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YouTube / Tangipahoa Parish School System
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2025-05-07
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Tangipahoa Parish, LA
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4,485 words · about 25 min
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2026-07-02

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001Roll call. Miss Jenkins. Mr. Richards present. Mr. Toller here. Miss Abrams here. Mr. West Morland present. Mr. Duncan here. Mr. Anthony here. Mr. Moore here. Mr. Piaza here. Miss Dominguez present. All right. This time I'd ask you to please stand with us as I ask Mr. Duncan to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I 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. Thank you. You may be seated. Item 1 C is consider approval of the board minutes from April the 15th, 2025. So motion motion made by Mr. Piaza. Second. Seconded by Mr. Westerland. Any discussion? No questions. We'll call for a vote. Voting is open. Yes, Miss Cindy. Voting is closed. Motion

002passes unanimously. All right. Thank you. Next, we'll have awards and recognitions. And I just want to say this, we'll have four different categories here. We want to um we want to make sure everyone has their moment and make sure that we reward your hard work. Um we will take a quick break after item D for anybody that would like to take pictures. So maybe we can keep them moving around um to a minimum during the awards part, but I'll ask Mr. Jenko to please step up for item A. Hey, Miss Burn in the back, but I think she's she's in the back, Mr. To. She I won the election to read. We would rather have her, but we understand. I appreciate that. Uh good evening everyone. Uh we have a little uh minor change. We

003were going to, as the agenda says, we were going to award our AED schools. We had a little mixup with the awards tonight. Uh so in that place we'd like to recognize our superhero school nurses. Uh this is school nurse weeks and we have a group in the back. So if you raise your hand so we definitely can thank you for all you do each and every [Applause] day. Thank you is such small words for the impact you have each and every day for our students and for our communities. So thank you for all you do each and every day. So with that being said, I'd like to read a a proclamation that comes from the governor. It says, "Whereas students are the future, and by investing in them today, we are ensuring our world

004uh for tomorrow. And whereas families deserve to feel confident that their children will be cared for when they are at school. And whereas all students have a right to have their physical and mental health needs safely met while in the school setting. And whereas students today face more complex and life-threatening health problems requiring care in school. And whereas school nurses act as a liaison to the school community, families, and health care providers on behalf of children's health by promoting wellness and improving health outcomes for our nation's children. And whereas school nurses support the health and educational success of children and youth by providing access to care. And whereas school nurses understand the link between health and school success and are in a position to make a positive difference for every child every day. Whereas school

005nurses have served a critical role in improving public health and ensuring student success uh for more than 100 years now. Therefore, uh Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, do hereby proclaim May 6th through 12th, 2025 to be school nurses week in the state of Louisiana. So again, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for all you do each and every day. Thank you. All right. Item 2B, recognize the 2025 You be the chemist winners. Miss Huster. Good evening everyone to all the board members and faculty that are here and parents and students. I have the honor of working with science and STEM in our district and the UB the chemist challenge. This challenge has existed in our district since 2011 and it is one of the many rewarding parts of my job. The UB the Chemist Challenge is

006an academic contest. They have to earn it. That encourages students in grades 5 through 8 to explore chemistry concepts. Southeastern Louisiana University's Department of Chemistry and Physics is a great partner in planning this event each year. The UB the Chemist Challenge assist in identifying students who possess the potential to excel in STEM education. Our district has, listen to these numbers carefully, 500, excuse me, 5,527 students in grades 5 through 8. Of these 5,522 students, 320 students earned the right to be selected for the UB the Chemist Challenge at Southeastern. The the students took an exam at their school site to determine who would then compete in the quiz bowl at South Eastern. Each school had one team selected to compete in the quiz bowl, which was the top 80 students. Of the 80 students, 12

007students placed first, second, or third place. These 12 students receiving the awards tonight are in the top 210 of a percent of the 5,527 students. So that's a huge accomplishment. It is such an honor to recognize your child for this accomplishment. While looking forward to asking them to continue to excel in STEM and science education. Before I present the award tonight, I would like to take a moment to recognize any parents that are here with their children this afternoon. So, please raise your hand if you're a parent of one of the UD chemists. I would also like to recognize school personnel because they devoted countless hours to helping the students prepare and be ready and teach them the concepts that they need to know. That by the way, Miss Stilly had a hard time with

008some of the questions. So, if you are a school personnel that helped these students, will you please raise your hand to be recognized? [Applause] And finally, I do pick on her some, but our superintendent is great and she gives all the support that we need and she always comes to you be the chemist and she talks about how smart you guys are. So, I want to thank Miss Stilly and Mr. Jeno and Miss uh Dr. Facel and everyone else who helps out with the school board. And we even had a school board member present this year. And I encourage all of you to attend because Mr. Piaza, the questions were hard, weren't they? Uh I I think I maybe got one out of 35. So yes, they were pretty hard. So without further ado, we're

009going to recognize your children and Miss Stilly and Mr. Tolar are going to help us. So we're going to start with third place. So this year in third place was Ponchhatula Junior High School and would you please come forward, Adora Bella Barnes, Zelia Bellavia, Lean Sharp, and Kai Tolar. [Applause] That's okay. Okay. So, this is it. That was all for third. Third place. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. Okay, in second place this year is from Lucille Nissam Memorial School and they are Aaron Ferguson, [Applause] Jace Finn, Noah Hines, [Applause] and Gabriella Tassen. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and finally first place. And Kansas City couldn't pull it off and do the three repeat, right? There was a big talk about the Super Bowl. Well, Landon Middle, this is a three repeat. They have won the UB the

010Chemist Challenge. three times in a row. So that's awesome accomplishment. So in first place, Erilyn Kraton, [Applause] Becket Malazo, [Music] Nicholas Reyes, and Michael Ryan. [Applause] and you be the chemist challenge winners. Afterwards, meet me at the blue sign so we can take a big picture. Thank you. [Applause] Congratulations. Welld deserved. All right. Item C, recognize the 2025 LHSA all academic composite team. Mr. Ving Good evening everyone. I'm Mark Vining, coordinator of athletics for Tangel Paris School System. I have the privilege of recognizing an outstanding group of student athletes. These young adults are a tribute to their family, school, and Tangible Parish school system. They each reached the ultimate goal of a student athlete by maintaining a perfect 4.0 grade point average for eight semesters. This is the entire time they were in high school

011from the 9th to the 12th grade while participating in an LHSAA athletic program. As I call their names, I ask they come forward to receive their certificate and their family stand and be recognized, please. From Ponchula High School in cross country and track and field, Kaylee Arthur [Applause] Kayle's parents, do they stand? Diary. Thank you. Thank you. Next from Poncho High School for baseball, Sean Bankston [Applause] from Pontriville High School for softball. Sierra [Applause] Beth Hammond High School magnet for tennis. Mary Claire [Applause] Dykes Ponchill High School for softball. Alexis [Applause] Gungoria, Laura High School for volleyball and powerlifting. Melanie Garcia [Applause] Marquez, Ponula High School for football. Sean [Applause] Persinger, Jules Sumner High School for basketball and track. Mariah [Applause] Robertson, Laura High School for softball and volleyball. Paige Tassen, [Applause] Independence High School

012magnet for volleyball. Najay [Applause] Watson, Lora High School for softball, Michaela Watts. [Applause] I have one more person I need to recognize. The next young lady I will announce was not eligible for the LHSA all academic composite team due to the fact that she is graduating in just three years instead of the traditional four. A remarkable accomplishment in itself. Recognizing the exceptional nature of her academic journey, the school board and the superintendent felt it only fitting that we honor her for her outstanding achievements. For Ponto High School for tennis and volleyball, Grayson [Applause] Willoughby. Amazing. Thank you very much. [Applause] All right. Once again, congratulations. Item 2D, recognize the 2425 senior superlatives. Coach Bates, I'll call you up. Greetings everyone. Uh, Mr. Tola, Miss Stilly, and the board. Tonight, we'd like to recognize our senior

013superlatives. And these are the students who have scored a 27 or above on the ACT, which is a national accredited exam. And we're going to start with Hammond High Magnet School. As I call your name, please come and stay and take a picture with your school. Piper Adams. Chase [Applause] Carrie, Scott [Applause] Cochran, Mary Claire Dykes, Emily [Applause] Henderson, Elliot Lombardo, Gracie McGee, Olivia McGee, Charles [Applause] Mitchell, Riley Powell, Caleb Prime, [Applause] Riley Pritchard, Tammy Rodriguez, Elelliana Sole, Damontes, [Applause] Stemage, Preston Warren, [Applause] from. Intentwood High Magnet School. Kaden Moore. [Applause] You know [Applause] Next up is Lauran High School, Suri Billingsley, Maya Budro, Joshua Brooks, Dylan Howell, Paige Tassen. [Applause] from Ponchula High School. Cody El Naziat, Sean Bankston, Daniel Berseron, Jackson Beron, Kayen Borgusen, [Applause] Lauren Capavos, Sydney [Applause] Capavos, Kayen Cornet, Landon

014Castanza, [Applause] Peter [Applause] Cranford, Jesse Crosby, Jaden Desport, Catherine Diaz, Dylan Dowy, [Applause] Coy [Applause] Flanigan, Lily Foster, Corson Frasier, Christopher Hardy Jr., Sydney Madden, Dylan [Applause] Michelle, Addison [Applause] Milton, Maya Mulvi, Congratulations. Sarah [Applause] Phillips, Natalia Patuk, Sean [Applause] Pusiger, Luke Reo, Aaron Roan, Ezra Smmedley, and Grayson Willoughby. [Applause] the love. Come on. [Applause] Once again, I just want to congratulate everyone. Um, our school system has got a lot of great students and you represent those students tonight. So, um, hats off to you and we look forward to seeing a lot of you at graduations. So, with that being said, we're going to take a 10-minute break and let people take pictures and you're welcome to come back and join us for the rest of our meeting. Channel 17, proudly serving the Florida parishes.

015What all you got left? All right, let's call the meeting back to order. We'll pick up item 3A personnel committee from April 15th. We hear a motion to consider that to consider that committee report. Motion made by Mr. Anthony. Second. Second by Mr. Piaza. Any questions? Any public input? Hearing none. Call for a vote. Miss Indie. Voting is open. So the dining room table though that earth table the round one. No that one. Oh yeah tell you the only ones you can see down PZA. Oh yes. It's not It didn't come up on my screen. Yes, Miss I don't know why but it like kicked me out of the meeting and it won't let me. Uhhuh. No, really. It won't let me back in. Dennis. Yes. He won't even let me join it anymore. Voting

016is closed. Motion passes with Mr. Moore not being present. Okay. Out of 3B, personnel committee from May 6, 2025. Do I hear a motion? We have to wait. Um, yes. Wave the rules for what? Yeah, you have to wave the rules when lay the rules to allow us to go ahead and vote on this tonight. Do we need do we need to adopt this tonight for Yes. Are the personnel matters on there that need to Yes. On the agenda? Yes. On the agenda. We shouldn't have the wave. No rules. But you have to wave the rules because we have a policy that requires a committee report to lay over. So administration would like us to do this tonight. So I need a motion that we wave the rules to add this to the agenda. I

017motion to wave the rules and add this to the motion made by Mr. Piaza second second by Mr. Westerland. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none, we'll vote on the motion to wave the rules to add it to the agenda. Add the personnel report. Correct. Um, Mr. Paso made the motion. Mr. Westland seconded it. Has to be a unanimous vote. Voting is open. Yes, Miss. Yes, listen. There we go. Okay, let me back in now. Sorry, thought I clicked it. Voting is closed. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Having waved the rules, I'll entertain a motion we accept the personnel committee report from May 6th. So move. Motion made by Mr. Piaza. Seconded by Mr. Westerland. Any discussion, questions? And having no public input, we'll call for a vote. Voting is open. [Music] Sorry. Yes, I'm sending

018voting is closed. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Thank you. Item 4 A. Consider approval of the low bid for the Ponchatula Junior High Gymnasium HVAC project by Gucci Construction Incorporated for an amount of $425,970. Mr. McNeely, that is the administration recommendation. We have Do we have a motion to accept that recommendation? Second. We have a motion from Miss Rose, second by Mr. Joey. Man, that's a lot of money. a lot of money. Any questions, debate, discussion? This motion is subject to court approval. Subject to court approval. Offer a vote whenever you're ready, Miss Indie. Voting is open. four. Do you vote? Voting is closed. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Item B, consider approval of low bid for the Hammond High Magnet School Gymnasium HVAC project by facilities maintenance management for amount of 956,731. That's hard to

019even say. Mr. McNeely, this was my mistake. This needs to be um just pulled. This was actually approved by the board April 1st and approved by the courts April 10th. So, this project is actually in the process contracted. No action needed on that. Then I will say this, I asked for a list and I got an updated list today for the all the projects in our gyms and it looks like all of them are on track to end around September, some of them June, some of them July depending on the size of the project. But um we should be going into the fall with gyms in most of with AC's in most of our gymnasiums except maybe a couple of these that um we're kind of hit the end of the timeline. So um that's

020something good. I'm sure your voters and people that go to school in your schools would like to know that we should be up and running by the fall. U I said I'm going to take credit for the ACs in the gyms when but uh real quick u we postponed it. I know we tabled the temporary HVAC twice and I don't see it on tonight. So if we didn't put it back on the agenda tonight the the administration has um gone and inspected the fans and the windows. Um and you know I think hopefully we'll have we'll be able to get through this summer without having to spend that kind of money. But um but you know if it looks like we need to put it back on the agenda, we will. Okay. I think people

021are more patient when they realize something's coming. Right. Right. True. than just tell them that's not in the works. But and I did personally go out to the to the high school and look at the gym uh fans, make sure they're working, make sure that we can get that ventilation. So hopefully we'll be all right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. McNeely. Item five, Mr. Superintendent. Yes, Mr. President. We have um uh some policies we need to refer to our policy committee um for some revisions and this is due to the unitary status and and three additional areas and also alignment to the uh presidential orders and supreme court rulings uh that we are currently operating under. And uh these are these policies are uh a consider approval to refer policies JBCC student assignment

022to the policy committee. G AB criteria for employment of teachers. A D school attendance districts. JBC school admissions. G BC recruitment. AA school district legal status. J C D A D school bus conduct J C D A F A race color national origin and or national uh natural protective and cultural hairstyle harassment intimidation or discrimination wow that was a mouthful JBC public school choice ID parent and family engagement and we have um sent those to our attorney attorney for review and we'll be prepared for alignment um at the next policy committee. Motion to refer by Mr. Westerland seconded by Mr. Piaza. Any questions? Mr. Leewood, was this all of the policies that were referring like where it says tangible parish versus school board uh versus McMore, whatever. It's it's any of the policies that have

023the language in it than which we need to fix in order so that we don't lose federal funding. Okay. But we may have more that have that word. Right. Yeah. That's what this was initial review. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Hearing none. We'll call for a vote. Voting is open. Voting is closed. Motion passes unanimously. Item um 5B, just uh some general updates. Well, number one, graduations kick off tomorrow night uh at the University Center and in Hammond. Our night graduations start at six o'clock. Um, Punch Tula High School has about 500 graduates. Um, that's Friday night. And if you think that each graduate has a minimum of four people, which I think is on the very, you know, low estimation side, uh, we could have, you know, 3,000 people trying to uh, at that

024event, parking, etc. So, we do urge the public to plan time to go early. Um, and then also we will have uh metal detectors um walking into the university center. So, just reminding uh the guys especially the little pocket knives in your in your pocket that we carry, leave those in the car because that's really going to set your night off. if you park a long way out, have to walk in, maybe even in the rain, and then have an have a knife that you always carry in your pocket. So, uh, we're asking you to, um, just think about that. And, uh, we will have increased law enforcement. In fact, we had a call Monday with all of our law law enforcement agencies plus the municipalities uh to really coordinate u the park, you know,

025monitoring the parking lot uh the areas on the outside of the university center as well as inside. Um clear bags, so you know, no purses, you have to go through metal detectors, clear bags, similar to what you would do at a concert with this many people uh in attendance. And also the new thing this year is is Southeastern has a weapon detection dog, a a weapon detection dog. And then our contract with um Mr. Gideon, he's going to bring two uh for most of these graduations. And and on the Punch Tula and Hammond um he may have more uh but they're just to detect explosive devices and or weapons. Um and so they'll be uh there that's a new thing for this year that we're adding. Uh but we encourage everyone to plan accordingly, get

026you know get there early. Um and we also have our students if if you remember they would always um exit out of gate three all together and all the families are standing out there at gate three. So, it's a big crowd and um and so we're going to have our students exit out of different exits of the university center uh so that we have minimal numbers of people in in certain areas. That's a, you know, I think about um elderly grandparents who are there and it's, you know, and then just that many people together, they could easily be bumped um, you know, and and not, you know, not on purpose, but, you know, bumped into. And so, we want to be able to have less crowds in one place and sort of divide it up.

027So, I just wanted to mention that we had that plan and we've coordinated uh, all of this with our uh, law enforcement, you know, buddies. Uh we have o over 900 of our seniors have industrybased uh certifications and this is a you know we we may have more earning some over the next uh week or so as they finish out some things but uh we have over 900 right now and we have over 300 seniors that already have college credit um and many of them have their freshman year um of college earned while they're in high school. So, we're super proud of our seniors and we're looking forward to a very uh pleasant event uh where our families can celebrate the successes um of our graduates. And so, we're looking forward to this next week.

028All right. We'll start with our personal privilege and we'll start on the north end. North end. We're going to the north end. Uh, first of all, I I do want to to extend my heartfelt um sympathy for the two families that were affected by the tragedy on the other night. Um, I we it's just no words to express how we we've been talking as a board from one to the other. What can we do? How can we fix it? and and we're just puzzled, but we want to you to know that we're concerned and we love you and if there's anything that we can do for you, the board is here. Um, and on a lighter note, um, I just wanted to show we have a student, an 11year-old. She was a student at OW

029Dylan and she published her own little book and la and last month, April was um, the ampute month. And so her book came out within that month. And she says, "Hi, my name is Cree and I'm 11 years old. I was born a below the knee amputee and while life has bought its share of challenges, each one has made me stronger and I've learned that with determination and faith, anything is possible. And I want every boy and girl to know this and your differences do not define your limits. You have the strength, the courage, and power to dream big and make those dreams come true. And it's a it's I ordered it from Amazon, but it's um just a in her own little words and it shows how she just overcame a whole lot of

030challenges and became a cheerleader and all of the other stuff that she participated in. And I just want to say that uh we're proud of her and we're proud of her for acknowledging OW. Dylan and I'd like to see it in every one of our libraries. Yeah, I would love to get that book for our very special Miss Louisiana Queens and give to them in our at our pageant. Okay. I too would like to extend um some sympathy and and um prayers to the um Bristo family. And it it just breaks my heart that our youth don't value life anymore. They don't understand that once something is done, it's over with. and they don't understand that the consequences that they're setting for themselves is going to follow them for the rest of their lives. And

031um Jarvis is a a big supporter of Independence High School and um my prayers go out to him and his family for his son um that this tragic happened too. But um keep them in your prayers. And then for all of our graduates, this is a time in your life that you can put your next hat on and make your way. Put high school behind you. Whether you were a star athlete or, you know, somebody that was bullied in school, put everything behind you. High school is behind you. And start what you want in life and put your best foot forward and make what's going to make you happy in life. and we congratulate all of our graduates. I'd like to uh congratulate all the winners here tonight, the chemist and the all academic LHSAs

032and the senior superlatives. Congratulations to those well school nurses and all that they do uh for our children and also congratulations to all of the seniors. I know y'all are looking forward to it. Be safe because whatever you do could end your life if you take the wrong steps. So please remember that so that you move on with your life and uh make make our parish a better parish. Okay, Mr. Moore, Mr. Piaza, uh tonight's always my favorite night when you get to see all the people with the 4.0 and the high ACTs guys. That's a huge accomplishment. I I know I played a lot of sports and I know we got a lot of coaches in the room and for a young athlete to have all the weight on their shoulders to have to

033perform on the field on a Friday night and all that takes to get there, but to also have a 4.0 all through high school is an amazing accomplishment. Uh so I want to thank all the students who were here tonight for their hard work they put in for all four years of their high school. Um the beat the chemist I was there, Missile was there. It's a hard competition. My wife was supposed to come tonight, but uh I want to condol her and her family. She had an immediate loss in her family, so that's why she wasn't here tonight. Um I want a condolence to um the family in up north. Big difference. Um but guys, when you go to your graduation, we have in Ponchul a project graduation at Punchville High School. And what

034that is is if you're a graduate at Punchville High School, immediately after graduation, you can go to our community center and they will lock them in there 24 hours. Old lock in. I know some people know that term. Uh because we know statistics prove that after high school graduation, people make some bad decisions. They get on the road. They've had many accidents. So if you plan on going to a party, we know you're a teenager. We know you just had the big night of your life. We know you're going to make some mistakes. Please don't drive. Please stay home. Call a parent, call a friend, get home safe because you didn't do all that hard work to just end it in one night. So, please make some responsible decisions at graduation. Let us have a

035safe graduation. Please leave the mess at home. Thank you all for what y'all do on the board. Thank you, administration. Thank you all of our teachers in our parish. And let's have a good graduation season. LSBA Capital Conference. Oh, yeah. And me and Mr. Duncan got to go to the Capitol Conference in Baton Rouge this past week. um got to see how the how the legislators gets to go through the process of how we get our laws and our procedures. We sat in some committee meetings for education. Some very interesting things going on there, good and bad. Uh but we want to thank our legislators for inviting us to the capital, listening to what we have to say and for our advocates at the LSBA for all they do for us school board and for

036our education across the state. Okay. Just want to congratulate all our graduates and all of our all of our graduates, not just the ones who came tonight that had the 40 or the academic allstars. We appreciate them. Shout out to little Willoughby girl who's graduating in three and a half years. That's amazing. And she has many scholarship opportunities. So like to give her a shout out and her family of course for helping her through the the process of doing that. That's a lot of work. Uh thank you all for everything that you're doing. Miss Silly for changing up the guidelines on graduation and that that's going to be a great a great idea and I hope hopefully a safety uh aspect of releasing our students in different areas. That that's really a great idea. So,

037thank you everybody for the hard work. Thank you. All right. A couple quick things. First of all, just want to recap the successes that we've had in the court case. Obviously, um huge victory on that. We're not over. and we still have facilities that we're working on and and hopefully winding down that final piece of the puzzle. Um it was a ve very necessary case but it has served its purpose and we think that now we're moving forward as a better school system because of the case. So um big win for the school system, big win for the case, big win for the public. um graduations. Um we're about to send 1,247 of our brightest out into the work for work workforce as well as to college or vote votech school or wherever they're going.

038So um I am proud of the work that the school system has done to to do that especially when we see kids of our own in these classes. Um congratulations to them and I encourage you as board members. I know that it's difficult to end the day by going to South Eastern and maybe for a graduation that may not be a school in your district, but if you can, I would encourage you to please let's try to participate as many graduations as you can. As we know, typically they're an hour and it's hard to do an hour when you're graduating 300 people or 500 people or some of these larger schools, but some of those Kentwood and Sumers and the rest independents, you know, that are graduate 80 or so a piece. But um they

039make it work and um I believe if we can do our best to try to be there, they deserve our attendance. If you can, I would appreciate it. And then last but not least, um Judge is visiting next week. Judge Lamel, uh as in his words, he said his swan song, which is a good thing to hear him say because I think he wants to come up and see some of the progress that we've been talking about. And I I know that's what he is planning on doing. I know that's what we're going to give him. Um, we are coming back in independence to the career center for lunch and I think all the board all the board members are invited to come meet us for lunch. Uh, we're trying to keep the numbers of

040people down at the schools simply because we don't want to interrupt um progress at schools, but I would encourage you to please if you can participate, please come for lunch, get a chance to speak to the judge and um and give him any concerns or have any questions for him. And then um I I'll end on this one. Vapes. I made a post a couple weeks ago about the importance of vapes to parents. Uh and I just want to keep saying it and keep saying it because as as a board we know most of our appeals that we've been hearing have been regarding vapes. Um and parents really have to help us with this. Um it they need to understand that possession means in their bag, in their car, in their pocket, in their hand.

041if they have it and if it tests positive for a drug use, illegal drug use, then they're out for four semesters. And that is harsh punishment for students. But it's the reality. It's a state law. And um I want to keep plugging that and keep telling parents that because we need help trying to curtail this. It should not be on the schools to try to stop kids from bringing vapes to schools. We need parents to help them keep them from school altogether. U not going to get into all the the dangers of vaping. Um y'all know that and they know that. But um we just need some parental support and parental help on that to to kind of curtail it. We need kids in classrooms not being disciplined. So anything else to be brought before

042hearing? Nothing else. I entertain a motion that we enter into executive session. So move. So move to enter into executive session to consider the matters of the EEOC charge of Sharon Walker, the EEOC charge of Deanna Foster, um the case of Laandra Jacob and Rakuria Alexander versus William White. Um and the uh possible litigation related to Pontula High School roof. Seconded by Mr. P without objection. No objections. No objection by com. Channel 17, proudly serving the Florida parishes. All right. Call the meeting back to order. Duncan. In the matter of um EEOC charge Sharon Walker, no action. In the matter of EEOC charge Deanna Foster, no action. in the matter of Alexander versus White. No action on the Ponchula High roof um litigation. Move to adopt council's recommendation. That's what I said. Okay. Have that

043for a motion. Second move from Westland. Any opposition? Oh, wow. Hearing no opposition, motion carries. Having no other business being brought before the board, meeting adjourned.

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