001[Music] good evening everybody I'd like to call the regular meeting of the Board of Education to order it is Tuesday March know I'm trying to figure out can we stand for the pledge of Alle this will be interesting okay give us a minute uh Mr listro could you lead us please yes I pled Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you sir as will you call the RO here Viana re here secretary y we in here here Mr Joseph here M here M here Mr Jose rer herea S she is on her way all right like just to call for a moment of meditation I don't know about all of you but
002I could use it right about now just a little moment of peace and quiet Give It Up to whoever and whatever you want thank you um public participation no one signed up for public participation but I'll put it out there if anybody is interested to speak has anything they want to present to the board going once going twice going Thrice all righty moving on Sir superintendence report good evening everybody Welcome to New Britain high school thank you to Mr Pierce and his staff and his students for the preparation as we've done at the other sites we've had student performances you should have been greeted by one as you as you came in rather than um challenging our eardrums here inside it was wonderful to be greeted by the band uh and the majors outside wonderful
003wonderful display uh you should also if you have not already take note of the really wonderful artwork here in the room with us and uh just outside really really a lot of work to be proud of uh in all facets to um uh things that are happening here at the high school so thank you Mr Pierce and your staff and students for the preparation um we're we're going to begin with a brief uh talk about I know a topic that is of interest to board members and to the public I've asked um M Whitehead and M major to join us tonight and they're going to give us an update about how the Yonder pouches have been going at their two middle schools so you can use the podium please good evening even principal blasy middle
004school thank you for having me uh she's hiding so as P Middle School rolled out the Yonder pouches earlier this year we saw uh not too much of a backlash we saw our students embrace it within the first couple of weeks week to be honest we had 6% of our Yonder pouches that look to have been damaged and or lost um and that's with a total of over 900 students that's amazing our students fell in in line they see the value in the Yonder pouches um as of right now I can say that our teachers will tell you they are teaching the cell phones have been put away whether we see our students holding their y pouch or they're putting them in their lockers um they're definitely not in the classroom we see our students
005interacting with one another uh engaging in conversation that's meaningful to their academics and most importantly I'm I'm a little selfish they're actually talking to me uh as opposed to Miss why had it's drama let me tell you what happened uh so we want to say that the Y pouches are working here in plaski um I do want to say that we did have a total of uh 81 in the entire School of pouches so 81 damaged okay that's it so I think it's amazing it's working my kids are embracing it more importantly my parents have been fabulous with it um I will tell you I had one parent come today to pick up their their student help phone so with our our community engaging this and our students embracing it uh P's culture climate our
006school Al together has improved um I do want to say on behalf of my staff it is a lot of work but we're also saying it's worth it yes so we're putting in the hard work and it's paying off um I I I'm going to quote one teacher and and by this it was uh we're consistent and we're showing that we're a team and because we're doing it it's been a big Improvement uh it's great building wide the vibe is 100% improved um and the drama that has reduced with the cell phones being away allows us to teach so that's good very good thank you Miss major yes um I will will first thank the board for having us tonight um I've second a lot of what of what Miss whad has said I do
007want to add that I think a lot of the success that we've both seen um has a lot to do with the preparation um we took a lot of time to make sure that our students were ready our families were ready our staff was ready everything was ready to go on the seventh and it just kind of was this seamless transition from there um similar to palaski we had slight uptick in students trying to test the durability as I call it of the pouches um but we have seen a drastic decline to really know is at all at this point with the damaging or trying to open them or anything like that um we've had from the start for January and February we've had 58 parent pickups so considering we have over 800 students not
008bad in two months uh only 58 which means what that means is that a student was caught with a phone one time and then another time after that it's a parent pickup parents are coming to get the phones that was another kind of misconception before was can we really follow through on this we parents come and get them well they say no I can't come parents are there they want to support this as well so that's been really positive um last pieces and I thought this was the best is she shared some student testimonies one girl actually at the end of the day came into the we call the Fish B the area outside my office and said I feel so popular at the end of the day I get my phone at the end
009of the day I get out of the pouch I have all these text messages I have snaps all these people don't want to talk to me um so that's been a positive and a lot of students who in the beginning have said to to staff and to different people who come to find out how the pouches pouches are going um in the beginning I de saided I wasn't going to do this I wasn't following this but even now I see I can actually concentrate more I can focus more and some of them are even noticing that they're talking to each other more so all in all it's been it's been a really really smooth transition for both of us thank you any questions from board members I just that one what happens when they damaged
010do they have to pay for it or so they do so the first pouch is $10 and then after that it's 2250 yeah 2250 we haven't had anyone get to a second pouch um and also similar to parent pickup parents are there the next day $10 here you go I apologize student apologizes and then they get to New pouch so that's been really really supportive as well yes I'm actually kind of jealous my school is one of the first in the state that we adopted Yonder um and I'm actually kind of jealous because when I mentioned um when I heard the first numbers from the first week from Dr Gasper how you guys were doing along I brought it up to our Administration they didn't believe me they had well you guys were doing and
011I'm going to go back in town tomorrow 81 since you guys rolled it out and that's actually should be applauded um how has been the discipline you mentioned how things are going better cuz we had a 77% drop in our discipline issues after Yonder pouches rolled out cuz kids weren't texting each other meet me in the bathroom or you know video filming fights and starting it out how has discipline been going along so I I think two things one I think it's still a little early to have like definitive hardcore like this is quantitative numbers to show like a solid decline but just in the data that we've gone over with um with tyone Mr Richardson you can see uh a Trend um as far as for cell phone infractions and cell phone misuse anecdotally
012I can tell you that what we're not seeing and actually Heather was just mentioning this to me um earlier we're not seeing the oh so and so said this or look at what this person said or I need to talk to them or I'm going to you know we're not having a lot of that high energy kind of drama from the phone um I don't have any hardore like quantity to I don't know if you do you well since the Y rule out uh we did have the violations and we count that so that was 181 cell phone violations and so now they understand uh the board backed us this is what we're doing moving forward our expectations for us are to come to school inl cell phones away um our students have steadily declined
013in that department so our behavior is improving um and but as Carn said we need to give you some more data it's only been a couple months so as it's kind of crazy it's only been mon when I was thinking about that it's only been two months the stories I love to hear the stories I always love to hear Too are the kids cuz you meant the kids they'll try anything to break open those pouches and my favorite ones are the kids who take the pouches and Hammer and try to break it open and end up smashing their phones oh they've done it coule and if you go on Amazon you could buy the magnet and when kids don't realize if they don't buy the right one it will not just damage it will race
014the phone if they buy the wrong one so yeah the kids will try anything but wow yeah the the Y pouch is having great thing and I love the fact that more and more schools are doing it even just doing like informals or formals or like State walkthroughs things like that there's there's no phones in the classroom I me our our Amanda from the state mentioned that at least on our last two walkthroughs just the difference of before break to now um they're not hiding them they don't have them like this you know it's just everyone's engaged well we had that I went with you guys through your walk through I remember and having the conversation about how creative the students were being and if they apply that creativity always that would be yeah I
015could always thought a kid was is trying to hide you know broke their like your lap does not look that impressive when you st down there the whole time I'm glad that it's working um I I will say I was a little um worried about parents cuz parents become codependent on and kind of on the phones and kind of go over the teachers and administrators and trusting that they're there to do a job and protect their children as well so I'm glad to hear that the parents are actually working together with you as well and I'm looking forward to seeing the data yeah we had an incident a few years ago my school where um we had a serious issue going on uh and because just before rolled out yonder and because parents were call
016the kids were calling their parents it made the situation worse so that was one of the reasons why we rolled out y pouches so whenever parents say I can't contact my kids I bring that up to them they it's better to get to story there's a reason why we have the controlled Narrative of when an incident happens it's not that Dr Gasper is keeping information from you it's because we want to make sure that situations for safety and we have students sometimes throughout the day accessing main office phone so I think that was good for parents to teach you that follow through on something we said like listen your child will still have access to you there's just other ways for them to access you access you than through their phone and how they call
017you know how they call the kids when they were you know when we were in school they didn't office yeah well our parents didn't call us they go learn yeah right yeah well thank you to you both yeah thank you thank you very much we'll continue on with the superintendent's report uh as always you have this month's beautiful edition of the dispatch in front of you just some highlights there um turning in uh really nice recognition um at doretto school Under the building the beacon column we are seeing our midyear data starting to come in across multiple uh metrics some UPS some downs and some very notable UPS so we'll look forward to to tracking that and keeping the board up to date really nice um art installation uh and project happening at palaski you'll
018find a story about that there really nice article entitled celebrating unity and creativity and then I don't know how I didn't get an invite to this we had a safari at GNE school I think we need to we need to to make sure the superintendent gets invited to such uh safaris really neat activity happening there um want to make sure that all of our uh parents and residents who are watching know that kindergarten registration is open it really helps us to have registration happy happen as early as possible and I don't typically take you through kind of the last few pages but there's some some really nice uh social media stories of note if you go through kind of the last pages there uh it was nice that uh a podcast called the efficacious educator
019um featured some of our administrators here at the high school about having a more welcoming and controlled uh beginning of the day and alumna really to be proud of uh a young lady da ABS salani um uh is now a graduate um and is a graduate of um new Bron High School in 2020 a graduate of Yukon in 24 is having uh success in astronomy really nice story there uh SMY congratulations to SMY for donating $2,000 for breast cancer research and a really nice story about GNE and Black History Month and finally as we just heard um doing some really nice implementations this time with um the see something say something Anonymous reporting a project overseen by Mr Richardson are we are now being asked to be um a role model at by this National
020Organization of other districts that are implementing that in the area so thank you to Mr Richardson and really all of the school administrators and staff who participated in that and finally March is Board of Education member appreciation month so every year board members volunteers unpaid volunteers dedicate hundreds of hours of their time to serving on this board of education and others so on behalf of the students the teachers the families and of course the staff thank you board members for what you do and we had a small token of our appreciation for you tonight so thank you thank you thank you and that's my report for this evening Madam president all right thank you sir committee reports we start with policy um we have one item on the agenda after we met um some changes
021that have been made updating the policy on IEPs Finance um we met um been last Monday um we discussed a couple donations which are my favorite things but we also did some contract renegotiation some of them were simple renewals of existing contracts but we also have a few new purchases uh new furniture for um some of our scho of palaski as well as some uh we put a new uh policy um new line item to allow any leftover funds that District may have which years like this probably won't have allow this to put some percentage money aside for mercies for next year all right Personnel I met on the same day um in and above the regular fair you know exit data and vacance list stuff we had the discussion around the job description for
022the district supervisor special education specialized programs thank you and curriculum uh we met two weeks ago and uh on the agenda tonight is the social St curriculum grades six and 12 okay board reports anybody yes I did go to the city's uh Black History Month award and uh three of our uh family members Zen and Miss Park Miss Parker and uh DR Sanders were all honored so it was really nice to see um some some of our people being honored any yes I'm sorry I know I just walked in but you know had to carry my coffee slowly um I wanted to thank the palasi family for this wonderful article that is in the New Britain Harold actually just shouting out how they make um culture at the Forefront with their students and really just
023being able to share um and it's funny because the article starts off with a group of students that says a lot these students are really driving it home and working with the staff being such an integral part so I'm just saying this is the New Britain heral February 27th if anybody needs a copy let me know I got a hook up at the Herold and I get you one um so things like this is what should be featured in our district dispatch just saying that this wonderful thing okay thank you oh and I attended the same thing with Diana too so we we had a really fun time there nice tray of food but it was really good and they had coffee all right president yep um I just wanted to say to um thank
024you for the band members for the welcome in as a neighbor I will be completly honest when I first moved to the neighborhood I was not a fan of the rehearsals for the band um especially you know Sunday mornings trying to sleep in hearing the marching man was not a good wake up but then Co hit and my it began to me to become a sign that when I started hearing the marching band play that was a sign to me that we were getting back to normal and I have since become a huge fan of the band whenever I hear the barching band play I'll go outside of my patio and listen in I love hearing them perform so when coming in I liked hearing that welcome coming in this morning and then coming into
025the lecture hall and seeing the beautiful artwork on display over there and looking over how talented the kids are when you talk about really emphasizing how great our kids are I haven't looked at the tags I assume they're all probably new brand high students and the talent that this school has this is something we got to advertise people talk about well why you going to new BR schools this is why we come to New BR schools M the kids we had out there playing and then the kids we see right here here on display here that's what we the high has to offer so we have to promote that more so really the kids did a great job tonight yeah thank you so thank you anybody can see my um just to add on to
026Mr kan's what he just said you know I'd like to second that um our department apparently we heard in curriculum I believe last month that think it was curriculum that almost every kid who takes the AP exam passes with fours and fives um and they have a lot of opportunities for those kids um and uh very impressive artwork throughout the school um and the band actually just came back along with the orchestra from Florida uh they had a successful awesome parade down there a couple weeks ago and they'll be performing uh St Patrick's Day Parade in Hartford they were Best in Show last year um and that's on the 15th uh week from this Saturday come on support that'll be fun anybody else the only one thing I wanted to bring up is I saw
027on social media that Kate's had her sessions started her committee regarding the Food Service how many people showed up five five okay we're doing the work and we heard and we listened and we're doing our thing um with all of the keyboard Warriors I would have thought we'd have a little bit more participation than five but absolutely we'll take that as it is and just you know go from there but kudos to Kate I appreciate the work that she's doing absolutely absolutely all right student Representatives report um we would just like to bring up like a lot of we've been seen like a lot of positive things happen over the district like everybody was really saying and um recently we've had like we had a black history assembly I think that went pretty um successfully
028here and it brought a lot of like light to um the importance of like black education and just education in general that the students really I think need to hear and I was actually surprised I was a part of it I'm president African araban Club so I was actually surprised to see that the audience and the students were actually very like engaged and they were being very respectful which is kind of crazy to say that I was surprised to see that but that's a good thing it'sa and other than that I mean I don't know I think uh people like the students and teachers and like staff and stuff is getting um to be more on a positive note seeing that it's getting warmer outside soon and it's almost towards the end of the year
029vacations coming and yeah yeah basically what she said there is kind of not really been um any like major thing to rep point on it's just mostly like we've seen a lot of improvements and with the Black History Month assembly just positive things hi it's good great thank you both awesome all right so moving on to section three need a motion to go into executive session to review workers compensation settlement with attorney Eric Bartlet and I'd be asking the board attorney Bartlett Miss Manning and Dr Gasper to join us second I have a second second okay all in favor I hi moving on to section four need a motion to approve minutes for the regular meeting of February 3rd motion okay thank you any questions comments changes Mr Kane your name is spelled correctly yes
030it is okay we're going to find a new and inventive misspelling each month go k a i n just like I should check sa seen y Incorporated yet all righty if no questions or changes all in favor any opposed all right uh report of personnel transactions in [Applause] extracurricular appointments motion to approve Mo second any questions all in favor I any opposed okay we're good um and then for informational is the enrollment report we continue to Trend up um notably the high school has dipped back down below uh 2,500 Mr Pierce I believe I heard you predict that in a PD session where I think you you at that point you said November October and November tend to be the peak for en woman at the high school [Applause] correct correct but um as we
031have uh budget talks continuing with the city I just wanted to make a point that enrollment continues to be [Applause] up why would um we have like a valley like that PE in November and start hanging down because kids transfer out on school correct students moving into and out of the district all righty item d [Applause] there's a motion to review board policy motion to accept accept sorry motion to accept board policy 6159 individualized education programs so moveed second discussion all those in favor I I any opposed one opposed okay moving on to E motion to accept job description of the district supervisor of special education specialized programs motion do I have a motion motion to approve second thank you [Applause] discussion okay all those in favor all any opposed got one okay thank you
032all right motion to accept draft calendar for the 25 2 we're talking about the next year's calendar 25 to 26 academic year calendar motion second any [Applause] discussion um I going through the days off and understand the color code go are we giving the kids L off again this year that is correct yep you'll find that on March 20th [Applause] Yep any other questions comments okay all those in favor I any opposed nope Calendar's approved uh Madam president if I may just a a a informational question from the superintendent I'm wondering if there would be appetite by the board to approve Calenders two years in advance this is uh not an uncommon practice it's something that many school districts do we uh in my tenure at my previous District we changed from doing them one
033at a time to doing them two years in advance um it's especially helpful for people booking long-term vacations especially helpful for us as we hopefully continue our partnership with CCSU about using uh the wey Auditorium for uh Comm convocation thank you um so we don't have it yet developed but I wanted to ask the question if there would be any opposition uh on the board to considering that we could probably bring that back to you at a meeting in the near future with a proposal for the scary to say at 26 27 school year you you're jinxing the weather by doing that all blizzards any discussion questions conc IDE start planning it sounds like that's okay the team the team will start working on that awesome my question to is I'm looking over the calendar
034you have a special observance days just wondering if there's any kind of activties to high school about some of these uh events uh most these are religious but is there any kind of um activities some of the groups I'm not sure of the question well like for example I know like Le is not here um but also do do any of the U students um doing any kind of activities around these uh special observances so we do have uh both Muslim and Christian Student associations and and um in their activities we do things um for example Taste of Ramadan is a fully student initiated and and organized event any other questions all righty um item G motion to approve the contract between csdnb and capital region correct for sure for speech and language services districtwide
035for [Applause] $58,000 I know this is an added item for us to discuss right now so yes Madam president so this is a time sensitive um request that came in after the the finance facilities and transportation meeting we're asking the board to consider it um the monies are uh budgeted for already um and it is uh as the board knows a critical need for our students with special needs so I have a motion to approve so move second second okay we're all good any discussion questions what account was it budgeted out of sorry what account was it budgeted out of you said you already budgeted out for it I'm sorry Dr Gasper had said that he had already budgeted out for it sure it's listed Here Local uh Series 300 thank you bless bless you
036okay I'll try that again all those in favor I any opposed okay they're all s item H similarly this is a a time sensitive matter one of our um facil these trucks has broken down um there is a state listed vendor to do the repair but it would have been 16 weeks with that vendor another vendor who is not on the state list can do the repair much more quickly and for roughly the same price so we're we're requesting a bid waiver and a purchase order for this time sensitive matter as well and again this also came in after the FF committee do I have a motion to so second all right any discussion questions I just have a question what year is this there nothing Mr SM how old is the truck this is
0371936 2016 this is a 2016 thank you any other questions or concerns all those in favor any opposed approv all right consent agenda any uh yes sir I'd like to remove the soci pr agenda item a yes does anyone have anything else they want to remove from the consent agenda I would like to ask to remove item M the finan report okay so item a first sir um I want to apologize for not attending the cck committee meeting on there I should have looked it over um I looked over the social curriculum and my two big the's concern is the Civ first question of the Civic curriculum um I'm not I'm okay with it a lot of areas my question for it is how many weeks are they spending on each unit cuz is it
038a full semester course full year course is it a half semester course half semester it's one semester it's one it's one semester um so how many weeks are they spending on each unit that's a lot of information to cover um in one half the semester Miss bulky do you have that information get bless you but my biggest area of concern though in the soci curriculum and to the point where I cannot honestly vote for the social curriculum is the New Britain course I am not impressed at all with the New Britain course is somebody who has made it a passion on this board for more new BR history this new brand course to me is very disappointing um there's a lot BR has a lot of history in there I've said it many times in
039these board meetings and I look over the units we have the unit one talks about The Monuments unit two the factories unit three the demographics and unit four the famous new brand people but there's no mention about how new Brin has impacted world history um how new Brin famous uh events that happened new Brin history um for example we were talking Even in our uh discussion uh right before our dinner before that uh one of the first times companies offered stocks was here Stanley Works in BR um postage had was one of uh El bur who is not on the list of famous new BR people one of the greatest people came out New Britain history is not on the list of famous New Britain nightes um was one of the people who advocated for
040that Penny postage is not on is not mentioned dribbling we have a basketball team right across the hall here is the gym dribbling was invented in uh Brin not on nowhere is that mentioned in the curriculum that that'll be covered the wire hanger was ented by the uh North and Jud Factory right across from City Hall that is not mentioned anywhere in the curriculum here I see I see this curriculum extremely lacking and then when I look over for unit four which is supposed to be famous to Bri Knights where the kids have to go um do a research project they famous to BR kns the list of suggested people more than half are within the last 50 years um General Patterson who came up with the name the Brin who is one of George
041Washington's uh Chief a the camps is not on this list El bird who I already said is not on this list um you talking about black history uh Teddy Wilson who is um one of uh H uh hennyman um a famous jazz performer who was buried in Fairview Cemetery I remember when he died they made a big story about it on Entertainment Tonight that he was from new Brin they covered it and he came to tour new Brin that he died he's not on this list um there was uh I'm driv blank his name but the guy who invented the term The Greatest Show on Earth who was uh PT baram's Advanced man he's not on this list so there's a lot so this curriculum is very lacking in new brain in history it's basically
042a quick overview we have to get this done we have to have a bur course let's get this done so as so if if I may Mr Kane that's disrespectful to the staff sorry I'm sorry but just the staff put a lot of work into this that's not taken away from their work well when we the the term that Mr Kan just used I believe is disrespectful to staff so I apologize and that just said fa very there could have been more information that could have been and this M um can I just yes it's not making a comment about anybody in particular just making about the um and sticking to the work itself I can just tell you that when they first said that they were covering um monuments I'm quite transparent about pointing
043out the window when we are at our downtown offices in our in our little horseshoe there um and you will hear me say often again not about anybody living but that my uncle whose name appears on the monument right outside of the window was one of the first New Britain Sons to be lost in the Vietnam War and I point to it usually like this because I have to turn around based on where I'm sitting so now not trying to sound exaggerated or anything I'm over here doing like this my kid is and then my kid is the one that I'm asking questions about because she is actually in the class and I've asked her questions about it and I've asked her peers questions about it I'm just I was I myself was disappointed I'm
044just saying that that I'm just using that as one example of where I was like wait a minute something just isn't something isn't right I don't know how to make it better but we need to kind of revisit that particular program and sometimes when it's new you kind of need to check it out see how it goes and test out things and you know see what feedback you're getting um but what I've been told often is that maybe it's her disability that why she can't articulate that she doesn't understand no no no no no no no she speaks just fine and I ask my kids often about what they're learning because we discuss things at the dinner table every single night with the exception of the nights I have board event meetings uh she has
045no clue about The Monuments she has no clue about anything in New Britain history she's in that class thank you any other comments questions concerns like well I I would say I agree there is some history that's lacking on the curriculum that um as Tony mentioned should be added you know especially particularly some of the people he mentioned so you know I agree with that point some you try it out M it's going to work it's not going to work kids going to gravitate to okay so at this point it would be the item would be up for a vote of the board unless there's any other action that's being requested but to move the curriculum ahead so in order to do that we need a motion to approve the curriculum I move to approve
046the curriculum for social studies grades 6 to 12 second it's been second any other additional conversation just a point of clarification um so this would take part next year that's correct if we send it back to committee we can work on it and maybe not have this vote tonight if there's members that are in agreement that we can make some additions mhm I think we should make some additions take it off make the additions that you know at least some of the people that were mentioned that have a great part of History here and should be consider throughout the country should be considered to be added so I think we should pull it off until that gets added point of clarification are we only talking about the New Britain history one course or are we
047talking about the entire C culum one I think the one one course I'm sorry again BR course the history course BR history yeah okay so they at this point we have a motion on the table and second in that would either need to be rescinded or amended I can resend okay that's rescinded New Motion on the table to approve curriculum minus the New Britain history piece does that cause issue nope so move who said no second okay any other additional conversation no no no just now when she asked I just I have a question just real quick sure I was trying I was trying to think how articulate this before I asked it so this is not just a consideration I mean having written curriculum before um couple things to take into consideration is is
048is um and yeah I mean we could always I'm in agreement like maybe you know if we really want to J it up with the New Britain stuff that's fine but we also have to cons bring it up to no I like the level of palatability that folks want um but one thing we also have to understand is that process mirr sort of the same process for the other parts of the curriculum where you know there's standards here my friends that have to also be like met you know like in terms of what the other I would I would think that we would want that class to to sort of um meet certain standards just like all the other history classes and so you know whatever other classes are in that Continuum um you know
049uh so I mean I get it Details Matter but we also don't want to lose sight of the fact that and yes teachers times valuable and yes it's going to take some you know Recycling and some other things but I would just ask people to understand that you know make sure the ask is clear so that folks don't end up doing redundant work all over again right because this is people's hours that they put into it probably off the clock most likely if I know how things worked in the past and work still so you know just some consideration to that I mean clearly we could always add some more detail to the class I think it's important um you know I would also just say I have I was not here for that either
050I just hope it's balanced in terms of its equity and yes I'm going to use that word because no one can tell me I can um and just you know those considerations as well like you know in terms of the multitude of people that are that we all want to be included in this list but Al a little you know consideration for the fact that a few teachers are probably going to be doing this on their own time and their own dime most likely so just something to think about but I also consider that that it's the students that I want to make sure understand the New Britain history and I'm completely in agreement exactly what you said because often times this is what happens where we end up doing the behind the- scenes work
051on our own time just really it but I know that we are by approving some but allowing this to be a standalone to be able to just get reworked would allow it the time that it needs to um and then be able to revisit it and I just feel bad that my kid doesn't understand about monuments but either way okay I just want I I understand there's some people missing on here but how much are they expected to cover because there is a limit as to how much you can do that time frame so that M Parker that was going to be my request of um if the board would like to see revisions I would prefer that those are funneled through the board president to me if the board wants to honor Mr K's
052suggestions we also need to know if this is going to stay a halfe course that's the problem and changing it from a halfe to a full year course has substantial impingements on the master schedule and how many kids will be able to access the course right this could remain a half year just that this a little tweaking of it respectfully sir I would say with the quantity of content that you're requesting be added I would say that would be very difficult I didn't hear him asking for the content I what I heard him was pointing out a multitude of items that could have been touched on that were not I didn't hear him say that this is what needed to be added respectfully not just saying and and to Dr Gasper's Point any requests for
053specific changes send them to me we will I will forward them on and we will address them and then can be assessed as to what impact timing wise and whatever that might may or may not have that'll end up going back to committee to be discussed and hopefully you'll attend that meeting sir even though it's not your committee I'll end it got it okay any other discussion we have a motion on the table to approve the curriculum for social studies 6 through2 minus the New Britain history course that has been seconded all those in favor any opposed moving up okay um item m i I have some questions had some questions from Miss Alano who's not here but um so I'm I will ask those of her later on but or does anybody else have
054anything else on M since it's been removed okay all those in favor on the financial report I opposed I two team okay now for the rest of the consent agenda motion to approve the remaining items of the consent agenda second any discussion all those in favor any opposed okay um so I need a motion to go into executive session for the purposes of discussing two matters pending litigation with Attorney D I saw you yes sir um and requesting attorney Dyk the board um M Manning and Dr gas join us motion second all approved or all in favor so at this point I will entertain a motion to settle the case of aus Vargas for $9,500 Mo second all those in favor I any [Applause] opposed now I will entertain a motion to approve the case
055for Vasquez Sanchez motion for $15,000 second all those in favor I any opposed no man thank you all righty thank you have a good night thank you see you next week God no offense I hope not um all righty closing an adj any other business has permitted by law nothing to do I'll entertain a motion to adjourn second all in favor thank you everyone did [Music]