001i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all you can take a roll call please wonder john hi born here here gardein here paula jahan here please note as a courtesy to members of the audience and the board of education to silence your cell phone please are there any more public comment cards all right moving on can i get an approval of the agenda supposed support all in favor yes opposed all right reports let's start on this end front no reports just looking forward to the uh i guess fall sports getting started and getting back to seeing all the kids together again yeah make sense that's it nothing great um just a splendid
002fourth of july and uh hats off to ryan for gathering momentum to put one of the buses in the parade and that was fun to see them and the band and so as usual well attended and definitely a lot of help from the school district too just to make sure things were going well and other than that um just the summer programs from what i know were outstanding again and attendance was really up for some of the sports so that was good okay thanks chrissy hey well from the parks and recs department the police in the park program is going full force it's awesome they were able to give out through the parks and a partnership with the finances through the parks they were able to give students and kids in granville 75 baseball bats
003during one of their outings they have food they have backpacks they have little like little badges i mean it's just a really great it's been a really positive program i'm really happy to see it's getting more and more and more attended too so it's been a very positive thing they have two new cadets that are um women and they are loving their position and their um the pictures are on the parks and recreation board and on the um granville police department board and it's so fun because they're all sitting up on the monkey bars with the kids and it's it's been really good um the fourth of july yeah i was i was there too and it was really great and i loved the be nice group uh it was fun to have my 13
004year old walk in there with his best friend in the be nice group so thank you for letting him be a part of that um our varsity hockey with joel brazile this whole week they've decided to take on a junior high clinic this whole week so there must have been uh 7th and 8th graders entering 7th and 8th graders who were on the ice this morning learning skills and then getting all of that good joel brazile integrity grit how we work how we do things and then we probably had about 10 students from out of our school district who are considering coming to play in our district so that program is a great program for building our sports program building really great students who come in he all today was about community and grade point
005average and he does not he doesn't pull any punches he's like you have to have good grades yeah joel is a force yeah so it's been a real pleasure it's been a really great pleasure for me to be a part of that program but this week was nice because it's in the summer and you're like oh yeah and then we're all cold that's good yeah that's what i've got this week that's great thank you nothing major just kind of like what i said earlier it was nice to have all the graduation stuff done and all the parties are beyond us now so that's great um looked like really good attendance to a lot of the youth camps that we had over the last couple weeks which was great um and just as friends said right
006it's exciting to have the fall stuff start up i know band camp starts here in a couple weeks and free band camp starts i mean in a week and a half or band camps a week after that here we go buckle up that's right that's great and thank you again to your wife for all of her yeah hard work and dedication with the bands that's a big big job every time i see her i have to say it i'm aware [Laughter] a lot of kids in the band still do um not a lot for me there hasn't been much going on i've just been out of town really for work in the last few weeks but um really grateful and thankful that you get an opportunity roger to take a respite and also been thinking
007a lot about our teachers as they and our support staff as they've had some time off they usually spend you know much of june decompressing and july starting to this is when i remember in education your mind starts to think what can i do this year so i know they're starting to ramp up and get ready for the school year and i just got a lot of thoughts with them right now as they start to prepare for all that and then our community ed program's just been hearing phenomenal stuff in the community about what we've been doing this summer so thanks thanks to everyone who puts into that program roger sure uh great stuff happening i'm i'm going to talk a little more back-to-school update uh further along in the agenda so just excited for
008a new school year really looking forward to it and uh yeah let's let's roll let's do this all right we have no old business um on to the consent action agenda can i get a motion to approve the consent action agenda support all in favor yes opposed it carries on to regular action we have one regular action item it is the formal complaint book review it is recommended the board of education approved the recommendation of the book complaint review committee for the selection milk and honey as part of the appeal process brought forth can i get a motion support sure uh sir so per board policy 9130 uh letters fng if somebody makes a formal complaint on an instruct what's called an instructional material library books are considered that then the principal after consulting with
009that person may form a committee and in this case we did adam did and scott formed a committee and they're going to talk to you about that process but where we're at right now is after the committee made a decision the person who filed the complaint has a right to appeal it and then the board needs to make a decision whether they're going to recommend the recommendation or not and then present that to the person in writing after that so i will turn things over to dr merkel and he'll talk to you a little bit about the process thank you uh so i'm going to go through the process i know all of you have seen the committee's formal recommendation that was put together that mr barrack shared so i want to go over the
010process that we went through following board policy 9130 to set up that committee and then the process the committee followed to make that recommendation so again i know this is somewhat repetitive but i think it's important that we focus on that policy the the policy creates broad guidance the principal may appoint a committee so in consultation when that happens principal calls me we talk about um if this is necessary worthy to form a committee we thought that it was and board policy 9130 says that committee may consist of one or more professional staff members and then one uh lay persons knowledgeable in the area that's the it is broad guidance our goal looking at that was to create a committee process that was highly representative of stakeholders we didn't want to make this decision in
011a vacuum we didn't want to create a committee that was isolated or without voice so we created a seven-person committee that included building administration in this case a high school assistant principal uh as adam uh and i facilitated the process together and then three professional staff members the english department uh an english department staff member in this case department chair a non-english department staff member and a non-instructional staff member and then we randomly selected three parents to serve on the committee three parents of high school students this was a high school library text and so we wanted representation from that student body that parent selection process was truly random i went into powerschool pulled an excel spreadsheet of all the active students in the high school excel automatically gives them a line number and then
012i went to a random number generator click generate i highlighted that name and sent that parent an invitation we uh gave that parent a couple of days to accept or decline before we invited somebody else and we did have some we had a couple that just said i no thanks i don't have time right now um it was a busy time um and so that's how we put those three parents together um then obviously we provided background to the committee we actually had a zoom meeting to overview the process and go over policy make sure they understood policy what their role was and the perspective that they needed to have reviewing the text and then we needed to get everybody the book and give them time to read the book so each committee member read
013the book in its entirety they took notes on on merits and concerns of the book i asked all the committee members to submit their notes to me without names on them i put them together for everybody to see so the whole committee could see what everybody else noted as concerns merits of this text and then we had a meeting and we use some dialogue protocols to focus on what people noted as their merits and concerns in a way where they could still remain anonymous and ask questions about what people meant and share what resonated because you could see everybody else's thoughts so they could pull out patterns about what people had patterns and concerns about what people had patterns of merits about we discussed that we had conversation opportunity for everybody to ask questions and
014then uh committee members voted anonymously using a rubric that everybody saw and they were given three options option number one was we remove the book option number two is we retain the book as is option number three is we retain the book with restrictions and those restrictions would be up to conversation um uh and and in the end as you've seen uh this committee voted unanimously 7-0 to maintain the book in its current location for its current purpose uh just a bit of rationale i did ask them for what their rationale was as a committee what they felt the committee needed to be included in the recommendation and they shared that while some of the content could be objectionable to some families the issues depicted were real and experienced by many in our society so
015they saw it as valuable as a book again they also felt that it was important their decision hinged on the fact that this is choice reading as a book that's available only by choice reading they felt it reasonable to keep the book accessible in the student library and leave discretion to families regarding the boundaries of uh selection of that so and it is to know to make this this was a main component it's currently available as a selection in our library it's not a book that's involved in a class or anything else so that's our process the process we went through and then just wrapping up 9130 in the process my role is to create an official summary recommendation and submit it to the superintendent which we did and then we passed passed along to
016all of you so questions about the process on it thank you how many parents did you have to send invitations up to to get your three uh for this book when is the last time we had to use this process 2003 captain underpants all right thank you so much for your time let's take a vote on oh i'm sorry i thought we were just going to talk i thought it was questions on process because i would like to be able to discuss some other pieces of this um and i read all your documentation that you gave right so thank you very much for especially the legal opinion um [Music] so i i i look at this from a different perspective and i think there needs to be a different i'm going to say category of
017libraries right so k-12 i think needs to be separated from public kdl or a university library because i think we have minors and i don't know if um [Music] the expressions especially that i got in the summary here uh i would want anybody under the age of 18 to be able to read i wouldn't want them to have access to it um and if you know i'm i can play with a lot of similarities and when you look at you know what what is obscenity right by either state or state law or the supreme court and the only thing that runs into question based on the summary is the artistic value i have to do double quotes um because i think i don't know do we have i've never read the book never seen the
018movie but do we have the shades of gray in the library do we have any hustler magazines in the library because someone must have some artistic value in there so i'm actually putting this book with that genre i haven't read the book i don't want to read the book summaries enough for me so from my perspective whether they're selective or not we have a selective section or not my perspective is we shouldn't even have a selective section if it if if if we don't have a universal reading for all grades and you can get different levels based on the grade set then when you hit anything above nc 17 it should not be in a school library because i think i think you are going to across the line of obscenity pornography and overall decency
019i mean my my comments on it i've read the book um i completely agree with the theme of the book i feel it's too graphic in nature of what it has to say i've shared with some people that somebody pretty close to me in my life has dealt with that and it's impacted my whole life um but i would still say that it's just i just wouldn't want it for kids under 18. so my daughter did choose to read it in her class and she was actually able to draw a parallel for her where she had done two mission trips and uh gone into some very poor areas of kentucky and one of the girls had gone through a very traumatic experience like this right that was shared with her um and after that mission
020trip she's become very she's always been a very empathetic person and this allowed her to understand the plight the experience of this person without herself having it right and you know so much so that she asked for the book for as a gift um and hasn't and i think to me that speaks to a little bit of some of what was mentioned in the feedback meaning that some of the feedback was if the book doesn't speak to you you're gonna drop it after three sentences and i think there's a lot of truth in that um when you read the book um it's a powerful book i think i think it in some ways it teaches a healthy approach for women to understand themselves a little bit and gives them a few to be able to
021see themselves maybe in a different light than what's normally portrayed um and i gotta say i think the process that you put together really does reach out and look for both you know obviously administration and and teachers because they're the ones that are spending so much time with their kids uh to understand what their view is of this book i mean they are they're spending during the school year they're spending more time with their kid than we are unfortunately right i mean we'd like it to be the opposite we'd like to be able to spend you know eight hours a day with our kids when we can um so they i think understand that they get a lot more probably conversation on some of these things than when we as parents do unfortunately um and
022i love the fact that hey we reached out to the community and looked for just as many community members um to look at it and yeah i mean it it's how much more it to me it was just a really good process and a very good representation of what we're looking for right and how we how we want to approach these because yeah i agree with you right you know what with hustler magazine i think i couldn't say uh uh verbatim right but i would believe a hustle magazine would not pass this process would fifty shades of gray passes for us i don't think so can't say that for sure but i think if we're gonna lump you know use them as examples right they went past this process so i do think this book
023is different in how it's approaching and the you know the way it does it i it's just that's just my view right i mean i found it a quick read it was about an hour um but like i said i think it does speak to some people and just as like the comment said if it's not for you you're not going to get past the first three sentences i think that's still with so much so many votes any other comments i do i just want to wait until you guys are done so i just want to go back to a statement i made uh before and this is one of the things i'll mention in our uh back-to-school update but you know we are we are living in different times and some of these books
024that are being questioned um have been in our library for a long time and you know uh but time again times are different and and what i hear from what's going on around the country with this is the importance of uh you know looking at our system and being you know being transparent i think we need to to strengthen our transparency when books come into our library and have a strong process for that and at the same time find ways so that parents know you know we we can give parents grades at the drop of a hat so if we can find a way to let them know that you know what books their kids are are checking out um with the current books we have and and have more a more uh transparent process
025than that i think that also is something that we need to look at and you know and consider uh you know there there's a choice you if a parent does not want their kid checking out a book or a certain kind of book all they have to do is tell us and we will ensure that you know we're doing what we can to ensure that kids are not going to be checking uh you know their kid is not going to check it out um but when you look at a book and you look at situations and scenarios kind of like what you mentioned jason you know there are people who will want to um you know check out certain kinds of books and we know that because they ask us um so we need to
026just look at our system to look at our you know how can we be more transparent uh with the books we have and how can we look at our system of how books have come into our library over the years because i mean some of these books being questioned are in the 1990s and they've been in our our library for a long time so um you know so what you know knowing times are different how can we strengthen that process when books come in one thing i think you did tonight proving a media specialist helps because i think that person is going to really help us uh strengthen that system same thing for purging books that um our books that you know are not being checked out and and are not uh you know are
027not in that that cycle so so we'll be able to look at systems and uh you know we're currently doing that we'll continue to do that as we move forward so one other comment raj um your statement with regard to some books library but the fact that they've been in there for years this goal of transparency is even this is an example of why it's needed because i will tell you here there's many parents in this district that believe their guard was let down with a level of trust somehow they want that trust back they're trying to figure out how to get it back they're trying to figure out hey we're going to partner with you they just don't know are there only certain areas they can partner partner with eon and i'm going to
028say they feel that way whether whether that's not the case you know i know you and but bringing transparency in a way that is recognizable and noticeable to parents i think that's key to this process and your goal i'd like to make a comment too there are several books being looked at that you said maybe from the 90s or whatever this one has been in the library for a long time and many of them are coming through this organization called mary in the library and so what's happening is little tiny segments of each book are coming out and instead of reading the entire book and it's in its holistic picture which was beautiful in this process because this process really took a very close and intimate look with people asking questions everything that was on
029there all those things that i questioned the first time i heard stuff read here i was like whoa okay let's let's look at this so the problem becomes i am an english teacher i have a masters in english i understand that sometimes we have to understand context and so when mary in the library comes in and takes out a tiny snippet to rile up people it's it's very frustrating because you have to be able to commit to having a holistic picture of something before you say it's no good so um i read it like you i read it in like an hour i read it in the car on the way to a lacrosse game and the parts that were in there i think that what we like to talk about as we like to
030say our kids are not in school like a factory we have individual kids we have kids that are all different they have different needs different levels different spaces we have kids that are at risk because they have learning disabilities we have kids that are in ap classes from the time they're sophomore in high school we have an entire range of students who have intellectual freedom and that is one of the biggest things with the ala is that we have students that can handle this book we have students that can't handle this book we have a lot of students who don't even make it into the library i have a really great reader my 13 year old is a reader would i ask him to read this book probably not he's not ready for this would
031i tell my 17 year old to read this book you bet because he needs to understand trauma and he needs to understand those things all of my opinions aside i support the fact that we had a very solid process there's another book that i've seen floating around on mary in the library and i i will say i'm not sure that i would support that book but the truth is we went through an entire process we went through every single page of that book and read it and there are certain schools that won't even let this process happen until the parent who is complaining has read the whole book written a report and talked about what their problems are with that book so the fact that we had three parents picked at random that we had
032all of that input from these teachers and our administration i think that they have done their due diligence in understanding why this book is not porn so we had a definition of pornography read to us earlier and it was about gratuitous pleasure i don't think rape is gratuitous pleasure and so in order to understand this whole thing this was a child's story this was a child making bad decisions in between and then coming out healing so to me that is a great process i like the book but i also understand that even if i didn't like the book and i saw how this was dictated by our committee i would still support our committee [Music] a couple of comments after listening to everyone first of all in transparency we have an online database for our
033libraries where all books are accessible is that correct could you talk to us about the name of that database where it's located on our website and how parents may access it yes it's called follow destiny and they can access and and and search by school um you can find that uh in our website in the departments tab and then there's a separate department for library or media center and you can find the link there and i would just encourage because just today we had an email exchange about a book that was actually listed in destiny that had been weeded out so we were able to kind of hopefully take that off people's concerns we weren't sure why but once again this evening we approved a staff member who's going to help us clean all that
034up from a process standpoint and fallout destiny has been on our website for over 10 years for the high school i followed destiny has been our elementary schools just switched over to follow destiny four years ago i think so we had k-12 articulation inconsistency all right and what was the elementary school using prior library world i don't know the main i don't know the parent company thank you yeah and uh i heard um mr wunderjen's comments about libraries being set aside from kdl other purposes just to clarify when the committee had their options for recommendations it was to remove the book to retain the book in its current state or to put it in a separate protected library for keep it with restrictions with restrictions so there there is a library with restrictions available as
035an option that the committee could have exercised we we have some books that are by permission only typically at the elementary levels of with k-6 elementaries right there's no question there are some books that are um appropriate for fifth and sixth grade i mean beyond reading level um some content levels not that they're adult content it's just it's in sixth grade content that you know um some great series um that are based on roman gods right the rick riordan series that i've seen come all through my house there's some violence in there but i to clarify there was an option to stop fighting and they chose not to correct it can i clarify something quick on that so the point that i got out of removed retained retained in a special location was within our
036granville library system not the kdl or any other public university or anything like that so just best point of clarification yep i was just clarifying that we have that as an option here no it's not here we have it as an option for our school district and they opted not to exercise it in the recommendation to put it in its granville public schools library restrictive area right okay i'll be on the same page um i think it's important to read the book it's important to have context and i've read the book and there's a very big difference between smut and titillation and perspective and uncomfortable topics i believe the committee was clear on both of those and i really appreciated that they went through and listed every objectional objectionable area picture comment with page numbers
037because i read it once a couple weeks ago i read it again after seeing the recommendation went to every single page in reread to try to apply that standard of is this meant to encourage inappropriate behavior or is it meant to teach about behaviors that hurt people i thought that was very wise to have the two sides represented in the process and very clear because it made me think about each and every single item in there that could be objectionable from from multiple standpoints final thing i want to remind as we uh sounds like we are coming to a vote is the vote is to affirm the committee's recommendation that is our purpose i also read the book and um i felt exactly what the committee said and that was issues depicted in the book
038are real and experienced by many and sometimes books like this can open up discussions amongst parents with their kids and um i appreciate jason having that conversation with his daughter to dig a little bit deeper and find out her perspective on it and i think you know we're um becoming such a trauma-informed school district that um we need to be aware that trauma is there and it's uh it's right here in granville and so we can't deny that we have people experiencing this and building empathy is one last thing you know i forgot to mention after you know for her right it was able to identify this with another person right that she experienced with but also then to see and understand that this trauma that happened from this book right it comes out on
039the other side of hope and there's healing and there's ability to move on and you don't you aren't stuck with that trauma and the bad thing that happened to you like a noose around your neck for the rest of your life it showed that there's a way to move on and you can still be productive and i think for her that was a big thing that spoke to her is that hey i don't have to view this person as someone who's always going to be damaged yeah not always going to be damaged there's hope for them to be able to move on continue to have a positive life so so yeah it was it was an interesting discussion um but uh and as a former language arts teacher there are numerous numerous studies that show
040that children who read are more empathetic and those adults who continue to read continue to be more empathetic and so i think we talk about a slippery slope when we decide that we're going to go against a recommendation of our learned and very skilled educators who really have had to handle many of these issues i also want to add i think this might be the antithesis to pornography because it takes a very difficult topic it's often washed clean of perspective and it explains the difference i think for a lot of young girls in our community and boys they hear about things they have way too much access to inappropriate content in this world and they confuse sex and love i i don't find it humorous and i'm sorry and things that occurred to them and
041that's what i heard in the in the different stages was confusion about something that was occurring to them that society tells you should be one thing but their experience was something else and how to rectify that in your mind and become a whole and healed person and have positive productive healthy relationships in the future so any other comments questions all right so we are again voting to affirm the committee's recommendation about uh yay would affirm the committee's recommendation a vote nay would uh go against the recommendation let's do real call [Music] yes yes habit and the uh committee recommendation final thing on our agenda is the discussion about back to school updates yeah just again very excited about the 22-23 school year we're gearing up for a great year a lot of good things are
042in the works and i just wanted to mention again you know our two focus areas you know is to ensure that every student reaches their fullest academic potential that is the paramount thing we can do for kids when they leave us when you talk about opportunities and having opportunities in the real world no matter what they decide to do that's that has to be the pinnacle of what we're trying trying to do with students and then the second thing is every student who who enters our doors would want them to feel safe i want them to feel a sense of belonging this is my school confidence and then having the supports they need whether it's academic social emotional having the supports needed to reach their fullest academic potential some kids don't need any supports some
043kids you wouldn't think they do but they do because they're going through a lot and then other kids need a lot so it's just really um building those bonds those relationships with our kids and having the support systems in place to ensure they reach their fullest academic potential so those two things um also uh looking ahead things we're focusing on you know safety i mentioned uh you know we've been managing a pandemic and uh we really want to you know we had some great momentum going into that and i think uh recent events have reminded us of how important it is to always look at your systems that you have your partnerships with your police departments your you know your local people and so on and really work together to establish very solid plans have
044very solid structural plans for buildings process procedures protocols at the same time being very proactive with your mental health supports and your programming for that so that's safety is a key thing teaching and learning want to focus on curriculum transparency articulation of what we teach and really work with our staff to articulate what it is we expect students to know and be able to do within our classes and then when parents have questions about those things be able to have that dialogue so there isn't there there isn't a gap between what we expect students to know and be able to do and what people may or may not think it doesn't need to be um you know for people it need to me it needs to be very um very evident it's not trivial at
045all so we're going to work hard in a system to strengthen that we already do that in some ways but we again we're we're in a time of transparency we're in a time of wanting to articulate that as best as we can so we're going to continue to focus on that uh also looking ahead if you're not looking ahead you're going to be behind when you get there when we look at facilities yes we have this beautiful middle school going up you know we had that tour in june and people were just wowed by that we have a granville education center an early childhood component to that uh that's very exciting and you know those are doing things not only uh for you know creating exceptional uh facilities that we're so blessed to have from
046our community but at the same time they help us with spacing issues for a while but i don't know if you've noticed there are a lot of a lot of places selling off and a lot of people talking about housing so we have to make sure we're always planning for that you know 10 15 years down the road and so getting a group of people from our community together to start having some dialogue about that and trends we're seeing and where we're seeing them and what you know possibilities for for that future um you know might be uh we want to start having those conversations at the same time when you look at places like river bend and we all know we're in that process now of looking at that information those are our things
047as well that play into that so uh very excited you know a wise person once told me only look at three things don't look at more than that so safety teaching and learning and future of our facilities not that we're not doing a lot of other things but you know having those three uh key areas is what we're trying to really be trying to focus on any questions about that or anything else yeah we're getting we're getting there we're we're really turning the corner into august pretty soon here very excited about that looking forward to seeing each one of those reaction areas in the 22-23 school year thank you very much now's the time in our agenda when we move to public comment we have three individuals who signed up for public comment just a
048reminder that during the public comment time they're speaking to the board we are also requesting that you are respectful of one another and that you ensure that the statements that you are making do not violate the rights of others under the laws of defamation or invasion of privacy and if you have any questions about that please seek your legal advisor before speaking our first individual up will be i'm sorry you get five minutes mr highborn we'll take care of time over here and we'll notify you when you have one minute our first individual will be michelle thomas followed by tessa johnson i've had two presentations written today mr merkel was able to talk me off the ledge on one of them slightly temporarily and so i prepared something else and then now after what i've
049just listened to my head is just in a whole nother direction it's been a while since i've been here i'm a little mad at myself for that my kids are busy in spring sports and some are sports and i don't like to miss that stuff so i put my priority there and then it dawned on me there are going to be more games there are going to be more activities that i can go to but they only get one childhood and they only get one chance at innocence and so i can't continue to put my priority on things when the chance at something they only get one of could be robbed um it set me off this week when there was a book posted on facebook in a group that i belong to of 56
050000 members only a handful of schools were called out bramble was one of them for having this book that lots of quotes were in it it was extremely inappropriate i right away emailed roger mr merkel this is the one where he said it's showing that it is in our library but he's assured me it's not um but i was mortified and i was embarrassed and i know that that's not the only book in the library that would probably make me feel that way and then we had the discussion here about this book and i hear a lot of comments i don't disagree that it's a great book and does it have a great place in a public library absolutely but we have a wide range of ages in our high school i have very young
051children that will be in high school my son had just turned 14 as a freshman so he was one week past 13. and i know if he would have looked at those drawings in that book he and his friends they don't care about what's in the book they're going to giggle at the pictures they're going to see things through a different lens because they're 13 they're not 17 or 18 or at a maturity level where they're capable of handling the content of the book do i think there are high school students that can handle it absolutely but not all of them and i don't want my kids seeing that they weren't ready my daughter will be 13 when she becomes a freshman in high school she's very young she has a september birthday she will
052be 13. what is appropriate for a 13 year old is very different from an 18 year old and these books aren't necessary for educational success i'm gonna do a little mom brag i have two straight a students my son is one of the top psat scorers in his grade he's got five honors classes he's getting straight a's and he doesn't read this stuff it is not necessary to become a good student or have academic success to have access to some of this adult material it wouldn't benefit his education whatsoever um i would like to propose that there's probably a very small percentage of students that actually turn 18 when you look at the whole percentage i was asking mr merkel what percent of students in the high school are 18. obviously we're going to probably
053narrow it down to almost all seniors there might be a handful otherwise only seniors and only some of them my kids will both be 17 when they graduate so not even all seniors will be 18. would there not be a way that if this material has to be in the library that we have an adult or a pornography or whatever section you want to call it that it is under lock and key and you have to either one be 18 or have parental consent to have access to that versus trying to take the majority of students and monitor what can they or what can't they have access to or for me to know what are they checking out or what are they not checking out why are the adult content mature books not required to
054have a parental consent to check them out i feel like it would be so much easier because most of our students are not 18. so unless you are if you're under 18 and you were to have some type of parental consent great check it out your parents okay with that but for the rest of the parents that aren't okay with that i know that my child wouldn't have access to it is he gonna check out milk and honey absolutely not but will his friends grab it off the shelf and giggle at the pictures probably they're 14 year old boys they aren't looking for the deeper meaning necessarily in all of these books and i just don't feel that we need to sacrifice their innocence or their childhood before it's necessary because it doesn't do anything
055to benefit them academically and i would really like to consider some type of restrictive process on the adult rated books oh one more thing uh of course to the parade god bless rosie coral for being the only teacher that walked in that parade she is a treasure and there is a reason that she is revered and highly requested by all parents and i hope everybody recognizes what a great teacher she is next up followed by janine my name is tessa jansma it was april 25th when i sat down with our high school principal to discuss the removal of just two out of the many books that have sexually explicit matter in them it was the beginning of june when i received the letter stating that the committee chose to keep the book milk and honey
056in our school and it took until today july 18th to finally hear your vote on my appeal why why does the book review take three months there will be more coming the book milk and honey is rated for adult only content for children no child under 18 should have access to milk and honey and yet we have the 2015 version and we were graced with the 2018 version so it wasn't that long ago that that book was put in there the second books committee for crank by ellen hopkins i'll be very interested to hear your guys's opinion on that one i'm sure there's artistic something to keep it crazy that i'm even having this talk with you guys this is disgusting they won't meet until july 26th again three months later i just i don't
057understand it is this going to be the same committee minus the random parents that get chose that did milk and honey chose to keep it do you read every book and review it this thoroughly before you allow it into our schools probably not somehow we have hundreds of books with the interest level for adults we have 13 14 15 year old kids in that library are we going to get a beaded section like blockbuster like this is school we're supposed to make our kids want to go to the library now i got to tell them just stay away from it because it's disgusting and do you guys go by awards only or does anybody look it over probably not watching this push to sexualize our children has been disturbing to say the least but just
058know we see you and we the parents we say not today satan not today one good thing about all this is the parents have awakened myself included i know roger said that the books have been in there for a long time and there's so many books we we trusted you we trusted this school district to not give our children access to pornography here we are we have come together and formed a group to fight against this indoctrination and sexualization of our children granville parents for education has been born we are a group of parents grandparents and community members dedicated to the well-being of our children and we will not sit idly by as this continues i almost i almost knew you guys were going to vote to keep it and i was going to prepare
059a whole different one if you took it out but it's just very interesting you guys voted to keep it we'll be looking into that on another note not to just go on the books but i called it months ago the election variant was coming i told you i told you it was coming study after study has proven the mass to be worthless and if you even think about reinstating those pointless mass mandates again just know you will be met with resistance and this time from a well-organized group of parents who are willing to lose it all to protect their kids from this stupidity i hope you guys realize what you did tonight get ready be ready to read ton more books because we have quite the selection of porn rape drugs sex that's what we're
060giving our kids grandville needs to fix it this is disgusting thank you last speaker will be uh janine janma oh my goodness you guys okay my name is janine janzma you have my address on file so you know it's really really something where we're at these days and that we even are requiring a consensual administrative and public selective public to do a vote on whether pornography is appropriate to have in the school library shelves it's highly concerning and quite frankly it's preposterous especially when the books themselves state on the cover that they are for an 18-year and over audience as does milk and honey and you know in high school you got 9th 10th 11th and 12th grade probably not a whole lot of those kids are 18 or over you know you're you're like
061really skating verging on breaking the law in my opinion that weeks are required to make this decision it defies common sense it may sound like i stray from the issue at hand in the examples i share but i ask you to remember that we have watched and lived through what happens when an idea or an ideology is let to run rampant with no checks or balances i'm sure we all remember the infamous promise touted two and a half years ago two weeks to flatten the curve i bring this up because nothing happens by accident and the long slow walk to the sexualization of our children isn't as slow as you may think the perversion that has seeped into our society is eroding the sacred trust that caring for children requires normalizing and even encouraging sexual
062materials and gender confusion in the young is to default on that trust the promotion and accessibility of sexually charged material along with the graphic imagery in these books is inappropriate and irresponsible schools are here to educate our children in reading writing math music the arts and sports the purview of education is to prepare children for a happy and productive and well-educated future as adults it is a sane and safe environment that produces well-adjusted confident and capable citizens we are once again seeing a resurgence in the push for mass mandates tyrannical government officials are at it again doing what they do best using fear to fool the masses they can call it what they want they can call it monkey packs they can call it coved but we know it's real name it's called the election
063barian and those who still think that the issues we face today are anything less than the battle between good and evil are deceiving themselves to the board tonight i beseech you to remember why you are here you were appointed your positions to protect to serve to honor and to respect the children in your care let our kids be kids one minute again thank you the next workshop board meeting of the grenville board of education will be on monday august 1st 2022 at 7 pm here at the administration building this meeting is returned you