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I used to go to this school in 2020 I think and we moved because I think her name was MCelly or somthing but she would make racist joke my family is arab
You inplemented a hiring freeze when teachers/staff are already overwhelmed, and your reasoning is because the population in sarasota county is decreasing???? All the achievements made by the students and staff in sarasota county schools were made DESPITE your terrible oversight/leadership! Sarasota county schools would be better off if this was your first and last year as superintendent!
Newly released documents say Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her GOP chairman husband went “on the prowl” in Sarasota bars to find women to have sex with. Text messages quoted in a Sarasota Police Department (SPD) memo that was obtained by the Florida Trident revealed that Ziegler sent her husband, Christian, hunting for a third sexual partner at local bars and directed him to send photos of possible hits. She allegedly told him to pretend to take pictures of his beer while photographing the women so he wouldn’t get caught sneaking pictures of them.
Amaana Quadir is my granddaughter and I’m absolutely proud of her and her sisters-Aisha, Alia and Rehana ! I’m one of the luckiest grandmothers alive! I’m Thanking Almighty God for giving me the four beautiful and talented granddaughters. Heartfelt and warmest CONGRATULATIONS to you my sweet Amaana ! Sending my love and blessings from Canada.
4:16:40 Board member comments begin (Ziegler Title IX resolution) 4:26:42 end of BZ’s ten minute monologue on Title IX, followed by immediate second by Karen Rose 4:27:23 Legal counsel recommends against voting on the resolution at this time, says it’s a departure from how things are usually done - because it was under member comments it should be moved to a future meeting for a vote 4:28:00 Karen states it’s no different from the way Tom presented his resolution, Tom corrects the record stating he presented at a workshop (this is correct), Karen tells him not to interrupt her 4:28:25 “No good comes when I get disagreeable with you guys” - Attorney Duggan as he tries to explain that this is not best practices 4:29:19 “I think this is more than ceremonial… you’re asking the superintendent to hold off on changing a policy” 4:30:05 “more proper to put on a future agenda”, “minimally compliant with the law”
PART THREE ✅=support resolution 🚫=oppose resolution 2:46:11 Robert Wright 🚫 “those people are us” 2:49:00 Louise Machinist 🚫 2:51:29 Sophia Pagels (?) 🚫 recent former student, sibling still in the district, “trans classmates have never made me feel uncomfortable” 2:53:38 Reed Overton 🚫 2:56:18 Alex Daugherty 🚫 non binary student 2:57:22 Casanova Daugherty 🚫 student, recently withdrew from BHS due to feeling unsafe 2:59:12 Sebastian Girstl ✅ student 3:00:33 Katie McCurry 🚫 3:01:48 William Debroux ✅ (Baby Lives Matter) 3:05:00 Rev. Jay Wolin 🚫 3:08:32 Katarina Volchkova ✅ 3:11:55 Elizabeth Bornstein 🚫 3:15:15 Tamara Solum 🚫 resource teacher and substitute 3:18:37 Bill Nease ✅ 3:22:02 Sarah Parker 🚫 3:24:42 Tsi Day Smith 🚫 3:27:54 Michael Conte ✅ 3:29:43 Mary Holmes 🚫 teacher 3:33:01 Dr. Sheila VanNess ✅ 3:35:48 Sebastian Martinez 🚫 Booker High grad 3:39:07 Shirley Brown 🚫 former board member 2006-2022 3:42:30 Gabrielle Lennon 🚫 3:45:57 Shannon Clement 🚫 3:48:48 Clayton Taylor ✅
PART TWO ✅=support resolution 🚫=oppose resolution 1:47:27 Paulina Testerman 🚫 Karen Rose/Dan Miller exposed 1:50:24 August Rey 🚫 student 1:52:16 Lisa Schurr 🚫 1:55:34 Linda Wienrich ✅ 1:59:04 Jules Rayne 🚫 2:01:54 Nicole Wokowicz (?)🚫 2:03:51 Beck Lane 🚫 artist 2:09:45 Terra Kater 🚫 2:13:27 Rhana Bazzini 🚫 2:16:04 Donna Jones 🚫 (will this cause girls who appear less feminine to be targeted?) 2:19:39 Michelle Pozzie ✅ 2:22:18 Jennifer Cottrill ✅ 2:25:23 Linda Wilson ✅ 2:28:20 Dr. Theoni Soublis 🚫 2:31:35 John Wilson 🚫 2:33:39 Lucille Maton(?) 🚫 2:35:49 Larry Wilson ✅ 2:39:00 Melissa Bakondy ✅ called Tom Edwards a groomer because he’s gay (March 2023) 2:42:15 Deb Hayes 🚫 retired admin 2:45:12 Bill Hayes 🚫
36:06 Hearing of Citizens (public speakers) PART ONE ✅=support resolution 🚫=oppose resolution 38:04 🚫Alex Leiberman (student) 39:44 Esther Rockwell ✅ 42:59 Barbara Vaughn ✅(prayer lady) 46:20 Tracy Svboda (?) 🚫 LGBTQ parent 48:30 Susan Maas-Lyon 🚫 (retired teacher, worked with Karen Rose) 51:48 Seth Stottlemyer 🚫 54:56 India Miller 🚫 “no one groomed me”, “let’s prepare girls for real issues” 58:13 Dr. Jill Lewis Spector 🚫 1:01:17 Dr. Sonia Howman 🚫 1:04:53 Richard Canarelli 🚫 1:07:54 Wendy Rosen 🚫 1:11:11 Paul Lotierzo 🚫 1:12:39 Steve Russell 🚫 1:15:24 Brenda Pastorik ✅ 1:18:43 Thomas Babicz ✅ 1:20:23 Jack Micciche 🚫 combat vet, “I’ve seen real war, this is a made up war” (paraphrased) 1:22:17 Isabelle 🚫 (recent former SC student) 1:24:00 Jessica Thomason 🚫 1:27:14 Elizabeth Albiets(?) 🚫 1:30:25 Chloe Boggs 🚫 (recent former SC student) 1:31:47 JT Priar 🚫 minister 1:33:51 Julie Forestier 🚫 1:35:35 Duff Smiley ✅ (something about calling out those who don’t wear flags?) 1:38:54 Frank(?) 🚫 man who was bullied as a child in the 70s 1:40:15 Anya Dennison 🚫 (recent grad) 1:42:40 Allen D 🚫 1:44:18 Jenna Holmes 🚫 graduate of SCS 1:47:27 Paulina Testerman 🚫 Karen Rose/Dan Miller exposed for SRQ magazine “win”
This is wonderful! Can community members be matched with schools based on what they’d like to do? For example if I’d like to help tutor middle or high school math, how would I go about finding where the needs are?
@sarasotaschools It appears that one of my two comments are missing (they are both time stamps of the workshop). Was my comment removed? Thanks for clarifying.
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Member comments 2:23:54 Member comments begin 2:24:55 Tom explains the resolution (to affirm following Plyler v Doe and Civil Rights Act) 2:26:30 Bridget: “I’m not going to pretend that I don’t know where that came from”, backpedals, defines ELL 2:28:15 Bridget says she personally doesn’t agree with not being able to track immigration status, says tracking immigration status is just a source of data no different than tracking when kids are coming from charter schools or private schools 2:29:33 Robyn calls the resolution a political maneuver 2:30:59 Robyn rips the resolution in half and says that’s what she thinks about it 2:31:23 Tim Enos comments on resolution, says immigration status doesn’t matter to him and he’s committed to following the law and serving all students 2:36:12 Tom responds 2:38:20 Bridget responds, doubles down that our district needs to track this, refers to people upset about her comments (at 3/19 work session suggesting we track immigration status) as activists, says she wouldn’t deny anyone an education based on status but… 2:39:30 calls citizens activists (they’re just parents) 2:39:47 Bridget: “I’m curious what the numbers are, maybe we’ll draft a resolution identify - quantify what it is and send it up to Joe Biden and tell him to close the border” 2:40:12 Bridget: “I get blamed for bringing politics in all the time and if I’m gonna get blamed for it and we’re going down this route then alright, game on.” 2:42:17 Karen responds 2:43:30 Connor goes over ELL stats, 2:45:35 says ELL is up in general but Spanish speaking ELL is down 10% (influx we are seeing is Russian and Ukrainian), mentions Stronger Connections Grant for ELL 2:59:57 Discusion of public comment 3:04:00 Tim Enos public comment 3:07:45 Karen says people are campaigning during public comment 3:11:50 Robyn on 1st amendment and yelling “fire” 3:13:47 Karen on “activism”, trespass warrants 3:16:55 Tom: comments during public comment are in response to board’s agenda 3:17:56 Karen on “repeat political narratives” 3:19:22 Bridget on fundraising, United Way 3:25:31 Duggan clarifies legal issues with trespassing citizens from board meetings
3:41 Review of Legislative Session begins 9:58 Funding Stabilization (what happens when student leaves the district mid year) 11:20 No farm funding (local project) 12:10 VPK decreased by 1800 students, per student increase of 3% 14:03 FL DOE / DeSantis promoting classical charter schools 15:18 Limits on materials challenges by people without children in the district (limits them to 1 challenge per month) 16:15 School safety 20:50 Deregulation 23:25 Collective bargaining / push back against unions 24:38 “adequate instructional materials”, ability to hold back k-2 students more easily 25:56 mandatory History of Communism at all grade levels 27:15 Chaplains in schools (allowed per state but at discretion if district) 28:28 School Choice, tightened regulations on what voucher money can be used to buy (ex: Disney tickets as a problem) 30:35 Students can carry their asthma inhalers 31:00 Patriotic organizations 32:07 Bills that did not pass 34:50 Parental consent (or superintendent may override parents and give consent) for 16 year olds to work more than 30 hrs 35:40 Bills that didn’t pass 46:07 More explanation on funding, 47:55 Tom clarifying 26 million (before charters get paid?) 48:37 Tom asks why farm project wasn’t funded 49:02 “one of the strangest budget years” ever, legislature overspent and overcommitted, discussion of how discretionary finding disappeared last minute 50:15 Grueters had 1 million but then it was taken 50:30 Gov Ron DeSantis “toll relief” and central Florida land purchases - money was pulled and there was zero 56:31 Bridget disappointment about farm project 1:02:54 Financial Advisory Committee 1:15:05 St. John’s County is “gold standard” - they are doing better than Sarasota but all of Florida is struggling with closing achievement gap 1:39:00 VPK and Early learning 2:00:50 Tim says we should have VPK at every school in district 2:08:00 Tom clarifying full vs half days, how many classrooms 2:19:48 Connor on VPK funding, Sarasota was 1 of 5 counties not taking advantage of that funding (now we are)
2:40:57 / the board votes 3:2 to extend the offer of Superintendent to Terry Connor (yes: Tom Edwards, Karen Rose, Robyn Marinelli; no: Tim Enos, Bridget Ziegler)
2:42:34 Paulina Testerman asks Karen why 89% of her campaign donations come from real estate developers and ZERO percent teachers … also gives a full break down if her wasteful spending and corruption
This is very cool and long overdue! Excited to see the new layout, love the Rooms concept, and so happy to see this will translate to multiple languages for ESOL families!
1:31:22 My hero, Rhana Bazzini, a 91 year old citizen who has been speaking at board meetings for many years. The board would be wise to listen to her.
I’m amazed.. last night more than 1,700 people viewed the meeting online… today it’s 9,000! Other communities are learning from us, and asking for help.
This district needs to get the bullying situation under control ASAP! These students who spoke last night do not deserve this garbage. The district is exposing itself to a risk management disaster of epic proportions. These students/parents should highly consider filing complaints with the USDOE Office of Civil Rights for systemic bullying. This no joke Sarasota. I hope this IT person who uploads content and monitors the comments will put a bug into the ears of the Connor administration. I know... his hands will be somewhat tied because of Rose-Miller turning the district office into a dictatorship. She needs to be defeated in August. She is a stain on public education in the state of Florida.
I hope more people would show up for comments and rally's. We have won the fight to kill the Don't Say Gay law... but the county hasn't moved to share the results with teachers and admin. They need clarification. Wasting taxpayer funds is still a problem as corporate schools siphon off money intended for our public schools. Other states provide free school lunches... we need to do the same in an area with such wealth disparity.
@@JosephPoirier-jk7nf thanks, I thought I was not anyway near as good as the teachers and students… their numbers are growing. We had 25 new speakers at this meeting! Mike Flynn’s friends were mostly silent diligently doing busy work to correct typos in a Flynn promotional brochure. It just proves our point… most of these people are here for tribal reasons, not policy issues.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Why did Bridget Ziegler not have a problem when the anti-masking/ZEM led circus was disrupting board meetings and rallying before school board meetings? Does anyone else see the hypocrisy here? Although, hypocrisy is her stock in trade.
Remember that this board changed the timing allowing three minutes for all speakers, regardless of whether it was an agenda or nonagenda item that was being discussed, shortly after Ziegler, Enos, and Marinelli were sworn into office in 2022. So it was this very same board that changed the restrictive policy BACK to the three minutes per person, regardless of the content of the comments (agenda vs nonagenda items). Ziegler took to Fox News with Melissa Bakondy in tow, I believe it was in 2022, to argue for the safeguarding of Bakondy's rights to spew homophobic hate speech. We didn't hear a word from any of the board members when Proud Boys and their ilk took over the board meetings during the great masking debate. But now we have Karen Rose leading the charge to limit public comments because she doesn't like the CONTENT of those comments. It is really quite simple. This move to restrict public comments is driven by Rose not liking the CONTENT of these public comments. The reality is most of the actual work of the Board takes place during Work Sessions. There is no public comment permitted at Work Sessions.
in reference to affordable housing......why not pay your staff better so they can afford to live in the county rather than build ghetto's for them to live in.
