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17 <br /> Caroline Wang said she is an 8th grader at Smith Middle School and has been part of <br /> the CHCCS community since kindergarten. She said she and her peers remember and have <br /> been impacted by every teacher they have learned from. She asked the Board to fully fund the <br /> CHCCS budget. She said teachers impact the education of hundreds and even thousands of <br /> students, are incredibly important to the community, and encourage students. She said CHCCS <br /> are below market rate locally and nationally. She said she has seen many teachers work hard <br /> for their students in classrooms and even extracurricular activities, often without extra <br /> compensation. She said many teachers commit years of their time to cultivating minds of <br /> students despite being inadequately compensated. She said it would be unfortunate for Orange <br /> County to lose these dedicated teachers. She asked the Board to put education at the top of <br /> their priorities for current students, teachers, and school systems, as well as those who choose <br /> Orange County as their home. She said schools and teachers are nurturing the minds of the <br /> future contributors of this county, state, country, and world. She said educators pour their <br /> hearts into what they do and that should be reflected in the budget. <br /> Michael Kang said he is a sophomore at East Chapel Hill High School. He asked the <br /> Board to fully fund the CHCCS budget. He shared his experience in Spanish class this year. He <br /> said at the beginning of the year, half of his classroom peers wanted to become fluent in <br /> Spanish and over half wanted to continue their education in SIP Spanish the next year. He said <br /> his Spanish teacher left during the second week of second quarter, so much of the work for the <br /> semester was completion based with few evaluations, and was much easier than he had heard <br /> from upperclassmen. By the beginning of the third quarter, only 3 people in the class wanted to <br /> continue their education in AP Spanish and no one in the class indicated they were fluent <br /> enough to live in a Spanish speaking classroom. He said thankfully a teacher transitioned to his <br /> class in the fourth quarter. He said 3 out of 5 Spanish teachers have left this year and all <br /> Spanish 1 and 2 courses were transitioned to remote learning and they have had 8 teachers so <br /> far. He said this isn't just the Spanish classes that are experiencing a lack of teachers and <br /> turnover. He said he would be better prepared for future Spanish learning if he had a consistent <br /> teacher all year. He said securing better teachers means support for the county to the Orange <br /> County academic community, and full investment is needed to keep the quality of schools so <br /> students don't limit their dreams. <br /> Jason Kary said he has been a resident of Orange County for 18 years. He said he <br /> supports all of the educators in the room and the pay increases they are advocating for. He said <br /> he had to take his daughter out of middle school because her panic attacks were preventing her <br /> from learning. He said the issue is far deeper than teacher compensation and the whole system <br /> needs to be looked at. He encouraged the Board not to approve the 2022-23 budget due to the <br /> broadband plan. He said he lives off of Redgate Rd. and his neighborhood has been left off the <br /> NorthState service map. He said the companies are reporting that his neighborhood has <br /> broadband options, but there is only one option and it is only 4 MBPS. He said NorthState told <br /> his neighborhood they were not part of the contract with Orange County. He said he believes <br /> his neighborhood of 14 households will have to pay around $62,000 as a whole for NorthState <br /> to run fiber to their area, based on the fact the County's $40 million contract covers 9,000 <br /> households. He asked the Board not to approve the budget and to help him and his <br /> neighborhood get the broadband they need. <br /> Whitney Robinson said she has a 1st grader at Northside Elementary. She said this is <br /> her first child in the public school system and he started during the pandemic. She said she is <br /> on the School Improvement Team at Northside and it has been eye opening. She said it's hard <br /> to fill vacancies even just for maternity leave. She said she feels the effects of burnout even in <br /> higher education, including emotional burdens, student needs, and having to do catch up. She <br /> said she knows a lot of first grade teachers who are trying to do catch up for students who <br /> started kindergarten during the remote learning year. She said seeing the budget on the school <br />
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