001for e e at this time I'd like to call the Chesterfield County Board of Education meeting on March the 10th to order if there are no objections we will approve the agenda by consent and at this time I entertain a motion to go on Executive session a move to enter executive session to discuss Personnel matters pertaining to employee hiring compensations terminations resignations contractual and legal matters second okay at this time we will go into um executive session we'll be back in 30 minutes e e e I'm for all right at this time I entertain a motion to return to open session so we have one public comment tonight and I'll read our statement the public participation section of the Schoolboard meeting is designed to hear comments from the public but it's limited to 30 minutes
002so that normal business can be conducted during this portion of the meeting board members will listen to concerns and comments but will not answer questions or debate issues each participant will be limited to five minutes and will refrain from making personal complaints about school Personnel or board members tonight we have Miss Renee Tyson that would like to speak on zero tolerance apprciate the opportunity to come and so I'm going to make this as quick as I can uh first this is a little intimidating for me very intimidating but I also have a duty to do it I'm rejoicing in Hope that at the end of this we would oh he said speaking here okay hoping that at the end of this oh Lord I'm short uh hoping that at the end of this that we
003could come together and we can see some common ground patient and tribulation in the fact that I have gone from one step to the other step trying not to be out of order and when I said go and it's not a complaint it's just the steps that I've taken I first went to the principal who is no longer with us then I went to the assistant principal who was supposed to be over it then I went to Mr King several times I think Mr King is probably tired of me then I went to the district superintendant he didn't have time to talk to me he sent me back to Mr King which I'm sure he's tired of talking to me by now so and I want to be constant in prayer because I wouldn't want
004to speak to anything without consulting the one that's in charge first so I'm going to read this going to try to make it real short the question was asked how to resolve conflict without violence that's a heavy question for my age this is the question that was given to my granddaughter who was put out of school for the rest of the year because she was into in a fight I've heard the term Zero Tolerance but I didn't really read the term in the handbook I've told many things my mom says don't start it but don't let another person put their hands on you my dad says you have a personal space and I should not let the enemy get that close my grandmother says which is me if possible walk away the school offers me
005no choice that just keep crying Zero Tolerance I wonder if it was their child being attack what they would do I know that negotiation is possible when all parties are willing to negotiate the court gave me a charge they gave her third degree battery which means that she has to report to a pro parole officer which means that she has to attend counseling I want you to take my granddaughter out of this spot and put your child in it the judge ordered me to counsel I didn't understand how they could counsel me on Anger Management when I do not really have an anger issue you see why this is puzzling a puzzling question I could go to the te teacher but I don't know if they will listen I've had friends that were being bullied
006and just quit I'm not a quitter I will defend myself if I must I would be not it would be nice to think I could tell someone and they would come to my aid but I don't think so I cannot allow them to hit me without a response because that would be just the start of a lengthy list of Trials see when you allow a bully to win they not only win over you but all the others that are afraid to defend themselves I can't afford to be afraid so to answer your question at my age is difficult maybe even when I'm older it will still be difficult I know school is important I want to go back but that's not likely this year so I guess I can walk away I can tell in
007ad D but I don't know if the if the violence intended for me will be avoided unless we are all on the same page and it's probably not going to work so the reason I'm here is because of zero tolerance because I asked the question is what in my granddaughter's record said that she was a danger to the school her record was good they gave her a charge of 30 Dee battery I looked that up it said that you attack somebody with the intent of causing harm and I'm sure that when kids fight that's probably going to be a little har but I watched the video and I couldn't tell who started the fight my granddaughter say she was defending herself I can't say she was I can't say she wasn't I can only say
008what she told me the other child probably said she was defending herself I can't say she was I can't say she wasn't I wasn't there all I can say is that I don't think the school can prove intent it wasn't on the video I looked at the video they also told me that if a child took a video of a fight they would receive the same punishment no other child was punished I'm going trying to R it down no other child was punished my granddaughter was put out for the year she's doing virtal she's doing okay but she lost a lot of stuff I'll St still because she wasn't able to go to basketball games she wasn't able to go to football games she wasn't able to participate she wasn't even able to walk on
009the property the child that she fought and I'm going to say this with much caution she had I I work with kids I have kids that have I but I never at any time now the book says that there's a certain punishment for a certain act and it gives degrees what am I saying zero tolerance for who and what does the school do to help children reach reler Pro andet our children come to us inad of running the fight fight fight I don't thank you Miss Tyson there are no other comments so we'll now have a moment of silence least take a minute and now we will have Anthony Smith Cruz from New Heights come up and lead the Pledge of Allegiance we can stand please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
010States of America and justice for all thank you all right I'd like to welcome our 2425 teacher of the year teacher induction class sorry the SRO price Jane Pig with the link thank you Miss Pig and miss administrators principls teachers and area citizens for attending tonight I know it's messy outside so um we all got a little damp coming in board members you've been given the minutes for February the 10th prior to the meeting if no if I hear no objections those will be approved by consent good thank you now we're going to turn the meeting over to our coordinator of testing and accountability Miss Brun for our special recognitions good evening everyone tonight I am pleased to recognize some of our outstanding students Madame chair and Dr Anderson if y'all would please come forward
011to present our students with their certificates first first I would like to recognize two students from our District spelling be each year grades 5 through eight compete in classroom spelling bees the winner from each of those classroom bees then compete at the school level against their peers then the winner from each of the schools compete in The District spelling be this year we had some amazing students competing and now we would like to recognize the runnerup and the winner from our District spelling be our District spelling be runner up is Miss Kate Wilson colitz fifth grader at shirro intermediate [Applause] our District spelling be Champion is Mr Gus Snipes eighth grader at mby high [Applause] school yes let's give them another round of [Applause] applause thank you guys next I will be recognizing our newest
012group of Junior Scholars the South Carolina Junior Scholars Program was developed by South Carolina in 1986 to identify eighth grade students with exceptional academic talent and to develop strategies for inclusion into special programs the programs include a process for screening a potential talent pool of students identifying and recognizing those students with exceptionally High Scholastic achievement and intellectual ability and sponsoring summer opportunities in collaboration with participating South Carolina colleague colleges universities and the governor school for Science and Math to be identified as a junior scholar students must score 550 or higher on the reading and writing subtest of the PSAT or students can score 530 or higher on the math subtest of the PSAT in order to be recognized as a junior scholar students as I call your name please come forward and remain at the
013front until your the last name is called first we have Miss Harley Childers from MV high [Applause] school next Tyson Freeman Long Middle [Applause] School Viva Lang Long Middle School [Applause] Avery Moss Chesterfield Ruby Middle [Applause] School Chaz quick Long Middle School Alexis Redmond Chesterfield Ruby Middle School [Applause] William Smith Long Middle [Applause] School Anthony Smith Cruz New Heights Middle School [Applause] Christian Taylor macby High [Applause] School mateline Wallace Long Middle [Applause] School and Aden walls Chesterfield Ruby Middle [Applause] School e let's give them another round of applause thank you guys good job y'all all right Mr casy you're up financial report Madam chair Dr Anderson members of the board good evening good evening prior of this evening you all received a copy of the financial review for the month of January has any questions
014related to that report any questions thank you thank you all right Dr Hazard next um is our human s Resources Director with our Personnel exhibits Dr Anderson Madam chair members of the board at this time I would like to recommend the following exhibits for your approval exhibits a through e move any discussion all in favor say I oppose nay unanimous thank you thank you all right our chief academic officer Miss stubs for curriculum report good evening Madam chair Dr Anderson and members of the board um several areas on our curriculum report that I would like to highlight um the first is our CTE program um on February 19th mattby High School's FFA students had the opportunity to speak with South Carolina Representatives uh Mr Richie ya and Mr Cody Mitchell uh they had the privilege
015of observing a date on a proposed bill which uh was all about social media and age limits um this event is known as legislature appreciation day uh Chesterfield High hosted a job fair on February 13th and students had the opportunity to engage with re regional and local businesses um to to explore various uh career paths um they gained valuable insights as far as what um employers were looking for for um with with prospective candidates our special ed um special track and field day is March 19th with rain dates on March 21st and 27th it will be held at charl high school um and the event will start with the parade of athletes at 9:30 um intercession week for our elementary students um went very well um students had the opportunity to work with um in
016small groups and have individualized instruction with their teachers um we had approximately 80 students um that attended intercession that week shw primary has received a grant to provide over 150 students um with an ex uh steam experience and this of course is science technology engineering art and math and so these students will be um doing some virtual learning with a turtle hospital um and learning about um various animals and their habitats throughout the state of South Carolina uh this project was inspired by Miss Kelly wheeler the art teacher at shw Primary School um and students will be able to visit the aquarium in Charleston chal High's National Arts Honor Society created a a a sign for downtown chal and that'll be hung very soon um Chesterfield hd's art department is um has a a photography
017class um that is new this year so students are very excited to have that opportunity um and then the last thing I wanted to to mention um of course going back to the um Junior Scholars is that our ninth grade Junior Scholars visited York Tech on February uh 7 students were shown different degree and career programs and got to meet other Junior Scholars um from other districts and had a great time exploring the campus and programs that they may um wish to look at um when they graduate are there any questions about that about the report no questions I just have one on the curriculum side do uh do we have a policy in place that uh addresses uh academic dishonesty and the use of of AI and do we have uh AI Checker in
018our schools um so there is there is a policy with academic um dishonesty I don't think Dr King do we have a curent in our handbook that addresses AI uh no we do not we do not have ai not that I no no I don't think so yeah please probably to adjust policy for that to yeah that's yeah there there of course have been a lot of in there's a lot of information out there that's you know very new with AI so that certainly is something we need to look at I just know the colleges have it and they have the free side of it but I a lot of feed about that about St okay all right very good um any other questions uh the the next thing is I would like to ask
019your approval for our new math curriculum um for K through 8 we are requesting approval for I ready um and then for our um uh geometry um at the e8th grade level and all of our our high school classes we're asking approval for savis um and these were the U Publishers that are areach teachers voted on and and principals submitted their um uh choices um to miss sa and Miss sug so we're asking for your approval for the new math curriculum I still move second thank you before I call for the motion okay all right thank you very much all right any discussion on this okay thank you so MO all right now I'm going to turn it over to Dr Anderson for his superintendent report Lou okay you you uh recently you received the
0202025 26 calendar that our employees voted on that was actually option two that our employees uh voted on but we brought to you all's attention and want to move forward with the recommendation Dr Anderson that's the same uh schedule that we that we're president operating right modified schedule I move that we accept the uh modified schedule for the 25 26 school year okay any discussion I don't know if you noticed it but the whole week of Thanksgiving is they're off yeah yes so that but they got the days end up when you them up they got and they had the opportunity they voted on three actual calendars so this is the winner okay all in favor thank you all right thank you so much also just a few announcements uh this Friday marks the end
021of the nine weeks March 14th also miss stubs uh has already mentioned there's a special uh track and field day at shirro high school on March 19th that's coming up and then on March 20th report cards will be going home or issued for our students and then uh on March 26th we're having our appreciation break um this semester will be for our maintenance department we want to appreciate them just let them know how much we appreciate them um but please uh board members feel free to come out and join us on that morning of March 26 what time is that at 9 9:00 a.m. in here in here yes yes okay greatly appreciate that also uh this is this is some great news that I want to share want to save the best for last
022uh Chesterfield County School District as of last week Mr casy we received a letter all that came to me came to our CFO also came to our uh uh Madam chair here that our school dist school district is officially off of the fiscal watch list officially hand clap come on all right officially off so that's that's U I'm really uh proud of the work that they've done to to help us uh take the necessary steps to receive that letter on last week by uh by the state department so congratulations to all of them last piece of good news and that is um Dr hail and her team they worked of very hard D diligently with our state department on obviously you all know that we use all of our uh e-learning days due to inclement
023weather and we we also had to use on January 23rd we had to use a school closure day so we had to close school because we ran out of e-learning days um based on the calendar now based on the calendar for this year the makeup day was April 18th um but Dr uh Dr hail and state department they were working and collaborating together and we will not have to use tell those new teachers right we we will we will not have to use April 18th we're in instead we're going to make up use that makeup day that makeup date will now be on May 22nd May 22nd now May 22nd on the calendar uh originally is a half day but that's going to be a regular day now that's going to be a full day
024and that will be our makeup day opposed to April 18th so congratulations that's good news clap clap clap I'm just I'm just going to be honest with you I didn't know how we were going to pull it together on April 18th you know we wor about no no students coming but I was worried about no employees showing up truth be told so but anyway um so our makeup dat will be officially again May 22nd a normal school day okay Madam chair that concludes my all right thank you some good things out of that report yes sir I I just want to mention that and and to tell Dr Anderson that uh he gave a great presentation at an school board meeting I got a lot of comments about it and in fact uh if you
025hadn't seen it on YouTube at o County the chairperson uh brought that to the attention of his board about that presentation so I want to give you your your thanks right now u i attended that session did I thought it went over very well thank you the other thing that I wanted to mention um and Robert T brought it up about the AI dollon county is in my opinion as the head of the game in terms of AI uh that presentation was very good it might be something that we can kind of CopyCat or look at uh that address AI uh in our school system for sure I did another Workshop I attended was um Mr Casey uh they says that if at all possible board members should not bother our CFO because y'all have
026so many reports that y'all have to fill out from the state department say is you all are overwhelmed with paperwork but uh anyway I I'll I'll narrow my request down I'm just letting you know thank you you good thank you sir I'm good you're good okay all right board members if you have not sent in your South Carolina economic um statement of economic interest you got till the 30th of this month or it's a $100 a day right don't forget all right all right board members April 9th will be scasa day at the capl if you want to attend please let Becky know all right April 7th is our next regular board meeting here at 5:00 executive session followed by meeting at 5:30 do I entertain a motion to adjourn gotcha we are closed thank
027you for coming do it e for