001collimating to order price for the pledge allegiance 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 we got a roll call please Wonder jump here here Palmer here to Han here Klein here please note as a courtesy to members of the audience and the Board of Education to silence your cell phone the public will be able to speak during public comment if signed up do we have any more comment forms all right thank you very much our first item is approval of the agenda can I get a motion the mood support all in favor yes opposed uh next item on the agenda is our board member report let's start over here with Brent all right a few
002things that I'd like to call out and recognize one is like the women's rugby team finish their regular season six and one and uh onto the playoffs now they've got the the biggest competition is the dreaded Rockford team in the playoffs but uh hopefully they can find a way to beat them but they had a great season their last game was pretty dominant uh in that one the score was pretty lapsided and then uh thank Mr Garcia for the the mass band on uh Friday night having the younger kids out there that was pretty cool to see that had a lot of parents around me that uh all commented on how much they appreciated having their the junior high students out there being able to do that and then just to call out for the
003the football parents the football season's coming to the end here but uh it's amazing how much support we've gotten just like on we feel feed them diversity two meals a week and the freshman in JV one meal a week and all that is kind of donated from the parents and people bring it in and helping set it up so that it's been amazing the support that we've had this year so thank you for the parents on that that's it thank you for all your extra work on those things too Amy um my mass band so Friday was great um it was senior night also for the dog boys and so we had all the football players and the dog boys too so that was um kind of a rush for me to get in there
004because I thought it was halftime but it was actually before the game so but I did make it in so that was really fun one of the things for the parks and recs there's been some kind of cool stuff we're getting a lot of money coming through through arpa and um Priority Health is thinking about putting in some there's some grants out there for I don't know if you've ever seen these like Community uh workout things where you can get on a bar and pull yourself up whatever they're doing a lot in Kalamazoo and they're thinking about applying for that here uh with the pickleball courts that are going to be started from Wedgewood we're going to have enough that we could probably have tournaments and I know that people in this community love they're
005just going crazy for pickleball so it'd be really cool to have tournaments there is some discussion about taking that Court by South Elementary and turning that into um the horseshoe pits so that they can be like one tournament space for the horseshoe pits too and so it's really cool to see using different property by the schools and you know ones by West and ones by South and how we can use that all together um cross country for Middle School ended we had our we did really great we actually had a first we had a first place winner so there's a family that has moved into the district and they have two amazing Runners and both of them do amazingly well and in our eighth grade he won so it was super cool to watch that
006we haven't really had that in a long time uh it's kind of cool to see that the middle school is having all of their sports tryouts now because I can't believe I just cannot believe how fast it's going that cross country's over trying out for all these other sports trying out for different um Echo that's in Orchestra jazz band all these different really cool things going on in the Middle School um again yeah football we had that um I want to take a moment to just talk about the academics in Granville um my oldest son is very very lucky that he gets to take all AP this year and his AP Physics that he's working on he's also working with his AP I mean his AP psych he's using AP Physics and he's had his
007AP Physics teacher check math and circuitry and everything else to talk about electrical stuff going on in the brain and all the lobes and I mean I I just cannot get over the quality of Education that we have in this district and how people will move here specifically for the academics that are offered in our high school it's very cool and it's not just I mean it's not just AP right we have kctc we have all kinds of really cool opportunities and it's and wood shop and it's it's everything is so high quality and I'm just always impressed by that so I wanted to give a shout out to that and I think yeah it's just all going fast so it seems like it's going quick thank you so much that was great nothing thank
008you bye just a couple things I appreciate right you talked about the parents because I think that's such an important um recognition to make and how much they do give for our teams uh to bring I don't know kind of that thankful grateful to come together teamwork I just really love that and I want to thank the parents for contributing to making our team our team successful uh and then I'd also like to um thank the administration for the diploma given to Mr Nichols I I just got such a kick out of it when I saw it on the news um this older gentleman wasn't able to finish his high school education and then was given an honorary diploma and he was so happy and I thought then again as part of our community relations
009you know we have to recognize that we're human and that we have folks out there that would that would mean a lot to them um in their life and and I think how he's probably lived his life too he was quite the guy so just thank you for that to feel good about what we're doing thank you thank you very much it's great to see you Smith I'm putting a note down I mean Christy um shout out to Jordan Coleman and uh he is the son of Katrina Coleman she's the teacher at Suntree Park he placed first at the tennis regionals which then qualified him for the state so even though his team did not make it but also a shout out to the okay red tennis program they dedicated their okay red tennis match
010the conference tournament to mental health awareness suicide prevention and obviously granville's part of that so it was really Tommy heising from Rockford Scott bont from Caledonia and Tim from Granville tennis that initiated they've been doing this amongst their team members for the past three years so the other coaches they did it they got all the other five coaches and this is Hudsonville and Jenison and you know big competitors West Ottawa but I'll read a little quote that they put on the mhsa site it was featured on their website tennis is competitive and intense in the red but for the players and coaches we see tennis as an extension of something bigger it's about life friendships camaraderie learning how to deal with adversity learning how to lose learning how to win coming together as a family
011and creating Collective goals said Rockford Varsity tennis coach Tommy kaising every day we try to live the be nice way not only within our teams or within our conference but within our lives outside of the teams so they were recognized by the mhsaa they were pretty pumped we got a phone call I wasn't at the match that day I was out of town but Mark Ewell did call me and just Express how impressed he is with with our program in General Granville but then in addition the camaraderie amongst a group of good coaches so that's that for me well timed with World mental health day being with me thanks thank you Jason yeah so a couple of things uh so first a big thank you to all the parents and volunteers that helped make the
012Granville band Festival successful a couple weeks ago that's one of their biggest fundraisers of the year um and that went off very well so thank you to all those that that helped with that and then with the band um they uh we're up in Sparta here this past weekend and got to witness I'll say really kind of something cool uh with the kids I'll say I'm really going through and and being successful uh even with diversity so if anyone's been to any of the Granville halftime shows um or seeing them do you see these big trees they have that come out um and believe it or not those trees are made of foam core um and when they brought them on the field at Sparta that the band takes the field they brought the trees
013all out and at least half of them started breaking falling apart breaking and if you can imagine right you're getting ready to compete and all of a sudden you see all your backdrops just falling apart behind you and just you know just kind of getting destroyed the kit still went out and competed they took second in their division when the second to Jenison which by the way if you ever get a chance to watch any bandcup go see Jennison this year their their show is phenomenal unbelievable but it was really cool to see the kids just still you know it didn't bother them they were able to work through it um and uh you know like I said still come in second so I thought that was pretty cool to see so um yeah just
014uh yeah exactly show that grit um and then just finally um you know along with the football program uh just a shout out to an individual right football is a team sport but shout out to individual uh Jayden Terry Terry right yeah a thousand yards rushing through eight games so far as a freshman um so that's just that's just tremendous and just a really cool honor um you know if we're in the football world uh he's a tremendous kid as well so I'm very humble when talk to him you know doesn't smile much but uh he's a great kid you don't think yeah yeah yeah he's only about that tall but he's still about 10. but he's a great kid so anyway that's all I have um well I want to reiterate the amazing grit
015of Granville bands um at Sparta I was there and witnessed it and actually one of the props had fallen and a mother was sitting next to me and we could watch her son with a bass drum walking backwards not knowing that he was about to trip over a prop and she saw it I was like cover your eyes I'll do the play-by-play okay he's down he slid he's back up he's marching and you could see the adrenaline rush and because he turned that drum around so quickly and he just went right back at it we checked on him at the end and he was smiling so um that that was it was an impressive thing but also just an impressive marching band organization and and arts program here um and like you said Jenison Rockford
016we are in the um we are in the division with some very strong competitors and every year it's just a joy if you get a chance to go out to Ford Field and see them compete it's it's an expensive ticket but it's worth it it's very entertaining and the work that the students put in is phenomenal and we have we've made it there every year I saw that was wonderful um other other things I saw this week uh went to the robotics competition of they were doing a tournament like a week turn weekday tournament to practice for their weekend big tournaments and by the way they're looking for volunteers for this Saturday at our district so if you have some free time they really could use some help reach out to Mike Everly or Doug
017Helfer if you're interested in volunteering but I got to witness them their first opportunity to go up against students from around the county and work out the Kinks and the robots and this year the challenge is amazing they are running four robots at a time in the competition and backs and I didn't realize this walking in but some of you know disc golf is kind of near and dear to the heart of our family we have a son who's a professional disc golfer and it's a disc golf robotics tournament they have discs in the robots and they're shooting them into baskets and other ones are blocking them and sweeping them and picking them up and there are four students on the controls on each side at any given time and it's amazing it's absolutely amazing
018to watch their minds work and you can see them constantly going how do I solve that problem how do I make it better and then they come back this week and they do it all over again and they make it better and to watch them grow and evolve and work together and use those you know stem skills but also a lot of creativity to get it done is amazing so if you're ever looking for something to do this weekend there's a um and actually this weekend I believe it's uh a drone event at our high school and we are the first school in the nation to host a drone event outside of Texas where bell avionics is at excuse me Belle is who hosts the Drone programs normally and we are the first program to
019host outside of Texas so that's a big deal and that will be going on in other schools this weekend who's our drone instructor well we have a couple things going on with rounds we have the we have the Drone program at the robotics like after school extracurricular and then we have the program with Chris grownau at the high school that's an independent study now TBD for next year's opportunities all right um I also want to say thank you to the administration in the high school for the proactive reports this year I know we this past week we had some concerns in the community also thank you I saw our resource officer standing in here to Granville police for responding I know people are up late nights looking into things and doing their due diligence and
020we appreciate all the work you all do to provide safety to our buildings to our students and communication to our parents um and also thank you for all the work across the district and prepping the PSAT and and I'm not even gonna say it right every year it's a different nsmqt did I do it right it doesn't do it right I'm just like the test um my son came home and said it to me every single day and I couldn't get the new new words right but basically the sat with the National Merit qualifying portion of it was this week and it's a lot of work to put on it's a lot of changes in schedule it's a lot of accommodations to make and so thank you so much for doing that and um making
021sure our students were their best for last week and communicating to parents about that as well and I just also want to call out like you said with the academics one of the beautiful things I'm watching evolved here too is we have a strong focus on many different Pathways in a high school and that we can allow them to intersect and we're seeing students who are in AP courses also attend kctc for trades I got to witness that this week and something went out to while they study at the airport but they also had the National Guard come in so we saw our services and our trades and our AP students all intersecting and they got to look at Blackhawk helicopters and look at the electronic components of it and talk about service and opportunities
022in ROTC and why grades matter to that program and they came home pumped about it and have MREs so I don't have to feed them for a week that sounds great you know the um Granville did participate also in a career fair ISD and you know not all schools do that yeah and I know the health department set a representative to talk but that I just really think that's great again opportunities for our students to learn about careers that are needed out in the world like social work is very much needed very much and three months oh and one more thing uh thanks to all the staff and parents who participated in parent-teacher conferences this past week those are late nights and it's hard to pull it all together and you have multiple children to
023attend but those points of communication are very important and you know research shows that parental involvement is is a key determining factor in the quality of education on a child receive so thank you to everyone who made it happen and showed up for that to happen this week we appreciate you being involved um that's it for me no one too okay just a couple things happening in the district huh uh great great summary bye everyone I'll try to hit on a few things uh that haven't been mentioned first of all um thoughts and prayers go out to the Sandy Davis Family Sandy passed away uh long time educator in Central Elementary principal here in Granville uh and uh he got a lot of great stories regarding Sandy today so again dogs go out to the
024Sandy Davis family uh Lou Nichols mentioned Lou Nichols and thanks to Scott for visiting and presenting that diploma uh Lou has a couple books out by the weights a couple that he donated to us one is called souvenirs stories and perspectives and ones memories are life's highways and what is really cool about these is it talks about you know Grandville back in the 1930s some of the stories that are here so really amazing and I think shoved a lot of light on the the time uh that he was then in then you know he is 95 years old years old I believe so yeah so uh but really neat stories uh anybody wants to borrow one or two of these we have them and would be happy to lend them out to somebody but really
025cool and notice he has a Michigan sweatshirt and hat on and I thought that guy after my own heart but anyway uh sounds like he did he get an honorary degree or a degree from Michigan some type of degree from yeah something in a tool and die at one of their extension campuses here in Grand Rapids yeah but uh I know Scott Scott shared a conversation that he had with him and said just a remarkable uh guy so we're glad that we were able to do that and get to know a special Bulldog there so just wanted to mention that uh 98c is a fund uh it is funding to reduce learning loss and Scott is going to talk about that as part of my superintendent's report so take her away Scott gonna be able
026to pull that out of course I can if I can find the mouse thank you Roger um so uh as all of you know uh there has been a variety of funds provided for districts to address uh learning loss 98c is the most recent component of that interestingly about 98c is that um it's a tighter time frame so it allocates just over 52 million dollars across the state as part of the governor's education relief funds and the relief funds from the federal government known as Esser at part of sr2 the goal is specifically to address learning loss and that's for leas and and Charter Schools it overlaps existing dollars that have already been allocated to support learning loss but a tighter timeline so these specific funds must be expended by June 30 of 2023 and
027I'll I'll explain a little bit about that but our estimated allocation is 35 to 50 dollars per student so that's somewhere between 200 and 280 000 um uh for the year and that's not dollars that we would ever want to leave on the table when we can allocate those uh to to supporting students um the interesting thing is that it comes after we've already made Esser plans um so we're shifting a little bit to see what else we can do to utilize these funds and continue to support students and I'll get to that at the end but I quickly wanted to go over we haven't talked yet about learning loss and we're just digging into that so I'm going to give some very very high level uh data pieces about where we see ourselves with
028learning loss and I'm going to set the stage because my hope is to revisit this a couple of times through the year and then again in the spring we'll do a big wrap up to see where we are and what that looks like but this is our nwea map growth k6 for reading and you can see last spring where we jumped back up from from fall and um almost to where we were uh uh pre-pandemic um and and things they we always jump down in the fall or drop down in the fall we know that um and then climb back up in the spring um but k6 overall now that's all grades k6 um we're not in a bad spot from the very very high level View also I will share this presentation with all
029of you so you can dig in and ask me any follow-up questions afterwards as well um breaking them down by grade level you will see first second and third grade if you look at that end point um not far off or at all from where we were prior to the pandemic again these are all of our first second and third graders in the district when you take a look at fourth fifth and sixth you can start to see starting in fourth grade and then a drop down where we haven't climbed back up yet and this again is reading for all of those grades we also do acadians as you know three times a year this is form acadians is formerly Dibbles uh a reading screener and you can see some of the same Trends are
030acadiance data hasn't quite climbed back up where we were in that the the three groupings of bars are beginning middle and end of the year so if you look at the third grouping of bars the Blank Spot is uh spring of 2020. we were all at home we didn't assess right before the spring of 2020 you can see we're not quite climbing back up there yet but you can see a similar Trend when you get down to fourth fifth and sixth grade the margin is still a little bit greater so we see some consistency there on a very broad scope this is our nwea math uh math MAP excuse me from for map growth and you can see again across Elementary um we we've really started to climb back up digging into specific grade levels
031you see first second and third grade again nearly back up or in some cases ahead of where we were and then fourth fifth and sixth grade taking a little bit more time um to climb back so what does that mean in a very very broad very broad stroke one of our hypothesis is that is that the students in younger grades appear to recover more quickly and we believe that's due to a I'll I don't want to say lack of complexity but the skills um there just aren't as many yet so when we're looking at learning loss for a first grader there might be five skills that we need to work on when we're looking at a sixth grader we have compounded years that that um that take a little bit longer and they layer um
032one of the other very important conclusions is that I know this was super broad right specific learning loss patterns are not obvious we can see that our upper grades are going to take a little bit longer to climb back that's about the only conclusion and generalization is unwise and unhelpful it just doesn't help us to to try to group kids together and generalize either by grade level by gender by socioeconomic background you just you just can't do it we know that covid learning loss hit harder for at-risk students but the number of categories for being at risk are so broad that that you can't you can't put them together in in any way so the best thing we can do is lean on our solid mtss system um and and it's one of the things
033that we've talked about that we've been proud of that we assess three times a year we dig into what those assessments mean our Benchmark meetings at the elementary schools just wrapped up and they've already started tier two and tier three academic interventions for for both reading and math so those look at individual student needs rather than a very large scale and they'll group kids together by needs so if you have a group of eight first graders who need the same skill there you have your small group and there they can intervene so they will progress monitor in our system every two weeks and so we'll know by the end of the year we'll be able to give a really good report about where we are with um our learning loss so what does this mean
034for 98c and this pot of money on the left I said we had already made a plan when I called Heather and said Heather we got a pot of money that we need to figure out it's it's um it's making sure that we're not overlapping or missing something our 11 T funds which is one of the other grants Heather jump in when I misspeak about the monies um 11t required a certain percentage at least 10 percent I think had to go for summer school so we already allocated that we did summer school last year and we set aside money for summer school this summer and uh tutoring before and after school 40 51 of 11 T had to go toward learning loss already uh and so part of that we allocated for tutoring uh before
035and after school and the rest of Esser funds we've allocated for intervention behavior and academic support uh one of the things we talked about at the beginning of the year was that we hired new academic specialists in each of our elementary buildings a lot of those were our teachers that moved into those positions so we're really excited to have those we use Esser funds already to fund those oh I'm not going I'm gonna try this again my slides didn't disappear on me oh this is an older one so what are we going to do then with 98c because we already did this we have uh some of our a small portion of our interventionists that didn't fit under um 11t or s or funding let me pull that back up um that we can plug
036in there and then because we added in interventionists at every building um we have realized that we need some materials yet some materials and training and so it works out that we can use 98c for training for both uh reading best practice and math best practice and also if you remember four years ago we adopted the envisions math series K5 one of the things we're learning is that it might be a little weak in the intervention component so we're going to look for some resources to support math intervention this provides us a great opportunity to do this without plugging into general fund and other dollars that we've allocated questions I know it's a lot and I talked fast so I'm slightly confused yeah so this funding let's say it's 280 000. it's going into staff
037resources books online is it going into tutoring where is the majority of this funding going the majority of this funding is going to be split in three ways it's going to partially fund some intervention staff that we didn't have money for under Esser and that's a that's a small component how much because you're already showing that we're yep already allocated um so out of that 200 um and 80 maybe 40 of it okay and then the rest is going to go into materials to help support our interventionists so when you look at the charts if you want to go back a couple number one you know there's a concern among teachers overall especially in case six about social so putting Esther funds there and a little bit of this the 98c funds there that's great
038but when you look at fourth fifth and sixth right yep I'm on the reading slides yeah I know you are that's fine because I think it's overall you've got we we've got a hill to climb yep and how do we gain that back if we've got these funds are we doing the most comprehensive And Timely intervention I don't know if that's you I don't know if it's Roger yep responding to that yeah I think look at what we lost we all want to gain it back yeah and and so a couple of things when you look at this data and I'll send it out and I know all of you so I know all of you will dig in um when you look at some of this high level data there are a couple of
039things I want to point out first of all if you look at uh fall of 21 into the winter of 21 we put some asterisks by those we actually think they're lower than they would be because we did remote testing remember we had about 20 of our students and they were doing some remote testing and we found that maybe our remote testing wasn't as valid um as we climbed back um I am confident in saying that we're doing a tremendous job in in two areas three areas first of all our core instruction our teachers have dug in to to what they can do in their 90-minute uh 90 minute reading blocks and in their 60 to 90 minute math blocks they are uh they're amazing and we know we have great teachers the second thing
040is with our interventions those interventionists um already we had a district school Improvement team meeting last week and I think every school reported out on how uh the the immediate success that they've seen with their interventionists in their building being able to support them in a tier two outside of that core instruction piece and then we do have money allocated for after school uh tutoring um the problem with after school tutoring is that it works for the people who can allocate that time for their family uh when we cannot engage uh students before or after school or in the evening um we have to lean back on what we can do during the school day and then it falls back on those two things again but we've engaged more students in after school tutoring over
041the last 12 months and then we have certainly over the last five to six years and that's made a difference and we've been thinking outside of the box some of that 11 T money for example we did a little pilot last spring into summer with the middle school where we partnered with Sylvan we couldn't get Middle School tutors um to do it here so we partnered with Sylvan for those families that really wanted support for their kids worked it out there and we saw tremendous growth so we're um we're hitting it from all angles and and as creative as we can be that's awesome is our parents aware and is Sylvan an opportunity this year specifically with four through sixth I mean our how are parents reminded and are they reminded more than once yes
042uh let me back up your first question no for fourth through sixth they haven't been notified yet it's on our next admin meeting agenda okay um for the Middle School uh we have already continued that um and that's that's been great it for those that are engaged and can get their their kids there and then we don't have to staff it and it can be on a Saturday it can be on a an evening so so do you guys ever use that same model that like is with America or all those where they come in and they do pull out students individually for that reading academic work as well or is that because I remember I think and South parents would come in and help read the students and then where I work now they
043pull kids out and they are reading you know they're reading through the Americorps reading Corps Teach for America kind of stuff now I don't know how I don't think that we necessarily qualify for that all the time but it's such a cool model and the kids not only I mean we were talking about reading scores math scores all that stuff but they also get that social emotional support because they they become these teachers also they're not they're not district teachers but they are you know they're in the district working with that and they have these awesome relationships and it's it's just a really cool model so I don't know does that is that part of some of the things not Americorps specifically but we do have some reading uh support programs even if it's just
044adults coming in to read out loud to students which is helpful okay yeah yeah I think I think the a key component is it's a comprehensive approach it's uh centered around best practice and centered around data I mean you're seeing big picture data here but you know we have detailed uh Knowledge and Skills you know when kids are lacking and we're able to pinpoint um where they're at and what skills they really need to work with and we have highly qualified people for most part that are working with them in addition to their classroom teacher um in communicating to make sure that transition of what we are expecting kids to know and be able to do in the class is is carrying over when they're doing that more customized work with them so um I
045I think that's a great way to get the biggest bang for your buck it always has been um and I think it's encouraging to be able to have because of some of the funding to be able to have those support systems for our kids when they need it so to tie real quick into what Amy was talking about and maybe you weren't going to go there completely but so we've had Parents out of the buildings right and now they're welcome how are we providing an opportunity for parents to participate in this I'm going to say Rejuvenation of learning for fourth through sixth graders specifically uh well I think that's building dependent we're not addressing that in in this um uh but yes parents are welcome back in the building um I think the engagement comes
046within Communications that parents get about their individual student scores those all go out three times a year um and uh there's certainly different schools will tackle that different ways for the upper grades and the upper grades has always been different right parents who are here will know um it's not uncommon to see in a kindergarten classroom where we'll have parent readers we don't necessarily have that at the same capacity at the upper grades um but I think I think again a key component I mean that tier one piece that classroom instruction we don't want kids constantly going out of that that's so important and then give them support systems and whether parents are coming in as an example and reading with kids or or doing some of those things or the connections such as parent-teacher
047conferences from last week having that dialogue and knowing in particular the the Knowledge and Skills that my kid is working on what they're doing great so I can celebrate that with my kid and at the same time the things that they you know that they're not quite there yet they need some work needs to need some support that's a great way for parents at home to support their kids I understand that my whole thing is especially at the upper grades you know you have more reading groups yeah right and you know teacher may not they've got time to pull out for students so they go with a parent I'm just saying parents have asked for a couple years let us back in we're in this is an opportunity to I guess use every resource we
048can why not use them at the upper grades they're just more years for them to have a bigger span at the end of the year one of the things that we will look forward to are two data reports one from acadians is called the pathways to progress what's great about that is it shows us from the beginning of the year students who changed levels so students who started below grade level how many of those students moved up to at or above grade level how many who started at grade level or above grade level and maybe slid so we'll take a look at that that's going to show us learning loss and then the second one is a an nwea report of the number of students that made typical annual growth for their specific level so
049every student whether they start below grade level at grade level or above grade level have a Year's growth expectation and we'll take a look at at those that are making that okay you mentioned uh summer school on there um how what was our participation like for summer school this past summer great was it was it um average was it above average low average any idea well that's hard to level because we haven't done it in a few years right so it they it's I can't say average we I felt like we had good participation we had a cap in our elementary summer school we knew we couldn't we couldn't throw it out there and take everybody so uh there were some cases where we had to turn some people away um and those were some
050tough conversations because our invitations started with uh the students who needed the support the most and then they kind of climbed up the ladder there so any any gains we've made in that summer school for this summer have not been reflected yet in that testing right because that was all spring 2022 was the latest right so we would not have seen fall correct so yeah I didn't pull fall data yet I mean we have it and we have it good to go and actually I have in idex which is one of our Data Systems I have all our summer school learners identified so we can pull them to track them better great great um three questions yeah but more requests for next time we talk yes wondering if we can get data on state levels
051comparison reading math and any any other areas that you have um can we get National data Maybe from nwea and where those numbers are to compare ours to and then when we get that report on the year's growth can we also not just look at whether they met their grade level expectation but actually how much growth they had because I'm expecting a lot of them to start like if they're supposed to be at 110 and they started at the average start for the year is 90. so they're supposed to have 20 points of growth they might have grown 20 but they started at 70 and you see what I'm saying like if they started way behind their grade level I want to know did they still have tremendous growth but not make that Mark yes
052that's part of that sometimes thank you yeah sometimes that Nuance is lost when we just look at how many students make grade level growth and hit that Mark because we need to account for the tremendous growth that students are having making up that learning loss and still gaining but might still be falling behind just a few years in a row now um so I'd like to see see both of those and get closer any other questions or comments thanks Joe thank you I also want to know um thank you for looking for ways to use the funds that don't create clips for us that build into the programming and the good things that we already have going on um you know as you know I work with districts Across the Nation and I'm watching a
053lot of them shrug their shoulders now and go what do I do with these big gaps in my budget and so thank you to to all of you for the planning not just the funding wise but also to use it wisely to build up what we already had going that was thank you for that comment yeah it has to make sense all right thank you thank you thanks Scott thanks any other okay all right we have no old business um on to consent action agenda can I get a motion to approve support all in favor yes opposed all right on to regular action items it's a moment um our first item is a special education resource support purchase it is recommended the Board of Education approve the purchase of instructional resources to support teaching and
054learning in our self-contained program classrooms for students with autism and cognitive impairments these resources support our programs in both math and Ela in grades K through 12 the total Purchase cost is 61 627.70 sure very excited about this I'm gonna turn it I will motion thank you thank you discuss thank you I promise I'm not going to talk a lot about this yeah we're really excited about this and I I just want to start by recognizing the depth of this work it started well it actually started a long time ago and we're not going to go into to all the history um but we have tremendous special education program staff Angie started this work uh before she left us in Caroline um picked it up but Katie and Andy and their team who who I
055know their talk about they they did some really heavy lifting that's probably not a well reflected in my write-up but they dug into um uh they dug into a lot of standards and when when we bring curriculum proposals to you oftentimes it's it's maybe a couple of grades and it's certainly one subject they were looking at standards K-12 in English language arts and math for uh programs with students with cognitive impairments and students with autism and trying to find a way to wrap around all of this they did a tremendous job all right well um I am Andy cortaid I am one of the ASD teachers at Granville high school and I'm Katie beanstra I teach the k-6 elementary CI program at Century Park oh um yeah um it's really good to see everybody my
056name is Caroline Ernst and I'm the new director of student services and I know most of you but it's good to be here for the first time um so we just wanted to kind of start our conversation bring it back to one of Roger's District goals that we've been hearing a lot last year and this year and that's just closing the academic gaps that exist for our students by ensuring that every student reaches their fullest potential that's been our goal throughout this whole project and process when we first just started discussing all of our curriculum work and needing resources we really kind of had to backtrack and figure out what our goals were as our program classes which led us into discussions about inclusion and what does that look like and so we Define inclusion
057as all students being included in the general education classroom setting to their greatest extent possible and based on their individual needs and we really wanted to focus on meaningful participation in some core content areas we discussed the difference between exposure versus Mastery so exposure meaning that all students have access to grade level general education Core Curriculum with their peers and then Mastery meaning all students have access to appropriate materials at their current ability level to increase their core learning so we kind of have to reach that Mastery of some of our special ed Essential Elements and standards before they can get that exposure to their general education core and then just as a district our goal of inclusion is to establish Mastery of content in that special ed so that they can receive exposure in
058gen Ed not just music art physical Ed we want them in that core content and then while we were working on all this we determined that our students learning in our self-contained programs really needed curriculum resources to bridge the gap of where they are right now and where we want them to be with our academic rigor in the district okay so when we talk about Bridging the Gap um the first thing we want to address is the Why So currently what we're doing is we're accommodating and modifying all of our grade level resources we're also creating materials and resources to meet the needs of all of our students um the problem with that is we have very little alignment between our CI programs and our ASU programs within themselves from grade to grade and also
059from building to building so we're struggling with having a Continuum for all of our students the level of modifying that we're requiring is to make materials age-appropriate is actually impacting the Integrity of our curriculum resources and so that's kind of where our struggle Falls is by the time we can modify and accommodate our resources we're losing the Integrity that was intended to begin with um the second piece of why is it's the law so pre-appropriate public education and least restrictive environment puts some responsibility on Educators and so our requirements and responsibilities as teachers and educators are to have all students access and exposure to grade level curriculum we also are required for all students to participate in gen Ed to their personal greatest extent possible so that goes back to our district goal of inclusion
060and all students being included in that Jenna classroom setting and then the last piece is the state and Department of Ed has established the alternate standards and those are the essential elements so the essential elements are created for students with special needs they bridge the gap between the special education standards and the Gen Ed standards are based off of our common core standards and then they also provide a range of complexity so there's three different levels to meet every student exactly where they're at so um when we started digging into our curriculum work and trying to figure out what do we need as a curriculum resource we really had to look at our standards um a lot of links are included there I know some of the examples of our work completed may have some
061ownership issues where if you're not in the shared drive you can't exactly see them but um I just wanted to highlight one document from mde which just kind of shows you what our essential elements look like in relation to our core standards so I'm going to skip down here past all the intro so just if you look at this example from first grade you'll see on the left is our core standards for the Michigan court um standards and then on the right is our essential elements and you'll see that they directly correlate so for each core standard we have an essential element or a couple essential elements that hit that same standard at a modified level and so with our work we dug into what our Genet teachers had already spent a lot of time
062doing identifying their priority standards over the past years I know all the grades and specific core content areas that the high school had looked at all of the core content and their standards and listed what are we spending the most time on what do we think is the most essential for our students we didn't want to lose out on all that work so we went through and matched standard to standard and put our essential element right next to it and said if our Jenna teacher said this was priority we also want to make sure we're prioritizing the same standards so for each core we put our essential element right next to it and then we just reflected on what our district had Chosen and added any priority essential elements that we felt bridged the gap
063or that we're missing for our students and our content areas and we did that K-12 and created a whole Continuum so that we know if we are starting a standard in kindergarten it's going all the way up through high school with them and making sure we're not missing any content areas okay so now that we have everything aligned to our essential elements and our priority standards within Granville the next question was how can we Bridge these gaps what supports can we put in place for our students so as a team of ASD and CI teachers and supports we determined that we had a couple non-negotiables so our resources had to be evidence-based we needed a common assessment we needed something that would provide us a Continuum across K-12 and the resources had to support inclusion
064and core instruction that's our goal kids in inclusion and for core instruction and then we're also looking for materials that were designed specifically for our students with special needs so our next step was to do a ton of research in digging in we cast a wide net to anybody and everybody basically asking the question what are you using what supports you have in place what's being successful and we really found that a lot of people had the same questions but not a lot of answers so being Granville we decided that we would solve the question we had to find an answer to support our students so we connected with the ISD we researched tons and tons of curriculums and in our process we found some that we thought would be good fit for us so
065we had multiple curriculum presentations we got Hands-On materials lots of questions and clarifying and just more digging deeper to see what would truly work the best for our students and then we landed on that um ASD curriculum quote which is that 61 000 yeah and that's the total initial startup cost for the program um so then just going into the resources that were chosen this was the ones that the CI Department had chosen yeah so the CI Department K-12 um you can see the Continuum we divided it into lower Opera middle school and high school and so we are super excited that there is an option for the K-12 Continuum so the program is Voyager and then the readwell is the lower L section the language live starts working with our upper L into middle
066school and then the language live 2.0 is supporting students 5 through 12 but that really will hit our middle school and high school students um just a quick brief about Voyager it is a reading Intervention Program at the younger level it really works on those basic skills that students need and then it builds upon itself so that the goal is for students to reach up to their grade level reading standards and their reading skills and then we're just continuing to yeah so we already use Handwriting Without Tears in our gen Ed classrooms and that's something that we're already using right now on our cognitive impairment classrooms um and we would love to continue that because it's a great fit and we also already use the PCI rating program which is a sight word-based reading program
067and so that's something that is a great resource it will continue to use we just need to add more so that we have a little more depth so for the ASD Department um the needs were a little bit different you can see that we still stuck with voyager on all levels the only thing that was different was instead of PCI they were more interested in I words just because it has those sight words with corresponding visuals for our visual Learners that the PCI was kind of lacking and then moving to math we really were interested in the number worlds program and that's a K-8 program it's a math Intervention Program that really faces its instruction on the big picture so making sure kids know that core that they need to to be successful moving through
068the grades and then that does stop at eighth grade and there's not a resource beyond that but Voyager offers trans math which picks up right at that High School level for our students and we'll meet them where they are and continue to help move them forward through their High School career the Asda Department chose connecting math for their k-6 and that was just gradually teaching those big Concepts it was a little more friendly to our ASD population versus CI and helped them Master the difficult ideas and then 7 12 we also went with voyager to help K-8 um and um oh yeah I was the CI chose a different 912 math program but it's all voyagers so that we can continue that Continuum from K-12 and with RCI program very similar so then the next
069question is what's next so how do we continue this work that we've started um so how do these resources how can we use them to produce meaningful inclusion for our students these are all intervention programs and so they're built on the Mastery of essential elements and of course the Essential Elements aligns right with our common core standards so exactly where we want our students to be they're preparing our students for exposure to gen Ed core content so again getting them in for those core opportunities and it provides age-appropriate materials and because it has materials that are appropriate for our students at their personal ability levels this will help us support them in gen Ed for inclusion opportunities and then the question is how are these resources going to bridge the gap they provide common assessments
070so we'll have great data and information about where our students are where they need to go how we can best support them there's multiple entry points which is very exciting so that's how we're going to ensure that all of our students are supported exactly where they are we can meet them where they are and help them to move forward and then this will just create that Continuum that we are so in need of for our students with special needs it'll be K-12 and if a student moves from a lower L to an upper L classroom it'll just be seamless for them to be supported from one to the other and I'd like to touch on the idea of IEPs here as well writing good IEPs the Kent County ISD wants us to be doing goals
071that attach to core standards so focusing all this work on making sure that we're working on our essential elements and tying all of our goals to standards but also making sure with those common assessments that if I get a student from the Middle School up at the high school I understand the assessment that was given and how it relates to my content I'm teaching at the high school yeah um and then to continue our work we are the ASD and the CI classroom teachers are all participating in the Kent ISD alternate standards curriculum so while we were doing our work here in Granville the ISU is also doing a similar work um and we're super excited because we came out with the same outcomes we just are I feel like one more step ahead and
072ready to get a resource to help support our students and then we're also our next step is we're going to tackle scope and sequence with pacing guides for all K-12 so we are ready Scott's pumped for this we're super super excited to be able to say like in kindergarten this is what you're getting just like any other student in our district would have and so that's a very exciting thing for us and then just continuing to work together as ASD and CI teams to really support our students and to make their experience at Grandville the best it can be right wow nice job very nice number one thank you for what you do because you have a very difficult job so as a parent of a special needs individual I will tell you it is
073appreciated um I for one am incredibly excited here so I'm glad you mentioned the IEP because I think the number one thing teachers struggle with is adapting the goals with how they're gonna basically plan for the classroom so by having this standardization it's going to make your jobs well I'm not going to say use your streamlined yeah let's try and say that it's streamlined but I'm very excited so the number one question for Caroline always got to have a question when was the last time if ever we provided curriculum like this for uh students with special needs we haven't had this kind of alignment for our self-contained program ever I will say it's I I can't remember it so this is very cool this is very cool I'm incredibly excited I this is a drop
074in the bucket from a cost perspective as to how this is going to help our entire special needs population so and please please notice they did it the right way they focused on what we expect students to know and be able to do before they just said let's jump to what resources and materials are out there because you can do that and spend some money on something and yeah it'll have some impact but again you don't get the alignment they did such a fabulous job aligning um with that you know having that inclusive peace in mind of kids um with the the same standards the same Knowledge and Skills that we expect all students to you know to be exposed to and a master and they did a phenomenal job with it so it's the
075right way to do it and that's why I'm just so excited uh to see where this goes you did an amazing job how big is the team that worked together it was all of our CI and ASD teachers K-12 that participated either during the school year last year or during the summer we had a few meetings to all get together and brainstorm even some of our new staff that was hired this summer came into our summer meetings to have a hand in the conversation about what we would be interested in for our classrooms thank you amount of pages of standards that are K-12 like those things are thick so I every standard going through that is just mind-boggling so thank you that's that's a lot of work Jack maybe a stupid question but these materials
076will be used by the General Ed teachers while those students uh especially needs are in the room is that how that will so our goal for our core inclusion is for students to access that gen Ed curriculum so we will use these materials to help bridge the gap of where they are currently to where we want them to be so we always want students to be using the genetic Core Curriculum as much as possible but when our students aren't quite there yet we can now pull these materials and say this is the skill we're working on let's use this in the generated environment to help support and get to that level thank you curriculum that's that exposure versus Master repair okay so so first off congratulations I mean I have to say it's awesome to
077see you guys are out clearly very excited about this right I mean it's been a labor of love I'm sure to pull it all together so congratulations and you know this is probably the second or third really curriculum change that I've been able to win this right and I I'm just you guys are no exception to this but I'm always Blown Away by the amount of effort our teachers put in to understanding you know what's the goal right let's start with the goal just as Roger said what are we trying to achieve right and then building a um a platform to get there right you know on a plan to get there so just congratulations I mean you guys you know taking your expertise and putting in all that hard work to help make our
078kids at all levels successful so you know nice job nice job look forward to seeing what it all comes out to be so I will Echo all the comments and sentiments here that was a phenomenal presentation and an immense amount of work and something that was much needed and led by our true experts we are very fortunate here and the only other thing I could think the whole time I was listening to that is today I was trying to explain to a team of 150 sales people what scope and sequence and curriculum and I just want to hire you now I mean that that was a great presentation I wish they were all here I might take the YouTube video and play it for them next week just so they understand what goes into it
079um but at going back what Roger said it is important that you started with the students and we appreciate that because they are the core of what we do and you are the facilitators of making that happen so thank you any last all right so I wanted to ask about the group at the ISD are are they trying to maybe use similar materials do you see their like you've done kind of that footwork for others do you see them being like oh we'll just kind of good things well can ISD started this journey a couple years ago kind of got paused into covid but their um goal is to create um like a curriculum that outlined all the essential elements that they could then just give to districts give to teachers say this is what
080you're teaching for each grade level and so we received that this summer and it shows their biggest piece of work was for each essential element there's those three Mastery levels that get assessed with the my access alternate assessment and for the state of Michigan a lot of those three areas those three levels were said defined by state or defined by District so Kent ISD went through all the work to Define what would this look like at each Mastery level so that was a lot of the work that they were doing and so that was a lot of the movement and momentum from the ISD but we were sitting here like that is awesome and we're so excited to have that but we need something to teach that and help our students learn so um we
081were pairing along very well with the work that kisu was doing but we're also impatient to wait for them to continue the work so we kind of jumped ahead of it excellent absolutely all right how soon can we start implementing this will it be like the second semester or we will order tomorrow how long does it take to get to material is it is there anything yeah we I have two reps waiting for my email so I think it'll be pretty quick and really the only thing that would take more time is some training that's involved in the different programs um and it is some time each there's four programs um they each take a day's worth of training but not every teacher needs all four days it really is two so it's really more
082organizing so in the next month we can start that so by second semester we can have it up and running that's right all right roll call please yes yes gardein yes down yes Palmer yes Wonder John yes fine yes yes congratulations [Laughter] all right our next order is our summer tax resolution it is recommended that the Board of Education adopt the attached resolution imposing a 100 summer tax levy and all school property taxes including Debt Service upon property located within the school district and request each City and or Township in which the district is located to collect those summer taxes can I get a motion annual thing I'll turn it over to heaven so this is just our annual um 100 summer tax resolution that I bring to you each October um prior to 2000
083the school district collected 50 of the property taxes in the summer and the other 50 in the winter so starting with the 2000 tax levy the district switched to 100 summer tax collection and by doing that that allows um the district to better address cash flow needs created by proposal a which shifted the state's funding so our year in the states year don't line up and um they the state provides us with um state aid payments starting in October through the month of August so September there is there's no payment so um this helps with that okay how many districts in Kent and Ottawa County do this I do not know the answer to that it's a it's I'm so happy that we do this this was during Tim raymer's term but this is good
084stewardship of our finances so I appreciate the fact that we do this every year I would like to know how many do it though excuse me um we have a monthly ksbo meeting tomorrow or next Tuesday one of the two so I'll put a little survey out and see what they say thank you comments or questions all in favor yes yes opposed motion carries um next item is the high school security cameras it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the purchase and installation of additional security cam cameras at Granville high school for a price of 51 141 dollars and Walt is with us too um give us a summary of those uh so this represents the purchase of I believe it's uh 20 uh upgraded security cameras at the high school and I
085believe it's seven new security cameras at the high school obviously we have a fairly extensive security camera system already at the high school it was originally put in as part of the 2013 bond is when we did a big upgrade of the system so obviously over time there's been upgrades as far as camera technology to improve some of the cameras and then also we worked with uh atlanto with Dale carpowitz at the high school to try and identify some of the blind spots in the areas and areas of the building where they could require some additional coverage so this would represent the purchase and installation of those cameras and also the the corresponding licensing to go along with that how many uh how many old cameras is this replacing I believe it's 20. it is
086the 20. correct you've got you said you're taking care of blind spots is that because of the amount of coverage a camera can do that covers a blind spot um not so blind spots would be an area where we don't have adequate camera coverage right that's what I was asking so it's 20. so some of that is for example if we have a lower resolution camera in the hallway I've had requests from Dale where he says hey there's a student that's way down the hallway down there but I there was an incident I'm able I'm not able to accurately identify that student so an upgrade of that camera provides the additional resolution to be able to kind of zoom in and see what's going on how many total cameras are in the high school I
087believe it's 156. okay cool impressive oh no with a stairwell that was yep stairwells are definitely uh an important area to cover it you know the uh installations there is that installation including electrical installation includes the uh because the cameras are power over ethernet so they pull their power over the network connection so it includes the cabling for that yes perfect foreign all right let's do a roll call please the drum yes Palmer yes hi bar yes all right yes Guardian yes yes fine yes congratulations thank you um and our final regular action item tonight is Neola board policy it's our second reading tonight it is recommended the Board of Education approved the following revisions to bylaws and policies the bylaws and policies are as followed and are also listed for you right here in
088the color-coded copy Meola policies bylaw zero one four four point one on compensation revised policy 6108 authorization to use electronic transfer of funds and automated clearing house Arrangements that's a new policy 6700 Fair labor standards flsa revised policy 7440.03 revised small unmanned aircraft system suas revised technical correction and policy 9150 School visitors rebuys can I get a motion support so last time I gave you uh the revised and new policy in our current policies this time I've combined them and as you can see just a reminder the green that's an addition and red with a line through it is a deletion just a summary of these again the compensation one bylaw0144.1 that's revised it's really focused on the W-2 for each board member we already do this so it's just uh it's something we're already
089doing but it makes it a official policy to maintain accurate policies policy 6108 authorization to use electronic transfer of funds and automated Clearing House Arrangements again that is new so you can see there isn't any pretty Christmas colors there it's just uh as the new one is and this policy includes opponents required by Michigan Statute policy 6700 Fair labor standards act and again that is revised you know this one has to do with um man you know the fair labor standards act mandated that eligible employees be provided reasonable breaks and private facilities to express breast milk during the first year after the birth of their child we already do that and you can see at the end of that paragraph it says many employers attempt to provide similar accommodations benefits for all employees regardless of
090status or assignment this particular one has to do with a certain group of employees but in fact we do for all employees as it as it mentions policy 7440.03 small unmanned aircraft systems drones fall in that by the way um and this one really adds the new Federal Regulation citations really talks a lot about the operation of drones the federal regulations of those um at night and over people in particular and again we already have this policy and follow language but it does add the Federal Regulations within the policy so it does change and then policy 9150 School visitors as you can see is revised and this should be considered uh in order to have consistent policy and remain compliant with Michigan law this has to do with Sora or the sex offender registration act
091um and and what needs to happen if somebody is a sex offender as far as if their child is at school and there's an event and so on the process and procedure that happens and again we've always had a very solid procedure for this and this just continues to add to it so any questions about these again the shortest board policy update of my entire career with only a few wow pretty amazing thanks for the summary yeah I always appreciate that um all right all in favor yes yes opposed this moves us to the public comments section of our evening during public comment section we will call people up one at a time we'll let you know who's next on Deck during public comment we appreciate the folks being here to comment on educational issues
092and issues of importance to the board on District matters we will warn you during your five minute time when one minute until till the end and also during your statements please make sure you're directing your comments to the board audience please refrain from interrupting that time period and during your conversations please remain civil and be aware that if your comments violate the rights of others under the laws of defamation or invasion of privacy you might be held legally responsible for that if you're not sure about what you're saying in terms of validity truth Etc please consult with your legal advisor first all right our first individual up tonight will be Jerome Miller and then he will be followed by Ruth Rondon uh let's see there was an event Monday uh there was an email that
093went out uh 12 25 Tuesday morning uh that there was a threat of active shooter for the high school um I have not seen anything in the news I have not heard anything additional from calling the school from my kids that anyone has been arrested has been suspended has been uh basically anything additional from the school other than everybody is safe with things in the news Vicksburg had a threat and the in my wanting school closed no um but they had a threat by that afternoon there was a student in custody if I as an adult was at Gerald R Ford Airport and uttered certain phrases I would probably get a set of bracelets in a conversation so if we have students that are making these comments whether they're making these through social media whether
094they are making these in the hallway what is the policy to keep our kids safe I I do not personally reside in the school district my ex-wife does I have three children in the schools and they are very anxious uh about their personal safety I really don't want to have to pull them from the district but that's a conversation my ex-wife and I have already had for my children's safety so that's the whole point of my coming this evening so if we can get some sort of information can you see me afterwards sure happy to talk to you thank you so much appreciate it um I also just want to know if any time you have questions to contact the administration here we do we don't answer questions right in the board maybe that's why
095afterwards but thank you so much for being here um next up Ruth Rendon okay thank you for being here uh next up Tessa jansman followed by Michelle Thomas thank you for letting me know Tessa yep all right well my name is Tessa jansma you guys have my address on file um I won't go on and on about the books yet not this meeting um you guys spoke of summer school and all the funding that went to summer school that our summer school program was a joke Last Summer my son went for three half days and then passed the class like if I didn't get my money back from that you guys would have heard a lot more from me um also the high school seems to be all my issues your dress code can I
096change on my form Kim if you could have Roger get a hold of me after this that'd be awesome because I've said something about the dress code at the high school almost every meeting that I've attended they're still girls with full bellies out and they do not have jackets on and I mean it's getting cold now so like now it's getting ridiculous but it will warm up again and if you guys are not going to enforce this or hold Adam lenko a sorry Adam up if you don't hold him response or you know accountable for the policies for the high school change your policies or you can forget about any of us you know you can't just look past that one and then get mad when somebody else does something else against a policy it's
097either All or Nothing so either change your policy or address the students that just wear anything or nothing or hardly anything because it's getting ridiculous it's this cold out it's you know girl like her shirt came up like all the way up today she was not a small girl like it's nothing against her but like come on now it's either we have policy for a reason or we don't right [Music] um I see uh the National Education Association those have been fun to follow I'm sure you all follow that circus now we're just gonna still associate ourselves with them or because they think Banning books is funny right they got a number you can text if you want a list of the banned books so you can read them that's cute you know we're all
098connected with the Granville Education Association and all that it's all connected Michigan Education Association like you guys we see you we see you parents are Banning together all across the state and let me tell you it's not going to be good for those who make the decisions the final decisions like how you all just kept all the books that I uh contested he kept them in the schools and uh yeah we're about to switch it over and we'll have a new attorney general here in Michigan and this is not going to go lightly all of your votes are on record and yeah we'll have more books coming I would assume very shortly for you but yeah other than that I just got nothing nothing further thank you for your time thank you our final speaker
099for the evening Julie doll foreign good evening my name is Julie Dahl my address is on file um I want to talk about a couple different things so forgive me if I bounce around a bit um but first let's talk about academic learning loss um the presentation was great but very troubling um Dr Merkel gave a very to his credit like he said a very generalized high level data which is good however this should be at the Forefront of all of your minds your job here is to educate we want to have academics at the Forefront of everyone's mind I've heard this learning loss mentioned one other time as school board meetings and this is the second time we've acknowledged a problem no one said why the problem exists no one says how we're going
100to prevent this problem from ever happening again I can tell you these things I could tell you why this happened initially when covid struck and there was lockdowns and all that I'll give you everybody Grace for that none of us knew what was going on by the second year implementation of mandatory masking third year happens the next year happens again you're trying to teach kids to root and you're never different heart are going to rude I had two kids in that exact State I have a second grader now a daughter I wouldn't put a mask on her because I knew that there would be academic learning loss it's infuriating that the people who are in charge of making the problems are now trying to have come up with a solution there was a whole Auditorium
101full of parents asking you begging you do not do this and you did not listen you did not listen okay no one was crazy the people parents were looking out for their children I think that that's I also I don't know again I have a second grader and a kindergartner seventh grader fifth grader we have testing numbers for second graders she wasn't tested when some of these numbers are up so the numbers are a little confusing to me to be honest because they look a little off just at first glance because they weren't tested at a certain age in a certain certain um because because of lockdowns and all the things so to say that they're on track during these years it looks a little different but that's by no means personal to Dr Merkel
102at all it just looks a little suspicious to me moving on um last week or I'm sorry at the last board meeting there was discussion of the implementation of a new Bond or a new tax and understanding that there would be a shortfall of 15 million dollars in the certain School fund and I was pretty shocked at just the flippancy at which it was like no big deal we're just going from 16 and a half to 18 and it's not on it's not an actual personal income or personal property it's just on the business owners it's just on their proper it's just them who do you think employs people in Granville who do you think is taking on the most risk who pays the benefits is that is that funny I know when you work
103for the government you haven't had to worry about your paycheck for the last two years but a lot of us have when you don't have to worry about it sure it's no big deal when you employ people when you take the risk when you have additional we have to do a lot more with less and then people like you think it's just an endless Revenue stream we can just go ahead and increase taxes on people who own the businesses it's it shows complete ignorance and academic elitism you do not understand how capitalism works if you think it's just a flipping like no big deal you might own your own business but is in Academia is it with government funds are you getting grants that's not how the real world works and to just be so
104flippant about it like it's no big deal people are hurting out there people are hurting there is inflation there are incredible Rise of an Ever cost you're creating this generation you're you're you're trying to implement this generation that is putting much more emphasis on gender ideology and gender affirmation and intersectionality more than they understand corporate tax structure risk reward any of that word producing a generation that is not allowed to question the narrative versus a generation that can critically think we need to put the focus back on academics we absolutely need to understand that people are hurting out there no one's trying to ban books no one's saying you can't have all these books okay Banning a book would make it not available to anyone at any time now one person has said that what
105we don't want is the sexualization of minors without parent supervision all right thank you I typically don't respond back I just want to invite Julie to schedule a meeting with Heather I'm happy to attend as well to understand the actual tax situation from last week it was a an essentially a renewal of an 18 mils that already exists and the drop-in rate had to do with a variety of factors that are set in the law so it's resuming a tax that we had before and we're happy to sit down outside of this meeting and work through all those pieces it's a return of what existed no it's it's returning exactly what it was before the loss at 18 mil so I just I want to sit down with you and work through those pieces so
106that we all understand um please the next board meeting of the Granville Board of Education will be Monday November 7th 2022 at 7 pm at the administrative Administrative Building this meeting is adjourned