001yes I'd like to call the Stonington Board of Education right regular meeting to order it's February 9th at 6 30 pm and for the first quarter of business I'd like to ask Mrs Simmons to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance for which it stands for the liberty and justice for all thank you uh we'll start with communication recognitions I'll ask our superintendent Hugo thank you thank you who's here tonight is from Dean's Mill a grade 5 student who is the recipient of the prestigious uh award um uh that it happens annually it's a Statewide contest sponsored by Senator Chris Murphy and he's the winner of the Martin Luther King Jr award and he will be sharing his award-winning Essay with you shortly I'd also like to give a special note of
002appreciation to our chief Del Grosso and officer Carrie Browning and this is something that you haven't heard of yet but I'm announcing it tonight we are going to be offering a team a professional development session for 14 school districts and their companion Law Enforcement Officers Chief DelGrosso has a contact with three Secret Service agents that will be coming to an area Locale near us to conduct this professional development series it's entitled the United States Secret Service research and recommendations on the prevention of targeted violence it will be specifically for schools and it will include the research over the past 20 years from the national threat Assessment Center so this is a unique collaboration with education and law enforcement coming together at the end of that session the the educators will hang back and share current
003preventative Strat preventative strategies and learn from each other and my hope is that this will be the start of a continuing collaboration with those 14 districts and their law enforcement partner so thank you Chief DelGrosso and thank you Carrie Browning who's actually helping me put the specific Logistics together so she's a great help I want to thank Alicia Stripling and Allison Van Etten again for landing the arpa mental health grant for West Vine Street school that will provide that school a an additional mental health worker a social worker specifically through 2025. I'd like to recognize Peter Anderson and Chris Wilson who went above and beyond their normal jobs and went down to the middle school and uh for stem day and talked about their stem careers with our elementary school teachers in Rachel Le Maracas
004class I don't think anybody out in the in the public actually appreciates how our cabinet goes above and beyond their traditional roles and I think that's what makes our leaders very special is that they really believe in the schools and they want to support them in any way they possibly can I would like to commend the dean's middle students and the West Bryan Street School students for their performances in The Lion King kids and the Frozen kids scrapbook theater Productions I attended both of those Productions and the children were amazing and the parents were actually so delighted to see their kids back on stage and be have that energy around seeing them in extracurricular activities so well done students and then finally I have some really exciting news and I'd like to thank the Kathy
005Irvine and Jen McCurdy and if you remember back to our chronic absenteeism data last year we were over I think 21 percent which is horrendous for chronic absenteeism district-wide the cutoff remember for accountability purposes is five percent chronic absenteeism before we get dinged on that accountability report we had a leadership meeting today and right now our chronic absenteeism is 3.61 so if we can hold that steady that's an enormous decrease in or increase in participation in attendance so and I would ask you to consider maybe putting that on the agenda because some of the strategies that they have to make that shift have been quite impressive so thank you building leaders I know it's you and your team so well done thank you very much Mr Donahue Mr Kelly just to reiterate one point that
006superintendent Butler made my family and I attended the um the Frozen production of our West fine that our West fine students put on and it was incredible um we weren't sure what to expect going in we actually didn't even know when we showed up that it was the West fine students performing they blew us away it was so adorable they did such a great job you could tell they prepared I couldn't believe all the lines they remembered um it was it was an incredible night I'm so glad we attended if they do next time they do something like that please attend it was it was a lot of fun I'll speak here um my shout out is to the varied and really successful music programs we've had we've been preview to in the last month
007and first at our last board meeting my shout out is to Emily mcclenahan and her drumming band began our gathering with percussion and vocal that gave a really positive rhythm to our board meeting in pretty nice it happened every time and then as well the I went to The Lion King and there were times that there were over 30 children on the stage perfect cooperation perfect every single child knew their line they it was perfectly coordinated it was so impressive um they had actually been working on it for three months and it was just a very cool thing for but the students to see their cooperation for the audience and for our Stonington school so I'm proud to have been part of it and to have seen it thank you um next item on our
008agenda is comments from citizens regarding items on the agenda please remember we keep each individual comments to three minutes and topic to 20 minutes if you'd like to make any comments please come on up to the podium make sure you state your name and address and list them down as well on the piece of paper that's there good evening um Ashley tool Whitaker Drive in Stonington um I first wanted to thank I really enjoy seeing the collaborations we've been doing with the law enforcement the high five days I know the kids are really loving it and I appreciate having an Administration aboard that continue to develop that relationship with our local police department I also wanted to say the Personnel report I appreciate the Improvement on that I know it was a few board meetings
009ago I was asking like where do we stand what's left who you know what positions are remaining so I really like seeing that we see who's going where and what is still left um so thank you I think that that's a a great tool for parents to be able to look at to see kind of where we're standing with our Personnel matters um a couple of comments for some of the policies um The Suicide Prevention and intervention policy uh p5145.5 it was just a little concerning when it said um it's in the third paragraph it says the identified member of the crisis team with administrative assistance if necessary we'll contact the student's family and appropriate resources outside and within the school system I just feel like it left it kind of vague I I think
010in any situation where there's a thought that a student could possibly be contemplating suicide or in a position like that that the family should know about it I just don't know what deems it if it's necessary I think at all points when there's a concern of suicide that the family and parent should know about it so that that language right there just kind of made me hesitate a little when reading it um and then there was the it's the community relations political activities of School Employees p1311.1 and I just wanna I don't know if there's a way to maybe be more specific I know that we had the resolution but I know that there were still some outstanding issues in classrooms and how teachers are handling the resolution and I think that this policy makes
011it a good point that the school property and the school time are paid for by all people of the district and I know it calls out that you know nobody should attempt to influence students concerning political party affiliations or anything like that I just still implore the board to come up with a little bit more defined guidelines based off the resolution I know no policy has come forth but I feel like maybe there's some more specific um policy details that would help make this more clear for both parents and faculty as I know that there's been some questions and I know I've been reached out to you know what is exactly allowed like this is in the classroom is that okay and I just feel like some people are still kind of left um unsure
012of what our policy is supposed to be and I think that you know we should be falling in line um combining the resolution with some of the policies we already have in place and that's all thank you thank you thanks Sarah on our agenda is the board presentation on Black History Month Mr Smith and assisted with Stonington High School and Stonington Middle School thank you here he comes so good evening and thanks again to the board for allowing me to give this presentation I thought that um since we're both at the Midway point of the year in its Black History Month that it would be a good time to update the board on board goal number two in how we're supporting the diversity Equity inclusion goal and across all levels and I need some Stephen
013I get some oh there we go okay I got it so again gold board goal number two is that Stonington Public Schools will continue to develop students who have social emotional competencies needed to be successful as Citizens in a diverse Equitable and inclusive Society so what you're going to hear briefly about tonight is a whole District approach uh in a minute we're going to have uh as uh superintendent Butler alluded to earlier we're going to have our DMS student read his MLK winning uh essay I'm going to talk about the monthly celebration book reader program that we've been doing at the elementary level and the next one that's in production with a member of the West Broad Street School staff the middle school is going to talk about the witness Stone project and then at
014the end the high school will talk about the New Black and Latino studies course the full name of that course is in their presentation it's a lot of words for a slide so I I that's my abbreviation and Mr Lewis will set you straight so before I get into the elementary Reader Program I'm going to ask our students come forward Mr Bosque do you want to introduce Eli so Mr Bosque will do the formal introduction good evening so I'm very pleased to introduce to you Mr Eli Mikus Eli is an outstanding fifth grader at Dean's Mill school students in Mrs Lance's class and Miss Lance I wanted to thank you for joining us tonight and supporting us um competed in this essay and Eli was chosen from a very broad number of recipients throughout the
015state for this award with Senator Murphy and Eli's dad had informed me just before the meeting started tonight that he'll be recognized I believe this weekend in Middletown for his award so at this time I'd like to introduce you Mr Eli nikis [Applause] hello uh my name is Eli and today I'll be sharing you my Martin Luther King essay Martin Luther King Jr was an inspirational leader who had a dream of equality and justice for all people regardless of race gender or religion his work has been instrumental in inspiring generations to strive towards the school and it's something that should never be forgotten his message still resonates today as we continue to fight for social justice and our own lives and communities my own aspirations are shaped by his legacy but also by the dreams
016I have for myself ones that involves driving towards making the world a better place through my actions builds big and small Martin Luther King Jr's impact on society will always remain relevant because he remind us all that no matter how hard things may seem we can make progress if we stay focused on what matters most creating a more Equitable future where everyone has access to opportunity regardless of their background or identity that's all [Applause] okay if we can get back to the slideshow there we go so one of the things that the district and the school-based diversity Equity inclusion teams came up with this year is for those months the year that have a federally recognized uh program that we selected a picture book and created lesson plans around that picture book for the elementary
017schools the Twist on it is the committee came up with it would be so much more meaningful is if as part of the lesson plan we had some of our employees and families participate who had ties to that particular month so we created this program where we film a reader reading the book and then give that video to the teachers along with some suggested lesson plans on how to do that at the different levels at the elementary school so our first guest reader was a our superintendent Mrs Butler who has a Spanish side of her Heritage so for September's National Hispanic Heritage Month she read the book digging for words in October it's National disability employment awareness month and uh Stonington special educator Diedra tool ran read the book we moved together and I really
018want to give a special shout out to this reader for those of you who don't know Deidra tool she is the Stonington special education teacher who developed and created our community classroom program and was the precursor of what we're doing in the annex where we provide more direct services for our students through age 21 that does two things a it saves our district a ton of money because we do this in-house instead of working solely with the Community Partners like Lighthouse and sharp training the other thing it does is it keeps our students in our buildings and in our program for a larger percent of that time so it's it's great for the students and it's great for the district in the town and she deserves a lot of credit for developing that program with
019Allison and then next in November national American Indian Native Alaskan Heritage Month our new Finance director Alicia Stripling has some Native American Heritage in her family tree so she read we are grateful O.J Lee Hali Liga as best I could do on short notice and then the last reader again if I could just ah there we go uh for Black History Month uh Stonington High School graduate Alyssa Washington in now paraprofessional at West fine Street read the book The World belonged to us by Jacqueline Woodson for this month so it was great to see a graduate not only come back as a paraprofessional but volunteer to be part of this program as well okay and now I'm going to turn this next part of the program to the Middle School folks joining us tonight we
020have Dan agins and Cindy Cassidy uh to talk about the witness Stones project and I'm sure you'll give a shout out to Mr Flanagan as well okay um good evening uh I'm Dan Higgins Cindy Cassidy and we're going to talk about the Winterstone project that we have coming up uh last year before his retirement Tim Flanagan wrote and was awarded a grant to implement a program called the witness Stones project here in Stonington in a few weeks 8th grade social studies classes at SMS will begin to work on this project the witness Stone project was created oh yeah the Winterstone project was created in 2017 by Dennis Collington a former social studies teacher in Guilford Connecticut it has since been implemented in 94 schools or Civic organizations in 50 communities across five states this is
021just Connecticut but it's also happened in New York New Jersey Rhode Island Etc the project has the students research the life of an enslaved person who lived in their Community with the ultimate goal of combining rigorous historical research with the relevancy of a hyper-local source in order to both Foster both a deeper understanding of the impacts of slavery in New England and a greater sense for the empathy of empathy for the millions of humans who were trapped in the system of slavery students Begin by doing the work of historians they work together to analyze a variety of primary source documents in this case Census Data church and tax records along with legal documents such as estate wills and bills of sale that connect with the central recurring themes of slavery dehumanization paternalism the treatment treatment
022of the enslaved the economics of slavery and finally examples of resistance and agency within the enslaved population the project culminates with a focus on a locally enslaved person in our case a man named Cato cuff who was enslaved here in Stonington served in Washington's army at Valley Forge and eventually was able to purchase his freedom students will use their research to create a narrative of some sort about Cato's life a written document a poem or some other form of artistic creation and finally as a class we will place a remembrance Stone which looks like this this is not our Cato this is a different one at the First Congressional Church of Stonington on Pequot Trail according to research records Cato's last known residence was across the street from the church the stone lane will take
023place on April 28th and Mrs Cassidy and I cordially invite all of you to attend so more details to follow in terms of the time but that is the witness Stone project we're really excited to get going on this we do a lot of primary source work in our class but to now use local records you know it's it really drives a home so we're really really excited to get going on this in a few weeks thank you [Applause] and for this last portion I'd like to introduce Mr Jeff Lewis who is the teacher for the uh aforementioned class and I'll let him introduce the class and he also has one of his students who will speak to that class at the high school Mr Lewis okay thanks good evening and thank you for the
024opportunity to speak this evening let's see if we'll click on the right button look at that all right so beginning this year at Stonington High School we are offering for the first time A Course in African-American black and Puerto Rican Latino studies this is a state approved curriculum that's offered at every High School in the state and the I'm just going to give you a brief overview of what the course includes content-wise in terms of the compelling questions that we seek to ask and answer and a few of the means by which we seek to ask and answer those questions so that said the course is divided into there we go two semesters the first semester of the Year focuses on black or African-American history it runs the gamut it starts off with early African
025empires and runs us all the way up to Modern movements and issues within the Black American Community it's divided up into six units of study and then semester two transitions into a study of Latino history in the United States with a focus on Puerto Rican history given demographics in the tri-state area where we find ourselves and like semester one semester two we'll begin at the beginning with early American Empires and civilizations and take us all the way up to current issues and movements within the Latino community focusing on semester one a little delay here on the click sorry about that so uh there are a number of compelling questions addressed in the course I won't read them all out loud to you you can take a look at those as as you see fit and
026as you'd like but a few that I have found are particularly noteworthy and interesting for our students uh we've talked about race and what race means and the extent to which it is a socially constructed concept or construct unit two talks about the global diaspora of Africans and how over time and in various scenarios and situations they have asserted their own agency and resisted oppression and enslavement we had a great seminar discussing when it is or is not justified to resist and by what means and so on we've talked about reconstruction we've talked about movements for equality the means by which we try to answer these questions and ask them we look at primary source documents we look at original legal texts we look at testimonies from persons who lived during these times and experienced
027these historical truths similarly semester two will also Target oh sorry I moved a little bit ahead of myself a number of the histories of the peoples whose stories are vital to our shared history these among many other stories are stories that are covered in semester one of this course moving on into semester two we are going to similarly tackle some other compelling questions right now we find ourselves in unit two so I'll stop at that point uh thus far in the year we've talked about what the term Latino means how Latinos and Latino Americans choose to identify to what extent does race play a role in that identity and we are currently finding ourselves studying the persisting narratives of the Voyages of Christopher Columbus I look forward to the remaining units of the year and
028similarly to you to the first semester we're also going to be looking at primary sources here but we're also going to be looking at means of expression poetry art this is a Vibrant Community with so much to study and so much to appreciate and you'll find on this final slide here another display of some of the stories personal individual and Collective that make up our shared history excuse the clicker next time I won't have so many slides I learned my lesson I know right well there we go all right and so uh with that I'm actually going to yield to a student in our class annalize McGee she's had the pleasure of being I hope pleasure I've had the pleasure of working with annalize um I'm so glad she she offered to speak this evening
029so Annelise thank you um hi my name is Analise McGee I'm a senior at Stonington High School I remember signing up for this African-American enlistino studies course and my guidance counselor's office I'm feeling really excited Not only was it another history course I could take which is something I absolutely love um it was in a subject area I knew I was unfamiliar with and that I hadn't had the chance to experience before so I was really excited to start the course in September um so we're only halfway through the course so I can really only truly speak to my experience in the African-American section of the course but so far I think the most interesting unit we've had is one about agency we discussed the many ways black the many different ways black people have
030asserted themselves in a society that brutally oppressed them we talked about their rebellions the Haitian revolution revolts on slave ships escaping from slavery and many other small ways people black people managed to resist their enslavement um as we move into the Latino section of the course I predict that I would be exposed to many new topics similarly to how I was exposed to new topics in the African-American section um and overall prior to this class I've learned bits and pieces of this history but having it all put together in one place has been really interesting and very informative so I look forward to the rest of my course thank you [Applause] okay and that includes uh concludes our presentation unless there are any other questions we'll we're ready to move on foreign thank you next
031item on our agenda is report from superintendent schools Ms Butler thank you I just wanted to give an update on the before and after school Grant at West Vine Street School it aligns with our board goal of diversity equity and inclusion as of tomorrow the posting for the director of the before and after school Grant has been published for two weeks and we currently have five interested candidates we begin interviews next week and we will keep the posting open just in case those interviews do not yield a satisfactory candidate for the position we do have some information about the program hours that will run from seven in the morning to 6 PM other details will be will follow as soon as the Director is on board so again please don't bombard Mrs Irvine with questions
032at this point because she doesn't have any answers we hope to have that program up and running before spring break but um you know that may change based on staffing issues so pretty excited about that more news about West Vine Street school and the mental health grant that was just awarded it was that the total award was just under two hundred thousand dollars to fund a social worker position at West Vine Street School through 2025. we anticipate the position being posted shortly but there are some peculiarities uh specific to this grant it's a Federal Grant and it's a reimbursement Grant and so uh the 73 000 that we have to spend this year we're obviously not going to be able to spend that money because it's February and to get a person on board at
033this juncture in the year we will only get reimbursed for the amount of that that salary we will lose the rest of the balance of that money the state is trying to push back on that and make more sense of the grant so that we'll get the whole two hundred thousand dollars reimbursed over time but we'll stay tuned we'll give you more information on that as we get it what we hope that they are successful because it only makes sense that the intention of the grant be fulfilled again at the high school we have a little bit of an update it's some promising news about the school-based health clinic at the high school the district office has been notified by the child and family agency that their proposal for a school-based Health Center at the
034high school is moving forward either today or tonight I'm not sure which whenever the board of directors meets for their consideration for funding that program the child and family agency notes that sh is a recommended site for the school-based health clinic if our candidate candidacy is favorably reviewed the clinic will be up and running for the opening of the school year next year and again we'll Supply such supplemental services for those high school students it's really an amazing resource so we're really really crossing our fingers that that comes through and thank you Allison for always keeping in touch with with the um the agency and and promoting our our cause we really appreciate that and then just a little bit of a reminder on where we are with the budget we did present uh the
035status quo back in January if we funded all of the positions including the Esther positions that are in place this year we came up with a 12.28 percent increase which obviously is not palatable to anybody on the board nor the community we came back after taking some considerations of the Improvement asks from each building and also coming up with some cuts out of the general budget remember that's three positions from the high school two teaching positions from the Esther funds in cutting one of the mental health supports by in half at West Vine Street school and removing the remainder of the Esser positions that left us with a 7.89 increase I just want to remind the Board of Education because it's no longer my budget it's your budget and also the public that every one
036percent cut from that number by the board of Finance is a decrease of 421 000 a little bit over that um and that equates to about six teaching positions it doesn't mean they're going to be six teaching positions but that gives you an idea of every one percent that impact so it's going to affect academic programs it's going to affect Athletics it's going to affect extracurricular those are the tough choices that are out there so please be aware that the best of my mileage the board of Finance has never just rubber stamped our uh our budget and uh and pay attention so that's that's my uh update for this evening any questions next item on our agenda is consent agenda and like to ask for a motion to either approve consent agenda or to remove
037any item for discussion and approve the rest I moved the to prove the consent agenda is submitted is there a second second any discussion on that vote just just a quick comment um I too wanted to commend a the Personnel report that was put together it's much more informative than it is than it was in the past thank you thank you sir all those in favor of approving the consent agenda please indicate by saying aye Allison Adams for the record next item on our agenda is the approval of the memorandum of understanding between this tuning Stonington Education Association and Stonington Board of Education which is for the record it is here that we are giving the superintendent The Authority as the board to act on our behalf and as our designee to approve or deny
038leaves of absence for up to one year without pay for child care or adoption purposes so this was mailed out to the board and it was discussed prior so I'd like to ask for a motion to approve the memorandum of an understanding I move that we accept the memory memorandum of understanding of the students and Education Association thank you sir um so that's a press and hold uh is that a second I'd like to second that here we go any discussion on that follow us in favor please indicate by saying hi hi for the record that the record reflect that was the unanimous decision next item on our agenda is the subcommittee reports I would like to talk with Mr Agnello in teaching and learning sure thank you um there are two curricula up for
039um approval and vote at our next meeting um the links are on the agenda here so please check those out between now and the next meeting um prepare for a vote um today we did not review any curricula um instead we did a activity based on the future focused schools professional development work going on in the district we did get a little bit of of a preview of that I believe at our last meeting or two meetings ago but today we did an activity that each School a team of teachers with the administrators did and the district leadership team has done and one group of students at the high school also did we did the same activity today which was all about going through a bunch of different um I suppose you call them scenarios
040and facilitated conversation on the chances that that scenario is still relevant in 2035 and if so the impact it would have on schooling it really stimulated some a lot of fun and important conversation among the committee and again kind of gave us a glimpse at the professional development occurring in the district that's all for today thank you great work thank you any any questions from Mr ignell next on our agenda is the finance and facility subcommittee report and with Mr Donahue yep so today we discussed the mental health Grant which Marianne just discussed as well as the after school grant program so she filled this in on the same thing that she just filled you guys all in on another thing we talked about Was preparing for a cost of the turf field which will
041need to be replaced in five years from now there was also an update on a facility repair car repair cost of a sprinkler head that broke over the weekend they did a nice job cleaning everything up and ended up being around one thousand dollars and that's all we had for today any questions for Mr Donahue we moved to a policy subcommittee with Mr Kelly yeah the policy subcommittee has met and we'll be meeting again uh a week and a half and policies for a first read are listed um on the agenda and there's links to those on the website and on the agenda that's posted on the website so if anyone's interested in going over those the first five policies are a first read and again as in all other policies that we have voted
042on so far this year as we try to update them and keep them up to date these policies a majority if not all of them are mandated by the state and we are using policies that have been um reviewed and put together by the law firm that does most of the policies for the individual communities in the state so those are the first reads those five and then the next whatever number of are there 10 10 are for the second read and I will um move that we accept the the 10 policies that are listed on the agenda motion to accept the policies for the secondary as listed so moved all second sorry it was a second question okay any discussion all those in favor please indicate by saying aye aye that was unanimous for
043the record thank you Mr Kelly um next item on our agenda are the monthly reports any questions on the monthly reports or comments yes Mr code would be so kind of Mr Fike to give us a verbal Student Government report so you know he shows up at our meetings Mr Fleck do you have it in front of you would you like to do you have the report that um yeah yeah well I got trash too yeah I can pull it up on my computer so it might have been moved we will make sure that it is re-linked to this and but do you want to give us an update Mr Frank on the paper that was released oh yeah there you go um we uh yeah so this is the first issue of the brown
044and white newspaper which we just brought back um it had been gone for I think three years um since my freshman year um and it was wildly successful the day it came out you know if you walked around the cafeteria at lunch you could hear them talking about what was in the paper reading the Articles discussing the opinions Etc so I think it was really great we have a great it's a year-long course journalism with Miss Jennifer Norcross wonderful advisor and um and you know in other people were also involved that aren't even I wrote little plug I happen to write my own article in here about who Donald D Palmer was who the I feel his name for at the high school um and there's a lot of good pictures and it was uh
045really fun to see the whole school come together and uh you know they delivered these newspapers all bind it up to the home bases and it was just it was nice little unifying symbol it was good to have it back it's an institution and I believe it'll be it's semi-quarterly currently and um it'll eventually become more monthly I think great any questions for Mr fight on that great job and I apologize for the student government report now being linked we'll make sure it's updated and linked and emailed out no it was linked I just wanted to it's not coming up on here anymore yeah I tried it it was linked but whenever there's an edit to a file Anna happens to move it to edit it and brings it back but it seems like she
046she edited it and didn't bring it back and unfortunately she's not with us tonight but I'm sure she will link it back I wasn't trying to put will on the spot they're here you know everyone else gets a chance to talk and I'd like and then plus I knew he had something to do with this it must be it must be in the family so yeah he's been doing a fantastic job filling for Dia so we appreciate that who's Theo right yeah nice great next item on our agenda is the board comments and items for future agenda I have two comments that should have gone under recognitions but I never think of them until the end of the meeting um first definitely a shout out to miss Norcross and the staff at the brown and
047white as a former high school student newspaper reporter herself and a regional like high school correspondent for my local paper The Virginian pilot to be able to touch newspapers is a joy that will never ever ever get old and just can't be understated so thank you so much and then I wanted they're no longer here but I wanted to commend the folks who came in after work hours to give us those presentations to just show us very transparently the diligent work that's going into goal number two on Dei um I just I'm very grateful for that thank you I had a comment as well whether I should have made it earlier or not um but just for future reference I don't know if we can get any um of our short speakers a stool to
048stand on next time it was unfortunately Eli had a microphone in his face um and then Mr Smith or I'm available next month for the Irish American month if you need a book to be read I'd be more than willing to volunteer for that um it was as Sarah just said it was good to see uh some of the staff that came in from the high school in the uh Middle School that Dan Higgins and Chris Cassidy were just two examples of what the great staff is that we have at the middle school and those are just such pivotal years in our young people's lives at to be led by them and taught by them is uh you know there's nothing in the in the budget that we could uh give them that would compensate
049them for all they do and maybe another plug for Mr agens if he could come back and I'm not sure who's in charge of the agenda for future meetings um with his I'm not exactly sure what he calls it but he does a hamilton-esque um thing with his students in the at the end of the year and the every year it's just like it's amazing that the students that come out with things that some of the mucus and my oldest students will get up there and wrap part of the Constitution or or whatever subject that they're talking about and it's just when they when they that thing is presented you don't get the impact I don't think if you if they did it here but when they do it in school with all their classmates
050around it is it's something else and again recognize that the pairs were here this evening representing and I might I might but it might be a record of a Board of Education meeting and so motion to adjourn the meeting ocean to adjourn second second all in favor please indicate by saying aye aye God man