She once said, "This happy ending is the start of all our dreams, and I know your heart is with me. We might be apart, but I hope you always know you'll be with me wherever I go. Thank you for making high school something worth crying and reminiscing about. I'm really honored to have been your student body president. For the last time, have a great day and remember, it's great to be a Dorado. [applause] I would now like for our senior class saludiatoran to come to the stage to address her fellow classmates. Piper Casey. [cheering and applause] Hello, class of 2026. I'm Piper Casey, and it's my honor to be speaking up here tonight as your saludiatoran. Before I begin, I would like to thank the teachers, staff, friends, and family who helped all of us get here tonight. And personally, thank you to my dogs, parents, my older brother, and my friends who are the reasons I have laughed more than I have cried, but are also the reasons I will be crying tonight.
>> Okay, I'm I'm good with that. I think that teacher Haynes would likely be like a great addition to the group. Um because in conversations not specific to policy, uh they're just they have shared concerns about some districts are um being more exclusionary in their practice and they want to just like ensure that there's like inclusivity um or or that we maintain our status quo. Honestly, we maintain our status quo because we there has been like space like held for for members of the community. Um but I I I do think this would be enough to at least start and then when they join the committee perhaps they would be able to help more. Go ahead, Heather. >> Um with these with our new, you know, BPA just had their groundbreaking ceremony last week and Kennedy was just built. What are um with our newer buildings?
Sounds good. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you, sir. For community relations, I would like Jean Herring to be our liaison. Your dedication to our message and our theme and how we present ourselves to the public is very important to you and I truly appreciate that and I think you'd be wonderful working with Jeff Ann. Thank you very much. Thank you. For education, I would like Catel Delgado to be in that space. I think it would be wonderful for you to work with Amy and Romy to kind of get a crash course in what we're doing >> [laughter] >> in education. We take advantage, those of us who are in education, that we throw a lot of acronyms around in terms of things that we forget when people are not, you know, the uninitiated that they they take some minute and so we're trying to spread the love.
Most of our students do, but if in their moment they weren't, we could have that at our at our fingertips to maybe say like "What about him is fine and how would I go get her?" And we have we have her, you know, here to be available to you if needed. And what How do you have a plan for um connecting with the students who who did not list a trusted adult or listed few? We do. We make sure that we connect um we give those lists to our C triple S department, which is comprised of the students' counselor, social worker, their team essentially. And um we want to also make sure that those relationships happen authentically. And so finding the spaces to make sure that they're connecting with those students, and not you know, not going up to them directly and saying, "Hey, you know, you were on a list." Like, no, that's not authentic.
Um, you asked about the accelerated learners based on our new accelerated program. We actually have designed a new specific report card for that because it's a new class and since it combines fourth and fifth grade, there will be standards on that. So, obviously they will also need the twos, you know, ones, twos, and threes on that. Um, just in a crystal ball-ish type of thing, I could see that, you know, they're going to be tending towards that two and three, um, you know, always because that's just the type of student that they are and that's where they'll and they'll work to get that. Um, our struggling students, I think it'll actually help diagnose and help some of our interventionists and our service providers because now when they go to a reading teacher and it's citing evidence um that is that's going to show through on their report card and that interventionist or specialist will be able to help them work on those knowledge gaps that they have without just saying I'm failing in ELA.
This is our monthly average for revenue and expense for those six schools from August through March. For our school program for menu planning, what we basically do is we survey all the sixth grade the third through sixth grade students, middle school students, and we use that information to make a student driven menu. So, their top 30 favorites across the district, that's what we start with for our menu planning. And then we also ask them things like what are new items that you'd like served and we try to work that into the federal guidelines to provide that for them. Uh other top favorites, we just got done with the survey in April. And the top favorites are as you would expect pizza and cheeseburger and and chicken nuggets. But, that uh our uh they're teriyaki potstickers and a new item the cherry blossom chicken actually made the top 10 this year.
It's a foam foam with four fans on it, two for going forward that can also go left and right, and then the the there's other two that can lift it up and go down. And so, we started with this. We found it on a YouTube video, and we thought it was going to work good, but it didn't really work quite wanted to. It's very heavy, hard to fly, kind of hard to get it to do whatever we wanted to. So, then we bought a shark from online that was supposed to work. It had a flapper on the back like so it moved like an actual shark through like it's going through water basically. But we found out that it really wasn't what we wanted so we threw a fan on the back. It flew good but it's way too fast and so we started kind of designing from there which led us into our next thing.
Um item number four is a new spring release of six additional policies. One of those is a required policy that covers the wireless devices. Um and then items five and six are going to be the suspend rules so that we can get a second reading of that wireless device policy only. The other five would be approved um for a second reading in June. Um and that will just uh be done to allow time to work on handbooks, get those finished up for approval at the June meeting, um and work on discipline policies. Uh Barry, do you have anything to add to that? I I just I think I spoke to you folks before on the cell phone policy. The uh complaint is uh lockers not accessible during the day. We'll We'll build some discipline policies in with uh the high school folks primarily to talk about how we're going to do that.
>> Good afternoon everyone. My name is Caesar Kieran. I'm a senior at Crown Point. I'll be attending Notre Dame next year. So this year I also had the privilege to compete at the national level. And my event was tasking me with basically the focus of pediatric oncology and how can we better these outcomes for a lot of people throughout the state. So mine was very policy focused on increasing equitable access to people in undeserved or rural areas to make sure everybody could get the solutions and the therapies and treatments they need. You know, cancer is a terrible thing nowadays and we really need to focus on how can we improve this at every single level. So, it really taught me about how the grassroots movements and advocacy at every state of the way can really improve and affect every one of our lives. And last, but certainly not least, is our coach, Mrs.
>> Yeah. >> Do you know of any any trials they did on this in any other school districts or in >> I don't >> into this uh >> When when we were looking at this, do you remember any other schools or states that we I know there was an article we read where a school itself had attempted it, but I don't know that they attempted it as part of any law that was enacted by a state or anything. >> We will see how this works out, and I'm sure that we will deal with any issues that that come about. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> I would say one of the I think one of the hardest things will be, you know, we've had um in place already that students couldn't have these during class time, but I anticipate earbuds being being a struggle at the beginning, you know, um often times you see people with one earbud in and then one not, but they won't be able to do that, so.
It's kind of kind of becomes a running joke from time to time, but the recurring email that people get on payday Friday about the start of second semester. So that way nobody's in a bad spot when it comes to that having to experience that gap. What was the feedback? It was fine. Any other comments, discussion? >> All right, hearing that. I need a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. I have a second. >> Second. >> Any discussions?
Over there, you know, uh a little over a year ago, right, we set our uh goals um with our strategic plan, and that's what those are over there, uh representing the three goals that we created. Um so, very excited to keep these on the forefront, you know, as we are moving forward um with our strategic plan. That's all I've got. Okay. Uh public comments? We have none. Okay. We will uh Have a motion for adjournment. Gary and second? Second. Gary and second. It's all in favor say "I". I. Aye. It means it drew. Thank you.
Sad to say. We have a chart from Beyond Plastics that show us what they're projecting. And I don't remember it like tripled by 2060. 25% uh, 50% of all the plastic that's ever been made has been made in the past 25 years and they're we're on track to triple production by 2060, I think. Yeah, there's been enough plastic made to wrap the entire earth in a roll of Saran Wrap. And that's a that's a quote from maybe 7 or 8 years ago, so. Um we have some >> [clears throat] >> a few dishes that were my grandparents and were made in Watertown in the mid-20th century, probably a little earlier than that. Is that still very poisonous plastic or did they put fewer chemicals in at that at that time, so? I I would personally worry about that. A lot of older cooking wear and things that had actually had lead in it.
Arc four is right here. Okay. So, apologies. It's a lot of data. >> [snorts] >> Um in 2022 in anticipation of future on-site construction, seven soil borings were advanced in the site. Soil samples from the borings were retained for the lab analysis for total petroleum hydrocarbons, PCBs, metals, and VOCs. Analytical results indicated that none of these soil samples exceeded MassDEP soil standards. Additionally, based on the prior analytical data, soil impacted by VOCs and lead is present on the site. So we have VOCs, we have lead. Um we have the air sampling. So this is giving you now a picture. We've shown you where they are. We're trying to paint a nice picture here for where everything is so it's clear to the board uh the location and what we're doing here. And TCE and correct me if I'm wrong, TCE and PCE are both VOCs.
So I'm going to ask the students to stand up. They're ready for this in case you had any questions for them. Where's the microphone? Um, I don't know if I have questions, but all of it's fantastic. I think you are all very poised and brave to be speaking on TV. Um, I loved that Dartmouth won the most awards and that Potter had such a big percentage of winning that honor. So, that that is terrific. And personally, I'm thrilled that you're composting. Thank you. >> Yeah. I mean, incredible. I was just watching you all sitting here and then each group that came up and presented uh so much better than I ever could. Uh and some without even notes. I I couldn't do that. Uh very impressive. Uh, I love how the school allowed for different topics for the leadership opportunities and I don't um I guess I wonder maybe I'll ask the students and then maybe a followup.
And I know Newton, I know our field trip money, we're over budget, fully aware of that. But, I would rather be giving these kids reasons to come to school and experiences. And, you know, if next year we're talking, okay, now we're going to start asking families for a $5 donation for field trips. You know, like you don't have to, but you know, that might be something we want to budget in. I'm not saying they have to, Mel. That wasn't what I was suggesting. Sorry, [clears throat] I was And I I went to the band concert. And I was so joyful. Well, that's that's >> Well, the experiences. They went to Six Flags. And, you know, like I just the number of children has grown. Um, the jazz band, I would pay if they want to play at Starbucks or something. I would pay pay them to see them.
Um and and then they think they're doing it and they're doing it well, um but when you really peel back the layers of what they're talking about, they might be talking about pushing into the classroom as opposed to actual co-teaching. Um I will be honest, I I don't know that I've often seen co-teaching work well at the elementary level with um the um with the attempts that we tried um because when I think about co-teaching, I really think about merging skill sets of a classroom teacher and a special educator. Um and more often than not, I've seen the special ed teacher or the paraprofessional really taking over the um the education of the child that they're pushing in for. So, I'm I'm curious about what models look like in Cheshire um and if you guys have found a way to make co-teaching work um at the elementary level.
Last I I put down here I attended a couple of summers ago. This was the Institute for Real World Education and it was all teachers right as school ended and we went and visited different companies. We went to Jackson Laboratories. We went to the Yale's Quantum Institute. Th- th- th- These are the We had a rocket scientist leading leading our our training and our PD there was it was amazing. Um so, we try to get out of the classroom as much as we can too and visit businesses and I just went on the most amazing professional development opportunity. I went to the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting. Um and yes, Warren Buffett was there. He was not leading meeting this year because he just stepped down as CEO, Um, he spoke and they talked about their investment strategy and their investment partners and it was just a great experience that I'm able to bring back um, into the classroom and just share, you know, for years to come um, experiences like that.
Thomas is most proud of breaking the school record with four point after attempt kicks made. That's a That's a rare record in middle school, by the way. There's not a lot of place kickers typically. Uh Ryker Williams Ryker was on the high honor roll. >> [applause] >> And will receive an academic letter. Ryker is most proud of his grades throughout middle school. JAYLEE WILSON >> [applause] >> JAYLEE HAD ALL A'S AND WILL RECEIVE an academic letter. She was top 5% in social studies and above the 90th percentile in both math and reading. Jaylee is most proud of having all A's and being on varsity sports Ryder Winters >> [applause] >> Ryder was on the high honor roll and will receive an academic letter and was top 5% in language arts and above the 90th percentile in both math and reading. Ryder is most proud of leading the football team and the basketball team in prayers.
It's just not a get up in the morning kind of thing. I mean, you know, we've been dealing with stuff financially. Jack's been trying to scrub everything to try to find a nickel here and there to save positions. Um and again, we're going to try to bring back as many individuals as we can. Um but this steamrolls into a lot of different things. Supplies, um you know, all these things that you you know, I want October comes, you know, we're we're going to have to look at our numbers and say, "Where are we?" Um you know, cuz we we have to make payroll, obviously. And and have to make sure that everybody all these programs are in effect. So, um again, that's that's kind of how it is. Um you know, and we're going to do our best to to maintain every individual that we can to service our kids from in the city.