Have concerned though that i dont know if they can necessarily get answered and if they cant i wont vote im not comfortable on areas specifically ill put this out there so see whether or not those are things to be addressed whether or not ill be able to vote on this tonight i have concerns around the multi lingual pathways and the dollar amounts weve allocated for particular programs and i guess my biggest concern is around is not knowing exactly what our strategy is for growing programs be stabilizing program, aligning programs 13,000 for the tagalog program is nothing id like to have time to understand our plan for stabilizing our k program and how that feeds into the high school before i will allocated an amount the alternative not to allocate the dollars tonight but to put in x number of dollars that go into the multi lingual prop programs and for us to work through a strategy around this because i think it is very specific on how many ftes are going to programs and im not clear on
Need at least two fulltime employees to accurately represent us 30,000 wont help us so thank you, commissioners for considering a correction what we feel is incorrect we do feel you want to do something about this. speaking Foreign Language. thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Our next speaker is going to speak if tagalog im going to have to translate its a short one. speaking Foreign Language. so let me provide a translation on the gentlemans on behalf of didnt go School Board Commissioners the robert the father of a child that goes to betsey carmichael hes a if that and proud of it and he makes sure that his child knows that hes proud of it how is he going to explain to his child others ethnics itself like the chinese and the green communities are getting money from the School District to teach their language and promote their cultural but for us filipinos a very small portion is presented so he feels he has great trust in the school board youll not set aside the contribution
Because i think it is very specific on how many ftes are going to programs and im not clear on whether or not those are the appropriate program to move our language programs forward thats my concern around the pathway programs and the other thing that came up for me in reviewing this we break down the excel role well and i guess i have questions on how the schools have been selected about the memorial day and high school you spoke specifically that Affordable Housing individual is designed for kids to go to college it helps to support the events in schools that where we have higher population of kids that need this type of support when i look at the city halls at Affordable Housing individual and off the top of my head were not selecting those schools and not why some schools were not include and lastly around our the arts peace you know as many of you know im a big supporter of our arts im glad to see some funding allocated for to that so this o have an fte for special assignments for
Joseph a parent of a kindergartener. I dont have a speaking. Oh, you need it, its right here where you are oh hi and i didnt put my name on it. Ms. Joseph we have a board policy youre not permitted to speak is this our first board meeting. This is my second i have a speaking with my name on it. So the rule it has to be simpleminded before t your name is called im permit this one time. Thank you but good evening thanks for everyone for coming out im a parent of a kindergartener and a preschoolers at betsey Carmichael Elementary School and im here to urge funding for the program so my daughters have the opportunity to be a part of filipino cultural and my intent to have them pickup on the tagalog language everyone that i know speaks tagalog speaks more than english thats spanish and some format or form of mandarin a good Governor Terry mcauliffe gateway for learning about other cultures not only tagalog but other spanish as well as japanese or mandarin asking for equal opportunity to try
The crime lab im looking at this like, yeah wow. Hesitate the response so thanks guys i really appreciate that it is really laid in an awe layoffs way you can understand it like a layperson like myself so christina i actually in my comments wanted more money to start on a lingual language the real Elementary Schools versus a language pathway for example like a you know immersion go Program Offering world language and highlight a program like that in some of the schools that is money ive asked for 300,000 and actually this is the right place i want to commend staff youre right about the shifting of the custodian im glad this is an infrastructure four for our whole district this is a perfect spotted for world language because it is enrichment it is i think aligned with the vision 2025 weve continue at the specific sites but if we really want to start to walk the talk about vision 2025 and be able having our students have exposure to our world language it will take more than a. 2 in our e