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Speaking of which, a fine crop of Civil Grand Jury reports have now been filed, and will be heard in front of this committee, and then never heard from again. Their titles include:
• "USE IT OR LOSE IT: a Report on the Surplus Real Property Owned by the San Francisco Unified School District"
• "Truants Can Be "Joyful Learners," Too: Unless Racism, Classism and/or Systematic Ineffectiveness Prevent Future Progress"
• "Being Propositioned by the San Francisco Unified School District" (What? Is that really the title? Yes -- apparently it is. Kinky)
• And, of course, the ever popular "Continuance Report," examining whether the recommendations of past Civil Grand Juries have been followed.
They usually haven't been. Why? Because that's our thing. Each week we go through a series of exciting meetings, then sit down in the chair, get our minds wiped, and come up with a whole new set of terrible ideas that we've already tried.
"Did I fall asleep?" we ask. And then we start investigating FOPP, because nobody's ever done that before.
