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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 25 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM Jennifer Roloff: Thank you. Jenn Barrett: Thank you so much for filling in last minute. We really appreciate that. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS Jenn Barrett: Item 7 is announcements. Do we have any announcements? Anto Aghapekian: I don't have an announcement, but I have an issue that came up in the newspaper I got aware of, that I would like to bring to the commission's attention and discussion, and see if there is anything that we can do about it. It was in last week's Alameda Sun. The Alameda Unified School District, who has given the parents who have children with learning issues, and they have arbitrarily, without consulting with the parents, they have moved them to another school, another area. And the parents are extremely unhappy. I don't know if you want me to read this article. You may have seen this article. Jennifer Roloff: Yes. Susan Deutsch: No, I haven't. Anto Aghapekian: I think that the parents of these children are, literally, 24/7, 365 days and night, are working with these kids. And I have a lot of respect to their knowledge and their experience. And for the school district to just arbitrarily decide to move them around just by giving the parents one week notice is kind of hard to accept. And I don't know what we can do. I don't know if we can write a letter to the school district asking them to pay more attention to the parents and their opinions. Something like this, to my experience, the school district should have organized a workshop with the parents weeks, weeks, if not months, ahead of that to discuss how they're going to handle this issue. I do know that the school district has problems with finances and they're trying to deal with the best they can with how to stretch the dollars that they have, but to do it at the expense of these children is not a good way to go. So my request is for this commission to let the school know that we support these kids and their parents, and we would like the school district to put the brakes on this program and listen to the parents and work with the parents a little closer, to come up with a better solution than what they have. Leslie Morrison: What's the date of that article? Anto Aghapekian: This is last week, this is last Tuesday. Leslie Morrison: It's a Tuesday, so that would have been the 7th? Susan Deutsch: It's the Alameda Sun? Anto Aghapekian: Yes. 03/13/19 Page 25 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |