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Ms. Lema, Mr. Mather, Ms. Schott, our student representative, Brooke and Gabriel.

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Thank you and if you could please call the calendar.

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Tuesday, October 26th will be our next school committee business meeting and Thursday, November

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11th is Veterans Day, no school.

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Thank you. So we do have a presentation. Before we begin, I just want to mention

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we do have a sign up for citizens comments. You do need to put your name and address down

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

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I'll skip over your name. So if you didn't fill in your name and address and fold down

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there, you need to do that for the record. Before we do that, I will turn things over

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to Dr. Jane Mrs. King for a presentation. Thank you. So this year we have just received

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word that the North Kingston School of Department for the seventh year in a row has received

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the Association of School Business Officers Meritorious Budget Award. It's the most prestigious

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award that a school department can receive for their budgeting practices. I want to congratulate

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Mrs. King and Steve Janell, our controller for all of his hard work in making sure this

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happens. This is really kind of taking the long way about doing our budgeting and making

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sure that it's transparent and making sure that it's fully connected to our teaching and

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

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

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if there are any other in the state of Rhode Island that are receiving this award, and

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we just happen to have a tremendous team here to make sure that we're doing this

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work to the highest standard in the country. So congratulations.

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So I would really like to thank Steve Janell. So Steve Janell has been a controller in this

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

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calendar year. And, you know, we have some great people taken over for him, but Steve

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

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to try to do this, and the requirements of what you need to present in this Meritorious

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Budget Award package are voluminous from the ASBO International Group, and ASBO is

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the Association of School Business Officials, and it's an international group. All states

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have a chapter. We have one as well. And I said, you know what Steve, if you want

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

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FY22 budget, so we have our regular budget, if we will, that we present to the school

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committee that's a mere 80 or 90 pages. The Meritorious Budget Award package is

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nearly 500 pages. It's very searchable, and it can give people information that

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they're particularly interested in. There's always 10 years of data that's in the

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package, and there's a lot of other information also about the town, about all

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of the awards that the district earned. So it's not strictly a numbers document,

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although that's primarily what it is, but I think it's a real good testament to

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how far we've come in the district and our transparency and how important

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financial reporting is to us. So I really appreciate Steve's time on that. We

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all put in, you know, some pieces of it, but Steve Janell definitely deserves the

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credit for this, I thank him very much. Thank you, Ms. King. And congratulations

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to you and all of your staff for all the hard work that you do. It's a, you

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know, unique recognition to have an outside group come in and take a look at

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what you do and give you that pat on the back, and seven years in a row

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is certainly nothing to sneeze at. So thanks again. So next we have citizens

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comments. If someone could just bring up the list, I'd put it back down just so

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that we could get it completed. Thank you, Mrs. Schott. If you could leave the

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second one down just in case you have things. And so just a reminder, we do

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ask if you could please limit your comments to three minutes. This will blink

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red and then go off at the end of your three minutes so that you know. And we

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ask if you could just again for the record, please state your name and

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address when you come to the microphone. And I apologize if there are any

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names that I pronounce incorrectly. First I have, I think it's Kay Rampino

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senior. And then after that will be Brian O'Dell if you want to sort of be on

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deck.

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Members of the school committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak this

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evening.

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

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the record, sorry? I'm sorry. Kay, Kenneth Rampino senior. Seven Morningside

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Drive, North Kingston. Thank you, sir. Once informed as to what critical race

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theory really is, any fair-minded person knows intuitively that CRT or any

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other euphemism as proponents employed is destructive to children by

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propagandizing them to judge their schoolmates purely on the basis of

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race or ethnicity, which is the very essence of racism. At its core it is

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government-sponsored racism under the guise of anti-racism. Here are just two

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of the countless examples of the heartbreaking impact of CRT and kids.

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In Williamson County, Tennessee, where educators were teaching children to

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be ashamed of their whiteness, a seven-year-old was placed in therapy

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because of severe depression after coming home from school saying,

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Mommy, I am ashamed that I am white. Is there something wrong with me?

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

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evil solely on the basis of her skin color. In Nevada, an African American

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parent sued a charter school for teaching her biracial child CRT, violating

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her parental prerogative to bring up her child in the belief that all persons

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are created equal. Go on the internet and you will find hundreds of

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examples of children being damaged by CRT. As a retired attorney who

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practiced law for five decades and someone who has ought the numerous

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treatises on constitutional law published in American law reports, I would like to

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focus on the legal issues raised by CRT. The legal rights of parents do not end

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at the portal of a school. Recently a school administrator in another

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Rhode Island community expressed rage that parents would have what she

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considered the audacity to have a say in what has taught their children.

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She obviously is unaware of the case of Espinosa versus Montana,

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a case not involving CRT per se, but wherein the U.S. Supreme Court

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recognized the rights of parents to direct the education of their children

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in the classroom when constitutional rights of their children are being

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violated. In the case I mentioned involving the

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African American mother with the biracial son, he was given in a

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failing grade in sociology of change courts because he refused to open

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the acknowledges, quote, white privilege. The mother on behalf of her

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child sued the school for depriving the child of freedom of

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speech from the First Amendment, equal protection under the 14th

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amendment, and are violating his civil rights under Title VI of the Civil

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Rights Act. The complaint in the suit relies on

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Lodgepot on the U.S. Supreme Court case of West Virginia versus Barnett,

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wherein upholding students constitutional rights in the Supreme

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Court of this nation said, quote, no official high or petty can

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prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion,

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or other matters of opinion of forced citizens to confess

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by word or act their faith they're in. I submit that CRT in its varied forms

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is becoming a new orthodoxy that dictates allegiance to its

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false beliefs with severe recriminations for failure to do so.

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Parents and students have constitutional rights that are trampled upon

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when these toxic ideologies are forced on children in our schools,

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and we need to stand up to it wherever and whenever it occurs

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through peaceful assembly and protest, electing school committee members with

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traditional values, and through injunctive relief

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mandated by the judicial system.

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Thank you.

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Now, folks, I apologize that I have to

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I apologize I have to remind people again, but

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we've asked a couple people to leave who wouldn't wear a mask, and at this point

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we do have two people in the room who are not wearing masks.

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So again, as we mentioned before, we won't be able to continue the meeting

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until people are complying with the mandate issued by the governor

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regarding the wearing of masks in school.

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I'm not the governor.

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I'm not in the hall they should be wearing a mask.

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So we have a choice, folks. It's a simple choice.

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We can wear our masks or we're all going home.

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Okay, I have two medical doctor's notes and a prescription for no mask, no shield.

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I have every right to speak out against these things

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as anybody here. The CDC does not know shit about this virus.

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I know more than the CDC to just carry on.

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So on the advice of our attorney, I'm going to adjourn this meeting if the

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masks don't go on. So it's your up to you, folks.

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Make a motion to adjourn.

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What is the name of your attorney so that we can prosecute?

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You are discriminating against me. I have autism.