Education on October 20, 2026

0:51 GOOD.

1:03 TIME IS 303.

1:11 UM.

1:12 TODAY'S HEARING IS UM BEING

1:17 RECORDED AND IT IS ALSO BEING

1:18 LIVE STREAMED AT

1:22 BOSTON.GOV/CITY COUNCIL DASH TV

1:24 AND BROADCASTED ON FINITY

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1:30 FILES CHANNEL 964 WRITTEN

1:33 COMMENTS MAY BE SENT TO THE

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1:40 EDUCATION@BOSTON.GOV AND WILL

1:41 BE MADE PART OF THE RECORD AND

1:42 AVAILABLE TO ALL COUNCILORS.

1:44 PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE AT THE

1:46 END OF THIS HEARING UM OR AND

1:49 SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT DEPENDING

1:51 ON HOW THINGS ARE FLOWING UM

1:53 AND INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED

1:54 IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAVE

1:56 BEEN SIGNED UP UH TO SPEAK AND

1:58 THEY HAVE TWO MINUTES TO

2:00 TESTIFY.

2:01 UM, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN

2:04 TESTIFYING IN PERSON, PLEASE

2:05 ADD YOUR NAME TO THE SIGN UP

2:08 SHEET AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE

2:10 CHAMBER.

2:11 UM AND IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO

2:12 TESTIFY VIRTUALLY, PLEASE EMAIL

2:14 OUR CENTRAL STAFF LIAISON MEGAN

2:19 KAVANAGH@BOSTON.GOV FOR THE

2:20 LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL BE

2:22 ADDED TO THE LIST.

2:23 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

2:29 0407 AND ORDER FOR A HEARING UH

2:31 TO REVIEW THE PREVENTION AND

2:32 RESPONSE TO BULLYING, SEXUAL

2:35 HARASSMENT, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND

2:37 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN OUR BOSTON

2:39 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

2:40 THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

2:42 COUNCILOR JULIA MEJIA AND WAS

2:44 REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

2:46 FEBRUARY THE 25TH, 2026.

2:48 IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL I HAVE BEEN

2:50 JOINED BY COUNCILOR MURPHY AND

2:53 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:55 UM AND AND JUST TO NOTE FOR THE

2:58 RECORD THAT I UNDERSTAND THAT

3:00 WE HAVE A LOT TO DISCUSS AND

3:03 UM, I'M GOING TO ALLOW EACH

3:06 OF MY COLLEAGUES TO HAVE UM,

3:09 SOME OPENING UH, REMARKS.

3:13 SO COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE

3:14 ONE MINUTE AND THE FLOOR.

3:15 OKAY.

3:16 THANK YOU.

3:17 THANK YOU FOR FILING AND

3:20 HOLDING THIS HEARING.

3:21 I KNOW IT'S SOMETHING A HEARING

3:24 SIMILAR WE'VE HAD OVER THESE

3:26 PAST FEW YEARS ON THE

3:27 COUNCIL AND AS A MOM FORMER

3:30 TEACHER THIS THIS MATTERS

3:32 RIGHT?

3:33 IT MATTERS A LOT AND IT MATTERS

3:34 THAT WE LISTEN TO OUR STUDENTS

3:37 AND OUR FAMILIES AND THANK YOU

3:38 FOR PUTTING THEM FIRST AND

3:40 THANK YOU FOR FEELING SAFE AND

3:43 BEING WILLING TO SPEAK UP AND

3:44 SHARE TO ME IT'S ALWAYS

3:47 IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY A TOPIC

3:49 THAT IS AS SERIOUS AS THIS THAT

3:52 HOW ARE WE NOT JUST REVIEWING

3:54 AND REPORTING BUT PREVENTING

3:57 AND WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR

3:58 STUDENTS?

3:59 AND I OFTEN SAID AS A TEACHER,

4:01 UM, IF WE PUT OUR KIDS IN A

4:03 SITUATION WHERE THE VICTIM THEN

4:06 BECOMES THE ONE WHO IS IN

4:07 TROUBLE, IT'S A CYCLE WHERE IT

4:09 NEVER GETS BETTER.

4:11 BUT THERE IS CONCERN FOR

4:14 ME WHEN A SYSTEM IS HIDING THE

4:17 INFORMATION RIGHT WHEN NOTHING

4:19 IS HAPPENING OR IN SOMETIMES

4:20 YOU CAN FEEL LIKE NOT ENOUGH IS

4:22 HAPPENING.

4:22 BUT WHEN WE KNOW WHEN RECENT

4:24 REPORTING HAS BEEN TELLING US

4:25 THAT YOU KNOW THOUSANDS

4:30 OF REPORTS ARE JUST HIDDEN AND

4:32 TRYING TO HIDE AWAY IN A COURT

4:34 SYSTEM THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT,

4:35 YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE WHAT ARE

4:37 WE AFRAID TO TALK ABOUT?

4:38 WHY ARE WE NOT SHARING THE

4:39 TRUTH?

4:40 AND BACK IN DECEMBER 2023 I HAD

4:44 FILED A 17 F TO GET ANSWERS ON

4:47 WHAT AT THAT POINT WAS 1633

4:51 SUSTAINED SUBSTANTIAL CASES

4:53 OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND

4:55 BULLYING WITH 32% OF THE

4:57 INCIDENTS IN ONE SCHOOL YEAR

4:59 WERE COMMITTED, 25% IN THE NEXT

5:01 YEAR.

5:02 SO WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT.

5:04 WE SHOULD BE LISTENING TO THOSE

5:06 WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, VICTIM TO

5:09 THIS AND BE SUPPORTING.

5:11 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

5:12 LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS HEARING

5:13 .

5:13 THANK YOU.

5:14 AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO USE.

5:16 THIS UH I MADE A MISTAKE SO I

5:18 GAVE YOU EXTRA TIME.

5:20 OKAY.

5:20 WAIT, COUNSELOR FLYNN, GIVE

5:22 ME A MINUTE TO.

5:24 OKAY.

5:24 GO.

5:25 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

5:29 I AM TROUBLED BY DATA.

5:31 I AM LOOKING AT THAT SAYS THAT

5:34 THERE WERE OVER 2000 REPORTS

5:36 OF STUDENT ON STUDENT ASSAULTS

5:40 ,UH, THAT HAPPEN TO BE SEXUAL

5:41 MISCONDUCT.

5:44 FOR A PERIOD OF TIME OF SIX

5:47 YEARS.

5:49 WHAT WHAT I'M ASKING FOR IS FOR

5:51 US TO BE TRANSPARENT, TO

5:55 RELEASE THE INFORMATION WITHOUT

5:57 OBVIOUSLY RELEASING ANY

5:59 IDENTIFICATION OF THE OF THE

6:02 SURVIVORS OF THESE ASSAULTS.

6:03 BUT I DO THINK THE PUBLIC NEEDS

6:06 TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S

6:08 HAPPENING IN BOSTON PUBLIC

6:10 SCHOOL SYSTEM HIDING DATA

6:14 DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BUT ALLOW

6:17 IT TO CONTINUE.

6:19 WHAT I'M CALLING FOR IS A TASK

6:22 FORCE TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES.

6:26 IF WE'RE HIDING DATA, THE

6:27 PEOPLE THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR

6:29 THESE ISSUES REALLY HAVE LOST

6:31 THE CREDIBILITY TO LEAD.

6:33 THAT'S WHY I'M CALLING FOR A

6:34 TASK FORCE THAT RESIDENTS

6:38 PARENTS, TEACHERS CAN COME

6:41 TOGETHER AND DISCUSS THESE

6:42 INCIDENTS, DISCUSS THESE ISSUES

6:44 ,HOW WE MOVE FORWARD.

6:45 BUT I HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE, UM,

6:48 WHEN THERE ARE 2000 SEXUAL

6:50 ASSAULTS AGAINST STUDENTS AND

6:52 WE'RE COVERING THAT INFORMATION

6:53 UP.

6:54 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

6:55 UH, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

6:58 UH, FLYNN AND I JUST WANT TO

7:00 NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT MY,

7:02 UM, COUNCIL COLLEAGUE

7:04 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HAS

7:04 SUBMITTED A LETTER OF ABSENCE

7:06 UH, WHICH THE, UH DEAR

7:08 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, I

7:10 SINCERELY REGRET TO INFORM YOU

7:11 THAT BECAUSE OF A LONG STANDING

7:13 PRIOR ENGAGEMENT, I WILL BE

7:14 UNABLE TO ATTEND THE CITY

7:15 COUNCIL'S COMMITTEE UM,

7:17 EDUCATION HEARING ON DOCKET

7:18 ZERO UH 407A HEARING TO REVIEW

7:21 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

7:23 POLICIES, PROCEDURES, TRAINING

7:25 AND STAFFING DATA SYSTEMS AND

7:27 ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES RELATED

7:28 TO THE PREVENTION OF AND

7:30 RESPONSE TO BULLYING, SEXUAL

7:32 ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT AND

7:34 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT INVOLVING

7:35 STUDENTS INCLUDING STUDENTS TO

7:36 STUDENT AND ADULT TO STUDENT

7:38 INCIDENTS.

7:39 I BELIEVE EVERY CHILD, EVERY

7:40 STUDENT DESERVES TO FEEL SAFE

7:42 AT SCHOOL AND CONFIDENT THAT

7:44 WHEN THEY REPORT CALM, ADULTS

7:46 WILL TAKE THEM SERIOUS AND

7:47 RESPOND WITH CARE.

7:48 THIS IS WHY FROM MY FIRST YEAR

7:50 ON THE CITY COUNCIL AND EACH

7:51 YEAR SINCE I HAVE FILED AND

7:52 SPONSORED AND OR HELD A HEARING

7:55 ON BOSTON'S RESPONSE TO

7:56 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL

7:56 ASSAULT WORKING ALONGSIDE

7:58 ADVOCATES AND SURVIVORS UM AND

8:00 SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR OUR

8:01 STUDENTS PROTECTIONS AND

8:03 PROTOCOLS MUST BE

8:04 UNDERSTANDABLY AND DEPENDABLE.

8:06 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES SHOULD

8:07 KNOW WHOM TO CONTACT, WHAT

8:08 HAPPENS AFTER REPORT AND WHAT

8:10 SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE WHILE AN

8:12 INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS.

8:14 THANK YOU TO THE STUDENTS,

8:15 FAMILIES, EDUCATORS AND

8:16 ADVOCATES FOR SHARING THEIR

8:17 EXPERIENCES TODAY AND I LOOK

8:19 FORWARD TO REVIEWING THEIR

8:20 TESTIMONY AND WORKING WITH THE

8:21 COMMITTEE MY STAFF WILL BE

8:22 ATTENDING AND I WILL THOROUGHLY

8:24 REVIEW THE VIDEO HEARING

8:25 MINUTES AND PUBLIC TESTIMONY

8:26 SHOULD YOU OR ANY MEMBER OF THE

8:28 PUBLIC HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR

8:29 CONCERNS, PLEASE DO NOT

8:30 HESITATE TO REACH OUT TO MY

8:31 OFFICE DIRECTLY AT

8:35 (617) 635-4376 AND SO.

8:37 JUST WANTED TO JUST.

8:39 UH, READ THAT INTO THE RECORD

8:41 SO I'LL JUST BEGIN.

8:42 UM, FIRST OF ALL I JUST WANT TO

8:44 SET THE STAGE THAT I KNOW SOME

8:47 OF THESE CONVERSATIONS COULD BE

8:48 TRIGGERING AND I WANT TO BE

8:50 SUPER MINDFUL OF THE TRAUMA

8:52 THAT WE ALL CARRY INTO THE

8:54 SPACES OF PLACES THAT WE WALK

8:55 INTO.

8:56 AND SO HOPEFULLY YOU'LL WALK

8:58 INTO UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS

9:00 I CAN'T SAY IT'S A SAFE SPACE

9:02 BECAUSE EVERYONE'S SAFETY LOOKS

9:04 DIFFERENT, BUT I AM GOING TO

9:06 TRY TO DO MY BEST TO CREATE THE

9:08 CONTAINER IN WHICH YOU COULD BE

9:10 FULLY EXPRESSED.

9:11 SO THAT IS MY COMMITMENT TO YOU

9:13 ALL WHILE YOU'RE HERE.

9:14 OKAY.

9:15 UM SO ON JUNE THE 16TH, 2022 I

9:19 HELD A HEARING ON BULLYING AND

9:21 SEXUAL ABUSE AND HARASSMENT IN

9:23 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SINCE

9:25 THEN ADVOCATES, PARENTS AND

9:27 STUDENTS HAVE CONTINUED TO

9:28 RAISE CONCERNS AND HAVE SHARED

9:31 THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE

9:32 DEMONSTRATING THE NEED FOR MORE

9:34 TRANSPARENT, ACCOUNTABLE AND

9:36 STRONGER RESPONSES FROM THAT

9:39 ARE ROOTED IN BEST PRACTICES,

9:42 SUPPORT COMMUNICATIONS AND

9:45 COMPLIANCE WITH EXISTING LAWS.

9:48 STUDENTS CONTINUE TO REPORT

9:50 FEELING UNSAFE AND WORRYING

9:52 ABOUT VIOLENCE IN THEIR SCHOOLS

9:54 .

9:54 THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR, STUDENTS

9:56 HAVE ASKED HOW DIFFICULT IT IS

9:58 FOR THEM TO GET THE HELP FROM

10:00 AN ADULT IF THEY WERE BULLIED

10:02 AND AROUND 18% OF STUDENTS SAID

10:05 IT WAS QUITE OR EXTREMELY

10:08 DIFFICULT THIS THIS NEEDS TO

10:12 CHANGE FULL STOP THE CLIMATE

10:13 SURVEY SHOWS DISCONNECTS

10:15 BETWEEN PARENTS, STUDENTS AND

10:16 EDUCATORS IN TERMS OF HOW OFTEN

10:18 BULLYING AND VIOLENCE HAPPENS

10:20 WITHIN SCHOOLS AND THE

10:21 COMFORT LEVEL STUDENTS HAVE IN

10:23 REACHING OUT TO ADULTS FROM

10:25 VULNERABLE STUDENTS WHOSE

10:26 TEACHERS ARE UNDER UM ACTIVE

10:29 INVESTIGATIONS FOR ALLEGED

10:30 CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT TO

10:31 STUDENTS NEEDING TO GO TO THE

10:33 E.R. BECAUSE OF BULLYING.

10:36 WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE

10:37 COMMUNITY THAT WE NEED TO

10:39 CHANGE AND CHANGE IS REQUIRED

10:41 NOW FOR MANY OF OUR STUDENTS,

10:43 SCHOOL IS A SAFE HAVEN FOR THEM

10:45 AND ALLOWS THEM TO HAVE ACCESS

10:47 TO FOOD, WARMTH, COMMUNITY AND

10:49 CARE FOR SCHOOL STAFF FROM

10:50 SCHOOL STAFF AND THEIR

10:52 CLASSMATES.

10:53 HOWEVER, THAT SAFE HAVEN IS

10:55 THREATENED IF PROPER MEASURES

10:57 ARE NOT TAKEN INTO TO PREVENT

10:58 AND HANDLE CASES OF BULLYING,

11:00 SEXUAL ABUSE, HARASSMENT,

11:02 PHYSICAL ABUSE AND OTHER FORMS

11:04 OF VIOLENCE AND STUDENTS

11:06 WELL-BEING DOES NOT UM END WITH

11:09 THEIR PHYSICAL SAFETY UM BUT

11:11 ALSO THEIR EMOTIONAL AND

11:13 PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY.

11:15 UM SCHOOLS SHOULD BE A SAFE

11:17 ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS,

11:18 EDUCATORS AND STAFF.

11:19 MATCH COSTS TO LAW CITIZENS FOR

11:21 UH JUVENILE JUSTICE THE

11:23 COALITION OF AMERICAN ISLAMIC

11:25 RELATIONS LATINA AND THE

11:27 ENTIRETY OF BADGER COALITION

11:29 AND MORE HAVE USED

11:31 EVIDENCE-BASED ANTI-BULLYING

11:33 CURRICULUMS AND PROGRAMING TO

11:35 FULLY ADDRESS BULLYING, UM

11:38 ABUSE AND HARASSMENT IN OUR

11:39 SCHOOLS AND WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE

11:41 THEIR WORK AND WORK IN

11:44 COLLABORATION.

11:45 THAT MEANS THAT THE DISTRICT

11:46 MUST WORK WITH ORGANIZATIONS

11:48 WHO ARE ON THE GROUND DOING THE

11:50 WORK AND DOING IT WELL WITH

11:52 FAMILIES.

11:53 IN THIS HEARING I HOPE TO

11:54 CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION WE

11:55 HAD FOUR YEARS AGO AND WE'VE

11:56 DONE THIS HEARING.

11:59 MY HOPE IS TO NOT HAVE THIS

12:02 HEARING ANYMORE.

12:03 MY HOPE IS THAT THIS TIME I AM

12:05 GOING TO PUT THIS TO THE SIDE

12:07 AND SINCE PEOPLE MY HEART REAL

12:08 QUICK IS THAT MY HOPE IS THAT

12:10 WE ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT

12:12 THE MOMENT IS CALLING FOR AND

12:13 WALK OUT OF HERE WITH SOLUTIONS

12:15 AND SOME METRICS OF HOW WE'RE

12:17 GOING TO MEASURE SUCCESS

12:18 BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO

12:21 DO IS CONTINUE TO HAVE THE SAME

12:22 CONVERSATION AND EXPECT CHANGE

12:25 IF WE'RE NOT WILLING TO HAVE

12:26 THAT CHANGE.

12:27 SO WALKING OUT OF HERE WITH

12:28 SOME COMMITMENTS FROM BOTH IN

12:29 TERMS OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO

12:30 MOVE DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE WE

12:31 HAVE TO RESTORE TRUST AND THE

12:33 BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO WORK

12:35 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THOSE WHO

12:36 ARE ALWAYS UM.

12:40 ENCOURAGING US TO STEP IT UP.

12:41 UH, SO.

12:42 WITH THAT I SEE THAT WE HAVE

12:44 ALSO BEEN JOINED BY

12:45 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

12:46 DO YOU HAVE SOME OPENING

12:47 REMARKS?

12:49 UH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

12:50 AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE'S

12:51 TIME HERE.

12:52 UM, AS A PARENT OF THREE KIDS

12:54 MYSELF, UH, JUST HERE TO HEAR

12:55 SOME EXPLANATIONS AND

12:56 UNDERSTAND PROCEDURES AND HOW

12:58 THEY WERE FOLLOWED OR NOT

12:59 FOLLOWED AND UH, LOOKING

12:59 FORWARD TO HEARING FROM

13:00 EVERYBODY.

13:00 THANK YOU.

13:02 AND SO I WILL KNOW FOR THE

13:04 RECORD WE HAVE A LARGE PANEL.

13:07 Y'ALL EACH HAVE THREE MINUTES

13:09 AND THAT'S THERE.

13:11 SO Y'ALL PRACTICE THAT RIGHT.

13:13 AND THEN MY COLLEAGUES ARE

13:14 GOING TO ASK QUESTIONS SO THAT

13:15 IF YOU DIDN'T GET TO SAY

13:16 EVERYTHING IN YOUR THREE

13:18 MINUTES.

13:18 NO THAT YOU WILL.

13:19 IN YOUR ANSWERS BE ABLE TO TO

13:21 SPEAK TO A POINT THAT YOU MAY

13:23 HAVE FORGOTTEN IS THAT COOL?

13:24 DOES EVERYONE FEEL COMFORTABLE

13:25 WITH THAT?

13:26 AND THEN THE OTHER PIECES.

13:27 THAT I JUST WANT TO BEGIN WITH

13:29 AN APOLOGY TO EVERYONE WHO HAS

13:31 BEEN A VICTIM TO THE PARENTS

13:33 WHO HAVE BEEN UM 51 AID BECAUSE

13:37 THE SCHOOLS DON'T WANT YOU

13:38 WALKING IN THEIR CLASSROOMS,

13:40 YOU KNOW, TELLING THEM LIKE IT

13:42 IS.

13:43 SO I JUST WANT.

13:43 TO SAY I AM SORRY AND WE ARE

13:46 HERE TO DO THE.

13:47 WORK UM TOGETHER.

13:48 OKAY.

13:50 SO WITH THAT I AM GOING TO

13:51 WE'RE GOING TO.

13:52 GO WE'RE GOING TO GO THIS WAY

13:53 OKAY.

13:54 GOOD EVENING.

13:55 MY NAME IS TAISSA SANTIAGO.

13:57 I'M HERE TODAY.

13:58 AS A.

13:59 MOTHER AND AN ADVOCATE FOR

14:00 CHILDREN WHO CAN OFTEN WHO

14:02 CANNOT ALWAYS SPEAK FOR

14:03 THEMSELVES.

14:05 MY SON IS ISAN WILSON.

14:08 HE'S AUTISTIC AND NON-VERBAL.

14:10 HE WAS INJURED AT A BOSTON

14:11 PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THIS

14:14 EXPERIENCE.

14:15 RAISES SERIOUS CONCERN FOR

14:17 ME ABOUT STUDENT SAFETY,

14:19 STUDENT STAFF QUALIFICATION AND

14:22 ACCOUNTABILITY.

14:23 CHILDREN LIKE MY SON DEPEND ON

14:25 ADULTS AROUND THEM TO PROTECT

14:26 THEM, UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS

14:28 AND KEEP THEM SAFE.

14:30 AS A PARENT, WE SHOULD BE ABLE

14:32 TO TRUST THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE

14:34 FOR OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE PROPER

14:36 QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING AND

14:37 LICENSES TO DO THEIR JOBS.

14:40 I'M ASKING FOR STRONGER

14:42 REQUIREMENTS TO ENSURE TEACHERS

14:44 AND STAFF WORKING WITH CHILDREN

14:46 ,ESPECIALLY CHILDREN WITH

14:46 SEVERE DISABILITIES HAVE PROPER

14:49 CURRENT LICENSES AND TRAINING.

14:52 I ALSO BELIEVE THAT TEACHERS

14:53 AND CAREGIVERS WHO ARE

14:55 DEMANDING RESPONSIBILITIES

14:58 OF CARING FOR THESE CHILDREN

15:00 WITH SPECIFIC DISABILITIES

15:02 DESERVE FAIR PAY.

15:04 THE WORKERS PLAY AN IMPORTANT

15:06 PART IN OUR CHILDREN'S LIVES

15:08 AND WE MUST INVEST IN THE

15:10 PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING FOR THEM

15:11 AS WELL AS THE CHILDREN

15:13 THEMSELVES.

15:15 I AM ALSO ASKING FOR CAMERAS TO

15:17 BE INSTALLED IN CLASSROOMS AND

15:20 OTHER APPROPRIATE AREAS

15:22 OF SCHOOL WITH SAFEGUARDS TO

15:24 PROTECT CHILDREN'S, STATE OR

15:26 CHILDREN'S STUDENT AND

15:28 CHILDREN'S PRIVACY.

15:31 CAMERAS COULD HELP PROVIDE

15:33 FLAHERTY WHEN AN INCIDENT

15:34 OCCURS HELP ENSURE THAT

15:37 CONCERNS ARE ADDRESSED PROPERLY

15:39 APPROPRIATELY.

15:41 IN ADDITION, I WOULD LIKE

15:43 PARENTS TO HAVE THE OPTION TO

15:44 PURCHASE OR USE BODY CAMERAS

15:47 FOR THEIR CHILDREN WHEN WANTED

15:49 AND NEEDED SUBJECT TO

15:53 APPROPRIATE SCHOOL POLICIES AND

15:55 PRIVACY PROTECTIONS.

15:57 THIS COULD BE ESPECIALLY

15:59 IMPORTANT FOR NONVERBAL

16:00 CHILDREN WHO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO

16:02 EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.

16:05 EVERY CHILD DESERVES TO FEEL

16:07 SAFE.

16:07 AT.

16:08 SCHOOL REGARDLESS OF THE

16:09 DISABILITY OR ABILITY TO

16:11 COMMUNICATE.

16:11 EVERY PARENT DESERVES TO KNOW

16:13 THAT THEIR CHILD IS SAFE.

16:18 PROTECTED, RESPECTED AND CARED

16:20 FOR BY QUALIFIED PUPIL.

16:23 I'M SPEAKING TODAY NOT ONLY FOR

16:27 MY SON BUT FOR OTHER FAMILIES

16:29 WHO MAY BE AFRAID TO.

16:31 SPEAK OR FEEL UNHEARD.

16:36 OR ARE STRUGGLING TO GET

16:38 ANSWERS BY DPS.

16:41 I HOPE THAT WE CAN MOVE

16:44 TOGETHER TOWARDS MEANINGFUL

16:46 CHANGES THAT IMPROVE SCHOOL

16:48 SAFETY STRENGTHENING

16:50 ACCOUNTABILITY, SUPPORT

16:53 TEACHERS AND GIVE PARENTS

16:55 GREATER PEACE OF MIND.

16:57 OUR CHILDREN DESERVE PROTECTION

16:59 .

16:59 THEY DESERVE QUALIFIED

17:02 CAREGIVERS AND THEY DESERVE TO

17:04 BE HEARD EVEN WHEN.

17:06 THEY CANNOT SPEAK.

17:07 FOR THEMSELVES.

17:09 THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME

17:12 TO LISTEN.

17:16 NEXT TO UM.

17:20 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

17:22 MY NAME IS MONICA MURCHISON.

17:24 I AM A PARENT UM OF A CHILD

17:26 THAT.

17:27 WAS IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

17:29 UM MY CHILD'S NAME IS AMAZING

17:31 GRACE AND DURING SCHOOL HOURS

17:33 MY CHILD WAS FORCEFULLY RAPED

17:35 BY A STAFF MEMBER DURING SCHOOL

17:38 IN WHICH SHE REPORTED THE

17:39 INCIDENT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN

17:41 DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY AND

17:43 FOLLOWED PROTOCOL SHOULD HAVE

17:44 BEEN FOLLOWED.

17:46 POLICE BEING CALLED A 51 AID

17:48 BEING FILED, ME BEING CONTACTED

17:50 AS THE PARENT AND THE INCIDENT

17:52 REPORT.

17:53 UM BECAUSE THAT IS BP'S POLICY

17:55 .

17:56 NONE OF THAT HAPPENED.

17:58 MY CHILD INCIDENT WAS SWEPT

18:00 UNDER THE RUG.

18:01 I HAD NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT IT.

18:02 SO I CONTINUED TO SEND MY CHILD

18:04 TO SCHOOL EVERY SINGLE DAY

18:05 UNTIL SHE EVENTUALLY HAD A

18:07 MELTDOWN BECAUSE I WAS PUTTING

18:08 HER INTO THE ARMS OF THE ABUSER

18:10 .

18:10 UM, EVENTUALLY WHEN YOU KNOW IT

18:13 DID COME TO LIGHT I DID WHAT

18:14 ANY PARENT WOULD DO WHICH IS

18:16 YOU KNOW, TRY TO GET MORE

18:18 INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT IT IS

18:19 THAT MY CHILD HAS COMMUNICATED

18:21 TO ME.

18:21 AT THAT POINT I WAS MET WITH

18:23 NOTHING BUT UM, A DISCONNECT

18:25 FROM THE SCHOOL.

18:26 YOU KNOW, UM, THEY THEY ALREADY

18:28 KNEW THE SCHOOL ALREADY KNEW

18:30 THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO

18:31 COVER UP THE INCIDENT.

18:32 UM, AND THAT WAS THE REASON

18:35 THAT THEY WERE BEGINNING TO

18:37 RETALIATE AGAINST ME AS A

18:38 PARENT.

18:39 UM, EGREGIOUS BEHAVIOR ENSUED

18:42 ON ME AND MY FAMILY.

18:43 THINGS LIKE 51 DAYS BEING

18:44 FILED.

18:46 UM, AND I THINK THAT YOU GUYS

18:49 SHOULD REALLY FOCUS ON THAT

18:51 BECAUSE DCF IS BEING USED TO

18:54 DESTROY FAMILIES AND THE SCHOOL

18:56 IS A HUGE SOURCE OF IT.

18:57 YOU KNOW, THEY WILL TELL THEM

18:59 WHATEVER THEY NEED TO.

19:00 AND WHEN YOU'RE GETTING THESE

19:01 UM, 51 A'S FILED IN, YOU HEAR

19:03 FROM YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE

19:05 TEACHERS THEY TEND TO BELIEVE

19:07 THEM MORE RIGHT?

19:08 SO UM, NOBODY INVESTIGATES TO

19:11 SEE IF THE ALLEGATIONS ARE

19:13 TRUE.

19:13 THEY COME AND TALK.

19:14 BUT IT'S KIND OF LIKE IF

19:15 SOMEONE WHO'S A MANDATED

19:17 REPORTER SAYS IT AND IT HAS TO

19:18 BE TRUE.

19:19 UM, WHEN IN FACT IN MY

19:23 SITUATION, UM, YOU KNOW, I HAD

19:25 TO FILE MY OWN 51 TO DO MY OWN

19:26 POLICE REPORT AND ALL THE RULES

19:28 TO MAKE ANYBODY AWARE.

19:29 UM, I IMMEDIATELY AFTER, UM,

19:32 YOU KNOW, STARTED GOING ABOVE

19:34 AND EVEN REACHED OUT TO THE

19:36 CITY COUNCILORS, THE MAYOR

19:37 HERSELF, SENATORS, EVERYBODY

19:39 THAT I COULD TO MAKE THEM AWARE

19:40 THAT YES THIS HAPPENED TO MY

19:43 CHILD BUT THE THE BIGGER PART

19:45 FOR ME WAS THE COVER UP.

19:47 UM YOU KNOW WHY YOU KNOW, LIKE

19:48 BOTH YOU COUNCILORS SAID

19:50 EARLIER WHY ARE WE NOT ALLOWED

19:51 TO TALK ABOUT IT?

19:52 WHY ARE WE NOT ALLOWED TO GET

19:53 ANSWERS IN THE MINUTE THAT WE

19:55 DEMAND THESE ANSWERS AS WE

19:57 SHOULD AS PARENTS?

19:59 WE'RE MET WITH RETALIATION

20:01 TACTICS.

20:01 I WAS THEN TRESPASS OUT OF THE

20:03 SCHOOL.

20:04 UM, AMAZING HAS TWO YOUNGER

20:06 SIBLINGS THAT WERE STILL

20:07 STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL.

20:09 UM, AND SO WHY SHOULD I FEEL

20:11 SAFE SITTING MY KIDS TO A

20:12 SCHOOL WHERE NUMBER ONE THE

20:14 ABUSER STILL ROAMING AROUND

20:15 AMONGST MY KIDS AND OTHER KIDS

20:17 AS WELL.

20:18 BUT THEN NUMBER TWO A SCHOOL

20:19 THAT DOES NOT WANT TO

20:20 COMMUNICATE WITH ME OR HELP

20:22 ME SORT OUT ANY YOU KNOW ME AND

20:24 MY CHILD IS THE VICTIM.

20:25 WE SHOULDN'T BE MET WITH

20:26 RESISTANCE FROM A SCHOOL.

20:29 UM SO I ENDED UP ULTIMATELY

20:31 PULLING MY KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

20:33 AND HOMESCHOOLING.

20:34 IN ORDER TO DO THAT I HAD TO

20:35 RESIGN FROM MY CAREER.

20:37 AND I HAD JUST STARTED A

20:38 BUSINESS.

20:38 I'M A CERTIFIED CHEF.

20:40 I HAD JUST STARTED A CATERING

20:41 BUSINESS THAT WAS DOING PRETTY

20:42 OKAY.

20:43 UM AND I LOST ALL OF THAT.

20:46 SO ON TOP OF ME DEALING WITH

20:48 WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH MY

20:49 CHILD, I NOW AM IN A POSITION

20:52 WHERE I HAVE TO BE A TEACHER

20:53 FOR THREE DIFFERENT KIDS ON

20:55 THREE DIFFERENT GRADE LEVELS

20:56 WITH NO EXPERIENCE AND I HAVE

20:58 NO MONEY.

20:59 SO HOW DO YOU LIVE AND SUPPORT

21:01 YOUR FAMILY IN A WORLD WHERE

21:03 WE'RE LIVING RIGHT NOW WITH THE

21:04 COST OF LIVING IS EXTREMELY

21:05 HIGH EVEN FOR PEOPLE WITH GOOD

21:07 PAYING JOBS?

21:09 SO MY MY FAMILY JUST CONTINUED

21:11 TO SPIRAL BACKWARDS.

21:12 UM, AFTER ABOUT ONE FULL SCHOOL

21:15 YEAR OF ME.

21:17 I HAVE I ENDED UP UM HAVING

21:18 ANOTHER CHILD WHO WAS BORN WITH

21:20 A HEART DEFECT.

21:21 HER HEART ENDED UP FEELING IN

21:23 IN SEPTEMBER.

21:24 YOU KNOW WHEN THE SCHOOL YEAR

21:25 STARTED THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN

21:26 LAST SCHOOL YEAR.

21:26 SO I PUT MY CHILD INTO A

21:28 CHARTER SCHOOL HOPING THAT

21:30 THINGS WILL GET BETTER BECAUSE

21:31 IT'S NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

21:32 SHE WAS THEN BEING BULLIED FOR

21:34 SIMPLY BEING THE NEW KID AT

21:35 SCHOOL, AND THE BULLYING

21:37 ESCALATED TO THE POINT WHERE MY

21:39 CHILD ENDED UP WITH A SEVERE

21:40 CONCUSSION AS WELL AS A

21:42 DISLOCATED SHOULDER TO SHOULDER

21:44 CONTINUE TO DISLOCATE 11

21:45 DIFFERENT OCCASIONS BECAUSE

21:47 OF THE DAMAGE DONE TO IT.

21:49 EACH TIME THAT I WOULD TAKE HER

21:50 TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET THE ARM

21:52 PLEASE BACK IN THE HOSPITALS

21:54 GIVING MY CHILD FITTING ALL

21:56 MORPHE KETAMINE WHICH IS A

21:57 HORSE TRANQUILIZER TO SET THE

21:59 ARM AND THEN SEND HER HOME ON

22:01 OXYGEN.

22:02 SO THEN I HAVE TO DEAL WITH A

22:03 CHILD WHO IS NOW, YOU KNOW,

22:06 HAVING THESE, UM, NARCOTICS AND

22:08 OPIOIDS IN HER SYSTEM AS WELL

22:10 AS THE EFFECTS OF WHEN SHE'S

22:12 HAVING TO BE WEANED OFF

22:13 OF THEM.

22:13 YOU KNOW, NOW WE HAVE TO DEAL

22:15 WITH SUICIDE AND HALLUCINATIONS

22:18 AND, UM, MENTAL HOSPITAL STAYS.

22:20 AND I JUST WANT TO SIDE NOTE

22:22 AND POINT OUT MY CHILD NEVER

22:23 HAD ANY ISSUES MENTALLY.

22:26 BEHAVIORALLY, NO.

22:28 UM, UM, WHAT DO THEY CALL

22:30 THOSE, UH, HALLUCINATIONS?

22:32 NO, NO, NOT LIKE THE IEP OR,

22:35 YOU KNOW, FIVE OR NOTHING.

22:37 SO THIS ALL STEMMED FROM

22:40 INCIDENCES THAT ARE REALLY

22:41 SERIOUS.

22:41 LOOK AT WHAT I TOLD YOU GUYS ON

22:43 A YOUNG CHILD WITH NO TYPE

22:46 OF ASSISTANCE.

22:46 UM, AND I YOU KNOW I KNOW I'M

22:48 ON TIME, SO I JUST WANT TO KIND

22:50 OF GET TO WHERE WE'RE AT NOW.

22:52 MY CHILD IS STILL CURRENTLY

22:54 SITTING AT HOME RIGHT NOW.

22:55 SHE'S STILL OUT OF SCHOOL

22:57 BECAUSE AFTER THE INCIDENT WITH

22:58 THE ARM AND EVERYTHING SAYING I

23:01 WAS MET WITH THE SAME EXACT

23:03 RESISTANCE FROM THAT SCHOOL AND

23:04 THIS IS A CHARTER SCHOOL.

23:06 SO YOU KNOW WE SAME THING.

23:08 I ENDED UP PULLING HER OUT

23:09 OF SCHOOL BECAUSE THE SCHOOL

23:10 STARTED FILING 51 DAYS NOT

23:12 TELLING THEM THAT THE CHILD WAS

23:14 HURT ON THE GROUND AND THAT

23:15 ME AS A PARENT I'M GIVING

23:17 DOCTORS NOTES THAT SAYING OH I

23:20 FORGOT THAT WE HAD A WHOLE UM,

23:22 SLIDESHOW SO THAT I CAN SHOW

23:23 PROOF OF WHAT I'M TALKING

23:24 ABOUT.

23:26 UM DOCTOR'S NOTES, THINGS LIKE

23:28 THAT THAT THEY DISREGARDED AND

23:30 THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE IF YOU GUYS

23:32 UM, LOOK UP AT THE SCREEN YOU

23:34 CAN SEE UM, THE TRESPASS

23:36 NOTICES.

23:37 UM, THERE'S A SLIDE HERE.

23:39 YEAH, THERE'S A THERE'S A SLIDE

23:42 THERE SHOWING THE ACTUAL

23:44 INJURIES.

23:46 UM THIS IS THAT WE HAVE.

23:48 YEP.

23:49 SO THEN WE HAVE UM.

23:50 THE FIRST HOURGLASS.

23:52 YEAH.

23:52 I REQUEST THAT TO THIS DAY

23:54 BY LAW THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO

23:55 PROVIDE ME WITH EVERYTHING I

23:56 REQUESTED.

23:56 TO THIS DAY I NEVER GOT IT AND

23:58 EVERYTHING IS TIME STAMPED AND

24:00 DATED.

24:00 THAT'S YOU LOOKING AT THE

24:02 INCIDENT OF WHAT HAPPENED.

24:04 IT'S TWO SENTENCES LONG.

24:06 IT'S OVER A MONTH LATER.

24:08 YOU KNOW THEY TRY TO LIKE THAT

24:10 DATE WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.

24:12 UM, THEY HAD AN OUTSIDE AGENCY

24:14 COME IN AND SPEAK WITH MY

24:15 CHILD, WROTE A STATEMENT AND

24:16 HAD HER SIGNED IT WITHOUT MY

24:18 KNOWLEDGE.

24:19 SHE'S A MINOR CHILD.

24:20 NOBODY SHOULD BE MEETING WITH

24:21 HER.

24:21 BUT WE'RE WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY.

24:24 MY CHILD IS STILL OUT OF SCHOOL

24:25 NO MATTER WHO I HAVE WENT TO.

24:27 AND I COME HERE REGULARLY

24:28 TRYING TO TALK TO THE MAYOR AND

24:29 GET A MEETING WITH HER.

24:31 UM, BECAUSE BY LAW MY CHILD

24:33 SHOULD BE EDUCATED.

24:35 THERE'S NO REASON WHY SHE CAN'T

24:36 GET A TUTOR.

24:37 THERE'S NO REASON WHY SHE

24:38 DOESN'T HAVE A CHROMEBOOK.

24:40 A PACKET OF, YOU KNOW, PAPERS

24:42 FROM SCHOOL.

24:43 THEY WILL NOT WORK WITH ME.

24:46 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY GET AN

24:47 ATTORNEY.

24:48 WE DID THAT.

24:48 THEY DON'T WORK WITH THE

24:49 ATTORNEY EITHER.

24:50 AND SO LIKE I SAID, UM I WANT

24:52 TO POINT ALL OF THIS OUT

24:53 BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK

24:55 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN SCHOOL.

24:56 WE KNOW THAT.

24:57 WHAT ABOUT THE AFTERMATH

24:58 OF WHAT THE FAMILY HAS TO DEAL

25:00 WITH?

25:01 YOU KNOW, AFTER THIS, YOU KNOW

25:04 THERE'S NO.

25:05 HOW WOULD YOU GUYS WHO ALL SAY

25:07 YOU ALL A PARENT HOW WOULD YOU

25:08 DEAL WITH SEEING YOUR CHILD

25:09 GOING IN AND OUT OF MENTAL

25:10 HOSPITALS WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT

25:11 CAUSED IT?

25:12 HOW DO YOU HEAL THAT TRAUMA

25:14 ESPECIALLY WHEN THE MORE THAT

25:16 YOU SPEAK THE MORE PEOPLE

25:18 RETALIATE AGAINST YOU AND TRY

25:19 TO DEFEND YOUR CHARACTER.

25:20 THEY NEVER CALL YOU WHAT YOU

25:22 ARE WHICH IS A CONCERNED

25:23 PARENT, A MOM WHO'S TRAUMATIZED

25:26 .

25:26 MY CHILD'S NOT THE ONLY ONE

25:28 WHO'S TRAUMATIZED.

25:29 AND SO MOVING FORWARD I THINK

25:31 WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE MORE

25:32 SERIOUS NESS OF THINGS LIKE

25:34 THAT THAT THERE'S A CHILD HOME

25:36 RIGHT NOW WHO I'VE BEEN

25:38 PLEADING WITH FOR THE LAST TWO

25:39 YEARS FOR HELP WITH EDUCATING

25:42 HER.

25:42 ALL RIGHT.

25:43 SO THANK YOU.

25:44 I WANT TO KNOW FOR.

25:45 THE RECORD.

25:45 ALL OF Y'ALL DON'T THINK YOU'RE

25:46 GOING.

25:47 TO.

25:47 GET AS MUCH TIME AS MONICA DID,

25:48 OKAY?

25:49 SO DON'T EVEN TRY IT.

25:51 I JUST KNOW THAT AND EVERY

25:53 VOICE HERE IS IMPORTANT.

25:55 I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT

25:56 BOTH OF THESE PARENTS HAVE BEEN

25:59 AT THIS FOR A FEW YEARS FROM

26:01 FOR YEARS WORKING WITH OUR

26:03 OFFICE, BRINGING THIS TO OUR

26:04 ATTENTION.

26:06 AND IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE

26:07 TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER AND

26:09 SOMETIMES WE JUST HAVE TO SIT

26:10 AND LISTEN AND AND JUST BE IN

26:14 THE SPACE.

26:15 SO THANK YOU MONICA.

26:16 AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE.

26:17 THAT WE ALSO HAVE.

26:18 BEEN JOINED BY A COUNSELOR

26:19 CALLED PEPPER WHEN IT'S TIME

26:21 FOR QUESTIONS.

26:22 YOU COULD.

26:22 HAVE SOME REMARKS.

26:23 SO.

26:24 WE CAN KEEP THINGS.

26:26 NO I DIDN'T DO THAT.

26:27 I'M THE CHAIR.

26:30 ALL RIGHT SO.

26:32 WE GET TWO MINUTES.

26:34 WHO WANTS TO GO NEXT?

26:37 DON'T BE TRYING.

26:38 Y'ALL GOT THREE.

26:39 MINUTES TO YOU DON'T TRY.

26:41 SOMEBODY GET THE.

26:42 PERSONAL CUFF JOB.

26:43 YOU'RE MESSING UP MY SHOW HERE.

26:44 OKAY.

26:45 ALL RIGHT.

26:46 LET'S GO.

26:47 WHO WANTS TO GO NEXT?

26:48 OH.

26:49 GO FIRST.

26:49 OH, SORRY.

26:49 NO, I DIDN'T KNOW.

26:50 OKAY.

26:51 YOU GOOD?

26:52 YEP.

26:52 OKAY.

26:54 UM, SO I'M HERE TODAY SPEAKING

26:57 .

26:57 UM, FROM A DIFFERENT A FEW

26:58 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.

26:59 UM.

27:00 FIRST OF ALL, AS A PARENT

27:01 WHO'S BEEN IMPACTED, UM.

27:03 MY DAUGHTER IS EIGHT YEARS

27:05 OLD.

27:05 UM, AND THERE WAS SEXUAL.

27:07 MISCONDUCT ON HER BUS UM.

27:08 TWO.

27:09 YEARS IN A ROW.

27:11 UM, SHE HAS BEEN PHYSICALLY

27:12 ASSAULTED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS

27:14 .

27:14 BULLIED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS.

27:16 UM, SHE IS THE SWEETEST GIRL.

27:19 UM, ALWAYS GETTING STAR TICKETS

27:21 IN HER CLASS.

27:21 UH, SHE LOVES TO HELP.

27:23 UM, AND LIKE MONICA WAS SAYING

27:26 LIKE THIS HAS A LONG, UM, LONG

27:28 IMPACT LIKE LONG LASTING IMPACT

27:30 ON THE CHILDREN AND ON THE

27:32 PARENTS.

27:33 OF COURSE WE'RE ALL PARENTS AND

27:35 WE KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE WHEN

27:36 WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR BABIES

27:38 AND TO FEEL POWERLESS UM, TO

27:41 NOT FOR THE TRANSPARENCY, NOT

27:43 TO BE THERE.

27:43 UM, FOR THE FOR YOU NOT TO

27:45 RECEIVE THE SUPPORT WHEN YOU'RE

27:46 TAKING ALL THE PROPER STEPS AND

27:49 CHANNELS.

27:50 UM IT'S VERY IT'S VERY HARD.

27:52 UM, MY DAUGHTER HAS A TRAUMA

27:54 HISTORY ALREADY.

27:55 UM, DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,

27:57 UM, AGAINST ME FROM HER FATHER

27:59 AND EMOTIONAL, UM, ABUSE

28:01 TOWARDS HER AS A AS A BABY.

28:02 SHE WAS A BABY AND STUFF THAT

28:04 SHE STILL HAS THERAPY.

28:05 SHE'S GOTTEN SUPPORT THROUGHOUT

28:07 THE YEARS AND I WANT HER TO

28:09 CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS,

28:10 WHICH IS HARD WHEN SHE'S BEING

28:13 IMPACTED.

28:13 UM, JUST SIMPLY FOR GOING TO

28:15 SCHOOL AND SHE HAS SUCH A JOY

28:17 ABOUT SCHOOL.

28:18 SHE LOVES SCHOOL AND I DON'T

28:20 WANT THAT TO BE TAINTED FOR HER

28:21 .

28:22 I WANT HER TO FEEL PASSIONATE.

28:23 I WANT HER TO FEEL LIKE SHE CAN

28:25 DO ANYTHING SHE PUTS HER MIND

28:26 TO.

28:26 AND SO WE'RE WE'RE TALKING

28:28 ABOUT THE THE QUALITY OF LIFE

28:30 THAT OUR CHILDREN HAVE THAT

28:31 MAKE THEM BECOME CONTRIBUTING

28:32 MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WHEN THEY

28:34 GET OLDER.

28:35 UM AND SO WE WANT TO TAKE CARE

28:37 OF THEM IN THESE MOMENTS, UM,

28:39 BECAUSE WE KNOW WE'RE WE'RE

28:41 RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION TO

28:42 COME BEHIND US.

28:43 UM, AND WE WANT STRONG, STRONG

28:46 GENERATION TO COME BEHIND US.

28:48 UM, AND I ALSO WORK WITH

28:49 CHILDREN AS WELL AS A FAMILY

28:51 PARTNER AT THE HOME FOR LITTLE

28:52 WANDERERS AND AN INTENSIVE HOME

28:54 BASED THERAPEUTIC CARE MODEL.

28:56 UM, AND A LOT OF OUR CHILDREN

28:57 THEY'RE THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR

28:59 OWN UM, YOU KNOW, BEHAVIORAL

29:01 ISSUES OR OR DIFFERENT ISSUES

29:02 THAT THEY'RE FACING.

29:04 UM, AND WHEN THEN THEY'RE NOW

29:06 ON TOP OF THAT DEALING WITH THE

29:07 BULLYING AND ASSAULTS AND

29:09 DIFFERENT TYPES OF THINGS IN

29:10 THEIR SCHOOLS.

29:11 UM, IT GETS VERY IT'S HARD FOR

29:14 THEM TO MAKE THE PROGRESS THAT

29:15 THEY NEED SO THAT THEY CAN

29:16 TRANSITION TO GO BACK HOME WITH

29:18 THEIR FAMILIES.

29:19 UM, SO IT'S ON A LOT

29:20 OF DIFFERENT LEVELS.

29:21 UM, IN IN EVEN HERE AT CITY

29:23 HALL ON YOUR ON YOUR FOOTSTEPS

29:24 AS I WAS WALKING UP ONE OF YOUR

29:26 VOLUNTEERS HERE HELP ME TO GET

29:28 UPSTAIRS AND SHE WAS JUST

29:29 TALKING TO ME ABOUT HOW HER

29:32 GRANDCHILD UM, IS IMPACTED BY

29:34 THIS AND HOW THERE NEEDS TO BE

29:36 CHANGE.

29:37 UM, SO EVEN HERE AT YOUR OWN

29:39 FOOTSTEPS AT CITY HALL IT'S

29:40 HAPPENING.

29:41 AND THIS IS WHERE NOT THE

29:43 ANOMALY THE US WHO ARE TALKING

29:44 TODAY.

29:45 WE ARE NOT THE EXCEPTION TO THE

29:46 RULE.

29:47 THIS IS HAPPENING IS VERY

29:48 PERVASIVE.

29:49 UM AND CONCERNING AND WE NEED

29:51 TO ADDRESS IT.

29:52 UM AND I BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING

29:53 THAT HAS BEEN SAID SO FAR.

29:55 THANK YOU.

29:56 COUNCIL MEMBERS.

29:57 UM, YOU GUYS HAVE EVERYTHING

29:58 YOU HAVE SAID HAS BEEN SPOT ON

29:59 .

30:00 UM, AND WE APPRECIATE THE

30:01 SUPPORT AND WE DEMAND THAT LIKE

30:03 THERE'S ACTUAL ACTION.

30:04 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS

30:06 FOR A WHILE BUT SOMETHING NEEDS

30:07 TO BE DONE.

30:09 UM MOVING FORWARD.

30:11 SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

30:15 OKAY.

30:15 ALL RIGHT.

30:16 UM, SO WHO WANTS WHAT'S GOING

30:18 NEXT?

30:19 UH.

30:20 I'M HAPPY TO GO, COUNCIL.

30:21 SO GOOD AFTERNOON.

30:23 MY NAME IS LEON SMITH.

30:24 I'M AN.

30:24 ATTORNEY AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

30:25 .

30:25 AT CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE

30:26 JUSTICE.

30:27 WE'RE A RESEARCH AND POLICY

30:28 ORGANIZATION THAT FOCUSES ON

30:29 YOUTH NEED AND ON ENSURING THAT

30:32 THERE'S TRANSPARENCY IN ALL

30:34 INSTITUTIONS TO SUPPORT YOUNG

30:35 PEOPLE.

30:36 I WANT TO THANK PARENTS FOR

30:37 SPEAKING AND I JUST WANT TO

30:38 SIMPLY STATE THAT RESEARCH

30:40 BACKS UP WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

30:42 STUDIES FROM THE.

30:43 NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON CHILD

30:44 HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

30:45 AND THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL

30:47 ASSOCIATION POINT OUT BULLYING

30:49 DOESN'T JUST NEGATIVELY IMPACT

30:51 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE MOMENT.

30:52 IT HAS AN ONGOING IMPACT THAT

30:54 FOLLOWS YOUNG PEOPLE INTO

30:56 ADULTHOOD.

30:56 IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT

30:58 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE BULLIED

30:59 SUFFER DEPRESSION, PTSD AND

31:02 HIGHER RATES OF SUBSTANCE USE

31:03 AND EVEN SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT

31:06 INTO ADULTHOOD.

31:07 I ALSO NEED TO POINT OUT THAT

31:09 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ENGAGE IN

31:10 BULLYING OFTEN HAVE BEEN

31:12 VICTIMIZED THEMSELVES, NEVER

31:14 GOTTEN SUPPORT AND THEN THEY GO

31:16 FROM BEING VICTIMIZED TO BEING

31:18 THE VICTIM.

31:19 SO WE NEED TO BE VERY

31:21 THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW WE

31:22 INTERVENE.

31:24 IT CANNOT SIMPLY BE ABOUT

31:25 INTERVENING AFTER THE FACT.

31:27 WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON SMART

31:29 APPROACHES INCLUDING PREVENTION

31:31 .

31:32 WE HAVE TO GET TO THIS EARLY

31:33 AND KEEP IT FROM ESCALATING AND

31:35 STOP THIS HARM FROM HAPPENING.

31:37 AND RESEARCH FORTUNATELY GIVES

31:40 US SOME GUIDANCE THERE.

31:41 UM, THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR PEER

31:43 REVIEW STUDIES CONDUCTED OVER.

31:44 THE.

31:44 LAST 12 YEARS WHICH HAVE

31:45 HIGHLIGHTED THAT THE USE

31:46 OF RESTORATIVE PRACTICES

31:48 REDUCES VICTIMIZATION

31:50 OF BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING.

31:52 SO IN THE END THOSE STUDIES

31:54 SHOW THAT WHERE THERE'S

31:55 MEANINGFUL FAITHFUL

31:56 IMPLEMENTATION INVOLVED DOING

31:58 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES YOU HAVE

31:59 FEWER INCIDENTS OF VIOLENT

32:01 BEHAVIOR AGGRESSION, OVERALL

32:03 VIOLENCE AND BULLYING IN

32:06 SCHOOLS.

32:07 SO COUNCILOR MAHI, I KNOW YOU

32:08 HAVE PUT SOME RESTORATIVE

32:09 PRACTICES IN OUR SCHOOLS BEFORE

32:11 IT'S TIME TO RESUME THAT PUSH

32:13 BECAUSE THE RESEARCH SHOWS THAT

32:15 THAT IS AN IMPORTANT

32:17 INTERVENTION.

32:18 BUT I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT

32:19 THAT THOSE.

32:20 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES MEDIATION

32:23 ,CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND

32:24 TRAUMA SENSITIVE LEARNING

32:26 MODELS ARE ALREADY REQUIRED

32:28 UNDER STATE LAW.

32:29 MASS GENERAL LAW CHAPTER 71,

32:31 SECTION 37.75 REQUIRES THOSE AS

32:35 A WAY TO REDUCE SCHOOL

32:37 EXCLUSION.

32:37 BUT IF WE WERE REALLY BUYING IN

32:39 AND ABIDING BY THEM, I BELIEVE

32:40 THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE THESE

32:42 ISSUES OF BULLYING BECAUSE

32:43 THOSE ARE ALSO BEST PRACTICES

32:45 FOR ADDRESSING BULLYING.

32:47 WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY TO

32:48 ENSURE THAT BP AS IS FOLLOWING

32:50 THE LAW THERE.

32:52 WE ALSO HAVE A STATE BULLYING

32:54 STATUTE CHAPTER 71 SECTION 37 O

32:57 ,WHICH REQUIRES SCHOOL STAFF

32:58 MEMBERS TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT

33:00 ANY INCIDENTS OF BULLYING OR

33:02 RETALIATION FOR REPORTING

33:04 BULLYING TO CONDUCT AN

33:06 INVESTIGATION AND TAKE ACTION.

33:09 WHERE IS.

33:10 THE DOCUMENTATION.

33:10 OF THOSE INVESTIGATION AND THE

33:12 ACTIONS THAT ARE TAKEN?

33:14 I BELIEVE THAT THAT SHOULD BE

33:15 PUBLIC FACING EVERY PARENT,

33:17 EVERY COMMUNITY MEMBER AND YOU

33:19 ALL SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE

33:22 INVESTIGATIONS AND THE RESULT.

33:23 AND ONE OTHER POINT THAT I.

33:25 REALLY WANT TO.

33:25 ADDRESS QUICKLY IF I MAY.

33:27 UM AND THIS IS A

33:28 COUNCILOR FLINT'S POINT TO WHAT

33:30 DEGREE IS LAW ENFORCEMENT BEING

33:32 USED AS A AS A RESPONSE TO

33:34 BULLYING?

33:35 WE DON'T KNOW.

33:37 I WENT TO THE DEPARTMENT

33:38 OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

33:39 EDUCATION'S WEBSITE AND I

33:40 LOOKED AT 2425 ZERO AND IT SAYS

33:42 THAT BOSTON HAS ZERO SCHOOL

33:44 BASED ARREST REFERRALS.

33:47 TO COURT.

33:48 AND WE KNOW THAT THAT IS SIMPLY

33:49 NOT TRUE.

33:50 FOR YEARS WE HAVE TRACKED THIS

33:52 DATA.

33:52 BOSTON ALWAYS REPORTS ZERO.

33:55 CHAPTER 71 SECTION £0.37

33:58 REQUIRES IT ANNUALLY NO LATER

33:59 THAN AUGUST 1ST.

34:01 SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE

34:02 REPORTING THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL

34:04 BASED ARREST CITATIONS AND

34:05 REFERRALS TO COURT.

34:06 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO.

34:07 KNOW THE NUMBER.

34:08 OF TIMES LAW ENFORCEMENT IS

34:09 BEING CALLED INTO OUR SCHOOLS

34:10 AND WE DON'T HAVE THAT

34:12 INFORMATION.

34:13 THERE ARE SOME WITHIN BP'S WHO

34:14 BELIEVE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO

34:16 BECAUSE THAT REQUIREMENT IS

34:18 WITHIN THE SRO STATUTE.

34:21 I PERSONALLY DISAGREE, BUT IF

34:22 THAT'S A LOOPHOLE THAT'S BEING

34:23 EXPLOITED TO NOT HAVE

34:25 TRANSPARENCY, THIS BODY SHOULD

34:27 FILE AN ORDINANCE TO CLOSE THAT

34:29 LOOPHOLE SO WE KNOW AND

34:31 UNDERSTAND JUST.

34:32 HOW.

34:32 MUCH POLICE INTERACTION IS

34:34 HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOLS.

34:35 THIS IS ABOUT TRANSPARENCY.

34:37 IT'S ABOUT EVERYONE HAVING THE

34:38 RIGHT TO KNOW AND ABOUT TAKING

34:40 BEST PRACTICES.

34:42 LEGALLY WE'RE SUPPOSED TO

34:44 ALREADY BE DOING AND MAKING

34:45 SURE THAT THEY'RE DONE.

34:46 THANK YOU.

34:47 CAN YOU TELL US ESOL SRO SO.

34:49 THAT FOR.

34:50 FOLKS WHO DON'T KNOW THE

34:51 ACRONYM SRO.

34:53 OUR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER SO

34:55 BOSTON DOES NOT HAVE SCHOOL

34:56 RESOURCE OFFICERS IN THEIR

34:57 SCHOOLS?

34:58 UM, BUT TO THE EXTENT THAT

35:01 POLICE ARE STILL BEING CALLED

35:03 WE SHOULD KNOW HOW.

35:05 OFTEN ARE THEY BEING CALLED,

35:06 WHAT IS THE INTERACTION ARE

35:07 THEY BEING ARREST AND WHAT'S

35:09 HAPPENING BECAUSE AGAIN IT'S

35:10 JUST TRANSPARENCY SO THAT WE

35:11 KNOW HOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT

35:13 SCHOOL SAFETY IF WE DON'T KNOW

35:15 THE.

35:15 DEGREE TO WHICH POLICE ARE

35:18 BEING INVOLVED.

35:18 MHM.

35:19 THANK YOU.

35:21 I SAID THREE MINUTES BECAUSE I

35:23 KNOW A LOT OF Y'ALL GOING TO GO

35:24 I SHOULD HAVE SAID A MINUTE.

35:28 THANK YOU.

35:29 OKAY SO NEXT.

35:32 GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR.

35:34 AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

35:35 MY NAME IS TATIANA SOPHIA GAULT

35:37 AND I SERVE AS THE EXECUTIVE

35:39 DIRECTOR OF MASCOT

35:40 MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR

35:41 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH.

35:42 NOW LET ME REALLY REINTRODUCE

35:45 MYSELF SO WE CAN ALL GET

35:47 ACQUAINTED.

35:48 I AM THE DAUGHTER OF PABLO

35:49 ANTONIO BILL DUKE, LEBANESE MAN

35:51 RAISED IN ARGENTINA, DAUGHTER

35:53 OF TERESINA THE SANTOS

35:53 RODRIGUEZ ANTONIO BRAZILIAN

35:55 NATIONAL INHERITED FROM

35:56 PORTUGAL AND SPAIN AND I'M A

35:58 PROUD MOTHER OF SOPHIA JAMILA

36:00 ANTONIO PERUVIAN BORN AND DAVID

36:03 OR DEBBIE BERNARD US BORN

36:05 IMMIGRANT TO MY.

36:06 CORE NOW USED TO BULLYING FROM

36:10 DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES RACE TO

36:11 BE RESILIENT AND A VERY CURIOUS

36:13 ADVOCATE FOR THE LITTLE CHILD I

36:14 LEFT BEHIND IN EVERY NEW SCHOOL

36:16 IN EVERY NEW TABLE WHERE SNACKS

36:19 WERE DENIED WHAT EVERY PETTY

36:21 COMMENT ABOUT SHOES I DIDN'T

36:23 HAVE OR A CAR MADE UP SHIFT BOW

36:26 HANDMADE SO BY MY MOTHER.

36:28 SO WITH THAT IN MIND I WANT TO

36:29 HELP YOU RECONCILE DATA AND I

36:31 ALSO WANT TO RECONCILE MY

36:33 EXPERIENCE AND WHY I AM SO

36:35 FIERCELY ADVOCATE FOR EVERY

36:37 SINGLE CHILD AND PARENT.

36:38 HERE A I'M A PARENT BE I'M ALSO

36:44 EXPERT IN CHILDHOOD

36:45 DEVELOPMENT.

36:47 SO LET'S WORK ON THAT.

36:48 WORKER SAFETY AND HEALTH BEGINS

36:50 WITH THE INTERSECTION OF ALL

36:51 HEALTHY MINDS, HEALTHY BODIES

36:53 AND HEALTHY SCHOOLS.

36:54 THE SCHOOLS ARE WORKPLACES

36:56 WHERE EDUCATORS,

36:58 PARAPROFESSIONALS, CUSTODIANS,

36:59 CAFETERIA WORKERS AND OTHER

37:01 STAFF.

37:01 THEY ARE ALSO WHERE YOUNG

37:02 PEOPLE DEVELOP EXPECTATIONS

37:03 ABOUT DIGNITY AND AUTHORITY,

37:06 BELONGING AND THE RIGHT TO

37:07 SPEAK UP WHEN SOMETHING IS

37:08 WRONG.

37:09 WE CANNOT BUILD SAFE WORKPLACES

37:11 WHILE ALLOWING INTIMIDATION AND

37:13 HUMILIATION TO BECOME ORDINARY

37:14 PARTS OF GROWING UP.

37:17 I AM ASKING BOSTON TO MAKE A

37:19 BULLY PREVENTION, A FUND AND A

37:21 FUNDING PUBLIC HEALTH PRIORITY

37:23 SUPPORTED BY SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

37:25 LEARNING, EARLY INTERVENTION

37:27 AND CAREFULLY IMPLEMENTED

37:28 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES.

37:29 YOU'RE GOING TO ASK WHY?

37:31 BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT TO DO AND

37:33 HOW TO DO IT.

37:34 SO WE'RE GOING TO BREAK IT DOWN

37:35 FOR YOU.

37:36 SO THE MASSACHUSETTS EVIDENCE

37:38 BASE DEMANDS OUR ATTENTION

37:40 SIMILAR TO MY COLLEAGUE I'M

37:41 GOING TO GIVE YOU GUYS DATA SO

37:43 YOU CAN ELABORATE MOVING

37:44 FORWARD.

37:45 ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT

37:46 OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN 2023

37:48 MASSACHUSETTS YOUTH HEALTH

37:50 SURVEY 45% OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL

37:52 STUDENTS REPORTED BULLYING

37:53 CYBER BULLYING IN PREVIOUS

37:55 YEARS AMONGST HIGH SCHOOL

37:56 STUDENTS, APPROXIMATELY 25%

37:58 REPORTED BULLYING.

37:59 THE BURDEN WAS ESPECIALLY

38:01 PRONOUNCED AMONG THE NONBINARY

38:02 YOUTH, TRANSGENDER SPECIAL ED

38:05 OR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS WITH

38:07 DISABILITIES AND NEARLY 75%

38:09 OF THE NONBINARY AND OTHER

38:11 GENDERS AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

38:12 STUDENTS REPORTED BULLYING OR

38:14 CYBER BULLYING.

38:15 THESE FINDINGS ARE STATE WIDE

38:17 FUNDINGS FINDINGS BUT THEY

38:19 SHOULD BE AND THEY SHOULD CALL

38:21 FOR BOSTON'S URGENCY.

38:25 WE ARE THE BLUEPRINT FOR THE

38:26 REST OF THE STATE.

38:27 WE SHOULD DO BETTER.

38:28 WE HAVE MORE RESOURCES AND WE

38:30 HAVE ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST MINDS

38:31 HERE.

38:33 THIS DISPARITIES MUST GUIDE US

38:35 WHERE TO INVEST.

38:38 I SEE THIS MORE NAMI

38:40 MASSACHUSETTS FACT SHEET

38:42 COMPILED USING DATA AVAILABLE

38:43 IN MARCH OF 2025.

38:45 SO THE REPORTS THAT 14% OF THE

38:48 CHILDREN AGES 0 TO 17 HAS

38:50 EXPERIENCED AT LEAST TWO

38:52 ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES

38:53 THAT ALSO REPORT APPROXIMATELY

38:55 ONE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST FOR

38:57 EVERY 686 PUBLIC SCHOOL

39:01 STUDENTS, WHICH IN REALITY THE

39:04 RECOMMENDED RATIO IS 1 TO 500.

39:07 SO WE ARE IN A SHORTAGE.

39:09 SO WE MUST MATCH OF EXPECTATION

39:10 OF THE SCHOOLS WITH THE

39:12 STAFFING NEEDED TO MEET THEM.

39:13 I'M ONLY.

39:14 VALIDATING THEIR STATEMENT.

39:16 WE DID NOT COMBINE WE DID NOT

39:18 REHEARSE.

39:19 SO MASSACHUSETTS THE DEPARTMENT

39:21 OF PUBLIC HEALTH HEAL FRAMEWORK

39:24 EXPLICITLY EMPHASIZES ON THE

39:25 PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE BEFORE

39:27 IT BEGINS IS TRAINING THE YOUNG

39:29 PEOPLE SKILLS, SUPPORTING

39:30 HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AND

39:31 IMPROVING THE COMMUNITY

39:32 CONDITIONS TO PROTECT.

39:33 AND IT IS FRAMEWORK RECOGNIZES

39:36 INTERVENTION AFTER HARM.

39:38 WHAT MY COLLEAGUE JUST STATED

39:40 IS PRECISELY.

39:40 THAT WE ARE FUNDED BY DPA.

39:43 WE DO IT.

39:44 WE HAVE SEEN HOW IT WORKS AND

39:46 YOU WILL HEARD MY YOUTH.

39:47 THEY ARE FAR MORE WILLING THE

39:50 MY EXPERIENCE CAN ACTUALLY

39:51 DICTATE NOW SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

39:54 LEARNING BELONGS WITH THE

39:56 STRATEGY IS TEACH PRACTICAL

39:58 SKILLS AND RECOGNIZE.

40:00 SO MY CALL OF ACTION IT WILL BE

40:01 FIRST FUND SUSTAIN PREVENTION

40:04 SUPPORT THE RECURRING SOCIAL

40:05 EMOTIONAL LEARNING

40:06 ANTI-BULLYING AND EDUCATION

40:07 DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP BYSTANDER

40:09 SKILL PAID TRAINING FOR FOUR

40:11 SCHOOL STAFF INCLUDE ACCESSIBLE

40:14 MULTILINGUAL FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

40:15 AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

40:16 WITH TRUSTED RELATIONSHIPS AND

40:18 AMPLIFY THE CURRENT PEER LEADER

40:21 TRAINING MODEL THAT HAS WORKED

40:23 FOR MY GOSH OUR TEENS LEAD OUR

40:25 WORK.

40:26 SECOND, MAKE EARLY HELP

40:30 ACCESSIBLE AND PREVENTION THE

40:32 STANDARD NOT REMEDIATION.

40:34 THIRD, ESTABLISH A CONSISTENT

40:36 RESPONSE TO HARM.

40:37 I WILL ACTUALLY CALL UH

40:40 COUNCIL MEMBER FLYNN IF YOU

40:41 WANT TO HAT UH STEERING

40:43 COMMITTEE.

40:44 WE'RE HAPPY TO SUPPORT YOU ON

40:45 THAT NOW.

40:47 FOURTH, GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE AND

40:49 WORKERS A MEANINGFUL ROLE

40:50 INCLUDE STUDENTS, FAMILIES,

40:51 SCHOOL EMPLOYEES, UNIONS,

40:53 DISABILITY ADVOCATES AND

40:54 COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN DESIGNING

40:56 THIS ASSESSMENT.

40:58 IF IT ISN'T FOR US, DO IT WITH

41:01 US NOW.

41:02 FIFTH MEASURE SAFETY RATHER

41:04 THAN SIMPLY COUNTING

41:05 PUNISHMENTS.

41:07 REQUEST A COORDINATED

41:08 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR 90 DAYS

41:10 AND FIVE RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES

41:12 STAFFING NEEDS, COSTS AND

41:13 MILESTONES SEEK ANNUAL PUBLIC

41:15 REPORTING ON A STUDENT

41:16 REPORTING BULLY.

41:18 THEN AGAIN.

41:19 AND THAT'S IT.

41:20 EVERYBODY HAS SAID ALREADY I'M

41:21 JUST AMPLIFYING AND REPLICATING

41:23 ON BEHALF OF MY TEAM GROUP

41:26 ADVISORY AND EVERY YOUNG

41:27 REPRESENTATIVE WE BRING TODAY.

41:29 WE WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO

41:30 WORK ALONGSIDE EACH AND EVERY

41:32 ONE OF YOU TO ENSURE THAT THIS

41:34 BECOMES A NEW NORM.

41:35 THANK YOU.

41:38 OKAY.

41:39 I'M HERE.

41:40 I DIDN'T COME HERE TO PLAY.

41:40 NO.

41:41 THAT'S WHAT THEY LIKE.

41:43 OKAY.

41:44 DON'T BE SHY.

41:45 OH.

41:45 WE HAVE THREE MINUTES

41:46 BECAUSE I.

41:47 WILL DEFINITELY.

41:47 THAT'S IT.

41:48 THREE MINUTES.

41:49 I KEEP SAYING THAT Y'ALL

41:51 JUST THE MORE YOU TALK THE LESS

41:53 QUESTIONS WE'RE GOING TO ASK.

41:54 SO YOU KNOW AND COLLEAGUES GET

41:57 YOUR QUESTIONS.

41:59 GOT THREE MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS

42:00 AND THAT'S IT.

42:02 GO.

42:03 NO NO THERE WE GO NOW WE GO.

42:05 ALL RIGHT.

42:06 UM, APOLOGIES FOR MY.

42:08 UM, EXHAUSTION.

42:09 I'M ALSO IN THE PROCESS

42:11 OF BECOMING A PARENT MYSELF AND

42:12 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

42:13 YEAH, I'M ADOPTING MY, UM, 14

42:15 YEAR OLD LITTLE COUSIN WHO'S.

42:16 INVOLVED IN.

42:17 THE SYSTEM, UM, FROM

42:18 CALIFORNIA.

42:19 SO I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THAT

42:21 A LOT.

42:21 SO HEARING A LOT OF THE

42:22 TESTAMENTS UM, FROM OUR.

42:24 PARENTS ALSO DOES WORRY ME NOW

42:26 THAT I'M CONSIDERING BOSTON

42:26 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR MY LITTLE

42:28 COUSIN.

42:29 UM, BUT LET'S GET STARTED.

42:31 SO GOOD AFTERNOON,

42:33 COUNCIL COUNCILOR MEJIA AND

42:34 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, UM,

42:35 AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS

42:35 HERE AND OUR COALITION MEMBERS

42:38 ,OF COURSE.

42:38 AND SINCE THIS WE'RE DOING OUR

42:40 JUSTICE.

42:41 I AM KIM CLAY, EXECUTIVE

42:42 DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON

42:44 EDUCATION JUSTICE ALLIANCE.

42:45 I'M A ALUM AS WELL AS A FORMER

42:48 STUDENT REP ON THE BOSTON

42:49 SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

42:51 UM, I'M HERE BECAUSE STUDENTS

42:52 CAN NOT LEARN, THRIVE OR REACH

42:54 THEIR FULL POTENTIAL IN

42:54 ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THEY DO NOT

42:56 FEEL SAFE, RESPECTED AND

42:57 PROTECTED.

42:58 AND WE HAVE TO BE HONEST.

43:00 STUDENT SAFETY IS INSEPARABLE.

43:01 FROM HOW.

43:02 OUR INSTITUTIONS RESPOND TO

43:04 RACISM, BULLYING, HARASSMENT

43:06 AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT.

43:08 IN 2016 WHEN I WAS STARTING MY

43:10 STINT ON THE BOSTON SCHOOL

43:11 COMMITTEE, A FEDERAL CIVIL

43:12 RIGHTS INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT

43:13 BOSTON LAND SCHOOL MISHANDLED

43:14 BLACK STUDENTS COMPLAINTS

43:16 INVOLVING RACIAL SLURS AND UM,

43:19 THREATS OF LYNCHING.

43:20 THIS WAS NOT A SIMPLE CONFLICT

43:21 BETWEEN STUDENTS.

43:23 IT WAS A FAILURE

43:24 OF INSTITUTIONAL

43:25 ACCOUNTABILITY.

43:26 BUT THIS CONVERSATION CANNOT

43:28 STOP AT ANTI-BLACK RACISM.

43:29 LATINO STUDENTS AND FAMILIES

43:30 MUST ALSO BE PROTECTED FROM.

43:34 HARASSMENT.

43:35 XENOPHOBIA, BIAS BASED

43:36 VIOLENCE, UM AND BIAS BASED

43:38 VIOLENCE.

43:39 EVERY STUDENT DESERVES THE SAME

43:41 PROTECTIONS REGARDLESS OF THEIR

43:42 RACE, ETHNICITY AND LANGUAGE

43:44 OUR IMMIGRATION BACKGROUND.

43:46 WE MUST ALSO CONFRONT SEXUAL

43:48 MISCONDUCT IN OUR SCHOOLS.

43:49 IN 2024, BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

43:51 INVESTIGATED SERIOUS

43:52 ALLEGATIONS OF STUDENTS ON

43:54 STUDENT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND

43:56 BULLYING AT THE GARDNER PILOT

43:57 ACADEMY.

43:58 THIS CASE RAISED TROUBLING

43:59 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW SCHOOL

44:00 LEADERS RESPONDED WHEN STUDENTS

44:02 REPORT HARM AND WHEN THE

44:04 INSTITUTIONS FAIL.

44:05 THE FAILURES ALLOWED THE HARM

44:07 TO CONTINUE.

44:07 NASA DATA REINFORCES THE

44:10 URGENCY.

44:11 UM AND WHEN THE MOST RECENT

44:12 REPORTS FROM THE CDC IN 2024,

44:15 UM 45.9 BLACK HIGH SCHOOL

44:16 STUDENTS HAD EXPERIENCED RACISM

44:18 IN SCHOOLS.

44:20 UM MEANWHILE, BOSTON 25

44:21 INVESTIGATES REPORTED 131

44:23 STUDENTS WERE DISCIPLINED FOR

44:25 SEXUAL ASSAULTS BETWEEN 2013

44:28 AND 2022, INCLUDING 69 BLACK 58

44:30 HISPANIC STUDENTS AND ONLY

44:31 THREE OF THEM BEING WHITE

44:33 STUDENTS.

44:34 THOSE THIS THOSE THOSE

44:37 DISCIPLINARY UM FIGURES ARE NOT

44:39 A MEASURE OF ALL ASSAULTS BUT

44:41 THEY DEMAND SCRUTINY OF STUDENT

44:42 SAFETY, INVESTIGATIVE PRACTICES

44:44 AND RACIAL DISPARITIES AND

44:45 DISCIPLINE.

44:46 WE MUST PROTECT SURVIVORS.

44:48 HOLD THOSE RESPONSIBLE

44:49 ACCOUNTABLE AND ENSURE OUR

44:51 RESPONSES DO NOT REPRODUCE THE

44:53 INEQUALITIES, THE INEQUITIES WE

44:55 ARE TRYING TO DISMANTLE.

44:57 THIS MEANS MOVING BEYOND

44:58 POLICIES ON PAPERS.

44:59 THIS MEANS ACCESSIBLE

45:01 MULTILINGUAL REPORTING SYSTEMS.

45:03 TRAUMA INFORMED SUPPORT.

45:05 PROTECTION FROM RETALIATION.

45:07 TIMELY INVESTIGATION AND

45:09 TRANSPARENT REPORTING ON

45:10 OUTCOMES.

45:12 WE ALSO NEED MEANINGFUL STUDENT

45:13 AND FAMILY PROTECT

45:15 PARTICIPATION.

45:15 AS A FORMER STUDENT

45:16 REPRESENTATIVE ON THE SCHOOL

45:17 COMMITTEE, I KNOW YOUNG PEOPLE

45:18 ARE NOT SIMPLY, UM, RECIPIENTS

45:20 OF SCHOOL POLICY.

45:21 THEY HAVE A CENTRAL INSIGHT

45:23 INTO THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES AND

45:24 MUST HELP SHAPE THE SYSTEMS

45:25 DESIGNED TO PROTECT THEM.

45:28 BASIA CALLED ON THE BOSTON

45:29 PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE CITY

45:30 COUNCIL TO ESTABLISH MEASURABLE

45:31 STANDARDS FOR PREVENTION AND

45:33 ACCOUNTABILITY.

45:34 EVALUATE HOW SCHOOL POLICIES

45:35 AFFECT DIFFERENT STUDENT

45:37 POPULATIONS AND ENSURE FAMILIES

45:39 CAN REPORT HARM AND ACCESS

45:41 STUDENT SUPPORT IN THEIR

45:42 PREFERRED LANGUAGE.

45:43 WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR

45:45 FEDERAL INVESTIGATION A PUBLIC

45:46 SCANDAL OUR FAMILY GOING TO THE

45:48 MEDIA BEFORE STUDENTS SAFETY

45:49 BECOMES OUR PRIORITY.

45:50 SAFETY IS NOT A PRIVILEGE.

45:52 STUDENT DIGNITY IS NOT

45:54 NEGOTIABLE.

45:54 AND ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT AN

45:56 OPTION.

45:58 THANK YOU.

45:59 OKAY.

46:00 THANK YOU.

46:01 OKAY.

46:02 THANK YOU.

46:04 GOOD JOB.

46:05 UM ALL RIGHT, SO I AM GOING TO

46:08 UM, EACH OF MY.

46:09 COLLEAGUES JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE

46:12 IT'S A NONTRADITIONAL.

46:14 I JUST I WANT TO KNOW FOR THE

46:15 RECORD BEFORE ANYONE STARTS.

46:18 YOU KNOW.

46:19 CREATING SCENARIOS THAT DO

46:20 NOT EXIST IS THAT WE WANT TO

46:22 MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THROUGH

46:24 THIS HEARING AND WE HAVE A BIG

46:27 PANEL OF COMMUNITY ADVOCATES.

46:28 WE HAVE THE ADMIN PANEL AND

46:30 THEN WE HAVE A YOUTH PANEL.

46:31 AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE

46:33 THAT WE HONOR THE YOUTH AND

46:34 THEY'RE THE ONES THAT WE REALLY

46:36 WANT TO CENTER A LOT OF THIS

46:37 CONVERSATION WITH.

46:37 BUT WE GOT TO GET TO THEM.

46:39 SOME OF THEM ARE ON THEIR WAY

46:40 FROM SCHOOL.

46:41 SO I JUST WANT TO HONOR TIME.

46:43 AND KEEP.

46:44 EVERYONE ON TIME SO YOU EACH

46:45 GET THREE MINUTES FOR YOUR

46:47 QUESTIONS AND I'M GOING TO WAVE

46:49 MY QUESTIONS SO THAT WE CAN

46:50 KEEP ON TIME.

46:50 JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW.

46:54 UM AND I'M GOING TO GO IN THE

46:55 ORDER.

46:55 OF ARRIVAL.

46:56 SO IT'S COUNCILOR MURPHY

46:57 FOLLOWED BY FLYNN.

46:59 FITZGERALD AND THEN CULPEPER.

47:01 YOU EACH GET THREE MINUTES.

47:03 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

47:05 FLOOR.

47:06 UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR

47:08 TESTIMONY.

47:09 IT'S IMPORTANT TO HEAR IT AND

47:10 GET.

47:11 IT.

47:11 ON THE RECORD.

47:12 SOME OF THIS I SAID IN MY ONE

47:14 MINUTE OPENING STATEMENT BUT I

47:15 JUST WANT TO REITERATE THAT

47:16 WHAT I WANT FROM THIS HEARING

47:18 IS A CLEAR EXPLANATION OF WHY I

47:20 FOUGHT FOR YEARS TO KEEP

47:22 THOUSANDS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

47:24 RECORDS.

47:24 FROM THE.

47:25 PUBLIC, HOW REPORTS ARE AND.

47:27 WERE.

47:28 INVESTIGATED AND WHAT WAS DONE

47:30 TO PROTECT OUR STUDENTS.

47:31 TO ME THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT

47:32 PART.

47:34 I CANNOT KEEP HIDING BEHIND

47:35 STUDENT PRIVACY TO AVOID

47:37 ACCOUNTABILITY.

47:38 I DO AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY THAT

47:40 PROTECTING STUDENTS IDENTITIES

47:42 IS ESSENTIAL, BUT WE CAN DO

47:44 THAT WHILE GIVING REAL ANSWERS

47:46 TO TOUGH QUESTIONS THAT CAN'T

47:48 BE A REASON FOR NOT GIVING

47:49 ANSWERS WHEN INCIDENTS ARE

47:51 MISSING FROM THE DATA.

47:52 HOW CAN FAMILIES OR THIS

47:54 COUNCIL EVALUATE WHETHER BEPS

47:55 IS RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY?

47:58 I RAISED THESE CONCERNS BACK IN

48:00 2023.

48:01 I SAID I HAD A 17 EFF OUT WITH

48:03 ABOUT.

48:03 1600 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT UM

48:06 REPORTS THAT HAD NO

48:08 EXPLANATIONS AND NOW WE'RE

48:09 HEARING THAT, YOU KNOW,

48:10 THOUSANDS.

48:11 OF REPORTS WITHOUT ANY

48:13 EXPLANATION.

48:14 SO TO ME SOME QUESTIONS MAYBE.

48:17 REALLY UM, TO YOU IS WHAT

48:21 IMMEDIATE PROTECTIONS DO YOU

48:23 FEEL?

48:24 AND I THINK SOME OF YOU ALREADY

48:25 SAID THIS IN YOUR STATEMENTS

48:27 BUT ARE AVAILABLE WHILE AN

48:30 INVESTIGATION IS PENDING

48:32 INCLUDING CLASSROOM ON BUSSES,

48:34 SCHOOL ACTIVITIES YOU KNOW

48:36 CAFETERIA THERE'S MANY TIMES

48:38 STUDENTS ARE OUTSIDE OF THEIR

48:39 CLASSROOM TEACHERS I SO HOW DO

48:42 YOU FEEL AS PARENTS WHO HAVE

48:43 GONE THROUGH THIS AND MAYBE THE

48:45 ANSWERS THERE AREN'T BUT OR

48:47 WHAT PROTECTIONS WOULD YOU HAVE

48:49 HOPED WERE THERE AND MAYBE

48:50 WOULD BE A BETTER WAY TO ASK.

48:51 THAT MAYBE HAVING TEACHING SOME

48:55 TYPE OF CURRICULUM.

48:56 ABOUT ABUSE AND WHAT.

48:57 ABUSE LOOKS LIKE AND REPORTING

48:59 ABUSE INSIDE OF AND TELLING

49:03 THAT TELLING THE KIDS THAT IT'S

49:05 OKAY TO REPORT ABUSE.

49:09 HOW WOULD YOU REACT TO IT?

49:11 WELL AS.

49:12 I ALREADY STATED IN MY YOU

49:14 KNOW WE TEACH OUR KIDS THEY

49:15 KNOW THE DRUGS YOU KNOW, STAY

49:17 AWAY FROM STRANGERS, STAY IN

49:18 SCHOOL.

49:19 YOU KNOW, WE TEACH THEM ABOUT

49:20 WHAT'S A GOOD TOUCH A BAD

49:22 TOUCH.

49:23 SO IN MY CHILD'S CASE SHE DID

49:24 WHAT WE RAISED HER TO DO WHICH.

49:26 IS TELL.

49:27 WHETHER IT WAS A STUDENT

49:28 BECAUSE I HEAR A LOT ABOUT THE

49:30 STUDENT ON STUDENT.

49:31 SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT'S A

49:32 TEACHER?

49:33 AN ADULT WHO KNOWS BETTER?

49:34 BUT THE BIGGER PROBLEM IS THAT

49:36 YOU HAVE THE OTHER ADULTS IN

49:38 THIS SITUATION WHO ARE WORKING

49:40 WITH THEM TO COVER IT UP.

49:44 SO IT'S IT'S REPORTED IT'S

49:47 THERE.

49:47 BUT IF NOBODY'S MAKING THE

49:49 INCIDENT REPORT CALLING THE

49:50 POLICE ANYTHING LIKE THAT THEN

49:51 .

49:52 NOT THIS IS WHY THE NUMBERS ARE

49:54 OFF.

49:54 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DATA

49:56 BECAUSE WE THE KID TOLD WE KNOW

49:59 THAT.

50:00 BUT IF THE ADULT WHO'S SUPPOSED

50:01 TO REPORT THAT TO THE PROPER

50:03 AUTHORITIES IS NOT DOING THAT

50:04 BECAUSE THEY'RE COVERING FOR

50:05 THEIR COLLEAGUE, THAT'S WHEN A

50:07 BIGGER ISSUE YOU KNOW.

50:09 I THINK THAT THEY THINK THAT

50:10 THEY HAVE MORE IMMUNITY.

50:12 THEY FEEL.

50:14 LIKE THEY'RE PROTECTED AND

50:15 NO ONE'S TAKING.

50:16 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CERTAIN.

50:17 THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED.

50:18 AND THEN I WOULD ALSO ADD.

50:20 TO UM, WHAT YOU WERE SAYING

50:22 LIKE THERE'S NO FOLLOW THROUGH

50:23 SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S NO FOLLOW

50:24 THROUGH.

50:25 LIKE ONCE YOU REACH A CERTAIN

50:26 POINT YOU CAN'T GET ANY FURTHER

50:28 PAST THAT AND WITHOUT THERE'S

50:30 NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND

50:31 TRANSPARENCY.

50:32 UM AND THEN I WANTED TO ADD IN

50:34 ALSO IN TERMS OF LIKE THE

50:36 BUSSES HAVING QUALIFIED BUS

50:38 MONITORS THEY NEED THERE NEEDS

50:40 TO BE SUPERVISION ON THE BUS.

50:42 UM WHEN YOU TALK WITH THE

50:44 SCHOOL ABOUT IT THE SCHOOL IS

50:45 LIKE WELL THAT'S NOT OUR

50:46 RESPONSIBILITY.

50:47 IT'S THAT WE USED TO HAVE OUR

50:48 OUR BUS MONITORS ON THE BUS.

50:50 UM BUT THEN NOW BP DOESN'T WANT

50:52 OUR BUS MONITORS ON THE BUS AND

50:53 THEY HAVE THEIR OWN BUT THEY

50:54 ARE NOT QUALIFIED.

50:55 THEY'RE NOT TRAINED.

50:57 THEY ARE UH THEY JUST ARE ILL

50:59 AND THEN THEY'RE NOT EVEN ON

51:00 THE BUSSES.

51:01 THAT'S ONLY IF YOU GET UM IF

51:02 YOU HAVE A CHILD WHO THEN

51:04 THEY'RE ASSIGNED TO BUT THEN ON

51:06 THE OTHER BUSSES THAT THEY

51:07 DON'T HAVE THAT ASSIGNMENT

51:08 THERE'S NO BUS MONITORS AND YOU

51:10 CAN FOLLOW THEM IN TRAFFIC AND

51:12 YOU SEE THEM THROWING STUFF OUT

51:13 THE WINDOW.

51:13 THEY'RE JUMPING ON TOP OF EACH

51:14 OTHER FIGHTING.

51:16 UM, IT'S A LOT OF US AND THE

51:17 BUS DRIVER CAN'T POSSIBLY

51:19 MANAGE THAT.

51:21 UM, SO I THINK HAVING LIKE

51:23 SUPERVISION BECAUSE AS PARENTS

51:24 WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT

51:26 WITH OUR CHILDREN.

51:26 COULD YOU IMAGINE DRIVING

51:27 THROUGH TRAFFIC.

51:28 AND YOU SEE IT WOULDN'T BE

51:30 TOLERATED.

51:31 SO THANK YOU COUNCIL ME HERE

51:32 FOR MY EXTRA SECONDS.

51:33 I'LL JUST END WITH THE

51:34 STATEMENT THAT THIS PAST BUDGET

51:37 CYCLE THOUGH THE BUDGET PASSED

51:40 I DIDN'T SUPPORT IT.

51:41 BUT YOU KNOW HUNDREDS

51:43 OF TEACHERS MANY OF THEM PARAS

51:44 THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE WORKING.

51:45 WITH NONVERBAL STUDENTS.

51:47 BUS MONITORS, CAFETERIA SUPPORT

51:49 WERE CUT.

51:50 FROM AND THAT DOESN'T HELP

51:51 THIS.

51:51 SITUATION AT ALL.

51:52 NO THANK YOU THAT'S REALLY

51:53 YEAH.

51:54 SO I JUST WANT TO KNOW FOR THE

51:55 RECORD TWO THINGS.

51:55 ONE IS THAT.

51:57 I LET MY COLLEAGUES.

51:58 GO LONGER THAN.

51:59 THE ONE.

52:00 MINUTE.

52:00 OPENING AND TWO I'VE LET THEM

52:01 GO LONGER IN THEIR QUESTION.

52:03 AND SO I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND

52:04 THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO OUR

52:05 BEST TO.

52:06 MANAGE ALL OF THIS.

52:08 SO UM BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH AN

52:09 IMPORTANT TOPIC SO I APPRECIATE

52:11 EVERYBODY'S PATIENCE.

52:12 YEAH.

52:13 UM.

52:15 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

52:16 FLOOR.

52:17 THANK THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

52:21 COUNCILOR MURPHY REFERENCED A

52:22 17 F WHICH IS A BASICALLY A

52:25 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FROM

52:26 THE CITY COUNCIL TO THE CITY

52:28 ADMINISTRATION.

52:29 WE FILE THAT HOPING TO GET THE

52:31 DATA ON BULLYING, SEXUAL

52:34 ASSAULTS, HARASSMENT

52:36 OF STUDENTS.

52:36 UM, WE NEVER GOT THAT.

52:38 UM, IT WAS DENIED THAT.

52:40 SO.

52:40 UM, OUR REQUEST WAS DENIED.

52:43 UM, THERE WAS A REPORTER THAT

52:45 WENT TO HAD TO GO TO COURT

52:47 RECENTLY AND HE GOT THE

52:48 INFORMATION BASICALLY WE WERE

52:50 WE WERE REQUESTING HE GOT IT

52:52 FROM SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT.

52:55 UM AND IT HIGHLIGHTED ABOUT

52:58 2000 ASSAULTS, BULLYING, SEXUAL

53:02 HARASSMENT, SEXUAL VIOLENCE

53:04 AGAINST STUDENT ON STUDENTS,

53:05 TEACHER ON STUDENTS.

53:09 UM BUT THAT DATA WOULD NOT HAVE

53:11 BEEN PUBLIC WITHOUT THIS

53:14 REPORTER GOING TO COURT.

53:15 BUT THE BUT THE INFORMATION

53:17 SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN WHEN

53:19 MYSELF AND COUNCILOR MURPHY

53:21 ASKED FOR IT SEVERAL YEARS AGO

53:23 .

53:24 UM, WE'RE NOT HELPING PEOPLE.

53:26 WE'RE NOT HELPING STUDENTS.

53:28 WE'RE NOT HELPING FAMILIES.

53:29 WE'RE NOT HELPING THE COMMUNITY

53:32 .

53:32 WHEN WE DENY THAT THERE'S A

53:33 PROBLEM, WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE

53:35 THAT THERE IS A MAJOR.

53:38 MAJOR PROBLEM.

53:39 AND DEAL WITH IT TRANSPARENTLY

53:41 .

53:42 BUT TO SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE A

53:44 PROBLEM AND DENY EVERYBODY THE

53:47 ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION.

53:49 I BELIEVE THIS INFORMATION

53:50 SHOULD BE PUBLIC.

53:52 AS I SAID IN MY OPENING

53:53 STATEMENT, MAKING SURE THAT WE

53:56 TAKE OUT THE PERSON'S NAME OR

53:58 ANY IDENTIFY IDENTIFICATION

54:00 IDENTIFICATION.

54:01 INFORMATION ON A CHILD UM BUT

54:04 BEFORE WE BEFORE WE ARE ABLE TO

54:07 SOLVE A PROBLEM, UH, WE HAVE

54:09 TO.

54:09 KNOW THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM

54:10 AND IN THIS 2000 INCIDENTS.

54:14 THESE AREN'T ISOLATED.

54:15 CASES IN A LOT OF THESE CASES.

54:19 DON'T GET REPORTED AS WELL.

54:21 I LISTEN CLOSELY.

54:22 TO EVERY SINGLE WORD FROM THE

54:24 PUBLIC.

54:25 TESTIMONY AND.

54:27 AND AS.

54:28 A PARENT.

54:31 I UNDERSTAND.

54:31 THE THE TRAUMA YOU AND YOUR

54:33 FAMILY ARE GOING THROUGH

54:35 ESPECIALLY.

54:36 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

54:39 NONVERBAL CHILDREN THEY GO TO

54:43 SCHOOL BECAUSE.

54:46 THEY NEED.

54:47 SERVICES AND AN EDUCATION.

54:48 AND THEY WEREN'T GETTING THAT

54:50 THEY WEREN'T.

54:51 GETTING THAT EDUCATION IN A

54:53 SAFE ENVIRONMENT.

54:54 BUT I DO THINK YOU COME TO THE

54:56 CITY COUNCIL.

54:58 FOR RESULTS FOR ANSWERS BECAUSE

55:02 SOMEONE ASKED YOU KNOW, WHAT

55:03 ABOUT FOR YOUR CHILD?

55:04 WHAT WOULD YOU DO ABOUT IT?

55:06 AND IT GOES NOTHING YOU DID UM

55:08 WHAT I WOULD DO.

55:09 ABOUT IT IS I WOULD GO DIRECTLY

55:11 TO THE SUPERINTENDENT IF IT WAS

55:13 MY CHILD.

55:13 BUT NOT EVERYONE CAN DO THAT.

55:15 THAT'S WHY YOU COME TO THE CITY

55:17 COUNCIL TO GET SOME JUSTICE FOR

55:19 YOUR FAMILY.

55:20 AND IT SHOULDN'T TAKE A COURT

55:24 CASE AT SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT

55:27 TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE.

55:28 HAVE.

55:29 SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS.

55:30 WE NEED TO LISTEN TO THE

55:31 MOTHERS.

55:31 THAT ARE.

55:32 EXPRESSED TO THEM EXPRESSING

55:34 THEMSELVES PERFECTLY HERE

55:36 ELOQUENTLY HERE ABOUT THEIR

55:38 CHILDREN AND THE TRAUMA THEIR

55:41 CHILDREN ARE GOING GOING

55:42 THROUGH BECAUSE WE AS ITS AS A

55:45 CITY DID NOT SUPPORT THEM.

55:48 UM WE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT

55:51 THESE CHILDREN AND THESE

55:53 FAMILIES ARE TREATED WITH

55:55 RESPECT AND DIGNITY AND THEY'RE

55:57 NOT GETTING IT.

55:58 YOU'RE NOT GETTING IT.

56:00 AND I THINK YOU HERE AT THE

56:01 CITY COUNCIL.

56:03 FOR FOR SOME SUPPORT FOR SOME

56:05 JUSTICE AND I THINK I THINK WE

56:07 HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY MAYBE A

56:09 MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DO OUR

56:12 BEST TO SUPPORT THESE MOTHERS

56:13 AND SUPPORT THESE FAMILIES AND

56:14 CHILDREN.

56:15 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

56:16 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

56:18 UM.

56:19 I'M GOING TO MOVE ON.

56:21 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE WORK THAT

56:23 I DO IS THAT EVERY SINGLE MOM

56:25 THAT IS HERE I KNOW PERSONALLY

56:26 AND I HAVE WORKED WITH SO TO

56:28 ME I AM NO STRANGER TO THIS

56:30 CONVERSATION.

56:31 THIS TO ME IS PERSONAL AS A

56:32 SURVIVOR MYSELF AND AS A

56:34 MOTHER.

56:35 OKAY.

56:36 I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO SHOW

56:38 UP AND FIGHT FOR OUR KIDS.

56:39 AND SO THIS IS NOT POLITICS FOR

56:42 ME.

56:42 WE'RE HERE TO LISTEN AND

56:45 HOPEFULLY IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT

56:47 THIS THIS THIS THIS AND THIS

56:49 THIS THIS THIS WE NEED TO GET

56:50 TO A PLACE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO

56:51 DELIVER.

56:52 CORRECT.

56:52 AND THAT'S IT.

56:53 THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE.

56:54 TODAY IS DONE.

56:55 WE'RE WALKING OUT OF HERE WITH

56:57 SOME SOLUTIONS SOME SOLUTIONS.

56:59 I AM TIRED OF HEARING BLA BLA

57:02 BLA BLA.

57:03 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS.

57:04 WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT

57:05 AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT

57:06 FOR THOSE THINGS AND THAT'S IT.

57:08 SO COUNSELOR, IF I COULD

57:10 ADDRESS ONE THING IF I COULD

57:12 ADDRESS ONE PIECE.

57:13 UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

57:15 MENTIONED STUDENTS WITH

57:16 DISABILITIES AND WE'RE LOOKING

57:17 FOR SOLUTIONS.

57:19 THERE'S A DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER

57:20 FOR THE UNITED STATES

57:21 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S

57:22 OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND

57:24 REHABILITATIVE SERVICES THAT

57:25 FOCUSES EXCLUSIVELY ON BULLYING

57:27 WITH STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

57:29 BECAUSE AS THIS MOTHER SO WELL

57:31 LAID OUT, THESE ARE OUR KIDS

57:32 WHO ALREADY NEED MORE AND THE

57:35 TRAUMATIC IMPACT OF BULLYING IS

57:36 ONLY GOING TO PUSH THESE KIDS

57:38 FURTHER BEHIND BECAUSE OF HER

57:39 INABILITY TO FOCUS.

57:40 AND IT SAYS THAT ANY TIME A

57:44 CHILD WITH A DISABILITY IS

57:46 BULLIED, THAT SHOULD

57:47 IMMEDIATELY TRIGGER THAT IEP

57:49 TEAM TO MEET DETERMINE THE

57:51 IMPACT OF THE BULLYING AND IF

57:53 THAT CHILD'S NEEDS ARE GREATER

57:55 IN THE AFTERMATH THE IEP SHOULD

57:58 BE ADAPTED TO HELP.

57:59 SO WHETHER THAT CHILD ISN'T

58:01 SHOWING UP AND MISSES TIME IN

58:02 THEIR BEHIND OR DOES A

58:03 TRAUMATIC IMPACT WHEN.

58:05 A.

58:05 CHILD WITH A DISABILITY IS

58:06 BULLIED AND BEARS THE BRUNT.

58:08 OF THAT?

58:09 WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE

58:11 WORK WITH THAT CHILD'S PLAN TO

58:13 ENSURE THEY DON'T FALL BEHIND

58:15 BASED UPON THAT?

58:16 NOW DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTERS ARE

58:18 THEY ARE RELEASED BY OUR

58:20 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE

58:21 ADVISORY.

58:21 THERE IS NOTHING PREVENTING AT

58:23 THE CITY LEVEL USING THAT TO

58:25 CRAFT AN ORDINANCE OR A POLICY

58:28 THAT WOULD THEN GUIDE WHAT OUR

58:29 SCHOOL SYSTEM DOES.

58:31 THAT'S AN EXAMPLE.

58:31 THERE ARE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE

58:33 OUT THERE.

58:33 I JUST BELIEVE THEY NEED TO BE

58:35 IMPLEMENTED HERE AT THE CITY

58:37 LEVEL THAT WE CAN THEN USE

58:38 THOSE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.

58:40 I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THAT.

58:42 I JUST WANT TO KNOW FOR THE

58:43 RECORD YOUR TIME WAS MORE THAN

58:45 FIVE MINUTES JUST BECAUSE WE

58:46 GOT SOME ANSWERS AND JUST SO

58:47 THAT EVERYBODY WAS PAYING

58:49 ATTENTION I JUST WANT.

58:50 TO KNOW FOR THE RECORD.

58:52 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU HAVE

58:54 THREE MINUTES.

58:54 THANK YOU.

58:55 CHAIR.

58:55 I DON'T WANT TO.

58:56 TAKE.

58:57 UP TOO MUCH TIME, BUT I JUST

58:58 WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND A

59:00 PROFUSE APOLOGY TO ALL THAT YOU

59:02 KNOW, FOR WHAT FOLKS HAVE HAD

59:03 TO GO THROUGH FOR THIS.

59:04 AND, UM.

59:05 I ASK.

59:06 YOU.

59:06 TO FORGIVE MY NATURE.

59:07 MY QUESTION WILL BE A VERY

59:08 PROCEDURAL ONE BECAUSE I KNOW

59:09 WE WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE WITH

59:10 SOME SOLUTIONS, BUT I JUST WANT

59:12 YOU TO KNOW THAT MY BEST AGAIN

59:13 AS A PARENT OF THREE KIDS WHO

59:14 ARE JUST REACHING THAT AGE

59:15 WHERE I'M GOING TO BE CONCERNED

59:18 ABOUT BULLYING AND OTHER

59:20 ACTIVITIES MYSELF.

59:21 UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S CERTAINLY

59:23 UH, NOT THE HEARING YOU WANT TO

59:24 BE AT RIGHT NOW.

59:26 UM, WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING

59:29 .

59:30 OF THE PROCEDURES AND PROTOCOLS

59:31 THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN AFTER

59:34 A BULLYING INCIDENT OR A SEXUAL

59:35 ASSAULT INCIDENT?

59:36 AND WHAT DO.

59:38 YOU.

59:38 UNDERSTAND THOSE PROCEDURES AND

59:39 PROTOCOLS TO BE AND WHERE DO

59:41 YOU THINK THEY WENT WRONG?

59:43 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

59:43 OF WHAT WAS SKIPPED MISSED OR

59:45 NOT EVEN UH, BROUGHT UP TO

59:47 BEGIN WITH IN WHAT YOU SAW IN

59:49 YOUR ISSUES YOU DID TOUCH UPON

59:51 SOMETHING THAT YOU KIND OF JUST

59:52 ANSWERED A LITTLE BIT THAT UH

59:53 WHEN YOU ANSWERED THE LAST

59:54 QUESTION BUT THAT WAS SORT

59:55 OF MY QUESTION FOR THIS AND

59:57 THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

59:57 THANK YOU CHAIR.

59:58 I'LL QUICKLY STATE THE LAW AND

59:59 GET OUT OF THE WAY SO THAT

1:00:00 PARENTS CAN SPEAK.

1:00:01 CHAPTER 71 SECTION 37 OF THE

1:00:03 BULLYING STATUTE.

1:00:05 IT'S EMBEDDED WITH WORDS THAT

1:00:06 MATTER IMMEDIATELY AND

1:00:08 PROMPTLY.

1:00:08 SO A STAFF MEMBER IS SUPPORT

1:00:11 SHALL IMMEDIATELY REPORT ANY

1:00:15 INSTANCE OF BULLYING WHICH THEN

1:00:17 TRIGGERS THE PRINCIPAL ORDERED

1:00:19 DESIGNEE TO PROMPTLY CONDUCT AN

1:00:23 INVESTIGATION.

1:00:24 SO AS A LAWYER WHO'S

1:00:25 REPRESENTED PARENTS LIKE THIS

1:00:27 UM AT TIMES WHEN I'VE GOTTEN

1:00:29 INVOLVED I'VE SEEN OKAY IS A

1:00:32 BULLYING INTERVENTION PLAN

1:00:33 WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE KIDS

1:00:34 SCHEDULE TO KEEP THEM FROM

1:00:36 INTERACTING.

1:00:37 IT SHOULDN'T.

1:00:37 TAKE A LAWYER TO HAVE THAT

1:00:38 HAPPEN.

1:00:40 EVERY SINGLE INCIDENTS

1:00:41 OF BULLYING SHOULD HAVE THAT

1:00:43 SAME URGENCY OF IMMEDIATE

1:00:45 REPORTING AND PROMPT

1:00:47 INVESTIGATION.

1:00:47 AND I THINK THESE PARENTS.

1:00:48 STORY SHOW.

1:00:49 THAT THAT'S NOT HAPPENING.

1:00:54 SO FROM ADVOCACY PERSPECTIVE

1:00:56 WHAT WE HAVE SEEN UH, BECAUSE

1:00:58 WE GET THE YOUTH AFTER THEY GO

1:01:00 TO SCHOOL AND THEY COME BACK

1:01:01 THEY DON'T TRUST THE SYSTEM IS

1:01:04 A SYSTEM FAILURE IS A

1:01:05 STRUCTURAL FAILURE IS A DEMAND

1:01:07 FAILURE IS A PREPAREDNESS

1:01:08 FAILURE IS A STIGMA IS A

1:01:10 CULTURAL ISSUE.

1:01:11 UH IT GOES BEYOND THEY SHOULD

1:01:12 HAVE A TRUSTED ADULT TO GO AND

1:01:15 CONFIDE IN.

1:01:15 THEY DON'T WHEN THEY GO TO THE

1:01:17 PEER TO PEER IS NOT PREPARED OR

1:01:19 HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN THE TOOLS

1:01:21 AND THE SKILLS OR SOFT SKILLS

1:01:22 NECESSARY FOR TRAINING AND

1:01:23 THERE IS NO CULTURE

1:01:26 OF COMPREHENSIVE SORT OF ADULT.

1:01:28 SO A PROBLEM IS ONLY A PROBLEM

1:01:30 WHEN IT HAS A SOLUTION.

1:01:31 YOU HAVE STATED THE PROBLEM.

1:01:33 WE DON'T HAVE TO FIND OUT THE

1:01:35 PROBLEM.

1:01:35 MR FLYNN YOU HAVE SAID 2000.

1:01:38 YOU HAVE A NUMBER AND WE HAVE

1:01:40 THE DATA TO BACK IT UP AND WE

1:01:42 HAVE THE SOLUTION.

1:01:43 THEY ARE ACTUALLY SAYING THE

1:01:45 SOLUTION WE WANT TO DECREASE

1:01:47 RECIDIVISM.

1:01:47 THAT'S WHAT WE SAY IN CRIMINAL

1:01:48 JUSTICE REFORM RIGHT.

1:01:50 WE WANT TO DECREASE RECIDIVISM

1:01:52 OF A CLIENT.

1:01:53 NOW WE HAVE FINANCIAL

1:01:55 REPERCUSSIONS OF WHAT IT COST.

1:01:57 WHAT IS THE COST TO A WHOLE

1:01:59 FAMILY TO A WORKER?

1:02:00 UH, SO IT'S A WHOLE LOT MORE.

1:02:03 IT'S ABOUT STAFFING IS ABOUT

1:02:06 TRAINING IS ABOUT

1:02:07 COMPREHENSIVE.

1:02:07 OKAY.

1:02:08 THE PARENTS IT'S ABOUT

1:02:11 HAVING THE PROPER.

1:02:11 TRAINING AND HAVING THE PROPER

1:02:14 PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO WORK.

1:02:15 MY SON WAS ASSAULTED.

1:02:16 HE HAD HIS HEAD PUT IN A WALL

1:02:19 BY, UH, TEACHER PRAYER WHO WAS

1:02:22 UNLICENSED OR WAS HAD AN

1:02:24 EXPIRED LICENSE.

1:02:27 WHERE'S THE FAILURE THERE.

1:02:29 WHO'S HELD RESPONSIBLE?

1:02:34 SO MY SON FOR A WHOLE YEAR

1:02:36 DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL.

1:02:38 I WORK.

1:02:39 I HAVE THREE OTHER CHILDREN.

1:02:41 I HAVE TO WORK.

1:02:42 I'M THE SOLE CUSTODIAN PARENT

1:02:45 FULL CUSTODY OF ALL MY

1:02:46 CHILDREN.

1:02:46 I HAVE TO WORK.

1:02:47 I HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AN

1:02:48 INCOME.

1:02:48 SO I NEED SCHOOL.

1:02:50 I NEED TO BE ABLE TO BELIEVE.

1:02:54 IN THE SCHOOL.

1:02:55 I WAS A BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

1:02:57 CHILDREN.

1:02:58 I LOVE SCHOOL.

1:02:59 I DON'T JUST SEEING WHAT HAS

1:03:01 HAPPENED IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:03:04 SCHOOL SYSTEM THE FAILURE, THE

1:03:07 THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

1:03:09 MAYBE YOU GUYS CAN EXPLAIN

1:03:11 BETTER TO ME, BUT A LOT

1:03:13 OF THINGS, UM, ARE BEING SWEPT

1:03:14 UNDER THE RUG.

1:03:15 DCF IS BEING USED.

1:03:16 HOW THIS YOUNG LADY BECAUSE IT

1:03:18 WAS USED AGAINST ME.

1:03:20 UM, THEY FAILED TO REPORT

1:03:23 ANYTHING.

1:03:25 OKAY.

1:03:27 THEY.

1:03:31 TO ME I CERTAIN UM INDIVIDUALS

1:03:35 THAT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE

1:03:38 OF DOING THINGS BECAUSE THEY

1:03:39 FEEL THAT THERE ARE IMMUNITY

1:03:41 AND WHAT SAY BECAUSE THEY WORK

1:03:43 UNDER THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

1:03:44 SYSTEM UM THEY FEEL LIKE THEY

1:03:47 ARE ALLOWED TO DO CERTAIN

1:03:48 THINGS THAT THERE ARE NO

1:03:50 REPERCUSSIONS OR AN

1:03:51 ACCOUNTABILITY TO DOING CERTAIN

1:03:52 THINGS HOW CHILDREN ARE BEING

1:03:55 RAPED, BULLIED.

1:03:56 UM, A LOT OF A LOT OF THE THE

1:03:58 PEOPLE THERE THEY KNOW THAT

1:03:59 THERE'S BULLYING GOING ON AND

1:04:01 THEY DON'T REPORT IT.

1:04:02 HOW HE SAID A LOT OF THINGS ARE

1:04:06 BEING JUST NOT.

1:04:08 AND THEN THE ADULTS ARE NOT

1:04:09 SAYING NOTHING OR NOT SPEAKING

1:04:11 UP BUT THEY CAN GO AND CALL AND

1:04:12 FILE THE 51 A ON THE CONCERNED

1:04:14 PARENT THAT'S COMING IN AND AND

1:04:16 IS VERY MAYBE UPSET MAYBE

1:04:18 CUSSING AT THEM MAYBE HAVING A

1:04:20 PARENT MOMENT.

1:04:20 WHY?

1:04:21 BECAUSE THEY'RE THEY'RE

1:04:22 EXPECTING THE SCHOOL TO DO

1:04:23 THEIR JOB AND THEY'RE NOT DOING

1:04:25 THAT AND THEN THEY I FEEL A LOT

1:04:30 OF FAMILIES THAT ARE LOW INCOME

1:04:34 OR UM MINORITIES OR BEING

1:04:36 TARGETED ALSO WHICH THAT'S

1:04:38 TERRIBLE.

1:04:42 I FEEL LIKE I FEEL THAT THE

1:04:44 SYSTEM HAS FAILED BOSTON PUBLIC

1:04:46 SCHOOL SYSTEM THERE HAS TO BE A

1:04:48 LOT OF THINGS CHANGE IN YOUR

1:04:50 SCHOOL SYSTEM AND YOU GUYS HAVE

1:04:51 THE FUNDING TO DO SO.

1:04:54 OKAY.

1:04:55 AND YOUR CHILDREN ARE

1:04:56 ATTENDING.

1:04:57 YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW

1:04:58 THAT THE THE TEACHER WHO'S

1:05:00 THERE IS NOT A PEDOPHILE IS NOT

1:05:02 A CHILD PREDATOR THAT THEY'RE

1:05:05 LICENSED.

1:05:05 THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING FOR

1:05:07 CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES THAT

1:05:08 THEY THEY'RE THAT THEY ACTUALLY

1:05:09 CARE THAT THEY'RE NOT JUST

1:05:11 THERE FOR A CHECK ALSO BUT MAKE

1:05:13 SURE THAT THEY'RE PAID BECAUSE

1:05:14 GUESS WHAT THEY'RE NOT BEING

1:05:15 PAID PROPERLY.

1:05:18 ALSO YEAH.

1:05:22 I.

1:05:22 THANK YOU.

1:05:23 ALL RIGHT.

1:05:23 TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION,

1:05:24 COUNCILMAN, BECAUSE I THINK UH

1:05:26 YOU ASKED LIKE UM WHAT IS OUR

1:05:28 UNDERSTANDING OF UM PROCEDURES

1:05:30 OR WHAT WHAT ARE WE LOOKING

1:05:32 FOR.

1:05:33 THE SCHOOLS TO DO?

1:05:34 THAT'S SIMPLE TO ANSWER.

1:05:35 UM, AS THIS PARENTS SAID, THEIR

1:05:36 JOB WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR OUR

1:05:38 KIDS TO BE TREATED.

1:05:39 YOU KNOW, SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

1:05:42 OR TREATED LIKE THE, YOU KNOW,

1:05:44 PRINCE OF SOME ISLAND OR

1:05:45 PRINCESS OF.

1:05:46 SOME ISLAND.

1:05:47 WE'RE JUST SIMPLY ASKING THAT

1:05:48 THEY ARE THAT THEY FEEL SAFE,

1:05:51 THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY'RE

1:05:53 GETTING A PROPER EDUCATION.

1:05:55 AND IF FOR WHATEVER REASON THAT

1:05:57 INCIDENCES LIKE THIS DO ARISE

1:06:00 THAT WE DEAL WITH IT

1:06:01 ACCORDINGLY.

1:06:02 UM SO MY UNDERSTANDING WOULD BE

1:06:05 JUST WHAT THIS GENTLEMAN SAID.

1:06:06 I MEAN THERE ARE FEDERAL LAWS

1:06:08 THE FEDERAL LAWS THAT PROTECT

1:06:10 OUR KIDS.

1:06:11 THERE ARE POLICIES, YOU KNOW,

1:06:13 EVEN IF IT'S NOT A LAW THAT THE

1:06:14 SCHOOL.

1:06:14 GIVES YOU A HANDBOOK.

1:06:15 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.

1:06:17 SO AGAIN THIS IS THEIR WORDS,

1:06:18 RIGHT?

1:06:19 I WROTE A QUOTE, UM THAT I WANT

1:06:21 TO READ REALLY QUICK BECAUSE

1:06:22 SHE BROUGHT IT UP.

1:06:23 I STOOD HERE AND I TESTIFIED

1:06:25 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 23 UM DPS

1:06:30 BUDGET LIKE I LITERALLY STOOD

1:06:31 THERE AND I TESTIFIED AS BEFORE

1:06:32 ANYTHING HAPPENED WITH MY

1:06:33 CHILD.

1:06:34 SO I KNOW FOR A FACT YOU KNOW,

1:06:35 FOLLOWING UP WITH THAT, THE

1:06:37 FISCAL YEAR 23 SCHOOL BUDGET

1:06:40 WAS A RECORD OF 1.33 BILLION.

1:06:43 WOULD IT BE DOLLARS IN FUNDING

1:06:45 TO SUPPORT STUDENTS AT DPS?

1:06:48 THIS IS NOT PARENTS SPEAKING

1:06:49 THIS THIS THIS IS A QUOTE THAT

1:06:51 I'M READING THAT YOU KNOW IT

1:06:53 WAS PUBLIC INFORMATION.

1:06:55 SO IF THIS MONEY IS TO SUPPORT

1:06:57 STUDENTS AT THE CPS THEN THEN

1:06:58 THE QUESTION SHOULD BE WHY IS

1:07:01 MY CHILD AT HOME RIGHT NOW

1:07:03 GETTING DENIED EDUCATION

1:07:05 BECAUSE LIKE A LOT OF THE

1:07:06 PARENTS THAT YOU KNOW AND SAID

1:07:07 IF WE WERE TO DO THAT BY CHOICE

1:07:09 WE I WAS JUST LAZY DON'T WANT

1:07:11 TO GET UP PUT MY KID IN SCHOOL.

1:07:12 THERE'S CONSEQUENCES FOR THAT.

1:07:14 THEY COME IN AND THEY DON'T

1:07:15 TAKE DCF DOESN'T TAKE ONE

1:07:17 CHILD.

1:07:18 I'M A MOTHER OF SEVEN.

1:07:20 MY FIRST THREE ARE ADULT SO

1:07:21 THEY CAN'T TOUCH THEM BUT MY

1:07:22 OTHER FOUR YOU KNOW AMAZING

1:07:24 WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THE TWO

1:07:26 THAT WAS YOU KNOW IN SCHOOL

1:07:28 WITH HER.

1:07:28 AND THEN I ALSO HAVE A ONE YEAR

1:07:31 OLD CHILD SO THAT'S THE ONE

1:07:32 THAT HAD THE HOT SURGERY.

1:07:35 SO WHY SHOULD ALL OF MY KIDS BE

1:07:37 TAKEN RIGHT.

1:07:38 LIKE I'M A PARENT STANDING HERE

1:07:41 CRYING FOR HELP TO GET MY CHILD

1:07:42 EDUCATED RIGHT AND I HAVE I

1:07:44 CONTINUOUSLY HAVE TO DEAL WITH

1:07:46 DCF AND NOT JUST DCF.

1:07:47 THE SCHOOL GOES AND FILE SERIES

1:07:49 TWO.

1:07:50 OH THE KID MISSED THIS MANY

1:07:51 DAYS OR THIS MANY DAYS BUT WHEN

1:07:53 I'M TRYING TO SET UP A MEETING

1:07:54 TO SAY ALL I WANT IS A SAFETY

1:07:56 PLAN IN PLACE FOR YOU TO ASSURE

1:07:58 THE RETURN OF MY CHILD.

1:08:00 HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP HER

1:08:01 SAFE MOVING FORWARD?

1:08:03 I THINK THAT I'M ALLOWED TO DO

1:08:04 SO.

1:08:05 YOU KNOW AND YES, THERE ARE

1:08:06 TIMES I CAN ADMIT THAT A LOT

1:08:08 OF Y'ALL KNOW ME FOR THAT.

1:08:09 UM, I CAN ADMIT THAT YES.

1:08:12 THERE'S TIMES THAT I'VE RAISED

1:08:13 MY VOICE THIS TIME THAT I'VE

1:08:14 CAUSED BUT AGAIN AS A PARENT

1:08:16 SAYING THIS TO ANOTHER PARENT

1:08:18 YOU SAID YOU HAVE THREE IF YOUR

1:08:19 DAUGHTER WALKED HOME AND BROKE

1:08:21 DOWN AND TOLD YOU DADDY THIS,

1:08:23 WOULD YOU BE HAPPY ABOUT IT?

1:08:24 NO.

1:08:24 WOULD YOU GO OH SWEETIE, LET'S

1:08:26 GO.

1:08:27 ON TO THE SCHOOL AND LET'S

1:08:28 ASK A FEW QUESTIONS.

1:08:29 IT'S HUMAN NATURE FOR YOU TO BE

1:08:31 UPSET.

1:08:31 SURE.

1:08:32 YEAH, THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY

1:08:33 HAVE TO DEAL WITH.

1:08:34 KIDS THAT ARE UPSET.

1:08:35 KIDS THAT ARE CRYING.

1:08:36 KIDS THAT HAVE EMOTIONAL

1:08:38 BEHAVIORAL ALL KINDS OF THINGS

1:08:39 .

1:08:39 SO IF YOU WANT TO BE TECHNICAL

1:08:40 THEY'RE TRAINED TO DEAL WITH

1:08:42 THESE SITUATIONS.

1:08:43 THEY'RE LITERALLY.

1:08:44 TRAINED TO DEAL WITH THESE

1:08:45 SITUATIONS.

1:08:46 NOW I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO MY

1:08:48 CASE BECAUSE NOW WE'RE GOING

1:08:50 BACK TO YOUR CASE MONICA WHAT

1:08:52 WE THE ALMOST WHAT THE TEACHER

1:08:55 AGAIN HE DIDN'T HAVE A WAY WHEN

1:08:58 I DID GO ON THAT SEE TO DO MY

1:08:59 LITTLE HOMEWORK AND THE

1:09:00 PRINCIPAL BECAUSE IT'S REALLY

1:09:02 HER WHO DIDN'T REPORT THE

1:09:03 INCIDENT WHY WOULD THE TEACHER

1:09:04 TELL TELLING AND SO IT'S THE

1:09:05 PRINCIPAL.

1:09:06 SHE CAME FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

1:09:07 WAS THE.

1:09:08 ACTING PRINCIPAL TWO WEEKS

1:09:10 PRIOR TO THAT BECAUSE SHE WAS

1:09:11 JUST ON A NEWS FOR A DIFFERENT

1:09:13 INCIDENT WITH ANOTHER KID AT A

1:09:14 DIFFERENT SCHOOL.

1:09:15 IT'S ABOUT THEM BEING IN THE

1:09:16 UNION AND THEY JUST MOVE THEM

1:09:18 AROUND LIKE PINBALLS THE MINUTE

1:09:19 SOMETHING HAPPENS TO COVER THIS

1:09:21 UP AND WHEN YOU GET PARENTS

1:09:22 LIKE ME TO SAY NO, I'M HERE

1:09:24 BECAUSE I'M SMARTER THAN

1:09:25 AVERAGE B I'M GOING TO PULL THE

1:09:27 WOOL THE VEILS COMING OFF AND

1:09:28 WE'RE GOING TO EXPOSE ALL

1:09:29 OF THIS.

1:09:30 I GOT TO GET MY KIDS TAKEN.

1:09:32 I GOT TO STAND IN COURT.

1:09:33 THEY USED THE EVERYTHING THEY

1:09:34 KNOW THAT YOU CARE ABOUT

1:09:35 AGAINST YOU.

1:09:36 ALL RIGHT.

1:09:37 I'M NOT A BAD PARENT.

1:09:38 I'M JUST A TRAUMATIZED.

1:09:39 PARENT WHO'S STILL.

1:09:40 CRYING FOR HELP BECAUSE THIS IS

1:09:42 YES, THE INCIDENT DIDN'T HAPPEN

1:09:43 THIS SCHOOL YEAR BUT THE

1:09:45 EFFECTS.

1:09:46 OF IT.

1:09:46 MY FAMILY.

1:09:47 HAS NO MONEY.

1:09:48 WE'RE STILL STRUGGLING.

1:09:49 Y'ALL DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE

1:09:50 TO GET UP.

1:09:50 ALL RIGHT, I HAVE TO GO TO THE

1:09:51 SUB SHOW.

1:09:51 I GOT TO LOOK AT NAPKINS.

1:09:52 OH, MONICA'S.

1:09:53 JUST TO HAVE TISSUE AND.

1:09:55 I THANK YOU.

1:09:56 Y'ALL DON'T KNOW ABOUT THINGS

1:09:57 LIKE THAT SO I WANT TO KNOW

1:09:59 ABOUT RESULTS NOT ABOUT

1:10:00 POLICIES OR NOT.

1:10:01 WE ALL KNOW THAT.

1:10:02 AND IF WE DON'T WE CAN READ IT

1:10:03 AND LEARN IT BY THE END OF THE

1:10:05 DAY.

1:10:05 ALL RIGHT.

1:10:05 THANK YOU.

1:10:06 UH, I KNOW THIS IS HARD AND I

1:10:08 KNOW CULPEPER COUNCIL.

1:10:10 YOU'VE BEEN VERY PATIENT

1:10:11 WAITING FOR YOUR TURN.

1:10:13 AND THESE ARE THE HARDEST

1:10:16 HEARINGS TO FACILITATE BECAUSE

1:10:19 WE HAVE TO HEAR THINGS THAT

1:10:21 SOMETIMES MAKE A LOT OF PEOPLE

1:10:22 FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE.

1:10:23 BUT THE TRUTH IS, IS THAT YOU

1:10:25 CAN'T DENY THE TRUTH

1:10:28 OF SOMEBODY'S EXPERIENCE.

1:10:29 AND SO IT'S HARD TO BRUSH YOU

1:10:33 BRUSH ANYONE.

1:10:34 SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT

1:10:36 IT'S NOT BECAUSE.

1:10:38 I WANT TO DO THAT IS JUST

1:10:40 PROCEDURALLY WE DO HAVE TIME

1:10:42 CONSTRAINTS HERE.

1:10:44 SO I JUST JUST WANT TO

1:10:46 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT UM SO

1:10:48 COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU HAVE THE

1:10:50 FLOOR AND THEN WE'RE.

1:10:51 GOING TO MOVE ON.

1:10:52 TO THE ADMIN.

1:10:53 PANEL AND THEN THE YOUTH PANEL.

1:10:55 OKAY.

1:10:55 THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.

1:10:57 UH, MADAM CHAIR, FOR BRINGING

1:10:59 THIS IMPORTANT HEARING FOR AND

1:11:02 FOR TODAY'S HEARING.

1:11:03 I WANT TO ALSO THINK THAT

1:11:05 PARENTS AND THE PANELISTS TO

1:11:07 COME THE EDUCATORS, FAMILIES

1:11:09 AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO

1:11:11 PARTICIPATE IN THIS DISCUSSION

1:11:12 ,EVERY STUDENT BOSTON PUBLIC

1:11:15 SCHOOL DESERVES TO FEEL SAFE,

1:11:18 RESPECTED, SUPPORTED IN THE

1:11:20 LEARNING ENVIRONMENT BULLYING,

1:11:22 SEXUAL HARASSMENT, SEXUAL

1:11:24 ASSAULT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CAN

1:11:26 HAVE LASTING CONSEQUENCES FOR

1:11:28 STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH.

1:11:29 AND THAT'S WHAT I HEARD FROM

1:11:31 YOU THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND

1:11:33 OVERALL WELL-BEING AND IT'S

1:11:36 CRITICAL TO BE IT BE AS CLEAR

1:11:40 ACCESSIBLE REPORTING

1:11:41 PROCEDURES, EFFECTIVE

1:11:41 PREVENTION STRATEGIES AND

1:11:43 APPROPRIATE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR

1:11:44 STUDENTS WHO EXPERIENCE HARM.

1:11:47 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES MUST HAVE

1:11:49 CONFIDENCE THAT WHEN THEY

1:11:51 REPORT AN INCIDENT THEIR

1:11:52 CONCERNS WILL BE TAKEN

1:11:54 SERIOUSLY, INVESTIGATED

1:11:56 APPROPRIATELY AND ADDRESSED

1:11:57 WITHOUT FEAR OF RETALIATION.

1:12:00 WE ALSO NEED TO ENSURE THAT

1:12:01 STUDENTS WHO EXPERIENCED TRAUMA

1:12:03 ARE SUPPORTED RATHER THAN

1:12:04 PUNISHED FOR THEIR BEHAVIORS OR

1:12:07 ACADEMIC CHALLENGES RESULTING

1:12:08 FROM THEIR TRAUMA.

1:12:09 THIS REQUIRES ADEQUATE SCHOOL

1:12:11 BASED RESOURCES, PROPERLY

1:12:12 TRAINED STAFF, MEANINGFUL

1:12:15 COMMUNICATION WITH FAMILIES AND

1:12:16 FROM MY PERSPECTIVE MUCH OF OUR

1:12:19 COMMUNITY IS TRAUMA JUST FROM

1:12:21 THE VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

1:12:22 OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS TRAUMA

1:12:24 .

1:12:25 I GET TRAUMATIZED FROM DEALING

1:12:27 WHEN WE WERE IN THIS STREET

1:12:29 DEALING WITH THE YOUNG FOLKS

1:12:30 AND THE VIOLENCE WAS AT ITS

1:12:32 HEIGHT.

1:12:33 AND SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT IT,

1:12:35 WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS

1:12:36 WHO EXPERIENCED TRAUMA THAT

1:12:38 THEY SUPPORTED THAT THEIR

1:12:40 BEHAVIOR, THE ACADEMIC

1:12:42 CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM THAT

1:12:44 TRAUMA THIS REQUIRES ADEQUATE

1:12:45 SCHOOL BASED RESOURCES,

1:12:48 PROPERLY TRAINED STAFF AND

1:12:50 MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATION WITH

1:12:52 FAMILIES.

1:12:53 I LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSING

1:12:54 THIS HOW WE CAN STRENGTHEN

1:12:56 ACCOUNTABILITY, IMPROVE

1:12:57 PREVENTION AND RESPONSE EFFORTS

1:12:59 AND ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT

1:13:01 IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS A

1:13:03 SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE LEARNING

1:13:05 ENVIRONMENT.

1:13:06 I KNOW MY TIME IS PASSING

1:13:08 QUICKLY.

1:13:09 I JUST WANT TO ASK SOME

1:13:11 QUESTIONS FROM EACH OF YOU.

1:13:13 MADAM PRESIDENT, IF I MAY JUST

1:13:15 ASK TWO QUESTIONS OF EACH

1:13:15 OF THEM AND THEN THEY CAN

1:13:17 NUMBER YOUR TIME HERE.

1:13:18 THANK YOU.

1:13:19 WELL, YOU KNOW I MEAN, LOOK,

1:13:20 LET'S BE FAIR ABOUT IT.

1:13:22 YOU KNOW, THEY HAD A LOT

1:13:23 OF TIME, RIGHT?

1:13:23 THE TIMING WASN'T EVEN ON.

1:13:25 I JUST WANT TO GET TO THESE

1:13:27 QUESTIONS.

1:13:27 I WANT TO ASK THESE PARENTS

1:13:28 THESE QUESTIONS AND THEN THEY

1:13:30 CAN ANSWER THEM DO.

1:13:31 WHATEVER Y'ALL WANT.

1:13:32 Y'ALL DO IT ANYWAY SO.

1:13:33 GO.

1:13:33 AHEAD.

1:13:33 THANK YOU.

1:13:34 THAT'S NOT TRUE MONICA ARE YOU

1:13:38 TELLING US THAT ALL YOU NEED IS

1:13:40 A SAFETY PLAN TO ENSURE THAT

1:13:43 YOUR CHILD WOULD BE SAFETY AND

1:13:44 YOU COULD BRING YOUR CHILD BACK

1:13:46 TO SCHOOL?

1:13:48 THAT'S A YES OR NO.

1:13:50 THAT WAS TRUE AT ONE TIME

1:13:52 BEFORE YOU KNOW WE GOT WILL

1:13:54 RIGHT.

1:13:55 NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WHAT

1:13:56 THAT WHAT IS SO WHAT DO.

1:13:58 WE NEED TO DO TO GET YOUR

1:13:59 CHILD BACK TO SCHOOL NOW?

1:14:02 UM THAT'S IT.

1:14:03 BUT THAT'S THE QUESTION I'M

1:14:04 GOING TO ASK EACH PARENT THE

1:14:05 QUESTION AND THEN WE'LL COME

1:14:06 BACK TO YOU.

1:14:07 THAT'S YOUR QUESTION MONICA

1:14:09 TIA, WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED?

1:14:11 YOU TALKED ABOUT CHANGE WHAT

1:14:13 NEEDS TO BE CHANGED.

1:14:14 THAT'S YOUR QUESTION, ASTRID.

1:14:16 YOUR QUESTION IS FROM THE STATE

1:14:19 LAWS YOU GAVE ME BULLYING

1:14:20 CHAPTER 71 SECTION 3704

1:14:25 REPORTING CHAPTER 71 SECTION

1:14:28 £0.37 THERE WAS ONE OF THOSE

1:14:30 LAWS THAT I DIDN'T GET.

1:14:31 WHAT WAS IT?

1:14:33 SO UM THANK YOU, COUNSELOR 37.

1:14:36 OH IS THE STATE BULLYING I

1:14:38 START WITH.

1:14:38 YOU I GOT THAT I CHAPTER.

1:14:42 71 £0.37 SUBSECTION D IS THE

1:14:44 SCHOOL GROUP FOR REST

1:14:45 REPORTING.

1:14:46 THERE WAS THE FIRST ONE YOU

1:14:47 GAVE ONE THAT I DIDN'T GET.

1:14:49 THERE AND THEN.

1:14:50 THERE THE QUESTION IS CAN YOU

1:14:52 FINISH TALKING ABOUT

1:14:53 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES TALK

1:14:54 ABOUT MEDICATION MANAGEMENT

1:14:57 MEDIATION SURE TRAINER

1:15:00 SENSITIVE LEARNING MODELS.

1:15:01 AND THERE WAS ONE MORE I DIDN'T

1:15:02 GET.

1:15:03 CHAPTER 71 SECTION 37 H AND

1:15:08 ORDERS AND IT'S MEDIATION

1:15:12 CONFLICT RESOLUTION RESTORATIVE

1:15:14 JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM

1:15:17 SOLVING AND TRAUMA SENSITIVE

1:15:20 LEARNING MODELS ALL OF WHICH

1:15:22 ARE REQUIRED AS A PART OF THAT

1:15:25 STATUTE AND THE STATUTES INTENT

1:15:27 WAS LET'S REDUCE IT SUSPENSION

1:15:30 AND EXCLUSION OF KIDS WHO WERE

1:15:32 HAVING TRAUMATIC BEHAVIORS.

1:15:34 BUT THOSE SAME BEST PRACTICES

1:15:37 ARE AFFIRMED BY THE RESEARCH AS

1:15:38 BEING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AT

1:15:41 REDUCING BULLYING.

1:15:42 I THINK.

1:15:43 I GOT THAT PART AND THE OTHER

1:15:45 THING CAN YOU GIVE US A COPY

1:15:46 OF OUR DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER?

1:15:49 IF YOU CAN PROVIDE US A COPY

1:15:51 OF THAT, I.

1:15:51 WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO

1:15:52 PROVIDE THAT.

1:15:53 SO JUST WANTED TO AND EVERYONE.

1:15:54 GREAT THANK YOU.

1:15:56 YES I WANT TO HEAR FROM MONICA

1:15:58 AND THEN FROM TIA AND UH Q I

1:16:04 WANTED TO I KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE

1:16:07 THEM NOW BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE

1:16:09 WHAT YOUR STANDARDS FOR

1:16:11 PREVENTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1:16:12 LOOK LIKE IN YOUR OPINION I

1:16:14 KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE THEM BUT

1:16:15 WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE THROUGH

1:16:17 THE CHAIR IF YOU WOULD JUST

1:16:18 PROVIDE THEM TO US.

1:16:20 JUST SAY YES.

1:16:20 YES.

1:16:21 THANK YOU.

1:16:23 YEAH.

1:16:23 MONICA HAD A SHOW UP IN

1:16:24 THESE SPACES.

1:16:25 WHAT WOULD.

1:16:26 WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO GET

1:16:27 YOUR CHILD BACK TO SCHOOL?

1:16:28 UM AT THIS POINT.

1:16:29 COULD YOU GIVE HER THE MIC

1:16:30 PLEASE?

1:16:31 AT THIS POINT, UM.

1:16:32 COUNSELOR CO PEPPER DUE TO.

1:16:34 JUST THE TRAUMA.

1:16:35 IN THE ARM THAT I MENTIONED SHE

1:16:37 HAD, UM, SURGERY.

1:16:38 SHE ULTIMATELY ENDED UP HAVING

1:16:40 TO HAVE SURGERY BECAUSE OF THE

1:16:41 11 DISLOCATIONS.

1:16:42 SHE HAD UM, SURGERY BACK IN

1:16:44 JUNE AND IS STILL RECOVERING IN

1:16:46 PHYSICAL THERAPY TWICE A WEEK.

1:16:49 UM, SHE HAS TWO DIFFERENT

1:16:50 THERAPISTS AND SHE'S DOING

1:16:51 THOSE EACH TWICE A WEEK AS WELL

1:16:53 AS A THERAPEUTIC MENTOR.

1:16:54 SO I THINK TO.

1:16:56 ANSWER YOUR QUESTION AT THAT

1:16:57 TIME, WOULD IT HAVE SUFFICED TO

1:16:59 GET HER BACK IN AND HAVE HER

1:17:01 HAVE A SENSE OF NORMALCY

1:17:02 AMONGST HER PEERS AND THINGS?

1:17:04 IT PROBABLY WOULD HELPED, BUT

1:17:05 HER MENTAL.

1:17:06 HEALTH CONTINUE TO.

1:17:08 DECLINE AND HER PHYSICAL

1:17:09 HEALTH.

1:17:09 CONTINUE TO DECLINE.

1:17:10 SO WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW A

1:17:12 TUTOR WOULD BE BEST OR OKAY IF

1:17:14 WE WERE TO GET HER BACK INTO

1:17:15 SCHOOL NOT SUCH A HUGE SETTING

1:17:18 YOU KNOW, LIKE A PUBLIC SCHOOL

1:17:19 MAYBE SOMETHING A.

1:17:20 LITTLE BIT.

1:17:21 MORE SMALLER AND

1:17:21 PERSONALIZED YOU KNOW, A

1:17:23 SMALLER CLASSROOM.

1:17:24 THAT'S MY.

1:17:25 GROUP AND LET'S TALK ABOUT

1:17:26 THIS MORE.

1:17:28 AFTER AFTER THE AFTER THIS.

1:17:29 NOT NOW YOU ARE YOU PUSHING ME?

1:17:31 YOU DON'T WANT ME TO GET UP MY

1:17:32 MOM?

1:17:33 UM, NO.

1:17:33 I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET ABOUT

1:17:35 YOU SEE THAT ONE.

1:17:37 CALL BUT RIGHT NOW YOU ARE LIKE

1:17:38 YOU ARE PUSHING IT RIGHT NOW TO

1:17:41 YOU GO AHEAD TO YOU AND THAT'S

1:17:42 IT.

1:17:43 OKAY?

1:17:44 SO REALLY.

1:17:47 THERE IT GOES.

1:17:48 UM SO WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?

1:17:50 UM I WOULD SAY THE PREVENTION

1:17:54 ACCOUNTABILITY UM PROPER

1:17:56 INVESTIGATIONS.

1:17:57 UM IN MY SITUATION.

1:17:58 WITH THE.

1:17:59 PHYSICAL BULLYING UM THE SEXUAL

1:18:01 MISCONDUCT ON THE BUSSES AGAIN

1:18:04 I MENTIONED EARLIER HAVING UM

1:18:05 BUS MONITORS TO.

1:18:07 SUPERVISE THAT ARE.

1:18:08 QUALIFIED UM TO BE ON THE

1:18:10 BUSSES.

1:18:11 I THINK ALSO WHEN IT COMES TO

1:18:12 THE PREVENTION LIKE WE NEED TO

1:18:14 BE WORKING ON PREVENTION

1:18:16 STRATEGIES AS WELL AS HOW DO WE

1:18:18 HANDLE WHEN STUFF IS ACTUALLY

1:18:19 OCCURRED.

1:18:20 WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT?

1:18:22 UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS

1:18:24 NOT HAPPENING LIKE THE

1:18:25 RECIDIVISM WAS HAPPENING OVER

1:18:26 AND OVER AGAIN LIKE MY DAUGHTER

1:18:28 EVERY YEAR HAS HAD AN ISSUE AND

1:18:29 SHE'S ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD AND

1:18:32 SHE STARTED AT THAT SCHOOL IN

1:18:34 KINDERGARTEN AND IT DOESN'T

1:18:35 MAKE SENSE THAT SHE EVERY YEAR

1:18:36 HAS ISSUES OVER AND OVER AGAIN

1:18:39 JUST IN A DIFFERENT WITH A

1:18:40 DIFFERENT CHILD.

1:18:41 UM SO I THINK THAT AND LIKE

1:18:42 EVEN WHEN YOU REQUEST THE TAPES

1:18:44 TO BE PULLED TO FIND OUT WHEN A

1:18:46 CHILD HAS HAS REPORTED BEING

1:18:48 ATTACKED SOMETIMES YOU DON'T

1:18:49 GET THOSE TAPES AND THEN THOSE

1:18:51 ARE DESTROYED.

1:18:52 THEY ONLY HAVE THEM FOR A

1:18:53 CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME.

1:18:54 SO TO EVEN FOR THEM TO DO A

1:18:56 PROPER INVESTIGATION, THEY

1:18:58 CAN'T DO THAT WHEN THEY DON'T

1:18:59 EVEN HAVE THE TAPES AS.

1:19:00 A RECORDING.

1:19:01 OR WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS WITH

1:19:02 THE BUS DRIVERS.

1:19:04 UM MY MY DAUGHTER.

1:19:05 WAS FORCEFULLY TOLD TO GET OFF

1:19:07 THE BUS AND WALK HOME BY

1:19:08 HERSELF.

1:19:09 SHE'S EIGHT YEARS OLD AND

1:19:10 THERE'S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SO

1:19:11 THERE'S SAFETY CONCERNS THERE

1:19:12 AND I RAISE THAT AS AN ISSUE

1:19:14 AND THE ONLY INVESTIGATION THEY

1:19:16 DO IS THEY ASK THE BUS DRIVER

1:19:17 WHAT HAPPENED.

1:19:18 I SAID IF SOMEONE PUT THEIR

1:19:19 HAND IN A COOKIE JAR, THEY'RE

1:19:20 NOT GOING TO SAY THAT THEY PUT

1:19:21 THEIR HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR.

1:19:22 THAT'S NOT AN INVESTIGATION.

1:19:24 TO FIND OUT WHY HE FORCEFULLY

1:19:25 TOLD MY DAUGHTER TO WALK HOME

1:19:26 AND I WAS RIGHT THERE AND HE

1:19:28 JUST TOOK OFF AND TOLD HER TO

1:19:30 GET OFF.

1:19:30 SO THAT'S NOT SAY I MEAN A

1:19:32 CHILD DIED LAST YEAR.

1:19:33 FIVE YEAR OLD DIED LAST YEAR UH

1:19:35 RUN OVER BY THE SCHOOL BUS.

1:19:37 SO WHEN ONE LIFE LOST IS TOO

1:19:39 MANY, ONE LIFE IMPACTED IS TOO

1:19:41 MANY.

1:19:42 YEAH.

1:19:42 THANK YOU.

1:19:43 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:19:46 THAT'S RIGHT.

1:19:46 WE GET YOUR BOY.

1:19:48 GET YOUR BOY OUT MY CHAMBER

1:19:49 RIGHT NOW I'M GOING TO PLAY

1:19:52 THAT TAPE OVER.

1:19:53 AND I'M.

1:19:54 GOING TO DO A TEE TIME ON

1:19:55 YOUR BEHAVIOR IN MY CHAMBER.

1:19:59 UM, UNTIL.

1:20:01 ALL RIGHT.

1:20:01 OKAY.

1:20:02 UH HUH.

1:20:03 ALL RIGHT.

1:20:05 WE'RE MOVING ON.

1:20:06 WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU ALL

1:20:09 DO NOT GO BECAUSE I'M SURE YOU

1:20:11 ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME

1:20:13 QUESTIONS.

1:20:14 UM, AND I'M GOING TO ASK THE

1:20:16 ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE THEIR

1:20:17 WAY DOWN.

1:20:18 THANK YOU ALL.

1:20:19 I KNOW IT WAS NOT AN EASY THING

1:20:21 TO DO FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO WERE

1:20:23 HERE TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER

1:20:24 THE WAY THAT YOU DID, BUT WE

1:20:26 REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT AND SO

1:20:27 THAT IT TOOK SO LONG.

1:20:28 BUT LAST TIME WE HAD THE

1:20:29 SCHEDULED THEY WERE HAVING THE

1:20:30 WORLD CUP SITUATION OUTSIDE AND

1:20:32 I DID NOT WANT THAT TO COMPETE

1:20:34 WITH WHAT WAS HAPPENING INSIDE

1:20:35 HERE.

1:20:36 SO I DO APPRECIATE YOUR

1:20:37 PATIENCE AS WE RESCHEDULED

1:20:38 THIS.

1:20:39 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

1:20:40 SHOWING UP AND WE LOOK FORWARD

1:20:42 TO HEARING FROM THE

1:20:43 ADMINISTRATION AND THEN

1:20:44 THINKING ABOUT A WORKING

1:20:46 SESSION FOR WHAT ARE WE GOING

1:20:48 TO DO ABOUT IT?

1:20:49 LIKE LEON AND I TALKED ABOUT

1:20:50 HAVING A DASHBOARD WE HAVE SOME

1:20:52 IDEAS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING

1:20:54 TO KEEP HAVING THESE

1:20:55 CONVERSATIONS LIKE.

1:20:55 THIS ACTION TEAM.

1:20:57 YEAH WE'RE GOING TO WE TALKED

1:20:58 ABOUT THIS IN OUR PREVIOUS

1:21:00 SESSION.

1:21:00 SO WE'RE GOING TO BE BRINGING

1:21:01 IN SOME FOLKS TO ACTUALLY COME

1:21:03 UP WITH SOME SOMETHING ACTUALLY

1:21:04 TANGIBLE.

1:21:05 SO THANK YOU.

1:21:06 THANK YOU.

1:21:07 ALL RIGHT.

1:21:08 COME ON BEEPS YOU'RE THE NEXT

1:21:11 CONTESTANT ON THE HEARING IS

1:21:14 RIGHT THIS.

1:21:15 IS MY ORGANIZATION.

1:21:18 LET'S GO SEE.

1:21:21 SO THIS IS OUR.

1:21:23 ALL RIGHT.

1:21:32 OKAY SO.

1:21:44 OKAY JUST WANT.

1:21:46 TO GET YOUR BAG.

1:21:47 ALL RIGHT BUT WHAT I AM

1:21:50 LEARNING.

1:21:51 IS WE ALWAYS LEAD WITH

1:21:52 COMMUNITY VOICE AND THEN WE GO

1:21:53 TO THE ADMINISTRATION.

1:21:55 BUT THEN BY THE TIME THE

1:21:56 ADMINISTRATION GOES SO SOME

1:21:58 OF MY COLLEAGUES ARE NOT HERE

1:21:59 TO ASK QUESTIONS SO I DON'T

1:22:01 KNOW I THINK I MIGHT HAVE TO

1:22:02 SWITCH IT UP A LITTLE BIT

1:22:03 BECAUSE OFTENTIMES SO MUCH

1:22:06 OF THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT HERE

1:22:07 WITH THE ADMINISTRATION.

1:22:09 AND SO I THINK I'M GOING TO

1:22:10 HAVE TO SWITCH THINGS UP JUST A

1:22:13 LITTLE BIT SOMETIMES BECAUSE.

1:22:14 WE NEED A LITTLE.

1:22:15 BIT MORE TIME WITH Y'ALL.

1:22:17 ALL RIGHT SO LET'S UH OH HOW

1:22:20 LONG IS HOW LONG.

1:22:22 HOW MUCH TIME Y'ALL NEED?

1:22:26 WHATEVER YOU ALL NEED UM,

1:22:29 OBVIOUSLY WANT TO GET TO THE

1:22:30 YOUTH.

1:22:30 THAT'S RIGHT.

1:22:32 RIGHT ANSWER.

1:22:34 SO DO YOU GUYS WANT TO GO JUST

1:22:36 INTO QUESTIONS OR DO YOU WANT

1:22:37 TO SHOW US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

1:22:38 WHAT YOU BEEN UP TO?

1:22:40 HOW DO YOU HOW DO YOU WANT TO

1:22:42 USE YOUR TIME?

1:22:42 SURE I DO I THINK I WANT TO

1:22:45 JUST LEVEL SET UM.

1:22:47 YOU KNOW, I THINK WE SHOULD

1:22:49 START WITH INTRODUCTIONS.

1:22:49 COREY MCCARTHY CHIEF OF STUDENT

1:22:50 SUPPORT.

1:22:51 YEAH.

1:22:53 CHRISTINE TRAVIS, TONY

1:22:53 SENIOR.

1:22:54 ADVISOR TO THE.

1:22:55 SUPERINTENDENT FOR

1:22:56 SPECIALIZED SERVICES.

1:22:57 I'LL TALK TO YOU.

1:22:58 THE PEANUT SOUP RETURN OF FOR

1:23:00 BOTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:23:01 I THINK COUNCIL WOULD START OFF

1:23:02 SOME.

1:23:02 BRIEF OPENING.

1:23:03 REMARKS AND THEN WE CAN JUMP

1:23:04 INTO QUESTIONS.

1:23:05 THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE TO SET

1:23:06 THE STAGE FOR WHATEVER MAKES

1:23:07 YOU APPRECIATE.

1:23:08 MOST COMFORTABLE.

1:23:09 OKAY.

1:23:09 UM, AS A CHIEF OF STUDENT

1:23:11 SUPPORT, UM, THE BULLYING

1:23:15 PIECE, UM, THE ISSUES

1:23:18 OF BULLYING, THE REPORTING THAT

1:23:19 FALLS INTO MY PURVIEW.

1:23:21 UM, I WANT FOLKS TO KNOW I I

1:23:25 WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW AND I

1:23:28 REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, THAT

1:23:30 YOU'RE BRINGING ATTENTION TO AN

1:23:32 ISSUE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S,

1:23:33 UH, THAT GOES THAT'S AT THE

1:23:35 HEART OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

1:23:36 UH, EVERY EVERY CHILD HAS A

1:23:38 RIGHT TO FEEL SAFE, UM,

1:23:40 RESPECTED AND PROTECTED.

1:23:43 AND OUR WORK IN STUDIO SUPPORT

1:23:46 IS WE TRY TO FUNCTION AS IF WE

1:23:47 ARE THE UNION FOR THE YOUTH.

1:23:49 UM, MY LEADERSHIP IN THAT TIME

1:23:53 IN THE SINCE 2024 IN THIS BEING

1:23:55 IN THE ROLE REFLECTS THAT UH I

1:23:57 WANT TO BEGIN WITH THE STUDENTS

1:23:58 AND FAMILIES WHO HAVE

1:23:59 EXPERIENCED BULLYING,

1:24:01 HARASSMENT OR UM OR FEAR IN OUR

1:24:04 SCHOOLS.

1:24:05 UM, I WANT YOU TO HEAR CLEARLY

1:24:07 THAT WE HEAR YOU AND UH, WE

1:24:09 YOUR EXPERIENCE MATTERS AND NO

1:24:11 CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO CONVINCE

1:24:13 AN ADULT THAT THEIR SAFETY

1:24:14 DESERVES ANY OF OUR ATTENTION.

1:24:16 UH, YOU KNOW, MANY OF US SPENT

1:24:18 OUR CAREER WORKING WITH YOUNG

1:24:20 PEOPLE IN CLASSROOMS, IN

1:24:21 SCHOOLS AND NOW WITH STUDENT

1:24:23 SUPPORT IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC

1:24:24 SCHOOLS AND THROUGH ALL THOSE

1:24:26 ROLES, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE

1:24:28 GUIDED BY THE BELIEF THAT

1:24:30 EVERYTHING MUST BEGIN AND END

1:24:32 WITH CARE AND NOT A SLOGAN UM,

1:24:35 BUT CARE THAT A STUDENT IN A

1:24:37 FAMILY CAN ACTUALLY FEEL.

1:24:40 UM AND THAT IS PRONOUNCED IN

1:24:42 THE TEACHER WHO NOTICES THE

1:24:43 CHILD WHO IS BECOMING WITHDRAWN

1:24:46 UM THE COUNSELOR WHO MAKES ROOM

1:24:48 FOR FOR THE CHILD TO TALK

1:24:50 HONESTLY UH, THE SCHOOL LEADER

1:24:52 WHO CALLS A FAMILY AND LISTENS

1:24:53 WITHOUT DEFENSIVENESS AND TAKES

1:24:56 RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT HAPPENS

1:24:57 NEXT AND PERHAPS MORE

1:24:59 IMPORTANTLY REALLY CHECKING

1:25:01 BACK AFTER THE INVESTIGATION TO

1:25:02 MAKE SURE THAT THE HARM IS IT

1:25:05 HAS STOPPED.

1:25:06 UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN A FAMILY

1:25:08 REPORTS BULLYING, UM, IT'S NOT

1:25:11 TREATED AS A COMPLAINT.

1:25:12 THEY ARE TRUSTING US WITH THEIR

1:25:13 CHILDREN, WITH THEIR CHILD AND

1:25:15 WE MUST HONOR THAT THROUGH

1:25:16 ACTION.

1:25:18 UM, DPS HAS CLEAR POLICIES AND

1:25:21 RESOURCES.

1:25:22 STUDENTS OF FAMILIES CAN SPEAK

1:25:24 TO A TRUSTED ADULT, USE OUR

1:25:25 SAFE SPACE AND BULLYING

1:25:27 PREVENTION HOTLINE OR REPORT

1:25:29 CONCERNS THROUGH DISTRICT

1:25:30 SYSTEMS.

1:25:32 SCHOOL LEADERS THEN ARE

1:25:33 RESPONSIBLE FOR INVESTIGATING

1:25:34 THESE ALLEGATIONS,

1:25:36 COMMUNICATING WITH FAMILIES AND

1:25:37 PROTECTING STUDENTS AS CONCERNS

1:25:39 ARE BEING REVIEWED THROUGH

1:25:41 SUCCEED BOSTON SCHOOL UM SCHOOL

1:25:44 COUNSELORS, SOCIAL WORKERS

1:25:45 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES TEAMS AND

1:25:46 I'LL GET INTO THAT.

1:25:48 UM I THINK MR SMITH ALLUDED TO

1:25:50 THAT.

1:25:50 UM, IF HE'S STILL HERE.

1:25:52 ON LEAVE.

1:25:55 UM, THEY THEY LEAD OUR

1:25:56 PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND WE ALSO

1:25:58 CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG

1:25:59 PEOPLE TO TALK, SUCCEED BOSTON,

1:26:01 BUILD EMPATHY, LEARN

1:26:02 RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR AND GET

1:26:03 HELP.

1:26:04 THAT INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR CYBER

1:26:06 BULLYING.

1:26:07 WHICH IS.

1:26:07 CRITICAL RIGHT?

1:26:08 IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY WITH UH

1:26:09 JUST THAT MIGHT BE A WHOLE

1:26:11 NOTHER HEARING FOR WORKING

1:26:13 HEARING UM AND THE DIGITAL

1:26:16 SPACE IS WHERE MUCH OF OUR

1:26:17 STUDENT LIFE TAKES PLACE.

1:26:18 BUT A POLICY IS NOT THE SAME

1:26:20 THING AS SAFETY.

1:26:22 UH, COMPLETED REPORT IS NOT

1:26:24 PROOF THAT A STUDENT FEELS

1:26:25 PROTECTED AND INVESTIGATION

1:26:27 ALONE UH, DOES NOT MEAN THAT

1:26:30 HARMFUL BEHAVIOR HAS STOPPED AS

1:26:31 WE HEARD EVIDENCED BY HOW

1:26:33 PEOPLE FEEL CALLED TODAY.

1:26:35 UH, WE HAVE TO IF THE CHILD CAN

1:26:37 RIDE A SCHOOL BUS WITHOUT FEAR

1:26:40 OR THE BATHROOM WITHOUT ANXIETY

1:26:42 AND WHEN OUR RESPONSE IS NOT

1:26:43 FALLS SHORT, WE HAVE TO SAY SO

1:26:46 WE HAVE TO CORRECT IN AND

1:26:47 FOLLOW THROUGH.

1:26:48 IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS

1:26:51 WORK THAT WE'VE INVESTED IN AND

1:26:54 I'VE INVESTED IT PERSONALLY,

1:26:54 THAT'S THE WAY WE OPERATE.

1:26:56 I BELIEVE IN RESTORATION AND

1:26:58 CAPACITY OVER THE YOUNG PEOPLE

1:27:00 TO GROW AND RESTORATIVE

1:27:03 PRACTICES.

1:27:04 I AND OUR AND WE REFER TO THEM

1:27:06 AS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

1:27:07 PRACTICES.

1:27:07 THIS IS A DISTINCTION AND I

1:27:08 WILL GET TO UM YOU KNOW IT IT'S

1:27:13 IT CAN'T MINIMIZE HARM AND

1:27:15 REPLACE SAFETY WITH AN

1:27:16 ACCOUNTABILITY RIGHT.

1:27:20 UM I WILL SAY THAT WE HAVE

1:27:22 IMPROVED OUR UM, ABILITY TO BE

1:27:25 RESPONSIVE IF YOU SPEAK TO

1:27:27 FAMILIES WHO HAVE REACHED OUT,

1:27:29 THEY'VE GOTTEN A CALL BACK,

1:27:30 THEY'VE GOTTEN AN ACTION.

1:27:32 I EVEN WENT TO HOUSES

1:27:34 PERSONALLY AND WE ARE BUILDING

1:27:37 OUR WE HAVE BUILT UM UNDER THE

1:27:39 LEADERSHIP OF UM OF THE OF POOR

1:27:43 UM VALERIA MIRANDA FREDERICK UM

1:27:46 JAMILA MY GRANDSON WHO'S HERE

1:27:47 AT THE SCENE DIRECTOR OF 60

1:27:48 BOSTON.

1:27:49 WE HAVE BUILT UH RESTORATIVE

1:27:51 PRACTICES JUSTICE PRACTICES

1:27:53 TEAM AND SAFE AND WELCOMING

1:27:54 SCHOOLS TEAM.

1:27:55 UM, WE HAVE EIGHT AND NINE

1:27:57 TOTAL INDIVIDUALS UM, INCLUDING

1:28:00 THE LEADERSHIP WHO UH AND THIS

1:28:02 IS WHEN I FIRST CAME BACK TO

1:28:03 THE DISTRICT, UM, CHAIR MEJIA.

1:28:06 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WERE

1:28:07 EMPHASIZING THAT TEAM NOW HAVE

1:28:09 COHORTS OF SCHOOLS WHO WHO

1:28:11 CONSTANTLY WORKS WITH WORK WITH

1:28:15 SCHOOL TEAMS TO INTERROGATE

1:28:17 PRACTICES THAT IS NOT REMOTELY

1:28:20 ARE NOT SOLELY FOCUSED ON

1:28:23 SOMETHING HAPPENING TO THE

1:28:24 CHILD.

1:28:25 IT HAS TO WORK ON THE RESPONSE

1:28:27 AND IT HAS TO WORK WITH THE

1:28:29 INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITTED THE

1:28:30 HARM.

1:28:31 AND I THINK THAT'S THAT'S

1:28:32 SOMETHING THAT IS ANOTHER

1:28:34 CONVERSATION.

1:28:35 UH, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

1:28:36 PRACTICES IS NOT A STRATEGY WE

1:28:38 USE WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG

1:28:39 IS A PHILOSOPHY THAT INFORMS

1:28:40 HOW WE BUILD A COMMUNITY,

1:28:42 ADDRESS HARM AND HOLD PEOPLE

1:28:44 ACCOUNTABLE.

1:28:45 I WANT TO BE CLEAR, UM, THIS IS

1:28:48 NOT AN ABSENCE OF CONSEQUENCES

1:28:49 WHEN WE ARE DOING THAT.

1:28:51 UM IT IS JUST RESTORATIVE

1:28:54 JUSTICE IS WHAT WE BELIEVE.

1:28:56 UH THE PRACTICES WHAT WE DO IN

1:28:57 RESTORATIVE OUTCOMES IS WHAT WE

1:28:58 MEASURE AND THOSE MEMBERS AND

1:29:02 WE'RE WILLING TO MEET WITH

1:29:03 ANYONE YOU KNOW, I'M WILLING TO

1:29:05 MEET AND SIT DOWN WITH ANYONE.

1:29:07 UM, BUT WE DO HAVE RESTORATIVE

1:29:09 PRACTICES SAFE AND WELCOMING

1:29:10 SCHOOL SPECIALISTS WHO PARTNER

1:29:11 WITH SCHOOL LEADERS AND THEIR

1:29:13 DESIGNEES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION

1:29:14 OF THE DISTRICT'S BULLYING UH

1:29:16 PREVENTION INTERVENTION.

1:29:19 UM.

1:29:19 ,THE BULLYING AND PREVENT

1:29:20 INTERVENTION SPECIALIST UM AND

1:29:22 THE SCHOOL BASED LEVEL HAVE TO

1:29:24 COMPETE COMPLETE TO DAY

1:29:26 BULLYING PREVENTION TRAININGS

1:29:27 IN ORDER TO BE IN THIS ROLE IN

1:29:29 THE SCHOOL BASED LEVEL.

1:29:30 AND SO THIS IS ON TOP OF THE

1:29:31 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES,

1:29:34 UM AND SAFE AND WELCOMING

1:29:34 SCHOOLS FOLKS UNDER THE BOSTON

1:29:36 PUBLIC SCHOOLS BULLYING

1:29:38 PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION

1:29:39 PLAN SS 18 UH

1:29:43 SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR WE

1:29:43 DETERMINE WHETHER SOMETHING IS

1:29:44 BULLYING INTO A FORMAL

1:29:46 INVESTIGATION.

1:29:47 UH, NOT BECAUSE THE STUDENT

1:29:49 PARENTS USES THE WORD BULLYING.

1:29:51 WE WE OPEN UP A FULL

1:29:52 INVESTIGATION.

1:29:53 UH, THE KEY DISTINCTION IS NOT

1:29:56 EVERY CONFLICT, ARGUMENT AND

1:29:57 HURTFUL INTERACTION MEETS THE

1:30:00 DEFINITION OF BULLYING.

1:30:01 BUT EVERY REPORTED CONCERN

1:30:02 DESERVES A RESPONSE.

1:30:02 RIGHT?

1:30:03 LIKE WE HAVE TO RESPOND TO

1:30:04 EVERYTHING AND AND ONCE AGAIN I

1:30:07 KNOW I'M TALKING A LOT BUT I'M

1:30:08 LEVEL SETTING.

1:30:09 UM, THREE PRIMARY FACTORS WE

1:30:11 EXAMINED THE POWER IMBALANCE

1:30:12 REPEATED BEHAVIOR AND

1:30:14 INTENTIONAL AND TARGETED

1:30:15 BEHAVIOR WHICH WE WEREN'T HAPPY

1:30:16 TO GET INTO.

1:30:17 UM.

1:30:20 HOW THE DETERMINATION IS MADE.

1:30:23 UH, WE RECEIVE AND DOCUMENT THE

1:30:25 ALLEGATIONS.

1:30:26 ANY STAFF MEMBER WHO BECOMES

1:30:28 AWARE OF POSSIBLE BULLYING MUST

1:30:30 REPORT IT IMMEDIATELY TO THE

1:30:31 SCHOOL LEADER OR DESIGNEE.

1:30:33 UM.

1:30:34 THEN IT MUST BE ASSESSED

1:30:35 IMMEDIATELY.

1:30:38 UM AND WE FOR SAFETY IN

1:30:39 CONTACTING FAMILIES THAT.

1:30:40 HAS TO HAPPEN.

1:30:41 SAFETY MEASURES BEGIN BEFORE

1:30:43 THE INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES.

1:30:46 FAMILY NOTIFICATION IS REQUIRED

1:30:47 WITHIN 24 HOURS BUT IT'S

1:30:49 IMMEDIATELY UH YOU THEN THE

1:30:51 SCHOOLS THEN HAVE TO GATHER

1:30:52 EVIDENCE, INTERVIEW THE

1:30:53 TARGETED STUDENT, THE ALLEGED

1:30:55 AGGRESSOR WITNESSES AND AND

1:30:57 RELEVANT ADULTS AND REVIEW THE

1:30:59 AVAILABLE DOCUMENTATION OR

1:31:00 DIGITAL EVIDENCE WHICH DIGITAL

1:31:02 EVIDENCE IS ALWAYS COMING UP

1:31:03 THESE DAYS UM APPLY THE POLICY

1:31:06 CRITERIA UM EXAMINE THE POWER

1:31:09 IN THOSE THREE PIECES IS THERE

1:31:10 POWER IMBALANCE, REPETITION,

1:31:12 TARGETED CONDUCT, HARMFUL

1:31:14 IMPACT OR ANY PROTECTED CLASS

1:31:16 CONSIDERATIONS?

1:31:17 THAT MEANS STUDENTS WITH

1:31:17 DISABILITIES UM STUDENTS WHO UM

1:31:22 ARE EXPERIENCING UH WHO TEND TO

1:31:25 BE DOWN TO SPEAK MULTIPLE

1:31:26 LANGUAGES ETC. UM DOCUMENT THE

1:31:28 FINDINGS AND INTERVENTIONS

1:31:30 UNDER THE

1:31:31 SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR WHICH I

1:31:32 THINK YOU GUYS HAVE ACCESS TO.

1:31:33 WE COULD SHARE UM, THE SCHOOL

1:31:34 LEADER OR DESIGNEE MUST

1:31:35 COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION,

1:31:37 NOTIFY FAMILIES WITHIN FIVE

1:31:38 SCHOOL DAYS THE FOLLOW THROUGH

1:31:42 UM IMPLEMENT THE APPROPRIATE AS

1:31:45 A RESULT UM YOU IMPLEMENT THE

1:31:47 APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS

1:31:49 PROTECT AGAINST RETALIATION

1:31:51 WHICH HAS BEEN MENTIONED HERE

1:31:53 AND CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT THE

1:31:54 STUDENT FEEL SAFE AND THE

1:31:55 CONCERNING BEHAVIOR HAS STOPPED

1:31:56 .

1:31:57 UM YOU KNOW I WANT ONE THING IS

1:31:59 AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION IS NOT

1:32:01 EVERY HARMFUL INTERACTION

1:32:03 BETWEEN STUDENTS LEGALLY

1:32:04 QUALIFIES AS BULLYING, BUT WE

1:32:05 STILL INVESTIGATE UM IF IF YOU

1:32:08 FEEL IF YOU BELIEVE THE NUMBERS

1:32:10 ARE HIGH THE NUMBERS ARE HIGH

1:32:11 BASED ON REFERRALS.

1:32:13 BUT IF YOU IF THE NUMBER WAS

1:32:14 TEN IT'S STILL HIGH.

1:32:16 SO THERE SHOULD BE ZERO AND WE

1:32:17 AND I RECOGNIZE THAT UM BUT

1:32:21 EVERY THE REFERRALS ARE HIGH

1:32:22 BECAUSE WE HAVE A STRONGER

1:32:23 PROCESS UM WE HAVE A GREATER

1:32:26 DEMAND ON A SCHOOL BASED LEVEL

1:32:27 FOR TRANSPARENCY.

1:32:29 UM.

1:32:30 AND YOU KNOW, WE ALSO WANT

1:32:33 TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN AN

1:32:35 INVESTIGATION DETERMINES AN

1:32:36 INCIDENT WAS NOT BULLYING, IT

1:32:38 DOES NOT MEAN NOTHING HAPPENED

1:32:41 AND THAT'S ANOTHER DISTINCTION.

1:32:43 UM, A CHILD MAY STILL HAVE BEEN

1:32:46 HUMILIATED, INTIMIDATED,

1:32:47 THREATENED OR MADE TO FEEL

1:32:48 UNSAFE AND IT'S OUR OBLIGATION

1:32:51 TO THAT CHILD.

1:32:53 UM.

1:32:53 TO MAKE SURE THAT CHILD DOES

1:32:55 NOT DISAPPEAR BECAUSE AN

1:32:56 INCIDENT FAILS TO MEET A

1:32:57 PARTICULAR DEFINITION.

1:32:59 THAT DETERMINATION TELLS US HOW

1:33:01 TO CLASSIFY THE INCIDENT.

1:33:03 UM, OUR COMMITMENT TO CARE AND

1:33:08 IT HAS PRODUCED AND THAT LEVEL

1:33:11 AND THAT INTENTION AND THAT

1:33:13 VEHICLE HAS ALLOWED US TO

1:33:14 CREATE SPACES, ADDITIONAL

1:33:15 SPACES IN THE DISTRICT WHERE

1:33:17 FAMILIES COULD FEEL COMFORTABLE

1:33:19 REPORTING UM THESE PIECES

1:33:22 REPORTING INCIDENT HOMELESSNESS

1:33:23 ABILITY REPORTING, HUNGER

1:33:26 REPORTING UM IF SOMETHING IS

1:33:28 NOT WORKING OUT FOR THEM AND WE

1:33:31 ARE UH A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

1:33:33 AND I REALIZE THAT MY LENS HAS

1:33:36 TO BE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

1:33:37 AND OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE SOME

1:33:38 RECOMMENDATIONS THAT'S THAT'S

1:33:40 ALREADY BEEN IN PLACE UM, UNDER

1:33:42 THE LEADERSHIP OF SAM AND MARY

1:33:44 SKIPPER, WE HAVE REDESIGNED UM

1:33:47 AND MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT

1:33:48 SHIFTS AROUND WHAT WE'RE DOING.

1:33:49 UM, THIS IS NOT AN ARGUMENT

1:33:51 BACK AND FORTH IN TERMS OF IF

1:33:53 THIS IS IF WE ARE IT'S NOT US

1:33:54 AGAINST THESE FAMILIES.

1:33:55 IT'S UM I NEED TO SIT DOWN WITH

1:33:58 EVERY EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE

1:33:59 IF I HAVE.

1:34:00 IF I HAVE TO UM, BUT EVERY

1:34:03 SINGLE REPORT AND YOU KNOW THE

1:34:05 I'LL SAY THESE LAST TWO THINGS

1:34:07 EVERY SINGLE REPORT CLEARLY

1:34:08 DOCUMENT WHERE THE BULLYING WAS

1:34:10 SUBSTANTIATED.

1:34:11 WHETHER THE CONDUCT OCCURRED

1:34:13 INCLUDED CONFLICT, HARASSMENT,

1:34:14 RETALIATION OR CODE OF CONDUCT

1:34:16 BY A VIOLATION.

1:34:16 THIS IS ONLY BULLYING.

1:34:17 I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT SUPPORTS

1:34:20 OR OR INTERVENTIONS WERE

1:34:21 PROVIDED REGARDLESS OF THE

1:34:23 DETERMINATION.

1:34:23 SO YOU MAY IT MAY BE UNFOUNDED

1:34:25 BUT YOU STILL MAY NEED AN

1:34:28 INTERVENTION OR PLAN.

1:34:30 UM AND WHO WILL FOLLOW UP WITH

1:34:31 THAT STUDENT AND FAMILY AND

1:34:33 WHEN AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATE

1:34:36 WHEN PARENTS ARE VOCAL BECAUSE

1:34:37 UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE TWO

1:34:40 STRONGEST ENTITIES IN THE CITY

1:34:41 ARE ORGANIZED PARENTS AND

1:34:43 ORGANIZED YOUNG PEOPLE.

1:34:44 UM, AND WE DO HAVE STAFF

1:34:46 TRAININGS AND FOLKS SAY WHAT

1:34:48 OUR THINK WHAT STAFF IS DOING

1:34:50 OTHER THAN THE TWO DAY BULLYING

1:34:51 PIECE UH WE HAVE ALL STAFF

1:34:53 TRAININGS, WE HAVE NEW TEACHER

1:34:54 HIRING, BULLYING PREVENTION

1:34:55 TRAINING.

1:34:55 UH WE HAVE THE BULLYING

1:34:57 PREVENTION INTERVENTION

1:34:59 SPECIALIST TRAINING WHICH IS A

1:35:00 12 HOUR TRAINING BULLYING

1:35:02 PREVENTION WORKSHOPS FOR

1:35:02 PARENTS AND STUDENTS WITH

1:35:04 DISABILITIES.

1:35:04 UM, WHICH MAKES ME THINK IS OUR

1:35:06 MESSAGING STRONG ENOUGH SO THAT

1:35:08 OUR PARENTS ARE DO ALL OF OUR

1:35:09 PARENTS GIVE ACCESS TO OUR KNOW

1:35:11 THIS HAPPENS AND I'LL BEFORE I

1:35:14 GO TO MY COLLEAGUES AND ANSWER

1:35:16 ANY QUESTIONS YOU KNOW OUR

1:35:17 IMPACT WILL BE FOUND IN HOW WE

1:35:19 TREAT PEOPLE.

1:35:20 IT'S BEEN SAID UM ESPECIALLY

1:35:21 WHEN THEY ARE VULNERABLE NEED

1:35:23 US THE MOST.

1:35:23 EVERY FAMILY DESERVES A

1:35:25 RESPONSE GROUNDED IN CARE AND

1:35:26 ACCOUNTABILITY.

1:35:28 UM SO I'M I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE

1:35:32 COULD HAVE THIS DISCUSSION AND

1:35:33 THINK ABOUT AND WANT TO BE A

1:35:35 PART OF ANYTHING OR ANY ORG

1:35:36 THAT THAT WANTS TO DO THIS WORK

1:35:39 .

1:35:40 UM I AGREE WITH MR SMITH AND

1:35:42 AND THE FAMILIES UM,

1:35:45 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES IS THE

1:35:47 WAY WE HAVE INVESTED IN

1:35:49 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES.

1:35:51 I WANT TO BE CLEAR, UH, WE'VE

1:35:52 MET WITH THE PEOPLE WE MET WITH

1:35:55 MULTIPLE PEOPLE EVELYN AQUINO

1:35:57 MICHELLE, UH, NATIVE AMERICANS

1:35:59 WHO WHO FOUNDED RESTORATIVE

1:36:01 JUSTICE PRACTICES.

1:36:02 WE MET WITH TEAMS AND IT IS A 5

1:36:05 TO 7 YEAR PROCESS.

1:36:06 WE ARE YEAR THREE TO FULLY

1:36:08 INTEGRATE OUR DISTRICT RIGHT

1:36:10 NOW WE HAVE A COHORT IF YOU

1:36:11 WANT TO SEE ON WITNESS WHAT

1:36:14 THAT LOOKS LIKE, HOW IT FEELS,

1:36:17 UM THE GOAL IS FOR STUDENTS YES

1:36:20 TO TO THE GOAL IS FOR US TO

1:36:23 UNDERSTAND THAT HARM HAPPENS

1:36:24 BUT THE RESPONSES JUST LIKE

1:36:26 STUDENTS HAVE TO WE HAVE TO

1:36:28 MEASURE STUDENTS SOMETIMES BY

1:36:29 YES IF THEY MAKE A BAD

1:36:30 DECISION.

1:36:31 BUT DO WE CREATE THE CONDITIONS

1:36:33 FOR THEM TO.

1:36:34 NOT MAKE THAT POOR DECISION

1:36:36 AGAIN?

1:36:37 AND THAT'S THAT'S US THAT'S

1:36:38 ME I WAS.

1:36:39 I MADE SO MANY BAD DECISIONS I

1:36:41 DON'T KNOW HOW I GOT HERE BUT.

1:36:43 I IT'S MY JOB AND OUR ROLE TO

1:36:45 MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE THE

1:36:48 PEOPLE THAT OUR KIDS.

1:36:49 WANT THAT I NEEDED WHEN I GREW

1:36:51 UP WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.

1:36:57 UH THANK YOU FOR THAT.

1:36:58 UM AND THANK YOU COUNCIL WHO

1:36:59 OPPOSING UM TODAY'S SESSION

1:37:01 HEARING AND THANK YOU, UH,

1:37:02 COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR JOINING US

1:37:03 THIS EVENING.

1:37:03 THE ONLY THING I'LL ADD TO WHAT

1:37:05 UM, CHIEF MCCARTHY UM, ALLUDED

1:37:07 TO WAS JUST TO THANK THE

1:37:08 FAMILIES, UM, FOR COMING AND

1:37:11 SHARING THE EXPERIENCES.

1:37:11 AND I ALSO WANT TO, UM,

1:37:13 PERSONALLY JUST SAY THAT I'M

1:37:15 SORRY FOR THEIR EXPERIENCES,

1:37:16 WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH BECAUSE

1:37:18 UM.

1:37:18 UH.

1:37:19 JUST HEARING THE TESTIMONY

1:37:21 JUST MADE MY BLOOD BOIL TO KNOW

1:37:23 THAT, UM, WE FELL SHORT IN SOME

1:37:25 OF THESE SITUATIONS, UM, AND

1:37:28 OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

1:37:29 WEREN'T EFFECTIVE THERE AND FOR

1:37:31 THE PUBLIC HERE TO KNOW THAT,

1:37:33 UM, IF YOUR CHILD, UM, HAS BEEN

1:37:35 SUBJECT TO ANY SEXUAL

1:37:37 HARASSMENT, BULLYING, SEXUAL

1:37:38 MISCONDUCT UM, IT ALSO MAKES

1:37:40 ME BOIL TO KNOW THAT, UM, OUR

1:37:42 SYSTEM HAS FAILED YOU AND WE

1:37:43 ARE TRYING TO DO BETTER AND WE

1:37:45 NEED TO DO BETTER.

1:37:46 UM, I ALSO WANT TO JUST STATE

1:37:48 THAT, UM, THE RESPONSE THAT WE

1:37:50 HAVE BEEN WORKING TOWARDS OVER

1:37:51 THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAS

1:37:53 JUST GOTTEN STRONGER BASED ON

1:37:54 THE COLLABORATION THAT WE DO DO

1:37:56 WITH FAMILIES AND PARENTS.

1:37:58 UM, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE

1:37:59 PROCESS OF UPDATING OUR CODE OF

1:38:00 CONDUCT AND FOR THOSE FOLKS

1:38:01 THEY KNOW WE GO THROUGH A CYCLE

1:38:03 EVERY THREE YEARS OR UPDATE ON

1:38:04 CODE OF CONDUCT AND WE TAKE

1:38:06 VERY GREAT INTENTIONALITY IN

1:38:07 MEETING WITH PARTNERS AND

1:38:09 CAREGIVERS, PARENTS, STUDENTS

1:38:10 TO GIVE US FEEDBACK ON OUR

1:38:12 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AS IT

1:38:13 RELATES TO THAT AS A DISTRICT,

1:38:15 WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT OUR

1:38:16 PRACTICES TO SEE WHERE WE CAN

1:38:17 DO BETTER FROM SCHOOL SUPPORT

1:38:19 SERVICE WORK TO OPERATIONAL

1:38:21 WORK UM TO UH COORDINATING WITH

1:38:24 DIFFERENT PARTNERS.

1:38:25 WE ALWAYS SEEK TO GET BETTER

1:38:26 WHERE WE'RE FALLING SHORT.

1:38:27 YOU HAVE OUR COMMITMENT TO KEEP

1:38:29 WORKING TOWARDS THAT AND WE'RE

1:38:31 OPEN TO MEET WITH ANYONE HERE

1:38:32 AND HE ADVOCATES HERE.

1:38:33 I'VE KNOWN EARLY ON FOR YEARS

1:38:34 IN THIS WORK.

1:38:35 THANK YOU LEON FOR ALL YOUR

1:38:36 WORK OVER THE YEARS IN

1:38:37 INFORMING WHAT WE DO

1:38:38 DIFFERENTLY.

1:38:39 UM AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO

1:38:40 THAT.

1:38:41 SO I ALSO WANT TO LET THE

1:38:42 PUBLIC KNOW THAT WHERE WE DO

1:38:43 FALL SHORT AND IF OUR POLICY IS

1:38:45 NOT FOLLOWED BY CERTAIN STAFF,

1:38:48 WE WILL HOLD STAFF ACCOUNTABLE

1:38:49 FOR THEIR UM, ERRORS, YOU KNOW,

1:38:52 IN OUR POLICIES AND UM, WE WANT

1:38:55 TO MAKE SURE WE'RE LOOKING

1:38:56 CAREFULLY AT LICENSURE.

1:38:57 THE CERTIFICATIONS STAFF ARE IN

1:38:59 DIFFERENT PLACES WITH THEIR

1:39:00 CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES.

1:39:01 SO WE TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY

1:39:02 AS WELL.

1:39:04 UM AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO

1:39:05 MONITOR THAT AND GET BETTER

1:39:06 WITH WORKING WITH OUR STAFF TO

1:39:07 MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE

1:39:08 APPROPRIATE LICENSES AND IF

1:39:10 THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS

1:39:10 OF OBTAINING LICENSURE, IT'S

1:39:11 BECAUSE THERE IS A GROUP

1:39:12 OF STAFF THAT ARE IN THOSE

1:39:13 CATEGORIES THAT WE CONTINUE TO

1:39:14 SUPPORT THEM AS WE WANT TO MAKE

1:39:16 SURE WE HAVE A HAVE WE MAINTAIN

1:39:17 A DIVERSE WORKFORCE?

1:39:18 UM, LASTLY, I'LL JUST SAY

1:39:21 AROUND SOME OF OUR PROCEDURES I

1:39:22 WANT TO JUST KIND OF CLARIFY

1:39:23 THAT, UM, THE WAY I WOULD

1:39:26 DESCRIBE OUR RESPONSE AND

1:39:27 PROTOCOLS MAY BE A LITTLE

1:39:29 CONFUSING, BUT I WANT TO MAKE

1:39:30 SURE WE LOOK AT IT AS LIKE SOME

1:39:33 OF OUR PROCEDURES HAVE TO RUN

1:39:35 CONCURRENTLY BASED ON

1:39:36 SATISFYING FEDERAL LAW IN OUR

1:39:38 STATE AND LOCAL POLICIES.

1:39:39 WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS TITLE

1:39:41 NINE DICTATES, UH, A CERTAIN

1:39:43 SPECIFIC SET OF REQUIREMENTS.

1:39:45 I STILL.

1:39:46 SUPPORT WORK UH CODE OF CONDUCT

1:39:48 WORK UM, FOLLOW CERTAIN STATE

1:39:50 REQUIREMENTS STATE LAWS IN

1:39:52 BOSTON POLICE WILL FOLLOW UP

1:39:54 WITH ANY LAWS THAT THEY HAVE TO

1:39:55 ABIDE BY AS FAR AS DIFFERENT

1:39:56 INFRACTIONS THAT GO ON.

1:39:57 SO THESE DIFFERENT ENTITIES

1:39:59 HAVE TO WORK CONCURRENTLY AND

1:40:00 SIMULTANEOUSLY.

1:40:02 UM, SO AS DIFFERENT THINGS

1:40:03 HAPPEN EACH OF THOSE LITTLE

1:40:05 ARMS AND LEGS HAVE TO UM BE

1:40:07 WORKING IN THE SAME DIRECTION

1:40:09 SO THAT THE RIGHT OUTCOME CAN

1:40:10 BE MADE FOR FAMILIES.

1:40:12 SO IT DOES OCCUR WE WANT TO

1:40:14 MAKE SURE THAT IMMEDIATELY IS

1:40:15 BEING REPORTED ADDRESSED AT THE

1:40:16 SCHOOL LEVEL SAFETY PLANS ARE

1:40:18 PUT IN PLACE, COMMUNICATION IS

1:40:19 HAPPENING WITH FAMILIES AND

1:40:20 WE'RE STABILIZING THE

1:40:22 ENVIRONMENT IN THE CLASSROOM

1:40:23 AND THE SCHOOL AS A ITSELF AS A

1:40:24 WHOLE AND IF WE NEED TO A NEED

1:40:26 BE IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE

1:40:27 ALSO KNOW THAT SOME OF THIS

1:40:28 SPILLS INTO THE COMMUNITY AND

1:40:29 THAT'S WHY WE WORK CLOSELY WITH

1:40:30 OUR PARTNERS OUTSIDE.

1:40:31 SO WE TAKE THAT WORK VERY

1:40:32 SERIOUSLY IN THAT ARM WHEN WE

1:40:34 NEED TO INVESTIGATE.

1:40:35 TITLE NINE INVESTIGATION IS A

1:40:37 PROCESS FOR THAT THAT OCCURS AS

1:40:38 WELL.

1:40:39 SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE WE'RE

1:40:40 STABILIZING THE SCHOOL, THE

1:40:41 STUDENTS AND THE FAMILIES AND

1:40:42 HOLD THE APPROPRIATE FOLKS

1:40:43 ACCOUNTABLE, THEN WE ALWAYS ARE

1:40:46 IN CONSULTATION WITH BOSTON

1:40:47 POLICE.

1:40:48 SO IN ANY OF THESE INSTANCES

1:40:49 WHEN THEY OCCUR WE CONSTANTLY

1:40:51 CONSTANTLY CONSTANTLY CONSULT

1:40:52 WITH BOSTON POLICE BOSTON

1:40:54 POLICE HAS A SEXUAL ASSAULT UM

1:40:56 SO SEXUAL UM I'M NOT SURE THE

1:40:58 QUITE NAME IT BUT THEY HAVE A

1:41:00 SEXUAL ASSAULT UNIT THAT WORKED

1:41:01 CLOSELY WITH CHIEF UM AS HE,

1:41:03 MORELLO AND HIS TEAM THE SCHOOL

1:41:05 UNIT HAS IT ON THAT HELPS US

1:41:06 SUPPORT WITH THAT KIND OF WORK

1:41:07 AND WE CONSULT WITH THEM

1:41:08 REGULARLY.

1:41:09 UM, AND THEN THERE'S A CRIMES

1:41:11 AGAINST CHILDREN UNIT THAT WE

1:41:12 WORK CLOSELY WITH VERY CLOSELY

1:41:13 AND SO I'M THAT IS FOR CHILDREN

1:41:14 UNDER THE AGE OF 12 THAT WORK

1:41:17 IS CONSTANTLY HAPPENING.

1:41:18 SO WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT OUR

1:41:19 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES I WOULD

1:41:21 LOOK AT IT AND DESCRIBE IT AS

1:41:22 THERE ARE CONCURRENT PROCESSES

1:41:23 THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN IN EACH

1:41:25 OF THE DIFFERENT ARMS THAT

1:41:26 HAPPEN TO SUPPORT THE STUDENTS

1:41:28 AND FAMILIES IN DIFFERENT

1:41:29 AVENUES AND DIFFERENT

1:41:30 PERSPECTIVES.

1:41:30 AND THAT'S WHAT I'LL CONTINUE

1:41:31 TO DO.

1:41:32 AND AGAIN WE'RE OPEN FOR

1:41:33 FEEDBACK.

1:41:34 UM, WE WELCOME FEEDBACK AND

1:41:35 DISAGREEMENT.

1:41:36 IF FOLKS HAVE SUGGESTIONS ON

1:41:37 HOW WE CAN DO BETTER WE'RE

1:41:38 HAPPY TO DO BETTER.

1:41:39 AND AGAIN I JUST APOLOGIZE FOR

1:41:41 ALL THE UM, STUDENTS THAT HAVE

1:41:43 HAD ISSUES THAT HAVE GONE

1:41:44 UNRESOLVED.

1:41:45 BUT OUR INTENT IN OUR

1:41:46 COMMITMENT IS TO DO THAT.

1:41:47 I'LL JUST CLOSE BY SHARING JUST

1:41:48 ONE ANECDOTAL EXAMPLE OF JUST

1:41:51 ME PERSONALLY I WAS AT THE

1:41:52 MURPHY SCHOOL LAST WEEK UM AND

1:41:54 WE WERE THERE FOR A NATIONAL

1:41:55 SCHOOL LUNCH EVENT.

1:41:56 WHY WERE WE IN LINE?

1:41:58 UM, THERE WAS A SECOND GRADER

1:42:01 CRYING AND JUST CRYING AND

1:42:02 BECOME AN EMOTIONAL WATCH.

1:42:03 SHE'S IN LINE.

1:42:05 SO UNFORTUNATELY, UM, I WAS THE

1:42:07 CLOSEST ADULT THERE.

1:42:08 UM, AND NO ONE FROM THE SCHOOL

1:42:09 WAS THERE, UH, WHO MAY HAVE

1:42:10 KNOWN THIS GIRL.

1:42:11 SO I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO

1:42:13 JUST GET UP, MOVE FROM WHERE I

1:42:15 WAS, STEP RIGHT INTO THE LINE

1:42:17 AND INTRODUCED MYSELF TO HER

1:42:18 TOTAL WHO I WAS AND STARTED A

1:42:20 CONVERSATION WHERE SHE TOLD

1:42:21 ME THAT SHE WAS CRYING BECAUSE

1:42:22 SHE WAS BEING BULLIED.

1:42:24 I SAID OKAY WELL THANKS FOR

1:42:25 SHARING THAT WITH ME.

1:42:26 LET ME LET ME CALL A SCHOOL

1:42:28 LEADER TO DISCUSS THIS WITH

1:42:29 YOU.

1:42:30 SO I FLAGGED OVER THE SCHOOL

1:42:31 LEADER.

1:42:31 HE IMMEDIATELY CAME OVER AND

1:42:33 THEN I ASKED HER WHAT WAS GOING

1:42:34 ON WITH THE PEOPLE INVOLVED

1:42:35 WHILE THE SCHOOL WAS COMING

1:42:36 OVER SHE TOLD ME TWO STUDENTS

1:42:37 NAMES AND NOW WHEN THE

1:42:39 PRINCIPAL CAME OVER I WAS ABLE

1:42:40 TO CONNECT THE PRINCIPAL WITH

1:42:41 THE STUDENT AND THEY WERE ABLE

1:42:42 TO DRESS.

1:42:43 HE WAS HE RECOGNIZED THE

1:42:44 STUDENTS RIGHT AWAY.

1:42:45 HE KIND OF WAS GOING ON AND HE

1:42:47 SAID HE WILL CALL HER HER

1:42:49 PARENTS AND LET HER KNOW WHAT'S

1:42:50 GOING ON, THAT HE'LL FOLLOW UP

1:42:52 WITH THEM TO MEET IMMEDIATELY.

1:42:53 IMMEDIATELY AFTER LUNCH

1:42:54 PARTICIPANTS WERE IN THE

1:42:55 LUNCHROOM AT THE TIME AND THEN

1:42:56 AFTER THAT I STAYED WITH THE

1:42:58 STUDENT GUY IN LINE WITH THE

1:42:59 STUDENT CONNECTED WITH HER

1:43:01 DE-ESCALATED HER, SAT WITH HER

1:43:02 ON FRIENDS, HAD LUNCH AND GOT

1:43:04 INTO A BIT OF SPACE AND THEN

1:43:06 THE PRINCIPAL CAME OVER AND UH

1:43:08 PROVIDED A QUICK UPDATE TO HER

1:43:09 AND THEN SHE THEY WERE

1:43:10 STABILIZED AND THERE WAS A PLAN

1:43:11 IMMEDIATELY DEVELOPED.

1:43:13 I PLAN ON GOING BACK THERE NEXT

1:43:14 WEEK JUST TO CHECK ON THE

1:43:15 STUDENT AND MAKE SURE SHE'S

1:43:16 OKAY, BUT THAT'S THE LEVEL

1:43:17 OF CARE YOU CAN EXPECT FROM ME,

1:43:19 MY TEAM, MY STAFF AND MY

1:43:20 COLLEAGUES EVERY DAY AND WHERE

1:43:23 WE FALL SHORT WE WILL HOLD

1:43:24 PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE.

1:43:24 THANK YOU FOR.

1:43:27 I'M GOING TO BE VERY BRIEF.

1:43:28 I'M MINDFUL OF TIME AND REALLY

1:43:29 WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE

1:43:31 STUDENTS AS WELL.

1:43:33 UM I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, WE

1:43:35 SHARE UM THE COUNCIL'S

1:43:38 DEDICATION TO STUDENTS TO

1:43:39 SAFETY, FAMILY AND SUPPORT AND

1:43:41 ENSURING THAT THERE'S PROMPT

1:43:43 RESOLUTION.

1:43:44 I APPRECIATE SO MUCH HEARING

1:43:45 FROM THE FAMILIES AND UM AGAIN

1:43:49 OFFER OUR OUR SINCERE APOLOGY

1:43:51 FOR ANYTHING THAT ANYONE

1:43:53 EXPERIENCED.

1:43:54 UM, AS MY COLLEAGUES MENTIONED,

1:43:57 WE ARE BOOTS ON THE GROUND FOR

1:43:58 IMMEDIATE ACTION.

1:43:59 WE HAVE ALL BEEN TO SCHOOLS TO

1:44:01 RESPOND TO THINGS TO SUPPORT

1:44:03 AND TO ENGAGE AND WE'RE

1:44:04 COMMITTED TO THIS WORK.

1:44:05 WE'VE PUT SOME SYSTEMS IN PLACE

1:44:07 WHICH I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:44:08 TALKING TO YOU ABOUT AND WE'RE

1:44:11 LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

1:44:12 YOU TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE

1:44:14 MEETING THE NEEDS OF ALL OF OUR

1:44:15 STUDENTS FAMILIES.

1:44:18 OKAY.

1:44:19 YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING

1:44:20 ELSE I CAN TELL YOU WE'RE

1:44:22 GOING.

1:44:22 TO SAY SOMETHING.

1:44:23 SO SO I'VE BEEN AROUND LONG

1:44:26 ENOUGH AND HERE IN FRONT OF YOU

1:44:28 ALL LONG ENOUGH TO YOU KNOW, I

1:44:30 TALK TO ENOUGH YOUNG PEOPLE

1:44:32 ESPECIALLY IN PREPARATION.

1:44:34 UM, SOME OF THE PIECES THAT I'M

1:44:36 GOING TO MENTION ARE IN THE

1:44:37 WORKS.

1:44:38 UM.

1:44:39 SO FOLKS, I WANT TO COME

1:44:42 HERE AND JUST LEAVE WITHOUT

1:44:43 ACTION.

1:44:43 RIGHT.

1:44:44 I THINK NUMBER ONE LIKE IF

1:44:46 THERE'S GOING TO BE A

1:44:47 SUBCOMMITTEE, A TASK FORCE OR

1:44:48 HAPPY TO BE ON IT UM, HAPPY TO

1:44:50 TALK TO IT COULD BE IT SHOULD

1:44:53 BE ON MULTIPLE LEVELS.

1:44:54 IT SHOULD BE ONE FOR PARENTS

1:44:55 THAT SHOULD BE ONE FOR YOU.

1:44:56 ALL RIGHT.

1:44:57 I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.

1:44:57 BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A

1:45:00 THERE'S A GAP IN COMMUNICATION

1:45:01 AND WHAT THAT THROUGH LINE

1:45:02 LOOKS LIKE.

1:45:03 BUT SOME OF THE FOUR THINGS

1:45:04 THAT I THINK THAT WE ARE

1:45:07 CURRENTLY WORKING ON UM AND

1:45:09 HAVE BEEN UM ESPECIALLY IN THIS

1:45:11 SORT OF LIKE REDESIGN UM, IS

1:45:14 RELATIVE TO BULLYING

1:45:16 PREVENTION, UM AND OUR

1:45:17 RESPONSES.

1:45:18 UM.

1:45:19 I BELIEVE WE CAN STRENGTHEN

1:45:21 OUR WORK IN FOUR MEANINGFUL

1:45:22 WAYS.

1:45:23 UH.

1:45:23 AND YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS THIS.

1:45:25 ON ON THE RECORD SO WHEN YOU

1:45:26 PULL TOGETHER, UM, HOLD US HOLD

1:45:29 US ACCOUNTABLE TO THE THINGS

1:45:30 THAT WE SAID WE ARE GOING TO

1:45:31 DO, I THINK WE SHOULD EXPAND

1:45:33 THE PREVENTION PIECES BEYOND

1:45:35 UM, CLASSROOM SETTINGS.

1:45:36 I THINK ONE THING THAT DID NOT

1:45:38 COME UP UH, EVERYBODY LOVES

1:45:39 SPORTS HERE BUT IS BULLYING AND

1:45:42 HARASSMENT OF THOSE PIECES

1:45:43 WITHIN THE SPORTS AND ATHLETICS

1:45:45 IS SOMETHING THAT.

1:45:46 THAT THAT THAT HAPPENS.

1:45:48 RIGHT IN UM IN LOOKING AT

1:45:51 OUR LOCKER ROOMS EXTRA

1:45:52 CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND OTHER

1:45:52 SPACES WHERE STUDENTS BUILD

1:45:54 RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNITY UH

1:45:56 ,YOU.

1:45:56 KNOW, WE.

1:45:57 ARE WE'VE WORKED WITH HIM I

1:45:58 HAVE MULTIPLE STUDENTS ON THE

1:46:00 ON THE PANELS TO.

1:46:01 AND IN THEIR.

1:46:02 WORKSHOPS AND TO LEAD

1:46:04 WORKSHOPS ON ON ANTI-BULLYING.

1:46:06 UM I THINK THIS ONE IS THE MOST

1:46:08 IMPORTANT ONE ESPECIALLY GIVEN

1:46:10 THE TEMPERATURE IN THE ROOM

1:46:11 TODAY.

1:46:12 UH, I WOULD LIKE US TO

1:46:13 ESTABLISH A 60 DAY FAMILY

1:46:15 ASSURANCE PROTOCOL WHEN WHEN

1:46:16 BULLYING IS SUBSTANTIATED.

1:46:18 BOUND UH, OUR RESPONSIBILITY,

1:46:21 UM.

1:46:22 SHOULD NOT.

1:46:23 END WITH THE INVESTIGATION.

1:46:25 UH, WE SHOULD RECONNECT WITH

1:46:26 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES AND

1:46:27 ASSESS WHETHER OUR.

1:46:28 INTERVENTION HAS WORKED.

1:46:29 UH, WE.

1:46:30 DO.

1:46:30 THAT NOW BUT.

1:46:31 WITH MORE EMPHASIS AND ENSURE

1:46:33 THAT STUDENT CONTINUES TO TO

1:46:34 FEEL SAFE.

1:46:35 UM.

1:46:36 THREE UH, ELEVATING STUDENT

1:46:38 VOICE UH, YOUNG YOU KNOW, UH,

1:46:40 WE DID UH, INTERVENTION ONE

1:46:42 TIME TO GET MORE KIDS TO COME

1:46:44 TO SCHOOL AND WE HAD THE YOUNG

1:46:45 PEOPLE LEAN IT LEAD IT.

1:46:47 UM OH, I'M ON THE CLOCK.

1:46:49 OOPS.

1:46:49 SORRY.

1:46:50 I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO

1:46:50 SAY.

1:46:51 ONE THING.

1:46:51 OH, NO.

1:46:52 YOU ASKED WHERE YOU GOT IT SO

1:46:53 CREATED MORE SPACES FOR

1:46:54 STUDENT.

1:46:54 VOICE NOW STUDENT.

1:46:56 VOICE AND THEN MEASURE.

1:46:58 ACCOUNTABILITY.

1:46:58 OKAY GREAT BECAUSE I THOUGHT

1:46:59 YOU WANT TO SAY ONE MORE.

1:47:00 THING BECAUSE MY COLLEAGUES

1:47:01 HAVE BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING.

1:47:03 SORRY.

1:47:03 UM, AND THEN YOU WENT ON AND

1:47:06 ON AND ON.

1:47:06 LET ME FIND OUT ALL OF YOUR.

1:47:08 AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION.

1:47:10 COUNSELOR.

1:47:11 FLYNN I'M.

1:47:12 GONNA.

1:47:12 GIVE YOU.

1:47:13 FIVE MINUTES.

1:47:13 HOW ABOUT THAT, FITZGERALD?

1:47:15 FIVE MINUTES.

1:47:16 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:47:18 THANK YOU TO THE TEAM THAT IS

1:47:20 HERE.

1:47:21 ALTHOUGH I DO DISAGREE WITH THE

1:47:25 COMMENTS MADE THAT YOU ARE

1:47:26 BEING TRANSPARENT, RESPONSIBLE

1:47:29 AND ACCOUNTABLE, I DON'T I

1:47:32 DON'T BELIEVE THAT I LISTEN

1:47:34 CLOSELY TO THE TO THE MOTHERS

1:47:36 UM, IN THEIR PUBLIC TESTIMONY

1:47:40 AND TALKING ABOUT THEIR

1:47:41 CHILDREN AND THAT'S NOT THEY'LL

1:47:44 LIVED EXPERIENCE THEY DON'T

1:47:45 FEEL LIKE US HAS BEEN

1:47:48 TRANSPARENT.

1:47:48 THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE US IS

1:47:50 ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE.

1:47:53 I'M NOT GOING TO I'M NOT GOING

1:47:54 TO SIT HERE AND TELL YOU UM I

1:47:56 AGREE WITH YOU IF I IF I

1:47:58 DISAGREE WITH YOU, UM,

1:48:03 TRANSPARENCY BP'S DIDN'T WANT A

1:48:07 LOT OF THIS INFORMATION

1:48:08 RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT

1:48:10 SEXUAL ASSAULTS.

1:48:13 WE DID IN THE OPENING COMMENTS

1:48:15 THERE WERE A LOT OF COMMENTS

1:48:16 ABOUT BULLYING BUT SEXUAL

1:48:19 ASSAULTS WASN'T REALLY

1:48:20 COVERED ALL THAT MUCH.

1:48:22 UM.

1:48:23 SO I AM CHALLENGING THE BPA.

1:48:25 I AM CHALLENGING TODAY THAT I

1:48:29 DON'T FEEL CONFIDENT THEY THAT

1:48:30 THEY ARE BEING TRANSPARENT,

1:48:32 ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE.

1:48:35 12 BP'S FAMILIES AND STUDENTS

1:48:38 MY COLLEAGUES MAY DISAGREE WITH

1:48:40 ME.

1:48:40 BUT THAT'S THAT'S MY OPINION.

1:48:42 UM.

1:48:47 WE DIDN'T DISCUSS SEXUAL

1:48:49 ASSAULTS IN YOUR OPENING

1:48:51 COMMENTS.

1:48:52 WE GLOSSED OVER IT.

1:48:55 THERE'S PROBABLY SEVERAL

1:48:57 HUNDRED IT COULD BE THOUSANDS

1:48:59 OF ASSAULTS THAT HAVE TAKEN

1:49:00 PLACE.

1:49:01 OVER THE LAST FIVE.

1:49:02 SIX YEARS.

1:49:05 IT TOOK.

1:49:05 A REPORTER TO GET THEM FROM

1:49:09 SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT EVEN

1:49:11 THOUGH PREVIOUSLY I REQUESTED

1:49:13 THAT INFORMATION.

1:49:15 UM SO I'M NOT I'M NOT HAPPY

1:49:18 ABOUT THAT.

1:49:20 UM, CONSULTATION BETWEEN BP'S

1:49:26 IN BOSTON PUBLIC IN BOSTON

1:49:28 POLICE DEPARTMENT CONSULTATION

1:49:31 WHEREAS THE MEMORANDUM

1:49:33 OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN BOSTON

1:49:36 POLICE IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1:49:38 THAT I'VE BEEN ADVOCATING RIGHT

1:49:40 SAM FOR FOR THREE YEARS TO GET

1:49:43 IT SIGNED IS THAT SIGN NOW UH

1:49:45 IS SIGNED ON OUR END BUT NOT ON

1:49:47 THE BUS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

1:49:48 HOWEVER WE ARE STILL OPERATING

1:49:49 UNDER THE NO BUT BUT BUT BUT

1:49:52 SAM, MY POINT IS, AS YOU KNOW,

1:49:54 I WANT TO SEE HOW WE'RE

1:49:56 CONSULTING BETWEEN BOSTON

1:49:58 PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BOSTON POLICE.

1:49:59 THERE'S A.

1:50:00 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

1:50:01 THAT HASN'T BEEN SIGNED YET

1:50:03 THAT WILL STATE HOW BPA

1:50:07 COMMUNICATES WITH THE PUBLIC

1:50:08 SCHOOL SYSTEM.

1:50:09 THAT DOCUMENT HASN'T BEEN

1:50:11 RELEASED.

1:50:11 THAT DOCUMENT HASN'T BEEN

1:50:14 SIGNED.

1:50:14 DOES THE CITY COUNCIL DESERVE

1:50:17 TO LOOK AT THAT AND REVIEW IT?

1:50:18 I THINK THEY DO TO PARENTS

1:50:20 DESERVE TO LOOK.

1:50:21 AT IT.

1:50:22 AND REVIEW IT.

1:50:26 I THINK THEY DO.

1:50:29 THREE YEARS I'VE ASKED THAT

1:50:31 QUESTION FOR THREE YEARS.

1:50:32 WHERE IS THAT MEMORANDUM OF.

1:50:34 UNDERSTANDING AND I ALWAYS I

1:50:36 ALWAYS GET THE SAME.

1:50:37 ANSWER PRETTY SOON WE'RE GOING

1:50:38 TO HAVE IT FOR YOU AT.

1:50:42 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BY

1:50:45 CONSULTATION BETWEEN THE BOSTON

1:50:46 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:50:47 AND THE.

1:50:48 BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT.

1:50:49 I WANT TO SEE IT IN WRITING.

1:50:51 I WANT TO KNOW IF THERE'S A

1:50:53 SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A SCHOOL BUS

1:50:56 THAT THE BOSTON POLICE UH,

1:50:59 CONTACTED IMMEDIATELY.

1:51:02 I DON'T THINK THEY ARE.

1:51:05 I WANT TO KNOW IF THERE'S AN

1:51:07 ASSAULT AT BP'S THAT IT'S

1:51:11 INVESTIGATED.

1:51:11 IT'S DOCUMENTED PARENTS ARE

1:51:13 CALLED.

1:51:14 THERE WAS ONE MOTHER HERE OF A

1:51:17 SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD THAT WAS

1:51:22 NONVERBAL.

1:51:23 HE COULDN'T EXPRESS HIMSELF AND

1:51:25 TELL HIS MOTHER WHAT WAS

1:51:27 HAPPENING.

1:51:30 SO AGAIN I'M GOING TO PUSH BACK

1:51:33 ON TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY

1:51:34 AND RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE

1:51:36 BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE

1:51:37 DOING THAT AND I AM

1:51:39 DISAPPOINTED IN BP'S FOR COMING

1:51:41 HERE AND JUST TELLING ME THAT

1:51:45 WE ARE WORKING ON.

1:51:47 PROGRAMS TO ADDRESS THESE

1:51:49 ISSUES.

1:51:49 HOW CAN WE ADDRESS THE ISSUES

1:51:51 IF YOU'RE NOT TRANSPARENT ABOUT

1:51:53 WHAT THE ISSUES ARE?

1:51:58 SAM, WHEN AM I GOING TO GET THE

1:52:00 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING?

1:52:01 I'M NOT SURE COUNSELOR BECAUSE

1:52:03 THE THE THE IT'S NOT WITH US AT

1:52:05 THIS MOMENT.

1:52:05 UM BUT LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER

1:52:07 WE ARE OPERATING WITHIN THE

1:52:07 GUIDELINES OF IT AND TO CLARIFY

1:52:09 WHAT COUNCIL CAN.

1:52:10 I CAN I READ IT.

1:52:12 CAUSE IT'S NOT EXECUTED.

1:52:13 YES I'M NOT BUT BUT SAM.

1:52:15 I SPENT THREE YEARS I'M A

1:52:17 FORMER PROBATION OFFICER FOR

1:52:19 NINE YEARS I WAS IN THE NAVY

1:52:21 FOR 24 YEARS.

1:52:22 I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT

1:52:25 CONSULTATION MEANS BETWEEN A

1:52:26 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT IN A LAW

1:52:28 ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

1:52:29 I KNOW EVERY WORD I NEED TO

1:52:31 READ IT.

1:52:31 MAYBE I CAN PROVIDE SOME GOOD

1:52:33 SUGGESTIONS GUIDANCE BASED ON

1:52:35 MY LIVED EXPERIENCE BUT I CAN'T

1:52:37 DO THAT IF YOU WON'T SHOW

1:52:39 ME THE DOCKET DOCUMENT I.

1:52:41 CAN.

1:52:42 IF I DID A 17 F12 COULD I

1:52:45 GET IT?

1:52:46 I'M NOT SURE COUNSELOR.

1:52:47 YOU CAN FILE IT AND UH, I'LL

1:52:49 LET THE BUT BUT.

1:52:49 BUT UH, HELP US RESPOND TO

1:52:51 THAT.

1:52:52 I'M NOT SURE.

1:52:52 UM, I WANT TO BE RESPECTFUL

1:52:53 OF THE TIME.

1:52:54 I'M GOING TO END MY.

1:52:55 QUESTIONS HERE.

1:52:56 MADAM CHAIR, I APOLOGIZE FOR

1:52:57 GOING OVER.

1:52:57 FOR 30S.

1:52:59 THANK YOU.

1:53:00 I WASN'T KEEPING TRACK, I

1:53:01 DIDN'T STOP YOU.

1:53:01 KNOW I WANT TO BE RESPECTFUL TO

1:53:03 YOU TO THE TO THE COMMITTEE, TO

1:53:06 MY COLLEAGUES AND TO THE YOUNG

1:53:07 PEOPLE THAT ALSO WANT TO

1:53:08 TESTIFY.

1:53:09 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:53:10 THANK YOU.

1:53:10 I JUST I JUST WANT TO BE

1:53:11 REALLY CLEAR.

1:53:12 I'M TRYING REALLY HARD TO GIVE

1:53:13 EVERYONE THEIR TIME.

1:53:14 I I KNOW YOU.

1:53:15 HAVEN'T DO THAT BECAUSE I KNOW

1:53:17 WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE INSIDE

1:53:18 OF THIS CHAMBER.

1:53:18 FITZGERALD.

1:53:20 FIVE MINUTES.

1:53:20 WE'RE HERE.

1:53:21 THANK YOU.

1:53:23 UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING

1:53:25 HERE.

1:53:26 UH UH, I DO WANT TO GET TO THE

1:53:28 YOUTH, SO I'LL JUST ASK THE

1:53:29 SAME QUESTION I ASKED THE LAST

1:53:30 PANEL.

1:53:31 UH, COREY, I THINK YOU DID A

1:53:32 GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING AT LEAST

1:53:33 UNDER BULLYING WHAT THE CURRENT

1:53:35 PROCEDURES AND PROTOCOLS ARE.

1:53:37 UH, BUT WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT I.

1:53:39 I DO AGREE WITH THAT.

1:53:40 WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT

1:53:40 NECESSARILY SEXUAL HARASSMENT

1:53:42 PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES.

1:53:44 WHAT IN THE, UH YOU KNOW, THIS

1:53:46 THESE 2000 CASES THAT THAT I

1:53:48 KNOW ARE OUT THERE NOW UH, OR

1:53:51 IN ANY BULLYING.

1:53:51 WHAT DO.

1:53:53 WE SEE AS THE BIGGEST

1:53:54 MISSTEP IN SOME OF THESE FOR

1:53:56 THE FOR THE PARENTS THAT FEEL

1:53:58 THAT THE PROCESS WASN'T

1:53:59 FOLLOWED AND YOU HEARD WHERE

1:54:00 THEY FELT IT WASN'T FOLLOWED?

1:54:02 WHAT WHAT ARE YOU GUYS

1:54:04 IDENTIFYING AS UH, POTENTIAL

1:54:06 CORRECTIONS TO THESE PROCEDURES

1:54:08 TO BE DONE?

1:54:08 YOU SAID SOME THINGS WERE IN

1:54:10 THE WORKS ALREADY.

1:54:11 UM, BUT DO THOSE NECESSARILY

1:54:13 ADDRESS ALL OF THE ISSUES THAT

1:54:14 WE HEARD HERE TODAY?

1:54:15 AND I RELATE THAT TO BOTH UH,

1:54:18 BULLYING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT?

1:54:20 UH, BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:54:22 I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CORRECT

1:54:23 PROCEDURE OR THE PROCEDURE AT

1:54:24 LEAST YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO

1:54:25 FOLLOW WHAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWED,

1:54:27 WHAT HASN'T BEEN FOLLOWED AND

1:54:29 WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON TO MAKE

1:54:31 SURE THAT IT'S A COMPLETE, UH,

1:54:33 PROTOCOL.

1:54:33 THANK YOU.

1:54:34 SO WE CAN MAP OUT THE TITLE

1:54:35 NINE PROCESS.

1:54:36 WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE CODE OF

1:54:37 CONDUCT PROCESS AND WE CAN TALK

1:54:39 ABOUT CONSULTATION WITH THE

1:54:40 POLICE WHEN SEXUAL ASSAULTS OR

1:54:42 MIS CONDUCT UH, OCCUR AND UM UH

1:54:44 HOPEFULLY THAT HELPS IN.

1:54:45 YOUR QUESTION.

1:54:45 I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF.

1:54:47 UM, FOR TITLE NINE IS ANYTHING

1:54:49 RELATED TO SEXUAL ASSAULT OR

1:54:51 SEXUAL HARASSMENT?

1:54:54 UM WE ONCE IT IS REPORTED SO

1:54:56 TYPICALLY IS REPORTED EITHER BY

1:54:58 UM THE SCHOOL TYPICALLY THE

1:54:59 SCHOOL LEADER OR A COMPLAINANT

1:55:01 THERE'S A PHONE NUMBER THAT THE

1:55:03 SCHOOL LEADER WOULD CALL FOR

1:55:04 SCHOOL PERSONNEL.

1:55:05 THERE'S ALSO AN EMAIL ADDRESS.

1:55:07 IT'S CALLED TITLE NINE AT

1:55:09 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.ORG.

1:55:10 IT'S ON THE WEBSITE THAT A

1:55:12 COMPLAINANT CAN ALSO FILE AND

1:55:15 UM WE TRIED TO HAVE A MEDIA

1:55:17 SUPPORTIVE MEASURES.

1:55:18 SO WITHIN THAT FIRST TIME

1:55:19 OF THE REPORT WE WORK WITH THE

1:55:21 SCHOOLS TO ENSURE THAT THERE

1:55:22 ARE SUPPORTIVE MEASURES AND

1:55:23 SAFETY PLAN IN PLACE TO MAKE

1:55:25 SURE THAT UM THERE'S A PLAN IN

1:55:28 PLACE TO SUPPORT THE CHILD.

1:55:29 UM, WHILE WE INVESTIGATE THESE

1:55:31 ARE ALL REQUIRED UNDER THE

1:55:33 FEDERAL LAW.

1:55:34 UM THE SCHOOL LEADER ALSO

1:55:36 REPORTS TO THE UM.

1:55:38 TO THE PARENTS SO THAT THEY'RE

1:55:41 AWARE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.

1:55:42 IT GOES TO THE TITLE NINE.

1:55:44 UH, THE THE PERSON IN CHARGE

1:55:45 OF THE TITLE NINE THE

1:55:46 COORDINATOR UM, THEY WILL

1:55:49 REVIEW IT TO DETERMINE IF THIS

1:55:50 IS A TITLE NINE OR NOT.

1:55:51 REACH OUT TO THE COMPLAINANT IN

1:55:54 THE UM RESPONDENT TO SEE WHAT'S

1:55:57 HAPPENING TO DETERMINE WHAT

1:55:58 HAPPENS NEXT.

1:55:59 AND THEN IT'S A IT'S A

1:56:01 COLLABORATIVE PROCESS WHAT'S

1:56:03 NEEDED SOMETIMES IT COULD BE UM

1:56:06 CHANGING SOMEONE'S SCHEDULE ARE

1:56:08 WE'RE AFRAID WHILE WE'RE

1:56:09 INVESTIGATING.

1:56:10 THIS UNLESS.

1:56:11 IT'S A SERIOUS OBVIOUSLY A

1:56:12 SERIOUS SITUATION WE DEAL WITH

1:56:13 THAT IMMEDIATELY.

1:56:15 UH, WE PUT SOME OF THOSE

1:56:16 SUPPORTIVE MEASURES IN PLACE.

1:56:17 IT'S WORKED WITH THE COMPLAINT

1:56:19 TO MAKE SURE.

1:56:20 IS THIS ENOUGH FOR YOU TO AGREE

1:56:21 WITH THIS?

1:56:22 IF THE SPECIAL EDUCATION

1:56:23 STUDENTS THEY WORK WITH THE

1:56:25 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IN SPECIAL

1:56:26 EDUCATION TO MAKE SURE THAT,

1:56:29 UM, IT'S ALIGNED WITH ALL UM

1:56:31 THINGS IN THE STUDENTS IEP AND

1:56:32 RELATED TO THE DISABILITY AND

1:56:34 THEN THERE'S A FORMAL IF THE

1:56:36 COMPLAINT WANTS TO GO THROUGH

1:56:37 WITH THAT PROCESS THERE'S A

1:56:39 FORMAL INVESTIGATION WHICH UM

1:56:41 INVOLVES UH COMMUNICATING WITH

1:56:43 FAMILIES DOING ALL THE

1:56:45 INVESTIGATIONS AND THEN COMING

1:56:46 UP WITH A PROCESS.

1:56:47 IT CAN BE A LENGTHY PROCESS.

1:56:49 SOMETHING THAT I WILL MAKE WE

1:56:51 HAVE NOT BEEN GOOD AT IN THE

1:56:52 PAST AND ARE REALLY TRYING TO

1:56:54 GET BETTER AT THIS YEAR WITH A

1:56:56 FOCUS IS THAT COMPASSION WHEN

1:56:57 WE'RE TALKING TO FAMILIES AND

1:56:59 UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT

1:57:00 OF THIS WHILE WE INVESTIGATE

1:57:02 FOR BOTH THE THE STUDENT WHO

1:57:05 MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE

1:57:06 SITUATION IN THE FAMILY OF THE

1:57:08 STUDENT WHO UM IS THE

1:57:12 COMPLAINANT OR MAYBE THE

1:57:14 AGGRESSOR IN THIS SITUATION.

1:57:15 IT'S A DIFFICULT THING FOR

1:57:17 EVERYBODY AND I DON'T BELIEVE

1:57:18 THAT WE'VE BEEN VERY GOOD ABOUT

1:57:20 COMMUNICATING AND LETTING

1:57:21 PEOPLE KNOW WHERE ARE WE IN THE

1:57:23 PROCESS?

1:57:23 WHAT'S HAPPENING?

1:57:24 WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE

1:57:26 SCHOOLS.

1:57:26 FAMILIES WILL OFTEN GO TO THE

1:57:28 SCHOOLS FIRST BECAUSE THAT'S

1:57:29 WHERE THEY FEEL MOST CONFIDENT

1:57:30 .

1:57:30 AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT

1:57:31 WE'VE PUT UH BETTER IN PLACE AT

1:57:34 THIS TIME.

1:57:34 AND THE ONLY THING AND THE ONLY

1:57:36 THING I'LL ADD TO THAT IS LIKE

1:57:38 I MENTIONED EARLIER AND

1:57:39 SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE THAT'S

1:57:40 HAPPENING, THE SCHOOL AND

1:57:41 SCHOOL STAFF IS ALSO ADDRESSING

1:57:43 THE MATTER FROM THE CODE OF

1:57:44 CONDUCT PERSPECTIVE.

1:57:45 SO IF THERE NEEDS TO BE

1:57:46 EMERGENCY REMOVALS FOR EXAMPLE,

1:57:47 THAT HAPPENS IF THERE NEEDS TO

1:57:49 BE SOME PEER MEDIATION OR

1:57:51 CONVERSATIONS THAT NEED TO

1:57:52 HAPPEN IT HAPPENS.

1:57:53 UM AND THEY DEAL WITH THAT

1:57:54 PIECE SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE THIS

1:57:56 WHOLE NINE PROCESS IS GOING ON

1:57:57 WHILE THAT'S HAPPENING.

1:57:58 THE SCHOOL NEED ALSO CONSULTS

1:58:00 WITH OUR OPERATIONAL LEADERS

1:58:01 UH, IN OFFICE OF DATA SERVICES,

1:58:03 UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE

1:58:05 PROVIDING THEM THE MOST UP TO

1:58:06 DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE

1:58:07 SITUATION IN UM IS IT WILL UH,

1:58:09 HIS TEAM WILL CONSULT WITH, UH,

1:58:12 UH, BOSTON POLICE AROUND THE

1:58:14 MATTER JUST SO THEY CAN GIVE A

1:58:15 HEADS UP OF WHAT HAPPENED,

1:58:16 WHAT'S WHAT OCCURRED AND GET

1:58:17 THEIR INITIAL THINKING ADVICE

1:58:18 ON THE MATTER AS WELL.

1:58:20 UM, BECAUSE IF THEY NEED TO BE

1:58:21 FURTHER, UH, POLICE ACTION THAT

1:58:23 THAT ROUTE WILL PROCEED AS

1:58:25 NECESSARY.

1:58:25 SO THAT'S THE ONE THING I WOULD

1:58:27 ASK THAT SORT OF AGAIN IS THE

1:58:28 PROCESS THAT HAPPENED BETWEEN

1:58:30 TITLE NINE CODE OF CONDUCT IN

1:58:32 OUR CONSULTATION WITH LOTS

1:58:33 OF POLICE.

1:58:36 AS FAR AS BULLYING I THINK.

1:58:40 UM WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT

1:58:42 THERE'S A SOMETIMES INHERENTLY

1:58:44 THERE'S A FRACTURED TRUST

1:58:45 BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE

1:58:46 SCHOOL SYSTEM AND IN EFFORT TO

1:58:50 MITIGATE SOME OF THOSE ISSUES,

1:58:51 WE HAVE TO BUILD STRONGER

1:58:53 RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAMILIES.

1:58:54 AND I THINK FOLKS ARE MORE UM,

1:58:58 FAMILIES ARE MORE UM THEY WILL

1:59:01 COME FORWARD MORE IF THEY FEEL

1:59:02 LIKE THEY'RE WORKING WITH

1:59:03 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS.

1:59:06 UM, IF THEY FEEL THAT THEY'RE

1:59:08 SPACES WHERE THEY COULD BE

1:59:10 HONORED AND VALUED.

1:59:11 I'M NOT SAYING THEY DON'T BUT

1:59:13 ALL BUT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS

1:59:15 HAPPEN.

1:59:15 UM, I'M NOT GOING TO SIT HERE

1:59:16 AND SAY THAT IT DOES.

1:59:18 UM, AND THEN THE NEXT PIECE IS

1:59:20 REALLY ESTABLISHING LIKE HAVING

1:59:23 STRONGER UM THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS

1:59:26 TIGHTEN UP YOUR DOCUMENTATION,

1:59:27 YOU KNOW, UM SCHOOLS THE SAME

1:59:31 THE SAME REPORTING THAT IS DONE

1:59:34 FOR THE UH, FOUND UM, BULLYING

1:59:38 SHOULD PROBABLY THE STILL THE

1:59:40 SAME STRATEGY SHOULD BE APPLIED

1:59:42 TO WHEN THAT'S NOT UM THAT'S

1:59:43 SOMETHING WE COULD DEFINITELY

1:59:44 LOOK INTO.

1:59:45 UH, BUT FROM A RELATIONAL

1:59:48 STANDPOINT I THINK WE HAVE TO

1:59:51 LOOK AT HOW WE ARE WE ARE

1:59:53 ADDRESSING THAT AS WELL.

1:59:54 LIKE UM WE ARE WORKING ON A UM

1:59:56 CULTURE AND CLIMATE IMPROVEMENT

1:59:59 UM GUIDANCE AND FRAMEWORK UM,

2:00:01 THAT ALLOWS US TO SORT OF SEE

2:00:03 LIKE WHAT ARE THE ADULT MOVES

2:00:05 THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FOR KIDS

2:00:07 TO EXPERIENCE SCHOOL BETTER AND

2:00:10 THEN BEING MORE INCLUSIVE

2:00:11 OF STUDENT VOICE SO THAT THEY

2:00:14 COULD BE THE CREDIBLE

2:00:15 MESSENGERS THEMSELVES?

2:00:16 UM, THE BOSSES TO THE ADVISORY

2:00:19 COUNCIL IS WITHIN UM STUDENT

2:00:20 SUPPORT AND WE'RE GOING TO WORK

2:00:23 WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:00:24 THEY ARE UM OUR CONNECTORS IN

2:00:27 THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, UH, WHERE

2:00:30 THEY COULD SORT OF HELP

2:00:31 STUDENTS NORMALIZE AND

2:00:32 SOCIALIZE HOW WE REPORT AND UM,

2:00:35 INTERROGATE UM, BULLYING IN THE

2:00:37 SCHOOL.

2:00:38 AND ONE THING WE DID NOT

2:00:39 MENTION IS WE MENTIONED

2:00:41 BULLYING.

2:00:41 BUT I THINK ONE OF THE PIECES

2:00:44 THAT WE'VE BEEN STRONG AT IS

2:00:46 WORKING WITH THE ACTUAL PERSON

2:00:47 WHO COMMITTED THE BULLYING.

2:00:49 UM AND WE HAVE GOT WE HAVE

2:00:53 INVESTED IN THEM AS WELL AND AS

2:00:55 FAR AS LIKE VOLUNTEER WORK JOB

2:00:58 OPPORTUNITIES COMING TO OUR

2:00:59 PROGRAMS ETC. AND I THINK THOSE

2:01:01 ARE THE AREAS THAT HAVE JUST

2:01:02 GOT US STRENGTHENED,

2:01:03 STRENGTHENED THAT THAT SORT

2:01:05 OF FRACTURED TRUST THAT THAT

2:01:07 THAT EXISTS.

2:01:08 THANK YOU.

2:01:09 OKAY.

2:01:09 JUST A STATEMENT ON THAT.

2:01:11 UM BUT I DO JUST WANT TO SAY

2:01:13 THAT I HEARD IT TODAY AND I'VE

2:01:15 HEARD IT BEFORE IN RELATION TO

2:01:17 BEEPS AND IT'S THE COMMENT THAT

2:01:19 THINGS GET SWEPT UNDER THE RUG.

2:01:21 I HEAR THAT USED A LOT WITH

2:01:23 BEEPS.

2:01:24 SO I JUST ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO

2:01:26 UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE

2:01:27 IMAGE THAT IS OUT THERE AND I

2:01:29 HOPE IN ANY FUTURE PROCEDURAL

2:01:32 PROTOCOLS UH EXTERNAL INTERNAL

2:01:34 WHATEVER IT MAY BE PLEASE ASK

2:01:36 YOURSELF, YOU KNOW, LOOKING

2:01:37 BACK WHEN FUTURE INCIDENTS

2:01:39 OCCUR AND LOOKING BACK ON OUR

2:01:40 PAST INCIDENTS THAT HAVE

2:01:41 HAPPENED.

2:01:42 DID WE SWEEP THIS UNDER THE

2:01:43 RUG?

2:01:43 ARE WE SWEEPING THIS UNDER THE

2:01:45 RUG BECAUSE THAT IS THE LENS AT

2:01:47 WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE

2:01:48 VIEWING IT.

2:01:49 AND I THINK IF WE ASK OURSELVES

2:01:50 THAT BEFORE MAKING THE

2:01:52 DECISION, I THINK YOU GUYS WILL

2:01:53 START TO FORM THE RIGHT

2:01:54 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND ADD

2:01:55 TO WHAT IS CURRENTLY GOOD TO

2:01:57 MAKE SURE WE ADDRESS SOME

2:01:58 OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HEARD

2:01:59 TODAY.

2:01:59 I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT

2:02:00 COMMENT AND I APPRECIATE THAT.

2:02:02 UM THAT'S SUPER HELPFUL ADVICE

2:02:04 AND I ALSO THINK UM I SHOULD

2:02:06 TAKE A MINUTE JUST UH, NOTE ON

2:02:08 THAT POINT THAT THAT LEGALLY

2:02:10 WE'RE UM VERY LIMITED ON WHAT

2:02:13 WE CAN SHARE PUBLICLY

2:02:13 ESPECIALLY WHEN IT INVOLVES

2:02:15 SOME OF THESE CASES.

2:02:16 UM, SO BUT I DO HEAR YOU IF I

2:02:19 PROCEDURES AND POLICIES OUTSIDE

2:02:21 THE LAW I CAN ADDRESS THAT

2:02:23 PIECE.

2:02:23 WE DEFINITELY WILL TAKE THAT

2:02:24 INTO CONSIDERATION.

2:02:25 SO THANK YOU.

2:02:25 OKAY SURE.

2:02:26 THAT'S IT.

2:02:27 CAN WE KNOW FAMILIES?

2:02:29 I HAVE.

2:02:30 MY I JUST WANT THEM TO KNOW

2:02:31 THEY COULD REACH OUT EVERY

2:02:33 EVERY TRANSPARENCY SIDE EVERY

2:02:36 THAT'S MY PERSONAL NUMBER IN MY

2:02:38 EMAIL IT'S MY YOU AND THERE'S

2:02:41 NO ONE IN THIS BUILDING THAT

2:02:43 WILL TELL YOU THAT I DO NOT

2:02:44 PICK UP THE PHONE WHEN THEY

2:02:45 CALL.

2:02:46 THAT'S TRUE.

2:02:46 AND YOU PICK UP THE CALL AT ANY

2:02:48 HOUR OF THE DAY AND NIGHT AND

2:02:50 MORNING AND YOU ARE OUT IN THE

2:02:52 STREETS.

2:02:53 COREY AND IT IS SO UNFORTUNATE

2:02:56 THAT YOU HAVE TO BE INSIDE THAT

2:02:57 BUILDING, BUT WE ARE SO

2:02:58 GRATEFUL THAT YOU ARE THERE

2:03:00 BECAUSE AT THE VERY LEAST WE

2:03:01 CAN COUNT ON SOMEBODY TO SHOW

2:03:04 UP FOR OUR FAMILIES.

2:03:05 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

2:03:07 UM ALL RIGHT SO I'M GOING TO GO

2:03:09 ON TO MY QUESTIONS IF YOU DON'T

2:03:11 MIND.

2:03:11 I WAVED MY FIRST ROUND AND I

2:03:14 KNOW WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO

2:03:15 HAVE BEEN PATIENTLY WAITING.

2:03:17 I MEAN YOU CAN BLAME THE ADULTS

2:03:19 THAT ARE HERE FOR HAVING TO

2:03:20 WAIT LONGER, BUT IT'S MY TURN

2:03:22 NOW.

2:03:23 UM, AND SO I HAVE SOME CONCERNS

2:03:28 AROUND SOME OF THE DISCONNECT

2:03:29 BECAUSE WHAT WHEN I WHAT I

2:03:31 HEARD FROM THE FAMILIES SIMILAR

2:03:33 TO WHAT COUNCILOR FLYNN I

2:03:34 TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE

2:03:36 WHAT PARENTS REPORTED HERE

2:03:38 BASED ON WHAT WE HEAR FROM YOU

2:03:40 ALL IN TERMS OF YOUR PROTOCOLS,

2:03:41 POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THERE

2:03:42 SEEMS TO BE A DISCONNECT.

2:03:44 SO I'M JUST CURIOUS HOW DO YOU

2:03:46 ENSURE THAT EVERY INCIDENT IS

2:03:48 PROPERLY ADDRESSED?

2:03:49 WHY DO CASES FALL THROUGH THE

2:03:51 CRACKS?

2:03:52 UM AND WHY DO WE CARE?

2:03:52 AND THEN YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU

2:03:54 TRACK ALL OF THESE CASES TO

2:03:56 ENSURE THAT THE DISTRICT IS

2:03:57 DOING A GOOD JOB?

2:03:57 LIKE HOW DO YOU MEASURE

2:03:58 SUCCESS?

2:03:58 HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE

2:03:59 DOING A GOOD JOB IF WHAT WE'RE

2:04:01 HEARING HERE DOESN'T SEEM TO

2:04:03 ALIGN?

2:04:04 THAT'S ONE QUESTION YOU'RE NOT

2:04:06 ANSWERING IT RIGHT NOW.

2:04:06 THE OTHER QUESTION IS WHAT

2:04:08 ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES, IF ANY

2:04:09 ,EXISTS WITHIN THE DISTRICT TO

2:04:11 ENSURE THAT ALL CASES

2:04:13 INVESTIGATED BY BPD ARE FULLY

2:04:14 AND HONESTLY INVESTIGATED.

2:04:18 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK

2:04:20 IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND THAT I

2:04:21 WOULD LIKE TO GET THAT ON THE

2:04:22 RECORD THEN I ALSO I'M VERY

2:04:24 CONCERNED ABOUT THE 51 A'S THAT

2:04:26 GET UM, REPORTED ON PARENTS WHO

2:04:29 FEEL RETALIATED AGAINST JUST

2:04:31 BECAUSE THEY'RE ADVOCATING FOR

2:04:32 THEIR CHILDREN THAT IS CREATING

2:04:35 A VICIOUS CYCLE OF HARM.

2:04:36 AND THIS ONE IS PARTICULARLY

2:04:37 FOR SAM.

2:04:39 THIS IS AN OPERATIONAL THING.

2:04:41 THIS IS YOU'RE WORKING WITH

2:04:42 BPD.

2:04:43 I DON'T KNOW HOW OR WHAT IS

2:04:44 HAPPENING, BUT A LOT OF OUR

2:04:46 PARENTS ARE ENDING UP WITH

2:04:48 CASES THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE

2:04:50 JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE FIGHTING

2:04:51 FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND I JUST I

2:04:54 NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT

2:04:56 DYNAMIC LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE WHAT

2:04:59 IT DOES IS IT CREATES AN

2:05:00 ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH FAMILIES

2:05:01 DO NOT FEEL SAFE EVEN REPORTING

2:05:03 THINGS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE

2:05:05 THEY'RE GOING TO BE TARGETED

2:05:06 THAT IS MANIFESTING MORE HARM.

2:05:10 AND THEN I'M ALSO CURIOUS ABOUT

2:05:15 UM, SOME OF THE IDEAS WE'VE

2:05:16 BEEN WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

2:05:17 BECAUSE IN OUR OFFICE WE HAVE A

2:05:19 CORE GOVERNANCE MODEL.

2:05:20 EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IS IN

2:05:22 COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITY

2:05:23 AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT

2:05:25 ESTABLISHING AN OVERSIGHT

2:05:27 COMMITTEE IN WHICH WE HAVE

2:05:29 FAMILIES, PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING

2:05:30 THE WORK LIVING THE REALITIES,

2:05:32 WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP IN DEEP

2:05:34 PARTNERSHIP WITH PEOPLE NOT IN

2:05:37 CONFLICT WITH OR IN

2:05:39 CONFRONTATION OF BUT IN

2:05:42 COLLABORATION RIGHT TO ADDRESS

2:05:45 SOME OF THESE ISSUES AND TO BE

2:05:47 REAL THOUGHT PARTNERS AND I'M

2:05:49 CURIOUS WHAT THAT APPETITE

2:05:52 LOOKS LIKE IN TERMS OF REAL

2:05:54 TRUST BUILDING EXERCISES HERE.

2:05:56 SO WE'LL HAVE CITY

2:05:58 COUNCIL INVOLVED.

2:05:59 WE'LL HAVE WE'LL HAVE FAMILIES

2:06:01 ,WE'LL HAVE COMMUNITIES.

2:06:02 WE'LL HAVE ORGANIZATIONS WHO

2:06:03 ARE DOING THIS WORK AS AN

2:06:05 OVERSIGHT COMMUNITY, AS A REAL

2:06:06 CHECKS AND BALANCES TO MAKING

2:06:08 SURE THAT WHAT WE ARE SAYING

2:06:10 WE'RE ACTUALLY MEASURING AND

2:06:12 DELIVERING ON THAT'S THE LEVEL

2:06:14 OF LIKE UH, COMMITMENTS THAT

2:06:16 WE'RE LOOKING FOR FROM YOU ALL

2:06:18 AS WE CONTINUE TO NOT WANT TO

2:06:20 HAVE ANOTHER CONVERSATION ABOUT

2:06:21 ANOTHER CONVERSATION.

2:06:22 AND THEN LASTLY, YOU KNOW, HOW

2:06:25 WILL THE RECENT PERSONNEL CUTS

2:06:27 AFFECT UM SUPPORT STAFF?

2:06:29 UM, THE TASK AROUND PREVENTING

2:06:32 AND HANDLING THESE CASES AND

2:06:34 THE FY 25 UM BUDGET THE

2:06:37 DISTRICT RECEIVE A 34,000 UM

2:06:40 GRANT FOR BULLYING PREVENTION

2:06:41 AND INTERVENTION IN FY 26 THERE

2:06:43 WAS $2,394 AND THAT SAME BUDGET

2:06:48 FOR UM AND THAT WAS THE SAME

2:06:50 THING BUDGETED FOR FY 27.

2:06:52 HOW HAS THE THREE $32,000

2:06:55 BUDGET DECREASE AFFECTED

2:06:56 STUDENTS LIKE I DON'T KNOW WHO

2:06:57 GOT THE MONEY HERE BUT WHOEVER

2:06:59 UNDERSTAND HOW THESE DOLLARS

2:07:00 ARE IMPACTING THE OUTCOMES.

2:07:03 I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT

2:07:06 THAT AND THAT IS ALL UNTIL I

2:07:10 MIGHT BE INSPIRED TO ASK SOME

2:07:12 MORE DAILY.

2:07:17 UM I'LL TAKE A STAB AT UM THE

2:07:19 ONES UH I BELIEVE I CAN ANSWER

2:07:20 AND THEN I'LL FOR YOU GUYS BUT

2:07:22 UM, AS FAR AS THE KIND

2:07:24 OF BUILDINGS THAT ARE IN PLACE

2:07:25 FOR STAFF, THE UM FALL SHORT

2:07:30 OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROCEDURES

2:07:31 AS WE PRESCRIBE THEM AND AS

2:07:33 THEY'RE TRAINING THEM.

2:07:34 UM, IT WOULD DEPEND ON THEIR

2:07:36 THEIR, UH, COLLECTIVE

2:07:37 BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH THEIR

2:07:38 MANAGER EMPLOYEES.

2:07:39 SO WE HAVE PROGRESSIVE

2:07:40 DISCIPLINE PROCEDURES IN PLACE

2:07:41 FOR ALL STAFF AND WHAT WE WOULD

2:07:43 DO IS IMMEDIATELY INVESTIGATE

2:07:45 AN INCIDENT THAT FELL SHORT

2:07:46 OF OUR EXPECTATIONS AND REALLY,

2:07:49 UH, TAKE A MINUTE AND

2:07:50 OPPORTUNITY WITH RELATION TO

2:07:51 DIVISION WHAT I CHILD

2:07:52 DEPARTMENTS WILL BE

2:07:53 INVESTIGATING WHAT THE STAFF

2:07:54 PERSON'S ROLE WAS.

2:07:55 IT WAS NOT IN THAT

2:07:57 INVESTIGATION VERY SIMILAR TO

2:07:58 HOW WE WOULD INVESTIGATE

2:07:59 DOCUMENTED HIMSELF AND BASED ON

2:08:01 THAT INFORMATION OF WHAT WE

2:08:03 LEARN WE FIND OUT WHETHER OR

2:08:05 NOT UH SOMEONE UH DOCTOR

2:08:07 PROPERLY OR NOT AND THEN WE

2:08:09 WOULD IMPOSE A RANGE

2:08:09 OF EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE ON THE

2:08:11 PERSON, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH

2:08:13 THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

2:08:13 AGREEMENT.

2:08:14 SO EVERYBODY THAT'S

2:08:15 PARTICIPATING ARE EMPLOYEES AND

2:08:19 ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTRICT.

2:08:21 UH, FOLKS THAT ARE IMPLEMENTING

2:08:23 ARE BULLYING, SEXUAL HARASSMENT

2:08:24 AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICIES

2:08:25 AND EVERYTHING WE NEED TO TALK

2:08:26 ABOUT.

2:08:27 YES, IT WOULD BE PRETTY MUCH

2:08:28 MAINLY.

2:08:29 SO I WOULD RECOMMEND WE NEED AN

2:08:30 OUTSIDE THIRD PARTY.

2:08:31 SO TO HELP SUPPORT SOME OF THIS

2:08:33 WORK BECAUSE INDEPENDENT

2:08:35 DOESN'T SOUND REALLY

2:08:36 INDEPENDENT WHERE EVERYBODY IS

2:08:38 INVOLVED WITH.

2:08:40 THAT'S WHY PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK

2:08:41 THAT WE'RE NOT BEING HONEST AND

2:08:43 EVERYTHING'S BEING SWEPT UNDER

2:08:44 THE RUG BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO

2:08:46 ARE IDENTIFYING OR DETERMINING

2:08:48 WHETHER SOMETHING WAS A

2:08:50 MISCONDUCT UH, I JUST WANT TO

2:08:52 MAKE GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO

2:08:54 CLARIFY THAT FOR ME.

2:08:55 WELL, LIKE I MENTIONED,

2:08:56 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, UM,

2:08:58 REQUIREMENTS ARE AT PLAY HERE.

2:08:59 SO UM, IN OUR OPINION THE THIRD

2:09:01 PARTY WOULD BE THE COLLECTIVE

2:09:03 BARGAINING, UH, GROUP THAT

2:09:05 THESE MEMBERS MAY BELONG TO AND

2:09:06 .

2:09:07 THAT'S FOR PROTECTING THE CHILD

2:09:08 IN THE FAMILY.

2:09:09 IT'S OUR COLLECTIVE JOB TO BE

2:09:10 BOTH ANY MEMBERS IN THE SCHOOL

2:09:12 WITH REGARDLESS OF WHAT UNION

2:09:13 THEY BELONG TO.

2:09:14 ANYONE WITH SCHOOL BUILDING IS

2:09:16 THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE

2:09:17 CAFETERIA MANAGER TO THE

2:09:18 CUSTODIAN TO THE TEACHER, TO

2:09:19 THE SECRETARY, TO THE SCHOOL

2:09:21 LEADER, TO THE SCHOOL

2:09:22 ADMINISTRATION.

2:09:22 SO THERE'S A BUNCH OF PEOPLE

2:09:23 THAT I CAN DESCRIBE AS

2:09:24 RESPONSIBLE AND EXTERNAL

2:09:25 CENTRAL OFFICE ONLY.

2:09:26 JUST BECAUSE MY TIME IS SHORT

2:09:28 AND WE ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO

2:09:29 YOUNG PEOPLE, I'M NOT GOING TO

2:09:31 KEEP GOING BACK AND FORTH.

2:09:32 I WILL BE HOSTING A SECOND

2:09:33 HEARING SO I CAN FURTHER

2:09:35 INVESTIGATE THIS.

2:09:36 SO GO AHEAD I HAVE OTHER

2:09:37 QUESTIONS.

2:09:38 I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT UM

2:09:40 IN DEVELOPING SOME OF THESE

2:09:41 POLICIES WE HAVE WORKED WITH

2:09:42 PARENTS OUTSIDE AGENCIES UM AND

2:09:45 COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT

2:09:46 THAT.

2:09:47 I KNOW IN PARTICULAR WITH

2:09:48 REGARDS TO BULLYING AND

2:09:49 STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.

2:09:51 THERE WAS AN UM PARENTS

2:09:54 OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

2:09:55 WERE UM ENGAGED TO BE PART

2:09:57 OF THE CONVERSATION IN

2:09:58 DEVELOPING THAT.

2:10:00 I WOULD SAY IT'S SOMETHING THAT

2:10:01 WE ALWAYS DO PERFECTLY, BUT WE

2:10:03 HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WORK WITH

2:10:04 UM, A VARIETY OF OUTSIDE

2:10:06 SUPPORTS AND FAMILIES TO HAVE

2:10:08 THAT HAPPEN.

2:10:08 THE QUESTION WAS WOULD YOU

2:10:10 BE WILLING TO AN OPEN TO HAVING

2:10:14 AN INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT

2:10:16 COMMITTEE THAT IS NOT

2:10:18 HANDPICKED BY BP BUT THAT IS

2:10:20 INDEPENDENT OF THE DISTRICT AND

2:10:23 CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR A

2:10:25 DIFFERENT TYPE OF UH, OVERSIGHT

2:10:28 ?

2:10:29 I'D HAVE TO GET MORE FLAHERTY

2:10:31 ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT.

2:10:33 EXACTLY.

2:10:34 WE'RE GOING TO CREATE IT

2:10:34 TOGETHER.

2:10:35 THAT'S IT.

2:10:37 LET ME LET ME JUST REITERATE I

2:10:38 WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A

2:10:40 CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THAT

2:10:40 MEANS AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE

2:10:42 BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A LOT

2:10:43 OF FORMS TO UM UM TO THE POINT

2:10:46 WHERE WE DO ENGAGE FAMILIES ON

2:10:48 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF OUR

2:10:49 WORKING.

2:10:49 SYSTEMS ARE BROKEN SYSTEM.

2:10:51 SO WE'RE WILLING TO WORK WITH

2:10:52 YOU TO BE PART OF THOSE AND

2:10:53 MAKE THEM BETTER.

2:10:54 ALL RIGHT.

2:10:54 JUST BECAUSE MY TIME YEAH.

2:10:56 I ALSO YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE

2:10:57 TALKING ABOUT OVERSIGHT I THINK

2:10:59 IT'S IMPORTANT TO WORK TOGETHER

2:11:00 BUT WE REALLY HAVE TO BE

2:11:02 MINDFUL OF THE POLICIES AROUND

2:11:04 PROPER AND TITLE NINE AND

2:11:06 DISCUSSING ANY INDIVIDUAL UH,

2:11:08 SPECIFIC STUDENT OR COMPLAINTS

2:11:10 OR ACTIVE CASES UM IN THE

2:11:12 VIOLATION OF HARBOR.

2:11:13 THANK YOU FOR THAT.

2:11:14 I THINK IT MUST BE TARGETED UM

2:11:16 WHEN WHEN WE ARE HAVING THOSE

2:11:18 PIECES I THINK OVERSIGHT FEELS

2:11:19 A LITTLE BIT EVALUATIVE

2:11:21 EVALUATIVE TO FOLKS.

2:11:22 BUT HOWEVER I'M WILLING TO BE

2:11:24 ON ANY COMMITTEE ROOTED IN

2:11:26 ACTION TO PROBLEM SOLVE.

2:11:28 UM, WELL, I THINK SOMETIMES,

2:11:30 YOU KNOW, STRATEGICALLY IS I

2:11:33 THINK WE HAVE TO LEAN IN ON A

2:11:34 COMMUNITY A LITTLE BIT MORE

2:11:35 WITH MORE STRATEGIC STANDPOINT.

2:11:37 UM, AND THEN TO YOUR OTHER

2:11:39 QUESTION, OUR GOAL IS LIVE IN

2:11:41 THE PREVENTION SPACE AND NOT

2:11:42 THE RESPONSIVE SPACE.

2:11:44 UM, AND I KEEP GOING BACK TO

2:11:46 WHAT MISS UM, MR SMITH SAID

2:11:48 LIKE THE IT'S THE SAME THING

2:11:50 WITH YOU VIOLENCE, RIGHT?

2:11:51 LIKE YOU'VE GOT TO BUT

2:11:54 SOMETIMES THINGS FEEL SO FEEL A

2:11:55 CERTAIN WAY THAT YOU END UP IN

2:11:57 A CONSTANT STATE OF UM,

2:11:59 RESPONSIVENESS AND THAT'S WE

2:12:00 NEED TO LIVE IN THE SPACE

2:12:02 OF PREVENTATIVE PREVENTATIVE

2:12:02 WORK.

2:12:03 AND THEN THE NEXT QUESTION WE

2:12:04 MANAGE AS FAR AS THOSE FUNDS WE

2:12:06 ARE MANAGING WITHOUT THE FUNDS

2:12:07 UM THEY WERE USED PREVIOUSLY

2:12:08 FOR TRAINING THE STIPENDS BUT

2:12:10 WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD TEAM UM

2:12:12 AND OUR TEAM IN BOSTON UM WE WE

2:12:15 DO WHAT WE CAN AND UNDERSTAND

2:12:17 UH THOSE THOSE DYNAMICS UM IF

2:12:20 CHOSEN IF OTHERWISE OTHER

2:12:22 DECISIONS CAN BE MADE AND WE DO

2:12:23 NOT WANT TO COMPROMISE PEOPLE

2:12:24 BECAUSE WE NEED THE PEOPLE.

2:12:26 AND THEN FINALLY THE SWEPT

2:12:27 UNDER THE RUG PIECE I THINK

2:12:29 OVER COMMUNICATING IS CRITICAL

2:12:30 .

2:12:30 I THINK SOMETIMES PARENTS GET

2:12:32 ANNOYED THAT UM THAT WE'RE

2:12:34 CALLING AND WE JUST WANT TO

2:12:36 KNOW LIKE WE JUST WANT TO CHECK

2:12:37 IN.

2:12:37 I THINK WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT A

2:12:39 COMMON PRACTICE.

2:12:40 EVERY CONVERSATION IS AN

2:12:41 OPPORTUNITY TO LEAN IN ON

2:12:42 SUPPORT AND RESOURCES WILL

2:12:42 POINT THEM IN THE RIGHT

2:12:43 DIRECTION THE SAME PROCESS.

2:12:44 YEAH.

2:12:45 SO I'LL JUST NOTE TWO

2:12:46 THINGS.

2:12:46 ONE IS IT HAS TO BE ROOTED IN

2:12:48 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.

2:12:48 I THINK WHATEVER WORK WE DO IS

2:12:50 THAT AND THEN I JUST REALLY

2:12:52 REALIZED THAT NONE OF YOUR

2:12:53 ANSWER TO MY QUESTION AROUND

2:12:54 THE 51 A AS AN ISSUE THAT IS A

2:12:56 BIG CONCERN TO ME BECAUSE

2:12:58 PARENTS ARE HAVING THEIR

2:12:59 CHILDREN LITERALLY SNATCHED UP

2:13:00 JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE PROTECTING

2:13:02 OR TRYING TO FIGHT.

2:13:04 WELL I TOLD.

2:13:05 SOMEONE JUST.

2:13:06 JUST ALL RIGHT SO AS FAR AS THE

2:13:08 50 AS FAR AS THE 51 DAYS RIGHT

2:13:09 I THINK SOMETIMES I THINK THE

2:13:12 NEXT STAGE OF THIS AND THIS IS

2:13:14 LIKE ACROSS THE CITY ACROSS THE

2:13:18 COUNTRY THE NEXT STAGE

2:13:20 OF UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL

2:13:21 COMPETENCY IS AROUND IT IS

2:13:25 INFUSING THAT INTO HOW 51 A'S

2:13:27 ARE ARE DECIDED.

2:13:29 UM AND BECAUSE AND WHEN I SAY

2:13:32 CULTURAL COMPETENCY THERE ARE

2:13:34 SO MANY FAMILIES FROM DIFFERENT

2:13:35 PLACES AND WE'RE SO DIVERSE

2:13:38 THAT SOMETIMES BEHAVIORS ARE

2:13:40 INTERPRETED AS SOMETHING THAT

2:13:42 THEY'RE NOT AND IT COULD BE

2:13:44 MISINTERPRETED AS HARM.

2:13:45 AND I THINK WE HAVE TO NAME

2:13:47 THAT AND SO AND SOCIALIZE HOW

2:13:51 WE ARE HOW WE ARE WHATEVER THE

2:13:53 PROTOCOLS ARE BEFORE THOSE 51

2:13:54 DAYS ARE CALLED.

2:13:56 SO THAT'S YOUR POINT.

2:13:57 BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE IS

2:13:59 SOME CULTURAL COMPETENCY THAT'S

2:14:00 DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THAT.

2:14:02 THAT'S RIGHT.

2:14:02 AND LOCK.

2:14:03 UP ALL YOU WANT TO TALK TO

2:14:04 MORE THEM GO AHEAD.

2:14:05 I MEAN IF YOU ALLOW ME TO

2:14:06 HAVE YOU TO HELP LOWRY.

2:14:07 AND NOT BECAUSE COP HAS

2:14:08 ALREADY GIVEN ME THE SIDE I SO

2:14:09 I'M NOT TRYING TO DEAL WITH

2:14:10 THIS ONE.

2:14:11 SORRY.

2:14:11 YEAH.

2:14:12 THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD

2:14:13 TO UM, UM, MR MCCARTHY SAID WAS

2:14:15 THAT UM THERE ARE LAWS AROUND

2:14:17 MANDATED REPORTING AND UH, AS

2:14:21 AN INDIVIDUAL OR EVEN AS A

2:14:22 DISTRICT WE CANNOT PROVIDE

2:14:24 GUIDELINES OR RECOMMENDATIONS

2:14:26 ON WHO SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T LIKE

2:14:28 551 DAYS BECAUSE THAT'S AN

2:14:29 INDIVIDUAL PERSON DECISION TO

2:14:30 DO THAT.

2:14:31 YEAH.

2:14:31 UM SO.

2:14:32 I THINK YOU'RE MISUNDERSTANDING

2:14:33 MY POINT.

2:14:34 MY POINT IS IS THAT THE

2:14:35 DISTRICT IS UTILIZING 51 A'S TO

2:14:38 KEEP OUTRIGHT PARENTS OFF

2:14:40 OF THEIR GROUNDS BECAUSE

2:14:41 THEY'RE TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR

2:14:42 CHILDREN.

2:14:43 SO THAT IS WHAT I'M REFERRING

2:14:44 TO AND MANDATING REPORTING IN

2:14:46 THE SAY THAT IS IS A WHOLE

2:14:48 DIFFERENT KIND OF ONES AND

2:14:50 THAT'S IT NOT WHEN I'M GOING TO

2:14:52 GO TO COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND

2:14:54 YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES I'LL.

2:14:56 BE BRIEF THAT'S YOU YOU.

2:14:57 YOU THAT'S WHAT YOU ALWAYS SAY

2:14:59 I DO FIVE MINUTES.

2:15:00 UM UH THAT THE THE PEANUT UH

2:15:03 AND I KNOW YOUR COMMITMENT.

2:15:06 UM BUT WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE

2:15:10 IS FOR ME THIS TO WORK WITH

2:15:13 MONICA MERCHANTS AND TO GET HER

2:15:18 CHILD BACK TO SCHOOL EVEN IF IT

2:15:20 MEANS TUTORING WHATEVER IT

2:15:22 TAKES TO WORK WITH HER TO GET

2:15:25 THAT CHILD BACK TO STUDY AND

2:15:27 BACK TO LEARNING THAT I KNOW

2:15:30 THAT WE ALL WANT AND SO

2:15:32 WHATEVER IT TAKES AND UH, I

2:15:35 KNOW YOU'LL DO WHATEVER IT

2:15:36 TAKES, BUT LET'S GET THAT CHILD

2:15:39 BACK TO LEARNING BACK TO SCHOOL

2:15:41 EVEN IF IT MEANS IN THE

2:15:43 BEGINNING SOME HOME TUTORING TO

2:15:46 GET HER BACK TO LEARNING.

2:15:49 I'M HAPPY TO WORK WITH MONICA

2:15:50 ON GETTING HER, UH, CHILDREN

2:15:52 BACK TO BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

2:15:53 AND UH, LIKE I SAID, I'M, UH,

2:15:55 DISAPPOINTED WITH WHAT HAPPENED

2:15:57 IN UM UM UM, HAPPY TO MAKE SURE

2:15:59 WE PUT SUPPORTS IN PLACE FOR

2:16:00 CHILDREN IF THEY DO COME BACK.

2:16:01 UM, BUT I CAN'T COMMIT TO

2:16:03 TUTORING BECAUSE THE

2:16:04 REQUIREMENTS AROUND THE

2:16:05 TUTORING I CAN'T JUST SAY YES,

2:16:06 I CAN PROVIDE TUTORING, BUT WE

2:16:07 CAN DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WHEN

2:16:09 THEY DO REENROLL WE WORK WITH

2:16:11 MONICA TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR

2:16:12 EACH STUDENT UH, AT ANY SCHOOL

2:16:14 THAT THEY GO TO TO MAKE SURE

2:16:16 THEY'RE MAKING ACADEMIC

2:16:17 PROGRESS IN HAVING THE THE

2:16:19 TRAUMA SAFETY UH, PIECES

2:16:21 ADDRESSED AS WELL, YOU KNOW,

2:16:22 WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH HER.

2:16:23 CAN YOU LOOK INTO THE

2:16:24 TUTORING?

2:16:25 UH, I CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO

2:16:27 IT, BUT I JUST KNOW THAT

2:16:28 THERE'S, UH, PARAMETERS AROUND

2:16:29 IT.

2:16:30 I JUST CAN'T COMMIT TO IT.

2:16:31 NO, NO I CAN'T, BUT IF YOU LOOK

2:16:33 INTO IT.

2:16:33 AND HAPPY LOOK INTO IT NOT A

2:16:35 QUESTION.

2:16:35 TO THE, UH TO THE.

2:16:36 CHAIR AND MONICA MY NUMBER

2:16:45 61759473416175947341 I'M HAPPY

2:16:46 TO TAKE A NUMBER AFTER THIS

2:16:47 HEARING AS WELL.

2:16:48 I PUT UP TO OUR GROUP CHAT

2:16:49 WHICH ARE BOTH UH THAT I'LL

2:16:51 MONITOR THE SITUATION AND MAKE

2:16:52 SURE IT'S HAPPENING.

2:16:53 THANK YOU CONSTANTLY.

2:16:54 JUST MAKING SURE THAT'S THE

2:16:56 NUMBER I GOT THAT.

2:16:57 YOU MIGHT HAVE MY PERSONAL

2:16:58 NUMBER SO.

2:17:01 I GOT IT.

2:17:02 UH THE OTHER THING THAT AND

2:17:04 THIS IS MY FINAL QUESTION,

2:17:06 MADAM CHAIR AND EITHER OF YOU

2:17:07 CAN SPEAK TODAY ASTRID

2:17:10 HERNANDEZ TALKED ABOUT

2:17:12 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES AND HE

2:17:13 GAVE US A LIST OF THOSE.

2:17:15 CAN YOU JUST TALK ABOUT HOW

2:17:17 MUCH YOU, UH, FOCUS ON AND

2:17:21 IMPLEMENT THE RESTORATIVE

2:17:22 PRACTICES THAT, UH, ASTRID

2:17:26 REMAINS TO TALK ABOUT?

2:17:27 IT WAS JUST THE ANSWER THAT.

2:17:29 THEY BOTH IT WAS.

2:17:30 ABOUT I DON'T KNOW I THINK

2:17:32 IT WAS I.

2:17:33 KNOW LEANNE BROUGHT IT UP FOR

2:17:34 SOMEONE SUPPOSED TO BE TALKING.

2:17:35 SO THEN, UH, MADAM CHAIR IS

2:17:37 ALWAYS RIGHT.

2:17:39 SHE'S ALWAYS RIGHT.

2:17:42 UH, THANK YOU,

2:17:44 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER I WE ARE IN

2:17:45 YEAR THREE OF OUR 3 TO 7 YEAR

2:17:48 STRATEGIC PLAN AROUND

2:17:49 IMPLEMENTING RESTORATIVE

2:17:49 PRACTICES.

2:17:50 UH, WHAT WAS APPROPRIATELY

2:17:51 CALLED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

2:17:53 PRACTICES.

2:17:54 UM.

2:17:55 I THINK WHEN YOU ARE TRYING

2:17:58 TO SHIFT A CULTURE THAT HAS

2:18:00 BEEN PREDICATED ON

2:18:02 TECHNICALITIES, CONSEQUENCES.

2:18:04 UM.

2:18:05 YOU KNOW, YOU IT REQUIRES A

2:18:07 LOT OF TRAINING.

2:18:09 IT REQUIRES A LOT OF, UM,

2:18:10 THOUGHT PREPARATION.

2:18:12 UH, IT REQUIRES UH A LOT

2:18:15 OF BUYING UM, YOU KNOW, I'LL

2:18:17 GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE SOMETIMES

2:18:19 WHEN THE YOUNG YOUNG CULPEPPER

2:18:21 MAY HAVE GROWN SOMETHING ONE

2:18:23 DAY TRYING TO HIT THE TRYING TO

2:18:25 YOU KNOW, WE ALL USED TO YELL

2:18:28 COVID OR JORDAN OR SOMETHING

2:18:29 LIKE THAT AND IT HIT SOMEBODY A

2:18:30 PIECE OF PAPER HIT SOMEONE.

2:18:31 UM.

2:18:33 SOMETIMES THERE'S

2:18:37 HISTORICALLY THERE'S AN URGE TO

2:18:38 WANT TO DO SOMETHING.

2:18:39 SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN TO THAT

2:18:40 PERSON WHO MADE A DECISION AND

2:18:42 FOR US AND WE ARE ROOTED IN

2:18:45 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES.

2:18:46 YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHO WAS

2:18:48 IMPACTED RIGHT.

2:18:50 UM, WHAT IS THE NATURE AND THE

2:18:51 DEPTH OF THE IMPACT AND THEN

2:18:54 LOOKING AT THE PERSON, UM, WHO

2:18:58 MADE THE POOR DECISION AND THEN

2:19:00 CREATING A SPACE WHERE THEY

2:19:01 COULD INDIVIDUALLY RESPOND TO

2:19:02 THAT AND THEN IN A LARGER PIECE

2:19:06 I THINK THE THE THE TOUGHEST

2:19:08 PART OF INTEGRATING RESTORATIVE

2:19:10 JUSTICE PRACTICES.

2:19:12 IS REALLY HELP MAKING IT BE.

2:19:14 DIGESTIBLE TO THE COMMUNITY.

2:19:15 UM.

2:19:16 IT IT SOUNDS GOOD, FEELS

2:19:18 GOOD BUT THE DOING UM BECOMES

2:19:21 PRETTY DIFFICULT AND IS REALLY

2:19:22 JUST ROOTED IN FAIRNESS AND

2:19:24 IT'S HARD IT'S HARD TO DO THAT

2:19:25 WHEN YOU HAVE HUNDREDS AND

2:19:26 HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF A

2:19:27 PARTICULAR PRACTICE.

2:19:30 WHAT ABOUT THE TRAINING

2:19:32 OF SENSITIVE LEARNING MODELS?

2:19:34 IT'S RELATIVE TO RESTORATIVE

2:19:35 JUSTICE PRACTICES.

2:19:37 UM, WE HAVE TO TRAIN A TRAINER

2:19:40 UM TRAININGS.

2:19:41 UM, ACTUALLY IF THE

2:19:41 COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO DO SOME

2:19:42 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TRAINING,

2:19:43 DR. MILLER WILL BE HAPPY TO SET

2:19:45 THOSE UP WITH THE SAFE, UM,

2:19:47 WELCOMING SCHOOLS.

2:19:48 I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT SO YOU

2:19:50 GUYS CAN KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR

2:19:51 IS AH, WHEN YOU GO TO SCHOOLS,

2:19:52 UH, WE ALL KNOW THERE'S A

2:19:53 THERE'S A SERIOUS DIFFERENCE

2:19:55 WHEN THE YOUR SCHOOL IS

2:19:57 PRACTICING THEN WHEN IT'S NOT

2:19:59 ONE BECOMES TECHNICAL AND THE

2:20:00 OTHER ONE FEELS IT MORE

2:20:02 ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE.

2:20:03 SO THIS IS THE CHAIRS

2:20:04 COMMITTEE.

2:20:05 IF SHE AGREES TO IT I'LL DO IT

2:20:07 I WOULD LIKE TO DO IT BUT THIS

2:20:09 IS THE CHAIRS COMMITTEE SO YOU

2:20:10 COULD DO.

2:20:11 WHATEVER YOU WANT.

2:20:11 ARE YOU A DISTRICT SEVEN?

2:20:12 DID YOU HEAR WHAT SHE SAID?

2:20:13 SHE'S I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT.

2:20:15 WHENEVER YOU'RE READY 515

2:20:16 HYPERCARS.

2:20:17 OKAY THEN IF YOU DON'T DO HE'S

2:20:19 GOING TO BLAME ME.

2:20:20 UH, YOU COULD DO WHATEVER.

2:20:22 YOU WANT.

2:20:22 UM.

2:20:23 PUT ME ON YOUR BUSINESS.

2:20:25 ALL RIGHT.

2:20:27 ARE YOU HAVING A GOOD TIME?

2:20:29 YOU KNOW YOU LIKE MY HEARINGS.

2:20:31 EVERYBODY LIKES MY HEARINGS.

2:20:33 Y'ALL HAVING FUN?

2:20:34 THAT'S WHAT'S Y'ALL HAVING FUN

2:20:36 TOO?

2:20:37 OH, Y'ALL.

2:20:37 Y'ALL.

2:20:40 I GET TOO EXCITED.

2:20:41 ALL RIGHT, SO I'M NOT GOING TO

2:20:44 HOLD YOU A HOSTAGE.

2:20:45 BUT I WOULD LIKE IF YOU HAVE

2:20:46 THE TIME TO IF YOU WE HAVE A

2:20:49 YOUTH PANEL IF YOU COULD STAY

2:20:51 TO LISTEN AND IF YOU CAN'T IT

2:20:53 IS BEING RECORDED.

2:20:54 SO IF IF PEOPLE HAVE TO GO

2:20:56 DON'T THINK THAT THEN THEY

2:20:57 DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SO

2:20:58 HERE YOUNG PEOPLE THERE WILL BE

2:21:00 ANOTHER WAY TO DO THAT.

2:21:02 BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK

2:21:03 YOU AND WE WILL BE REACHING OUT

2:21:06 TO YOU ALL TO CREATE THIS

2:21:07 OVERSIGHT UM COMMITTEE I KNOW

2:21:09 IT SOUNDS PUNITIVE BUT I REALLY

2:21:11 DO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WANT

2:21:12 SOMETHING THAT FEELS LIKE IT

2:21:14 HAS TEETH TO IT.

2:21:15 RIGHT?

2:21:16 SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING LIKE OH,

2:21:17 IT'S AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

2:21:18 NO, WE WANT TO CREATE SOMETHING

2:21:19 THAT WE'RE GOING TO HOLD

2:21:20 OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO.

2:21:21 BUT THERE'S ALSO A ROLE FOR

2:21:22 COMMUNITY TO PLAY.

2:21:23 SO IT'S NOT JUST WHAT WE CAN

2:21:24 DO.

2:21:25 THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT

2:21:26 PARENTS CAN DO TOO.

2:21:27 THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT

2:21:28 STUDENTS CAN DO AND I THINK

2:21:29 THAT WHAT WE HAVE TO START

2:21:31 LEARNING HOW TO REALIZE IS THAT

2:21:32 EVERYBODY'S ACCOUNTABLE FOR

2:21:34 COMMUNITY SAFETY AND

2:21:35 EVERYBODY'S ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW

2:21:36 STUDENTS FEEL AND WE ALL NEED

2:21:38 TO OWN THAT.

2:21:38 AND THAT'S THE TYPE

2:21:40 OF LEADERSHIP THAT I WANT TO

2:21:41 BRING TO THIS CONVERSATION IS

2:21:43 MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S

2:21:44 PLAYING THEIR ROLE.

2:21:46 UM, AND WE'RE HERE TO SERVE

2:21:48 STUDENTS AND DOING IT

2:21:50 COLLECTIVELY.

2:21:51 I APOLOGIZE TO THE YOUNG

2:21:52 PEOPLE.

2:21:53 I WILL TRY TO STAY AS LONG AS I

2:21:54 CAN.

2:21:54 I DO HAVE SOME CHILDCARE

2:21:55 ISSUES, BUT I WILL BE HERE AS

2:21:57 LONG AS I CAN.

2:21:58 AND YOU CAN BLAME

2:22:00 COUNCIL CULPEPPER FOR HOW LONG

2:22:01 THE YOUNG PEOPLE HAD TO WAIT TO

2:22:02 SPEAK.

2:22:03 ALL RIGHT, Y'ALL, CAN I GET THE

2:22:05 YOUTH DOWN HERE?

2:22:07 UM, WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE, UH,

2:22:11 WHO ARE HERE FROM VARIOUS

2:22:14 SCHOOLS.

2:22:15 UM.

2:22:18 SO COME ON DOWN AND YOU EACH

2:22:23 HAVE THREE MINUTES.

2:22:32 AND, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOU

2:22:36 BEING HERE REPRESENTING Y'ALL

2:22:38 EACH GET YOUR OWN MICROPHONE

2:22:41 OKAY?

2:22:42 OKAY.

2:22:42 THAT'S RIGHT.

2:22:44 UH, SO YOU GOT TO LIKE STAND IN

2:22:48 THAT POWER.

2:22:52 YES OKAY.

2:22:53 ALL RIGHT, SO WHO WANTS TO GO

2:22:55 FIRST?

2:22:57 I WILL GO WITH YOU.

2:22:58 THAT'S RIGHT.

2:22:59 BECAUSE YOU GAVE ME EYE CONTACT

2:23:00 .

2:23:00 THAT'S WHAT YOU GET THREE

2:23:01 MINUTES.

2:23:02 UM, OKAY.

2:23:03 MY NAME IS EMPRESS.

2:23:05 UM, I GO TO BUNKER HILL

2:23:06 COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUT I HAVE

2:23:07 WENT TO.

2:23:08 MULTIPLE SCHOOLS UM, THROUGHOUT

2:23:11 MY YEARS AND I THINK I REALLY

2:23:13 WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS LIKE

2:23:17 NOURISHING BECAUSE A LOT

2:23:18 OF TIMES I FEEL LIKE ME FORGET

2:23:19 ABOUT ME, MAKE THESE POLICIES

2:23:20 OKAY?

2:23:21 THESE ARE CHILDREN AND WE

2:23:23 SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTING MORE

2:23:25 THINGS LIKE GOOD LUNCHES

2:23:26 BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES KIDS.

2:23:28 DO DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WHEN

2:23:30 YOU LUNCHES AND WE LIKE MAKING

2:23:34 SURE PEOPLE ARE FED MAKING SURE

2:23:35 PEOPLE ARE HAVING A GOOD

2:23:37 ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE I CAN HELP

2:23:39 THAT AS WELL.

2:23:40 UM AS WELL HAVING TRAINED

2:23:42 PEOPLE.

2:23:43 TO LIKE HELP.

2:23:44 WITH TRAINED COUNSELORS TO HELP

2:23:46 UM KIDS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH

2:23:47 SOMETHING I THINK JUST HAVING

2:23:48 LIKE TEACHERS DO THAT ALL THE

2:23:50 HELP IS NOT GOING TO BE

2:23:51 BENEFICIAL.

2:23:52 AND YEAH.

2:23:56 OKAY.

2:23:56 OH THAT'S.

2:23:58 YEAH I WOULD YOU SURE OKAY.

2:24:03 OH HELLO GUYS MY.

2:24:05 NAME IS JEN MILES AND I'M 17

2:24:08 YEARS OLD AND I GO TO MATCH

2:24:10 CHARTER PUBLIC.

2:24:11 HIGH SCHOOL.

2:24:12 AND I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE I

2:24:14 WANT.

2:24:14 TO.

2:24:15 TALK ABOUT.

2:24:15 HOW LIKE BULLYING AND

2:24:17 RETALIATION TRUTHFULLY AFFECTS

2:24:20 YOUNG PEOPLE.

2:24:21 UM, I KNOW LIKE YOU KNOW LIKE

2:24:24 THIS WHOLE HEARING HAS BEEN

2:24:25 ABOUT LIKE HEARING STORIES BUT

2:24:27 I WANT LIKE YOU TO UNDERSTAND

2:24:29 FROM LIKE A MORE PSYCHOLOGICAL

2:24:31 MENTAL LEVEL LIKE HOW IT

2:24:34 AFFECTS PEOPLE.

2:24:36 UM, I HAVE BEEN IN PROGRAMS

2:24:39 LIKE PARTIAL HOSPITALS LIKE I

2:24:41 HAVE LIKE MISS SCHOOL FOR

2:24:44 MONTHS.

2:24:44 I TAKE LIKE A BREAK FOR MY

2:24:46 MENTAL HEALTH AND I MET A LOT

2:24:49 OF OTHER STUDENTS FROM AGES.

2:24:51 I WOULD SAY.

2:24:52 FROM GRADE SEVEN TO SENIORS

2:24:55 THAT ALL LIKE REPORT KIND

2:24:57 OF THE SAME THING.

2:24:57 THEY ALL HAVE ISSUES WITH GOING

2:24:59 TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY FIND THE

2:25:01 CLIMATE LIKE UNBEARABLE TO BE A

2:25:04 AND IT.

2:25:06 WAS LIKE UM.

2:25:08 LIKE FROM ALL DIFFERENT

2:25:09 BACKGROUNDS LIKE.

2:25:11 UM I THINK THE YOUNGEST THERE

2:25:13 WAS SEVEN.

2:25:14 FROM SEVENTH GRADE.

2:25:16 AND EVEN LIKE SENIORS ALSO

2:25:18 REPORT LIKE THAT THEY DON'T

2:25:19 REALLY WANT TO DO OR ENGAGE IN

2:25:21 ANY SENIOR ACTIVITIES BECAUSE

2:25:23 OF HOW UM THEY DON'T GET ALONG

2:25:26 WITH THEIR.

2:25:27 COHORTS AND THEY DON'T FEEL

2:25:30 SUPPORTED BY THEIR OWN TEACHERS

2:25:32 TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

2:25:34 AND UM.

2:25:35 JUST LIKE HEARING ABOUT

2:25:36 THEIR EXPERIENCE AND MAKES

2:25:38 ME FEEL LIKE THE BULLYING

2:25:41 SITUATION HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSED

2:25:42 ENOUGH BECAUSE UM, EVEN NOW

2:25:46 THERE'S THAT.

2:25:47 PARTIAL HOSPITAL IS.

2:25:48 STILL RUNNING AND THERE'S STILL

2:25:50 VERY MUCH PEOPLE THERE THAT

2:25:52 FEEL AS IF THEY CAN'T GO TO

2:25:54 SCHOOL OR THEY DON'T WANT TO GO

2:25:56 TO SCHOOL BECAUSE OF BULLYING.

2:25:59 AND I FEEL AS IF LIKE.

2:26:03 UM LIKE.

2:26:04 IT'S KIND OF LIKE.

2:26:05 UH, PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR

2:26:07 SHOES.

2:26:08 UM, I DON'T THINK THAT I WOULD

2:26:10 WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL EITHER IF

2:26:12 I WAS GETTING.

2:26:13 HARASSED IN THE HALLWAY FOR

2:26:14 BEING LGBTQ PLUS OR BEING FROM

2:26:17 A DIFFERENT RACE OR ETHNICITY

2:26:20 AND YEAH.

2:26:22 YOU CAN'T.

2:26:25 TALK TO TALK.

2:26:27 UM.

2:26:28 HI, MY NAME IS EMANUELE

2:26:29 MARTIN.

2:26:30 I GO TO EVERETT HIGH SCHOOL AND

2:26:32 I'M 15.

2:26:33 UM, SOMETHING I MOSTLY WANT TO

2:26:35 TALK ABOUT IS STUDENT MENTAL

2:26:36 HEALTH, WHICH I FEEL LIKE IS A

2:26:38 VERY BIG PROBLEM ESPECIALLY,

2:26:40 UM, AROUND THE HIGH SCHOOL

2:26:43 PERIOD BUT IT MOSTLY STARTS

2:26:45 AROUND MIDDLE SCHOOL TO ME.

2:26:47 UM, I FEEL LIKE YES, AT SCHOOLS

2:26:49 WE DO HAVE HELP FOR MENTAL

2:26:51 HEALTH BUT UM A LOT OF IT

2:26:55 SOMETIMES STUDENTS DON'T KNOW

2:26:56 ABOUT UM SOMETHING THAT MOST

2:27:00 UNDERSTAND ABOUT IT IS THEIR

2:27:01 COUNSELORS BUT THAT'S ABOUT ALL

2:27:02 .

2:27:03 AND SOMETIMES STUDENTS DON'T

2:27:04 TRUST THEIR COUNSELORS BECAUSE

2:27:05 THEY KNOW THAT THE INFORMATION

2:27:06 WILL BE SHOWN TO THEIR PARENTS

2:27:08 AND SOMETIMES STUDENTS JUST

2:27:09 DON'T WANT THEIR PARENTS TO UM

2:27:13 ,ACKNOWLEDGE OR KNOW THAT

2:27:14 THEY'RE STRUGGLING.

2:27:15 YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE A VARIOUS

2:27:17 DIFFERENT REASONS.

2:27:18 IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE THEY'RE

2:27:20 EMBARRASSED OR BECAUSE THEY

2:27:21 COME FROM A BACKGROUND THAT

2:27:22 LIKE.

2:27:23 BEING OR FEELING A CERTAIN WAY

2:27:26 IS WRONG.

2:27:27 SO UM.

2:27:28 YEAH YEAH.

2:27:31 YOU GUYS READY FOR QUESTIONS?

2:27:34 YEAH.

2:27:34 READY.

2:27:35 OKAY.

2:27:36 WE'RE GOING.

2:27:37 TO GO FIRST TO COUNSELOR

2:27:38 FLYNN, THEN.

2:27:39 FITZGERALD AND.

2:27:41 THEN COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, THEN

2:27:42 MYSELF AND I JUST WANT TO SAY

2:27:43 THANK YOU LADIES IT IS NOT EASY

2:27:45 TO SHOW UP IN THIS CHAMBER AND

2:27:47 SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER AND DONE

2:27:48 THAT.

2:27:49 SO I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:27:50 THAT.

2:27:50 FOR THAT.

2:27:52 COUNSELOR, UH, COUNSELOR FLYNN,

2:27:54 YOU HAVE UH, THE FLOOR.

2:27:55 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:27:57 AND THANK YOU TO THE YOUNG

2:27:59 WOMEN THAT ARE HERE AND FOR

2:28:02 YOUR EXCELLENT TESTIMONY AND

2:28:04 PROFESSIONAL POISED AND, UM.

2:28:08 SPEAKING EXCEPTIONALLY WELL ON

2:28:10 BEHALF OF YOUR PEOPLE YOUR AGE.

2:28:12 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

2:28:15 YOUR TESTIMONY IS HELPING US AS

2:28:20 WE DISCUSS THIS MAJOR PROBLEM,

2:28:22 BUT IT'S GIVING US IDEAS ON HOW

2:28:25 WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.

2:28:26 SO YOUR TESTIMONY WAS WAS

2:28:29 PERFECT.

2:28:30 WELL LET ME LET ME JUST ASK A.

2:28:32 QUESTION TO ANYONE THAT WANTS

2:28:35 TO RESPOND.

2:28:36 BUT IF A YOUNG PERSON IN SCHOOL

2:28:40 IS BULLIED.

2:28:40 WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PROPER

2:28:44 STEPS SHOULD BE FOR THAT YOUNG

2:28:46 PERSON TO COMMUNICATE TO THE

2:28:49 SCHOOL LEADER ABOUT IT.

2:28:52 OR OR IF THEY IF THEY HEAR

2:28:54 ABOUT IT FROM ANOTHER PERSON?

2:28:57 UM BUT BUT BUT WHAT SHOULD IT

2:28:59 BE IF IF A YOUNG PERSON IS

2:29:02 BULLIED UH HOW SHOULD THEY GO

2:29:04 ABOUT TRYING.

2:29:05 TO UM.

2:29:06 DEAL WITH THE SITUATION?

2:29:10 UM I WOULD SAY.

2:29:11 FIRST UM LIKE WHAT THE MO WAS

2:29:15 SAYING IT MIGHT BE HARD TO

2:29:18 REPORT BULLYING BECAUSE WELL

2:29:20 NOWADAYS LIKE I FEEL LIKE

2:29:23 CHILDREN MIGHT BE LABELED AS A

2:29:26 SNITCH OR THEY MIGHT BE.

2:29:29 UM THEY MIGHT WANT TO GO

2:29:32 ANONYMOUSLY FIRST AND REPORT IT

2:29:35 TO LIKE A SAFE DESIGNATED SAFE

2:29:37 TRUSTED ADULT UM FOR LIKE.

2:29:42 CHILDREN THAT DON'T.

2:29:43 AREN'T REALLY SOCIAL OR THEY

2:29:44 DON'T REALLY HAVE LIKE A SOCIAL

2:29:46 LIFE OR FRIENDS OR THEY MIGHT

2:29:48 FIND IT HARD TO EVEN SPEAK UP

2:29:50 BECAUSE LIKE LIKE WE'VE HEARD

2:29:52 THERE ARE CASES WHERE.

2:29:54 UM.

2:29:55 NONVERBAL STUDENTS CAN'T

2:29:56 REALLY REPORT THE ABUSE THAT

2:29:58 THEY'RE FACING.

2:29:59 I WOULD.

2:30:00 SAY HAVING DESIGNATED LIKE

2:30:03 WE'RE TRAINING SAFE TRUSTED

2:30:06 ADULTS.

2:30:06 BUT ALSO MAKING SURE THAT

2:30:09 STUDENTS CAN REPORT ANONYMOUSLY

2:30:11 .

2:30:12 JUST OF THE FEAR.

2:30:12 THAT THERE MIGHT BE RETALIATION

2:30:14 LIKE A FIGHT OR UM, LIKE ANY

2:30:18 PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT TOWARDS

2:30:20 THEM BECAUSE THEY STOOD UP FOR

2:30:22 THEMSELVES.

2:30:24 SO FIRST HAVING THEM DO IT

2:30:26 ANONYMOUSLY AND YEAH.

2:30:29 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT ANSWER.

2:30:32 UM IS IS THERE A IS THERE AN

2:30:37 OPPORTUNITY FOR A YOUNG PERSON

2:30:38 A STUDENT TO IF THEY DON'T.

2:30:41 NECESSARILY WANT TO GO.

2:30:42 TO SEE THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL BUT

2:30:43 COULD THEY GO TO A SCHOOL

2:30:46 GUIDANCE COUNSELOR OR A SCHOOL

2:30:48 NURSE, A SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER

2:30:51 OR EVEN A CLASSMATE THAT WOULD

2:30:54 BE UNDERSTANDING AND MAYBE GIVE

2:30:55 THAT.

2:30:56 YOUNG PERSON.

2:30:57 SOME GOOD ADVICE ON HOW TO HOW

2:30:59 TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT.

2:31:00 WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT?

2:31:02 UM, I WILL SAY THAT I KNOW

2:31:04 MOSTLY BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES

2:31:05 THOSE COUNSELORS ARE NOT BUILT

2:31:07 TO HANDLE THOSE PROBLEMS AS

2:31:09 WELL BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT

2:31:09 TRAINED.

2:31:10 BUT ALSO A LOT OF THOSE KIDS

2:31:11 PROBABLY WOULD FEEL ALONE

2:31:13 MAKING THAT THEY DON'T GO TO

2:31:14 THOSE PEOPLE AND A LOT OF TIMES

2:31:16 THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME.

2:31:17 A LOT OF TIMES IT'S DISMISSED

2:31:19 AS THEIR OH, WHICH IS ANOTHER

2:31:20 PROBLEM WHERE JUST TWO STUDENTS

2:31:21 ARE NOT GETTING ALONG AND I

2:31:22 FEEL LIKE PEOPLE DON'T REALLY

2:31:26 THEY JUST THINK OH YOU DID YOU

2:31:27 JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER AND

2:31:28 THEY'LL BE OKAY INSTEAD

2:31:30 OF ACTUALLY GOING TO WHY IS

2:31:31 THIS HAPPENING?

2:31:32 WHAT CAN WE DO TO FIX IT?

2:31:34 UM CAN WE OFFER ANY PROGRAMS

2:31:35 GOING TO HELP THAT CAN HELP

2:31:36 THAT UM THAT PROBLEM BECAUSE

2:31:38 USUALLY WHEN IT COMES TO

2:31:39 BULLYING IT'S JUST LIKE THAT

2:31:41 PERSON MIGHT NOT HAVE THE BEST

2:31:42 HIGH AND OR THAT PERSON MIGHT

2:31:43 HAVE NOT HAD THE BEST UM HOME

2:31:45 LIFE INSTEAD OF LIKE THEY CAN

2:31:46 THEY CAN'T REALLY GO TO

2:31:48 COUNSELORS TO LIKE HELP THAT

2:31:49 AND THEY MIGHT ALSO SO JUDGE AS

2:31:50 WELL BECAUSE WE COME FOR A

2:31:51 SOCIETY THAT JUDGES PEOPLE WHO

2:31:52 ARE LOWER THAN US WHO ARE DON'T

2:31:54 HAVE A LOT OF UM OPPORTUNITIES.

2:31:57 SO I WOULD SAY IN DPS HAS NOT

2:31:59 BEEN THE BEST AT DOING THAT

2:32:00 BECAUSE USUALLY IT'S NOT UM

2:32:03 IT'S NOT SEEN AS A BIG PROBLEM

2:32:06 WITH SOMEONE'S ACTUALLY GETTING

2:32:07 HURT.

2:32:07 DON'T YOU LIKE TRY TO DO THINGS

2:32:09 WHEN SOMEONE'S HURT OR THERE'S

2:32:11 A BIG FIGHT OR IT'S ON THE

2:32:12 NEWS AND STUFF WHERE IT'S LIKE

2:32:13 OKAY, NOW DAMAGE CONTROL THAT'S

2:32:15 WHEN THEY ACTUALLY WANT TO COME

2:32:17 IN AND FIX THE PROBLEM.

2:32:18 AND YEAH I DON'T THINK THEY DO.

2:32:21 AND AGAIN ALSO I DON'T THINK WE

2:32:22 SHOULD PUT A LOT OF LIKE

2:32:23 PRESSURE ON COUNSELORS A LOT

2:32:24 OF TIMES THEY DO NOT HAVE THE

2:32:26 TRAINING TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH

2:32:27 MENTAL HEALTH.

2:32:28 UM WE SHOULD ACTUALLY GET

2:32:30 THERAPISTS PEOPLE WHO ARE

2:32:31 ACTUALLY GOOD WITH THOSE THINGS

2:32:33 BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE A LOT

2:32:35 OF ADULTS ALSO ARE NOT THE BEST

2:32:36 THE JUDGE OR THE CHILDREN AS

2:32:38 WELL ESPECIALLY THEY MIGHT LOOK

2:32:40 DOWN TO THAT CHILD ESPECIALLY

2:32:41 IF THEY'RE NOT LIKE THE BEST

2:32:43 BEHAVIOR.

2:32:44 SO YES THAT'S ME.

2:32:46 I THINK THE THE ANSWER.

2:32:47 WAS EXCELLENT.

2:32:48 MADAM CHAIR, MAY I CONTINUE

2:32:49 WITH ONE MORE QUESTION?

2:32:50 SURE.

2:32:51 UM THANK YOU.

2:32:52 UM.

2:32:54 JUST.

2:32:56 IS IS IT.

2:32:57 REALLY CRITICAL FOR THE FOR THE

2:33:00 STUDENTS TO KNOW THEIR SCHOOL

2:33:03 LEADER, THEIR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

2:33:05 BUT TO HAVE A A TRUSTING

2:33:08 RELATIONSHIP IN THE SCHOOL LEAD

2:33:10 A PRINCIPAL SO THAT THEY CAN GO

2:33:11 FORWARD WITH ANY ISSUES AND

2:33:14 KNOW KNOWING THAT THE SCHOOL

2:33:16 PRINCIPAL WILL LISTEN TO THEM

2:33:17 AND PROVIDE SOME GOOD GOOD

2:33:20 GUIDANCE OR RECOMMENDATIONS.

2:33:21 I THINK SALT LAKE YES, BUT ALSO

2:33:24 THAT.

2:33:24 LIKE THE.

2:33:25 PRINCIPAL CANNOT BE THE ONLY

2:33:26 PERSON UM THAT THEY CAN GO TO.

2:33:28 I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A WIDE

2:33:29 VARIETY OF THOSE PEOPLE AND

2:33:31 ALSO THE PRINCIPAL SHOULD BE

2:33:33 THE ONES AND NOT LIKE PUTTING

2:33:34 IN THE SYSTEM SO KIDS CAN FEEL

2:33:36 COMFORTABLE IN HOW MANY PEOPLE

2:33:37 TO GO TO.

2:33:39 UM SO THEY FEEL LIKE THERE'S

2:33:40 MULTIPLE ADULTS THAT ACTUALLY

2:33:41 CARE FOR ME.

2:33:42 THERE'S MULTIPLE PROGRAMS I

2:33:43 CARE ABOUT.

2:33:43 I CAN GO TO A NURSE IF I GET IT

2:33:45 AND FEEL COMFORTABLE TELLING

2:33:47 HER ABOUT THE SITUATION.

2:33:48 SO YES, I THINK THE PRINCIPAL

2:33:50 OR LIKE THE ADMIN SHOULD BE THE

2:33:51 PERSON WHO IS UM THAT THAT

2:33:53 PERSON BUT AT THE SAME TIME

2:33:55 THEY SHOULDN'T THAT THE

2:33:56 PRINCIPAL SHOULDN'T BE THE ONLY

2:33:57 WERE THE ONLY ONE.

2:34:01 BULLYING.

2:34:01 YEP.

2:34:03 UM PERSONALLY AT MY SCHOOL A

2:34:05 DEAN OR A PRINCIPAL SOMETIMES

2:34:07 IS SEEN AS OH, IF YOU GET IN

2:34:08 TROUBLE, THAT'S WHERE YOU GO.

2:34:10 UM, I DON'T THINK DEANS OR

2:34:11 PRINCIPAL SHOULD BE SEEN AS

2:34:12 THAT EITHER.

2:34:14 SO MAYBE IF THERE WAS UM, SOME

2:34:16 TYPE OF WAY TO CHANGE STUDENTS

2:34:18 UM, WAYS OF SEEING DEANS OR

2:34:20 PRINCIPAL AS LIKE YOU KNOW, A

2:34:22 SCARY PLACE TO GO OR SOMEWHERE

2:34:24 THAT YOU GO WHEN YOU'RE IN

2:34:25 TROUBLE OR SOMEONE YOU CAN'T

2:34:26 TRUST.

2:34:26 THERE SHOULD BE A DIFFERENT WAY

2:34:29 TO SHOW STUDENTS AND LET THEM

2:34:30 KNOW OH, YOUR DEAN ISN'T HERE

2:34:33 ONLY WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE.

2:34:34 YOUR DEAN IS HERE FOR LIKE

2:34:34 OTHER STUFF TOO.

2:34:36 THANK THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:34:39 UM THANK THANK YOU FOR GIVING

2:34:40 ME THE EXTRA MINUTE.

2:34:41 I WANT TO SAY THANK THANK YOU

2:34:43 TO THESE YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THEIR

2:34:44 EXCELLENT TESTIMONY.

2:34:45 UM.

2:34:46 I REALLY LEARNED A LOT BY

2:34:48 LISTENING TO THEM AND I KNOW

2:34:50 THEY MADE THIS HEARING MUCH

2:34:51 BETTER BECAUSE OF THEIR

2:34:52 TESTIMONY.

2:34:53 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:34:54 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:34:56 UH.

2:34:57 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

2:34:58 YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:35:00 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:35:02 UH, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING

2:35:03 HERE TODAY.

2:35:04 UH, I THINK IT'S AWESOME THAT

2:35:05 YOU TOOK THE TIME TO COME DOWN.

2:35:07 UM.

2:35:07 ONE THING.

2:35:08 I WANT TO ADDRESS IS DIGITAL

2:35:10 BULLYING.

2:35:10 RIGHT?

2:35:11 BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE NOWADAYS IT

2:35:13 MIGHT HAPPEN ON A SCREEN AND

2:35:16 THEN PERCOLATES INTO THE

2:35:18 CLASSROOM AND THEN THAT'S AND

2:35:19 THEN THAT'S WHERE AN INCIDENT

2:35:20 MIGHT OCCUR AND SOMEONE YEAH,

2:35:21 THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE ALL THE

2:35:22 FACTS OR AT LEAST TEACHERS AND

2:35:24 GUIDANCE COUNSELORS ETC. MIGHT

2:35:25 NOT KNOW WHAT HAS LED UP TO

2:35:26 THAT.

2:35:27 WHAT DO YOU GUYS.

2:35:29 THINK WOULD BE A GOOD WAY, UH,

2:35:31 YOU KNOW, TO HOW DO YOU FEEL IN

2:35:33 REPORTING THAT IF SOMETHING IS

2:35:35 ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR AI OR

2:35:37 SOMETHING'S FLOATING AROUND OR

2:35:38 IT'S A GROUP TEXT AND IT MIGHT

2:35:40 NOT HAPPEN IN THE SCHOOL,

2:35:41 RIGHT.

2:35:41 BUT IT SORT OF LEADS TO THE

2:35:43 SCHOOL INCIDENT.

2:35:45 IS THERE A WAY THAT YOU GUYS

2:35:46 WOULD FEEL BETTER.

2:35:48 UH.

2:35:48 REPORTING THAT.

2:35:49 OR UH, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S

2:35:50 SOME OTHER ANONYMOUS I KNOW YOU

2:35:51 TALKED ABOUT DOING IT

2:35:52 ANONYMOUSLY.

2:35:53 ,BUT EVEN WHEN DO YOU SEE

2:35:54 THAT.

2:35:54 STUFF HAPPENING IN A GROUP

2:35:55 CHAT OR THINGS ARE FLOATING

2:35:56 AROUND I IMAGES OR WHATEVER IT

2:35:58 MAY BE?

2:35:59 UM.

2:35:59 YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO TO.

2:36:01 MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL FEEL

2:36:03 COMFORTABLE.

2:36:04 IN HOW YOU REPORT IT AND WHO

2:36:05 YOU REPORT IT TO US.

2:36:07 YEAH.

2:36:08 YOU GOT IN THERE.

2:36:09 I WOULD WHAT I WOULD SAY IS

2:36:10 THAT I THINK THAT INSTEAD

2:36:12 OF UM, PAYING THE BLAME ON THE

2:36:13 VICTIM FOR SETTING LIKE

2:36:16 SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE

2:36:17 INAPPROPRIATE, I THINK WE

2:36:18 SHOULD INSTEAD, UM, PUT MORE

2:36:20 FALL ONTO THE PERSON WHO

2:36:21 EXPOSED THOSE IMAGES.

2:36:22 WHO THE PERSON WHO IS BULLYING

2:36:23 THAT PERSON I SEE I WHEN I SEE

2:36:26 PEOPLE BEING CYBER BULLYING I

2:36:28 ALWAYS SEE LIKE ADULTS SAY THAT

2:36:31 OH WHY DID YOU DO THIS OR WHY

2:36:33 CAN'T YOU JUST LOG OFF AND I

2:36:34 THINK UM WHEN IT'S HANDLING

2:36:36 CYBER BULLYING THEY SHOULD BE

2:36:37 ABLE THEY SHOULD HOLD

2:36:39 ACCOUNTABLE THE PEOPLE ONLINE

2:36:40 BUT ALSO MAKE A SAFE SPACE FOR

2:36:42 THAT VICTIM INSTEAD OF JUST

2:36:43 VICTIM BLAMING ON THE PERSON

2:36:45 AND SAYING YOU KNOW THIS IS

2:36:47 YOUR FAULT OR LIKE HERE'S WHAT

2:36:48 YOU SHOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT SEEM

2:36:50 LIKE SHE SHOULD HAVE DID

2:36:51 SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

2:36:51 AND I THINK THAT UM INSTEAD WE

2:36:54 SHOULD JUST MAKE MORE OF A JUST

2:36:55 KEEP IN MIND THAT LIKE THERE'S

2:36:57 STILL A VICTIM AND WE SHOULD BE

2:36:59 ASKING OURSELVES WHY DID THAT

2:37:01 PERSON DO THAT TO IN THE FIRST

2:37:02 PLACE?

2:37:02 WHY DID THAT UM PERSON LEAK

2:37:05 THOSE PICTURES IN THE FIRST

2:37:06 PLACE AND HOW CAN WE FIX THAT?

2:37:07 HOW FAST CAN LIKE CAN WORK WITH

2:37:09 THE UM THE POLICE TO GET THOSE

2:37:10 PICTURES SCRUBBED OFF THE

2:37:11 INTERNET, UM OFF THE TEXT

2:37:13 MESSAGES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

2:37:15 THANK YOU.

2:37:15 GOOD.

2:37:17 UM, I THINK JUST A BIG WAY TO

2:37:19 SOLVE ALL THIS WOULD BE TO

2:37:21 PREVENT RETALIATION IF

2:37:23 RETALIATION WAS PREVENTED AFTER

2:37:25 THE CYBERBULLYING OR DIGITAL

2:37:27 BULLYING HAPPENED.

2:37:29 UM, MAYBE STUDENTS WEREN'T BE

2:37:31 SO AFRAID TO REACH OUT TO

2:37:32 SOMEONE AND LET SOMEONE HIGHER

2:37:34 IN POWER KNOW ABOUT IT.

2:37:36 A LOT OF STUDENTS DON'T REPORT

2:37:37 SUCH THINGS BECAUSE THEY'RE

2:37:38 SCARED OF RETALIATION

2:37:39 THEMSELVES.

2:37:40 SO I THINK UM, IF THERE COULD

2:37:42 BE A WAY TO FIND A WAY TO

2:37:44 PREVENT RETALIATION SO NOT ONLY

2:37:46 THE PERSON WHO UM TELLS THE

2:37:50 PERSON IN POWER IS A NOMINEE

2:37:52 BUT ALSO THEY DON'T GET IN

2:37:54 TROUBLE FOR IT BY WHOEVER DID

2:37:57 SUCH AND SUCH TO THE VICTIM.

2:38:01 UM, I ALSO THINK ANOTHER PART

2:38:03 IS THEY MIGHT NOT WANT TO

2:38:04 REPORT IT BECAUSE UM, KIND

2:38:08 OF LIKE.

2:38:09 WHAT EMMA WAS SAYING.

2:38:10 THERE'S LIKE A BACK AND FORTH

2:38:12 THAT TYPICALLY HAPPENS WITH

2:38:14 CYBERBULLYING THAT LEADS TO

2:38:15 LIKE EITHER PHYSICAL

2:38:17 CONFRONTATION UH UH SCHOOL AND

2:38:20 THEN THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER LIKE

2:38:22 FACTOR WHERE OTHER STUDENTS

2:38:24 THAT ARE LIKE BYSTANDERS THOUGH

2:38:26 LIKE EGG IT ON JUST FOR LIKE

2:38:28 ENTERTAINMENT.

2:38:30 BUT I.

2:38:31 THINK THAT THERE ALSO MIGHT BE

2:38:35 LIKE IT LIKE IF SHE'S REPORTING

2:38:38 IT BECAUSE OF LIKE PARENTS OR

2:38:41 HOME LIFE AS WELL LIKE THEY

2:38:43 MIGHT NOT FEEL LIKE WHAT I LIKE

2:38:45 FOR EXAMPLE IF THEY KNEW THAT

2:38:47 THEY WERE UM SAYING SOMETHING

2:38:49 BACK OR THEY WERE ALSO.

2:38:52 KIND OF LIKE.

2:38:55 LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE A STUDENT

2:38:57 WAS POSTING SOMETHING ON

2:38:59 INSTAGRAM THEN BECAUSE THAT

2:39:01 STUDENT SAW THAT THE STUDENT

2:39:02 THAT WAS BULLIED THEN THEY ALSO

2:39:06 UM THEY WENT BACK AND FORTH ON

2:39:08 INSTAGRAM.

2:39:08 THEY MIGHT FEEL LIKE I DON'T

2:39:10 WANT TO REPORT THAT BECAUSE THE

2:39:11 SCHOOL MIGHT CALL MY PARENTS

2:39:13 AND TELL THEM THAT UM THAT I

2:39:15 WAS DOING SOMETHING WRONG WHEN

2:39:18 REALLY THEY WERE JUST DEFENDING

2:39:20 THEMSELVES.

2:39:20 YEAH.

2:39:22 INTERESTING.

2:39:24 UM.

2:39:24 DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE

2:39:25 HELPFUL TO.

2:39:26 HAVE LIKE.

2:39:27 I MEAN.

2:39:28 AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW THE FULL

2:39:29 LEGALITY OF ALL OF THIS BUT

2:39:31 LIKE.

2:39:31 YOU KNOW, THERE'S LIKE GOOD.

2:39:32 SAMARITAN LAWS WHERE I THINK

2:39:34 ABOUT WHEN YOU MENTIONED PEOPLE

2:39:36 EGGING BUT YOU KNOW, STANDING

2:39:37 AROUND EGGING IT ON AND IF WE

2:39:39 HOLD THE FOLKS ACCOUNTABLE THAT

2:39:41 DON'T TAKE ACTION SAY THERE IS

2:39:42 A FIGHT IN THE HALLWAY, SAY

2:39:44 THERE IS BULLYING GOING ON AND

2:39:45 THE OTHER FOLKS JUST SORT OF,

2:39:47 YOU KNOW, STAND AROUND AND LET

2:39:48 IT HAPPEN.

2:39:49 I FEEL LIKE IF WE HELD EVERYONE

2:39:52 ACCOUNTABLE IN THE SITUATION,

2:39:53 IF YOU WITNESS IT AND.

2:39:54 DO NOTHING, AREN'T YOU SORT

2:39:55 OF COMPLICIT IN IT REALLY AND

2:39:57 HOW CAN WE HELP FOLKS TO.

2:39:59 SORT OF.

2:40:00 ALL COME.

2:40:01 TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE HEY, I

2:40:02 DON'T WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE.

2:40:04 I'M GOING TO STEP IN.

2:40:05 RIGHT?

2:40:05 AND IF EVERYONE HAD THAT

2:40:07 FEELING I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE

2:40:08 A LOT MORE UH.

2:40:10 IT MIGHT BE A LOT LESS BULLYING

2:40:11 BUT A LOT MORE CONTROL.

2:40:12 OVER THAT AS WELL.

2:40:14 UM, I'M.

2:40:15 JUST THINKING THAT WAS JUST.

2:40:16 FROM TORTURE.

2:40:16 BUT THIS IS WHY IT'S.

2:40:17 SO GREAT THAT YOU GUYS ARE

2:40:18 HERE, UH, AND TALKING TO US

2:40:20 LIKE THIS BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES

2:40:21 IS IT GETS OUR MINDS WORKING

2:40:22 RIGHT?

2:40:23 I'VE BEEN OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL

2:40:23 FOR A LONG TIME AND

2:40:25 CYBERBULLYING DIDN'T EXIST, UH

2:40:27 ,WHEN I WAS THERE.

2:40:28 SO IT IS A NEW THING TO ME AND

2:40:30 I THINK IT'S A NEW THING TO A

2:40:31 LOT OF US HERE THAT WE'RE SORT

2:40:33 OF HOW DO WE GET ON YOUR

2:40:34 WAVELENGTH AND UNDERSTAND HOW

2:40:36 YOU ALL WANT TO RESPOND AND HOW

2:40:37 IT AFFECTS YOU.

2:40:38 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

2:40:39 AGAIN FOR TAKING THE TIME TO

2:40:41 COME HERE TO EDUCATE US.

2:40:42 UM, IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT AND

2:40:44 LIKE COUNCILOR FLYNN TIME WE

2:40:45 LEARNED A LOT.

2:40:46 SO CHAIR THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

2:40:47 HAVING THEM AND THANK YOU FOR

2:40:48 SHARING THIS HEARING.

2:40:49 THANK YOU THANK.

2:40:50 YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

2:40:52 I APPRECIATE YOU.

2:40:53 BEING HERE.

2:40:54 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

2:40:55 COUNCIL CULPEPER YOU HAVE FIVE

2:40:58 MINUTES.

2:40:59 IS COMPROMISED DATA.

2:40:59 TREATMENT.

2:41:00 IS THAT IN THAT AREA?

2:41:01 UM.

2:41:05 AND THIS IS WHERE EITHER ONE.

2:41:07 OF YOU WAIT ONE SECOND.

2:41:08 RIGHT.

2:41:14 AS MUCH AS I DON'T WANT TO HEAR

2:41:16 EVERYTHING I SAY, I KNOW THAT

2:41:17 YOU CAN BE HEARD.

2:41:22 THANK YOU FOR.

2:41:28 YEAH.

2:41:28 THANK YOU.

2:41:30 UM.

2:41:32 SO AND THIS IS FOR EITHER

2:41:37 ONE OF YOU.

2:41:38 UM.

2:41:41 SO WHAT.

2:41:43 WHAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED TO OR

2:41:46 CHANGED WITH REGARD TO THE

2:41:50 REPORTING AND THE INVESTIGATING

2:41:54 FOR BULLYING AND SEXUAL

2:41:55 HARASSMENT, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

2:41:58 AND WHAT IMPROVEMENTS ARE

2:41:59 NEEDED TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS

2:42:03 AND THE FAMILIES FEEL

2:42:04 COMFORTABLE COMING FORWARD?

2:42:07 UM.

2:42:08 I WOULD SAY FIRST THE

2:42:10 RETALIATION IS A REALLY BIG

2:42:12 PART.

2:42:13 UM AND ALSO FROM MY EXPERIENCE

2:42:16 I KNOW WHEN MY MOM TRIED TO

2:42:18 REPORT AN ISSUE THAT MY SISTER

2:42:20 WAS HAVING ON THE BUS, SHE

2:42:22 WASN'T CALLED BACK LIKE THERE

2:42:24 WAS NO IT WAS STAGNANT, THERE

2:42:26 WAS NO PROGRESS AND THE STUDENT

2:42:28 WASN'T TAKEN OFF THE BUS.

2:42:30 MY SISTER STILL RODE ON THE BUS

2:42:32 WITH THAT SAME STUDENT AND I

2:42:36 WOULD SAY UM GETTING TO THE

2:42:39 ACTUAL PROBLEM AND HANDLING IT

2:42:42 LIKE EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE

2:42:43 USUALLY THESE THINGS TAKE TIME

2:42:45 BUT OVER THE LIKE OVER THAT

2:42:48 TIME THAT THEY'RE TAKING TO

2:42:49 ADDRESS THESE ISSUES IT'LL KEEP

2:42:51 ON HAPPENING BECAUSE

2:42:54 OF RETALIATION.

2:42:56 UM AND CAN.

2:42:57 YOU.

2:42:57 REPEAT THE FIRST PART OF YOUR.

2:42:58 QUESTION THE SO YOU HAVE AN

2:43:03 IDEA OF THE CURRENT PROCEDURES

2:43:05 FOR REPORTING AND

2:43:07 INVESTIGATING.

2:43:08 I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT

2:43:09 IMPROVEMENTS ARE NEEDED.

2:43:13 UM.

2:43:15 DO YOU GUYS WANT YOU.

2:43:17 TO TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE

2:43:18 COMFORTABLE?

2:43:20 OH, UM, I WOULD.

2:43:22 SAY TO.

2:43:23 UM, FIRST FOR LIKE THE

2:43:26 MANDATED REPORTER PART I KNOW

2:43:29 LIKE IT CAN BE SCARY WHEN

2:43:31 YOU'RE IN AN OFFICE LIKE KIND

2:43:32 OF GETTING INTERROGATED AND

2:43:34 THERE'S SOMEONE SAYING THAT

2:43:36 THEY'RE GOING TO CALL YOUR MOM

2:43:37 AND THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO

2:43:38 HAPPEN.

2:43:39 IT MIGHT MAKE YOU FEEL

2:43:40 DISCOURAGED.

2:43:41 FROM.

2:43:42 UH, TELLING THE TRUTH OR

2:43:43 LIKE TELLING WHAT HAPPENED.

2:43:45 UM, THE STUDENT MIGHT FEEL

2:43:47 REGRET OR SHAME BECAUSE I THINK

2:43:49 THERE'S ALSO VICTIM BLAMING

2:43:51 THAT HAPPENS UM, WHERE IT'S

2:43:53 IT'S LIKE WHAT DID YOU DO OR

2:43:55 LIKE HOW DID YOU RESPOND TO

2:43:56 THIS?

2:43:57 AND I WOULD SAY MAKING THEM

2:43:59 FEEL.

2:44:01 UM CONFIDENT.

2:44:02 THAT THEY CAN BE HEARD AND THAT

2:44:04 THEY CAN BE UNDERSTOOD UH, ALSO

2:44:07 SO THAT LIKE THEY CAN FEEL

2:44:09 CONFIDENT AS WELL THAT

2:44:10 SOMETHING WILL BE ADDRESSED AT

2:44:11 THE END OF THE DAY AND THERE'S

2:44:13 LIKE A STEP TO PROGRESS.

2:44:15 HOW DID YOUR MOM FEEL WHEN SHE

2:44:18 DIDN'T GET THE CALL BACK?

2:44:19 DID SHE EVER GET A CALL BACK

2:44:21 WHEN THE SITUATION WITH THE

2:44:24 ASSISTANT NEVER ADDRESSED?

2:44:25 UH THE SITUATION.

2:44:27 WASN'T ADDRESS MY.

2:44:29 IT WAS UM, ADDRESSED.

2:44:31 BY LIKE MY SISTER HAVING LIKE

2:44:33 TO GO TO UM, A COUNSELOR AND

2:44:35 TALK ABOUT HER FEELINGS.

2:44:36 BUT THAT WAS ONLY FOR ONE DAY.

2:44:39 UM, I REMEMBER THAT DAY MY, UH.

2:44:41 WELL, WHAT HAPPENED WAS, UM, A

2:44:43 STUDENT ON THE BUS WAS LIKE

2:44:45 BEATING HER WITH THE SHOE AND

2:44:48 MY SISTER CAME HOME LIKE.

2:44:51 SHE WAS.

2:44:52 SHE'S REALLY, UM LIKE SHE HAS

2:44:55 ADHD.

2:44:56 SHE KNOWS SHE'S VERY LIKE

2:44:57 EMOTIONAL.

2:44:59 AND WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN

2:45:00 WAS THAT THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO

2:45:02 BE LIKE A BUS MONITOR THERE

2:45:04 LIKE SITTING NEXT TO HER OR

2:45:06 LIKE BASICALLY MAKING SURE THAT

2:45:09 THE BUS FEELS SAFER.

2:45:11 BUT THERE WAS NO BUS.

2:45:13 MONITOR AND I KNEW THAT BECAUSE

2:45:16 I WENT ON THE.

2:45:17 BUS UM, THE MORNING I HAD LIKE

2:45:20 DROPPED HER TO SCHOOL SO THAT I

2:45:21 COULD TALK TO THE STUDENT AND

2:45:23 OR TALK TO THE BUS DRIVER AND

2:45:24 ASK HIM LIKE WHAT HAPPENED AND

2:45:26 WHAT DID HE SEE?

2:45:27 THERE WASN'T ANY LIKE HE HAD

2:45:30 TOLD ME THAT UH, HE DIDN'T SEE

2:45:32 ANYTHING AND THAT THERE WAS

2:45:34 REALLY NOTHING AND THEN I

2:45:35 NEEDED TO GET OFF SO THERE

2:45:37 WASN'T REALLY MUCH THAT I COULD

2:45:39 DO AND UM, REALLY MY MOM COULD

2:45:41 DO WAS CALL THE SCHOOL BUT

2:45:42 THERE WAS NO PROGRESS THAT

2:45:44 HAPPENED.

2:45:46 THANK YOU.

2:45:46 UH.

2:45:47 I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD,

2:45:48 UM, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE,

2:45:51 UH THEY CAN COME TO THE PERSON

2:45:52 AND UM, ANONYMOUSLY BUT ALSO

2:45:54 LIKE MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW

2:45:57 THAT THERE'S RESOURCES OUT

2:45:58 THERE FOR A COUNSELOR THAT THEY

2:46:00 CAN TALK TO BUT THERE'S

2:46:01 MULTIPLE COUNSELORS.

2:46:02 I HAVE ONE I WHEN I WAS AT TECH

2:46:04 BOSTON WE ONLY HAD ONE

2:46:05 COUNSELOR FOR THE WHOLE GRADE

2:46:08 AND A LOT OF TIMES THERE'LL BE

2:46:09 OTHER STUDENTS IN THE COUNSELOR

2:46:11 LIKE IN THE ROOM AND I FEEL

2:46:12 LIKE THAT IT CAN REALLY ALLOW

2:46:14 LIKE A SAFE SPACE BECAUSE

2:46:15 THERE'S SO MANY KIDS LEARNING

2:46:17 ONE THING FROM THIS ONE

2:46:18 COUNSELOR.

2:46:18 AND I THINK IF THEY KNOW THAT

2:46:20 THERE'S MULTIPLE PEOPLE THAT

2:46:21 THEY CAN GO TO WHO ARE TRAINED

2:46:23 BUT ALSO THAT CAN ACTUALLY HELP

2:46:25 THEM, I THINK THEY'LL MAKE YOU

2:46:26 KNOW, MORE COMFORTABLE WHILE

2:46:29 ALSO REMAINING ANONYMOUS AND

2:46:31 BEING LIKE OKAY, I DON'T UM IF

2:46:33 SOMEONE IF THEY KNOW THAT I

2:46:34 SAID SOMETHING I'M NOT GOING TO

2:46:36 GET IN TROUBLE.

2:46:36 I'M NOT GOING TO BY OTHER

2:46:38 STUDENTS I FEEL LIKE I'M A

2:46:39 LOSER.

2:46:39 FIRSTENERGY AND BECAUSE SNITCH

2:46:40 CULTURE IS A REALLY BIG DEAL

2:46:42 ESPECIALLY IN LOW INCOME AREAS

2:46:43 AND WITH LIKE.

2:46:43 BLACK.

2:46:44 PEOPLE AS WELL.

2:46:44 SO I THINK MAKING SURE THAT YOU

2:46:46 KNOW, THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE

2:46:48 ABLE TO COME TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE

2:46:50 INSTEAD OF JUST ONE PERSON AND

2:46:51 FEEL LIKE THEY CAN BE ANONYMOUS

2:46:52 ANONYMOUS WHILE DOING IT.

2:46:54 SO YOU KNOW.

2:46:54 EMPRESS.

2:46:55 YEAH.

2:46:56 EMPRESS.

2:46:57 DID YOU SAY THAT THERE WERE

2:46:58 OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WHEN

2:46:59 THEY MET WITH THE COUNSELOR?

2:47:00 YEAH.

2:47:01 USUALLY THE KIDS WILL NEED

2:47:02 SOMETHING AS WELL LIKE OH

2:47:03 THEY'LL BE LIKE I WILL.

2:47:05 I'VE BEEN IN THE ROOM WHERE

2:47:06 THERE'S BEEN LIKE TWO FIGHTS

2:47:07 HAPPENING OR JUST ONE KID JUST

2:47:08 NEED SOMETHING LIKE, YOU KNOW,

2:47:10 SANITARY OR JUST LIKE REALLY

2:47:11 TALK TO SOMEBODY OR SOMETIMES

2:47:13 SOME KIDS DON'T WANT TO HAVE A

2:47:14 PHONE SO THEY'LL USE A

2:47:15 COUNSELOR'S PHONE, THINGS LIKE

2:47:16 THAT AND THAT COUNSELOR THEN

2:47:18 THAT WOULD NOT ONLY JUST BE

2:47:19 OVERWHELMED, IT WOULD ALSO BE

2:47:21 LIKE THEY CAN'T HANDLE EACH

2:47:23 KID'S PROBLEMS.

2:47:25 LIKE EFFECTIVELY.

2:47:26 AND EFFICIENTLY.

2:47:28 UM AND THE ONLY TIME THEY'LL BE

2:47:29 LIKE PROBLEMS EFFICIENTLY WOULD

2:47:31 BE WHEN SOMEONE GOT IN A FIGHT

2:47:34 OR SOMETHING REALLY BIG LIKE

2:47:35 BIG HAPPENED INSTEAD OF LIKE I

2:47:37 THINK IF THAT WAS KID WAS ABLE

2:47:39 TO GO TO MULTIPLE COUNSELORS

2:47:41 THE PROBLEM WON'T BE STOPPED

2:47:43 SOON.

2:47:44 SO THANK YOU.

2:47:45 UM I WOULD ALSO LIKE.

2:47:47 TO PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME.

2:47:48 YOU ARE NO GOING.

2:47:51 YOU CAN CALL ME.

2:47:52 YES.

2:47:52 EMANUELE.

2:47:53 OKAY.

2:47:54 UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT

2:47:56 ANOTHER WAY THAT I THINK COULD

2:47:58 HELP SOLVE WOULD BE TRYING TO

2:48:00 MINIMIZE GOSSIP DURING, UM,

2:48:03 INVESTIGATION.

2:48:04 I KNOW GOSSIP CAN'T REALLY BE

2:48:05 STOPPED BUT AT LEAST TRYING TO

2:48:07 MINIMIZE IT I THINK WOULD HELP

2:48:09 BECAUSE, UM, I THINK GOSSIP IS

2:48:11 REALLY WHAT STARTS A BULLYING

2:48:13 AND ESPECIALLY IF, UH, THERE'S

2:48:15 AN INVESTIGATION HAPPENING AND

2:48:18 A STUDENT FINDS OUT THERE'S

2:48:19 GOSSIP.

2:48:20 THAT'S WHAT WAS TALKING ABOUT

2:48:21 THEM IN THE MIDDLE

2:48:23 INVESTIGATION IT MIGHT LEAD TO

2:48:24 A BIGGER CONFLICT.

2:48:25 THAT'S ALL I'D LIKE TO SAY.

2:48:26 GOOD NOT TO NAME AGAIN.

2:48:28 EMMANUELLA OR EMMA.

2:48:29 OKAY.

2:48:30 SO CULPEPER YOU YOUR TIME

2:48:33 WENT UP TWO MINUTES AGO AND I'M

2:48:35 JUST.

2:48:35 KIND OF IT'S.

2:48:36 ALMOST 6:00.

2:48:37 IT'S ALMOST 6:00.

2:48:38 WE STILL HAVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY

2:48:38 AND I STILL HAVE ASKED

2:48:40 QUESTIONS AND I'VE BEEN

2:48:41 INCREDIBLY GENEROUS.

2:48:42 SO ONE MORE QUESTION AND OKAY.

2:48:43 JUST ONE FINAL QUESTION.

2:48:44 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:48:46 UM.

2:48:47 I JUST HOPE YOU DO THE SAME

2:48:48 FOR ME WHEN IT'S MY TURN.

2:48:49 I DID LAST WEEK.

2:48:50 I MEANT TO TALK.

2:48:51 BUT WE'RE NOT DOING THAT RIGHT

2:48:52 NOW.

2:48:52 GO.

2:48:55 IS THERE A HOTLINE?

2:48:57 THERE'S THE BOSTON PUBLIC

2:48:58 SCHOOL SYSTEM.

2:48:59 HAVE A HOTLINE THAT YOU CAN

2:49:00 CALL AND CONFIDENTIALLY AND,

2:49:04 ANONYMOUSLY REPORT SOMETHING

2:49:06 THAT HAS TO DO WITH WHETHER

2:49:08 IT'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT

2:49:10 OF BULLYING OR SEXUAL

2:49:12 MISCONDUCT.

2:49:12 IS THERE A HOTLINE?

2:49:14 UM I NOT THAT I KNOW OF UM IF

2:49:17 THERE WAS IT'S NOT UM IT'S NOT

2:49:20 SAID OUT LOUD FOR A LOT

2:49:21 OF STUDENTS TO SAY AND ALSO

2:49:22 LIKE IS IT BECAUSE THIS IS JUST

2:49:25 LIKE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION TO

2:49:26 YOU IS THIS LIKE A HOTLINE THAT

2:49:28 THEY CAN CALL OR LIKE TEXT

2:49:29 BECAUSE A LOT OF KIDS DON'T

2:49:30 FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH LIKE

2:49:31 CALLING SOMETIMES AND ALSO

2:49:33 COMFORTABLE TEXT LIKE IS THIS A

2:49:34 HOTLINE THAT ALSO INCLUDES

2:49:36 PSYCHOLOGISTS AS WELL AS A JUST

2:49:37 A HOTLINE THEY CAN CALL AND IS

2:49:38 THIS OPEN 24 SEVEN OR IS IT

2:49:41 JUST LIKE A HOTLINE?

2:49:42 WILL YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU'D

2:49:44 LIKE TO SEE?

2:49:44 I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE

2:49:46 A HOTLINE THAT IS AVAILABLE AND

2:49:48 CALLING AVAILABLE AND TEXTING

2:49:49 BUT ALSO OPEN 24 SEVEN AT LEAST

2:49:51 ARE OPEN UM DURING SCHOOL HOURS

2:49:55 BECAUSE AND ALSO PROMOTED TO

2:49:56 OTHER STUDENTS BECAUSE I

2:49:57 PERSONALLY DID NOT KNOW THAT I

2:49:59 DID NOT KNOW IF THERE'S A

2:50:00 HOTLINE OR NOT UM BECAUSE IT'S

2:50:02 NOT PROMOTED AND I DO THINK

2:50:03 THAT CAN HELP A LOT OF KIDS AS

2:50:04 WELL.

2:50:05 BUT AFTER THE HOTLINE I WOULD

2:50:06 LIKE TO SEE THAT WHEN THAT KID

2:50:08 CALLS IT DOES GET HANDLED AFTER

2:50:10 THAT NOT JUST OH YEAH, I DID MY

2:50:12 PART.

2:50:12 THE STUDENT CALLED AND IT'S

2:50:14 LIKE OKAY, THEY TALK TO

2:50:15 SOMEBODY NOT LIKE IT ACTUALLY

2:50:17 IS HANDLED.

2:50:17 IT'S ACTUALLY FIGURED OUT

2:50:19 INSTEAD OF JUST FEELING LIKE

2:50:20 OKAY I CALL BUT NOTHING

2:50:21 HAPPENED BECAUSE A LOT OF KIDS

2:50:22 CAN FEEL THAT WAY AND THAT

2:50:23 MAKES THE DOES NOT WANT TO COME

2:50:24 FORWARD.

2:50:24 SO GREAT.

2:50:26 EMMA I REALLY.

2:50:27 DO NOT KNOW I JUST WANT IT'S I

2:50:30 .

2:50:30 MEAN IF YOU.

2:50:31 ARE OH.

2:50:32 I KNOW I UNDERSTAND BUT IT'S

2:50:34 OBVIOUS RIGHT THAT THERE IS A.

2:50:36 NEED FOR A HOTLINE WOULD YOU.

2:50:38 LET THEM SO.

2:50:40 AT LEAST LET THEM SAY IT.

2:50:41 YEAH BECAUSE.

2:50:42 THE TAXI FOR THE HOTLINE IS

2:50:45 CRITICAL.

2:50:46 I WOULDN'T HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT

2:50:47 THAT.

2:50:47 YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO TELL US

2:50:48 WHAT KIND OF HOTLINE YOU'D LIKE

2:50:50 TO SEE.

2:50:50 UH.

2:50:51 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TEXTING

2:50:53 THAT'S LIKE PERSONALLY WHERE

2:50:54 I'M MORE COMFORTABLE WITH UM, I

2:50:56 KNOW OTHER STUDENTS IN MY GRADE

2:50:57 WOULD ALSO FEEL COMFORTABLE

2:50:59 TEXTING SINCE IT'S, UM I FEEL

2:51:02 LIKE IT'S EASIER TO SPEAK YOUR

2:51:03 MIND AND SEE HOW YOU FEEL IN

2:51:04 TEXT BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT

2:51:06 FEEL.

2:51:07 LIKE THEY KIND OF CHOKED UP

2:51:10 WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT IT ON CALL

2:51:11 .

2:51:12 AND ALSO FOR.

2:51:12 THE KIDS THAT CAN'T TALK AS

2:51:14 WELL TEXTING IS BETTER AS WELL

2:51:18 .

2:51:18 I MIGHT YOU MIGHT AS WELL

2:51:19 ANSWER IT BECAUSE I KNOW CALL

2:51:20 PREP WAS NOT GOING TO LET YOU

2:51:21 NOT YOU KNOW NOT GO AWAY

2:51:22 WITHOUT SAYING IT TOO SOUNDS GO

2:51:24 AHEAD CULPEPPER THAT'S YOUR

2:51:25 LAST QUESTION.

2:51:26 UM I'D ALSO LIKE TEXTING BUT I

2:51:27 THINK I'D ALSO LIKE A CERTAIN

2:51:29 WEBSITE BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE

2:51:31 WITH A WEBSITE, UM, THERE'S A

2:51:33 WAY TO LIKE BLOCK OUT THE PHONE

2:51:36 NUMBER BECAUSE IF THAT PERSON'S

2:51:37 PHONE NUMBER DOES GET LEAD

2:51:39 SOMEHOW PEOPLE MIGHT FIND OUT

2:51:41 WHO THAT PERSON IS AND IT'S

2:51:43 GONNA NO LONGER BE AN OMINOUS.

2:51:45 UM THANK YOU.

2:51:46 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:51:48 I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.

2:51:49 WELL, YOU CAN BECAUSE YOUR TIME

2:51:51 WAS UP.

2:51:51 THREE MINUTES AGO AND I'M GOING

2:51:53 TO BE TAKE A TEAM.

2:51:55 JUST WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW WE'RE

2:51:57 GOING TO.

2:51:57 WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO

2:51:59 ANALYZE THE WAY UM THE

2:52:00 SITUATION PLAYED OUT TODAY I

2:52:03 FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN BULLIED.

2:52:06 YEAH.

2:52:06 ONE THING YOU KNOW, UM.

2:52:09 I SEE YOUR TIME IS DONE AND IF.

2:52:11 YOU HAVE ANY.

2:52:12 OTHER FINAL COMMENTS YOU CAN

2:52:13 GO TALK TO PEEPS TO MAKE IT

2:52:14 HAPPEN.

2:52:15 OKAY.

2:52:16 UM.

2:52:17 I'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY

2:52:18 PATIENT.

2:52:20 OKAY.

2:52:22 SO THERE.

2:52:22 IS AN EXISTING HOTLINE.

2:52:23 JUST SO.

2:52:24 YOU KNOW, FOR THE RECORD.

2:52:25 AND I DO LOVE THE IDEA.

2:52:26 OF ADDING TEXT AND I THINK IT'S

2:52:29 REALLY IMPORTANT FOR.

2:52:30 ITSELF AS WELL.

2:52:32 SO Y'ALL BETTER DO Y'ALL.

2:52:33 NEEDS BETTER.

2:52:34 Y'ALL NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB

2:52:35 AT LETTING EVERYONE KNOW THESE

2:52:36 THINGS EXIST BECAUSE THESE.

2:52:38 YOUNG PEOPLE.

2:52:39 DIDN'T EVEN KNOW.

2:52:40 SO WE NEED SOME MONEY IN THE

2:52:41 PSA DEPARTMENT SO THAT WE CAN

2:52:44 LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT BPAS

2:52:45 HAS.

2:52:46 OKAY OKAY THERE YOU GO.

2:52:48 THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE THINGS

2:52:50 HAPPEN.

2:52:51 WATCH EM.

2:52:52 UM, BECAUSE YOU GO TO EVERETT

2:52:54 I'M GOING TO START WITH YOU

2:52:55 FIRST.

2:52:56 OKAY?

2:52:57 SO CAN YOU TALK TO ME A LITTLE

2:52:59 BIT.

2:52:59 ABOUT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE

2:53:00 THINGS THAT.

2:53:01 THEY'RE DOING AT YOUR SCHOOL

2:53:02 THAT WORK REALLY WELL THAT YOU

2:53:04 THINK BPA SHOULD MODEL?

2:53:08 UM, AT MY SCHOOL I'M NOT SURE

2:53:10 IF THEY HAVE THIS OR NOT, BUT

2:53:12 AT MY SCHOOL WE HAVE CULTURE

2:53:14 DAYS OR FLAG DAYS.

2:53:16 UM, BASICALLY EVERY STUDENT

2:53:19 GETS TO SHOW OFF WHERE THEY'RE

2:53:21 FROM AND EVEN THOUGH I FEEL

2:53:24 LIKE A LOT OF BULLYING DOES

2:53:25 COME FROM WHERE YOU'RE

2:53:27 ORIGINALLY FROM, I PERSONALLY

2:53:28 IN MY SCHOOL I DON'T SEE MUCH

2:53:30 OF IT.

2:53:30 I THINK EVERYONE'S VERY UM THEY

2:53:33 LIKE TO SHOW OFF WHERE THEY'RE

2:53:34 FROM AND PEOPLE JUST THINK IT'S

2:53:36 COOL TO BE FROM DIFFERENT

2:53:37 PLACES AND THEY LIKE TO LEARN.

2:53:39 UM, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M BRAZILIAN

2:53:41 AND A LOT OF MY FRIENDS LOVE

2:53:43 TRYING DIFFERENT FOODS FROM

2:53:44 BRAZIL AND THEY LOVE LEARNING

2:53:46 NEW LANGUAGES AND I'D SAY WE

2:53:48 HAVE A PRETTY GOOD UM, LANGUAGE

2:53:50 PROGRAM OVER THERE.

2:53:52 UM, AND IT'S HELPING STUDENTS

2:53:55 IMPROVE AND TO LEARN NEW

2:53:56 LANGUAGES.

2:53:57 OKAY, GREAT.

2:53:59 NOW UM.

2:54:01 THE AND I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH

2:54:04 YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE

2:54:06 STUDENTS UM APP THERE WAS A

2:54:09 STUDENT APP THAT WAS CREATED BY

2:54:12 UM I THINK IT WAS BEE SAC BACK

2:54:14 IN THE DAY BOSTON PUBLIC

2:54:16 SCHOOLS CREATED THIS APP.

2:54:18 HOW ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH IT?

2:54:19 HAVE YOU ARE YOU GUYS FAMILIAR

2:54:21 WITH ANY OF YOU OKAY.

2:54:24 UM AND BUT.

2:54:24 AND IT WAS MONITORED THOUGH THE

2:54:26 PROBLEM WAS THAT I BELIEVE IT

2:54:28 WAS MONITORED BY THE DEPARTMENT

2:54:29 OF EQUITY AND ENGAGEMENT.

2:54:32 AND WHILE WE DID RECEIVE

2:54:34 REPORTS, THE FACT THAT I THINK

2:54:36 IT WAS MONITORED BY MONITORED

2:54:39 BY BEEPS IT FEELS A LITTLE.

2:54:41 BIT INVASIVE.

2:54:42 SO I THINK THAT AS.

2:54:43 WE CONTINUE TO.

2:54:44 WATCH IT.

2:54:46 YOU WANT TO COME BACK ON THE

2:54:47 STAND OKAY.

2:54:48 BECAUSE YOU ARE YOU'RE.

2:54:49 MAKING THIS.

2:54:50 OKAY BECAUSE YOUR NONVERBALS

2:54:52 ARE SPEAKING A LOT OF THEM.

2:54:54 UM BUT I APPRECIATE IT.

2:54:56 I JUST THINK THAT WE NEED TO

2:54:57 REVISIT THE APP AND MAKE IT A

2:54:58 LITTLE BIT MORE STUDENT

2:55:00 FRIENDLY AND WORK ALONGSIDE TO

2:55:03 TO DO THAT AND I'D LOVE FOR YOU

2:55:05 ALL.

2:55:06 TO IF YOU CAN MAKE A COMMERCIAL

2:55:08 A PSA UM AROUND.

2:55:13 WHAT STUDENTS CAN DO TO HELP

2:55:15 SUPPORT STUDENTS WHO ARE BEING

2:55:18 BULLIED WHAT WHAT WOULD YOUR

2:55:20 MESSAGE BE.

2:55:21 AND OR.

2:55:23 WHAT MESSAGE WOULD.

2:55:24 YOU HAVE FOR.

2:55:24 ADULTS AND EDUCATORS ON WHAT

2:55:27 THEY NEED TO DO TO BETTER

2:55:28 SUPPORT STUDENTS?

2:55:30 SO IT'S EITHER WHAT MESSAGE

2:55:31 WOULD YOU HAVE FOR STUDENTS.

2:55:32 TO BETTER.

2:55:33 UM, SUPPORT STUDENTS WHO ARE

2:55:35 EXPERIENCING BULLYING AND OR

2:55:37 WHAT MESSAGE WOULD YOU HAVE FOR

2:55:38 ADULTS SO THAT THEY CAN BETTER

2:55:40 SUPPORT STUDENTS WHO ARE BEING

2:55:41 BULLIED?

2:55:42 WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE?

2:55:43 I JUST ALSO WANT TO ADD THERE

2:55:45 SHOULD ALSO BE A MESSAGE FOR

2:55:46 LIKE BYSTANDERS AS WELL THAT IT

2:55:49 LIKE THEY SEE SOMETHING SAY

2:55:50 SOMETHING THAT THEY SEE

2:55:52 SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING AND I

2:55:54 THINK FOR ADULTS AS WELL

2:55:57 BECAUSE A LOT OF ADULTS CAN BE

2:56:00 BYSTANDERS AND THEY FAIL TO

2:56:02 REPORT BULLYING AS WELL LIKE UM

2:56:05 I WOULD SAY.

2:56:07 FOR ADULTS UM.

2:56:10 PRETTY MUCH THE.

2:56:11 SAME BUT ALSO WATCH OUT FOR THE

2:56:14 MORE PASSIVE BULLYING THE

2:56:16 BULLYING THAT IS NOT FULLY UP

2:56:18 FRONT LIKE TEASING NAME CALLING

2:56:20 IT UM HAVING A STUDENT BE

2:56:23 ISOLATED OR EXCLUDED FROM THEIR

2:56:26 PEERS HOW CAN YOU AS AN ADULT

2:56:28 LIKE HELP THEM BASICALLY UM I

2:56:33 GUESS FIT IN WITH LIKE THEIR

2:56:35 PEERS OR MAKE SURE THAT THEY

2:56:37 CAN USE LIKE SCHOOL TO EXPRESS

2:56:41 THEMSELVES OR THEY CAN FIND A

2:56:42 SPACE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.

2:56:44 AND I WOULD SAY FOR STUDENTS UM

2:56:49 TO HAVE CONFIDENCE SHARING LIKE

2:56:51 HARD LIKE TRUST UM SHARING BUT

2:56:55 I FEEL LIKE FOR THAT AS WELL

2:56:57 THERE WILL NEED TO BE PROOF

2:56:58 THAT THERE IS TRUST AND THAT

2:57:00 THERE IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE

2:57:02 DONE AT THE END OF THE DAY.

2:57:04 UM BECAUSE A LOT OF STUDENTS

2:57:05 FEEL LIKE WELL WHAT'S THE POINT

2:57:07 IF NOTHING'S GOING TO BE DONE,

2:57:08 IF IT'S JUST GOING TO ESCALATE

2:57:09 THINGS MORE?

2:57:10 I FEEL LIKE THERE SHOULD BE

2:57:12 SOME EVIDENCE OR SOME PROOF OR

2:57:15 SOME LIKE NUMBER THAT SHOWS

2:57:16 THAT THIS ACTUALLY GO IT

2:57:19 DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED AND THAT

2:57:21 THEY'RE HEARD THINKING AND

2:57:23 EMBARRASSED.

2:57:24 YOU WERE A DPS STUDENT.

2:57:28 UM AND I'M CURIOUS JUST WHAT

2:57:30 WOULD WHAT WOULD YOUR MESSAGE

2:57:31 BE TO THE DISTRICT?

2:57:33 WHAT ADULTS OR STUDENTS?

2:57:36 UM, I WILL SAY FOR PARENTS AND

2:57:39 ADULTS I WOULD SAY THAT MAKE

2:57:40 SURE YOU HOLD YOUR KID

2:57:41 ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THEY ARE THE

2:57:43 PERSON WHO'S BULLYING THE KID.

2:57:45 UM I WOULD SAY FOR TEACHERS DO

2:57:46 NOT DISMISS.

2:57:47 THE PROBLEM AS TWO CHILDREN

2:57:49 OR AS A CHILDISH UM THINK THAT

2:57:51 CHILDREN AS HAVING UM AND I FOR

2:57:55 THE DISTRICT IN GENERAL.

2:57:56 I WOULD SAY THAT STOP FOCUSING

2:57:59 ON GRADES AND TEST SCORES.

2:58:02 UM AND START ACTUALLY IMPROVING

2:58:03 THAT LIKE LOW INCOME SCHOOLS AS

2:58:05 WELL.

2:58:06 SO I FEEL LIKE LOW INCOME

2:58:07 SCHOOLS DON'T GET A LOT

2:58:09 OF FUNDING AND THOSE KIDS FROM

2:58:10 LOW INCOME SCHOOLS DON'T FEEL

2:58:11 COMFORTABLE AND NOT HAVE THE

2:58:13 BEST ENVIRONMENT TO BE IN

2:58:14 BECAUSE OF SCHOOLS NOT BEING

2:58:15 OPEN FUNDED WHICH CAN I FEEL

2:58:16 LIKE IN MY OPINION LEADS TO

2:58:17 MORE BULLYING BECAUSE THERE'S

2:58:18 NOT A LOT OF UM, OPTIONS FOR

2:58:20 THOSE KIDS TO ACTUALLY EXPRESS

2:58:22 THEMSELVES OR THERE'S MOST TIME

2:58:24 THERE'S NOT A LOT

2:58:24 OF COUNSELORS.

2:58:25 TO FOR KIDS TO GO TO.

2:58:27 SO INSTEAD OF ALWAYS JUST

2:58:28 FOCUSING ON TEST SCORES AND YOU

2:58:31 KNOW, LIKE WHO HAS THE BEST

2:58:33 GRADES ACTUALLY PUT TIME INTO

2:58:35 THE STUDENTS AND LET THEM BE

2:58:37 UM, HAVE TIME TO EXPRESS

2:58:38 THEMSELVES AND.

2:58:39 YEAH, UM THANK YOU FOR THAT.

2:58:42 AND I WANT TO BE MINDFUL THAT

2:58:43 IT IS 6:00 AND I DON'T WANT TO

2:58:45 UH, GO I ALREADY, YOU KNOW, GO

2:58:48 OVER MY TIME.

2:58:49 UH, I WILL AND I KNOW I BELIEVE

2:58:52 WE HAVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY.

2:58:53 DID WE HAVE FOLKS SIGNED UP FOR

2:58:55 PUBLIC TESTIMONY?

2:58:57 SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

2:58:58 FOR CARRYING THE VOICES

2:59:00 OF YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THIS SPACE

2:59:02 ,UM, AND FOR BRINGING SO MUCH

2:59:03 UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE.

2:59:05 AND I'M HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW,

2:59:07 THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING, UH,

2:59:08 AND WHO HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE

2:59:10 THINGS HAPPEN WILL ACTUALLY DO

2:59:11 JUST THAT AND WE'LL INVITE YOU

2:59:13 ALL TO BE PART OF THE WORK, UM,

2:59:15 THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON

2:59:17 AND I JUST WANT TO THANK UM

2:59:20 BOTH MASH KOSH AND LAW FOR

2:59:22 BRINGING YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THIS

2:59:25 CONVERSATION AND CREATING SPACE

2:59:26 FOR THEM TO FEEL NOT ONLY HEARD

2:59:28 BUT AFFIRMED.

2:59:29 SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU.

2:59:31 Y'ALL DID A GREAT JOB.

2:59:32 YOU ALSO SHOULD FEEL REALLY

2:59:34 PROUD.

2:59:34 THANK YOU.

2:59:35 AND.

2:59:38 YEAH WE'RE NOT DONE YET.

2:59:41 ABSOLUTELY.

2:59:41 YOU ALREADY DOING WHATEVER YOU

2:59:44 WANT.

2:59:44 GO AHEAD YOU.

2:59:46 SO YOUR TESTIMONY WAS REALLY

2:59:48 HELPFUL TO HEAR THE THE REAL

2:59:53 WORLD PERSPECTIVE FROM UH,

2:59:55 YOUNG FOLKS AND HOW YOU FEEL

2:59:57 AND HOW YOU SEE IT AND HOW YOU

3:00:00 THINK IT SHOULD BE.

3:00:01 AND IT'S REALLY HELPFUL TO BE

3:00:03 ABLE TO TAKE THE NOTES DOWN AND

3:00:05 TO GO BACK AND READ THEM AND

3:00:07 AND SO START WORKING OUT SOME

3:00:08 OF THE THINGS YOU SUGGESTED.

3:00:10 UH AND SO I JUST WANT TO

3:00:11 COMMEND YOU FOR HAVING THE

3:00:14 COURAGE AND THE THE CONFIDENCE

3:00:16 TO COME AND SPEAK BEFORE THE

3:00:18 COUNCIL AND UH IF YOU EVER NEED

3:00:19 ANYTHING, JUST GIVE COUNSELOR

3:00:22 CULPEPPER CALL AND, UH, I'M AT

3:00:25 YOUR BECK AND CALL.

3:00:26 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:00:27 THANK YOU.

3:00:27 YOU'RE WELCOME.

3:00:28 UM, YEAH.

3:00:29 WHY YOU GUYS GET UP AND THAT WE

3:00:31 GET READY FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY

3:00:32 ,Y'ALL.

3:00:33 I'LL JUST SAY THAT FOR ME.

3:00:34 THIS IS PERSONAL.

3:00:35 I WAS ONE OF THOSE KIDS THAT

3:00:36 WAS BULLIED.

3:00:37 UM, MY MOM AND I BOUNCED FROM

3:00:39 PLACE TO PLACE, UM, BECAUSE WE

3:00:41 WERE TOO POOR TO LIVE IN ONE

3:00:42 NEIGHBORHOOD LONG ENOUGH FOR

3:00:43 ME TO STAY IN ONE SCHOOL.

3:00:45 SO I WAS ALWAYS THAT KID THAT

3:00:46 WENT TO SCHOOL MID-YEAR.

3:00:48 SO WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NEW KID?

3:00:50 THEY ALWAYS GET PICKED ON AND

3:00:51 THEN I DIDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH.

3:00:53 MY WE WERE.

3:00:54 VERY POOR.

3:00:55 I DIDN'T HAVE THE BEST OF THE

3:00:56 BEST.

3:00:56 SO I HAD TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT

3:00:58 AND I HAD TO FIGHT LITERALLY TO

3:01:03 LITERALLY FIGHT PEOPLE JUST TO

3:01:05 UM, GET BY.

3:01:07 AND SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT

3:01:09 TRAUMA THAT STUFF CARRIES INTO

3:01:10 YOUR ADULT LIFE BECAUSE THEN

3:01:12 YOU DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST.

3:01:13 AND SO BULLYING HAS A LONG

3:01:15 IMPACT, UM, EFFECT ON YOUNG

3:01:18 PEOPLE THAT LAST A LIFETIME.

3:01:19 SO I'M SO INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL

3:01:21 FOR YOU ALL AS YOUNG PEOPLE TO

3:01:23 UTILIZE YOUR MY YOUR MICROPHONE

3:01:25 AND THE WAY THAT YOU DID TODAY.

3:01:26 THANK YOU.

3:01:27 I WISH I HAD THE COURAGE TO DO

3:01:29 THAT WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE SO

3:01:30 THANK YOU.

3:01:31 ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO.

3:01:35 Y'ALL GOT TWO.

3:01:36 DON'T BE TRYING IT.

3:01:37 Y'ALL GOT TWO MINUTES EACH

3:01:38 OKAY?

3:01:39 I WILL PUT THIS I'M AT THE

3:01:41 MICROPHONE REALLY LOUD SO YOU

3:01:42 CAN HEAR THE TIMER.

3:01:44 IT'S A TIMER.

3:01:45 YOU SEE ONE THAT SAYS TWO.

3:01:46 THAT'S IT.

3:01:48 TWO MINUTES.

3:01:49 UM UH GOOD AFTERNOON COUNSELORS

3:01:52 .

3:01:52 UH, MY NAME IS OPRAH FATIMA.

3:01:54 I'M THE LEAD LABOR AND TRAINER

3:01:56 ORGANIZER AT MATH.

3:01:57 GOSH.

3:01:57 UM, I WROTE THE ANTI-BULLYING

3:01:59 CURRICULUM WHICH

3:02:01 COUNCIL COUNCILWOMAN MAY I

3:02:02 MENTIONED AND, UH, WE USE IT

3:02:05 WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS

3:02:06 WITH FUNDING.

3:02:06 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

3:02:07 HEALTH.

3:02:08 UM, THIS SUMMER OUR TEENS

3:02:11 TRAINED OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE

3:02:12 THEMSELVES.

3:02:13 UM, AND WATCHING A 15 YEAR OLD

3:02:15 AND A 17 YEAR OLD EXPLAINED.

3:02:17 TO A ROOM OF PEERS HOW TO SPOT

3:02:20 BULLYING.

3:02:21 UM AT WORK WAS ONE OF THE MOST

3:02:22 FULFILLING, UH, MOMENTS OF MY

3:02:24 JOB.

3:02:25 BUT LET'S FACE IT IT'S NOT

3:02:27 ALWAYS, UH, WITHIN THE COLORS

3:02:29 THAT, UH, THESE YOUNG PEOPLE

3:02:31 CAN STAND UP AND REALLY, REALLY

3:02:33 ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES.

3:02:35 BECAUSE THE TOOLS AND THE

3:02:36 RESOURCES.

3:02:36 THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR THAT IS

3:02:38 VERY, VERY EMINENTLY UM,

3:02:41 LACKING.

3:02:42 UM, AND IN OUR RESTORATIVE

3:02:44 JUSTICE CIRCLES ONE OF THE MOST

3:02:46 EFFECTIVE WAYS WE KNOW HOW TO

3:02:47 PREVENT AND REDUCE HARM

3:02:49 TOGETHER WHICH WAS ALSO UM

3:02:51 SHAPED AND BUILT WITH THE HELP

3:02:53 OF UH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC

3:02:54 HEALTH.

3:02:55 SOME OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE

3:02:56 SHARED REAL HARM AND TRAUMA.

3:02:58 SOME TOLD US HOW DEEPLY IT HAD

3:03:01 SEEPED INTO THE WAY THEY SEE

3:03:02 THEMSELVES.

3:03:03 IT IS HARD TO SEPARATE WHO YOU

3:03:05 ARE FROM THAT HARM THAT CAN

3:03:07 STAY FOR AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.

3:03:10 AND WE UNDERSTOOD THAT A BIG

3:03:11 BARRIER TO SAFETY, UM, IS THAT

3:03:14 MANY YOUTH CAN'T IDENTIFY

3:03:15 WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THEM AND

3:03:16 EVEN WHEN THEY CAN THEY

3:03:18 STRUGGLE TO ARTICULATE INTO

3:03:20 WORDS ALONGSIDE FUNDING FOR THE

3:03:22 TOOLS AND KNOWLEDGE YOUNG

3:03:23 PEOPLE NEED TO TACKLE HARM.

3:03:25 THEY NEED ADULTS WHO CAN

3:03:27 RECOGNIZE IT TOO.

3:03:28 SO OUR MISSION IS VERY SIMPLE.

3:03:31 WE GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE THE WORDS

3:03:32 FOR WHAT THEY'RE LEAVING

3:03:34 THROUGH AND WE MAKE SURE THAT

3:03:36 ADULTS IN THEIR LIVES

3:03:37 UNDERSTAND THOSE WORDS AS WELL.

3:03:40 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CERTAIN

3:03:41 CULTURES BECAUSE EVERY CULTURE

3:03:42 IS DIFFERENT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT

3:03:44 CULTURAL COMPETENCY, IT IS ALSO

3:03:46 IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE WHAT IT

3:03:47 MEANS TO GROW UP IN DIFFERENT

3:03:48 DYNAMICS AND TO CATER TO THOSE

3:03:50 DYNAMICS IS SOMETHING VERY,

3:03:52 VERY IMPORTANT AND OFTEN LOOKED

3:03:55 UM NOT LOOKED OUT FOR.

3:03:58 SO EVERY CHILD UNDERSTANDING

3:04:00 HOW EVERY CHILD IS DIFFERENT,

3:04:01 SPECIAL.

3:04:02 AND CURIOUS.

3:04:03 WE ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW

3:04:05 WE CAN PROVIDE FOR THEM IN THE

3:04:06 BEST POSSIBLE CAPACITY.

3:04:08 SO TODAY.

3:04:09 I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AND

3:04:12 WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO WORK

3:04:13 WITH US, UM, SO THAT WE CAN

3:04:15 MAKE SURE THAT BULLYING IS NOT

3:04:17 JUST A PROBLEM THAT WE ARE

3:04:19 SOLVING BUT IT IS SOMETHING

3:04:21 THAT WE ARE BUILDING AGAINST

3:04:23 TOO.

3:04:24 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:04:25 OKAY.

3:04:27 OKAY Y'ALL.

3:04:29 SHE WENT OVER TWO MINUTES.

3:04:30 THIS.

3:04:32 GO AHEAD.

3:04:34 UM MY NAME IS SUPREME.

3:04:35 GOOD EVENING COUNSELORS AND I

3:04:37 GO TO BOSTON NAVAL ACADEMY.

3:04:38 I'M 16 AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT

3:04:41 THE LACK OF SUPPORT THAT

3:04:42 STUDENTS HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO

3:04:44 MENTAL HEALTH.

3:04:44 AND SOME SCHOOLS ARE ONLY ONE

3:04:45 COUNSELOR FOR HOMELESS STUDENTS

3:04:47 AS THE STUDENTS HERE HAVE

3:04:48 TALKED ABOUT AND IT REALLY HAVE

3:04:50 A BIG AFFECT NOT GETTING YOUR

3:04:51 WANTS AND FEELINGS OUT THERE

3:04:52 AND THERE'S ONLY ONE COUNSELOR

3:04:54 WHO'S OVERWHELMED BY THE

3:04:55 CONSTANT OVER HERE AND IT CAN

3:04:58 JUST LEAD TO MULTIPLE PROBLEMS

3:04:59 FOR THAT STUDENT IF ADDING A

3:05:01 MORE SURE HEY I CAN'T GET OUT

3:05:02 AND TALK TO NOBODY BECAUSE ONLY

3:05:03 ONE COUNSELOR OR THERE'S A LACK

3:05:05 OF SUPPORT WHEN IT COMES TO LOW

3:05:06 INCOME SCHOOLS AND PLACES

3:05:08 BECAUSE MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO

3:05:09 HAVE PROBLEMS ARE GOING TO LOW

3:05:10 INCOME PLACES COME FROM A LOW

3:05:12 INCOME FAMILIES.

3:05:13 SO I JUST FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD

3:05:14 START CARING MORE ABOUT THE

3:05:16 STUDENT INSTEAD OF JUST

3:05:17 WORRYING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON

3:05:19 OVER HERE LIKE WHAT'S GOING ON

3:05:20 AT HOME.

3:05:20 WE SHOULD REALLY FOCUS ON

3:05:21 WHAT'S HAPPENING INSIDE THE

3:05:22 HOUSE AND INSIDE OF SCHOOL AND

3:05:23 WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THEIR MIND

3:05:24 BECAUSE A LOT GOING THROUGH A

3:05:26 YOUNG PERSON'S MIND AND I COULD

3:05:27 SEE MYSELF I HAD PROBLEMS AND I

3:05:29 FEEL LIKE I HAD NO TALK TO

3:05:31 BECAUSE NOBODY THANK YOU JUST

3:05:32 THE KID YOU HAVE YOU HAVE

3:05:33 CERTAIN THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT

3:05:34 TO WORRY ABOUT SCHOOLS THAT ARE

3:05:34 WORRYING ABOUT, YOU KNOW,

3:05:36 CERTAIN THINGS HAPPENING

3:05:36 OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL, YOU GETTING

3:05:37 BULLIED.

3:05:38 SO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO

3:05:39 START HAVING A BIGGER IMPACT

3:05:40 WHEN IT COMES TO MORE

3:05:41 COUNSELORS AND MORE MENTAL

3:05:43 HEALTH SPACES AND MORE PEOPLE

3:05:44 WHO ARE UM, EITHER YOU'RE

3:05:46 EITHER BLACK OR YOU ARE A

3:05:48 MINORITY OR YOU'RE A PERSON

3:05:49 OF COLOR OR YOU HAVE A

3:05:50 DIFFERENT SEXUALITY SOMEBODY

3:05:52 ELSE IF YOU'RE NOT NORMAL OR

3:05:53 AVERAGE PERSON.

3:05:54 SO I THINK THAT WE SHOULD START

3:05:57 TO FOCUS MORE ON THEIR MENTAL

3:05:58 AND FOCUS MORE ON WHO THEY ARE

3:05:59 SICK OF JUST PUTTING THEM DOWN

3:06:01 AND KNOWING THEM BECAUSE

3:06:01 THEY'RE KIDS.

3:06:02 SO THANK.

3:06:03 YOU FOR HAVING ME AND HAVE A

3:06:04 NICE EVENING.

3:06:04 THANK YOU.

3:06:05 GOOD JOB.

3:06:06 ALL RIGHT.

3:06:08 WELL YOU GO IN NOW.

3:06:09 YOU CAN'T BE HOLDING HOSTAGE

3:06:11 EVERYBODY AND THEN LEAVE.

3:06:12 YOU WON'T WAIT TO EVERYBODY

3:06:13 FINISH SPEAKING.

3:06:14 YOU FIND OUT YOU OUT HERE JOHN

3:06:16 LEE.

3:06:16 YOU SEE.

3:06:17 HOW THEY DO GO.

3:06:19 GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCILORS.

3:06:22 GOOD EVENING.

3:06:23 MY NAME IS NINA JEAN PIERRE AND

3:06:25 TODAY I'M HERE WITH TEENS LEAD

3:06:26 OUR WORK.

3:06:27 I CURRENTLY GO TO.

3:06:27 BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL AND TODAY I

3:06:29 WANTED TO FOCUS ON BULLYING AND

3:06:30 ITS.

3:06:31 IMPACT ON STUDENTS.

3:06:31 MENTAL HEALTH.

3:06:32 BULLYING CAN.

3:06:33 AFFECT STUDENTS.

3:06:34 MORE THAN PEOPLE REALIZE, AS IT

3:06:35 CAN MAKE STUDENTS FEEL BAD

3:06:36 ABOUT THEMSELVES AND MAKE IT

3:06:38 HARDER FOR THEM.

3:06:38 TO FEEL COMFORTABLE AT

3:06:39 SCHOOL.

3:06:40 I BELIEVE THAT STUDENTS.

3:06:41 SHOULDN'T HAVE.

3:06:42 TO DEAL.

3:06:42 WITH THAT WHEN SCHOOL IS

3:06:43 SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE.

3:06:45 WHERE THEY CAN LEARN AND BE

3:06:46 SAFE.

3:06:46 STUDENTS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCES

3:06:48 WITH.

3:06:48 BULLYING DESERVE.

3:06:49 TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND

3:06:50 SUPPORTED.

3:06:51 AND AS CITY COUNCILORS, I URGE

3:06:53 YOU TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS THAT

3:06:55 PREVENT BULLYING AND INCREASE

3:06:57 ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH.

3:06:58 HELP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

3:07:00 YOU WANT TO SEE PROTECTION FOR

3:07:02 OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR ALL

3:07:03 STUDENTS.

3:07:04 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND TO

3:07:05 LISTENING TO MY CONCERNS.

3:07:07 THANK YOU.

3:07:08 GREAT JOB.

3:07:08 THANK YOU.

3:07:10 ALL RIGHT.

3:07:11 NEXT.

3:07:12 HI.

3:07:14 I WON'T TAKE TOO MUCH TIME BUT.

3:07:16 MY NAME IS.

3:07:17 CHANEL AND, UM, I USED TO GO TO

3:07:19 MADISON BUT I RECENTLY

3:07:20 GRADUATED.

3:07:21 UM, THERE WAS THIS TIME WHERE I

3:07:24 WAS THREATENED BY, UM, ANOTHER

3:07:26 STUDENT WHO IT WAS LIKE REALLY

3:07:29 BAD AND LIKE REALLY HARMFUL AND

3:07:30 IT WAS REPORTED BUT THE TEACHER

3:07:32 SAID YOU KNOW HOW HE IS AND YOU

3:07:35 JUST GOT TO LET HIM BE.

3:07:37 LEAVE HIM BE.

3:07:37 AND I WAS JUST LIKE, WHY ARE WE

3:07:39 ?

3:07:39 YOU KNOW, AT FIRST I WAS LIKE

3:07:41 WHY ARE WE LIKE MENDING TO

3:07:42 THESE BAD BAD STUDENTS?

3:07:43 YOU KNOW IF THEY SAY SOMETHING

3:07:45 WHY DON'T WE.

3:07:45 ACTUALLY TAKE.

3:07:46 ACTION INTO.

3:07:47 WHAT THEY HAD SAID BECAUSE IT

3:07:49 WASN'T THE RIGHT IT WAS NOT

3:07:51 BULLYING.

3:07:51 IT WAS A THREAT.

3:07:52 UM.

3:07:53 BUT THEN I ALSO LIKE HEARING

3:07:55 WHAT SUPREME HAD SAID ABOUT

3:07:56 LIKE MENTAL HEALTH.

3:07:57 UM, HE WAS LIKE A STUDENT THAT

3:07:59 KIND OF HAD LIKE OUTBURST AT

3:08:01 TIMES.

3:08:02 SO I JUST FEEL LIKE I FEEL LIKE

3:08:04 HIS THING WAS LIKE AN INNER

3:08:05 THING, YOU KNOW, I'M LIKE ALL

3:08:06 ABOUT LIKE NOT BEING LIKE

3:08:07 CLOSED MINDED BUT I JUST FEEL

3:08:09 LIKE IF WE COULD DO LIKE MORE

3:08:10 LIKE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT

3:08:11 CLASSES BECAUSE WE GOT ALL

3:08:13 THESE HOURS IN SCHOOL

3:08:14 OF LEARNING MATH AND ENGLISH,

3:08:15 BUT WE'RE NOT TEACHING PEOPLE

3:08:17 ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND HOW TO

3:08:19 SUPPORT THEMSELVES AND HOW TO

3:08:21 SPEAK OUT FOR THEMSELVES.

3:08:23 SO THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAD TO

3:08:25 SAY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR

3:08:26 TIME.

3:08:26 BECAUSE I STILL HAVE SOME YOU

3:08:27 HAVE TIME SO I WANT TO USE YOUR

3:08:29 TIME.

3:08:29 MHM.

3:08:29 HOW DID IT.

3:08:30 FEEL WHEN THE ADULTS SAID WELL

3:08:34 YOU KNOW HOW HE IS LIKE HOW DID

3:08:35 YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT WHEN YOU

3:08:38 REPORTED SOMETHING THAT MADE

3:08:39 YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE.

3:08:40 IT HONESTLY JUST FELT LIKE I

3:08:42 WAS JUST BEING LIKE PUSHED OUT

3:08:44 LIKE LIKE OH SWEPT UNDER THE

3:08:45 RUG I GUESS I COULD SAY IT BUT

3:08:47 IT IT JUST.

3:08:48 DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL HEARD.

3:08:50 IT DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL LIKE ANY

3:08:51 TYPE OF ACTION WOULD HAVE BEEN

3:08:52 TAKING TOWARDS THIS PERSON.

3:08:54 LIKE THERE WAS MULTIPLE TIMES

3:08:56 IN MADISON WHERE THERE'S PEOPLE

3:08:58 WHO REPORTED SOMETHING BUT IT

3:09:00 JUST GOES TO OH YOU KNOW HOW

3:09:01 THIS PERSON IS, YOU KNOW HOW

3:09:03 THEY ARE.

3:09:03 IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE

3:09:05 TO ME.

3:09:05 I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD TALK TO

3:09:07 THE VICTIMS AND NOT JUST TALK

3:09:08 TO.

3:09:08 THE.

3:09:09 PEOPLE THAT DID.

3:09:10 THE HARM.

3:09:10 WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE LIKED TO

3:09:12 HAVE HEARD?

3:09:13 I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE

3:09:14 HEARD THAT HE'S GOING TO GET

3:09:15 HANDLED WITH IT.

3:09:15 BECAUSE I.

3:09:16 SAW HIM.

3:09:17 AT GRADUATION AND IT'S LIKE

3:09:18 YOU PUT ON A THREAT.

3:09:19 THAT WAS VERY HARMFUL.

3:09:20 IF YOU SIT ON THE STREET THE

3:09:21 POLICE WOULD HAVE CAME AND

3:09:23 HANDLED THAT.

3:09:23 SO IT'S JUST I DON'T KNOW.

3:09:25 I WOULD HAVE JUST.

3:09:26 LIKED FOR.

3:09:28 MORE AGGRESSION I GUESS TOWARDS

3:09:30 WHAT HE HAD SAID TO ME BECAUSE

3:09:32 IF HE HE CAME AT ME AGGRESSIVE

3:09:34 I FEEL LIKE HE SHOULD HAVE GOT

3:09:35 THAT BACK.

3:09:36 BUT THEN.

3:09:37 AGAIN IT'S ALSO ABOUT HIS

3:09:38 HEALTH SO I UNDERSTAND TO.

3:09:40 YEAH THANK YOU.

3:09:42 THANK YOU.

3:09:42 AND NORMALLY THAT WE DON'T

3:09:43 WE'RE NOT.

3:09:44 SUPPOSED TO ASK QUESTIONS.

3:09:44 BUT I.

3:09:45 I HAD EXTRA TIME SO.

3:09:47 THANK YOU.

3:09:49 GOOD JOB.

3:09:50 THANK YOU.

3:09:51 GOOD EVENING CITY COUNSELOR.

3:09:53 THANK YOU.

3:09:54 AGAIN SO MUCH FOR JUST.

3:09:55 PUTTING ON THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR

3:09:56 THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO COME IN AND

3:09:57 TALK ABOUT ANTI-BULLYING

3:09:59 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES.

3:10:00 I'M HAPPY TO JUST BE TALKING

3:10:01 TO.

3:10:02 YOU AND YOUR TEAM.

3:10:02 I FEEL LIKE THAT'S

3:10:03 DEFINITELY A GREAT CONCLUSION

3:10:04 OF THIS HEARING AND I CAN ONLY

3:10:06 SAY FOR MYSELF AS THE MY NAME

3:10:09 IS BRUCE SMITH, I'M THE YOUTH

3:10:10 PROGRAM LEADER AT MUSCOGEE

3:10:11 TEENS LEAD AT WORK FOR SURE AND

3:10:13 THE YOUNG PEOPLE KILLED IT

3:10:14 TONIGHT.

3:10:15 THEY SHOWED TRUE UM HONOR.

3:10:17 THEY SHOWED RIGOR.

3:10:17 THEY SHOWED CONFIDENCE.

3:10:18 THEY SHOWED JUST THEIR

3:10:19 EXPERIENCES TO HOW WE CAN MAKE

3:10:22 REHABILITATION WITHIN OUR

3:10:23 SCHOOLS.

3:10:23 RIGHT.

3:10:23 HOW DO WE SEE THE ROOT

3:10:24 OF DISORDER BEFORE USING A

3:10:26 PUNITIVE ACTION?

3:10:27 SO HERE AT TI LAW WE HAVE OUR

3:10:29 YOUNG PEOPLE TRAINING AND

3:10:30 UNDERSTANDING ANTI-BULLYING

3:10:31 PRACTICES IN THE WORKPLACE BUT

3:10:32 ALSO TRANSITIONING THAT INTO

3:10:34 OUR SCHOOLS, INTO OUR

3:10:35 COMMUNITIES, INTO PLACES LIKE

3:10:36 THIS.

3:10:37 THEY NEED TO BE AT THE

3:10:38 FOREFRONT OF CONVERSATIONS LIKE

3:10:39 THIS.

3:10:39 YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT OUR

3:10:41 TEAM KNOWS THAT.

3:10:41 BUT HOW DO WE GET THE SCHOOLS

3:10:43 TO KNOW THAT?

3:10:44 WHERE'S THE SUPERINTENDENT?

3:10:45 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

3:10:45 HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE THAT OUR

3:10:47 FAMILIES ARE FEELING THAT

3:10:47 THEY'RE PART OF THE

3:10:48 CONVERSATION WITH OUR YOUNG

3:10:49 PEOPLE AS CHANGEMAKERS, AS

3:10:51 COLONIZERS AND ADULTS, AS

3:10:53 SUPPORTERS IS WE GOT TO RETIRE

3:10:55 THAT THAT CONVERSATION THAT WE

3:10:56 KNOW EVERYTHING.

3:10:57 I HAVEN'T BEEN IN HIGH SCHOOL

3:10:58 IN ABOUT TEN YEARS, YOU KNOW

3:10:59 WHAT I MEAN?

3:10:59 BUT MY YOUNG PEOPLE EVERY

3:11:00 SINGLE DAY THEY TELL ME AND

3:11:02 THEY TEACH ME SO MANY NEW

3:11:03 THINGS ABOUT HOW TO MAKE

3:11:05 RESTORATIVE PRACTICES, WHAT

3:11:06 THINGS THEY NEED TO FEEL

3:11:08 EMPOWERED TO FEEL CONFIDENT AND

3:11:10 WE'RE THE ONES THAT ARE

3:11:11 SUPPOSED TO CREATE THAT

3:11:12 EVIDENCE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO

3:11:13 WORK DUE TO LEAD TO RESEARCH,

3:11:14 TO DRAFT DATA, TO HAVE

3:11:16 TRAININGS AND GIVE THEM THAT

3:11:17 SUPPORT.

3:11:18 SO I HOPE THAT YOU GOT A LITTLE

3:11:19 INSIGHT IN WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE

3:11:20 ARE DOING HERE IN BOSTON TO

3:11:22 REALLY CREATE THESE FRAMEWORKS

3:11:23 RIGHT FOR RESTORATIVE PRACTICES

3:11:25 AND MAKE SURE THEY FEEL

3:11:26 SUPPORTED AND I DON'T KNOW I

3:11:28 JUST FEEL VERY FULL.

3:11:29 I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE

3:11:30 FEELS THE SAME WAY, BUT.

3:11:31 THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER IT

3:11:32 AND THEY'RE GOING TO LEAD THESE

3:11:34 CONVERSATIONS AND I HAVE A LOT

3:11:35 OF TRUST IN THEM.

3:11:36 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST

3:11:37 OFFERING THEM THE OPPORTUNITY.

3:11:38 THE PANEL WENT REALLY WELL AND

3:11:41 WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE DOING

3:11:41 OUR WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR

3:11:43 YOUNG LEADERS FEEL ARE

3:11:44 SUPPORTED AND SAFE AS POSSIBLE

3:11:45 NOT ONLY IN THEIR SCHOOLS,

3:11:46 THEIR COMMUNITIES BUT IN THE

3:11:49 WORKPLACE.

3:11:49 SO HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

3:11:50 THANK YOU.

3:11:51 YES OKAY I KNOW RIGHT.

3:11:55 AND THIS WAS THE JOB THERE WAS

3:11:57 THIS A GREAT HEARING I DON'T

3:11:58 KNOW I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT I

3:12:00 ALWAYS LOVE BEING WITH.

3:12:01 PEOPLE.

3:12:02 UM SO I WILL SAY THIS IS

3:12:05 THAT THE FOLKS WHO HELPED US

3:12:06 PLAN THIS YOU KNOW, FROM.

3:12:08 THE PARENTS WHO BROUGHT IT TO

3:12:09 OUR ATTENTION.

3:12:10 TO THE ORGANIZATIONS.

3:12:11 THAT HAVE BEEN LEADING IN THIS

3:12:13 SPACE TO UH, THE DISTRICT FOR

3:12:15 SHOWING UP AND.

3:12:16 ,YOU KNOW.

3:12:17 APOLOGIZING BECAUSE IT REALLY

3:12:19 IS.

3:12:19 NOT AN EASY THING TO DO TO

3:12:22 APOLOGIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE HARM.

3:12:23 SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

3:12:25 TO YOU ALL FOR ACKNOWLEDGING

3:12:26 THE HARM THAT HAS BEEN CAUSED.

3:12:28 IT IS NOT EASY TO SHOW UP IN

3:12:29 THIS CHAMBER.

3:12:30 UM DOCTOR OPINION YOU DO IT ALL

3:12:32 THE TIME SO I JUST WANT TO SAY

3:12:34 THANK YOU FOR THAT.

3:12:35 UM AND.

3:12:36 I WANT.

3:12:37 TO THANK Y'ALL LIKE YOU

3:12:38 REALLY.

3:12:38 SHOWED UP.

3:12:39 AND OUR.

3:12:40 PLANNING PARTNERS, OUR

3:12:41 COALITION.

3:12:41 YOU KNOW, ALL YEAR.

3:12:44 I KEEP CALLING YOU BE SAFE, BUT

3:12:46 I KNOW YOU ARE NOW BASIA.

3:12:47 BASIA BE SAD.

3:12:48 YOU KNOW MASH KOSH YOU KNOW

3:12:50 EVERY SINGLE, UH, CITIZENS UH

3:12:53 JUVENILE FOR CITIZENS.

3:12:54 YOU JUVENILE.

3:12:54 FOR JUSTICE.

3:12:57 UM.

3:12:57 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF Y'ALL.

3:12:59 UM AND MORE.

3:13:00 IMPORTANTLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE

3:13:02 AND WE.

3:13:02 I JUST WANT TO KNOW.

3:13:03 FOR THE RECORD THAT WE ENDED

3:13:04 WITH YOUNG PEOPLE BECAUSE WE

3:13:06 WANTED TO GIVE THEM TIME TO

3:13:07 GET.

3:13:07 HERE NOT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T

3:13:09 BELIEVE YOUR VOICES SHOULD BE

3:13:11 FIRST.

3:13:11 SO I JUST.

3:13:11 WANT YOU KNOW, YES, WE'RE.

3:13:13 GOING TO TAKE A PHOTO.

3:13:14 UM, AND BEFORE I END, UH, WE'RE

3:13:17 GOING TO KEEP.

3:13:18 THIS DOCKET IN COMMITTEE.

3:13:19 WE ARE GOING TO DEFINITELY BE

3:13:20 DOING SOME WORK IN SESSIONS

3:13:21 CREATING.

3:13:22 THE WORK.

3:13:23 UM.

3:13:24 PLAN BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING

3:13:26 TO HAVE ANY.

3:13:26 MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT,

3:13:27 UM, A CONVERSATION WE'RE

3:13:28 ACTUALLY GOING TO DO THINGS

3:13:29 ABOUT IT AND WE'RE GOING TO DO

3:13:30 IT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE

3:13:31 DISTRICT.

3:13:31 UM, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS

3:13:33 MOMENT IS CALLING FOR.

3:13:33 HOPING WE CAN CREATE A CAP A

3:13:36 CRISIS ACTION TEAM THAT

3:13:38 INVOLVES EVERYONE.

3:13:39 THAT IS AT.

3:13:40 COLLECTIVE POWER WITH THE

3:13:41 YOUTH AS WELL AS THE EDUCATORS

3:13:43 AND AN OVERSIGHT THAT IS

3:13:46 ACTUALLY TRANS, UH, YOU KNOW,

3:13:47 TRANSPARENT FOR.

3:13:48 EVERYONE ESPECIALLY AS A PARENT

3:13:50 THAT IS OUT THERE.

3:13:51 YEAH.

3:13:54 SO NORMALLY THE WAY.

3:13:55 THESE HEARINGS ENDS WE ALL

3:13:57 HAVE A BUT UM.

3:13:58 THIS HEARING ON THE DOCKET

3:14:01 0407.

3:14:01 IS ADJOURNED.

3:14:03 THERE WE GO.

3:14:04 YEAH WE DELAY.