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SPREAD: PAGE 6+7 FEMINISM On Aug. 7, the Ann Arbor School Board passed two motions at the meeting towards removing superintendent Jeanice Swift. One motion sent Swift a required pre-termination letter which created a two-week period where the board cannot take action against Swift. The other allowed AAPS’ attorney to discuss the superintendent’s employment with Swift for 30 days. PHOTO BY ZAIN CHARANIA
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We have spoken, you have not listened. This is troubling. We’re concerned there has been no transparency from the board,” Ann Arbor Education Association president Fred Klien said. “We ask for transparency, and you continue to rush the process through holding previously unscheduled board meetings. It appears that there is a hidden timeline that the board is not communicating with the pub-
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INNO: A 2023 RECAP ANJALI NADARAJAH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Inno Education, the student founded, led, and ran non-profit summer program just completed its sixth year of teaching SE Michigan middle schoolers skills and knowledge they won’t find at school. With the new school year starting, Inno counselors will soon be creating their curriculums, which they develop over the next 10 months in preparation for camp. Lucy Paliani, a Huron junior as well as an Inno
counselor and board member had an amazing experience at this year’s camp. Paliani taught the cinematography course at camp, “Lights, Camera, Action!” where they completed activities where they had campers recreate famous movie scenes, presenting them at their own film festival. Other courses at camp soon became a new interest for her. “Camp included a plethora of activities,” Paliani said. “In our Animal Science course the campers had the opportunity to pet chickens and learn about their relation to dinosaurs. In our Fashion 101
lic. We have not seen any process. Again, we demand that you resend the previous motions and provide the answers to our concerns and questions, all while seeking community input if we’re continuing down this road, as Nelson Mandela taught us, ‘It’s never too late to do the right thing.” On Aug. 30, 2023, the “Voluntary settlement and resignation agreement” the board passed to remove Superintendent Jeanice Swift. After the closed meeting with their attorney the board meeting met at a 3-3 vote, push-
Inno campers learn how to use a blood pressure pump in “The Science of Sports” course. PHOTO BY INNO EDUCATION
course campers designed outfits for their counselor models to show off on the catwalk at the end of the two weeks.” If you’re looking to join the Inno Education team, visit educationinno. org for more information. The 2023-24 interest form is in the link in their Instagram bio, @educationinno. “I joined Inno because I loved the idea of being a part of an organization that focuses on giving kids a place where learning is a positive experience,” Paliani said. “By the end of the two weeks, the camp environment feels like one, big, happy family.”
ing back the decision to the next meeting, Sept. 13, 2023. “I’m hoping that moving forward, we can work at mending the relationships that have been impacted over these past few weeks,” vice president Krystle DuPree said. Trustee Jeff Gaynor was not present for the meeting due to personal reasons, which caused the board to make the decision of when to vote on the motion. “This is probably one of the most important decisions this board can make,” Trustee Susan Ward Schmidt
said. “I believe every board member needs to be present.” The original motion to pause voting and resume at the next meeting, tied at a 3-3 vote, forcing the board to make a decision, which ultimately was pushed back anyways. How did we get here? The Skyline High School parking lot looked like a normal school day one week before school started on Aug. 23, 2023. The Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education moved their regularly
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From tears to triumph: Huron student publishes first book
with your own ideas,” Fu, now a junior at Huron, said. “So a lot of writers just start [there.]” When she got oldIt was a gloomy day. Then er, Fu started thinking that eighth grader Maya Fu stormed she should write something to her garage, upset over an of her own, so she started argument she had just writing short stories. had with her mom. Then, in eighth grade, She plopped down on she started writing a bench and watched something, that bethe sky cry. She stayed came much bigger. there for an hour. “It’s hard to imagAnd during that hour, ine, when you haveven the dark clouds en’t written a book, of the fight revealed just how many hours a silver lining. The COURTESY OF FU it takes,” Fu said. inspiration for a book. She wrote When Fu was young, the first draft of her book, she used to write retellings. “A Crown in the Dark,” over “When you’re young, quarantine. During the it’s kind of hard to come up See BOOK, PAGE 2
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