>> Yeah, it's just going to look like it's >> almost going to look like just part of the original >> trust is down here. So, it's it's above it. >> Let's see. It looks like it's about halfway between the bottom of the trusses and and the roof. So would there be a horizontal running line and fill um angle iron or whatever running along that wall that then that kicker bolts into >> or welds into or are you are you recommending that the kicker is then just bolt into the block wall? >> Yeah, it ties to the truss itself here and then this angle is an attachment point that gets attached to the block wall >> just directly to the block. What's that? >> It's a vertical piece. Okay. Piece of angle. >> Oh, okay. Another piece of >> your bond beam is acting as your main beam all the way around that stiffens the entire top and then that gets bolted through that at those intersections.
These situations are very facts sensitive. They're handled on a case-byase basis. There's not a one-sizefits-all. Um unfortunately, and law enforcement, all you officers can say this, it's very seldom that we see the exact same thing in every situation that involves an emergency. uh life is just not that easy. So, you know, it's it's the same way when we deal with these health or safety issues within schools. So, we look at these on a case-byase basis, and you know, we do what we can to be able to address very promptly and as effectively as possible, working with all of our partners within law enforcement as well as anybody else necessary within the county to be able to address the the issue. And again, all while trying to balance the health, the safety of our kids as well as privacy rights of kids. The next question that I hear, I heard a student threatened another student and was not expelled.
That was just a back throw. And it ended up working. The Yoshi lost a stalk. Heck yeah, Eli. That's how we do it. >> Awesome. >> Mhm. That is really awesome. Oh, does an up special. Wow, look at that. Tries for plenty of aerials to try and catch the Yoshi out of air. And uh Oh. Oh. Ah. And while it does do a lot of damage, it doesn't do that well vertically. And Eli experienced that vertical that not good vertical uh length firsthand. So, the Yoshi ended up winning. Uh but Eli did take a stock. So, we're going to see who they counterpick to. >> Okay. Mhm. >> And there's strategic ways to pick your character based on that other opponent, right? >> Definitely. There are definitely different ways. And uh one thing uh one thing I'm pretty sure we neglected to actually talk about is the percentage mechanic.
Stay there. She was great. Next is Junior High School forestry team members. Um, good evening. Thank you for honoring our kiddos this evening. Um, we have several FFA U members here that have advanced to state um, this year and we'll have even more um, to bring on later on. Um but our junior high um forestry team placed first at state. And the only reason Oh yeah, there we go. The only reason they are not going to nationals is because they don't do nationals for the juniors. It's only for the seniors. So um hopefully you guys stick with it and we are headed to nationals. Um but on the first place team at state is Ally Briggs. Um, Annie Harson, she wasn't able to be here this evening. Dylan Smith and Ryland Smith. And then our team that got sixth place at state was Ellie Shipman.
I I can't be depressed. I I have to have a functioning heart. I have to have a mood, energy. I I didn't have any of those things. So it was non-negotiable. I couldn't live in this house with that smart meter on. So we had to go through these all these legal proceedings which ultimately took eight years before goodness. >> We finally lost after six, eight legal briefs that Larry wrote for me. Um fighting these utilities and dealing with the unbelievable the cards were so stacked against all of the litigants. the utilities would wouldn't respond in a timely manner. They had so many days to to object to a filing. Well, they didn't, you know, days later, week later, still no paperwork. And, you know, when you make technical errors like that, case people are known to win over these technical errors. But that's okay. The the utilities were always able to just file things late with no explanation.
>> It's cute. So, it's shared it's yeah. Yeah. The bobs the bob slide she called it. Yeah. And there's no sound for those. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Looks fine. >> just hit the yep, go to the next one. Yep. We did figure skating. Did everybody hear that? Oh. Skating. Yeah. So. They should play automatically. Oops, sorry. Yeah. >> You have all of them? Yeah. You'll see in the next one, yeah. It looked like bowling to him. Yeah. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, some of these don't have videos on them, yeah. Yeah. >> All right. All right. Yeah, you can get this on the one more video when they get to my favorite part. The one on the end with the little girl with the hat is my favorite picture. Playing with my friends was her favorite activity. Yeah. So, that was just a way to bring their voices in to kind of share what their favorite activity was.
One of which was started by a fifth grade student this year, our writing club. And um we just really if you are going to be voting on whether or not to separate us, then you should deserve to have the evidence that you're looking for as to why that needs to happen. And if you come in and visit our classrooms, I guarantee you will not find it. Thank you. Sorry. >> Is there any other public comment in the room? >> Okay. Um for me for the kids. Yeah. Uh, I just want to give a couple more calls for public comment in case anyone who didn't share in the room want gets gets a feeling that they would like to. >> Um, and also once again for the folks online, I've uh I'm not seeing anyone put their name in the chat or raise their hand. Um, so I'm assuming that no one online would like to give public comment at this time.
And um we just really if you are going to be voting on whether or not to separate us, then you should deserve to have the evidence that you're looking for us to why that needs to happen. And if you come in and visit our classrooms, I guarantee you will not find it. Thank you. Is there any other public comment in the room? Okay. Um for me for the Yeah. Uh I just want to give a couple more calls for public comment in case anyone who didn't share in the room want gets gets a feeling that they would like to. Um and also once again for the folks online, I've uh I'm not seeing anyone put their name in the chat or raise their hand. Um so I'm assuming that no one online would like to give public comment at this time. All right. Excellent. Um then we will close public comment for now um and move along to the report of student representatives to the to the committee.
Carmen has had to create a climate there where teachers feel embold- and emboldened to just take chances and to take some risks. And that is the only reason we're able to do this right now because of her leadership. So, this year, not only are we doing science, but we're also implementing some units of study with Project Lead the Way that is also going to embed coding and robotics in her third, fourth, and fifth grade classes. And I want to talk about those units of study very quickly because they're exciting, and um hopefully it will be a model for what we can do district-wide in um these grades. So, in third grade, their students are going to be exploring coding through storytelling. So, um coding naturally you think of the computer, you're going to tell the computer to do some things, it spits out some something else on the end.
I called the school to inform the school that he made it home because I did not receive a call from the district or the school. An hour, an hour and a half, maybe. How long does it take to to communicate to a parent that your child is missing from school? If anybody grabbed him, he would be in Sacramento. We just found someone in North Carolina today who was taken from California 5 years ago. This shouldn't happen. So, please help me understand what the district is doing to keep our students safe and comfortable. Enough to raise their hand to ask for help in class. Enough to feel that they belong. Enough to even go to the office and say, "Could please call my mom. Instead, he just came home. Please help me understand." He walked two miles. >> So, I asked you this with my last 30 seconds.
There's a video here. Again, very entertaining. Um So, we use SolidWorks just like Everett, but we would design like door hinges and metal fittings and stuff like that. And Mr. Bill would basically give us like a sheet of paper and it and it had a bunch of metal fittings on it and he said and he give gives us the dimensions and he says, "Okay, you got to build this like within this amount of time." And then we'd build it. And then we could 3D print stuff like this. It's a little boat with our 3D printers. We have two of them. Yep. Um then we we started using the PlasmaCAM carve out cribbage boards. Mhm. That was really fun. And then we finally started our welding unit. And Mr. Bill required us to pass a welding test, welding safety test, and we had to um pass with a 100% or else we weren't weren't allowed to weld.
I integrity. She acts with honesty and sets a strong examples for her classmates. Respect. She's she creates great teachers and peers with kindness and consideration. Why? Yearning to learn. She demonstrates a strong love of learning and her music. These qualities show dedication, excellence, and perseverance. Yari not only excels academically, but also inspires those around her. Her accomplishments remind us all that hard work, integrity, and a pass positive attitude can make a real difference. Let let Yrie's examples challenge each of us to reach higher, work harder, and inspire those around us. It is with a great pride that we have recognized her as this superintendence award. Congratulations, Yan Dennis. My colleagues in the middle school basically share with you an informative essay. Mine is for me to share with you what's happening in our classroom middle school. Okay. So, I'm going to share with you a sort of PowerPoint presentation for me to acknowledge my testimonial for the grade eight award.
>> So you have fins up the very top right right below your ve >> but still up above the bottom quarter of your truss. >> Yeah. Everything's happening up up high and once explained it, >> right? >> It's blended >> architecturally. Andrew, I mean, comments or I guess thoughts on that or >> um I agree with Bill. I think it will blend in. I don't know that anybody will know the difference once once you do paint it and get everything cleaned up after they get all the welding. >> So, what's the longevity of something like that? I mean, I know it's a shot in the dark, but fabric versus tearing it down and redoing it. >> I mean, we feel like that's going to be something else. >> 50 years. >> 100 years. Whatever. >> How long does it last? I just need four years.
Why? So you've got a scenario it goes viral because of course if we have a school fight or anybody threatens another person a lot of times that news will spread like wildfire and when it does people start watching and they want to know what are you doing and you know are you taking action against whoever the alleged perpetrator is who is the student. And what we always have to keep in mind as a school and what I would ask our communities to keep in mind is that these are individual student disciplinary matters and because of that they are governed by the confidentiality rules of the FURPA law. So, we don't have a right to go out short of it fitting into one of the exceptions like the health or safety exception and go out and talk to people about how an individual student is being handled from a disciplinary perspective.
So whenever you do damage to your opponent, that makes their percentage rise. And the higher their percentage, the higher knockback your hits can do. >> Yep. So the strategy of the game is to just build up their percent and get a good hit in and send them off uh send them off into the blast zone and take a stock. Mhm. Yep. And it looks like, judging by the face cam, it looks like Deacon is coming out today. He's coming out. Does a bit of a headshake and he's going to be he's going to be ready. He's going to be playing Ice Climbers. >> He's ready to go. >> Mhm. Yeah. I was playing against Deacon a little earlier today and safe to say he destroyed me. He was uh going crazy, I tell you. >> He's on his game. >> He is on his game and he he better be.
and I think she's at a swim meet tonight. >> Practice. Um, Josie Scutter. Joel Bllelock and Tinsley Chambers and then our senior high um team. So, in the 23 years that I've been at Madison, for 22 years, we've got a team qualified for state. Um, and for two years now in a row, we've gotten fourth place. So, we are like we are inching up ever so closely. So, uh, Michael Briggs, Abby Ferguson, Emma Shakle, and Eli Copeland. And then our other senior team that got seventh in the state is Olivia Miller, Ben Copelan, Maddie Palmer, and Berlin Conover, who wasn't able to be here. And then we also had three others who qualified for state. Um Britain Wright could not be here. Jeffrey Spicer and Aiden Scott picture and then >> Okay. Oh my god. One more. right there. >> Okay, next is our livestock skilathon team.
And even during our our legal hearing, the lawyers for the other side weren't even licensed in the state of Pennsylvania. They were out of state attorneys. And ordinarily, you file paperwork, you know, to be what? Prohakichi, I think is the name of what you're supposed to do. They didn't do that. So, they went they they argued on their side throughout the 3-day hearing, never being allowed to be there, and we objected to that. And you would think that would carry some weight, but no, that's okay. That didn't matter either. They were allowed to do that. Um, and just what two hours ago, I get a text from another another litigant and she's fighting on her litigant and in the process of peeing appealing from the Pennsylvania PU court to the Commonwealth Court and having that record um, transmitted over. Well, in there she just happened to notice on her docket number a new filing for a letter submitted to her six years ago that was never part of the record.
Um and I'll share this presentation to any of you that get my newsletters, you'll be able to see the videos as well and to hear. Um so, this was just um our family attendance rate, so you can see it's pretty comparable. In the morning, we held the session for our AM classes um and in the afternoon, we held it for our PM classes as well as our full-day classes um and we had a pretty comparable attendance rate for our families. Um that was just the percentage to make sure that every child had at least one family member. Um some of them had multiple family members that came, multiple generations that came, siblings, aunts and uncles. Um so, it was a true um family event um organized chaos. Uh you know, Jim was able to stop by in the morning um when it was a little less crowded than the afternoon.
All right. Excellent. Um then we will close public comment for now um and move along to the report of student representatives to the to the committee. So if our student reps could come up. Um got some seats right up front here. All right. To start us off as student council, 19 students attended a state leadership conference in Hyannis on March 4th to March 6th. While there, they had the opportunity to hear two national keynote speakers and attend four studentled workshops. Everyone jumped in the ocean for the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics dresses superheroes. As a school, we raised over $1,000 for the Special Olympics. Key Club Key Club is excited to be hosting a blood drive with Bay State Health on March 18th. There is a lot of interest in this event. We hope to make this an annual or bianual thing. Athletics winter sports are over.
So if our student reps could come up, um got some seats right up front here. All right. To start us off with student council, 19 students attended a state leadership conference in Hyannis on March 4th to March 6th. While there, they had the opportunity to hear two national keynote speakers and attend four student-led workshops. Everyone jumped in the ocean for the polar plunge for Special Olympics dressed as superheroes. As a school, we raised over $1,000 for the Special Olympics. Key Club. Key Club is excited to be hosting a blood drive with Baystate Health on March 18th. There's a lot of interest in this event. We hope to make this an annual or biannual thing. Athletics. Winter sports are over. The boys basketball team lost to Boston United in the first round of the MIAA state tournament, finishing with a record of 15 to 16 or six, right?