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[15:00] Ms. Lema, Mr. Mather, Ms. Schott, our student representative, Brooke and Gabriel.

[15:10] Thank you and if you could please call the calendar.

[15:13] Tuesday, October 26th will be our next school committee business meeting and Thursday, November

[15:18] 11th is Veterans Day, no school.

[15:22] Thank you. So we do have a presentation. Before we begin, I just want to mention

[15:26] we do have a sign up for citizens comments. You do need to put your name and address down

[15:32] there. There were a couple of people who hadn't done that. So if there's not a name and address,

[15:36] I'll skip over your name. So if you didn't fill in your name and address and fold down

[15:40] there, you need to do that for the record. Before we do that, I will turn things over

[15:44] to Dr. Jane Mrs. King for a presentation. Thank you. So this year we have just received

[15:51] word that the North Kingston School of Department for the seventh year in a row has received

[15:55] the Association of School Business Officers Meritorious Budget Award. It's the most prestigious

[16:02] award that a school department can receive for their budgeting practices. I want to congratulate

[16:07] Mrs. King and Steve Janell, our controller for all of his hard work in making sure this

[16:15] happens. This is really kind of taking the long way about doing our budgeting and making

[16:21] sure that it's transparent and making sure that it's fully connected to our teaching and

[16:26] learning goals. So we've done this now seven years in a row, so it seems kind of common

[16:32] place, but trust me it is not. We're one of the only school districts. I'm not sure

[16:37] if there are any other in the state of Rhode Island that are receiving this award, and

[16:42] we just happen to have a tremendous team here to make sure that we're doing this

[16:45] work to the highest standard in the country. So congratulations.

[16:55] So I would really like to thank Steve Janell. So Steve Janell has been a controller in this

[17:00] district for about 12 years or so, and he's going to be retiring at the end of this

[17:04] calendar year. And, you know, we have some great people taken over for him, but Steve

[17:11] Janell was the architect of this. Seven years ago he said to me, you know, I really want

[17:17] to try to do this, and the requirements of what you need to present in this Meritorious

[17:23] Budget Award package are voluminous from the ASBO International Group, and ASBO is

[17:29] the Association of School Business Officials, and it's an international group. All states

[17:35] have a chapter. We have one as well. And I said, you know what Steve, if you want

[17:39] to do that, I think that's great. And he ran with it, and all of the documents up through

[17:45] FY22 budget, so we have our regular budget, if we will, that we present to the school

[17:52] committee that's a mere 80 or 90 pages. The Meritorious Budget Award package is

[17:57] nearly 500 pages. It's very searchable, and it can give people information that

[18:06] they're particularly interested in. There's always 10 years of data that's in the

[18:10] package, and there's a lot of other information also about the town, about all

[18:15] of the awards that the district earned. So it's not strictly a numbers document,

[18:20] although that's primarily what it is, but I think it's a real good testament to

[18:25] how far we've come in the district and our transparency and how important

[18:29] financial reporting is to us. So I really appreciate Steve's time on that. We

[18:35] all put in, you know, some pieces of it, but Steve Janell definitely deserves the

[18:40] credit for this, I thank him very much. Thank you, Ms. King. And congratulations

[18:46] to you and all of your staff for all the hard work that you do. It's a, you

[18:50] know, unique recognition to have an outside group come in and take a look at

[18:53] what you do and give you that pat on the back, and seven years in a row

[18:57] is certainly nothing to sneeze at. So thanks again. So next we have citizens

[19:03] comments. If someone could just bring up the list, I'd put it back down just so

[19:06] that we could get it completed. Thank you, Mrs. Schott. If you could leave the

[19:15] second one down just in case you have things. And so just a reminder, we do

[19:29] ask if you could please limit your comments to three minutes. This will blink

[19:33] red and then go off at the end of your three minutes so that you know. And we

[19:38] ask if you could just again for the record, please state your name and

[19:41] address when you come to the microphone. And I apologize if there are any

[19:44] names that I pronounce incorrectly. First I have, I think it's Kay Rampino

[19:49] senior. And then after that will be Brian O'Dell if you want to sort of be on

[19:54] deck.

[20:12] Members of the school committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak this

[20:16] evening.

[20:20] Once informed as to what critical... Could you just say your name and address for

[20:23] the record, sorry? I'm sorry. Kay, Kenneth Rampino senior. Seven Morningside

[20:28] Drive, North Kingston. Thank you, sir. Once informed as to what critical race

[20:32] theory really is, any fair-minded person knows intuitively that CRT or any

[20:37] other euphemism as proponents employed is destructive to children by

[20:41] propagandizing them to judge their schoolmates purely on the basis of

[20:46] race or ethnicity, which is the very essence of racism. At its core it is

[20:51] government-sponsored racism under the guise of anti-racism. Here are just two

[20:55] of the countless examples of the heartbreaking impact of CRT and kids.

[21:00] In Williamson County, Tennessee, where educators were teaching children to

[21:04] be ashamed of their whiteness, a seven-year-old was placed in therapy

[21:08] because of severe depression after coming home from school saying,

[21:11] Mommy, I am ashamed that I am white. Is there something wrong with me?

[21:15] Why am I hated so much? A seven-year-old child told by her teachers that she is

[21:20] evil solely on the basis of her skin color. In Nevada, an African American

[21:25] parent sued a charter school for teaching her biracial child CRT, violating

[21:29] her parental prerogative to bring up her child in the belief that all persons

[21:34] are created equal. Go on the internet and you will find hundreds of

[21:37] examples of children being damaged by CRT. As a retired attorney who

[21:42] practiced law for five decades and someone who has ought the numerous

[21:45] treatises on constitutional law published in American law reports, I would like to

[21:50] focus on the legal issues raised by CRT. The legal rights of parents do not end

[21:56] at the portal of a school. Recently a school administrator in another

[22:00] Rhode Island community expressed rage that parents would have what she

[22:03] considered the audacity to have a say in what has taught their children.

[22:08] She obviously is unaware of the case of Espinosa versus Montana,

[22:12] a case not involving CRT per se, but wherein the U.S. Supreme Court

[22:16] recognized the rights of parents to direct the education of their children

[22:20] in the classroom when constitutional rights of their children are being

[22:24] violated. In the case I mentioned involving the

[22:26] African American mother with the biracial son, he was given in a

[22:30] failing grade in sociology of change courts because he refused to open

[22:35] the acknowledges, quote, white privilege. The mother on behalf of her

[22:38] child sued the school for depriving the child of freedom of

[22:41] speech from the First Amendment, equal protection under the 14th

[22:44] amendment, and are violating his civil rights under Title VI of the Civil

[22:48] Rights Act. The complaint in the suit relies on

[22:51] Lodgepot on the U.S. Supreme Court case of West Virginia versus Barnett,

[22:56] wherein upholding students constitutional rights in the Supreme

[22:59] Court of this nation said, quote, no official high or petty can

[23:04] prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion,

[23:08] or other matters of opinion of forced citizens to confess

[23:11] by word or act their faith they're in. I submit that CRT in its varied forms

[23:16] is becoming a new orthodoxy that dictates allegiance to its

[23:20] false beliefs with severe recriminations for failure to do so.

[23:24] Parents and students have constitutional rights that are trampled upon

[23:27] when these toxic ideologies are forced on children in our schools,

[23:31] and we need to stand up to it wherever and whenever it occurs

[23:35] through peaceful assembly and protest, electing school committee members with

[23:39] traditional values, and through injunctive relief

[23:42] mandated by the judicial system.

[23:46] Thank you.

[23:56] Now, folks, I apologize that I have to

[24:08] I apologize I have to remind people again, but

[24:11] we've asked a couple people to leave who wouldn't wear a mask, and at this point

[24:15] we do have two people in the room who are not wearing masks.

[24:18] So again, as we mentioned before, we won't be able to continue the meeting

[24:21] until people are complying with the mandate issued by the governor

[24:24] regarding the wearing of masks in school.

[24:28] I'm not the governor.

[24:45] I'm not in the hall they should be wearing a mask.

[24:48] So we have a choice, folks. It's a simple choice.

[24:54] We can wear our masks or we're all going home.

[24:56] Okay, I have two medical doctor's notes and a prescription for no mask, no shield.

[25:04] I have every right to speak out against these things

[25:08] as anybody here. The CDC does not know shit about this virus.

[25:15] I know more than the CDC to just carry on.

[25:33] So on the advice of our attorney, I'm going to adjourn this meeting if the

[25:36] masks don't go on. So it's your up to you, folks.

[25:41] Make a motion to adjourn.

[25:44] What is the name of your attorney so that we can prosecute?

[25:50] You are discriminating against me. I have autism.

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