Several capacities, i wish principals like you could stay forever. The environment that you create for our young people, the environment that you create for our teachers and the environment you create with the school as a part of community is something that is very special and so, of course, youre going to be missed by the district. Youll be missed by the students at mission, but i just want to thank you for your service and i want to thank you for being able to work so closely with community and develop young people to send so many young people to our uc schools. That is a major, major accomplishment and i want to thank you for setting up the environment for learning an enrichment so our students can be successful in that endeavor. Supervisor hainey. Thank you. Er irritatioric, you know we alo much respect. I came and spent a lot of time with you and watched you in action and being a principal in a high school is one of the toughest jobs there could be. But you made it look easy. I me
He said do you want to be principal and i said heck, no and you could put another word if for heck and i couldnt imagine taking mr. Truetts place and being there. Hes done such a fabulous job. And i said, if you say i have to do it, i have to do and its been the greatest honor of my life for certain. I have to thank all of the teachers, the faculty and you asked about the new shoes. So miss mccambey has taken over and shes been there many, many years and mission is in great hand. The antiracist teaching work, the social justice work will continue, will only deepen and get stronger and i couldnt be prouder of that. I also just have to say personally, as a child, my grandmother went to girls high school, which is the First High School for young women in San Francisco. My father, he went to sherman and marina and lowell and he went to schools in the city, as well. I was born in the city and it has been such an honor for me to be there and to be ail to d ablo the antiracist work but i do i
Joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like Young Community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on