Spring Branch Independent School District

the Spring Branch Alumni Associatio- uh, Foundation is, puts on an annual car show as part of our fundraising, and also a chance for everybody to come in and for the people to show their cars, or people come and gaze at the cars, and awe at the cars.

And we also open the museum, which we operate, and that's a history of the Spring Branch Independent School District.

So we are thankful that we have a beautiful day.

It is.

And I'm very much involved with Spring Branch Elementary, which is the oldest school in Spring Branch.

They're doing their 80th anniversary this year.

This is the 75th anniversary of Spring Branch Independent School District.

So it's a key year all the way around for this area in Spring Branch.

So in that setting, I've gotten to work with people of all ages.

And, um, when I first started working in schools, it was in Spring Branch ISD in p- public school setting, and I worked at Ridgecrest Elementary.

And so then when the position opened at Awty, and Awty had done some work at Ridgecrest also.

We had some students from Awty did some volunteer work in the afterschool program at Ridgecrest.

it's a poster, it's teaching not to kill.

But like my five-year-old hasn't grasped the concept of people killing people yet, right? And like, especially in school, that is, I mean, that is a huge deal, right? to parents okay so we're shaping the environment and not only is I mean the language is very surface level okay and I thought maybe at a school board level the surface level language would be enough to get the poster taken down so I went through the grievance process I went through three hearings with Spring Branch ISD which is one of the biggest school districts in Houston and it ended with a level three hearing with the school board where they had an attorney opposing me And they unanimously voted against my requests to take the posters down.

And I also had a second request that if we could not take the posters down to adopt an inclusion policy.

And they rejected both.

But this is a district that's ready to flip where everybody's upset.

50% are zoned to HISD, 50% are zoned to Spring Branch ISD, which is moderately better.

But in spite of the ISD, because of the PTOs and the parents who are literally funding librarians, they are paying out of their pocket to have salaries for librarians and more teachers.

So you're running for what seat?