Okay, ready? Okay, good evening Board of Trustees. My name is Cindy Lee and I have four boys who attend the Tustin Unified School District. About a month ago, the school district sent a survey to all parents asking for a preference regarding the options of school reopening this school year. Their results reported that 70% of the parents chose regular school schedule five days a week. However, last week, the superintendent shared that the school district will have to move to a stagger week schedule. Now this was not listening to parents we filled out a survey. This was coming to the teachers and teachers unions. I have four boys, two in elementary school, one in middle school and one in high school, all attending Tustin Unified School District. I also work full time. So by trying to juggle three different schools with three different schedules is impossible. Okay. I've already notified that the school district I will be looking to pull my kids out and to put them in charter schools. The statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics declared that all policy considerations for the upcoming school year should start with the goal of having school students physically present in school. You have done that with your white paper. The number of positive cases is have gone up. This is expected. The increase in cases are supposed to go up with increase in testing and protests happen all over the country. The cases have gone up but this is not the number that we should be paying attention to. The hospitals have been going lower. In fact, the last three days in Orange County, we are actually at a negative percent in hospitalization. Thank you for your time. Thank you for doing the right thing. for parents that want to distance learn, then they can set up in the classroom for those parents to learn online, return students five days a week, teachers are getting paid for five days a week. And so by having online setup to meet the parents who are afraid, and parents that want to go back to school, they can do so. Thank you.

Good evening board. Governor Gavin Newsom has once again sacrificed school aged children at precisely the moment they need them most in order to help the largest of his political backers. The states powerful teachers union. Last week, Newsom signed a state funding bill that guarantees pay and benefits for teachers and other union employees regardless of whether their schools open this fall open part time or don't open at all, whether students show up or don't show up. This peculiar mechanism of funding, he will base each school's funding on the number of students who attended that school at the beginning of last year. In response, frustrated parents have increasingly chosen to homeschool or to enroll their kids in private or charter school. This might hurt the schools they abandoned and might undermine the union's hold on public education. But the governor spending bills save them by ignoring the student Exodus. Consider your very own Sycamore Creek community charter in Huntington Beach. The school has seen enrollment double from 63 students in February 2020 to now 129 students. But the governor's new budget caps funding at the lower February level. Those additional 66 students will not be funded. The governor's plan would seem to be more generous with new charter schools. But look deeply Orange County classical Academy in the city of orange will welcome its first class this August. Yes, I am one of the school's founders, rather than funding OCC as actual enrollment, a whopping 360 students and a waiting list, the governor plans to fund OCC and other new charter schools using a funding formula based on statewide attendance rate regardless of the actual rates at the school. Money explains the union's opposition to public charter schools. The majority of charter schools are not unionized. It's time for parents to reach out and call the governor and ask him to fund all schools based on enrollment. Thank you

Thank you so much board. First of all, I'd like to commend you all for your aggressive approach and taking, you know, a lot of consideration from all all parties and doing what's in the best interest of the children. So thank you for that. And yes, I did hear somebody mentioned that today. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended in person attendance for children immediately. So I mean, Disney world opened this weekend and their lawyers must know something we don't know.that perhaps there's not a second spike in Florida. Look, this is regarding mental, emotional and social issues and the children that are suffering from being stuck at home. Another 14 year old boy committed suicide today in Orange County. This is not fair to these children. They have no playgrounds, they have no parks. They have no recreational activities. They can't go to the beach if they can- I mean, it's really getting ridiculous what we're doing to these babies, they need to get back to school. And let's talk about the children that are suffering that are on the spectrum. You know, my daughter teaches special ed and I hear her crying after resumes, which are now confined a set of two and a half hour public personal one on one sessions, giving these moms and dads that are completely maxed out to try to make this child become more aggressive, hitting and flailing the parents where the parent is trying to set the child in front of a laptop so that my daughter can teach a 20 minute class. These kids are losing the two years of services that my daughter has worked on. They're two years behind in these six months without these services, it's time to get these doors open and get these babies back to school. Thank you.

Hi, there last time I was here I was said I wasn't sure about my son's future educational career. And I'm sad to say that my position hasn't changed. Our children are not dying of COVID. According to the CDC, a child's risk of dying from COVID is 0.0%. In fact, a person 25 years or younger is 50 times more likely of drowning than of getting COVID and even at higher risk of getting in a car accident. We are in the 11th week of a decline in deaths in the US due to pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19. We are down to a 5.5% mortality rate, which is below the threshold of an epidemic, according to the CDC. For some additional perspective, influenza reach epidemic levels for 10 weeks straight in 2004 and 2005, at 8.9% death rate. I was a freshman in college in 2004. I didn't have to distance learn wear a mask or stay away from anyone outside of my household and yet I'm here fighting for my kids rights to an educational career with a 5.5% mortality rate for COVID. The CDC definition of a COVID-19 case includes confirmed and probable cases and deaths. There are three scenarios that define a probable case or death and per the CDC, two of them include and I quote, "no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19." This means I could exhibit COVID symptoms, never test positive die from a clear alternate cause and still be counted as a COVID death. This is important because rises in cases are dictating the way in which our schools are opening or in currently staying closed. The aap says that lengthy time away from school and associated interruption of supportive services often results in social isolation, making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits, as well as child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use depression and suicidal ideation. Given the detriment the determination by AAP the decision to keep schools close is short sighted in comparison to the long term and detrimental effects. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Casey. I'm an attorney and my husband is an Orange County Fire authority firefighter. I have Two kids in Tustin Unified School District, a third grader going into third grade and first grader. Our at home learning was a disaster. I came home and had to work full time while I had two kids trying to teach kindergarten and second grade. It was very quickly decided that I was just going to take it over and start making up packets myself because they weren't learning anything and they became addicted to technology. iPads became a nightmare in my house. A crying child, screaming kid because I took the iPad away. That turned into me working basically 24 hours getting full time working, full time schooling in. Schools are essential. They help with academics but social emotional support, self awareness, security, normalcy. They provide creative and social outlets. All things my kids were missing in that couple months that they couldn't go to school. The only time it got better was when I signed them up for summer camp. And they've been in class all summer or over the last couple of weeks. And it's been amazing. But I I can't let that stop in the fall. And so I, what happens is people like me drain their kids 529 plans to get them into private school so that they can at least hope that they'll be in the classroom in the fall because otherwise I'm going to pay a nanny or someone to teach my kids at home and it's going to cost me way more than that. But it shouldn't be people that have the ability to do that to get their kids schooled. It should be anyone. That's why you know, looking at the YMCA stats from New York City over the last couple of months when COVID hit, they had 10,000 kids of essential workers and 170 YMCA locations and YMCA recorded no more than one case at any of their sites.

Thank you. Plainly said I'm a proponent of parents rights to choose what is best for their children, and to have multiple options available to them and their comfort levels, including traditional full time brick and mortar attendance. I've spoken with educators, law enforcement and service providers. It's broadened my perspective. For many, children's school is so much more than school. School is an escape. With the uptick in shut down related incidences of domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health related emergencies including suicide in homes across the county. To deny a child the escape of time away from an abusive situation, which is most certainly worse now than before the shutdown, is a travesty. Children coming from abusive homes where basic emotional and physical needs are not being met, they will surely fall behind with a homeschool based instruction model. families that can't meet their basic needs will certainly not meet their educational needs and it will broaden the gap that they already have between themselves and their fellow students, single parents or parents who both need to work to make ends meet. What are they to do? Staggered start times large portions that would have been spent in classrooms now require prior to be at home all but eliminate the prospect of full time employment. Access to vital in person therapies for our special education or special needs children mean they are slipping through the cracks. Eye contact, unmasked face to face learning allows children with special needs to watch their educators mouth words and helps them learn to follow nonverbal cues. Now with SB 98, eliminating ADA funding transferring to charter schools which could help address some of these issues. These children literally have two choices to go back to the school- Thank you for your time. Thank you so much.

Good evening. I'm Kathy and I'm speaking today as both a concerned parent, as a mental health professional. I'm a pediatric psychologist, and I was born and raised in Orange County and returned to Orange County to raise my four children here in the Orange County School District. I have three boys but got my girl at the end. So I understand the difficulties of raising many kids in this kind of environment. There's not a lot of empirical research regarding the impact of extended school disruptions. But this is what we do know from school strikes, natural disasters and epidemics. Students with a disruption disruption in their education are less likely to earn or earn a degree more likely to be unemployed, and earn two to 3% less on average with no disruption. During the pandemic, most schools have switched to distance learning. It's problematic at best and disastrous for many. There's no way to measure what the students are or not are not learning until it is too late. From personal experience, a couple of hours, three days a week created a huge deficit morning. What we do know however, is that those, we know for sure that those from the most economically disadvantaged backgrounds are often the worst affected. Just review the statistics I want. You're getting a lot of statistics today regarding how many students in Orange County fell off the radar and never logged into class. There's also a large population that really goes unnoticed, it's the at risk kids in terms of not being diagnosed as as having an actual learning disability, but are able to succeed in the classroom because of the natural supports that are there. Oh, Jax, I have so much more. Okay, so I'm gonna go straight to the point I'm urging you as a board to not jeopardize our children's education for one more day. I'm also urging that you assist us in opening athletics, waiting for the athlete waiting for sports and closing sports for kids who have sports is their very existence is damaging to their social and personal and mental well being. Thank you. There was not a massive spike I have four athletes. There's not a massive spike that could be blamed on sports alone. And that's what's dangerous when you blame something on one cause alone. It's not reality. These kids hang out outside sports anyway. Okay so in my request is that we open schools and sports completely with the necessary precautions in place. I'm a member of the reopened California schools and sports task force. Please contact me if you'd like to get involved. Thank you so much.

For the sake of their mental health, our kids need school and the structure of organized sports without either we will be discussing the big increase in alcohol abuse, drug abuse, gaming addiction, depression and anger management issues, just to name a few. When I wrote those words, in a Facebook post two days ago, it never occurred to me that within 24 hours, I would receive word that a child from one of our local high schools would choose to take his own life. To say this is a tragedy is an understatement. I would argue that this young adolescent is also a victim of COVID-19. Just not the kind of victim that we are talking about. I am a mother of a rising Junior that attends Foothill High School in Santa Ana. When the lockdown began in March, my own son made a list of goals for himself. He was going to finish this semester with the 4.0 GPA. He was going to work out daily and he's going to find ways to continue training and the two sports he plays football and baseball. To say I was impressed and proud of his discipline is an understatement. He remained focused and committed. By early June after the school year ended and no word had come out when the sports would begin again, I began to notice a change in my son's demeanor. My normal easygoing son was getting progressively more angry. In every conversation, you could see the anger, anger bubbling under the surface, exploding into conversations and at people in ways that had never before. We talked about it often he did not understand where it was coming from and certainly could not figure out how to control it. I worried that at some point it would bubble over in a situation that might have lasting effect. On June 22 My son returned to school first first football practice. By June 23, I felt like I had my son back. There was no question in my mind that the change in my son's demeanor was caused by the lack of structure and daily schedule that comes with school and sports. My son is one of the lucky ones. I'm a stay at home mom, my father, my his father is always around and he has two daughters that take an active role. What about all the kids that aren't so lucky? I heard that 20% of kids didn't even log on. I fully understand that we are living through a pandemic, one that our essential workers and first responders have worked through every day. Our teachers, educators and coaches are essential workers. They are essential to the well being of an entire generation of kids that are at risk at risk of being lost in the shuffle. I'm begging you to figure out how to keep our kids in school.

Good evening board members. My name is Erica and I continue to support the reasonable seeing guidelines that you and the experts have put forth regarding no masks and no social distance distancing for our kids. This coming fall as a physical educator and a mother of a special needs child opening up schools in normalcy, five days a week in person, is in the best interest of our children and at best, the best learning environment. Masks are a distraction. They hide faces and they hide smiles. They create fear Plus, they are not effective. Good luck keeping masks on kindergarteners, by the way, okay, so kids do not naturally social distance and will have to be taught. The teachers now are going to have to be police officers with the masks and teaching them how to stay away from each other, teaching young developing minds to stay away from each other is a crime. Kids need to play and they need to socialize and they need to move freely in order to learn. Please stand firm in your guidelines continue to stand and listen to the many parents who agree with you and the experts on the healthiest and the whole, the most whole environment for our children. Thank you.

I'm sorry, my name is Patty. I've been a resident here in Orange County my whole life. I'm here on behalf of my nephew My nephew has special needs. He has issues with his speech. When he tries to do his classes online,he doesn't understand it. He can't learn. And he doesn't get the one on one that he typically gets with the teacher. My sister doesn't know how to teach him. She doesn't know the correct way to give him the education that he needs. That's why he has his special needs.By the kids not going to school, it's not just affecting you. It's affecting the children and their parents. I have a lot of friends with children that do sports. It's really heartbreaking to listen to the kids talk about how they miss school.How they miss playing their sports.This is damaging the children a lot more than people realize. I'm afraid for their mental well being, that they will be able to get through all of this okay. I mean, if we're adults and we're struggling, how are the kids doing? Are people even caring about their psychological damage, not just their physical because it there's not one without the other. So I'm just here asking you to please open the schools and let the kids go back with no masks. Thank you.

Hi, I'm Wendy parent of three OC students. Governor Newsom signed the 2021 state budget act and related to trailer bill sb 90 interlock capping funding for growing schools. The growth cap which was never discussed during the usual budget deliberations appeared unexpectedly in the final version of the K 12 education budget trailer bill. It would freeze schools average daily attendance for the upcoming 2021 school year at the February 29 2020 levels. The controversial cap leaves charter schools and growing school districts in a horrible position of receiving zero funding for any additional students who enrolled after February 29. When signing the bill, the governor took an unusual step of issuing this message. Calling for both maximizing in person instruction and targeted solutions to the growth -- make the level of discrimination our legislators have shown against California students in regard to the school funding that is meant to follow them from public school to public school by diverting it to districts who have been experiencing steady declining enrollment over many years until largely for unions. I followed the bill very closely and our legislators voted numerous times to suspend the rules when discussing and voting on the budget bill, which helped them pass the bill quickly and without adhering to proper processes. They actively blocked thousands of parents from making public comment during committee hearings on the bill. We must continue to press legislators to follow the bill signing a message from Governor Newsom that noted the growth cap does not take into account schools that have planned expansions and that families enrolled in those schools may be displaced. Our families pay taxes and our tax dollars that are allocated by the state for our children's public education should follow our children to the schools we choose to enroll them in. This cap limits a parent's ability to choose a school for their children and arbitrarily hurts many schools, teachers, parents and children while helping only some shouldn't all public school students in California received fair funding for the 2021 school year? California legislators must ensure all California children have an equal access to public education funding as codified by statute for decades. I support the resolution to support state school funding for school districts and charter schools and growing enrollment in 2021. Thank you for defending California students.

Hello, my name is Tiffany and I am the mother of an incoming kindergartner. To date zero children under 18 years old have died of COVID-19 in Orange County, zero. Meanwhile, daycare centers have been open, private schools are conducting summer school and the YMCA is keeping our kids occupied while parents get back to work. Still, we have not had a large outbreak of COVID among children under 18. I came here tonight to thank the board for holding the public t own Hall last month. It feels like many of the decisions involving our children are being made without parental input behind closed doors with political motivations at play. I appreciate having the opportunity to be part of the conversation and feel like the panel that presented at the town hall was very knowledgeable and had our kids best interest in mind, my five year old and most of our peers should be back in the classroom in August with minimal but effective measures in place such as increased hand washing and temperature checks. My questions for those who think that school should not reopen are, is it reasonable that a child should be denied a proper education kept isolated from their peers and community be expected to sit alone or distance from their classmates during activities and lunch? Be denied the opportunity to work on group projects, experience field trips or participate in athletics? Is it reasonable that our kids won't get to dance together at prom or cheer together at pep rallies? Is it reasonable that the special needs students and ESL students won't be able to practice close communication with their peers? That young students won't be able to play on playgrounds that kids will be taught to fear of the very air that they breathe? Is it reasonable that students who are being abused will no longer find respite in the classroom, that students who are in need of healthy meals and essential role models will no longer have access to either? Is it reasonable that a high proportion of students will experience anxiety, depression, anger, frustration and hopelessness in order to protect them from a virus that poses almost no threat to their health and well being. Is it reasonable that our collective fear is holding them back from reaching their full potential. I strongly support the opinions of the expert panelists, the guidelines presented in the white paper published by the Board and the reopening of our schools in August. Thank you again for being courageous and thoughtful in your school reopening guidelines. I encourage the board to adopt these guidelines tonight and stand firmly on the side of science, education and the overall well being of our children. Okay, Kathleen..

Esteemed board members, my name is Kathleen and my son is an incoming freshman at the Orange County School of the Arts. As a parent I am very concerned about your white paper initiative that will reopen the schools with zero regards to social distancing requirements and the non requirements of wearing a mask, which is in direct opposition to the California Department of Education -- together initiative for safe -- openings released June 6 2020. According to the orange county health care agency as of yesterday, over 1300 kids between the ages of zero to 17 have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Well, this is a lower number than the adult cases. Initially, the 18 to 30 range also had some case numbers. Then Orange County reopened and the Board of Supervisors relaxed the mask restrictions, which is in stark contrast to which the state of California is requiring for Orange County.Now per orange county health care agency, the 18 to 38 range numbers of infections are also growing exponentially, and it is no longer a disease of the elderly. If we allow our children to resume businesses as usual school protocols without regards to safe opening guidelines for school aged children, zero to 17 numbers will also start to grow exponentially, and we have no idea what the long term effects on our kids will be. This doesn't even address the health of teachers in the school or the staff. What happens when our teachers start to contract the virus and expose our children and they symptomatically bring home the virus to their family and loved ones, this is a very dangerous course of action. Unless you can guarantee us that our children will not contract COVID at school, which you can't because we already have over 1000 infected children. And I am begging that you do not approve the white paper initiative. Our children are not political pawns and they are too important to expose to a virus that we do not know the long term risks of. Thank you very much for your time.

Good evening. I'm speaking on behalf of Sycamore Creek charter in Huntington Beach, my three older children attended. I'm a mom of four but I have three school aged children. And Sycamore has been a godsend for us. We live in Irvine, we're an IUSD, one of the top rated school districts in the county. However, our kids were not thriving. My older two sons have ADHD, and various struggles and it was not a good fit for our family. I briefly considered homeschooling but then found out about Sycamore and that it was opening and it was a -- inspired charter in Huntington Beach and my kids have thrived to say the least. We have gained so much in terms of a community. We have made so many new connections that even if the school has to close, we will keep, but unfortunately with SB 98, we're afraid that our school will have to close if something is not done. So I'd like to praise you guys for the resolution to support fully funding students and having the funding follow the student. I wanted to briefly read a letter from one of our parents at Sycamore Creek. They have a son Knightley who has Down syndrome and apraxia. He also goes to IUSD and was just having a horrible time and they found Sycamore and it did so much for Knightly. So I'm going to read drexels letter his mother wrote to Sarah Walker, executive director. Dear Sara, I want to share with you our journey. As the firstborn in the first generation of growth in the United States, I grew up in a family that prioritized perfection, our worth was measured by the latest assessments, achievements and conformity to societal standards. David and I struggled a long time to have a child and our answer was our prayer was answered and we had knightly we were thrilled. We did not know his diagnosis until after he was born. And it has been quite the roller coaster ever since incredible adventure of heavenly ups and heartbreaking downs. We homeschooled and had to learn what truly helps Knightley to thrive, he was not thriving and IUSD but the missing key ingredient was community and neurodiverse, inclusive community of peers from which he best learned. We couldn't replace that with homeschool. When we researched into schools, we contacted dozens. We found only three schools in Orange County willing to take a child. Then someone told us about Sycamore Creek. We had never seen Knightly so excited to go to school. Okay, I'm sorry. Anyways, it's been a blessing for Knightley and for all of the families in our community. And this is an existential crisis for us with SB 98. So thank you for supporting funding following the student.

My name is Justin. I'm one of the Black Lives Matter organizers. Protests cities in this county. And I just want to bring to your attention. I want to thank you for bringing up the abusive home thing. When we first said that on the schools. That's something I thought about personally, I was like, what about the kids get abused at home? You know, but what a blessing for the kids who get abused at school. You know, they get to be parents, they get to learn from safety in their own homes. And also want you to think about the students who struggle in class settings. My nephew happens to be one of them. He's had the highest grades he ever had and just from sitting at home at a computer, because he didn't have to deal with social cues and social stressors and being around people. You know, and then think about this 2020 March. We haven't had a single school shooting. Why? Because the schools have been closed. Right? Our kids are finally safe. For once, right? And I also want to make this point to you. Gun sales have gone up all around the country, especially in California. I'm pro gun gun. Myself, I'm from Georgia, I was in the military. You can't buy a single gun anywhere right now, --- another, all the homes, everybody. And white supremacy has gone up, radicalism, hate speech, and victim shaming and victim blaming. So I just want you to kind of think about what happens when you introduce kids back into this world that now we're trying to fix. Because in these communities, I'm currently working on getting better. We say things like defund the police so we can put more money into education. So we can make it safe for the students. Thank you. You can make it safe for the students to go back to schools and they can have the resources. But if you send them back too soon, what happens here? You open them right back up to that risk. And I understand that some of you guys have children, and I understand that you're worried about them. But like, I worry about them at school. Because that's what most threats because I was a public school student. So crazy things happen in those schools. And we just don't want to repeat them. Right now they're safer in your homes. But will they be at school, just think about it, you got a decision to make. Thank you so much.

Good evening. I've homeschooled my children for over a decade. This school year was the first time ever I sent my daughter to formal public school. She enjoyed experiencing both worlds of education where she had educational freedom at home. And in other words, she was in a traditional public school setting was seven different classes and hundreds of other teens her age. However, when the school shut down, she summed up her experience and I quote, a lack in education via the zoom ins and a dumbed down curriculum that was provided to fill in the gap of the remainder of the school year. Not to mention that the government has no place in private residence, aka zoom meetings. I have a master's degree in human development. Children learn via facial expressions, which are also known as she also cues social cues Excuse me. When children miss social cues, they must understand people as well as situations. Facial expressions can be the most obvious of social cues. It's hard to hide an emotion when it's written all over your face. And it can be frustrating when someone fails to read how we're feeling. That cannot be obtained with the face muzzle covering their mouths and their noses. Let's speak about the power of touch. Touch has a calming power, it stimulates pressure receptors under the skin that carries signals to the vagus nerve, which connects to the brain and to the rest of the body. The Vegas nerve in turn uses a signal to slow down the nervous system, lowering the heart rate as well as blood pressure and curbing the activity of the stress hormone cortisol and immune suppressant and immune system suppressant. Being touched also triggers a rush of neurotransmitter serotonin, a lack of which has been linked to depression and dopamine, which regulates pleasure. When a person is deprived of touched on the other hand, these things don't happen. The vagus nerve doesn't calm the body into lowering the heart rate and blood pressure cortisol with immune power --- power isn't kept in check. And those neurotransmitters don't kick in to regulate mood and emotional states. If you social distance the children of America, they will experience the opposite of that which will literally make them ill. Thank you.

Good evening Board of Trustees, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak. I'm very grateful for your bravery, your diligence and your hard work. I'm here to give my adamant support. For the recommendations that your board has put forth. Please reopen the schools with minimal changes to policy and procedures. 36 countries around the world have have reopened schools and they have not shown a spike, significant spikes in the virus. Renowned epidemiologist Newt Rakowski said the last thing you want to do with a respiratory virus outbreak was be locked in all of society. The best thing to do was to keep the kids in school and let them get natural immunity while protecting the older and immunocompromised population. I believe the extreme lockdown measures has been one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the world. The lockdown continues to destroy millions of lives all for a virus with a flu like death rate. Never in the history have we quarantined the healthy and sadly our children have become a huge casualty during this crisis. The Hospital for Sick Children the most research intensive Children's Hospital in Canada also affiliated with the University of Toronto issued the following guidance: facemask are not required or even recommended for children returning to school. They reported that there was a lack of evidence that mass wearing prevents covert transmission and they will most likely be worn improperly and kids would be at increase risk for infection. There is not one single randomized controlled study that supports mask wearing. My children and I'm sure dozens of friends will not be attending schools if mask are required. Furthermore, there is no data or proof that social distancing actually works and will actually cause psychological harm and be yet another dehumanizing precaution. Members of the Board, please make the right decision for our children, forge the trail lead the way, be the change.

Good evening board.My name is Brittany and I wanted to tell you a story about a teacher who teaches in Newport Beach. About three years ago, she got a call from a blood bank saying that her blood type was a match for this 17 year old girl who she didn't know who had a plastic anemia. My sister's bone marrow would say this girl's life. And she chose to do that. It wasn't easy. There was about a year of treatment before. The procedure was difficult on her body and even to this time, three years later, she's still feeling that effects but she did in fact, save that girl's life. My sister is a teacher. Should she go back to classes? Because her immunity is compromised. Because she chose to save someone else's life. This virus could kill her. I'm sure as we know teachers are selfless. People who probably don't share stories like this to other people, but should they go back to schools now? Their life is in jeopardy. Henry Adams said teachers affect eternity. No one can tell where the influence stops. But should we lose one of these teachers to COVID? There's your answer right there.Thank you.

Okay. Because you're up now if you want to go, we're going to save it for after. Okay. board. Thank you very much for all that you're doing. Just recently, there was an unsigned letter that went out. So gentlemen, I'm sorry, I can't properly pronounce his name that works under Alma horse. And I know that you as a board, were not aware of this. When I spoke with members of Orange Unified, they don't know what to do. They're telling me they're getting no direction from either Sacramento or from Alma Harris. When I spoke with members that worked for Placentia, Yorba Linda, same thing, and what all the school districts now have done is, they feel like they're in limbo. They've shut everything down. When we're getting ready to start back with youth sports. When the kids are out there and I say this is not only a former special ed teacher, but also as a former varsity coach. When the kids are out there being active and healthy, well, that's how they're going to start building up their immune system. When they're just sitting at home, they're not going to be able to do that. I'm asking that this board, take two steps. One to call back and denounce that letter as it went out without any of you knowing about it, and it's not even signed, and then second to have this board, lead the way for all the other 23 school districts here in Orange County and to say, you know what it's okay for, you know, with all the things that we have, it's okay for the youth to go back and start being active out there with sports. And I'll close with this. Yes, my wife and I we deal with with sports -- Thank you, ma'am. My wife and I deal with sports, but I know of other people who have businesses that have been virtually crushed because of lack of leadership from not only Sacramento, but from the superintendent here. People who are trying to help the kids to stay active and healthy. This board is now in a unique position, please pull back that letter, lead by example, and ask the school districts to go ahead and open it up for the sake of the kids. Thank you. Okay, that is it as far as public comments