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Good afternoon, everyone.
I'll call the board meeting to order in just a moment, and SPS TV will begin broadcasting.
This is President Rankin.
I am now calling the board special meeting to order at 3.48 PM.
We would like to acknowledge that we are on ancestral lands and traditional territories of the Puget Sound Coast Salish people.
We have with us directors of the Seattle School Board, Director Briggs, Director Clark, Director Hersey, Director Mizrahi, Vice President Sarju, Director Topp, and this is Director Rankin.
The superintendent is also here with us.
Where did he go?
Where's the superintendent?
The superintendent is very nearby to this room, and I expect we'll come into this room momentarily.
And we also have staff with us today, and we are joined by special guests to celebrate the oath of office of our new student members.
So this evening we'll be swearing in our school board student members, Colin Bragg, Sophia Ilias, and Sabi Yoon.
This is exciting as this is our third cohort of student board members.
So we are just all looking forward to continuing this program and to, with the support of our new directors, continuing to work on making it even better.
So we will now begin the oaths of office, beginning with Colin Bragg.
So here you go.
So would you please repeat after me?
I, your name, Colin Bragg, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Washington.
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That I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Washington.
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And I will, to the best of my judgment, skill, and ability, truly, faithfully, diligently, and impartially perform the duties.
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And I will, to the best of my judgment, skills, ability, truthfully, faithfully, diligently, and impartially perform the duties.
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Of student member of the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors, as such duties are prescribed by law and policy.
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Of the student member of the Seattle Public Schools School Board of Directors, as such duties are prescribed by law and policy.
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All right, it's a deal.
All right.
Congratulations.
So we'll have you go sign a certificate.
And may I have Sophia Ilyas please step forward.
Same drill.
So please repeat after me.
I, and then your name, do solemnly swear I, Sophia Elias, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Washington.
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That I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Washington.
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And will, to the best of my judgment, skill, and ability, I'm going to break that up a little bit, and will to the best judgment, skill, and ability.
Truly, faithfully, diligently, and impartially perform the duties of student member.
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Truly, faithfully, diligently, and impartially perform the duties of the student member of Seattle Public.
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Of the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors as such duties are prescribed by law and policy.
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of the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors as such duties are prescribed by law and policy.
All right, congratulations.
Thank you.
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Saviyun.
All right, we can all probably say this in unison now.
I, your name, do solemnly swear.
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I, Sabi Yoon, do solemnly swear.
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That I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington.
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That I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington.
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And will, to the best of my judgment, skill, and ability.
and will to the best of my judgment, skill, and ability.
Truly, faithfully, diligently, and impartially perform the duties of student member.
Faithfully, sorry, from here.
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Faithfully, truly, faithfully, diligently, and impartially perform the duties of student member of the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors.
As such duties are prescribed by law and policy.
As such duties are prescribed by law and policy.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_00
All right.
As this is our moment to highlight our students, I will ask each student board member, if they wish, to come and provide some comments in the same order as oaths of office were done.
So Director Bragg.
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Hi, I'm Collin Bragg and this is an honor and an amazing opportunity that I've been presented.
I'm really excited to be the second student from Lincoln High School and the first student from Skill Center.
I can't wait to be able to work with the board of directors and be able to work to inform the student body, be a representative for students with IEPs And I think that's it.
Thank you for the honor.
I cannot wait to start work.
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Director Ilyas.
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Hello, my name is Sophia Elias and I cannot express how grateful I am for this position.
I've been a student of Seattle Public Schools since I was five and I am really grateful I can represent 50,000 students.
It's really cool.
I spoke here not too long ago and I just, you know, it was empowering.
It felt that my voice was heard and considering I'm underrepresented, it was really cool.
So I'm really excited for this term and to serve as your student rep. Thank you.
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Director Yoon.
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Hi everybody, my name is Sabi Yoon and I'm a junior at Ballard High School.
First, I would like to thank everyone for their time today and giving me this opportunity.
It is truly an honor.
A little bit about me, I run the mock trial team at my school and It was really hard to start a new club but also fund money for such a big program with many students and that was kind of the main drive for me to wanting to voice student concerns and needs for not just mock trial but SPS as a whole and with this time I have in the position my goal is to really leverage the opportunity to drive positive change for the current and future SPS community and I just want to say thank you to everyone.
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We'll now bring all directors up to get some photos of our school board for the 2024-25 school year.
And then after photos, we invite our guests to join us and student members for cake.
I mean cake, it's actually officially on the agenda because the meeting adjourns after that.
