001it doesn't really display that great nah i'll i'll put it i'll put it on him when he's explaining it but to put it up there it just see it out here congratulations [Music] um district governing board i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice thank you yes yes thank you okay first of all is there anyone online call the public do you have a couple calls to the public if you would can you come up to the microphone here speak very clearly do your name and address please if you would you've got a couple minutes per person okay paul come on thanks for coming a couple minutes hi my name is paul thank you 683 north
002nestle hummingbird lane um first i want to thank principal cuevas for her reassurances last week that parents will be included in all discussions involving our children however i find it quite alarming that some members of this board think that parents who don't agree with the boards and people don't have the right to know what their children are discussing with the school staff i understand that things are different than when i was a kid a lot of things have changed to benefit society but some are downright ridiculous i heard it suggested last week by this board that a child dealing with divorce of their parents is no different than an elementary school student being taught that they can choose their own gender this is asinite and a complete abandonment of science and logic make no mistake
003these are controversial topics whether you agree or not my child however will always be taught to treat every person with dignity and respect regardless of their values or beliefs my job is not to protect my child from someone who's gay or trans my job is to protect them from people like you who don't believe that my values are valid when it comes to my child my values and my beliefs are far more important than yours or anyone else's in today's culture i understand why a political activist on a school board might think their opinions supersede the law but it does not arizona revised statute title 15 section 102 is clear my permission is required to enroll my student in a sex education class it also states that the top if the topic of sexuality is
004being discussed in any other class or presented to my child by anyone i must be notified in advance and be given the opportunity to opt my child out so let me be clear regardless of what anyone on this board has to say you are required to gain my permission before teaching my child anything regarding sexuality and you do not have the right to withhold any information from you regarding my child thank you thank you very much [Applause] okay thomas president thank you good afternoon i'm thomas berezni 1062 east lumberjack trail madeira highlands last monday's board meeting was the first board meeting i attended here and i just want to say right at the top that after researching the board what the policies are the policies of the administration of the whole district's policies and the
005way they go about instructing our children i am greatly heartened by that it's fantastic looking through the policies that the school board has the involvement that you have with the parents and the gentleman's comments just now so mr ulring and mrs case bringing up the parental involvement in their child's education was spot on i would encourage any parents that are in here or online to ensure that you go on the district's website you look at title 1 601 and 602 of the arizona revised statutes that gives you your rights as a parent and i'm not speaking as a parent with a child in the school district i'm teaching talking as a grandparent with one grandson that's finishing fourth grade and a granddaughter that will be starting kindergarten in the fall so those parental rights are
006are spot on the arizona department of education's handbook of parental rights is posted or a link is posted on the school district's board the entire policy for this district is posted down there i encourage everyone to read it and to be well informed on how you want your children to be educated i just wanted to point out a couple of other other items on this during the principles report this plavis did i pronounce that right on your structured integration action plan looked like it was well written but those fish bone diagrams brought back some fond memories both in project management and as a as a retired soldier an army civil servant we used a modified fish bone in admission uh planning and stuff like that and hadn't seen one in about five or six years
007and it was great seeing one of them again final point sir final point is mr lincoln thank you for inviting me to be on the copen mitigation plan task force appreciate it thank you for joining me thank you sir appreciate it okay we move on to our agenda here no further public public okay unfinished business we have our legislative committee consideration for the uh 2022 political agenda now everyone i believe has 21 priority issues here correct so this is not for correct if i'm wrong we will designate our [Music] so we have to come up with our top five priorities and they may or may not align with the priorities given here we can adjust how we see bid and we will put a rationale with each priority and we will assign the person to
008represent us at that meeting so i will just for the benefit of the folks out here in the audience the priority issues that asthma has for 2021 one is to adequate adequately equitably equitably fund district schools to at least the national median for people's funding one is to preserve and strengthen local control improve outcomes for our students require public accountability for taxpayer dollars spent on education and manage the impact of the token schools so um well i guess we could start at the end of this album do you have some comments and we'll compile our list um i think these are all great issues to prioritize i'd like to know more about what they mean by required public accountability for taxpayers spent on education what accountability do they want to give well i think i
009think part of this process is that we can give what we wanted to say so we have to give a specific definition of what you want that to entail and you can put that in the russian office okay just a few um and i really only have one thing that i think would be one of the top things on the priority list and that is to simplify state school funding formulas i think they are the most complicated unable to understand for school board members much less the public at large to understand how the waiting student waitings work somehow i believe the legislature needs to attack this and simplify significantly the school funding how schools are funded most of my other comments have things to do that i'd like to see removed from this list first
010of all on india adequately and equitably funding school districts to at least the national median per pupil funding i don't even know what that national median is and i'd love to have somebody tell me what that is and where we rank uh against the the national media and i realize that that includes downtown new york city schools as much as it does uh things out in the hinterlands of arizona but i would very much like to know where we stand in relationship to the national median per pupil funding and i think that if the asba is going to have influence at the legislative level they need to get specific when they say maximize state funding or nationally and locally competitive salaries to attract recruit and retain talented teachers so on and so forth what does
011that mean does that mean 2 billion 3 billion 1 billion what is asba recommending that the legislature do if the legislature got specific on some of these things i do believe that we would maybe not eliminate but largely reduce the need for things like 301 and 208 the one that was just passed last last november um another one in the improve outcome support policy that recognizes respects and promotes teaching as a profession well i think we need to do that but what does that mean what what do we what do we want to promote what do we want to support what policies do we need to invoke that actually do those things and i think it's just it's just very very mushy language the ones that i would like to see removed i would get
012in the coven area and i don't know what this is going to look like for next year but i would like you to remove all reference to moratoriums on school letter grades for standardized testing those need to be reinstituted and i guess uh lastly under the state standardized testing under improved outcomes if the current document says state standardized testing shall not be used for any purpose other than year-over-year measurement of student growth in the tested subject i i would like to see that removed and i would like to see state standardized testing also be a metric for teacher performance paid and that's my comments so mr allery yes the state of virginia ranks 25th and their funding for pupil is 13 169 state of arizona ranks 49th and their funding per pupil is nine thousand
013six hundred and forty five so curiosity what's the top the state of new york where where's uh where do you find that i just did a google search on education spent in my state um state of new york is twenty eight thousand two hundred and twenty eight dollars per day but also remember they have a really high property tax which is how they afford to pay education i wonder if anybody could relate those spending statistics with how the students are doing graduation rates and graduation rate uh meeting grade level requirements in math and english it would really be interesting to see those statistics and how much they're related to spending my student term no i would just you know simplify i was looking at this list and i think the entire subject on poker 19
014managed the impact of code 19. i wouldn't say well i'd like to think in a perfect world that we're done at least for the most part and i think that that i don't i'm not sure it should be a top five priority for the coming year i think we can certainly we have to make sure that we actually take care of those issues there are so many other issues i think that are that are substantially more important my personal opinion when i looked at this list the first thing that came to mind was reserve and strength and local control what i mean by that is i think if you look back over the last year what made this and that's this is this is specific to continental in my opinion what made this district work
015and what got the kids back into the classroom here was hard work here if we had listened to all of the other powers of being i think just i think we'd have most of our kids still in front of a computer screen and we probably wouldn't be back in the classroom so in my opinion that should be that's critical and i don't care what your political affiliation is i think that especially in continental situation you're always going to have better control and wiser use of limited funding and better collective ideas on curriculum and things like that locally right here with the parents teachers here administration here so i felt that my opinion i thought it would be certainly another one about the funding of course i i want i certainly want more funding if we
016can do it for districts but i also think that there's it's one thing just to throw money at the problem but if you don't have accountability and some uh it's um it's very easy to waste money that way too you have to make sure that you're you're properly using it and you're getting some substantial gain from that particular investment and obviously we're investing in our kids i get it but it's very i think you see this maybe a little bit more in the larger districts but you have to be smart with that and so i understand that's sort of a great area because yes you want you want adequate funding for your kids but you also have to do a job of making sure you spend your lives there so in my opinion i do
017like i do like to simplify the state funding for me that's a great one i'm sure that this gentleman right here will probably agree with that one so i have with that in mind no particular order i have simplified state funding formula to preserve and strengthen local control one more yeah sure absolutely i would like to see a reference in here and i don't know whether it would be included in the funding formulas or whatever i would like to see a way to fund gifted education in every single school district in marathon that's a good i you know we've had a discussion in the past too about you know if you're shooting for the average you'll hit it [Music] and it seems to me that i've said this at every board being there's no secret
018here that i think that when you have a statewide average that's it in any particular subject 40 to 60 i think that's apollo i think that's awesome and i think if that's success in my mind then that's um a lot better than that so uh that's that's a good one i think we can certainly put that in here as well i i want to second mr already's on removing of the more moratorium the letter grades relaxing teacher evaluation requirements online school has been around for a decade or more i mean we adapted really quickly and our kids deserve better than letting schools relax those standards so if i'm hearing you correctly actually both of you folks of you if you you would like to include the managing the impact of code 19 but remove those
019particular portions later i don't think that should be a top five um i do like the extra funding that we get for it you know you can't turn that down but um we i think we should go back to getting letter grades i think we should uh go back to evaluating our teachers um i think they've had enough time to adapt would you like to make that a priority within itself or do you want to keep that as a portion of the coca-19 i don't really i don't think that's particularly a priority by itself i think we're we're gonna be a great time this they're not going to be counting the edm to scores the school year the state is not so they will not be giving letter grades but the test was a lot
020shorter i mean the kids and i know it's not a problem here but you know a lot of kids can not be getting all of the help and resources that they need because the schools know those standards aren't evaluated that's not necessarily fair well so we have one we have two ways to go about doing this we can we can adjust the cochlear 19 portion and make those adjustments with that priorities and themselves because i i don't know how do you have any idea how long they intend you know to be diplomatic here i think it's a losing fight to get rid of the kogen 19 category all together this is kind of a consortium of all schools isn't it in arizona i i think that's a losing fight so then we can keep it
021in there and just make our own adjustments within it is that what you suggest i think that would be more successful or have a better chance of being successful so where would you place the copen 19 impact on our priority top five five you know just because in my mind it's sort of i don't think it should be a priority that i i think if we go in like that we're going to lose okay so i'm going to i'll have to rewrite the relaxation of teacher requirements okay anything that protects us yes but i mean just given in many cases the orientation of the usba it's going to be there i i just feel that there's no way that the asba is going to eliminate reference to copeland in their in their legislative priorities so
022i would be shocked there was one within the preserve the strength of local control that we've actually run into in the past and has maintained exclusive local authority over any measure that was proposed to consolidate school districts in the london district yes we've actually had that discussion in the past so i think that's pretty important and that's come up with the legislation i get asked more than once a year why aren't you guys a part of saudi arabia wouldn't it make sense okay so i have um a first is our first priority is that a fair statement to state that you're preserving strength is that i would love that to be number one yeah okay i think everything else would fall in place that was number one improve outcomes for all students but nevertheless we
023have that opportunity so let's take it okay so you know you're gonna need to you know improve outcome for all students i mean it's hard to argue with that i mean that's the area that i would include the piece i'm gifted um and you know i i find it ironic a little bit that there's absolutely no in this whole improve outcome for all students there's hardly any reference to the adequacy and appropriateness of curriculum again like i said it's back to the preservative strength of local control the third bullet point in that section uh fully restored ninth grade cte and c10 eligibility c10 foreign i love that arizona supports that um so we have do you want to set the state funding formula within the adequately yeah so how about required public accountability what changes
024or whatever discussion do we need well i don't know if i necessarily want to break this up right now but i mean some of this well i am a strong advocate of school choice and i'll leave it at that and and there's a couple of bullet points in here that um that refer to not supporting uh any attack payments to either charter private or schools okay but that's just my opinion i think a couple of these are i don't know they have to be said establish financial and academic transparency for all institutions that accept public funds you would think that would be common sense i thought it was already required non-profit or anyone that receives public funds has to provide audits and the last one seek recovery of improperly received public funds of course it's
025by charter private schools that i if it ended there so they have a couple slots here for additional items for consideration that are not some thoughts on that i guess to make them i guess more useful if they were not they couldn't be tied into the issues i guess technically the state funding foreign yeah i guess that's a good point whether or not that if it's an additional consideration is that more likely to be something that's dropped i can't imagine anyone would argue with it though okay i think i've got a pretty good idea here uh i think i've got some significant rationale uh we do need to designate a person who would be willing to either call in or give us a call to be that person or um you do okay saturday september
02611th and if i guess if we're not available then we have no choice but to do it um yes at the september 11th meeting now move to a point steve austin is our delegate i second the second further okay our top five are preserve the strength of local control and we have um adequately and equitably funds district school districts the national median but we have some changes there three is increased outcomes for all students and we like them as part of that and then the goal is going to increase our gifts and funding enough to have line item gifted funding correct um fourth is fairly self-explanatory the part of public accountability uh fifth we have to manage effective coping 19 we have uh removing the relaxation of teacher litter grades and resume testing requirements and
027then we have a additional item of consideration for a to simplify the state funding formula whether or not that becomes part of one of the top three of the five i guess i'll entertain a motion to make those our priorities for the legislative consideration how would we make the close the priorities of the legislative consideration committee yes of the elementary school litigation plan you're up sir all right thank you everybody for coming thank you board um what we're presenting today is the mitigation plan and the coup and the revisited revisions that our task force has made over the last week has promised me done and changes made it and presented to you today and so so we didn't have to make too many changes as our mitigation plan already came with three phases so we
028simply our recommendation to the board at this point is that we look at moving to phase three to start first of all summer school we felt like that would be a good recommendation it would give us staff as well as students but as lesser numbers to pilot it and to see how that goes for us and so that would be our recommendation is what we go over in just a second that we look at doing that we also want to be very clear that this does not mean that we're recommending we do the entire school year on phase three the mitigation plan and the coup it is intended that they're used when there is a hazard and when they when we feel like we're ready to move phase three is the last part of the
029mitigation plan that it will be helping with the word we use i forget it not gotten rid of but it will be discontinued the use at that time okay and then if we feel we need to we can go back to that if things seem to worsen in the school or the conditions or in the community and that is also why we left you'll see uh phase one and phase two have also been left on here it's designed that way as we talked about at the board meeting um that it's a ladder and depending on where we're at and the safety of the risk so it is our recommendation of the the task force that we move to phase three for summer school and beginning of next year and then reevaluate as we go throughout
030the school year as when is the proper time to discontinue use of the mitigation plan at that time having said that we did make a few minor changes just because of the progress that our community has been making in our school as well as to phase three so we'll go through that is there are we still highlighted in green he took them all out okay so here we go so this this is our recommendation i'll tell you guys um we can go by it step by step if you wish or we can just kind of talk about what the major changes were changed okay so the the major things that we did decide to do um i knew you're the man thank you sir on page six um the district can supply face shields for
031staff members upon request before it stated that they had to staff members will be encouraged to wear face coverings with within six to three feet of other individuals before it was this says encouraged it gives the option look if you can go to page 12. for all grade levels number two give a second to catch up here number two it says field trips that can comply with the protocols that this document will be permitted at the discretion of the administration so that was the change so nothing major in there if you go down to number three it says school assemblies may be held in staggered groups to ensure that social distancing protocols can be maintained in less six feet a separation can be maintained between cohorts with all students in the same room so that
032mind that i just read that last line was the change that was occurring there number four is new students will be encouraged to wear face coverings when working in close quarters with other individuals so encouraged not required so that is a big change there where it's the student's choice at that point even in small groups and then we go to the next section on-site preschool instruction number two we added centers and seating areas may be occupied by small groups so before they were allowed to work in small groups meaning that in preschool even if they were playing with legos they had to be six feet space around themselves now there could be several kids playing in the same area with the toys on-site k5 instruction students will remain number one students will remain in their
033grade level throughout the school day cohorts may mix with other cohorts in the same grade level so this is a big change of how we've currently been operating um it's been you're with your class and that's it now we're allowing them to socialize with their friends that are in the same grade level so it's not going to be like the whole school line going up to a playground but they can be the three classes in each grade level that we have here at cup now we'll be able to play together so increasing letting them play with their friends a little bit more and have those interactions on-site 6-8 construction we just added the word students there to number one it has not been changed remember this is phase three this is how we wrote it
034originally okay so we can state that because i know that's a concern but number four face coverage will be optional unless otherwise mandated by state or local authorities um that was how we originally wrote the plan if we were to get to phase three so we didn't feel the need to change that because everyone on the task force felt that's the direction we wanted to go and that's the way it was originally written thank you for pointing that out now if we skip to um in annexes number four under procedures we have four local mandate we added there on the first down at the one of that that one and item number three students who live in the district will be offered transportation services if required by iep once again that's individualized education plan if
035we go to section b in that same area this entire section was added on-site services students may receive services on site students who will live in the district will be offered transportation if required by iep students will meet with service provider individually or small groups or in regular classes okay and that then there's one last one on the very back and this goes to our transportation which is in phase three transportation of students during light mitigation efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases passengers um if you wanna i think we made a change on here so i'm going to wait for her to hold that up it should be right there one more page phase three keep going right there passengers and staff will wear face coverings while riding school transportation and that's the
036last change and so as you will see mass has become optional uh throughout the school day except for this one exception we use the task force help because we already win against the cdc and pima county guidelines with having it wasn't feasible to transport kids to school following their guidelines it would have been 13 or less kids on a school bus that's designed to carry anywhere from 65 to i think we have one that goes to 81. um and so that wasn't feasible for us to double our fleet and so we went ahead and had these more stringent rules the entire time which we believe has led to our success of being able to operate and also because of the concern of our drivers our drivers have great concern as we've shared with you it's
037been nerve-racking for them to be able to drive in this type of an environmental close so we've decided at this point to start the school year that we are recommending that our drivers and our students continue to wear a face mask while um being transported on the uh on the small bus you you'll see in there we've also took a few things out um the temperature checks that we do in the morning and on the school boxes would be removed in both areas in phase three it's not that we removed it from phase stream just a reminder that this is was originally planned that way and if we got to phase three so some of those things that we're used to are we'll be going to the wayside because we feel like we've progressed to
038that point any questions yeah go ahead oh i just was going to ask if this included any of the extra custodial procedures that we're doing in school sanitation because we didn't get strep or pink eye we have one cold all year and that's great so there there's a lot of things that we've seen a lot of positive things we're not scrapping everything that i think there's things from our original mitigation plan that would just be a part of how continental school operates from now on when you talk about the cafeteria one of the things you'll notice is the kids can now sit where they want within a section so if i'm in fourth grade i can sit by any other fourth grader but not shoulder to shoulder like we used to do we've noticed by
039spreading it out a the behavior is better in the cafeteria they're eating better because they're not being distracted by their peer right next to them and so we are going to keep you know how we put the x's on the seat and every other one they'll be every other one but they're going to choose who that other person is but right now they have assigned seats that correlate with the classroom which really limits the socialization with their peers we want to bring that back but yet keep the things that we've learned and benefited from so there's lots of those examples the hepa filters we already have them we paid for them of course we're going to leave that plugged in it's not necessarily a part of the plan but it's just common sense we own
040them um it's not hurting us at all it's hard to say how much they're helping but you know it's an additional pep air filter which is actually a hepa filter compared to just our normal ventilation which we can't have hepa filters in so that's just a common sense thing that we'll leave in place um so yes we've learned a lot of things our sanitation we ended up hiring an additional custodian it was our intent to keep that additional position um in the works and to keep up we didn't have a custodian on campus during the school day until this year at continental school they all came in and left one two o'clock so it's been very nice to have that one custodian who cleans all buildings handles things of that we will keep those those
041types of practices up as you mentioned we're seeing not just us being able to keep coping at bay but a huge decrease in the flu um basically didn't have a flu season here at middle school this year um the cold pink eye those sorts of things due to those things so yes those will continue as part of our just normal operation and would i be correct in saying that masks are optional in every case except riding the bus yes sir that would be 100 accurate all right air conditioning i might add that it's optional there to appoint because you are required we are required as a district to provide transportation so if people don't like that aspect of our plan they have every option to bring their children to school as well our acs we
042do not have ac on every single bus but the ones with audi asus we talked about at last board meeting are shortest routes which are like 10 to 12 minutes long all right windows it's been a part of the plan that um this year all of the windows have been opened due during winter when it was 30 degrees outside the windows were open have every bus driver been vaccinated or have the freedom to be vaccinated they've had the option to be we can't discuss if they have or not understand but if they don't want to go get a vaccination they can get it right now correct yes and that was the drivers when all the teachers and staff were in the second phase all the bus drivers were allowed to be a part of that
043phase for our district and many of them took advantage of that okay i think the big thing if i may only run to school but i might have six inches of separation yeah you gotta talk to nobody come over here with me sorry you can't remove the masterpiece this is steven lane he's our transportation coordinator i think the biggest thing to understand is when the kids are in the classroom they can have that three to six foot space i may only have six inches of space on a school bus i have three routes right now that have 60 plus kids on the bus and their shoulder shoulders three to a seat so i don't have the space so my concern is on my route this morning that i'm covering i had three or four kids
044that started coughing and then you could hear the production of the production the productive cough that's going on and what's the first thing the kid's going to do is they pull the mask down and they're going to clear the throat this way right under the partner sitting on the seat so that's why i'm recommending that we leave the mast on the bus for the 12-13 minute ride to school once they get on campus and they can spread apart and take the mask off and we do have one very long route currently that we'll be going out to montana vista and those always have our newer buses with the best ac possible um syrian thought to speak in the mask on the bus given i don't know the administrations upon their evaluation which i'm thinking to
045give that without calling a special meeting that makes sense so you're asking next year if we feel like we're ready to remove the mask while being worn on the bus yeah can we do that so what we've done this year is we've made changes throughout without bringing the board together we present this to you we are allowed to make those changes as things change as things from cdc pima county as those mandates change we've been able to make those changes and that's where mrs rico sends out those emails notifying the board of the change and we immediately post those changes on our school website where you can find this entire document in its entirety on the website we make those changes as soon as we make them it's done the board is notified as well
046as um and some of them we haven't had a choice they've been like forced down to us per se um and so that's kind of if if choices are made changes are made sorry that those would be noted on the mitigation plan itself and immediately posted to our school website where it is housed and stephen today we had a call with pim county superintendents and pima county health department with dr garcia and dr coleman and everybody's in agreement and keeping their fingers and toes crossed that we do not have to even deal with this mass conversation for the fall um so a lot of the superintendents feel just like we are saying you know mass optional and hoping that we don't even need to have them in the fall so um everybody's just a lot
047of them for the big conversation today was graduations and high school graduations and trying to just stick to the four ticket limit for parents in the summer safe but for the most part everybody's in agreement with us and what we're saying because it is very difficult and from speaking for and behalf of the task force and the staff members there are some staff members and some students that will continue to wear masks and that's their choice and there's some people that are i'm kind of in that vote and i'm kind of done with the mass deal and we're ready to move on as well and i think that's what's great about continental is we're accepting and willing to let everybody make that choice and for themselves and by moving to phase three it allows us
048to do that to give people the actual choice to build something except for like i said in one area which is buses and that really is because of the safety concern and also not just the safety of the kids in those types of proximity but also um taking into consideration the feelings and beliefs of our current drivers that we have outside we also are short bus drivers so we really don't want to scare any away or have to get sick and that that's part of when we talked about that on the task force as well is most of our drivers are seasoned and experienced and so is a big concern to them and this we commend them every single day and we've been able to pull off an entire school year of them bringing our
049kids to and from school because of their willingness to trust us to trust the mitigation plan and that's why they agreed to come and drive this year because in the beginning of the year there was a lot of doubt there was a lot of concern and they've successfully been able to do that keeping safe and also seeing that the students are safe and so we feel like at this time that's the recommendation like i said at any time we can make the as an administration to stop that but right now currently where we're at with the data that we have right now today that's our recommendation for next week i'm very excited in middle school yes sir everyone's going to rotate like back in the old days so we are going to rotate like we
050did back in normal days okay we're still working out logistics there we're going to try instead of having all six seven of the days faders go up the hallway at one time which is the whole way trying to get creative and say you have three minutes to rotate which is about what the rotation is important but it's staggering so only sixth graders are in the hall at one time and seventh and eighth so that you're not putting three four grade levels and packing your balls if we do decide to do that we talked about one directional hallways so everyone has to go in one direction so you're not complicating we're still the conversation the the comfort conversation is still out there about lockers because lockers is very close proximity jamming in and so do we
051stick with the backpacks that we've had this year versus going to blockers those are something that doesn't have to be in the mitigation plan but it is on our radar and we as administration will continue to talk about that as well with our teachers um but yes they will rotate teachers will have their home room and by doing that we're also allowing to bring back this is really exciting uh because of dopamine we got rid of like orchestra and band and our enrichments because it was hard to teach that just with one group and so we did a teach and re-teach class for everybody we felt that was appropriate because of having missed a lot of fourth quarter but we're really excited to get back all of those specials be it spanish all of the
052the different things that we have math enrichment there's name them all but um we're excited to get back to that so that will be a part of it the kids are already filling up their choices this week and their schedules are already being created so that's one of the huge advantages of going back to the rotation thank you very much you're welcome thank you to the community for their time on making this uh um any further questions questions okay i'll entertain a motion to approve this plan uh point of clarification for you you're talking about starting summer school correct yes sir so the the committee would like to make the recommendation that we use it as a pilot period and then for those three weeks that we're at summer school we go ahead and start
053with the mitigation plan that we have submitted to you um and then that will prepare us as staff for starting the school year 2021-2022 how about some discussion i've i've still got an issue with mass morning on buses i think we have made the mass optional throughout the school i've got the pima county board of supervisors resolution here and if you read this mass coverings are recommended throughout the school recommend not mandated but recommended they're recommended in the community but they're not mandated so the only thing we're doing is mandating them on a school bus we've got incredibly five vaccination rates in in this area the cdc and every other health organization has said that children are least likely to contract or transmit the virus any school bus driver who's concerned about their own health
054against coped can go get a vaccination tomorrow and i feel this just adds a level of confusion to have one very section of our mitigation plan to require masks and nothing else does and i would move to amend this it's a mixed masks optional on school business okay nice further discussion just to thank you guys for putting that together and revising and fine-tuning yes motion passes thank you folks very much do you have any important information discussion i would just like to thank sasquatch nice job in keeping continental moving forward on this whole issue so thank you i'd like to thank you guys for coming it's nice to see people even pre-code we didn't get people so um thank you support yes i'll thank you again and um i think it's been an amazing success
055story that we've had this kind of this community this plan right here wherever it is whether you like all of it or not is what is the reason that continental's back in the classroom um that's why i think it's important that we we stick we stick with it we can amend it as we go and i'll be the first to admit that someday i hope it doesn't exist but maybe it's often a closet somewhere we don't have to use it but um this is the reason we've been back in school and it's more 90 percent of the other people so many thanks for everybody putting this together and taking the time to amend as needed and make it flexible as we move forward also just again want to say thank you and at our awards
056assembly on friday which is the first time we had parents on campus they were all very grateful happy thanked us for doing what we did also to allow their kids to be back in school so that was very reassuring because a lot of times you don't hear the thank yous and parents were very happy also friday i did receive a call from pimatani health saying that our school had reached her community so you know with the number of vaccinations that we have i think we're the first district to reach herd immunity but i know that people are still going to get their vaccines so that was that was good news yeah so thank you again thank you all for also chiming in with our task force and if you'd like to wish mr austerley a
057happy birthday yesterday happy birthday to you thank you