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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 18 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM because kids use that to cope with this, and it's just a snowball. Arnold Brillinger: What kind of pressures would be different here in Alameda that's raising those percentages? Jodi McCarthy: In the shows, you find more of those pressures on the east end. It's the higher socioeconomic, the higher demand on the kids, the higher stress that you're going to go to Harvard or Yale or Stanford, and to do that, you need to play football, basketball, baseball, run track, do cross-country, be in this club, be in that club, do your community service. So there's a lot of pressure that's being put on our kids, especially at our higher-performing, higher-achieving students, so much so that we have a homework committee at Alameda Unified looking at reducing homework for our kids across the district, like limiting what AP classes you can take. Our kids are taking five different advanced placement courses plus taking a course at the community college. The level of stress that they're under is ridiculous. Arnold Brillinger: Now Alameda High takes in all of the students from Harbor Bay Island? Jodi McCarthy: Bay Farm, yes. Arnold Brillinger: Oh, Bay Farm? Okay. Jodi McCarthy: Union [Street]? Thank you. I should know. Yeah, that's the line. Arnold Brillinger: Alright, thank you very much. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: God, I feel so grim. Jodi McCarthy: Sorry, it's this heavy. I know, I'm sorry. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Commissioner Roloff? Jennifer Roloff: Okay, so first of all, thank you both so much for coming. I'm the, what am I, the liaison to the school board from our commission. And so as our commission decided at our retreat last January, and I think we'll be having another retreat to decide on priorities we probably decided to prioritize and focus on mental health needs, not that we're eliminating anything else, but to put a focus on there. So in seeing what the school board was up to, this was the first report that I caught a wind of and what struck me was that - and correct me where I'm wrong - but it's my understanding that they said, "Well we don't really have any money to focus on the things that would take money, so let's focus on the things that we can do that are no cost." And I think that's fantastic that we're doing that. So as a commission, what we're chartered with is to try and make referrals to council and encourage council. Jennifer Roloff: And this is where I was saying earlier, talking to both of you, is there anything that you think that we can do to advocate to the city for budget or resources to help where the school district is saying no to you, or maybe you're already looking at other sources of funding? It's a lot, I 03/13/19 Page 18 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |