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this small board meeting of May the 24th

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2016 will come to order

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this time um I asked dr. foster if he

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would lead us in prayer in the Pledge of

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Allegiance blessing upon the group here

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assembled today we ask that you bless

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our children as they have their few days

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left in the school year guide their

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activities at the school's left the

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parents those teachers who have duties

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every day toward our children and let us

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have a safe ending to the school year

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unless this meeting as well today Lord

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we ask you and their first responders

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here and their soldiers abroad bring

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them home safely help them to protect us

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these Saints in Christ Jesus name we

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pray amen

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do I hear a motion for the approval of

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the minutes second we have a motion to

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approve the last minutes and there's a

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second any discussion all in favor say

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aye I came before you move forward with

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the agenda can we just ask for a moment

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of silence for Commissioner

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CJ small yes sir and it's safe return

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back to the United States yes well said

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we'll take a moment of silence

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thank you very much thank you dr.

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Crenshaw do I hear a motion for the

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agenda adoption so moved second okay we

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have a motion and a second to adopt the

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agenda any discussion all in favor say

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aye aye those opposed motion carries

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I have miss peek any announcements

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before I make we're in the last few days

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of school like dr. Foster said the

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students last days June the first the

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teachers June the second professional

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development has already begun so we have

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a busy seats a busy summer ahead of us

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and looking forward to finishing all the

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plans and being ready to go for the 1617

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school year my goodness we're talking 16

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17 already and another hour and we

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graduated 3,750 students last week so we

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saw students walk with diplomas from all

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13 of our sites including gun gusty

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ovens thank you now thank you

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I'm gonna do one recognition report

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actually it's a sad one that I have to

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make we have a board resolution here for

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a former student of the Mobile County

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public school system and it's a

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resolution for Miss Rosetta gamble Brown

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the sad news to report is that Miss

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Brown has passed away and we understand

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from my facts are correct that they are

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bringing her back to mobile for her

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funeral but she was a pathfinder for

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civil rights in Mobile and was one of

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the first African American students to

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attend Murphy high school so I'm going

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to read this resolution and then I want

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to give it to our board member here mr.

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battles who's a member of the n-double

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a-c-p so you can

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whereas rosetta gamble Bram was born on

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July the 17th 1947 in Orville Alabama

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and graduated from Murphy high schoo

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Tuskegee University and Birmingham

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Southern College and whereas she was one

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of Mobile's first civil rights activists

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and a crucial part of the integration of

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Murphy high school and whereas her goal

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was to help fight for equal education

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for all students and whereas she was

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loving and a devoted mother

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grandmother's sister and friend and now

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therefore I'm mr. Don Stringfellow

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president of the Mobile Board of school

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commissioners along with the

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superintendent of the mobile public

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school system and the remaining members

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of the school do recognize the

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outstanding contribution made by Messrs

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Rosetta Campbell Brown to the public

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school system of Mobile County

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authorization this document requested by

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mr. Stringfellow and district from

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district 2 on this 24th day of May 2016

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and Miss to meet one come in she was

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born in or via Alabama where my pastor

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Reverend Charles Arthur Thompson was

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born in Oroville Alabama who I have

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attended Stonestreet since I was nine

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years old I think I'm about 27 now on

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behalf of the family and the

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n-double-a-cp in the community we just

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thank you for this recognition because

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pair founders always need to be

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recognized but when they recognize

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somebody gonna emulate them and father

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so thank you very much I graduated from

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the University of South Alabama in the

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first craze in nineteen so we were pair

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founders at the University in 1966 thank

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you that's right

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Oh mr. Harwell you have any

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announcements or

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don't announcer that I have is that on

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Thursday night it means middle school

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we're gonna have a town meeting to

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discuss with the community about some

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issues that we feel the very rough and

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so that's all I got okay to start at six

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o'clock and we inviting the general

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probably to come in and just to get some

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comments and input thank you

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yes sir dr. Crenshaw no dr. Foster

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no okay thank you we're going to move on

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to citizens requests I have the list

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here the first let me read this off to

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you the delegates who speak will have

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five minutes to make their presentations

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the good name and or character of an

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individual may not be discussed during

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an open board meeting and our

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superintendent miss peek will be keeping

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the time here is the mic is the is it

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right there okay first one I have on the

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list here is Miss Kathy batiste miss

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biteys if you would please I did

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pronounce a correct my name is Kathy

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Betty so I'm a representative here from

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little B with some high school and I

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represent the PTA I stand before you

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because of some of the things that we

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have been talking about that's been on

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the media this morning that's in

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reference to make East middle school

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merging it with with some high school we

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have parents and supporters that are

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here today who are against this decision

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making due to a lot of several reasons

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and I do know that I only have five

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minutes to discuss this I just hit on

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some of the main topics one of the

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topics is it's in reference to teenage

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students mixing in with high school

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students mixing in with middle school

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students we have decreased our pregnancy

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rate at Wilson High School we feel that

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when you merge this school with some

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that will increase we have done

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parenting communication in education

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with our students and once you emerge at

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your middle school students in we're

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gonna have issues with that as well

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social media is the biggest thing here

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we have we're afraid that we may

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increase rape cases due to the fact of

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older students with younger students

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another thing we want to talk about is

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in reference to administration we at

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this point went through a whole school

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year with a principal who had to serve

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as a math teacher for the school system

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when a school board

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not provide us one so he did double

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duties which I commend him on that

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however if you were to blend middle

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school students in with with some high

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school there is nothing on your agenda

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you have not provided to the public that

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you will provide us with the best

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administrative staff that we need we

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don't get enough teachers we don't get

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qualified enough qualified teachers

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because I receive a letter every year

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stating a teacher has not met

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credibility and that you wanted to

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inform me but then that destroys our

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parents from sending their children to

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school and maintaining them in our

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school I have a child there myself and

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believe we're some high school has

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provide all three of my girls with the

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best education that they can get and

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they're all graduating from college the

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other thing that's on the agenda is the

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facility with some high school does not

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even have a cafeteria that can hold the

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students that we already have how are

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you gonna merge middle school students

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in with with some high and our facility

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cannot accommodate them the other thing

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is money that was almost millions of

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dollars I think 7.6 million dollars that

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was allocated to Maine's middle school

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to build that establishment there so

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when you close down Maine's middle

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school will that money be allocated to

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with some high school we had a hard

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enough time trying to get our sports

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facility to be upgraded so that we can

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provide better athletes for our

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collegiate people who come here to

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recruit you

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then there's the defibrillated building

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that sits across from the school that

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we've been fighting with city councilmen

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and for you all to stand in that is

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rat-infested that has caught on fire

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several times you put our children in

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danger when you have this building

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across the street that has not been torn

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down we've signed petitions we've done

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everything possible to get you all to

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tear that building down then there's a

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club mingoes sits right on the corner of

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a school system you have George Hall

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down the street we can even get you all

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to standing to tear that down and get

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that move as well for years we are now

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embarking on a 100-year celebration a

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school that started in a house in

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Maysville when blacks were not created

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equal

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so when we started from there and we

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moved to where we are standing now every

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year you all come up with a tactic to

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destroy the school credibility

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number one you rezone the school

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district the school district resolved we

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feel may be on your agenda differently

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was to populate BC rain High School when

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you populate the BC rain high school

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that took our children from our school

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number two not only have you done that

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you have you discredit us throughout the

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years through media we made the but we

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was off the bad school list for four

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years three to four years as soon as we

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made it back on the list we are over

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national news but when Murphy was on a

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bad list we heard nothing of it not one

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thing so what we are asking fund I do

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understand I have one minute what we're

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asking for is just what you spoke up

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with the N double AC P is equal T we

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want the same thing we want the same

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extracurricular that every school has

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you took away the drama

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you took away you start our band dr.

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Edison told us we couldn't have a band

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on auxiliary until we got a band

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director we have all this stuff going on

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that's negative towards our school but

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you're not giving us enough to fight

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next I have June Jones Miss Jones hi I'm

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June Jones I'm a retired math teacher

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from Chicago I've come here as a casual

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observer I'm also sit on the Education

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Committee of the n-double a-c-p

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I'm boring them with a leak low League

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of Women Voters and I have some concerns

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about the ten failing schools one thing

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being a math teacher from Chicago I've

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worked with inner-city schools at-risk

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schools I have made a coalition plan for

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the schools where I will hope I can meet

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with some members where we can go over

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this plan right now it's about 15 pages

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so a little bit too long to go into

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right now but some of the main points is

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making the board making a school system

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transparent have a more information that

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is e that is equally accessible to all

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people without passwords and

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what-have-you

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another thing is accountability now what

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I'm hearing now some of the things she

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was talking about was new to me because

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again I'm new to mobile but some of that

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is accountability and transparency that

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the parents should have a voice in I'm a

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parent I represent a lot of mothers we

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have the same view you see we're going

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to say we're gonna have equal

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opportunity for education we should have

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that I came in here observing high

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schools and I see kids counting on their

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fingers I'm a math teacher

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I should not see any twelfth grader

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counting on their fingers I don't care

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how many kids you graduated they're not

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qualified

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they're simply not qualified another

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thing I have the issue with us having

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high school people that substitute in

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high school when they only have a high

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school diploma you're not qualified to

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teach so that means when a student have

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a substitute in their classroom there is

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no education you have a hundred and

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eighty days for education every last

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mono stage to be used for their

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education now one day should be used as

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play I do not see eight playgrounds

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meaning these soccer fields coming up

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when our children are not being educated

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you have thousands of kids being

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undereducated but you're worrying about

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school playgrounds I don't see that so I

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really would like to meet with some of

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you it's a very detailed plan for

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transparency qualified situations and we

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have been working on this for a few days

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we have not asked for the meeting yet

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but I heard about this meeting this

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morning on my way to the YMCA so I had

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to get here and do what I had to do but

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these are things that are needed that

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would get your schools to actually

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become noppfairy schools it is not

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something that you can turn around in a

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couple of years from my understanding

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was talking with the public that you

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have turned principals around in two

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three years that is no way in the world

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you're going to get a school to pass and

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that lose amount of time you have to

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change the climate of the school you

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have to change the attitude of the

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school and let me just say this I'm not

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only a high school teacher my bachelor's

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was in mathematics I have a master's in

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curriculum and instruction and a

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master's in educational leadership I've

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not a plaything right here I'm very

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serious and this is not just to

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criticize your system I saw a system not

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working I came down here and found more

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students being taught in home-school

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which kind of opened my eyes to the

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situation when I went in on the voter's

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18 to get kids to register for school I

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could not believe that kids their

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children our students was happen asking

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for better education they deserved it

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and I'm good you know I can talk forever

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but I'm good I'm taking this job

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next we have mr. James Adams my name is

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james adams i'm the mayor of mount

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vernon Alabama and I'm standing before

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you all today didn't come prepare to to

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give a big lengthy speech anything like

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that I come on speak from my heart I

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really feel like that the school bell

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saw ET bell so wasn't represented well

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parents did on numerous times a note or

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notify people that look the teachers are

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not teaching this or did we we don't

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have band we they got rid of the

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athletic courts and stuff like and

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nothing was done about it okay now did

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you the kids started numbers started

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going down okay

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the reason that's why because if it was

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your child in school you want your child

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to get the best education he can under

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the best teachers that they can so after

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nothing was done our parents in my

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opponent didn't have a choice but to

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start moving kids to other schools that

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wouldn't be my choice I like to tackle a

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problem if you got a problem let's try

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to solve the problem but that wasn't

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happening because they wasn't getting

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the results from from the other stuff

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though so the parents started moving

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them so when you move kids what happened

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to the remainder the numbers go down and

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that's that's what you all are howling

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about the numbers plus it was a failing

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school okay if they don't have qualified

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teachers enough and I wasn't not there

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one teach me but you won't get qualified

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kids and you won't get good results now

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they was telling my shutting it down I

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am asking that this doesn't happen

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I remember when Bell saw was blooming in

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Mount Vernon as a school that change over years because of the

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problem I'm telling you about different

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person and you all know how many

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principles have been up there you all

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know how many teachers unison up but

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that was a problem with Bell so getting

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certified or qualified principals and

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teachers not saying that they wasn't

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qualified because I'm not saying but

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they kept going in and out changing out

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when you start changing out that's

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telling me something so after they

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couldn't get athletics the band they had

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one of the best bands in mobile counted

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eight that elementary school when it was

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up there play with the high schools they

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played played in my leg row they march

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with their dog all kind of parades so

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they had a good core of teachers at that

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time for some reason we lost them now oh

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it's sad that the kids are going suffer

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with this obviously I remember him right

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out through South :

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I saw a groundbreaking service and so I

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got curious and went over there they

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said this was new middle school I said a

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mill school

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you got Bell so down why would you need

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a but you know things had to happen so

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then there was North Mobile years what

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about Dennis they were your kids

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eventually gonna have to go to North

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Mobile I said why we got Bell saw a nice

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school he's not run down anything kids can stand with the best you got so

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last year they got rid of all the middle

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of students and I have a granddaughter

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right there was she had the third haiji

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PA in eighth grade this year on the

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other day she was the top one of the top

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honor the students there so you're gonna

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find that in our own schools you know

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you're gonna find some good with some

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bad ones my thing is when you moved all

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the middle students to know him mobile

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that show enough give way to getting rid

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of the elementary now to me because you

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built north mobile it like to me it was

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a cleverly orchestrated plan um that's

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I'm thinking for my heart it it feels

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like it was a plan and that plan was

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going through when they got no mobile

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the students eventually went down then

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you moved to middle school all you have

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was Elementary not only that they built

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and I'm not against anybody getting us

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through school I'm not

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they built Castle diva a couple of miles

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away from so when you building new

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schools around another school what do we

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expect those kids Thank You mr. Evans

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thank you sir next speaker is miss

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Carolyn blanks maze

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yes I minister caseta Jackson and we

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just want to let you all know whatever

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you're doing whatever decision you think

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you have me this is not the end of it

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how do you feel

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see it's not any of your children who

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you want to merge together how do you

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feel if your middle school and your high

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school coming together think about it

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think about your grand children and

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teenagers so we want to let you know

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that this is not the end and we are not

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gonna stand by and let you do what you

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want to do when you get ready put your

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money where you want to put it you build

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your new center near high school so you

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want applause Mays middle school in

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order to find that big ol or college but

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you can't do that I see y'all in y'all

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positions making your money but now it's

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time for all the people to wake up and

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stop you close I added blacks through

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all these schools I will let you join

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you don't care about them talk about

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your grandchildren think about your

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children so you never thought about that

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ha put your children in that position so

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nice and how many more minutes I got all

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sister Pete

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two more minutes okay I'm gonna use my

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two minutes in the name of Jesus so we

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ask God right now see I'm talking to

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Jesus and I'm gonna use my two minutes

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Lord you know what's going on right here

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and God we know in school star back we

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demand our new school for Maine's middle

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school no I all these yields they've

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been shut down I would look blood

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children so God you know you made all of

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us and you love us our own but God you

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don't like that either iniquity where

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people are doing and go reacts you right

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now in the name of Jesus to move our

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maize middle school and move on out of

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schools what we need in the name of

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Jesus Amy and God you mu you know how to

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move see we don't know her but we

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petition it all to You Lord right now in

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the name of Jesus I understand on one

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minute but Jesus's are all minute in the

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name of Jesus Amy and we thank you Lord

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and love whatever you need to do for the

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school board lawyer you know how to shut

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it up in the name of Jesus you're right

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move it you've not a move on the board

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you ride a church right now in the name

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of Jesus Amy and lo we want to give you

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an honor we want to give you the praise

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and a mighty name of Jesus and you fix

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the law fix it Betsy

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don't let them sleep tonight don't let

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no time sleep tonight don't ever sleep

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[Applause]

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okay we've been told by some of our

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black community you don't know me

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talking and loud and all that but see we

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ain't them

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and we're gonna say like just like we

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want to say it and if that bothers them

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they're just too bad if they say we

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ain't no Christian car we talkin what we

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talkin well they're just too bad

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they told dr. King he was a devil but

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they don't mean nothin

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okay I do know this and I don't care

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what nobody person said the information

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that I have and I got this on legal

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ground and so don't tell me I don't know

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what I'm talking about

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all y'all up in communal about we don't

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know we talk about the reason they want

539
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to close may ends is because it's the

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whole city plan other choice

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humility okay the charge community is

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the consist of our V Taylor Birds veal

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and barking towel well who goes to those

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stools the people in the project so they

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feel like see if they can push this

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choice neighborhood through then they

547
00:26:17,340 --> 00:26:20,460
won't need may ease so that's why the

548
00:26:20,460 --> 00:26:23,400
city Mobile mayor steps and all them got

549
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,620
together with child and I'm proud to me

550
00:26:25,620 --> 00:26:26,910
you know what y'all have on the country

551
00:26:26,910 --> 00:26:29,790
well y'all got together and said well we

552
00:26:29,790 --> 00:26:34,680
gonna close that down so now what you're

553
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,660
trying to do is carry out what y'all

554
00:26:36,660 --> 00:26:40,470
understood but don't depend on that

555
00:26:40,470 --> 00:26:42,360
there Charles community gonna come to

556
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:46,290
Pam cop I got a little right here from

557
00:26:46,290 --> 00:26:50,100
Washington DC that that the mayor in the

558
00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:52,800
city can't even push that commuter

559
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,720
through unless he gonna get working

560
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,480
approval with the community what they

561
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,790
gonna do they're not gonna just push

562
00:26:59,790 --> 00:27:02,820
this out and be a no snow no no new

563
00:27:02,820 --> 00:27:05,850
streets and and no a new buildings and

564
00:27:05,850 --> 00:27:07,770
gonna push all them for

565
00:27:07,770 --> 00:27:10,590
black folks on the street not this time

566
00:27:10,590 --> 00:27:13,020
you're getting it over and Prichard you

567
00:27:13,020 --> 00:27:14,670
did only happy here

568
00:27:14,670 --> 00:27:17,010
you did it all the orange go and now

569
00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:19,110
you're back to do it over here so that's

570
00:27:19,110 --> 00:27:22,110
what this main instinct is about but I

571
00:27:22,110 --> 00:27:24,210
won't try to know whatever to see you

572
00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:28,740
have me will make that will not be the

573
00:27:28,740 --> 00:27:32,970
end of that if they take every dollar I

574
00:27:32,970 --> 00:27:37,620
got saved up I plan on taking every one

575
00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:41,040
of y'all to court about this because

576
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,950
it's time that the federal government

577
00:27:43,950 --> 00:27:46,800
know how y'all been doing us all these

578
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,310
years

579
00:27:47,310 --> 00:28:07,890
we are told it's no no we're not gonna

580
00:28:07,890 --> 00:28:08,370
do that

581
00:28:08,370 --> 00:28:11,670
not anymore I told you everything on the

582
00:28:11,670 --> 00:28:14,970
earth goes by season and time nothing

583
00:28:14,970 --> 00:28:17,670
happens but by season time you don't

584
00:28:17,670 --> 00:28:19,140
have you don't know nobody don't bling

585
00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:21,510
about it everything happens on a season

586
00:28:21,510 --> 00:28:24,210
he may let some go for seventy year but

587
00:28:24,210 --> 00:28:26,160
after that seven year he'll cut it down

588
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,400
when God said he got tired of just white

589
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,380
folks going in that white house he shot

590
00:28:31,380 --> 00:28:33,330
got me somebody now I don't want just a

591
00:28:33,330 --> 00:28:35,160
wife or gonna be and so when Barack

592
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,870
Obama started running for office

593
00:28:36,870 --> 00:28:42,060
everybody Mobile started get it get it get it and now he done

594
00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:47,280
beating that and now he's ready for the

595
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:52,620
black community to rise you know when

596
00:28:52,620 --> 00:28:54,870
August coming you know how to keep your

597
00:28:54,870 --> 00:28:57,330
buck cheering at home you know what the

598
00:28:57,330 --> 00:29:00,630
Duke they don't told you what to do when

599
00:29:00,630 --> 00:29:02,190
they die on those streets and they're

600
00:29:02,190 --> 00:29:04,440
six they talk to you what to do stand up

601
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,190
for yourself how we now gonna stand by

602
00:29:07,190 --> 00:29:17,109
y'all can depend on their thank you

603
00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:27,009
next we have mr. Peter Cutler

604
00:29:27,019 --> 00:29:29,730
thank you those of you that don't know

605
00:29:29,730 --> 00:29:32,340
me my name is Peter cup 4mu served

606
00:29:32,340 --> 00:29:34,379
director with the Alabama Alabama

607
00:29:34,379 --> 00:29:37,019
Education Association and we do have

608
00:29:37,019 --> 00:29:39,590
some concerns as it pertains to

609
00:29:39,590 --> 00:29:41,369
transparency I'm not gonna talk any

610
00:29:41,369 --> 00:29:43,559
about that but as it pertains to some

611
00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:46,019
budget and fiduciary concerns we

612
00:29:46,019 --> 00:29:48,299
understand the original intent of the

613
00:29:48,299 --> 00:29:50,460
legislature was to provide for

614
00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:53,369
additional funding was to provide four

615
00:29:53,369 --> 00:29:55,019
percent pay raise for our certified

616
00:29:55,019 --> 00:29:57,539
everybody all or nothing four percent

617
00:29:57,539 --> 00:30:00,299
and also an allocation of increased

618
00:30:00,299 --> 00:30:03,149
teacher units but what we've come to

619
00:30:03,149 --> 00:30:05,639
understand is there's some concern with

620
00:30:05,639 --> 00:30:08,609
teacher certifications there there's the

621
00:30:08,609 --> 00:30:10,440
case that a lot of middle school

622
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,179
teachers with a one through six

623
00:30:12,179 --> 00:30:14,639
certificate are being requested by their

624
00:30:14,639 --> 00:30:16,529
supervisors to go back to elementary

625
00:30:16,529 --> 00:30:18,749
school or obtain a six through 12 or

626
00:30:18,749 --> 00:30:20,639
higher certificate and we certainly

627
00:30:20,639 --> 00:30:21,629
would hope that you would acknowledge

628
00:30:21,629 --> 00:30:23,820
that the state recognizes their one

629
00:30:23,820 --> 00:30:25,980
through six certificate and the fact

630
00:30:25,980 --> 00:30:27,480
that they can teach for up to two years

631
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,509
on emergency status - and have that time

632
00:30:30,509 --> 00:30:33,299
to obtain a higher certificate if they

633
00:30:33,299 --> 00:30:36,419
so chose that's one concern and let it

634
00:30:36,419 --> 00:30:38,850
be known that from the time of ninth

635
00:30:38,850 --> 00:30:41,210
through twelfth grade it is the case

636
00:30:41,210 --> 00:30:43,649
nationally but specifically to mobile

637
00:30:43,649 --> 00:30:46,830
that a student will have over a year of

638
00:30:46,830 --> 00:30:51,359
time with a substitute teacher so there

639
00:30:51,359 --> 00:30:53,340
is a demand for these increased teacher

640
00:30:53,340 --> 00:30:55,470
allocations and we expect that the board

641
00:30:55,470 --> 00:30:57,090
would move to increase teacher

642
00:30:57,090 --> 00:30:59,220
allocation units and we understand that

643
00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:00,450
you do have the authority and discretion

644
00:31:00,450 --> 00:31:03,419
to have some flexibility with that but

645
00:31:03,419 --> 00:31:05,549
we'd like to see increased teachers we'd

646
00:31:05,549 --> 00:31:07,129
like to see more teachers and more

647
00:31:07,129 --> 00:31:09,359
opportunity for teachers to obtain

648
00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:12,509
through the district's pay paying them

649
00:31:12,509 --> 00:31:14,489
to get higher certification if that is

650
00:31:14,489 --> 00:31:16,619
the request but we certainly would not

651
00:31:16,619 --> 00:31:19,139
want to see a mandate come that they get

652
00:31:19,139 --> 00:31:21,389
a higher certificate when it's certainly

653
00:31:21,389 --> 00:31:23,190
it's not incumbent that they do so as

654
00:31:23,190 --> 00:31:24,690
the state recognizes there

655
00:31:24,690 --> 00:31:26,700
certificate so we come to you with those

656
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:28,710
concerns we'd like to see some increased

657
00:31:28,710 --> 00:31:30,930
communications from the superintendent's

658
00:31:30,930 --> 00:31:33,870
office and the administration and a lot

659
00:31:33,870 --> 00:31:34,950
of the leadership assistant

660
00:31:34,950 --> 00:31:36,420
superintendents have been very good

661
00:31:36,420 --> 00:31:38,160
about communicating with me and I thank

662
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,200
you for that when I've asked a question

663
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,400
it has been responded to mr. HR however

664
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,330
we'd like to see a little more

665
00:31:45,330 --> 00:31:48,120
correspondence in cooperation with the

666
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,580
superintendent's office and some of the

667
00:31:50,580 --> 00:31:52,350
administration as it pertains to

668
00:31:52,350 --> 00:31:57,820
academic affairs thank you thank you

669
00:31:57,830 --> 00:32:26,910
next we have miss Lisa Washington I'm

670
00:32:26,910 --> 00:32:29,610
new here I've only been here a year I

671
00:32:29,610 --> 00:32:32,280
want to say hello to the board miss peek

672
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,340
I understand you're the first female

673
00:32:34,340 --> 00:32:38,160
superintendent here in Mobile and maybe

674
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,240
in the state but mistake of the state

675
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,280
well not in the state not in the

676
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,460
statement okay but to be the first and

677
00:32:47,460 --> 00:32:51,480
to know how important your job is as a

678
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,780
woman as looking in this room and seeing

679
00:32:54,780 --> 00:32:57,090
fellow women there's mostly women in

680
00:32:57,090 --> 00:33:00,330
here speaking on the needs for better

681
00:33:00,330 --> 00:33:03,810
quality education for our kids and it

682
00:33:03,810 --> 00:33:07,440
just seems to me that every time we have

683
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,320
to close down to school even after we've

684
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,020
used that particular school to get a

685
00:33:13,020 --> 00:33:15,900
hundred million dollars to make

686
00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:19,050
improvements I understand that last year

687
00:33:19,050 --> 00:33:22,170
you yourself and the Board of Health

688
00:33:22,170 --> 00:33:25,440
said that may Eames is not to be torn

689
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,410
down that it is a school that is

690
00:33:28,410 --> 00:33:31,710
qualified to be repair and be rebuilt

691
00:33:31,710 --> 00:33:35,340
and resources need to be put into it to

692
00:33:35,340 --> 00:33:37,380
help make it better we lose good

693
00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:38,490
teachers

694
00:33:38,490 --> 00:33:41,100
when we have mold and mildew we lose our

695
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,590
babies when we have dilapidated

696
00:33:43,590 --> 00:33:46,290
bathrooms and we go down the hall and we

697
00:33:46,290 --> 00:33:49,470
can't even walk safely from one class to

698
00:33:49,470 --> 00:33:52,410
the next we start to lose and we start

699
00:33:52,410 --> 00:33:54,780
to disseminate and it makes me wonder is

700
00:33:54,780 --> 00:33:57,030
it something that has to do with real

701
00:33:57,030 --> 00:33:59,220
estate is this something that has to do

702
00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:02,250
with okay in this area

703
00:34:02,250 --> 00:34:05,940
we're under underprivileged we're

704
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:09,510
underrepresented we are people who can

705
00:34:09,510 --> 00:34:11,610
be looked upon as an infestation of

706
00:34:11,610 --> 00:34:14,100
roaches and so we're gonna stop us out

707
00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:18,600
take the school destroy it and move on

708
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,419
what happens to our babies we have

709
00:34:21,419 --> 00:34:23,369
children who need and deserve that

710
00:34:23,369 --> 00:34:26,190
quality education and I know from mother

711
00:34:26,190 --> 00:34:29,310
to mother grandmother - grandmother we

712
00:34:29,310 --> 00:34:32,070
need to make sure that whatever happens

713
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:35,429
- may in school whether it's being

714
00:34:35,429 --> 00:34:38,550
destroyed whether it's being refurbished

715
00:34:38,550 --> 00:34:41,460
like I thought it was from a year ago

716
00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:43,770
all of a sudden now it's gonna be

717
00:34:43,770 --> 00:34:45,359
destroyed I don't understand how the

718
00:34:45,359 --> 00:34:48,300
quality went to the point of that is it

719
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:50,700
cheaper is it a real estate I think it's

720
00:34:50,700 --> 00:34:53,010
a money thing it's cheaper to tear it

721
00:34:53,010 --> 00:34:56,609
down and leave these families which is

722
00:34:56,609 --> 00:35:02,380
wet less than 400 student population now

723
00:35:02,390 --> 00:35:06,570
one child one family has to struggle

724
00:35:06,570 --> 00:35:09,510
with trying to either relocate get a bus

725
00:35:09,510 --> 00:35:12,990
go here go there instead of staying and

726
00:35:12,990 --> 00:35:15,119
dealing with the problem right there at

727
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:17,850
the site and making it happen

728
00:35:17,850 --> 00:35:20,910
we tear it down and spread everybody out

729
00:35:20,910 --> 00:35:24,030
and divide us and I just feel like it's

730
00:35:24,030 --> 00:35:27,420
the wrong Avenue to take and I'm sorry

731
00:35:27,420 --> 00:35:32,010
we disagree but I just feel like if we

732
00:35:32,010 --> 00:35:34,170
say we're gonna stay stick and stay and

733
00:35:34,170 --> 00:35:36,720
make the problem no longer a problem

734
00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,260
let's do that instead of running or

735
00:35:39,260 --> 00:35:43,080
putting the money in a place because it

736
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,619
has a higher value real estate wise and

737
00:35:46,619 --> 00:35:50,700
not consider our babies thank you thank

738
00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:51,460
you

739
00:35:51,460 --> 00:35:54,690
[Applause]

740
00:35:54,690 --> 00:36:08,710
X I have Willie and law a grandmother of

741
00:36:08,710 --> 00:36:15,540
a student that means my grandson is not

742
00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:21,310
emotionally maturely ready to be pushed

743
00:36:21,310 --> 00:36:26,870
in with a bunch of high school students

744
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:32,170
to be there he will never go to two

745
00:36:32,170 --> 00:36:36,329
Williamson in under these conditions you

746
00:36:36,329 --> 00:36:42,160
know that school is I think as a is it a

747
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,670
good school if we can band together and

748
00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:49,030
bring the programs there that you have

749
00:36:49,030 --> 00:36:52,480
at these other schools have multiple

750
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,960
reading and enrichment math they have

751
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,950
bands they have functioning bathrooms

752
00:36:59,950 --> 00:37:02,829
they have walkways where the seem it's

753
00:37:02,829 --> 00:37:06,369
not falling from the top and a lot of

754
00:37:06,369 --> 00:37:09,310
them are much older you know there was

755
00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:12,609
money allocated for maize for the floor

756
00:37:12,609 --> 00:37:16,530
for a couple other schools and when

757
00:37:16,530 --> 00:37:20,470
Murphy sustained some damage they took

758
00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:24,069
it from everybody to fix Murphy because

759
00:37:24,069 --> 00:37:25,960
they wanted Murphy 50 Murphy fix right

760
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,710
now well Marty could have tear it tear

761
00:37:29,710 --> 00:37:33,640
it down

762
00:37:33,650 --> 00:37:40,309
in our our kids deserve that our kids

763
00:37:40,309 --> 00:37:44,059
are worth more than what you can ever

764
00:37:44,059 --> 00:37:48,619
imagine you get you get people like

765
00:37:48,619 --> 00:37:50,869
dizzy collapse it comes from a school

766
00:37:50,869 --> 00:37:54,799
like that you have there's so much

767
00:37:54,799 --> 00:37:59,450
talent so much knowledge so much that

768
00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:02,630
can happen with those kids if you only

769
00:38:02,630 --> 00:38:08,569
put forth an ounce of effort to cure the

770
00:38:08,569 --> 00:38:10,880
problem instead of stop with them

771
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,500
killing them throwing them to the

772
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:14,330
wayside

773
00:38:14,330 --> 00:38:17,789
[Applause]

774
00:38:17,799 --> 00:38:31,950
next Jesse McDaniel good afternoon

775
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,400
as always it's an honor and privilege to

776
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,829
be here today to represent teachers and

777
00:38:36,829 --> 00:38:38,240
support staff in the Mobile County

778
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,700
public school system my name is Jesse

779
00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:42,200
McDaniel and I work with Alabama

780
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:47,990
Education Association I rise today to

781
00:38:47,990 --> 00:38:51,349
speak about an issue that is probably

782
00:38:51,349 --> 00:38:54,319
going to be overlooked and I didn't want

783
00:38:54,319 --> 00:38:56,450
it to be because it's very important if

784
00:38:56,450 --> 00:38:58,609
you'll if you have an agenda it's item G

785
00:38:58,609 --> 00:39:02,210
5 the plant which is the what they call

786
00:39:02,210 --> 00:39:06,349
the fund balance plan if you look at

787
00:39:06,349 --> 00:39:10,520
that plan and you look down to the fifth

788
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,930
bullet point on that plan there's

789
00:39:14,930 --> 00:39:16,730
something that's really alarming to me

790
00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:19,160
as a professional association leader

791
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,559
here in this county and that is the

792
00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:23,900
proposal that this school board adopt a

793
00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:28,579
plan to actually endorse increasing

794
00:39:28,579 --> 00:39:31,579
class sizes and you would be increasing

795
00:39:31,579 --> 00:39:34,730
class sizes by reducing the number of

796
00:39:34,730 --> 00:39:38,799
locally funded units beginning this year

797
00:39:38,799 --> 00:39:44,539
by 13 teachers this is being proposed in

798
00:39:44,539 --> 00:39:46,880
an effort to save a million dollars a

799
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:47,510
year

800
00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:50,750
with the promise of more reductions in

801
00:39:50,750 --> 00:39:54,130
locally funded units in years to come

802
00:39:54,130 --> 00:39:58,280
now you can ask any mother in this room

803
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,109
whether or not they think their child's

804
00:40:00,109 --> 00:40:03,140
classroom needs to be larger but I know

805
00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:04,850
the answer to that question you can ask

806
00:40:04,850 --> 00:40:07,430
any educator in this room if class sizes

807
00:40:07,430 --> 00:40:14,119
need to be larger and I know the answer is not to enlarge your class

808
00:40:14,119 --> 00:40:17,840
sizes and to lay off teachers the answer

809
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,880
is to reduce class sizes which is

810
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,270
exactly what the Alabama Legislature put

811
00:40:23,270 --> 00:40:25,010
in their budget this year for the first

812
00:40:25,010 --> 00:40:27,280
time in a long time

813
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,960
425 additional teachers across this

814
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,630
state many of those will be coming to

815
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:35,630
Mobile County and so what this fund

816
00:40:35,630 --> 00:40:38,630
balance plan is proposing is to just say

817
00:40:38,630 --> 00:40:40,130
okay well the legislature is going to

818
00:40:40,130 --> 00:40:41,330
give us some more teachers so we're just

819
00:40:41,330 --> 00:40:42,680
going to get rid of some of our local

820
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,840
units so that we can save a million

821
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,720
dollars a year with more with the

822
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:49,970
promise of more to come in subsequent

823
00:40:49,970 --> 00:40:52,250
years this is absolutely the wrong way

824
00:40:52,250 --> 00:40:55,100
to go and I couldn't just sit here and

825
00:40:55,100 --> 00:40:57,740
let that go unchallenged I mean somebody

826
00:40:57,740 --> 00:40:59,150
needs to be speaking up for these

827
00:40:59,150 --> 00:41:01,880
teachers I'm proud of these community

828
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,350
members speaking up for themselves but

829
00:41:03,350 --> 00:41:05,540
the teachers need somebody up here

830
00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:10,190
speaking for them and the answer is not

831
00:41:10,190 --> 00:41:13,700
to increase class size by cutting

832
00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:15,140
teacher units you need to be going in

833
00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:17,510
the opposite direction reducing the

834
00:41:17,510 --> 00:41:20,300
class size we care about education it is

835
00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:23,540
without dispute that a lower number of

836
00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:27,250
students in a classroom is is important

837
00:41:27,250 --> 00:41:31,100
one final thing if you look down board

838
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:32,510
members to where it says other

839
00:41:32,510 --> 00:41:35,840
suggestions one of those suggestions is

840
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,500
that this board consider outsourcing

841
00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:41,990
special education paraprofessional

842
00:41:41,990 --> 00:41:44,380
positions to companies like Appleton and

843
00:41:44,380 --> 00:41:47,810
other quote unquote talent management

844
00:41:47,810 --> 00:41:51,470
companies I would urge the greatest

845
00:41:51,470 --> 00:41:54,710
caution in that consideration because

846
00:41:54,710 --> 00:41:56,500
there are a lot of unanswered questions

847
00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:59,180
when you want to talk about outsourcing

848
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:03,589
your special ed jobs for kids who are the least of these

849
00:42:03,589 --> 00:42:07,969
in this world what kind of background

850
00:42:07,969 --> 00:42:09,349
checks are these people going to have

851
00:42:09,349 --> 00:42:11,329
what kind of training will these

852
00:42:11,329 --> 00:42:14,119
employees be given what kind of chain of

853
00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:15,799
command is going to be in place when you

854
00:42:15,799 --> 00:42:17,479
have contractors working alongside

855
00:42:17,479 --> 00:42:19,009
district employees

856
00:42:19,009 --> 00:42:21,529
how will you recruit and retain quality

857
00:42:21,529 --> 00:42:24,349
employees who have no job rights no

858
00:42:24,349 --> 00:42:26,749
security no benefits and no opportunity

859
00:42:26,749 --> 00:42:30,109
for representation I would urge the

860
00:42:30,109 --> 00:42:32,660
greatest possible caution board members

861
00:42:32,660 --> 00:42:34,999
in these considerations thank you very

862
00:42:34,999 --> 00:43:12,850
much next speaker is Miss Betty Mac shin

863
00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:14,870
machine just asked me to speak on her

864
00:43:14,870 --> 00:43:19,100
behalf my name is ty burton and i do not

865
00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:20,420
have children and the Mobile County

866
00:43:20,420 --> 00:43:24,770
public school system can y'all help me

867
00:43:24,770 --> 00:43:28,970
now okay I do not have children and the

868
00:43:28,970 --> 00:43:32,150
Mobile County public school system I was

869
00:43:32,150 --> 00:43:33,920
actually not even a student of the

870
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,060
Mobile County public school system

871
00:43:35,060 --> 00:43:38,570
although I am for mobile but I live on

872
00:43:38,570 --> 00:43:42,440
DeSoto Drive directly behind Maine's

873
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:50,240
middle school and currently I manage one

874
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:53,390
of the largest law firms in Mobile and I

875
00:43:53,390 --> 00:43:56,420
want you to know that if I feel like the

876
00:43:56,420 --> 00:43:58,490
children who live on my block are in

877
00:43:58,490 --> 00:44:02,300
jeopardy we are going to seriously suit

878
00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:04,430
you there's going to be some real

879
00:44:04,430 --> 00:44:08,510
problems our community is tired of it

880
00:44:08,510 --> 00:44:11,920
and we're not going to take it anymore

881
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,140
if we have to start a mobile city school

882
00:44:15,140 --> 00:44:18,440
system that is what we will do whatever

883
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,930
it is to protect those children and

884
00:44:20,930 --> 00:44:24,040
every little tyke he should just like me

885
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:28,760
that's what we're going to do so we are

886
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,610
here to listen I would love to hear the

887
00:44:31,610 --> 00:44:33,620
conversation about why it's a good idea

888
00:44:33,620 --> 00:44:36,770
because currently you have not cuz you

889
00:44:36,770 --> 00:44:39,500
have not given any type of notice to our

890
00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:42,410
community about it you do not have the

891
00:44:42,410 --> 00:44:45,170
authority to just purge on and do what

892
00:44:45,170 --> 00:44:47,630
you want to do without being accountable

893
00:44:47,630 --> 00:44:51,830
to us and we are hereby holding you

894
00:44:51,830 --> 00:44:55,560
accountable and that's it

895
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,230
[Applause]

896
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:05,080
next up miss Donna Kay Buckley miss

897
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,960
Buckley

898
00:45:08,970 --> 00:45:10,920
okay

899
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:18,290
last is miss Quinn pew-pew

900
00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:20,740
thank you I'm Councilwoman Gwen Pugh

901
00:45:20,740 --> 00:45:22,000
from Mount Vernon did you say I was

902
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,320
laughs yes ma'am

903
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:24,760
I'd like to share my minutes with a

904
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,680
couple of parents here from bill somehow

905
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,550
I will share five minutes say something

906
00:45:30,550 --> 00:45:32,770
I'll share my minutes with you all I

907
00:45:32,770 --> 00:45:34,990
wrote down what I had to say so it won't

908
00:45:34,990 --> 00:45:35,920
take but a minute

909
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:37,930
again I'm Councilwoman Pugh from Mount

910
00:45:37,930 --> 00:45:41,250
Vernon and I'm here to give a plea I

911
00:45:41,250 --> 00:45:44,410
want to give a plea to you all to give

912
00:45:44,410 --> 00:45:48,190
our current principal a chance

913
00:45:48,190 --> 00:45:51,550
there is no elected office that has one

914
00:45:51,550 --> 00:45:53,200
year to get things done

915
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,050
there's no elected office that has one

916
00:45:56,050 --> 00:45:59,740
year to make any real changes but since

917
00:45:59,740 --> 00:46:03,070
she has been there we Belle saw Mount

918
00:46:03,070 --> 00:46:05,290
Vernon sits between two multi-million

919
00:46:05,290 --> 00:46:08,080
dollar steel plants and she has gotten

920
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,840
them involved they have donated funds

921
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,720
they have donated their time she told me

922
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,420
just yesterday there are probably 40

923
00:46:16,420 --> 00:46:19,450
employees of these plants a week that

924
00:46:19,450 --> 00:46:22,930
comes and reads with our children they

925
00:46:22,930 --> 00:46:25,420
want to be a part of our community our

926
00:46:25,420 --> 00:46:27,400
new principal wants to be a part of our

927
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,290
community but she has not had a chance

928
00:46:29,290 --> 00:46:31,240
to become a part of the community and

929
00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:34,030
when these students back now we've been

930
00:46:34,030 --> 00:46:36,970
here before about six years ago and I

931
00:46:36,970 --> 00:46:38,830
won't go into the past but I do want to

932
00:46:38,830 --> 00:46:40,660
allow this parent to speak someone that

933
00:46:40,660 --> 00:46:43,390
actually has a child there now but we've

934
00:46:43,390 --> 00:46:45,220
been here before and when we were there

935
00:46:45,220 --> 00:46:48,250
before we had more students then we lost

936
00:46:48,250 --> 00:46:50,110
our band teacher first we lost him

937
00:46:50,110 --> 00:46:52,890
part-time and then we lost him full-time

938
00:46:52,890 --> 00:46:55,690
as one of the other speakers said who

939
00:46:55,690 --> 00:46:57,910
wants their children to go to a school

940
00:46:57,910 --> 00:47:00,550
where there is no extracurricular

941
00:47:00,550 --> 00:47:05,290
activities and it's unfair it's kind of

942
00:47:05,290 --> 00:47:07,510
I don't want to say we were set up to

943
00:47:07,510 --> 00:47:09,300
fail

944
00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:13,140
I don't I don't want to say that because

945
00:47:13,140 --> 00:47:17,910
I'd like to think I mean I see doctor superintendent Commissioner I'd

946
00:47:17,910 --> 00:47:19,830
like to think that we were not set up to

947
00:47:19,830 --> 00:47:22,200
fail but we everything was taken away

948
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,690
from us and the parents did what parents

949
00:47:24,690 --> 00:47:25,080
do

950
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,930
I want the best for my child so it's

951
00:47:27,930 --> 00:47:30,030
just 15 miles away I'm gonna go to South

952
00:47:30,030 --> 00:47:32,670
Co roll where there is band teachers and

953
00:47:32,670 --> 00:47:34,380
there are issu curricular activities and

954
00:47:34,380 --> 00:47:38,340
our school is on a solid foundation that

955
00:47:38,340 --> 00:47:40,140
school as someone else stayed it looks

956
00:47:40,140 --> 00:47:42,780
better than any new school that you have

957
00:47:42,780 --> 00:47:45,690
we have no issues with that I know of

958
00:47:45,690 --> 00:47:49,050
any running down of the school other

959
00:47:49,050 --> 00:47:52,050
than our numbers and I feel like that

960
00:47:52,050 --> 00:47:55,380
our numbers is a reaction to the

961
00:47:55,380 --> 00:47:57,090
curriculum that has left

962
00:47:57,090 --> 00:48:10,890
thank you for my name is Linda chest

963
00:48:10,890 --> 00:48:13,290
pain my son attends to be a Mount Vernon

964
00:48:13,290 --> 00:48:15,960
I would like to express to you that I

965
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,820
have seen great improvement with

966
00:48:17,820 --> 00:48:20,220
BellSouth since miss corner walker has

967
00:48:20,220 --> 00:48:23,340
been there I would like you all to

968
00:48:23,340 --> 00:48:25,500
reconsider closing the school giving her

969
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:27,300
opportunity to do what she has set out

970
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:30,360
to do she's building the children up

971
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,150
they are more enthused to learn even

972
00:48:33,150 --> 00:48:35,820
though it's just the five down the feels

973
00:48:35,820 --> 00:48:38,760
great down yet and still they are

974
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:43,140
willing my son comes home every day mama

975
00:48:43,140 --> 00:48:46,220
I did this I made this grade he's very

976
00:48:46,220 --> 00:48:49,200
informed about what he need to do she's

977
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,620
there to help I made a phone call to her

978
00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:55,110
about his grades she jumped on it right

979
00:48:55,110 --> 00:48:57,540
dance and make sure it was you know what

980
00:48:57,540 --> 00:49:00,120
it was so and then she and she

981
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,010
encouraged him that he was doing his

982
00:49:02,010 --> 00:49:04,680
best because of the college it was set

983
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,010
up but anyway as a parent I've been in

984
00:49:08,010 --> 00:49:10,650
situations myself where my

985
00:49:10,650 --> 00:49:12,810
transportation was broken I could call a

986
00:49:12,810 --> 00:49:15,540
neighbor and say go pick up my child if

987
00:49:15,540 --> 00:49:21,000
they're sick or or

988
00:49:21,010 --> 00:49:23,869
but anyway please reconsider closing the

989
00:49:23,869 --> 00:49:26,750
school we need our school right there in

990
00:49:26,750 --> 00:49:33,500
Mount Vernon thank you excuse me I know

991
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:35,990
that my name was not called however I do

992
00:49:35,990 --> 00:49:39,020
have a question there some of us out

993
00:49:39,020 --> 00:49:42,819
here seated that were here at 12:45

994
00:49:42,819 --> 00:49:47,599
11:45 excuse me and several of us some

995
00:49:47,599 --> 00:49:51,020
of us took off from our jobs to have the

996
00:49:51,020 --> 00:49:52,670
opportunity to come and address the

997
00:49:52,670 --> 00:49:54,530
board on the matings Williamson High

998
00:49:54,530 --> 00:49:57,470
School issue and I'm just needing to ask

999
00:49:57,470 --> 00:49:59,569
the question we want to know you know

1000
00:49:59,569 --> 00:50:01,880
how did you select your speakers did you

1001
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,270
choose from a list of people what was

1002
00:50:05,270 --> 00:50:06,890
the rationale for the speakers you call

1003
00:50:06,890 --> 00:50:08,930
because there's several of us out here

1004
00:50:08,930 --> 00:50:11,000
about six or eight to be exact who've

1005
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,430
not had an opportunity to speak our

1006
00:50:13,430 --> 00:50:15,200
being one of them and my name is Linda

1007
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,950
Wilson I am a 1969 graduate of

1008
00:50:18,950 --> 00:50:20,930
Williamson High School a lifelong member

1009
00:50:20,930 --> 00:50:24,079
of the Maysville community and I have

1010
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,599
some essential questions about this

1011
00:50:26,599 --> 00:50:29,119
proposed merger regarding matings and

1012
00:50:29,119 --> 00:50:31,250
Williamson high school very essential

1013
00:50:31,250 --> 00:50:36,050
questions why was the decision made we

1014
00:50:36,050 --> 00:50:38,450
were traumatized on Sunday afternoon at

1015
00:50:38,450 --> 00:50:40,520
an Alumni Association meeting when we

1016
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,310
heard the news several of us just went

1017
00:50:43,310 --> 00:50:45,740
into shock didn't know what to do when

1018
00:50:45,740 --> 00:50:48,619
was the decision made who was informed

1019
00:50:48,619 --> 00:50:50,869
why weren't the citizens of the

1020
00:50:50,869 --> 00:50:53,180
Maysville community informed these are

1021
00:50:53,180 --> 00:50:54,859
very essential questions that I've not

1022
00:50:54,859 --> 00:50:57,440
heard an answer to you know out of all

1023
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,060
the rhetoric that's been passed around

1024
00:50:59,060 --> 00:51:02,150
no one can answer these questions I also

1025
00:51:02,150 --> 00:51:04,010
would like to call your attention to the

1026
00:51:04,010 --> 00:51:06,770
National Historic Preservation Act of

1027
00:51:06,770 --> 00:51:10,640
1966 which authorizes the Secretary of

1028
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,950
the Interior to maintain a National

1029
00:51:12,950 --> 00:51:16,520
Register of district's sights buildings

1030
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,730
structures and objects significant in

1031
00:51:19,730 --> 00:51:22,630
American history architecture

1032
00:51:22,630 --> 00:51:26,839
archaeology engineering and culture

1033
00:51:26,839 --> 00:51:28,640
Williamson High School will celebrate

1034
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,400
the 100th year of its founding that's

1035
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,829
you and I would say that it represents

1036
00:51:33,829 --> 00:51:34,370
the

1037
00:51:34,370 --> 00:51:36,080
of the culture in the Maysville

1038
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,480
community that is all that some of the

1039
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,490
people in the community has to look up

1040
00:51:40,490 --> 00:51:43,010
to football games athletic events

1041
00:51:43,010 --> 00:51:47,270
community meetings meeting places you

1042
00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:51,070
know so we need to be reminded of this

1043
00:51:51,070 --> 00:51:53,680
Authorization Act that if we interfere

1044
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,230
with buildings and structures that have

1045
00:51:57,230 --> 00:51:59,120
been the whole Maysville community by

1046
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,080
the way is on the National Historic

1047
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,750
Register of Historic Places so we're not

1048
00:52:05,750 --> 00:52:09,560
gonna stand by and let you merge

1049
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,300
Williamson high school

1050
00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:13,220
we're not gonna let you stand by and

1051
00:52:13,220 --> 00:52:15,950
close it this is all we have to hold on

1052
00:52:15,950 --> 00:52:18,530
to this is our pride and joy and it will

1053
00:52:18,530 --> 00:52:35,240
be our pride and joy you approved the

1054
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:39,230
recommendation to close burning school

1055
00:52:39,230 --> 00:52:42,230
we discussed yesterday that there has

1056
00:52:42,230 --> 00:52:44,470
been a continuing decline in enrollment

1057
00:52:44,470 --> 00:52:50,000
since 2007 it's 82% under capacity at

1058
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:50,890
this time

1059
00:52:50,890 --> 00:52:56,450
Somu time we have a motion and a second

1060
00:52:56,450 --> 00:52:58,970
to uphold the superintendent's

1061
00:52:58,970 --> 00:53:01,430
recommendation for the closing of the

1062
00:53:01,430 --> 00:53:03,770
belt Bell saw Mount Vernon school any

1063
00:53:03,770 --> 00:53:07,050
discussion

1064
00:53:07,060 --> 00:53:10,850
no discussion all in favor say aye aye

1065
00:53:10,850 --> 00:53:16,760
those opposed no motion carries action

1066
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,020
item G 2 I'd ask that you approved the

1067
00:53:20,020 --> 00:53:22,550
addendum to the continuous improvement

1068
00:53:22,550 --> 00:53:27,040
plan that was approved on March the 29th

1069
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,620
to address the academic needs of 12

1070
00:53:30,620 --> 00:53:33,110
schools identified as failing schools by

1071
00:53:33,110 --> 00:53:37,570
the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013

1072
00:53:37,570 --> 00:53:42,380
in this addendum due to the incline a

1073
00:53:42,380 --> 00:53:45,530
declining enrollment at Maine's middle

1074
00:53:45,530 --> 00:53:47,460
school and in an

1075
00:53:47,460 --> 00:53:49,290
effort to provide a comprehensive

1076
00:53:49,290 --> 00:53:52,410
program which will include additional

1077
00:53:52,410 --> 00:53:56,850
classes and electives at Williamson high

1078
00:53:56,850 --> 00:54:00,350
school we I'm asking that you approve

1079
00:54:00,350 --> 00:54:03,270
relocating the ins middle school

1080
00:54:03,270 --> 00:54:10,720
students to Williamson high school and

1081
00:54:10,730 --> 00:54:32,260
it's out g2g to on your computer to

1082
00:54:32,270 --> 00:54:34,950
establish the program for the middle

1083
00:54:34,950 --> 00:54:37,680
school students as the Williamson middle

1084
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,340
grades up middle grades Preparatory

1085
00:54:41,340 --> 00:54:45,990
Academy with the combined enrollment

1086
00:54:45,990 --> 00:54:47,400
there'll be eight hundred and thirty

1087
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,560
seven students Williamson High School

1088
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:56,160
has a capacity of eleven hundred there

1089
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,310
will be a dedicated wing for the middle

1090
00:54:59,310 --> 00:55:03,210
school Academy and schedules that will

1091
00:55:03,210 --> 00:55:06,960
accommodate both sets of students there

1092
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,590
is and I want to repeat there is no plan

1093
00:55:10,590 --> 00:55:15,570
to close Williamson high school excuse

1094
00:55:15,570 --> 00:55:15,930
me

1095
00:55:15,930 --> 00:55:17,940
Williamson high school will remain as

1096
00:55:17,940 --> 00:55:20,430
Williamson high school and will contain

1097
00:55:20,430 --> 00:55:23,580
middle school grades I would ask that

1098
00:55:23,580 --> 00:55:27,750
you approve that do I hear motion

1099
00:55:27,750 --> 00:55:31,109
so moved there's a there was a motion

1100
00:55:31,109 --> 00:55:32,569
and a second to approve the

1101
00:55:32,569 --> 00:55:34,740
superintendent's recommendation I'm

1102
00:55:34,740 --> 00:55:36,630
moving Maine's middle school to

1103
00:55:36,630 --> 00:55:38,940
Williamson High School to establish the

1104
00:55:38,940 --> 00:55:41,010
middle grades Preparatory Academy any

1105
00:55:41,010 --> 00:55:43,140
discussion yes that's some discussion

1106
00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:46,170
you know I've had comments about this

1107
00:55:46,170 --> 00:55:50,730
not only doing this do Surrey that y'all

1108
00:55:50,730 --> 00:55:54,839
put in today but only to because I was

1109
00:55:54,839 --> 00:55:58,530
only notified about the plans at a

1110
00:55:58,530 --> 00:56:01,230
meeting on Friday at Murphy High School

1111
00:56:01,230 --> 00:56:03,930
I think it's disrespectful to me as a

1112
00:56:03,930 --> 00:56:06,510
commissioner I think it's disrespect for

1113
00:56:06,510 --> 00:56:08,310
me as a commissioner because I really

1114
00:56:08,310 --> 00:56:11,730
believe that as a redacted official duly

1115
00:56:11,730 --> 00:56:13,680
elected official that is my

1116
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,710
responsibility to turn talk to it and

1117
00:56:16,710 --> 00:56:19,290
work with my constituency to inform them

1118
00:56:19,290 --> 00:56:21,510
about issues that affect or impact the

1119
00:56:21,510 --> 00:56:23,099
quality of life for them and for their

1120
00:56:23,099 --> 00:56:26,190
education I already knew what y'all

1121
00:56:26,190 --> 00:56:27,839
we're gonna do today because I already

1122
00:56:27,839 --> 00:56:30,359
know the man said but like today to say

1123
00:56:30,359 --> 00:56:32,730
it earlier this is not the end this is

1124
00:56:32,730 --> 00:56:35,910
not the end and so on Thursday night at

1125
00:56:35,910 --> 00:56:37,440
Maine's middle school we're gonna

1126
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,690
convene the Town Meeting and we're gonna

1127
00:56:39,690 --> 00:56:41,010
get together and we're gonna put

1128
00:56:41,010 --> 00:56:43,819
together a plan because while there are

1129
00:56:43,819 --> 00:56:46,380
responsibilities for you too as a board

1130
00:56:46,380 --> 00:56:48,599
member I think y'all have disrespected

1131
00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:51,420
me as a board member because when you

1132
00:56:51,420 --> 00:56:54,210
have when you hate the problem at Denton

1133
00:56:54,210 --> 00:56:55,140
middle school

1134
00:56:55,140 --> 00:56:56,880
y'all had town meetings with your

1135
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,890
community so you could discuss the

1136
00:56:58,890 --> 00:57:01,200
possibilities of what was happening when

1137
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,410
you're handed a brazier you had town

1138
00:57:04,410 --> 00:57:06,930
meetings to deal with that but I have

1139
00:57:06,930 --> 00:57:08,910
not been afforded the opportunity of the

1140
00:57:08,910 --> 00:57:10,740
Commission to exercise my duly elected

1141
00:57:10,740 --> 00:57:13,500
four responsibilities and like I said I

1142
00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:15,270
came here today with the understanding

1143
00:57:15,270 --> 00:57:17,520
of what position I was in and I'm not

1144
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,770
prepared to talk anymore because I know

1145
00:57:19,770 --> 00:57:22,050
that talking ain't gonna do no good the

1146
00:57:22,050 --> 00:57:24,089
superintendent has been on a one-way

1147
00:57:24,089 --> 00:57:26,520
road to close means ever since I've been

1148
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:27,300
on the board

1149
00:57:27,300 --> 00:57:29,490
she's been on a road to close it because

1150
00:57:29,490 --> 00:57:32,400
the several million dollars that was

1151
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,579
allocated for means and the 2012 budget

1152
00:57:35,579 --> 00:57:38,609
has been taken away there has to be some

1153
00:57:38,609 --> 00:57:39,310
lord

1154
00:57:39,310 --> 00:57:41,590
that equal opportunities and education

1155
00:57:41,590 --> 00:57:44,440
should be for all students we got this

1156
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,480
old slogan out here but it starts with

1157
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,910
us where does it start with us when we

1158
00:57:48,910 --> 00:57:51,040
see the impact of the Hat on the

1159
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:52,660
african-american student in the Mobile

1160
00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:54,940
County public school system you could do

1161
00:57:54,940 --> 00:57:56,860
what you want to do today and I think

1162
00:57:56,860 --> 00:57:59,290
it's the same and disrespectful to me as

1163
00:57:59,290 --> 00:58:00,970
a commissioner and I applaud my

1164
00:58:00,970 --> 00:58:03,550
colleagues but more importantly though

1165
00:58:03,550 --> 00:58:06,550
I'd like to just conclude by saying that

1166
00:58:06,550 --> 00:58:08,740
I didn't even come here to talk today

1167
00:58:08,740 --> 00:58:10,930
because I already knew what the deal was

1168
00:58:10,930 --> 00:58:12,790
I know what I was going to do just like

1169
00:58:12,790 --> 00:58:14,920
you know what you're gonna do but at the

1170
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,320
st. and old we need to change that was

1171
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:19,180
slowly about this starts with us and

1172
00:58:19,180 --> 00:58:21,100
stay that it stopped it who will be wont

1173
00:58:21,100 --> 00:58:26,960
to because african-american era commits

1174
00:58:26,970 --> 00:58:29,680
african-americans african-americans are

1175
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:35,710
disproportionately represented in this misrepresent so what I have done

1176
00:58:35,710 --> 00:58:39,520
I've also made a Conte in anticipation

1177
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,500
of what you were going to do today I do

1178
00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:44,230
have a chi met with Loretta Lynch last

1179
00:58:44,230 --> 00:58:46,330
week when she was in town the United

1180
00:58:46,330 --> 00:58:50,020
States Attorney's are turning and then I

1181
00:58:50,020 --> 00:58:52,690
have a direct contact to the Department

1182
00:58:52,690 --> 00:58:55,210
of Education and we will be filed in the

1183
00:58:55,210 --> 00:58:57,520
federal complaint alleging that African

1184
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,010
American students because of their race

1185
00:59:00,010 --> 00:59:03,370
or via disproportionate impacts about

1186
00:59:03,370 --> 00:59:05,560
closing schools and that they have been

1187
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,190
denied participation in programs and

1188
00:59:09,190 --> 00:59:12,100
school activities as related to federal

1189
00:59:12,100 --> 00:59:14,710
funding being involved and see I've been

1190
00:59:14,710 --> 00:59:16,840
on this board almost two years now

1191
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,880
and miss Peake has always been on a

1192
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,790
one-way road to railroad everything I've

1193
00:59:21,790 --> 00:59:24,160
done and I've read it on camera

1194
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:27,760
and I'm mad you did but I know about

1195
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:28,930
raising hell they ain't gonna get

1196
00:59:28,930 --> 00:59:31,180
nothing done today but I do know one

1197
00:59:31,180 --> 00:59:33,610
thing though this is not the end and I'm

1198
00:59:33,610 --> 00:59:35,830
not going to fail I think this is

1199
00:59:35,830 --> 00:59:39,700
classic racism it's fast

1200
00:59:39,700 --> 00:59:42,820
any any further discussion

1201
00:59:42,820 --> 00:59:53,850
[Applause]

1202
00:59:53,860 --> 00:59:59,110
I will add it's a balance I would like

1203
00:59:59,110 --> 01:00:01,120
to add that miss peak is an honorable

1204
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:10,000
person I'm making my statement balance I

1205
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,750
listen to you and you spoke I would like

1206
01:00:13,750 --> 01:00:15,190
to say though that miss peak and her

1207
01:00:15,190 --> 01:00:17,500
staff are honorable people and they're

1208
01:00:17,500 --> 01:00:19,810
trying to do what's best for the

1209
01:00:19,810 --> 01:00:22,590
students in this particular situation

1210
01:00:22,590 --> 01:00:25,690
they've all worked hard to do that I

1211
01:00:25,690 --> 01:00:29,140
think it's unfair to categorize them in

1212
01:00:29,140 --> 01:00:31,540
a certain manner as you have done but

1213
01:00:31,540 --> 01:00:34,180
that's my feelings about it any other

1214
01:00:34,180 --> 01:00:38,890
any further although you have a right to

1215
01:00:38,890 --> 01:00:41,410
express your opinion I as an elected

1216
01:00:41,410 --> 01:00:43,270
official have a duty authorized right to

1217
01:00:43,270 --> 01:00:44,470
express mine too

1218
01:00:44,470 --> 01:00:47,350
and I am so dissatisfied today because I

1219
01:00:47,350 --> 01:00:51,760
really feel that the process of in the

1220
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,970
vertebrae Davis case that were found in

1221
01:00:53,970 --> 01:00:57,280
1960 streets specifically outlined that

1222
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,830
the reason why it was far because the

1223
01:00:59,830 --> 01:01:01,480
African Americans were disproportion

1224
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:02,800
they're not getting the equal

1225
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,390
educational opportunities in the school

1226
01:01:04,390 --> 01:01:07,570
system you could take means and the

1227
01:01:07,570 --> 01:01:10,570
reason why I mean is failing because 10

1228
01:01:10,570 --> 01:01:13,480
years in a row they did nothing to a

1229
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:17,620
bird didn't yield you prepare principals

1230
01:01:17,620 --> 01:01:19,330
and teachers who came to that school

1231
01:01:19,330 --> 01:01:21,190
system and all set up here come on

1232
01:01:21,190 --> 01:01:23,640
nobody honorable ain't no honor in this

1233
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:36,970
why did he uh if dr. Foster plastic

1234
01:01:36,970 --> 01:01:42,910
graces that's what the question is you

1235
01:01:42,910 --> 01:01:47,740
referring to this board that's right

1236
01:01:47,740 --> 01:01:50,530
all right that's great thank you all

1237
01:01:50,530 --> 01:01:55,210
right we've had a we've had a motion and

1238
01:01:55,210 --> 01:01:58,630
a second and discussion all in favor say

1239
01:01:58,630 --> 01:01:58,840
aye

1240
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:04,980
hi those opposed no no the motion carries miss peek

1241
01:02:04,980 --> 01:02:13,170
action item G action item g3 order

1242
01:02:13,170 --> 01:02:16,730
please come to order

1243
01:02:16,740 --> 01:02:20,380
action item g3 I'd ask that you amend

1244
01:02:20,380 --> 01:02:26,320
board policy 5.0 9 this is to add to

1245
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,099
this that students receiving attended

1246
01:02:30,099 --> 01:02:33,040
zone transfers are bound to the school

1247
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,700
to which they transfer for one year or

1248
01:02:36,700 --> 01:02:39,430
two semesters chairman sir

1249
01:02:39,430 --> 01:02:44,730
off emotion every three items 3 through

1250
01:02:44,730 --> 01:02:50,800
34 second we have a motion and a second

1251
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:54,580
to approve action items G 3 through 34

1252
01:02:54,580 --> 01:03:00,730
any discussion on the pan to reveal the

1253
01:03:00,730 --> 01:03:05,200
farm I like to risk my vote or no I'll

1254
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:10,270
pull item 5 3 through 34 excluding item

1255
01:03:10,270 --> 01:03:11,619
5 okay we have a motion

1256
01:03:11,619 --> 01:03:15,250
excuse me I failed to ask for two items

1257
01:03:15,250 --> 01:03:17,109
to be pulled if I could do that right

1258
01:03:17,109 --> 01:03:20,790
now and those are the leader in me

1259
01:03:20,790 --> 01:03:25,030
number 17 and 18 we need to do some more

1260
01:03:25,030 --> 01:03:29,859
work on that so if we could 17 18 17 and

1261
01:03:29,859 --> 01:03:32,890
18 okay let my motion exclude item 17

1262
01:03:32,890 --> 01:03:35,589
through 17 and 18 thank you okay doctor

1263
01:03:35,589 --> 01:03:39,339
and we had a second a second I make sure

1264
01:03:39,339 --> 01:03:41,589
I've got this correct dr. pinchelow you

1265
01:03:41,589 --> 01:03:43,930
you're moving for approval of action

1266
01:03:43,930 --> 01:03:49,359
items G 3 through 34 excluding G 17 18

1267
01:03:49,359 --> 01:03:52,570
was pull and also G 5 that's correct

1268
01:03:52,570 --> 01:03:56,080
okay any further discussion all in favor

1269
01:03:56,080 --> 01:04:00,070
say aye those opposed motion carries

1270
01:04:00,070 --> 01:04:08,950
miss pg5 please that is the I'd ask that

1271
01:04:08,950 --> 01:04:11,440
you approve the plan to rebuild the fund

1272
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,060
balance to one month

1273
01:04:13,060 --> 01:04:18,400
operating funds we have a motion second

1274
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:25,569
and a second any further discussion all

1275
01:04:25,569 --> 01:04:27,640
right we have a motion and a second to

1276
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,140
approve action item G 5 2 a plan to

1277
01:04:31,140 --> 01:04:35,170
develop to meet our fund balance all in

1278
01:04:35,170 --> 01:04:38,290
favor say aye aye those opposed no

1279
01:04:38,290 --> 01:04:41,750
motion carries

1280
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:50,560
action item G we have a motion to

1281
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:54,010
approve action item G 35 through 40 1

1282
01:04:54,010 --> 01:04:59,079
mister 41 do I hear a second second

1283
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:02,310
there's a second all right we have a

1284
01:05:02,310 --> 01:05:07,780
motion to approve 34 through 41 is that

1285
01:05:07,780 --> 01:05:11,260
correct mr. Harwell okay any further

1286
01:05:11,260 --> 01:05:14,589
discussion all right all in favor say

1287
01:05:14,589 --> 01:05:24,579
aye aye those opposed motion carries out

1288
01:05:24,579 --> 01:05:27,819
of County travel is listed and that's

1289
01:05:27,819 --> 01:05:30,339
consent agenda item line yes ma'am we

1290
01:05:30,339 --> 01:05:38,530
hear motion miss June sir well here a

1291
01:05:38,530 --> 01:05:41,650
second we have a motion and a second to

1292
01:05:41,650 --> 01:05:44,950
approve consent agenda items one in two

1293
01:05:44,950 --> 01:05:46,930
out of County travel and various bits

1294
01:05:46,930 --> 01:05:50,200
any further discussion all in favor say

1295
01:05:50,200 --> 01:06:02,349
aye aye those opposed motion carries mr.

1296
01:06:02,349 --> 01:06:07,670
separate cover one through nine

1297
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:12,310
okay we have a motion to approve student

1298
01:06:12,310 --> 01:06:14,050
expulsion one through eight is there a

1299
01:06:14,050 --> 01:06:18,769
second

1300
01:06:18,779 --> 01:06:21,659
two more minutes to take note of the

1301
01:06:21,659 --> 01:06:24,089
efforts that were made to get in touch

1302
01:06:24,089 --> 01:06:26,609
with the parents rather - these are

1303
01:06:26,609 --> 01:06:29,669
student explosions and the the inability

1304
01:06:29,669 --> 01:06:32,130
for them to respond I thought that was

1305
01:06:32,130 --> 01:06:34,499
just real sad given the magnitude of

1306
01:06:34,499 --> 01:06:38,759
decisions of the infraction I know

1307
01:06:38,759 --> 01:06:40,109
something I think we're not doing but it

1308
01:06:40,109 --> 01:06:44,309
just just really sad to say that many of

1309
01:06:44,309 --> 01:06:46,049
them that's just not respond to our

1310
01:06:46,049 --> 01:06:49,469
letter for hearing dr. Crenshaw glad you

1311
01:06:49,469 --> 01:06:50,819
brought that up because I've noticed

1312
01:06:50,819 --> 01:06:52,979
that at every meeting that we have these

1313
01:06:52,979 --> 01:06:55,529
that what there's always seems to be a

1314
01:06:55,529 --> 01:06:58,529
number of them like that and and and it

1315
01:06:58,529 --> 01:07:00,209
saddens me to see that they're not

1316
01:07:00,209 --> 01:07:01,559
involved in that so thank you for

1317
01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:02,279
bringing that up

1318
01:07:02,279 --> 01:07:04,739
all right we we have a motion to approve

1319
01:07:04,739 --> 01:07:08,069
action items I mean student explosions I

1320
01:07:08,069 --> 01:07:12,479
one through eight and we had do we have

1321
01:07:12,479 --> 01:07:15,989
a second second okay any further

1322
01:07:15,989 --> 01:07:21,749
discussion all in favor say aye those opposed motion carries

1323
01:07:21,749 --> 01:07:30,989
it speak information information ones the usual monthly

1324
01:07:30,989 --> 01:07:34,289
financial statement to is the mystery

1325
01:07:34,289 --> 01:07:38,880
science K through five trial that is

1326
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:42,329
cost-free and then purchase orders of

1327
01:07:42,329 --> 01:07:44,429
five thousand dollars in over I am so

1328
01:07:44,429 --> 01:07:46,709
happy I know now what mystery signs k5

1329
01:07:46,709 --> 01:07:50,579
trial exactly it's a free pilot force to

1330
01:07:50,579 --> 01:07:53,039
use in that area so it's good to know

1331
01:07:53,039 --> 01:07:57,499
that there's no next we'll move to any

1332
01:07:57,499 --> 01:08:00,239
questions about that gentlemen all right

1333
01:08:00,239 --> 01:08:01,739
next we'll move to item to any item

1334
01:08:01,739 --> 01:08:06,359
discussion any old business any board

1335
01:08:06,359 --> 01:08:09,479
superintendent requests I just wanna

1336
01:08:09,479 --> 01:08:12,089
remind us super tuna to look into that

1337
01:08:12,089 --> 01:08:19,949
library situation and mr. Sheffield has

1338
01:08:19,949 --> 01:08:22,639
and can share information weekend on the

1339
01:08:22,639 --> 01:08:25,319
condition of the transportation facility

1340
01:08:25,319 --> 01:08:27,059
I have a opportunity to go over there

1341
01:08:27,059 --> 01:08:28,470
and see those de lapin

1342
01:08:28,470 --> 01:08:30,720
buildings and it should be something who

1343
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,340
I'll be to do to tear those down that's

1344
01:08:32,340 --> 01:08:33,120
a horrible

1345
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,490
dr. Crenshaw which ones with those in

1346
01:08:35,490 --> 01:08:41,580
Whistler okay any other superintendent

1347
01:08:41,580 --> 01:08:47,810
requests any pending matters mister

1348
01:08:47,810 --> 01:08:50,520
attorney-client privileges I sent the

1349
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:58,650
board for emails a 17th May 18th do I

1350
01:08:58,650 --> 01:09:00,240
hear a motion in this move that we

1351
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,190
accept the recommendations of our

1352
01:09:02,190 --> 01:09:05,220
attorneys second we have a motion in a

1353
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second to approve the recommendation of

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our attorneys in these particular cases

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any further discussion all in favor say

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aye

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hi those opposed motion carries mr. peek

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scheduling of meetings I think I

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understand from yesterday all of them

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thank thank you Miss chambers for

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getting us up-to-date

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mr. Hecht you've got some information

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for us that was the and while we're on

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that I have noticed that many bring this

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up last time it didn't get a chance to

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but many of the hearings that we have

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scheduled and have planned to have mr.

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hack and his department have efficiently

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and effectively worked out solutions to

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those so that those hearings were

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solutions that were acceptable to both

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the board and to the employees and that

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those hearings were not necessary in

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addition to that I'd want to say that

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the HR is rounding the corner on doing

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the kinds of things that when

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I wish that HR had done and I have in

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the past criticized HR right things no

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job in that respect as in the respect of

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settling the kinds of cases that do not

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really need to come to the board we

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appreciate that mistake it will not be a

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raised mister and I'd also like to

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concur miss AK it seems like we're

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moving along in a timely manner now and

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I appreciate your you and your

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department's efforts in this comes as

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close to your making okay all right

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any other discussion about scheduling

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with me the only thing I remind you

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there's a facility in lien frog

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presentation on Thursday and then the

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special call board meeting on Monday

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June and the lien frog is at ten o'clock yes yes ma'am

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okay do I hear a motion for adjournment

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so move the motion in a second all in

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favor say aye

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we are adjourned

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we are Bobcat nation

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we are the

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academy of theodore haskell a place

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where dreams become

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01:12:27,160 --> 01:13:30,060
you

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we are Bob detonation

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[Music]

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hello I'm Martha peak superintendent of

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the Mobile County Public Schools

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parental involvement is encouraged and

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valued in the Mobile County Public

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Schools there are many opportunities for

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parents to be involved through PTA

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volunteering in the schools being active

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in field trips and booster clubs we

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encourage parents to take an active part

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in the day-to-day education of their

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children parental involvement it matters

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in the Mobile County Public Schools

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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here at Citronelle high school our

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signature Academy focus is on advanced

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manufacturing industry and technology

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we're also in the middle of a brand new

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building project which includes the

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complete renovation of our career

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technology building and facility which

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will allow us to grow our career tech

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programs we are very excited about our

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relationships with our industries along

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Highway 43 which is within our tenant

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zone and we look forward to building

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those relationships as we move forward

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with our signature Academy program our

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Korean Technical educational program

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offers advanced manufacturing as I was

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signature Academy along with industry

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and Technology Academy all three

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combined are referred to as the MIT

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academies of citronella high school

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within each Academy we have career path

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choices for students to select each of

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these career pathways are based upon

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rigor relevance and relationship in an

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effort to prepare all of our students

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for college and careers

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we aren't believer in in athletics at

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Wildcat Nation and we just want to make

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sure that everybody understands that the

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changes that we're going through the new

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schools and new facilities that are

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01:16:29,039 --> 01:16:32,459
going on that you know this is going to

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be the place to be we're really really

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extremely excited about the

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opportunities that we're going to have

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here citronella

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[Music]

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you

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I'm a brunette and this is 11 questions

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with the teacher what is the best part

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of your job the best part of my job is

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definitely interacting with the students

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I'm also a coach so I get to interact

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with some young ladies what is your

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favorite color my favorite color is pink

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[Music]

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what is my favorite movie of all time my

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favorite movies would have to be the

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Harry Potter series mountains or the

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beach

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totally Coke or Pepsi I really drink

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coke but if I need a few extra lemons I

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go to Pepsi what do you do on a rainy

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day um probably watch movies and play

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with my puppy dog all day when something

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happens professor myself the same

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question for six years

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Alabama or Auburn definitely

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[Music]

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Walmart or Target I'm definitely a

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target shopper if you could have lunch

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01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,240
with anyone in history who would be and

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01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:11,540
where would you eat with anyone in

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01:18:11,540 --> 01:18:16,280
history I probably stay in Frank I would

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01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:17,660
have lunch with Anne Frank and I would

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take her to Monty later

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what was the first concert you ever

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attended my first concert I ever

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attended probably wasn't my first but

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the one I can remember right now I went

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01:18:29,930 --> 01:18:31,700
to the Jonas Brothers concert with all

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my sisters

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[Music]

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why did you become a teacher

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because I love making young people proud

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of themselves by doing the little things

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by turning in homework by acing a test

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and the accomplishment that they feel I

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feel the same thing this has been 11

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01:18:55,820 --> 01:18:58,550
questions with Mary Burnett a teacher

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[Music]

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01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,690
our mission at alpha Brian high school

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is to unify several communities as one

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01:19:42,700 --> 01:19:44,530
graduating body by enhancing the

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01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:47,650
athletic academic artistic and service

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01:19:47,650 --> 01:19:49,600
talents of the students individually and

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01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:52,240
of the school holistically thereby

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01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:54,190
increasing their educational and social

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01:19:54,190 --> 01:19:56,380
experiences as well as their personal

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01:19:56,380 --> 01:19:59,140
growth the school embodies its purpose

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01:19:59,140 --> 01:20:01,120
by promoting academic achievements

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01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:03,310
Career and Technical opportunities and

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01:20:03,310 --> 01:20:05,680
holistic growth through programs such as

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01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:07,890
signature Academy of coastal studies

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01:20:07,890 --> 01:20:10,390
wherein students are provided hands-on

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01:20:10,390 --> 01:20:12,850
learning opportunities in the fields of

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01:20:12,850 --> 01:20:16,120
marine science aquaculture horticulture

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01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,640
maritime and industrial technologies and

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01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,070
recreation travel and tourism the

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01:20:21,070 --> 01:20:23,050
overall goal of a LeBron high school is

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01:20:23,050 --> 01:20:24,790
to create an exceptional environment

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01:20:24,790 --> 01:20:27,310
that engages challenges and supports all

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01:20:27,310 --> 01:20:28,870
students so that they may thrive and

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01:20:28,870 --> 01:20:30,760
achieve their academic potential every

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01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:32,410
year while preparing them to pursue

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01:20:32,410 --> 01:20:33,640
college and career readiness

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01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:36,370
opportunities at Allen Bryan high school

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01:20:36,370 --> 01:20:37,780
we are creating a culture of higher

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01:20:37,780 --> 01:20:39,610
learning higher standards and higher

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01:20:39,610 --> 01:20:44,980
expectations

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01:20:44,990 --> 01:20:48,820
LT

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01:20:48,830 --> 01:20:54,590
[Music]

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01:20:54,590 --> 01:20:59,180
forever mining spirits free

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01:20:59,180 --> 01:21:02,500
[Music]

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01:21:02,510 --> 01:21:08,510
laughs of

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01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:11,179
[Music]

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01:21:11,179 --> 01:21:26,070
I shall ever

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01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:28,880
Wever and this is 11 questions with a

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01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,480
teacher what is the best part of your

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01:21:32,480 --> 01:21:35,390
job the best part of my job is seeing

1541
01:21:35,390 --> 01:21:37,640
that light bulb goes off in my students

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01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,640
eyes I'm just feeling that and seeing

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01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:42,500
when they grasp a concept that I've

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01:21:42,500 --> 01:21:45,710
worked hard to teach them what was the

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01:21:45,710 --> 01:21:48,140
last book you read I just completed my

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01:21:48,140 --> 01:21:49,969
masters in school counseling and so I

1547
01:21:49,969 --> 01:21:51,890
let a read a lot of graduate school

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01:21:51,890 --> 01:21:53,960
books but one of my favorite was what

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01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,120
color is your parachute it's a

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01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,280
phenomenal book about finding a job in

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01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:01,640
today's market what is her favorite food

1552
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:04,310
sugar rush though nuts I could eat them

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01:22:04,310 --> 01:22:07,510
all day every day 24 hours a day

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01:22:07,510 --> 01:22:10,070
Mountains are the beach for sure the

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01:22:10,070 --> 01:22:12,800
mountains I burned very easily for the

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01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:16,010
beach is not my favorite place what is

1557
01:22:16,010 --> 01:22:20,340
your favorite color green of course

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01:22:20,350 --> 01:22:23,560
[Music]

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01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:26,300
summer or winter for sure winter because

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01:22:26,300 --> 01:22:29,130
I do not like to sweat

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01:22:29,130 --> 01:22:37,990
[Music]

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01:22:37,990 --> 01:22:41,810
Alabama are all burn all burn for sure

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01:22:41,810 --> 01:22:44,570
my great-great uncle played football

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01:22:44,570 --> 01:22:46,430
there for all those of course I'm not a

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01:22:46,430 --> 01:22:47,230
fan

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01:22:47,230 --> 01:22:54,140
do you have any hidden talents no if you

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01:22:54,140 --> 01:22:55,610
could have lunch with anyone in history

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01:22:55,610 --> 01:22:56,600
who would it be

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01:22:56,600 --> 01:23:00,080
and where would you eat anyone in

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01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:01,910
history I'd have to say George

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01:23:01,910 --> 01:23:03,560
Washington and I would take him to

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01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,830
sugarless doughnuts what was the first

1573
01:23:06,830 --> 01:23:09,730
concert you ever attended Paula Abdul

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01:23:09,730 --> 01:23:12,650
loved it my very first one my dad took

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01:23:12,650 --> 01:23:18,920
all four girls why did you become a

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01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,920
teacher I want to make a difference I

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01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:24,590
want to see the world change in good

1578
01:23:24,590 --> 01:23:26,690
ways and I think doing it you can do

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01:23:26,690 --> 01:23:28,310
that a lot as a teacher you can affect

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01:23:28,310 --> 01:23:31,520
people for sure this has been 11

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01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:36,270
questions with Heather Weaver a teacher

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01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:37,440
you

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01:23:37,440 --> 01:23:42,900
[Music]

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01:23:42,910 --> 01:23:46,220
as time passes we recognize achievements

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01:23:46,220 --> 01:23:48,620
quality commitment and excellence in our

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01:23:48,620 --> 01:23:51,140
lives these factors are elevated and are

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01:23:51,140 --> 01:23:53,900
called traditions since its inception in

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01:23:53,900 --> 01:23:56,960
1953 Maddie Thomas Blount high school

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01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:59,000
has developed a rich and lasting

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01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:01,040
tradition for educating successful

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01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:03,770
students the alumni have blunt give

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01:24:03,770 --> 01:24:05,390
their traditions as a true

1593
01:24:05,390 --> 01:24:07,610
accomplishment not resting on the past

1594
01:24:07,610 --> 01:24:09,530
but ever flowing throughout many years

1595
01:24:09,530 --> 01:24:12,380
of academic success which can be

1596
01:24:12,380 --> 01:24:15,140
explored developed and nurtured now

1597
01:24:15,140 --> 01:24:17,420
begins a new era in education not a

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01:24:17,420 --> 01:24:19,970
change in education but an extension of

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01:24:19,970 --> 01:24:22,490
the blood tradition this era began in

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01:24:22,490 --> 01:24:24,950
August 2013 when the Health Care Act

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01:24:24,950 --> 01:24:26,960
says signature Academy process was

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01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:28,780
introduced to students parents

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01:24:28,780 --> 01:24:33,660
businesses and the waving community

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01:24:33,670 --> 01:24:35,860
as part of the rigorous curriculum

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01:24:35,860 --> 01:24:38,440
through the academies at Maddy T Blount

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01:24:38,440 --> 01:24:40,570
high school our students will gain

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01:24:40,570 --> 01:24:43,900
college and career opportunities our

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01:24:43,900 --> 01:24:45,580
partnerships with local employers

1609
01:24:45,580 --> 01:24:47,140
strengthen the relationship between

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01:24:47,140 --> 01:24:49,810
school and work thus providing students

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01:24:49,810 --> 01:24:51,969
with job training internship and

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01:24:51,969 --> 01:24:54,400
leadership opportunities additionally

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01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:56,949
students may gain college credit paid

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01:24:56,949 --> 01:24:59,560
internship and industry recognized

1615
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,800
credentials health science is not only

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01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:04,600
one of the fastest growing fields in

1617
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,460
today's economy but one in which

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01:25:06,460 --> 01:25:08,110
graduates are virtually assured

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01:25:08,110 --> 01:25:11,080
employment qualified candidates at all

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01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:13,410
levels are in-demand nationwide and

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01:25:13,410 --> 01:25:16,060
infirmary health we provide a realistic

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01:25:16,060 --> 01:25:18,460
hands-on learning environment to support

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01:25:18,460 --> 01:25:21,130
the needs of a growing global economy in

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01:25:21,130 --> 01:25:24,130
addition one can boast of its business

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01:25:24,130 --> 01:25:26,500
marketing and Human Services academies

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01:25:26,500 --> 01:25:28,780
as well as the industry curriculum

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taught at Faulkner career-tech Center

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developing well-rounded students is very

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important through sports and other

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extracurricular activities that we offer

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we will prepare our students

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intellectually academically and socially

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we're indeed proud of everything that we

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have to offer here at Blount high school

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and of every student who chooses to

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enter our doors it starts with us

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you

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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you

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last year the class of 2015

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earned over 97 million dollars in

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scholarships in the class of 2016 is

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already on its way James Lauder Jackson

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State University Kennedy Gooden Troy

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University and Murray Thornton

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Alabama because one out of every three

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MCPS s students goes on to college with

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at least one scholarship in hand no

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matter where they go go Blazers go

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Bulldogs go Jags roll tide

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go bagger Southern Miss to the top it

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began with Mobile County Public Schools

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graduating students who are college and

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career ready it starts with us

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[Music]

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welcome to BC rain high school where we

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believe in preparing students to be

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college and career-ready our mission is

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to provide all students with a rigorous

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and relevant hands-on educational

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experience that will foster life long

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learners we are proud of our academic

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rigor and real-world connections in

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which our students are engaged at all

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levels including our signature Academy

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of aviation and aerospace within our

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school we believe it is important for

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our students to be well-rounded and

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Excel not only academically but socially

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our students practice the essential

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skills necessary for success within a

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college atmosphere or a workforce

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environment education is more than

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information found in textbooks education

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is exploration experiences and

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invaluable opportunities to grow BC rain

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nourishes students within a small

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learning community which is a supportive

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and student-centered learning

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environment we offer students the chance

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to realize their untapped potential you

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possess more than you think I hope you

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see the opportunities BC rain has to

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offer I look forward to seeing you

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during your campus visit remember

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education is the key to your future for

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more information on the opportunities BC

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rain can offer you call 2 5 1 2 2 1 3 2

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