Going forward, if we have a big cushion, could you use that money to reduce Oh, absolutely. lunch cost. Absolutely. Yeah, sure. can if we had like whatever a couple hundred thousand like okay this next year lunch is only going to cost$ dollar50 or whatever whatever whatever we absolutely can yeah it'll be a different so um so it's odd how it works so I I will just tell you that Seagar's board voted to cover their last year now I haven't any idea about 2526 so we charge 4.75 an adult lunch I think I mean everybody knows this and Um, Seager does not. They choose to pay for all their teachers to eat. If they want to eat lunch, it's free. So, like the board would then cut me a check. I would do the math and the court board would cut me a check on how much it cost me.
She's a licensed DLT and she has taught the last years at North. I also want to give a special thank you to our girls on the road club at the elementary school. their community service project was um putting in several hours landscaping in the front of DCES. Their sponsors are first grade teacher Greta Fryberger and permanent suba Brown. But um many other parents also showed up and helped and there was a lot of mulching, a lot of a lot of planning. So yes, a special thank you to girls run. Um this week we are completing our KOAT assessment. That is a screener we use to help us with our identifying high ability students. That should be concluded by the end of the week. And tomorrow at 7 a.m. we will be welcoming moms into BCS for me with moms. Last month we did donuts with dad a great turnout.
Uh the water and air would be uh shut off at Huntington North High School. All community groups, all um classes classes will be summer school will be at Crest View. Uh but just a friendly reminder that uh there'll be nobody other than workers and some key personnel at Huntington North this summer and we will update you throughout the summer board meetings uh between Pat and I in terms of how those things are going and uh anticipated uh water and everything should be back on July 18th is the goal. Thank you. Do you have anything? Cool. And I also noticed uh we have uh later in the session we'll talk about where we'll be meeting. So, we'll we'll get back to that because we won't be able to be here during that time. So, moving on to E2, Huntington Youth Leadership and Mental Health. Tonight, we have director of uh behavioral health and wellness uh for our district, Meg Fzen, and she has with her tonight some of our outstanding students from our Huntington youth leadership program that will be giving us a presentation on mental health.
We're going to do I'll let Mr. Ken get to the next one because we'll do something special. That was Yeah, a great segue for 3.05 05 request for resolution authorization naming of Lawrence North High School community room. Mr. Knik. Madame President, Dr. Smith, members of the board, I bring to you a request this evening for a board resolution authorizing the naming of the Lawrence North High School community room in honor of Dr. Steve Gagline. Dr. Steve Gagline served as a teacher at Lawrence Central High School and and dean of students, assistant athletic director, assistant principal, and principal at Lawrence North High School. Dr. Dr. Gayla has served as executive director of secondary education, assistant superintendent, assistant director of systems integration, and chief technology officer for the MSE of Lawrence Township. Dr. Gagline was integral in the creation of the freshman center at Lawrence North High School.
Um, but even like I said earlier, say we we need to be constantly working with our teachers on the professional learning aspect of this because to the point that Cindy said, these kids are smart, right? even the way that they were walking us through how they got through the back door today. It's it's amazing to us the knowledge that these kids have and for us to be able to keep up with them constantly with this as well too. A great article I haven't sent you yet, you know, in Nicole that I'll be sent out about the school districts that are not using cell phones that are not limiting this the the screen time and what kids are bringing in and how they're working the way around that that's taking place in Boston. I'll share with you as well too. Bringing burn phones and bringing other devices in as well too.
We know there's gene expression changes going on. But we can't tell you how that skin is replaced perfectly, right? Because notice what happens. Like my thumb, it didn't make too much thumb skin. It didn't make too little thumb skin. It didn't make like shoulder skin or ear skin, right? Or big toe skin, right? So, this process was an incredible process where the tissue this this stuff that was remaining somehow knew, damn, there's stuff missing and and here's exactly what we have to do to replace it, you know, and and that's happening automatically, right? And it happens every day in our in our bodies, right? We get wounds that heal. You know, your your intestine gets replaced all the time. You know, your skin is replaced what five, six, 10 times if you live long enough during your life. And liver can regenerate, you know. So this ability to regenerate tissues in this amazing amazing amazing fashion that's actually mostly error error-free right is um I think a part of everyday life and and it's a it's a phenomenon that um we still wonder about and we figure um we feel tremendous compunction to try to figure out everything you can about it because we know it's going to be first of all we'll learn about the evolution of that amazing biotarian ancestor.
It might be that we need to instruct or educate um the child that is doing the behavior and it may mean that we need to put something like a safety plan or so forth in place for the child that is the victim of the behavior. So I do think again it's something that we need to monitor. I don't see a world in which both policies could exist in tandem because there are some uh one is contradictory in certain respects to the other. Um and so I I do think um my recommendation would be to remove the bullying policy. Um and that is what um the state is recommending that this policy is replaced by it. But like any, you know, um, pretty significant policy change, we're going to have to monitor the roll out. And I would not be surprised if that is one area in which we might be looking to add back in some language.
It was 37 art um kids and um you know when that one kid that you like, oh my god, I didn't even know that you knew my name, you know, comes up and gives you a platter um that's when you know you're making a difference. So, it was an amazing project. This was the first year she did it. Um some teachers got um like four or five of them and they're just making a big impact. So, um appreciate that. We're again we have amazing kids and amazing teachers. So, it's it's been a a whirlwind and it's going to not stop. Um, so just keep following along because just wish for wins and uh finish strong. And and a little note to you guys, I do need to know if you're coming for graduation, so please let me know. Um, we have a spot saved for you and it's just an amazing senior class.
not detail. So, whenever I visited with Tim a little bit about this and I talked about the amount of work that goes into all of this, um, you know, with Bushen, you know, offering to do this at that rate, whether it's $6,500 a year or whether it's $10,000 a year if we did it, you know, we're still really coming out in good shape because the amount of time and effort and everything that we would have to put into doing these same things at our facility here, I mean, we're we're seeing that time being used for other things and other purposes as well. Um I don't have numbers in front of me but I would guess that if we did these same things here to this facility and we had you know the maintenance, the paint, the chalk, the upkeep for our custodians and those sorts of things.
Just get used to it. But the the to to leave on a super excited note. So we just had our our annual reassessment. Um meaning that this is where you know everything that determines um you know numbers game, successes, failures, whatever. Um we saw a year of tremendous growth that I'm very very proud of districtwide. Um I I will have you note that um the Arizona um as a whole is at about 14% reclassification rate mean meaning that we take a child who's learning English as a second language and we move them out of the program where they demonstrate on this yearly test proficiency um in English. So statewide is about 14% um and that number is current as of last Thursday. Um, Chino, we're at 25%. So, I'm super proud. Super. Thank you so much for your attention.
Uh so that's how we've done reasonably suspected um and we do vitals checks but that is just like knowing like their pup that's like checking their pupils and their heart rate and then their like oximter but we don't we don't have like a criminal threshold for that but it's like oh you did have an elevated heart rate and we thought this and we thought that. Um so that's kind of how that's coming to play at least at Monav Vista and Excalencia. What about you guys? We haven't had any this year. Oh, you guys. Um, I'm very happy to hear that. Um, yeah, we have a similar process. Um the the only thing that uh sometimes we've had uh the only thing I would add to that is sometimes we have conversations with parents and uh the parent will say you know uh what if I go and get a drug test someplace and show you that this is okay.
So, anybody have any questions? It's kind of a It's in the works for the summer, though. The new operations committee is going to have to continue our journey to Yeah. keep that a hazard. Yeah. Yeah. I think it would be it'd be detrimental if it if we had to make everybody walk from Valley Lakes. I think it could be tough. It's 500 kids. Oh, beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh the last two things are just summer office hours are posted there and then eighth grade graduation. If you cannot make it, let us know. May 28th, Wednesday, May 28th at the middle school 7 o'clock. That's it for my report, Kevin. All right. Thank you. Uh, anybody questions on the HMH intro to reading as an ELA curriculum resources? This is second reading. Yeah. Second. N please have a motion to approve the adoption of HMH into reading as ELA curriculum resource for students in grades K through five.
But the biggest thing is they take a personalized approach to it. They're really trying to take a human human side approach uh where they're just a a person working with a student or the staff members. And I wanted to introduce them tonight. I've been working with the school a lot, never been able to introduce technically the SRO to the board. So I have the pleasure of Kim Lorenzo from Oiggo High School and Jose from right here at Oiggo East. So again they take that personalized approach but we I give them a mission. And so our team has our mission inside the the chief's mission statement and that is to lead by example, promote positive image of law enforcement to students in the school community. So while they're treating whatever they're doing on their daily basis, they're falling back to that mission that we want to have a positive environment.
It would basically be the same. Like I would have to cut you guys a check, you know, on out of my account to cover the kids' Yeah. But it's something that we can look at going Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And you best hope I better have hundreds of thousands of money. I mean, I do. I do get good money. And I don't want you guys to think I don't get good money from the government because I do. It's just things are so expensive at the moment. I just paid and I'm sure you guys all know this, but I just paid $30 for 10 pounds of sausage for sausage gravy. I was like my land. Like that seems a lot, you know? I'm like, but those are all my Oh, and also we are so we are getting an app. So by the end by this next school year when it starts we're going to healthy pro.
So we're expecting a great turnout tomorrow. All right, the middle school report. So, the middle school's awesome. So, I'm going to give you a safety update this time. No, but we did have some uh a big event last week with the safety. So, I thought I'd use this time uh to kind of give you a little quick update on that. Um working with Mr. Darling um and his company, which he volunteered his company in time. Uh we did a safety tabletop exercise. Um we had over 40 local safety personnel in this very room last Tuesday for about three to four hours uh going over active asalent. We had the city city police, sheriff, we had EMTs, we had fire, we had state police. It was everybody imaginable. Everybody was here. Um Mr. venture that does our emergency management um said unbelievable turnout um and praise L5 for organizing it and praise um us for hosting it.
Thank you, Meg. Happy mental health month. Um it's May, so that's mental health month. So, I thought it would be fun to bring some students to kind of talk about what we're doing at the high school right now. Sometimes when you think about mental health interventions, you think about um second and third tier kind of interventions and students who are really not doing well. But what is even as important, if not more important, is that we're talking to the tier one students. So, the students that are doing well but might have days where mental health needs to be addressed. So, I want to bring up first two groups from um Huntington youth leaders that did some very impressive programs um related to mental health. So, they're going to talk first. Hi. So the first part of our um project, well actually I guess the second part which is an ongoing project is uh random affirmations on lockers throughout the school.
Dr. Gagline has impacted the lives of thousands of students and staff throughout the MSD of Lawrence Township community and beyond, and his efforts have brought a claim to Lawrence North High School and the MSD of Lawrence Township. Over the course of 37 years, Dr. Dr. Gagline demonstrated unquestionable loyalty to Lawrence North High School and to the MSE of Lawrence Township community. The MSE of Lawrence Township Board of Education honors and recognizes Dr. Steven L. Gagline for a career dedicated to the service of the MSE of Lawrence Township and the community at large. Again, I present this information this evening. Thank you for that. And I'd like to make a note for those um watching online that Dr. Gagline is in our presence sitting very humbly in the front row. So this is an honor.
is just amazing. That's healthcare as well too. So all of these things we need to take into account. But it will be interesting. I'm hoping for the next school committee meeting June, we'll have the report from Lisa, from John, from Cindy uh about what our kids are doing for screen time and making sure that we're we're looking at holding our teachers accountable to make sure that it's not that much time being used in the classrooms as well too. Is there legislation currently being talked about about required minimum or maximum screen time? Uh I don't know the answer to that. Um I don't I know I know another state just said no no no cell phones. I think is New York. I think I don't know if it's state or national being proposed that is setting boundaries on screen time. Yeah. I I think it's in the early stages.
We all should think about our biotarian ancestor and say thank you bioteterian ancestor right that was one heck of an animal you know and uh so so my final comments are um maybe you won't maybe you won't be a scientist or maybe you're not a scientist maybe you won't be a scientist who knows we want to inspire all the young people in the room to be scientists because we're here to tell you that anybody can do it um because it's done by it's done by teams done by communities, you're not alone. Um, so and it's a kind of enterprise where all sorts of people are are u are actually required to make it work. But what if we're not a scientist? So here we're just now I'm just proitizing about a scientific way of living, right? So um knowing how to find things out, right?
Um, just like this restorative practices has exceptions for um, you know, violent or criminal behavior. Um, we might we might need to put an exception if there is an extreme case of bullying in there. And so that is certainly something that that we will be mindful and watchful over uh as we roll this out. Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate that. And are there other questions from Go ahead, Kelly. I was just going to say one other thing is um you know I understand um Wanita to your earlier comment regarding the regulations um and so forth.