU MADE A QUICK CISIONDE WIOUTTH ANY INP FROMUTYOUR ON CUENTSTIT ASS A PARENT I AM DEEPLY CONCERNED WITH YOUR DECISION ELIMINATING

235PROGRAMS AFFECTS INDIVIDUALS FROM DIVERSE CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS AND STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE IEP AND FIVE FOR PLANS SUSPENDING THE INITIATIVE ALIEN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AND IT ALSO NEGATIVELY AFFECTS STUDENTS BY LIMITING OR ELIMINATING ACCESS TO PROGRAMS NEED IT FOR THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS WITH A CHILD WHO CURRENTLY HAS A FIVE YEAR PLAN I NEED I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR PLAN DOES I NEED TO KNOW WHAT PLAN DOES THE SCHOOL BOARD HAVE TO ENSURE THAT MY CHILD ALONG WITH OTHER STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES OUR SUPPORT IT WITH YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS ALSO ARE YOU GOING TO ENSURE OUR CHILD'S LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IS INCLUSIVE WHAT PLAN WILL BE IMPLEMENTED TO ENSURE OUR STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO EXTRA SUPPORT NEEDED FOR THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS SO I'VE HEARD THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE STRUCTURES IN THE HOME AS A RETIRED POLICE OFFICER HERE IN VIRGINIA

236BEACH AND WITH A HUSBAND WHO ACTIVELY SERVES AS A MILITARY SERVICE MEMBER, I DON'T HOW MUCH STRUCTURE YOU CAN YOU CAN HAVE WITH IT. I HAVE WITNESSED MY CHILD BE DISCRIMINATED UPON JUST BECAUSE OF THE ZONE OF THE SCHOOL THAT SHE LIVES IN. SO MY DAUGHTER HAS BEEN IN CLASSROOMS WHERE THE WEATHER CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN POOR THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHERE SHE HAS LEARNED WHERE IT'S BEENHOT OR IT'S COLD BECAUSE THE AIR CONDITIONER OR THE HEATING DOES NOT WORK SO I'M ASKING YOU RIGHT NOW FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO SAY THAT YOU KNOW THE STRUCTURE IS NEEDED I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING . SO THE SOCIAL CLUBS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ELIMINATE SUCH AS THE BLACK STUDENT UNION AND LGBTQ COMMUNITIES, IT'S ONLY HOPE HAT TTHESE KIDS HAVE. THERE HAVE BEEN STUDENTS WHO HAVE PREVENTED SUICIDE

237FROM THESE GROUPS AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREAMING RACISM WOULD NEVER SET FOOT EDWARDS LAKE EDWARD'S TWIN CANAL. YOU KNOW COLLEGE PART SO. SO I ASKED YOU TODAY IF YOU GUYS CAN GO INTO THE SCHOOLS, LISTEN TO THE STUDENTS THE ONES WHO HAVE SPOKEN AND I ASKED YOU RIGHT NOW TO REINSTATE THE POLITICS AND PROTECT OUR >>. THAT IS TIMEO FR OUR NEXT SPEAKER. SUSAN ROESGEN THE INTRUSION TRICIA ABERNATHY, THEN ERIC MAGETTE GOOD EVENING I LIVE I LIVE IN DISTRICT SIX. MR. ALLONS DISTRICT LIKE SO MANY HERE TONIGHT I AM OUTRAGED OUTRAGED BY THE ACTIONS OF THE MAJORITY ON THE SCHOOL BOARD >>. YOU NEW WHEN PRESENTING THE APRIL 8TH RESOLUTION THAT THE APRIL 11 DEADLINE HAD BEEN MOVED TO APRIL 24TH WHICH WOULD HAVE ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC COMMENTING YOU INTRODUCE INTRODUCED THIS RESOLUTION TO

238YOUR FELLOW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE THEY WERE ASKED FOR A VOTE ON IT YOU KNEW THE TWO OF YOUR COLLEAGUES WOULD BE ABSENT AND YOU PLANNED THIS VOTE IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT INTENTIONALLY DISREGARDING DUE PROCESS, AVOIDING PUBLIC COMMENT AVOIDING INPUT FROM YOUR COLLEAGUES AND AVOIDING DUE DILIGENCE TO ACTUALLY COIDERNSND AISCUS DS THE DEEPER RAMIFICATIONS OF ABRUPTLY SUSPENDING A POLICY THAT IMPACTS SO MANY IN OUR STUDENT POPULATION D I SHOULD NOT BE A POLITICAL AGENDA. IT IS A PROMISE ONE THAT EVERY DENT REGARDLESS OF RACE, GENDER INTITYDE, LIRE,GION ISOCNOMOECOIC THAT IS ABILITY OR BACKGROUND HAS THE RIGHT TO FEEL SEEN TO FEEL HEARD, TO FEEL SAFE SUPPORTED AND EMPOWERED IN OUR SCHOOLS REMOVING THE PROGRAMS CHILLING MESSAGE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE NO NGER CLOOMMITTED TO EQUITY THAT THE UNIQUE EXPERIENCES AND

239CHALLENGES OF MARGINALIZED STUDENTS ARE NO LONGETHROR W DREADSSING THAT OUR FUTURE DOESN'T NEED TO BE INCLUSIVE. DISMANTLING THE I VE STUDENTS WITHOUT THE STUDENTS OF COLOR LOSE VITAL CULTURAL SUPPORT DAN REPRESENTATION LGBTQ STUDENTS INCREASED ISOLATION AND DISCRIMINATION STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES RISK FURTHER MARGINALIZATION IN CLASSROOMS NOT DESIGNED FOR THEIR SUCCESS TEACHERS AND STAFF LOSE ESSENTIAL TRAINING UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT A DIVERSE STUDENT BODY WE KNOW THAT WHEN STUDENTS FEEL A SENSE OF >> BELONGING >> HEYTHR T ACAIVEMIDEYCALL EMOTIONALLY WHEN THEY FEEL ALIENATED OR DEVALUED THEIR PERFORMING MENTAL HEALTH AND FUTURE PROSPECTS SUFFER. DTI ISN'T ABOUT FAVORITISM IT'S ABOUT FAIRNESS IT'S ABOUT MEETING ABOUT MEETING STUDENTS WHERE THEY ARE AND GIVING THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. I ASK YOU WHAT KIND OF FUTURE ARE WE BUILDING IF WE TAKE AWAY THE TOOLS THAT HELP OUR CHILDREN LEARN

240ON AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD? I URGE YOU TO RECONSIDER YOUR ACTIONS ON APRIL 8TH I URGE YOU TO LISTEN TO THE SPEAKER'S TONIGHT AND THE COMMENTS THAT YOU RECEIVED BY EMAIL I URGE YOU TO DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE AND TRULY CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF ABRUPTLY DISMANTLING THE EPOLICY MY KIDSSPENT ABOUT 20 YEARS IN VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL PUBLIC SYSTEM I NOW TO BE HONEST SICKENED BY THE DIRECTION THAT THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM IS GOING DESPITE WTHA A SPEAKER SAID EARLIER, WE SHOULD ALL BE PROUD OF THOSE STUDENTS WHO SPOKE EARLIER TODAY THAT WE PRODUCED THOSE JOBS IN THE SC HOOL SYSTEM. THANK YOU FOR NEXT SPEAKER IS TRICIABENAK AI THAN THEN ERIC MAGETTE AND ELAL DUMBA. TRICIA ABERNATHY ,ERIC MIDGETTE ,ELLA DUMBA. GOOD EVENING I HAD SOME THINGS THAT ARE I PREPARED TO SAY BUT SOMETHING AT

241THE GENTLEMAN SAID EARLIER JUST KIND OF TOOK ME ABACK WHEN HE WAS TALKING ABOUT WHAT REPUBLICANS DID AND WHAT DEMOCRATS DID WHO OWNED SLAVES WHO DIDN'T SLEEP OWN SLAVES. AND IF THAT DOESN'T TEACH YOU THAT YOU NEED SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING ABOUT BLACK HISTORY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT JUST BECAUSE HE'S A BLACK MAN DID MEAN WHAT DID WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. OK, BECAUSE I WILL TAKE THIS DIVERSION TO SAY THAT EVERY TIME I HEAR SOMEONE SAY THE PARTY OF LINCOLN YOU KNOW THE DATA THAT DA DA DA DA YOU KNOW THE LUCKY WHATEVER AND I GREW UP KNOWING THAT BLACK PEOPLE GENERALLY REPUBLICAN BECAUSE LINCOLN WAS REPUBLICAN AND THEN I ALSO KNEW THAT WHEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY FOLLOWED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON PUT FORTH A CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION, ALL THOSE DEMOCRATS WENT FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO

242THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT LIKE THE DEMOCRATS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION SO LET'S NOT GIVE NOT GET IT TWISTED. WE KNOW WHO WAS THE ONE WHO WAS DOING WHAT AND HOPEFULLY THAT MAN A LOOK AT IT AND NO OH I, I GOT IT TWISTED BECAUSE NOBODY TAUGHT BLACK HISTORY. OK >>, SO I STAND BEFORE YOU THINKING THAT YOU KNOW I AM BLACK WOMAN BLACK WOMAN EVERYWHERE I GO, EVERYWHERE I GO PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE I'M GOING TO SHOW UP A BLACK WOMAN . I'M A WOMAN OF A CERTAIN AND I GREW UP IN VIRGINIA VISITING PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND I KNOW THAT STARTED OUT IN THE SEGREGATED SCHOOL AND THEN WHEN I WAS 10 HAVING THE SCHOOLS CHANGE AND YOU HAD TO GO TO THE SCHOOL YEARS TO YOU AND NO MATTER WHERE YOU

243WERE IN THE VIRGINIA BEACH YOU WENT TO THIS ONE BLACK SCHOOL AND YOU WILL BE SMALLER VIRGINIA BEACH AND THEN YOU HAD SENSIBLE HIGH SCHOOL IS A HIGH SCHOOL AND NO WHERE YOU MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE VIRGINIA BEACH YOU A BUS ALL THESE OTHER SCHOOLS AND I KNOW AT THE AGE OF 10 TEN I CAME HOME SCHOOL AND I SAID YOU SHOULD SEE MY SCHOOL SEE MY SCHOOL, YOU SHOULD SEE MY SCHOOL. SO PRETTY IS SO PRETTY. IT WASN'T LIKE THE INSTITUTIONAL SCHOOL THAT I STARTED OUT IN THE SCHOOL THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT SAVE OLD RAGGEDY MERRY GO ROUND AND THEN MAYBE SOME MONKEY AND THEN YOU GO TO ANOTHER SCHOOL AND YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE THINGS AVAILABLE TO YOU SO I'M JUST SAYING THAT DON'T GET IT WAS THAT I THINK THAT

244WHEN THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE I THEY'RE REALLY TALKING WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE GETTING AHEAD OF US BECAUSE I KNOW THAT LYNDON JOHNSON SAID IF YOU CAN CONVINCE THE LOWEST WHITE MAN HE IS BETTER THAN THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED BLACK MAN, YOU CAN PICK HIS POCKET HE WON'T EVEN CARE AND HE SAID HE'LL GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO LOOK GIVEN SOMEWHAT LOOK DOWN ON AN EMPTY AND HE WILL EMPTY YOUR POCKETS FOR YOU. SO THAT'S WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT HERE BECAUSE WE KNOW WHEN WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, DEAR. YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS YOU DON'T WANT TO IN WHEELCHAIRS. YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE THINGS AWAY FROM FOLKS THAT ARE MAYBE MENTALLY PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED OR HAVE AUTISM OR WHATEVER BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT IS THIS BLACK PERSON HAS SOMETHING THAT MUST

245MEAN I'M MISSING SOMETHING AND EVERY JOB I'VE EVER HAD PEOPLE NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE ME AND DON'T ACT LIKE I'M TAKING YOUR JOB AND TAKING THE JOBAN D LIQUA>>FY FOR THAT. IT'S TIME FOR DREAM BUTRE WE' THATLAN A WAKEFIELD TNHE MORGAN ERES >> GOOD EVENING. WELL, THAT'S AWARD POWER BUT I'M GOING I'M GOING TO BEGIN KIND OF THE SAME SHE DID BUT FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE I'VE THE TERM POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION THROWN AROUND SO I GREW UP IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION LOOKS LIKE? I CAN TELL YOU I GREW UP IN A LARGELY SEGREGATED SCHOOLS SYSTEM OF THE OF MY EARLY EARLY EDUCATION EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WELL AFTER BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS REMAINED WORRIEDLY SEGREGATED. WE WERE TRIED HISTORY CLASS IT REDUCES SLAVES. SLAVES

246WERE HAPPY UNDER FREEDOM AS WELL BEFORE GOD WE HAD TEXTBOOKS PICTURES OF ALL OLD WHITE MEN PLAYING BANJOS AND SITTING TREES THE TREES. THEY SHOWED THE SLAVE OWNERS SLAVES GREETING EACH OTHER CORDIALLY. WELL SMILE WHEN WINSLETT YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN CORDUROY GREETING HIS HIS SLAVE OWNER AND I'M SORRY I'M A LITTLE UPSET SOME OF THE THINGS HAVE BEEN SAID TONIGHT. FAST FORWARD TO TODAY AND YOU HEARD THE YOUNG LADY WHO SPOKE IF YOU THINK THAT TO THE VERY FIRST STUDENT AND SHE SAID IT BECAUSE IF SHE'S HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT IN ON THAT ENABLES YOU TO LEARN ABOUT DIVERSE CULTURES SHE'S EVEN THOUGH SHE'S NOT ASIAN, SHE'S BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN ASIAN CULTURAL CLUBS AND LEARN ABOUT AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY NOW I KNOW I KNOW SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN I CALL THAT COMMUNISM. THEY CALL

247IT SOCIALISM. THEY POTILI ICALTRINNDOCIOATN AND SOME EVEN RACISM AND PREJUDICE BY THAT I CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT MEANWHILE SOME WHITE PRIVILEGE WHAT I CALL IS GIVING HER STUDENTS WHO WORK LIKE THAT AND WHO LOOK LIKE ME OPPORTUNITIES TODAY'S GENERATION OF STUDENTS WHITE STUDENTS HAVE OPPORTUNITIES I NEVER HAD BECAUSE OF DGI AND IN THE TIME THAT I HAVE REMAINING I JUST WANT TO PUT IN A PLUG IF ANY OF YOU THAT IF YOU DIDN'T THAT RACISM EXIST OR THE GENERAL RACIAL INEQUALITY EXIST I RECOMMEND A BOOK BY BILL SIZEMORE, A FORMER REPORTER WHO RESEARCHED HIS SLAVE OWNING ANCESTORS AND THE SLAVES THAT THEY THAT THEY OWN MANY OF WHOM STILL LIVE IN MECKLENBURG VIRGINIA AND HE TRADES IN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS AND HE SAID HE DID THAT NOT TO ABSOLVE HIS OWN GUILT PRODUCER PEOPLE SO PEOPLE

248WOULD KNOW THE TRUTH. SO THAT'S WHAT I'M ARGUING FOR NOT JUST THE TRUTH, THE TRUTH NEXT SPEAKER IS ALAN WAKEFIELD THAN MORGAN AIRS ONP SKEEAR 67 CANCTOEL AND TNE'HE WLL HEAV DR. BETTY >> SPCEENR GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. I WOULD LIKE TO LIKE TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUDING WHICH INCLUSION WHICH YOUNG COVERED VERY WELL TONIGHT DIVERSITY IS EMBRACING THE DIFFERENCE EVERY ONE BRINGS TO THE TABLE WHETHER THOSE ARE SOMEONE'S RACE, AGE, ETHNICITY ,RELIGION, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION PHYSICAL ABILITY OR OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY EQUITY IS JUST TREATING EVERYONE FAIRLY AND PROVIDING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES. INCLUSION IS RESPECTING EVERYONE'S VOICE AND CREATING A CULTURE IN WHICH PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS FEEL >> ENCOURAGED TO EXPRESS THEIR IDEAS AND PERSPECTIVES. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW ANYBODY WOULD NOT WANT BASIC HUMAN WRITES MOST PEOPLE IN THE

249UNITED STATES AND OVER 20 COUNTRIES HAVE BENEFITED FROM THEM BUT THE CATCH IS THAT SOME PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD DON'T WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO HAVE THEM WHEN I WAS TEACHING AT LAKE TAYLOR I WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR FOR A FEW YEARS AFTER MY STROKE. I WAS DEFINITELY DISCRIMINATED STAGED LEAVE ME ON THE FOURTH FLOOR ON THE FOURTH FLOOR AND WHEN THE FIRE DRILLS AND WE DO NOTHING I WOULD BE ON THE FOURTH FLOOR I THINK WHEN I WAS GOING TO SAY NOW I'M ACTUALLY APPLYING YOU GO BACK AS A SUBSTITUTE NOW AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF I WILL BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AGAIN BECAUSE OF MY PARKINSON'S. ANKTHOU Y. REX NT SPEAKER IS MILLNAIO DRIRES B.NCERETTYPE S, THEN WILLIAM DEVINS >> GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD MY BOARD. MY NAME IS MORGAN AYRES. I'M RESIDENT

250OF VIRGINIA BEACH A PRODUCT OF A PRODUCT OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THE SAME PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT EDUCATED MY PARENTS, MY BROTHER AND NOW MY TWO BOYS I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I'M DEEPLY TROUBLED BY THE BOARD'S RECENT VOTE TO SUSPEND ANY INITIATIVES IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT WAS DONE WITHOUT PROPER PUBLIC NOTICE AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY INPUT. LET'S BE CLEAR THE DECISION AFFECTS EVERY STUDENT, EVERY EDUCATOR, EVERY FAMILY IN OUR DISTRICT. YET THE PEOPLE MOST IMPACTED HAD NO CHANCE TO BE HEARD. THAT IS NOT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE THAT IS A CLOSED DOOR MANEUVER AT THE APRIL 8TH MEETING ONE BOARD MEMBER MR. CULPEPER COLPEPER SUGGESTED THAT BECAUSE DC AND I HAS BEEN A PART OF A NATIONAL DEBATE, THE PUBLIC HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO WEIGH IN WITH ALL DUE RESPECT SIR,

251THAT'S A FALSE EQUIVALENCY NATIONAL DISCOURSE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LOCAL PROCESS I AND MANY OTHERS IN THIS ROOM DO NOT CHECK THE NATIONAL NEWS TO KNOW WHAT THE SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE ON THE AGENDA LOCAL CONTEXT >> MATTERS. DNC POLICIES VERY DIFFERENT DIFFERENTLY BETWEEN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS AND OUR LOCAL CONTEXTS MATTER LOCAL INPUT MATTERS WE WOULD LIE ON YOU TO BE TRANSPARENT >> PUBLISHER GENDERS INVITE THE PUBLIC FOR COMMENT. BE FOR MAJOR POLICY CHANGES IF RESIDENTS AREN'T INFORMED OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IT'S UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT PARTICIPATION EVEN EVEN IF THE TOPIC IS BROADLY CONTROVERSIAL CLAIMING THE PUBLIC ALREADY HAD ITS CHANCES JUST WAY TO AVOID BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR A CLOSED DOOR DECISION AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THIS BOARD WANTED TO DO IS AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY. IT WAS SELF-PRESERVATION AT ITS FINEST.

252IMAGINE IF YOU CANCEL GIFTED PROGRAMS OR ALTERED SCHOOL ZONING WITHOUT LISTING IT ON THE AGENDA. WOULD YOU TELL US PARENTS? WELL, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BECAUSE IT'S BEEN IN THE NATIONAL DEBATE NO BECAUSE THAT ARGUMENT DOESN'T HOLD WATER. FURTHERMORE, TEA AND I ISN'T A FRINGE POLITICAL ISSUE IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT EVERY STUDENT FEELS SEEN SAFE AND SUPPORTED IT'S ABOUT FAIR ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES RECOGNIZING DIVERSITY IN OUR CLASSROOMS AND REACHING OUR CHILDREN TEACHING OUR CHILDREN HOW TO COEXIST RESPECTFULLY IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY AND I HAS BEEN DEBATED SINCE TWENTY SEVENTEEN AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHY IT DESERVES A FULL AND OPEN PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND NOT A RUSHED HIDDEN VOTE ELIMINATING DIE WITH NO DISCUSSION, NO DATA NO SPECIFICS AND NO DIALOG NOT ONLY UNDERMINES THE VALUES OF OUR SCHOOLS, IT ERODES PUBLIC TRUST. YOU WERE ELECTED TO

253SERVE ALL STUDENTS NOT TO MAKE POLITALLYIC IS TMEI >>TEX N SPEAKER IS SPEAKER IS DR. BETTY SPENCER. WILLIAM DEVONS AND THEN WILLIAM TARRICONE >> GOOD EVENING SCHOOL. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SUPERINTENDENT DR. ROBERTSON THE CHIEF OF STAFF WITH WHITE HOUSE SENIOR STAFF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS DIRECTORS AND DEDICATED THE DEDICATED VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL STAFF AND BALCONY. MY NAME IS DR. BETTY SPENCER I A PH.D. IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP I COME BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING AS DISTRICT 10 CITIZEN AS THE PARENT OF A GRADUATE OF PRINCES AND HIGH SCHOOL'S INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM ACADEMY AND AS A PROUD ALUMNI OF PRINCETON IN HIGH SCHOOL MYSELF I AM A RETIRED SCHOOL WHITMANESQUE GREATER SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER, SPECIAL EDUCATION COORDINATOR I'M HERE TONIGHTO R TESPECT THE RESPECT URGE THE SCHOOL BOARD TO RESCIND THE RESOLUTION SUSPENDING DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION POLICIES AND INITIATIVES

254WITHIN THE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUSPENDING THE DANNII EFFORTS WILL HAVE SERIOUS AND LASTING IMPACTS ACROSS THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE OF OUR CITY. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS >> PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE ACADEMIES OFFER STUDENTS CHOICES THAT ALIGNED WITH THEIR DIVERSE LEARNING DCI WE RISK CLOSING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY STUDENTS WHO DEPEND ON THESE FLEXIBLE LEARNING OPTIONS NO TO SUPPORT OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES EQUITY POLICIES AND SHORT ITS STUDENTS DISABILITIES RECEIVE APPROPRIATE COMMENDATION SO THEY CAN FULLY ACCESS THE CURRICULUM AND THRIVE ACADEMICALLY REMOVING THESE SUPPORTS UNDERMINES OUR OBLIGATION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL LEARNERS. NUMBER THREE INCLUSIVE TEACHING PRACTICES. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION IS A KEY STRATEGY THAT HELPS EDUCATORS ADAPT LESSONS TO MEET STUDENTS VARIOUS LEARNING JEOPARDIZE THE QUALITY AND INCLUSIVE HAVE INCLUSIVE ACTIVITY OF CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION. I ASK THE SCHOOL OR TO RECONSIDER THIS RESOLUTION AT ITS

255BOARDS IMPLICATED IN ITS ROBMPLAD IATICIONS FOR STUDENTS FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS I. I ASK YOU ALSO TO PAUSE A PROCESS AND ALLOW FOR FULL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ALSO ASKED YOU ASKED YOU TO HOST OPEN FORUMS TO EXPLAIN THE INTENT OF THE RESOLUTION >>, GATHER FEEDBACK FROM ALL OF YOUR STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING PARENTS, STUDENTS TEACHERS AND THE RESIDENTS OF VIRGINIA BEACH. AND I ALSO ASK TO CONDUCT A TRANSPARENT REVIEW OF WHICH SPECIFIC PROGRAMS, SERVICES OR ACTIVITIES MIGHT BE AFFECTED BEFORE ANY FINAL DECISIONS ARE MADE VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS LONG BEEN A PLACE OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND OPPORTUNITY WE MUST NOT LET THAT LEGACY FALTER I URGE YOU TO UPHOLD POLICIES THAT ENSURE ACCESS EQUITY AND INCLUSION FOR EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF THEIR ABILITY BACKGROUND LEARNINGS THOUGH THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME YOUR, YO SURVIERCE AND YOUR THOUGHTFUL

256CONSIDERATION. NRXTE >> SPEAKER IS WILLIAM DEVINS THAT WILLIAM TERRY CAHOON THE DIANE CREEKMORE GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS BUILT EVANS I WANT I WANT TO HEARTILY THANK THIS BOARD FOR DECISION TO ELIMINATE POLICIES AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE VIRGINIA EACH SCHOOL SYSTEM DISCRIMINATION ON OTHER THAN CHARACTER AND MERIT IS TRULY AN UGLY THING. THE CAREERS MY THREE BROTHERS AND MYSELF HAVE BEEN NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY MINUTES IN ITS LIER FORM AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DISCRIMINATION BASED ON OTHER THAN CHARACTER OR MERIT NOT ONLY INDIVIDUALS IT AFFECTS US ALL. I CITE THE EXAMPLE CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED THERE HAS BEEN A RECENT RASH COLLISIONS AND ACCIDENTS. WHY AS OF JUNE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR 77 SEVEN PERCENT OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTERS ARE UNDERSTAFFED RESULTING IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS WORKING EXTENDED HOURS AND DOING THE JOB OF TWO PEOPLE. THE

257CRISIS EMERGED ABOUT THE DECK ABOUT A DECADE INTO THE OBAMA ERA PUSH TO DIVERSIFY THE INDUSTRY UNDER THE OBAAM AISTRATDMINION THE FAA SCRAP ITS HIRING PRACTICES BASED ON APTITUDE TEST SCORES AND TRAINING IN 2013 THEY REPLACED IT WITH ONE THAT GIVE PRIORITY TO APPLICANTS BIOGRAPHY'S AS A RESULT MORE THAN A THOUSAND APPLICANTS THOUSAND APPLICANTS WERE REJECTED JUST BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T PERSONS OF COLOR ALL IN THE NAME OF ESTABLISHING RACIAL DIVERSITY THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR DECISION TO ELIMINATE THE POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION MAKE SURE THE DTI DOES NOT PERSIST UNDER SOME OTHER GUYS THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE BOARD. GO D BLESSOU YAL L NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS WILLIAM TARRICONE ANDIE CREEKMORE AND THESARE WOODS. WILLIAM TERRY CAHOON, NEDIA CREEKMORE HELLO GOOD EVENING GOOD EVENING. MY NAME AND CREATE MORE AND AS

258A CONCERNED CITIZEN SYRIA VIRGINIA BEACH I WOULD. I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THE AIRBUS IMPACT OF YOUR DECISION TO ELIMINATE INITIATIVES. I BELIEVE THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS INTENDED WHEN THE PREAMBLE WAS WRITTEN AND SEVENTEEN EIGHTY SEVEN >> THE PREAMBLE WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN ORDER TO PERFORM A MORE PERFECT UNION ESTABLISH JUSTICE ,INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR PROSPERITY DO ATTAIN AND ESTABLISHED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TOO MANY OF YOUR RECENT ACTIONS WERE NEGATIVELY IMPACT STUDENTS OF COLOR FEMALE AND MINORITIES OF ALL BACKGROUNDS IS SPECIFICALLY TARGETED PEOPLE OF COLOR BY DIMINISHING THEIR SENSE OF BELONGING, LIMITING ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND SUPPORT SYSTEM AND POTENTIALLY WILL LEAD TO LESS DIVERSE EDUCATORS

259AS WELL AS LESS EQUITABLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS. WHY IS THIS PEOPLE OF COLOR BUILT THIS COUNTRY BOTH ENSLAVED AND FREE INDIVIDUAL ICONIC STRUCTURES SUCH AS THE WHITE HOUSE, THE U.S. CAPITOL SHOW MATHEMATICAL ARCHITECTURAL AND MASONRY EXPERTIZE AFTER THE SO MANY OF US HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO BUILD OUR COUNTRY WE STILL DO NOT RECEIVE EQUITABLE TREATMENT FOR ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS. DON'T DIMINISH OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PATRIOTISM OF OUR COUNTRY AS WE HAVE FOUGHT IN EVERY WAR FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR. WOW. SEVERAL WHITE FAMILIES CAN GENERATE WEALTH OFF THE BACKS FREE LABOR FROM GENERATIONS OF UNPAID COTTON AND TOBACCO WORKERS SOME OF YOU STILL BENEFIT FROM MY ANCESTOR LABOR AND SACRIFICE AND SERVICE LESNER GOT AS ITS REAL BERNICE TO ALL THESE POLICY OFTEN CREATES BASIS WHERE STUDENTS OF COLOR THIS ARE

260SEEN, HEARD AND VALUE FOSTERING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND BELONGING WHICH IMPROVES ANDHA TT > IS> TIME CENTER FAILS TO READ THE RDWOSN THE GIVE PREPLANNED NO SEVENTY THREE HAD TO CANCEL AND THEN WILL BE AUDREY MCDANIEL MCDANIEL HELLO MY NAME TERESA WAS GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF . MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD EDUCATORS COMMUNITY COMMUNITY LEADERS. I AM ALSO A MEMBER OF THE NAACP VIRGINIA BEACH BRANCH AND I HAVE TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS WHO ARE CURRENTLY ATTENDING VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS HERE TO REPRESENT THEM REPRESENT THEM AND OTHER CHILDREN BECAUSE WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION, A RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF RACE BACKGROUND ABILITY OR IDENTITY HAS EQUAL ACCESS TO SAFE ENRICHING EDUCATION WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO TREAT DIVERSITY EQUITY, INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY AS OPTIONAL INCENTIVES THESE ARE PILLARS UPON WHICH WE BUILD A

261SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT UPLIFTS ALL STUDENTS RATHER THAN LEAVING SOUND BEHIND EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN VOTED AGAINST MATTERS IN SCHOOLS BECAUSE THE SCHOOLS ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FUTURE THESE SHAPE OUR MINDS, INSTILL VALUES AND PREPARE STUDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH THE WORLD WHEN WE FOSTER ENVIRONMENTS THAT EMBRACES DGI WE ENSURE EVERY CHILD REGARDLESS OF RACE, BACKGROUND AND ABILITY FEEL SEEM VALUE AND EMPOWERED TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL I KNOW YOU HEARD THAT SEVERAL TIMES BUT I'M SAYING IT WITHOUT ACCESSIBILITIES STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES FACE UNNECESSARY BARRIERS BARRIERS THAT UNDER THEIR ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE FULLY AND LEARNING SCHOOLS MUST PROVIDE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS CAN THRIVE. YOUR VOTES AGAINST I CAN'T HAVE A PROFOUND EFFECT ON EDUCATION AND SPECIAL FINDING EDUCATION IS MEANT TO UPLIFT UPLIFT EMPOWER AND PREPARE OUR PREPARE OUR CHILDREN FOR A DIVERSE WORLD ESPECIALLY

262FUNDED PROGRAMS HELP, HELP THEM TO SUCCEED TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS STUDYING ENGINEERING AT THE STAMP PROGRAM AND SHE PARTICIPATED IN GIRLS ON THE RUN SHE'S THRIVING AND SHE'S AT THE TOP OF HER CLASS BECAUSE OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES HAVE PICTURES TO PROVE IT EDUCATION ESPECIALLY FIND PROGRAMS HELPED HELP SHAPE OUR FUTURE LEADERS, INNOVATORS AND CHANGE MAKERS IT'S IMPORTANT NOT TO HAVE A SYSTEM THAT SILENCE IGNORES EXCLUDE EVERY STUDENT DESERVES TO THRIVE THE VALUE AND HAVE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO SUCCEED AND THAT BEGAN WITH REAL SYSTEMIC CHANGES OPTION IT'S A NECESSARY EDUCATIONAL OFFERING PROGRAMS ARE A NECESSITY. LET'S COMMIT D.R. LET'S BUILD A SCHOOL SYSTEM WHERE EVERY STUDENT FEEL SAFE VALUE VALUED AND SET UP SUCCESS BECAUSE I DON'T THINK OFFERS OF OPPORTUNITY ACHIEVEMENT CAN ACHIEVE THAT THAT'S THE THAT'S THEEW NA NME YOU

263GUYS GOING UNDER IN MANY SCHOOLS ACROSS USDA. I HAVE PROVED TO BE A FUNDAMENTAL MULTIPLE AFTER THAT CHANGES LIVES THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN DEPEND ON IT. THANK YOU OR NEXT SPEAKER WILL BE AUDREY MCDOWELL. DANIEL PETER WODUL HAVE AND KEETH MNNICHAEL SUTTON WHO EVEN BOARD MEMBERS AND AUDIENCE STICK AROUND. AROUND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LET ME BE NO 74 I AM I AM AFRAID OF WHAT I HEARD. EVERYONE HERE WAS PASSIONATE AND AND I LOVE THAT BUT THIS IS LIKE A FUNERAL. THIS IS WHEN EVERYONE GETS TOGETHER. NO, IT'S ABOUT THE KIDS IT'S ABOUT THE KIDS THAT THAT GO TO SCHOOL THAT WANT TO FEEL SAFE, PROTECTED, LOVED BECAUSE A TEACHER LOVES HER JOB BECAUSE WE DON'T PAY THEM ENOUGH MY CHILD WHO I AM A VETERAN AND HAVE BEEN FOR MANY YEARS

264WAS EDUCATED HERE AND LIKE ONE LADY SPOKE SO WELL YOU GOT TAKING ACCOUNT THIS IS A MELTING POT THIS I DIDN'T START HERE I CAME FROM NEW YORK AND I'VE MADE THIS MY HOME AND I MADE THIS MY HOME AS A ONE LADY SPOKE I'M TAKING BITS AND PIECES OF WHAT I HEARD BECAUSE VIRGINIA BEACH HAD THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR MY CHILD AND I THINK YOU YOU WHEN YOU WENT INTO IT I UNDERSTAND YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT THE CHILDREN, THE TEACHERS, THE JANITORS THE BUS DRIVERS ALL THE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT PROVIDE THE SERVICES EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN BUT YOU HAVE TO LIKE THINK ABOUT IT NOW AND LOOK AT WHAT IF IS CALLED. THIS IS PASSIONATE CHAOS, PASSIONATE CHAOS AND AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, I DON'T YOU CAN'T TAKE TIME BACK APRIL AW HAS GONE

265AND PAST IT'S WHAT WE DO NOW MOVING FORWARD GIVE ME THE ANSWER LIKE THEY SAID YOU COME UP WITH A NEW WHAT DOES THAT ENTAIL FOR ENTAIL FOR MY FUTURE GRANDCHILD THAT WE'RE GOING IT WELL WE'LL BE GOING INTO THE SYSTEM AND PRE-K SO PLEASE AGAIN I KNOW YOU CAN'T TURN BACK TIME YOU DON'T GET TIME BACK BUT CONSIDEREIN BGO MRE ANSPATRRENT TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE VOTED YOU IN OFFICE WITH GREAT CONFIDENCE AND GREAT PASSION I'M SURE SOMEF OSETHE PEOPLE PROBABLY CAMPAIGNED FOR YOU SO I'M GOING TO END IT WITH THAT. I LOVE VIRGINIA BEACH I LOVE WHAT IT STANDS FOR. BUT NOW YOU'RE STANDING FOR THING THAT I SAID TO SAY A I'M NOT PASSIONATE ABOUT ANYMORE. I'M PASSIONATE NOW ABOUT THE FIX HOW DO WE FIX THIS? AND I UERSTANNDD THE MNEOY

266IS THIS MORE MONEY I'LL MONEY I'LL EVER SEE IN MY LIFETIME. THAT'S ALL I HAVE I'M SORRY I'M READY TO CRY BECAUSE IT'S JUST SUCH IT'S SUCH A SAD A SAD DAY THAT WE HAVE TO COME HERE AND AGAIN I'M GOING TO USE THAT SAME THING IS ANYBODY'S EVER BEEN TO IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY YOU HAVEN'T YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IN 20 YEARS AND YOU ALWAYS SAY THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE THE LAST TIME SO IT'S MY FAULT FOR NOT BEING IN ON APRIL 8TH BECAUSE I SHOULD HAVE I SHOULD BE GOING TO A LOT OF THESE BOARD MEMBERS SO THESE BOARD THINGS SO I AM AWARE THANK VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR LISTENINGXT NE KER ISPEA SRKES IHAT W HAVE BEEN KIND MICHELSON THEN PEREZ GAMBLING >> THAT ROBERTSON AND BOARD MEMBERS I'M A FIRST

267TIME SPEAKER AND ACTUALLY THIS IS MY FIRST TIME ANDPERSON ALLY >>. >> I SAY THIS TO IMPRESS UPON YOU JUST HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS TO ME ALL OF MY CHILDREN AND A FEW OF MY GRANDCHILDREN GRADUATE FROM VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS TONIGHT I'M GOING TO USE MY TIME TO HIGHLIGHT YOUR ACTIONS AS RELATED TO THE RECENT RESOLUTION VOTE MEMBER BROWN I'DIKE LO T QUOTE YOUR FACEBOOK CAMPAIGN PAGE ABOVE ALL ELSE KATHLEEN RECOGNIZES AND RESPECTS THE INVALUABLE ROLE OF RENTPAS IN THEIR CHILDREN'S LES AIVS AES RULT OF HER OWN STRUGGLES WITH THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD SHE VOWED TO FIGHT FOR PARENTS RIGHTS TO PROVIDE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON ISSUES THAT IMPACT THEIRHILDRE CN AND WE'LL THOROUGHLY AND OPENLY CONSIDER THEIR INPUT BEFORE VOTING ON ANY POLICY CHANGE MEMBER BROWN YOUR ACTION AT THE MEETING ON APRIL

268ON APRIL 8TH DID NOT REFLECT OR CAMPAIGN THOUGH THE SHAME THAT A NUMBER OF THIS BOARD MEMBERS SHARE IS WELL DESERVED YOU ABANDONED THE PUBLIC, THE PEOPLE WHO YOU REPRESENT MEMBER DEAN'S MEANS YOU MADE A POINT STATIOFNG SEVERAL TIMES AT THE LAST MEETING YOU ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF POSTPONING THE VOTE UNTIL THIS COULD BE REVIEWED BY THE PUBLIC. YOU'RE MINE. I'M PARAPHRASING YOUR MIND WAS MADEP U WITHOUT ALLOWING ANY INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC YOU VOTED TO REPRESENT MR. COLPEPER WE SEEM TO HAVE AUTHORED THIS RESOLUTION SO IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT YOU ARE NOT INTERESTEDIN THE KIND OF INPUT THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING TONIGHT YOU >> WROTE AND VOTED FOR A RESOLUTION BASED TOTALLY ON WHAT YOU READALY WANTED IT SEEMED CLEAR TO ME THAT YOU'RE NOT A SERVANT OF YOUR DISTRICT MEMBERS TO THE

269EMBERSM THAT RUSDHE THIS VOTE IF YOU CARED ABOUT WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTED IT WOULDVE HA EDCURR YOU TO MAKE THIS PROCESS AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE THANK THE MEMBERS THE MEMBERS THAT THANKS TO THE MEMBERS TRIED TO PROD YOU TO BRING THIS WE THE PEOPLE BEFORE PEOPLE BEFORE MAKING YOUR VOTE >> I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME HERE SO I WANT TO READ I'M GOING TO READ AS MUCH OF THIS AS I CAN. THIS IS A QUOTE FMRO THE ONE R OFOUNEIN NE IMPRINTING ANTI-AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE HARMFUL AND FALSE IDEOLOGIES ON OUR NATION'S CHILDREN NOTONLY VIOLATES LONG STANDING ANTI-DISCMINATIRION, CIVIL RIGHTS LAW IN MANY CASES BUT USURPS BASIC PARENTAL AUTHORITY FOR EXAMPLE, STEERING STUDENTS TOWARD SURGICAL ANMICADHE CL YOU DON'T HAVE THIS AND P.S. R NOUXTURE O SXT NEAKPESER I CANDIDATE MICHAEL PEZRE GAMBLINGTH ENIN CDY MOSLEY NEXT

270TIME I'M GOING IS CONCERNED AND I JUST FILLED OUT THE I'M NOT GOING TO BEAT EVEN. YOU'VE BEEN BEAT UP ENOUGH TONIGHT I APPRECIATE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY DOES I FOR ONE HAVE LET YOU DO THE WORK I SHOULD DOWN 20 YEARS AGO I CAME HERE BEFORE THE BOARD TO TRY TO BE APPOINTED. I DIDN'T MAKE IT SO WHEN I MADE SOME MONEY. THAT'S WHAT WE NORMALLY TO DO I PUT I PUT THE GLASSES BACK ON. THEY WOULD GO I MORE JUST WANT TO SAY THAT ONE THING THAT SAW TONIGHT AND I QUITE SO THE SAME THING FOR THIS SHOULD BE A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE FOR SCHOOL BOARD NEXT YEAR >> AND AND SOME OF YOU UP THERE GOING GOD YES PLEASE DON'T RUN. IT'S A HARD JOB NOW MY NAME

271IS KEN CERTAIN YOU GET THAT GOOD EVENING MADAM CHAIR MADAM CHAIR. GOOD EVENING, SUPERINTENDENT ROBINSON EVEN FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS I'M BACK ON TRACK. ON TRACK. I LIVE IN VIRGINIA AGAINST. CATCH THE U.S. DISTRICT ONE I'M A RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER. I'M A VIETNAM VETERAN LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE ABOUT COMBAT RELATED DISABILITY I'M A RETIRED NAVY VETERAN. I'M A RETIRED SECRET SERVICE FORENSIC'S ANALYSTS AND ALL THAT YADDA YADDA. AND I'M SURE THE INFORMATION JUST SO YOU KNOW WHO I AM. I LOOKED UP ALL Y'ALL OK SO I THINK IT'S ONLY FAIR YOU KNOW WHY I'M ADDRESSING YOU 75 I'M SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OLD LOOKING GOOD AND HAVE PERSONALLY BEEN AFFECTED BY BROWN VERSUS THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. PRINCE EDWARD I WASN'T IN VIRGINIA THANK GOD I'M SORRY I TAKE THAT BACK THEN YOU'RE 40 YEARS PLEASE TAKE

272THAT BACK THEIR THAT DECISION CHANGED MY LIFE IT MADE IT SO I COULD GET A FAIR EDUCATION AND FAIRNESS THE HALLMARK OF THIS COUNTRY AT THE AT THE BEGINNING OF MY SCHOOL YEAR WHEN I OUGHTTH I THOUGHT PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY AT TAUGHT WOODEN LANDSTAR IN MATH AND SCIENCE AT SEATAC ELEMENTARY LOOKED A LITTLE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT THEM ANYWAY I WOULD ASK MY STUDENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR WHAT'S INTEGRITY ME I GET JOUISSANCE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING BUT WHAT THE WORD INTEGRITY MEANS WE DISCUSSED IT AND THEY HAD TO PUT IT AT THE FRONT OF THEIR LAST ONE BECAUSE I PUT IT AND TAKE PERHAPS A BOARD RESOLUTION DECRYING REACTIONS ACTIONS BEING FORCED UPON YOU BY THE FEDERAL WOULD BETTER HELP YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS PREDICAMENT UNION WE NEED TO KNOW YOUR HEART

273AND YOUR SOUL AND WHETHER YOU CARE ABOUT THIS OR NOT. SO MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND GOD YOU AND DECISION AT THIS HOME I WANT TO GIVE YOU FIVE SECONDS TO BREED BUT I COULD GO NEXT OR NEXT SPEAKER IS PEREZ GAMBLING THEN CINDY MYOSLE, THEN ROSEMARY HARBACH. GOOD EVENING TO SUPERINTENDENT ROBERTSON SCHOOL BOARD CHAIR WINGS AND MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARD I MANY OF YOU PERSONALLY AND I KNOW MANY OF YOU HERE PERSONALLY AND I SPENT EIGHT YEARS WORKING FOR VIRGINIA EACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IN MY WIFE DID AS WELL AND ABOUT FOUR HOURS AGO I STARTED THIS JOURNEY WITH KATHLEEN SCHOON OVER BACK THERE. KATHLEEN MENTIONED SHE WAS A REPUBLICAN AND SHE WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISSUE THAT MENTIONED THAT I WAS ON THIS SIDE OF THE ISSUE

274THAT WAS AT SIX THIRTY AT SIX FIFTY WE FOUND ONE THING THAT WE AGREED ON AT SEVEN 05 WE FOUND TWO THINGS THAT WE AGREED ON >> 730 WE FOUND THREE THINGS THAT THINGS THAT WE AGREED ON BY 830 WE FOUND FOR THINGS THAT WE AGREED ON BY NINE WE FNDOU THAT NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF WHAT WE BELIEVE IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND THERE WAS ONLY FIVE PERCENT ON THE OTHER SIDE SEPARATED US I SAID THIS TO SAY THERE ARE MORE THINGS THAT UNITE US THAN SEPARATE US AND WE HAVE TO STICK CLOSELY AND FIND THOSE THINGS THAT UNITE US AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HERE WHO ARE AFRAID DTI WILL GO AWAY IT WILL NEVER GO NEVER GO AWAY BECAUSE HERE'S THING THEY ARE

275TEACHERS OF EVERY RACE, CREED AND COLOR AND FROM EVERY RACE CREED AND COUNTRY WHO STAND UP, WHO WORK AND WHO DO THE BEST THEY CAN FOR STUDENTS NO MATTER WHAT RACE THEY ARE EVERY DAY THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NEVER BEEN IN CLASSROOM AND NEVER BEEN IN A SCHOOL GO IN THERE AND WATCH WHAT TEACHERS MOST. MOST TEACHERS CARE ABOUT CHILDREN THEY DON'T CARE WHAT COLOR THEY ARE THEY DON'T CARE DON'T CARE WHERE THEY COME FROM THEY DON'T CARE OWH THEIR PARENTS ARE. MOST TEACHERS CARE ABOUT CHILDREN AND SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY THAT THE POLICY IS GOING TO TAKE THE PRACTICE AWAY. I DO THINK THOUGH THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS PEOPLE THINK DTI AND CRT ARE TERMS THAT ARE TOSSED AROUND MORE CARELESSLY AND RECKLESSLY AS

276RHETORIC THAT THEY ARE REALLY STANDING PRINCIPLES AND I THINK THAT WHEN IT COMES WE HAVE TO BE CERTAIN THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING BECAUSE WHAT I DISCOVERED WITH DEA AS I TALKED TO MIGHT CAUSE LIKE IS THAT WE WEREN'T TALKING THE SAME THING AND WE HAVE TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING THERE MORE THAT UNITES US THAN DIVIDES US. THERE RIGHT THERE WAS WRONG EACH OF YOU AS SERVANTS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STANCE ON EVERY ISSUE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DEFEND BEFORE YOUR CHURCH MEMBERS, BEFORE YOUR CHILDREN BEFORE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN BEFORE THE BEFORE THE PEOPLE IN THE SUPERMARKET BEFORE THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR YOU AND BEFORE YOUR GOD ONE JESUS IS GOING TO LINE UP THE SHEETS AND SHEEP AND THE GOATS MAKE SURE THAT

277YOU AREON AM THEGET SHE. THANK YOU SO MUCH NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CINDY, MOSTLY ROSEMARY AND THEN JANA FRANCIS >> THATVENIN EG. PLEASE BEAR WITHE M SPEAKING PUBLICLY IST NO MY STRONG SWEET SWEET SWEET TEA SO I HAVE NO PROOF OF THIS BUT A LOT THINGS THAT WE HEARD TONIGHT THOSE PEOPLE HAD NO PROOF OF WHAT THEY WERE SAYING, WHAT I THINK MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IS SIX OF YOU GOT IN A ROOM TOGETHER AND MR. COLPEPERW DRE TEH RED STRAW SO IF THERE IS SUCH A POLICY THAT ALLOWS A MAJOR VOTE WITHOUT PUBLIC INPUT POLICE HAVE THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE REVIEW THAT POLICY. AND AS A SCHOOL DIVISION EQUITY INEQUALITY SHOULD BE THE NORM FOR ALL STUDENTS AND ALL I'M SURE ALL OF ALL OF US HAVE HEARD THE PHRASE IT'S NOT WHAT YOU

278KNOW IT'S WHO YOU KNOW AND THAT GOOD OLD BOY POLICY HAS BEEN AROUND FOREVER AND THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT THAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO GIVE EVERYONE AN EQUAL SEAT AT THE TABLE AND WE REALLY LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE PRESIDENT TELL US WHICH WORDS WERE WE'RE ALLOWED TO USE EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT ENFORCEABLE IF THEY VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION YET YOU ALL JUMPED RIGHT IN AND ACCEPTED THIS WITHOUT HESITATNIO IT CAN AND WILL BE CHALLENGED IN COURT ALSO WHICH OF COURSE HE HAS NO POWER TO DO IF A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS GOING TO BE SHUT DOWN YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE YOUR SEVENTY FIVE MILLION ANYWAY I >> HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS THERE ARE THE UNITED STATES BUT DO YOU REALLY THINK THE CURRENT DEEP IS GOING TO COME INTO OUR DISTRICT

279AND SEE HOW YOU CAN APPLY TO THE POLICY LIKE TAKING THAT OFF THE WALL ALREADY I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT WHAT WAS WHAT WAS YOUR HURRY WHEN YOU COULD HAVE WAITED TO SEE HOW PLAYS OUT IN THE COURTS. THIS IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT SUBJECT BUT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO THE SAME THING THAT ALL CHILDREN ARE NOT RAISED EQUALLY A LOT OF THEM DON'T HAVE THE PARENTAL SUPPORT THEY NEED AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY GET. AND MISS DWYER YOUR FIRST OATH IS TO THE CHILDREN AND THE EMPLOYEES OF VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT'S GOVERNMENT. THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID LAST TIME FOR THE WORLD TO ME I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW SOMEONE WHO HAS NO IDEA OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES MANY OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES LIVE IN WAS ELECTED TO

280THE SCHOOL BOARD WHILE DISCUSSING ADDITIONAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDING FURTHER ACHIEVABLE MS ACADEMY. YOUR COMMENT WAS WELL SORRY IF WITEDAN MY CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL I DRIVE THAT MANY OF OUR MANY OF OUR FAMILIES HAVE NO CA ANDR THE WOY TRKWO ORE MOR JOBS JUST TO SURVIVE AND SWINGS YOU FOUGHT VERY VERY HARD VERY HARD FOR THE HOPE AND RECOVYER TO BE BROUGHT TO HAMPTON ROADS AND I COMPLETELY AGREE THAT ADDICTION IS T WORSHET THING THAT A FAMILY CAN GO THROUGH. I'M JUST NOT SURE THAT OPPOSING ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ADDITIONAL TRANSPORTATION FOR A SCHOOL THAT IS ALL ABOUT PREVENTION IS THE WHERE YOU GO I KNOW I KNOW >> THAT AS TIME YOU GOT YOUR JOB NEXT SPEAKER ISROSE RYMA BOHARR SHEEHAN FRANCIS AND FRAISNC ANDTH ENSA NDRA EEHNERBERG. RIGHT. GOOD ENGVENI M

281OF THE SCOARD BHOOL THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK YOU ALL HAVE HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE LOT OF PEOPLE SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO TECH THIS ATTACK IT BUT ADDRESS IT FROM A DIFFERENT SIDE DIFFERENT SIDE. MY NAME IS WITH MARY HARBOR AND LIKE MANY OF I WEAR MANY DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON WHAT TIME OF THE DAY YOU CATCH ME. I'M A NURSE PRACTITIONER ON THE MILITARY WIFE OF A MOTHER A MOTHER TO TWO VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS I'M A VERY ACTI VEMEMBER OF BOTH THE SCHOOL'S AND I'M A GIRL IS THE RUN COACH. ICO MEO T TODAY AS A DISTRICT PARENT WANTING TO PRESERVE THE QUALITY OF OUR CITY'S PUBLIC EDUCATION. WE FIRST MOVED TO VIRGINIA BEACH IN THE SUMMER OF 20 TWENTY ON MILITARY ORDERS IF YOU

282CAN AVOID A MOVE DURING A PAICNDEM II HGHLY RECOMMEND IT IFBUT YOU CAN'T VIRGINIA BEACH IS A PRETTY GREATPR ETTY GREAT PLACE TO COME TO LIKE MANY PARENTS A TOP CONCERN FOR ME AND FOR MY HUSBAND WHO'S STILL SERVING IN THE US NAVY WAS PUBLIC EDUCATION AND WE ENDED UP HERE AND NOT CHESAPEAKE AND NOT IN NORFOLK OR ANY OTHER HAMPTON ROADS AREAS BECAUSE OF HOW STRONG OUR SCHOOLS ARE HERE WE HAVE LOVED OUR TIME HERE SO MUCH THAT WE BOUGHT A HOUSE OVER THE SUMMER IN LITTLE NECK AND ASSUMING THE NAVY AGREES WE PLAN TO NEVERLEAVE MR.UL CPE DPERR.OB RERTSON MR BOWEN BONESTEEL, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET YOU ALL A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO IT KINGSTON ELEMENTARY WHEN I WAS VOLUNTEERING IN LIBRAR THEYRE SO IPOLO AGIZE SOME OF THE THINGS OF

283THE THINGS I'M GOING TO MENTION WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT ALREADY. I FEEL SO FORTUNATE THAT MY GIRLS ARE GETTING ALLAR STE EDUCATION IN VIRGINIABEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IF YOU'RE SCHOOLING WITH ANYTHING LIKE MINE IT WAS PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT TOO HEAVY ON ROTE MEMORIZATION RECITING FACTS. BUT FOR MY GIRLS THEIR CLASSMATES THEIR TEACHERS ARE CHALLENGING THEM CHALLENGING EM TTH BUILOD ON THE FACTS ASK QUESTIONS, CONSIDER DIFFERENT POSITIONS AND DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKERS THIS IS SO IMPORTANT SO IMPORTANT IN OUR WORLD THAT CONSTANTLY CHANGES TO LEARN HOW TOPT ADA AND AS MY FAVORITE VIRGINIA BEACH PRINCIPAL SAYS THIS THING THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT AND WE NEED AND HAVE HAD A STRONG SET OF VALUESO T GUIDE OUR SCHOOLS I'M CONCERNED THAT BLANKET ELIMINATION OF ANYTHING THAT MENTIONS DIVERSITY ANYTHING THAT MENTIONS EQUITY OR

284INCLUSION IF WE ELIMINATE ALL HAT WITHOUT CAREFUL CONSIDERATION WITH THAT AS TO ITS EFFECTS IT'S GOING TO WEAKEN THE EDUCATION OF ALL OF OUR STUDENTS BY ERASING PERSPECTIVES IF MY DAUGHTERS ARE ONLY TAUGHT WORLD VIEWS AT ONE PARTICULAR GROUP PPORSUTS T THEHEIRREY'ROBB EDA OF THOROUGH EDUCATION THEY'RE NOT AS WELL PREPARED FOR THE WORLD . SO YOU REALLY CAN'T TEACH CRITICAL THINKING WITHOUT DIVERSITY YOU HAVE TO HEAR DIVERSE OPINIONS AND THAT'S NOT JUST RACE. THAT'S NOT GENDER IT'S HEARING EVERYTHING AND THAT MAKES THEIR OUR KIDS THE STRONGEST THINKERS SO THAT THREE MINUTES WENT FAST I URGE YOU TO PLEASE CONSIDER WHAT KIND OF THINKERS WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BE WHAT KIND OF MEMBERS WE WANT THEM TO TURN INTO AND THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF ELIMINATING COMPLEX AND IMPORTANT WORDS LIKE THIS FROM OUR

285SCHOOL SYSTEM REMOVAL WITHOUT THOUGHT IS GOING TO HARM EVERYBODY THANK YOU SOH MUCR FOUR YO RVSEICE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NINA FRANCIS THENAND SRAAN STA BIGGER TH ANYAN PALOMBO EEDINBRGS HONORABLE CHAIR VICE CHAIR MEMBERS AND SUPERINTENDENT MY NAME IS SHOWING NINA FRANCIS. I AM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE HAND OF THOSE I AM NOT FROM HERE SO I REALLY DON'T HAVE A DOG IN A FIGHT BOOK LISTENING TO ALL THE PASSION THAT Y'ALL HAVE THIS CITY. OH YEAH. TO BE EXCITED TO SERVE THESE PEOPLE IT THE THINGS THAT I'VE HEARD IS LIKE THEY'RE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T GET TO COME AND EXPRESS HARRY FILM BEFORE YOU MADE THIS DECISION THAT IS WHAT I KEEP HEARING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN SO THESE THINGS I NEED TO THINK ABOUT SO YOU'VE

286DONE IT ALREADY NOW WHAT SO NOW YOU HEAV GOT RID OF VII BUT YOU STILL HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE ALL STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITY THEY NEED TO SUCCEED WHEN CHILDREN FIRST GO THEY'RE EXCITED I CAN'T WAIT TO WAIT TO GET ON THE BUS. YOU DROPPED THEY WANT TO LEARN THEY WANT TO HANG OUT. THEY WANT TO PAINTND A THEN SUDDENLY AS THINGS GO IT DRIFTS SOMETIMES FOR SOME PEOPLE THAT'S WHERE POLICIES IN AND THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED TO GET THEM BACK ENERGETIC ABOUT LEARNING COMES IN. SO EVEN THOUGH YOU LET GO THE TECHNICALLY FROM WHAT I WAS HEARING IT NEEDED SOME TWEAKS ANYWAY SO NOW YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TWEAK IT TO MAKE IT BETTER BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY A CHILD SIMPLY GOINGO T SCHOOL IN AND

287THE AC DESN'O T WORK. THERE IS NO REASON WHY CHANCE OF GOING TO SCHOOL IN HIS OWN WORDS. SO CLEARLY EQUAL FUINGND ISN'T BEING DISTRIBUTED TO ALL SCHOOLS SO THAT'S WHY I HAVE JUST THINK ABOUT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY SEE IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THINGS BETTEROR FOU Y SRTUDENTSNEXT AKERSPE NEXT SPEAKER IS SANDRA SCHNBERGEEER TANH ANY POLUMBO THE NATASHA ANLSTO GODO EENINGV CHAIRWOMEN BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMES SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF EQUITY ARE TITLE ONE PROGRAMS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IT APPEARS WE HAVE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT SECURING ROUGHLY 74 MILLION DOLLARS TOIND F FUND THESE PROGRAMS THAT BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN LOW INCOME FAMILIES AND WEALTHIER FAMILIES AND THE DEADLINE TO COMPLY WITH THE UPDATED MANDATES WAS LAST WEEK APRIL 14TH AND SOME ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT COMPLYING WITH THE DEADLINE. I

288APPRECIATE MISS BROWN SCHEMES AND MR. CARLIN MR CALLEN, MR. BONDSTEEL AND MISS DWYRE YOU MR. CULPEPPER FOR BEING RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH ORGANIZED ENOUGH TO MEET THE DEADLINE AND CHOOSE TO CONTINUE FUNDING EQUITABLE PROGRAMS AND. AND I MEAN CAN YOU IMAGINE BACKLASH IF THAT FUNDING WAS LOST IT HAPPENED ONE TIME IN NORFOLK AND IT WAS ONLY ONE HUNDRED ONE POINT FIVE POINT FIVE AND A HALF MILLION AND SUPERINTENDENT WAS REPLACED FOR THAT IT WAS TWENTY FIFTEEN SO WE HEARD A LOT OF INTERESTING PASSIONATE CHEERLEADING COMMENTS A LOT OF BASHING. WHAT I DID NOT HERE TONIGHT WAS MEASURES OF IMPACT OF DCI WHAT WERE THE PARAMETERS, WHAT WERE THE MEASURES IF IT WAS STHI IMPORTANT WHY WASN'T IT MESUARED EARLIER SOMEBODY BROUGHT UP AN INCIDENT AT KELAM HIGH SCHOOL WITHOUT A MEASURE THE MEASURE THE ONE WHERE THE

289PRIDE FLAG WAS TAKEN DOWN THAT WAS WHEN I WAS IN PLACE SO WITHOUT A MEASURE A MEASURE OF DTI ANYWAY SOTHAT HAPPENED I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO COUNT TTHA AS A MEASURE SO I DO KNOW A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF DGI DISREGARDING THE IMPACT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. ONE WAS AND MY SON'S SCHOOL THEY WERE IT WAS AN OPTIONAL WRITING CONTEST TO WRITE ABOUT WE WE VALUE EXCLUSIVITY, BELONGING AND EQUITY. SO HARMLESSNESS NICE ACTIVITY IMPACT WAS NEVER REALLY NOTED WECOULD STILL DO THINGS THAT ARE SIMILAR. ANOTHER EXAMPLE WAS UNITY DAY THAT WAS IN PLACE WAY BEFORE COVID SIMILAR CONCEPT DGI WHERE ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW HOW BENICIAEF ITLWA SWE 'RETA G N ND GCORADERS WHO WERE ALREADY FRIENDS AND THEIR CLASSROOM AND THEN THERE THE DAY CELEBRATING AND FOCUSING ON DIFFERENCES. SO I UNDERWAY

290THAT WAS NEEDED WAS A HARMFUL IT HARMFUL? YOU KNOW IT DIDN'T HURT ANYTHING BUT ANYHOW IF THE MESSAGE IF THE MESSAGE IS REALLY ONE OF KINDNESS AND NURTURING, IT'S NOT GOING AWAY AND AGAIN I AGAIN, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE OTHER PEOPLE MENTIONING FINDING WAYS TO UNITE IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE COULD JUST FOCUS ON THE THINGS GREE A O EN. NKTHA OUR NEXT SERPEAK IS A. POLUMBO THE NATASHA ALSTON THEN WHY GOLDSMITH >> AMY POLUMBO NATASHA >> HULSTON, RYLEY GOLDSON. GOODNGNI EVE EVERYONE IN FORTY NINE B.S. GUYJULIS US CAERSA CROSSED THE RUBICON WITH HIS LEGION AND DOING SO HE VIOLATED AND FLAUNTED EVERY RULE AND TRADITION OF ROME IN ITALY AT LARGE CAESAR UPON ENTERING THE CITY OF ROME OF ROME FACE THE SENATE WITH ONE NDDEMA DTOICTAR ETHWACOSRD THE ROMAN SENATE CAPITULATED AND

291PROVIDED CAESAR WITH EVERYTHING HE ASKED OR AND MORE NOT OUT OF FEAR MIND YOU, BUT OUT OF PERSONALESIR DETO STAND OUT TO THE NEWLY MINTED DICTATOR TO SHOW THEIR LOYALTY ,TO SHOW THEIR SUBMISSION SO NOW I STAND HERE BEFORE YOU BEFORE THE SCHOOL BOARD, BEFORE OUR RUBICON THAT YOU ALL CROSSED ON APRIL GAVE YOU ESSENTIALLY RECEIVED A DEMAND FROM THE VIDEO AND THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LIKE A TERRORIST SENDING A LETTER OF RANSOM TO THEIR VICTIMS AND IN THE NATION WHO DOES NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS YOU WERE AWFULLY QUICK TO BEND THE KNEE TO CAESAR VERY QUICK YOUR CHILDREN ARE WATCHING. OUR CITY IS WATCHING THE WORLD IS WATCHING EVERYTHING WE DO FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS WILL BE PUT UNDER A MICROSCOPE WE WILL BE JUDGED THE SCHOOL BOARD. SO NOW CAESAR COME

292AND SOME OF YOU STOOD FIRM AND OTHERS FOLDED LIKE WET PAPER ADDRESSING MR. CULPEPER DIRECTLY NOW WHO HAS STATED NEUMAR TIMES ON >> HIS CAMPAIGN AND TO HIS CAMPAIGN BIOGRAPHY ON THE VIRGINIA PILOT THAT HE THINKS PARENTAL INPUT IS THE >> OF A FUNCTIONING EDUCATION SYSTEM SO >> THAT WAS A LIE >> YOU ONCE SAID WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR CHILDREN ISN'T A MATTER OF POLITICS AND MI' NOT CONVINCED THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED ON APRIL 8TH THE DECISION ON APRIL 28TH UNDER NO UNCERTAIN TERMS WAS POLITICAL AND I AM SEEMINGLY CONSTANTLY ASHAMED AT THE STATE OF OUR NATION THE DIVISION THE INEQUALY, ITTHE STRIFE, THE BLATANT BACKSTABBING BY OUR POLITICIANS. I AM NOT PROUD OF WHAT WE ARE BECOMING BUT I AM PROUD OF OUR >>, OUR SCHOOLS, OUR STAFF AND EVERYBODY THAT CAME OUT TONIGHT TO

293SHOW THEIR SUPPORT. BUT THE ONE THING THAT I AM MOST PROUD OF IS THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOOD TASTES LIKE THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ELAINE BOMBARDING THEN CAROLYN RYE THEN DINELAERO Z BONILLA HI GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO SAY THAT I REPRESENTED ON THE SCHOOL BOARD I MISSED IT SOUNDS LIKE I GOT THE BEST PART OF THE DEAL GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. AS ALWAYS OUR STUDENTS CAME OUT AND WERE ARTICULATE AND POLISHED YOUR PARENTS AND TEACHERS SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF I'M HERE TONIGHT TO EXPRESS MY UTTER DISGUST AT THE BULLDOZING WE WITNESSED THE LAST MEETING WHEN A POLICY WAS FORCED THROUGH WITHOUT GIVING TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. THIS GOES GETS YOUR OWN PROCEDURES AND FRANKLY IT WAS AN INSULT TO THIS

294COMMUNITY FOR THE BOARD TO RUN IN AND AROUND LIKE THAT. LET'S TALK ABOUT AERSITYDV EQUITY INCLUSION, INCLUSION. OUR DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH NOT A DRAWBACK IN OUR COMMUNITY IS OUR POWER TALENT COMES IN ALL SIZES, SHAPES, COLORS, TONES, ACCENTS, CULTURES, BACKGROUNDS, RELIGIONS, EQUITY INSURERS ALL STUDENTS HAVE THE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT THEY NEED TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL INCLUSION MEANS WE HAVE TO CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT WHERE THE STUDENTSCAN REACH THEIR REACH THEIR POTENTIAL I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT EVER TAUGHT SO TAUGHT SO YOU PROBABLY AREN'T AWARE THAT MR. CULPEPER, I'LL GIVE YOU THE NOD YOUR HEAD LIKE SOMEBODY WAS COMI.NG I'M I'LL GIVE YOU MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS BEFORE I'LL GIVE YOU THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE BUT IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T HERE ANYHOW >>

295THIS DIVISION USED TO USED TO BE EXCELLENT AT ENSURING DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN OUR SCHOOLS WE. WE HAVE SO MANY PROGRAMS THAT OTHER PEOP HLEAVE TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT THEY PROVIDE A VARIETY F EDUCOATIONAL SETTINGS BUT SO MANY OF THEM FALL UNDER DGI WE GET A CLOSED DOWN THE ATC. HOW AUT BOTHETECH CENTER HOW ABOUT THE ACADEMIES? OUR YOUNGEST WASRIVIL PEGED TO BE ABLE TO GO TO AN ACADEMY IT WAS WONDERFUL. SHE LOVED IT ARE THEY ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK NOW ASK THIS COMMUNITY IF THEY'RE WILLING TO GIVE UP ODDS. THAT'S NOT GOING TO PPENHA HERE REG TGOINOET G A FIGHT THWI THAT AND WE CERTAINLY CAN'T HAVE ONE VERY SPECIAL RECOVERY SCHOOL THAT WILL ONLY SERVE ABOUT STUDENTS A YEAR IT DOESN'T IT DOESN'T GET MORE DGI THAN THAT AND GOODNESS KNOWS THERE'S NO

296ASRE TONO SERVE TROUBLEDIDS KT AHE T NARENCISSACADEE AMY SO THEY'LL JUST HAVE TOLL T AHOSE KIDS JUST HAVE TO STAY BACK IN YOUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS WHEN YOU BULLDOZED THROUGH A POLICY CHANGE AND INDIA MY QUESTION IS WHAT PART OF THIS IS GIVING YOU A PROBLEM >> WHICH PART DO YOU NOT AGREE WITH THIS MEANS IS THAT THE DIVERSITY PART CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY YOU DON'T AGREE WITH DIVERSITY WHAT'S BAD ABOUT THEIR THERE WAS MISS BROWN IS IT THE EQUITY PART. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT'S WRONG WITH EQUITY MR WEBON STEELE IS IT THE INCLUSION PART IS THAT SOMETHING THAT BOTHERS YOU THAT'S 15 THAT'S 15 PERCENT OF STUDENTS RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS AT SERVICES . DO THEY NOT MATTER IT MIGHT BE YOU IT MIGHT BE SOMEONE YOU LOVE AND CARE ABOUT WHOSE RECEIVING THOSE SERVICES

297SO WHEN YOU COME OUT AGAINST DTI YOU SHOULD BE ADULT ENOUGH TO BE PREPARED TO TELL US EXACTLY WHAT'S THETHOS EOR F NEXT SPEAKER IS CAROLYN RIGHT THEN INADELENO ZERO BWAND A EMPOWER YOUNGOOD GVENIN EG CHAIR BROWN VICE CHAIR WEEMES DISTINGUISHED BOARD MEMBERS AND SUPERINTENDENT ROBERTS AND I WANT TO FOUR FORMER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SPEAKING TONIGHT A TELLING TESTAMENT TO THE MATTER AT HAND IN MY LAST SCHOOL BOARD CAMPAIGN A SLOGAN ORGANICALLY DEVELOPED THAT SPOKE TO THE CORE OF OUR VCS CPS MISSION. TOGETHER WE CAN LIFT ALL STUDENTS AGAIN. TOGETHER WE CAN LIFT UP ALL STUDENTS. THE MESSAGE WAS INSPIRATION AND ASPIRATIONAL AND RESONATED STRONGLY WITH VOTERS IT WAS SIGNIFICANT TO ME ON ANOTHER LEVEL AS WELL ECONOMISTS >> LEFT LESNER THOROS ZERO SOME SOCIETY BOOK WAS REQUIRED READING FOR ALL MBA STUDENTS IN THE

2981980S MYSELF INCLUDED IN ZERO SUM SETTINGS AND HE ONE PARTY RESULTS IN AN EQUAL LOSS FOR ANOTHER. PUT ANOTHER WAY ONE PERSON SUCCESS COMES AT THE EXPENSE OF ANOTHER THIS ECONOMIC THEORY SEEMS TO BE DRIVING MUCH OF THE PRESENT RHETORIC AND ACTIONS FROM OUR FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES HOWEVER I WOULD I WOULD ARGUE APPLYING SUCH LOGIC EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS IS FLAWED. MY CHILDREN SUCCESS IN THIS DIVISION AND BEYOND WAS NOT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER STUDENTS NOR WERE THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS COMPROMISED NOR THREATENED BY RESOURCES AND OORTUPPNITIES OFFERED TO OTHERS I RECENTLY BECAME AWARE BECAME AWARE OF THE SUSPENSION AND PLANNED REVIEW OF EQUITY POLICY FIVE DAYS FOUR APPROVED SEPTEMBER TWENTY TWENTY AND THERES PTEN AND FUTURECO Y'SMPAN STRATEGIC PLANS FOR HANGVI PLAYED AN ACTIVE LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTED IMPLEMENTATION OF BOTH THESE DOCUMENTS. I

299HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN WHAT COMES NEXT AS THREE YOUR CHAIR OF THIS BODY. I AND KNOW WELL THE RESPONSE BILLION CHALLENGES TO REMAIN IN COMPLIANCE WITH PRESENT REGULATION AND OR DIRECTIVES SOMALIS CONTINUES TO THIS CONTINUES TO PLAY OUT IN THE COURTS WHAT DO I ASK BECAUSE YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE REVIEWS, THE REVIEWS OF THIS POLICY THESE STRATEGIC PLANS TO D NOT LOSE SIGHT THE BIG PICTURE AND AS YOU LOOK TO CAREFULLY REFINE A LANGUAGE IN THESE DOCUMENTS, AVOID THE TEMPTATION FOR OVERREACH ONCE SOME SUBSTITUTE WORDING OR OTHER CAREFUL WORDS SMITHING WILL SUFFICE RESIST THE URGE TO DISMANTLE MUCH OF WHAT HAS MADE VBC THE EXCEPTIONAL SCHOOL DIVISION IT HAS BEEN THE PAST DEDE ANDCA MOREND A THE ENVY OF MANY STAY TRUE TO THE SPIRIT OF THESE DOCUMENTS STAY TRUE TO THE MISSION

300VISION AND CORE VALUES OF THIS DIVISION. THANK YOU. ROU NEXT SPEAKER IS DELIN ZAERO NILLAVA HER YOUNG AND THEN KELLY CONVERSE FOWLER> > GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ZERO AND I AM A PARENT FOR A FOURTH GREATER OVER IN VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HE'S ACTUALLY HERE WITH ME TODAY AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IT'S TEN THIRTY AT NIGHT OR A LITTLE BIT OVER AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT HE SEES JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER KIDS THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE GOING TO FIGHT FOR THEM AND GOING TO FIGHT FOR HIS FUTURE I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE I CAN'T TURN CAN'T TURN MY BACK TO THIS THIS IS ALL WE HAVE OUR KIDS >> KIDS ARE ALL WE HAVE YOU >> GUYS RIGHT THERE WILL BE REPLACED BY US AND WE

301WILL BE REPLACED BY THEM AND WE WILL BE TAKING CARE OF YOU AND I ASK YOU NOW TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION ISN'T TAKING ISN'T TAKING ANYTHING OUT OF ANYBODY'S MOUTH IT'S MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY HAS AEAT S AT THE TABLE AND THAT THOSE AT THE TABLE RECOGNIZE EVERYBODY ELSE AT THE TABLE. THE RADICALIZING THING THAT WE CAN DO FOR CHILDREN IS HAVE THEM INCLUDE ONEAN ROTHEOR F DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HAVING PROGRAMS THERE THAT HELP CHILDREN FEEL MORE INCLUDED WHEN THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE STEP UP THAT OTHER CHILDREN MIGHT HAVE HAD BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS WEREN'T IN THE MILITARY AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO MOVE AROUND THEIR PARENTS AREN'T THERE SO MANY THINGS >> THAT DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION INCLUDE? S I SEE ONE, TWO, THREE FOUR FIVE SIX

302SEVEN WOMEN UP, SEVEN WOMEN UP >> THERE. ALL THESE STUDENTS THAT YOU BROUGHT UP HERE IN THESE SPORTS WHAT 95 NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF THEM WERE BLACK ALL THESE CHILDREN THAT YOU'RE OUT HERE PARADING AND TELLIN USG THAT WE SHOD BEUL PROUD OF AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN FIGHTING FOR THEM >> THAT BREAKS MY HEART. MY SON SCHOOL'S AC WASN'T WORKING TODAY MY SON THIS ENTIRE TIME HAS TOLD ME HAS ASKED ME THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE THING MOM WHO'S, WHO'S THE ONE THAT LIED WHO'S THE ONE THAT DIDN'T TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON AND I'M SUPPOSED TO SIT THERE AND SAY THIS GUY OR THIS GIRL OR THIS PERSON WHAT I REALLY NEED YOU GUYS TO DO IS SIT THERE AND ASK YOURSELVES DID I MAKE A MISTAKE AND HOW CAN I RECTIFY THIS OR

303THAT WAY THE PEOPLE THAT PUT ME HERE CAN CONTINUE TO TRUST ME TO DO THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE TRUSTING US TO COME HERE TODAY ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK TODAY I'M NO EIGHTY SEVEN. ONLY SIX PEOPLE AGREED WITH YOU GUYS TODAY SIX. THAT'S NOT FAIR BUT WE'RE HERE AND I'M WILLING TO DO THE WORK YOU GUYS GO OUT THERE AND YOU REPRESENT WILL REPRESENT YOU WILL BACK YOU UP. I MOVED TO VIRGINIA BEACH I MOVED ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS VETERAN MY SON AND ME LANDED HERE AFTER WE GOT OUT AND WE WERE IN CALIFORNIA I MOVED ALL THE WAY BACK HERE FOR THE COMMUNITY SO I'M ASKING YOU GUYS TO DO THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE IF YOU WHEN THEY PULL THAT FUNDING WILL PULL THAT

304PULL THAT MONEY OUT OF OUR I'M SORRY I'M SORRY YOU CAN'T WEAR THESE ARE PUBLIC. YEAH, IT'S IT'S LATE AND I JUST WANT US TO I'LL DO THE RIGHT THING AND IHI TNKO YUU GYS FOR YOUR TIME FOR SPEAKER IS >> ON HER YOUNG THAN KLYEL. CONGRATS PAULA THAT MELISSA LUKES THE FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU SCHOOL BOARD FOR HAVING VOTED AGAINST THE AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER SINCE NINETEEN NINETY NINE TO TWENTY FOURTEEN ARE REALLY FIND A LOT OF THE COMMENTS MADE BY A LOT OF THESE PARENTS HIGHLY INSULTING TEACHERS BEYOND AND ABOVE THEY CARE ABOUT KIDS AND THEY MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE TREATED EQUALLY THEY ARE ON THEIR SIDE BUT FIRST OF ALL THESE PROGRAMS ARE DISCRIMINATORY. THE ATTEMPT OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY DISVANTADINAGOTHERG GROSUP IN PARTICULAR WHITE MALES AND ASIANS. IT ALSO

305FOSTERS THE IDEOLOGICAL CONFORMITY RATHER THAN UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY. ITS COMPONENTS ARE DAMNING IVERSIDTY MEANS PEOPLE WHO LOOK DIFFERENT BUT THINK ALIKE EQUITY AND CURRENT DISCRIMINATION TO ADDRESS PAST DISCRIMINATION AND INCLUSION RESTRICTS FREEDOM SPEECH THE UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SPENT TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION INVESTMENTS IN THE VARIOUS STUDIES THEY CONDUCTED REVEAL WORSENING SENSE OF BELONGING AMONG TSD ANAC F.ULTY THERE ARE BETWEEN PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ORIO AND PFLAG BASICALLY UNDER MY PARENTS RIGHTS AND NORMS BY PROMOTING GENDER IDENTITY IDEOLOGY TO CHILDREN UNDER THE GUISE OF INCLUSION INCLUSIVELY. THE FRAMEWORK MARGINALIZES DISSENTING VOICES FOSTERS A. ANTI SENTIMENTS, ANTI CENTRISM, ANTI I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT ANYWAY THE HARVARD HARVARD ILLUSTRATES THE SELECTIVE ENFORCES ANTI DISCRIMINATION POLICIES IGNORING ANTI-SEMITISM WHILE AGGRESSIVELY PROTECTING OTHER GROUPS DCI ITS CURRENT FORM IS IRREDEEMABLE AS IT PRIORITIZES ACTIVISM OVER SOCIAL AND OVERALL ORGANIZATIONS OVER SOCIAL

306WILL BE OK S.H. OR DROP EQUITY FROM ITS FRAMEWORK CITING POOR POLARIZING EFFORTS OFHESE T PROGRAMS POLARIZING PEOPLE ARE OFTEN DIVISIVE AND DECISIVE AND SIVEDIVIHEY TNOW KATH WH TEY WANT AND ARE NOT AFRAID TO INVITE PEOPLE TO GET IT POLARIZED ATTITUDES LEAD TO CONFLICT AND CONFRONTATIONN I OTHER WORDS YOU SAW POLARIZING THIS UNITE DIVIDE PART SEPARATE FORCE TAKE OR PULL APART. OK THE I ALSO THREATENED FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY IF IT FOCUSES ON IDENTITY CAN FOSTER AND US VERSUS THEM MENTALITY INDIVIDUALS ARE PLACED INTO CATEGORIES SUPPRESSES AND OPPRESS BASED ON THE IMMUTABLE CHARACTERISTICS AND CHARACTERISTICS PERPETUATES NARRATIVE OF VICTIMHOOD AND LENGTH WHICH CAN ERODE SOCIAL CAUTION NECESSARY FOR A HEALTHY DIET SOCIETY. FOCUS ON IDENTITY THE INDIVIDUAL IS PROBABLY MORE THAN THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OR PERSONAL TREATMENTS FOR QUALIFICATION CREATES RESENTMENTS AND FURTHER

307DIVIDES PEOPLE ALONG RACIAL AND GENDER LINES RATHER THAN FOSTERING A GENUINE APPRECIATION FOR THE DIVERSITY THROUGHOUT EXPERIENCES ALSO THE SUPREME COURT RULING AGAINST HARVARD AND NORTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITIES BECAUSE STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION THAT IS TIME FOR OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KAWI CONFERENCE MELISSA LIKESOME AND RON TAORYL . HELLO MADAM CHAIR. MEMBE ORSF THE BOARD I AM DELEGATE KELLY CONVERSE FOWLER . I ACTULY AALPIZOLOGOMINE CG TO YOU TO YOU ALL SOONER ON AUGUST NINTH TWENTY TWENTY ONE OUR DELEGATION PASSED THIS RESOLUTION AND UNANIMOUSLY THEN TO COMMEND THE SCHOOL BOARD AND I HAVE BROUGHT FORTH TO YOU TO PRESENT SO I'M TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY AT THE TIME THAT WOULD BE DELEGATE DAVISLYN G DAVIS DELEGATE VERY NICE DELEGATE ALEX ASK YOU DELEGATE ANTIGONI AND TOUGHHR THE PANDEMIC AND THROUGH THINGS GOING ON

308NERVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY SO ACTUALLY THE ENTIRE HOUSE OF DELEGATES VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO COMMEND THIS BOARD IN THEIR FORWARD THINKING LEADERSHIP UNDER THE STEWARDSHIP OF OU PRIORR SUNTENPERINTDER., D AND SPENDS THE BOARD SO ADMIRABLY COMMITTED THROUGH THEIR POLICY ADOPTION TO DO SEVERAL THINGS TO FIGURE OUT WHY THERE ARE INEQUITABLE OUTCOMES IN STUDENT ACIEVEHNT TME OHTEAC RESPECT FOR LIFE EXPERIENCES OF ALL COMUNITIMES TO ENSURE PROCESSES AND PRACTICES ARE INCLUSIVE TO ALL TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO RESOURCES FOR ALLND A MOST IMPORTANTLY A STRONG COMMITMENT TO MITIGATE RACISM AND I GIVE THEM CREDIT ACTUALLYFO R ACTUALLY INCLUDING BIAS TRAINING NOT JUST FOR STAFF IN THE FACULTY BUT FOR YOURSELVES . SO THAT WAS VERY COMMENDABLE SINCE THEN WE HAVE THREE MINUTES I WILL ONLY READ A FEW OF THE PASSAGES FROM THE RESOLUTION BEFORE I PRESENTED IT TO

309YOU, MADAM CHAIR WHEREAS IN TWENTY TWENTY VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTED AN EQUITY POLICY TO HELP PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN BEEKEEPER'S AND WHEREAS TEH EITYG FOR THE VCS MEMBERS FACULTY AND STAFF ON IMPLICIT BIAS CULTURAL AWARENESS AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING WHEREAS A VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD EQUITY POLICY TAKE STEPS TO MITIGATE THE ROOT CAUSES RACISM AND >> AND DISCRIMINATION AND BUILD UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION AND SPECTRE ESURINNG THAT EACH STUDENT HAS THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE A GOOD CATIU BONESOLE RDVEY B THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES THAT THE VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOL BOARD HEREBY BE COMMENDED BY ADOPTING THEIR EQUITY POLICY IN SUPPORT OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OUT OF THE CLASSROOM BUT YOU ALL JUST DID ON DID ALL THAT GOOD STUFF EVERYCHILD DESERVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE. IT SHOULDN'T MATTER WHO THEY LOVE, HOW THEY IDENTIFY

310WHAT COLOR OF THEIR SKIN IS, WHAT THEIR FIRST LANGUAGES WHAT THEIR WHAT THEIR ZIP CODE IS. EVERY CHILD DESERVES TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED. IT IS OK TO PROVIDE THAT PPOTUORNITY IT'S OK TO PROVIDE THAT TO THOSE THAT DON'T HAVE IT IT IS OK TO HAVE A PROGRAM THAT GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO A DISADVANTAGE GROUP THAT OTHERWISE WOULD NEVER GET THAT PRIVILEGE. YOU HAS PUT A PRETTY SPIN ON>> JUST TO GIVE SOME KIDS LESNER OPPORTUNITIES AT THOSE TIME THANK YOU VERY MUCH >>. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SOLUTION THENON RAYL TOR WHY DON'T WRAWEPIS TH UP WITH SOME HONESTY. YOU ALREADY VOTED TO ELIMINATE THE BEFORE HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC THAT WASN'T LEADERSHIP YOU SKIP THE HARD PART LISTENING AND WENTTRAIGH ST TO THE WE PRETEND THIS WAS ABOUT PROTECTING THE >> SCHOOLS CAN WE

311TALK ABOUT W TALE AKBOUTW HO REALLY AND DOWN THE RESOLUTION WAS WRITTEN BY KATHLEEN BROWN, THE CHAIR THE BOARD AND INSTEAD OF OWNING IT SHE HANDED IT TO DAVID CULPEPPER TO PRESENT A MAN WHO IS VISIBLY DISINTERESTED AND ACTUALLY SERVING ON THIS BOARD AND IT'S JUST WAITING TO CLOCK OUT IN TWENTY 26 EVERY TIME MR. CULPEPPER OPENS HIS MOUTH. RACISM IT'S A STANDING OVATION IT'S LIKE JIM CROW FOUND A VOICE AND SHOWS HIS THE SEWER OF A MOUTH OF THAT SPUS WHITE SUPREMACY LIKE IT IS GOSPEL AND EVERY WORD REEKS OF WHITE SHEETS OF BAD HISTORY IF YOU NOTICE THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL CULTURE WAR ITEMS HAVE BEEN PRESENTED ON THIS BOARD HAVE BEEN BY MR CULPEPPER. WHY HIM? BECAUSE HE'S DISPOSABLE AND YOU KNOW IT JERRY BROWN IT IS CLEAR YOU CLEAR YOU HAVE A

312TASTE OF POWER AND YOU WANT TO RUN AGAIN TO KEEP IT THE VOTERS IN YOUR DISTRICT DIDN'T KNOW WHO YOU WERE AND THEY TRUSTED YOU TO REPRESENT THEM WELL BUT NOW YOU HAVE A VOTING RECORD AND DISTRICT 10 WILL BE READY TO ECTLEEO SOMHONE W IS CAPABLE OF FIGHTING FOR THEM AND THEN THERE'S CAROLYN WEEMS WHO JUST LEFT IRONIC WHO JUST BEGGED HER COLLEAGUES FOR THAT'S A CLASSIC RECOVERY SCHOOL FOR 10 TO 15 STUDENTS STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION THERE ROSE A GREAT THING AND IT IS DGI IN ACTION TAILORED SUPPORT, SMALL GROUP SPECIFIC BUT THEN SHE VOTED TO DISMANTLE THE THESE PROGRAMS FOR EVERYONE ELSE SO IT'S VALUABLE WHEN IT'S HER PROJECT AND NOT GOING WHEN IT HELPS STUDENTS. SHE DOESN'T PERSONALLY IDENTIFY WITH. THAT'S NOT POLICY. THAT'S BRANDING AND NOW >> THE SECUEXE W HAD

313TO DO THIS OR WE LOSE SEVENTY FOUR MILLION IN FUNDING FIRST OF ALL THE EXECUTIVE ORDER YOU'RE HIDING YOU'RE HIDING BEHIND NOT A LAW NOT ADJUDICATED JUST A THREAT FROM AN AUTHORITARIAN PRESIDENT WHO USES FEAR AND POWERS A TACTIC YOU DON'T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE 74 MILLION SEVENTY FOUR MILLION IF YOU DID YOU'D IGHTFG IN THELICYPO NOTTING GUT D.C.I YOU JUST SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO JUSTIFY WHAT YOU ALREADY WANTED. DID YOU STRIP EQUITY PROGRAMS UNDER THE COVER OF FINANCIAL NNCERAT THOT'S N PROTECTING DISTRICT THAT'S COWARDICE IN A COSTUME AND HERE'S WHAT I WHAT I >> WANT TO KNOW. I'M WHITE AND I'M A WOMAN MY WORLD ISN'T ANY LESS EQUITABLE BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GETS A SEAT AT THE TABLE THAT'S NOT OPPRESSION. THAT'S MATH YOU'RE NOT BEING ATTACKED YOU'RE JUST BEING ASKED BEING ASKED TO

314SHARE BUT YOU'VE TWISS DID DIE INTO SOMETHING UGLY AND YOU THINK IT'S REVERSE RACISM YOU THINK INCLUSION MEANSASER ER AND SOEHOD ESR THULTSAT YOU ARE THE VICTIMS DE I IS NOT MAKING YOUR LIFE HARDER. YOUR REFUSAL TO UNDERSTAND IT IS DIE IS NOT AN ATTACK. IT'S MIRROR AND IF YOU LOOK IN IT AND IT AND YOU SEE SOMETHING UGLY THAT IS NOT THE I THOUGHT THIS VOTE WASN'T ABOUT WHAT'S BEST FOR STUDENTS IT WAS ABOUT WHAT'S SAFE AND FOR YOUR WORLD VIEW. IT'S EASIEST FOR YOUR POLITICS AND WHAT WAS FLATTERING TO YOUR EGOS AND PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER THAT THE RESOLUTION WAS WRITTEN IN SECRET IT WASUSH RTHEDWI O N ICPUBL BY LEADERS WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT >> ALL THE STUDENTS OR NEXT TEACHER IS RON TAYLOR. GOOD EVENING CHAIRMAN CHAIRPERSON BROWN VICE CHAIR WING SUPERINTENDENT

315ROBINSON I GREET YOU KNOW THE NAME OF MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST SOME OF SOME OF YOU HERE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD IS MADE A DECISION WHICH I THINK THAT WE MADEO YU MADE A BAD MOVE IN AND END ASOP SSINGTHINGME WOUTITH PU IBLIC ANPUTND ONE OF THE THINGS PRINCIPLES THAT I HEARD FROM QUITE A FEW WHEN IT WAS WHEN YOU WAS RUNNING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IS PARENT AND COMMUNITY INPUT AND BY DOING A MAJOR MOVE WITHOUT DOING THAT YOU THIS WHAT YOU HAVE CAUSED THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE CAUSE NOW MOST OF YOU I DON'T THINK BUT MAYBE ONE MISS WING DR. ROBINSON AND PROBABLY DR. GREEN IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS BEEN HERE FROM THE CONCEPT OF DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION POINT VIRGINIA ADOPTED IT IT WAS IT WAS WAY BEFORE

316PRESIDENT OBAMA AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHY THEY ADOPTED IT YOU HAD TO BE IN THE ROOM JUST LIKE YOU ONE THERE THE WHALEHIT W JESUS WITH THE WOMAN YOU HAD TO BE IN THE ROOM >> IF YOU WAS IN THE ROOM THEN YOU WOULD SAY WE NEED IT BECAUSE YOU HIRED A A CONSULTANT WHO BROUGHT THE STAKEHOLDERS THE FACULTY MEMBER, DR. ROBINSON. EVERYBODY DR. MARGULIES THEIR THERE. DR. MUELLER WAS THERE. WE WAS TOLD TO SPEAK CANDIDLY AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THETAFF S MOUTH I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS IN THE ROOM IS MORNING AND WHAT WE WHAT WE EXPERIENCE SOME OF THE STAFF SAY I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL THAT TYPE OF PERSON OR THAT TYPE OF PERSON BECAUSE YOU NOT IN THE ROOM YOU DIDN'T GET THE EXPERIENCE

317AND SEE THAT AND I FOUGHT ONCE I HEARD THAT I HAD TO DO SOMETHING I COULDN'T SIT ON THE SIDELINES OF SOCIETY AND THE STUDENTS VIRGINIA BEACH TO DROWN IN THE STATE IN A RIVER OF DESPAIR WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM A LIFELINE YOU HAVE PASSED A RESOLUTION THAT'S PROBABLY WATER UP UNDER THE BRIDGE BUT HOW DO WE GO BACK YOU HAVE TO FIND IT QUITE A FEW >> IN A LOT VIEW BIBLE SCHOLARS IS. IT'S IF YOU HAVE OFFENDED BROTHER. WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO GO BACK AND APOLOGIZE AND CLEAN IT UP >> TO GO BACK AND CLEAN IT UP. PLEASE GO BACK DAN CLEAN IT THE PUBLIC IS HERE TO WORK WITH YOU TO MOVE FORWARD SO WE DO NOT USE WHAT DO NOT LOSE WHAT WE HAVE GAINED THE STUDENTS ARE

318THE MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW >> AND THIS TE IM>> MAMAD CHAIR THAT WAS OUR LAST DAY IN PERSON SPEAKER WE'RE GOING TO VEMO ON TO OUR ONLINE SPEAKERS. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS PAUL THE CHAIN PLEASE ON MUTE >> HERMhS . T. GOS, AAD MR.HE GEAR THANKS O BRD MEOAMBER CONGMI ERMEMB WORDMMIOSITS P THATED THE S N GOOD THINGS AND INDEPNTENDEONELY CAN PEAPSRH MAKE CASE BUT LY EAON IFCH WORD IS USED IN IT I IT I ASAYSLW REFEIN RENCG SOCIETY SOCIETAL OUTOMC ESHWHIC SIICAL BASLY MARXISM AND IRONICAYELLC SIN I CAME INTO OUR SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL COMES HA DVEEDROPP SO NO UITY HAS BEENPLISOM ACCHED HAS ALREAD FYDAILE AND IT'S INTERESTIN ITG'S INTERNGESTI THAT WEVE HAEAKE SP WHORS HERE NIGHTO WHOT REWE ON THES DAI OANDHEN T DAIS WHO HAD THE OPPORNITU TYTUALLYAC MRS.TGH

319RI TOAISE R PEOPLEP U IN THAT NOT HAPPENT BU THESEEE THR DSRERND DIV ASITYNCL IIONUS EARE TH SENTIAESLME OF DINESOACU GNDLS A ARENO T PURE BUT ARE LOGEDINKE TTHER CORRIVOS ELYIN A DESTRUCTIVE POL ITILCA PROGANDAPA FOULRMA IT PCL'S CASSIOLITICAL RU'S TAKEOREEM WHDS W SICH INNOCENT USE THEMTO INDOCTRINATE AND DAMAGE SOCIETY WTHI DESUCTITRVE T ANDN THELSELFA Y CRICIZEDIT THOSE WHO CHAENGELLIS PROPAGANDA AND WHOO D WE OPAGAPRNDAEYES FI RST THE CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS SOLET' S PDES PONHIR TOLITICAL PHILOSOPHYBYGIN KN ACDOWLEG OGALT TY I OAHE CLMICA RM THFO UALLYGSINE ENTSLEMEGEN RO HYDANFUR DUL S FOR DIVERSITYIT EQUY INCLUSIONDRO GEND AN SULFURBO THE AUT RAL TOSSO EALENTI T EARTH, TH ESSBOENTIAL TO LIFE IN OUR EPLANUST ING D.C.I P GAA LOGICTH TENYHE MUST BE GOOD UFORSIGHT WELLOWE HRVE THAT IS NOT NECESSILARSOY WNHE WE CBIOMTHHYDRNE EMOGEN AND SULFUR TOGRETHE

320ASH WIT DTI WHATT HYDROGENND S ALFURU BECOMING OGHYDREN'M I SORRY HYDROGE IVLFIDE A TICOX CORROSE EXPLOST FULELSMAWLS TOO. YES, DRHYOGENHT FIG IS TXICOAND IT ISE MO CIVRROSUCH LIKE IID AT COM ABINATION IS TOXIC TOI HAS RALLEDEC CORRODEDEAV H ODRRCO OURED VE BRYSELESD SOCIETY BUTHI RYSTOSHOWS TH E WORLD THAT WITUTHO THE U.N. SCHOOLS TCHEACHILDR EN THE ELEME TO ADULTS WOH CANNAR LE TO KTHIN AND DISCERN FOR EMTHES SOSELV INME EXAMPLES SUOF DEVELOP MINDSRE A HERE ANDHE TCE SPA COAST OF FLAORID WEER ON VACATION WEHER WE HAVE SSQUENTNEREED FT SPACELA UNCH EXSPACUNCHES DESIGN AEDND TEECUY INTELLIGENT EDUCATED ENNE ATHEMAMTICIANSCOM, PUTER AND ER ASOTHIE SCTSNTIS WELLS A ADTRENES M AND MEWONSE WHOE WER EDCATEDU TO THINK BEDHA CGELLEN INDOCTRINAD WILTELH WIT DTIIT'S THRILLING TO SEE IHEN T ON INDOCTRINATED INDEPNTENDS SUCCULLYESSF CHALLENGINGUY G RUCOR HOLWOOD SLYUCH PRODUIOCTCOS AN

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346ESETH DISIOEC NSAND NOT TIFYG TIN PUBLHEIC IN THE PUBLIC THAT PEOPLE KNOW THEY'RE G TOLDAT WH TNGSHI ARE ING BEI DVESSOLD. AMIL' SA CONNCER BEUSECA A LOT FOFIES DEPEN OND A LOT OF THESEHESE T CHILDREN THAT SIMILAREPEN D ODN AOT L OF THINGS AND SO I IREMPLO YOU TO RLLEAYE TAKA MOMENTIT SBA CK AND REALLY LOOK AT WHAT ASSISTAENC AND THAT IS TIME. AND MADAM THAT WAS OUR LAST OUR LAST SPEAKER FOR THIS EVENING ALL ALL RIGHT THANK YOU. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A QUICK FIVE MINUTE RECESS AND THEN RECONVENE WITH OUR WORKSHOP AND THEN CLOSED SESSION. THANK YOU WE ARE >> NOW >> BACK FROM OUR RECESS AND WE ARE ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA WE HAVE A LONG LIST OF CANDIDATES CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS SO BEAR WITH ME WE HAVE POLICY THREE

347DASH ONE FIVE FUNDS POLICY THREE DASH ONE NINE CERTAIN SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS POLICY THREE DASH TO ZERO FINES FEES GENERALLY POLICY THREE DASHWO TOUR FIFTS G ANTGRS BECSEAUOPER PR TYLIPOCY THREE DASH THRE OENEURC PSIHANG COTIVERAOPEOCUR PREMENT POLICY E DASREHHREE T THREE SITIS PURONCHASE ORDERSUIRE POCY TLIEEHR DASH THREE FIVE COMPETITVEINGID BID AWARDS POLICY THREE DASH THREE SIX RECEIVIAYINGNG P F GORODSO AND SEICESRVOL PYIC THREE DASH SA SEVENREEDEN VS ORCONTRACTORS LES REPSENTREATIVESICY POL EE DSHAHR TGHEEI ET COMPETITIVE NATIOTIEGON OR LL PROSMAFESSNAIOERL SS CONTRACT POLICY THREE DASH ETHRENEMP NIO CETITIVE NEGOTIATIONDS WOR PROCUREMENT A ESSIONPROFAL AHIRCURTECTND ENGINEERING SERVICES POLICY THREEDASH EIGHT TWO TRANSPORTATION OF DISABLED STUDENTS POCYLI THREE DASH EIGHT NINE GENERAL CONTRTAC EEXONYCUTIIC POL POLICY FIVE FROT COMPETITION AND WE HAVE AN ENERGY PERFORMANCE CONTRACT. ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTING ON THE CONSENT

348AGENDA AS PRESENTED SEEING >> I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDARE PASNTSE MEDDOVE BY MR. CALLEN SENDED BCOYR. MO CERLPEP THOSE I CALL FOR THE VOTEO T APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA TINGTOAR B ADSRE OPEN SO MADA CHAIRM WE HAVEINE NYES E INTO ABSTENTION SO THE MOTION TO PSSALD WOU CONTSENG ADAEN MADAM CHAIR? MY ABSTENTION MY ABSTENTION IS BECAUSE THESE WERE PRESENTED THE LAST MEETING AND I WAS NOT HERE SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT CHANGES WERE MADE IF THEY WERE SCRIVNER CHANGES OR SOMETHING A LITTLE A LITTLE MORE BUT FOR TTHASO REA N HADI TO ABSTAIN. KTHAN YOU MADAM CHAIR MY LLWE THAT TOO IS ME TO MY ABSTENTIONS FOR THIS MEETING BECAUSE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE PASSED WAS NOT HERE DUE TO KTHANOU SO MUCH RIGHT WE ARE Y NOW

349ARE NOW ON TO OUR ACTION AGENDA DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE PERSONNEL PORT AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS FOR APRIL 20 SECOND TWENTY TWENTY FIVE MOVE BY DR. GREENE EDCONDYSS MI ROGERS. ANY DISCUSSION SAYING THAT I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO APPROVE THE APRIL 22ND TWENTY FIVE PERSONNEL REPORT DMND ATRINISEATIV APPOINTMENTS MI FSSNELTO HOW DO YOU VOTE ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS. KAN YOU WE HAVE AESEAN LEB THE MOTION TO PASS FOR THE PASS FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE RIL 22ND PERSONNEL REPORT >> THANK YOU. YOU. WE ARE NOW ON TO BYLAW ONE DASH THREE EIGHT REGULAR MEETINGS I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE BY LAW ONE DASH THREE AS PRESENTED LIVE BY MISS WEEMES SDDEECON BY MR. CUMMINGS. I ANY DISCUSSION AND I KNOW THAT MR. JAMES HAS AN EXPLANATION OFFERS DO YOU WANT. YOU

350WANT AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR AN ELANAXPONTI EASE. YES THANK YOU. YES THIS WAS THE BY THAT JUST KIND OF SPELLEDUT O ON A WIN MORE DETAIL ABOUT OUR MEETINGS YOU KNOW AS MOST OF YOU KNOW WHEN KNOW, WHEN WE HAVE THE RETREAT IN JULY WE HAVE THE WANT A BRIDGE MEETING ATTACHED TO THAT RETREAT USUALLY DON'T HAVE TO MEETINGS IN JULY THAT'S JULY. THAT'S THE SAME FOR DECEMBER SOMETIMES ALSO IN AUGUST. SO IT BASICALLY SPELL THAT WE THOUGHT THAT WAS IMPORTANT SO ESPECIALLY FOR SO ESPECIALLY FOR STAFF THAT THEY WOULD THAT IN JULY WE ONLY HAVE THAT ONE MEETING AND THEY COULD MAYBE PLAN VACATION OR WHATNOT SO IT JUST SPELLS OUT WHAT DO ON OF COURSE IN THEIR IT ALSO SAYS IF WE NEED TO SCHEDULE MEETING LIKE IF WE IF

351WE FIND WE FIND OUT THAT WE DO HAVE A LOT TO DISCUSS AS A SCHOOL BOARD, WE CAN THEN SCHEDULE MEETING BUT DO YOU DO YOU HAVE I THINK ABOUT COVERS IT RIGHT. MM YEAH IT'S A LOT LONGER WE THOUGHT THIS WAS EASIER SOMETIME SOME TIME DURING COVID WE STARTED ADDING EATING EXTRA MEETINGS DURING MONTHS WE DID NORMALLY HAVE IT WE STAYED IN THAT HABITS WE'RE TRYING TO CLARIFYYI TR TNGORI CLAFYHI W H MONTH TO EXPECT THAT WHICH NOT TO EXPECT THAT WHEN I STARTED DRAFT IT DOES SEEM TO BE EASIER TO PUT HIM IN BULLET FORMATND A RUN INTO FULL PARAGRAPH. SO WE THINK THIS IS A BETTER EXPLANATION FOR WHEN DO EXPECT US TO HAVE MEETINGS RATHER THAN JUST SUGGESTED WOULD BE THE SECOND FOURTH AND FOURTH BECAUSE IT IS ALWAYS THE SECOND

352THIRD FOURTH DEPENDS ON HOLIDAYS HAPPEN, GRADUATION HAPPENS UP WASN'T A VERY GOOD EXPLANATION SO UNFORTUNATE WHEN WE STARTED SPELLING IT I JUST GOT LNGERO BUT WE THINK THIS EASIER TO READ THIS WAY MISS MONEY DOES THE THE BIBLE SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING IN AUGUST OR A SECOND MEETGIN IN GUST OR DCEMBERE? IT READS DURING THE MONTHS IS A THREE DURING THE MONTH OF JULY ,AUGUST AND DECEMBER SCUBA WOLD GEUNERALLY HLDO ONLY ONE REGULAR ONE REGULA ORR BRIDGE MEETING THE REASON WE DID THATUS CABEEY MAN TESIMWE 'VE ALACTU CLYANCELED OUR AUGUST MEETINGS BUT OF COUERS IT SAYS GERALLNEYND AF IE W HAVE A LOT INFOFMAOR TIONWEE MET WITH AGENDA WITH DR. ROBERTSON AND WE HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION WILL SCHEDULE ONE YEAH I DON'T WE USED TO JUST HAVE ONE I DON'T

353EVER REMEMBER NOT HAVING A MEETING IN AUGUST TWO MEETINGS IN AUGUST EVER A I REMEMBER JULY AND I JUST REMEMBER IN DECEMBER WE WE MAYBE WHEN WE WENT FROM THE FIRST AND THIRD WE STILL HAD DECEMBER MEETINGS TWICE YOU'VE ALSO GONE TO LONGER WINTER BREAKS AND YOU'VE HAD IN THE PAST THAT'S FINE FOR DECEMBER BUT I DON'T EVER REMEMBER NOT HAVING TWO MEETINGS IN AUGUST AGAIN IT SAYS WE DON'T HAVE TOA. WE CAN ALWAYS HAVE TWO MEETINGS BUT IT SAYS GENERALLY BECAUSE WE HAVE CANCELED MEETINGS IN THE PAST FOUR AUGUST AND JUST AGAIN I WANT TO PERSONALLY REITERATE THAT DR. ROBERTSON THINKS THAT THIS WILL BE FINE AND IT WILL BE ABLE TO WORK THROUGH IT AND FOR THAT REASON SUPPORT IT WE DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADD TO ADD MEETINGS BUT IT DOES

354GIVE OUR STAFF AN OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO BE ABLE TO PLAN VACATIONS AND STUFF AROUND THAT. SO SEEINGO NHET ORO CTSMMEN I CALL FOR A VOTE TO APPROVE BY OLAWNE THREE EIGHT AS AVEDPPRO SO DAMMA CHAIR, WE HAVE A LOT OF NOISE EMOTION DID PASS FOR THE BIBLE OPILIO ONE DASH THREE EIGHT THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ON JEWEL LABS INC AND ALTRIA SETTLEMENT FUNDS I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE MOVING THE LABS INK AND ALTRIA SETTLEMENT FUNDS FROM THE GENERAL FUNDS TO THE RITEGO G FALTSRANDUNMA DEBY MR. COLPEPERON SECDED BY MR. WEEMS AND'LL IP OENHE T DOOR FOR DISCUSSION WITH MISS MELMAC BY CATEGORICAL FUNDS CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THOSE COULD BE USED FORTHES E YES, THESE ETHESTL SETTEMEN NDFUAVS HE NOCI SPECFI USE RIGHT NOWHETLEM TET SENTS WERE DEPOSITED

355INTO OUR NERALGE FUND WHICH MEANS AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR THEY WILL LIKELY LLOUT INTO REVERSION TO BE SEUAGD TAINSY ANENS EXPREDITU THAT WE HAVEF OWE NEED THEM BY MOVING TEMH TO THETE CACAGORIL ANGRT FUND WHICH WE'VE DONE IN ETHT PAS FOR THE JEWEL FUNDS IT OWALLOS TARR CYVER O THOSE FUNDS INTO FUTURE YEARS IF NEEDED. BUT THERE IS NO SPECIFIC USES DESIGNATED FOR THE SETTLEMENT FUNDS. OK AND THESE PARTICULAR JOEL FUNDS THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING SPECIFICALLY ATTACHED TO THEM. OLLK, A R.IGHT MR.LP COEPER, ND A FOLLOW UP QUESONTI IFE WO MVE THEM TO THE CATEGORICAL FUND ARE THERE ANY LIMITATIONS THAT CAN BE USED FOR NO THERE'S? NO, ERTH NE'SOIT LIMNSATIO ON THOSE SEEING NO OTHER DISCUSSION I CALL FOR A VOTE TO APPROVE MOVING THE JEWEL LABS INC AND ALTRIA SETTLEMENT

356FUNDS FROM THE GENERAL FUND THE ORATEGICAL GRANT FUND MANAGER . WE HAVE ELEVEN THE MOTION DID >> PASS. THANK. THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW ONTO COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION AND BOARD REPORTS TO ANY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS NYVE AINTHG TO REPORT DR. I WILL BE SENDING THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MET BEFORE SPRING BREAK ON APRIL 11TH AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE DISCUSS WILL BE THE POSITION WITH REGARDS TO INFORMATION COMING OUT FROM THE SBA IN TERMS OF WHAT OUR POSITION WILL BE ON CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE ISSUES SO I WILL BE SENDING YOU AN EMAIL WITH WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO REVIEW SO THAT IN NAAMEH THAT WHICH THEY DISLIKE NOW BUT I'LL PUT ALL THAT IN E-MAIL WHERE WE WILL DISCUSS IT ONE OOURF MANY MEETINGS AND THEN FOR ANCTIO IN JUNE. THANK YOU THANK YOU SO. SO OUR

357NEXT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING IS MAY NINE AS WELL IF YOU WDOUL LIKE TO THANK YOU, MR. CUMMINGS YEAH I JUST HAD A BRIEF EVENT I WANTED TO SHARE OF SHARE WITH FOLKS THAT COME FROM ONE MY COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT I THINK IS RELEVANT TO A LOT OF OUR INTERESTS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT . THE NONPROFIT VIRGINIA WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL CAREER ASSOCIATION THERE HOSTING A HIGH SCHOOL CAREER FORUM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON SATURDAY MAY 3RD FROM 12:00 THE 2:00 METAL AT HIGH SCHOOL IT'LL. IT'LL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY I THINK IF YOU'RE A HIGH SCHOOL KIDS TO EXPLORE POTENTIAL CAREER OPPORTUNITIES THERE WILL BE A PANEL FOLKS WHO ARE ENTREPRENEURS, DOCTORS, MEDIA JOURNALISM MILITARY, MILITARY AND AND WHATNOT. SO IF YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC AND YOU HAVE INTERESTS IN ATTENDING THIS EVENT, I COULD FORWARD

358YOU THE FLIER OR I COULD AFFORD ANY MORE MEMBERS THE FLIERS AS SO FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT RACEHT. OU ITUL SHOED BGO OD. THANK YOU STREAMS VICE CHAIR WEEMS. YES, THE PRC COMMITTEE WILL MEET TOMORROW AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE EINSTEIN EINSTEIN. OK, OK TOMORROW TWO O'CLOCK AND THEN ALSO DR. GREENE THEN I WILL BE AT NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY TOMORROW NIGHT AT SIX BLOCKED SEVEN FOR A DROP IN INFORMATION ALL NIGHT ABOUT THE TRUCK TO OUR CAMPUS AND DR. GREENE WILL REPORT BACK. NK M. CULPEPER >> I THOUGHT I SHOULD ADD KAREN WOODSON WAS WAS GOING TO BRIEF US ON A COUPLE OF INVESTIGATIONS AND CLOSE TODAY WHEN I WAS GOING TO GO THIS TO GO THIS LONG. WE DID GET IT AND GET CLOSE IN BEFORE THE BREAK I TOLD HER THAT WE WOULD

359RESCHEDULED IT SO JUST NOT THAT'S COME AND WE'LL GET TOT I. MISS MALNIK, IS THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTING TODR AWTO ALO CSE I JUST WANTED TO THROW THIS OUT THERE FOR FOR THE FALL THAT ANYONE THAT THINKS THEY'D LIKE TO VOLUNTEER TO PATCH PACK BEACH BAGS WE CAN ALWAYS USE VOLUNTEERS AND SO PERHAPS OVER A SUMMER IF YOU GO THROUGH THE PROCESS THE VOLUNTEER FORM THAT YOU HAVE TO FILL OUT AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF AND THEN YOU'LL BE PUT ON A ROTATION I'LL BE THERE TOMORROW MORNING BUT JUST THINK ABOUT IT OVER THE SUMMER LOVE TO HAVE YOU JOIN ME NEXT NEXTOO SCHLAR YE THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW RETURN TO OUR WORKSHOP AND THERE WAS TWO BOARD MEMBERS IN Q AND THERE WAS A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY

360TO SPEAK. YOU'RE DONE. OK SO THERE WAS THERE IS NOW ONE BOARD MEMBER IN Q THE OTHER BOARD MEMBER AND Q IS MISS ROGERS. SO YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND SPEAK. OK GREAT IT'S BEEN A REALLY LONG NIGHTS BUT I JSTUD HA I NKTHI A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS IN A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. MRS LEONETTI HOW MANY OTHER OOSCHIVL DNSISIO HAVE ADOPTED A RESOLUTION REGARDINGIC POLIES RTHATDIEGARNG THE EXECUTIVE I'M NOT AWARE OF OTHERS K-12 INSTITUTIONS IN VIRGINIA DURING RESOLUTIONS THIS TIME THEY WILL HAVE TO TAKE SOME TYPE OF ACTION OBVIOUSLY BY TOMORROW WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BUT IT WAS NOT NECESSARY EVEN HAVE A RESUTIONOL AT ALLCA BEUSEER OTH SCHOOL DIVIONS HSIAVEN'T ON IT . YOU'RE REQUIREDO T INFORM THESE WITHIN THE OF EDUCATION THAT'S THROUGH THEIGNA SRETUN O THIS ON THE CERTIFICATION FRONT. YES,

361THAT'S RIGHT. THAT IS REQUIRED AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE WRITTEN RESOLUTIONS ON FEDERAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS I'M TRYING TO THNK OITHF IS OWNS TRANSGENDER ONE WAS LATIONRE TO EONTH OF EEC UTIVE ORDERS THAT MIGHT IN RELATION TO EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THE BUTIR I'M BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE GENERALLY EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR THIS RIGHT OF RESOLUTION PHYSICAL BORDERS OK I GUESS THE LAST THING LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS WE HEARD TONIGHT ONCE SPEAKER SAID THAT THIS SENDS A MESSAGE SCHOOLS ARE NO LONGER SAFE FOR EVERYONE AND I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT FOR OUR STUDENTS. AND MR. GATLING SAID MOST TEACHERS CARE ABOUT CHILDREN AND I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT EXCEPT FOR OUR TEACHERS ARE TIRED OF NOT HAVING OUR SUPPORT AND THAT'S SOMETHING I'M ALSO

362VERY CONCERNED ABOUT IS OUR TEACHERS FEELING LIKE WE SUPPORT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE SUPPORTING ALL OF THEIR MEASURES TO SPOUPRT OUR STUDENTS. MR. KALIN YEAH I WANTED TO WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE LEARNED ALONG THE WAY WHILE I'VE BEEN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD AND MY FIRST YEAR ON THE BOARD AS YOU KNOW WAS TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY THREE AND IT WAS DURING THAT YEAR AND STILL TO THIS DAY I'M STILL LEARNING AND DRINKING AND LOTS OF INFORMATION UNDERSTAND THINGS ONE OF THE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I WAS ASKED BY A CONSTITUENT HAD TO DO WITH THE ISSUE OF DTI AND HOW DOES IT FIT INTO THE SYSTEM AND SO I REACHED OUT TO JEAN SULTANA SULTANOV WHO IS SERVING THE CHIEF OF STAFF AT THAT TIME WITH A QUESTION

363HE IN TURN FORWARDED THE EMAIL ON TO TY HARRIS AND TIRASPOL WITH SOME INFORMATION THAT HELPED ME GAIN A BIT OF AN UNDERSTANDING FOR THE BEGINNING OF MY FOUNDATION . AND IN ESSENCE THERE MORE TO THE EMAIL THEN I'LL BE READING BUT JUST GIVE THE ESSENCE OF IT . THERE WAS A OFFICE OF OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT INEXISTENT UNTIL ABOUT TWO THOUSAND AND NINETEEN AND AT THAT TIME AS A RESULT OF THINGS TAKING CULTURALLY AND WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS WELL THERE WAS A DESIRE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND THEY MOVED THE OFFICE FROM THE OFFICE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING UNDER THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT AND IT WAS DURING THAT TIME THAT I UNDERSTAND THE NAME CHANGE TOOK PLACE FROM OPPORTUNITY AN ACHIEVEMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION SO IT WAS ONCE THE OFFICE OF

364OPPORTUNITY ACHIEVEMENT WHICH CHANGED. AND NOW IN LIGHT OF THIS RESOLUTION THAT WAS RECENTLY DONE IT WAS A RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL NAME THAT ONCE EXISTED AN ADDITIONAL COMPONENT WHICH I THINK HAS GOTTEN SOMEWHAT LITTLE ATTENTION BUT I THINK IT'S A OF THE PUZZLE THAT SURROUNDS THE PROCESS THAT ACCOMPANIES THIS AND IT AS A RESULT OF AN EMAIL THAT WAS SENT TO US THE DAY BEFORE OUR LAST SCHOOL BOARD MEETING APRIL SEVEN AND THE MEETING WAS THE FOLLOWING EVENING AT A GREAT IT WAS IT WAS AN EMAIL FROM DR. ROBERTSON TO EVERYONE ON THE BOARD AS WELL AS HIS SENIOR STAFF AND IT READS AS FOLLOWS PLEASE FIND A MEMO FROM TY HARRIS REQUESTING THAT THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION BE CHANGED TO THE OFFICE FORPPORTU ONITY AND EMPOWERMENT. THE MEMO INCDESLU THE RATIONALE

365FOR THE NAME CHANGE AND THE EXPANSION OF FOCUS ON STUDENT OWNERSHIP FOR THEIR OUR OWN LEARNING SUPPORTED BY ENVIRONMENT OF BELONGING OTHER CHANGES MAY OCCUR AS TIE LEADS HIS TEAM THROUGH A COMPLETE REVIEW OF OFFICE FUNCTIONS KNOW THAT HAVE APPROVED THIS CHANGE WHICH WILL GO INTO EFFECT ON APRIL 11 AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. THAT WAS BEFORE WE WERE GIVEN THE EXTENSION OF TIME BUT THIS IS AN EMAIL THAT WAS SENT EVERYONE ON THE BOARD AS OF NOON ON MONDAY THE DAY BEFORE THE NEXT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING WHAT THE EMAIL CONTAINED AND THE INFORMATION THAT WAS EXCHANGED FROM MR. HARRIS READS FOLLOWS AND I WANT TO READ IT IN ITS ENTIRETY SO I DON'T DO ANYTHING TO JUST GIVE A PARTIAL UNDERSTANDING. IT READS AS AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE

366FOR DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION FOR VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO HAVE OBSERVED, PLANNED OR RTICIPPAATED MANY WONDERFUL ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS AIMED AT ADDRESSING VARIOUS NEEDS OF OUR DIVERSE STUDENT POPULATION RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE FERAL LDEEVEL REQUIRE US TO LOOK CAREFULLY AT THOSE PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS WHILE NONE OF OUR OFFERINGS ARE RESTRICTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS, OUR CURRENT OFFICE NAME MAY CAUSE CONFUSION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT I PROPOSE THAT THE BBC'S RENAMED THE OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION TO BE CALLED THE OFFICE FOR OPPORTUNITY AND EMPOWERMENT THE NEW NAME WILL MORE ACCURATELY REPRESENT OUR DEDICATION OF PROVIDING AND SUSTAINING A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERY STUDENT IS IN POWER TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL FIRELINE THE OFFICER'S NAME WITH THESE CORE VALUES WE WILL FURTHER DEMONSTRATE

367OUR MISSION TO ELIMINATE BARRIERS AND ENSURE THAT ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND HAVE ACCESS THE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED. I AM SPECIFICALLY REQUESTING OPPORTUNITY AND EMPOWERMENT BECAUSE THOSE TWO WORDS SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE MISSION OF VCP IS GOALS OUTLINED IN THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK AND PARENTHESES IT SHOWS COMPASS CAMPUS TO TWENTY THIRTY AND CORE COMPETENCIES FOUND IN OUR FUTURE ALREADY PROFILE OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION REFERS TO THE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES TOOLS AND EXPERIENCES THAT ALLOW STUDENTS TO REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. THIS INCLUDES A FAIR CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES THAT FOSTER A SENSE OF BELONGING AND CREATE PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS TO SUCCEED AND THRIVE OPPORTUNITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT ACCESS BUT ALSO ABOUT CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE STENTSUD FEEL CAPABLE AND CONFIDENT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE

368CHANCES EMPOWERMENT IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF GROWTH EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CHRONIC UNDERPERFORMER ENCOURAGES THEM TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THEIR LEARNING CAREER TRAJECTORY AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR FAMILY SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY THIS. THIS CHANGE IN FOCUS SPEAKS DIRECTLY THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL AGENCY SELF ADVOCACY AND SELF-DETERMINATION WHICH ARE CRUCIAL COMPONENTS OF SUCCESS THAT CONSIDER ASIAN TO CHANGE THE NAME I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT AND THAT'S I WANTED TO READ THIS SO THAT WE HAVE EVERYONE AWARE OF IT THE CONSIDERATION TO CHANGE THE NAME WAS NOT DONE IN ISOLATION IN ADDITION TO CLOSELY MONITORING STATE AND NATIONAL TRENDS I RELIED HEAVILY ON INPUT AND FEEDBACK FROM THE VIVAX EQUITY COUNCIL THIS GROUP INCLUDES PARENTS OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS COMMUNITY MEMBERS, CENTRAL SUPPORT STAFF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS OVER THE COURSE OF TWO MONTHS AND NUMEROUS DELIBERATIONS I

369BELIEVE THE FEEDBACK SUPPORTS THE OFFICE FOR OPPORTUNITY AND EMPOWERMENT. I ASKED AT THE NEW NAME BE APPROVED FOR USE ON APRIL 11 IMPLYING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WE WILL COMMUNICATE THE NAME CHANGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, ENSURE BRANDED MATERIALS REFLECT THE CHANGE AND ALLOW FOR A TIMELY TRANSITION AND ON THE BBC'S WEBSITE AND OTHER PUBLIC FACING PLATFORMS >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THE GREAT WORK FOR WHICH OUR OFFICE HAS BECOME KNOWN AND THE MEMORANDUM AND I THINK IMPORTANT TO HEAR BECAUSE SOME NOT A LOT OF THE PUSHBACK HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT PEOPLE WEREN'T GIVEN A CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND OR KNOW THIS GIVES US AN INSIGHT THAT THERE WAS COMMUNICATION TAKING PLACE IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN TO THE DEGREE THAT MANY WANTED BUT THERE WAS INTERACTION

370AND COMMUNICATION I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT IS A PART OF THE DISCOVERY AND DISCUSSION PROCESS THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH TONIGHT AND I YIELD THE FLOOR IF I CAN ADD SOMETHING TO THAT I THINK IS RELEVANT SO SHORTLY AFTER JANUARY 29TH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ONE FOUR ONE NENI ZERO THIS WHAT ELSE AND I MET WITH HARRIS AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE NATIONAL LANDSCAPE AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE GOOD WORK HE WAS DOING IN THE OFFICE AND THAT HE HAD REALLY CREATED THIS THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL STUDENTSO T THRIVE AND HE WAS FOCUSING HEAVILY ON A SENSE OF BELONGING AND NOT ANY OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK PEOPLE HAVE LATCHED ON TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL AROUND DIVERSITY AND, EQUITY, INCLUSION. WE'RE NOT DOING THOSE THINGS AND SO I MISS WIDDOWSON AND TALKING WITH MR. AS

371WE ENCOURAGED HIM TO ENGAGE WITH THE EQUITY COUNCIL THAT LOOK WE WOULD RATHER BE IN CONTROL OF ANY CHANGES THAT COME DOWN THE PIKE THAN TO HAVE THE CONTROL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM US. SO I DIRECTED HIM TO WORK WITH THE GROUP TO COME UP WITH A NAME CHANGE AND TIES A GOOD SOLDIER DID EXACTLY THAT AND THAT'S WHAT HE PRESENTED TO ME IN ELVIS OF OPPORTUNITY EMPOWERMENT WHICH HE FELT VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THE TERM EMPOWERMENT AND COURSE THAT TRENDS THAT THAT TERM EMPOWERMENT WAS REPLACEMENT ACHIEVEMENT. I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT I PROPOSED THE MEMO BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE DOES IS A LEADER BUT IT WAS AT THE BEHEST OF THE SUPERINTENDENT THEY RECOGNIZE RECOGNIZED THE LANDSCAPE IN AND ASKED HIM TO TAKE OWNERSHIP AND OWNERSHIP AND WORK WITH A GROUP TO DOO SI

372JUST THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. MISS MALIK THANK YOU DR. ROBERTSON FOR THAT. I'M ON THE EQUITY COUNCIL AND IT WAS A DIRECTION BY THE SUPERINTENDENT. IT IS NOT WELL RECEIVED BY MEMBERS OF THE EQUITY COUNCIL AND IT DID TAKE US TWO MONTHS AND WE WENT THROUGH A LONG PROCESS WITH A LOT OF DISCUSSION. PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY UPSET THAT THIS WAS THE DIRECTION THAT THINGS WERE GOING AND WE WORRIED GREATLY FOR OUR STUDENTS AT THOSE MEETINGS AND WHAT THIS COULD POTENTIALLY MEAN FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FOR OUR COMMUNITY. SO IT IS NOT THIS WONDERFUL I MEAN IT WAS IT WAS FINE. I MEAN IT'S A GREAT GROUP OF PEOPLE. MR. BURKE, OUR DEMOGRAPHERS ON THAT THE COUNCIL, SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERSS IT' A GREAT GROUP OF PEOPLEUT BHI TS IS A GROUP PEOPLE THAT APPRECIATE THAT WORK

373AND THEY RECOGNIZE THE I MEAN WE WERE TOLD TO DO SO AND IT DID TAKE US TWO MONTHS AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF DISCUSSION ABOUT WHY LIKE WHY DO WE HAVE TO CHANGE BECAUSE WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT MEANT FOR FOR OUR PEOPLE AND MANY OF US WERE HESITANT AND RELUCTANT BUT WE WE DID END UP THROUGH TWO MONTHS OF WORK WITH THE CURRENT NAME AND SO I JUST DON'T WANT ANYONE TO BE MISGUIDED IN IN THE PROCESS. PERHAPS YOUR MR. HELEN'S INTERPRETATION IS JUST DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF THE EMAIL MR. HARRIS SENT. BUT I WAS TOUGH. MJAES UM, YES. DR. ROBERTSON COLLEAGUES WE CLEARLY HEARD SOME STAKEHOLDERS VOICED CONCERNS AND THERE SEEMS SEEMED TO BE SOME CONFUSION OR MISINFORMATION NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION TONIGHT SO. SO I KNOW THAT SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS AND I WROTE THIS

374DOWN USE THE WORD DISMANTLE DO NOT LOSE WHAT WE'VE GAINED WHAT WHAT IS ON THE CHOPPING LOCKS AND AND THEY MENTIONED THINGS LIKE THE ACADEMY'S AND I'M GOING TO USE THE STAKEHOLDERS WERE CHOPPING BLOCK ARE ACADEMY BECAUSE OF THE RESOLUTION THAT WE PASSED ON APRIL OR ACADEMIES ON THE CHOPPING CHOPPING BLOCK. THEY'RE NOT AND THEN YES ESL ACHIEVABLE DREAM SPECIAL EDUCATION IEP FIVE OF FOUR'S ACCOMMODATION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ATC ODIASE THE RECOVERY SCHOOL FREE AND REDUCED LUNCHES TUTORING WE ALL WE ALREADY SAW THAT THE THAI COALITION BEACH GIRLS ROCK AND THE MAKING WAVES MENTORING PROGRAMS WE'RE NOT DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES EXPOSURE TO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE COUNCILORS SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS OR ANY OF THOSE THAT I MENTIONED ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK BECAUSE OF THE RESOLUTION THEY'RE NOT OK SO I JUST WANTED TO I KNOW EVERYBODY'S GONE AND HOPEFULLY

375EVERYBODY'S IN BED BUT I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR BECAUSE I THINK IT WAS CLEAR TO ME TO THAT A LOT OF THE SPEAKERS HAD NOT THE WORKSHOP BECAUSE BECAUSE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT MORE WE MADE SOME WE HAD SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS BUT BUT OBVIOUSLY THAT I DIDN'T HEAR THAT SO I KNOW WE HEARD A LOT BUT I JUST WANTED TO YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLKS SPOKE OR SURE THAT THAT ALL THESE ARE BASED NEED AND THEY'VE PROVEN TO BE DOING GREAT JOB AND THEY WERE BASED ON PHYSICAL ACADEMIC AND IT'S NEED BASED AND NONE OF THESE ARE DISCRIMINATORY SO ARJUST WANTED TO CLEAR THAT UP ECL THAT UP BEFORE WE LEFT AND I SO I SAW THE COMMENTS LIGHT UP LIKE AHRISTM CAS TREE. JUST

376MAKE SUREO CTSMMEN ARE DIRECTED AT CHAIR PLEASE. MISS MALNIK >> MADAM HERE I THINK IT IS A PREMATURE TO TELL THE PUBLIC THAT NONE OF THESE PROGRAMS CAN OR WILL BE EFFECTIVE UNTIL THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE IS FINISHED DOING WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO. TWO POLICY DASH FOR AND IN A DISCUSSION I HAD WITH ATTORNEY OUR ATTORNEY THAT POLICY IS OR A DRAFT HAS BEEN PUT OUT FOR THE PUBLIC WOULD. AND THERE ARE SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES AND THE TRICKLE DOWN MFROY ANF OT THA IS YET TO BE SEEN AND SO I'M NOT WILLING TO TELL THE COMMUNITY THAT NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE UNTIL THIS WARD VOTES ON POLICY FIVE DASH FOUR AND ONLY THEN WELL WE KNOW WHAT THE TRUE IMPACT IS ON OUR DIVISION. AND SO I THINK PREMATURE TO SAY THAT NOTHING

377IS GOING TO CHANGE AND I THINK IT'S UNFAIR TO THE PUBLIC AND IT'S UNFAIR FOR A BOARD MEMBER TO TO PUT THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE SPOT LIKE THAT WHEN WE DO NOT KNOW YET WHAT IS WHAT IS GOING TO COME OUT OF POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE AND WHERE THAT'S GOING TO GO MISS ROGERS THE DISCUSSION OROR ME I'D WRITTEN SOMETHING I FORGOT TO MENTION. BUT FIRST OF ALL THE THE THE MEMO THAT WAS JUST MENTIONED ABOUT MR. HARRIS IS WE DID NOT NAMED THE OFFICE WHAT HE HAD REQUESTED WITH ALL OF OUR EFFORTS WITH THE EQUITY COUNSELING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE SAYING WE WENT THROUGH, WE STILL DIDN'T NAME AT THAT DID WE KNOW SO IT KIND OF IS DECENT TENUOUS TO SAY OH LOOK AT ALL OF THIS WORK THAT WE DID. WE

378DIDN'T NAME THE OFFICE WHAT MR. HARRIS ASKED FOR AND IN THE DISCUSSION I HAD ASSERTED THAT IT WAS THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO NAME OFFICE WHAT THEY WANTED TO NAME IT BUT THAT'S NOT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE VOTED FOR THAT'S NOT WHAT WAS IN THE RESOLUTION. SO REALLY ALL OF THAT WORK WAS FOR NOT BECAUSE THE OFFICE IS NOT NAMED THAT. BUT MOVING ON, DR. ROBERTSON DID YOU NOT SAY THAT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES SUMMIT WAS CREATED BECAUSE YOU SAW THAT THERE WAS A NEED YES ABSOLUTELY. TWO THOUSAND TWO THOUSAND THERE WAS A REPORT I BELIEVE IN 2006 FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS POINTING RIGHTS POINTING OUT THAT THAT PARTICULAR GROUP OF STUDENTS WAS UNDERPERFORMING AND HAD SIGNIFICANT DISCIPLINE DISPARITIES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO REPORT THAT EVERY YEAR AND WE WERE REQUIRED TO TAKE ACTION AND THAT ACTION

379RESULTED IN THE CREATION THEFRICA AN-AMICANER MALE SUMMIT WHICH WAS A SUMMIT REALLY ABOUT LIFTING UP AND GETTING THESTUD TSENTAKE OWRSHIPNE OF THEIR LEARNING AND THE BENEFITS OF EDUCATION AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND THEY JUST CONTINUED TO GROW AND THEY ACTUALLY AREA I'VE BEEN I'VE BEEN TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT THERE WERE MORE THAN JUST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES AT THE SUMMIT THERE WERE CHILDREN OF ALL COLORS AT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT BUT MY POINT IS IS THAT IF EVERY IF EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM THAT IS DEEMED NEEDS BASE IS NOT CHANGING, WHY ARE WE THEN OFFERING TO CHANGE THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT IF WE ARE RIGHT NOW STATING IT WAS NEEDS BASED, WE ARE THEN MAKING A CHANGE TO A PROGRAM THAT IS NEEDS BASED WE ARE SAYING THAT RIGHT HERE AND WHY? BECAUSE IT HAS THE NAME AFRICAN-AMERICAN

380IN IT THAT'S NOT A REASON WE DIDN'T SAY CHANGE THE CONCERN THAT WE CONCERN THAT WE HADAS W BY USING THE NAME AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFCARIAMN ANERICLE MA IT WAS IT SUGGESTING THAT OLY N AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES COULD ATTEND THIS WEE WREOR WRIED ABOUT WAS IT GIVING THE PERCEPTION WAS THE NAME ITSELF WHEN YOU SAY BEACH GIRLS ROCK THAT DOESN'T SAYYNL O ACBLK FEMALES CAN BLACK FEMALES CAN COME TOH TIS. ENCTHO CN ISER WE NEED TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER ARE WE SUGGESTING WITH AFRICAN MALES SDOE IT THEGIVEREMP IIOSSN THAT IF YOU'RE A WHITE MALE OR FEMALE YOU CAN'T COME TO THIS USE CAIT'S ONLY FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO LOOK AT THAT POINT IS IT WRONG UNNECESSARY OR UNNECESSARY TENTIOATN OR WE GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT ONLY ONE RACE IS ALLOWED TO ATTEND

381THIS AND THAT IS THAT WOULD BE IN VIOLATION OF TITLE SICK SO WE HAVEN'T NECESSARILY THAT WE'RE NOT WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE WHAT'S THE NAME OR THE ADVERTISING ABOUT. WE NEED TO TAKE A LITTLE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE BEACH GIRLS ROCK SAY THAT WE CANLYN O EDO KSN'TNOWAC BERS RHGOEOCKS I DON'T GIRLS ROCKS. I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT AUTOMATICALLY BUT IT DOES IT DOES IT DOES THE DOES THE NAME SAY THAT WE LET BOYS IN WE MIGHT BUT THAT'S NOT A TITLE SEX ISSUE WHAT THIS GUIDANCE IS TLED SIX TITLE SIX WHICH IS RACE NATIONAL ORIGIN ETHNICITY ATH TT'S GUIDAHENCE YOU'RE HAVING YOU'RE HAVING TO FOLLOW RIGHT NOW. OK, BUT THIS IS WHY THE PUBLIC THEN WAS ASKING US ABOUT THINGS LIKE THE PACIFIC ASIAN AMERICAN CLUB OR THE THE ASIAN CLUB OR ANY

382OF THOSE RACE BASED CLUBS THE PUBLIC HAS COME AND ASKED US ARE CHANGING THOSE? WHY ARE WE TARGETING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT IF WE SAY THAT IT'S NEEDS BASED BUT WE'RE NOT TARGETING ANY OF THE OTHER RACE CLUBS THAT OUR IN OUR DISTRICT THAT PROVIDE SERVICES OR PROVIDE LEARNING FOR OUR STUDENTS, IT SEEMS LIKE FROM MY SEAT WE ARE SPECIFICALLY TARGETING ONE CERA WD THAT'S NOT OKND A TH'SAT ATWHE WANT TO LOOK AT WE HEAV A VEN'T LOOKED AT ALL OF THE CLUB'S AT THIS POINT WE'RE NOT AWARE THAT THESE ARE ISSUES INITIAL ISSUES ON THERE. WE ARE WHERE TISH ONEHA BES EN OBR AUGHTNTIOTTEN BECAUSE WHEN OOU LKT ATHE THE DEEP AND EQUITY COUNCIL THAT'S ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT FALLS UNDER OUT OUR CONCERN WAS THAT IF THERE WAS A BOOK THE FEDERAL

383GOVERNMENT THEY WOULD LOOK AT OSTHERAOG PRMST THAE CAM UNDER THAT EQUITY COUNCIL PROGRAMS OMCOUE HAT TTIC WE OFFE WNTAO T MAKE SURE THAT WE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT DRAWING UECESNNSARY ATTENTION AT THISOINT P BECAUSE WE DN' NEOTED TO BE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INVESTIGATION LAWSUIT TTHA COULD TIE UP OUR FUNDING FOR THAT WE'RE. 'RNOWE ET SAYING THAT THEY CAN'T DO IT IN FACT IF YOU LOOK AT THE GUIDANCE IT DOESN'T SAY DOESN'T SAY YOU CAN'T HAVE THE ISSUES WHAT ITAY SS ISO YU NNOTCAAVE H THEGR PROAMST THA VIOLATE NONDISCRIMINATION LAWS SO WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOONG FKIOR. WE DIDN'T SAY RIGHT NOWHE T AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT IS NOT HAPPENING. WHAT NOT HAPPEN TO NEXT YEAR. SO WE WANT TO LOOK AT WERHETH A'REERTISING EEDROPRIATELY, WHETHER W NE TO

384LOOK AT THAT NAME ON THEIR JUST LOOK AT OTHER CLUBS THAT ARE ON THERE SO WE ARE LOOKING AT OTHER CLUBS THAT ARE BASED ON RACE LIKE OR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN CLUB WHICH I HAD STUDENTS TODAY ASK ME ABOUT WILL STILL BE ABLE TO BE IN THAT CLUB SO I'M ASKING THAT FOR THEM THIS MORNING AT THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE STUDENTS ASKING ME THAT SPECIFIC QUESTION AGAIN WHAT THE GUIDAENCAT TH YOU'RE FALLING RIGHT NOW THERE ARE QSOL RAND INGOG BY WHAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN ATTH EO MMENT IS IF YOU ARE TARGETGINED BAS ONE RAC OR NATIONAL ORIGINIMIT LSNE O GROUP FROM COMING IN OR ANOTHER GROUP. ATTHU'S OONCER C RN ONIT THEIR SOWE HAVE TO LOOK AT EACH ONE HESEOF T OF HET GROSEUPS ON THERE. WE'RE NOT WHERE THAT THESE CLUBS AT THE SCHOOL BASE

385ARE SAYING THAT Y COMEOU INBE ECAUS ROULN RU OES CLUBS SAY YOU CANNOT PROHIBIT OTHER PEOPLE FROM NTONGCOMI I YOUR CLUBS BUT DID WE HVE WAE HAVE THAT RULE ON THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IT NO BU WE'RTE CONCERNED WE'RE CONCERNED THAT THAT IS THE E GIVING THE IMPRESSION ISTITL A BETTER WAY T AOER DVRSE ADVERTISE, MAKE SURE THAT WEE'R NOT DRAWING ATTENTION. DIDN'T SAY WE'RE NOT DO YOU WERE JUST WE'RE JUST SAYING THIS WHEN THEY UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE SAYING WE'RE NOT SAYING WE'RE NOT DOING IT. BUT MY PROBLEM IS THAT WE ARE TARGETING THAT SPECIFIC EVENT WHEN WE HAVE CLUBS THAT ARE TARGETING SPECIFIC IS NOT THAT THEY'RE NOT INCLUSIVE BUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AMERICAN MALE SUMMIT IS INCLUSIVE I WAS THERE. I SAW CHILDREN THAT WERE NOT AFRICAN-AMERICAN PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM. SO IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVE

386AND BECAUSE THE NAME HAS AFRICAN-AMERICAN IT DOESN'T MAKE IT EXCLUSIVE JUST LIKE THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS CLUB IS EXCLUSIVE JUST LIKE THE ASIAN CLUB ISN'T EXCLUSIVE. I I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THAT IS THE PROGRAM THAT'S ON OUR POSSIBLE BUT NONE THE OF OTH ONESER ARE. WE ARE NOT TAKEN AN ACTION ON THIS I DO SOMETHING BUT YOU ASK THE QUESTION OUR ANSWER WE WERE STILL STUDYING IT AND AND AGAIN WE'VE ALREADY SAID THAT IT WAS NEEDS BASED SO I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANY OTHER REASON TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE IT'S BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT IT'S NEEDS BASED. BUT NOW I'LL YIELD MIRAGE FRONT CLARIFIED JUST FOR THE SCHOOL PART BECAUSE WE ARE DID TELL ALL THE PRINCIPLES FOR ALL OF THEIR BASED CLUBS THEY HAVE TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS AND AS LONG

387AS ARE OPEN ALL STUDENTS THEY MEET THE LANGUAGE IN THE FREQUENTLY ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT HAVING CLUBS SPECIFIC FOR FOR EXAMPLE SCHOOLS ARE PROGRAMS FOCUS ON IN PARTICULAR CULTURES HERITAGE AND AREAS OF THE WORLD WOULD NOT IN AND OF THEMSELVES TITLE SIX ASSUMING THEY'RE OPEN ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF RACE AND THAT'S THE DIRECTION WE'VE BEEN GIVEN FOR THAT. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THERE'S TWO PIECES ONE YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WHY ARE WE TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE NAME AFRICAN-AMERICANS? THAT'S AN ISSUE THAT HE'S WORKING ON BUT THE CLUB PEACE WHEN YOU TALK TO THE STUDENTS A DAY ALL OF THOSE CLOTHES ARE STILL OPERATING AS A OF NASTY AND AND AND I THINK THEY SHOULD BUT I THINK THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT SHOULD JUST STAY IS BECAUSE IT IS NEEDS BASED AND IT IS ALL

388INCLUSIVE. ALL RIGHT. I HAD A COUPLE OF QUICK COMMENTS BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ASKED FOR A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND ABOUT THIS AND IF ANYBODY'S ASKINGH WEER I STAND I'M STANDING WITH THE STUDENTS ARE STENTSUD THAT NEED THIS FUNDING SEVENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IS PROBABLY EVERY SINGLE ACADEMY. IT IS ALL OF OUR RAISES THIS YEAR. IT IS PROBABLY ALL OF OUR STAFF IN THIS BUILDING PLUS SOME ANY OTHER VOTE IN MY OPINION FOR ME WOULD HAVE DIRECTLY IMPACTED STUDENTS IN VIRGINIA BEACH, WOULD HAVE DIRECTLY IMPACTED AND THREATENED STUDENTS IN MY DISTRICT DISTRICT 10 GREEN RON HOLLAND ELEMENTARY PARKWAY ELEMENTARY ROSEMONT THOSE ARE FOR TITLE ONE SCHOOLS IN MY DISTRICT THAT WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY HARMED UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES FREE AND REDUCED COST WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK SOME THESE MEALS ARE THE ONLY

389MEALS THEES STUDENTS GET ALL DAY. SO THOSE THOSE MY COMMENTS ON THAT AND WITH THAT THIS MEANS WE'LL REDUCE THEM TO CLOSE. I THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD RECESS AND A CLOSED SESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH EXCEPTIONS TO OPEN INDIANS LAW SET FORTH IN VIRGINIA TWO TO THREE SEVEN ELEVEN POINT EIGHT PARAGRAPHS ONE TWO SEVEN EIGHT AS A MINUTE TO DELIBERATE THE FOLLOWING MATTERS ONE DISCUSSION CONRATIONSIDE OR INTERVIEWS A PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES FOR EMPLOYMENT SIMON APPOINTMENT PROMOTION PERFORMANCE, DEMOTN, SALIOARIE DIS,IPLINESC OR RESIGNATION THE SPECIFIC PUBLIC OFFICERS APPOINTEES OR EMPLOYEES OF ANY PUBLIC BODY AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE OF DEPARTMENTS OR SCHOOLS PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION WHERE SUCH EVALUATION WILL NECESSARILY BOB DISCUSSION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS ANY TEACHERS WILL BE PRMITEDTEO T BE PRESENT DURING A CLOSED MEINGET IN WHICH THERE'S A DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATIONISCIPL

390DINARY MATTER THAT INVOLVES THE TEACHER AND SOME STUDENT AND THE STUDENT INVOLVED THE MATTER IS PRESENT PROVIDED THE TEACHER MAKES A WRITTEN A WRITTEN REQUEST TO BE PRESENT TO PRESIDING OFFICER THE APPROPRIATE BOARD NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION, HOWEVER, TO BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE A CLOSED DOOR MEETING BY GOVERNING BODY OR ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD TO DISCUSS COMPENSATION MATTERS THAT AFFECT MEMBERSHIP OF SUCH BODY OR BOARD COLLECTIVELY TO DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF ADMISSION OF DISCIPLINARY MATTERS OR ANY OTHER MATTERS WOULD INVOLVE THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE SCHOLASTIC RECORD CONCERNING STUDENT OF ANY PUBLIC INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON THE COMMONWEALTH OR ANY STATE SCHOOL SYSTEM. HOWEVER, ANY SUCH STUDENT LEGAL COUNSEL AND OF THE STUDENTS AMOUNT OF THE, PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS SHE'LL BE PERMITTED TO BE PRESENT DURING THE TAKING OF TESTIMONY OR PRESENTATION

391EVIDENCE THAT HE CLOSED MEETING ITS WITH SUCH STUDENTS, PARENTS OR GUARDIANS THAT REQUEST AND WRITING AND SUCH REQUESTED SUBMITTED TO THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF THE APPROPRIATE BOARD SEVEN CONSULTATION LEGAL COUNSEL AND BRIEFINGS BY STAFF MEMBERS OR CONSULTANTS PERTAINING ACTUAL OR PROBABLE LITIGATION WERE SUCH CONSULTATION OR BRIEFING AND OPEN MEETINGS ADVERSELY AFFECT THE NEGOTIATING OR LITIGATING POSTURE OF THE PUBLIC BODY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, PROBABLE LITIGATION MEANS LITIGATION SPECIFICALLY THREATENED OR ON WHICH THE WHICH THE PUBLIC BODY OR ITS LEGAL COUNCIL HAS A REASONABLE BASIS TO BELIEVE WILL BE CONVINCED BY OR AGAINST PARTY NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION SHOULD BE CONSTRUED TO PERMIT THE CLOSURE REMAINING MERELY BECAUSE AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE PUBLIC BODY IS IN ATTENDANCE CONSULTED WAS CONSULTED ON THIS MATTER. A CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL IN FLORIDA RETAINED BY PUBLIC BODY

392REGARDING SPECIFIC LEGAL MATTERS GROUND THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE BY SUCH COUNCIL. NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISIONAL WILL BE CONSTRUED TO PERMIT THE CLOSURE OF THE MEETING BECAUSE AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING PUBLIC BODIES IN ATTENDANCE ALWAYS CONSULTED ON THE MATTER NAMELY TO DISCUSS A STATUS OF PERSONNEL MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS BY DEPARTMENT INTERNAL AUDIT THE SETTING OF SETTING OF HEARING DATES OF EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE CASES SEE STATUS IN STUDENT RELATED CASES THE STATUS PENDING LITIGATION OR ADMINISTRATIVE CASES E CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNCIL REGARDING THE LITIGATION AND PENDING LITIGATION MATTERS AND F. DEMAND FOR SETTLEMENT REQUEST BY M. MCGYVER MOVED BY VICE HALLOWEEN SECONDED BY MR. COLPEPER ANY DISCUSSION SEEING NINE I CALL FOR THE VOTE TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION OK SO ALL INOR FAVGO OF INGIN TOCL OSED SESSION PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND TO MR. KAPLAN. DO YOU WANT

393TO GO CLOSED. OK SO MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE 11 ESONMOTI DID PASS. THANK YOU. WEREWE A ARE NOW IN CLOSED SESSION WHERE >> THE SCHOOL BOARD THECI TYIR VAGINIBE ACH HAS CONVENED A CLOSED MEINGET T S DAYHI PSUANTUR AN IRMAAFFVETI RECORDED VOTE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIS OF ONTHEIRGINI VA FREEDOM INFORMATION THAT THE ORLD SECTION TWOHREE T SEVEN TWELVE OF CODE OF VIRGINIA REQUIRES A CERTIFICATION BY THE OOL BOARD THAT SUCH CLOSE MEETING WAS CONDUCTED CONFORMITY WITH VIRGINIA LAW NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH HERE ABOUT SORT OF US THAT DO THE BEST KNOWLEDGE ONLY BUSINESS MATTERS LAWFULLY EXEMPTED FROM OPEN MEETING REQUIREMENTS BY VIRGINIA WERE DISCUSSING THE CLOSED MEETING TO WHICH THE WHICH THE CERTIFICATION APPLIES AND ONLY SUCH PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS AS WE IDENTIFIED IN THE

394MOTION ABOUT WHICH THE CLOSED MEETING WAS CONVENED, HEARD, DISCUSSED OR CONSIDERED THE ARE ION FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF CONCESSION MADE BYR. M MALNIK SECONDED BY MR. CALLEN ANY DISCUSSION SAYING AND I CALL FOR A VOTE CERTIFY CLOSED SESSION BY VOTING BOARDS ARE VOTING BOARDS OR PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU SIR MADAM HERE WE HAVE 11 EYES THE MIOOTN TO SPASR FO CERTIFICATION OF CLOSED. THANK YOU MR. MEANS WOULD YOU PLEASE MAKE THE MOTION I MOVE THE SCHOOL BOARD NOT AGREE AT THIS TIME TO ENTER INTO A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH MILTON MCGYVER REGARDING HIS DEMANDS FOR SETTLEMENT SENT TO THE SCHOO BOLDAR T AND THEHAT SCHOOL BOARD AUTHORIZES THE SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY TO COMMUNICATE SCHOOLAR BOD'S ISDEC TO MION MLTCGYVER MOVE BY MISSMS WEECOSE NDED BY MISS ROGERS ANY DISCUSSIONSEEING OT TO CALL FOR A

395VOTE ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND MANAGER WE HAVE A LEBANESE THE MOTION THEOTION M TO PASS. >> THANK YOU WE ARE ADJOURNED IT IS 12 FORTY TWELVE FORTY THREE A.M. APRIL TWENTY THIRD TWENTY TWENTY FIVE >>