After the school board meeting, I asked former county PTA officer and longtime mental health activist, Laura Mitchell, about the impact she thinks the cuts will have on in-school student mental health support.

Sixty eight percent of the cuts are proposed to hit mental health services and those impacting special needs students and our farm students, students with the most needs.

Now we have these buckets, contractual services and bus lease for five point two million dollars.

What's in there? I saw one point six million dollar cut.

to contracts for mental health which is our thrive and jessa in school mental health services is that 1.6 million dollars still in there special education elementary resource teachers cutting 118 and a half positions emergent multilingual therapeutic counselors these are students that are coming to the country new oftentimes very traumatized and need a lot of specialized services They're not going to get those.

So that's going to show up in the classroom as behavioral issues, as avoidance, as dropout.

Those are classroom issues, too.

Is that correct?