As a leader of the States Education program. Lets listen to that. Since march 13th, i havent discussed anything other than the coronavirus and its impacts on education and our response to the coronavirus. But given the gravity of what has happened is important to me to take some time away from the network, talk about the important need for us to have racial justice, in california and in this country. I have to admit, it has been difficult for me to find my voice. To try to get my mind around such senseless acts that have occurred. It has been difficult for me make sense how a man can beg and plead for his life and still have his life snuffed out. It has been hard for me as a blackman who every day thinks about impacts of race ive struggled to know how and what to say about what has happened in the aftermath and the killing of george floyd. It has been difficult for me as a parent raisining aen American Children to know what to say, how to answer their questions when they ask me, dad, why did this happen and to know that industry to confront my own vulnerability. When they ask me, could this happen to them, that i may not be able to keep them safe. Real raw emotions there from state superintendent tony thurman, who joins us live right now. We appreciate your time. Superintendent thurman. Not only did you release a 55page report on real schools. You have to korn confront an issue. I dont know if you could hear. We played for our viewers a statement you made talking about your struggles what to say about your kid and george floyd and the impact on them. Can you offer us, as parents, any guidance based on your own intraspecss, struggles, no matter, black, white, asian, latino, as a parent, you dont know what to say. Good evening, kristen, thank you for the question. This is, there are no clear answers here and, obviously, every family has to work on this together. But you know, ive decided to talk openly with my children about this they have a lot of questions about how this could happen. They have fears about could this happen to them . And ive expressed my own vulnerability as a parent about you know my inabilitys to protect them if theyre not with me. We talked about what they should do if theyre confronted in a situation to try to deescalate the situation so they can be safe. What this means to me is we have to have broad conversations about race and race imand bias. We have to have those in our schools, in our workplaces. We have to equip educators and students with the tools to do that. We are launching a few campaign about schools to talk about it and we have to provide more count eling to our students. Witnessing this witnessing police brutality, this is a traumatic event and literally, i think meeting groups of counsellors to work with our students to provide them support for this very and real traumatic event that has occurred. That trauma varies deeply in the psyches of school children. That bias exists in teachers, too, because they are products of the soviet. Right . So stories of africanamerican students being labeled early on, discouraged from taking advanced courses, have you encountered those things . You know, if you look at data in our schools, you will see high rates of suspensions in our schools and im very sensitive to this. I seved on a School Board Years ago, one of the functions is you both expel students from cool and pushle them out. The trend has been disproportion natalie impacting africanamerican students. At some point i can stop voting. I want to see programs that help students to reenter. You get the supports that they need. Its hard breaking to hear stories of children as young as pre school, kint kindergarten, 1st grade being expelled from school. I dont know what you do to be expelled in kindergarten. These things have impacts on our students. Throughout much of my career ive worked to reduce programs and support our students were talking implicit bias to provide training and also we got to go beyond our schools as you pointed out, kristen, bias consists if every sector, to say weve got to have these really deep conversations about addressing unconscious bias. You were a winner right here in the bay area . I love watching the show thank you. I promised when i served on that school board, we would reduce our suspension 75 of one year. Somebody had to call it out. Im honored my colleagues there join me in saying we got to call out this disproportionality. This is a huge issue across our state. Im sorry. I dont mean to cut you off. Go ahead. With 1,000 School Districts in california, right, their resource vary so vastly. So what concrete ideas do you have in under served communities . On the subject of implicit bias, we are looking to build a framework. Many of our educators have shared they want to, theyre not sure how. And thats fair. These are tough conversations and can be very uncomfortable. So we will provide an emphasis on programs with emotional learning. This is another way of saying how we teach students empathy. How we teach them empathy for others. It helps prevent bullying, relationships from student to student and studentss to staff. So again were working to appoint as many counsellors and experts. What about the curriculum. Are you satisfied with what the kids are learning about racism, injustice, immigrants, right . Are they going to read more about is horians of color . I have to tell you, you look at who the editors are and how many pages they devote to important people in history. You dont get a lot of pages. It doesnt get talked about that much. We need much more. You are absolutely right. We need a way to use our School Curriculum to really recognize contributions of so many groups that made america what it is, especially california. The state board of education and support from the california board of education creates standards, with 10,000 schools, its ultimately up to the School District to make the decision about the final curriculum that gets used. We are talking about the contributions of various ethnic groups. We have a curriculum to talk about ethnic studies and the contributions of African Americans and latinos. Were working on this in real time and there is actually a bill that would make it a graduation requirement. But again, its ultimately up to the local School District to make sure there is a good content. We got to do more and the contributions that have been made. If you make a curriculum and dont back it up with the resources to teach kids examples, you might as well have not passed it. So thats where we are right now in this state is we will work with the districts. As i mentioned, were working on this ethics curriculum we think there is enough to support this from an educational lens. Over on we are coming back on air. Yes, maam. We are back with state School Superintendent tony thurman over on break on facebook live. We were talking about the option. The opportunity for voters to overturn the ban on affirmative action. And i wanted to talk to you also about how to make things equitable, right, when you dont have laptops for everyone. The last time we talked i think you said you were trying to get 150,000 to immediate need. Then there were some 1. 2 million families and households that dont have wifi. How are you addressing that . The need is so great. I have this task force. Im closing the Digital Divide when the pandemic started. We paid great progress in that many of the Companies Made free wifi available. They made a low cost package available. In many cases, the School District is able to pay the costs as very affordable. So were making a lot of progress. But we still have many, many students who need a computer device at home and internet. We are calling on congress to bring forward a stimulus package that will allow us to make sure every one of our students has a Computing Device and mobile hot spot, while we build the infrastructure. Its critical to learning and when our schools reopen. We will make this one of our top priorities. This week you released a manual. Its eye opening and dramatically different. Different from the School Experience we used to know before the pandemic. So walk us through the major changes, what our kids can expect . Sure, i do want people to know they can get through the document. There is an appendix. A frequently asked questions segment. That is a twopage document that can give you highlights of 55 pages. I can do that. Starlet there. Like most of our folks, just like our students they want more information. You go to each section and read in deeper detail. Here are some of the bottom lines, though. The document says that when schools reopen in almost two months, that we may see students wearing facial covering. We will see staff wearing facial covering. You must maintain six feet of physical distance in terms of spacing of the desks and transportation. These arent new concepts these are things we asked people to do in public. When the schools reopen, we need to open with social distancing in place. People will be taking temperatures to make sure that anyone who penetrates symptoms is not entering the campus. We are trying to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. There are some details i find interesting and more specific than ive ever heard before, for example, sitting on buses, right . No more choosing your own seat one student skipping every other row. Zigzagging pattern. Boy, there are a lot of specifics here. Yes, these do a line coming from the centers with Disease Control. If things thang, we find ourselves in a better place. We will change this guidance this guidance were working with districts on how to implement it and figure out 6 feet of space on campus. Whats the size of your classroom . How many students can you manage . Right now this is the best information we know about how to keep our students safe. Thats a top priority. To take care of your emotional needs, again theyre coming back at school, its different than before. Were hoping our schools to work through it. For sure. No field trips, no assemblies. Is that the recommendation . That continues to be the recommendation. The way it works in this state is that our county Health Officers, one for each of our 58 counties and a few of our cities had their own. Our county Health Officers ultimately make the decision of the size of any assembly. How many is too many . If you look at our Eastern High School graduations, most of our School Districts have moved to virtual graduation or the graduate steps out for a moment. They have their moment, their family is in the car and then they have to drive off. Again there is because were following the guidance that ultimately comes from the centers for Disease Control and other places. It says you have to keep the side of the gathering small to prevent the coronavirus. Well continue to monitor. If things change, we can get back. For now, its 6 feet of space which means you will see class sizes 10 to 15 depending on the size of the campus. Okay. A decrease, staff, obviously, students and also more busing. So a viewer wants to know with the state budget proposing a cut to education, how are you going to make these things happen . This is a challenge. The governor made a commitment to provide hand sanitary, my last count, i think 30 counties have had their personal protective equipment delivered to them to disseminate it to the schools. Were pretty sure that will be completed soon clearly, our legislature will make some final decision by the 15th of this month. A lot depends on whether or not we get a federal stimulus him but we know the only way our schools can do this is to have the resources for the personal protective equipment. Staff will forget to bring a Face Covering . Staff will forget a Face Covering. How many times have you forgotten it at home . We have to envision the scenarios and the state will provide the resources to help our schools prepare. A lot of schools seem to be talking about a hybrid model. You go to school physically one or two days a week. The rest of the time are you at home i think some teachers are worried about being exposed and a parent says why cant schools continue to do it online . So my question is do they have a choice . Lets say they say this is our structure, can you as a parent say im not comfortable with that . This is an area where the state makes their own decision and so far what weve heard is they are surveying their parents to find out how many of them want in class instruction and how many want to continue with Distance Learning or Remote Learning . We know with some students, this isnt a choice. Their parents have to work. If you are children of essential workers, your parents have to work. So we have to provide safer offering for our students most parents asking for it, were suggesting districts honor o as much as you can because that helps as a strategy to keep the number of students on campus smaller. Smaller size means better safety. So in this case Distance Learning can be help. We know some families prefer it. We want to support how that can be ruled out successfully. Thank you so much. Were going to take a break on the air. 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Just the environment of being, you know, a part of something as special as speaking on behalf of people i cant speak with and understanding what the issues are to them that you know were fighting for it. So they dont have to fight for it. So she was asking these crazy questions. She knew george floyd was she didnt know about Breana Taylor when we got to the protest and as they were giving the speeches, we were kind of educating her as she had a questions. We didnt want to overwhelm her. We wanted her to absorb as much as she could halfway through the protest, she was leading chances and saying their name and saying black lives matter and hooking up with a couple friends from school and thats a moment i know she will remember for a long time in terms of you know the diversity of people out there speaking on behalf of you know change for the black experience and like for her i know that will be hopefully a life changing perspective, even at 7 00. In oakland where my wife put it. She wrote it so eloquently. Her post this past week was about maybe a mile into it Walking Around she realized that this is the same rapper we took the parades on. She was like, its amazing. Its overwhelming and its sad to think that we had a million miami out there celebrating us winning a championship and now fast forward fourandahalf, five years later, wereprotesti that have been around forever. And while trying to use this moment to change generations and like she started crying. Like right around that point. Because it was like why cant we have that same excitement that deals with humans and their experience and valuing you know people of all different background, valuing what the black community has given to this country. Like that part of it was crazy. So like having that experience with my brothers that came out and seeing juan do that the way he did. It was awesome to see. I dont know if there was a memo. Call your black friends, hey, are you okay . You got along on the same day like 150 white people asking me awesome. Im in the going to lie like, its like i was like this has been, not only has this been my whole life. My mother, father, great grandmother. This has been our life and so now its like do you want to like i just want to talk. Now i really am not in a place to really want to talk about it. Because ive talked about it. I feel like i have been talking my whole life. Now its just listen to us. You know like dont you know and i know people are trying to find a solution and a relief. I think we have to have the hard conversations. Were not going to get through this in a couple of months. Adjust your life for this to be now on. Where its like i have to be very mindful. Even myself, we have to be honest, like you said, lo is a key factor. When you think about that its because you love something, you are compelled to want to give your all to see them advance. You know what im saying . That is just a small part of the larger conversation with stephen curry. You can donate, lea and welcome back. We want to thank you so much for joining us on this interactive show, getting answers. Hopefully you learned something from superintendent tony tur mon. We will be here answering your questions, fa tonight, the apology from the nations top military officer, saying he should not have been part of the president s photo op. Also developing as we come on, the alarming news on coronavirus here in the u. S. What authorities just said. General mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, going on the record, saying he should not have been with President Trump after those Peaceful Protesters were forcibly removed from in front of the white house for that photo op at st. Johns church. What general milley is now saying. The alarming prediction tonight on coronavirus here in the u. S. The toll could be as many as 200,000 american lives lost by september. 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