001like to watch all right you're unmuted can you hear me back there can you hear me okay now i just want to make sure the people that are watching online get here all right uh new jersey open public meeting statement the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interest is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and board of education policy 0162 the board of education of the borough of bound brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board of office and at bambook high school and mailed her fast to the courier news found referral clerk southbound for
002board of education and any person who has requested individual notice and paid during firefight please stand for the senate i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under [Music] yes um i the only comment is i hope everyone's summer is going well and uh i guess i'm sure most people heard about the the announcement by the state concerning masks so uh i believe that's the direction that we'll be going because there's just glad we spent time on that we just spent a lot of time discussing that and taking uh surveys but i guess we will be masked uh as of september as far as social distancing we will have to wait and see what the state says on that uh that's
003all i have for tonight so at this time i need uh open for to the public for anything that's on the agenda oh no i'm sorry doctor i'm sorry no no um just just as i said and tried to give you guys a warning about this um it would start to come to fruition enrollment is going through the roof as we speak most of the students that we are receiving are slight kids which means that they are kids coming from south america with interrupted education so to give you an example we're going to have a number of kids who are going to be in the high school with almost a sixth grade education however their age is going to make us place them as a high school it's either freshmen or sophomores depending on their
004age and unfortunately they're probably going to age out before they can graduate so it's going to hurt our graduation cohort rate in addition to this by the number of kids that are coming in and as they're coming in across grade levels the other thing that you should be aware of is that regardless of how hard we work when kids are missing multiple years of education it's going to be very very hard to obtain satisfactory numbers in our test scores so i just wanted to bring you uh to that so just to give you an example um mr smith i think high school is at 6 80 for the start of the year up from 608. so just to just give you an idea at the height of when i was here and this was the
005middle the most we had in the high school building from 7 to 12 was 745 or 46 kids so we are definitely getting to to an area in a high school of space is going to be at a premium shortly a lot of our new kids are going to be elementary kids as well i know this rita is processing those as we go along but just to give you an idea the high school's at 681 middle school's at 296. smalley is at 527 lafayette is at 239 and omaha's at 169. however again we're going to see a rash of kids enrolling there for pre-k in kindergarten um that usually happens to us at the end of august so just wanted to give you that and currently we have 11 positions open um we have a
006run of resignations unfortunately so right now we currently need a special ed math uh high school person a middle school nurse um we made offers into both of those positions on multiple occasions that we've been turned down each of those um esl at the high school again will be either offered to a person and they turned us down preschool that is a new section that we're opening so that was not the resolution we had two first grade resignations one is now filled and should be on this or is not the next agenda we are still looking for two grade two teachers we added a new fourth grade position um due to enrollment already um for small schools so that's a new position um we do have a fourth grade special ed position open we have
007an asi seventh grade position open and we have the supervisor of english language arts so that is my report for this moment in time and i turn it back to you do you know how many quarterbacking students we're getting like i can't tell you exactly how many until until narrator gives me some numbers um but i can tell you that you know as i told you guys before one of the things that we have to be very cognizant about is the number of esl kids we have probably have to understand esl as the year goes on unfortunately right now as you can see we're having a hard time getting esl features and i think everybody's going to be in that boat i think the other thing that hurts us quite frankly is the fact that
008the state took away all of our everyday so we got near immigrant this past year um that's not going to help us either so that's going to make it a little bit more difficult when the time comes [Music] okay at this hello lauren paxton president of the bound brook education association where can i find and read 12.8 it's not on the agenda uh what's approved it will be posted just like every other chair was this uh discussed with the association considering it pertains to the members is it possible that we could have a discussion before it gets approved maybe we can table it and have a discussion as far as approving well again this particular shared service agreement has been in place since october um we're doing this at your your request michelle um again
009this is about uh giving out medication over at south bound which takes probably an hour when that situation arises i think it was four times this past year um again it's up to you i don't see i don't see any problem as far as discussing that ahead of time i've asked to talk about this many times in the past month or two you emailed me a month ago asking me to discuss something by email which is asking and requesting to speak about it by email because they reform them there were four separate ones and each time you continued to ask me if i was telling you before i it said uh isn't it safe to assume when i emailed you as far as the um you know letting you know that you have uh you
010know committee together to talk about uh negotiations you continue to ask them this is the third time where you would ask me um and then it characterizes me saying no for the third time does that mean you are okay with dan entering into secret agreements with south bound without discussing with the only or the bbep or at least informing us an agreement has been made and then i i take objection to that characterization because that's not why i said no because it is an epic violation for anyone um personally as if they were presented the school board i am one-tenth of the school board so i let you know coming to the meeting was the place for that so that's the problem that you're here so let's just set the record straight when it came
011to communications by email as far as that agreement if you're asking to take a look at it prior to the vote i see no problem doing that so when we get to that we can table that particular agreement uh would you like to do that up front you could take it now yeah sure i don't mind putting that out so i'm like a motion to table that particularly with the school nursing services can i get a motion yes yes this is yesterday yes mr well it seems as though he needs to talk to you about it so i will provide you with agreement i guess your negotiations committee negotiation committee sit down and discuss it okay so and so we're not going to handle it tonight at the meeting um i don't have a copy
012here with me do we what is your concern well it's it's because this has been in place no it hasn't been in place that's this is the part the problem with it they have been using it but they've our board you guys have not approved it so they went through the year and the reason why it got to me as i received a phone call uh my member was asking if uh we had an agreement for the nurses to be shared with satan broke and i said no there is no agreement ultimately one of our nurses was written up because they didn't know of this agreement so this was a secret agreement between the supers i i talked to the southbound brook and they they even said uh that their board did not approve it
013there was a signed agreement with no dates on it so i asked when it was dated no answer my our lawyer asked your lawyer when it was dated there was no answer i asked to discuss the secret agreement and i was declined so there's a few aspects that i would like to be able to protect my nurses if if and when they go to southbound bro that's so question she was written up was she written up because why because she refused to go to school we can't discuss it okay sorry all right but let's just be clear as far as three years ago as far as a shared service we had shared service where we had specific people doing specific duties uh what happened was that southbound got in touch with the district to say
014that because they were having difficulties because they weren't able to get any substitute nurses so she had reached out to dr gallagher for a professional currency to say hey we don't have someone hear me about medicine would it be okay that when that happens that would send one of your nurses over so it's not quite the same level see you know sharing that the other counselors that was a definite set number of times and services this was a professional um this was a professional courtesy to a school district that we share that even not having anything in mind it was absolutely nothing with the writing and then that school district called us and said listen can't get a nurse today kids need medicine you know we have an emergency situation could you please send someone
015over for an hour an hour to make sure that the health and well-being of the children that showed up at our school today is taken care of [Music] for their health and well-being so that's the first the second thing is if someone got written up because they were told that they did not need to go that's not almost that's unknown but whoever told them not to go i've known people that i've worked with what should i do i don't know if that's covered by a contract and my union member advised me that they could not under any circumstances tell me to do anything but what my principal asked me to do and then they said that our resources that the contract does not adhere to so on the day that you're talking about even if
016there wasn't whatever you call this secret agreement as far as i'm concerned there didn't need to be anything like other than there are children that need medicine we don't have a nurse we're in the middle of a pandemic could you please send someone so that these children together but as far as what happened whenever it happened that's my feeling about the whole subject michelle if that's the case do i need to talk to all the county superintendents back in the agreement for crisis counseling when issues a rising account in the county such as a suicide or anything like that where a school district sends out an sos or um listen because if this is so if this is going to be an issue of us being able to do a common courtesy to another district
017without helping kids i need to know that because then i have to work the summer with all the county superintendents to come up with something for crisis currently when the kid stepped in front of the train over at mandel and mandel needed extra counselors for brief protocols to deal with kids in crisis we set their counselors correct we do that around the county all the time it happens year and year out so am i going to have to have a great service agreement for that too as well because i do i got to talk to all of the superintendents in the county to come up with with a template that we're all going to sign for or get the executive county superintendent involved in that because this is a common practice that we've done for
018the 17 years i've been here right and like i said regardless of whether there was anything right in that particular day or any day where we were nurses needed to give out medication for children who showed up at school that day and parents said that was still in that home [Music] is [Music] as well there have been instances when the nurse is away or something like that that we try to get a substitute nurse but even a substitute nurse the organization we use for substitutes sometimes won't even give us a substitute nurse because how small our school is and we won't pay the substituters as much as another school district so we're on the low bottom total goal in that essence as well and with their shared service degree but we actually have boundary students
019there that are in a special ed classroom that we are learning as well so if the nurse wasn't there we're actually affecting brown brook students as well not all myself right so i think that back in october when this first came to white it was not as an official service because it's not hey we have we're going to send this number of nurses this number of days to cover your thing we're going to share that cause this is a hey i'm calling you today because we don't have a nurse to give out medicine can you please send someone that's what happened and then you have another simple time regardless of what's on a piece of paper well the other fact is right now we're still down here [Music] we're going to be sharing nurses inside
020our own district well that's what would happen if you sent the nurse to southbound brooke anyway so if you said one away when it happened it wasn't just for an hour but uh for the record when the child study team when dr gallagher wanted to do that he reached out to me and told me about it and we had a discussion about it and he let me know about it that's what happened the difference between what you're discussing which is a true sharing you know that there are a certain number of people that are going to serve a certain number of hours here and a certain number of hours there this would [Applause] [Music] how and make sure that the children that showed up at school that day are taken care of he was told
021that no we should still put it before the board and which is what we were doing tonight all right thank you uh but for the record like i was saying with the other shared service i was made aware of it in advance if this was something that you guys came to in october the least you could have done is shared that with the nurses so it wasn't a surprise in june if there's no reason why they should be surprised to say hey we need someone in southbound brook can you go over there it shouldn't be a surprising job because they went over in november and they were told in october not not those not all the nurses knew about this this the nurses did not know about this did not know about this and i'll
022create it tony did you have a meeting and i've talked with the nurses about substitute nurses yes no that did not happen oh according to this meeting it did not happen okay it was a surprise in june for the ones that were being asked so it was a surprise to me i did not know about it it already happened three times it's a different different nurses different nurses were asked in june so it might might have been that's not correct either okay all right well thank you for uh tabling at night and we'll communicate one set up to uh talk about it well there's a few aspects that i would like to see in it to protect our members just like i had that opportunity to for input with this child study team do you
023want to just send do you want to send him a copy of that okay and it will happen we'll just commit time frame on this is starting september 1st we've got one meeting now between now and september 1st next two weeks we're gonna have to do it in the next two weeks as well to get it on the 23rd person you need to give me guys right i you know we're going down the street we're going to have to cover all aspects of that street all right to reach out to the camera let them know absolutely here first one is from denise hugo 516 health and street found brook 6.3 6.4 and i've been following school board meetings here's a contingency increased number of replications in the district past teachers who have left share there
024shared that there has been no exit interview process no questions why they're leaving this is brought to the board's attention we have five more reservations have or will any of these directions agenda items be provided in the exit interview uh the answer is everybody has if so who in the district consumer office is revealing he's responsible today uh michelle conover uh she did not give her address resignations it is ashamed to see so many more resignations especially steven young in the few years i worked with her she was an amazing literacy leader she was intelligent and so many great things moved backwards forward this was a huge loss we'll see we will also see several young teachers leaving this board should not be happy or should not be complete so many teachers leaving teachers and
025staff leaving after the year and get to the bottom of this and again the exit interviews are right there um burke polycastra 403 lamont avenue this is for open up sorry should put it in the wrong spot so i will please do that um i will bring that question back up that yeah okay we're good okay all right at this point we need to get a motion for approval of the minutes from 719. oh sure yes this is 14 inches wait a second i'm sorry um i just where are you mr chinos because i know you had sent i answered questions oh you did okay because i wasn't sure because i didn't see it yes okay but you're you're okay okay all right sorry keep going yes mister mr thomas ellis yes mr battle air
026yes mr fazio yes yes 6.1 resolve that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under district in high school 6.2 to 6.15 can i get a motion mr thomas ellie any comments or questions hearing none can i get a role for you mr bell yes mrs martinez miss morris yes mr simano yes tom seller yes this is vatalaire yes mr januzzi yes mrs defazio yes 7.1 resolved the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary school 7.2 to 7.10 can i get a motion motion second mr thomas elliott mr battalia any questions comments hearing none can i get a roll call mr bell yes miss martinez yes miss morris yes mr [Music] board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions
027under district and high school 8.2 to 8.12 can i get a motion mr thomas second second mrs any questions or comments uh question let's see that we've got the manual and everything on there have we adjusted the manual to the new laws on uh marijuana yes okay does marijuana fall under the hundred feet smoking within uh actually there's not really that many changes for a school district in that new law okay no yeah not supposed to be on school where else at any point in time if they if somebody happens to be on medical marijuana for them to receive it their parents must come inside and out take them home to give it to us all right cool thank you you know other questions can i get a little quote mr bail yes miss martinez
028yes miss morris yes mr simone yes mr thomas elliot yes mr vandalia yes mr januzzi yes as outlined in education resolutions under middle and elementary schools 9.2 to 9.5 can i get a motion motion or comments hearing none can i get a phone call mr bale yes miss martinez miss morris yes mr simone yes mr tom seller yes mr valerie is abstaining uh mr januzzi yes and mr fatigue yes ten point one resolve the member board of education approves the first reading of the following new or revised policies and regulations as required by the new jersey state department of education can i get a motion mr thomaselli a second second um i do have a question are we having a policy meeting between now and then to kind of go over like we did the
029last time like any of the um yeah all right i know everything if i zoom the last time right i accepted i sent it out to everybody um expecting some comment or ask for a meeting so we can have a meeting between now and 23rd absolutely yeah because i you know that if there's just a lot that's you know i just want to know what are uh our changes and what are changes from the state and so on and so forth um easy enough okay hearing no other questions or comments can i get a roll call mr bale yes miss martinez yes miss morris yes mr someone mr thomas ella yes mr vandalia yes this is yes and mr yes 11.1 resolve the boundary board of education proves the resolutions is outlined in special services
030resolutions 11.2 and 11.3 can i get a motion mr bow and mr thomas ii any questions or comments mr bale yes miss martinez yes it's morris yes that's for someone yes mr thomas ella yes this is yes mr genusey yes mr fawzi yes 12.1 approval of finance resolutions resolve the boundary board of education approves the resolutions is outlined in financial resolutions 12.2 to point one four can i get motion motion second just about twelve point eight so hold that second first yeah and then we'll then we'll go to table second okay now because we've all ready it is not there it's not considered part of that the other day with my husband and they always ask do you want to donate five dollars for you know poor school districts and stuff like that and he
031turned to me and he said he said put some people in stables i'm a teacher why don't you just take five dollars off my dad and so we laugh and i am embarrassed by him every time he does that and he said i've never i've never seen anyone do you get any donations from staples so i will tell i told mr you know mr defazio that in fact tonight we are receiving a donation from staples so thank you staples for giving us the donation that my husband refuses to participate in not only that we actually received a very large truckload of donations for art supplies which we are now doing because there's so many people we're actually donating some to south africa so i don't want that to be a secret or anything like that
032now um i just thought it was funny because my husband keeps talking about this staples donation now i can tell what's real so question for you yep on 12.9 what exactly is advanced bank background yes what are they what are they doing advice rbcc is really taking over what the votetech used to do with the shops right so really what blue tech has turned into is a magnet school for only high-end kids so they don't do any shops anymore over at vocational so what happened was there's such such a void there that rbcc started this so i think right now it's us manville north plainfield seem to be the three big groups or seven kids over to rbcc which in some ways is good because their kids are not only learning that skill that they
033used to learn at uh now they're learning an rfcc and also getting credit uh college credit while they're at it yeah yeah because if the way the free electives work is what will happen if they have this when they go to an actual credit college they have the credit they have the credits where they won't have to take the filler classes that are not part of your well and again i think i think the kids that are taking these classes are truly the kids who when they graduate look to go straight into the workforce so what's good about it is hopefully they can get an associate's degree before they go out and yes we can say that hey yes not only are they going out to the workforce but they do have an associate's degree
034in a college education along the way versus what we've had in the past where we just had kids going out to the workforce with no college experience whatsoever oh six six six college credits could save children thousands of dollars so with pat mason of w-4 promotions in somerset he donated about 5 000 worth of art supplies including uh paints craft kits glue sticks modeling clay um construction paper scissors etc awesome that's great any other questions or comments hearing none can i get a roll call mr bale yes mrs martinez yes miss morris yes mr samantha thomas ellie yes mr battalion yes with an extension from check two three nine and check three eight one six nine mr januzzi yes and mr fazio yes does anyone on the board have anything they would like to bring
035forward um i'm just going to let everybody know um we've made that decision on the superintendent search that we're going with option b so a b c d we're going with option b that is the 12 500 option things like that so kind of start backwards and come forward all right is that one that's going to be reaching out yeah when will be the search consultant um great any other questions or concerns well i just hopefully one thing when they're searching that bridgewater just got a new superintendent and they took manuals so yeah so i i just want to make people aware of that so you know manville was the same size of us and well when the governor put in the caps for superintendents based on the size of school districts it really hampered
036school districts uh our size of competing oh yeah because we can't we can't we can't pay them the same he's exactly there for four of his five years contract so it's safe to assume that we're competing for a superintendent at the same time manual is competing for the superintendent uh i believe i believe mantle um promoted their assistant superintendent superintendent okay but i can tell you my conversation with when it's going to be a tougher course okay okay at this point open to the public for anything should we take that answer all right so we'll start with the online ones and then if anyone in person has something to ask um castro um what strives to be taken in the search for superintendent what the list of criteria credentials the board is assembling for this
037position as the bob boe made uh defended decision regarding a community stakeholder group and vetting of the new superintendent candidates again you guys have opted for school boards to do that on your behalf yes and i know in the description just to let people know part of that description there were different levels and the level uh that we had chosen absolutely uh has them in charge of trying to reach out community outreach to both uh faculty staff and community uh to be part of the stakeholders and choosing the next superintendent and so now that he has a direction dr galbraith has a direction in which we want to go uh we will have more information once school boards reach out to us next one is from lauren castellanos 138 west high school i have a
038question about quarantine process for children who tested positive recovery why does why does a child has to lose out on five days of school because of quarantine if the child gets coded on day three of school then then again say again 90 days thereafter and then another 90 after that they automatically lose 15 days of school on top of other miscellaneous absences i realized a chance of getting kid getting over three times is slim but i find still find it absurd that the child has to lose that many days of education why can't we have teachers live stream google classrooms with their comment being turned off uh then don't need uh to address the virtual kids as i understand that that has been a focus on in-person students we have the technology in place to
039use classrooms so anyone who's home can still learn with their class they can email their teacher with questions and teachers can answer when time permits um again i think all these guidelines and things like that come directly from the state of new jersey we have to follow those and one of the things is no virtual education so again our direction is coming from the state and uh we must follow that um do you want to add anything on timelines i mean timeline time like we have no choice right the county yes our school position so as things get updated we'll keep updated and those students after they miss five days get home instruction yeah and like if we're doing hypotheticals i would add what what are we doing about teachers let's say who unfortunately checked
040over through school i know that's kind of it again at this moment they're on their own board because right now the teachers have had the opportunity and the availability to be vaccinated like we know that it was another it's another it's another list of hypotheticals yeah like a huge thing again rather not deal with hypotheticals become overwhelmed um that's a great question um again we this this is definitely a new era for us we've never had uh you know large amounts of kids on home instruction um i could foresee large amounts of kids at home construction um at that point in time really the way we do home instruction we put it out to everybody from that particular building where the kid kid goes to school so at that point in time i think you
041know we can use various teachers to do reconstruction could spread it out to some degree um however though again if you have 30 times more construction one building that's you know and that's basically a class um that's that's that's a tough one and i agree with you it's something we haven't had to deal with um until the situation arises i'm not exactly sure how you know how we would handle that do we have any indication of of any parents at this point contacting you uh saying that they're that they're going to definitely request home instruction because they're refusing to send them they can't request the construction okay you can't request them it has to be for a medical reason you can't so there all right so what you're talking about is that as far as
042uh having to have people in school do that that's only if kids came to school and then they were forced to to be sent home for whatever reason for quarantining after that that's what you're talking about dr gallagher yeah then it just comes down to how many teachers volunteering to take the teachers who do it i can tell you they love the extra money i mean some teach them for this year are going to be making a lot of summer money on home instructions discussion about that today karen and i and we really do need to get some more more clarification because of all the guidance that we're getting right now like you know vaccinated people weren't supposed to have to wear masks right now everybody's wearing a mask now they're saying that vaccinated people
043may get the delta about there or another variant that may be coming about so again i i don't have an answer for you because it's a fluid situation constantly i just think that you know once again we're in uncharted borders i think we need to handle it on a case like these basis and do the best we can what we do know is we're prepared we're more prepared than any other school districts we had to go remotely um i think that we do have other options for us should we have a number of kids that have to go out on home destruction um more importantly though i think if our bigger problem is if we do have a run on teachers who are absent because of covet that is going to create a much different
044situation a much different dynamic that we would have to resolve yeah because i'm sure substances sure are going to be substance which last year were almost impossible and to be honest with you because remote construction for so long we didn't even really touch our substitute budget that's good put that towards our influx of rules did not give her address thank you for the board vip of overriding the denial i received from administration and ensuring that i was able to access my email documents i was prematurely locked out of my account uh access to district technology and professionals consideration is noted and appreciated okay so brook polycastro 403 in montana as a war as the president of the voa shouldn't defazio be meeting the meeting and reading the public inquiries um no that is me okay
045uh burke polycastro 403 considering the superintendent answers to the boe and ultimately the boe has to vote on new super is it is it ethical to have our current superintendent have any dealings with contact connecting uh considering how his own replacement was spelled out unfortunately um gwen thornton who is our rep and us letting them know you can put out uh the nj sba put a flyer out and he sent that to us and asked us which type of search were we looking to pay for and get involved with we gave him our feedback and he is basically just taking our feedback and uh connecting that with you know school boards after that and actually [Music] right is castro 403 in the mountain avenue is there a teacher list of classroom needs at this point
046um not to my knowledge i don't think our people really need much of anything we've got so many donations in of so many different things i can't imagine that there's i mean every child this year is going to need their own bicycle index they're going to need their own everything yeah staples made sure that everybody has kleenex and hands that's awesome you got plenty so um and that is it for online is there anyone in person that would like to make a comment josephine is it on yeah josephine latey 121 cherry app um some of my questions have already been answered through the online process and you guys discussing so i'm gonna try to um wrap it up um first another six resignations in our district i'd like to say thank you to ms paneralli
047and miss yagish they were both my child's teachers and they are phenomenal it really makes me sad and terribly just and i think it's terribly terribly disappointing to see another set of excellent professionals leave um and here we are again talking about the same issue over and over again um until when and why uh i genuinely genuinely would like to know um i don't even want a response from you guys because i know you're not gonna give me one um but it's still very sad at the june 6 board meeting i asked if the community could be involved in the search for the new superintendent to which there was an overall agreement that yes that could be possible i know you spoke about this a little while ago um i was wondering if we can
048set up a date for discussions um once once uh miss thornton who's uh the representative from the new jersey school boards association gets in touch with me okay she will outline what that process will look like and how best to involve the community and at that point we will let you know will you let us know through a board meeting or i would assume that would be more than just a board meeting i'm sure there would be more going on because there are a lot of parents that wouldn't they may want to be involved that necessarily either support them right okay um what's the time frame usually for that process um you guys were talking about a little while ago you're saying it didn't actually start yet right because the contact was made and then
049only once you reverse september we're going to hit the ground running in september but like i said once she once he now knows which uh which level of involvement would want the but the process itself is it a lengthy one or yes it's three to six months okay yeah we're not going to turn around in the second week of september say hey we have new superintendent it doesn't work yeah we wouldn't want to rush it right no i mean once we have the candidates that we're interested in process okay make sure it's important as far as the package that we need for their involvement in includes outreach to community outreach faculty and staff and having some you know buy-in from more than just the board so that obviously will take some time okay regarding the
050nurses situation that was touched on uh in the beginning i'm not sure if i can still talk about this as long as you don't name names or anything okay no i'm not going to celebrate um are other soft staff members trained for application of epipens or nebulizers um if there if there's a an emergency with a child in a building where the child needs to go to a hospital like a serious case um what's the procedure if a nurse isn't in that building we have we have a number of people who are a first aid cpr certified and builders we have a complete list of those we have a complete list of everybody who's trained to use an epipen in each building as well as a number of other things the laws have constantly keep
051changing for training for teachers especially on the medical front um i think it's become quite frankly very difficult for teachers in terms of the amount of training they have to do just on medical prevention and medical issues um but yes we do have emergency panic buttons in every classroom once that is pressed we have a responsibility about a minute now um do you need like some type of uh written consent from a parent since it's not a nurse that's uh that would mean we're identified by the like i'm one of the builders right so so you won't because i have i i know i have a friend that her child is allergic to peanuts and she mentions that you have to have like you have to give like a consent you know any means that
052where the child needs to have a give a consent um to use it consent you mean for the school yeah will they send you yeah if it's not a nurse in this case it wouldn't be a nurse because it wouldn't be there the nurse wouldn't be there right but it would be a delegate who would be on the list of people okay they would be aware of okay i can tell you from having severe food allergies that if i'm an anaphylactic shock i need someone to give me the upper pen and i don't care if it's a nurse or a certified person but my lips are turning blue and i can't breathe i need the evidence right but there have been lawsuits um in the sense of that person not giving the okay to i
053mean just generalizing here but you know obviously i have kids in the school and if something happens i want to know that there are other people there that know what they're doing right yes yeah all right you know it's been a while since i've been a building principal so i can't tell you that about those things okay uh now regarding back to school in september we all know the governor has said there will be no virtual option i know this also has been um you guys talked about this but what's the plan uh for the kids that contract covenant and cannot go to school must then that must be quarantined i know you spoke about this but i want to be a little bit more specific in the sense of let's say i have some
054type of family emergency right and i need to leave the state and leave the country for a certain amount of time how does that work with my child be in school because it's an emergency you would have to follow the guidelines from the cdc i don't specifically know what they are but miss uh where are we on that now no i mean now i mean regarding the schoolwork i'm saying like my child is not going to be in school for two weeks right there's no virtual option um [Music] that's a big ask of teachers [Music] i think all teachers work with you to make up the most important things and figure out what you can do but i mean that's a case by case so experience the rule is usually one for us so for
055every day you're out you get the data right like i'll tell as a teacher i'll tell my students you know while you're out they know where i post my homework online like you can still go on that website every day and see what we you know what's going on i'm not going to hand you so you know but right well i don't know how it is with elementary i don't know if you teach elementary or not school so i don't know if they're still going to be like posting like last year right no i mean what because i know the middle of high school post their homework and stuff like that is that something that the elementary and you know we kind of talked about um [Music] all right i know someone already a question
056was asked about the camera in the classroom being turned on to see you know if the child can assist um and then if murphy goes back to leaving it up to the district will be will it be left up to each teacher staff to decide if they want to wear a mask now that the majority is vaccinated and what about the kids um that the dogs are our school box school dogs also there was a survey we did and the survey i think it was like over six percent of parents said they felt more comfortable if the vaccinated people were able to not wear a mask yeah so what if there's a religious exemption well then they would have to wear a mask we can't force anyone to vaccinate right so what's it what's going
057to happen when it comes to kids insurance and when it comes to turn the time of kids getting vaccinated and the kid a child has a religious exemption for every other vaccine that's a little crazy it's a little bit of a segregation going on there yeah that's what the cdc and that's what the state is doing so if they say we're gonna hang around with mass for five years nothing is going to change our school system is not going to try to figure something else out work with the parents it's eight hours i'm just worried because it's eight hours of school with mess are there still going to be mass breaks yeah they really weren't mass graves last year i can't speak i mean it all depends i know my my boys have masquerades but
058they're you know right yeah pre-k okay they definitely did so i guess maybe it depends on school teacher yeah i don't know but there's not there's not a lot it's still eight hours so you know i'm concerned because uh now in the summer a lot of kids went to um summer school i'm not sure how it was here but in other districts summer schools kids didn't wear masks um the camps they didn't wear masks and they're we're talking about a lot of kids so we all feel like that yeah i think we all agree i don't know i'm just saying like is there anything like us as like you guys as a board you know kind of representing the school and parents and community if you can say anything do you have a site though
059that i don't think i don't know that was addressed by the governor it may have been and i missed it he's saying everybody's very mess but initially there was there was some caveats of outdoors like recess and jim is that are we still good to go outside in any outdoor activity yeah okay and with all the schools we're sure we have enough space for kids to have lunch from us with the three feet heart um in our lower levels they're gonna have plexiglas shield so they'll be separated by plexiglas shield so we don't need to worry about the actual three feet of distance because they have a barrier um at the high school level unfortunately we don't have that luxury so the kids will be eating together and that's part of what the government said
060is to the best extent possible and unfortunately at the high school we just don't have enough space especially 680 kids so so we'll sit without mass and eat all together see that's where right i think is wrong because if there's uh like my suggestion is that you need to write um [Applause] you can you can do this but you can really do it that's why i was asking if the board could until the emergency order is over right yeah i don't think there is an emergency all right thank you can tell you you don't have a big enough hatred 261 freshmen yeah now i will tell you hey how many repeaters and then the rest started wait 150 40 so that's 100 that's 200 right there's 200 right there so you have six basically wait
06145 i was going to ask about choice too i mean that's 260 that's double what megan and heather both graduated with and that was three or four years before um would that have any impact at all those 28 words [Music] all right does anyone else have anything you'd like to comment patricia no come on don't let us down every week all right so we discovered at some point all right at this point um what numbers three [Applause] litigation or contract negotiations privilege specific perspective or current employees all right you're on your dude you're good to go 17.1 was on the valley board of education the approval of the resolutions yes it's martina yes miss morris yes mr samantha yes mr [Music] one of those hiv was high school okay never mind [Music]