School Board · Meeting · Jul 8, 2024
Mon, Jul 8, 2024
Hickman County Board of Education meetings, including regular sessions and special called meetings.
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The board handled a dense agenda centered on budget adjustments, staffing shortages, policy revisions, and school climate. Major actions included approving early-year budget amendments and closeout amendments, renewing student assessment and Medicaid-billing related contracts, declaring buses and other vehicles surplus, authorizing a backup virtual speech-therapy contract because of staffing shortages, approving school fees with hardship waivers, classifying bus drivers as full-time for immediate health-insurance eligibility, and approving a $5,000 contract raise for the director of schools after extended discussion over contract mechanics and equity with employee raises.
Board discussion also spent significant time on two broader issues: the annual civil rights / bullying report and TCAP results. Members questioned a sharp rise in reported bullying-related complaints, asked for clearer breakdowns and an action plan, and debated whether stronger discipline tools such as out-of-school suspension, Saturday school, or after-school detention may be needed. On academics, the district highlighted growth in 16 of 25 tested categories while still trailing the state average in most areas. Other notable threads included top-10 ranking policy changes, AI policy language, energy-drink restrictions, student board-member eligibility, TSBA policy updates from the legislative session, and a teacher-association email raising concerns about bullying and class size.
Approval of Minutes and Agenda 13:19
- 13:19 Approved special-called meeting minutes from May 20; one member abstained due to absence.
- 13:52 Approved regular meeting minutes from June 3 without opposition.
- 14:18 Agenda amended before approval:
- 14:44 Civil rights report pulled from consent and moved for separate discussion under board-action items.
- 15:39 TCAP data discussion moved up from announcements into the main action/discussion section.
- 16:29 Policy 1.26 added for action to waive a requirement tied to the student board representative.
- 18:02 Amended agenda approved without opposition.
Special Recognitions 18:20
East Hickman High School student recognition 18:20
- 18:36 East Hickman High School recognized a freshman student, corrected into the top-10 ranking after an earlier calculation oversight involving yearlong classes.
- 18:50 Student was described as active in volleyball and HOSA, ranked 9th with a 96 average.
Bridge Builder award 19:47
- 20:16 East Hickman High School students presented a Bridge Builder award to Mr. Hagens.
Employee of the Month 21:21
- 21:21 Employee of the Month announced as Mike Elkins, praised as the central office “go-to guy”; he was absent due to illness.
Consent Agenda 22:26
- 22:33 Consent agenda included the board chair report and miscellaneous countersigned documents.
- 22:47 Consent agenda approved unanimously.
New Business / Agenda Items 23:07
Budget amendments 23:07
- 23:21 Two initial budget amendments for the new year were presented in place of Finance Director Crystal Fitzgerald / Mike Elkins:
- 23:29 Amendment #1 aligned revenue and expenditures for the Innovative School Model grant with the district’s actual plan.
- 23:52 Amendment #2 corrected omitted budgeting for certain federal program funds.
- 24:11 Motion to approve budget amendments 1 and 2; approved by roll call without opposition.
Closeout budget amendments 24:44
- 24:44 Board reviewed already-approved closeout amendments 36–41 for information:
- 24:44 Amendment 36: adjusted the GEAR UP / grant-related budget to add supervisor pay line funding.
- 24:59 Amendment 37: adjusted CTE/Perkins line items to place funds where they could be spent.
- 25:07 Amendment 38: covered maintenance issues and repairs by shifting money from other contracted services.
- 25:23 Amendment 39: moved retirement benefit funds between state retirement and hybrid categories.
- 25:38 Amendment 40: corrected prior processing confusion between amendments 32 and 35.
- 26:02 Amendment 41: moved money in special education from insurance into travel for nurse travel expenses.
- 26:26 No vote required; these were informational because the board had already authorized closeout flexibility.
School plant membership 26:49
- 27:00 Board discussed a TSPMA / school plant-management membership item that had newly appeared on the agenda.
- 27:18 Administration explained it supports school plant and facilities best practices, information sharing, and conferences for maintenance leadership.
- 27:50 Motion made to approve the membership; approved by roll call.
MasteryConnect assessment quote 28:24
- 28:32 Administration requested approval of a quote for MasteryConnect, funded with ESSER money, at $50,400; motion was framed as approval up to $51,000 payable to Instructure.
- 28:58 Justification: benchmark/practice testing for students taking TCAP or end-of-course exams, used to identify instructional strengths and gaps.
- 29:24 District explained students would take the assessment three times a year: beginning of year, middle of year, and in March before state testing.
- 30:03 Board raised concern about test anxiety and whether students know it is a practice assessment.
- 30:25 Response: repeated use reduces anxiety, familiarizes students with the format, and helps teachers and students use the data.
- 30:58 Administration said reliability was about 95% to 98%, and the purchased bank would let teachers create standards-aligned quizzes and tests.
- 31:48 Funding window discussion noted the contract needed to be in place by the end of September, with funds spent by year-end.
- 32:21 Motion to approve up to $51,000 to Instructure for MasteryConnect; approved by roll call.
Stellar Therapy Services contract 33:05
- 33:05 Administration requested renewal of the Stellar Therapy Services LLC agreement used since January to obtain Medicaid reimbursement for skilled nursing services provided to eligible students.
- 33:47 Board clarified this is revenue-generating rather than a direct cost, though the vendor takes a share of collections.
- 34:02 Administration said the district had been netting about $3,000 per month, projecting roughly $27,000 to $30,000 annually, with expectations for growth.
- 34:18 Explanation for the public: when a Medicaid-eligible student receives covered nursing services, the district can bill Medicaid through the vendor process.
- 34:43 Motion to approve renewal; approved by roll call.
Surplus property declaration 35:15
- 35:24 Board considered declaration of surplus for five buses, three white fleet vehicles, and miscellaneous oil and fuel filters.
- 35:43 Transportation director explained the buses were at end of life due to age, mileage, mechanical failure, or prior insurance total loss:
- 35:52 Bus 101: 18 years old, 224,000 miles.
- 36:00 Bus 12: 16 years old, would not start, compression issue; replacement engine not worth about $20,000.
- 36:07 Bus 31: 16 years old, under 30,000 miles, but another compression issue with a problematic International engine.
- 36:25 Bus 33: 122,000 miles, kingpin and body wear from county-road use.
- 36:34 Bus 65: 17 years old, previously totaled by insurance and retained for parts.
- 36:58 Motion to approve surplus property; approved by roll call.
Sidekick Therapy Partners agreement 37:29
- 37:38 Administration requested approval of a contract with Sidekick Therapy Partners for speech-language therapy.
- 37:45 Justification: the district was short a speech-language pathologist after a therapist retired or left for private practice, and must meet IEP-required service levels.
- 38:23 Contract would provide services at $85 an hour; vendor would try to locate an in-person therapist for Hickman County, but otherwise provide virtual therapy.
- 38:39 Administration emphasized not all students would be placed in virtual therapy; student selection would be made based on who could benefit.
- 38:47 District said other districts had used the service favorably and that the contract served as a “safety net” to ensure compliance.
- 39:57 Motion to approve the agreement; approved by roll call.
School fees 40:29
- 40:36 Administration reported that the six lower schools have no routine school fees, though middle schools may have fees tied to field trips.
- 40:45 Both high schools had similar fee schedules, including graduation-related and club-related fees; parking fee discussed separately.
- 41:16 Administration said families with hardship could have fees waived, and that this would be communicated publicly and through handbooks/letters.
- 41:33 Board asked whether the current fee structure should be reconsidered in the future; response was that the pattern was common and acceptable so long as fees do not prevent participation.
- 42:25 Parking fees were discussed, reportedly $10 at both high schools, partly to share costs of parking-lot striping, which was said to be overdue especially at East Hickman High School.
- 43:02 Board noticed cosmetology fees were not clearly listed and raised concern because supplies can be costly.
- 44:18 Administration confirmed cosmetology fee should be $100 and should be consistent at both high schools; culinary had no fees.
- 44:33 Motion to approve school fees; approved without opposition.
Discipline Hearing Authority committee 45:04
- 45:13 Board approved annual membership for the Discipline Hearing Authority committee, which hears student discipline appeals under board policy.
- 45:30 Recommended members named in the meeting materials were Beth Robinson, Jana Willis, Gavin Gordon, Tera Lawson, Allison Gilbert, and Shelley Claus; committee chaired by Ms. Malugin / Maluhan (unclear in transcript).
- 45:45 Administration said the committee met more often than the year before, roughly 12 times, partly because one incident generated about six appeals.
- 46:16 Discussion referenced a bus incident in which a student brought a vape and about six students participated and appealed discipline.
- 46:42 Administration described a philosophical change in alternative-school assignments:
- 46:51 Prior assignments as long as 180 days were considered excessive.
- 47:16 Other districts were consulted; Dickson reportedly uses 50 days as its longest assignment.
- 47:31 District had begun reviewing students around the 50% mark and reintegrating them at grading-period breaks if behavior and work improved.
- 47:48 Administration said about 12 students benefited from this approach, with only one known recidivism case.
- 48:38 The six students in the vape incident could return in the fall if conferences went well.
- 48:55 Administration confirmed vaping on the bus also leads to juvenile-court consequences under Tennessee law.
- 50:05 Motion to approve the committee; passed without opposition.
Bus drivers classified as full-time for insurance eligibility 50:19
- 50:27 Administration asked the board to change bus-driver status so new bus drivers would not have to wait one year before receiving health insurance.
- 50:37 Rationale: bus driving was described as the only district job with that waiting period; other districts reportedly do not impose it.
- 51:12 Proposed solution was to declare bus drivers “full-time employees” for insurance purposes, following an approach used by another district.
- 51:21 Immediate practical need: the district had three vacant bus routes and wanted immediate insurance access to help recruit drivers.
- 52:44 Operational background:
- A bus driver had passed away.
- Another driver was no longer able to drive after legal issues.
- Transportation then had to run double routes and occasionally skip routes.
- 53:40 Administration said four or five people were in the pipeline to become drivers, but licensing and certification requirements were extensive.
- 54:13 Double routes were described as harming instruction because some students arrived around 8:30–8:35 and missed about 30 minutes of first-period instruction; some afternoon riders left around 2:25 to make double runs work.
- 55:49 Estimated budget impact was about $7,900 per employee for health insurance; discussion referenced roughly $23,700 if covering three new hires.
- 56:13 Motion made to declare bus drivers full-time employees for this purpose; approved by roll call.
Director of Schools compensation / contract amendment 56:58
- 57:19 Board clarified that the adopted budget alone did not grant a raise to the director of schools; his contract required a formal amendment.
- 58:50 Board cited advice from TSBA that adjusting salary alone would be permissible even in an election year, while changes to contract length would not be.
- 59:21 Context: other district employees had received a 4% raise plus, for many, a step increase; board members estimated many employees effectively received around 7% depending on step status.
- 1:00:01 Director of Schools John Mullins said there had been confusion over whether the general employee raise applied to him. He said it did not, because his relationship with the board is governed by contract.
- 1:00:41 Mullins recounted initially agreeing to take the job at $120,000, turning down a suggestion of $125,000 at the time of hiring.
- 1:01:30 He said it had bothered him that all employees received raises while he did not, but he asked not to receive a higher percentage increase than district employees.
- 1:02:07 A $5,000 figure had been budgeted, but Mullins asked that any increase be limited to $4,800, matching a straight 4% raise on $120,000.
- 1:04:20 Board discussed options of awarding the amount as a raise or as a bonus, noting the money was already budgeted.
- 1:06:08 Mullins said he would prefer the contract eventually be revised so his compensation automatically follows the same percentage increase as certified teachers unless the board decides otherwise, to avoid repeating this public discussion.
- 1:07:06 Board cited Scott Bennett / TSBA advice: contract length could not be changed within election-year blackout periods, but compensation could be addressed separately now and the broader contract language could be revisited later.
- 1:08:40 Some members argued his responsibilities justified more than the employee percentage and that his salary was not high by statewide superintendent standards, but he continued to object to exceeding the employee percentage.
- 1:10:21 Motion made for a $5,000 contract amendment / raise for 2024–25 despite Mullins’s request for $4,800.
- 1:10:56 Roll-call vote approved the $5,000 increase.
- 1:11:21 Board noted a written amendment would need to be brought back for signatures.
Board evaluations 1:11:37
- 1:11:37 Board noted the director evaluation was included because it must be done by law.
- 1:11:44 Members suggested the newly elected board should revisit the evaluation instrument because some items still reflected outdated COVID-era concerns.
- 1:12:30 Board self-evaluations were also included for review, with note that coming board turnover may justify later revision.
Laws and Policies / Board Policy Actions 1:12:47
First-reading TSBA policy updates 1:12:47
- 1:13:04 Administration presented multiple policy changes driven by the recent legislative session.
- 1:13:37 Most were revisions to existing policies; one new policy, 4.214, dealt with use of artificial intelligence programs.
- 1:13:53 Administration said the AI policy area is new and likely to see further changes as guidance develops.
- 1:14:18 Board was reminded that supporting state public-chapter references could be accessed through TSBA materials.
Discussion on discipline policy and special education 1:15:02
- 1:15:02 A question was raised about policy 5.307 and whether special-education students remain subject to different disciplinary treatment.
- 1:15:26 Administration said it depends on whether the student’s disability / exceptionality caused the behavior, referencing manifestation-type analysis for special education.
AI policy concern 1:16:23
- 1:16:23 Student representative urged that policy 4.214 plainly state that submitting AI-generated work as original work is cheating.
- 1:16:56 Response was that local teacher/classroom expectations and syllabi may already cover it, but the suggestion was acknowledged for possible follow-up.
Employee concealed-carry law discussion 1:17:51
- 1:17:51 Administration explained that a new employee concealed-carry law was informational only and did not require a policy change in the packet.
- 1:18:21 TSBA had recommended consulting the board attorney and district insurer before using the option.
- 1:18:29 Discussion emphasized that state law places much of the decision-making with local law enforcement, the principal, and the director of schools.
- 1:19:29 Administration said school safety leadership and the sheriff had discussed it and that teacher carry was not being embraced at this time.
- 1:20:58 One explanation given was that parents of students in an armed teacher’s classroom might have to be notified and could request reassignment, making the option impractical and not truly concealed in effect.
- 1:21:58 Motion to approve all revised board policies in section XL1 on first reading; approved without opposition.
Student wellness policy second reading 1:22:16
- 1:22:24 Board considered second reading of policy 6.411 on student wellness, adding language about caffeinated energy drinks.
- 1:22:43 Board clarified that “restrict” should mean not selling products such as Red Bull and other highly caffeinated drinks in school cafeterias.
- 1:23:48 Administration cited a prior incident at Hickman County High School where a student drank seven Kickstart drinks and required an ambulance response.
- 1:24:06 A member argued “restrict” was too weak and should be changed to “prohibit” to avoid ambiguity.
- 1:24:29 Motion approved policy 6.411 with the wording revised from “restrict” to “prohibit”; passed without opposition.
Monthly policy review 1:24:46
- 1:24:55 Board reviewed policies 4.204 to 4.212 as part of routine monthly review.
- 1:25:03 Motion to approve the review segment; approved without opposition.
Top-10 ranking policy revision 1:25:19
- 1:25:27 A board member brought forward a revision after community concerns over discussion of eliminating or limiting top-10 rankings.
- 1:26:05 Proposed revision would require top-10 ranking not just for seniors, but also for high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors; middle-school inclusion was discussed but not included in the motion.
- 1:27:08 Drafter explained the revision broadens “top high school seniors” language to “students” and adds a separate section for underclassmen.
- 1:28:29 Another member urged input from staff, principals, and counselors, saying some preferred to honor more students by GPA thresholds, such as 97 or above, rather than maintaining public top-10 rankings each year.
- 1:29:40 Supporters responded that the policy would not prevent additional recognition and that top-10 status matters to many families.
- 1:31:04 Student representative noted Skyward could technically support more up-to-date calculations and suggested including more current senior-year grading data, but administration said class rank is needed by Christmas for college applications.
- 1:33:39 Administration said principals and counselors support recognizing strong academic performance but prefer top-10 to remain a culminating senior distinction because labels like “10th-grade valedictorian” can create unnecessary pressure and are not true final honors.
- 1:34:41 Administration acknowledged top-10 recognition is a deeply rooted local tradition.
- 1:34:57 Motion to approve revised policy on first reading; passed without opposition.
Waiver of student board-member eligibility rule 1:36:36
- 1:36:36 Board addressed policy 1.26 because incoming student representative Kanan Patel would not yet meet the written requirement to be a current junior or senior when service begins.
- 1:36:59 Existing policy language required a current Hickman County High School or East Hickman High School student in good standing entering junior or senior year.
- 1:37:13 Motion made to waive that requirement for Patel because she had already attended the SCOPES conference and would join at the end of the cycle.
- 1:39:41 Board voted unanimously to waive the requirement.
Civil Rights Report Discussion 1:40:06
- 1:40:15 The report was separated from consent for fuller discussion.
- 1:40:46 A member, drawing on corporate HR experience, said the trend data was disturbing and would trigger training review in a private-sector setting.
- 1:41:45 Reported complaints of harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying rose from 47 to 91 year over year.
- 1:42:17 Concern centered on only 35 cases being confirmed after investigation, leading to questions about whether 56 allegations were dismissed and whether investigative standards were consistent across schools.
- 1:43:54 The member asked for a future report breaking down the 91 cases by school and showing where claims were confirmed, arguing the board needed more visibility into process and hotspots.
- 1:45:15 Administration responded that the form is the standard state / federal reporting format and said the district had intentionally built a culture where students and families feel more comfortable reporting concerns.
- 1:46:30 Administration said complaints were thoroughly investigated and that the increase partly reflects better reporting and a learning curve about what legally counts as bullying.
- 1:47:56 Board members suggested more training for those investigating complaints to ensure consistency across all eight schools.
- 1:48:37 Another member pointed to 71 cases resulting in some disciplinary action and argued the data was not simply showing baseless claims.
- 1:49:43 Discussion clarified that race-based incidents, reported as seven, are a subset within the larger total and that the form itself is easy to misread.
- 1:51:56 Administration said annual training is already required and provided, but acknowledged some variance in how incidents may have been documented while staff were learning.
- 1:53:20 The discussion connected school climate to enrollment loss, referencing earlier budget conversations about approximately 600 students not attending district schools; members said parents may choose other options if they perceive safety or bullying problems.
- 1:55:38 Several members asked for the action plan rather than only the annual totals, while also debating whether school-by-school publication would be appropriate.
- 1:57:20 Administration identified student cellphone use and image-sharing / AirDrop behavior as a major contributor to harassment issues in high schools.
- 1:58:27 Transportation behavior was also named as a problem area, with bus misconduct affecting school climate and discipline.
- 1:59:33 Administration explained that severe bullying cases can lead to 10 or more days of discipline, but many cases used in-school suspension under a stepped process.
- 2:00:06 Director Mullins said there had been prior direction from central office not to use out-of-school suspension, and he did not necessarily agree with that approach.
- 2:00:22 He argued the district has too few discipline tools available now: no Saturday school, no after-school detention, and limited alternatives beyond in-school suspension and alternative school.
- 2:00:48 Discussion suggested about 70 of 71 disciplinary outcomes were in-school suspension, with only one involving out-of-school suspension of 10 days or more.
- 2:01:18 Mullins reiterated he does not oppose short out-of-school suspensions when behavior warrants it.
- 2:02:13 Board members argued students who disrupt class or “steal an education” from others need meaningful consequences.
- 2:02:21 Saturday school was raised as a potentially effective option, though staffing and pay would be obstacles.
- 2:02:46 Mullins said after-school detention and Saturday school are possible ideas but may require policy changes and administrative recommendations.
- 2:03:03 He again said long-serving principals had told him they were previously directed not to use out-of-school suspension and that he disagrees with that blanket approach.
- 2:03:44 Student representative argued in-school suspension is often ineffective, especially at the high school, because repeat offenders treat it as a minor inconvenience and parents may not feel the consequences.
- 2:05:18 He said alternative school, out-of-school suspension, Saturday school, or after-school detention could create stronger accountability by disrupting the student’s preferred social setting and forcing parent involvement.
- 2:06:29 A board member with long teaching experience agreed that sending students home can shift responsibility back to parents.
- 2:07:01 Board appeared to leave the issue for further administrative work and possible policy recommendations next month rather than taking immediate action.
TCAP Data Results and Instructional Focus 2:07:17
- 2:08:03 Administration reviewed district TCAP / end-of-course performance data comparing last year to this year.
- 2:08:45 The district improved in 16 of 25 tested categories, or about 64% of categories shown.
- 2:09:11 Despite that growth, the district remained below the state average in nearly every category, at the state average in three categories, and above it in only one category discussed as third-grade math.
- 2:09:49 A board member asked whether third-grade success reflected third-grade instruction or stronger teaching in earlier grades; administration credited pre-K through second-grade work feeding into third grade.
- 2:10:20 Mullins tied family expectations to three goals: students being safe, respected, and learning.
- 2:10:49 He said both the civil rights report and the achievement data showed the district still had work to do on all three fronts.
- 2:11:21 Mullins said he sees no reason Hickman County should remain below the state average and framed sustained annual growth as the path forward.
- 2:12:05 Student representative said the board should focus on growth now and treat state-average comparison as a longer-range goal, suggesting a future student-satisfaction metric to complement discipline and test data.
- 2:14:41 Board members said the far-right comparison-to-state column is not yet “selling” the district to parents, but credited administration and teachers for significant first-year progress.
- 2:15:50 Examples mentioned included:
- Third-grade ELA up 19%
- Biology up 22%
- 2:16:34 A member suggested setting a concrete goal for how much of the comparison-to-state column should turn “green” by a target year.
- 2:17:01 Mullins said a rule of thumb is about 200 children per grade across the district’s intermediate schools; thus a 9% gap could represent moving only about 18 students.
- 2:17:43 He said the district’s first-year focus was culture, not immediate wholesale instructional overhaul.
- 2:17:58 To support that, he cited improvement in the statewide teacher survey:
- 52% teacher participation in 2023
- Only 5 of 8 schools met the 45% threshold for validity then
- 88% participation this year
- 8 of 8 schools with valid survey results this year
- 2:18:30 One culture indicator, “atmosphere of trust and mutual respect,” reportedly rose from 79% to 93% positive.
- 2:18:54 Mullins said the district’s coming-year focus will be instruction.
- 2:21:24 He announced purchase of Planbook, a digital lesson-planning platform that allows administrators to see teacher lesson plans.
- 2:21:39 Justification: in some cases teachers work hard but teach content not aligned to the actual tested standards.
- 2:21:57 Administration said a secondary math coach, Shannon Britt, found classes spending time on worthwhile but nonstandard concepts instead of what the state standards and tests require.
- 2:22:36 Discussion emphasized teacher quality as the strongest school-based factor in student achievement and framed the district’s role as supporting and developing teachers.
Announcements 2:24:25
- 2:24:25 Fundraiser requests were noted briefly without extended discussion.
- 2:24:33 Next regular board meeting set for August 5, 2024.
- 2:24:41 TSBA fall conference in Lewis County noted for August 29; board chair suggested newly elected members may be best positioned to attend.
- 2:25:21 TSBA annual convention in November was also encouraged.
- 2:26:01 New county-approved travel reimbursement rates and forms were noted; members were told to use the updated form rather than alter old ones.
Closing Discussion / Teacher concerns 2:26:34
- 2:26:53 A board member said he had received an email from Sarah Bookers, identified as speaking for the Hickman County Education Association, summarizing constituent concerns.
- 2:27:49 He said he would share it with board members but not with student representatives.
- 2:28:45 Mullins responded that if concerns exist, he wants them addressed and said he had checked one matter with a principal who reportedly knew nothing about it; he emphasized chain of command while also acknowledging he had just received the email.
- 2:29:24 The sender was described as speaking on behalf of the Hickman County Education Association rather than just her own school.
- 2:30:07 Concerns reportedly included bullying and class size, among other issues.
- 2:31:11 Board noted there is a new class-size law affecting some areas and said administration may want to examine the email’s concerns in light of recent legal changes.
- 2:32:23 Meeting moved toward adjournment.
Key figures and statistics
| Figure | Type | Context / topic | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96 | Score / average | Freshman student recognized in East Hickman top 10 | 18:50 |
| 9th | Rank | Corrected freshman top-10 ranking | 18:50 |
| 1 and 2 | Amendment numbers | New-year budget amendments approved | 23:21 |
| 36–41 | Amendment numbers | Closeout budget amendments reviewed | 24:44 |
| $50,400 | Expense | MasteryConnect quote amount | 28:32 |
| $51,000 | Expense cap | Motion amount approved for Instructure / MasteryConnect | 32:21 |
| 3 | Count | MasteryConnect benchmark administrations per year | 29:24 |
| 95% to 98% | Reliability rate | Claimed reliability of MasteryConnect | 30:58 |
| September | Deadline | Contract/funding timing for ESSER-supported assessment purchase | 31:48 |
| $3,000 per month | Revenue | Medicaid reimbursement proceeds via Stellar Therapy | 34:02 |
| $27,000 to $30,000 | Annual revenue | Estimated yearly Medicaid reimbursement | 34:02 |
| 5 | Vehicle count | Buses declared surplus | 35:24 |
| 3 | Vehicle count | White fleet vehicles declared surplus | 35:24 |
| 18 | Age in years | Surplus bus 101 age | 35:52 |
| 224,000 | Mileage | Surplus bus 101 mileage | 35:52 |
| 16 | Age in years | Surplus bus 12 age | 36:00 |
| $20,000 | Estimated repair cost | Engine replacement deemed not worthwhile for bus 12 | 36:00 |
| 16 | Age in years | Surplus bus 31 age | 36:07 |
| 30,000 | Mileage | Bus 31 had under this mileage despite engine issues | 36:07 |
| 122,000 | Mileage | Surplus bus 33 mileage | 36:25 |
| 17 | Age in years | Surplus bus 65 age | 36:34 |
| $85 an hour | Contract rate | Sidekick Therapy Partners speech services | 38:23 |
| 6 | School count | Lower schools with no regular fees | 40:36 |
| $10 | Fee | Parking fee discussed for both high schools | 42:25 |
| 10 years | Time period | Approximate parking-lot striping cycle | 42:41 |
| $100 | Fee | Cosmetology fee confirmed for high schools | 44:18 |
| 12 | Meeting count | Approximate Discipline Hearing Authority meetings last year | 46:02 |
| 6 | Appeal count | Approximate number of appeals tied to one vaping incident | 46:02 |
| 180 days | Discipline duration | Long alternative-school assignment described as excessive | 46:51 |
| 25% | Percentage | Share of a high school career represented by 180 days | 47:05 |
| 50 days | Discipline duration | Longest alternative-school assignment said to be used in Dickson | 47:16 |
| 50% | Threshold | Point at which district began considering students for reintegration from alternative school | 47:31 |
| 12 | Student count | Approximate students returned early from alternative placement | 47:48 |
| 1 | Recidivism count | Known student who reoffended after early return | 47:48 |
| 1 year | Waiting period | Prior bus-driver insurance wait | 50:27 |
| 3 | Route count | Vacant bus routes | 51:21 |
| 4 hours a day | Work schedule | Typical bus-driver daily hours cited in insurance discussion | 50:50 |
| 4 or 5 | Applicant count | People said to be in the bus-driver pipeline | 53:40 |
| 8:30–8:35 | Time | Late student arrival time due to double routes | 54:13 |
| 30 minutes | Instruction time | Math class time missed due to late bus arrivals | 54:21 |
| 2:25 | Time | Early departure time for some students due to double routes | 54:35 |
| $7,900 | Benefit cost | Approximate annual employer health-insurance cost per employee | 55:49 |
| $23,700 | Benefit cost | Approximate insurance cost for three new bus-driver hires | 56:13 |
| 4% | Raise percentage | General employee raise referenced in director salary discussion | 1:00:09 |
| $120,000 | Salary | Director’s originally accepted salary | 1:00:41 |
| $125,000 | Salary figure | Hiring-stage salary figure director said he declined | 1:00:50 |
| $5,000 | Raise amount | Budgeted and approved director raise | 1:02:07 |
| $4,800 | Raise amount | Director’s requested raise to match exact 4% | 1:03:34 |
| 7% | Estimated compensation increase | Approximate raise-plus-step effect for some employees | 1:02:44 |
| 2024–25 | Fiscal / contract year | Director raise applies to this year | 1:10:48 |
| 4.214 | Policy number | New AI policy discussed | 1:14:02 |
| 5.307 | Policy number | Discipline policy discussed regarding teachers/employees and special education | 1:15:02 |
| 6.411 | Policy number | Student wellness policy amended on second reading | 1:24:29 |
| 7 | Drink count | Number of Kickstart drinks in prior student incident prompting wellness concern | 1:23:48 |
| 4.204 to 4.212 | Policy range | Monthly policy review items | 1:24:55 |
| 97 | GPA threshold | Example of alternative recognition suggestion for high achievers | 1:29:23 |
| 1.26 | Policy number | Student board-member eligibility waiver | 1:36:36 |
| 47 | Incident count | Prior-year total complaints of harassment/intimidation/bullying/cyberbullying | 1:41:45 |
| 91 | Incident count | Current-year total complaints of harassment/intimidation/bullying/cyberbullying | 1:41:45 |
| 35 | Incident count | Confirmed bullying-related cases after investigation | 1:42:17 |
| 56 | Incident count | Difference between reported and confirmed cases raised in questioning | 1:42:17 |
| 24 of 31 | Incident count | Earlier-year comparison cited in trend discussion | 1:42:35 |
| 27 of 33 | Incident count | Earlier-year comparison cited in trend discussion | 1:42:44 |
| 71 | Incident count | Cases resulting in some disciplinary action | 1:45:15 |
| 8 | School count | Number of schools where consistency/training was discussed | 1:47:56 |
| 7 | Incident count | Race-based incidents discussed as subset of the 91 | 1:49:01 |
| 600 | Enrollment count | Approximate students not attending district schools, referenced in discussion | 1:53:20 |
| 70 of 71 | Discipline count | Cases said to result in in-school suspension | 2:00:48 |
| 1 | Discipline count | Cases said to involve out-of-school suspension of 10+ days | 2:00:48 |
| 16 of 25 | Category count | Tested categories showing improvement | 2:08:45 |
| 64% | Percentage | Share of tested categories showing improvement | 2:08:45 |
| 3 | Category count | Categories said to be at the state average | 2:09:18 |
| 1 | Category count | Category said to be above state average | 2:09:26 |
| 19% | Score increase | Third-grade ELA improvement cited in discussion | 2:15:50 |
| 22% | Score increase | Biology improvement cited in discussion | 2:15:58 |
| 200 | Student count | Approximate students per grade across key schools | 2:17:01 |
| 9% | Percentage gap | Example gap to state average used to illustrate needed student movement | 2:17:18 |
| 18 | Student count | Approximate number of students represented by a 9% shift | 2:17:18 |
| 52% | Survey participation | Teacher survey participation in 2023 | 2:17:58 |
| 5 of 8 | School count | Schools meeting teacher-survey validity threshold in 2023 | 2:18:06 |
| 45% | Threshold | Minimum faculty participation for survey validity | 2:18:06 |
| 88% | Survey participation | Teacher survey participation this year | 2:18:15 |
| 8 of 8 | School count | Schools with valid teacher-survey results this year | 2:18:23 |
| 79% | Survey result | Prior trust/mutual-respect result | 2:18:30 |
| 93% | Survey result | Current trust/mutual-respect result | 2:18:38 |
| August 5, 2024 | Date | Next regular board meeting | 2:24:33 |
| August 29 | Date | TSBA fall conference in Lewis County | 2:24:41 |
| November | Date | TSBA annual convention | 2:25:21 |
External vendors, brands, and software
| Name | Type | Context / topic | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOSA | Brand | Student-recognition discussion referencing extracurricular participation | 18:50 |
| Instructure | Company | ESSER-funded payment vendor for MasteryConnect assessment platform | 32:12 |
| MasteryConnect | Software | Benchmark / practice-testing system approved for district use | 28:32 |
| Stellar Therapy Services LLC | Company | Medicaid reimbursement services for student skilled nursing | 33:05 |
| International | Brand | Bus engine brand referenced in surplus discussion | 36:16 |
| Sidekick Therapy Partners | Company | Contract for speech-language therapy services | 37:29 |
| TSBA | Company | Policy guidance, contract guidance, conferences, and legislative materials | 58:50 |
| Scott Bennett | Individual | TSBA-associated legal/contract guidance cited in director salary discussion | 1:07:06 |
| Red Bull | Brand | Example of caffeinated energy drink affected by wellness policy | 1:22:51 |
| Skyward | Software | Student grading/ranking system referenced in top-10 policy discussion | 1:31:04 |
| AirDrop | Software | Phone-sharing function cited in bullying/cellphone discussion | 1:57:20 |
| Planbook | Software | Digital lesson-planning platform purchased for instructional oversight | 2:21:24 |
| Shannon Britt | Individual | Secondary math coach referenced in standards-alignment discussion | 2:21:57 |
| Kickstart | Brand | Energy drink in prior student medical incident | 1:23:48 |
Personnel changes
| Name | Role / office | Change | Context / topic | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Mullins | Director of Schools | Contract amended / salary increased | Board approved $5,000 raise for 2024–25; written amendment to follow | 1:10:48 |
Laws and policies
| Citation / name | Level | Type | Context / topic | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Policy 1.26 | School | Policy | Student board-member eligibility requirement waived for incoming representative not yet a junior/senior | 16:29 |
| Policy 4.214 | School | Policy | New AI-use policy; discussion included whether AI-generated student work should explicitly count as cheating | 1:14:02 |
| Policy 5.307 | School | Policy | Discipline-related policy discussed with respect to teachers/employees and special-education manifestation issues | 1:15:02 |
| Employee concealed-carry law | State | Law | Informational update; district not pursuing teacher carry at this time | 1:17:51 |
| Policy 6.411 | School | Policy | Student wellness policy amended to prohibit cafeteria sale of highly caffeinated energy drinks | 1:24:29 |
| Policies 4.204 to 4.212 | School | Policy | Monthly policy review segment approved | 1:24:55 |
| Public chapters from the legislative session | State | Law | TSBA-driven policy revisions based on recent state legislative changes | 1:13:04 |
| Tennessee law on vaping / juvenile consequences | State | Law | Vaping incident discussed as also resulting in juvenile-court consequences | 48:55 |
| Federal civil rights / bullying reporting form | Federal | Regulation | Standard reporting format used for annual civil-rights complaint reporting | 1:50:21 |
| Class-size law | State | Law | Mentioned in connection with teacher concerns and possible limits on district response | 2:31:11 |
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11:2711 minutes, 27 secondsmeeting to order R call please Miss Baker here Mr gamon yes Mr hob yes
11:3511 minutes, 35 secondsMr hudon yes Mr Lane here Mr Willis yes and miss Ma M ma is going to be delayed she's in
11:4511 minutes, 45 secondsa conference that she's got to be in me marker absent or keep it present sir make her absent for right put her in
11:5311 minutes, 53 secondswhen she comes in and we also have uh uh
12:0012 minutesKanan con con Patel and we have Jack everybody knows
12:0612 minutes, 6 secondsJack yep you been around here before so we have a quarum one of us was
12:1512 minutes, 15 secondsabsent of the voting members nobody signed up for public comment is that
12:2412 minutes, 24 secondscorrect okay have moment of silence
12:4112 minutes, 41 secondsthank you Pledge of Allegiance
12:4912 minutes, 49 secondsPledge of the United States of America to the for it stands one na God
12:5812 minutes, 58 secondsindivisible liy jce for
13:0913 minutes, 9 secondsall show Christie here we have everybody here
13:1913 minutes, 19 secondshello first thing is we have uh is the special call meeting minutes for May the
13:2613 minutes, 26 seconds20th uh and then that's the minutes I need a motion to approve them I'll make a motion to approve the
13:3413 minutes, 34 secondsspecial meeting I'll second all in favor say I I I'll pass I
13:4313 minutes, 43 secondswas not present motion carries uh the regular meeting for June
13:5213 minutes, 52 secondsthe 3rd we have those minutes I need a motion to approve motion we approve that June third Mee
14:0014 minutesminutes go Blane made a motion need a second I'll make a second all in favor say I I
14:1014 minutes, 10 secondsI anybody oppose no opposition motion carries um motion to approve agenda for
14:1814 minutes, 18 secondsJuly the 8th excuse me I'd like to pull okay let's prove it okay thank you I'll make
14:2714 minutes, 27 secondsa motion will you approve the agenda second it for July the 8th all in favor hold
14:3514 minutes, 35 secondson uh you want to make an amendment yeah I'd like to take the uh civil rights report out of the Senate AG we do that
14:4414 minutes, 44 secondsthat's like have Place uh B civil rights report under
14:5114 minutes, 51 seconds98 uh n just put it right after nine so just before 10
15:0015 minuteshe I'll second that okay civil rights agenda all in favor of pulling the Civil Rights agenda
15:0715 minutes, 7 secondsout for briefing or discussion whatever right after 9 9:00
15:1415 minutes, 14 secondsa.m nine what' you say 9 H think it is a 9 H which it's still part of the consent
15:2315 minutes, 23 secondsagenda 10m yeah I saw it okay 10 I don't think it's worth discussion all right I
15:3015 minutes, 30 secondsput it under 10 m civil rights I want to make a motion to uh
15:3915 minutes, 39 secondsamend the agenda to move the teap data results
15:4715 minutes, 47 secondsup I'll second uh TCAP dat is under announcements you want to put it
15:5315 minutes, 53 secondsunder uh an
16:0216 minutes, 2 secondsthat okay you have a motion to approve move the teap data up to 10 in and
16:1116 minutes, 11 secondsseconded all in favor of that I anybody oppose no
16:2016 minutes, 20 secondsopposition now let's see let see I would say financial report
16:2916 minutes, 29 secondsbut Mike's not here to give us a briefing on that so we need to amend the agenda for policy 1.26 to wave the
16:3816 minutes, 38 secondsrequirements uh make a motion myself to under
16:4516 minutes, 45 secondspolicies for a change put it
16:4916 minutes, 49 secondsunder add it to 10 L5 1.26
16:5916 minutes, 59 secondsand it's not for the most policies we have to have them on there for the meeting but this is not for approval of the policy it's
17:0717 minutes, 7 secondsjust a minor change so we got a motion to add 1.26 to
17:1617 minutes, 16 secondsxl5 have a second I second we have a second by Mr Willis all in favor say
17:2317 minutes, 23 secondsI I think that's you got those changes yes sir
17:3017 minutes, 30 secondsyou want to repeat them I can um there's motion to approve the agenda for July 8th the Civil Rights report would be moved from the consent agenda after 10m
17:3917 minutes, 39 secondsmotion to move TCAP data under 10n motion to move policy un to 10 L5
17:4617 minutes, 46 secondsand that's policy 1.20 five is that correct 206 1.2 1.26 I'm sorry I hav
17:5517 minutes, 55 secondswritten down that way yes sir okay 1.26 uh all in favor uh says we approve the
18:0218 minutes, 2 secondschange all in favor of the agenda with changes say I I anybody oppos nobody
18:0818 minutes, 8 secondsopposes motion carries
18:2018 minutes, 20 secondsthat special recognition first one is East Hickman high school student recognition Mr
18:2918 minutes, 29 secondsHanson is the that that thank you Mr Hanson for coming absolutely appreciate youall having us
18:3618 minutes, 36 secondsum and giving us the opportunity um Eastman High School would like to recognize a freshman student who worked
18:4318 minutes, 43 secondshard in classroom um participated in multiple um extracurricular activities member of the volleyball team um and
18:5018 minutes, 50 secondsHOSA uh this student earned a spot in our top 10 uh ranking nth with a 96
18:5618 minutes, 56 secondsaverage um that is krand sh CHR
19:0619 minutes, 6 secondsup when we um just background while we're here when we first ran our top 10 numbers um The Freshman can be a little
19:1619 minutes, 16 secondsbit tricky because it takes the first half of the Year sometimes that only incorporates one or two of classes because they take a lot of yearlong
19:2219 minutes, 22 secondsclasses um so um when we when we originally ran the numbers there was a little bit of an oversight for ch wanted to correct that and make sure she uh her
19:3119 minutes, 31 secondsshe was recognized at the meeting uh for her hard work so congratulations thank youon for presenting
19:4719 minutes, 47 secondsthat all right the next is the East hman High School bridge builder award
19:5419 minutes, 54 secondspresentation and that is uh St
20:0220 minutes, 2 secondsI think I've seen you guys before so y'all been out Building
20:0920 minutes, 9 secondsBridges uh yes yall do a better job T
20:1620 minutes, 16 secondsdoes uh so this award actually is for none of us but actually for Mr
20:2320 minutes, 23 secondsHagens uh we like to invite you up expect this
20:2920 minutes, 29 secondsall of us plus Miss TP and came together and got you do this
21:1221 minutes, 12 secondsthank you guys for coming and then presenting your Awards thanks for all the hard work Employee of the Month Doug you got
21:2121 minutes, 21 secondsthat one every organization has a go-to guy a
21:3021 minutes, 30 secondsperson who who clears uncertainty calms anxiety and promotes cility that's
21:3921 minutes, 39 secondscality collegiality thank you uh to be a good to be a go-to guy you have to possess Integrity knowledge and humility
21:4821 minutes, 48 secondsgoto guyses have innate desires to serve others are always willing to help for being the go-to guy in the HP County Board of Education Office our employee
21:5621 minutes, 56 secondsof the month is Mike Elin now M Mike is under the weather so Mike's not with us but we have his plaque and
22:0522 minutes, 5 secondsuh that uh describes Mike very well as to go to guys so Mike
22:1322 minutes, 13 secondsis listening if you want it you can come get
22:2622 minutes, 26 secondsit yes thank you all for coming the next is consent agenda uh got the
22:3322 minutes, 33 secondsboard chair report the counter sign Mor a couple other miscellaneous documents that I had to
22:4022 minutes, 40 secondssign and make a motion to approve the consent
22:4722 minutes, 47 secondsagenda second second by J yeah all in favor say I
22:5822 minutes, 58 secondsDerek is going to take my ro oh
23:0723 minutes, 7 secondsokay now we're down to board actions the budget amendments say
23:1423 minutes, 14 secondsfirst you don't look like mik I apologize for not looking like
23:2123 minutes, 21 secondsM he's he probably don't look too good now he's under WEA probably still looks better than than what you're seeing right
23:2923 minutes, 29 secondsnow um uh he gave me the first two amendments of the year one is for the
23:3723 minutes, 37 secondsInnovative School model Grant amendment number one and that's just to line up helps line up the
23:4623 minutes, 46 secondsrevenues and expenditures for the ISF Grand of Joeys and get it lined up with will we have any
23:5323 minutes, 53 secondsplan and then on budget amendment two we did a placeholder budget either last month or in May I can't remember which
24:0124 minutes, 1 secondit was for some of the federal programs and as being the federal program we just forgot to budget
24:1124 minutes, 11 secondsfor I make a motion to approve budget amendment number one and two second second by
24:1824 minutes, 18 secondsJ roll call vote Please Mr gons yes Mr Hobs yes Mr hudon
24:2724 minutes, 27 secondsyes Mr Lane yes Mr yes Miss ma Miss Baker
24:3424 minutes, 34 secondsyes okay close out budget amendments was listed in 10 80 and you got anything to say about
24:4424 minutes, 44 secondsthem um just a little snippet about each of them 36 is for uh the give two Grant
24:5324 minutes, 53 secondsto adjust the to put in some more funds for supervisor payline item
24:5924 minutes, 59 secondsuh 37 is for CP and Perkins and that just allow puts the
25:0725 minutes, 7 secondsmoney where where we know we can spend it um the 38 is for some maintenance
25:1625 minutes, 16 secondsissues some maintenance repairs that we had done and taking money from other contracted
25:2325 minutes, 23 secondsservices in 143 39 is for State retirement
25:3225 minutes, 32 secondsbenefit moving it from State putting some into the hybrid or could be done
25:3825 minutes, 38 secondswith and then 30 I'm sorry Amendment 40 we had submitted that budget amendment
25:4625 minutes, 46 seconds32 and then two months later it still wasn't input and so we thought it we didn't do it and so we did budget
25:5525 minutes, 55 secondsamendment 35 so this is to correct and budget amendment 35 it just took a while
26:0226 minutes, 2 secondsfor 32 to get process um and the last one Amendment 41 is for medical
26:0926 minutes, 9 secondsinsurance in sped and uh moving from um Insurance into travel for nurses that
26:1826 minutes, 18 secondsthey that they did over the semester and as you can see you've
26:2626 minutes, 26 secondsalready approved those uh and they're already signed this was
26:3226 minutes, 32 secondspart of the early earlier approval so we don't need to do anything it's just informative right it's yeah it was for
26:4026 minutes, 40 secondsclose outs that you gave us permission to do to close out the they approved to close out last four meeting so all right thank you thank
26:4926 minutes, 49 secondsyou the next one is and I included in in there because it's tsp ma membership to
27:0027 minutesand I thought somebody might tell us a little bit about that this first one of those that I remember seeing anybody know about those newes and what they do
27:0927 minutes, 9 secondsfor us uh other than I do know there's some scholarships if you have students you have membership
27:1827 minutes, 18 secondsand attendance do there anything you know about it John oh it's it's a Professional Organization uh whose
27:2527 minutes, 25 secondsexpertise is dealing with school plan it's our main Mr director Bill uh goes annual conference uh he also gets
27:3427 minutes, 34 secondsinformation from them frequently on best practices for managing our plant and
27:4127 minutes, 41 secondsFacilities so it's it's never been an agenda item before no normally I don't know once I ended up getting it so I put
27:5027 minutes, 50 secondsit on there all all in favor of it say I I will I make a motion to approve it need a second I second
27:5827 minutes, 58 secondsthat a second uh roll call vote please who second is thank you thank
28:0728 minutes, 7 secondsyou uh Mr Hobs yes Mr hin yes Mr Lane yes Mr Willis yes M ma yes M Faker Mr G
28:1828 minutes, 18 secondsyes and I really don't know why he it was bu with me I don't want to
28:2428 minutes, 24 secondspay all right the next one is approved quote for Mastery
28:3228 minutes, 32 secondsconnect this is uh will be Sr funded uh the amount is $50,400
28:5828 minutes, 58 secondsa practice test and helps us to see what services we need to proide provide to what students um it's a little more
29:0729 minutes, 7 secondsexpensive last year because we had one less test last year than we do this year so I think last year it was about 48,000 and this year it's a little over
29:1629 minutes, 16 seconds50 so um that's just because of the extra test we're adding young may I best speak to yes please
29:2429 minutes, 24 secondsum for all students who take cap test or end of course test we will give them the
29:3229 minutes, 32 secondsmaster connect test at the beginning of the school year which will help us uh build instruction to meet their needs
29:4129 minutes, 41 secondswe'll give the test at the middle of the year and we'll give the test in in March prior to April testing so we will
29:4829 minutes, 48 secondsadminister this test three times a year and it help it helps us to identify uh places where our our instruction is
29:5629 minutes, 56 secondsstrong and places where we need to strengthen an instruction and it leads to better performance on standardized test for our
30:0330 minutes, 3 secondsdistrict no just the thought of that I know I'm getting but you know a lot of you know you see a lot of data with some
30:1030 minutes, 10 secondsstudents struggle with anxiety with all the testing and some of it are they aware uh that this is not it's a
30:1730 minutes, 17 secondspractice test and do they Fair better do do they Fair better because they know the Str I just one yeah go
30:2530 minutes, 25 secondsahead yes so one of the reasons why why you do this and do it to three times and give it a benchmark because it does mimic what TCAP and eocc does it gives
30:3430 minutes, 34 secondsthem that practice ahead of time so they'll know what's coming um you prep out for it you discuss it afterwards the teachers share all the data with them so
30:4230 minutes, 42 secondsthey're beginning to learn and to own and to have some ownership of the process so the anxiety tends to be a little bit less and I just wonder if they Fair better you know I just you
30:5130 minutes, 51 secondsknow you see a lot of data where that testing is not always
30:5830 minutes, 58 secondsbest measure you know well and that is true this is a very reliable and valid test um it's between 95 to 98% in terms
31:0631 minutes, 6 secondsof it um it does have a bank that goes with it we are purchasing this year that teachers are able to make their own test and we have training coming up in within
31:1431 minutes, 14 secondsa month so teachers are able to make their own quizzes and tests from it that have um question items that have language such as what the TCAP would
31:2331 minutes, 23 secondshave and then the best part is we have B2 data which is Ben Mark two from this past year to compare with our TCAP data
31:3131 minutes, 31 secondsand when you look at it side by side um it it's it's extremely reliable so we knew where we were going to hit before we got our results back and the master
31:3931 minutes, 39 secondsconnect is is built upon Tennessee it is standards Tennessee instructional standards so it's specific for
31:4831 minutes, 48 secondsTennessee so we still have a window for as as long as we're under contract by
31:5631 minutes, 56 secondsthe end of September okay and then we have to have all funds expended by the end of the year cor
32:0332 minutes, 3 secondsright dedicated by September fund spent by the end of the year and this one let me get it correct here is uh it it is
32:1232 minutes, 12 secondsbeing paid to instructure for master reconnect yes sir by S money okay I'll make a motion to
32:2132 minutes, 21 secondsapprove up to $51,000 to instructure for Mastery
32:3132 minutes, 31 secondsconnect I'll second seconded by Mr
32:3932 minutes, 39 secondsWillis Mr hudon yes Mr Lane yes Mr Willet yes Miss ma yes Miss Baker yes Mr
32:4632 minutes, 46 secondsgamon yes Mr hops yes you all in favor motion carries thank
32:5332 minutes, 53 secondsyou g uh let's see the next one is a stellar Therapy Services
33:0533 minutes, 5 secondscontract that um so I would just like to renew the contract with Stellar um it's
33:1333 minutes, 13 secondsbasically what we've started this past um since January uh it's where we do Medicaid reimbursement for our skilled
33:2133 minutes, 21 secondsnursing services for our students and uh we would like to continue that next year a motion to approve scholar Therapy
33:2933 minutes, 29 secondsServices LLC for uh our services I'll second I've got a question
33:3933 minutes, 39 secondsum I think we've had this previous year right so this it just a renewal is there any change from last year not that I can not I see and this is no cost to us this
33:4733 minutes, 47 secondsis this is a revenue for us right it's Revenue but they take their part out of the revenue okay so it's like we they
33:5433 minutes, 54 secondspay themselves as there um I remember talking to what was the percentage
34:0234 minutes, 2 secondsit's we and we were reaping $3,000 a month uh at the end of this last semester and we expect that to grow
34:1034 minutes, 10 secondswhich at 3,000 a month it would be 27,000 30,000 a year when when when how
34:1834 minutes, 18 secondsfor the audience when a child's on Medicaid and our nurse has to provide service to that child through Stell and
34:2634 minutes, 26 secondswe build Medicaid and and brings money to the sco district okay any other
34:3634 minutes, 36 secondsquestions you have the motion in a second right you have the motion yes sir Mr
34:4334 minutes, 43 secondsgamon made a motion and there was a tie and so I just gave it to B sorry it involves
34:5434 minutes, 54 secondsmoney I'll call Mr hudon's name first Mr hudon yes okay Mr L yes Mr wellis yes
35:0135 minutes, 1 secondMiss mny yes Miss Baker yes Mr gam yes Mr hops yes thank you very
35:0835 minutes, 8 secondsmuch next is uh uh St you back there yes are
35:1535 minutes, 15 secondsyou and it's a declaration of surplus property should have in your packets
35:2435 minutes, 24 secondsuh five five buses to Surplus three white fleet vehicles to Surplus and some miscellaneous oil
35:3235 minutes, 32 secondsfilters and fuel filters that just have been there a motion to approve the Surplus I
35:4335 minutes, 43 secondssecond that all of the buses uh don't have any miles or years left on them um or their
35:5235 minutes, 52 secondsjump yeah they so1 is 18y old bus with 224,000
36:0036 minutesmies bus 12 is 16y old bus um it won't start it's there's a compression issue
36:0736 minutes, 7 secondswith with the engine it's end end of its life and it's not worth a $20,000 engine 31 is a 16y old Engine with under
36:1636 minutes, 16 seconds30,000 mil another compression issue they had that 60 International engine that was a better boat weight than a bus
36:2536 minutes, 25 secondsengine uh Bus 30 three it's 122,000 miles and the Kingpin and other body components are wore out
36:3436 minutes, 34 secondsfrom the kle county roads we either mechanical or mileage or whatever yes sir and then 65 is a 17y old bus that
36:4136 minutes, 41 secondsthe insurance totaled out about 16 or 17 we' kept it for extra parts for other International buses that we're
36:5136 minutes, 51 secondsrunning okay any questions motion to approve the uh Surplus
36:5836 minutes, 58 secondsproperty I make the motion who second I second you second I think I since it involves MRIs Mr Willis made the motion
37:0737 minutes, 7 secondsand then I have Mr Lane recorded as a second is that correct yes I guess since there's money roll
37:1537 minutes, 15 secondscall vote Mr Lane yes Mr Willis yes Miss ma yes Miss Baker yes Mr gamon yes Mr
37:2237 minutes, 22 secondshob yes Mr hudon yes motion carries thank you
37:2937 minutes, 29 secondsside uh sidekick Therapy Partners agreement uh that's you Mr Mullins uh
37:3837 minutes, 38 secondsyes uh we are short a speech language uh
37:4537 minutes, 45 secondstherapist pathologist uh sidekick provides virtual speech therapy uh so we
37:5237 minutes, 52 secondswould like to approve this in case we're not able to uh fully staff by uh by IEP
38:0038 minuteswe have by individual education plans we have to provide X number of students speech therapy services and we simply
38:0838 minutes, 8 secondsright now uh do not have Personnel to do that we had a we we had a speech therapist retire or went to Private
38:1638 minutes, 16 secondsPractice I can't remember which so we're just trying to create a uh a safety net
38:2338 minutes, 23 secondsto provide speech therapy which we're obligated uh this we'll do it for $85 an hour they're going to try to find us an
38:3038 minutes, 30 secondsin-person speech therapist to come to hickon County but if they can't they will do this virtually and Miss qus will
38:3938 minutes, 39 secondsselect which particular students uh would benefit from virtual not all students would would be getting virtual
38:4738 minutes, 47 secondsthis is just a way to make sure that we can serve all of our students speech therapy uh there are several districts
38:5538 minutes, 55 secondsusing this was qu spoke with those districts and they spoke favorably of the their relationship with uh
39:0639 minutes, 6 secondss what do you and what do you need a motion to approve the contractual contractual agreement to contract is
39:1439 minutes, 14 secondsthere any cost beyond the per hour like is there a fee just to have the agreement in the first place just the
39:2239 minutes, 22 secondsper hour it's just the per hour last not wrong ask we have he paid
39:3039 minutes, 30 secondsthem per hour pay mileage ah virtual yeah not this way virtual I'm talking about the other spe
39:3939 minutes, 39 secondsservice if we get one they TR they Trav yeah they traveled us other ones we pay them plus it's virtual we hav not
39:4839 minutes, 48 secondsvirtual yeah we're going virtual with these people I motion to approve the uh the
39:5739 minutes, 57 secondsagreement with sidekit open have a motion by Vance a second by
40:0440 minutes, 4 secondsJim uh all in favor roll call vote please M Willis yes
40:1140 minutes, 11 secondsMiss M yes Miss Baker yes Mr gam yes Mr Hobs yes Mr H yes Mr Lane oh Mr Lane
40:2140 minutes, 21 secondsyes Mo all in favor motion carries thank you
40:2940 minutes, 29 secondsuh school fees coming up next there and that's by the
40:3640 minutes, 36 secondsrecord uh the six lower schools do not have school fees except
40:4540 minutes, 45 secondsfor the middle schools are reported that they could have fees associated with a field trip and then the both high
40:5240 minutes, 52 secondsschools have similar fees and they're in your packets they have the exact same fees for
41:0041 minutesgraduation they are similar uh the club there are similar similar club
41:0941 minutes, 9 secondsfees and uh fees for
41:1641 minutes, 16 secondstrips we uh are going to uh communicate to the public that if anybody uh
41:2541 minutes, 25 secondshas uh a hardship their fees can be waved I was going to ask what's your
41:3341 minutes, 33 secondswhat's your opinion of it I mean as you come you come into our system have for year with these fees and the way it's structured I mean are you okay with the
41:4241 minutes, 42 secondsway it is would you recomend that may be looked at for change in the future or what your thought
41:4841 minutes, 48 secondsJohn uh I think it's common for uh lower schools to not have fees and high
41:5441 minutes, 54 secondsschools to have some fees I think our goal would be to never prevent a fee from keeping a child from having a
42:0242 minutes, 2 secondscurricular or extracurricular activity and I think by publishing uh in handbooks online or sending letters home
42:1142 minutes, 11 secondswith parents if anybody has a hardship to contact us about waving the fee I think it's uh in line with other
42:1842 minutes, 18 secondsdistricts I think it's I think it's reasonable did you uh determine about
42:2542 minutes, 25 secondsthe car p as I called you that yes and the parking fees uh there I think there's a $10 parking fees is it the
42:3342 minutes, 33 secondssame with both schools yeah and I and I think that what happens with that is the schools share some of the cost with the
42:4142 minutes, 41 secondscentral office for the striping that occurs every 10 years and and probably
42:4842 minutes, 48 secondsneeds to occur very soon in East hman High School these sick High School lines have it probably been striped in a long
42:5542 minutes, 55 secondstime so that's that's the rationale behind that the they they'll help share with the striping of Park
43:0243 minutes, 2 secondsLots correct me I don't I don't see any cosmetology fees and I don't see any uh uh uh culinary fees so I'm assuming
43:1143 minutes, 11 secondseverything is perfect and these students have to pay for nothing right somebody can answer that there's ay but he's
43:1943 minutes, 19 secondsunder I think he's talk about East well it says East High School it says club fees and dues varies by Club typically
43:2843 minutes, 28 secondsunder $25 the typically for cosmetology don't fit because it just their wig alone cost
43:3743 minutes, 37 secondsover $50 yes sir we do share cosmetology teachers so be the same of
43:4443 minutes, 44 secondsschools so the fee was just so the fee needs to be on your letter too that is about to
43:5343 minutes, 53 secondscallary culinary should be no fees no fees at all Mr Chon you want to speak Please Mr yeah please yeah cols right on
44:0244 minutes, 2 secondsuh no be Cy will be the same of both schools uh culinary as far as I know no
44:1044 minutes, 10 secondsfees okay so the hit County High School fee of $100 I that's correct did I see that
44:1844 minutes, 18 secondsyes so it's going to be 100 I yeah you talking about the cosmetology
44:2644 minutes, 26 secondsyes on hit County High School first can get quite expensive yeah so that's going to be the fee
44:3344 minutes, 33 secondsthough for both Goods I'll make the motion to approve the school
44:4044 minutes, 40 secondsfees have a motion to approve the fees do I have a second second second by Mr hops all in
44:4944 minutes, 49 secondsfavor say I I anybody opposed all in favor no opposition
44:5644 minutes, 56 secondsmotion carries next thank
45:0445 minutes, 4 secondsyou discipline hearing Authority Mr mullet
45:1345 minutes, 13 secondsum part of the students due process is to appeal their disciplinary consequences and they appeal them by
45:2145 minutes, 21 secondsboard policy to a discipline hearing Authority committee um the the people who are listed on that page
45:3045 minutes, 30 secondsBeth Robinson Janna Willis Gavin Gordon Tera Lawson Allison Gilbert Shel claws are the people recommending to be on
45:3845 minutes, 38 secondsthat disciplined hearing Authority committee and Miss maluan chairs that committee so each year the district en
45:4545 minutes, 45 secondsnames a committee so that is the recommendation for the committee for this year and how many times did you meet last year I remember asking that last
45:5445 minutes, 54 secondsyear so we met a few more than we did previous yes it it takes one incident to get about six appeals so one incident we
46:0246 minutes, 2 secondsliterally had about six appeals so um I think probably 12 so maybe double what
46:0946 minutes, 9 secondsyou had the year before yes but one incident had multiple ones
46:1646 minutes, 16 secondsyeah yeah I think I won't preach anybody's confidentiality but we had a student who uh brought a bait on a
46:2546 minutes, 25 secondsschool bus and and we had about six students who uh deci decided to partake
46:3246 minutes, 32 secondsof The Vape so uh they they they all appealed they also decided to appeal and
46:4246 minutes, 42 secondsuh I will I will say this to the I would like to say this to the board uh we we we had a philosophical
46:5146 minutes, 51 secondschange a little bit with 120 day uh assignments to the turn to school 120
46:5846 minutes, 58 secondsdays is a long period of time 100 excuse me 180 days I'm saying the wrong number
47:0547 minutes, 5 seconds180 days is a long period of time 180 days is 25% of a student's uh High School career
47:1647 minutes, 16 secondsuh I check with other districts uh for instance I know that Dixon 50 days is the longest they
47:2347 minutes, 23 secondsassigned a child to the altern school so what what working in conjunction with Mr Chilton and the teachers and the
47:3147 minutes, 31 secondsprincipes uh if children went to the alternative school and they behaved and uh and and they did their work like
47:3947 minutes, 39 secondsthey're supposed to uh we started looking at around the 50% Mark injecting them back into the regular school and we
47:4847 minutes, 48 secondshad a lot of success with that uh we we had very little recidivism I I I'll say probably 12 children
47:5747 minutes, 57 secondsuh got to the halfway mark and and the good time to in to transfer them back to their regular classes is at the end of a
48:0448 minutes, 4 secondsgrading period in the beginning of a new grading period and uh we only have one child that I know of that uh we
48:1348 minutes, 13 secondsexperienced recidivism and uh so I think that was a good thing because being in the regular classroom
48:2248 minutes, 22 secondswith their uh assigned teachers is the best option for children if they can behave we were very pleased that our
48:3048 minutes, 30 secondskids we involved their parents that involved a meeting with parents and we talked about the importance of this and we talked about their Futures and we
48:3848 minutes, 38 secondshave several of those conferences coming up including the six new part to on the school bu and and if they and if we have
48:4648 minutes, 46 secondsa healthy conference we're going to let those children uh return to schools fall not only do the smoke partakers smokers
48:5548 minutes, 55 secondshave to Pro get punished at school do they not also get a petition at court yes they do that's a v that's a
49:0249 minutes, 2 secondsviolation of Tennessee law and so that they end up in you they you end up in usile court also we would hope that all
49:0949 minutes, 9 secondsthose students out there use better thinking abilities than making those mistakes I want to thank Mr Mullen and
49:1849 minutes, 18 secondsthank for having get Elementary person on it this year you're
49:2449 minutes, 24 secondswelcome uh and I not to not to contradict what you're saying we had no child in K through uh K through K
49:3249 minutes, 32 secondsthrough five that went to the alternate school which was a good year for us well and know we did we did have some
49:4149 minutes, 41 secondschildren with get alternate placements but no one which to alter scope I think that's I think what you
49:4749 minutes, 47 secondslive the way you describ it John I I know there's there's a lot of information at a board policy about
49:5549 minutes, 55 secondsrules is anything need to be looked at again no it gives the director that discretion so I think it's good any a
50:0550 minutes, 5 secondsmotion I'll motion to approve motion by V second by sharing
50:1350 minutes, 13 secondsall in favor say I I I anybody oppos no opposition motion carries
50:1950 minutes, 19 secondsuh next is Mr Mullins the bus drivers yes under our current
50:2750 minutes, 27 secondsuh process you have to drive a school bus a year before you can receive health insurance uh that's the only job in the
50:3750 minutes, 37 secondsdistrict uh that requires that year of work before you receive health insurance
50:4350 minutes, 43 secondsuh I I also again reached out to other directors they they don't have this
50:5050 minutes, 50 secondsguide line see a a bus driver Works uh approximately 4 hours a day
50:5750 minutes, 57 secondsso so the amount of time they work for a week is what causes this dilemma so what
51:0651 minutes, 6 secondsI what I learned simply from another director who I trust is his board passed
51:1251 minutes, 12 secondsa uh a a action took action to claim that to declare that bus drivers are full-time employees that category and
51:2151 minutes, 21 secondsnow our bus drivers will not have to wait a year to get health insurance we currently have three routes that are
51:2951 minutes, 29 secondsvacant um we we need bus drivers and uh we think
51:3651 minutes, 36 secondsthat giving people immediate access to health insurance as a teacher would get as a lunchroom worker would get as a
51:4451 minutes, 44 secondsparent professional working in the school would get they would get immediate access to Insurance bus drivers in our district gone we think
51:5351 minutes, 53 secondsthis will we think this will correct that um this this is what other districts have done uh just the Declaration no other change that's
52:0252 minutes, 2 secondsthat's what I've been told I'm confused because State Insurance states that it's part-time
52:0952 minutes, 9 secondsemployee so that would include cafeteria workers no cafeteria workers work 6 hours a day so they reach the 30 hour uh
52:1952 minutes, 19 secondslimit okay uh this is what I this is what I believe will allow us and we're not
52:2752 minutes, 27 secondstalking about a large number of people because we're looking right now for three people to take on three routes so we're looking at providing insurance for
52:3552 minutes, 35 secondsthose for people during the we we had a very successful first semester in transportation we we do not hardly I
52:4452 minutes, 44 secondsdon't recall missing a route or having to double a route and then we had some terrible misfortune one of our bus
52:5352 minutes, 53 secondsdrivers uh passed away and then another bus driver uh through
53:0053 minuteslegal processes was no longer able to drive and we became short on drivers and
53:0753 minutes, 7 secondsthis and this past the last semester we had to run double routes skip routes and
53:1553 minutes, 15 secondsand and and it is it is detrimental to the learning process it it also creates
53:2253 minutes, 22 secondsuh uncertainty with parents about when you going to pick their child up when you going to drop their child off it is it is an
53:3053 minutes, 30 secondsunhealthy uh practice that we need to uh that we need to correct and that's what we're trying to do Mr George has worked
53:4053 minutes, 40 secondshard there are about four or five people in the process of becoming bus drivers it's not a simple process uh you have to
53:4953 minutes, 49 secondspass uh online classes that are complicated then you have to go and drive for 2 hours for a gentleman who
53:5653 minutes, 56 secondssays you're good you're ready to go or not but we have people in the pipeline and uh we not only need bus
54:0654 minutes, 6 secondsdrivers we need substitute bus drivers so we're working on it the ideal goal is every day every
54:1354 minutes, 13 secondsroute is run at the right time and there are no double routes when we run double routes in the morning so children get it
54:2154 minutes, 21 secondssome children arrive at school at 8:30 8 8:35 and Miss 30 minutes if they have if
54:2854 minutes, 28 secondsthey have math first period they miss 30 minutes of math then we feed them breakfast after they get to school and when we have early routes in the
54:3554 minutes, 35 secondsafternoon some children leave at 2 2:25 so we can run a double route and double routes are easier to run at East Hickman
54:4454 minutes, 44 secondsthan they are in uh the Centerville area because East Hickman is more densely populated but it is not a it is we need
54:5354 minutes, 53 secondsto correct this so this agenda it is to try to encourage people to be a bus driver give them uh their insurance
55:0155 minutes, 1 secondimmediately and don't make them wait a year how about how many not exactly just about how many employees will
55:1055 minutes, 10 secondsbecome will become full time and become eligible for insurance that don't already have it are there are there any
55:1855 minutes, 18 secondsthat as soon as we pass this that we just become eligible no because if if we have someone who's first year is what you're
55:2755 minutes, 27 secondssaying or or they just completed their first year and they would be eligible anyway I think I think that the idea is
55:3455 minutes, 34 secondsjust to Target to get more bus to because we had a metro bus driver and the reason he went back to Metro was
55:4255 minutes, 42 secondsbecause he didn't have insurance am I correct there uh no uh close well he wasn't going to get insurance here but
55:4955 minutes, 49 secondsat the time we had a part-time uh bus employee so we combined that with his d ders to getting the 30 hours and and
55:5855 minutes, 58 secondseach each employee health insurance cost to our budget is with $7,000 or something
56:0656 minutes, 6 secondsoh9 say 7900 yeah yeah so we're talking about we're talking about
56:1356 minutes, 13 seconds227 so so it sounds like all I need is a motion to declare bus drivers as full-time employees
56:2056 minutes, 20 secondsfor thank you who made the motion second Mr Jim made the motion Hobs made second is that correct
56:2856 minutes, 28 secondsyeah all right uh roll call Bo miss Ma yes Miss Banker
56:3756 minutes, 37 secondsyes Mr gamon yes Mr hog yes Mr H yes Mr Lan yes M Mr owas
56:4756 minutes, 47 secondsyes hey I 10K the
56:5856 minutes, 58 secondsmotion is not the motion it's about the Sal that John wanted to bring up to talk
57:0957 minutes, 9 secondsabout so I thought 10K was the salary of director annually
57:1957 minutes, 19 secondscont the there may be some confusion that the contract requires a
57:2757 minutes, 27 secondsit just by putting it on the budget does not get a salary increase it is in the contract that it must be amend the
57:3557 minutes, 35 secondscontract we need it there's a couple ways to do it I'll let uh uh Miss Baker talk about that a minute
57:4457 minutes, 44 secondsthen okay yeah you had you had a suggestion how to take care of this
57:5257 minutes, 52 secondseasily this year and we can either go with an amendment we had we either have
57:5957 minutes, 59 secondsto do an amendment or we could do a
58:0558 minutes, 5 secondsuh so we could what's in the contract what what is in the contract
58:1258 minutes, 12 secondscontract says that you have we have to the bud the budget itself does not give
58:2158 minutes, 21 secondshim a race it is by uh It Is by an amendment to the contract only okay
58:2858 minutes, 28 secondsevery year that even when we're gone every year as long as he's here and that's under that contract it has to be
58:3558 minutes, 35 secondsapproved as an amendment okay we're only allowed to do an amendment during an election year to salary only
58:4458 minutes, 44 secondsuh well this one I got I got a response back from
58:5058 minutes, 50 secondsU tsba that helps set the contract up and all that and got sent it is a
58:5858 minutes, 58 secondsuh since it is not a contractual change it is just a salary thing that it would
59:0559 minutes, 5 secondsbe okay to move on that way right or uh as Sher suggested may be a bonus and pay
59:1359 minutes, 13 secondsit twice during the year so I guess it depends on what you folks want to do to add to it to his contract from what
59:2159 minutes, 21 secondsoriginally is since we gave everybody else an additional amount of money what was the I believe accounting for the Rays
59:3159 minutes, 31 secondsand the STA him there was $5,000 but was it was is that what most of our employees got
59:3959 minutes, 39 secondswas a raise and a step which ended up being 7% was it 7%
59:4659 minutes, 46 secondsor went that high last year I yeah did hire that mass speak this please than
59:5459 minutes, 54 secondsthis is this is very uncomfortable for for me I wonder why
1:00:011 hour, 1 seconduh there was some confusion one board member thought that when the board voted to give all
1:00:091 hour, 9 secondsemployees a 4% raise that applied to me so I had a conversation with uh Mr gammons and he and I agree it doesn't
1:00:171 hour, 17 secondsapply to me my relationship with the board is driven by my contract it's not driven by the board action to give
1:00:241 hour, 24 secondsemployees a 4% to give all employees 4% rates so uh but it's it's very awkward
1:00:321 hour, 32 secondsfor me but I I I'll be honest I I really I mean well I turned the job
1:00:411 hour, 41 secondsdown and y'all I agreed I agreed to take the job at 120,000 and I turned it down and then I came back it it was a
1:00:501 hour, 50 secondsstruggle for me and and I I decided I was going to take it and at that meeting uh I I said I think it was said would
1:00:571 hour, 57 secondsyou like to would you like to make 125 and I said no I said I agree to take this job for
1:01:051 hour, 1 minute, 5 seconds120,000 I I don't want to make 125,000 but I I I'll be honest with you about
1:01:141 hour, 1 minute, 14 secondsthis I care and I try every day and as long as I'm here as long as
1:01:211 hour, 1 minute, 21 secondsI'm going to be here I'm going to care and I'm going to try and uh I I've never been in this situation before where everybody in the district
1:01:301 hour, 1 minute, 30 secondsgot a pay raise and I didn't and and it's bothered me a little because I care and I
1:01:361 hour, 1 minute, 36 secondstry and so uh then I got to read my contract and it says that the board
1:01:441 hour, 1 minute, 44 secondsannually uh will address my compensation so that's how we got to where we are but but but I I'll say
1:01:521 hour, 1 minute, 52 secondsthis if you choose to increase my compensation I do not want you to in my increase my compensation more than you
1:02:001 hour, 2 minutesincrease the compensation of the other people in this District the same
1:02:071 hour, 2 minutes, 7 secondspercentage so um I think the 5,000 number was based on 4% it was based on
1:02:151 hour, 2 minutes, 15 secondswhat was put in the budget and all calculations and everything but employees didn't just get that employees
1:02:211 hour, 2 minutes, 21 secondsgot a they got the 4% plus they got the step so there's no step identified in
1:02:291 hour, 2 minutes, 29 secondsour contract for superintendent so there like I said there are under different contractual
1:02:351 hour, 2 minutes, 35 secondsobligations so they have no scale if and I and I um our our go-to guys not here to
1:02:441 hour, 2 minutes, 44 secondsconfirm this but U I think it was around 7% was around between the step and the Rays is what people got is
1:02:541 hour, 2 minutes, 54 secondsanybody recall that step is one thing because but he like teachers that reach
1:03:011 hour, 3 minutes, 1 seconda certain area don't get that stepl I'm beyond Step Beyond that that's what yeah my my years of service like if like a
1:03:091 hour, 3 minutes, 9 secondsteacher right uh I I'll use somebody that was born the same year that I was born someone that's been here for a long
1:03:161 hour, 3 minutes, 16 secondstime that I have great respect for Mr Bruce Jackson Mr Bruce Jackson is beyond the step the step stops at year 30 or
1:03:261 hour, 3 minutes, 26 secondssomething like that so take that part of it out so fig I saw you working your calculator what did you come up with for
1:03:341 hour, 3 minutes, 34 secondsyou do do just this just this 4% is um I think it's 40800 yeah
1:03:431 hour, 3 minutes, 43 seconds4,800 that's why the budget had 5,000% I mean four% of 125 is five
1:03:531 hour, 3 minutes, 53 secondswell was 12 oh yeah and this is very award from
1:04:031 hour, 4 minutes, 3 secondsso the budget was already accounted that 5,000 put in it uh which was a fair assumption they give us some some room
1:04:121 hour, 4 minutes, 12 secondsto to do this well it's better to put it in there and then have to look for it right um we don't have to look for anything we don't have to change
1:04:201 hour, 4 minutes, 20 secondsanything there's $5 5,000 already in there that we can award either as a race
1:04:281 hour, 4 minutes, 28 secondsor as a bonus and divided up that's what we've done in the past with some some uh uh directors in the past so the last
1:04:371 hour, 4 minutes, 37 secondseight years or years we had Michelle she did not get that her her contract her contract and
1:04:441 hour, 4 minutes, 44 secondsshe would not her contract had compens contct compens comp buil we didn't give her as
1:04:501 hour, 4 minutes, 50 secondsfar as a bonus or anything she wouldn't take it you remember back so I actually wanted to give her a bonus she you did
1:04:581 hour, 4 minutes, 58 secondsone time but she she wouldn't take it so you know uh but this you know we need to do that kind of irritated me I think I
1:05:061 hour, 5 minutes, 6 secondsshould have made her say we I what to say you took it with so she had incremental raises in her contract right
1:05:151 hour, 5 minutes, 15 secondsshe that's why yeah he yeah so I'll make
1:05:211 hour, 5 minutes, 21 secondsa motion to do a $5,000 contract Amendment second M speak please yes sir
1:05:311 hour, 5 minutes, 31 secondsI would like for it to be $4,800 I I would I don't I do not want to get any I don't want to get one penny
1:05:381 hour, 5 minutes, 38 secondsmore than the 4% that the employees of this District got you want to withdraw your just said it was
1:05:521 hour, 5 minutes, 52 secondsirritating may speak again this is very very awkward for me very very
1:05:581 hour, 5 minutes, 58 secondsawkward uh here's what I wish that my contract
1:06:081 hour, 6 minutes, 8 secondswas and because I don't want to be I don't want to be in this awkward place again I wish the contract
1:06:161 hour, 6 minutes, 16 secondssaid that I receive whatever percent grades that certified teachers get
1:06:251 hour, 6 minutes, 25 secondsunless the board deems otherwise and then that way the board still could stop the Rays if they wanted
1:06:331 hour, 6 minutes, 33 secondsto and I and I'm not singled out at a public meeting about my my compensation and my pay increase from talking to
1:06:411 hour, 6 minutes, 41 secondsbeing I think I don't we better go with what what do I don't know that we can change it in the middle of an election
1:06:491 hour, 6 minutes, 49 secondsyear other than to do an addend on to up we can addend the p so when you start making other changes I
1:06:581 hour, 6 minutes, 58 secondsdon't but I don't think we can change the terms just that might have to be next year I agree with you actually I think that's the right way to do it we
1:07:061 hour, 7 minutes, 6 secondshave to do that next year Scott here's what Scott Bennett said Scott Bennett said what you cannot do is change the
1:07:131 hour, 7 minutes, 13 secondslength of the Contra contract 30 days prior 45 days prior or was it which
1:07:191 hour, 7 minutes, 19 secondsone's first 45 45 days prior to a board election you cannot not change or extend
1:07:261 hour, 7 minutes, 26 secondsthe length of the contract 30 days afterwards you can't change or extend the length so that well that's fine I I
1:07:341 hour, 7 minutes, 34 secondsI I just don't like being singled out like this well what if we promise you that come so elections in November the
1:07:441 hour, 7 minutes, 44 secondsend of December we can actually actually we we can do a special call meeting in December is actually
1:07:511 hour, 7 minutes, 51 secondsoff no the actual yeah it is school board members I think you just need to do the simple
1:07:591 hour, 7 minutes, 59 secondsagenda that we know is legal that no we can do without any complication without any problem but what I'm saying is we
1:08:071 hour, 8 minutes, 7 secondscan after the election in August we can come back in 45 days and redo the
1:08:151 hour, 8 minutes, 15 secondscontract to help so that this doesn't have keep happening right so you're saying go ahead and do this now and then
1:08:231 hour, 8 minutes, 23 secondswhat your concern and yeah that's the logical way to do that's
1:08:301 hour, 8 minutes, 30 secondsthe simplest and the Least Complicated with then we'll address it we'll address it in the fall but Mr Mullen my thing is
1:08:401 hour, 8 minutes, 40 secondsis I think that you worked extremely hard and an extra $200 is not really going to be much more
1:08:481 hour, 8 minutes, 48 secondsthan what anybody else it's it's not but the the fallacy of percent raises is
1:08:581 hour, 8 minutes, 58 secondsthe people that make the most get the most raise and and and I'm cognizant of that fallacy
1:09:061 hour, 9 minutes, 6 secondsso if you don't mind any I'll draw my motion change so there's a
1:09:131 hour, 9 minutes, 13 secondsamended there's a reason why CEOs make a lot of money is because you have a lot of responsibility so you you are the number
1:09:211 hour, 9 minutes, 21 secondsone educator in this entire District you're the buck with you you're in charge and I was on my way to recommend
1:09:281 hour, 9 minutes, 28 secondsa 7% raise because I I'd count for the step to be honest with you and I think when we negotiated salary I wanted to pay you more than them I've seen the
1:09:371 hour, 9 minutes, 37 secondstsba salary surveys we're we're not high on your your salary is not all that high
1:09:441 hour, 9 minutes, 44 secondscompared to um compared to the state right so I I I completely understand
1:09:511 hour, 9 minutes, 51 secondswhere you're at I think it's I think it's Noble and I appreciate it Tim remembers all
1:09:591 hour, 9 minutes, 59 secondsthe conversations we had y I remember them but that being that all being said know if we'd like to pay you some money
1:10:071 hour, 10 minutes, 7 secondsgraciously accept it I struggle with it we tried to give it to you a year ago I struggle with it
1:10:151 hour, 10 minutes, 15 secondsthen no would you we do we have a motion on the table
1:10:211 hour, 10 minutes, 21 secondsor not yes I'm making a motion 00 24 what I I'm making a motion to do $5,000
1:10:291 hour, 10 minutes, 29 secondscan you second it Mr will I mean I can yeah second I think you was motion to a
1:10:361 hour, 10 minutes, 36 secondssecond roll call vote
1:10:481 hour, 10 minutes, 48 secondsplease to amend the contract to add an addendum for a $5,000 raise in 2425 is that correct
1:10:561 hour, 10 minutes, 56 secondsthank you Shar okay Mr Hobs yes Mr hudgin yes Mr Lan yes Mr
1:11:041 hour, 11 minutes, 4 secondsWillis I'm GNA skull as long as I can before I give the answer just to enjoy
1:11:111 hour, 11 minutes, 11 secondsMr Mull's yeser yes now thank you what we'll need
1:11:211 hour, 11 minutes, 21 secondsto do is write up a Amendment bring it back for all of us sign like we
1:11:301 hour, 11 minutes, 30 secondsdid motion carries move on to the next one oh for
1:11:371 hour, 11 minutes, 37 secondsthose of you that his evaluation is on there which was thing we have to do by law it's it's there also for you to look
1:11:441 hour, 11 minutes, 44 secondsat under that particular section so unless anybody wants to discuss it I do think that when the new board is elected
1:11:511 hour, 11 minutes, 51 secondsand uh whoever comes out that y'all need to do another uh go go over it and make sure
1:12:001 hour, 12 minutesall of the items are what needs to be there's still some covid stuff on there that I don't think needs to be there
1:12:081 hour, 12 minutes, 8 secondsunless you guys know something I don't know about Co coming back up again now there were several questions
1:12:151 hour, 12 minutes, 15 secondson just kind but anyway it's there look at excuse me everybody get yours turned
1:12:211 hour, 12 minutes, 21 secondsin this time it's the last the last one I was uh we I think we bugged him and he finally got
1:12:301 hour, 12 minutes, 30 secondsit in that's what I thought all of our names were listed on several times for where we got to go through but uh and
1:12:371 hour, 12 minutes, 37 secondsour self evaluations there too which needs to be looked at probably not as as much because there's four people for
1:12:471 hour, 12 minutes, 47 secondschange or election or coming back whichever uh next one is board policies and Misty that's yours yes what did we
1:12:561 hour, 12 minutes, 56 secondsskip oh sorry we skip we skip something no not yet no not yet sorry no coming up
1:13:041 hour, 13 minutes, 4 secondsso we do have several um up with changes because of a legislative um session and so those were
1:13:141 hour, 13 minutes, 14 secondssent to you I'll be happy to go through each one or if you feel confident Shar Sher and know if you feel comfortable
1:13:211 hour, 13 minutes, 21 secondsthat you've had time to look at that um the ones that are up for first reading or if you have any questions I'll try my
1:13:291 hour, 13 minutes, 29 secondsbest to answer them the most ofes were just new because they there were new policies like
1:13:371 hour, 13 minutes, 37 secondslegislature and so they had to make a poli B there not new policies but there changes to current policy there was one
1:13:441 hour, 13 minutes, 44 secondsnew policy and it was for the use of artificial intelligence programs and when we when I did the webinar with them
1:13:531 hour, 13 minutes, 53 secondsit's very new to them too so they expect lots of more a lot more information and changes this is just to get a policy in
1:14:021 hour, 14 minutes, 2 secondsplace which policy that be 4.24 and um the rest of them were
1:14:091 hour, 14 minutes, 9 secondspolicies that we already had in place but then there were just some changes or to those policies and for your information all of
1:14:181 hour, 14 minutes, 18 secondsthose there's a lot of them she referred to public policy so and so in there there is a sheet or there's a site you
1:14:261 hour, 14 minutes, 26 secondscan go to the state site and you click on the public policy and it'll give you more detail if you you want to see what's there because public policy and
1:14:361 hour, 14 minutes, 36 secondsthen law and all it gets kind of complicated if you want to I have before put that on here but you can't click on it it's when the way we do it on AR you
1:14:451 hour, 14 minutes, 45 secondscan't now I know Miss Banker receives it I figure right she so you all should get
1:14:521 hour, 14 minutes, 52 secondsmost of what I get and from that email from tsba you should be able to click on those public chapters if you want to read I only have one question and it's
1:15:021 hour, 15 minutes, 2 secondsabout policy 5307 that's the one about Thea on the teachers I believe M
1:15:111 hour, 15 minutes, 11 secondsum the uh special ed students are still
1:15:181 hour, 15 minutes, 18 secondstreated um differently under discipline for that or no do you
1:15:261 hour, 15 minutes, 26 secondsknow I speak to that yes go ahead um I think it would depend on what the child's exceptionality is okay uh a
1:15:351 hour, 15 minutes, 35 secondschild with a learning disability that made that mistake U their exceptionality wouldn't be a cause for that but if a
1:15:441 hour, 15 minutes, 44 secondschild had Oppositional Defiant Disorder and so you have to look at the exceptionality of the child make a
1:15:521 hour, 15 minutes, 52 secondsdetermination if the exceptionality calls the this behavior and goal there okay I just wanted to make sure that right and the information we received
1:16:001 hour, 16 minutesmainly was just to say that this was once just uh for Teacher now it's for any employee okay is really what it
1:16:071 hour, 16 minutes, 7 secondsaddressed in that way and special they require uh uh special manifestations and all that they get they get a lot extra
1:16:171 hour, 16 minutes, 17 secondsyes sir do you have something uh so when concerning uh policy
1:16:231 hour, 16 minutes, 23 seconds4214 uh I think it would be pertinent to include a very plain text uh point in
1:16:311 hour, 16 minutes, 31 secondsthe policy that says uh students submitting artificially generated work
1:16:381 hour, 16 minutes, 38 secondsand as uh you know as a substitute for actually creative work is
1:16:471 hour, 16 minutes, 47 secondscheating so if you you know turn in an essay that is artificially generated that would be cheating you think it
1:16:561 hour, 16 minutes, 56 secondsneeds a specification I think it needs to be in play text so that way there is no arguing but oh it's not directly in
1:17:041 hour, 17 minutes, 4 secondsthe bill so it's technically legal I don't it need to I think that would also come under the direction of your principal and your teacher and our CB us
1:17:131 hour, 17 minutes, 13 secondsand their information that goes out that they for their class that they would address it for that every uh is it still
1:17:211 hour, 17 minutes, 21 secondsrequired that old teacher put out a syllabus type what's required in their class and so that should be part of
1:17:281 hour, 17 minutes, 28 secondseverybody it this is my great I know I had to put one out tell you how I graded what was going to be accomplished for
1:17:351 hour, 17 minutes, 35 secondsthe year and what I expected and it's still being still being worked on because but I I mean it's a great
1:17:451 hour, 17 minutes, 45 secondssuggestion you may you look at that and give us some suggestions the next one so
1:17:511 hour, 17 minutes, 51 secondsunder the informational items on the uh data sheet this employ concealed carry
1:18:001 hour, 18 minuteslaw this is not a policy but it was on them when they send these out after
1:18:081 hour, 18 minutes, 8 secondstheir um sessions they always send informational items and on the information items it's not it doesn't
1:18:151 hour, 18 minutes, 15 secondsimpact a change in policy but it is information that they send out that you might need to know and be aware of um
1:18:211 hour, 18 minutes, 21 secondsand so that was under that section so it I mean I it says if the district would like to utilize an option like
1:18:291 hour, 18 minutes, 29 secondsthis tsba recommend speak to the board attorney and the district's insur it says these changes to state law place of decision-making Authority with chief
1:18:371 hour, 18 minutes, 37 secondschief local law enforcement agency principal and the director of schools um I
1:18:461 hour, 18 minutes, 46 secondsguess where are are where are we on
1:18:521 hour, 18 minutes, 52 secondsthe has no say oh well technically yeah technically the vo is over the director
1:19:011 hour, 19 minutes, 1 secondso yeah so so we have no decision no according to the legislators they say
1:19:081 hour, 19 minutes, 8 secondsthat we do since we are over the director but there's an awful lot of
1:19:151 hour, 19 minutes, 15 secondstraining an awful lot of Hoops to jump through I don't see us pursuing that anytime soon
1:19:221 hour, 19 minutes, 22 secondsmyself that's a that's a good good senses of uh we haven't ped M Emerson
1:19:291 hour, 19 minutes, 29 secondsabout this but m m maluan being in charge of safety hold the other seven principles and uh and I have spoken with
1:19:371 hour, 19 minutes, 37 secondsthe sheriff um right now teachers caring is not an
1:19:451 hour, 19 minutes, 45 secondsidea that we Embrace at this time yes so was just information it's it's
1:19:521 hour, 19 minutes, 52 secondscomplicated if uh if you're if your teacher and and your principal agre to this and your uh director agre to this
1:20:011 hour, 20 minutes, 1 secondand the chief the sherff or Grace to it you have to send the letter home to all your parents that that Mr Mr CH do has
1:20:091 hour, 20 minutes, 9 secondspermission to to carry there there's just a there's just a there's just a lot interesting would you say it's something you struggle with
1:20:181 hour, 20 minutes, 18 secondsit's not what they originally thought that was going to be because the idea was nobody would know your car it and you wouldn't be a
1:20:261 hour, 20 minutes, 26 secondsTarget but now it's your Target and I can't imagine Any teacher that would want to do it on the current legal
1:20:331 hour, 20 minutes, 33 secondssystem and I don't think we should even waste much time talking about it there's not much concealed about it if if
1:20:411 hour, 20 minutes, 41 secondseverybody knows about it no if it's ever you have to send a letter home what say Miss Sher I got the what I read was the
1:20:491 hour, 20 minutes, 49 secondslaw said that they were uh kept secret other than the director in princi let's so yes you have something from my
1:20:581 hour, 20 minutes, 58 secondsunderstanding and reading it you have to uh give notification to any parent that that
1:21:051 hour, 21 minutes, 5 secondsteacher so if Misty is a student and she is in my classroom I have to notify all those parents because they have the
1:21:131 hour, 21 minutes, 13 secondsright to ask to have their child removed from that classroom and go to a different class see that's not what originally they started they manipulated
1:21:201 hour, 21 minutes, 20 secondsso like I said I don't I don't think it deserves a whole lot of discussion and all that because it's it's not
1:21:281 hour, 21 minutes, 28 secondsworth at this point in time I it's not that the kids are not worth protecting because I have my own philosophy about protecting the kids I think you got a
1:21:371 hour, 21 minutes, 37 secondslot of people out there that's qualified that's highly qualified as much as a a deputy is qualified to protect their
1:21:431 hour, 21 minutes, 43 secondskids and and the kids in your classroom but it's it's too complicated some some parents just don't want to take that
1:21:511 hour, 21 minutes, 51 secondschance so I hope nothing ever seriously happens all right L I think it's it Des
1:21:581 hour, 21 minutes, 58 secondsit's got too much discussion as it is I'll make a motion to approve all of the revised board policies in section XL1
1:22:071 hour, 22 minutes, 7 secondsfor the first reading second that second and by Doug Lane all in favor say I
1:22:161 hour, 22 minutes, 16 secondsI okay Miss D you have something coming up see um we have one up for second reading and it was the student wellness
1:22:241 hour, 22 minutes, 24 secondsum to add on page two at the end of line 24 the following sentence School cafeterias restrict the cell caffeinated energy
1:22:361 hour, 22 minutes, 36 secondsdrinks what was this our provision no this this came from
1:22:431 hour, 22 minutes, 43 secondsCA does does restrict mean prohibit or does it it means just that
1:22:511 hour, 22 minutes, 51 secondsthe cafeteria is not going to sell um red s um and C highly caffeine beverages
1:22:591 hour, 22 minutes, 59 secondsthey SP they're you know regular sodas but just the you know Mega doses of caffeine
1:23:071 hour, 23 minutes, 7 secondsstudents is it's targeted mingly for the energy drinks wasn't it energy drinks it says specifically energy drinks in
1:23:151 hour, 23 minutes, 15 secondsenergy drinks which are the high doses of it had but we still provide as much coffee as we want High School coffee in
1:23:241 hour, 23 minutes, 24 secondsgot it's elevated in in caffeine but it's nowhere near a monster drink or a a red Co yes but those are specifically
1:23:321 hour, 23 minutes, 32 secondsintendance to match like two or three cups of coffee which are very easy to acquire so it's cool so you talk about
1:23:401 hour, 23 minutes, 40 secondsban and coffee you get to pitch fors and exactly so I mean I don't want to B coffee not coffee I'm just thinking we
1:23:481 hour, 23 minutes, 48 secondshad an incident that hit me f High School back in the day when a student drank seven kicks kickstarts and went off and an ambulance so since then we
1:23:571 hour, 23 minutes, 57 secondssaid no more but I just wanted to put it in our wellness policy that we would not we don't sell it now I just would like to go just to enhance our Wellness Poli
1:24:061 hour, 24 minutes, 6 secondspolicy I I agree with it I just think the wording should say school cafeteria prohibit okay the sale of
1:24:131 hour, 24 minutes, 13 secondscinet because restrict might mean just regulate or limit how many you could buy or something like that and if we really
1:24:211 hour, 24 minutes, 21 secondswant to prohibit it so I'll I'll motion to approve um 6
1:24:291 hour, 24 minutes, 29 seconds6411 with the revision on page two line 24 to change the word restrict to prohibit okay I'll second
1:24:381 hour, 24 minutes, 38 secondsthat all in favor say I I I all the FES no opposition motion carries the next is
1:24:461 hour, 24 minutes, 46 secondsstill you miss I know thank Mr R still you and I'm still scrolling through here the these are just your
1:24:551 hour, 24 minutes, 55 secondspolicies that you have up for review every month um so 4.24 to 4212 just up to review make a
1:25:031 hour, 25 minutes, 3 secondsmotion to approve 4204 to 4212 under EXL 3
1:25:121 hour, 25 minutes, 12 secondsthere second by Jim all in favor say I I carries no
1:25:191 hour, 25 minutes, 19 secondsopposition next is Vance hey we got one for Vance yes thank you Michelle and thank you you know I appreciate all the
1:25:271 hour, 25 minutes, 27 secondshard work you did on that I just realized this may be my my final contribution to board
1:25:371 hour, 25 minutes, 37 secondsPoli yeah
1:25:391 hour, 25 minutes, 39 seconds[Laughter]
1:25:421 hour, 25 minutes, 42 secondsthat's s so there there was um concerns by uh community members about
1:25:511 hour, 25 minutes, 51 secondsthis uh the concerns I think more than just me I think some others got messages
1:25:571 hour, 25 minutes, 57 secondstoo um and it was it was to to people were concerned about
1:26:051 hour, 26 minutes, 5 secondsmaintaining the top 10 ranking all the all the grades not just maintain it for high school and there was some discussion about getting rid of
1:26:121 hour, 26 minutes, 12 secondsthat and that got some attention um so all this is is it's a revision to the policy that from a high
1:26:201 hour, 26 minutes, 20 secondslevel just requires that we do a top 10 ranking for freshman through senior not just senior I think I think eighth grade
1:26:271 hour, 26 minutes, 27 secondsdoes tops in too so the policy if you want to sustain what you currently have you might want to include eighth grade
1:26:351 hour, 26 minutes, 35 secondsso I I'm not saying I want to sustain what we currently have
1:26:421 hour, 26 minutes, 42 secondsum but I definitely think freshman and enough but this is up for first reading and modification so if somebody wants to
1:26:511 hour, 26 minutes, 51 secondsadd a grade to this by all means do I just point out that currently that's that's the grades 8 through 12 and it and it wasn't
1:26:591 hour, 26 minutes, 59 secondsrequired by policy it was just done that way um so if you look at what's in in red is what's been revised so I just
1:27:081 hour, 27 minutes, 8 secondschanged it to where it said ranking among the top high school seniors I just Chang it students and I put a heading here so that one whole section is about
1:27:161 hour, 27 minutes, 16 secondshigh school seniors um and then I added the section about High School freshman sophomores and juniors um and you could usually
1:27:241 hour, 27 minutes, 24 secondsrevise this to say 8th grade freshman um toop and juniors um uh may I make
1:27:331 hour, 27 minutes, 33 secondscomment here uh let me finish kind of reviewing it for a second Jack okay
1:27:391 hour, 27 minutes, 39 secondsum the other thing that um I I think I kind of changed is that I said
1:27:481 hour, 27 minutes, 48 secondsranking uh so so for the most part ranking is really half of the previous year the last half of the previous year
1:27:561 hour, 27 minutes, 56 secondsand the first half of the year you're in is what's used um and how I wrote this was kind of ignore hey I wrote this as
1:28:061 hour, 28 minutes, 6 secondsif Clean Slate when you start your freshman year so your freshman ranking is just based on that first half of the
1:28:131 hour, 28 minutes, 13 secondsyear that's how it is um okay and uh and then the the remaining ones are the last
1:28:211 hour, 28 minutes, 21 secondsthe last half of the previous year so okay good I figured that's how I should be I don't know if it was like yeah that's what that is okay I think we need
1:28:291 hour, 28 minutes, 29 secondsto take into consideration what the staff and principes and the counselors
1:28:361 hour, 28 minutes, 36 secondswant to um because I've heard from several of them um that they don't feel like it's
1:28:451 hour, 28 minutes, 45 secondsin the best interest um I know the parents want the top 10
1:28:521 hour, 28 minutes, 52 secondsand I understand completely CU I was a parent that had two kids that were in the top 10 but I think we need to take
1:29:011 hour, 29 minutes, 1 secondinto account with the St and I think uh what they want to and their feelings so I think we need to let them have some
1:29:081 hour, 29 minutes, 8 secondsinput on this so what's the what I'm just curious you heard from some folks what was the concern what's the negative
1:29:161 hour, 29 minutes, 16 secondseffect of they want to do it for the seniors um only and they want to honor
1:29:231 hour, 29 minutes, 23 secondsmore students as far as like their grades like let's say they make a 97 or above
1:29:321 hour, 29 minutes, 32 secondsthey want to honor more students that way so there will be more students that'll be honored than just the top 10 and and this wouldn't prevent that this
1:29:401 hour, 29 minutes, 40 secondswould just require there to be a top 10 in addition to anything else right so this just like right now what the school
1:29:481 hour, 29 minutes, 48 secondsdistricts is doing is in excess of the policy really right it doesn't mean that you're limited to do only what's in the
1:29:551 hour, 29 minutes, 55 secondsnew version right you could still do if you wanted to recognize all the students that had a 97 or higher but I I
1:30:041 hour, 30 minutes, 4 secondspersonally know lots of parents also who um you know top 10 really matters and
1:30:121 hour, 30 minutes, 12 secondsand giving them a preview of where they stand building up to you know to achieve top 10 you
1:30:221 hour, 30 minutes, 22 secondsknow is important this very important to them uh as I said I see it both ways so so
1:30:301 hour, 30 minutes, 30 secondsthe you're according to this all grades earned in 9 10 11 and
1:30:391 hour, 30 minutes, 39 secondsthe first semester of 12 are counted toward your senior top 10 so what you're doing your very first year is going to
1:30:461 hour, 30 minutes, 46 secondsmatter on your graduating top 10 so um I just still don't understand what the the
1:30:551 hour, 30 minutes, 55 secondsdownside is like you could still do additional recognition if you want Jack as a receiver of this you K yeah uh I
1:31:041 hour, 31 minutes, 4 secondshave some thoughts uh so my my first and foremost thing is that you know we uh as
1:31:121 hour, 31 minutes, 12 secondswe use Skyward as our grading system and the way to report it uh we have access
1:31:191 hour, 31 minutes, 19 secondsto not only free these years and the first semester of your current year you also have access by the time you know we
1:31:271 hour, 31 minutes, 27 secondsget to calculating it the third quarter of grade so that that way if we add that third quarter we would uh it would
1:31:371 hour, 31 minutes, 37 secondsimprove the basically standing goal of the top 10 which is to encourage academic excellence and make it a little
1:31:451 hour, 31 minutes, 45 secondscompetitive uh and so I wouldn't see why we wouldn't use that extra quarter of gr
1:31:521 hour, 31 minutes, 52 secondsand information to to encourage our students to continue to try and compete for that top 10 spot you know even if
1:32:011 hour, 32 minutes, 1 secondand not have you know oh it's the last quarter of whatever if if you want to encourage AC Excellence you can't just drop it you're
1:32:091 hour, 32 minutes, 9 secondstalking about the last half of senior Year yes last half senior year and I think the decision just needs to be made earlier than that I think
1:32:181 hour, 32 minutes, 18 secondsjust you have to have have a class ranking by Christmas so that that's so when you apply to colleges they want
1:32:271 hour, 32 minutes, 27 secondsknow your class Rank and all that so I think it's the time thanks Jack for your input M Patel you have anything since you're going to
1:32:351 hour, 32 minutes, 35 secondsbe a receiver of all this one of the concerns I'll say one of the concerns that was also brought to me
1:32:431 hour, 32 minutes, 43 secondsabout this was that it's not an accurate description of the top P well how how
1:32:521 hour, 32 minutes, 52 secondsthat's just what they said because I guess yes because it's only through the firstes well that that would only apply
1:32:581 hour, 32 minutes, 58 secondsafter the freshman year because all the subsequent years you take into the whole
1:33:041 hour, 33 minutes, 4 secondsyear before plus so every year after the freshman year we will get all we'll get all the grades yeah they
1:33:141 hour, 33 minutes, 14 secondsthey accumulate how I road is and it accumulates and I see it both ways but I still think that we need to
1:33:231 hour, 33 minutes, 23 secondsget stuff put too this one on what parameters
1:33:301 hour, 33 minutes, 30 secondsspecifically what I think the principles and the counselors and all that should have input on this I can share that the
1:33:391 hour, 33 minutes, 39 secondsprinciples and the counselors uh feel like the children who perform
1:33:471 hour, 33 minutes, 47 secondswell academically definitely need to be honored uh but they feel like
1:33:541 hour, 33 minutes, 54 secondsthe top 10 should be a culminating ranking at the end of the 12th grade year because we have people let's say
1:34:021 hour, 34 minutes, 2 secondsthey're the 10th grade valedictorian there's there's no such thing as as a 10th grade valedictorian the valedictorian is the person at the top
1:34:101 hour, 34 minutes, 10 secondsof the class at the end of the four years and it it it
1:34:171 hour, 34 minutes, 17 secondscreates it it brings recognition but it probably also creates some anxiety to some some students but I mean the world
1:34:241 hour, 34 minutes, 24 secondsis a competition I see I see both sides of it we were talking about uh we were talking about drawing a line and and
1:34:331 hour, 34 minutes, 33 secondsgiving great distinction to every 97 was talked about evidently somebody that was part of these conversations and then
1:34:411 hour, 34 minutes, 41 secondsword Leed out that we were talking about it and uh it it caused me to realize that this is a deeply entrenched
1:34:491 hour, 34 minutes, 49 secondstradition here you know so I'm fine with the poliy we have a motion on this policy uh all motion to approve
1:34:571 hour, 34 minutes, 57 secondson first reading are the revisions right yeah with the revision can I have a second from Mr H can I can I can I
1:35:051 hour, 35 minutes, 5 secondsinterrupt real quick now you have discussion more we we're getting out of order on the and I'll do it we should vote then
1:35:141 hour, 35 minutes, 14 secondshave a second then have discussion right Robert had to say that but anyway but I
1:35:211 hour, 35 minutes, 21 secondsused to think that too Doug but I and and I think by the strict following a I'm guilty I mean I'm yeah I jump right
1:35:291 hour, 35 minutes, 29 secondsin there it it I I used to feel the exact same way and I actually came around to be like you know what as long as it works
1:35:371 hour, 35 minutes, 37 secondsbecause R rules just to prevent roals like invented to prevent chaos chaos and people from not getting a participate
1:35:451 hour, 35 minutes, 45 secondsconversation and uh and I don't think it's an issue for us I I don't lose any sleep and every motion every idea does
1:35:531 hour, 35 minutes, 53 secondsnot have to have a motion and a second and all that formality if you want to discuss something and there's no motion to do anything afterwards you've had the
1:36:011 hour, 36 minutes, 1 seconddiscussion and talked about whatever it was and you move on I agree with you on that because you can get you can get bogged down in motions and seconds
1:36:101 hour, 36 minutes, 10 secondsbecause we have uh stuff that we discuss all the time and it goes nowhere and maybe we amend the policy where it tells
1:36:181 hour, 36 minutes, 18 secondsus to use Robert Ru that we will uh closely follow will attend follow all right so you have a motion in a
1:36:281 hour, 36 minutes, 28 secondssecond all in favor say I I anybody opposed so I guess it's still first reading first reading all right the
1:36:361 hour, 36 minutes, 36 secondsother thing here was uh that was added at this point was 1. 1206 and 1.26 it
1:36:441 hour, 36 minutes, 44 secondshas to do with Miss Patel Miss Patel is uh uh is is coming on board at the end
1:36:501 hour, 36 minutes, 50 secondsof the cycle here and I actually it's don't start until September the board policy says he or she shall be and this
1:36:591 hour, 36 minutes, 59 secondsis the selection by the principal shall be a current Hickman County high school or east Hickman high school student in
1:37:061 hour, 37 minutes, 6 secondsgood standing entering his junior or senior year that is a single sentence in itself and which is a requirement there
1:37:131 hour, 37 minutes, 13 secondsand I make a motion that we waver that because missel Miss Patel is not a junior or senior at this point however
1:37:211 hour, 37 minutes, 21 secondsshe has been to the Scopes conference so I need a second second have a second by Miss Baker Mr gav where where would you like
1:37:311 hour, 37 minutes, 31 secondsto see on uh CU I don't see him place for it well it's actually was added
1:37:371 hour, 37 minutes, 37 secondsunder uh X TN xl5 yeah so if you want to put it under
1:37:471 hour, 37 minutes, 47 secondssupposed to it's in in m m was the uh t cap Mr gam are UK of adding
1:37:551 hour, 37 minutes, 55 secondsa section for that uh I mean it's I don't de in I
1:38:081 hour, 38 minutes, 8 secondsyou add to it but I would suggest where would you like me up items requiring board action you've got uh comments that
1:38:171 hour, 38 minutes, 17 secondsyou can make there under the item X itself
1:38:241 hour, 38 minutes, 24 secondsyou see where you all go all the way back up to yes sir H you want an action there no just under comments just go in
1:38:331 hour, 38 minutes, 33 secondsand make that we that it was put there okay you want just a that we added X
1:38:421 hour, 38 minutes, 42 secondsL5 it would be that L is board policy so it wouldn't be L it' be yeah right it is
1:38:491 hour, 38 minutes, 49 secondsa it is a board it is a board Poli sorry so just just put that we added xl5 1.26
1:38:571 hour, 38 minutes, 57 secondsand wavered the uh we wavered the uh requirement for junior senior junior
1:39:041 hour, 39 minutes, 4 secondssenior welcome the board spee
1:39:121 hour, 39 minutes, 12 secondspiece and then and you have to get up and do a speech every day I kid you not you know
1:39:241 hour, 39 minutes, 24 secondsokay Mr gam is I correct in saying that I am putting this in a discussion under items requiring board action and then later on you are going to take that I
1:39:321 hour, 39 minutes, 32 secondsthink we can leave it under discussion fantastic and then we need to vote Yes do we need to vote we have a motion to
1:39:411 hour, 39 minutes, 41 secondsSecond are you with are we C up motion was by me second was
1:39:501 hour, 39 minutes, 50 secondsby Miss Baker Miss Baker okay all in favor say I all in favor
1:39:581 hour, 39 minutes, 58 secondssaid I and all was in favor short sentence be done with it I mean as long as it shows up in the
1:40:061 hour, 40 minutes, 6 secondsminutes I'm I'm and then let's see what else do we have now we're civil rights report I
1:40:151 hour, 40 minutes, 15 secondsasked to move that remember and that's uh I thought we was already going press it but we yeah and all we wanted was just an additional information on civil
1:40:241 hour, 40 minutes, 24 secondsrights report is that correct I want discussion oh you want discussion okay yeah I and I'm shocked that anybody else here doesn't want to discuss well you
1:40:331 hour, 40 minutes, 33 secondsbetter make a motion if you want to discuss go ahead I have some questions I
1:40:401 hour, 40 minutes, 40 secondsmean I since you made it nobody else should be shocked anyway yeah right but anyway
1:40:461 hour, 40 minutes, 46 secondsuh I just reflect back on you know I I decided to run for school board 2 and a half years ago and I said can I offer
1:40:541 hour, 40 minutes, 54 secondsyou know and I have no school educational teaching experience but uh I did work in Corporate America for uh the
1:41:031 hour, 41 minutes, 3 secondslast 11 years of 32 I was a district manager and I worked closely with human resources uh for largest Baker company in the world and uh and we looked at
1:41:131 hour, 41 minutes, 13 secondsTrend data we just looked at data all the time and we got a report with Trend data like this Human Resources would
1:41:211 hour, 41 minutes, 21 secondscall a meeting everybody body that was involved in this deciding these cases and what's going on here would be in
1:41:291 hour, 41 minutes, 29 secondstraining because of this data and you and it it's disturbing for me as I read it I got stuck on it just as I was
1:41:371 hour, 41 minutes, 37 secondsreading through this and just stayed in it and so uh if you look at the work we went from
1:41:451 hour, 41 minutes, 45 seconds47 total total number of harassment intimidation bullying or cyber bullying cases brought to the attention of school
1:41:531 hour, 41 minutes, 53 secondsofficials it went from 47 to 91 I think that's good I think we got a better environment since I've been here I think people were I think that's
1:42:021 hour, 42 minutes, 2 secondspositive that people are feeling like they can step forward because you I think that's a closer real number what
1:42:091 hour, 42 minutes, 9 secondswe've been getting but what concerns me is that after it was investigated only 35 cases were
1:42:171 hour, 42 minutes, 17 secondsconfirmed that means 56 cases were investigated and detered amended not true that fair to say they
1:42:261 hour, 42 minutes, 26 secondsgot through out it was Court they got through out 56 out of 91 got through out and so if you look in the data as you go
1:42:351 hour, 42 minutes, 35 secondsto go back five years you look at 1920 it was 24 out of 31 that got confirmed 27 out of 33 uh kind of
1:42:441 hour, 42 minutes, 44 secondsdropped in 22 percentages to where people reporting and then someone's investigating and uh and there and and
1:42:521 hour, 42 minutes, 52 secondsit's 56 cases 91 cases were brought in this category along and it's the big one and
1:43:021 hour, 43 minutes, 2 secondsuh and only 56 of them were were saying as a school district uh was not accurate or
1:43:101 hour, 43 minutes, 10 secondssomebody didn't tell the truth or something and I Like Somebody explain to me and maybe I should had to conversate
1:43:191 hour, 43 minutes, 19 secondswith Mr M how who how this work who investig how's this process work what my biggest fear is that reason that in
1:43:271 hour, 43 minutes, 27 secondsCorporate America you would have a HR would come in at this point and get together because to cover the company
1:43:361 hour, 43 minutes, 36 secondslegally because if I was an attorney and you know and I had some one of these people bring a case and i' say man they
1:43:441 hour, 43 minutes, 44 secondsthe school district said 56 out of 91 was bogus or wouldn't maybe that's not a good word but uh but so
1:43:541 hour, 43 minutes, 54 secondsI I what I fear is that we got one school I don't I just wonder what the process is we got one school first off
1:44:011 hour, 44 minutes, 1 secondI'd like to see which schools these 91 fell in then I'd like to see which
1:44:081 hour, 44 minutes, 8 secondsschools uh determined uh you can see more that way which schools determined that they wouldn't
1:44:151 hour, 44 minutes, 15 secondsaccurate and so uh you'd like to see more breakdown I would I'd like to see I don't see how it would hurt the privacy of the students
1:44:241 hour, 44 minutes, 24 secondsi' I'd like to see a report for the next meeting where uh this 91 cases in that first category that 35 by school and
1:44:341 hour, 44 minutes, 34 secondswhich schools determined uh they were a valid claims or not or confirm them after they investigate and I'd like to know the
1:44:431 hour, 44 minutes, 43 secondsprocess that are we what my concern is I I bet we check into it we're not using the same it's it's too
1:44:511 hour, 44 minutes, 51 secondssubjective I I say is one school may be using a variation of a process and know
1:44:581 hour, 44 minutes, 58 secondsI I I fear we're not doing the same applying the principles across the board AR a speculation at this point time we
1:45:071 hour, 45 minutes, 7 secondscan somebody answer more into this and and answer the questions in the detail that be you or oh do Dr Anderson go
1:45:151 hour, 45 minutes, 15 secondsahead Dr Anderson am I looking at this wrong with at the bottom it says that there are 71 cases that have been
1:45:231 hour, 45 minutes, 23 secondsresulted in some kind of disciplinary so yeah1 that is that wrong what I'm
1:45:331 hour, 45 minutes, 33 secondslooking at I Anderson or M I heard Mr L I'm not Mike El and I think he was supposed to speak on Mr mullen's asked
1:45:411 hour, 45 minutes, 41 secondsme to right so here's what I heard you say which I thought was a very valid point and I I think that's the number one piece of it is that we have people
1:45:501 hour, 45 minutes, 50 secondswho'll feel more comfortable communicating right hands down and you also said at the beginning of it too is that this number is probably a more
1:45:581 hour, 45 minutes, 58 secondsrealistic number right is what we're seeing over that time and so the 91 at first when I sat down with Mr Mullins and he and I discussed it I talked to Mr
1:46:061 hour, 46 minutes, 6 secondsElkins this afternoon too I'm sure M muuchan has looked in a while when we saw the 91 I we all went oh my and then
1:46:141 hour, 46 minutes, 14 secondswe started reading it and what it says is brought to the attention of the school officials and that means that there are people who are concerned who
1:46:211 hour, 46 minutes, 21 secondsare coming forward and and they're saying hey something's going on and there's a definition of bullying and it's a legal definition of it in there and then if you look at it they've been
1:46:301 hour, 46 minutes, 30 secondsthoroughly investigated I can assure you with that because I know how many meetings that Miss malan has to have with her people and then I also know
1:46:391 hour, 46 minutes, 39 secondswhat the principles are doing and they investigated and so we're looking at that and out of that many 35 were found to be valid okay so across that and I
1:46:481 hour, 46 minutes, 48 secondsand that category correct right because it's different if you reading category and I think that's the key to it and I think you are so right in saying that what we've worked on this year has been
1:46:561 hour, 46 minutes, 56 secondsthat culture of communication and do we feel more comfortable with it and coming from a business perspective yes if you saw this jump which is almost terrible
1:47:041 hour, 47 minutes, 4 secondsit's terrible Trend at yes it's terrible you're exactly right with that um but if you think about it you also have a shift
1:47:121 hour, 47 minutes, 12 secondsin leadership um uh at the top and everything goes top down whether you want it to or not it does with that part
1:47:191 hour, 47 minutes, 19 secondsof it and top down was let's be better communicators and let's be honest and people not only communicate to their school leaders they're communicating to
1:47:271 hour, 47 minutes, 27 secondstheir teachers students to there's better relationships but in addition to that they're also communicating with their superintendent and I think that's
1:47:341 hour, 47 minutes, 34 secondswhere you're seeing that number to at that piece there I think there's been a big learning curve this on what's bullying what's harassment what's this
1:47:411 hour, 47 minutes, 41 secondsand which is added to these numbers and more investigations thus and I think
1:47:491 hour, 47 minutes, 49 secondsthat's I think it'll level off over the years but it's a learn big learning curve this year and maybe more emphasis on uh
1:47:561 hour, 47 minutes, 56 secondsbully I would just encourage more I would just encourage more training if it was if it if I was running this school
1:48:031 hour, 48 minutes, 3 secondsdistrict I know I'm the people who are investigate and side I'm sure that's the I think corre correct me from wrong
1:48:111 hour, 48 minutes, 11 secondsassistant principl kind of the key to principal assistant principles but I but those are involved right absolutely and
1:48:191 hour, 48 minutes, 19 secondsthen we got Miss mugan right I'm safety safety and I would just encourage I would make sure that that everybody was proceeding
1:48:281 hour, 48 minutes, 28 secondsthe same way in all eight scho that's what I would do but am I correct we in your investigation pit let
1:48:371 hour, 48 minutes, 37 secondsme all that there were 71 out of yeah that's what I was going to say see the top category is the total the top
1:48:451 hour, 48 minutes, 45 secondscategory the 91 is the total uh number of harassment intimidation bullying cyber bullying
1:48:541 hour, 48 minutes, 54 secondstotal that's not1 35 of those were 35 of those were bullying seven of those were
1:49:021 hour, 49 minutes, 2 secondsbased on race see those got I read through it so but you understand that's 42 out of the 91 I what you're saying
1:49:101 hour, 49 minutes, 10 secondsbut the document is a little confusing to no I don't think that's correct so I think the second line there Compares
1:49:181 hour, 49 minutes, 18 secondsdirectly with the first line because the wording is the so I read it like 35 of the 91 were that that means the
1:49:261 hour, 49 minutes, 26 secondsdifference between 35 and 91 were like you know what I know you thought it was bullying it's not right which is good
1:49:341 hour, 49 minutes, 34 secondsthere's a legal defition for bul maybe not everybody understands the legal de I think the third look at the third line compared to the first line
1:49:431 hour, 49 minutes, 43 secondsit's the same it's the same wording except for the third line deals with race color or national Arin somebody use
1:49:501 hour, 49 minutes, 50 secondsthe slur yeah I think the third line though the seven is a is a piece of the 91 the 91 yes that's what I'm saying the
1:49:591 hour, 49 minutes, 59 seconds35 is a piece of the 91 the seven is the piece of the 91 the fourth line uh where
1:50:071 hour, 50 minutes, 7 secondsit gets to be well the piece of the seven that really occur are part of the
1:50:131 hour, 50 minutes, 13 seconds35 yeah yeah it's confusing and I think we talked about this last year I didn't me interrupt you but is this the
1:50:211 hour, 50 minutes, 21 secondsstandard form that the state yeah I think so I do I no longer do this but this is what I I did it before my
1:50:291 hour, 50 minutes, 29 secondsstarted doing this this is the form straight in that's what you said last year this is what they this is what they asking so the
1:50:371 hour, 50 minutes, 37 seconds91 um and I see what you're saying because as soon as Mike looked at the data he called me and he said Misty I
1:50:441 hour, 50 minutes, 44 secondssaid yes and he said they turned in ' 91 I said well it could have been the process Mike there could have been a
1:50:521 hour, 50 minutes, 52 secondsschool or two I don't know that started paying closer attention to everything because here's the thing it the 91 those
1:50:591 hour, 50 minutes, 59 secondsare allegations right that that could be just a kid coming up and saying but if you look he punched me and I think it's
1:51:071 hour, 51 minutes, 7 secondsbulling well they you know going to write that down but then when it's further investigated it didn't come out shake out as bullying but it was
1:51:151 hour, 51 minutes, 15 secondssomething else and that's why on down in there and you what Miss Sherry's talking about that 71
1:51:221 hour, 51 minutes, 22 secondsit may not have been bullying but it was still address it was still something it was something else it was not liability right but I do
1:51:321 hour, 51 minutes, 32 secondssee what you're saying because we've all I he said it's it's jump on this allegation piece but you just made my
1:51:391 hour, 51 minutes, 39 secondspoint you said that someone else was using the pro a different process well not a different process but the way they're documenting it may have been
1:51:471 hour, 51 minutes, 47 secondsdifferent they're still being trained the same but they just may have documented just retra some people and I think that's and we do it every year
1:51:561 hour, 51 minutes, 56 secondsbecause we're required to train them every year I think part of I think what part of escalated the 91 is we created a
1:52:041 hour, 52 minutes, 4 secondsculture where we want kids to come I agree with that we want them to come tell us and and and when you're dealing
1:52:111 hour, 52 minutes, 11 secondswith middle school kids uh sometimes uh I'm not trying to diminish anything we
1:52:191 hour, 52 minutes, 19 secondswe want every child to be respected at all times by other children and adults but sometimes middle school
1:52:271 hour, 52 minutes, 27 secondschildren you understand what I'm trying to say yeah some sometimes it's it is allegations and nothing yeah yeah like he's picking on me what did he hit you
1:52:361 hour, 52 minutes, 36 secondsno do he say anything to he no what's he doing he's looking at he's staring at me you know so that I don't know that made
1:52:431 hour, 52 minutes, 43 secondsit to the 91 but so all all that discussion aside line two the bullying
1:52:521 hour, 52 minutes, 52 secondscases that did occur yeah is up yeah that's also trending up yeah but it but
1:52:591 hour, 52 minutes, 59 secondsit also could be because uh we had leaders at schools
1:53:061 hour, 53 minutes, 6 secondsthat decided to take issues on head on instead of maybe not taking them head on
1:53:131 hour, 53 minutes, 13 secondsand your wife works at one of those schools can I say something else about this we had a very passionate discussion
1:53:201 hour, 53 minutes, 20 secondsduring our budget about how we got to figure out how many students we don't have come to our school 600 there 600
1:53:271 hour, 53 minutes, 27 secondsand we was going to our plan was to we've been tolded that for the County Commissioners I was there that you presented and we was going to we was
1:53:351 hour, 53 minutes, 35 secondsgoing to figure out some way to get those students to come back and I think this is one part of it it definitely is
1:53:431 hour, 53 minutes, 43 secondsthis is one part of there could be some students not coming to parents coming to school because they feel like their kids
1:53:501 hour, 53 minutes, 50 secondsare getting picked off absolutely that's I hear it all the time and this if you were a parent thinking about putting your kids in school this report would
1:53:581 hour, 53 minutes, 58 secondstell you now I don't think I'm going to cuz look how many I hat to bring it up but I just I mean yes and no I think it shows that
1:54:081 hour, 54 minutes, 8 secondsthey they've taken a different approach and now there's more proactive approach instead of a reactive come forward and
1:54:161 hour, 54 minutes, 16 secondstell so if I make one more thing what you were saying about the line 35 and then the 7 that's exactly right so the seven that
1:54:251 hour, 54 minutes, 25 secondswere I don't know what it says part of that that5 these were yeah
1:54:321 hour, 54 minutes, 32 secondsbased on race these were based on this these were based yeah but you don't want this to be all down all
1:54:401 hour, 54 minutes, 40 secondsoccurred reports that didn't occur we're sitting here 12 months and this is 182 and it if it goes what if it goes up
1:54:481 hour, 54 minutes, 48 secondsby the same percent we pay that's all I'm saying I don't know that I would call it
1:54:581 hour, 54 minutes, 58 secondsbut I think that looks like something was done you
1:55:051 hour, 55 minutes, 5 secondsall I say I'd hate to sit go with higher than if he keeps pring up I mean if it just keeps pring at some point it will
1:55:131 hour, 55 minutes, 13 secondslevel off you know right but we created a culture so this year our excuse is our excuse but we believe I believe I
1:55:211 hour, 55 minutes, 21 secondsbelieve wholeheartly the culture and the environment is better for reporting and they feel like they want to something forward but now next
1:55:301 hour, 55 minutes, 30 secondsyear I mean if it's higher if I don't know I just know what I don't see an uh I just don't I just want to
1:55:381 hour, 55 minutes, 38 secondsknow what the action plan is is I you know well I mean the actions the actions are here there's disciplinary action and
1:55:451 hour, 55 minutes, 45 secondsthere's 70 of those I mean cuz I look at that too like what are we doing about it in you we're
1:55:551 hour, 55 minutes, 55 secondsdisciplining Mr M I don't think we get this about Michelle we don't get this data by school do we I we don't we do we have to get it by
1:56:031 hour, 56 minutes, 3 secondsschool to get these totals but we don't report it by school to the state they don't want they don't want it like that this is how they want it well I was just
1:56:111 hour, 56 minutes, 11 secondsmaking sure to rep that we don't get this from the federal government this is this is from the federal government we don't get this by school this is
1:56:191 hour, 56 minutes, 19 secondsinternal we we it to the data did this last year I remember last year I remember Miss did said was the standard
1:56:261 hour, 56 minutes, 26 secondsform yes sir we the only thing I would say about that is if we get to see the
1:56:341 hour, 56 minutes, 34 secondsdata the entire public is to see well all I want to see is what good and I don't know that we want to show it by
1:56:421 hour, 56 minutes, 42 secondsschool to the public I think we I think we want to charge our leadership here to
1:56:491 hour, 56 minutes, 49 secondssay uh you guys know which schools are hotpots focus on that but I don't know
1:56:571 hour, 56 minutes, 57 secondsknow they do they it's being addressed with your new Administration just we would have to
1:57:051 hour, 57 minutes, 5 secondsknow we'll be we'll be here next year I'll be we look I went back last year and I looked at it this month every year we reported I will tell you one thing
1:57:131 hour, 57 minutes, 13 secondsthat I've heard and and I've heard it from the high school administrators
1:57:201 hour, 57 minutes, 20 secondsum that their biggest concern with the harassment ination bullying cyber bullying is the cell phones in the
1:57:291 hour, 57 minutes, 29 secondsschools yes B because they say that kids are airdropping taking pictures of yeah know I know I know stud I know students
1:57:371 hour, 57 minutes, 37 secondsthat have to in a class they were saying are you texting me and it was another kid dropped something and it went to their phone like it was from her phone I
1:57:451 hour, 57 minutes, 45 secondsthink all we need to know as a board if they got an action plan I mean if you want some I think
1:57:521 hour, 57 minutes, 52 secondswhat that they're doing maybe let us know at the next meeting a few bullets on what they're doing and leave it up to
1:58:011 hour, 58 minutes, 1 secondthem all I was going to say is at some point the total number should Trend down
1:58:081 hour, 58 minutes, 8 secondsright if the discipline is working right is that accurate if the discipline is working right that number at some point
1:58:181 hour, 58 minutes, 18 secondsshould start trending out now how long do you wait for that I I don't know well no offense to Mr Steven back there uh
1:58:271 hour, 58 minutes, 27 secondsbus home bus bus problem we we uh we know that our behavior on buses has to
1:58:351 hour, 58 minutes, 35 secondsimprove and uh we know that and no so I will can I get back this one I'll shut up uh these these last two columns
1:58:441 hour, 58 minutes, 44 secondshere it kind of tells you the last three the the the severe action that you talking about vancey you look at the
1:58:521 hour, 58 minutes, 52 secondsthird from the bottom it says total number of harassment intimidation bullying or cyber bullying cases resting in any disciplinary action other Den our
1:59:011 hour, 59 minutes, 1 secondschool suspension that was most of it that was that was so we don't see total number of harassment intimidation bullying case look in an out of school
1:59:091 hour, 59 minutes, 9 secondssuspension less than 10 days zero and you had one 10 days or more so we really didn't put
1:59:161 hour, 59 minutes, 16 secondsanybody out of the school system that was I think that's stake they took appropriate action based on the
1:59:241 hour, 59 minutes, 24 secondssituation which they have the authority to well misson you got something I I can just speak to that a little bit we do have obviously for for the bullying
1:59:331 hour, 59 minutes, 33 secondssevere fenses that's going to be the 10 or more days we do have a process where we only had one out of eight schools last year so we we have certain offenses
1:59:431 hour, 59 minutes, 43 secondsjust speaking from the last year where we're going to try to nip it them by the beginning and we do have a process first offense second offense third offense and
1:59:511 hour, 59 minutes, 51 secondsthat scho suspension is usually I I'll speak to IIs scho
1:59:581 hour, 59 minutes, 58 secondssuspension I just finished my first year and uh there has been in the past direction from this office to the
2:00:062 hours, 6 secondsschools to not use out schill suspension and I don't necessarily agree with that
2:00:132 hours, 13 secondsI don't NE I don't necessarily agree yeah you don't want a child to miss school but it but at the same time
2:00:222 hours, 22 secondswe we don't have a lot of uh consequences in our arsenal we have no Saturday school we have uh uh so all we
2:00:322 hours, 32 secondshave we have no after school detentions you know so we don't have a lot of consequences to to to place on
2:00:392 hours, 39 secondschildren we used to have Saturday school years ago didn't we we don't anym we don't have Saturday school we don't have after school detention so so in school
2:00:482 hours, 48 secondssuspension or alternative school or two main consequences so 70 out of 71 had in school suspension and you had one that
2:00:572 hours, 57 secondswas put out of school um probably went of the alter that's what I said right so on that report would would uh
2:01:042 hours, 1 minute, 4 secondsalternative school be on that report Miss Shelton would alter what would alternative school be it would be your
2:01:122 hours, 1 minute, 12 secondsuh 10 days or more or less so so some of those S could have gone to alter school I think that reports talk about who got
2:01:182 hours, 1 minute, 18 secondssuspended out of school okay so there there there there there was an emphasis not to suspend children out of school
2:01:262 hours, 1 minute, 26 secondsand I personally don't have a problem with suspending a child from a short period of time out of school if their behavior warranted and and that's been
2:01:342 hours, 1 minute, 34 secondsaffected it's just like paddling what it's just like paddling we don't paddle and some districts still paddle I'm not
2:01:412 hours, 1 minute, 41 secondsopposed to uh I'm not opposed to paddling but a lot of people here are you see them so so me clarify something
2:01:502 hours, 1 minute, 50 secondsso one was out of school discipline so only one would have
2:01:582 hours, 1 minute, 58 secondsbeen alternative school none of the 70 would have been alternative I don't know if that's right I don't know if alternative school is county is uh out
2:02:052 hours, 2 minutes, 5 secondsof school or not there a lot of unknowns here that we don't know and so yeah yeah but here's the bottom line our kids need
2:02:132 hours, 2 minutes, 13 secondsbehave better am me anytime they're stealing an education from the rest of the class there needs
2:02:212 hours, 2 minutes, 21 secondsto be some major appropriate action taken I would be all in favor of a Saturday school cuz we used to do it and
2:02:292 hours, 2 minutes, 29 secondsit work I thought it worked pretty good when the parents had to bring their kids out for Saturday school the only problem is you got to sta it you got to pay for
2:02:382 hours, 2 minutes, 38 secondsit that's so and it might be worth it if if they're stealing an education so so John you mentioned Tools in our Arsenal
2:02:462 hours, 2 minutes, 46 secondsyeah you got any idea yeah I after sco detention sat Saturday school policies that got to be changed yeah well there
2:02:542 hours, 2 minutes, 54 secondspolicies TI all this and make you know make recommendation that was what they followed was the board what the policies
2:03:032 hours, 3 minutes, 3 secondsthat we the board well the people the people that the people who have been principles here for several years shared
2:03:112 hours, 3 minutes, 11 secondswith me that they they were given Direction not to put children out school suspension and I and I don't agree with
2:03:182 hours, 3 minutes, 18 secondsthat if if you act up been up you need to go home for a few days because here's the reality if a child cannot behave appropriately at school it's most likely
2:03:262 hours, 3 minutes, 26 secondsthey don't behave as well as they should at home and their parents uh are are going to want them to behave better if they have to spent some time at home I
2:03:352 hours, 3 minutes, 35 secondswas a teacher they home for a day or two Jack I'm give you give you chance you're Ching at the bit there got
2:03:442 hours, 3 minutes, 44 secondssomething to say I would love to talk about have you have you been suspended or sent out don't let other stuff well I have before so okay so back in back in
2:03:542 hours, 3 minutes, 54 seconds8th grade and eighth grade yeah I was a real Rabel Rouser at some point uh yeah I was I was putting in school suspension
2:04:012 hours, 4 minutes, 1 secondbut what I'd like to talk about is sort of our disciplinary measures and actions and I will agree with John Mullins that
2:04:102 hours, 4 minutes, 10 secondsyou know in those 70 cases uh the use of in school suspension at least in the high school has been ultimately
2:04:182 hours, 4 minutes, 18 secondscompletely ineffective it is completely ineffective is T him out to a slap on the wrist and don't do that again why do
2:04:262 hours, 4 minutes, 26 secondsyou why do you say that and where you get your information from from talking to other students I've talked to other students I've talked to teachers on this
2:04:332 hours, 4 minutes, 33 secondsI've talked to those who uh coach Mr butry uh who runs the in school
2:04:402 hours, 4 minutes, 40 secondssuspension in ha County High School uh careful careful the
2:04:472 hours, 4 minutes, 47 secondsSayes the owl's on go ahead go ahead I've talked I've talked to people run
2:04:542 hours, 4 minutes, 54 secondsthese uh I and a lot of people a lot of the people who are in ISS are ultimately
2:05:022 hours, 5 minutes, 2 secondsrepeat offenders they're regulars they come back over and over and over again because ultimately it's not a effect of
2:05:092 hours, 5 minutes, 9 secondspunishment for them it's more of a cool hang than anything else uh and on the other hand alternative school I would
2:05:182 hours, 5 minutes, 18 secondssay is a much higher much greater uh punishment because it takes
2:05:262 hours, 5 minutes, 26 secondsthem out of that friend group takes them out of that social setting uh I think ultimately the use of out of school suspension or sending people home for
2:05:352 hours, 5 minutes, 35 secondsyou know a day two days 3 days would be a a really solid way to enforce uh that
2:05:442 hours, 5 minutes, 44 secondssense of discipline because I think one of the major problems with ISS is that it can be too easily concealed from
2:05:512 hours, 5 minutes, 51 secondsparents and parents who don't know about it from those kids that reent that over and over again uh the use of no inconvenience to them so yes there no
2:06:002 hours, 6 minutesinconvenience to them so in using high school suspension or Saturday school or
2:06:072 hours, 6 minutes, 7 secondsyou know after school attention would ultimately make their student students
2:06:142 hours, 6 minutes, 14 secondsuh uh discipline problems more apparent to the parent who ultimately has a much better
2:06:222 hours, 6 minutes, 22 secondsa chance and opportunity at correcting that problem okay thanks I appreciate that you got agree with M yes I agree
2:06:292 hours, 6 minutes, 29 secondswith Mr and all right on on the same note been 32 years in the high school and you're exactly right I've sent them
2:06:362 hours, 6 minutes, 36 secondsdown three days they come back with the same thing every other one did you talk to teachers Staffing it it was the same kids
2:06:452 hours, 6 minutes, 45 secondsday you put it back on the parents it's going to change of attitude I think that's something that Mr M work on more
2:06:532 hours, 6 minutes, 53 secondsthis year for what talking to him earlier bring it back to us next month I love to talk to you later this week or I
2:07:012 hours, 7 minutes, 1 secondmean is does this need to does this need to go and become a policy revision do this not point I think we need let them work on we like to get some
2:07:092 hours, 7 minutes, 9 secondsrecommendations from those this m team and what maybe some policies they need to adjust all right the next thing is uh
2:07:172 hours, 7 minutes, 17 secondst d uh just a brief on that uh whatever uh questions by anybody uh comments and
2:07:272 hours, 7 minutes, 27 secondslet Mr Mullen speak first um we have a little bit of
2:07:332 hours, 7 minutes, 33 secondsadditional data and then uh we
2:07:462 hours, 7 minutes, 46 secondsgot is the same thing State yeah that yeah
2:07:562 hours, 7 minutes, 56 secondsthat's a lot did yall have an extra one I had three to go this I'm
2:08:032 hours, 8 minutes, 3 secondssorry yeah so what you see here is uh last year's when a student takes a TCAP
2:08:122 hours, 8 minutes, 12 secondstest or an end of course test they they score meets expectation or exceeds
2:08:202 hours, 8 minutes, 20 secondsexpectations those kid or they're where they're supposed to be or they're above so the First Column tells you the grade
2:08:282 hours, 8 minutes, 28 secondslevel and then the second column is last year's results and then the third column is this year's results and the fourth
2:08:372 hours, 8 minutes, 37 secondscolumn is the areas in which we grew our results so in
2:08:452 hours, 8 minutes, 45 secondsuh 64% of these categories and and they're our math scores are not back
2:08:542 hours, 8 minutes, 54 secondsuh but in 60 we we grew the we grew the percent of kids who met are exceeded expectations which is a good thing which
2:09:032 hours, 9 minutes, 3 secondsis a good thing but if you look to the right the very last column that's the
2:09:112 hours, 9 minutes, 11 secondsuh uh that's the percent we are ahead or below the state
2:09:182 hours, 9 minutes, 18 secondsaverage so so we grew 16 of 25 categories but we're still below the
2:09:262 hours, 9 minutes, 26 secondsstate average in every Cate we're at the state average in three categories and we're below the state uh we're above the
2:09:342 hours, 9 minutes, 34 secondsstate average and only third fourth grade math is it yeah it is third grade math
2:09:422 hours, 9 minutes, 42 secondsthank thank you Mr Ma I hear a question about right there
2:09:492 hours, 9 minutes, 49 secondsuhhuh is that actually because our third grade's doing better or is it because our second grade teachers are doing a better job it's
2:09:572 hours, 9 minutes, 57 secondsit's prek to we doing better and then it culminated and it culminated in third right uh but here here here's here's the
2:10:052 hours, 10 minutes, 5 secondsreality we've been having a lot of discussion I I think I think this I think what parents want is the same
2:10:122 hours, 10 minutes, 12 secondsthing we want they want their they want their kids to be saved they want their kids to be respected and they want their kids to
2:10:202 hours, 10 minutes, 20 secondslearn and when you have those three characteristics in your
2:10:272 hours, 10 minutes, 27 secondsschools people want to come to your schools and this in these last two sets
2:10:342 hours, 10 minutes, 34 secondsof data the the the Civil Rights report and this
2:10:412 hours, 10 minutes, 41 secondsdata put a dent in all three of those you know my in my evaluation which I I I took very
2:10:492 hours, 10 minutes, 49 secondsserious uh and and reflected on it I I scored low on painting a vision or
2:10:562 hours, 10 minutes, 56 secondsMission my vision and Mission is this we need to have safe schools where everybody's respected and we need to and
2:11:042 hours, 11 minutes, 4 secondswe need to learn and we're capable we're capable of that the teachers here are very capable the students here are very
2:11:132 hours, 11 minutes, 13 secondscapable but there are things that aren happening that need to happen there is no reason
2:11:212 hours, 11 minutes, 21 secondsthat I can think of that Hickman County students and teachers should produce results that are below the state average
2:11:292 hours, 11 minutes, 29 secondsI don't believe it and it's my goal and vision to get us working with the team of people that are here there's no this isn't this isn't a project that I can do
2:11:392 hours, 11 minutes, 39 secondsby by myself we're we're going to get there and what you how you get there is what we did this year you sustain
2:11:482 hours, 11 minutes, 48 secondsgrowth we grew in 16 out of 25 C categories but we need to grow in 25 out of 25 and you grow and you grow and you
2:11:572 hours, 11 minutes, 57 secondsgrow and pretty soon you're above State average hey Jeff uh so I would like to speak to
2:12:052 hours, 12 minutes, 5 secondsthese uh metrics as well as uh possibly an additional recommendation for next month uh that you know I I believe that
2:12:142 hours, 12 minutes, 14 secondsthe growth scene here is uh what matters to the school board right now I think we need to focus on this because ultimately
2:12:222 hours, 12 minutes, 22 secondsthe fact that there's been a 64% growth across these categories is really solid is really solid I think what that is to
2:12:312 hours, 12 minutes, 31 secondsbe celebrated for us yeah that there is a especially marked improvement in our students and I think I would you know
2:12:392 hours, 12 minutes, 39 secondsgive my Credence to the teachers give my Credence to the students and faculty who have manag to do that uh but I would say
2:12:482 hours, 12 minutes, 48 secondsthat this this right category here is is our I would say you know fiveyear goal
2:12:552 hours, 12 minutes, 55 secondsline uh but I think uh these grade these this
2:13:022 hours, 13 minutes, 2 secondsstatistic and the previous statistic uh while great uh markers for us for policy
2:13:102 hours, 13 minutes, 10 secondsdecisions uh do not tell a full story for parents I think I would make a recommendation to add a third statistic
2:13:182 hours, 13 minutes, 18 secondsfor people to look at which would be St student satisfaction I would say uh you know have just a
2:13:262 hours, 13 minutes, 26 secondsdirect uh you know point to students that says how do you feel about your school
2:13:352 hours, 13 minutes, 35 secondsstudent experience this year and you know one out five however you want to do it but if we can get that
2:13:442 hours, 13 minutes, 44 secondsin i' say that would give parents a more complete every parent gets a more Det H
2:13:512 hours, 13 minutes, 51 secondsteap report am I correct you are correct for for their child for their child yeah that is broken down even that this is
2:14:002 hours, 14 minutesaccumulated and so they get they get to see a quite detailed report
2:14:082 hours, 14 minutes, 8 secondsfrom from what they're actually missing out on so and objectives that they don't know I think Jack is just trying to say
2:14:162 hours, 14 minutes, 16 secondsthat in order to show the public between the Heap and the Civil Rights report show the student
2:14:262 hours, 14 minutes, 26 secondssatisfaction too understand that and I understand I think that would be a good idea too because you know parents are
2:14:332 hours, 14 minutes, 33 secondsmaking the decision to either put their kid in the school system or to homeschool them or to send private
2:14:412 hours, 14 minutes, 41 secondsschool so and and you know you're saying this far right
2:14:472 hours, 14 minutes, 47 secondscolumn just like John said this far right column was is not selling our school to anybody right now and I think
2:14:562 hours, 14 minutes, 56 secondsthe thing to do here and and and this is just your first year I mean we don't we nobody expected you to like $100 green
2:15:042 hours, 15 minutes, 4 secondssay I think what in one year what has come what has happened is exceptional I mean I think I think that needs to be
2:15:112 hours, 15 minutes, 11 secondscommended yes I mean not trying to gas you up right like because I know you know Rome was a building a day I mean
2:15:182 hours, 15 minutes, 18 secondsyou can't you can't take where we were at and go you know go from a d to a a to a b in one year that's not going to
2:15:272 hours, 15 minutes, 27 secondshappen I but I do like with the exception of a couple colums and like I said I haven't seen the you know like the algebra and we feel good we feel
2:15:362 hours, 15 minutes, 36 secondsgood about the high school MTH good good because we we know what our uh we know we know what our data is compared to
2:15:432 hours, 15 minutes, 43 secondslast year we don't know what you know we don't they're going where the state's going to draw the line as far as meets expectation I mean I'm seeing third
2:15:502 hours, 15 minutes, 50 secondsgrade Ela I mean fourth grade ELA up 19% I'm seeing you know um biology up you
2:15:582 hours, 15 minutes, 58 secondsknow 22% I'm saying you know I mean those are some good and if you look on the far right yes we're we're minus the
2:16:072 hours, 16 minutes, 7 secondsstate average but only in a few categories are we really double digits in my and Absolut absolutely so so I am
2:16:172 hours, 16 minutes, 17 secondsI I think that's I think we're trending where we need to be trending and you know about five years I think I don't think it'll take five
2:16:252 hours, 16 minutes, 25 secondsyears even then even less than five you know three years whatever I feel like we will be on state average let me
2:16:342 hours, 16 minutes, 34 secondsuh so all I was saying to that is set a goal I want this Dr colum to be 75%
2:16:422 hours, 16 minutes, 42 secondsgreen by year so and so whatever said that goal it's two years from now years whatever it is yeah and if it's not
2:16:522 hours, 16 minutes, 52 secondsthen you know you're doing something wrong right you got to change you got to matter make an adjustment two things uh what the first thing is as a thumb Ru as
2:17:012 hours, 17 minutes, 1 seconda thumb Ru this is not a hard fact we have about 200 children per grade
2:17:082 hours, 17 minutes, 8 secondsbetween East Intermediate and Centerville intermediate so if you look at uh if you look at
2:17:182 hours, 17 minutes, 18 secondsuh fifth grade math we're we're we're 9% below that means we got to move 18
2:17:272 hours, 17 minutes, 27 secondskids so we're not talking about moving hundreds of kids at we if we move 18 kids
2:17:352 hours, 17 minutes, 35 secondsuh we move 9% yeah there you go I and the last thing is I put our our Focus
2:17:432 hours, 17 minutes, 43 secondsthis first year was culture our Focus was culture we couldn't come in here and start say saying we're going to do this
2:17:522 hours, 17 minutes, 52 secondswe're going to do this we're going to do this this is how it's going to be so we worked on culture and and at the end of
2:17:582 hours, 17 minutes, 58 secondsthe year uh there is a Statewide survey in 2023 52% of the teachers took the
2:18:062 hours, 18 minutes, 6 secondssurvey five out of eight schools met the threshold of having 45% if you didn't have 45% of your faculty to take the
2:18:152 hours, 18 minutes, 15 secondssurvey then the survey was not deemed uh valid valid thank you this year 88%
2:18:232 hours, 18 minutes, 23 secondsof uh our teachers took the survey and uh eight out of eight schools were de Val if you look at this
2:18:302 hours, 18 minutes, 30 secondssurvey uh you will see that uh the the first one the very first example there's a atmosphere of trust and mutual respect
2:18:382 hours, 18 minutes, 38 secondswithin our school we went from 79% to 93% 93% of the teachers either agreed or
2:18:452 hours, 18 minutes, 45 secondsstrongly agreed but we had to build relationships and we had to build trust our Focus for this year is
2:18:542 hours, 18 minutes, 54 secondsinstruction that's where our our focus is go I'm GNA go back to this our kids we need to make sure our
2:19:022 hours, 19 minutes, 2 secondschildren are safe we need to make sure our children are respectful and respected and we need to have uh quality instruction in every one of our
2:19:102 hours, 19 minutes, 10 secondsclassrooms and and and that is what our goal is and we believe that our teachers want that to they they Embrace what uh
2:19:192 hours, 19 minutes, 19 secondswhat initiatives that we have have been trying to get them to embrace the students here are very capable the teachers here are very capable it's it's
2:19:282 hours, 19 minutes, 28 secondsjust a matter of getting everyone focused on the the right processes the right procedures to be
2:19:362 hours, 19 minutes, 36 secondseffective if if your if your goal which sounds like was to improve the results
2:19:432 hours, 19 minutes, 43 secondsof this survey right our goal is culture if the culture is because this survey is all about culture that you knock it out of the par
2:19:512 hours, 19 minutes, 51 secondsbecause if you go through this we did it it is improved almost good stuff this is great
2:19:572 hours, 19 minutes, 57 secondsyeah but I will say I'm going disagree with you a little bit you talking about the the Civil Rights report Trend data
2:20:042 hours, 20 minutes, 4 secondsthis is great Trend that this is good Trend data here I mean you're trending up right very well I mean and and
2:20:132 hours, 20 minutes, 13 secondsso I say this about that those 90 incidences those 91 instances they hurt
2:20:202 hours, 20 minutes, 20 secondsthis yes they hurt this but they hurt this for a variety of reasons first of all our our teachers excuse me our
2:20:292 hours, 20 minutes, 29 secondsprinciples and our assistant principles it is their role to be instructional leaders and when they're buried under
2:20:362 hours, 20 minutes, 36 secondsdrama and when they're buried under harassment is time consuming and they can't get in classrooms and support
2:20:432 hours, 20 minutes, 43 secondsteachers in their growth so anytime we have misbehavior like that it creates strain on
2:20:522 hours, 20 minutes, 52 secondslearning but the culture is what turned all this scen absolutely the culture is anybody that's stealing an education
2:21:012 hours, 21 minutes, 1 secondfrom the rest of the group we need to take them so that they're not doing that I don't know what it takes I do Nathan I
2:21:082 hours, 21 minutes, 8 secondsgot some ideas and I know you do so I think that'll be the theme of next month ready to go I'm ready I'm I'm
2:21:162 hours, 21 minutes, 16 secondsexcited kudos to all the teachers absolutely absolutely AB absolutely and and I'm and I'm and I'm going say this
2:21:242 hours, 21 minutes, 24 secondsuh this is going this this is going to be a little bit of a strain for some of our teachers we have purchased a product
2:21:322 hours, 21 minutes, 32 secondscalled planbook planbook is going to allow teachers to put their lesson plans in a digital format where administrators
2:21:392 hours, 21 minutes, 39 secondscan see them in some instances our teachers are teaching very hard they're teaching very valuable data but uh very
2:21:472 hours, 21 minutes, 47 secondsvaluable information but what they're teaching is not in the course of study for that particular
2:21:572 hours, 21 minutes, 57 secondsclass yes you see what we learned uh we have a lady named Shannon Brit who is our secondary math coach and what she
2:22:052 hours, 22 minutes, 5 secondslearned was we're teaching Concepts that aren't in the in the standards they're valuable Concepts and they're something
2:22:132 hours, 22 minutes, 13 secondsthe teacher may like to teach but we have the teap and the end of course test are based on these standards we have to
2:22:212 hours, 22 minutes, 21 secondsteach the standards that the children are be tested on that's that's part of our discombobulation a little bit but we
2:22:292 hours, 22 minutes, 29 secondsdid well and and I I agree with Miss May's hats off to our teachers our principes our assistant principles and
2:22:362 hours, 22 minutes, 36 secondsour supervisors man new teachers have a tendency to pick up the textbook and teach from it rather than analyze the
2:22:432 hours, 22 minutes, 43 secondsobjectives and it it takes a a great effort to stick to the objectives and pick them only book you know what the
2:22:512 hours, 22 minutes, 51 secondsnumber one factor for student achievement is teach the number one factor Jack what do you think the number one factor is one
2:23:002 hours, 23 minuteswar the number one factor is student sucess student achievement student achievement in the classroom student
2:23:082 hours, 23 minutes, 8 secondsachievement would be categorized by teachers it's the teacher it's the teacher the teacher are the most important people
2:23:152 hours, 23 minutes, 15 secondshere yes that's the noral one factor so we we we have uh an opportunity to partner with our
2:23:242 hours, 23 minutes, 24 secondsteachers and grow and develop them and support them and make them better that's and that's our our function our Focus this next year is going to be on
2:23:332 hours, 23 minutes, 33 secondsinstruction any go ahead any other take questions no okay thank you for that the
2:23:402 hours, 23 minutes, 40 secondssecond part of that report I'd like to have hon go into the minutes yes the second two PS because I had the
2:23:472 hours, 23 minutes, 47 secondsfirst it was in it was in the last June meeting but it was under the consent agenda and we didn't talk about it the
2:23:552 hours, 23 minutes, 55 secondssecond part of that was yeah all right the next thing is uh let me see if we can get it straightened out
2:24:022 hours, 24 minutes, 2 secondshere since we kind of around is uh the the school board evaluation where we evaluate oursel it's that out there for
2:24:102 hours, 24 minutes, 10 secondsyou to look at uh uh on our s it's just information if you guys want
2:24:182 hours, 24 minutes, 18 secondsto talk about it or or save it and let the new board talk about their own evaluation uh that can do
2:24:252 hours, 24 minutes, 25 secondsthat uh announcements there's fundraiser request out there we don't usually spend a lot of time on those next regular
2:24:332 hours, 24 minutes, 33 secondsboard meeting is August the 5th 2024 here in this room uh tsba fall
2:24:412 hours, 24 minutes, 41 secondsconference is coming up uh in Lewis County on August the 29th and I would suggest the new elected
2:24:502 hours, 24 minutes, 50 secondsmembers be the ones that attend that since it's well it's two days what three days
2:24:582 hours, 24 minutes, 58 secondsbefore they sworn in I did if if you want to go just let uh man
2:25:052 hours, 25 minutes, 5 secondsuh M Deb is going be a well deserved the time limit you got to do it turn it in uh you can do it I mean
2:25:132 hours, 25 minutes, 13 secondsanytime the next through this month probably the rest of this month you let this debb know want to go
2:25:212 hours, 25 minutes, 21 secondsit so just let know and turn it in TSB a annual convention in November Tim Hobbs
2:25:292 hours, 25 minutes, 29 secondshas gone to those Michelle's gone to them uh I don't know who else has been to them you've been to them I think you
2:25:372 hours, 25 minutes, 37 secondsand I right now the Jim's been to them ones on here that have been to them and I've said it every year I didn't go last
2:25:442 hours, 25 minutes, 44 secondsyear it was right around thanksgiv we always a lot of it's not a great time for everybody this year I think so but
2:25:522 hours, 25 minutes, 52 secondsit is something you need to go to and the F meeting is too November right it's in November yeah you need to go to because last year only delicate we were
2:26:012 hours, 26 minutes, 1 secondissued three delicates and I was only one there the next thing there is your travel reimbursement rates are there uh
2:26:092 hours, 26 minutes, 9 secondsthis is the new ones approved by the county uh the form is there for you to use and my understanding is they like you to use the new form don't go marking
2:26:172 hours, 26 minutes, 17 secondsout numbers on the old one like I did and then uh so you got the mileage reimbursement forms and all that it
2:26:262 hours, 26 minutes, 26 secondsdoesn't cover the closing comments legislative representative have anything going on
2:26:342 hours, 26 minutes, 34 secondsthere Mr hops sir you got anything on legislative represent nothing happening right now okay
2:26:432 hours, 26 minutes, 43 secondsuh signed all government signed all bills that's what we have to play with it the the next uh well I I had a member that is
2:26:532 hours, 26 minutes, 53 secondsactually the uh the teacher she's the H County Education
2:26:592 hours, 26 minutes, 59 secondsAssociation speaks for a lot of people she sent me uh an email with concerns of
2:27:082 hours, 27 minutes, 8 secondsthe constituents out there and um so I just I told her I would give it to everybody and let them read over it I I
2:27:172 hours, 27 minutes, 17 secondsdon't want to go over it individually here uh who this person it's at the bottom of it it's Sarah Bookers who is
2:27:252 hours, 27 minutes, 25 secondsTZ ta right okay there's one of them it's three PES
2:27:342 hours, 27 minutes, 34 secondsB it's her concerns and I'm not no no offense I'm not going to share this personal it's
2:27:412 hours, 27 minutes, 41 secondsnot a personal email I guess but not going to share it with the uh student Representatives um but it's it's kind
2:27:492 hours, 27 minutes, 49 secondsher concern she I was over there one day during the summer and she just unloaded said I'm
2:27:562 hours, 27 minutes, 56 secondsfixing to send an email and uh with the concerns of the people that come and talk to
2:28:032 hours, 28 minutes, 3 secondsher as she is kind of a spokesman for the hi County Education Association so
2:28:112 hours, 28 minutes, 11 secondsthere is for you to look at yes sir can you send me copy of this email to read my spare do I think heally said that he did not want to do I don't want to do do
2:28:202 hours, 28 minutes, 20 secondsthat at this time let me let me cons let me consult with the whole board before we do that
2:28:272 hours, 28 minutes, 27 secondsokay be a pram I I don't know that it's something it's something that Mr Mullins may want to look at and deal with he got
2:28:362 hours, 28 minutes, 36 secondsa cop let me and digest Mr G told me about real EST and I was going to share my
2:28:452 hours, 28 minutes, 45 secondsfeelings uh and my my actions I call I call the principal at the school and she
2:28:522 hours, 28 minutes, 52 secondsknew nothing about it and I don't nothing about it and uh my brothers would be if she has concerns to share
2:29:002 hours, 29 minutesthem and and because every time somebody shares concerns we we try to uh resolve
2:29:072 hours, 29 minutes, 7 secondsthat so I I'll be reading this for the first time and uh it's just a chain of command and she has concerns she I don't
2:29:152 hours, 29 minutes, 15 secondsknow if she's speaking on behalf of all teachers at all schools or I don't think she's talk she she's speaking on behalf of the hicken County
2:29:242 hours, 29 minutes, 24 secondsEducation Association all teachers which I told you uh in the beginning when you got hard it would be advantageous if you
2:29:322 hours, 29 minutes, 32 secondsspoke to her yeah because she gets input from the whole counil and
2:29:382 hours, 29 minutes, 38 secondsso she just sent this to me today so and asked that I I share it with everybody
2:29:452 hours, 29 minutes, 45 secondswhich is what I'm doing uh as as a is a Hickman County Board Education
2:29:542 hours, 29 minutes, 54 secondsAssociation the way I see it is she don't have to go directly to her principal unless it's an issue in her
2:30:012 hours, 30 minutes, 1 secondschool and she is speaking here of things that we have actually talked about in this meeting that y'all are
2:30:072 hours, 30 minutes, 7 secondsaddressing uh these concerns and so I'm just saying bullying for example right
2:30:142 hours, 30 minutes, 14 secondsat the top there uh some of the biggest problems she talk about bullying class sizes other things
2:30:202 hours, 30 minutes, 20 secondsand um so I I would I I would say John to give this person benefit of the doubt in the beginning that that I think this
2:30:292 hours, 30 minutes, 29 secondsis an aggregate of of not just her personal experience and and I'd say give
2:30:362 hours, 30 minutes, 36 secondsthat bir benef the doubt that the local school issu she has raised CH of command principal
2:30:442 hours, 30 minutes, 44 secondssaid but now I will say this it's what Ron was saying she like she representing the group yeah so I I wouldn't
2:30:532 hours, 30 minutes, 53 secondsnecessarily think unless it was a school going to that but she definitely ought I think she definitely ought to come to John and she's yeah but but this just
2:31:022 hours, 31 minutes, 2 secondsleave at that okay if it's not right I want to fix it yeah well I said you can take some of these issues that you're
2:31:112 hours, 31 minutes, 11 secondsalready I know there's a new law on glass sizes it may tie our hands in some areas is that correct in their new law
2:31:192 hours, 31 minutes, 19 secondswe BL that there you may want to take a look at it it just come out is in in the last one of our
2:31:312 hours, 31 minutes, 31 secondsnew yeah but uh yeah class size has always been a problem to get effective teaching
2:31:402 hours, 31 minutes, 40 secondsthink it's for CTE and John I talked about that talk I mean e just Rec classroom class sizes on important and
2:31:492 hours, 31 minutes, 49 secondsso I remember specifically in college that when you really wanted the class to be over with you would just start putting your things away and that kind
2:31:582 hours, 31 minutes, 58 secondsof gave that
2:32:072 hours, 32 minutes, 7 secondsandbody Mr you have anything I know I do but we'll talk
2:32:142 hours, 32 minutes, 14 secondsabout next month okay uh jimam Willis no M
2:32:232 hours, 32 minutes, 23 secondsT M Baker M no Mr mull thank you thank you make a motion toour