001Nick I get a roll call yeah B here here Karen here Julian I'm here and Sarah here Mr Collins here miss Holland here Mr gzel here all right if I can get an introduction of the visitors we'll start back row back forward welcome everybody with that can I get a motion for the approval of the agenda has got the motion second second by Nick all in favor ition carries in fav yeah and we have a one hot off the cross today as as well congratulations to the concert band on their unanimous Superior rating of today's Minnesota State High School league large group music contest at USC all three judges gave them a superior score also stay to Mara High School concert band as well as the Cleveland um so congratulations and that adds on to
002our other positive uh congratulations to chase paty Blake Shepard um as our state wrestling participants Chase wrestling All Conference Brooklyn henzie alltime scoring leader for St Clair also Brooklyn s Central player of the year um All Conference Brooklyn heny Brooklyn Ming and Aubrey mattz congratulations to Sam PR boys BAS honorable conference mention congratulations M State High School e Ensemble for being Award Best In Site um Alex Cruz Anna ordz and Lincoln freck congrats all to them choir entered 18 vocal solos and two ensembles both ensembles and 15 Souls received a superior highest rating we also had three excellent ratings congratulations to knowledgeable team of Eli Bailey Conor van Erick Gavin Sero and Andrew Hurley they will be competing at the state level um quite an accomplishment to get to the state level back to back
003back to back to back um in school history yeah so very very um impressive and thank you to miss Rand for leading that as well coaches versus cancer again just an unbelievable event raising $ 22,5 183 and the gift Foundation um um and all the parents and grandparents um 28517 this foundation so we have a lot to be thankful for like to recognize Ashley sand fourth and fifth graders their sare project here last we GRS it's really nice to have that back after we received $500 from Jack and Lisa May and that is for the B memorial fund in memory of Mark depu we received 18 library books from Kelly hener with $150 value we received a library book from sixth grader Bram badart B and that's a $30 value we received uh book from
004the friends of the St Paul Public Library as the Minnesota center for the book um and it's An ancestry and Legacy book with a $22 value and then um the one that I had passed around uh Kate Thompson connected with an author in Ireland Diane Dwayne um doing I love to read week and so she donated a copy of her ninth book in the young lizard series and it was shipped all the way from Ireland and signed to the St Clair students so the list price is but it's price that's awesome so thank you for all of those I just want to point out um for those in the audience home and use more numbers the bising memorial fund is gets used a lot uh Kelly and I see offering the request from families that
005don't have the money to participate whether it be knowledgeable whether it be banned um Athletics whatever we get to see those CR requests and um those going to go long way all right no unfinished business or open Forum items so move on to new business do I have a motion to consider the consent agenda as presented in your packet K got the motion Jo with a second all in favor say I all opposed with that we will pass it off to to talk to us about the anatomy and physiology front and center come on we want see okay so hopefully you all got copies I made cop so um since we started concur enrollment at St Clair we've done Anatomy through the University of Minnesota um however when that transfers for students it doesn't transfer
006as Anatomy it only transfers as a science class with a lab so really if if a junior takes MSU College bio and then Anatomy their senior year it's really like they're even though they're very different content the way that they transfer they transfer as the same they both transfer as a science with a you know a lab credit u by switching to South Central um especially for those students that considering like the nursing field um that course would actually fulfill that Anatomy requirement if they were to go into nursing um we have a student here Justin oer whose mom Kristen Cox is the dean for the science um department at South Central and um I've been working with her to have us kind of switch over to South Central and so I kind of laid
007out for you the the differences between the two and in my opinion it's kind of a no-brainer to switch to South Central um especially since the last bullet point under um the CIS course my current Professor that I work with from the umm is very close to retirement probably two three years out and he told us I think it was last summer at our Workshop that he's not sure if the U ofm will even continue CIS human physiology or human anatomy after he's gone because there isn't anyone in the biology department at that's in taking that on so that class may actually go away so I guess when I heard that I started thinking okay what would be other options for us so we're not in a situation where U ofm is done and we
008have no place to go and now there's a year where kids don't have anything to do so I'd rather transition before that happens so we're kind of ahead of things and so by going to South Central um they can get twice as many credits because it would be fall semester and spring semester whereas through the U ofm it's taught on campus typically as a semester course but most of us High School teachers teach it year long um and next year would probably be fall semester would be anatomy and spring semester would be or would be physiology here at St Clair if that's theout we went they are looking to align more with MSU over the next year or two and then it would become human anatomy human anatomy and physiology to it's all going to
009be the same content nothing's going to change they're just changing the names and so in talking with Kristen I don't think they're going to change to anat fiz one and two next year yet at sou Central it'll just be anatomy and the fall physiology in the spring and so we could do that the same way um I teach night class up at South Central um this past year and a half and so there's nothing additional that I have to do are certified to teach I'm already an instructor up there so um really we can hit the ground running South Central said um I can borrow equipment so if I don't have enough models say and we're doing muscles in anomy and they're not using them all on campus we can borrow equipment she said you're
010more than welcome to make arrangements to maybe come to campus a few times and those are things that we can't do if we stick with you it's an all day trip if we're going to go to the U and they don't do field anymore we couldn't go into a lab at the U they don't loan all their equipment so I don't know any questions that you guys have so those those um credits would transfer equally to MSU say if they want yes to they might not transfer to the U I can't guarantee that buts but South Central I'm assuming rason MSU say is part of Min Systema you know yeah would probably be like a really intense course right um it will be probably more intense than what Anatomy currently is this year only because
011it's you know it's two different things two different semesters yeah the course that I really like the course that you offered with the m because it was a really good like prep class for taking in college it was really nice this would be great that you would you know one of the hardest classes in a biology major and you would have your professor accessible right there at school every day so I like it a lot I think it's great thank you for like taking taking the RS and figuring it out before happened the same way when we switch from smsu to MSU because I knew smsu was going away and again I don't want to CAU that where there's a year we don't have else all right so with that we'll move on to the
0122025 2026 school calar yeah just um as you know from a work session I don't know maybe six weeks ago we talked about as this year with the react training of giving our staff the time uh Miss Holland has walked us through the number of hours I think it's like 87 hours with within a a year and teachers having to test out as well so one of the things that we talked about we know that that's tough on um families of young children and finding daycare so when we looked at the calendar we tried to take the days that were already scheduled as an early out and then those will be the four days that are um completely the days off that we're not having early outs and an elementary day off um again over
013the years um specifically n who's been there for a while we've tried the conference times we try to go with what the teachers prefer whether that be Tuesday Thursday one year Thursday Thursday another year and so that's reflective in the in the calendar um as well so we're recommending I'm recommending the approval all right any other discussion I'll make a motion with that Julian's got a motion to approve school calendar do I have a second I'll second Connie's got the second all in favor say I all opposed motion carries all in favor next we have the radon testing so uh required by the Minnesota Department of Health St cair Public Schools is Contracting for radon testing every 5 years uh radon testing was performed on school for February 24th to 26 uh the rate on
014testing is included in your sporting documentation uh the summary is none of the 180 samples throughout the school building approach the four uh what is that P something I have no idea what that stands for but of threshold establishment by the usepa so and this is a a new test that was required in statute so all schools in the the state of Minnesota um it's not cheap it's 145,000 to do the the testing um we're allowed to use the expenditures out of L ltfm which is health and safety um and so again every five years and we passed and I'm guessing five years from now unless they lower the the threshold we'll pass again how does this report compared to the last one this is the first one ever first one yeah good good and
015again I know as board members we just got the results on this on Thursday or Friday so we quickly sent it to you as a board action item I figured because it was positive it's a lengthy report I say pages and pages and pages I looking through it like hope you guys know what it meant because I wasn't I figured the experts came in they tested um what name get good so anyway and then another part of the statute is that we have to bring before the board that we did do the test so that you're acknowledging that we did do the test according to statute and that you're approving it at a public board meeting look like almost all the samples were under one so yeah we well well under we're going to spend
016the money to pass it again five years from now T gas they came in all the rooms and they had test hanging from the ceilings and the walls and different areas everywhere any young entrepreneurs sitting in the audience I might want to start thr r on testing company because 5 Years From my retirement all right get a motion to approve the2 I would give that motion made a motion have second second byen all in favor say I I I all oppos motion carries all in favor next we have the motion to identified official with authori recertification is this is pretty much an annual IA yeah just Abate all right discuss all right so get a motion to approve Tim Collins as Iowa School District julan motion all in favor say allos carries first readings ofcy
017413 5123 all right sounds good we had our I love to read month um that last week in February and so some of the highlights from that week were all of the kids got to go back to last year's teacher do readed with them um we had guest readers throughout the week on Friday we dressed like our favorite book characters and then we had a building wide um drop everything and read where they all all the kids brought blankets and books and we had kids out the hall at the same time which they probably don't realize how cool it looked but as someone who got to walk through the hall and actually see it it was pretty nice um sixth grade math Masters competed on March 7th um there are 140 students at be competing
018and we brought home some Hardware um Izzy walach and Oliver depute tied for 11th Place in the fact drills out of those 140 so they brought home ribbons Elijah aguez uh was nth place and brought home a medal and Benson Irvin was fifth place and also brought home a medal um other participants were Sophie Hoy Don shendel Grace heidman Tristan Dutton and Zack Dutton um and then just to add a little bit more to the positive recognition that Ben gave on the um the science fair um the results of that uh first place went to Barrett mirak with Will less expensive T turkey load give a similar chance of harvesting a turkey at 30 yards so hunters in the audience go talk to Barrett he's got you cover um Second Place went to Quinn bidden
019um whose mouth is cleaner humans dogs or cats and third place went to Addison curry with how dirty are your hands and so they will have the opportunity to go to the regional site spare coming up in April um and we've started with our um planning for summer programming so conversations about um targeted services and special education summer schools on our will have all that information ready for families by conferences when is um screening uh it was Friday yeah we just did that on Friday right on top of that Rose any other questions for I was just it's too bad none of the kids knew all the radon testing for their science experiment an opportunity someone's got to remember five years we could have got a little training for that cost it would have been
020so bad you know if the road construction project if that's going to impact your summer school busing all it it will probably impact everything that happens in St Clair but well they should be able to come in from the they should be able to come in from the East and come back around that way I would think so they just can't probably get around other that's supposed to start yeah we'll make it happen if we need to drop off in the church parking lot or something like that we will figure it out that you TR all right I know this is what the students all been waiting for that they were all drawn out of their seats so better pay attention now to this guys all right all right uh it's end of third quarter
021this week March 21st so students and the audience tell your classmates make sure you get all your stuff done get those tests in so that your teachers can get their grades in on time all right cell phone policy again hot button for some students and actually I say that joking because the conversations have all been pretty good no intended correct yeah I know um implemented with the start of four fourth quarter so my tenative plan right now is I'm going to meet individually with all the classes out in the West Commons to go through things um I anticipate fourth quarter being a lot of we're going through it together we're all going to have Grace with each other um which is one of the big reasons why in my conversation with Mr Collins we talked
022about not having this start with the beginning of a brand new school year where there's enough interuptions we can hopefully hit the ground running then um this will be a shi for staff and myself included I'm going to have to carry my radio I think more often so I can set a better example of not being on my phone if it's a text from the office or things like that but otherwise students start thinking of your questions now for those meetings I know you will um testing season is upon us um in fact our ninth grade that just participated in a career Navigator recently um was one of the teams with 21 students that actually won the Jey competition and a piz party so those 21 students that's tentatively planned for this Friday um are
023going to get to go out to the West Commons and join the 10th through 12th graders and eat their Pizza in front of all of them um that they earn so watch out all right um coming up here excuse me just last week we also had the career exploration for 11th graders um Practice Act is coming up on 41 the actual act on 48 MCA will begin on 4 10 followed up with a career Expo for the 10th grade on 4th 17 so a lot of moving parts coming right now in April as well as with spring Sports just starting things are crazy um I wanted to put a few additional positive recognitions in here mostly because I feel like when I have these reports I compete with Na and every one of them so
024I want to make sure I fill my time um but no more than anything these Flex learning days have been a challenge for me to learn how they operate um it hasn't been without little nuances and I appreciate the students and you guys being flexible with me and the teachers and I appreciate the teachers being flexible with all the other things going on especially with RC and things like that um Tim sto my thunder with the band inquire but I just as a band inquire person myself uh the Sol and Ensemble experience as well as large group is unbelievable and if you never get a chance to watch it you really should make a point to go um it's it's really neat um and I'm very proud of our kids especially with the the type
025of superior ratings coming out School RS SI says a lot um the other big one was 16 students back uh the weekend of the 8th and 9th of March helped out with that gifts Foundation event um that was something that they went above and beyond for um I would read off all their names but I've already recognized them individually um but I do appreciate them and then the students attending tonight's meeting I appreciate you guys coming this is an important part of you guys learning and I know it's not just because you had to be here for class you truly wanted to be here right that's all I have thank you and can we please note that by saying that I've been here forever my boss kind of insinuated that I'm old and now my
026partner in crime just kind of said I talk a lot no no no no no I said everything is a competition with me she sets the bar hi I'm just trying to get that's why she had up again see L wow higher new AG questions all right just some quick uh reminders legislation gives funding your schools every two years this is the year where we get funding the schools and if you've been following it at all it's probably b as ugly as it's ever been in my 32 years of being Su so I'm not young either um yeah it's ugly and even though you might be reading that we're going to get 2.74% that's on some of the money but they also aren't going through everything they're going to be taking away and even Governor
027walls has listed five or six there is a pling to take away so again I usually just wait on this till unfortunately June or July which is tough for us board members because we're trying to set budgets for next year we don't even know what our budget is but just tell you it's not going to be real pretty um Department of Education and at the federal level you you you've heard it you read about it everybody asked me what impact does that have on public uh education and I think um 10% of your Revenue in a public school typically comes from the federal government and there's been no mention of taking that funding away uh but what they're what they're really doing is shifting the cost from the federal that they're laying off workers there
028they're saying that money will come to the States but then the state of Minnesota is going to have to hire people to dist distribute uh college loans distribute special ed reimbursements so in essence I don't believe that the funding source is going to change from the federal government I think it's going to stay the same for schools um and definitely president Trump has has used it to say he won't fund some states if they don't follow some certain executive orders but again I I don't think that we need to worry about the the funding for us I do think it's going to be an added cost to the state of Minnesota and the state of because they're going to have to hire staff to distribute it um just want to let you know the Minnesota
029sealant program I we did that about two or three years ago it was a program for families if they want to have their children's teeth cleaned here right on site and if they want to have seiling put on um last time we did it we had two two dental hygienists came in and we have had enough students interested that we had to do it for two days uh so we skipped the year part of the reason we skipped the year is was we were still in heavy construction and we'll throw it out there again you need at least 10 students to to sign up costs the district nothing it's I shouldn't say that it costs some time mainly for Miss Holland because quite a few of the students are Elementary we did have a few
030high school students as well but we'll be advertising that as well and just again anything we can do right here at school um to help students and families we look to do it then I did mention I I know that we still have some other things I did share specifically with the press that at the end of the meeting tonight we're going to going to a work session and Kelly's going to stay and we're going to talk about some negotiation strategies technically I could close the board meeting right now to go into that and then reopen the board meeting 45 minutes from now but I'm guessing those people don't want to sit our negotiations our strategies we moving forward so we will do that at the end of the meeting tonight we'll just move to
031another room and Kelly will join us and talk about some of the things that we're looking for in negotiations anything from legislative funding big HS that should watch out for yes um right now a lot and it all deals with with Kelly it's the ESS and it's the U um the paid family time off most people don't understand that um it money will be coming from their checks as well so money comes from the employees when it does come through and it does come from the employer I don't know the exact so those are just and that's one of the things that they're looking to delay but definitely I would say even more so than the financial stand point that could be a big hitter on how many people we could potentially have out of
032out of work here um as they're tending to their and I'm not saying that that's a bad thing to attend to your family but we also have to run a school and we need teachers in front of our students so those are the some of the big things Democrats are not going to move away from what they did um and I'm not saying that what they did was good bad or otherwise it's just saying free and reduced meals free and reduced breakfast even though that's costing uh I don't know 290 million 310 million there's no discussion of that there some big decisions or non decisions that are are moving forward um so yeah I'd say that those are some of the big ones on the on the financial side they're talking about Governor wal has
033even proposed taking away um 5 to 10% of our special ed Transportation so where it's required by law if we have student that has to go to ined at St Peter and that might cost $35,000 for one student to be transported to St Peter they're going to cut back on that funding well then you know where the money has to come from he has proposed unemployment which has been brand new that he needs would like to fund it for the remainder of this summer for board members that's $60,000 a year cost to us and right now the law say that we can't Lo for we going have to take that from our savings account so that's a $60,000 hit every year to I don't think his proposal to fund it is going to get approved
034because I agree with them that the state's going to pass the law then the state should fund it but I think where the state is at financially they're not going to do it so don't want to be Mis negative on all this but it's the reality that we as our board and Boards in old school districts are going to look like everything else pass yes4 billion swing doesn't help small school district no so yeah so that's just the landscape that we're all right boorder reports uh City Cil um they're tally have the Citywide cleanup date for April 12 they're trying to get that change to a date in May I think April is too soon that people won't be ready to start digging through their garage and their basements to throw stuff away till it
035gets a little bit nice weather um if they go beyond May then they're going to run into construction so then they don't to fall step was to see if you get a mate and so we'll have to wait to find out about that I one of the board uh council members have checked on the safe uh safe School Grants and those uh are done until 2026 but talking to the county B was there those are usually for bigger amounts than just the signage um usually it has to be so many dollars that would may include like new sidewalks or walkways or whatever but so checking to to see where they're at but again like I say the county said we have to have it approved we purchase it through them and yet they don't want
036to anything to do with putting it up to put it up out their rules and regulations so um Pearson Township is had asked fire department if they uh or asked City if they could approve U taking over some of the pton fire district P's fire department is disolving and so they've got some homes that are in Fe in Township that are within our you've been servicing them as a help anyway so the council did approve that they could uh access those into their milk out notices to the families and stuff that they'll be fire department I met nothing U really made that affected the school district at all excuse me umun Ed had movie numers on Friday night it was wild robot had quite a few little kids attending and purchasing up the last items
037out of the back's conception stand um there are some fun new community ad offerings like piano lessons oring art that haven't should be inter get people sign I'll pick you back on that since I attended the meeting tonight um so yeah the piano lessons for Community Ed will be under tab on the website right now it's either you can do private or group they're four- week long programs um if you're interested you can go on the website um and summer baseball and softball for grades 38 the sign up is due by this Thursday so if you're thinking about signing your kiddos up for that make sure you get that done um other than that yeah they were just thinking about some fun stuff to do for this spring um I think they talked about uh
038tie dye Pro like something for tie dyes doing something like that um A Mother's Day thing um for planting doing a planter and then planting flowers Mother's Day mother daughter thing um I think that was it the next meeting is May 19th and they really would like um some more community members to be part of it so they can get kind of range of um you know parents coming in and talking about what they like to see in Community Education so it's just not a few of us here and there that give our two cents so that's it thanks julan looking for are students required to ask questions or not your time okay sure my questions on the phone so would you be able to have your phone in your pocket so it's recommended that
039it's sted safely in silent or airplane mold in your locker would you carry it on your person on your body if it's seen or heard the teachers have permission to confiscate it so if it would accidentally fall out of your pocket in class then you can't be mad because where is supposed to be stol good question my question is um for study halls would the Blended students be able to get the phon they able to leave theom and go not during stud Bell the Bell we're at educational period study hall are still considered educational period good question what would happen if um the phone policy um deal like PS like what would happen after that you got to tell me more what do you mean by like if it just like doesn't work out like
040would it be um the first quarter of next year that we would have our phones back what would work like just the whole phone policy us not getting our phones with like a bunch of student we're talking about like students ride they all we're all going to have our phones and there's nothing you can do about it first of all you guys are all way too good to kids even contemplate wanting to do that um it is a board policy with board policies have actions so I'd hate for anybody's education be interrupted over something like a cell phone which is exactly what we're trying to stop from happening which is an interrupt Interruption to your education so good question though um I have a couple questions so like for kids in college classes you know
041how phones aren't banned at colleges is there any way that like you can allow kids to have their phones in their college classes if it's just the false class because at the college you know like they wouldn't they your class so that's largely dependent on a professor uh we do have one class right now that um students will be granted on six occasions I believe it is um due to the ti4 demand and calculus I think it's the Calculus class right you guys need those in that we don't have a classroom set but otherwise one of the things that within those college classes that they give you permission for is for high schools to be able to operate independently on what they call classroom Norms just like at a college campus yeah so we're not
042going to find ways to supersede a policy to appease certain subsets of students is there any way that you thought of like maybe just the Juniors and seniors keeping their phones because like they're older and they should be more so backing up one I haven't thought of doing anything to make your lives worse because you don't have your phones in fact in the conversations this is something across the state that all schools are adopting um I happen to come from a school where for the past eight years students weren't able to have them at all not so before school lunch after um things will be okay um this addiction of cell phone years I'm not worried No this addiction of the cell phone thing is real in fact I had a conversation with Mr Cumberland
043today on for the psychology classes it would be interesting to study of these social anxieties related to phones that we could do our own study here at the school before the end your um how much anxiety is happening because you can't look at home yeah and do you do it out of and have it or you do it out of demand so I think it's a good remind tocy a totaly put it on a shirt put it on a shirt give me a B I always want to be a Texas Ranger thank you thank you I'm just thinking though as we're going through this I won't need to do a class meeting be good you guys are going to have to like find these are all recorded so no need to just so the students
044know too it was one of the reasons I I waited to recommend this policy to later in the year because I did not want it to be a Mr ginel thing it was coming from me it was coming from the board um you have students in school and and that's what I wanted all he's going to have to be the one now that implements it and answers all the questions so thank you for being here 44 minutes at a time guys you can do it all right so I've heard a little bit about like the watches and stuff with phone policy like what kind of watches are applied in this the new policy all watches are okay until you use them for communication purposes all so if you use it to tell the time you're
045find you use it to call your mom no sounds good my question is just that if the phone rules would change depending on the teachers like requests or what they want to do with their so one of the things that and staff are this is new for a lot of staff and we're navigating this together and they have the same type of questions you do is I'll just state it again that we shouldn't be finding ways to supersede the polic there's other ways we can meet the need we should we have a Chromebook that there's tons of extensions available for that if we need them we should but in the other side is if a teacher is requiring something that we can't there's got to be another way we could do that because we can't
046put the students in a position of needing those things um in order to satisfy their education because we should be providing it now with that there's going to have to be flexibility there's going to be times where it's going to be cumbersome kind of like when you lose electricity for a couple hours and all of a sudden you have to figure out what's this paper and pencil thing all about so question thank you okay I like ask about backpacking so since we are allowed to have homes are we able to get calculators in our class though since our college classes require a TI for calculator don't want to pay $200 for a calculator so such as in like Mrs B Class are we able to get calculators in that class that we can use because
04790% of our class uses our phones for our calculator um and then also are we able to have our airpods and class to use on our computer or does airpods include device so we got a lot of really good things there I'm going to start with the first one the calculator thing there used to be from what I was told by Anderson a classroom set there and then at one time it seemed to grow legs and walk off um I don't know the story I was in here but that's something that I'll have to talk to Mr Collins and miss uho about is what does that look like for that class um I will tell you though many many schools because of those college classes just like on a college campus do make you purchase
048them um and I'm thankful that we have other means for those families that maybe couldn't that we could through that scholarship on try to find ways as well for those um what was your second question oh again I understand that there's other ways to do it but many schools require corded headphones um for that reason it just gets too hard on are you doing things that you should be doing are you doing other things um kind of an extension of that U it's like with YouTube and music if kids already had a playlist and then have to spend you know 15 minutes finding that one song to jam out to when they do their calculus it' probably be okay but it becomes a waste of student time as well but those are all they're all
049fair questions and we'll all get through it together I promise you then my actual question oh was there a limit start the timer no no that was a different meeting um just curious about so like the Blended list is hard to reach out to students many students aren't quite sure when it's going to come out it's not really communicated well so I'm wondering if there's a way we can specific emails like hey you made it or you didn't or if there's a way like during your sixth hour everyone's going to find out if you can do it go up to your teacher and ask type of thing because most of us are like okay well when is it going to get out like even teachers like just waiting for it and really knows so so
050just we can get yeah um first of all every time when we have a grade posting I tell the teachers hey this is the date Blended list will be released and then I email them hey Blended list is up and ready please communicate with the students um it's really tough to get the information out one because a lot of students will check their email I know you're saying don't worry those Blended kids are waiting to find out if they get it but Distributing that information because it is confidential and contain student data of who's Blended who's not gets really really tricky um short of an individual email from me and with the number of students I want you to think it's not as simple as a blanket you you you have Blended because there's individual
051nuances for certain students um Blended is an interesting animal and you know as the rumors continue to grow that I'm I'm taking away Blendon and I'm not I'm not um it's one of those where it's meant to be something good it's not meant to be something cover so so it's a fair point though I think everybody can be better on communication with it including me but thank you good questions well wait I do have one other comment to and it's a little bit of me being a wise guy okay so you got to understand this is with a sense of humor most students do you know whether or not you're going to have Blendon or not so the students that don't know could conversations happened prior to grade posting to know whether or not you'd
052have Blended probably on the phone policy well that um will staff be applied to that too and then if so tell me more if a student sees a staff member on their phone is that anything we can do so no I I chuckle because actually at our last uh board meeting this kind of came up a little bit um yes we as staff need to be examples for you and I fully anticipate that in classes if you had your phone taken from you by a teacher you're going to be a Vigilant when it comes to are they on their phone they should be teaching right now again we're all going to go through it together we do need to be a good example now I will say that there are times where I've had teachers
053text me when we've had a student issue because it's faster for them to get a hold of me on a phone than it is for them to call on their phone plus they can't text and if they're sharing confidential information but you all know when that is as opposed to let's just say someone was on social media so I think we're all going to get through it together if we're going to have hi UPS it'll be okay you bet good question you already had your moment you already had no you're okay go ahead supp CP yep that's in a a handbook that 3.0 yep no nothing below C minus nothing below a c minus that's what the current requirements are y good questions are we thinking about changing the requirements for next there is consistent
054discussion about requirements whether they're still relevant or not or if they be changing you got come this is fun guys by the way I'm having fun I hope all right with those teacher workday changes that you discussed what would those changes be for us high school students tell me more on which workday like when you discussed about the uh theing is tring the elementary session good question good question um I don't have a definite answer for you on what those days look like those are all one of those where you kind of build them as you go based on what the needs are of the staff communication with them because staff need continuing education as well as certain areas every time they renew their license so and that's another thing that came down from the
055state that we all have to do is a state law and so you know depending upon what your teaching assignment is you're required to do this and to get those 87 hours in all of those teachers are basically going back to college for years to get this done sorry you me for a loop that all right sure all all right so during your discuss finally I wanted in discuss of the budget um sounded like it was going to take a hit next year I was wondering if that would affect Student News at all affect them yes we're raising them by 120% no um we're we're fortunate that the community pass oper a few years ago um we're fortunate that we' contined to be very fiscally responsible even though sometimes you can be fiscally responsible and
056you still have debt coming your way so for next year um we're still going to be fine but definitely as I look beyond the next school year there's some things that the board is going to have to look at internally about what do we provide and what don't we provide that's my question who else thank you all for the questions so our next regular board meeting will be held in this room Monday April 21st 6m a motion got a motion second seconds all in favor all oppos we'll see if they get him now