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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.