clapping. any mom set back a long letter to the principal with no response i want you guys to know what the incident with the pictures like your president said we are fed up and hsa all this is happening at our very own school is sad today but you know it is screw this is coming up and it is a lot of and thank you. clapping . Hi, im a junior at Lowell High School one of the my personal exercises me and my friends who is black were walking with a friend in the hallway hallway i said youre making me look greater weigaffi him him how he said because we are black women but i didnt understand why he said he made us feel like hthat we are. Not loud or jumping around only walk to the graclass thank you. clapping . Hi, im a junior at Lowell High School high experience another lowell about this whole situation that went crazy it is like how people came to us and said whey you, you guys so emotional and sensitive how would you act and another thing that is done but okay. Im also like during school so im not going intoxicate labeled and called s to know the majority of High School Like others like caucasian and white and asian but this is my history book i dont feel like we only have one session based on jays and the slavery part that everyone knows thats all i got to say right now clapping. hi, im a junior and my personal experience is like the lack of teachers support at lowell like i dont feel supported by the teachers at all like especially, when you sit the class and youre the only africanamerican student in the class you should feel support by the teacher when we have like Group Projects that is hard because none wants to be the group with you because your africanamerican so this is hard you know the teacher i think they need to be more supportive of the United States so clapping and sorry one more thing im a senior when the incident occurred we have posted it on social media with the pictures the whole everything the delay display and respectseptember to parents it was spraepd on social media and all of a sudden this big enermergency Assembly Like hours and sitting there and most of all the bs u members were sitting together we thought our principal was going to go into the details of what happened he didnt and the kids are piers buildi able didnt know why they were there and sitting in the crowd not knowing what happened and oh, this happened oh, and that was it you know the only thing because we get a free period didnt have to go to class noneers about what we say you are principal had the assembly and no ones cares and also at the meeting the assembly most of students like i dont want to go to this i have a test or the teacher are like oh, this is interrupting my class time not that period one of my piers is not doing much are you serious like that is so big and none understands that at lowell thank you. clapping . So as my minority attending Lowell High School were out enunciat numbered and struggling to revi science so have racism unacceptable who do we hold accountable here are our demands all right. Demand number one diversify and assists anyone africanamerican teachers and staff clapping. we want to be a part of a system that represents us the city hsc wants us to feel safe we understand the issue is deeper than hiring africanamerican staff the percentages of africanamerican in San Francisco is at the 6 percent the minimal amount of money to improving live here is too high our families are keep in miicke were simply cant afford to keep the homes were raised in we demand the city haschool hir africanamerican stiaff and the bs u representative will be present present present during the hiring process thank you. Bwe want to commissioner tang the School Curriculum the reason why those are not respectful 0 cultural the teaching of the other cultures should be a mandatory like the european history the problem is not just with the students teachers are uneducated and at lowell africanAmerican Students are your honor, comfortable the classroom and africanamerican are repeated facts faced with aggression we want the teachers to attend the culture sensitivity training and the teachers that are not respect of cultures should be held responsible another demand a fulltime africanamerican recruitment officer that has experience with the culture recruitment and bs u a person that we can trust that attend all meetings as a representative of all you all africanAmerican Students with a designat designated designated number of hours and a welcome, welcome day for a africanAmerican Students that should be focusing on what the school is going in support of Minority Community at lowell holid high school another demand that we want open Africanamerican Community center at Lowell High School the Africanamerican Community constantly deals with micro aggression that will be a place where our freedom of expression is not at risk some students attend our meetings wednesday afternoon in addition to the black schedule this will be a place to subcontract with other africanAmerican Students and stay update what is discussed at our meeting okay clapping. where are we on time . I want to make sure that everyone is up to speak. Sorry i dont shave a forml conclusio climax it is really bad to the point we here today, we just hope you guys take into consideration what weve said and we really hope you guys place yourselves in our shoes and understand when youre in a situation moyoure not welcomed where you belong we want to be successful and weve hard work to be at Lowell High School if so not easy were the remaining few that decided to stay it is a problem with africanamerican wi are not accepted we have so look at why they leave and change pa what is happening clapping. can you request that the students if you have your demands on paper printed out or could you email those to us e. Or give them to the board square foot secretary so we ha we have copy. Hello, im the black student president at memorial day i along with the black union 3 of them officer of communications and the Vice President and the Mary Dell Howard that is the secretary we hawould have been selfish an not come here honestly a lot of the things that lowell has mission already has a space for africanamerican and recruitment for eight graders to come to Mission High School that that is because a lot of them black itsekids go do Mission High School but we couldnt sleep with ourselves know o bros are committdiscrimi against as we know were in full support of Lowell Justice anyone is a threat to justice everywhere clapping. and hello, im here representing the last percentage of black San Francisco a fourth bayview native this is rare the city today, im here today is breaks my heart when i hear them speaking of their micro aggression and pride because i feel their trauma and their pain and i think that our students are not being taken care of the way they should be from the adults that are there with them 7 hours and day and should be a team put together to address the trauma those students are addressing i went to lowell in the san jose and t 70s but a l black student population and a smaller black student population those incidents are blownup even bigger and i can only think of little rock 9 when i hear the speakers speak i dont know if you know about little rock 9 and is segregatiintegration of the n arkansas you can watch the conner in a connrona those students at lowell to be told their sensitive it a direct attack on their black bodies and experience and you know ive been working with students since i was 16 i was a senior when i was 16 and ive been working with students im passionate about the future generations i was well aware that nick and organizations like inspect are responsible for leading and making changes during the civil rights improvememovement it wil leadership that makes the changes and San Francisco is a rac racht city not a k k but with a lack of accountability into from sfusd and from Lowell Administration itself it is unacceptable that is unacceptable and it is important you guys make clear promises to those students of what your do and create a task force on experts there are plenty of experts out there if you look at the center for youth wellness and how trauma effects Youth Development doctor by the gavin newsom e name of dr. Horn talks about the trauma of growing up black and San Francisco is one of the few so there is plenty of reaching out there experts the bay area be a community with sfusd and stanford and usf i think that instead of throwing a bandaid you create a team of experts to deal with this issue and not just through some rookies on this issue but look at the experts you have available and create a pathway to address the issues thank you. clapping a you want to run through this fast. Im a parent of the sierra dunn she just spoke my issues are she comes home crying a lot a i know omg the teaches need to be trained on sensitivity for culture and im a little bit nervous but i accepted her to school for an education not to be humiliated as soon as she walks through the for it thereshould addressed eye i havent heard anything the staff how theyll address the issue i dont know what of the outgoing was i didnt get any information sit up except from the skrl school could have emailed me or a phone call or something paw that was humiliating and it was wrong they made a joke out of that and our black students they were never degrade another culture like that that was horrible and back to the teachers situations im an alumni of lowell and the things i went through i see shes going through the same thing same thing my a dad had to go up there my teachers told him i cheated open a test with straight a i had to sit and take the test over i repeated the same a plus on the test but thanks like thne like that got stop got to stop clapping. hello, i want to thank everyone for coming out that came the crowd the parents and the community and everyone that shows support for the students they really, really need it i got revolved with the incident because of the facebook posts but im appalled by the levels that this has gone into the teachers the faculties and administration and children who trying to cover yup the racism felt disrespected by issued stating those photos and imaginimages were hectic the pictures of black culture i was offended when those issues were addressed with the principal via phone call from alumni all the way from if florida and defibrillator and San Francisco that was ignored and mutton the concerned Community Members they were take into account him expecting i am to do his job to protect the students clapping. hearing the students that the assembly which that he claimed to be sponsored to be restored to justice to random reprimand that brought up to the students and being paumgd off to the community that was that is unacceptable following that the student continued to put vulgar to the Lowell Community via twitter knowing the as to tothe students were blul th bullying them the students went to the administration showed them photos and screen shots of what the student was posting yet the administration continues to tell the community this student as remorseful i have the captions ill show the board he posted porn graphic pictures it is d disgust it made we cry to think about those children are going to this and going to the mefkts asking for help and theyre being told youre too sensitive im doing this i sat in the students bs c meeting they were told that whatever they said was invalidated they were trying to explain to us the photo were not up for twentyfour hours as the effects publishes and defend that was up for a week and the student reposted and added more pictures to the Bulletin Board and yet where is the faculty oversight and the counselors where is the principal we keep hearing about diversity and that we dont tolerant racism but obviously you do you have to this ere no way an adult can say to a child como you and saying im hurt those students are blullying me their mistreating me and the staff is saying to those students trucht my time to teach where is the yes, maam pact for children those are not adults their childr question had an alumni group page there was teachers that were posted in the alumni thread making illicit semi tiic and bl commentries the head of Alumni Association that was liking the post how do you like a racism post so when you come to meetings and then say oh, i want probation offic want to happen the black unity doesnt utility cabincommunity acceptable so im asking the board to create some kind of policy where through is zero tolerance to students of any minority ethic background or race to be tarjd not on behalf of the black students but the latino students that are facing those issues at Lowell High School and othany at race the latino and policy 10 and whites i dont care who you are None Services deserves to be treated that way as a child clapping. question have 5 minutes left but i want to make sure that everyone has a chance to speak but reverend brown keep our comments to one minute please. Mr. Vice president members of the school board and mr. Superintendent and laendies and gentlemen, i am very, very disturbed im hurt im upset that two years ago i stood at this podium and advanced the notion that School System we needed to have and ethic heritage month in which all of us will sit down and listen to each other i contend that because of the culture of benign neglect on the part of leadership we are again been effected by what conna lisa religious saying says about racism i appealed to the board unanimously to take leadership and go for the with encourage, compassiona compassion and character to make sure that we give the appropriated treatment that is needed to deal with that defect as it rears his ugly head in Lowell High School named for a person that led a Great Institution is a disgrace to the name and it defamous all that one claims to be about who went to lowell and that is at difficult thinking and discrepancy and leadership and social responsibility just a few days ago the San Francisco chronicle there was a significant article on the incidents of alzheimers in this region not written by a black person but by a black a scholar scientist doctor and one of the could have that alzheimers the black community 65 percent and one of the finding was that was because of environmental racism and 20 number two because of a lack of a sense of place the black students at lowell from the testimony ive heard when i came in that door basically suggests they dont have a sense of place and belonging so lets us make sure that every student that going to that school feels they been belong their respected, regardiregarded and honored by right now we look mighty mighty ugly before the World Community we are living a lie that is San Francisco is a progressive liabkely city clapping. so what do i recommend beginning with the president of the board i know that mr. Superintendent will be with you, we need to have a come to jesus meeting with Lowell High School and any school in the city that doesnt know how to get along and respect each other i say when we take relationshleadership and b responsible we create a Better Community and climate and live as civil humans who need each other and people say im black and proud im brown and sound im yellow and im mellow im red but not dead im white all right. Im gay but d godly im sick but assessable im female but wise that is what we need to happen in our culture and schools our city and throughout the world do the right thing we dont need anything repeated such that very toxic, evil, mad altitu attitude of that man whose name begins with the name donald clapping. all right. Well extend enough for everyone but one minute and let the folks know what theyre up so expand one more minute. Ill try to speak fast im a graduate of allowing class of 1980. clapping. thank you. And im here to let you know that basically the most recent incident is no the an incident that is foreign to those who attended lowell this is incident is actually amongst a vast incident that happened for years i can personally office space speak to them my mother and parents started their black parents in 1945 the reason they did that becau because Lowell Community decided students they wanted to include in associate and academic concludes me decided those students didnt have a voice and not have a voice like be seen and not heard my sister was qualified to sdob part of society and applied twice and denied twice not until the parents demand tdemand the africanamerican parents demanded membership and basically in 1978 i have was told not to be a cheerleader by the way, because i didnt loth not tradition to have an africanamerican as cheerleader not 1938, 48, 58 i was told i didnt look like a cheerleader not actually, it group tell them if they want to deal what the naacp and the usf i was going to be on the squard the band leade quit doss because he didnt want black students on the field we all have an equal membership at 4r0u8 high. clapping. thank you. Im terry mason a alumni from city college of San Francisco and San Francisco state of a alumni lowell of 1979 a 8 year veteran teacher we know