FCPS School Board Meeting - June 14, 2018

001GOOD EVENING THIS JUNE 14th. 20 FOURTEEN 18 OF THE REGULAR FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD WILL COME TO ORDER. PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND PERFORMANCE OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BY CLEARVIEW ES STRINGS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ALLISON DEVEREUX. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. ♪♪♪ [Applause] THANK YOU VERY MUCH STUDENTS FROM CLEARVIEW. I DON'T KNOW IF MS. WILLISON IS HERE, OUR FINE PRINCIPAL. AND THANK YOU PARENTS FOR BRINGING YOUR CHILDREN THIS EVENING AND SHARING YOUR MUSICAL TALENTS WITH US. THANK YOU. IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH SECTION 2.2-3712 (D) OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA, IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE BOARD TO CERTIFY THAT SINCE THE

002FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CONVENED A CLOSED MEETING ON JUNE 14, 2018, TO THE BEST OF EACH MEMBER’S KNOWLEDGE, ONLY PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS LAWFULLY EXEMPTED FROM OPEN MEETING REQUIREMENTS AND ONLY SUCH PUBLIC BUSINESS MATTERS AS WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE MOTION CONVENING THE CLOSED MEETING WERE HEARD, DISCUSSED, OR CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD DURING THE CLOSED MEETING. IS THERE A MOTION? MOVED BY MRS. EVANS. SECONDED BY MR. MCELVEEN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS. YES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MR. WILSON WE HAVE ON THE TABLE. A FEW OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE WE BEGIN TONIGHT'S MEETING. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW A COPY OF THE AGENDA IN ANY AGENDA ITEM THAT IS BEING DISCUSSED TONIGHT THAT INFORMATION IS ON THE TABLE BY THE AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE. TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS AVAILABLE BY GOING TO THE SCHOOL BOARD ON THE

003FCPS HOMEPAGE AND SELECTING BOARD DOCS UNDER UPCOMING SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS. THE MEETING IS ALSO STREAMED LIVE ON-LINE. THE SELECT THE SCHOOL BOARD FROM THE FULL MENU, THEN CLICK ON THE WATCH LIVE BUTTON ON THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING'S WEBSITE. PLEASE TURN OFF OR SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES. RECOGNITION OF THE 2018 SCHOOL BOARD CHARACTER AWARD RECIPIENT. I WILL CALL ON MS. KAUFAX. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. ACCEPTING THE REWARD ON BEHALF OF THIS YEAR'S RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 CHARACTER IS THE DIRECTOR. SO THE SCHOOL BOARD CHARACTER AWARD WAS INITIATED BY FORMER SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD, CHRIS GIOVARELLI, AND ESTABLISHED BY THE STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL IN 2001. THE APPLE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION EDUCATION FOUNDATION HAS GENEROUSLY FUNDED THE $500 AWARD SINCE 2007 AND THIS AWARD IS GIVEN TO A JUNIOR OR SENIOR WHO DEMONSTRATES A CONTINUOUS RECORD

004OF HIGH MORALS, STRONG INTEGRITY, AND GOOD CHARACTER, AND WHO IS RECOGNIZED AS A ROLE MODEL FOR STUDENTS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN DAY-TO-DAY BEHAVIOR. THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 SCHOOL BOARD CHARACTER AWARD IS RABIA SAAD, A SENIOR AT HAYFIELD SECONDARY SCHOOL. RABIA IS A TREMENDOUS SOURCE OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION FOR THE HAYFIELD COMMUNITY. SHE SHARES HEARTFELT COMPASSION AND EMPATHY WITH HER PEERS, SERVING AS A LISTENING EAR, GUIDING THEM TO AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND COUNSELING, AND WORKING TO GUARANTEE A SAFE PLACE FOR STUDENTS TO COME TO. HER PASSION IS MAKING PEOPLE FEEL ACKNOWLEDGED AND UNDERSTOOD. ACCORDING TO ONE TEACHER, “TO PUT IT SIMPLY, SHE CARES. SHE IS CONSTANTLY THERE FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS EMOTIONAL HELP. HER WARM PERSONA BRIGHTENS THE DAY FOR EVERYONE SHE COMES INTO CONTACT WITH IN OUR SCHOOL.” WITH GREAT DEDICATION AND A

005CARING HEART, VOLUNTEER SERVICE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO RABIA. SINCE HER FRESHMAN YEAR, SHE HAS VOLUNTEERED ON WEEKENDS WITH GIVE TUTORING, HELPING CHILDREN OF ALL RACES, RELIGIONS, AND ABILITIES ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS AND LEARNING THE IMPACT OF FRIENDSHIP IN SHAPING FUTURE LEADERS. RABIA IS VERY INVOLVED AND ENGAGED IN HAYFIELD ACTIVITIES, ENCOURAGING STEM ACADEMICS WITH THE TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION, SUPPORTING THE ARTS AND CREATIVITY AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ART HONOR SOCIETY, AND ADVOCATING FOR HER PEERS THROUGH THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION. RABIA IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING EQUITY AND ACCEPTANCE. WITH THE MUSLIM YOUTH CLUB, SHE HAS HELPED EDUCATE STUDENTS AND ADVANCE CULTURAL AWARENESS FOR ISLAM IN TODAY’S SOCIETY. SHE IS TRUSTWORTHY AND RESPONSIBLE, SERVING AS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR HER PEERS AND HELPING THEM OVERCOME CHALLENGES. AS ONE OF HER NOMINATORS SAID, “SHE INSPIRES EVERYONE AROUND HER

006TO BECOME A BETTER PERSON AND TO GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD.” HER STRENGTH AND INFLUENCE REVEAL CHARACTER TRAITS ALL OF OUR STUDENTS CAN BE INSPIRED BY. RABIA HAS EARNED AND IS TRULY DESERVING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD CHARACTER AWARD. PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING AND JOIN ME FOR A PHOTO AT THE BOARD. [APPLAUSE] NEXT I WILL CALL ON MS. MCLAUGHLIN. BEFORE I BEGIN I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE HANNA CATHERINE McKALE TO PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM. LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SERVED AS STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD FROM 1986 TO 1987. THIS OUTSTANDING STUDENT, TALENTED ATHLETE, AND EXCEPTIONAL LEADER GRADUATED FROM ROBINSON SECONDARY SCHOOL AND THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY AND WAS COMMISSIONED A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE AIR FORCE. SHE WAS KILLED IN ACTION OVER NORTHERN IRAQ IN APRIL 1994. TO HONOR LAURA ASHLEY PIPER’S

007STRONG COMMITMENT TO STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND TO RECOGNIZE HER HIGH STANDARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT AND INVOLVEMENT AND HER WILLINGNESS TO CONTINUALLY ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY THROUGHOUT HER LIFETIME, THE SCHOOL BOARD OF FAIRFAX COUNTY HAS ESTABLISHED THE ANNUAL $1,000 LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SCHOLARSHIP. IN 2007, APPLE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION EDUCATION FOUNDATION BEGAN ITS ENDOWMENT OF THE LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SCHOLARSHIP, PROVIDING $1,000 ANNUALLY. WE APPRECIATE THEIR CONTINUED GENEROSITY. EACH YEAR, EVERY HIGH SCHOOL MAY NOMINATE ONE SENIOR STUDENT WHO EXEMPLIFIES THE “ATTRIBUTES OF PERSONAL EXCELLENCE AND COMMITMENT TO STUDENT GOVERNMENT” THAT REPRESENTED OF LT. PIPER. A COMMITTEE FROM THE OFFICE OF SCHOOL COUNSELING SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES, CONSIDERS THE NOMINEES. THERE IS AN ENGRAVED PLAQUE IN THE SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE WITH EACH WINNER’S NAME. THIS YEAR THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL RECOGNIZE HANNAH KATHERINE MCHALE FROM W.T. WOODSON HIGH SCHOOL, THE RECIPIENT OF

008THE 2018 LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SCHOLARSHIP. SO NOW I WILL PROCEED THE OFFICIAL RESOLUTION NAMING HANNAH KATHERINE MCHALE THE 2018 LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT WHEREAS, HANNAH MCHALE HAS REMAINED CONSISTENTLY COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMICS, ATHLETICS, AND STUDENT LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES THROUGHOUT HER YEARS AT W.T. WOODSON HIGH SCHOOL; AND WHEREAS, HANNAH HAS MAINTAINED A 4.336 GRADE POINT AVERAGE WHILE TAKING CHALLENGING HONORS AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) COURSES AND ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN VARIOUS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THEATER, ATHLETICS AND VARIOUS CLUBS; SHE RECEIVED A SCORE OF 1370 ON HER SAT; FOR THREE YEARS, HANNAH HAS EARNED ACADEMIC AWARD LETTERS, AND IS EXPECTED TO RECEIVE ONE FOR HER SENIOR YEAR AS WELL; AND WHEREAS, HANNAH IS A LEADER IN BOTH HER SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY, WHERE SHE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF HER NATIONAL ENGLISH HONOR SOCIETY; IN ADDITION SHE HAS ALSO BEEN

009A MEMBER OF BOTH THE HISTORY AND SPANISH HONOR SOCIETIES; HEAD COACH FOR HER FAIRFAX POLICE YOUTH CLUB VOLLEYBALL TEAM, AND DIRECTED A ONE-ACT PLAY IN THE 2048 VHSL ONE ACT COMPETITION WHERE SHE WON 4TH PLACE IN THE COMPETITION; IN HANNAH’S JUNIOR YEAR FOR THE HISTORY HONOR SOCIETY, SHE WAS THE RUNNER-UP FOR THE HISTORY BOWL COMPETITION; WHEREAS, HANNAH’S COMMITMENT TO OTHERS HAS INCLUDED BEING PRESIDENT OR TEAM CAPTAIN FOR THE RELAY FOR LIFE TEAM WHERE COLLECTIVELY THEY RAISED OVER $100,000 FOR THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ---- [APPLAUSE] DURING HER FOUR YEARS AT WOODSON. SHE HAS BEEN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THEATRE CAMP COUNSELOR WHERE SHE HELPED CHOREOGRAPH DANCES, STAGE SCENES AND COSTUMES; SHE HAS ALSO DONATED BLOOD ON A REGULAR BASIS; AND HANNAH BECAME A CERTIFIED MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDE WHERE SHE HAS HELPED SEEK PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE TO HER

010PEERS IN A SENSE OF CRISIS. AND WHEREAS, DURING HER TIME AT WOODSON, SHE HAS PARTICIPATED IN VOLLEYBALL WHERE SHE HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE HONORABLE ALL-CONFERENCE PLAYER, MOST IMPROVED PLAYER, MOST VALUABLE PLAYER, AND IN BASKETBALL WHERE SHE WAS RECOGNIZED AS TEAM CAPTAIN AND SCHOLAR ATHLETE; AND WHEREAS, HANNAH’S EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP QUALITIES, STRONG COMMUNICATION SKILLS, COMMITMENT TO DUTY, AND HIS PASSION AND ENTHUSIASM TO HELP OTHERS DEMONSTRATES A MATURITY WELL BEYOND HER YEARS, AND, IN EVERY WAY, SHE PERSONIFIES THE CHARACTERISTICS AND IDEALS TO WHICH LAURA ASHLEY PIPER ADHERED; AND NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AWARDS THE LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SCHOLARSHIP TO HANNAH KATHERINE MCHALE IN MEMORY OF LT. PIPER AND IN RECOGNITION OF BOTH FOR THEIR DRIVE, DETERMINATION, AND DEDICATION TO EXCELLENCE. I SO MOVE. SECOND. SECONDED BY MRS. EVANS. ALL THOSE

011IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. CONGRATULATIONS. [APPLAUSE] MADAM CHAIR BEFORE WE TAKE THE PICTURE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO SPEAK TO OUR MOTION SO I AM GOING TO TAKE DELIVERY TO SPEAK TO IT. ONLY BECAUSE I THINK MOST OF MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL AS THE AUDIENCE IS NOT AWARE THAT I HAVE KNOWN HANNA SINCE SHE WAS ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD HER FAMILY AND MY FAMILY HAVE BEEN VERY CLOSE AND BY THE WAY I WAS NOT ONLY NOT ON THE SELECTION COMMITTEE I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW SHE HAD APPLIED UNTIL I WAS GIVEN THE ENVELOPE TO CALL HER AND SAY YOU ARE OUR WINNER. HANNA HAS BEEN MY BEST FRIEND SINCE KINDERGARTEN AND YESTERDAY WE CELEBRATED BOTH OF OUR GRADUATIONS AND SO HANNA IS LIKE A DAUGHTER TO ME AND WHEN YOU HEAR WHAT HANNA HAS ACCOMPLISHED

012IN HER TIME, NOT JUST AT WOODSON BUT TRULY IN HER 13 YEARS OF A STUDENT HERE AT FAIRFAX COUNTY SHE IS SECOND GENERATION OF FAIRFAX COUNTY PARENT GRADUATES. SHE IS EMBLEMATIC OF OUR GRADUATES HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY AND GO ON TO WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS AND REPRESENT US SO WELL BUT HANNA MORE THAN ANYTHING I HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO SEE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL, KIND, THOUGHTFUL PERSON YOU ARE TO EVERYONE WHOSE LIFE YOU TOUCH EACH AND EVERY DAY AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU CONTINUE TO BLOSSOM IN YOUR NEXT FOUR YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AND YOU KNOW AT THIS POINT I KNOW MS. EVANS WANT TO SPEAK BRIEFLY BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP AND THEN WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING A PHOTO AT THE DAIS WITH ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU.

013I DID READ THIS YEAR FOR THE LAURA ASHLEY PIPER SCHOLARSHIP. I DID NOT KNOW MS. MCLAUGHLIN KNEW THIS PARTICULAR APPLICANT. I WISH EVERYONE COULD SEE THE APPLICATIONS THEY ARE JUST SUBURB AND SO WE ARE JUST COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY WHEN WE READ ABOUT HANNA'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS. SO IT IS PARTICULARLY HONORED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO READ THE APPLICATIONS THIS YEAR AND CHOOSE OUR RECIPIENT THIS YEAR PARTICULARLY WHEN SHE WAS AMONG STELLAR APPLICANTS. I WISH HANNA OUR BEST WISHES FOR OUR FUTURE. AN INCREDIBLY BRIGHT FUTURE. [APPLAUSE] IN ADDITION TO THE BOARD WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INVITE HER FAMILY MEMBERS AND LOVED ONES TO JOIN US FOR THE PICTURE AS WELL. ALONG WITH OUR ROCKEN AWESOME PRINCIPAL CARLEN FLOYD THANK YOU DR. FLOYD FOR JOINING US HERE. [APPLAUSE] RESOLUTION HONORING NIHARIKA VATTIKONDA WHEREAS, NIHARIKA VATTIKONDA, A NEWLY GRADUATED

014MEMBER OF THE 2018 SENIOR CLASS AT THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (TJHSST), HAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY SERVED AS THE 47TH STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD FOR THE 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR; AND WHEREAS, NIHARIKA BELIEVES IT IS IMPORTANT TO BREAK DOWN THE BARRIER BETWEEN THE STUDENT BODY AND THE SCHOOL BOARD TO FOCUS ON THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES TO STUDENTS, AND HAS SUCCESSFULLY SERVED AS THE “STUDENT VOICE” ON THE SCHOOL BOARD BY REACHING OUT TO OTHER STUDENTS DURING VISITS TO OTHER SCHOOLS, AND THEN SHARING THE STUDENT PERSPECTIVE WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD ON VARIOUS ISSUES; INCLUDING EQUITABLE GRADING AND WORKLOAD TO PREVENT UNDUE STRESS FOR STUDENTS, ACCESS TO STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS FOR BOTH STUDENTS/PARENTS TO HELP REDUCE STRESS, AND INCREASING ACCESS TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS MUSIC AND ATHLETICS; AND SHE HAS

015ATTENDED NUMEROUS BOARD MEETINGS, WORK SESSIONS, AND EVEN PUBLIC HEARINGS; AND WHEREAS, NIHARIKA BELIEVES IN COMMUNITY SERVICE AND HAS SET A STRONG EXAMPLE BY INVOLVEMENT WITH TEENS TRANSFORMING TECHNOLOGY, WHERE SHE IS THE FOUNDER AND CEO, THAT IS A LEADING NATIONAL NONPROFIT TO TEACH STUDENTS, PARTICULARLY GIRLS AND MINORITIES, IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS ABOUT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND PROVIDES ACCESS FOR THESE STUDENTS TO CONTINUE COMPUTER SCIENCE THROUGH MENTORSHIP AND MORE ADVANCED PROGRAMS FOR OLDER STUDENTS; SHE WAS SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY SHE++ FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WHERE HER INITIATIVE BROUGHT COMPUTER SCIENCE ACCESS TO UNDER-REPRESENTED DEMOGRAPHICS LAST SPRING; SHE HAS ALSO BEEN INVOLVED WITH WHITE HOUSE UNITED STATE OF WOMEN SUMMIT; INCLUSIVE STEM EDUCATION FOR YOUTH OF COLOR, AND MANY MORE; WHEREAS, NIHARIKA MAINTAINED PERSONAL ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE WHILE ENROLLED IN RIGOROUS ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) COURSES RANGING FROM CALCULUS AND U.S.

016HISTORY TO MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS, AP SPANISH LITERATURE, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND PROBABILITY THEORY; SHE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN STUDENT ACTIVITIES BY SERVING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF HER SCHOOL FOR THE FAIRFAX COUNTY STUDENT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, WORKED AS A CHAIR FOR THE DIVERSITY IN LITERATURE PROJECT, WHERE SHE HOPED TO CREATE A COUNTY-WIDE BOOK GROUP AND FORUM IN WHICH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY CAN DISCUSS BOOKS RELATED TO THEMES OF EQUALITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY; AND SHE SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE ORGANIZING TEAM OF HACKTJ WHERE THIS ROLE INVOLVES HELPING CORPORATE SPONSORS ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH STUDENT HACKERS TO EXPOSE STUDENTS TO CAREERS ON TECHNOLOGY; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ACKNOWLEDGES WITH GRATITUDE THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND SERVICE OF NIHARIKA VATTIKONDA FROM JULY 1, 2017, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2018, AND EXTEND

017OUR BEST WISHES TO HER ON HER POST-SECONDARY ACADEMIC STUDIES AS SHE ATTENDS THE ROBERTSON SCHOLARS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AT UNC CHAPEL HILL AND THEN DUKE IN THE FALL, AND CONTINUED SUCCESS IN ALL HER FUTURE ENDEAVORS. I SO MOVE. SECONDED BY MR. MOON. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. NOW WE WILL SHARE SOME KIND WORDS BEGINNING WITH MR. MCELVEEN. I WILL KEEP IT SHORT. IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE TO GET TO KNOW YOU AND WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU IN FAIRFAX COUNTY AND ON YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS AT CHAPEL HILL AND DUKE AND SO TYPICALLY WE WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING THAT IS FITTING FOR YOU TO TAKE WITH YOU, IN THIS CASE IT IS FLOWERS BUT WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT WILL NEVER DIE BECAUSE YOU WILL KEEP IT ON YOUR

018DORMROOM AND THEN YOUR HOME WHEN YOU MOVE BACK TO FAIRFAX COUNTY AND THAT IS. [LAUGHS] [AUDIENCE LAUGHS] [LAUGHS] AND THAT IS ALL OF US. [APPLAUSE] SO WE HOPE YOU TAKE US WITH YOU AND WE SINCERELY WISH YOU ALL OF THE BEST IN THE FUTURE. MR. MOON. SO HAPPY EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A STUDENT VOICE REPRESENTING 190,000 STUDENTS WHENEVER YOU SPOKE YOU SOUNDED LIKE A GROWN-UP, MATURE VOICE TO ME, EVEN MORE MATURE THAN SOME OF US, INCLUDING MYSELF. SO THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS AND WE WISH YOU WELL. AND I HAVE ONE FIRST AND FINAL, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO THE BOARD AT THE UNC, DUKE WHEN THEY ARE ARCH RIVALS IN BASKETBALL? [LAUGHS] [OFF MIC] J I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ENHANCING MY FIRST MONTH HERE ON THE

019SCHOOLBOARD. I REALLY GOT THE LUCK OF THE DRAW TO BE ABLE TO SIT NEXT TO YOU AND TO HEAR YOUR INSIGHTFUL COMMENTS AND YOUR CARE FOR EVERYBODY AROUND YOU AND I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU TRULY, TRULY IMPRESS ME AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD AND EVERYONE THAT YOU SERVE AND I JUST REALLY HAVE BEEN IMPRESSED THEN T MAKES ME FEEL AS THOUGH WE CAN REALLY TRUST THAT OUR FUTURE WILL BE IN GOOD HANDS. MRS. PALCHIK. THANK YOU. I HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED BY YOUR COMMITMENT, COMPASSION AND ALSO LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING AND YOUR THOUGHT IN UNDERSTANDING AND ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE THAT. I'M ESPECIALLY IMPRESSED BY ALL YOU'VE DONE TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY GIRLS, STUDENTS OF COLOR, STUDENTS IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES TO GET THEM INVOLVED IN CERTAIN OPPORTUNITIES. THANK YOU FOR

020ALL YOU'VE DONE, VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE FUTURE AND PLEASE COME BACK AND VISIT US. YOU KNOW HOW FUN OUR MEETINGS CAN BE. I WAS MENTIONING EARLIER THAT YOU OTHER THAN OUR AT-LARGE BOARD MEMBERS WHO REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COUNTY YOU ACTUALLY HAVE MORE CONSTITUENTS THAN I DO AS A DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER BECAUSE YOU SPEAK FOR AND REPRESENT 180, 188,000 STUDENTS NOW, IT GROWS EVERY DAY IT SEEMS AND I HAVE 130,000 CONSTITUENTS AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT YOUR CONSTITUENCY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE AND IN A LOT OF WAYS THE TOUGHEST ONE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HEAR FROM SO WE ABSOLUTELY RELY ON YOU AND WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RELY ON YOU THIS YEAR, YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB OF KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH STUDENTS OF BOLDLY SOMETIMES REPRESENTING THEIR FEELINGS HERE AT

021THE TABLE. YOU DON'T GET TO VOTE BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE PERSUASIVE AND TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF THE STUDENTS. SO YOU ARE BRAVE, KIND, HARDWORKING A ROLE MODEL IN SHONE WAYS AND JUST MAKE SURE YOU KEEP IN TOUCH, OKAY. MR. KNICKALSON. SO MANY OF THESE WORDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAID ABOUT YOU BUT IT HAS BEEN FUN SITTING ON THIS END OF THE TABLE WITH YOU ALWAYS GETTING TO CHAT WITH YOU, A PLEASURE GETTING TO KNOW YOU. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, YOUR MATURITY, YOUR INSIGHT AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE MANY TOPICS WE SPOKE OF AS A BOARD AND AS SEVERAL COLLEAGUES HAVE NOTED YOUR MATURITY AND INSIGHTS WERE PHENOMENAL AND OFTEN TIMES YOU SPOKE WITH SUCH ELEGANCE YOU LITERALLY TOOK MY BREATH AWAY. SO IT WAS JUST LOVELY. AND

022I AM TOO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AND MR. MOON SAID I AM VERY CURIOUS TO SEE WHICH TOURNAMENT JERSEY YOU'RE GOING TO BE WEARING AT THE END OF THIS YEAR. SO BEST OF LUCK AND KEEP IN TOUCH. MRS. MCLAUGHLIN. IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE OTHER ACCOLADES OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE SHARED I REALLY WANT TO SPOTLIGHT YOUR COMMITMENT TO STUDENT STRESS AND MENTAL HEALTH. HERE YOU ARE ONE OF THE FINEST HIGH SCHOOLS IN ALL OF THE UNITED STATES EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE, ONE COMMITTED TO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING AND MATH AND YET YOU HAVE FOCUSED ON THE THINGS I THINK MATTERS THE MOST FOR ALL 100 OF OUR 90,000 STUDENTS, WHICH IS HOW DO YOU FIND JOY IN A COMPETITIVE SCHOOL SYSTEM, HOW DO YOU HAVE THAT

023OPPORTUNITY TO STILL LOVE LEARNING AND THE FACT THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT VOICE AND HELPED OUR BOARD, OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM, OUR SUPERINTENDENT ALL CONTINUE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IS SUCH A KEY COMPONENT OF REALLY RAISING OUR STUDENTS TO BE THE BEST PORTRAITS OF A GRADUATE BUT ONES THAT ARE HAPPY AND HEALTHY AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY SUCCEED. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT POWERFUL VOICE THIS YEAR, IT MEANT A LOT. MRS. EVANS. I WANT TO GO BACK TO WHEN WE FIRST LEARNED THAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE OUR SCHOOL BOARD STUDENT REP AND I REMEMBER READING YOUR RESUME BECAUSE THERE WAS A RESUME OF ALL OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THEN WANTING TO GO TAKE A NAP BECAUSE YOU HAD JUST DONE SO MUCH ALREADY EVEN BEFORE YOUR SENIOR YEAR AND SO YOU KNOW YOU WERE VERY

024ACCOMPLISHED AS IS CLEAR FROM THAT AND YOU KNOW WHEN WE FIRST SAT DOWN LAST SUMMER AT STAR BUCKS AND TALKED ABOUT YOUR VERY AMBITIOUS PLANS I WAS EVEN MORE IMPRESSED WITH YOU PARTICULARLY WHEN I SAW HOW YOU FELT ABOUT MS. McGLAUCLIN SAID ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE AND THE STRESS ISSUE, WHICH WE STILL NEEDED TO KEEP GOING AND I KNOW YOU'LL SUPPORT US OF AFAR AS WE DO THAT. WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS A LITTLE RECOGNIZED OR A LITTLE VALUED PIECE OF WHAT THE SCHOOL BOARD STUDENT REP DOES IS MAKE APPOINTEES. NOW HAVE THE POWER TO APPOINT TO OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND YOU DID A PARTICULARLY EXCELLENT JOB OF FINDING STUDENTS WHO WOULD BE VERY INVOLVED AND VERY MUCH APART OF THE CONVERSATION WHICH DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND LASTLY, LAST BUT NOT LEAST

025I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW I APPRECIATED YOUR VERY CLEAR AND FORCEFUL VIEWS THAT YOU EXPRESSED AT THIS BOARD TABLE AND AT OUR WORK SESSION. YOU WERE ABLE TO EXPRESS YOURSELF BOTH THOUGHTFULLY AND BOLDLY AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEEDED IN A STUDENT REP. SO GOOD LUCK TO YOU. I KNOW YOU WILL DO WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL THINGS AND WE WILL MISS YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. SO PLEASE DO STOP BACK BY. MRS. CORBET-SANDERS. YES. I ECHO MUCH OF WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID BY ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES AT THE TABLE BUT I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE POISE AND GRACE IN WHICH YOU BROUGHT TO THIS TABLESPOON VERY DIFFICULT ISSUES AND YOU CHALLENGED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE NOT ONLY AT THE TABLE BUT IN OUR COMMUNITY. THINK FROM THE EYES OF A

026MILLENNIAL FROM SOMEBODY WHO IS LIVING IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD THAN MANY OF US GREW UP IN AND SO YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND YOUR WILLINGNESS TO RESPECTFULLY CHALLENGE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US TO LIVE UP TO IT BE AG BETTER SELF AS WE DID OUR BOARD WORK IS GREATLY APPRECIATE AND WE WISH YOU WELL, WE WILL CHEER YOU ON AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU DO MANY, MANY MORE EXCITING THINGS. MS. SCHULTZ. WITH ANYTHING WE GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF GRIT AND A TRAINING GROUND THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU CAN'T DO AFTER HAVING ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BUT I WAS KIND OF HOPING THAT MS. EVANS WAS GOING TO BRING IT UP. NOW WERE SUCH A GREAT ADVOCATE FOR SLEEP AND A REMINDER SHE WOULD GET UP AND LEAVE OUR

027BOARD TABLE AND SAY I'VE GOT TO GO HOME AND I'VE GOT TO STUDY AND GO TO SLEEP. AND HAVING THAT ---- [APPLAUSE] HAVING THAT, THAT TAKE AS LOT OF GUTS TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE THE RIGHT THING I'VE GOT TO DO AND I'M GOING DO IT AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND THAT WAS A GREAT MODEL TO ALL OF THE STUDENTS WHO COME AFTER YOU. ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO YOUR STRONG AND MATURE VOICE AND I THINK YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS IN GETTING A GOOD SENSE OF WHAT THE BREATH AND DEPTH OF THE STUDENT VOICE OUT IN THE COUNTY IT WAS VERY MEANINGFUL, SOMETIMES VERY COURAGEOUS BUT IT WAS ALWAYS RESPECTFUL AND IT TRULY HELPED US TO THINK HARDER AND I WISH YOU ALL OF THE LUCK. AND WE

028REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN NOTED YOUR APPOINTEES ARE ALSO MUCH APPRECIATED. I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I'VE SEEN WHERE I THINK WE'VE HAD A REPRESENTATIVE WHO REALLY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF AGAIN EXPANDING THAT STUDENT VOICE SO THAT WE HAD EVEN NOR PUT FROM THE STUDENTS & WE REALLY ENJOYED WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO RECOGNIZE STUDENT APPOINTEES THAT WAS WONDERFUL. WE ARE HERE TO EDUCATE ALL OF THE STUDENTS, CHILDREN, AND WE DEPEND ON YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS AND ON YOUR REFLECTION OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN THE COMMUNITY AND THOSE OF US WHO ARE AT YOUR GRADUATION SATURDAY NIGHT IT WAS WONDERFUL! TO SEE YOU WALK ACROSS THE STAGE. WE WISH YOU MUCH LUCK IN YOUR ADVENTURES GOING FORWARD AND DO KEEP IN TOUCH AND I BELIEVE NOW IT IS TIME

029FOR US TO HAVE A PICTURE AND EXCHANGE SOME GIFTS FOR YOU. OH, DR. BRABRAND WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING. DO YOU KNOW I'LL SAY IT, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD REP AND THE BOARD HAS SHARED AND YOU'VE DONE ALL OF THESE AMAZING THINGS BUT I WANT FOLKS AT HOME AND IN THIS AUDIENCE YOU LEFT A PERSONAL US THIS EVENING, HAND WRITTEN IN YOUR WORDS SAYING THANK YOU TO US. NOW ARE A CLASS ACT AND A WOMAN OF CHARACTER AND THANK YOU FOR SERVING THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM. [APPLAUSE] WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS, YOUR LAST GRAND OPPORTUNITY. SO I HAVE A FEW REMARKS ON THE ISSUES ON TODAY'S AGENDA BUT I'LL SAVE THAT FOR STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS. SO AS ALL OF YOU KNOW TODAY IS MY FIRST MEETING AS NEWLY

030FCPS GRADUATE AND ALSO MY LAST MEETING AS THE DAIS REPRESENTATIVE SO I JUST WANT TO EXTEND MY SINCERE GRATITUDE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED ME GET TO THIS POINT. FIRST, MY PARENTS AN ENDLESS SUPPORT FOR ME THROUGHOUT MY LIFE AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS PAST YEAR. [APPLAUSE] ESPECIALLY DURING THIS PAST YEAR THEY TOOK ON THE TIME AND COMMITMENT OF THIS ROLE. IT IS NOT REALLY EASY TO WAIT UNTIL 1:00 OR 2:00 IN THE MORNING WHEN I'M DRIVING BACK FROM MEETING OR TO RE-ARRANGE SCHEDULE SO I COULD HAVE THEIR CAR TO MAKE IT TO MEETINGS, SO MY PARENTS HAVE DONE THIS AND MORE TO HELP ME HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT I DO. AND MY YOUNGER SISTER, CURRENTLY HOLDING THE VIDEO CAMERA, HAS BEEN SOURCE OF COMMUNITY DURING THESE STRESSFUL TIMES AND I REALLY ADMIRE HER FOR HER

031LIGHT-HEARTED SPIRIT. AND EVERYONE SITTING AT THIS DAIS, AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, LEADERSHIP TEAM, SERVING AS STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME AND ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN SO PATIENT IN ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS AND BEING SO SUPPORTIVE IN HELPING ME GET MY IDEA OFF THE GROUND AND INCORPORATING THE VARIOUS DECISIONS WE'VE MADE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. AND TO EVERYONE IN THIS AUDITORIUM AND EVERYONE IN THE Facebook FAMILY I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL TO WELCOMING ME IN THIS ROLE AND REACHING OUT TO ME FOR QUESTIONS AND IDEAS FOR HOW TO IMPROVE THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AT FCPS. AS HAD SOME OF YOU KNOW I DIDN'T START IN FAIRFAX, I MOVED HERE RIGHT BEFORE SEVENTH GRADE FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE COUNTRY. THE FAIRFAX TEAM REALLY ENCOURAGED ME TO

032PURSUE MY INTEREST, COMPUTER SCIENCE, GOVERNMENT, POLICY MAKING AND I REALLY FELT EMBRACED HERE. AT FCPS I FOUND MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AND FOUND THE MOST WONDERFUL ACADEMIC AND OPPORTUNITIES I COULD HAVE ASKED FOR. THE CULTURE OF LEARNING FCPS HAS INSTILLED IN ME WILL CONTINUE TO SHAPE MY FUTURE AND MY LIFE. AND ALL BECAUSE OF THIS I'VE CHOSEN TO ATTEND THE ROBINSON SCHOLARS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AND EVERY SINGLE EXPERIENCE I'VE HAD SINCE I WALKED IN THE DOOR SINCE SEVENTH GRADE HERE IN FAIRFAX HAVE PURSUED ME TO PURSUE MY CAREER AND THROUGHOUT MY LIFE. THANK YOU AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SERVE AS STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE. IT HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME. [APPLAUSE] IT HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF A LIFETIME. [APPLAUSE] AND NOW MAY I ASK FOR ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND VATTIKONDA FAMILY

033AND SUPPORTS TO COME TO THE DAIS. I WILL CALL ON MS. EVANS FOR THE RECOGNITION OF OUR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER WHOSE ARE STANDING HANDSOMELY AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM THIS EVENING. MRS. EVPS. THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. IT IS MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO OFFER THIS RECOGNITION OF THE 2018 SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. I'M JUST SAY BRIEFLY THAT WE'VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME HOW IMPORTANT OUR SRO'S ARE IN OUR SCHOOLS. WE HAVE SROs IN EVERY HIGH SCHOOL AND EVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THEY ARE AN INTRINSIC PART OF OUR EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS. WE KNOW THEY CONNECT WITH THE STUDENTS, THAT THEY GET TO KNOW THEM, STUDENTS GET TO KNOW SRO'S AS WELL AND WE APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH. OF COURSE WE HAVEN'T COME INTO VERY HIGH FOCUS RECENTLY JUST HOW INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT OUR SROs ARE

034TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF OUR STUDENTS AND I'LL READ THE RECOGNITION. FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, FAIRFAX CITY AND THE TOWN OF HERNDON HAVE ENJOYED A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES. ONE OF THE HALLMARKS OF THIS RELATIONSHIP IS THE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER (SRO) PROGRAM. SROS PARTNER WITH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO ENSURE SAFE, PRODUCTIVE, AND INVITING SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF BY DETERRING CRIME, MAINTAINING ORDERLY SCHOOLS, AND PREVENTING TRUANCY. IN ADDITION, SROS PROVIDE RELEVANT SAFETY EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO FCPS STUDENTS. MANY SROS ALSO VOLUNTEER AS STUDENT MENTORS THROUGH THE MENTORWORKS PROGRAM, SERVING AS TRUSTED ADULTS THAT STUDENTS CAN DEPEND ON TO ASSIST THEM IN MAKING HEALTHY AND SAFE CHOICES. FURTHERMORE, SROS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ENSURING THE SUCCESS OF THE ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY PROGRAM, A COLLABORATIVE AND

035COMMUNITY-ORIENTED RESPONSE TO JUVENILE OFFENSES THAT UTILIZES THE PRINCIPLES OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TO HOLD STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PREVENTING FORMAL COURT INVOLVEMENT AND SATISFYING THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS. SIMPLY PUT, IN ORDER FOR STUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL, THEY REQUIRE SAFE AND PRODUCTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS. OUR SROS HELP PROVIDE THESE POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTS AND ALSO ESTABLISH VALUED AND TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS AND STAFF. PLEASE WELCOME CITY OF FAIRFAX CHIEF OF POLICE AND ALL OF OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO ARE WITH US THIS EVENING. PLEASE COME TO THE DAIS FOR THE PHOTO WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. [APPLAUSE] > I WILL CALL ON MS. CORBET-SANDERS FOR THE TSA TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION WHIPPERS. THANK YOU CHAIRMAN STRAUSS. IT IS AN HONOR FOR ME RECOGNIZE THE FIRST PLACE AWARDS IN

036THE 2018 TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION THE TSA TECH NO TECHNOSPHERE COMPETITION! THE TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION (TSA) IS OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION COURSES OR HAVE COMPLETED COURSES IN THE PAST. TSA’S MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES OVER 150,000 MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN 2,000 SCHOOLS SPANNING 48 STATES. TSA IS SUPPORTED BY EDUCATORS, PARENTS AND BUSINESS LEADERS WHO BELIEVE IN THE NEED FOR A TECHNOLOGICALLY LITERATE SOCIETY. MEMBERS LEARN THROUGH EXCITING COMPETITIVE EVENTS, LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND WORKSHOPS. EVERY SPRING, THE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION HOSTS ITS ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, TECHNOSPHERE. THE TECHNOSPHERE CONFERENCE IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE VIRGINIA TSA YEAR AND PROVIDES AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERS TO COMPETE, LEAD AND LEARN THROUGH COMPETITIVE EVENTS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS AND OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS. DURING TECHNOSPHERE MEMBERS GAIN EXPERIENCE AND

037INSIGHT THROUGH NETWORKING WITH OTHER STUDENTS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. THESE INTERACTIONS THROUGHOUT TECHNOSPHERE STRENGTHEN THE GOALS OF INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION THROUGH SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) EDUCATION. MEMBERS EXERCISE THEIR TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE, LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND PROFESSIONALISM AS THEY ENGAGE IN COMPETITIVE EVENTS, PROJECTS AND SEMINARS. THIS YEAR FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS EARNED 20 FIRST-PLACE AWARDS AT THE TSA TECHNOSPHERE COMPETITION! ON BEHALF OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS FROM; TWAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL, CARSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, KILMER MIDDLE SCHOOL, WEST POTOMAC HIGH SCHOOL, THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL, HAYFIELD SECONDARY SCHOOL, CHANTILLY HIGH SCHOOL, OAKTON HIGH SCHOOL, AND WEST SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING WORK. THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS A TESTAMENT TO YOUR TALENT, DEDICATION, AND HARD WORK. WE WISH YOU CONTINUED SUCCESS AND ALL

038THE BEST IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS! AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ALL OF OUR TECHNOSPHERE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO PLEASE JOIN US AT THE DAIS FOR A PHOTO. [APPLAUSE] NEXT WE WILL RECOGNIZE THE 2018 ROBOTICS TEAM. WE WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE RISING PHOENIX TEAM WHICH IS COMPRISED OF STUDENTS FROM FOUR FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, COOPER AND LONGFELLOW MIDDLE SCHOOLS, AND THE CHURCHILL ROAD AND SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. IN APRIL, THE RISING PHOENIX TEAM SHOWCASED THEIR ROBOT AT THE US NEWS WORKFORCE FOR TOMORROW AND THE USA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FESTIVAL IN WASHINGTON DC. THIS TEAM WAS THEN INVITED TO ATTEND THE 2018 VEX IQ CHALLENGE AT THE VEX ROBOTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY WHERE THEY WON THE TWO HIGHEST AWARDS, THE EXCELLENCE AND TEAMWORK CHAMPION AWARDS. RISING PHOENIX

039ALSO WON THE CREATE AWARD FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL INNOVATIVE ROBOT DESIGN AND WERE ALSO INDUCTED INTO THE STEM HALL OF FAME. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO CONGRATULATE PARENT AND COACH, MR. YUN LI, WHO MOTIVATED AND GUIDED THIS TEAM TO THEIR THIRD CONSECUTIVE WIN, LONG WITH ALL OF THEIR MENTORS. THE TEAM WORKED HARD TO BUILD AND TEST THEIR ROBOT, AND CONDUCT STEM RESEARCH ON ETHICS IN ROBOTICS. AS COMMUNITY SERVICE, THE TEAM CONDUCTS WORKSHOPS TO ENCOURAGE ROBOTICS IN YOUNGER KIDS IN SOME OF OUR LOCAL LIBRARIES. WE CONGRATULATE MR. LI AND THE RISING PHOENIX TEAM FOR A JOB WELL DONE AND WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS IN STEM. PLEASE WELCOME MR. LI AND THE TEAM FOR A PICTURE AT THE DAIS WITH THE BOARD. [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS CITIZEN PARTICIPATION. 10 CITIZENS

040HAVE SIGNED UP TO ADDRESS THE BOARD AND WE ALSO HAVE FIVE VIDEO TESTIMONIES. SPEAKERS ARE REQUESTED TO LIMIT THEIR REMARKS TO NOT MORE THAN THREE MINUTES. THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL HEAR STATEMENTS ISSUES FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS SUCH AS CAPITOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS AND BOUNDARIES. COMPLAINTS REGARDING INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS OR SCHOOL-BASED EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE APPROPRIATE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL OR OTHER SCHOOL OFFICIAL. SPEAKERS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM USING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT. STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO DELIVER COMMENTS WITH THE DECORUM AND RESPECT APPROPRIATE TO THE CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC'S BUSINESS. PLEASE BE MINDFUL THERE ARE OFTEN YOUNG CHILDREN IN ATTENDANCE AT THESE MEETINGS OR WATCHING AT HOME SO LANGUAGE SHOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR ALL AGE LEVEL SAID. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND THANKS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO SPOKE TO US TONIGHT.

041OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS ALISON MUNSHI. TONIGHT I YIELD MY TIME TO REVEREND DAVID MILLER. GOOD EVENING. WHEN I WAS HERE LAST I LISTENED CAREFULLY TO THE ARGUMENTS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM. I WAS SURPRISED HOW OFTEN FOLKS ON ONE SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT CITED WHAT GOD THOUGHT OR WANT WOULD IT CAME TO THE LANGUAGE AND CONSENTS UNDER DISCUSSION. I THROUGH THE YEARS, WAS AMAZED AT HOW MANY TIMES I'VE HEARD AN INTERPRETATION OF WHAT GOD WANTS WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT POLITICS AND SOCIAL ISSUES, BUT I AM NOT. WE ARE LIVING IN DIFFICULT TIMES. THERE IS SO MUCH POLARITY IN OUR POLITICS, POLARIZATION IN OUR RELIGION AND AS MUCH AS SOME WOULD LIKE TO BE SO THERE IS NO OWNERSHIP ON WHAT GOD WANTS. I DO NOT PRESUME TO KNOW WHAT

042GOD WANTS BUT I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT IF GOD IS INVOLVED IN OUR LIVES THEN WHY DO WE THINK GOD SUPPORTS SOME? WE ARE MAKING BIG QUESTIONS IN TODAY'S WORLD. ARE WE GOING TO BE MORE OPEN AND LOVING? ARE WE GOING TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF PEOPLE FOR THE BEAUTY IN THEIR HEARTS AND IN THEIR SOULS? ARE WE GOING TO USE LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS THAT REFLECTS A CHANGING PERSPECTIVES AND NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION? OR ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE THIS MOVEMENT, CURRENT MOVEMENT IN SOCIETY BACKWARDS RELYING ON PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES BASED ON FEAR AND INTOLERANCE? CLOSED VERSION OF GOD'S LOVE, PRESUMPTION OF WHO IS IN AND WHO IS OUT? I MYSELF THINK IF GOD'S LOVE IS APPARENT IN THE WORLD IT WOULDN'T BE GIVEN TO THE MOST NARROWLY DEFINED WAY POSSIBLE, IT WOULD

043BE EXPANSIVE, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE SEEN BY THE MAINSTREAM AS "DIFFERENT" ESPECIALLY BY THOSE WHO HISTORICALLY BEEN ON THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY. I AM GRATEFUL FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ON THIS BOARD WHO HAS MADE VARIOUS SACRIFICES TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY AND I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU ESPECIALLY FOR THE TIME WHEN WHAT YOU DO HELPS TO SERVE EVERYONE, EVERYONE INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY THOSE MOST VULNERABLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WALKED IN TO COMMANDED ADHERENCE AND OBEDIENCE AND NOT THE CELEBRATION OF UNIQUENESS AND THE BEAUTY OF EACH INDIVIDUAL. IT IS TIMES RIGHT NOW LIKE WE'RE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THIS COUNTRY. I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THE BOARD TO COME DOWN ON THE SIDE OF INCLUSION OF CELEBRATION OF EXPANSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF EMBRACING LOVE AND INVOLVING FORWARD THINKING AND INCLUSIVE VERSION OF PUBLIC POLICY. THANK

044YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LAURA BRIAN HANPORT. GOOD EVENING. I AM A MOM OF FIVE AND I THINK ALL OF YOU WEARING PURPLE OR GREEN BECAUSE WE CAME HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR KIDS. AND IT IS TRUE THAT JESUS SAID THAT THE TRUTH SET US FREE, BUT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS IMPRISON STUDENTS IN HALF-TRUTHS AND LIES. LET'S START WITH THE SCIENCE. BIOLOGICAL SEX IS NOT A STAKE, IT IS NOT STIGMA, IT IS NOT CHOICE. TO PLACE AN EXTREMELY RARE DISORDER WHICH DOES REQUIRE GENDER DYSPHORIA LIKE SAYING SOME KID ARE COLOR BLIND SO WE'RE GOING TO TEACH KIDS THAT COLOR DOES NOT EXIST. SLEEP ACT VOTED TO USE A TERM TO VIEW BIOLOGICAL SEX IS. [INAUDIBLE] I'M A BIOLOGICAL RESEARCHER, SO I ASKED FOR INPUT FROM A RENOWNED PHD MOLECULAR GENETICIST AND HE

045IS THERE IS A RICH MEDICAL AND LEGAL HISTORY BEHIND THE USE OF OBJECTIVE MEASURES INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL SEX. IF ONE WAS TO USE THE STANDARD SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH WE WOULD RIGHTFULLY BE DRIVEN OUT OF MEDICINE. YOU SAID THIS ENDORSED BY EVERY MAJOR MEDICAL ORGANIZATION. REALLY? Google IT. SEE IF YOU CAN FIND ONE THAT HAS A POLICY ENDORSING THE USE OF SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH INSTEAD OF BIOLOGICAL SEX. JUST ONE. LET'S DIG A LITTLE DEEPER, LET'S SAY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRICS HAS 64,000 MEMBERS, THEY'VE BEEN QUOTED. WELL THEIR POSITION PAPER ON TRANS-GENDER CARE, WHICH DOES NOT ENDORSE THIS AS A POLICY, REQUIRES APPROVAL NOT OF 64,000 MEMBERS BUT BY ABOUT SIX. SO WHAT IS TRUE IS THAT THOUSANDS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN VIRGINIA ALONE HAVE DIRECTLY ENDORSED THE POSITION THAT SEX IS NOT ASSIGNED AT

046BIRTH. FLECAC VOTED 12 TIMES AGAINST GIVING KID CRITICAL INFORMATION ABOUT GENDER TRANSITION AND THE ENORMOUS RISKS INCLUDING PERSISTING SUICIDE AND MANY OTHER THINGS INCLUDING RISKS OF BIRTH CONTROL. FLECAC HAS CHOSEN TO SUPPORT IDEOLOGY OR BIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY INPUT OVERWHELMINGLY AGAINST THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, FIVE TIMES MORE AGAINST THAN FOR. JANUARY WAS THE FIRST FORMAL OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE NEW LESSONS. AS SOON AS I QUESTIONED THE DOCTRINE I WAS OUT. REPLACED BY AN IDEALOGUE WHO WAS SPEARHEADED THE EFFORT TO COMPLETELY DEBATE THESE DISCUSSIONS AND ISSUES, THOUGH THE FIRST TIME THESE LESSONS ARE REVIEWED. THAT IS TEXTBOOK, WHICH WAS MY BACKGROUND. IRONICALLY 20 YEARS AGO I WAS GIVEN THREE HOURS ON AN OPPRESSIVE LAW. THIS COMMITTEE VOTED AGAINST GIVING ME THREE MINUTES TO DISCUSS MILE OWN MOTION. SO I'M ASKING YOU TONIGHT TO TEACH SCIENCE NOT IDEOLOGY AND PUT

047THE SAME LEVEL OF EFFORT INTO ENGAGING YOUR COMMUNITY AS YOU HAVE INTO SUPPRESSING IT. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] [CHEERING] [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT SPEAKER IS REV. DR. DEBRA W. HAFFNER THE NEXT SPEAKER IS REVEREND DR. DEBORAH W HAFNER. GOOD EVENING. I AM THE MINISTER AT THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH IN RESTON AND I HAVE BEEN A SEXUALITY EDUCATE FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS. PRIOR TO COMING TO SERVING MY CHURCH IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA THERE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTE FOR 15 YEARS AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 12 YEARS. I AM ALSO AN AUTHOR OF THREE BOOKS FOR PARENT ON CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS AS WELL AS BE AG MOTHER MYSELF. I WANT TO APPLAUD THE PROPOSAL OF THE COMMIT TEE UPDATE THE EXISTING CURRICULUM TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE OF

048TRANSGENDER STUDENTS BY USING THE LANGUAGE SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH AND TO INCLUDING INFORMATION ABOUT PREP AS PART OF THE STI PREVENTION. SURELY ALL OF US CAN ENCOURAGE SCHOOL BASED PROGRAMS SHOULD BE AGE APPROPRIATE, MEDICALLY ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE. EDUCATION THAT IS BASED ON SUCH INFORMATION, RESPECT EMPOWERS SUCH PEOPLE AND AS MORE INTEGRITY BASED ON INCOMPLETE INFORMATION, OUT-OF-DATE TERMINOLOGY AND FAIR BASED TACTICS. THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE CHANGES ARE MORE INCLUSIVE OF OUR LGBT STUDENTS THAN THE CURRENT CURRICULUM. AS A FAITH MAJOR WHO BELIEVES SEXUAL AND MAJOR GENDER DIVERSITY IS A BLESSING AND WHO JUST ATTENDED THE FIRST PRIDE FESTIVAL ATTENDED BY OVER 1200 PEOPLE I APPLAUD THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. SEXUALITY EDUCATION MUST BENEFIT ALL YOUNG PEOPLE, ALL OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION, THEIR GENDER IDENTITY OR THEIR GENDER EXPRESSION. WE MUST ASSURE THAT ALL OF

049OUR YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVE THE INFORMATION AND EDUCATION THEY NEED NOT JUST NOW BUT FOR THEIR FUTURE SO THEY CAN MAKE RESPONSIBLE SEXUAL DECISIONS. AS A RELIGIOUS LEADER I HAVE A SCRIPTURAL AND THEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT TO TRUTH TELLING INCLUDING TRUTH TELLING ABOUT SEXUALITY. I AM JOINED BY MILLIONS PEOPLE OF FAITH AND THOUSANDS OF CLERGY FROM DIVERSE NOMINATIONS IN OUR BELIEF THAT YOUNG PEOPLE NEED COMPREHENSIVE AND ACCURATE UP-TO-DATE SEXUALITY EDUCATION. THERE IS NO RESEARCH TO SUPPORT IGNORANCE AND INCOMPLICIT EDUCATION. THERE ARE DECADE OF STUDIES THAT SHOW YOUNG PEOPLE WHO RECEIVE EDUCATION THAT INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT ABSTINENCE, CONTRACEPTION AND STI PREVENTION ARE MORE THAN LIKELY TO DELAY HAVING SEX AND MORE THAN LIKELY TO USE METHODS WHEN THEY DO BECOME SEXUALLY ACTIVE. OTHERS WILL TALK ABOUT THE PUBLIC HEALTH ARGUMENTS THAT SUPPORT THE PROPOSED CHANGES. I'M GOING ASK YOU

050TO ALSO DELIVER UNIVERSAL VALUES THAT UNDERLIE THESE CHANGES, THAT OUR CURRICULUM SHOULD HONOR TRUTH TELLING THAT THEY SHOULD BE INCLUSIVE OF ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF OUR SCHOOL THEY SHOULD PROVIDE THE MOST CURRENT INFORMATION. SURELY WE CAN ALL SAY WE WANT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO LEARN ABOUT SEXUALITY FROM TRUSTED EDUCATORS NOT THE INTERNET, NOT ENTERTAINMENT VIDEOS. MAY YOU THIS SCHOOL BOARD BE COURAGEOUS AND JUST IN YOUR EFFORTS TO PROVIDE ALL PEOPLE WITH THE SEXUALITY EDUCATION THEY SO VIRGINLY NEED. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS DAVID APONTE GOOD EVENING TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD. DR. BRABRAND, SCHOOL STAFF AND THE FAIRFAX COUNTY COMMUNITY. MY NAME IS DAVID APONTE CO-CHAIR OF AN ORGANIZATION FOR CREATING SAFE SCHOOLS FOR ALL REGARDLESS OF GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION. I'M THERE SPEAK ON THE FAMILY LIFE EDGIER EDUCATION ADVISORY

051COMMITTEE REGARDING GRADES 8-12. A LITTLE OVER A MONTH AGO I SPOKE TO YOU ON THIS VERY TOPPING AND DISCUSSED THE REAL IMPACTS THAT LANGUAGE CHANGES SUCH AS THIS ONE, SUCH AS THE ONES PROPOSED HAVE ON SPECIFICALLY TRANSIT INTERSECTED YOUTH. SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH IS NOT A MADE UP PHRASE BY ANY LOCAL ORGANIZATION, IT IS NOT APART OF SOME AGENDA AND CERTAINLY NOT DESIGNED TO DISTORT SCIENCE OR LEAD YOUNG PEOPLE ASTRAY. I'D LIKE TO DIRECTLY QUOTE FROM THE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHT WITHIN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN SAY AG STRONG FEAR OF STIGMATIZATION AND SOCIALIZATION FORCES MOST PEOPLE TO STAY IN THE CLOSET EVEN WHEN THEY'VE BECOME AWARE OF THEIR SEX. MOREOVER SOCIETY REMAINS LARGELY IGNORANT ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF PEOPLE SINCE HARDLY ANY INFORMATION IS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE MATTER. CONSEQUENTLY FOR

052MANY YEARS THE HUMAN RIGHT PROBLEMS INTERSECTS PEOPLE WELL-BEING WHETHER UNKNOWN OR ADORED. IGNORANCE AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO BE WHO THEY ACTUALLY ARE IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. STRONG EDUCATION FIGHTS IGNORANCE. CHANGING MIND LIKE THIS WILL NOT 3 CONFUSION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, JUST LIKE PROTECTING STUDENTS ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND UNDER-IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION JUST LIKE MENTIONING LGBT ISSUES AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION DID NOT LEAD TO AN EPIDEMIC OF STUDENTS CHANGING THEIR IDENTITIES. THE ACCUSATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED AT THE FLECAC, THE SCHOOL BOARD AND ORGANIZATIONS LIKE GLISTEN ARE BASELESS, DETRIMENTAL AND SIMPLY FALSE. THE SAME PEOPLE MAKING THE MOST NOISE AGAINST THIS CHANGE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT WE HAD TO PROTECT OUR OWN STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES FROM AT PREVIOUS SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS. THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO GAVE THUS PROOF WE NEEDED

053THAT LGBT Q STUDENTS DESERVED AND NEEDED SPECIFIC MENTIONS IN THE SCHOOL OF NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICIES. THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE FLECAC ARE IN LINE WITH THE SOCIETY'S PROGRESSION ON LANGUAGE WHEN IT COMES TO THESE ISSUES. WHAT THEY HAVE PROPOSED IS NOT RADICAL IN ANY WAY IT IS HOWEVER MEANINGFUL. WHAT IT MEANS FOR AN INTERCEPT STUDENT IS AN AFFIRMATION THAT BEING WHO THEY ARE IS NOT WRONG. WHAT IT MEAN FOR A TRANS-STUDENT IS AN AFFIRMATION THE SCHOOL THEY ATTENDED LEARNING TO AND IS KEEPING UP WITH SCIENCE. WHAT IT MEANS FOR ANY STUDENT REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION IS THE SCHOOL CAN BE A SAFE PLACE FOR EDUCATION NOT JUST FOR THE STUDENTS BUT FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. ONE OF THE THREE KEY WORD FOR FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS THRIVE, ISN'T THAT WHAT

054WE ARE TRYING TO DO. I BELIEVE YOU ALL TRULY ARE. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE AND I HOPE YOU WILL SUPPORT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT SPEAKER IS SHYAM MUNSHI. GOOD EVENING. YOU'VE EACH HEARD FROM US SEPARATELY PREVIOUSLY. AS TOGETHER AS PARENTS FCPS PARENTS. OUR DAUGHTER IS NOT TABS GENDER BECAUSE SHE IS ALLOWED TO BE OR BECAUSE HER PARENTS ARE LIBERAL HIPPIES. IT IS NOT BECAUSE SHE JUST WANTS TO BE A GIRL. SHE IS NOT TRANSGENDER BECAUSE SHE IS ALLOWED, OR BECAUSE IT IS A FAD, TREND OR ATTENTION GETTER, NOT BECAUSE SHE READ A BOOK ABOUT BEING TRANS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR TONIGHT AT LEAST SHE IS NOT TRANSGENDER BECAUSE SHE LEARNED ABOUT IT IN THE FLECAC PROGRAM. I THOUGHT ABOUT SO MUCH WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO BE TRANSGENDER

055BECAUSE I'M NOT OF COURSE, I'LL NEVER REALLY KNOW BUT BECAUSE I'M AN ADVOCATE FOR OUR DAUGHTER AND KID LIKE HER AND I'M COUNTERING THAT HATEFUL NONSENSE I HEAR ABOUT IT BE AG MENTAL ILLNESS I'M CONSTANTLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT MAKE SENSE TO OTHERS. SO MY COMPARATIVELY MINOR ANALOGY IS THE EXPERIENCE IN THE MIRROR, BUT THAT'S EASY, I CAN PUT ON A HAT, WHAT I CAN'T IMAGINE FULLY THAT JOLT IF I'M TOLD I CAN NOT OR SHOULD NOT TRY TO ALIGN MY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APPEARANCES. HERE IS ANOTHER ANALOGY. WE'RE ONLY AWARE OF OXYGEN WHEN THERE IS NONE. WE DON'T FEEL A DISCOMFORT A STRUGGLE TO BREATHE, EXCEPT IN ITS ABSENCE. I ASSUME THAT'S HOW IT FEELS TO BE TRANSGENDER. TO FEEL A SENSE OF DISCORD BETWEEN HOW THE WORLD SEES

056YOU AND HOW YOU SEE YOURSELF. THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE LANGUAGE DEFINES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE TRANSGENDER IT. DOES NOT OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE, ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO CHANGE GENDERS OR SUGGEST BEING TRANSGENDER COMES WITH NO CONSEQUENCES OR NO NEED FOR PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT. OUR DAUGHTER IS TRANSGENDER BECAUSE IT IS WHO SHE IS AND BECAUSE OF THAT WE HAVE SUPPORTED HER TO WHAT ANY RESPONSIBLE PARENT WOULD. V WE HAVE TAKEN HER TO EXPERIENCE AND TRAINED PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE CARED FOR HER MEDICAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING. IT IS NOT AS IF SHE CAME TO US AT SIX YEARS OLD AND SAID I'M A GIRL AND WE AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS SUPPORTED YOUR IRREVERSIBLE MEASURES. IT IS NOT LIKE THAT. SO I ASK YOU TO BE AWARE OF THOSE WELL-FENDER FUNDED VOCAL MINORITY GROUPS GENERATED OUTSIDE OF FAIRFAX COUNTY TRYING

057TO BE THE NARRATIVE. RESIST THE URGE TO LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PEDIATRICS WITH 500 MEMBERS WHO SAID THE 65 STUDENT MEMBER AMERICAN ACADEMY PEDIATRICS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. THIS IS ABOUT OUR DIVERSE FCPS COMMUNITY. IT IS ABOUT RESPECT FOR OUR STUDENTS. IT IS ABOUT BEST PRACTICE AND USING THE MOST CURRENT RESEARCH THAT OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTS THE TERM SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH TO STEER HOW KICKED OFF ENCODER. ---- A SUICIDE ATTEMPT. THEY COULDN'T PUMP MY STOMACH BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LONG AND THEY WERE IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH POISON CONTROL BECAUSE MY LIVER WAS SHUTTING DOWN. UNFORTUNATELY WAS ALLERGIC TO THE ANTIDOTE THEY GAVE ME AND BROKE OUT IN HIVES ALL OVER MY BODY. THEY GAVE ME STIMULANTS TO DROLL HIVES. MY MOM ASKED THE DAUGHTER WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THE STIMULANTS DIDN'T BURKE AND THEY

058HAD TO TAKE ME OFF AND THE ANTIDOTE AND THE DOCTOR SAID THEN WE PRAY. MY MOTHER SAT IN THE CHAIR IN THE HOSPITAL FOR TWO WEEKS BECAUSE SHE LOVES ME. I THINK EVERY PARENT IN THIS ROOM WOULD DO THE SAME THING. I CAME TONIGHT SO NO OTHER FAMILY CAN GO THROUGH WHAT I DID, THANKFULLY I AM NOW UNDER THE CARE OF AN EXCELLENT PSYCHIATRIST BUT NOT EVERYONE GETS THE HELP THEY NEED IN TIME. ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH 30 TO 50% OF TRANSPEOPLE ARE SUICIDAL AND CLOSER TO 50% AMONG TRANS-YOUTH. LACK OF SOCIAL AND FAMILY SUPPORT FOR TRANSYOUTH INCREASES SUICIDAL IDEATION AND SUICIDE ATTEMPTS. TRANSYOUTH WISH FAMILY SUPPORT ARE 82% LESS LIKELY TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE. TRANSYOUTH WHOSE PARENTS REJECT THEIR GENDER ARE 13 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE. LET ME BE CLEAR,S

059USING LANGUAGE THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF QUEER, TRANS, GENDER QUEER AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING PEOPLE IS SUICIDE PREVENTION. TONIGHT I ASK YOU TO VOTE TO USE THE LANGUAGE SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH AND I WILL END ON A REMINDER FROM HISTORY, IT WAS WHITE PEOPLE WHO DECIDED THAT BLACKS COULD BE FREE, IT WAS MEN WHO DECIDED THAT WOMEN COULD VOTE, IT WAS STRAIGHT PEOPLE WHO DECIDED THAT GAYS COULD MARRY AND IT WILL BE SICK PEOPLE WHO DECIDE THE FATE OF TRANSPEOPLE IN AMERICA. [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT SPEAKER IS RISA MAY. TO BE MOVED FROM ANOTHER STATE INTO FAIRFAX COUNTY IN THE SUMMER OF 2013. MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER WAS ARRIVING FOREST GREATER. I WAS A BIT NERVOUS ABOUT THAT FIRST WEEK'S SCHOOL BECAUSE NOT ONLY WAS SHE GOING TO BE THE NEW GIRL SHE WAS GOING TO BE THE NEW

060GIRL WEARING BOYS CLOTHES. I DIDN'T HAVE TO WERE A, FINE, NOBODY CARED. IN SIXTH GRADE 1 OF HER GOOD FRIEND TOLD HIS FRIEND HE WAS GAY AND THAT WASN'T A BIG DEAL EITHER AND HE IS NOW OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND STILL NO BIG DOLE. ONE OF HER GOOD FRIEND IS TRANS, NOBODY MAKE AS BIG DEAL ABOUT THAT. THEY ARE HOWEVER VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE FACT THAT SHE LOVES BAKING AND SHARES HER EXPERIMENTS WITH HER SPANISH CLASS. I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THE WONDERFUL CHILDREN OF THIS COUNTY WHO ACCEPT EACH OTHER FOR WHO THEY ARE. THEY KNOW THAT THEIR DIFFERENCES ARE FAR LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE FACT THEY ARE FUNNY, SMART AND KIND AND I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO ALL OF THE TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO SERVE AS ROLE MODELS FOR THIS PERSPECTIVE LEADING BY EXAMPLE

061THE LANGUAGE OF THE FLE CURRICULUM NEEDS TO DEMONSTRATE THE SAME CARE AND SUPPORT FOR ALL CHILDREN. IN THIS CURRICULUM CHILDREN CONSIDER THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCES, HOW THEY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AND HOW THEY RELATE TO THE PEACE IN THEIR LIVES. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT WE EXPLICITLY SUPPORT THEM BY GIVING THEM LANGUAGE TO DO THAT FREELY WHILE AFFIRMING THEIR VALUE AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILIES AND OUR COMMUNITY. PLEASE LET'S USE LESSONS AND LANGUAGE TO MAKE OUR CHILDREN ALL OF OUR CHILDREN FEEL VALUED FOR WHO THEY ARE. FOR THIS REASON I REPLACE THE WORD BIOLOGICAL GENDER WITH SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. I ALSO SUPPORT INCLUDING INFORMATION ABOUT PREP IN OUR FLE CURRICULUM BECAUSE AN IMPORTANT PART OF SHOWING CHILDREN IS PROVIDING THEM WITH INFORMATION THAT KEEPS THEM SAFE AS THEY CONTINUE TO EXPLORE WHO THEY ARE AND

062FIND THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD. WE ALL KNOW THAT IS NOT EASY, LET'S NOT MAKE IT ANY HARDER. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS GORDON BAER. BEFORE I START I WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY SOMETHING THAT WAS SAID BY LAURA HANFORD. IT TOOK ME LITERALLY SECOND TO FIND MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS ASSIGNED AT BIRTH ON THIS PHONE WITH SUCH POOR DATA. SO LET'S TOSS THAT ASIDE. I AM GORDON BAER, SOLE PRODUCT OF AN FLE EDUCATION. GO PANTHERS, AND WEST POTOMAC HIGH SCHOOL, GO WOLVERINES AND I AM HERE TO ASK YOU TO PASS THE FLE UPDATES AND TO NOT OPT-OUT WRITER BECAUSE THAT IS DOING NO A SERVICE. I BECAME AN LGBT ADVOCATE WHEN I CAME OUT AT 14 AND IT BECAME VERY CLEAR TO ME THAT I WASN'T BEING ATTENDED TO AND A LOT OF MY LGBT PEERS

063WEREN'T BEING ATTENDED TO IN THE SAME WAY THAT OUR HETEROSEXUAL COUNTERPARTS WERE. WASN'T THEIR FAULT, IT WAS THE SYSTEM AT HAND. SO I WAS GSA PRESIDENT, STUDENT LEADER, TRIED TO PUSH THINGS ALONG AND HERE I AM TODAY A COMMUNITY MEMBER. SOME WHO HOPE THAT WITH THIS PASSAGE A LOT OF THE ANTI-LGBT VIOLENCE THAT I EXPERIENCED IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND MANY OF MY PEERS DID WILL DISSIPATE WITH VISIBILITY. SEEING YOURSELF AND WILL NOT SEEING YOURSELF IN FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION IT IS LIKE YOU'RE INVITED TO A PARTY AND YOU DON'T KNOW ANYONE THERE AND YOU DON'T KNOW THE SCENE AND YOU COME OUT OF IT VERY CONFUSED AND IT DOESN'T REALLY RELATE TO YOU. SO HAVING SOMETHING IN THERE THAT WILL BE ABLE TO BE USEFUL FOR LGBT YOUTH AS THEY LIVE THEIR AUTHENTIC LIVES MOVING

064FORWARD FROM FCPS WILL BE A HUGE SPOON. I WILL SAY AS AN LGBT ADVOCATE I HAD TO LEARN THAT SOMETIMES PARENTS DON'T LOVE THEIR CHILDREN AND I'M STAYING-- STATING LOVE AS THE INMICHAEL CRAY, UNCONDITIONAL, DIVINELY INSPIRED GOOD LOVE. AND NOT CONDITIONAL ACTION, WHICH IS A FRONT. I JUST WANT TO SAY IF THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE WHO HATE LGBT PEOPLE THE MOST THAT ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE TO A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT THE UPDATES WILL ADDRESS SO WITH THE REST OF MY TIME I'D ALONG TO HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE ANTI-LGBT VIOLENCE AND THE INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE THAT SYSTEM STAYS IN PLACE. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS WILLIAM ELLEDGE HI. MY NAME IS WILLIAM ELLEDGE AND I AM AN ACTIVE VOTER. MY DAUGHTER HAS ATTENDED GROWNBRYER,

065AND CHANTILLY, GENERALLY IMPRESSED WITH FCPS. I'M VERY PLEASED TO HEAR THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE FLECAC CURRICULUM, THE PROPOSED CHANGES ARE POSITIVE. IN MY FEW MINUTES I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT FEW POINT. THE FIRST IS ELIMINATING ISOLATION AND SOCIAL STIGMA AND THE SECOND IS ABOUT MY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. FIRST, REGARDING ISOLATION AND SOCIAL STIGMA. 41% OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE HAVE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, 41% WHILE 4.6 OF NON-TRANSGENDER PEOPLE HAVE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, WHY THE DIFFERENCE? TRANSGENDER YOUTH FACE DISCRIMINATION AND ISOLATION, THE PROPOSED WORDING CHANGES PROMOTE INCLUSION OF THE TRANSGENDER YOUTH. THE CHANGES WILL HELP THEM FEEL ACCEPTED. THE CHANGES WILL ENCOURAGE THEM TO SEEK HELP SHOULD THEY NEED IT. EVEN IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT TRANSGENDER IDENTITY OPEN UP THE WORDING IN THE FLECAC SO THESE CHILDREN FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE GOING TO SOMEONE AND INSTEAD OF TAKING THEIR OWN LIVES.

066SECOND, MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION ABOUT TRANSGENDER YOUTH IS CENTERED AROUND RELIGION, YOU CAN'T IGNORE. I WAS RAISED IN A RELIGION THAT TEACHES BEING TRANSGENDER A SIN BUT I'VE GROWN AND LEARNED THAT BEING TRANSGENDSER NATURAL AND HEALTHY. DEPENDING ON HOW BIBLICAL TEXT IS TRANSLATED YOUTH, DAVID AND CENTURIONS MAY HAVE BEEN GAY, PAUL MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE PREACHED ABOUT AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY BUT ALSO TAUGHT WOMEN SHOULD NOT SPEAK AND NOR HAVE AUTHORITY OVER MEN. JESUS NEVER SPOKE OUT AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY AND AGAINST DEPENDING ON TRANSLATION MAY HAVE SAID SOME MEN ARE BORN GAY AND TRANSGENDER. IF IT WAS A SIN HE SURELY WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING INSTEAD OF SHOWING DIFFERENT THAN HIMSELF JESUS ASKED THE SAMARITAN WOMAN FOR WATER AT JACOB'S WELL. TO THOSE OF YOU SO INCLINE I'M ASKING YOU TO FOLLOW JESUS' EXAMPLE OF LOVING EVERYONE,

067NO MATTER HOW DIFFERENT THEY ARE. YOU DON'T GET TO DETERMINE WHAT IS A SIN. NOW CERTAINLY DON'T GET TO BE THE JUDGE. GLOW LIVE IN THE SULLY DISTRICT. MR. WILSON I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHANGE YOUR VIEWPOINTS ON THIS MATTER. AND I MIGHT ALSO POINT OUT WHEN YOU RESPONDED TO MY E-MAIL YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY TELL ME WHAT YOUR VIEW WAS. I INTRODUCED MYSELF BY SAYING I'M AN ACTIVE VOTER. I ACTUALLY LIKE KNOCKING ON DOORS AND INFORMING VOTERS ABOUT WHAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE DONE. IF YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THIS CANVASSER CARRYING A CLIPBOARD WITH YOUR NAME ON IT MY E-MAIL IS IN YOUR NOTES, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO VOTE FOR PROPOSED CHANGES PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME. WHEN YOU'RE UP FOR RE-ELECTION I WILL KNOCK ON DOORS. I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR

068YOUR TIME AND EFFORT ESPECIALLY ON BEHALF OF THE FCPS STUDENTS AND I HOPE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTE ON INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE. [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT SPEAKER IS HOPE WOJCIECH. [AUDIENCE MEMBER YELLS OUT] I'M HERE TO VOICE MY OPPOSITION TO THE FLE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AND URGE YOU TO ADOPT THE RECOMMENDATIONS LAID OUT INSTEAD. I OPPOSE THE RECOMMENDATIONS CHANGE FROM BIOLOGICAL SEX TO SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH BECAUSE BIOLOGICAL SEX IS THE ETHICALLY AND BIOLOGICAL TERM TO USE WHEN REFERRING TO A PERSON'S SEX WHICH INCLUDES CHROMOSOMES, HORMONES, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS A PERSON'S SEX IS NOT SOMETHING ASSIGNED AT BIRTH OR OTHERWISE IT IS ESTABLISHED AT CONCEPTION WHEN AN EGG IS FERTILIZED AND A NEW DNA IS FORMED. WITH CHROMOSOMES XX FOR A FEMALE OR XY FOR A MALE. THIS IS WHAT STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT IN BIOLOGY

069CLASSES AND SHOULD REMAIN CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE CURRICULUM. THIS BOARD SHOULD NOT SUPPORT AND PROMOTE STUDENTS BEING TAUGHT SOMETHING THAT IS UNTRUE AND INCONSISTENT WITH HUMAN BIOLOGY. THE FLE COMMITTEE JUST ACCEPTED A CHANGE FROM BIOLOGICAL SEX ASSIGN AT BIRTH BY CLAIMING THAT THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY NOW USING THIS, AS SOMEONE WHO VERY RECENTLY GAVE BIRTH I CAN SAY THIS ABSOLUTELY IS UNTRUE. MY FIFTH ON IS ONLY FIVE WEEKS OLD. WHEN I WAS 13 WEEKS PREGNANT WITH HIM I ELECTED TO HAVE A BLOOD TEST TO DETECT CHROME ZONAL ABNORMALITIES, LOCATED MY CHILD'S DNA AND FROM THERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT THE CHILD I WAS CARRY HAD XY CHROMOSOMES AND THEREFORE WAS A BOY. THE RESULTS STUDENT ME STATED EXACTLY THIS, QUOTE, IT IS A BOY. RESULTS CONSISTENT WITH TWO SEX CHROMOSOMES XY. MY SON'S SEX WAS FURTHER CONFIRMED

070AT A 20 WEEK ULTRA SOUND. AT NO POINT DURING THE PREGNANCY DID THE DOCTORS, NURSES, STENOGRAPHY OR ANYONE ELSE WITHIN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY USE THAT PHRASE OR STIMULATE MY SON'S SEX WOULD BE ASSIGNED ONCE BORN, THEY ALL REFERRED TO HIM AS A BOY EVEN BEFORE HIS BIRTH. PROPONENTS OF THAT CHANGE THINK THAT IS MEANINGLESS. A STATEMENT MADE BY COMMITTEE MEMBER WHO PROPOSED THE CHANGE. I HAPPEN TO THINK BIOLOGICAL SEX IS VERY MEANINGFUL. KNOWING A PERSON'S BIOLOGICAL SEX ALLOW AS DOCTOR TO ACCURATELY DIAGNOSE THAT INDIVIDUAL. A PERSON WHO PRESENTS TO THEIR DOCTOR WITH ABDOMINAL PAINS WILL HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT DIAGNOSIS. OUR BIOLOGICAL SEX ALSO IS IMPORTANT FOR REPRODUCTION. ONLY A BIOLOGICAL MALE AND BIOLOGICAL FEMALE CAN CREATE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. ASSUME THAT THE FLE WESTONS ALREADY DISCUSSED THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A PERSON'S GENDER IDENTITY AND

071BIOLOGICAL SEX. AS SUCH, THERE IS NO NEED TO REMOVE AND RENDER A SCIENTIFIC TERM LIKE BIOLOGICAL SEX, MEANINGLESS IN THE EYES OF STUDENTS. IT IS NOT MEANINGLESS. AGAIN, I ASK THAT YOU ADOPT THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE DESCENDING OPINION AND MAKE FLE ADOPT IN REQUIRING WRITTEN, PARENTAL CONSENT JUST TO PARTICIPATE. CURRENTLY STUDENTS NEED WRITTEN PARENTAL CONSENT TO TAKE MEDICATION IN SCHOOL, GO ON A FIELD TRIP OR WATCH A PG-RATED MOVIE. FAIRFAX COUNTY PROGRAM GOES WELL BEYOND FACTS OF PUBERTY AND REPRODUCTION AND IT IS TIME FOR FAIRFAX COUNTY TO PARTNER WITH PARENTS ON THIS TOPPING AND REQUIRE WRITTEN PARENTAL CONSENT FOR THIS VERY CONTROVERSIAL LESSONS. SILENCE DOES NOT EQUAL CONSENT. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] WE NOW HAVE FIVE VIDEO TESTIMONIES. THE FIRST IS PRESENTED BY MEG KILGANNON. WHERE AM SUBMITTING THIS LETTER ON BEHALF OF THE PEDIATRICIANS, AMERICAN

072ASSOCIATIONS OF. [INAUDIBLE] AND THE CHRISTIAN. [INAUDIBLE] SOCIETY. [INAUDIBLE VIDEO] [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT TESTIMONY PRESENTED BY MONIQUE BAROUDI AS AN ENGINEER I OBJECTED TO THE TERM SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH, IT IS SIMPLY NOT SCIENTIFICALLY FACTUAL. THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN TEACHING CHILDREN FACT ABOUT BIOLOGY AND THEN LYING TO THEM TO SAY THAT SEX IS ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY AND INCREASED USE AT THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL STARTING IN THE 1970s PARENTS HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN THE SEX OF THEIR CHILD IN UTERO. SCIENCE IS A PRETTY AMAZING THING FOR EXAMPLE UP WITH HUNDRED 41 MALES FINISHED BEFORE THE FASTEST FEMALE. IF FEMALES ARE REQUIRED TO COMPETE AGAINST BIOLOGICAL MALE THEN THE EQUALITY FEMALES HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR FOR DECADE WILL BE ERODED. TRANSGENDER STUDENT HAVE A RIGHT TO

073COMPETE WITH SPORTS BUT WHAT THEY ARE BEING GIVEN IS AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. GIRLS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO LOSE OUT ON OPPORTUNITIES TO MALES. GIRLS DESERVE BETTER THAN THAT. AS A MOTHER WHO HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO PREGNANCY LOSS IF A FAMILY SUFFERS THE DEATH OF THEIR CHILD BEFORE IT IS BORN AND IT NEVER HAS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE TO ASSIGN ITS SEX UPON BIRTH IS THE BABY ANY LESS THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER? USING THE TERM SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH TAKES AWAY HUMANITY OF THE UNBORN CHILD. HAVING DELIVERED THREE PRE-TERM BABIES MYSELF I CAN ASSURE YOU OF THE HUMANITY OF THE UNBORN. AS A WOMAN I OBJECT TO THE TERM SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. I REJECT THE IDEA THAT BIOLOGY IS MEANINGLESS AND THAT A MAN CAN SIMPLY CHANGE HIS GENITALS, TAKE SOME HORMONES AND DECLARE THAT HE

074IS THE EXACT SAME THING AS ME. HE IS NOT. HE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE AND BEAR CHILDREN AS I HAVE, I AM A WOMAN. I HAVE MADE MANY SACRIFICES TO CARRY AND BEAR MY CHILDREN, AS A RESULT OF THE GIFT OF MY WOMANHOOD AND I WON'T LET ANYONE CHEAPEN THAT. I AM MORE THAN THE MAKEUP I WEAR OR THE CLOTHE THAT I PUT ON. WE CAN HELP CHILDREN WHO IDENTIFY WITH THE DIFFERENT GENDER AND EMBRACE THEIR AUTHENTIC SELVES WITHOUT REQUIRING THE DISTORTION OF THE MEANING OF SEX FOR EVERY CHILD. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BIOLOGY, NOT IDEOLOGY. [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT VIDEO IS PRESENTED BY DAVID HATCHER. GOOD EVENING. I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE FLECAC REPORT. THE FLECAC IS NOW RECOMMENDING TEACHING THE SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATELY MATERIAL SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. THE NEW DEFINITION

075IS MISLEADING AS CHILDREN BORN WITH AMBIGUOUS ANATOMY IS SEX ASSIGNED BY CHROMOSOMES SOON AFTER CONCEPTION OCCURS. LASTLY USED TO PORTRAY PEOPLE WITH THE RARE PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER CONFUSES THEIR SEX IF THEY FEEL LIKE IT. GENDER DYSPHORIA IS MORE COMMON IN CHILDREN THAN ADULTS. UP TO 90% OF CHILDREN WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA IS FOUND BY ADULTS WITH 99.99% OF THE POPULATION IS ALIGN WOULD THEIR NATURAL BIOLOGICAL SEX, BECAUSE CHILDREN DEMONSTRATES THEY DO NOT HAVE ABSTAIN SEX BRAINS NOR ARE BORN IN THE WRONG BODY. ADULTS WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA HAVE BEEN FOUND TO HAVE A SUPER SUICIDAL RATE OF 40%, TREATMENT OPTIONS ARE GENDER DYSPHORIA ARE WAIT FOR ADULTHOOD WHEREAS 98% ARE FOUND TO DECYST ALONG WITH BIOLOGICAL SEX, OR TO IMPLEMENT THE BENCH PROTOCOL AND TRANSITION EARLY. CHILDREN WHO TRANSITION EARLY AND GIVEN BLOCKERS APPEAR TO HAVE A HIGHER

076RATE OF PERSISTENCE. THOSE WHO UNDERGO GENDER ASSISTANCE SURGERY HAVE A RATE 19 TIMES HIGHER THAN GENDER POPULATION. UP TO 90% ARE REPORTED TO DECYST NATURALLY WHICH PLACES THEM IN THE LOWER SUICIDAL RATE POOL. TRANSITIONING EARLY MAY DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF SUICIDE AS IT MAY INTERFERE AND REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO WOULD DECYST NATURALLY AND INSTEAD PLACE THEM INTO THE POOL WITH POTENTIALLY HIGHER SUICIDE RATE. WHILE THOSE WHO UNDER GO GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURVEY HAVE A SUPER HIGH LONGER RATE 19 TIMES HIGHER THAN THE GENERAL POPULATION IT MAY TAKE 30 YEARS TO COMPLETELY STUDY. WHICH MAKES IT AN EXPERIMENTING ON CHILDREN IS MORALLY WRONG AND ILLEGAL. THE BOTTOM LINE IS SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT ENGAGE IN HARMFUL RISK OR HARMFUL EXPERIMENTS. IN SUMMARY IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD NOT TO QUICKLY. [INAUDIBLE] FLE. INSTEAD

077SHOULD SONORITY WAIT-AND-SEE APPROACH OF GENDER DYSPHORIA FOR DES. SUICIDE AND LASTLY REMOVE GENDER IDENTITY FROM ALL SCHOOL POLICIES AND REGULATIONS AS IT IS A MEDICAL ISSUE LIKE MANY OTHERS. [APPLAUSE] THE NEXT VIDEO IS PRESENTED BY RODRIGO VELASQUEZ GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARD MY NAME IS RODRIGO VELASQUEZ I AM A RESIDENT OF SPRINGFIELD, VIRGINIA AND A PROUD PRODUCT OF FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HAVING GONE TO ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE ASK HIGH SCHOOL HERE IN THE COUNTY. THE REASON FOR MY MESSAGE TODAY IS PROVIDE INSIGHT ON VERY IMPORTANT TOPICS, BOTH RELATED TO THE STANLEY LIFE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUMS COMMITTEE. THE FIRST REGARDING PRE-EXPOSURE PREP, A ONCE DAILY PILL THAT REDUCES THE RISK OF CONTRACTING HIV. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL STUDENTS ARE AWARE OF PREP BECAUSE A COUPLE YEARS AGO HIV WAS NOT ONLY GREATLY FEARED BUT GREATLY MISUNDERSTOOD,

078NOW WE NOW HAVE WAYS TO NOT ONLY TREAT HIV BUT PREVENT THE SPREAD OF IT. EDUCATING ALL STUDENTS ABOUT PREP IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY'S HEALTH. THE SECOND TOPIC IS REGARDING THE USE OF THE TERM SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. NOT ONLY IS THAT TERM USED BY MANY IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY SOMETHING PREFERRED AND WANTED BY MANY IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY. WE MAY DISAGREE ON SOME THINGS THAT I SHARED BUT I KNOW WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT WE WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS, ALL STUDENTS INCLUDE ALL LGBT STUDENTS, ALL STUDENTS INCLUDE EVERYONE WHO SHOULD BE EDUCATE AROUND THE TOPIC OF PREP AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM. I HOPE THAT EVERY MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD SUPPORTS THE EDUCATION OF PREP AND THE USE OF THE TERM SEX

079ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. I KNOW THAT TOGETHER WE CAN WORK TO CREATE AND FOSTER MORE WELCOMING CLASSROOMS, BY DOING SO WE'RE GOING GREATLY BENEFIT MANY STUDENTS IN OUR COUNTY. THE SAME STUDENT WHO ARE BUSINESS LEADERS, ARE FUTURE EDUCATORS, ARE FUTURE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WHICH INCLUDE OUR NEIGHBORS, PEOPLE THAT WE WALK AND TALK DOWN THE STREET WITH. SO I HOPE AND I GREATLY, GREATLY URGE EVERY MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATION OF PREP IN OUR CLASSROOMS AND THE USE OF THE TERM SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH IN OUR CURRICULUM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE LAST VIDEO TESTIMONY IS PROVIDED BY OMAR ABDELREHIM. YEAH, MY NAME IS OMAR ABDELREHIM I'M A MUSLIM-AMERICAN, DISABLED VET AND I'VE LIVED IN FAIRFAX COUNTY FOR OVER 20 YEARS. I HAVE THREE CHILDREN CURRENTLY IN FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC

080SCHOOLS. ACTUALLY I CAN REMEMBER IT'S LARGER THAN THAT JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME SUBSTANTIAL SIZE COMMUNITIES IN FAIRFAX COUNTY AND WE HAVE WELL OVER 10 TO 15 ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES SO I MIGHT ARGUE THAT NUMBER TO BE LARGER THAN THAT. VERY, NO QUESTION. IT IS CRITICAL BECAUSE TO US IT IS ALL ABOUT THERE IS A REASON WHY WE'RE HERE. YOU KNOW, AND SO OUR MISSION IS CLEAR. THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SO MANY MUSLIM-AMERICANS HERE, YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF HELPS US TO HELP EACH OTHER AND EMBODY EACH OTHER AND TRY TO ACCOMPLISH OUR MISSION. I TELL YOU WE ASKED A LOT OF, WE DID A LOT OF OUTREACH WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY I WOULD SAY THE MASS MAJORITY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. IT WAS A PIECE OF A PAPER THAT WAS IN SOME KIND

081OF A PACKET THAT CAME HOME WITH ANOTHER BOOK AND THEY DIDN'T REALLY UNDER IT. OR EVEN KNEW WHAT IT WAS AND SO FAIRLY DIVERSE AND SO THERE ARE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES THAT ARE SPOKEN IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN AS A FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE THAT IT WAS WRITTEN IN OR THEY JUST DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION WAS SO THAT MANY, MANY, MANY FAMILIES THAT I SPOKE TO ABOUT ABOUT FAMILY LIFE THEY WEREN'T EVEN AWARE TO HAVE AN OPTION TO OPT-OUT. ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, YOU KNOW IT SHOULD ACTUALLY BE AN OPT-IN IN MY OPINION BECAUSE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND AS FAR AS WHAT I WAS GROWING UP IT WAS ABOUT MATH, SCIENCE, READING, WRITING, I MEAN IT WAS THAT SCHOOL, WE ALL THOUGHT THAT SCHOOL WAS STRICTLY ACADEMIC UNTIL

082WE WERE MADE ABREAST OF THE SITUATION WHERE GENDER IDENTITY AND FLE AND ALL OF THESE PROCESSES IN PLACE. WE HAD NO IDEA. WE LITERALLY HAD NO IDEA. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS COME OUT TO SHARE YOUR PLEAS AND CONCERNS WITH US THIS EVENING. NEXT IS STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND I WILL CALL ON MS. VATTIKONDA. FIRST I'M GOING TO SPEAK ON THE FLECAC RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROPOSED CHANGES. SO ON THE FLECAC RECOMMENDATIONS I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR I DO SUPPORT ALL OF THE CHANGES INCLUDED INCLUDING THE CHANGE OF THE TERM FROM BIOLOGICAL SEX TO SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. [APPLAUSE] AND I THINK I SHOULD GET INTO THE REASONING FOR THAT FIRST. SO I THINK ALL OF US HERE CAN AGREE THAT BESIDES DOING A LOT OF READING, MATH AND ALL OF THE SUBJECTS

083WE WANT ALL OF OUR STUDENTS TO BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY AS THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE POINT IS TO ACHIEVE BOTH OF THESE IN EDUCATING OUR STUDENTS ABOUT THINGS THEY WOULDN'T LEARN IN THEIR CLASSES AND A CONCEPT DESIGNED TO KEEP OUR STUDENTS HEALTHY, DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM SAFE AND DESIGNED TO GENERALLY EDUCATE THEM. SO I'VE WORK WOULD STUDENTS ON THIS COMMITTEE. WE ACTUALLY HAVE FOUR STUDENTS ON THE FLECAC COMMITTEE AND I THINK THAT WE'VE ALL AGREED WITH OUR STUDENT INPUT AND WORKING WITH STUDENTS FROM A VARIETY OF SCHOOLS BUT WE HAVE TO BE INCLUSIVE AND OUR EDUCATION HAS TO BE UP-TO-DATE SO THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE TERM TO SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH AND WE ALSO NEED TO AS A PROVIDER OF COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION INCLUDE ALL OF

084THE METHOD OF PREVENTION INCLUDING PREP, AND I THINK I SAID. OF THE FASHION BEHIND SUGGESTING MAYBE AN OPT-IN SYSTEM, BUT RATHER THAN SWITCHING TO AN OPT-IN SYSTEM I THINK WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO A BETTER JOB OF EDUCATING PARENT ABOUT THE FLECAC CURRICULUM AND DOING MORE OUTREACHES FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AND MAKING SURE THE MATERIALS ARE TRANSLATING AND THAT MAKING SURE ALL PARENTS KNOWING THEIR RIGHT TO OPT-OUT SO THERE IS AN FLECAC CURRICULUM AND MAKING SURE PARENTS KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON SO THEY'RE NOT OBJECTING TO THIS IF THEIR RIGHT ARE TO OPT-OUT. AND I THINK I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON SOMETHING WE HEARD EARLIER FROM ONE OF OUR CITIZENS. OUR STUDENTS ARE INCLUSIVE TO EACH OTHER AND RECOGNIZE THE DIVERSITY OF OUR VAST STUDENTS BODY. I THINK ON THIS ONE THE BOARD SHOULD FOLLOW

085THE LEAD OF OUR STUDENTS AND MOVE FORWARD WITH ADOPTING THE FLECAC RECOMMENDATIONS. [APPLAUSE] AND ON THE SRNR CHANGES I APPROVE CHANGES PROPOSED. I AM REALLY GLAD WE'RE INCLUDING PRODUCT ABSENTEEISM IN THIS NEW SNR, IT IS AN ISSUE I SPOKE ABOUT AS AN PROBLEM THAT WE'RE NOT REALLY ABLE TOOL IDENTIFY THE EXTENT BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY COLLECT ALL OF THIS DATA AND WE'RE NOT -- ONE DAY, TWO DAYS OVER THE YEAR BUT ARE MISSING OVER 10 DAYS AND SEVERELY IMPACTED BY THE LOSSES IN INSTRUCTIONAL TIME AND I'M GLAD WE'RE FOLLOWING THE STATE IN REDUCING THE LENGTH OF OUR SUSPENSION TIME BECAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW THE LITERATURE SHOWS WHEN WE HAVE THESE EXTREMELY PUNITIVE EXPANSION LENGTHS AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE SCHOOLS HOTLINE. > AND LASTLY I'D LIKE TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT FOR THE NEW AMENDMENT TO

086THE PROPOSAL BY MR. MCELVEEN TO MAKE SURE THE DRESS CODE IS FAIR TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND IS ACTUALLY -- . [APPLAUSE] -- ACTUALLY REFLECTIVE OF THE INTENTION OF OUR DRESS CODE AMENDMENT H IS TO FOSTER A GOOD LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS NOT TO UNFAIRLY TARGET SOME OF OUR STUDENTS OVER THE OTHERS. OKAY. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU, MS. VATTIKONDA. NEXT IS CONFIRMATION OF ACTION TAKEN IN CLOSED MEETING THIS IS THE PORTION OF THE MEETING WHERE THE BOARD WILL CONFIRM ACTION REGARDING ISSUES DISCUSSED IN THE CLOSED MEETING. THESE ISSUES MAY INCLUDE ACTIONS TAKEN REGARDING STUDENT DISCIPLINARY MEMBERS. BOARD MEMBERS HAVE DISCUSSED EACH INDIVIDUAL CASE. AT THIS TIME WE'LL MAKE SEVERAL MOTIONS TO CONFIRM THE RECOMMENDED ACTION. I WILL CALL ON MS. PALCHIK FOR A MOTION. I MOVE TO DENY THE APPEAL OF THE

087STUDENT WHO THREATENED TO COMMIT ACT OF VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL RESULTING IN A SIGNIFICANT CORRUPTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT TO CONFIRM THE DISCIPLINARY DECISION OF DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT. SECOND. SECONDED BY MS. HYNES. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE NEXT MOTION I WILL CALL ON MS. CORBET-SANDERS. I MOVE TO DENY THE SCHOOL REASSIGNMENT APPEAL OF A STUDENT WHO ASSAULTED A STUDENT AT SCHOOL RESULTING IN INJURY AND TO CONFIRM THE DISCIPLINARY DECISION OF THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT GOOD SECOND. SECONDED BY MR. MOON. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU. FOR THE NEXT MOTION I WILL CALL ON MR. KAUFAX. I MOVE TO DENY THE SCHOOL REASSIGNMENT APPEAL OF THE STUDENT WHO ACCESSED UNAUTHORIZED AREAS OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING, STOLE SCHOOL PROPERTY AND DISTRIBUTED STOLEN SCHOOL PROPERTY AND TO CONFIRM THE

088DISCIPLINARY DIVISION OF THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT. SECOND. SECONDED BY MS. EVANS. LIFE THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU. NEXT I WILL CALL ON MS. HYNES FOR A MOTION. I MOVE TO DENY THE SCHOOL REASSIGNMENT APPEAL OF A STUDENT WHO ASSAULTED ANOTHER STUDENT AT SCHOOL RESULTING IN INJURY AS WELL AS SIGNIFICANT DISTRIBUTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND TO CONFIRM THE DISCIPLINARY DECISION OF THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT. SECONDED MY MS. PALCHIK. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU. NEXT I WILL CALL ON MS. HYNES FOR A MOTION. I MOVE TO DENY THE SCHOOL REASSIGNMENT APPEAL OF STUDENT WHO IMPROPERLY TOUCHED ANOTHER STUDENT AND TO CONFIRM THE DISCIPLINARY DECISION OF THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT. SECONDED BY MRS. CORBET-SANDERS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT IS EVANS, WILSON, MCLAUGHLIN, PALCHIK, MCELVEEN, CORBET-SANDERS, STRAUSS, MOON, HYNES, KAUFAX, KEYS-GAMARRA.

089THANK YOU THAT MOTION PASSES. AND THE LAST MOTION I WILL CALL ON MS. HYNES. I MOVE THAT THE CONTRACT WITH THE TEACHERS IDENTIFIED IN CLOSED SESSION NOT BE RENEWED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR AND THE TEACHERS NOTIFIED THAT THEIR CONTRACT WILL NOT BE RENEWED FOR THE 2018-2019 SCHOOL YEAR. SECONDED BY MS. PALCHIK. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. OKAY. IT IS EVANS, MCLAUGHLIN, PALCHIK, MCELVEEN, SANDERS, STRAUSS, MOON, HYNES, SHULTZ, KAUFAX, KEYS-GAMARRA. APPOSED OR ABSTENTION? MR. WILSON THAT MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. NEXT IS FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT OF RECOMMENDATIONS. I WILL CALL ON MS. HYNES FOR THE FIRST MOTION. THANK YOU. I MOVE THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD APPROVE RECOMMENDED MEDIA AND LESSON OBJECTIVES AS DETAILED IN THE AGENDA ITEM AND REVIEWED AND RECOMMENDED BY THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE. SECONDED

090BY MRS. PALCHIK. MRS. HYNES WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION. YES, THANK YOU. I WANT TO THANK OUR FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION COMMITTEE FLECAC AND STAFF, ONCE AGAIN THIS YEAR FOR ALL OF YOUR HARDWORK FOR MOVING OUR CURRICULUM FORWARD. IT IS WORK THAT YOU DO EVERY YEAR AND IT IS NOT EASY AND WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THE EFFORT AND TIME THAT GOES INTO IT. I WANT TO ALSO THANK ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY WHO HAVE WEIGHED IN WITH US. I HAVE READ YOUR E-MAILS AND ON-LINE COMMENTS. I HAVE HEARD YOUR TESTIMONY HERE I THINK ONE THING THAT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS IS THAT PARENTS WHO WANT THEIR CHILDREN TO LEARN MORE OR LESS OR DIFFERENTLY DO HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THAT. THEY CAN OPT-OUT. AND I WOULD LIKE

091TO ASK I'M GOING TO PUT STAFF, WE'LL HELP THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND HOW THAT INFORMATION IS MADE AVAILABLE. WE DO TRANSLATE THE MESSAGES ABOUT FLE CURRICULUM INTO OTHER LANGUAGES; IS THAT CORRECT? WE DO. JUST A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST ON THIS TOPIC AS WELL. SO WE DO TRANSLATE THE OPT-OUT FORUMS INTO THE THE SEVEN MOST FREQUENTLY-USED LANGUAGES IN FAIRFAX COUNTY. WE ALSO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE LESSON MATERIALS, CURRICULUM MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PARENTS ON-LINE SO PARENTS CAN ACCESS THOSE. THE LESSON MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOR FOLKS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS OR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO REVIEW. AND WE SEND THEM NOTIFICATIONS AND SCHOOL NEWS LETTERS AND THROUGH CENTRAL MASSAGING FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TO MAKE PARENT AWARE OF THE OPT-OUT

092PROCEDURES AND ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS HOLD BACK TO SCHOOL INFORMATION NIGHT SESSIONS WHERE PARENTS CAN COME VIEW THE MATERIALS AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MATERIALS ITSELF. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND JUSTICE TO CONTINUE, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS HAD SOME TIME TO REVIEW THE FLECAC RECOMMENDATIONS. WE A WORK SESSION LAST MONTH AT WHICH WE RECEIVED THE VERY EXTENSIVE AND EXCELLENT REPORT FROM FLECAC. WE ASKED QUESTIONS, THOSE QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED. ALL OF THOSE INFORMATION IS PUBLIC. SO I'M SUPPORTING THESE CHANGES BECAUSE THEY ARE BASED ON SOUND RESEARCH AND THEY MAKE OUR FLE CURRICULUM MORE ACCURATE AND REFLECTIVE OF WIDELY ACCEPTED MOST UP-TO-DATE BEST PRACTICES. IT IS THE ROLE OF FLECAC TO NAVIGATE THIS CONVERSATION AND TO NAVIGATE OUR CURRICULUM TO THAT GOAL AND I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THE WORK THAT THEY DO

093AND I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES ON THIS SCHOOL BOARD WILL ALSO SUPPORT THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS. MS. PALCHIK WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND? [APPLAUSE] UH, I WILL SECOND MRS. HYNES' COMMENT. I ALSO WANT TO THANK STAFF ESPECIALLY WITH PAIN. THOUGH I'VE HEARD FROM MANY FLECAC MEMBERS OF YOUR UPMOST PROFESSIONALISM AND CARE AND THOUGHT YOU MAKE THIS AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL PROCESS AND WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THE WORK AND THE PATIENCE YOU'VE PUT INTO THIS ALONG WITH YOUR TEAM. I DO ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE SPEAKERS THAT CAME HERE TODAY THAT HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE PAST. LET WHO HAVE SPOKEN TO US AND ALL WHOM HAVE SHARED THEIR TESTIMONY. THIS IS A -- A SPEAKER SAID TODAY WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE ALL LOVE OUR CHILDREN AND I THINK WE WOULD ALL

094BE HARDPRESSED TO FIND A TOPIC MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN THEIR WELL-BEING. WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE ON WHAT THAT IS BUT THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE, TO DEMOCRACY TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS. I WILL AGREE WITH THE TIME THAT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BASED ON BEST PRACTICES IN SCIENCE, AS A TEACHER I HAVE SEEN THIS IN MY STUDENTS, I'VE LEARNED FROM THEM IN SCHOOLS THAT SUPPORTED THEM AND THEIR DECISION FROM FEELING EXCLUDED FEELING FRIGHTENED AND SCARED AND FROM STRUGGLING IN SCHOOL TO BECOMING STUDENTS FULL OF JOY, COMPASSION, SUPPORT AND MOST IMPORTANTLY PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. AS A STUDENT I ALSO SAW RESEARCH ALIGN WOULD THE BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND LOOKING AT GENDER THROUGH THAT LENS. FINALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPHYLACTIC PREP THIS IS I WILL QUOTE ONE OF MY CONSTITUENT. ARMING

095OUR STUDENTS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. THEREFORE I ALSO SUPPORT IN FORMING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ABOUT PREP AS AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF PREVENTING HIV INFECTION. IT HAS BECOME THESE PRIMARY ISSUES THAT I'M ASKING YOU TO APPROVE THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE FLECAC MAJORITY OF OBJECTIVES AS WRITTEN. THIS IS WINCING INTERNATIONAL WORK AS WELL AS LIVING IN WASHINGTON, D.C. NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE WE HAVE A COMMUNITY THAT IS STILL CONSIDERED AT HIGH RISK WITH MORE THAN 1% OF THE POPULATION CURRENTLY LIVING WITH HIV; HOWEVER, IN THE PAST DECADE THEY HAVE SEEN A STEEP DECLINE IN THAT RATE OF INFECTION DUE TO ACCESS TO RESOURCES, EDUCATION AND NOW WITH THE NEW CAMPAIGN TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLACTICS. I THEREFORE FULLY SUPPORT RECOMMENDATIONS

096AND ORGANIZATIONS MADE TO UPDATE OUR CURRENT CURRICULUM AND I HOPE OUR COLLEAGUES WILL SHARE IN SUPPORTING THE FLECAC RECOMMENDATIONS. [APPLAUSE] FCPS, JUNE 14, 2018 SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE ORDER IN WHICH THAT WILL COME, CORRECT? WE'LL CALL ON MRS. SCHULTZ FOR YOUR AMENDMENT. I MOVE TO POSTPONE THE BOARD'S VOTE ON THE FLECAC RECOMMENDATIONS. SECONDED. SECONDED BY MR. WILSON. MS. SCHULTZ, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION? WOULD YOU LIKE US TO SPEAK TO IT NOW OR WAIT? IT WAS PROBABLY BETTER TO LET MR. WILSON GO AHEAD. I WOULD RATHER HE GO AHEAD WITH HIS MOTION. WILL WILSON HAS AN AMENDMENT TO THIS AMENDMENT. MR. WILSON. I MOVE THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT BE DIRECTED TO SECURE WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR FLE INSTRUCTION FROM ALL PARENTS. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED BY MS. SCHULTZ. ALL RIGHT. MR. WILSON, MR.

097WILSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR AMENDMENT? IF WE COULD PLEASE LET BOARD MEMBERS SPEAK PLEASE LET MR. WILSON SPEAK. IT IS HIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK HIS MIND ON THIS AMENDMENT, MR. WILSON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT TONIGHT FOR ADVOCATING FOR THE VARIOUS POSITIONS FOR CHANGES OR AGAINST THE CHANGES TO THE FLE PROGRAM. THE SPEAKERS WERE REALLY SORT OF AMAZINGLY ELOQUENT FROM ALL SIDES. THANK YOU FOR ALL THOSE GETTING INVOLVED AND BEING HERE TONIGHT. THE REASON FOR MY AMENDMENT REALLY BOILS DOWN TO WHAT I WOULD SAY IS AN ISSUE OF FAIRNESS. OR I GUESS IN THE PARLANCE OF EDUCATION, IT'S REALLY EQUITY. IT IS A WORD USED REPEATEDLY BY THIS BOARD AND FROM THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT

098WE WANT ALL OF OUR STUDENTS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY TO BE TREATED FAIRLY. WE WANT AN EQUITABLE SCHOOL SYSTEM. THE PROBLEM IS, AS WE HAVE SEEN DURING THIS PARTICULAR CONTROVERSY, SOMETIMES THIS BOARD SINGLES OUT GROUPS FOR FAIR OR EQUITABLE TREATMENT AND IN DOING SO, WE TREAT ADVERSELY OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE. WE ARE TRYING TO HARD TO MAKE SURE WE ARE BEING FAIR TO CERTAIN GROUPS THAT ARE WE ARE COMPLETELY IGNORING OTHER LARGE GROUPS OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS. I'M SPEAKING ABOUT GROUPS SUCH AS NEWLY ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS, IMMIGRANT PARENTS WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH WELL OR NOT YET FAMILIAR ENOUGH WITH AMERICAN SCHOOLS TO EVEN WORRY ABOUT THE FLE LESSONS THEIR CHILDREN ARE BEING EXPOSED TO. THESE PARENTS OFTEN DO NOT KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING THAT THEY SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT. IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN EQUITY, YOU

099SHOULD CONSIDER THESE PARENTS. A CONSERVATIVE IT MUSLIM FAMILY FROM AFRICA MAY BE JUST AS HORRIFIED AS A CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC FAMILY FROM SOUTH AMERICA THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT ABOUT VARIOUS TYPES OF SEX, CONTRACEPTIVES, SEX TRAFFICKING AND SO ON. IT IS SIMPLY NOT FAIR TO SAY THAT THE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON LINE SO THESE PARENTS SHOULD BE INFORMED. IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ASSUME CONSENT SIMPLY BECAUSE A PARENT FAILED TO OPT OUT. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD NOT INTERRUPT MR. WILSON. IT IS HIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LANGUAGES REPRESENTED AMONG THE FAMILIES OF OUR STUDENTS. WE KNOW THAT MANY LOW INCOME STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE REGULAR ACCESS TO COMPUTERS OR THE INTERNET. THESE FAMILIES ARE TRUSTING US TO BE FAIR TO THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN. IT'S ALSO

100WORTH NOTING THAT CHILDREN ALL DEVELOP AT DIFFERENT RATES. THIS IS PERHAPS MOST EVIDENT IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS. IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN OF THIS AGE, YOU WILL -- VAST RANGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AGE GROUP. YOU HAVE KIDS WHO ARE REALLY COMING INTO THEIR OWN AND ARE READY TO BE TEENAGERS. THEN YOU HAVE KIDS WHO ARE STILL PLAYING WITH TOYS AT HOME AND COLLECTING STUFFED ANIMALS AND WATCHING CARTOONS. AMONG ANY AGE GROUP, THERE ARE ALSO VAST DIFFERENCES IN HOW CHILDREN PROCESS INFORMATION. FOR SOME KIDS, IT'S A BIG YAWN TO HEAR THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN INTO THE WRONG BODIES. FOR OTHERS, THIS MIGHT SPARK A SERIOUS BOUT OR A LONG-TERM BOUT OF ANXIETY. SOME KIDS COULD SIT THROUGH A LESSON ON RAPE, INCEST AND SEX TRAFFICKING AND NOT BAT AN EYE. OF ANOTHER CHILD MIGHT

101HAVE NIGHTMARES FOR WEEKS. EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE GROSSED OUT TO HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ANAL AND ORAL SEX IN FOURTH PERIOD AFTER LUNCH AND BEFORE ART CLASS. BUT SOME KIDS WILL THEN PROPTLY FORGET ABOUT IT. OTHER KIDS WILL PERSEVERATE ON THE IMAGES IN THEIR MINDS FOR HOURS, DAYS OR LONGER. REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU THINK OF THESE TOPICS, THE PROBLEM IS FOR SOME KIDS IN SOME FAMILIES THEY ARE DISTURBING. THIS IS A FACT. YOU CAN IGNORE IT BUT IT IS THERE. IF WE DEVELOP AN FLE PROGRAM THAT IS OFFENSE YOU HAVE TO LARGE GROUPS OF OUR STUDENT BODY AND THEIR GUARDIANS AND PARENTS, THEN WE ARE NOT BEING EQUITABLE. SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THESE GROUPS ARE LIKELY TO BE IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HIGHER INCOME FAMILIES FOR EXAMPLE MIGHT PULL

102THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF AND OPT FOR PRIVATE, RELIGIOUS OR HOME SCHOOL FOR THEIR CHILDREN. LOWER INCOME FAMILIES MAY NOT HAVE THESE OPTIONS. WE ARE ALSO NOT FAIRLY CONSIDERING THE NEED OF STUDENTS WHO ARE THE NOT DEVELOPLY READY TO HEAR INFORMATION OR MORE SENSITIVE OR ANXIOUS TO BEGIN WITH. THEY DO NOT WANT SENSITIVE TOPICS ABOUT SEXUALITY DISCUSSED IN FRONT OF THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN DURING SCHOOL HOURS. THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE THE ONES INSTRUCTING THEM ON ISSUES OF SEXUALITY AND FAMILY LIFE. WE HAVE HEARD REPEATEDLY FROM PEOPLE WHO HOLD THIS POSITION. THEIR POSITION DESERVES A PLACE IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, PERIOD. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE AND UNFAIR TO A LARGE AMOUNT OF THE POPULATION SIMPLY TO IGNORE THIS POSITION AND TREAT THE OTHER POSITIONS AS THOUGH THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY MANY AND

103IT HAS LONG BEEN HELD AND IS WELL-REASONED FOUNDATION IN OUR SOCIETY. TO BE FAIR, WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT POSITIONS FROM THE ONE THAT IS REFLECTED THROUGHOUT THE FLE CURRICULUM. THESE ARE REASONABLE PEOPLE WITH REASONABLE POSITIONS. POINT OF ORDER. YES, MR. MOON DOES HAVE A POINT OF ORDER, AND IT DOES TAKE PRECEDENT UNDER ROBERTS RULES. MR. MOON, IF YOU WOULD LYING TO STATE YOUR POINT OF ORDER IS I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHETHER THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO MRS. SCHULTZ'S AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE OF THE MOTION DOESN'T STATE THAT. SO I'M -- I THINK I CAN GUESS AT IT BUT IF IT COULD BE USE THE EXACT HOW THIS AMENDS MRS. SCHULTZ'S AMENDMENT? IF THERE'S A CERTAIN WAY OF CRAFTING THE LANGUAGE. I WILL RELY ON THE CLERK TO DRAFT APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE

104CONNECTING IT TO YOU. YOU OWN THIS AMENDMENT. CORRECT. I WANT TO GET THE RIGHT LANGUAGE. MADAM CHAIR, I THINK THE POINT. IF I COULD FINISH IT. HOW THIS AMENDS MRS. SCHULTZ'S AMENDMENT THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW. IT IS AN AMENDMENT IN ADDITION. IT IS AN ADDITIONAL IDEA IN THE AMENDMENT. IT'S ADDING ADDITIONAL SENTENCE TO HER AMENDMENT. I THINK THAT'S THE WAY MADAM CHAIR DESCRIBED IT AS WELL. THAT IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET WHETHER IT SUBSTITUTES. IT'S ADDING. IT'S AN AMENDMENT TO ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE. IF IT COULD STATE THAT WAY. THANK YOU. I WILL ACCEPT MR. MOON'S SUGGESTION. MR. WILSON, WE HAVE THE LANGUAGE AHEAD OF US. IF YOU CAN MAKE SURE IT IS CLEAR YOUR INTENT, YOU DID DESCRIBE TO ME THIS AFTERNOON YOUR INTENT. LET'S MAKE SURE THE LANGUAGE REFLECTS THAT. I

105APOLOGIZE IT DIDN'T GET TRANSLATED THROUGH TO THE CLERK WHO PREPARES THIS MOTION. BUT THE MOTION IS TO ADD THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE TO MRS. SCHULTZ' MOTION TO MOVE TO AMEND AND TO DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO SECURE WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR FLE INSTRUCTION FROM ALL PARENTS. MAY I -- FURTHER CLARIFY TO MAKE SURE THE RECORD IS STRAIGHT? I MOVE TO AMEND THE AMENDMENT TO POSTPONE TO A DATE CERTAIN TO ADD THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE. TO DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO SECURE, ET CETERA. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I BELIEVE THAT ANSWERS YOUR POINT. THANK YOU. MR. WILSON, WERE YOU FINISHED? NO, I WAS NOT FINISHED. GO AHEAD AND FINISH. I DO APPRECIATE THAT, MADAM CHAIR. AT THIS TIME I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT OUR CURRENT FLE REVIEW PROCESS. SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT THE PROCESS

106IS VERY BROKEN. BUT ONE OF THE EASIEST THINGS WE COULD DO WOULD BE TO SIMPLY REQUIRE PARENTAL CONSENT BEFORE TEACHING FLE TO THEIR CHILDREN. MANY CHILDREN ARE SITTING THROUGH FLE LESSONS BY DEFAULT BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DID NOT SEE THE MATERIAL FOR WHATEVER REASON. WE ALSO HAVE KIDS WHO WON'T TURN THEIR OPT OUT FORMS INTO THE TEACHERS FOR FEAR OF BEING SINGLED OUT. WE ALSO HAVE AN EFFORT TO PUT -- FROM SOME BOARD MEMBERS TO PUT INFORMATION THAT IS CURRENTLY IN THE FLE PROGRAM INTO THE HEALTH PROGRAM SO NOBODY CAN OPT OUT OF IT. WE NEED TO STOP TRYING TO HIDE THIS INFORMATION FROM OUR PARENTS. PARENTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE THE FLE CURRICULUM FOR THEIR STUDENTS. THEN WE KNOW THEIR CHILDREN ARE PARTICIPATING BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO BE PARTICIPATING, NOT BY ACCIDENT OR

107NOT BY DEFAULT. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT PARENTS SHOULD BE THE ONES TO DECIDE IF AND WHEN THEIR CHILDREN RECEIVE THIS INFORMATION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE MORE POINT. WE NEED TO LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY. EVEN IF WE DON'T LIKE WHAT THEY ARE TELLING US. PLEASE LET MR. WILSON FINISH. THE VIEWS OF THE MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE VIEWS PARENTS OF OUR CHILDREN. I BELIEVE MOST OF MY CONSTITUENTS WANT THIS BOARD AND THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM TO FOCUS ON EDUCATION. I RESPECTFULLY ASK PEOPLE NOT TO INTERRUPT THE BOARD MEMBER WHO IS SPEAKING. THE FLE PROGRAM IS A VERY SMALL PART OF WHAT FCPS DOES EVERY YEAR, A SYSTEM OF OBTAINING WRITTEN PARENTAL PERMISSION WOULD ALLOW THIS BOARD TO FOCUS ON OTHER MATTERS. WE CAN DO BETTER. I WILL ASK IF

108MRS. SCHULTZ WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO HER SECOND ON THIS AMENDMENT? OR NOT. IT'S UP TO YOU. BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE AND I DON'T WANT TO FIND US -- UP THE PROCESS BY ROBERTS'S RULES, MADAM CHAIR ARE WE USING THIS AS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO WHICH WE ARE SPEAKING TO THIS -- NO, IT IS MEANT AS AN AMENDMENT TO YOUR AMENDMENT TO ADD THE LANGUAGE AT THE END OF YOUR MOTION. AND IF THIS AMENDMENT FAILS, WE GO BACK TO MY MOTION. YOUR MOTION. IT DOES NOT PRECLUDE. POINT OF ORDER. SORRY WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED. YES, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? I HAVE A QUESTION. MRS. SCHULTZ'S AMENDMENT, IT LOOKS LIKE IT SHOULD BE A MOTION RATHER THAN AN AMENDMENT. NO, IT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE MAIN MOTION. AMENDMENT TO THE MAIN MOTION. YES, IT'S

109AN AMENDMENT TO THE MAIN MOTION. IT'S A MOTION TO POSTPONE. TO POSTPONE THE ENTIRE MOTION. THAT'S RIGHT. MRS. SCHULTZ. I'M GOING TO RESERVE THE BULK OF MY COMMENTS. EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AT THIS BOARD TABLE IS PREORDAINED JUST SO YOU KNOW. THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY IS THAT -- THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY IS THE VOTE TOTAL HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE. HOWEVER, I WILL SPEAK TO THIS THAT WE ARE PARENTS WITH PARTNERS -- OR PARTNERS WITH PARENTS IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN. WE ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF THE CHILD'S EDUCATION. PARENTS ARE. MS. HYNES AND -- MS. HYNES. I THOUGHT YOU WERE DONE, GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY. AND WHEN WE SEEK AS BOARD MEMBERS TO SURK COUPLE NAVIGATE OR TAKE A SIR CUTE TUS ROUTE AROUND PARENTS TO ACHIEVE AN OBJECTIVE, YOU NATURALLY DIVORCE PARENTS FROM THE

110EDUCATION OF THEIR OWN CHILD. ANYTHING THAT SEEKS TO INCREASE THE COLLABORATION OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATION FOR THE SUCCESS AND ACADEMIC WELFARE OF A CHILD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS IS A GOOD THING. AND WE SHOULD EAGERLY PURSUE THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE AND BUILD STRONGER RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARENTS IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN AND THEREFORE I WILL SUPPORT THIS FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO MY AMENDMENT. MS. HYNES, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? THANK YOU. MR. WILSON, I'M SORRY THAT THIS JUST CAME TO US THIS MORNING. I HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU. THIS HAS COME UP BEFORE IN PAST YEARS. I BROUGHT IT UP MYSELF A FEW YEARS AGO, JUST TO ASK THE QUESTION. BECAUSE ON THE FACE OF IT, WELL, LET'S ASK THE QUESTION. LET'S SEE. WHY COULDN'T WE DO IT THIS WAY?

111THE ANSWER I GOT IS THAT IT IS VERY COMPLICATED. THERE'S A LOT TO IT. IF WE WANT TO HAVE A TRANSPARENT AND ROBUST CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS, LET'S DO THAT. BUT IF WE MEAN TO DO THAT, THEN WE NEED TO DO IT IN A DIFFERENT FORUM IN A DIFFERENT WAY, WE NEED TOFUL OUR USUAL PROCESS FOR THAT. WE NEED TO TALK TO SCHOOL-BASED PERSONNEL, PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATIONS. I'M CLASSROOM TEACHER EVERY TIME YOU HAVE TO CHASE A PIECE OF PAPER, IT TAKES TIME AWAY FROM TEACHING KIDS. TO HAVE TO GET FORMS RETURNED BY EVERY CHILD IS A HUGE ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN. WE DON'T DO IT FOR ANY REASON -- THE ONLY REASON WE DO IT IS FOR. LET THE BOARD MEMBERS SPEAK. WE HAVE TO DO FOR OUR, I THINK IT'S OUR FEDERAL AID FOR OUR MILITARY FAMILIES, IMPACT

112AID. ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED IN A CLASSROOM KNOWS THIS. ANYONE WHO HAS WORKED IN A BUILDING KNOWS THIS. WHEN YOU SEE HOW FEW PARENTS ACTUALLY OPT OUT, YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF ON BALANCE, WHAT IS THE BESTER USE OF TIME? WE ALSO SHOULD SPEAK TO ALL THE PARENTS OUT THERE WHO DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO CHACE THEMSELVES THAT EXTRA PIECE OF PAPER IN SEPTEMBER AND ARE PERFECTLY HAPPY TO HAVE THE CHILDREN TAUGHT. WE ALSO SHOULD TALK TO MR. WILSON, YOU RATTLED A BUNCH OF GROUPS, RELIGIOUS GROUPS, LOW INCOME FAMILIES, I DON'T KNOW -- I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, MR. WILSON, WHAT FEEDBACK YOU HAVE HAD FROM ALL OF THOSE GROUPS. IF WE NEED TO SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO, THEY ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT. THE PEOPLE

113IN THIS ROOM -- LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR. THIS ROOM HOLDS HOW MANY PEOPLE? ROUGHLY 300 PEOPLE. THIS ROOM ROUGHLY 300 PEOPLE. THIS IS A COUNTY OF OVER ONE MILLION. I REPRESENT 130,000 IN HUNTER MILL AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT MY CONSTITUENTS, THE VAST MAJORITY IN HUNTER MILL EXPECT ME TO HAVE THIS KIND OF CONVERSATION IN A MUCH BETTER INFORMED WAY THAN WHAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO TONIGHT SO I CANNOT SUPPORT THIS, MR. WILSON. MR. MOON. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? PLEASE, I ASK PEOPLE NOT TO INTERRUPT. MR. MOON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. PLEASE. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO CLEAR THE ROOM. YOU ARE HERE TO LISTEN RESPECTFULLY. PLEASE LET BOARD MEMBERS SPEAK. MR. MOON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TO ASK OF THE STAFF. SORRY

114THAT I HAVE NOT GIVEN YOU ADVANCED NOTICE OF QUESTIONS THAT I WILL BE ASKING YOU, BUT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER THESE. HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD OPT OUT PROCEDURE FOR FLE IN FAIRFAX? MY UNDERSTANDING IS SINCE THE INCEPTION OF HAVING AN FLE PROGRAM AS REQUIRED BY THE CODE OF VIRGINIA. IN AN OPT OF ITSELF IS IT REQUIRED BY CODE OF VIRGINIA OR FLE REQUIRED BY THE STATE OF VIRGINIA? THE CODE OF VIRGINIA, I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK UP THE NUMBER I THINK IT'S 22.1-207 SO THE PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXCUSE THEIR CHILD FROM FLE INSTRUCTION. I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK UP THE EXACT WORDING. I UNDERSTAND PARENTS HAVE A RIGHT TO OPT THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF A PROGRAM. I AM TRYING TO CONFIRM WHAT I READ FROM BOARD OF EDUCATION GUIDELINES, STANDARDS

115OF LEARNING FOR VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION, MOST RECENTLY VERSION IS SEPTEMBER, 2017, ON PAGE 8 OF THAT IN SECTION 1-G, IT STATES THAT AN OPT-OUT PROCEDURE SHOULD BE PROVIDED. IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING? OF WHAT THE GUIDELINE IS FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION PROVIDES FOR AN OPT-OUT PROCEDURE. THANK YOU. CALL ON MS. EVANS? ACTUALLY I WAS GOING TO MAKE THE SAME POINT. I JUST LOOKED THIS UP. I APPRECIATE MR. WILSON'S COMMENTS. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY. BUT I ALSO LOOKED UP THE SAME GUIDELINES THAT MR. MOON DOES, AND MY UNDERSTANDING OF THESE GUIDELINES IS IT REQUIRES OPT-OUT, AND UNTIL THAT CHANGES -- I AGREE WITH ONE THING WE CAN PERHAPS DO IS BE MORE DETAILED AND FIND OTHER WAYS FOR US TO

116COMMUNICATE WITH PARENTS. I APPRECIATE MR. WILSON'S COMMENT ABOUT PARENTS WHO ARE NEW TO THIS COUNTRY, PARENTS WHERE THERE MAY BE A LANGUAGE BARRIER, AND I WOULD CERTAINLY SUPPORT ANYTHING THAT WOULD HAVE US DO BETTER, A BETTER JOB PERHAPS A MORE THOROUGH JOB OF COMMUNICATING WHAT OUR FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION INVOLVES, BUT I DON'T SEE A VALUE TO THE OPT-IN VERSUS THE OPT-OUT. I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE ON MR. WILSON'S MOTION TO AMEND THE AMENDMENT TO POST -- I'M SORRY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ONE MORE TIME. YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO RESPOND TO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS, AND I GUESS THE FIRST QUESTION REALLY IS THE QUESTION FOR OUR GENERAL COUNSEL, AND I GUESS I WOULD ASK, CAN A SCHOOL DISTRICT, MR. FOSTER, SEEK PARENTAL PERMISSION AS I'VE DESCRIBED IT? IS THAT PERMITTABLE UNDER LAW?

117YOU KNOW, MR. WILSON, I WOULD WANT TO LOOK INTO THAT. HAVING THAT QUESTION FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD SERVE THE BOARD'S INTEREST FOR ME TO ANSWER IT OFF THE CUFF. I'M PULLING UP THOSE SECTIONS HERE, AND AS MENTIONED EARLIER WHAT THE CODE PROVIDE WITHS RESPECT TO FLE IN PARTICULAR IS -- EXCUSE ME REGULATION IS OPT-OUT. I'M RELUCTANT TO JUST SHOOT FROM THE HIP. SURE. THANK YOU. MADAM CHAIR, I WOULD REQUEST A SLIGHT MODIFICATION TO MY AMENDMENT TO ADD THE LANGUAGE TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. SO THAT WE'RE ASSURED WE'RE NOT ASKING SUPERINTENDENT TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS ILLEGAL. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR GENERAL COUNSEL ISN'T ABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION WHETHER IT'S LEGAL TO ASK PERMISSION. THEN WE OUGHT TO ADD A CLARIFYING PHRASE TO MY AMENDMENT

118TO ALLOW THAT WE WILL ONLY ASK THE SUPERINTENDENT TO THE EXTENT IT'S PERMITTED BY LAW. I BELIEVE IN ORDER TO DO THAT YOU HAVE TO -- YOU NEED TO MAKE A FORMAL PROPOSAL TO DO THAT, MR. WILSON? I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECT OF THIS. I AM CONFIDENT THAT IT IS PERMITTED, AND I THINK -- IN A GENERAL SENSE THE SUPERINTENDENT IS ONLY ALLOWED TO DO THINGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW. SO I ACTUALLY THINK THAT'S A GENERAL REQUIREMENT OF OUR SUPERINTENDENT, THAT THEY OPERATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW. FOR THE SAKE. I WITHDRAW THE REQUEST. I WAS MAKING THE POINT I DO NOT THINK THERE'S ANY LIMITATION ON OUR ABILITY TO ASK PERMISSION. AFTER ALL, WE DO REQUIRE PARENTAL PERMISSION FOR FIELD TRIPS. WE DO REQUIRE PARENTAL PERMISSION FOR MEDICATIONS TO

119BE PROVIDED AND FOR GOING ON FIELD TRIPS. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DON'T THINK WE ASK -- PLEASE, LET SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SPEAK. I THINK THAT WE CAN REASONABLY ADD TO A FORM THAT ALREADY EXISTS, WHICH IS THE OPT-OUT FORM THAT ALREADY GOES HOME WITH EVERY STUDENT EVERY YEAR, A SENTENCE THAT PROVIDES THAT THE PARENT CAN SIGN TO GIVE THEIR PERMISSION FOR THEIR STUDENT TO PARTICIPATE IN FLE. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN ON THAT. WE ALREADY REQUIRE OTHER PAPERS TO COME BACK TO THE SCHOOL SIGNED BY IN FACT. BOTH THE PARENTS AND THE STUDENT. THAT'S REGARDLESS OF THAT STUDENT'S GRADE, BECAUSE I'VE HAD FOUR KIDS IN THE SYSTEM. MANY OF MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS HAVE HAD TO SCRAWL THEIR NAME ON THE FORM TO GET IT TURNED IN. MR. WILSON, I'M

120GOING TO BEGIN TO RULE SOME OF THIS OUT OF ORDER. THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR YOU IT CONTINUE TO CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE. MADAM CHAIR, I ACTUALLY SAID I WILL NOT CHANGE IT. THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO AMEND IT, YOU MAY. BUT WE NEED TO VOTE ON THESE ONE AT A TIME NOW. RATHER THAN CONTINUING TO CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO -- YOU CAN OFFER ANOTHER AMENDMENT AT THE TABLE BUT LET US VOTE ON THESE ONE AT THAT TIME. I DON'T THINK THERE'S MULTIPLE CHANGES. THERE'S JUST MY AMENDMENT. IT'S ALREADY POSTED THERE. LET'S VOTE -- THE CONVERSATION I HAD WITH OUR GENERAL COUNSEL WAS TO DISCUSS AND CLARIFY A CONCERN RAISED BY ANOTHER BOARD MEMBER. BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE DO NOT ASK PARENTS AT WHAT

121AGE THEY WOULD BE COMFORTABLE HAVING THEIR DAUGHTER LEARN ABOUT ORAL SEX. RIGHT? AND THAT. [ APPLAUSE ] THAT, MADAM CHAIR, IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD GET A PARENTAL CONSENT FOR, PERMISSION. I'M GOING TO CALL FOR A VOTE ON THIS. JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, PARENT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OPT OUT OF ALL FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION OR ANY PORTION THERE OF. I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE ON MR. WILSON'S MOTION, WHICH I WILL READ IT AGAIN. I MOVE TO AMEND THE AMENDMENT TO POST TONE TO A DATE CERTAIN TO ADD THE FOLLOW LANGUAGE TO DRK THE SUPERINTENDENT TO SECURE WRITTEN PERMISSION FLE INSTRUCTION FROM ALL PARENTS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MR. WILSON, MS. SCHULTZ. THOSE OPPOSED? EVANS, M_C_LAUGHLIN, PALCHIK, M_C_ELVEEN, CORBETT SANDERS, STRAUSS, MOON, DERERAK KAUFAX, KEYS-GAMARRA. THAT MOTION FAILS. PLEASE, I ASK THAT PEOPLE ARE QUIET. I DO

122NOT WANT TO ASK YOU TO ALL TO LEAVE. WE NEED TO MAKE OUR WAY THROUGH THESE ITEMS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE BACK TO MRS. SCHULTZ'S MOTION. YOU NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO IT. I JUST HAD THE PLEASURE OF CELEBRATING THE MANY GRADUATIONS OF STUDENTS WITH THEIR PARENTS AND FACULTY. SOME OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED STUDENTS WERE HIGHLIGHTED. BUT ALSO, THOSE WHO FACED ENORMOUS PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND ACADEMIC CHALLENGES. THOSE -- THE THRESHOLD AT COMMENCEMENT PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH UPHILL BATTLES HAD ONE THING IN COMMON, A COMMITTED CADRE OF ADULTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS ADMINISTRATORS AND COUNSELORS WORKING TOGETHER TO BENEFIT THE WHOLE CHILD. IN EACH CHILD'S GRADUATION WAS EXEMPLIFIED OUR BEST WORK. GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN OUR PRIORITIES ARE RIGHT. WHEN WE FOCUS ON SUCCESS OF CHILDREN IN THE CLASSROOM AND EFFECTIVELY WORK TO SUPPORT THEM

123IN CONCERT WITH THEIR FAMILY. ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOMENTS OF THE GRADUATIONS WAS PRINCIPAL MORRIS AT MOUNT VIEW ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL READING A LETTER WRITTEN TO HIS DAUGHTER ABOUT THE MANY CAPABILITIES OF HIS STUDENTS GRADUATING, DESPITE HAVING TO HAVE PERSEVERE IN SO MANY WAYS. IN THE LETTER HE KNIT THE STORIES OF SUPPORT BY TEACHERS AND STAFF TO STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE CHILDREN AND THE QUALITIES THE CHILDREN WE ARE GRADUATING INTO THE WORLD POSSESS, TO HIS DAUGHTER'S FUTURE AS HIS MOST PRIZED TREASURE. ANOTHER SPECIAL MOMENT WAS PRINCIPAL HAVING HIS ENTIRE PYRAMID OF PRINCIPALS COME TOGETHER TO SHARE FAVORITE QUOTES WITH GRADUATES IN A BOOK. PRECEPTS FOR LIFE DRAWN FROM THE BOOKS AND MOVIE OF THE SAME TITLE. AS HE BID FAREWELL TO THEIR FORMER STUDENTS, ONE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL SHARED, YOU DO

124NOT GET HARMONY IF EVERYONE IS SINGING FROM THE SAME NOTE. MOST PRIZED TREASURES, INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN AT THE EARLY AGE. ACADEMIC SUPPORT DESPITE CHALLENGES TO SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATE. AND IN EACH INSTANCE IN VARIOUS VENUES TEAMING WITH PARENTS AND EXTENDED FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO WATCH AND CHEER THEIR CHILD, THEIR GRANDCHILD, GODCHILD, NIECE, NEPHEW BROTHER OR SISTER GRADUATE. WE EVEN HAD TO MOVE TO THE EAGLE BANK ARENA AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY TO ACCOMMODATE PARENTS AND EXTENDED FAMILY AND FRIENDS. WE DO ALL OF THIS NOT JUST TO CELEBRATE THE STUDENTS' ACCOMPLISHMENTS BUT TO HONOR PARENTS AND THEIR ROLE AS THE PRIMARY EDUCATOR IN GUIDING THEIR OWN CHILD'S EDUCATION. THEN IN PARALLEL BEFORE US TONIGHT IS AN ACTION WHICH IS IN STARK CONTRAST. THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND THE ROLE OF A SCHOOL SYSTEM IN EDUCATING A CHILD ARE WHAT

125ARE ON THE TABLE TONIGHT. THE RESPECT FOR THE AUTHORITY OF PARENTS IN THEIR ROLE AS THE PRIMARY EDUCATOR OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN IS CENTRAL TO ANY VOTE TAKEN THIS EVENING. OTHER COMMITTEES TO THIS BOARD ON STUDENT HEALTH, ADVANCED ACADEMICS MINORITY STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND OTHER TOPICS, ARE CURRENTLY PRESENTING AT THIS TIME OF YEAR THEIR YEAR END REPORTS TO THE BOARD. THEIR MEMBERS HAVE STATED IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS TO THE BOARD THINGS LIKE, WE HAVE WORKED VERY HARD TO LOOK AT OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS IN ORDER TO COME UP WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. WE HAVE WORKED ON SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YEARS, AND WE HAVE WORKED TO SECURE RESEARCH FROM OTHER JURISDICTIONS. THOSE REPORTS OF THOSE COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN OPEN AND TRANSPARENT AND BEEN PRESENTED BY THE COMMITTEE ITSELF. THE COMMITTEES HAVE REFLECTED ANY CONCERNS THEY HAD AMONG THEIR MEMBERS

126IN AN HONEST MANNER AND SHARED WITH THE BOARD AND THE SUPERINTENDENT WHAT THEY SAW AS GOOD IN EXISTING PRACTICES. WHERE IMPROVEMENTS COULD BE MADE, AND WHERE THEY SAW IMPERATIVES FOR CHANGE. THEY DID PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY BEFORE THEY DEVELOPED RECOMMENDATIONS AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE BOARD. IN CONTRAST, THE FLECAC REPORT WAS PRESENTED BY A STAFF MEMBER. THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE NOT INCLUSIVE OF ANY OUTREACH OR ANY PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, NOR WERE THEY VETTED BY ANY MEANS WITH PARENTS AND THE COMMUNITY PRIOR TO BEING BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE BOARD. IN FACT, THE LARGE COMMITTEE 40 OR SO PEOPLE, WHICH IS LARGELY MADE UP OF SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTEES ALONG WITH ONE APPOINTEE PER BOARD MEMBER AND FOUR APPOINTEES FOR THE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE CHOSE TO FORMALLY VOTE TO KEEP THEIR INDIVIDUAL VOTES SECRET. THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS DID NOT WANT TO

127DIVULGE IF OR HOW THEY VOTED ON ANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS. SUBSEQUENT TO THE PRESENTATION BY STAFF OF THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION, A PARENT SURVEY WAS SENT OUT IN THE FINAL 30 DAYS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. DESPITE THE OBSTACLE TO OVERCOME GIVEN THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT BY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH PARENTS OR WITH ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY, THE COMPLETED RECOMMENDATIONS HAD ALREADY BEEN PRESENTED TO THE BOARD EXTRAORDINARILY THERE WAS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION THROUGH THE COURSE OF THIS ONLINE SURVEY. THE PUBLIC PERIOD ONLY CLOSED LAST FRIDAY. BY THAT POINT, I HAD ALREADY ATTENDED FOUR GRADUATIONS FOR THOUSANDS OF FCPS STUDENTS. I IMAGINE IN PREPARATION FOR THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER GRADUATING, FEW HAD A TIME TO CONSIDER ANY ONLINE PUBLIC FEEDBACK ON FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION. DAYS LATER, STAFF PROVIDED A 247-PAGE DOCUMENT WITH SOME TALLIES OF COMMENTS

128THAT WERE RECEIVED ON LINE. WE HAVE HAD NO PRESENTATION BY STAFF. THERE HAS BEEN NO ANALYSIS OTHER THAN RAW TALLIES AND THERE HAS BEEN BASICALLY NO TIME TO READ AND DISCUSS WITH EACH OTHER NEVER MIND WITH THE PUBLIC THE COMMENTS PROVIDED. OF THE 1318 COMMENTS, THOSE THAT OPPOSED EITHER A SINGLE ISSUE OR CHANGES IN THEIR ENTIRETY INCLUDE 83% OPPOSED CHANGING BIOLOGICAL SEX TO SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. 82.5% OPPOSE INCLUDING INSTRUCTION ABOUT PREP TO ALL HIGH SCHOOLERS EVERY YEAR. 100% OPPOSED REMOVING ABSTINENCE AS THE ONLY ONE 100% MEANS OF PREVENTING SDIS. 100% CLERGY AS TRUSTED ADULT IN NINTH GRADE LESSON -- OPPOSED REMOVING CLERGY AS TRUSTED ADULT SCRRKS PLEASE LET. THE VOLUME OF COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THIS SET OF FLE CHANGES ARE A DRAMATIC DEPARTURE FROM COMMENTS RECEIVED IN PREVIOUS YEARS. THE NUMBER OF COMMENTS RECEIVED

129THIS YEAR IS 1590% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR. IT IS A 5,275% INCREASE OVER THE PRIOR YEAR BEFORE THAT. AND IN THE YEAR WHEN WE EMBARKED ON ALL OF THIS IS EVEN A 235% INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF COMMENTS RECEIVED THAT YEAR. THIS ONLINE SURVEY PARTICIPATION MIRRORS ENGAGEMENT I HAVE HAD WITH PARENTS IN THE COMMUNITY. I HAVE MET WITH COMMUNITIES AND PARENTS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, CULTURES AND WHO SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. I HAVE SPOKEN TO THOSE FROM EVERY MAJOR FAITH TRADITION, WHO HAVE SHARED THEIR PRESBYTERIAN, METHODIST, CATHOLIC, SIKH AND THOSE WHO PROFESS TO BE AGNOSTIC AND EVEN ATHEIST. IT IS EVIDENT THE DESIRE TO ENGAGE INCLUDED IN WHAT THEIR SCHOOL SYSTEM TEACHES THEIR CHILD ABOUT FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION IS A SHARED VIEW BY ALL PARENTS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND. NOTABLY, THE BOARD HAS HAD NO OPPORTUNITY TO

130AWE THEN AT THISLY ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY. AND EACH OTHER ABOUT THE PARENTAL CONSENT AND PERMISSION NEEDED TO TEACH THE MATERIAL IN THE FLE CURRICULUM AS EVIDENCED BY THE PRIOR VOTE. WE REQUIRE PARENTS TO PROVIDE SIGNATURES AND AFFIRMATIVELY SIGN CONSENT ABANDON GIVE THEIR PERMISSION FOR A NUMBER OF ASPECTS FOR A CHILD'S EDUCATION. HIGH SCHOOL COURSE SELECTIONS. EMERGENCY CARE CARDS, PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION SHEETS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE STUDENTS RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITIES, THE VERY SAME R AND R WE'RE GOING TO APPROVE TONIGHT. FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIPS AND MORE. IN FACT, A MOM SHARED A STORY FROM JUST THIS WEEK. HER DAUGHTER'S THIRD GRADE PRINCIPAL CALLED HOME AND SAID SHE HAD NOT TURNED IN A STRINGS OR BANDS CLASS. VICE PRINCIPAL SENT HOME TWO FORMS WITH LOTS OF INFORMATION ON THESE MUSIC LESSONS BUT NEITHER HAD BEEN RETURNED SO THEY WERE

131NOT CERTAIN OF HER PERMISSION FOR HER DAUGHTER TO BE EXPOSED TO MUSIC LESSONS. SHE ASKED ME, SO YOU NEED -- SHE ASKED THE TEACHER, SO YOU NEED MY SIGNED INFORMED CONSENT PRIOR TO ANY MOVEMENT ON LETTING MY DAUGHTER HAVE OR HAVE NOT MUSIC LESSONS? THE ANSWER WAS YES. THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THAT THE FAILURE OF A PARENT TO OPT OUT DOES NOT EQUAL INFORMED CONSENT. AS A BOARD -- [ APPLAUSE ] AS A BOARD, WE SHOULD BE WILLING TO OPT -- ASK PARENTS TO SIGN PERMISSION AFFIRMATIVELY FOR THEIR STUDENTS TO BE ALLOWED TO TAKE FLE. NOT WAIT FOR THOSE WHO CAN FIGURE UT HOW TO OPT IT OUT. MAKE POLICY BASED ON AND IN CONCERT WITH THE PARENTS, NOT IN PLACE OF THEM OR DESPITE THEM. WE NEED TIME TO DISCUSS THE UH

132PLI INDICATIONS OF THESE FLE RECOMMENDATIONS, THE FORMAL RESULTS THAT WERE JUST DELIVERED IN THE OPEN COMMENT PERIOD THAT JUST CLOSED DAYS AGO AND ADDITIONAL COMMENTS RECEIVED OUTSIDE THE FORMAL PUBLIC COMMENT. IT WAS AN OVERWHELMING RATE SOMEWHERE 8:1 TO 100% DELIVER AN EDUCATION TO CHILDREN WHICH RESPECTS THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC WHO WE ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT. WITHOUT AUTHENTIC ENGAGEMENT TO ENGAGE PARENTS, WE ARE THREADING THE NEEDLE AND CLAIMING WHAT WE HAVE DONE MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE VIRGINIA STANDARDS WHICH STATE IN PART, THERE MUST BE EVIDENCE OF BROAD-BASED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND AN ANUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENTS AND OTHERS TO REVIEW THE CURRICULUM PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF ACTUAL INSTRUCTION. AN ANUAL SURVEY CONDUCTED ON LINE AFTER THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ALREADY DEVELOPED, VOTED ON BY THE COMMITTEE AND PRESENTED TO THE

133BOARD IS NOT BROAD-BASED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. [ APPLAUSE ] PLEASE CONTINUE. WE ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS CHARGED WITH UPHOLDING THE LAW AND SEEKING THE BEST POLICY FOR STUDENTS. WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHTS TO USE THIS OFFICE TO USURP THE AUTHORITY OF PARENTS AS THE PRIMARY EDUCATORS OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN. THE CONVERSATION STILL NEEDS TO BE HAS HAD WITH THE PUBLIC AND IS REFLECTIVE OF THE REMINDER NO HARMONY EXISTS IF THERE IS ONLY ONE NOTE. THERE IS NO HARMONY. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT. MR. WILSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND? [ APPLAUSE ] PLEASE LET MR. WILSON SPEAK. MR. WILSON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I SECOND THIS MOTION MADE BY MS. SCHULTZ BECAUSE OF THE OVERWHELMING PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WAS RECEIVED. THIS IS A BINDER OF THE NEARLY 247 PAGES OF COMMENTS THAT WERE RECEIVED

134DURING THE COMMENT PERIOD IN WHICH I WOULD GUESS THAT NONE OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO EVEN READ THROUGH LET ALONE HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT -- I CERTAINLY DID NOT THIS WEEK WITH GRADUATIONS, MY OWN SON GRADUATING AND PREPARING FOR GRADUATION PARTY IN ADDITION TO MANY OTHER COMMITMENTS. BUT I MENTIONED IN MY INITIAL REMARKS THAT THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS VERY BROKEN. AND ONE OF THE NUMBERS THAT I THINK POINTS THIS OUT WITH EXTREME CLARITY IS THAT WHEN THE PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE SUBMITTED, THE 100% OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS OPPOSED A DECISION BY THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE BY A VOTE OF 23-3 IN FAVOR, THERE IS LITERALLY 180-DEGREES DIAMETRIC OPPOSITION BETWEEN WHAT THE COMMITTEE WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO REFLECT OUR COMMUNITY BELIEVES AND WHAT THE COMMUNITY WHEN ASKED TO GIVE COMMENTS

135PROVIDED. AND I KNOW THAT IS ALMOST TOO HARD -- ALMOST TOO SHOCKING OF A NUMBER TO BELIEVE. IN FACT, 100% OF THE COMMUNITY OBJECTED TO THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE REMOVED CLERGY FROM THE LIST OF TRUSTED ADULTS FROM THE FLE CURRICULUM. I'M SURE MY COLLEAGUES LATER WILL PUT THAT BACK IN BECAUSE 100% OF THE COMMUNITY TOLD THEM NO. WE SHOULDN'T GET TO THAT POINT WHERE WE HAVE TO GET A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WHERE 100% OF THE PEOPLE TELL US, YOU'RE HEADING DOWN THE WRONG PATH BEFORE WE MAKE A CHANGE. WE NEED TO LISTEN. WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, AND WE NEED TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF OUR COMMUNITY. [ APPLAUSE ] MS. EVANS, DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO THIS? MS. EVANS? THANK YOU. I AM GOING TO OPPOSE THIS AMENDMENT. I

136DO WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT THIS IS -- THE AMENDMENT IS TO POSTPONE A DECISION UNTIL OCTOBER. THAT'S SIMPLY NOT NECESSARY. I WANT TO GO THROUGH WHERE WE HAVE BEEN WITH. THIS A YEAR AGO, THE SCHOOL BOARD ASKED THE FLECAC COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE ENTIRE CURRICULUM. AND OUR FLECAC COMMITTEE IS TO BE COMMENDED FOR THEIR VERY, VERY THOROUGH JOB THEY DID. MY OWN -- I'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH MY OWN APPOINTEE WHO HAS BEEN ON THAT COMMITTEE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE. I PARTICULARLY APPRECIATE HER WORK ON THAT COMMITTEE. WE USUALLY I WANTED TO REMIND THOSE WHO WATCH THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT TYPICALLY WE PUT SOMETHING ON AS NEW BUSINESS AT ONE BOARD MEETING AND AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, WE VOTE ON THAT. WE PUT IT ON AS NEW BUSINESS SO PEOPLE CAN REVIEW,

137AND THEN AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, WE TYPICALLY HAVE IT AS AN ACTION ITEM. IN THE CASE OF FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION, WE POSTED THIS MORE THAN A MONTH AGO ON MAY 10_TH_, SO THE PUBLIC COULD HAVE MORE TIME TO REVIEW IT, SO WE COULD HAVE MORE TIME TO REVIEW IT. WE HAD A VERY THOROUGH DISCUSSION AT OUR WORK SESSION ON MAY 14_TH_ AS WELL. IT WAS AT THAT -- DURING THAT CONVERSATION THAT SEVERAL OF US AGREED THAT THERE WAS NO REASON TO REMOVE THE WORD CLERGY AND OTHER TRUSTED ADULTS. THERE WERE OTHER THINGS ON THAT LIST THAT THE COMMITTEE HAD SUGGESTED THEY PERHAPS COULD REMOVE TO CLEAN UP THE LANGUAGE, BUT THERE WAS NO REAL LANGUAGE SOME OF US BELIEVE TO REMOVE THAT. SO I WILL BE SUPPORTING MR. MOON'S AMENDMENT LATER ON IN THIS

138PROCESS. BUT MY POINT ON THIS AMENDMENT IS THAT WE HAVE HAD QUITE A BIT OF OPPORTUNITY. WE HAVE HAD MORE REVIEW OF THIS THEN WE TYPICALLY DO. WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM OUR COMMUNITIES. WE'VE BEEN HEARING -- THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE COME OUT. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU VOICE YOUR VIEW, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR VIEW IS, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR PERSPECTIVE IS, AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HEAR FROM ALL OF YOU. BUT WE HAVE HEARD FROM ALL OF YOU AND WE HAVE BEEN FOR MANY, MANY MONTHS. WE'VE HAD QUITE A FEW EMAILS AND WE'VE HEARD SPEAKERS FOR MONTHS. WE'VE BEEN HAVING SPEAKERS COME AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO THAT. BUT I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE HAD PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY. YES, WE DID GET

139A REPORT THAT BOTH SUMMARIZE THE COMMUNITY COMMENTS AND GAVE US ALL OF THE COMMUNITY COMMENTS AS WELL. VERY, VERY CLOSELY MIRROR WHAT WE HAVE HEARD OVER QUITE A FEW MONTHS. SO I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE HAD AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC AND I DO NOT SUPPORT THE LANGUAGE. PLEASE, BOARD MEMBERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HE SPEAK. NEXT I WILL CALL ON MS. CORBETT SANDERS. THANK YOU, MS. EVANS, FOR SETTING THE STAGE OF HOW WE GOT HERE BECAUSE THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE WE ACTUALLY BEGAN THIS PROCESS OVER A YEAR AGO, AND WE BEGAN IT WITH A DISCUSSION IN A FORUM THAT TALKED ABOUT WHAT WAS IN THE HEALTH CURRICULUM VERSUS WHAT WAS IN THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM AND WHETHER OR NOT OUR FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM REFLECTED AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY, AND WHAT NEEDED

140TO BE IN FAMILY LIFE VERSUS HEALTH AS WELL AS INSURE THAG PEOPLE THAT HAD THE TIME -- INSURING THAT PEOPLE WHAT HAD THE TIME AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO AT THAT DEEP DIVE ON WHAT WAS IN THE CURRICULUM AND HAVE THOSE ROBUST DISCUSSIONS. SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. WE REFERRED THIS TO THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THAT IS AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND NOT TO THE SCHOOL BOARD. PLEASE LET BOARD MEMBERS SPEAK. ALTHOUGH -- AND THIS IS WHY THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS STAFF PRESENTS THE REPORT TO THE FULL BOARD. IT IS NOT AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD. SECONDLY, THE MAKEUP OF THAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT MY APPOINTEE IS SOMEBODY WHO IS A MOM, WHO IS A GRANDMOTHER, WHO HAS CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS AND TAKES HER ROLE

141VERY SERIOUSLY, SO SERIOUSLY THAT SHE NOT ONLY FOCUSES ON HER OWN REVIEW BUT REACHES OUT TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND TALKS ABOUT IT. I'VE ALSO DESPITE WHAT SOME MIGHT SAY, HAVE SPENT TIME IN MY COMMUNITY TALKING TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND FAITH-BASED LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY. FAITH-BASED LEADERS THAT REPRESENT ALL DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND ALL DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO HOW THEY HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR CONGREGATIONS AS WELL AS HOW THEY ENCOURAGE THEIR MEMBERS OF THEIR CONGREGATION TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN FAITH. SO THIS IS ONE WHERE I BELIEVE PRETTY STRONGLY THAT WE'VE DONE THE CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE SPOKEN TO OUR MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITY. THAT IS WHAT EACH ONE OF US DOES AS INDIVIDUALS, AS WELL AS HAVING A ROBUST DISCUSSION ABOUT ALL THE SAME TOPICS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT AT A WORK

142SESSION. PLEASE, AUDIENCE. AND SO I WOULD URGE THAT WE DON'T CONTINUE TO DELAY BUT THAT WE GO AHEAD AND ADOPT THE REPORT WITH THE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE BEING DISCUSSED TONIGHT. MS. M_C_LAUGHLIN AND THEN I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. MR. WILSON? AND THAT WILL BE THE LAST GO BACK AND I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. THANK YOU. I WANT TO REINFORCE THE COMMENTS SHARED BY MS. EVANS AND MS. CORBETT SANDERS. THIS BOARD DID AT ITS WORK SESSION TALK ABOUT THE MERITS OF MAINTAINING THE TERM "CLERGY" IN THE LANGUAGE. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS RECOMMENDED BY FLE AGAIN FROM A STREAMLINE POINT OF VIEW, ONCE YOU START TO NAME OFF TRUSTED ADULTS KIDS COULD THINK OF MAYBE YOU'RE GOING TO FORGET OTHERS THAT YOU SHOULD SITE IN THERE. AS A SOCIAL WORKER I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE IT IS

143IMPORTANT WE ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE TO REACH OUT AND TALK TO TRUSTED ADULTS. IT MAY GO BEYOND ONE'S PARENTS OR LOVED ONES. SO IT WAS MR. MOON AT THAT WORK SESSION WHO SAID FOR MANY FAMILIES AND FOR MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, CLERGY OR A TRUSTED COUNSELOR IS SOMEONE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND STILL MAINTAIN IN OUR LANGUAGE. AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING IS HERE TONIGHT, AND IT'S NOT SIMPLY BECAUSE IT TOOK ONLY THE COMMUNITY INPUT THAT MR. WILSON JUST CITED BUT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD WAS VERY MINDFUL OF AND DID SPEAK ABOUT JUST OVER A MONTH AGO. THE OTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO SPEAK TO IN TERMS OF MS. SCHULTZ'S AMENDMENT BEFORE US IS THAT IT'S EVIDENT IN THE 6 1/2 YEARS I'VE BEEN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT WE NOT

144ONLY REPRESENT A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF 1. 1 MILLION PEOPLE. BUT YOU HAVE 12 ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MANY DIFFERENT ISSUES WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A DIVERSITY PERSPECTIVE AS WELL. I WILL TELL YOU IN MY TIME ON THE BOARD, WHAT HAS BEEN MOST IMPORTANT FOR ME IS TO SHOW RESPECT AND COURTESY TO EVERY ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES. EVEN IF I SEE SOMETHING IN A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW. SO WHEN IT COMES TO THIS ISSUE HERE BEFORE US TONIGHT, I THINK SOMETHING THAT WE'VE LOST -- AND I'M GOING TO ASK DR. BRABRAND AS OUR SUPERINTENDENT GETTING HIS FIRST YEAR UNDER OUR BELT WE NEED TO DO BETTER WITH THE COMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO THE FLE ANNUAL RECOMMENDATIONS. AS LEADERS, WE NEED TO REASSURE YOU THAT WHEN WE TAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS COMING FROM OUR FLECAC WHO ARE DEVOTED,

145WELL-INTENTIONED VOLUNTEERS WHO SPENT A LOT OF TIME REVIEWING THE INFORMATION AND GIVING US THEIR BEST RECOMMENDATION. JUST AS MS. SCHULTZ NOTED WITH EVERY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WE DO THEN LOOK TO OUR SUPERINTENDENT, AND WE LOOK TO THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS WHO MAKE UP PART OF HIS ADMINISTRATION. AND WHEN IT COMES TO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT HERE TONIGHT, THIS BOARD DOESN'T TAKE LIGHTLY THAT WE'RE JUST GOING TO VOTE WHERE THE LOUDEST VOICES CAME IN, AS MS. HYNES NOTED. SHE'S GOT 130,000 PEOPLE IN HER DISTRICT ALONE. YES, WE HEARD FROM SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY INPUT PERIOD, AND EVEN WITH THOUSANDS, IT'S NOT THE 1. 1 MILLION WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY. THAT AGAIN HELPS TO INFORM THE BOARD AND UNDERSTAND WHERE OUR COMMUNITY IS, BUT IN THE END, I BELIEVE THAT WHEN I

146WAS ELECTED TO THIS SCHOOL BOARD, THE RESIDENTS OF BRADDOCK DISTRICT WANTED M HE TO FOCUS ON, HOW DO WE FIND BEST PRACTICE, AND HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT WHAT WE BRING TO THE EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION TO OUR CHILDREN IS BASED ON THAT BEST PRACTICE? AND SO AT THAT WORK SESSION A MONTH AGO, I SPECIFICALLY ASKED OUR STAFF. SAID I WANT TO TAKE THE HEAT OFF THE FLECAC ADVISORY COMMITTEE. IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE COMMITTEE. THEY BROUGHT RECOMMENDATIONS FORWARD AND THAT'S WHAT'S BEING DESCRIBED HERE TONIGHT BUT IT COMES WITH THE SUPPORT AND ENDORSEMENT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS. AND IT IS FROM THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO KNOW THIS SUBJECT MATTER FAR BETTER THAN -- PLEASE LET SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS SPEAK. PLEASE. AS A SCHOOL DIVISION, WE LOOK TO OUR ADMINISTRATEORS AS EDUCATIONAL EXPERTS. WE CERTAINLY

147DO RESPECT PARENTS. ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF FLE IS THAT IT IS AN OPT-OUT. BECAUSE WE DO WANT TO RESPECT OUR FAMILIES. THAT IF YOU FEEL THAT THIS MATERIAL IS TOO SENSITIVE FOR YOU TO HAVE YOUR CHILDREN LEARNING IN A SCHOOL SETTING, YOU SHOULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO OPT YOUR CHILD OUT. AS SHARED BY OUR STAFF, WE WILL THEN GIVE THEM NON-FLE HEALTH INSTRUCTIONS SO THOSE STUDENTS WILL STILL HAVE THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING. IF OUR SCHOOL DIVISION AS WE ALWAYS SHOULD, LOOK TO ITS CONTINUAL USUALLY IMPROVE, I WELCOME THAT ABSOLUTELY. AS OF NOW, I DO BELIEVE THE VOTERS HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, THE RESIDENTS HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY WANT TO ENSURE THAT THIS BOARD OF 12 IS GOING TO MAKE OUR DECISION NOT BASED ON SIMPLY COMMUNITY INPUT ALONE BUT WHAT DO OUR EDUCATIONAL EXPERTS

148TELL US IS THE BEST WAY TO DELIVER INSTRUCTION AND FAMILIES CAN THEN MAKE CHOICES. SO FOR THAT REASON, I'M NOT GOING TO BE VOTING TO DELAY AT THIS TIME. THERE ARE MORE GO-BACKS. [ APPLAUSE ] I WILL RECOGNIZE A BRIEF GO-BACK FROM MR. WILSON AND MRS. SCHULTZ AND THEN WE WILL COME TO A VOTE. THERE ARE MORE AMENDMENTS TO CONSIDER AND MORE CONVERSATION THAT WILL BE IN ORDER. SO MR. WILSON, A BRIEF GO-BACK AND MS. SCHULTZ. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I GUESS THE FIRST THING I WANT TO ADD MY TWO CENTS ON THE HISTORY OF THIS AS WELL. IN FACT IN 2016 ONE THE BOARD MEMBERS ON THE BOARD CAME TO A FORUM, WHICH IS OUR MEETING WHERE WE -- IT'S A PUBLIC MEETING AT WHICH TIME WE TALK ABOUT TOPICS THAT COULD COME FORWARD

149TO THE BOARD AND SHE PUT FORWARD A PROPOSAL THAT THE BOARD SHOULD HOLD A WORK SESSION OR MULTIPLE WORK SESSIONS WHERE WE COULD SECURE PUBLIC INPUT AND REVIEW THE NEW CURRICULUM, WHICH HAD ALREADY INCORPORATED MANY, MANY CHANGES THAT ARE BEING DISCUSSED TONIGHT. AT THE BOARD AT THAT TIME DECIDED TO SEND IT TO THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AT THE TIME, OF COURSE I HAD TO EXPERIENCE WITH THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION COMMITTEE AND DIDN'T KNOW WHO WAS ON IT. I HAVE TO SAY AND AS I SAID THIS EARLIER, THAT COMMITTEE IS BROKEN. IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE OTHER COMMENT THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT REASONABLE PEOPLE HOLDING REASONABLE BELIEFS AND OPINIONS THAT ARE LONG HELD IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE THEIR INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE IN THIS DISCUSSION.

150HERE IS WHAT APPEARED TO BE HAPPENING. IT APPEARS THAT THERE ARE NUMEROUS COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO ARE OPENLY HOSTILE TO PEOPLE OF FAITH AND DISPLAY HATEFUL RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY. WHILE IT IS AN AMERICAN FREEDOM, RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IS NOT ALLOW IN OUR SCHOOL-RELATED ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND MEMBERS. [ APPLAUSE ] I JUST THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN -- THAT YOU CAN'T JUST TOSS OUT REASONABLENESS WHEN YOU SAY, WELL THEY ALSO ARE A PERSON OF FAITH. THAT DEFINITION INCLUDES PROBABLY MORE THAN HALF OF FAIRFAX COUNTY RESIDENTS. THEY HAVE CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS, AND WE NEED TO RESPECT THEIR RIGHTS. WE CAN DO A LITTLE BETTER SIMPLY BY GIVING US A LITTLE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS THIS AS A COMMUNITY. SO I WILL SUPPORT THE EXTENSION. MS. SCHULTZ? ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS TO ELIMINATE

151AND REMOVE CLERGY AS A TRUSTED INDIVIDUAL UNDER THE GUISE WELL, IT'S COVERED SOMEPLACE ELSE SO WE DON'T NEED TO LIST THIS TITLE ANYMORE UNDER TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS. WE'RE GOING TO PULL CLERGY OUT. IT'S GOING TO APPEAR IN A LATER AMENDMENT BECAUSE THERE WAS SUCH A REACTION IN THE COMMUNITY. AS I STATED EARLIER ARE OF THOSE WHO PROVIDED COMMENTS ON AN INDIVIDUAL ISSUE OR THE OVERARCHING ISSUE IN THE ONLINE SURVEY, 100% OF THE PEOPLE WHO PROVIDED A COMMENT ON THIS SPECIFIC ISSUE SAID THEY DID NOT AGREE WITH REMOVING CLERGY. BUT ALSO THAT SAME STATISTIC APPLIES TO REMOVING ABSTINENCE AS THE ONLY 100% EFFECTIVE METHOD OF PROVIDING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND INFECTIONS. IF WE'RE GOING TO AMEND FOR CLERGY, THEN WHY WOULDN'T WE ALSO AMEND FOR ABSTINENCE. IF 100 IS THE THRESHOLD, 100% IS THE THRESHOLD. [ APPLAUSE

152] BUT FOR SOME REASON WE'RE ONLY GOING TO CULL OUT THAT ONE CHANGE. IS 83% NOT GOOD ENOUGH? OR 8.2% NOT ENOUGH? IS 8 TO 1 NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR US TO LISTEN TO. THE MOST IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL EXPERTS THAT WE SHOULD BE LISTENING TO ARE PARENTS. [ APPLAUSE ] MS. KEYS-GAMARRA HAS ASKED TO SPEAK, AND SHE HAS NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. I WILL CALL ON YOU, AND WE WILL CALL FOR VOTE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, I WANTED TO ASK STAFF. MS. SCHULTZ HAD MENTIONED ABSTINENCE. WE HAD DISCUSSIONS WHY IT HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT IS NOT THE MOST ACCURATE TERM. I'M NOT SURE SOMEONE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THAT AS TO THE REASONING BEHIND THAT PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATION. SO THERE ARE OTHER WAYS THAT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS CAN BE TRANSMITTED, NOT JUST THROUGH SEXUAL

153ACTIVITY SUCH AS DURING CHILDBIRTH, BREAST MILK AND OTHER AVENUES IN THE CURRICULUM WHERE INFECTIONS ARE STRICTLY TRANSMITTED SEXUALLY, THAT WILL STILL BE PART OF THE CURRICULUM, WHEREVER IT'S APPROPRIATE. AND WHERE THERE ARE OTHER MODALITIES THAT MAY OCCUR THAT TRANSMIT IT, WE PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. SO AM I CORRECT IN MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT PARTICULAR PHRASE WAS DEEMED TO NOT BE THE MOST ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF HOW THESE DISEASES ARE TRANSFERRED? CORRECT. FOR SOME OF THESE INFECTIONS, THERE ARE MULTIPLE WAYS BEYOND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED. OKAY. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE. ON MRS. SCHULTZ'S MOTION TO POSTPONE TO A DAIFT CERTAIN, WHICH IS OCTOBER 11. THAT IS THE MOTION ON THE TABLE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? MR. WILSON, MS. SCHULTZ. THOSE OPPOSED? EVANS, PALCHIK, McELVEEN, SANDERS, STRAUSS, MOON, M_C_LAUGHLIN, DERERAK KAUFAX, KEYS-GAMARRA. THAT MOTION FAILS. I WILL

154CALL ON MR. MOON FOR AN AMENDMENT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I MOVE TO STRIKE THE SECOND TO THE LAST SENTENCE IN 9.6-HGD WHICH STAND FOR HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND RECOMMEND CHANGE FOR GRADE 9 AND REPLACE IT WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. STUDENTS WITH QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY WILL BE ADVISED TO TALK WITH A PARENT OR OTHER TRUSTED SUCH AS MEMBERS OF CLERGY AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. SECOND BY MS. CORBETT SANDERS. MR. MOON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION? I REMIND MY COLLEAGUES TO TEND TO YOUR LIGHTS. MR. MOON. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. JUST BRIEFLY, AT SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE ALREADY TOUCHED UPON WHY, WHEN I INITIALLY PROPOSED THIS AMENDMENT, IT WAS ABOUT A MONTH AGO WHEN THIS FIRST CAME UP FOR DISCUSSION. I WAS NOT

155THE ONLY ONE. EVEN THOUGH I BROUGHT IT UP FIRST, THERE WASN'T ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBER -- THEY WERE ALL SUPPORTIVE OF THIS. I WANT TO THANK MS. COLCHECK AT THE TIME. YOU ASKED ME TO INCLUDE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS ASK PART THE AMENDMENT. I APPRECIATE THAT. THAT IS WHY I HAVE THAT ONE. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE INTENT BEHIND THE FLECAC'S RECOMMENDATION ABOUT TRYING TO CLEAR UP THE LANGUAGE, TRYING TO SIMPLIFY THE LANGUAGE BUT AT THE SAME TIME I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT HAVE CREATED UNDESIRABLE MISUNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE IN THE RESPECTING MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY. IN ORDER TO AVOID THAT, I WANT THE MEMBERS, LANGUAGE OF CLERGY BACK INTO THE LESSON. THAT'S WHAT MY AMENDMENT IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE. MS. CORBETT SANDERS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND? SURE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THANK YOU,

156MR. MOON, FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE WORK SESSION. I THINK ALL OF US -- IT WAS A UNANIMOUS VOTE AT THE WORK SESSION THAT WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. I JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION AND HOW IT'S CHANGED OVER THE YEARS TO REFLECT A MORE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS BECOMING IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, COMMONWEALTH IN VIRGINIA AND NATIONALLY. INCLUSIVITY IS A GOOD THING. IT VALUES EVERY PERSON FOR THE PERSON THEY ARE AND NOT BY THEIR APPEARANCE, THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER OR PLACES THEY ARE WORSHIP. WE DON'T CALL THIS CURRICULUM SEX EDUCATION BECAUSE IT IS MORE ABOUT -- IT IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST CO-HABITATION. IT IS ABOUT MAKING HEALTHY LIFE CHOICES SO YOUR STUDENTS CAN GROW INTO ADULTHOOD AND OBTAIN AND REACH THEIR POTENTIAL AS HUMAN

157BEINGS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITY. HOWEVER, NONE OF US CAN DO THIS ALONE. WE ARE SOCIAL BEINGS THAT REQUIRE SUPPORT FROM OUR FAMILY AND TRUSTED MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. ALL OF US HAVE TIMES IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE SEEK GUIDANCE FROM OTHERS. IT IS IN THOSE TIMES THAT I BELIEVE AND HAVE EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY, A MEMBER OF THE CLERGY IS THE TRUSTED ADULT TO WHICH A STUDENT SHOULD TURN TO. AS WE WRESTLE WITH THESE VERY DIFFICULT ISSUES BEFORE US, I HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY FROM ACROSS THE RELIGIOUS SPECTRUM THAT HAVE REACHED OUT AND VOICED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS. CLERGY PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN GUIDING OUR YOUTH AND PROVIDE SUPPORTS FOR THEM DURING AT THAT PERIOD IN THEIR LIVES WHEN THEY ARE TESTING INDEPENDENCE FROM

158THEIR PARENTS AND DEFINING WHO THEY ARE AS INDIVIDUALS. IT IS BECAUSE OF THAT TRUSTED RELATIONSHIP THAT A MEMBER OF THE CLERGY MAYBE BEST SUITED TO REINFORCE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY, UNDERSTANDING ONE'S OWN ROLE IN SOCIETY AND HOW TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS AND THE VALUES OF FORGIVENESS OF ONE'S SATISFY AND OTHERS SWELL GUIDANCE ON HUMAN SEXUALITY AND COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS AND IN THE CON SECTION AND VALUE OF ONE'S RELIGION. I VERY HAPPILY SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT. MOTORCYCLE PALCHIK DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK? YES. I APPRECIATE MR. MOON ADDING HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO YOUR AMENDMENT. I DO AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR STUDENTS TO HAVE MULTIPLE ADULTS THEY CAN TURN TO. I ALSO WANT TO ADD THAT ONE OF THE REASONS I WILL NOT SUPPORT OPTING OUT IS BECAUSE WE HEARD ABOUT THE FAMILIES

159WHO -- WE'RE ASSUMING FAMILIES IMMIGRANTS LIKE MY OWN WILL NATURALLY WANT TO OPT OUT, AND WILL BE LEFT OUT -- AND ARE BEING LEFT OUT OF AN OPT-OUT PORTION OF DOING. THIS I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE FAMILIES ON BOTH SIDES AND FAMILIES, DIVERSE FAMILIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE. IN ADDITION THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT PLACES THAT STUDENTS CAN TURN TO FOR SUPPORT. AS A YOUNG WOMAN, I RECEIVED A LOT OF GUIDANCE FROM MY CLERGY. HOWEVER, WHENEVER IT WAS ISSUES RELATED TO THIS CURRICULUM, IT WAS TO A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER THAT I FELT MORE COMFORTABLE TO TURN TO. SO I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT IF WE WANT TO CLARIFY AND ADD BACK IN SOME OF THOSE ADULT THAT STUDENTS CAN TURN TO THAT WE DO INCLUDE BOTH CLERGY AND HEALTH

160CARE PROVIDERS. AND I DO APPRECIATE ALL THE CLERGY WHO ARE HERE TONIGHT AND THOSE WHO WORK IN THE COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO MAYBE DO NOT HAVE EXTENDED FAMILY NEARBY. I WILL SUPPORT THIS WITH THAT INCLUSION. THANK YOU, MR. MOON. THANK YOU, I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE ON MR. MOON'S AMENDMENT WHICH ADDS BACK IN OTHER TRUSTED ADULTS SUCH AS MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS WITH MR. WILSON AWAY FROM THE TABLE. I WILL CALL ON MR. MOON FOR ANOTHER AMENDMENT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I MOVE TO STRIKE THE LAST SENTENCE IN 10.6, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE -- CHANGES FOR GRADE 10 AND REPLACE IT WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. STUDENTS WITH QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION

161OR GENDER IDENTITY WILL BE ADVISED TO TALK WITH A PARENT OR OTHER TRUSTED ADULT SUCH AS MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED BY MS. CORBETT SANDERS. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO-- I DON'T THINK I NEED IT REPEAT THE SAME THING I ALREADY SAID. OKAY. THIS IS SIMPLY PUTTING THE LANGUAGE BACK IN AT THE APPROPRIATE LESSON IN GRADE 10. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THIS AMENDMENT? THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS WITH MR. WILSON AWAY FROM THE TABLE. THANK YOU. THAT PASSES. NEXT I WILL CALL ON MS. CORBETT SANDERS FOR AN AMENDMENT. I MOVE TO AMEND LESSON OBJECTIVES 10.7, 11.3 AND 12.1 TO ADD INSTRUCTION WILL INCLUDE BYSTANDER AWARENESS AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES. SECOND BY MR. McELVEEN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MOTION? YES, THANK YOU. STATISTICALLY 1 IN

1625 WOMEN AND 1 IN 67 MEN WILL BE RAPED OR EXPERIENCE ATTEMPTED RAPE IN THEIR LIFETIME. MORE WILL EXPERIENCE SEXUAL HARASSMENT AS HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED IN THE NUMEROUS STORIES BEING SHARED IN THE ME TOO MOVEMENT. OFTENTIMES THEY OCCUR IN EYE SHOT OF BYSTANDERS WHO KNOW THE VICTIM OR AGGRESSOR OR DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. THEY CHOOSE NOT TO INTERVENE. THE REASON THEY CHOOSE NOT TO INTERVENE ARE WELL DOCUMENTED TO INCLUDE THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS OF AN ONGOING ASSAULT, THEY DID NOT WANT TO CALL ATPTION TO THEMSELVES OR BREACH SOCIAL NORMS. THEY EXPECTED SOMEONE ELSE TO STEP IN. HOWEVER, WHAT WE KNOW FROM 20 YEARS OF RESEARCH IS BYSTANDER INTERVENTION IS AN IMPORTANT STEP IN CHANGING THE PARADIGM OF CHANGING SEXUALITY -- TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY. BYSTANDER EDUCATION HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED

163RATES OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES. MANY OF WHICH INTRODUCE THE PROGRAMS BECAUSE OF TITLE IX VIOLATIONS. OTHERS INTRODUCE PROGRAMS IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDIES THAT OCCURRED IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. ONE SUCH IS UVA IN THE AFTERMATH OF HANNA GRAHAMS ABDUCTION AND MURDER. HANNA'S PARENTS WORKED WITH THE UVA TO INTRODUCE BYSTANDER TRAINING ON CAMPUS. HER MOTHER APPROACHED ME ABOUT INTRODUCING THESE PROGRAMS AT AN EARLIER AGE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM. WE MET WITH DR. PAYNE AND SHARED THE RESEARCH SHOWN THAT INTERDEUTIONING THESE PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS DECREASES ASSAULTS. I WAS GLAD THIS WAS TAKEN UP BY THE FLECAC AND INTRODUCED INTO THE NINTH GRADE CURRICULUM. STUDIES SHOW TO BE MOST EFFECTIVE THE EDUCATION NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED IN ALL FOUR YEARS OF THE A STUDENT'S HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. THEREFORE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS INTRODUCED. THANK

164YOU. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND. YES, MADAM CHAIR. OVER THE PAST YEAR OR AT LEAST PAST 6 MONTHS THIS BOARD HAS BEEN LASER FOCUSSED ON ISSUES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT LIKE MANY OF US IN SOCIETY. THIS YEAR, THROUGH WORK SESSIONS AN OTHER METHODS, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH STAFF TO FIND OTHER WAYS TO EDUCATION OUR STUDENTS ON THESE ISSUES. I'M PARTICULARLY GRATEFUL TO MS. CORBETT SANDERS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND FINDING MISSION IN THIS DOCUMENT. SO I'M GLAD WE'RE ADDING IT BACK IN. I'M ALSO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORK WITH THE GRAHAM FAMILY. I DO BELIEVE THAT FAIRFAX DOES BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE HANNAH GRAHAM INCIDENT BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE PROGRAMS THAT TRAINED OUR STUDENTS ON HOW TO SELF-DEFEND AND HOW TO HANDLE ISSUES OF BYSTANDER AWARENESS. THE MORE WE CAN

165EDUCATE OUR STUDENTS ON THIS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, THE BERTHER THEY WILL BE PREPARED -- BETTER THEY WILL BE PREPARED FOR FUTURE. MS. SCHULTZ. I GUESS I HAVE A QUESTION. IF THIS CONVERSATION WAS HAD OVER A YEAR AGO, THEN WHY DIDN'T THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION STAFF AND COMMITTEE CONSIDER THIS? WHY IS THIS -- I MEAN, IT'S NOT THAT THIS ISN'T GOOD LANGUAGE BUT WE'RE LITERALLY CREATING A -- YOU'RE SHAKING HER HEAD NO. WHY WASN'T IT IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE IS MY QUESTION? MS. SCHULTZ, IT WAS JUST FOR NINTH GRADE. AND WHAT WE'VE FOUND IS -- BUT THAT'S MY QUESTION. ON THE ONE HAND, ALL THE ARGUMENTS THIS EVENING HAVE BEEN WE NEED TO RELINQUISH OUR UNDERSTANDING TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE EXPERTS. BUT NOW WE'RE SITTING AT THE TABLE SAYING, OH,

166NO, THE EXPERTS SAY IT'S ALL FOUR YEARS. AND I DON'T DISAGREE. I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY A COMMON SENSE DISCUSSION TO BE HAD AT THE TABLE, BUT THE IRONY IS THAT WHEN THIS BOARD DISCUSSES THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE, DEPENDING ON WHO DISCUSSES THEM, THEN IT'S LIKE, OH WE JUST GOT THIS AMENDMENT TODAY, WE CAN'T POSSIBLY DISCUSS IT. THIS WAS SOMETHING FOR A YEAR WAS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, AND WE'RE RELINQUISHING AND RELYING ON SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AND YET THE COMMITTEE AND OUR EXPERTS STAFF DIDN'T RECOMMEND IT FOR ALL FOUR YEARS. AND SO THIS IS, YOU KNOW, AN ICING ON THE CAKE TO MAKE THIS -- THIS INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO ALL FOUR YEARS, BUT THERE IS A DISAN ANS THAT WE DECIDE AT THE TABLE THAT THIS IS WHAT'S BEST. NOW WE'RE SUBSTITUTING OUR JUDGMENT FOR THE

167COMMITTEE. WE'RE SUBSTITUTING OUR JUDGMENT FOR THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS ON STAFF AND WE'RE DECIDING EXTRANEOUSLY YES COMMON SENSE BECAUSE WE'RE DECIDING. WE CAN'T JIVE THE LOGIC WHAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED UP TO THIS POINT THIS EVENING AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SAY, BUT ON THIS ONE THING, ON THIS ONE THING WE KNOW BETTER. WE KNOW BETTER THAN THE COMMITTEE. AND WE KNOW BETTER THAN PARENTS ANT SUBJECT MATTERS EXPERTS ON STAFF. IT'S JUST -- IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE IRONY ON SOMETHING THAT IS SUCH COMMON SENSE. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED AT UVA. I DO THINK THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND CERTAINLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THAT'S WHY THIS MAKES SENSE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE LOGIC BEHIND IT IS SEVERELY FLAWED. M_C_LAUGHLIN? I

168JUST WANT TO THANK MS. CORBETT SANDERS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. WITH WHAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT BRAIN RESEARCH IS THAT OFTENTIMES IT TAKES HEARING THE INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE SETTINGS IN ORDER FOR THE BRAIN TO STORE IT INTO LONG-TERM MEMORY. AND SO THE ABILITY OF DELIVERING THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION OVER FOUR YEARS ONLY MEANS TO REINFORCE SOMETHING THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. ALSO, THE MAJORITY -- MATURITY LEVEL LESSEN -- AND AS THEY DEVELOP MORE LIFE AWARENESS, THIS REMINDER AND THIS REINFORCEMENT OF HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO LOOK AT THINGS LIKE BYSTANDER AWARENESS AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES. IT'S IMPERATIVE. I APPRECIATE WHAT MS. SCHULTZ IS SAYING ARE WE NOW SUBSTITUTING OUR OWN DECISION-MAKING IN PLACE OF STAFF AND FLECAC? I WILL REITERATE BY ALL OF MY VOTES HERE THIS EVENING. AT ANY GIVEN TIME, OUR SUPERINTENDENT WHO THIS BOARD HIRED AND

169SAID, YOU ARE TO OPERATE THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM ALONG WITH YOUR STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION, IF THEY DISAGREED WITH MS. CORBETT SANDERS AMENDMENT AND GAVE THEIR EVIDENCE-BASED RATIONALE FOR WHY THIS WOULD BE A BAD THING, THEN I THINK WE WOULD BE HAVING THAT CONVERSATION AT THE BOARD TABLE. THEY DON'T DISAGREE. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THEY SAW IT AS AN IMPROVEMENT TO LESSONS WE'RE ALREADY DOING, JUST OFFERING THEM IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS. SO FOR THIS, I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE SUPPORTING. MS. KEYS-GAMARRA. YES. I THANK MS. CORBETT SANDERS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. AS MR. M_C_ELVEEN MENTIONED, WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT THIS YEAR WITH RESPECT TO ISSUES IMPACTED BY SEXUAL ASSAULT AND REALLY COMING INTO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT USED TO BE OKAY BUT WE ARE NOW -- WOMEN ARE NOW COMING FORWARD AND SAYING, IT'S NOT OKAY

170ANYMORE. WE DO HAVE TO GO TO THE ADDITIONAL LENGTH TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY ARE QUESTIONING, WE REALLY ARE TRYING TO ENHANCE OUR ACADEMIC PRESENTATION TO BRING EACH OF US TO A HIGHER PLACE. SO I APPRECIATE THIS. I ALSO APPRECIATE MS. SCHULTZ'S COMMENTS. I DO THINK WE NEED TO QUESTION WHY WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING. BUT I WANTED TO SPEAK UP TO SAY, I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THIS FOR THAT REASON. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS. WE HAVE DEALT WITH THIS ISSUE OF SEXUAL INAPPROPRIATENESS A LOT THIS YEAR. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF A CULTURAL CHANGE, AND I THINK THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO REALLY TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN CONTRIBUTE IN A MORE POSITIVE WAY, SO I FULLY SUPPORT THIS. THANK YOU. I WILL CALL FOR THE MOTION. THE AMENDMENT ON MS.

171CORBETT SANDERS INTRODUCED TO ADD INSTRUCTION WILL INCLUDE BYSTANDER AWARENESS AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES AND 10.7, 11.3 AND 12.1. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS WITH MR. WILSON AWAY FROM THE TABLE. NOW I WILL CALL ON MS. KEYS-GAMARRA FOR AN AMENDMENT. HOWEVER, I THINK WE NEED TO ADD A LITTLE CLARIFYING LANGUAGE HERE. MADAM CLERK. BECAUSE PART OF THE RECOMMENDATION IN FLECAC WAS TO PUT INTO THE HEALTH CURRICULUM THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OPIOID AND HEROIN. AND YOUR AMENDMENT IS TO THE HEALTH CURRICULUM. YES. TO BE CLEAR SO WE UNDERSTAND -- AND I KNOW THAT WAS YOUR INTENT. SO, MADAM CLERK, BECAUSE THIS IS SORT OF A POINT OF ORDER. IF I COULD -- YES, IF WE -- WE NEED TO BE CLEAR. AND I DO NOT WANT TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE AT ALL. YES, COULD YOU CLARIFY

172IT? THE POINT OF CLARIFICATION THE ACTUAL RECOMMENDATION WAS TO INCLUDE INSTRUCTION ON THOSE TOPICS IN OUR CURRICULUM, NOT NECESSARILY WITHIN THE HEALTH CURRICULUM. IT IS NOT DELIVERED AT THE 11_TH_ AND 12_TH_ GRADE. THE RECOMMENDATION WAS FOR US TO FIND THE APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE CURRICULUM AT THE TIME 11_TH_ AND 12_TH_ GRADE TO DELIVER THIS INSTRUCTION. ARE YOU -- YOU MEAN WITH MS. CORBETT SANDERS AMENDMENT? YES -- MS. KEYS-GAMARRA AMENDMENT. COULD YOU ADD THE APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE AS TO -- I THINK THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WAS FINE. AND THAT WILL DIRECT STAFF TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE PLACE YEAH BUT WE NEED SOME CLARIFYING LANGUAGE. WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHERE THIS AMENDMENT SITS. EITHER A PAGE NUMBER. AGAIN, IF I COULD, I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS.

173I MOVE TO AMEND LESSON OBJECTIVES 10.7 ARE 11.3 AND 12.1. THAT'S THE ONE WE JUST DID. I APOLOGIZE. I'M SORRY. THIS IS M MS. KEYS-GAMARRA. I UNDERSTAND. FINE. WE'RE PAST THAT. WE'RE OKAY. THIS IS DEALING WITH OPIOID, HEROIN USE AND I BELIEVE IT'S THAT HAS BEEN MOVED INTO THE HEALTH CURRICULUM? THE LANGUAGE THAT WE HAVE NOW, IS THAT CLEAR WHAT IS BEING AMENDED? YES, WHAT SHE WANTS TO AMEND IS THAT THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION FROM FLEE FLECAC SAID THE PREVENTION IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND THEY DID NOT WANT IT INSTRUCTED THROUGH FLE. EXACTLY SO IT IS MOVED INTO THE HEALTH. SO IT'S JUST TO BE INSTRUCTED SOMEWHERE IN 11_TH_ OR 12_TH_ GRADE BECAUSE THERE IS NO HEALTH REQUIREMENT AT 11_TH AND 12_TH_ GRADE. SO IT WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE SOMEWHERE TO BE DETERMINED. LIKE FAMILY LIFE

174EDUCATION IS CURRENTLY INSTRUCKED THROUGH SOCIAL STUDY COURSES LENT A 12_TH_ GRADE, NOT THROUGH A HEALTH CURRICULUM. WHILE IT IS HEALTH CURRICULUM, IT WOULD HAVE -- WE HAVE TO FIND SOME AREA TO PUT IT IN PER MS. KEYS-GAMARRA MOTION IS TO EXPAND THE CONTENT BEYOND OPIOID AND HEROIN TO INCLUDE OTHER -- COULD YOU SLOW DOWN AND GIVE THAT LANGUAGE BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE CLEAR AS TO WHAT -- CAN I JUST OFFER A SUGGESTION? THAT IT JUST SAYS, I MOVE TO AMEND THE MAIN MOTION TO AMEND THE RECOMMENDATION FOR OPIOID AND HEROIN USE PREVENTION IN THE 11_TH_ AND 12_TH_ GRADES TO INCLUDE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, VAPING, CIGARETTES AND OTHER DRUGS OF ADDICTION. WE JUST NEED TO CLARIFY WHERE THIS IS GOING. OKAY? I JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT'S APPROPRIATE FOR STAFF. YES. THIS THEN GOES INTO

175THE CURRICULUM SO WE KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING. THANK YOU FOR INDULGING ME. NOW MS. KEYS-GAMARRA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO PUT THIS ON THE FLOOR FOR DISCUSSION? YES, MADAM CHAIR. I MOVE TO AMEND THE MAIN MOTION TO AMEND THE RECOMMENDATION FOR OPIOID, HEROIN USE PREVENTION IN THE 11TH AND 12_TH_ GRADE TO INCLUDE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, INCLUDING VAPING CIGARETTES AND OTHER DRUGS OF ADDICTION. THANK YOU. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED BY MS. M_C_LAUGHLIN. MS. KEYS-GAMARRA WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO IT? YES. FIRST OF ALL, I WELCOME THIS DISCUSSION. AS AN ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN, I AM DEALING WITH THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE ON A REGULAR BASIS. I WAS CONCERNED, HOWEVER, ABOUT LIMITING IT TO OPIOID AND HEROIN ONLY, BECAUSE THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM SEEING IN PRACTICE. AND SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE

176THAT WE ARE MORE FULLY DIRECTING THE -- ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN A REALISTIC AND PRACTICAL WAY SO THAT OUR CHILDREN CAN BE EDUCATED, RATHER THAN GETTING CAUGHT UP IN SOMETHING THAT THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE COULD RUIN THEIR LIVES, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT CAN DO. SO FOR THAT REASON, I SIMPLY WANTED TO BROADEN THE DISCUSSION BECAUSE THAT IS THE REALITY I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN MY EVERYDAY WORK. MS. M_C_LAUGHLIN, DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT AS A SECONDER? YES, LIKE MS. KEYS-GAMARRA, MY BACKGROUND AS A SOCIAL WORKER WORKING WITH JUVENILES AND FAMILIES AND ISSUES LIKE ADDICTION ARE TRAGIC AND THEIR IMPACT ON FAMILIES. IT GOES FAR BEYOND OPIOID AND HEROIN. I WELCOME AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO BROADEN THE AWARENESS AMONG OUR STUDENTS AND HOPEFULLY AMONG OUR FAMILIES AS A RESULT.

177I WANT TO THANK HER FOR BRINGING THIS ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE FOR US TONIGHT. I DID BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO IMPROVE UPON OUR EFFORTS IN HELPING OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK? I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS AND I APPRECIATE AGAIN MS. KEYS-GAMARRA BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION AND EXPANDING IT. I DO HAVE A QUESTION OF STAFF. I KNOW THERE ARE MANY OTHER TIMES IN THE HEALTH CURRICULUM WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THE PERILS, IF YOU WILL, OF OVERINDULGING IN ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND WE'RE ADDING THE VAPING. CAN YOU TELL US WHAT GRADES THAT HAPPENS IN IN THE HEALTH CURRICULUM? WE BEGIN THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION IN KINDERGARTEN -- WHERE WE START WITH MEDICATIONS, PRESCRIPTION, NONPRESCRIPTION TOBACCO I BELIEVE IN SECOND GRADE I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK IT UP AND ALCOHOL AND WE CONTINUE TO SCALE THAT

178OUT. WE ADD INHALANTS AS WE KNOW BY THE SURVEY IS ISSUE WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL. WE ALSO INTRODUCE OPIOID AND VARIETY OF OTHER SUBSTANCE. SO AS A SCAFFOLD IN CURRICULUM K THROUGH 10. I DO REALLY APPRECIATE THIS THEN. I DO THINK PARTICULARLY IN THE HIGH SCHOOL YEARS SOME OF THESE THINGS YOU QUIT LEARNING ABOUT IT IN TENTH GRADE, AND I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE REINFORCED THROUGHOUT. IF WE CAN ADD THIS TO THE FLE CURRICULUM IN A BROADER SENSE, I APPRECIATE THAT FLECAC ADDING OPIOID AND HEROIN AND I APPRECIATE YOU ADDING THE BROADER ADDICTIVE TYPE OF DRUGS. DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO IN. REALLY, JUST A QUESTION. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DOING AND, SO THE RECOMMENDATION AND WHAT'S INCLUDED HERE ALREADY IS TO ADD OPIOID AND HEROIN AT

179THE 11_TH_ AND 12_TH_ GRADE LEVEL IN FLE; IS THAT CORRECT? THE CURRENT -- IT WOULD BE -- THE RECOMMENDATION OUTSIDE FLE SO ALL STUDENTS CAN ACCESS IT. I'M SORRY, SAY THAT AGAIN. IT WOULD BE TO DO THIS SUBSTANCE ABUSE, PREVENTION INSTRUCTION OUTSIDE OF FLE EDUCATION SO ALL STUDENTS WOULD AK ACCESS THE INFORMATION. WHERE WOULD IT BE. WITH YOUR SUPPORT THAT IS SOMETHING I WILL WORK WITH -- SO WE DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT. THAT DECISION HASN'T BEEN MADE. BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE HEALTH AND WE DON'T WANT IT IN FLE. CORRECT. SO THIS WILL BE IN ANTIPOINT UNDESIGNATED CURRICULUM. SO ALL MS. KEYS-GAMARRA YOU'RE DOING IS ADDING TO THAT, IN WHATEVER CURRICULUM STAFF CHOOSES THAT WE ALSO INCLUDE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, VAPING ET CETERA. YES. I WOULD HAVE MORE COMFORT IF WE KNEW ALREADY WHERE IT WAS

180GOING TO GO. IF I MAY CLARIFY. OF COURSE. IT WAS INITIALLY OPIOID AND HEROIN ONLY GOING TO GO TO THIS PLACE TO BE DETERMINED. MY CONCERN IS THAT WHEN WE MENTION THOSE PARTICULAR DRUGS, WE ELEVATE THE IMPORTANCE AND ALL SUBSTANCE ABUSE IS THE TRUE ENEMY. I DON'T WANT THEREBY TO BE AN IMPLIED DECEPTION THERE. SO THAT IS THE REASON, I'M SIMPLY EXPANDING WHAT WAS ALREADY RECOMMENDED. OKAY. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT CLARIFICATION. WITH THAT I CAN SUPPORT THIS. OKAY. WE'LL CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF MS. KEYS-GAMARRA EXPANSION AT THE 11_TH AND 12_TH_ GRADE TO INCLUDE IN ADDITION TO OPIOID AND HEROIN, ALSO ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, VAPING CIGARETTES AND OTHER DRUGS OF ADDICTION. DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE YOU NEEDED TO ASK? NO WE'RE GETTING REEDY TO VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF

181THAT -- THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS WITH MS. SCHULTZ AND MR. WILSON AND KAUFAX AWAY FROM THE TABLE. THANK YOU. NOW WE ARE BACK TO THE MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED. THE AMENDMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE SO FAR PERTAIN TO THE ADDITION OF MR. MOON'S AMENDMENTS THAT DEALT WITH PUTTING BACK IN TRUSTED ADULTS SUCH AS MEMBERS OF CLERGY AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND BOTH THE TENT AND NINTH GRADE. THE OTHER AMENDMENT IS MS. CORBETT SANDERS DEALING WITH BYSTANDER AWARENESS. THE OTHER AMENDMENT IS MS. KEYS-GAMARRA, WHICH WE'VE JUST PASSED. I BELIEVE THAT IS IT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED. OKAY. THAT MOTION IS UNANIMOUS WITH MR. WILSON, MS. SCHULTZ AND COLFAX AWAY FROM THE TABLE. [ APPLAUSE ] I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO -- I'M SORRY. A POINT OF PRIVILEGE. YOU MAY

182HAVE A MOMENT TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS. GO AHEAD. I DID WANT TO SPEAK TO THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, AND I DID WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK -- EXCUSE ME -- THE STAFF ON THE FLE FLECAC COMMITTEE FOR THEIR HARD WORK ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. SOMETIMES IT'S DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THINGS WHEN WE OURSELVES HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED THEM OR FELT THEM. HISTORICALLY MANY OF THE CHANGES TO THE FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CURRICULUM HAS BEEN FORMED ON THIS BASE US. I TALKED TO MANY STUDENTS, TEENS EXPERIENCING PUBERTY, YOUNG ADULTS, APPROACHED TEACHERS OR COUNSELORS ASKING QUESTIONS, SAYING THEY WERE TAUGHT THIS BUT THEY WERE FEELING AND EXPERIENCING SOMETHING ELSE. AS A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, I THINK IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACH AND INFORM. AND I THINK FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION HELPS OUR STUDENTS NAVIGATE THROUGH SOME OF THE

183MOST PERSONAL THINGS THAT THEY ARE FEELING AND EXPERIENCING AND FOR SOME FAMILIES, THEY ARE APPRECIATIVE OF THE SCHOOLS PROVIDING THIS INFORMATION AND FOR OTHERS, THEY WOULD RATHER TEACH THESE THINGS THEMSELVES, AND THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO OPT OUT OF ANY AND ALL FLE LESSONS. SO THIS PAST YEAR, OUR FAMILY LIFE CURRICULUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE REVIEWED THE ENTIRE FLE PROGRAM, AND I APPRECIATE THEIR TIME AND ATTENTION TO THE WORK. I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM. I BELIEVE IT'S OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM'S JOB TO TEACH AND PREPARE, AND WE WANT ALL OF YOUR STUDENTS TO BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT AND TO MAKE THEM FEEL INCLUDED. WHILE WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN WHEN AN OUR STUDENTS WHEN THEY ARE IN THEIR TEENS, WE ARE EDUCATING THEM FOR A LIFETIME, AND THAT'S WHY I APPRECIATE THE CHANGES AND I APPRECIATE

184ALL THE SUPPORT AND THANKS FOR LETTING M HE SPEAK ON IT. [ APPLAUSE ] MR. M_C_ELVEEN, I'M SORRY, YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK? JUST BRIEFLY. SOME OF YOUR SURPRISED WE VOTED ON IT QUICKLY. NOT THAT THAT'S A BAD THING. A LOT HAS BEEN SAID OF THIS DAIS TONIGHT. I WOULD VIEW AS SOMEWHAT DISPARAGING OF THE FLECAC COMMITTEE, AND I DO WANT TO PUSH BACK ON THAT. WE HAVE A LOT OF HARD WORKING AND DEDICATED MEMBERS ON THAT COMMITTEE WHO SERVED. LOTS OF THEM HAVE GREAT EXPERIENCE IN THE HEALTH CARE FIELD. I KNOW MY APPOINTEE IS A REGISTERED NURSE. WHEN PEOPLE COME OUT AND SAY THAT IT'S NOT WORKING OR THAT THERE OPINIONS DON'T REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY, I DON'T AGREE. I WANTED TO THANK LIZ PAYNE FOR ALL THE TIME YOU PUT INTO THIS EFFORT. [

185APPLAUSE ] AND FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WE HAVE VERY HARD-WORKING AND DEDICATED STAFF AS WELL. THIS YEAR I KNOW WAS PARTICULARLY TRYING FOR THIS COMMITTEE BUT WE ARE GRATEFUL TO YOU AND AGAIN TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND TO EVERYONE WHO SPOKE HERE TONIGHT. THERE WAS SOME VERY POWERFUL TESTIMONY. I DO WANT TO SAY JUST A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. I LOVE YOU, CAT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TESTIMONY TONIGHT. THANK YOU. THE NEXT ITEM IS STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. AND I WILL CALL ON MS. CORBETT SANDERS FOR A MOTION. ELIZABETH, I'M SORRY. I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO GO ON. ITEM 4.0 3. STUDENTS RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES. I WILL CALL ON MS. CORBETT SANDERS. I MOVE THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD ADOPT REGULATION 260 1. 32-P, STUDENTS RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AS DETAILED IN THE AGENDA

186ITEM. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED BY MS. HYNES, MS. CORBETT SANDERS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO IT? AND I KNOW THERE WILL BE AN AMENDMENT. I'M PLEASED TO MOVE THE -- EXPECTATION THERE WILL BE ONE AMENDMENT ON DRESS CODES. STUDENTS RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES HAS BEEN UPDATED IF THREE SPECIFIC AREAS. SECTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ABSENTEE IN LIGHT OF CHANGES IN FEDERAL AND STATE LEGISLATION. THE IMPACT ISSUES HAVE ON STUDENT SAFETY AND THEIR ABILITY TO SUCCEED IN THE CLASSROOM. STUDENTS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO PRACTICE GOOD DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND SWRUND STAND THAT THEY NEED TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND REFRAIN FROM USING PROFRANNITY AND HARMFUL MESSAGING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. STUDENTS AND PARENTS WILL BE EDUCATED ON THE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH PHASING AND -- AID THEM IN NAVIGATING THE DISCIPLINE SYSTEM WITHIN FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC

187SCHOOLS. THESE RESOURCES INCLUDE FLOWCHART WHICH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PRINTED DOCUMENT AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FAMILY AND STUDENT OMBUDSMAN WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR AIDING PARENTS AND STUDENTS DEALING WITH ISSUES IN OUR SCHOOL. THE OMBUDSMAN WILL BE ACCESSIBLE. WE ARE HONORED THAT MR. ARMANDO PERIHAS ACCEPTED THIS IN THE ORGANIZATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING THIS ADOTTED. I WILL CALL ON MR. M_C_ELVEEN FOR AN AMENDMENT. I MOVE TO AMEND THE MAIN -- ITEM C DRESS CODE AS FOLLOWS. ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR A K-12 EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. ANY CLOTHING THAT INTERFERES OR DISRUPTS THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IS UNACCEPTABLE, THE LANGUAGE OR IMPANTS THAT ARE VULGAR, DISCRIMINATORY OR OBSCENE ARE PROMOTES ILLEGAL ON VIOLENT CON DUCT. UNLAWFUL USE OF WEAPONS, DRUGS, ALCOHOL OR DRUG PARAPHERNALIA OR CLOTHING THAT CONTAINS THREATS IS

188PROHIBITED. CLOTHING SHOULD BE FIT BENEATH AND CONFORM TO STANDARDS OF SAFETY AND DECENCY. SOME THAT EXPOSE EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF BARE SKIN IS PROHIBITED. EXAMPLES SAGGING OR LOW CUT PANTS, TUBE OR HALTER TOPS. CLEGHTING CONSTRUCTED SEE THROUGH MATERIALS AND HEAD COVERINGS UNLESS REQUIRED FOR RELIGIOUS OR MEDICAL PURPOSES. PRINCIPAL MAY PROVIDE DIAGNOSAL EXAMPLES TO HIS OR HER SCHOOL COMMUNITY. DISCUSSION ABOUT DRESS CODE VIOLATION SHALL BE HELD PRIVATELY. PARENTS OF STUDENTS REQUIRING ACCOMMODATION FOR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS DISABILITIES OR OTHER GOOD CAUSES SHOULD CONTACT THE PRINCIPAL. STUDENTS TO THE -- WILL BE -- REPEATED INFRACTIONS WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION. CURRENT VERSION PROVIDES ADDITIONAL DETAIL. MS. M_C_LAUGHLIN. YOU NEED A SECOND. THERE WAS A SECOND. SECONDED BY MS. EVANS. I'M SORRY. MS. EVANS, WOULD YOU LAKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND? I SPEAK, RIGHT. YOU CAN SPEAK FIRST. THANK YOU,

189MADAM CHAIR. I APPRECIATE THAT THE MOST PEOPLE WOULD BE SHOCK TO EARN WILL WHAT THE MAJORITY OF CONCERNS I RECEIVED FROM STUDENTS FOCUS ON ONE ISSUES. IT'S NOT STRESS, NOT MENTAL HEALTH, NO OVERTESTING, NOT SCHOOL FOOD BUT INSTEAD OUR DRESS CODE. AS THESE CONCERN HAVES COME TO ME IN INCREASING NUMBERS OVER THE CAREERS THEY HAVE UNSURPRISINGLY COME FROM ONE DEMOGRAPHIC, OUR FEMALE STUDENTS. UNTIL I BEGAN RECEIVING THIS LETTERS AND MESSAGE I DIDN'T FULLY GRASP THE PROBLEM MAT U.K. NATURE. I IMAGINE MAN MEMBER OFS OF OUR COMMUNE HAVE BEEN SURPRISED TO LEARN WHAT'S IN IT. VAST MAJORITY OF BANNED ITEMS SPECIFICALLY TARGET WOMEN JUST LIKE SO MANY OTHER DRESS CODES AROUND THE COUNTRY REMPS CLEAVAGE, LOW CUT NECK LINES TUBE TOPS, HALTER TOPS, BACKLESS BLOUSES OR BLOUSES WITH ONLY TIES IN THE BACK. TONIGHT THE BOARD

190WILL CORRECT THE MULTI-GENERATIONAL MISTAKE THAT HAS ALLOWED THIS INHERENTLY SEXIST DRESS CODE TO BE PERPETUATED. WE WILL CALL FOR AN END TO EXPLICIT TARGETING OBJECTIFYING AND SHAMING OF GIRLS. LET ME BE CLEAR THIS IS NOT A FAIRFAX COUNTY PROBLEM ALONE. WE ARE AMIDST A NATIONAL DIALOGUE ABOUT RESPECTS WOMEN. NATION IS ON THE VERGE OF RATIFYING THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT. IT IS LONG PAST TIME THESE INEQUITIES BE ADDRESSED NOT JUST IN FAIRFAX BUT EVERYWHERE. CLOTHING ONE THE MOST PERSONAL THINGS TO EACH US. SOME IT SERVE UTILITARIAN FORM OF COVERING FOR THE BODY. FOR MOST OF US IT IS ALSO A FORM OF SELF-EXPRESSION. HOW INSTITUTION JUDGE ONE'S CLOTHING HAS A STRONG EFFECT ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S SELF-IMAND AND SELF WORTH. HOW SCHOOLS JUDGE CAN IMMEASURABLE IMPALT ON STUDENT STRESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND FEELINGS OF ACCEPTANCE AT A

191CRITICAL FORMATIVE TIME IN THEIR LIFE. WHILE I CANNOT SPEAK TO DRESS CODE INFRACTIONS FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, I NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THE LENGTH OF MY SHORTS OR WIDTH OF MY STRAPS BEING SHARED SO OF THE COUNTLESS HORROR STORIES SENT TO ME BY STUDENTS OVER THE YEARS TO GIVE EACH A VOICE. ONE GRADUATE WROTE TO ME IN 2005. SHE SAID, I WAS 9. I CAREFULLY PICKED OUT MY PICTURE DAY DRESS. IT WAS THE MOST BEUT -- I WENT TO SCHOOL CONFIDENT AND HAPPY LIKE I WAS THE PRETTIEST GIRLS IN SCHOOL. THE TEACHER SHAMED ME FOR MY DRESS IN FRONT OF MY CLASSMATE. I WAS INSTANTLY CRUSHED AND LOST MY CONFIDENCE. THE ENTIRE DAY I WAS FORCED TO WEAR MY JACKET, AND SHE THREATENED NOT TAKE IT OFF FOR MY PICTURE. IT'S ONE THE FEW THINGS

192I REMEMBER FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. ONE STUDENT WROTE, MY SEPTEMBER GRADE MATH TEACHER MADE ME STAND UP IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLASS, CALLED ME MS. SHORTY SHORTS, AND HE SAID, MY RUNNING SHORTS DID NOT GO DOWN TO MY FINGERTIPS SO THEY WEREN'T APPROPRIATE. ANOTHER STUDENT WROTE, IN SIXTH GRADE MY PRINCIPAL TOLD ME UNPROPORTIONAL ARMS. I HAD TO CALL MY MOM IN TEARS AND TELL HER TO BRING ME PANTS BECAUSE MY SHORTS WERE TOO SHORT. I FELT SO EMBARRASSED AND JUN SET I HAD I HAD TO MISS ALL OF ART CLASS WAITING FOR MY MOM TO COME. ANOTHER WROTE I GOT DRESS CODED SO MUCH IN MIDDLE SCHOOL I WAS SCARED TO WEAR SHORTS. I HAD TO GO TO THE OFFICE AND MISS CLASS BECAUSE I WAS DISTRACTING BOYS FROM EDUCATION, UNQUOTE. I GUESS MY EDUCATION

193DIDN'T MATTER AS MUCH AS THE LENGTH OF MY SHORTS. AND ANOTHER WROTE, FOR MY JUNIOR YEAR HOME COMING I GOT TO THE DANCE AND STAFF MEMBER ASKED ME IN FRONT OF MY FRIENDS WHERE THE REST OF MY DRESS WAS M DRESS I WOR WAS KNEE LENGTH AND MY MOM APPROVED. I WAS SO EMBARRASSED. AND YET ANOTHER WROTE, OUR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER DIRECTED ANOTHER STUDENT SO GO GET THAT STUDENT RIGHT THERE. WHEN THE ONE STUDENT BROUGHT OVER THE OTHER STUDENT, THE RESOURCE OFFICER PROCEEDED TO ASK IN FRONT OF ALL OF US, WHERE IS THE REST OF YOUR SHIRT? DID YOU LEAVE IT AT HOM? THE YOUNG LADY WAS EMBARRASS AND DISRESPECTED IN FROM THE HOSPITAL FEEL HERE PEERS. THESE ARE ONLY A HANDFUL OF STORIES, PROBABLY THOUSANDS MORE OUT THERE LIKE THEM. TO PROTECT FUTURE GENERATIONS

194OF GIRLS FROM THESE SITUATIONS TONIGHT I'M BRINGING FORWARD A PROPOSAL TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE THEY HAVE RAISED. MY PROPOSAL HAS TWO PARTS. FIRST, REDUCE THE GENDER ASPECTS OF OUR DRESS CODE. LIKE SO MANY THINGS WE DO REQUIRES DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR CHILDREN AND ENSURING SCHOOL STAFF HAVE OBJECTIVE STANDARDS TO WORK FROM. WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LIFT OVER SPECIFIC EXAMPLE, AND IF WE DID, IT WOULD RESULT IN A RETURN TO TARGETING GIRLS. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ANTICIPATE EVERY SITUATION, AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOME SORT OF SUBJECTIVITY. AS A RESULT, THE MOST CRITICAL PART OF CHANGING OUR DRESS CODE WILL BE THE TRAINING THAT ACCOMPANIES IT TO ENSURE YOUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF-RESPECT THE PRIVACY AND DIGNITY OF ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. OUR STAFF IS COMMITTED TO EMBARKING ON THAT TRAINING IN ADVANCE OF

195THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR. MOVING FORWARD IS THE SYSTEM WE MUST DO WHAT WE CAN TO KEEPING THE SUBJECT PUBLICLY CALL OUT AND SHAME GIRLS FOR WHAT THEY WEAR. I'M EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT TERESA JOHNSON AND MARY ANN FOR THEIR HELP IN DRAFTING THIS PROPOSAL AND WORKING WITH PRINCIPALS AND LEGAL COUNSEL TO COME UP WITH LANGUAGE THAT WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO AS MANY STAKEHOLDERS AS POSSIBLE. I'M HOPEFUL OUR EFFORTS HERE TONIGHT WILL BE HEARD FAR BEYOND THESE WALLS AND SERVE AS ENCOURAGEMENT TO OTHER SCHOOL DISDRICTS TO FOLLOW OUR PATH. I HOPE FAIRFAX WILL BE A CATALYST FOR NATIONWIDE CONVERSATION IMPORTANCE THE ENDING BODY SHAMING AND MAINTAINING DIGNITY TO STUDENTS. WHATEVER WE DO TONIGHT WILL NOT MAKE UP FOR WHAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED. I WANT TO PUBLICLY AND SINCERELY APOLOGIZE FOR YOU. I'M SO SORRY IT HAS

196TAKEN US TO SO LONG TO MAKE THIS IMPORTANT CHANGE. PLEAS KNOW THE EXPERIENCES YOU SHARED HAVE HELPED INFORM US, AND I'M PROUD OF YOU PUSHING TIRELESSLY FOR THIS CHANGE. CURRENT STUDENTS I WANT YOU TO KNOW SHOULD THIS AMENDMENT PASS TONIGHT THE SCHOOL BOARD AND SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO ENSURE YOU ARE GIVEN THE RESPECT AN DIGNITY THAT YOU DESERVE AND YOU ARE NEVER SHAMED AGAIN. I ASK MY COLLEAGUES JOINING ME IN SUPPORTING THIS AMENDMENT. MS. STRAUSS, I THINK -- FINE. YOUR LIGHT WASN'T ON. I WAS NEXT. I HAVE OTHER LIGHTS ON. THAT'S FINE. MS. EVANS. THANK YOU. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK MR. M_C_ELVEEN FOR IDENTIFYING THIS ISSUE, FOR LISTENING TO THE STUDENTS OVER THE YEARS AND FOR RAISING THIS ISSUE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND BRINGING IT TO

197US. I'M VERY HAPPY TO SECOND THIS AMENDMENT AND TO STRONGLY SUPPORT GENDER NEUTRAL APPROACH TO OUR DRESS CODE AND TO REDUCE BODY SHAMING. I THINK YOU'VE IDENTIFIED AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT PARTS OF THIS AMENDMENT, I FEEL, IS THAT DISCUSSION ABOUT DRESS CODE VIOLATIONS SHALL BE HELD PRIVATELY AND MAINTAIN THE DIGNITY OF THE STUDENT. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S QUITE AN IMPORTANT CHANGE. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING ON TWITTER SOME OF THE EXAMPLES THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BY FEMALE STUDENTS WHEN THEY SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT, MR. M_C_ELVEEN. I SEE SOME OF THESE STORIES AND CLEARLY THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF EMOTION CONNECTED WITH THIS, AND IT'S VERY PERSONAL. VERY PERSONAL TO THESE GIRLS. WHO HAVE BEEN TREATED FAR MORE STRICTLY OVER THE YEARS THAN THE BOYS. AND MADE TO FEEL THAT SOMEHOW THEY'RE LESSER BECAUSE

198OF THEIR CLOTHING CHOICES. SO THANK YOU, AND I CAN STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS. OKAY. I HAVE MS. M_C_LAUGHLIN, MS. PALCHIK AND MS. SCHULTZ. THANK YOU. CAN I JUST GET AN ADMINISTRATIVE CLARITY FIRST, ESPECIALLY THE STATEMENT THAT MS. EVANS READ WHERE IT SAYS DISCUSSION ABOUT DRESS CODE VIOLATIONS SHALL BE HELD PRIVATETLY AND MAINTAIN THE DIGNITY OF STUDENTS. IT'S UNDERLINED, SO THAT WAS NEW LANGUAGE THAT DIDN'T EXIST? THAT'S CORRECT. EVERYBODY UNDERLINED IS NEW. OKAY. SO ABOVE WHERE IT SAYS CLOTHING THAT EXPOSES AND DELETES CLEAVAGE AND DELETES PARTS, HOW DID THAT SENTENCE READ BEFORE YOU ADDED IN CLOTHING THAT IS EXPOSING? THERE SHOULD BE A COMMA AFTER CLEAVAGE. RIGHT, BUT MY POINT IS, THIS IS WHERE I JUST WANTED SOME CLARITY. IF IT'S SAYING CLOTHING THAT EXPOSES UNDERLINED AS THAT'S NEW LANGUAGE. THAT'S INCORRECT. THAT WAS THERE BEFORE, OKAY.

199THE REASON WHY I WANT TO UNDERSTAND I WANT TO GIVE PRAISE WHERE PRAISE SHOULD BE BUT THEN -- I GOT TRYING TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING WHAT WAS ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, WHAT'S NEW LANGUAGE. SO MS. EVANS PICKED UP ON SOMETHING AND I WANT TO ESPECIALLY SPOTLIGHT THIS AND THANK MRS. M_C_ELVEEN. -- MR. M_C_ELVEEN. I CAN'T IMAGINE IF IT'S MALE OR FEMALE STUDENT IF THERE WAS AN ISSUE ABOUT DRESS CODE VIOLATION IT WOULDN'T BE DONE PRIVATELY AND MAINTAINING THE DIGNITY OF A STUDENT. THAT, TO ME, IS PROBABLY ONE THE MOST ESSENTIAL CHANGES HERE. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE VULNERABILITY, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL VULNERABILITY OF OUR ADOLESCENTS, BEING CALLED OUT FOR YOUR CLOTHING, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE PUT THAT SPECIFICALLY IN THERE AS AN EXPECTATION. SO I'M VERY PLEASED TO SEE THAT. I DID HEAR

200FROM SOME PRINCIPALS THAT DR. BRABRAND YOU PROBABLY HEARD THIS AND MR. M_C_ELVEEN YOU SPOKE WELL TO THIS, SUBJECTIVITY IS A PIECE OF THIS SO THAT'S ALWAYS GOING TO MAKE THINGS A BIT DIFFICULT. TERMINOLOGY LIKE ANY CLOTHING THAT INTERFERES WITH OR DISRUPTS THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT, OTHER WORDS LIKE GOOD TASTE AND DECENCY, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT I THINK WE WILL PROBABLY NEED TO DO SOME ADDITIONAL WORDSMITHING IN THIS NEXT COMING YEAR AND SORT OF JUST A WORD TO THE WISE, DR. BRABRAND, WHEN STAFF IS WORKING ON THIS. I THINK THOSE ARE WORDS IN HERE THAT STILL LEAVE A LOT TO SUBJECTIVITY. THEY'RE ACTUALLY ADJECTIVES THAT ARE PRE-LOADED WITH JUDGMENT. I APPRECIATE WHERE MR. M_C_ELVEEN HAS DONE TO BRING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. BUT I ALSO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE WHILE I SO APPRECIATE THE

201SENSITIVITY OF MY COLLEAGUES' COMMENTS HERE TONIGHT, I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S NOT MISCHARACTERIZING THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM AND OUR EDUCATORS. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOLS OR OUR ADMINISTRATORS IN THE BUILDING WERE TRYING TO BODY SHAME OUR STUDENTS. AND THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED A COUPLE TIMES TONIGHT. AND I THINK MY COLLEAGUES ARE DOING -- SENSITIVITY AND CONCERN FOR THE GIRLS BUT I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A COUNTERPOINT THE MORE THAT GETS SAID AT THIS DAIS WE'RE ALMOST ASSIGNING THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR BUILDING AS IF THERE WAS INTENT. I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE MEANT BUT I DO THINK WE WANT TO BE CAREFUL THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT THIS SCHOOL SYSTEM STANDS FOR. I THINK IT'S SOMETIMES WE KNOW THROUGH VIRGINIA STATE REGULATIONS AND VIRGINIA CODE AND CERTAINLY FAIRFAX COUNTY REGULATIONS, OUR LANGUAGE ISN'T

202ALWAYS AS PRECISE AND AS CLEAR AS WE WOULD LIKE IT TO BE. SO FOR THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP OUR CONVERSATION TONIGHT VERY MUCH IN A POSITIVE STATEMENT, WHICH IS, THANK YOU MR. M_C_ELVEEN FOR HELPING US IMPROVE THE WAY IN WHICH WE COMMUNICATE TO OUR STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND ADMINISTRATORS ABOUT EXPECTATIONS. SO WHEN YOU GROW UP IN A FAMILY OF THREE GIRLS, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING I CAN DEEPLY APPRECIATE WANTING TO MAKE SURE MALE STUDENTS AND BEING A MOTHER OF THREE BOYS, I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT THAT OUR BOYS FEEL RESPECTED AND TREATED WITH DIGNITY. WE WANT THAT FOR OUR BOYS AND OUR GIRLS IN OUR SCHOOLS. THANK YOU. MS. PALCHIK. THANK YOU, MR. M_C_ELVEEN, MS. EVANS AND M_C_LAUGHLIN. I THINK YOU TOOK SOME OF MY WORDS. I ATTENDED A WORKSHOP AND THEY DID SHARE QUITE A

203BIT OF THIS. I AGREE WITH YOU, MR. M_C_ELVEEN THAT BABY STEPS AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIRST STEP BUT AS MS. M_C_LAUGHLIN POINTED OUT, WE STILL DO HAVE QUITE A BIT OF SUBJECTIVE LANGUAGE IN THERE THAT I HOPE WE CAN ADDRESS MOVING FORWARD. THE WAY THAT THE DISCIPLINE OCCURS AROUND THESE INFRACTIONS, I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THESE CONVERSATIONS BE HELD PRIVATELY SO I APPRECIATE YOU INCLUDING THAT. AND FINALLY, OBVIOUSLY, WE KNOW IN A SYSTEM AS LARGE AS OURS, THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY IS TO LOOK AT THE WAY WE TRAIN, EDUCATE AND COMMUNICATE THIS INFORMATION TO OUR ALMOST 200 SITES. WE DO A GOOD JOB OF SHARING UPDATES WITH ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND ENSURING THEY ARE CHECKED OFF, I DO HOPE WE HAVE A PLAN TO MAKE SURE THIS IS COMMUNICATED, TRAINED, SHARED WITH

204STAFF. I KNOW IT WILL BE A SHIFT AND A CHANGE, AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE BEST SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS, ADMINISTRATORS, ALSO OUR TEACHERS AND FAMILIES TO KNOW HOW TO ADVOCATE WHEN THE CHANGES DO NOT HAPPEN. I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS, AND I DO HOPE FOR NEXT YEAR THAT WE CAN TAKE SOME FEEDBACK OF HOW THIS IS WORKING IN OUR SCHOOLS AND LOOK AT ADDITIONAL CHANGES, ESPECIALLY AS THE REPORT SHOWS, WHEN WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF THIS TARGETING GIRLS OF COLOR FOR SOME OF THEIR BEHAVIOR AS WELL AS THEIR DRESS CODE. THANK YOU. AND MS. SCHULTZ, I'M SORRY I -- YOU DID NOT GET TO MAKE YOUR FINAL REMARKS ON FLECAC AFTER WE DISPOSE OF THIS DISCUSSION MOTION I WILL COME BACK TO YOU BECAUSE I BELIEVE YOU

205HAD MORE THAT YOU WISHED TO SAY ON THE FLECAC. YOU WERE AWAY FROM THE TABLE. I WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY CUT OFF. I'M SORRY. SO YOU KNOW, I STRUGGLE BECAUSE WE JUST SPENT ALL OF THIS TIME TALKING ABOUT MAKING THINGS GENDER NEUTRAL BUT THIS IS TARGETED AT GIRLS, IS IT GENDER NEUTRAL? OR ARE WE ACKNOWLEDGING BOYS AND GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT? GIRLS HAVE CLEAVAGE, BOYS DON'T. I GOTTA TELL YOU A STORY FROM 13 YEARS AGO, WHILE IT'S POIGNANT, THAT TO ME POINTS TO A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PIECE THAT HAS TO DO WITH HOW OUR ADMINISTRATORS ARE TRAINED TO TALK AND WORK WITH KIDS. I GO TO, AGAIN, A PRINCIPAL MORRIS TYPE OF GRADUATION SPEECH WHERE IT IS CLEAR, I MEAN IT'S CRYSTAL CLEAR EVERY WORD HE DELIVERED HOW MUCH HE CARES FOR HIS STUDENTS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR STRUGGLES, BACKGROUND,

206HOW THEY ARRIVE IN HIS SCHOOL. IT WAS CLEAR TO ME HIS STAFF DOES, TOO. SO WHEN I HEAR, YOU KNOW, A PARTICULAR -- AN ANECDOTAL STORY OF A PARTICULAR STAFF MEMBER TALKED POORLY TO A CHILD ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE WEARING, THEN THAT'S A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PIECE FOR THAT TEACHER, THAT ADMINISTRATOR, THAT SRO. YOU DON'T CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE IN YOUR DRESS CODE TO PREVENT THE OPPORTUNITY OF US POTENTIALLY SHAMING A GIRL THROUGH WORDS IN OUR DRESS CODE THAT TALK ABOUT HER BODY PARTS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE COVERED. I GIVE YOU A RELEVANT EXAMPLE THAT HAPPENED TODAY. TODAY I WALKED INTO A HIGH SCHOOL, I ARRIVED AT THE SCHOOL AS A YOUNG LADY WAS BEING DROPPED OFF BY WHAT LOOKED LIKE HER FATHER WEARING NOTHING OTHER THAN WHAT I COULD DESCRIBE AS DAISY DUKE SHORTS, AN

207ADORABLE SHIRT THAT IF YOU WANT TO BE AT A BEACH OR SOMETHING IS PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE, BUT THE SHIRT CAME DOWN TO HERE AND IT CAME UP TO HERE AND HER BELLY WASN'T COVERED AND SHE WAS WALKING INTO SCHOOL. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, BOYS ARE VISUAL BEINGS AND IT IS NOT FAIR TO HAVE A YOUNG LADY WALK INTO THE SCHOOLS OF A HIGH SCHOOL DRESSED WITH SHORTS UP TO HERE, TOPS DOWN TO THERE AND TOPS UP TO HERE AND WHEN DO WE -- TOO MUCH OF AN EXPANSE OF SKIN TO SHOW? ARE THERE RULERS? THE NEBULOUS NATURE OF YOU CAN SHOW TOO MUCH SKIN. WELL, WHAT IS TOO MUCH? IS AN ADMINISTRATOR GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE FOR ONE TYPE OF CLOTHING. COVER UP YOUR CLEAVAGE DOWN TO THERE, THAT'S A PRETTY CLEAR LIKE YOU

208CAN UNDERSTAND THAT. AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A TUBE TOP OR A HALTER TOP OR SOMETHING BACKLESS TO BE CUT DOWN WAY TOO FAR TO BE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING. I'M SORRY TO SAY THERE ARE TIMES WHERE GIRLS ARE MAKING INAPPROPRIATE CHOICES FOR AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. THERE ARE SOME SOMETIMES THAT THERE ARE BOYS BUT IT'S JUST NOT AS OFTEN SO DISPROPORTIONATELY IT'S GOING TO BE WINDING UP YOUNG LADIES NEEDING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT'S APPROPRIATE. IF THEY'RE WEARING A SKIRT THAT'S R EXTRAORDINARILY SHORT THAT'S SOMETHING A BOY IS GOING TO BE WEARING THAT'S GOING TO CAUSE HIM TROUBLE, IT'S A DIFFERENT SITUATION. AND IF OUR ADMINISTRATORS FOR SOME REASON ARE NOT HAVING APPROPRIATE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE PUBLICLY, YOU DON'T NEED TO CALL A CHILD OUT PUBLICLY.

209YOU CAN SAY, HEY, CAN I TALK TO YOU FOR A SECOND? THEY CAN BE TAKEN ASIDE AND THAT CAN BE A LEARNING MOMENT. BUT I'M VERY CONCERNED WITH WHERE WE'RE HEADED THAT WE'RE CALLING OUT INDIVIDUAL STORIES. I UNDERSTAND YOU SAID THAT YOU WORKED WITH MS. JOHNSON, BUT I HAVEN'T HAD THE PRINCIPALS WEIGH IN ON THIS. I HAVEN'T HAD TEACHERS WEIGH IN ON THIS. ARE WE NOW GOING TO SADDLE THE TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS AND PRINCIPALS IN THE BUILDING WITH A NEW NUANCE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE APPROPRIATELY DRESSED? WE SEEM TO BE FIGHTING A TIDE HERE OF EITHER ITS ME, TOO, AND WE'RE TRYING TO PREVENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND WE KNOW THAT IS A STRENGTHENING OF OUR LANGUAGE AND OUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT WE NEED TO DO ACROSS THE BOARD IN OUR ATHELETIC COMMUNITIES, TEEPING

210COMMUNITIES, ADMINISTRATIVE COMMUNITIES AND BE A LEADER IN THAT REGARD BUT THEN WE CAN'T IN THE SAME BREATH SAY, BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO COVER YOUR PRIVATE PARTS. WELL YOU CAN COVER YOUR PRIVATE PARTS WITH A BIKINI. SO THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE FOR AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING EITHER. I THINK THIS MUDDIES THE WATER FURTHER. I THINK IF WE WANT TO HAVE THIS KIND OF CONVERSATION, IT NEEDS TO BE TIED IN WITH MORE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY THE SYSTEM FOR THE PEOPLE RUNNING OUR SCHOOLS. WE NEED TO HAVE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE -- MEET WITH HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM WHAT THEY ENCOUNTER AND WHAT THEIR CONCERNS. WHAT I HEAR FROM THEM IS THEY -- THEY'RE HAPPY ENFORCING THE DRESS POLICY BECAUSE IT MAKES THINGS EASIER AT SCHOOL WHEN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LINES

211ARE. I THINK THIS MUDDIES THE WATER A LOT. MS. DERERAK KAUFAX? I AGREE WITH A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT EVERYBODY HAS SAID UP HERE. I DID TALK TO MR. M_C_ELVEEN ABOUT THIS. I THANK HIM FOR BRINGING THIS OUT. BUT I DON'T THINK THIS IS OUR BEST WORK, AND I DON'T THINK IT'S THE BEST WAY TO GOVERN. I WOULD LIKE TO STAY POSITIVE. I HAVE MY OWN SET OF -- FROM HAVING A GIRL AND HER CADRE OF FRIENDS, A LOT OF BODY SHAMING COMMENTS THAT HAPPENED, AND DR. BRABRAND I THINK THERE'S ROOM FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AMONGST THE STAFF MEMBERS. -- GIRLS BEING PUBLICLY CALLED OUT IN CAFETERIAS IN PLACES BY ADMINISTRATOR TS, TEACHERS. IT IS NOT -- THOSE ARE ANECDOTAL, MR. M_C_ELVEEN SAID HE HAS HUNDREDS OF THEM. I COULD PROBABLY ADD A WHOLE BUNCH, TOO.

212I WILL SUPPORT THIS AS A FIRST STEP. I DEFINITELY WISH THIS COULD HAVE COME TO US EARLIER THAT WE COULD HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE IT AT THE WORK SESSION. BECAUSE MAYBE YOU CAN TELL BY MY TONE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT I HAVE FOUND -- AND IT IS ADMINISTERED VERY, VERY DIFFERENTLY BY DIFFERENT PRINCIPALS, BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE -- THEY CHOOSE TO CALL UP CERTAIN BITS OF CLOTHING AND NOT OTHERS. I KNOW ONE PRINCIPAL WHERE LEGGINGS WERE NOT ALLOWED IN THAT CLASSROOM. THEY'RE THOSE MOSTLY BLACK PANTS THAT ARE CLOSE TO THE SKIN AND EVERYBODY WEARS THEM. BUT THERE WAS ONE SCHOOL THAT YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED TO WEAR THEM. WHY? SO THOSE KIND OF THINGS I THINK IF WE'RE CHANGING THINGS AND REVISING THINGS, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO HEAR ABOUT THAT AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND

213THAT THIS DOES HAPPEN AND WE NEED MORE CONVERSATION AROUND IT. AND WHILE I WILL BE SUPPORTING IT, I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS KIND OF WORK BECAUSE I THINK THERE ARE AS MR. M_C_ELVEEN SAID THERE'S A LOT OF EMOTION AROUND SOME OF THESE THINGS AND A LOT OF IT HAPPENS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE CALLOUS IN THEIR COMMENTS ABOUT FASHIONS THAT -- MOSTLY GIRLS, HAVE BEEN WEARING. MS. KEYS-GAMARRA? I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS MOTION, AND I DO SO PRIMARILY BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT WORDS MATTER. MR. M_C_ELVEEN I STILL REMEMBER THINGS SAID TO ME WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER AND I'M PRETTY SURE I'M OLDER THAN THOSE PEOPLE YOU JUST QUOTED. I THINK THIS IS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. DO WE NEED TO DO MORE WORK? ABSOLUTELY -- LIKE TO ADDRESS

214THIS AND HOW THEY CAN IMPROVE. THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO START. I ALSO THINK THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO BEGIN THOSE DISCUSSIONS. WE CAN SIGNAL A CHANGE BY THE POLICIES THAT WE SUPPORT, AND SO THAT WOULD BE THE REASON THAT I WOULD SUGGEST THIS AND I HEAR MS. SCHULTZ WITH RESPECT TO LANGUAGE. CAN WE TRULY HAVE GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE? THAT'S A DEBATE THAT WILL KEEP ME HERE LONGER THAN I WANT TO SAY. IT DOES SAY HALTER TOPS. I DON'T THINK GENTLEMEN WEAR THOSE. EXCESSIVE BEAR SKIN WHICH IS AN ATTEMPT TO BE MORE FAIR. I THINK THAT IS -- WE'RE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. WE DO NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT MORE. WE PROBABLY NEED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. AND MORE THAN ANYTHING, I'M SURE OUR STAFF MEMBERS UNDERSTAND THAT WORDS CAN REALLY STICK BUT PERHAPS

215WE NEED TO FOCUS A BIT MORE ON THAT, AND WE CAN GROW IN THAT AREA AS WELL. SO I WILL SUPPORT IT. THANK YOU. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET UP AND GO TO SCHOOL IN THE MORNING. MY SISTER'S LAST DAY. I SUPPORT THIS AMENDMENT BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS NOT EVERYTHING BUT IT'S SOMETHING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SO WE'RE BEING MORE FAIR BY MAKING SURE THAT THE LANGUAGE IS I GUESS SLIGHTLY MORE NEUTRAL BY -- IT'S NOT YET GOING TO BE COMPLETELY NEUTRAL. BUT I ALSO THINK THIS GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO JUST LIKE TAKE STUDENT INPUT INTO WHAT KIND OF CLOTHING IS APPROPRIATE AND WHAT ISN'T THE SO WE CAN STANDARDIZE ACROSS THE COUNTY. I THINK MOST OF US WOULD AGREE LEGGINGS ARE GENERALLY APPROPRIATE ITEMS OF CLOTHING. IF WE'RE HAVING ONE SCHOOL WHERE

216STUDENTS AREN'TABLE TO WEAR THOSE, WE NEED TO BE WORKING WITH OUR STUDENTS TO SEE WHAT CLOTHING THEY FIND IS APPROPRIATE, WHAT YOU GUYS FINE APPROPRIATE AND ATTEMPT TO FIND A MIDDLE GROUND SO STUDENTS AREN'T BEING UNFAIRLY PENALIZED BY THE DRESS CODE. THANK YOU MR. M_C_ELVEEN FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. AS YOU KNOW, THIS WAS PART OF THE CONVERSATION AT THE WORK SESSION WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE SR AND R. WE DID TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE AND THE LATITUDE GIVEN TO PRINCIPALS AT INDIVIDUAL SITES ACROSS THE COUNTY THE AT THAT TIME MANY OF US EXPRESSED SOME CONCERNS THAT THERE WAS NOT A COMMONALITY IN APPROACH ACROSS THE COUNTY. I THINK THIS IS A GOOD FIRST STEP. AS THE MOTHER OF ONLY DAUGHTERS, I REALLY WELCOME THIS BECAUSE I HAVE VERY DIFFERENT DAUGHTERS. WHAT I HAVE

217FOUND IS THAT WORDS MATTER MORE FOR ONE THAN THE OTHER. AND THAT WHEN YOU -- ONE HAS A DIFFERENT EFFECT THAN IF THE SAME COMMENT WAS MADE TO ANOTHER. THIS SENDS A VERY POSITIVE MESSAGE ABOUT THE APPROPRIATENESS OF REALLY ONE TYPE OF CLOTHING WORN BY GIRLS VERSUS SOME PEOPLE TAKE GREAT OFFENSE OF SEEING A LOT OF BARE SKIN ON A BOY TOO. -- BEGIN TO REBALANCE OUR LANGUAGE. HOPEFULLY NEXT YEAR WE'LL LOOK AT IT AGAIN AND MAYBE MAKE FURTHER REFINEMENTS. ALONG THOSE LINES, I DO ALSO THINK IT WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. FOR STAFF AT THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO TALKING TO PARENTS ABOUT WHAT WE EXPECT AS FAR AS APPROPRIATE ATTIRE FOR KIDS COMING TO SCHOOL, READY TO LEARN. MS. HYNES? THANK YOU. I THINK THE POINT THAT MR. M_C_ELVEEN IS TRYING TO

218MAKE HERE, AND I THINK HE'S MAKING IT WELL IS THE CURRENT LANGUAGE IS NOT GENDER NEUTRAL. IT'S FROM THAT AND THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO BEGIN TO MAKE THESE CHANGES. IF WE ACCOMPLISH NOTHING ELSE TONIGHT, WE WILL HAVE EXPOSE THE WHOLE CONVERSATION AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BOYS' RESPONSIBILITY, THE SORT OF OLD FASHIONED NOTIONS THAT BOYS -- THAT GIRLS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHERE WHETHER BOYS CAN FOCUS. I JUST DON'T GET THAT AT ALL. AND -- SO I HOPE THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT. TEACHERS MAKE MISTAKES. I'M A TEACHER. SOMETIMES WE MAKE ASSUMPTIONS AND WE DON'T REALIZE WE'RE MAKING THEM. IF THE POLICY DOESN'T HELP US DO A BETTER JOB, THEN WE NEED TO CHANGE THE POLICY. THANK YOU, MR. M_C_ELVEEN. OKAY. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE ON MR. M_C_ELVEEN'S AMENDMENT TO THE

219ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT? OKAY. THAT IS EVANS, M_C_LAUGHLIN, PALCHIK, MAC EL VEIN, CORBETT SANDERS, STRAUSS, MOON, HYNES, DERERAK KAUFAX, KEYS-GAMARRA, OPPOSED? ABSTENTION, MS. SCHULTZ. OKAY THEN WE ARE BACK TO THE MAIN MOTION, WHICH IS THE S R AND R. IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE OVERALL MOTION ON THE SR ANDR? M_C_LAUGHLIN? YES, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT AND SAY THIS BOARD HAS HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE IN OUR STUDENT DISCIPLINE PRACTICES. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE BOARD JUST SPOKE TO A FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN WE WERE VOTING ON OUR BUDGET WAS SAYING HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS AS WE LOOK AT THE NEEDS WITHIN OUR HEARINGS OFFICE, WE ALSO LOOK AT WHAT OUR DATA IS TELLING US ABOUT STUDENT DISCIPLINE AND DISPROPORTIONATITY. BECAUSE WE

220ENDED UP PASSING THAT INFORMATION AS PART OF A BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND DIRECTION TO THE SUPERINTENDENT, WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY NEED TO DO IT HERE TONIGHT. BUT I DIDN'T WANT IT TO GO UNSPOKEN. AND REINFORCE THAT THE DISPROPORTIONAL WE HAVE FOR OUR STUDENTS OF COLOR AS WELL AS OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IS SOMETHING THAT I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE MINDFULNESS OF THIS BOARD AS A WHOLE. EVERY SINGLE ONE THE 12 OF US HAS SPOKEN TO OUR COMMITMENT AND OUR DESIRE. SUPERINTENDENT BRABRAND YOU COME WITH A GREAT RECORD OF WORK IN YOUR FORMER SUPERINTENDENT CITY OF LYNCHBERG. I PREACH THAT I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS NEXT YEAR AS YOU CONTINUE TO WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND ALL THE CONTINUOUS AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT THAT WE WANT TO DO THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE. DATA HELPS INFORM

221OUR DECISION MAKING SO THAT'S GOING TO BE A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE. BUT I DO WANT TO JUST ALSO HIGHLIGHT FOR MY COLLEAGUES THAT I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE ANECDOTAL INFORMATION ABOUT HOW GREAT WE ARE DOING AS A COUNTY IN OUR JUVENILE DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT. THAT OUR STUDENTS WHO GET REFERRED FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN OUR SCHOOLS OR IN OUR COMMUNITY, THEY GO OVER TO THE JUVENILE COURT AND THEY ARE VERY OFTEN GIVEN THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TO DIVERSION SO THEY'RE NOT COURT INVOLVED AND YET IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE MINDSET THAT I'VE SEEN HAPPEN HERE ON OUR SIDE. IN FACT, I'M FAMILIAR WITH ONE RECENT CASE WHERE THE FAMILY LITERALLY REACHED OUT TO ME AND SAID, WHEN I DEALT WITH IT THE JUVENILE COURT AND INTAKE OFFICER, I WAS TREATED WITH KINDNESS AND RESPECT. WHEN I

222WAS ASKING QUESTIONS AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE HEARINGS OFFICE LEVEL, IT WAS A VERY FEARFUL EXCHANGE. AGAIN, THAT'S ANECDOTAL BUT THIS ISN'T SOMETHING NEW TO WHAT I'VE HEARD. SO I DO HOPE FOR ALL OF US IN THE SCHOOL DIVISION WE UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN A STUDENT IS REFERRED TO THE HEARINGS OFFICE FOR WHAT CAN BE EXPULSION-RELATED OFFENSE, THAT WE NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT ESPECIALLY WHEN THESE ARE FIRST OFFENDERS AND THEY ARE NONVIOLENT OFFENSES AND THESE ARE YOUNG KIDS WHO ARE TRYING TO FIND THEIR WAY AND HAVE MADE TYPICALLY A JUVENILE ILL-THOUGHT MISTAKE THAT WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT WE NEED FAMILIES TO FEEL AS IF THIS IS STILL A CARING CULL FUTURE, EVEN HAD THEY -- CULTURE, EVEN HAD THEY FIND THEMSELVES DEALING WITH A DISCIPLINE, INFRACTION AND/OR

223THE HEARINGS OFFICE. THIS ISN'T JUST THE HEARINGS OFFICE. IT'S EVEN HAD WE'RE IN OUR SCHOOL BUILDINGS. AS WE CAN MOVE TOWARDS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND DEEPER LEVEL, AND I'M PROUD OF THE WORK THIS BOARD HAS DONE IN THE 6 1/2 YEARS I'VE BEEN ON HERE, THAT IS SOMETHING AGAIN EACH OF US HAS SHOWN A DEEPER APPRECIATION FOR BUT WE'RE NOT THERE. AND THIS S R AND R DOESN'T HAVE US EXACTLY WHERE WE NEED TO BE AND DR. BRABRAND, I DID ACTUALLY KIND OF GIVE YOU A LIGHT PASS THIS YEAR BECAUSE SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES NOW I TEND TO LIKE TO DISSECT THE SR AND R AND PUSH A LITTLE HARDER. I FIGURED YOU HAD ENOUGH ON YOUR PLATE THIS YEAR. I LOOK FORWARD TO COLLABORATING WITH YOU AND STAFF AND HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO REALLY

224DO OUR BEST WORK AND WE MIRROR WHAT WE SEE OVER WITH THE JUVENILE COURT HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY. I WILL CALL FOR THE VOTE ON SR AND R AS AMENDED. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. THAT IS EVANS, M_C_LAUGHLIN, PALCHIK, M_C_ELVEEN, CORBETT SANDERS, STRAUSS, MOON, HYNES, DERERAK KAUFAX, OPPOSED BE TO THE EXTENSION, MS. SCHULTZ. I'M SORRY, YOU WERE AWAY FROM THE TABLE WHEN WE DID THE FINAL VOTE ON FLECAC. I UNDERSTAND YOU HAD MORE YOU WISH TO SAY. I'M SORRY, WE HAVE ONE BATHROOM BACK THERE AND -- I’LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER CHANCE. I APOLOGIZE. WE'RE MAKING POLICY AT THIS TABLE ON DECIDING WHICH POPULATIONS ARE IMPORTANT AND WHEN THEY'RE IMPORTANT. AND CLEARLY I WOULD NOT HAVE VOTED FOR WHAT TRANSPIRED EARLIER THIS EVENING BECAUSE YET AGAIN WE'VE GONE ROGUE. WE EVEN DECIDED THIS TIME TO DO PARENTAL

225ENGAGEMENT AND ASK THE COMMUNITY WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS BEFORE WE VOTE ON THEM AND THEY TOLD US SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 8 TO 1 TO 100 TO 0 THAT THEY DID NOT WANT US TO DO WHAT WE DID TONIGHT. AND IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO DEMUR ON WHO IS IMPORTANT BASED ON WHAT VOTE WE WANT TO GET TO. I'M JUST PREPARING FOR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ON MONDAY. SO EVERYBODY KEEP AN OPEN MIND. AND LET'S NOT GIVE SHORT SHIFT TO THIS WORK. SO IF WE NEED TO REVISIT SOME OF THE STUFF IN THE REPORT, TO JUST GIVE IT ITS DUE ATTENTION THAT IT DESERVES. ONE OF THE REASONS I'M ASKING MY COLLEAGUES TO DO ALL OF THE READING PRIOR TO COMING TO THE WORK SESSION. I AGREE MR. MOON, BUT THIS IS

226NOT A PROBLEM WITH READING WITH 12 VOICES AND A DENSE REPORT, IT'S TO DIALOGUE WITH EACH OTHER ON IT. OKAY, THANK YOU. WE HAVE OUR HOMEWORK TO DO. FOLLOWING OUR NEW BUSINESS AGENDA ITEMS, THERE WILL NOT BE A VOTE, BUT THEY'RE SCHEDULED FOR A FUTURE MEETING. 6.01, THE REPORT IS DEPOSITED IN THE AGENDA ITEM. 6.02, APPROVE A CONTRACT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOR THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, SET: WHEN AUTHORIZED THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT TO EXECUTE AND ADMINISTER SUCH CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, 6.03. APPOINT INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE A ONE-YEAR TERM, ON THE ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION ADVANCED PROGRAMS, EDUCATION, HUMAN RESOURCES, MINORITY OVERSIGHT. AND STUDENT HEALTH IN THE AGENDA ITEMS, 6.04, APPROVE THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TO STRATEGIC MANUAL, REGARDING ADVOCACY LETTERS AND THE COMMITTEE. 6.05, APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FOR

227A ONE-YEAR TERM, ENDING JUNE 30th 2019. 6.06, APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF MICHAEL BURKE TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR A ONE-YEAR TERM JULY 18th, 6.07, ADOPT THE SCHOOL YEAR CALENDAR AS DEPOSITED IN THE AGENDA ITEMS. THE BOARD WILL DISCUSS THE CALENDAR AT THE JUNE 18th WORK SESSION. SUPERINTENDENT MATTERS, DR. BRABRAND. IT HAS BEEN A GREAT END OF THE YEAR WITH SO MANY CELEBRATIONS AND THE GRADUATION, IT'S SUCH AN IMPACT TO GO TO THROWS. I GOT TO GO TO MANY, NOT ALL OF THEM. BUT IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE SO MANY OF OUR GRADUATES AND FAMILIES AND SCHOOL STAFF. I GOT TO SPEAK AT A COUPLE OF THEM, AND I REALLY WISH ALL OF OUR GRADUATES THE BEST OF LUCK. > SPEAKING OF THE FCPS FAMILY, LAST WEEK, WE WERE ABLE TO CONGRATULATE THE BEST OF

228OUR WORK FORCE, AND I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THEM FOR THE HONORS EVENT HELD OVER AT GEORGE MASON. IT WAS A WONDERFUL EVENT. LEAVING AND COMING BACK, WE HAVE EXPANDED IN A MAJOR WAY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE'RE HONORING IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR OUT STANDING WORK, AND WE HONOR SCHOOL BASED AT MINUTESTRATORS, AND I WAS JUST AWED. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS THAT ONLY IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, ONE OF MY MENTORS, WHO WAS A RETIRED SUPERINTENDENT FROM DOWNSTATE WHO WAS THERE, WROTE ME AN EMAIL THE FOLLOWING DAY AND SAID I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE. AND IT'S A MAJOR IMPACT ON CULTURE. SO THEN ON LAST SUNDAY, I GOT TO GO TO SEE AS A TEACHER, A PRINCIPLE, AND NOW AS A SUPERINTENDENT. AND AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK CHAIRMAN STRAUSS, I

229WANT TO THANK JUDY AND BILL STRAUSS, AND THE LEGACY HE CREATED. THIS IS ANOTHER EVENT, FOUNDED IN FAIRFAX THAT ONLY HAPPENS HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. AND THE KIDS HERE GOT AN EXPERIENCE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER THAT NO ONE ELSE GETS REALLY AROUND THE COUNTRY OR MAYBE THE WORLD. TODAY I GOT TO GO TO THE FAIRFAX COUNTY RETIRED EDUCATORS LUNCHEON, AND I RAN INTO MY COOPERATING TEACHER FROM 20 YEARS AGO, NANCY. SHE'S IN HER 80s NOW, AND EXCITED TO BE OUT AND ABOUT AND EXCITED TO RECONNECT WITH THAT YOUNG INTERN THAT SHE HELPED ALONG 25 YEARS AGO. IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE TOO THEY HONORED SEVEN OF OUR STUDENTS WITH $2,000 SCHOLARSHIPS. ALL OF THEM ARE PLANNING ON STUDYING EDUCATION, AND I ALREADY, BECAUSE BUD DID THIS FOR ME, I GUARANTEED ALL OF THEM A JOB

230UPON SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION, MR. MOON, OF THEIR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE. AND I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THAT. AND THANK YOU TOO TO APPLE CREDIT UNION. THEY GAVE 29 OF OUR KIDS THIS YEAR $5,000 SCHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND COLLEGES OF THEIR CHOICE. SO WHAT AN AMAZING SPONSOR SHIP. THIS WAS SPECIAL TOO THAT I WANTED TO BRING UP. I AM LEAVING WITH MY BOYS TO GO TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK IN ANOTHER STATE OVER THE WEEKEND FOR FATHER'S DAY AND THEIR BIRTHDAY, AND I HOPE THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND AND GET A CHANCE TO RECONNECT WITH YOUR FATHERS OR REMEMBER OUR FATHERS, AND BE WITH FAMILY. BUFF IT WANTS BEEN A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR, AND I'VE BEEN HONORED TO BE YOUR SUPERINTENDENT THIS YEAR. I HAVE GROWS TO GET BETTER AT. IN YOUR FIRST YEAR, YOU LEARN

231THINGS THAT YOU CAN GET BETTER AT THE NEXT TIME AROUND, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HELPING YOU MAKE THIS THE PREMIER SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. THANK YOU, AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY. NOW, WE HAVE SOME COMMITTEE REPORTS. MISS HYNES FOR AUDIT COMMITTEE. SURE, THANK YOU. THE AUDIT COMMITTEE MET ON MAY 29th FOR OUR MONTHLY MEETING, AND A STAFFING UPDATE. AND AN UPDATE ON OUR FY18 INTERNAL AUDIT ENGAGEMENTS, AND WE'RE ON TRACK TO FINISH THOSE WITHIN FISCAL YEAR 18. AND WE ALSO RECEIVED A REPORT ON THE FY18 WORKERS' COMP AUDIT, AND WE BEGAN TO DISCUSS THE FY19 PLAN, AND WE DISCUSSED THE PLAN AND THE DRAFT THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL VET ON NEXT MONTH, I BELIEVE, IN JULY. AND THE NEXT AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING IS JUNE 27th. MISS SHULTZ SOME. JUST SUPER BRIEFLY, WE MET

232ON MONDAY, MAY 4th, FOR CPDC. AND WE ARE GOING TO BE ASKING IN SHARES FOR SPACE ON THE JULY WORK SESSION TO BRING FORWARD RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD, AND WE HAD TO EXTEND ONE MORE TIME THE APPLICATIONS FOR FPAC, AND WE HAVE AN UPCOMING CLOSED SESSION TO REVIEW THOSE APPLICATIONS AND BRING RECOMMENDATIONING TO THE BOARD FOR NEW MEMBERS OF FPAC 4, THE SUCCESSFUL CALENDAR YEAR. IF YOU VERY MUCH. I WANT TO START WITH A SHOUT OUT TO THE STEWART HIGH SCHOOL BOY'S SOCCER TEAM. THEY WERE THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 26 YEARS, AND THE REGIONAL CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 27 YEARS. SO THEY WENT TO STATE. AND DID VERY VERY WELL. AND A VERY CLOSE GAME IN THE SEMIFINALS, SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM. THEY DID LOSE ULTIMATELY TO NUMBER

233ONE OAKTON, AND THAT'S ALL RIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS TO OAKTON TOO. THEY ALL DID VERY VERY WELL. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO THE TOWN HALL MEETING AND STUDENT PANEL THAT DELEGATE KAY COREY AND I HELD RECENTLY ON GUN VIOLENCE, AND I WANT TO THANK MISS VATACONNEDA, FOR BEING ONE OF OUR LEADERS AND ALSO IT STUDENTS FROM FALLS CHURCH, AND PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY. THERE WAS AN EXCELLENT CONVERSATION. FROM THE MINUTES OF THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. AND WE DID GET A GOOD TURNOUT AND A LOT OF THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS AS WELL. I ALSO WANT TO CONGRATULATE MRS. STRAUSS ON YET AGAIN ANOTHER WONDERFUL EVENT THAT'S ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR TO SEE OUR VERY VERY TALENTED THEATER STUDENTS, AS WELL AS JOURNALISM STUDENTS, WITH THE CRITICS AWARD SHOWCASED AT THE KENNEDY CENTER.

234SO IT'S JUST A MAGNIFICENT EVENT. SO THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO SHOWCASE OUR STUDENTS THAT WAY. AND BESIDES THAT, I WAS VERY VERY PLEASED TO GO TO THE GRADUATIONS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. AND CELEBRATE WITH THE STUDENTS. I EVEN GOT TO SPEAK AT ONE, AND I WANTED LAST BUT NOT LEAST, TO CONGRATULATE AND THANK ALL OF THE FATHERS OUT THERE. MISS McLAUGHLIN? FIRST, I WANTED TO SHARE THAT BOTH MISS SHULTZ AND I AND MISS CAMARA HAD AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE, WE RUSHED OVER TO LAKE BRADDOCK SECONDARY SCHOOL, WHERE THE MINORITY PARENTS FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION HOSTED THEIR ANNUAL AWARDS NIGHT TO RECOGNIZE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE STUDENTS. AND WHAT I WANTED YOU ALL TO KNOW WAS THE MOST INCREDIBLE SPEAKER WHO WAS THERE THAT NIGHT. HER NAME IS L. DENISE WARDLOCK, CLASS OF 91

235OUT OF LAKE BRADDOCK, WENT TO COLUMBIA FOR HER MBA. SHE'S JUST REMARKABLE SPEAKER. SHE ALSO HAPPENED TO HAVE BEEN ONE OF OUR FORMER STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES TO THE SCOREBOARD. AND JUST HER POWERFUL, POWERFUL LESSON TO THE STUDENTS AS A WOMAN OF COLOR, AND SPEAKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT ADVERSITIES SHE EXPERIENCED, INCLUDING LOSING HER MOTHER AT THE AGE OF 24. AND THEN GOING THROUGH THE CHALLENGES AS A MOTHER AND TRYING TO HELP HER CHILD, WHO WAS GOING THROUGH HEALTH ISSUES. IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLE TO SEE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE JUST LOOKING AND LISTENING TO HER SO INTENTLY, BECAUSE SHE JUST CONNECTED AT SUCH A DEEP LEVEL. AND IT WAS REALLY ONE OF THE BEST SPEAKERS I'VE HEARD IN SUCH A LONG TIME. AND IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO SPEND THE EVENING WITH HER. AND SO THAT

236WAS INCREDIBLE. AND THEN AT THE ROBINSON GRADUATION, WE HAD A GENTLEMAN WHO GRADUATED IN THE CLASS OF 75, AND HE WAS JUST ALSO INCREDIBLY INSPIRATIONAL. HE'S A TONE NOMINATED DIRECTOR, HE HAS WRITTEN FOR SOME OF THE BEST SHOWS ON TELEVISION, DIRECTED FOR THEM AS WELL. AND HE JUST ALSO SPOKE WITH SUCH INSPIRATION, AGAIN ABOUT WHAT LIFE WILL BRING YOU. GREAT HUMILITY, TALKED ABOUT ADVERSITY, AND CHASING HIS DREAM AND FINDING OUT THAT IT WAS NOT TO BE AN ACTOR BUT A DIRECTOR. AND JUST THOSE MESSAGES TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO SAY, WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PATH IS GOING TO BE, SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THAT PATH. BUT THEN YOU ACTUALLY FIND YOUR CALLING, SO THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. ON A PRIVATE NOTE, AS MY COLLEAGUES KNOW, MY YOUNGEST SON GRADUATED FROM WOODSON YESTERDAY, AND THAT

237OFFICIALLY MAKES ME AN FCPS ALUMNI PARENT. I NO LONGER HAVE ANY CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. AND I HAVE TO SAY AFTER 17 YEARS OF BEING A PARENT IN THE SYSTEM, IT WAS BITTERSWEET. AND DR. BRABRAND, WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS. I'M A SECOND GENERATION FAIRFAX COUNTY FAMILY THROUGH MY HUSBAND AND HIS BROTHERS, AND I DON'T REGRET A DAY THAT WE TRADED THE WINE COUNTRY OF MY HOMETOWN TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN HERE, AND WHILE WE CAN CONTINUE TO CREATE A JOYFUL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, I AM DEEPLY INDEBTED TO WHAT MY BOYS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THROUGH OUR GREAT TEACHERS, OUR CARING ADMINISTRATORS, AND A SCHOOL BOARD THAT'S SO DEEPLY APPRECIATES THE NEED FOR FINDING OUR WAYS TO BETTER SERVE OUR FAMILIES. AND SO TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO WERE THERE, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME. EVERYBODY WAS

238SHOOTING PICTURES OF ME GIVING THE DIPLOMA TO MY SON, AND THOSE PICTURES ARE PRICELESS. SO TO ALL OF THE GRADUATES, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WILL DO THE PERENNIAL BEACH WEEK, PLEASE, PARENTS, PLEASE, KIDS, THAT DRIVE CAN BE VERY TREACHEROUS, AND WE HAVE LOST FAIRFAX COUNTY STUDENTS COMING BACK FROM BEACH WEEK BECAUSE THEY WERE TIRED. AND IT PRESENTS A RISK. SO PLEASE, ENJOY CELEBRATING YOUR INCREDIBLE GRADUATIONS, BUT PLEASE, PLEASE BE SAFE OUT THERE, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING BACK FROM OUR GRADUATES ABOUT THEIR EXCITING NEW ADVENTURES. ESPECIALLY YOU'VE BEEN A JOY. MR. MCELVEEN? SO I DO WANT TO EXTEND MY GRADUATIONS TO THE McLAUGHLINS AND THE WILSONS FOR THEIR GRADUATES THIS YEAR. MR. MOON AND I COMPLETED OUR ANNUAL TOUR DEFORCE THROUGH THE GRADUATIONS. I THINK I WAS ABLE TO GET TO 24 THIS YEAR, AND

239I DO HAVE A FEW AWARDS TO SHARE. THE WINNER FOR THE SHORTEST CEREMONY IS LANGLEY HIGH SCHOOL AT 83 MINUTES. THE BEST SPEAKER I HEARD, I WITH MISS McLAUGHLIN, ROBINSON SECONDARY, HE WAS FANTASTIC. THE MOST INSPIRING STUDENT SPEAKER I DO BELIEVE WAS AT WOODSON, WHEN WE HAD THE HARD OF HEARING STUDENT, AND THAT WAS VERY, VERY MOVING. AND I DO ALSO WANT TO CONGRATULATE THOSE ON LT AND ON THE BOARD WHO GAVE SPEECHES THIS YEAR. CARE GAVE AND SUPERINTENDENT BRABRAND GAVE A COUPLE. AND CAREY GAVE A GREAT ADDRESS. AS DID TYSON. SANDY EVANS GAVE A MARVELOUS SPEECH AT FALLS CHURCH, AND I WILL FIND YOUR HUSBAND AS SOON AS I CAN. AND ANYWAY, LONG STORY. BUT CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR GRADUATES, AND WE HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO

240SEEING YOU BACK IN THE FALL. MISS CORBETT SANDERS? THANK YOU, I TOO WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU MISS SHULTZ ON ANOTHER WONDERFUL CAPPING CELEBRATION. IT WAS FANTASTIC, I MEAN MRS. STRAUSS. IT IS LATE, ISN'T IT? AND A WONDERFUL EVENING, AND I WAS THRILLED TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THE AWARD FOR THE ENSEMBLE TO THE WEST POTOMAC STUDENTS, AND THAT WAS WOLF. WONDERFUL. I WENT TO A NUMBER OF GRADUATIONS, AND ONE THIS YEAR EVEN AT THE ADULT DETENTION CENTER, WHERE 27 PEOPLE WERE GIVEN THEIR GEDs, AND THAT WAS AMAZING. SO IT'S A PROGRAM THAT I AM SO GLAD THAT FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUPPORTS. WONDERFUL. > YESTERDAY, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF BEING AT A CONVENING BY UCM IN THE WASHINGTON REGIONAL AREA GRANT MAKING AUTHORITY, THE CONVENING WAS ON BECOMING ONE FAIRFAX, AND ENVISIONING A RACIALLY

241EQUITABLE FAIRFAX COUNTY, AND I HAD THE PLEASURE OF DOING THAT WITH MY COLLEAGUE, MISS DENY KAUFAX, WITH THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND MR. DURAN, AND THE NEW EQUITY OFFICER FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, CARLA BRUCE, AND SO IT WAS JUST A GREAT DISCUSSION ON THE CHALLENGES THIS COUNTY FACES IN TRYING TO HAVE A ONE FAIRFAX, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT STEP, WHICH IS TO HAVE SOME REAL SOLUTIONS COMING FORWARD. ALSO, LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SATURDAY, WHERE THERE WILL BE 185 YEAR CELEBRATION OF GUM SPRINGS, AND I KNOW I'LL SEE A FEW OF YOU THERE, ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY TO GO OUT FOR IT, AND ON THE 25th, THERE WILL BE A SCHOOL SAFETY IN THE COMMONWEALTH FORUM WITH MODERATORS, BRIAN MORAN AND COUNTY EXECUTIVE BRIAN HILL, AS WELL AS PANELISTS, SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE

242PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT FORUM ON THE 25th AT THE COMFORT INN FROM 1:00 TO 3:30. AND I KNOW THERE WILL BE STAFF FROM THE COUNTY THERE. DR. DURAN AND MR. SMITH, EXCELLENT, WE'LL BE WELL REPRESENTED. AND THAT'S IT. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO MATCH MR. BECKERMAN -- HERE, BUT I HAVE DONE AT LEAST 21 GRADUATIONS, AND I THINK I HAVE SPENT OVER THE LAST WEEK, WAY TOO MUCH TIME WITH MR. MCELVEEN, SO MR. MCELVEEN, DO NOT CALL ME THIS WEEKEND, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU UNTIL MONDAY AT THE FULL-DAY WORK SESSION, BUT IN ADDITION TO THOSE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'S PROMOTION SER MOANS FOR 3rd GRADERS AND 6th GRADERS, AND I ENJOYED THOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AS MUCH AS I

243DID FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLS. JUST QUICKLY, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE GRADUATES, AND TO ALL OF THE TEACHERS AND OTHER FOLKS WHO WORK IN THE SCHOOL BUILDINGS. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALSO ON THE CONCLUSION OF ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR. I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO REFLECT AND RESPECT A LITTLE BIT OVER THE SUMMER, AND OF COURSE IN EVERY GRADUATION YOU GO TO, WE MAKE SURE THAT THE KIDS, THE GRADUATING SENIORS, THANK FOR FAMILIES, AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO DO AS WELL. IT TAKES A VILLAGE, A FAMILY, A WHOLE SCHOOL TO GET THE KIDS TO THAT POINT, AND WE HAVE SUCH A SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL SYSTEM BECAUSE EVERYBODY DOES WORK TOGETHER SO WELL ON BEHALF OF THE KIDS, SO HAVE A GREAT SUMMER. MISS SHULTZ. I WANT TO THANK THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THE GRADUATIONS

244POSSIBLE, WHO WE NEVER REALLY SEE. ALL OF THE AV, ALL OF THE FACILITIES, ALL OF THE SUPPORT STAFF THAT ARE BEHIND THE SCENES. BECAUSE ALL OF THE PEOPLE OUT FRONT, WE SIT ON THE STAGE, BUT WE SIT ON THE STAGE THAT THEY BUILT. WE TALK INTO MICS THAT THEY PUT TOGETHER. WE WATCH ON SCREENS THAT THEY PRODUCE THE FILM FOR. THEY MOVE IN AND OUT, THEY TURN THREE GRADUATIONS AT EAGLE BANK ARENA, WE HAD ONE GRADUATION THAT RAN REALLY LONG, AND I THINK EVERYBODY WAS SWEATING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE COULD DO THE FLIP TURN, AND EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT I SHOULDER HUNDRED AT ONE OF THOSE GRADUATIONS, ALL OF THAT SUPPORT STAFF WAS THERE, AND THEY DON'T GET THE HIGHLIGHT. SO I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR MOVING TRUCKS AND POLLEDIUMS AND CHAIRS AND

245BANNERS AND EVERYTHING, MAKING EACH GRADUATION LOOK AND FEEL SPECIAL. I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANKS TO MY FATHER, WHO IS SITTING AT HOME WITH MY CHILDREN, AND WISH HIM A HAPPY FATHER'S DAY IN ADVANCE, AND THAT WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY, TOM WILSON AND I ARE THE ONLY TWO PARENTS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS LEFT ON THIS BOARD. ALSO, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE ALL OF OUR GRADUATES, THIS REALLY IS MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR. I WAS HONORED TO ATTEND THE GRADUATION AT KEY CENTER, BRIAN, EDISON, LEE AND HAYFIELD. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR GRADUATES. IT IS, SINCE I HAVE TWO HAWKS AND EAGLES, WE ALWAYS SAY IT'S YOUR TIME TO SOAR, SO I DO WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE WILL MISS YOU, AND WE HOPE WE HAVE SERVED YOU WELL, AND WE WISH YOU ALL

246THE BEST. TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. TAKE THIS TIME TO RELAX, RECHARGE, READ A LITTLE, YOU DESERVE A BREAK, AND REALLY ENJOY IT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. I TOO WANT TO SAY I ENJOYED ATTENDING WITH MISS CORBETT SANDERS BECOMING ONE FAIRFAX EVENT YESTERDAY. AND ALSO, MISS SHULTZ, AGAIN, IT'S ALWAYS A WONDERFUL EVENT. AND YOU WORKED SO HARD TO PUT IT TOGETHER. AND THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING YOUR HARD WORK ON THAT EVENT. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL EVENT. AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO EVERYONE THIS SUNDAY. MISS CORBETT SANDERS? MISS CAMARA, IT'S LATE. SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE REMINDED ME OF WHERE I'VE BEEN, SO I WON'T REPEAT. BUT I DO WANT TO SAY HAPPY FATHER'S DAY. MY DAD IS HERE, AND HE'S 86, AND I'LL BE MAKING HIM SOMETHING SPECIAL ON SUNDAY,

247ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER MEN THAT LIVE IN MY HOUSEHOLD. BUT I'M GRATEFUL TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE OFFICE HOURS, I HAD 25 PEOPLE SHOW UP ON THAT, AND WE HAD WONDERFUL DISCUSSIONS SCHEDULED FOR TWO HOURS, AND STAYED FOR THREE. BUT IT'S FINE. WAS ABLE TO DO THE FCPS HONORS, AND I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THAT. THE CAPIS WERE WONDERFUL. AND THAT WAS -- THERE ARE SO MANY FIRSTS THAT I'VE HAD. AND THIS IS MY FIRST STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE, AND I WILL NEVER FORGET HER. YOU KNOW, TY STARTED AT THE TOP, SO THE NEXT PERSON IS GOING TO HAVE A HARD TIME, SHE'S A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW, SO I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU. AND I JUST WANT TO WISH EVERYBODY A HAPPY SUMMER. TRYING TO THINK IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE. I DID GO TO

248-- NOBODY ELSE MENTIONED, THE CHANTILLY PYRAMID AWARDS. I WAS THERE WITH MR. MOON, AND AS USUAL, WE'RE JUST IMPRESSED AS THE MORE I SEE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, THE MORE ENCOURAGED I AM THAT DESPITE THE MANY THINGS THAT -- THE DIFFICULTIES THAT WE'RE FACING, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE READY FOR THE CHALLENGE, SO I WANT THEM TO ENJOY THEIR SUMMER. I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE DISCUSSIONS ARE VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO HAVE. AND I TRULY BELIEVE THAT EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EVEN THE FOLKS THAT I DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE W SO I JUST SAY CULLEDOS TO OUR COMMUNITY. BECAUSE WE'RE LISTENING AND CARE ABOUT OUR KIDS, AND WE'RE ALL FIGHTING FOR THE SAME THINGS, SO EVERYBODY ENJOY YOUR SUMMER, AND GOOD NIGHT. SHE STAYED ALL THE WAY

249THROUGH, AND WOULD YOU LIKE A FEW MORE WORDS? ACTUALLY, I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THE CHANCE TO STAY TO THE END OF THE MEETING, BECAUSE WITH ALL OF THE EXAMS I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO STAY THROUGH. BUT THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME THIS YEAR, IT HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY. AND IT HAS GOTTEN ME INTERESTED IN GOVERNMENT, WHICH I HOPE TO STUDY IN COLLEGE, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.