<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Mr MacAdam, </div><div><br></div><div>There is no Mister over here. It is Dr. Morales. I obtained my PhD in Biochemistry and will soon have my MD. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for not even putting a rationale forward as to why such a fiscally responsible individual agreed to pay for line items in a budget that you cannot verify (ie $900+ for a radio each year or even the laptop). Thank you for voting to pay for an officer who actually won't even work. Mr Orlando Thomas even told you that the CPD would pay for the program if the Board voted NO against the contract because Chief Cobb was committed to the program. At the least, from a fiscal perspective, you could have voted NO and saved the Board funds to use towards education. I mean, they were already working out of contract since it ended in June. I would have thought a scholar of your standing would bring economic responsibility to the table especially as it pertains to dollars used for our most precious resource - the kids in this community. Show me a study that demonstrates school resource officers improve safety! Show me that more kids are graduating and achieving higher accolades thanks to this type of program. The qualifiers utilized by Mr Thomas to substantiate the proposal for the contract were downright insulting. I don't even have any children, but the shear thought that any of these young scholars could be subjected to this program and that individuals such as yourself feel that you are doing good for the community by doing this is disheartening. I posit that having smaller classroom sizes improves outcomes. Having more physical education, theater, arts and music resources for schools leads to better outcomes. But cops? No sir. To that argument, I cannot agree and more so when it is done in such a fiscally callous fashion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And I did not vote for The Bronx to employ that tactic so I'm not sure why you quoted that statistic to me. As evidenced by the recent court decision regarding the unconstitutional Stop & Frisk program that erroneously criminalized Black and Brown people in NYC, there is reason to be optimistic that the tide is turning. And once I move back, I will assuredly continue to educate people that Police in schools do not make it safer and that it simply leads to criminalizing adolescent behavior at an earlier age which ultimately leads to more incarceration. </div>
<div><br></div>And yes, I've been awarded many grants and scholarships during my time here including a City of Urbana Arts Grant which <b>Busey </b>likely supports so THANK YOU for your support. As someone who grew up with nothing, I appreciate everything that I have. But that doesn't buy my vote or my opinion. Your suggestion that I be more appreciative is simply odd. I grew up in the poorest congressional district in this great country and I am here attaining the highest level of education here at your best Institution. I show my appreciation to my community, the people that paved the way for me and the people that raised me by advocating using my God given abilities for what I think is right. If you don't agree, then put forward a decent argument to the contrary with facts or invite me to a public meeting where we can engage in discourse. Otherwise, what are you talking about or trying to accomplish with your obscure comments?<div>
<div><br></div><div>Still shaking my head in disbelief with you all,</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Raymond Morales, Ph.D.<div>MD Candidate Class of 2014</div><div>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
<br>ILL POETS SOCIETY project, Executive Producer</div><div>Snippet: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffBKbcnWls" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/cAUl6Qq8qV4</a></div><div><br>Executive Producer & Host, The Show<br>
<div><a href="http://www.theshow1045.com" target="_blank">www.theshow1045.com</a></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, MacAdam, Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Scott.MacAdam@busey.com" target="_blank">Scott.MacAdam@busey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Mr. Morales:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thank you for your response.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">89.3% of children in public schools in the Bronx are covered by a school resource office (or similar).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I’ve been to the Bronx. Best of luck in getting that changed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sorry to hear that you view your time at the University of Illinois a “prison sentence”. I hope you weren’t awarded any scholarship funds that could have gone
to a student that would have appreciated the opportunity.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr style="min-height:13.8pt">
<td width="494" rowspan="2" style="width:370.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-height:13.8pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003f63">Scott</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#244061"> </span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#003f63">MacAdam</span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3b6484">,
CFA</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#6888a4">Executive Vice President | Managing Director Equities</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#366092"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666">100 W. University Ave.</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#366092"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666">Champaign, IL 61820</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#366092"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666">P: <a href="tel:217.365.4803" value="+12173654803" target="_blank">217.365.4803</a> | Ext:54803<br>
C: <a href="tel:217.841.5805" value="+12178415805" target="_blank">217.841.5805</a></span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#0070c0"><br>
</span></b><a href="http://busey.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="176" height="45" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE9812.B82BBAF0"></span></b></a><b><span style="color:#0070c0"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="min-height:13.8pt;border:none" width="0" height="18"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="min-height:13.8pt">
<td style="min-height:13.8pt;border:none" width="0" height="18"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Raymond Morales [mailto:<a href="mailto:rmorales02@gmail.com" target="_blank">rmorales02@gmail.com</a>]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 12, 2013 9:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:sowersta@champaignschools.org" target="_blank">sowersta@champaignschools.org</a>; <a href="mailto:stuckeyly@champaignschools.org" target="_blank">stuckeyly@champaignschools.org</a>; <a href="mailto:lauriebonnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">lauriebonnett@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:jamarbrown2011@gmail.com" target="_blank">jamarbrown2011@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Saveleyil@champaignschools.org" target="_blank">Saveleyil@champaignschools.org</a>; <a href="mailto:Chalifoux4BoE@gmail.com" target="_blank">Chalifoux4BoE@gmail.com</a>; MacAdam, Scott; <a href="mailto:Leeke@champaignschools.org" target="_blank">Leeke@champaignschools.org</a>; <a href="mailto:Wiegandju@champaignschools.org" target="_blank">Wiegandju@champaignschools.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> SRO Contract Vote<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Board (please forward to those who I missed),<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you all for the opportunity to speak earlier. I wanted to explicitly state that I am utterly disappointed with your vote today. You followed through on a vote to allocate over $250,000 to a program that shows no proven educational
benefiut and I am left laughing at how incredulous this to mask the tears. Do you have more students taking AP courses and getting higher AP grades as a result? Do you have better attendance at schools as a result of your program? How about an anonymous student
self-reported sense of "safety" to suggest that students feel "safer"? None of you who voted yes even had the decency to engage me while I stood before you to even begin meaningful dialogue. Instead, your Chairperson roped me into dog-and-pony show for your
"discussion" with Mr. <i>Thomas</i> (does anyone see the irony in that?). <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Moreover, you went through the vote <b>with problematic terms</b> in the contract or
<b>without vital information</b>:<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, you agreed to pay the salary for an officer who will not service any school (Edison, I believe it was). <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">You explicitly know that there are Police Officers in your buildings with whom there are known problematic student/teacher-officer interactions that you cannot remove. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">You don't know whether the items you are paying for in expenses (like the radio and computer each year) are even going towards those items. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">You don't even have proof that the police officers respond to issues faster being off site vs on your premises. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the shuffling of Black and Brown students within your district and with the new policies you employed internally, your statistics prove exactly what they were designed to do - to give a false sense of "success". None of you even asked
how many of those students who do fall into the cracks are able to rejoin your educational system to be able to succeed as a metric for success for your program. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shame on you all who voted for this item without that information and without having demonstrated proof that this tactic leads to better educational outcomes. Until you provide information that demonstrates that there is an actual different
in the quality of education for each child exposed to police officers, then I will view your vote as a forgone conclusion filled with arcane and preconceived notions on the way to ensure the safety of future scholars. And admittedly, I take particular umbrage
for all the Black and Brown scholars who are forced to endure this ill-begotten psychological experiment that you are conducting at the taxpayers expense.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kids don't go to school to become friends with cops. They go to school to become sponges for knowledge and wisdom. If the cops really cared about those kids then hold a tournament where the CPD has teams of 5 to play 5-on-5 basketball with
the kids or a cops vs students soccer game, volleyball game, etc. Don't give me a facade of wanting to ameliorate the relationships with the community as a pretense to implementation. I was born and raised in the The South Bronx and know that safety is paramount.
But this isn't the way. Someone with the power to incarcerate walking around with a glock isn't the solution and you have no data to suggest it is. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you want better educational outcomes, invest in teachers and increased mechanisms of civic engagement. Increase the number of teaching assistants, healthy food vouchers for parents to attend all day or to participate in the PTA, pay
for teachers to have extra trips or resources for their classrooms, have grants for innovative ways to engage the curriculum for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fortunately, I will be leaving this community within a year and my prison sentence at the U of I will come to an end so that I can leave back to The South Bronx where I will be safe from this ignorance. Until that point, I challenge you
all to reconsider your position.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Raymond Morales, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">MD Candidate Class of 2014<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
<br>
ILL POETS SOCIETY project, Executive Producer<u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Snippet: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffBKbcnWls" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/cAUl6Qq8qV4</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Executive Producer & Host, The Show<u></u><u></u></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theshow1045.com" target="_blank">www.theshow1045.com</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></div></div>
<br clear="all"> The information contained in this e-mail is privileged and confidential. Unless otherwise indicated or obvious from the message, this is intended only for the individual(s) listed above. Please see our Privacy Notices at <a href="http://www.busey.com" target="_blank">http://www.busey.com</a>.
</div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>