001oh this morning [Music] good evening i'd like to reconvene the davie county school board of regular meeting of september 7th thank you guys for being here first item on our agenda is our invocation [Music] loving and gracious god we thank you today for all your blessings for the successful outcomes of our school events and for all of our staff members we ask that you bless them abundantly and we continue to seek your wisdom guidance courage and strength be with us in our deliberations and help us to be wise in the decisions we make for the good of all of those who have placed their trust and confidence in us give us insight to lead with integrity that our decisions may reflect what is right and good keep us from short-sightedness and pettiness help us to
002make decisions that are for the good of all and guard us from blind self-interest grant us the humility to always seek your will in all that we do and say amen next if you'll please stand and join me for 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 uh next approval of the minutes from a regular meeting of august 3rd i'll entertain a motion a motion by mr carroll have a second by miss smith any further discussion all those in favor motion carries 6-0 next i got important dates information october 1st on friday we have the board of education retreat october 5th as our regular board of
003meeting board of education meeting here we're actually starting at 4 30 that announcement will go out for a close session regular meeting is at 6 00 pm open session and then october 13th through the 15th is the fall law conference in asheville for those of you that have uh have signed up for that and i think that's all i got all right next i will call on mr wallace for a superintendent's report thank you mr chairman good evening board the staff and guests thank you for participating in the meeting this evening and those of you that are online as well i want to open my report and just take a moment of silence and regard out of respect for the mount tabor high school family that witnessed a tragedy last week when a student was
004shot and killed on campus so if you don't mind please join me now in a moment of silence thank you so you know board and and i have reached out to um superintendent mcmanus in regards sharing our condolences and and mis uh also communicated with mr ed weiss the principal at mount tabor he and i have known each other for quite a while so it's sad but but just want to make sure that we recognize that and and they seem to be doing as well as can be expected so today is our 10th day of school and it is really good to be back in school i will tell you it is well i visited every school in the first day and i've been back in multiple schools since two or three times and uh
005it is it is it is wonderful and i want to commend our parents i want to thank our students and our staff as we are starting the year that it's we're starting again with covid and having to navigate through those things but it is really good to be there and the kids are excited staff's excited another positive thing is our enrollment is we were allotted to be at 6041 students as of our ninth day count because these numbers do lag a little bit we were at 59 1990 which is really strong and which is what we should be what we had hoped to be that we're real close to where we where we should be staff students and parents again thank you for your effort and your teamwork and it will take all of us
006to keep our staff and students in the school buildings for in-person learning currently as of today with a report from the the local department of health and human services we have 43 students and 10 staff members with that are have active covet cases 43 43 students and 10 staff quarantine students 198 students and 10 staff i would not gloating but i would bring that to comparison to some districts that started without masking and their numbers were astronomical after four or five days and as you well know now of those of the 115 districts across the state have are masking in school in schools so again i i commend our staff and parents and our kids that's a phenomenal number about just 198 now i hope that we can stay there as you well know last
007week it was a little higher but that's going to ebb and flow some but that's again nothing like what we saw what we have seen or in other places some more disappointing news as as of um friday since friday september 3rd there have been 121 confirmed cases across the county not just in schools now across the county there have been 32 cases since friday of kids between the ages of 5 and 17. and there have been six cases among ages 0 to four in davie county now again that is since friday if if you are monitoring the the uh dashboard 27 of our active cases in this county which is right at 294 i think 27 percent of those are now children or under the age of 17. in response to our kids being quarantined
008is we're going to have to deal with some of those and also in response to the unfinished learning from last for the past 16 months davie county schools would designate 200 of esser funds to implement a tutoring or support program this year we you and you're going to hear that is very targeted tutoring that will work both during the day if we to be able to hire tutors it will also be an opportunity for our teachers to work with their children their students and others after school and receive some pay we will on we have reached out to principals and gathered information from them over the last month or so and missed lined in her curriculum team and worked on a plan and we will roll that out in detail um this um this thursday
009in a meeting and hopefully get started with that real soon and i will not give up a secret yet but mr luke harris and kim and some others are here to share some additional good news with us that i teased you with last time when i said i've got some really good news coming but i couldn't share but they're here to make that announcement here in just a few moments but again we will designate 200 000 for this year and then we will see what the summer and things look like um the north carolina superintendent association collected vacancy information from across the state and there were a significant amount of vacancies at the beginning of this year 110 of 115 school districts responded we will share a full mrs haynes will share a full comprehensive
010hr update human resources update at the next meeting once we can land but what i can tell you is that we had either a certified teacher or a qualified sub or an interim teacher or a part-time teacher in every classroom part-time retired teacher so it has been a struggle to fill these classrooms and if this that way everywhere and when when you hear the numbers that mrs haynes will share with you next month that hopefully by then we will have all 115 districts to report out it is quite staggering of how many vacancies and you'll you'll know that we are very very fortunate here so ms lori dingler will deliver a presentation to you to us tonight regarding a voluntary covid testing program ms dingler has been working with local and state health agencies and
011dhhs providers to implement the plan at no time will any child be tested for covid without prior parent approval this is the the the on-site testing is b will be for convenience for both parents and staff now what i mean by that if mr dressler's teaching biology for us he becomes symptomatic mr prodresa will have to go home but he will need to go get a test but if he cho chooses our our we will con we will contract with an outside provider that will provide it will help us or support us in providing an on-site rapid test for mr dressler versus you having to go somewhere to get the test but again it's strictly voluntary and again at no time with any any child ever be tested without parents saying or giving approval and
012there's been some concerns shared with us and some calls about if i signed a waiver form for a pictures or for the other basic testing of eyesight and various things in the in your schools then that does that give permission for cova testing the answer is absolutely not it does not it is strictly for eyesight hearing and those things also aaron foyle will provide an accountability report a little bit later or tonight as well she will explain the intrica in the complications or complexities related to this year's testing i want to thank our entire staff for the work that they did with students and to maintain focus on learning while we continue to work through this pandemic it is evident that students need to be in school they learn best in school we are better
013teachers when students are in front of us however there are some students that can be successful in a virtual setting and i'll thank you for your support that we've been able to provide that for some of our first kids that are did select to be virtual through an application process early in the spring i would encourage you to not get caught up in the scores or the numbers because again when you compare that to across the state how many days were kids in school how many days did they miss those types of things but at the same time we it is an opportunity for us to see where we are where our kids stand and help us better prepare for this year and for the tutoring plan moving forward i hope that you've heard by
014now but in an effort to show our appreciation to all the staff and board i want to thank you and for your support all part-time and full-time staff davie county schools if you were employed august by august the 10th received a one-time 450 bonus so again we that's just to say thank you to everyone and how much we appreciate them so again i'll thank you for your support my final thoughts i want to thank you thank our staff again our parents and as we and i'm asking that we please continue to communicate and partner with us as we continue to battle covet we don't have all the answers and sometimes the right answers today will need to be changed as we gather more information as of friday i've shared with you 109 of 115 districts
015are now requiring masking board and our staff have demonstrated the courage to make decisions with the health and safety of all staff and students in mind we will continue to work with the medical community and use the same framework to make future decisions that concludes my report mr chairman thank you mr wallace give you a minute to regroup and i'll give it back to you abc science collaborative presentation you can come on this way if you want to okay folks you want to know one of the backbones or the primary pieces of everything that goes on this is your davie county schools nursing staff let's give them a great round of applause it is my honor to stand here and recognize these wonderful young ladies and um we were we received a heavy package one
016day and uh we weren't quite sure if we should open it or not but um i'm going to present this plaque but it's from the abc science collaborative which most of you have heard me reference to them as the duke epidemiology team and some of those folks but to you nurses in the davie county schools which again you carried so much of this weight it says we are proud to honor david county schools for your support and participation in the abc science collaborative based at the duke clinical research institute during the covet 19 pandemic your leadership in abc 11 publications for from north carolina was influential in safely returning children to schools across the state and the country in the spring of 2021. so miss lori dingler i want to that's young lady i have
017spoken to and talked with as much as my wife we talk on the weekends we talk it's ten o'clock on saturday night we talk at seven o'clock on sunday morning but i can tell you you've done a fabulous job and i and and it's not always a pleasant conversation i say lori we can't do that lori i'm not going to do that jeff you have to do that i don't want to do that call suzanne right and one day we landed up ended up with uh the the um mandy cohen giving us an answer of a decision that this young lady and this team had made that then wanted to pull the rug out from under us and we said and we both locked and we said no not going to happen we said was
018going to do it and we s and we were going to do it so somehow we got connected to dr mandy cohen and was able to move forward but i want to commend you lori if you want to say anything well it is a none of us could team it without the other right well ladies we can't tell you how much we appreciate you you know that i've talked to all of you i'll continue to tell you thank you but um i do want to present this to you and i know jenny would want to get a picture and i will get the box to you but right here i don't want our nurse to be sick that's for sure all right let's put everything you guys gotta kind of your nose [Music] thank you
019so much guys thank you sir uh next uh next recognition we got piedmont triad regional administrator of the year got jennifer line right good evening chairman junker board members and staff and guests i'm going to ask mr anthony davis to come up and join me so i have the pleasure of recognizing him tonight anthony was selected as our regional cte administrator of the year that's a really big deal because that's for the whole piedmont triad um i found out from the regional cte director that being selected affirms that he has demonstrated leadership skills as well as the ability to promote teacher and student success while creating a cte program that is innovative unique and beneficial for students so what's really impressive about that is i was asking today i was like anthony how long have
020you been here and so he's only been here for three years so to be selected for the whole region that is very impressive and this is no surprise to us here in davey because we know anthony works very hard to support our cte program we have a very innovative cte program and he is always working hard to make sure that our cte teachers have exactly what they need the resources that they need to do a great job we are proud of our cte program we're proud of anthony thank you for building community partnerships as well and getting community partnerships involved in our program and we're very fortunate to have you here in davey so now anthony gets to represent us at this at the state level and so he as the piedmont triad regional director
021he will now compete for the state cte administrator of the year so congratulations and tonight must be the night for heavy-duty glass plaques [Applause] congratulations anthony next i'll call on mr luke harris operations director at davey family ymca for a 21st century community learning center grant board staff and community thank you for the time to share some very exciting news as jeff had mentioned so the davie family ymca and davie county school system have had a great long-standing relationship we've partnered in many ways to positively impact our community and we have been working with jeff and his team over the last many months to apply and receive a grant through the 21st century community learning center for 1.2 million dollars for the next three years and to share a little bit more about what that
022means for our kids and our families i have kim mcclure our vice president of youth development and jason lejesque our director of grants and evaluations thank you luke thank you all for allowing us to be here and thank you all for being here on behalf of the ymca we just want to say thank you for giving us an opportunity to serve the students in davie county part of youth development we span over seven counties in our association as far east as forsyth and stokes and as far west as alexander county and we serve children in all seven counties from elementary age up through teen initiatives and college and career programs so we're always looking for new opportunities to get in there and really assist families who need some additional care some additional tutoring years for
023many many years we've been partnering with 21st century and dpi for at least 15 years now probably more than that and we've always heard about the summer slide and so before we would put a lot of our effort into summer slide we have a coveted slide now and and a big piece of code slide is social emotional learning and what our kids and our youth all ages need to kind of get past the last year and a half and so we are looking on a broad scale of social emotional learning we're looking at academic tutoring what can we do to fill some holes and some gaps that maybe happen over the last 18 months and so when we apply for these grants we look at different communities we've had many 21st century grants for scythe
024county we currently have two grants with 21st century in wilkes county we had a summer program in yadkin county and so we're constantly looking at our whole area to see where and who needs us and where we think we might get the the grant so when it came time to apply for the grant i'm going to let jason talk more about that he's our grant writer but we came time to talk about the grant for this new year when we found out that dpi was going to um release a new cohort we have one ending at wilkes and of course our wilkes community wanted us to come back to us and we wanted to go back to them we don't want to stop serving them but at the same time we looked and and davie
025county was an area that we had not served um and there is a need there's a big need in this community along with esser funds and so we can partner together and figure out how we collaborate with esther funds and the 1.2 million that we receive so i'm going to let jason talk a little bit about that but we identified the need and we knew that davie county was an area it is an area for me i live here and so i wanted to make sure we support this community as well so i'm going to turn it over to jason good evening everyone as luke mentioned i'm jason i'm the they all said i write grants and try to get money for people that really breaks it down what i do uh in a nutshell
026but uh i work for our association office and help kim with serving our our whole service area thank you again for the opportunity to to let us speak this evening and share the good news of this 21st century grant and thank you to davie county schools for really giving us the opportunity to partner we are all very excited uh before i continue any further does does anyone is there anyone here who is familiar with 21st century has heard of that before worked with that before anyone bueller couple folks awesome great so what i'll do is i'll kind of give a brief overview of what the program is and then i'll talk about um the what we call the access academy our 21st century our our academic support programs that we uh helped work with through
027the y and so uh the anita m lowry um 21st century community learning center initiative is the only federal funding source dedicated exclusively for supporting local after school before school and summer learning programs and this program was reauthorized with the every student succeed acts in 2015. the funds are actually administered through the department of public instruction out of raleigh and they grant to local organizations like the y and to local education agencies to provide quality programming for our at-risk schools our low-performing schools and our low-income schools the funding is intended to support academic enrichment activities so things like tutoring you know or medial work a broad ray of enrichment activities you heard kim talk about social and emotional learning and then really some opportunities to develop family learning and so a key component of our
028program is really how do we get kids and parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters and everyone together exploring learning together and so those are key components that 21st century covers as kim mentioned we have a long history of 15 years of working in these areas with different funders whether it's federal state local or through local private foundations and we are very excited that we have received i'll say again it makes me happy 1.2 million dollars to provide programming for uh school year 21 22 20 uh 223 202 20 20 22 24 uh 23 24 in the subsequent summers uh at um we've identified four schools through uh the recommendations of dpi and that's corn answer and kulamie elementary schools along with north davie and south davie middle schools and at those schools will con
029serve a combined 200 students or so the fun part working with our program officers at dpi they're very flexible and help us kind of gauge as we grow uh for example in wilkes county we're actually able to add another school and so as we grow and figure out what the program is going to look like here we can make those changes and meet the needs of the community um you know a great thing for us and at first for me is um as mr wallace brought this idea to him um he was able to actually gather the principles of all four schools and for the first time in writing a bunch of these grants i was able to actually sit down with the whole team that was going to be involved and so the principles
030provided us the why some feedback to include and so here's some things i wanted to share with what the access academy is intended to do in uh in the schools we want to focus on how we can include school staff as a part of the program to further deepen the bonds and connections that students have at school we really want to focus on social emotional learning and after that year and a half of disruption how do we really help kids get back into the classroom and understand what learning is i can't tell you that this program is going to make a kid become an a student but what i can tell you is that through the social emotional learning and the interaction with our staff a kid's going to get a spark we're going to
031spark a kid's interest in learning we might not make them proficient by grade 3 in reading but we're going to want them they're going to want to go get books they're going to want to explore science and so what we're really trying to do is build that student's whole concept of learning back after being stuck at home in front of a screen for however long and whatever schedule they were in we want to have an intentional focus on stem and project-based learning with the way that career and technology is going as we're seeing with our awesome educator and administrator who is recognized tonight those technology careers are going to be important and so how do we get kids in that mode of thinking with their math and their right now and how that can apply
032to what they could do later in life and then we want to focus on that summer component and how do we help kids transition how do we help incoming fifth graders transition in the sixth grade a moment in a critical time for them and their development how do we help those rising eighth graders become young adults in the high school and so our program's really helping those kids just transition to the next phase in their life you know here at the y we really just want to work with our partners in the community as you guys say it right up there engage equipment and power that's what 21st century and the access academy is here to do with davie county schools we're ready to engage and equip and empower and i thank you all for
033the opportunity to work together and if there's time i can answer any questions or you can certainly share my email and i'll answer any questions from anybody so whenever they need them jason i don't have a question but i will say i've known i've known luke and kim for quite some time both working with him at the y but i can tell you you can see the energy in jason and when he sat down at the table i felt very good about where we were headed so i want to commend all three of you and tell you as you've mentioned partnership because that is what it takes because they're with us certain times of the day now you're looking at morning and afternoon before and after school and through the summer those things are really
034critical and board this will help us support our tutoring program this we will align this because it is specifically out for schools and those again you've heard the qualifications we didn't choose that they came to us dpi basically said these are the schools that qualify but we will this again another great effort in davie county of the partnership and you're seeing it right there and this time i mean it is a significant amount of money so i want to commend you three for sure and just the ongoing relationship that we've had with you so don't leave we're going to get a picture the only thing i i forgot to add is that the program is free to students and families 100 free there is no cost for this program after school care summer care so
035that's the awesome part about it it's free is there any transportation money included in the 1.2 million yes sir we did include a transportation so we can adjust that and work with that as student needs as a requirement of the federal funding we have to provide transportation for students that need it and so we kind of gauge that site by site and that varies snapshots thank you guys it's incredible thank you yeah turned it up that's right thank you guys that's incredible uh next item on our agenda is a consent agenda and i'll entertain a motion to approve have a motion by mr carroll another second i have a second by mr drexler any questions seen none all those in favor motion carries six zero and we do have forgot to mention but uh miss
036horn is usually obviously with us and we have seven board members but she is out sick so she wishes she could be here obviously um next business items policy 4431-5021-7263 mr wallace thank you mr chairman board you can see attached there the policy with direction from our legal counsel and from the north carolina school board association um i'll be glad to entertain any questions if if not uh we will make a represent that to use a motion for to adopt this policy exactly the way we normally do it and what we're supposed to be doing these policies and things are put out it doesn't matter these policies are put out there for you to look at and observe it's the same policies we always follow in the audience thank you so you're voting on something
037but you're not going to tell the parents here what you're voting on for the school is that is that correct no we're not we're having a public meeting all right let's we're bored we're good just if you have any questions we're glad to address them i have a motion to approve motion by mr drexler have a second by miss webb any further discussion all those in favor motion carries 6-0 next business item is a contract for fuller architecture i'll call him mr spellman chairman junker board superintendent wallace staff guest a um special called board meeting was held on june 7 where the board of education voted to move forward with sending out an rfq for architectural services for this project of remodeling the k building building that we have after that meeting rfq was advertised
038in the winston-salem journal david county enterprise and was posted on david county school's website the rfq was advertised for three weeks after that a meeting for the rfq we accepted a presentation from walter robbs callahan pierce fuller architecture and cbsa architects some all three submitted for the interview process the committee was established to conduct the interviews the committee consists of four staff member members and two board members on august 2 2021 the committee interviewed all three we felt all three firms gave a good presentation they brought a lot of ideas for the project after much discussion the committee felt that one detailed presentation presentation and experience was best for the projects after the negotiation process staff recommends fuller architecture for the k building remodel project their service consists of program development schematics design design development
039construction documents bidding and construction administration staff recommends contracting with fuller architects for the total amount of thousand nine 258 and ninety dollars [Music] have any questions questions of mr spellman and this is to be clear this is coming from the esther funds even yes [Music] any questions thank you and thank you for everybody that participated uh in the meetings do i entertain a motion [Music] part of that committee i would recommend that we prove uh mr spellman's recommendation a motion by mr potts do i have a second i have a say goodbye mr carroll any further discussion all those in favor motion carries 6-0 thank you mr spielman you're staying up there go back to mr spellman for uh hvac bipolar ionization project yes sir mr juncker one of the recommended allowable uses of ester
040funds was to find a way to provide cleaner air in the classrooms to help come back covet 19. staff decided to install bipolar ionization 2 on the remaining hvac units in the classrooms staff requested product information and pricing for three different from three different vendors phenomenal air plasma air and glo global plasma solutions after researching each product we found that global plasma solutions was the best product for david county schools um due to the iss ionization density per cubic feet per minute of air going into classrooms and the installation cost when and we have experience with this product we installed the gps system on on our outdoor supply air units for davie county high school north davie middle pinebrook elementary and connancer elementary school staff recommends purchasing 546 global plasma solution afc 48s for the
041estimated amount of 256 000 and 400 400 256 482 staff also sent out an rfp for the installation of the gps systems on august 24th we sent to six insulation contractors professional air web heating and air commercial air systems honeycut electric hoffman hoffman and tk electric and you got a a bid tab sheet with app and staff recommends contracting with tk electric for the amount of 37 568 any questions i just time-wise the the the units that we have installed already how long how long have they been in place uh we started in 2016 at davey high school north davie palmer gotcha and board members you could handle this in one motion you don't need two separate that's correct that's correct okay okay thank you okay mr spielman i've said this before on other contract
042presentations that that we've heard it amazes me the difference in the price returns that came back in from the highest is it is it bitter the right word yes the highest contract or better yes versus the lowest that's crazy amazing difference it's like some people didn't want to work so they're going to appreciate that that's exactly correct about that too so thank you mr jackson any other questions scene then i'll entertain a motion have a motion by mr drexler i need a second i have a second by miss webb any further discussion all those in favor motion carries 6-0 thank you very much thank you for your work mr stillman next public address to the board ms wilson thank you very much board members as you know you have allotted 30 minutes for public address
043and unfortunately we have more speakers than we have minutes so i would propose that you reduce speaking time to three minutes so that you can hear from all of your speakers would that be an emotion it would that yeah it could be does it need to be extinct [Music] yeah i apologize excuse me i say let them speak well you would just need to extend it past that you need to make a motion for that i would recommend that we allow them to speak i have a motion and then tell me exactly what your your recommendation is well how many of you have signed up we have a total of eight yeah i would i would say that those folks followed the proper procedure to sign up to speak and that we allow them to
044speak [Music] does that need to be an emotion or it does not need to be okay unless there's a will to do something different then we'll proceed as your process is that's fine so we'll just extend the 30 minutes correct all right so the first speaker uh uh members to address the board we'll call your name we'll call the second person so that the second person can be ready sort of in the on-deck circle and uh when you address the board please give your name and your address and you'll have five minutes there is a timer that i think you can see can you see it okay terrific so there's a timer right there so you can keep track of your time and uh we'd appreciate you being courteous and uh how do you already
045know you're the first speaker is this nick yes ma'am fantastic so our first speaker is nick and he will be followed by josh richardson great thank you very much board um superintendent and uh chairman junker um thank you for everybody that came out here tonight to speak on the matter um or what speak their minds my name is nikki beetus i live on 217 vanzant road and i've lived here for seven years now with my wife and my son cassie and emery and uh down the street from my mother-in-law i must say i moved down here from my mother-in-law to move to davie county and uh this is where i plan to spend the rest of my life i've lived a lot of places and learned a lot of things but this is where this
046is where i will retire and spend the rest of my days but i come here tonight to talk about serious matter about the health of the students for davie county um i was a student of public school products public schools myself i grew up in the midwest and uh you know the the thing is that we got to look beyond the um just the the masks i mean just beyond the vaccines and look at the broader picture that we have and you were all here elected as leaders not only of north carolina but specifically of davie county to represent the voices here that we have tonight and i want you to have the courage to continue to be those leaders and those voices that you're elected not from ones that are outside this county and
047superintendent wallace you had some fantastic statistics you had some great numbers that you read off question i have for you i know you probably won't respond how many children school age children in the usa have died from covid how many as of september very good as of september 1st per cdc 326 kids of the school-aged kids have died from copenhagen of all kids under 18 has been 407 470. that means there are still more kids have died from burns last year on average die from congenital heart disease 4.4 more die will die of suffocation that most of that is drowning so things like public pools 5.7 will die will die unfortunately die of cancer 9.6 more times more will die by by guns some of those will be suicides a big chunk of those will
048be suicides unfortunately the time one number one reason for kids dying which is 13 times higher is just vehicle accidents so with that maybe we should taking the idea of getting rid of the you know all the the driver's ed that we do you know we we train the instructors we get the right cars we do all the safety and stuff like that and very specific about it but you know still every year tens of thousands of kids die already this year 52 000 children of school age have died of these reasons so with that and a lot of that is suicide a lot of those are accidents those are under control and the one thing i you know i in my job and just to back up for a second i'm i'm a i'm
049living the work in the i.t industry and i work with numbers all the day i started as a computer program but now i work in cell spreadsheets so this is where my brain kind of goes into what i noticed is i was looking at these numbers all per uh new england journal medicine horse and cdc i'll send you all packets individually email with all my supporting information is that this information is very for for better for worse steady for many years up until we had covered all these numbers stay the same they vary a little bit but they kind of stay the same the one thing that changed with coven one thing that really popped out at me is that the suicide rate the suicide rate for girls last year jumped 51 percent 51 percent
050of of girls and boys too because of covid said this is just not worth it anymore because they were disconnected and they were wearing masks they were separated you upended their lives for something for something that only affected to this date 326 kids yes there are hospitalizations there are always hospitalizations but you know what that's what concerns me 31 of these kids are now being uh have gone to psychiatric increasing psychiatric wards so i challenge you i challenge you because mass to point you out mr dressler mr potts and even chairman junker and mr carroll before this meeting you didn't have the mask on you were talking to each other it seemed okay up until the meeting started and then it was like okay now we have to put the mask on let the kids
051live normal lives you as leaders represent davie county stand up for what we voted for you to be in here for what you what we want you to do what our hearts want and what you are you're leaders here and that's what we want you to stand up for not what governor the governor wants or anybody outside of davy county stand up for davie county your time is up thank you very much our next speaker is josh richardson and josh will be followed by ann bean my name is josh richardson i live at 2103 milling road i got kids from elementary school up through high school in this county i've been in this county my entire life there's some good people in this county but i'm tired of the politics taking over everything to start
052with this pandemic yes i said plan dimmick it's not a pandemic it's a political push and i'm sick of it y'all ought to know it's freaking nothing but political those masks are a joke i've been painting for over 20 years this is a osha certified paint respirator mask it has to be fitted and certified by osha to actually even work it has cartridges that have to come off every 15 hours and be replaced it also has pre-filters that have to be replaced every four to five hours of use now let me show you another thing that's really great about this mask that's where the air comes in okay this is to protect you from vapors okay paint vapors very small right because we can't hardly see vapor right but guess what covet is even smaller
053than that this mask is useless useless against coping period doesn't matter how many times i change this filter it doesn't how many pre-filters i put on here add another mask to my face whatever doesn't matter okay the other thing about the mask is look inside this mask okay inside this mask there's another part inside of it okay you see that see this other part notice the other thing that also protects me because the vapors will also affect me through my tear ducts which is where we also take in infection okay so this mask not only covers my mouth it covers my eyes and at the same time it does not ever ever let me breathe back in what i exhale out which is carbon dioxide why is that because right there is where it comes
054out and exhausts in and fresh air comes in over here every single time i take a breath the mass are sickening they're making kids sick they're causing things just like what nick talked about sitting there pushing them to sit there and be not social everything else but yet we still gonna sit there and keep going on the political thing if you want to wear a mask wear a mask that's fine you want to get a jab get a jab i don't care i can be that person but you have no right whatsoever to be masking my kids or anybody else's because it is not your job to do that you are working for us you work for us i don't care what you say junker you work for us i don't care what you say
055you work for us and whoever i'm sorry keep going well my thing is y'all work for us it is not your place to sit there and mask our kids if we want to mask our kids we'll ask them nick brought up a good point about driving that is a great thing because i've said it before all right so let's just say that you know what car wrecks happen all the time people die you go outside your house you may step off your porch and break your ankle accident's gonna happen you play a sport accident's gonna happen something that could even cause death but let's look at the numbers of that that he spoke of okay far greater numbers far greater numbers than covet deaths all right now let's just say would it be fair to
056sit there and tell each one of you that because you could cause me to have a car wreck you got to stay off the road while i'm driving would that be fair to you you wouldn't really care for that would you no i pride myself in what i take in my body as far as what i eat physical fitness i've been involved with it for years i am a coach i sit there and coached a 14u team this year in february mid-february aau guess what though we're not controlled by the state so we didn't do mass mandates or anything else we went all the way to the end of june not one time do we have a player out anyone out of the organization nor did we ever have a game cancelled why because the
057state wasn't involved in what we did unmasked for the kids the next speaker is ann bean to be followed by charles clayburn well i'm just going to read what i wrote because nobody wants me to talk off the cuff because i can be very abrasive you can ask anybody who knows me but i believe i speak for most parents when i respectfully say leave the health care choices for our children to the parents if you think that because you're the board of ed members we need you to make decisions for us because we are ignorant or in or ill-informed to understand what covid is doing to everybody then you have an enormous misconception of us we understand as parents as parents we've thought long and hard about our children's safety when it comes to masks
058vaccines critical race theory and how we as parents want to handle the safe education of our children you may say that your number one priority is the safety of our children but for us we live that every day they're our children their number one priority is their children there's been tests done prior to coven that tell you how the masks are supposed to be used masks are used to keep fluids from sick patients getting onto healthcare staff they're also used in healthcare staff to keep the sick patients fluids from getting on them in healthy kids like our like ours all they do is trap the germs and they recontaminate our kids over and over that's why the numbers are going up of children being infected but nobody seems to care about that the longer they
059wear the mask the higher the rate of infection for them is going to get i'm just i'm so frustrated with you people i can't begin to explain how i've lost faith in this whole board we've elected you to represent us and you've made it nothing but a hostile learning environment for our children i have no faith in the people of this board and i believe that we've come to the conclusion the way we votage is in we won't make that mistake again and i'm done the next speaker is charles claiborne to be followed by helen claiborne am i allowed to give him my gun no each speaker is allotted five minutes you can pass your time if you'd like i came here today to speak because from what i've started seeing over the last year
060and a half two years has really gotten out of hand i mean when you look at what's going on out there and you look at the numbers and i can speak to you about numbers all day long like nick did and like so many other people have done the numbers are out there you can look at the number of yourself i don't have to see them what i do find really alarming is how much everybody within the political spectrum within the health spectrum is censoring and ignoring the other side of the coin you know i teach my kids every day that you got to look at two sizes every two sides every story two sides every coin every door there's two sides to it and if you don't look at both sides and you only
061get one side of the spectrum and you're trying to base decisions off of one-sidedness well you talk about science and it's funny that it occurs in science because you know there was another person in science who was censored about 400 so years ago back in 1609 he was censored a guy by the name of galileo was censored by the church they were the ultimate scientific authority at the time and they censored galileo for believing in the corpenican theory which was that the sun was the center of our galaxy which we know today it is so how is it that y'all as a board of education can sit there and blatantly just follow a one-sided science i thought we're here to teach education not hinder it and yet that's all y'all seem to be doing in
062science is hindering it you come out with these numbers uh all these kids that are quarantined or infected but what your numbers don't say is how many of them are asymptomatic how many of them actually showing symptoms because everything i've read kids are rarely showing symptoms like he said only 326 have died that's because most things are asymptomatic see we rush to a virus we watch to a vaccine we rush to scare tactics instead of actually following and doing science something else galileo is known for he's known for the father of the scientific method why wasn't that applied with the covid why was it just ignored why did it seem that all we did was rush to a vaccine rush to all this masking everything but we didn't do it in 2009 with swine flu
063why not then 69 million people got infected from that yeah it didn't carry it as death rating but still why didn't we follow it the money wasn't involved then i mean what is it about when you start to look at it it starts to get really despairing that as scientists and is even technology they're censoring that which is the science when you look at the study that just came out of israel because you can still find it despite it israel did a study of 800 000 people and they're finding that the people who've been vaccinated have a higher chance of cake uh carrying cover than not and if i can find this why can't y'all see this why do you all continue to play the the political game with our kids you know you say
064and i heard someone else say is that someone said that one of y'all said y'all don't work for the people you work for the kids well let me remind you you are an elected official you are elected by us and that is the one thing that does make y'all work for us and while this the state of north carolina does allow for the people to actually show elected officials that they do work for thus you see in the state of north carolina you only need 10 percent of the registered voters to have a recall election so y'all might want to remember that when y'all start making rules that go against the majority of what the people who y'all who voted for y'all to represent chose [Music] what else was there actually i got one more
065thing you know a good president by the name of ronald reagan said government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives you all should really think about that y'all really should the next the next speaker is helen claiborne to be followed by joanne landry the next speaker is joanne landry all righty 171 is it farm road advanced north carolina let's get started i got a lot to cover with you guys all right first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to read about an affidavit so i'm going to read some stuff i'm going to be talking a lot about numbers here we go okay the job description of the district school board the school board exists to oversee the activities of the school system ensuring that the students may have the
066best possible experience and outcome budgeting is one of the most challenging responsibilities of the school board and requires the ability to listen to the priorities and the needs of the staff the community and the student body getting into that i'm going to talk to you about what we asked you what we were all voting on i was looking at from your the website about what the government gives you in the funding david county was allowed 14 million four hundred and seventy four thousand nine hundred seventy one dollars you've spent two million two hundred ninety three dollars eight hundred twenty six you have a balance of 12 million 181 dollars and 45 cents now on your what you call your essers okay which does anybody here know what an sr is i probably don't i don't
067either srpc prc 171 that is talking about in here it says the school it allows funds in section 13 school facility repairs and improvement to enable operations of the school to reduce the risk of virus transmission and exposure to environmental hazards and to support the student's health needs number 14 n is inspection testing maintenance repair replacement and upgrading projects to improve the indoor air quality in school facilities including mechanical and non-mechanical heating ventilation and air conditioning systems filtering perforation and other air cleaning fans control systems and window and door repair replacement okay based upon that this is what this man was talking about on the funds let them spend it they need it it's better than masks on number two pcr 172 section 13 school facility repairs improvements to enable operations of school to reduce
068the risk of virus transmissions exposure to health hazards blah blah blah injection inspection testing maintenance repair replacement same thing here is what you guys spent and allocated you allocate nothing to it you spent nothing on it in prc 181 uh allocated was eight million thirty one dollar six hundred and four dollars uh eight million thirty one thousand six hundred four dollars you spent sixty six thousand one hundred eighty six leaving a balance of seven million nine hundred sixty five that is the known as the emergency relief fund and in this the public funds are available through september thirtieth twenty twenty four public school units including lea's charter lab regional innovation schools are eligible to receive funds in the elementary and secondary school relief fund units seek funds must complete and submit an ncp dpi application
069budget by them and state board of education getting to the point it really cares number 13 14 and 15 of that talks about school facility repairs and improvements to enable operation of school to reduce the risk of virus transmission health hazards it goes again to the same thing i've just talked about spending money and on that like i said you still have seven million dollars on the pcr one and pcr two as of july uh first 2021 you guys are uh eligible for that for the samir career acceleration program now getting to part of this spending it says covid relief fund gaggle safety management pcr 138 this gaggle stuff is not really important the only thing that it talks about is in accordance on section 8 with the federal coronavirus relief and economic security cares
070act coronavirus relief fund title 5 these funds may not be used to directly account for revenue shortfalls related to covet 19 outbreak and the funds may not be used for expenditures they were previously included in the units budget as of march 27 2020 so i'm interested in about that 450 bonus anyway getting back to what this is talking about i'm going to read to you about a notice and demand of affidavit of malistration so here's what this goes to we're going to be talking about how i said that the job your school your description of what you're supposed to do as elected officials you have sworn to uphold the constitution of the united states the constitution and the laws of the state of north carolina you swore to bear true faith and allegiance to the
071same and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and that you would faithfully and partially discharge your duties of your office according to the best of your abilities so help you god now uh i'm coming before you as many of these are coming before you as one people on which your power is derived your oath of office affirms that your main purpose is to protect and maintain my individual rights as well as their individual rights by upholding the constitution this includes the right of my heritage and those in my care and my children affidavit is going to be given notice given to you as notice that you are creating or enforcing health rules or mandates i'm also claiming that you are infringing on the freedom guaranteed to us as one of the people you
072are also practicing health discrimination segregation and depriving people of their rights under the color of law in section 242 of title 18 makes it a crime for anyone for a person acting under the color of law to willfully deprive a person of rights or privileges protected by the constitution or laws of the united states in article 1 section three the i'm reminding you that the constitution of the united states is the supreme law of the land to which all government state and federal is subject to your time is up thank you you if you have written that fast in five minutes well it's right in front of you i don't think it was five minutes your time in it is it three minutes sorry i got five right i'm sorry your time's right in front
073of you no but did you set it for three minutes five minutes okay let me just tell you real quick in winding up um i'm glad you're going over the air conditioning ventilation mask remove the child's ability to see facial expressions and learn non-verbal communication which is very important because if i want to tell you what i think of you looking at my eyes is not just enough the other thing you want to know is doing away with cursive limits uh cursive writing limits children from reading historical data and documents like the constitution and i don't trust the system in translating anything because children are not taught to read cursing another attempt of disinformation just like teaching curriculum that is with critical race agenda thank you the next our our next speaker is joe cottle
074to be fire filed by uh danine rice i may have not done that right i'm sorry okay the next speaker is joe caudle to be filed by dwayne rice good evening a lot of these speakers done stole my thunder that's all right that's all right my name is joe cola i live at 2682 liberty church road lived here most of my my life i no longer have kids in the school system but i do have a grandson in the first grade and grandson in preschool and i'm here to stand up for them when they ask me paw paw where was you at when they was taking my freedoms away they would know that i stood there and i was fighting for them if you can't see what's going on in this country today with all
075these mandates dictates lockdowns house arrests you must be living under a rock of what they have planned for us i've learned a lot i spent 13 years in the military 50 years of breath in my life i have an uncanny ability to detect the bs that's try to bloat up my my tailpipe it is everyday everywhere if you can't see it you're full i'm not saying covert ain't real because we know it is and say otherwise would be foolish but the reaction by the government this reaction by this government is a farce is nothing but tyrannical i think we all see that who's nick he pouring out some facts of the kids i've done the math just sitting there 327 that's point zero zero zero zero zero one one three and we're going through this
076nonsense that's what it is is nonsense more kids die from pneumonia every year than this another question where's the fluid where's the flu at my wife's a nurse she ain't seen the flu it just disappeared people need to start thinking critically i can i sit here and argue the data and the facts and the the studies all day long but these folks did that for me so i ain't gonna do that i'm just here today because i'm i'm tired of the bs i'm tired of the mask i'm tired of the social distancing i'm tired of the quarantine and let's call it by what it is it's house arrest no time in society has the sick been put in quarantine i mean the healthy been put in the quarantined with the sick tell me another time
077i can't find it this this is just bullcrap and i'm tired of it just like everybody else here is i have observed the last couple of weeks also sold out concerts and sport events all across this country all with no mask just like y'all sitting here before the meeting without your mask on but we got to put it on to put out on the show here all without a mass what y'all doing to these kids is child abuse point blank it's child abuse if none of you are willing to stand up and speak out and stand up for these kids you all need to resign we can replace you with somebody with some backbone and some god-given intestinal fortitude i'm sure there's some people in this room who will do that in any free society
078in any free society there's there's risk you want to take and responsibilities one of our great founding fathers brings from franklin said those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety this right here that's ball security this ain't doing nothing i got a meter sitting over there i can put it in here in a minute and a half it's going to go off carbon monoxide level too high that means i got to get out of the room but we're going to put this these masks on our kids for 8 10 hours a day that's child abuse i'm just gonna let you all know y'all i'm not going quietly into the night while jelly legged politicians abuse our kids and use them as political pawns if it's
079a fight you want it's a fight you're going to get from this community i'm just going to let you know that because we ain't going back down we ain't going back down and one last remark contrary to some of the opinions on this board you do work for the people if you don't believe me you can sit around here and you're going to find out that you do work for the voters that put you in office god bless you all our next speaker is dwayne rice i'm duane rice i live off of gladstone road can you tell us about the test results where are the pcr tests you know i've talked to a lot of medical people and you know the one thing that they come out and say that they're faulty and then they
080want to change their story and say that they're only faulty through the false you know if they're faulty period on one side then they're faulty all together and we need to put a stop to this critical race theory yes we need to bring back education teach the kids what's about english math the simple subjects and let everything else to us parents you have no authority to be teaching them about race theory we need to make a stand either you work for us especially you junker you the one that wrote me that email and i quote you that said you are elected by us but you don't follow our will you make the rules so either you stand up and do what we ask you or we can take a stand and remove you and vote
081you out [Music] that concludes the speakers i'm sorry i'm not sure you could hear me that concludes the speakers for this evening thank you next committee staff reports i'll call on this foil for accountability results [Music] mr wallace colleagues and guests tonight i'm here to present to you the accountability results for the 2020-2021 school year so last month i came to you and i presented a little bit about how this year would be different than last year at that point in time we had received a waiver from the u.s department of education that waived several pieces of the accountability program we also had received had not received excuse me had not received yet the waiver from the state so the governor has signed into law the law that says we do not no longer have
082to report parts of the accountability measure the school performance grades the growth measures and long-term goals so these are the things i'll be talking about tonight the first is participation so what percentage of the eligible students took tests if you'll remember from last month we talked a little bit about how typically we would test 95 of our students um part of the waiver was that it was okay there were no consequences if you did not test proficiency there are two types of proficiency there's grade level proficiency that's levels three four and five and then college and career ready or i'm sorry career and college ready and that's levels four and five the third thing i'll talk about tonight is exiting el students and those are students that are considered english learners and they take a
083test every year on their english language proficiency and they can exit the program if they score a certain way the last thing we'll talk about tonight is cohort graduation rate that's the percent of students that graduate in four years so first let me talk a little bit about participation across the state north carolina allowed several things to happen this past year to help us get participation as high as we possibly could first they allowed schools to test a much longer window than we typically would have we had to have that especially if you think about our middle schools who were on the a b schedule we needed that longer window to be able to get everybody in to test they also allowed us to to test after school was out so we did test several
084kids after school was out to try to get in as many as we possibly could still is a very difficult job to get everybody in with the quarantines and people across the state did this with varying degrees of success so some did well some did not if you go look at and of course all the results i'll be talking about tonight are out on the state website if you go look at the participation file there's about 3 200 lines in that file it's all the different districts and all of the different tests that they give and it gives a participation rate for every single one of them there's about 3 200 lines on there about 25 percent are less than that 95 threshold to give you an idea of um kind of what it looked
085like across the state what you'll see up here is the north carolina participation rates are going to come up first in grades three through eight so this includes all the subjects reading math science participation was around 93 percent for high school that's all of our end of course test about 92 percent and for act and work keys those career and college ready tests that our high school kids take you'll see 86 percent and 67 percent our participation rate we were very successful in our kids coming in and taking the integrate and end of course test and so we were above 95 percent for grades three through eight and also our end of course test uh we were the only ones we didn't make in 95 are were those a career in college ready test those
086are done by the company act and they are much less flexible about how we can give those tests and when we can get those tests and so we were not able to get as high of a participation rate but still higher than the state average all right so before we look at our proficiency from last year i want to go through a little bit of a timeline a whole lot's happened in the past three years helps me to see it kind of on the screen and on paper uh before we go through all the numbers to help us remember so in 2018-19 which was kind of the last normal year we had some testing going on that was still a standard setting year for math so our math eogs math 1 math 3 those were
087all new tests built on new standards and so after those tests were given teachers got together and determined where the level should be on those particular tests what that means is when that happens you can't compare those tests to anything that comes before that okay so we had those scores but you couldn't compare them in anything before that in 1920 of course in march we did shut down we didn't have any end of the year test that year but we did have standard setting for english too so english 2 is a high school test they give it at the end of first semester and at the end of second semester at the end of first semester they had enough tests that were given in the state to be able to perform that standard setting process
088the same thing they did for math but what that meant is that we didn't have any scores to compare against and english 2 you couldn't compare to anything before that so fast forward to this past year in 2020 2021 um it was a standard setting year for english so all of the rest of english your grades three through eight eogs ela they also had standard setting performed on them and that meant you couldn't compare them to anything before the department of public instruction has also been very very direct in saying that obviously we should not compare scores from 2021 to previous years because of the differences in schooling across the state but also in um you know we were out of school all the end of 2019-20. so this makes my job kind of difficult
089as far as how do i tell you how we did this past year um the only fair way that i could find to really do this is to look at how we did in 1819 as compared to the state and then to turn around and look at how we did in 2021 as compared to the state we have to be a little careful with that comparison because obviously across the state there were some different things going on people had different modes of instruction but it's about the closest we can come to something fair so that's what we're going to look at today is we're going to look at how we did in 1819 as compared to the state and then how we do in 2021 as compared to the state oh and i did have
090a whole slide that talked about all that i do want to say that the other thing that we will use these particular proficiencies for are a starting point so what resources do we need where are we going next with this and so we can use this data from our schools to determine that information all the data that we're getting ready to look at is grade level proficiency i wanted to simplify and shorten the presentation a little bit so i'm not going to go through the career in college ready numbers but these are glps all right so in reading three through eight so this is all grade levels put together in 1819 north carolina was 57.2 percent proficient we were 60.6 proficient in 2021 the state dropped to 45.5 percent proficient we dropped to 50.7 percent
091proficient i will say this that north carolina reported basically as we expected drops in all subjects all grade levels uh for end-of-grade tests which makes total sense if you think about the way our instruction went this past year it was obviously not normal teachers had never done it before but also we told teachers to focus on those big rocks those big standards which meant they may not have gotten as much instruction and in fact we know in our middle school in high school with the adb day schedule they did not get as much direct instruction as they had in the past and so we did expect that drop and we saw that drop happen the difference you'll see in 1819 is that we were 3.4 percentage points higher than the state but in 2021 we
092were 5.2 percentage points higher than the state in math you see the same kind of trend i won't read all the numbers out loud to you i'll let you look at them but you'll see that we were higher than north carolina in 1819 and in 2021 but we were slightly higher than the state in 2021. science we see the same thing and that difference was from 6.9 percentage points higher in 1819 to 12.8 in 2021 which is increase of 5.9 percentage points our end of course test that includes english 2 biology math 1 math 3 you'll see in 1819 and then in 1912 i mean in 2021 and the difference was we were 1.9 percentage points higher in 1819 but eight percentage points higher in 2021. i will say a note about the end-of-course test
093you will see if you look at our data that our math 3 score was the only one that didn't go down okay and so that's a very curious thing and i wanted to point it out and i wanted to say something about it because it's very unusual and very different but the reason was in 1819 math 3 that was the first time we had ever ever given math 3 as an end of course test and so students actually didn't get graded on it because the standard setting process had to happen there was no way for us to know what grade to give them and so they didn't have any grades on that of course that probably meant that the students did not perform as well on those as if they were going to get a
094grade for it but also i think a lot of the students and a lot of the teachers considered it more of a field test and so the effort just wasn't put behind us we actually scored i think 16 percentage points higher in 2021 than we did in 1819 on our math 3. so if you saw that you you might go wow what happened there so i wanted to talk a little bit about that our performance composite is the big grouping of all of our eog and eoc tests and so you'll see there the difference between 1819 and 2021 and again when you look at that we were 5.1 points percentage points higher in 1819 and then eight percentage points higher in 2021. so in all cases we saw an increase in the amount of our
095proficiencies were higher than the states um although it's difficult to pinpoint reasons as to why that might have happened i'm sure that our schedule and being able to have kids in front of us all year long had a lot to do with that whereas a lot of the districts in the state were not able to have that same success because they didn't have kids in front of them the whole year all right so let's talk a little bit about exiting english learners when a student comes to us and they indicate that their home language isn't english or that their first language wasn't english we usually give them a screener and the screener basically determines whether or not they're classified as a el every year they take a language proficiency test and they can exit the
096program if they score high enough on that in 1819 north carolina exited 9.2 percent overall of all their english learners as a district we exited seven percent inside um for 2021 you'll see that north carolina exited less than five percent of their english learners and we ended up actually exiting 7.4 percent so our english learners performed well better than they did in 1819 um that actually put us as 12th in the state so when i go in and do rankings and i look at the comparison of other districts and us that meant we were 12th in the state all right so the last thing we get to talk about tonight is the four year cohort graduation rate so our graduation rate is not the same thing as a dropout rate so you have to think
097about these are kids who graduate in four years so they might not have dropped out of school but if they don't finish in four years then we don't get to count them as part of our graduation rate if you look at and i put the last seven years or so worth of data up here here's the history of north carolina it does have a generally upward trend there was a little bit of a drop um in this past year uh this is davie counties and so you'll see um we kind of go along with the state with some ups and downs here and there so we're kind of up and around but you'll see here and in one of our biggest celebrations or the biggest celebration from this past year is that our graduation rate
098um this past year was 88.4 that's the highest we've ever had and so we're very excited about that and i would consider that one of our huge successes from this past year it takes a lot um to get a student all the way through to graduation and so i think that this success can be attributed to everybody in the school system every employee we have all the way down to preschool all the way to you know our school nutrition workers and our custodial staff i think everybody has a piece of that and so it's a truly amazing feat especially in a year like last year so i'd like to say thank you to everybody for all the work that they've done to get to that point this does conclude my report for tonight are there
099any questions that you have not a question but just another comment and we hear it all the time about what a great job our staff is doing and the results of that is obvious here that the staff not only last year but in previous years has done an excellent job and so i'm sure all of us would say kudos to those folks any other questions comments question for you yes 11.6 percent of the students that did not graduate in the four-year cohort that didn't mean that they didn't graduate after five that's great do you have the number well we have i have the five year from this past year but our i mean like the people who were supposed to graduate in 2021 are probably still in school right now so um i mean for
100some of them they're not all there but yes for our five-year graduation rate um it was 87.7 percent for that was our five year so and that's less than the four year that's less than a four year rate well remember that it was looking at the previous year that we looked at our rates so if you go back and you look here in 1920 we graduated 87 no i'm sorry davey county 87.5 percent of our students and so it did go up to 87.7 for a five-year rate and so our five-year rate was a little higher than our four-year rate was in 1920. yes yes our five-year rate once we get to the end of this year 21-22 our five-year rate will be higher than 88.4 okay thank you mr dressler to your point of
101your question as we working with ignite davey and trying to do everything we can to make sure kids graduate and there and i haven't looked at this number in quite a few years but i think by the time most people are 25 i think it's 93 or 92 93 percent of the people have a diploma somewhere in there so in other words it takes some a little longer than others and i think we're doing a better job recognizing that and we're trying to make sure that we support that your qualification that you set up front was that the numbers you were going to describe were of students that did finish in four years great you finished in four years but that doesn't mean that if you didn't finish in four years you didn't finish at
102all or and or you don't get to count those that leave here that started here but leave here and graduate from somewhere else that you would never know to put them on the list or not well true but they do they do count they don't count against us so if they leave us and they go to a qualified educational institution even our adult high school students so if they leave us and they go to davidson davy and they finish adult high school there within their four years we get to count them in our rate so that's that's actually a really good thing all right any other questions i know it's a challenge every year but especially a challenge this year for everything all the work that you've done on it as well so thank you
103for that thank you but it's awesome thank you thank you next i'll call on lori dingler for the optional covet testing in school hmm good evening so i'd like to talk to you guys about cova testing in schools we have the opportunity to this this year to to do covet testing in schools north carolina department of health and human services will be providing tests for our school district there will be no charge to davie county schools in order to participate in this program we have until september 13th to opt-in there are two options i'm sorry there are two options available for the cova testing program option one is the state contracted with a vendor we contracted with the vendor and they assist with testing we would like to take advantage of this option we are
104able to design to design our own testing program and our own testing plan and the burden of the coveted testing will rest not on our nurses but on the vendor the vendors will assist with all aspects of testing if a staff member needs to be tested the vendor or nurse can do the testing and perform the rapid antigen test if for some reason they need a pcr or molecular test that they can also send that out the vendor will also be responsible for entering the negative or positive test results into the state reporting system so our nurses would not have to do that option 2 option 2 is the independent testing program here in this testing program like i said we would like to do option one with the vendor but this is another option
105to be responsible our nurses would be the ones responsible for this testing part of the testing program there are different types of testing that we can do and you can read here we can do diagnostic testing which would be testing of individuals who are showing symptoms and then screening testing is testing individuals without symptoms randomly or in a group to determine the presence of kevin 19 an example of screening testing would be nfl players that are tested on a regular basis to prevent the spread of covid or testing someone after they have traveled outside of the country before they can return to work or school we would like to do diagnostic testing this is really for convenience for our staff and i'll go into more of that later on so in addition to testing additional
106funding will also be provided from north carolina department of health and human services and given to the school system this money must be used to hire additional support staff such as another nurse rn lpn or a uap unlicensed assistive personnel the staff that we hire with these funds will primarily assist with coveted testing and related responses such as what we're doing now notifying families of test results and contact tracing and also reporting results of the test to the state we can also use this extra staff to catch up on some of the normal stuff that we would do during a school year like the hearing and vision screening and seeing kids in the health room so why testing in school matters we are offering free rapid testing on site that facilitates a quick coven 19
107diagnosis we can take detect new cases to prevent outbreaks we can reduce the risk of further transmission we can protect the student teachers and other staff from transmission what would we what we would like to be able to do is increase family confidence in school attendance and to increase family confidence hey guys hey guys please be respectful for us we'll be respectful for you guys as well please and for her presenting all this and the hard work i would appreciate so this is just an overview of testing so davie county schools plan for cove testing it is completely voluntary we would test symptomatic staff or students is a rapid test it takes 15 minutes so in 15 minutes we would know if a student was positive or a staff member was positive we could get
108this positive staff member out as soon as possible and we could immediately begin contact tracing a lot of contact chasing that we have done over the past year and beginning of the school year has been late in the afternoons and early evenings sometimes late evenings so we would like to be able to begin contact tracing as soon as possible again let me say like mr wallace said earlier we would not ever perform a test on a student without parental permission and that is signed parental permission so we're just we're just presenting this is just a presentation this is just a presentation there's no questions from the crowd guys there is no questions from the crowd guys there's no questions from the crowd we're doing a presentation here if you want to leave you're more than
109welcome to leave hey it needs to be done i hate to say this but cody needs to be done by a medical doctor not a nurse plain and simple i just want to know it's the parent's responsibility to get a test done that's why this is optional guys guys if y'all cannot stop i'm going to ask you to leave please thank you laurie i'm really gonna regret it open zero is a myth next item on the agenda is adjournment i'll ask for a motion i have a motion my miss will have a second mr drexler all those in favor motion carries 6-0 we are now adjourned [Music] you