Dyslexic child who loves fantastic si and science first. Fantasy and science fiction. As fantastic as some of these have been, our incredible faculty and administrators need to filter the content that pops up. One example of inappropriate content to which my child was first exposed to in the yard during lunch time with a youtube player, playing grand theft auto. He shared the channel with his younger brother. We had conversations about this and they learned. But i dont think my child would have seen this channel if they had a screen free lunch. One child has also opened one of my children, has also opened an Instagram Account on his School Device which is public. My husband and i tried to help him make it private, but it can only be done through the app. I wonder how many children have done the same and posted photos that may not be appropriate. This is not a device we gave him with the ability to control content. This is all through the school ipad. In our packet, pages 4a through 4f, we have included screen shots of some of the verizon ipad history from a 12yearold student. One screen shot is of the daily news food that contains graphic headlines. I would appreciate having a parent page on our San FranciscoUnified School District website. Thank you all so much for listening and supporting our parent voices and concerns. John, sam, lawrence gardena. Public our hearts is with mayor lee and his family. But we are here again tonight. We were here in the beginning of the school year, partnership. And were here again. Our students are actually continuing to decomplien in decline in terms of math scores and english scores. Theres a lot of hope. I just got word from city college of San Francisco they closed the achievement gap for Pacific Islanders in three years. City college of San Francisco has about 325 Pacific Islander kids. Sfusd has about 600. We feel like we can do this in five years but we need your help. I was here the last meeting, a cousin of mine and he ely williams. So, the williams case. Ely was shot two weeks after the meeting. He was a San FranciscoUnified School District alumni and he put his heart and soul dedicated into education and thats what he is doing today. A lot of our families are coming out of the southeast sector. When i say Pacific Islanders im talking about hawaiians, and et cetera. We ask to be on your committee. I think it was the curriculums committee, the Building Committee and what worked at the city college of San Francisco was they funded their pi program. In addition, they gave them space. And this three years they closed that achievement gap. Im saying sfusd, we can do this. We can do it together. Thats our humble ask. Thank you. Public my name is john mour. Mr. President , board members, superintendent and staff. I just want to piggyback on what was just mentioned. For us, its all about space. In order to close those gaps and to improve on our performance, especially with our youth within the district, we definitely need some space. And appreciate the fact that the president and also staff have reached out and worked with us. But really want to move it to the point where we can sit here and at the end of the night, you guys can vote yay or nay. We are asking for utilization, our anchor institution right now is a leasing space there. But we have eight other organizations that would need Additional Space as well. Thats why were asking for not rooms, but for the whole facility. So, please take that into consideration. Thank you. Public good evening. Thanks for taking the time to listen. Im going to echo some comments. Im an educator. One of my students was a student delegate, maria. Shes going to be the president of the United States when she gets i love that lady. [laughter] public just echoing. Im in my second year at junior dan and i have 15 kids. Were a small school as you guys know in the district. And i have about 1315 kids and around when we talk numbers, the Pacific Islander community is one of the most rapid growing communities in the states. This number is going to get bigger. So, we do need that space. And you guys help to implement the curriculum. Our kids need to be empowered. Not just empowered, but empowered through education. Education through their roots. Not just during the regular poly club. We need to educate them what we are showcasing about and through that education, we have empowerment and it is being done and needs to be done. Look at city College Program three years. We could do that in probably less. We have the people. We have the power. We just need the space and you guys help. Thank you. Public how do you all do . My name is lawrence. Im one of a number of parents from an Elementary School in the district. Five of those parents are here with me tonight. Id like to read a letter written collectively by all of us. Dear president walton and members of the board of education. We are parents of six students. We are in a fifth grade class. Theres a student in this classroom whose verbal and physical aggression towards other students has escalated such that we have requested urgent action by the San FranciscoUnified School District. It is affecting the physical safety of the other children. The child in question is on ten years old and 10 years old. The principal and social worker have done all they can to protect the other children in the classroom. But it is not enough. The safety of our children requires that the district take immediate action. This student came to our school during the 20162017 as a fourth grade student. He was disruptive and his behavior your interfered with learning on many occasions and levels. It is not known why his teacher left midway through the school year, but it was clear to the parents in the classroom she was overwelcomed by this students frequent outbursts which required student evacuations, lockdowns and intervention from our principal. Since the beginning of the 20172018 school year, this students inappropriate behavior your has escalated and has become increasingly violent and aggressive with his peers. Staff at the school have been attentive to the complaints from many of us, many of us who have signed this letter. But without assistance, the school seems to be unable to modify the students behavior which has become dangerous and intolerable. For example, the students outbursts [bell]. Public im representing five other people you cant represent five other people. You have had two minutes. Thank you. Terry, gerald. Eric woo, wilson chu, ruth sims raquel, jessie yang. Everyone has two minutes. Public hi. My name is allen. Good evening commissioners. Ladies and gentlemen. I dont know how to start this because ive never had this happen before. But anyway, im from washington high school. And im just a bit overwhelmed because i didnt expect things to happen and i asked people for help and i have a turnout of students who came to support me and students representing from class of 04 to class of 17. Seeing them come here and [indiscernible] public i really want to thank those students first of all and the parents also who have been supporting me throughout this whole thing. I speak from the heart, but i know i have a time limit. As a teacher, i do believe that i can be eccentric and i can sometimes be a little weird. But i believe as a teacher we need to be more creative when it comes to teaching and come up with different ideas. And i do understand that sometimes those come across as not people not as receptive to those types of ideas. So, i do apologize for that. And but every year i do try to come up with different inno vaive activity innovative activities. Those approaches can sometimes backfire. And i do want to point out no one has ever raised things that are not supposed im not supposed to experiment on when it comes to classroom activities. I do acknowledge my mistakes and i do need to be more aware with my tone and my word choice. I unfortunately said things i ought not to have. My personal issues need not to be brought into the classroom and im truly sorry for that. I sincerely apologize to all those who were hurt. I know that words can hurt but they can heal as well. I do apologize for those thank you so much. Public good evening. Im a graduate of the class of 2016 at washington high school. As a teacher, he has made his classes interactive and engaging for his students. It wasnt like every day we had to read a textbook or take notes from a google slide. It was more of working in groups, doing activities like singing out what happened in certain time periods or dancing out those activities that they have done. Every day as students we loved going to his class and we found it teaching us more than just history, but more life skills and intrapersonal communication as well as getting homework done and turned in as soon as its due. As a coach, he helped his whole team learn how to manage efficiently more than 20 people by getting tasks done efficiently, winning more medals and the value of team work overall. Working as a team, he has guided the senior classes into models that can track down leadership and it helps us as students learn Different Things like working on a job site where we need to talk with everyone and also helped us learn how to more efficiently manage our time. Thank you. Public hello board members. My name is jared. Allen is my older brother. Im here to speak on his behalf on a couple of items here. Just want to talk about how ive known him obviously for our whole life. Like i say, he is a very compassionate, responsible and caring person. His humor at times can be suspect. You dont always have to laugh at what he says. I feel like he is a very valued member of the community. He loves helping others less fortunate than himself. He volunteers outside of school. Not during school hours. What i mean is hes dealing with his students and on his own time as well. I could say for countless students who i have actually spoken to, they tell me a lot of times my brother has helped them through their hard times. Hes a fatherly figure to quite a few of them. A lot of them mentioned to me themselves that they didnt have their at their homes. So, it is something they are very appreciative of. Allen has sacrificed and done so much to be where he is. He is a valued member to the community. He would be a significant loss to the kids. He has and will continue to help succeed. I hope you consider this as part of his contributions and give him another chance. Thank you. Public hi. My name is raquel. Im his niece. I was the class of 2013 and throughout those four years i said i wasnt going to cry but okay. Any ways, i will make it short. He was more than a teacher. He really reached out or he really reached out to students and really made them feel that they were a part of the community. Especially people like myself. Ive never had parents. So, to have that kind of fatherly figure in your life is something that you need from anyone, right. But it just please understand hes done the best he can. Hes done more than what you would expect as a normal teacher. So people can get better and also volunteering. He does so much including the night he goes to the soup kitchens. [crying] public please, i know people are asking you to get more but what you already have you have someone here who is already great. So, please reconsider before you consider what has to happen recently. Please look back at all the years that he has spent creating successful students and students who truly feel like they have someone to rely on. Thank you. Public hi everyone. Im really nervous right now, but i feel as though im back to his tenth grade class when i was just a new imgrant. I was really immigrant. I was really nervous and participating in his class. But i can attest to the fatherly figure i want to speak of when he was the one that encouraged me to come out of my shell and talk in front of people. I cant imagine speaking to this large audience. But a lot of things he did encourage me. To fill out College Applications as well as being my fatherly figure in a way that he changed my life. And i think there are countless children, including his students, that he has yet in the future to be this positive figure. And i really believe that George Washington high school will not be the same without lau. I think in a way that i think all of you guys heard that theres so many things he did for his students. He would spend his weekends tutoring us to help us pass ap economics or be our coach and mentor us. I think a lot of that is because he had faith in his students and that everyone whose heart he touched will become a better person. And i believe that just as he has faith for his students, i have faith in lau and what he did was a misunderstanding and that he will correct that in the future. And i hope youll give him a chance. Thank you. President walton just want to know i have six cards and i see more than six people in line. If you dont have a card we wont be taking Public Comment. If you did not turn in a card, we will not be taking Public Comment. Announce your name when you come up. I have six cards and there are more than six people up there. So, if you did not turn in a card, you will not be able to speak. Thank you. Public i did turn in a card. [laughter] public hi. My name is michael, class of 2006. And allen was the best teacher ive ever had. So good he inspired me to become a teacher. And no one really wakes up in the morning and says hey, i really want to go to history class. I really want to learn history today. No High School Student really does that. Very little. Maybe 1 . But he did. He was extremely engaging in what he did. And what he does. His ways are a little unorthodox but thats what made him engaging. I was extremely excited every day. Really wanted to go to his class every day because of the fun fact in the beginning of class that really warmed up the class and created that conversation. He taught us team work, taught us hard work and mainly he taught that us learning can be fun. And so, i thank you so much, allen, for being my teacher and i just found this out about yesterday. So, im not too prepared for anything. One last thing to add is being a High School Student isnt easy. Throughout my high school, i dealt with anxiety, depression, bullying. But i always knew there was one thing. I always knew there was an oasis to go to. Thank you for keeping your doors open at lunch and after school. I was a super shy kid like i am now. [laughter] public please consider. And if i ever have a kid, i hope that you will be the teacher. President walton thank you. Public thank you. President walton i have five cards and five people are speaking. So, if you did not turn in a card public my name is wilson. Im class of 2005, George Washington high school. Just want to talk about a couple of things. Everyone in here, parents, faculty, teachers, everybody in here, theres a goal for everybody and thats to make a path pave a path for the student to succeed. And when i was in middle school, high school, i wasnt a good student. I can tell you that. Until i became a sophomore, i had allen as a teacher. He never gave up on me. He was basically my mentor. Im sorry. I can go on forever and forever. I know i have two minutes to talk. But because of him, him pushing me, having his doors open for me, i became who i am today. I consider myself pretty successful after going to college. And he was the one that persuaded me that college would be a future. And he basically gave me the road map to succeed. And him pushing me, reminding me every single day, go to class, do your homework, youre going to succeed in life. After having him as a teacher, he follows up with me, make sure im still on the right path. You just dont get many of those in life. I have so many teachers and i could tell you im not trying to bash anybody, but there are teachers that doesnt give you the same the same attention that he does and he cares for his students. And if im feeling that way, im sure a lot of other people are feeling that way. Thats why you have a lot of students that are willing to come here. I just found out about this yesterday. I dropped what i had to do, my work. I manage a company with a lot of employees just to come here today, just to make sure that you know, you have a gem in the Unified School District and i just want to let you guys know that. And reconsider whatever you guys are considering. President walton thank you. Public thank you. President walton we have four cards. Four people are speaking. Public all right. Im ted, class of 2006. Man, i cant believe president walton your name is not up here. Public i filled out a card. President walton next person. Public tinase. President walton did you fill out a card . Public yeah. President walton when . Public i turned it in but president walton we dont have it. Sorry. Next speaker. Public pauline. President walton pauline, youre not on the list. Next speaker. Public im eric. Im a graduate of 2014. And i went to George Washington high school and my first two years let me tell you about a story of myself first. So, my first two years i was really like unsocialized. I dont really talk to many people and after the second year of high school, i start socializing more. And what changed me was this team that really changed how i talked to people and socializing with people more. And that team was led by allen. So, i really inspired of how he taught me a lot of stuff. Like dedication and courage and and after i go and teach me like stuff that i can like prepare for college. And this is my fourth year of college and im really inspired how he did it. Yeah. Thank you. Public i dont know if my name is on the card. President walton youre not on the card. Thank you so much. I can tell you who is on the card. Terry, ruth and jessie. Public hi. My name is terry. I want to tell you about the best teacher i had when i was attending George Washington high school. When i know i was a sophomore, i met mr. Allen in his modern history class. Never though