CorpusRecord 232683

Board of Education Meeting - 7/10/23

A searchable transcript preserved as part of the Discourse Corpus. Passage numbers provide stable references within this record; verify quotations against the original recording when available.

Source
YouTube / Lancaster Central School District (NY)
Date
2023-07-11
Location
Erie County, NY
Material
Transcript
Extent
2,047 words · about 12 min
Collected
2026-06-24

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001foreign for you collection of officers thank you that was 1401 students Max 4.2 uh the administrative Administrations foreign I would love it foreign but I'd like to say congratulations all right I quickly like to thank my colleagues for support again this year thank you this is gone all right officers without additional communication 6.1 we have a motion to the point of the board any comments or questions follow us in favor anyone against motion case without objections from six six point two is six okay 6.3 Deputy treasure tax collectors 0.5 our internal things and 6.6 circuits any comments or questions call those in favor anyone against motion carries 6.7 thank you so much 7.0 official undertakings 7.95 motion on the bonds can you comments or questions all those failed anyone against Focus without objections 8.1 establishments

0028.2 of the 2000 budget counted a second any comments or questions official newspapers special videos follow this in favor objections authorize the designation of signatures with signature flights and Support Services located assistance thank you and 9.6 authorized the Chiefs score see any comments or questions fantasies thank you authorized participation activities 9.9 authorized authorized purchasing purchasing organizations [Music] of field trip services and use of District models authorized 1913 authorized officers per hour carriers assistance services payment s 1920s nine any comments or questions without objections will receive the adjustments services any comments or questions foreign thank you sir all right I think we need my cookies Michael Jackson series all right then thank you all right what's up okay thank you all right so much behind 6.11 the points positions 15. 16 contributions July 1st 2013. 10.17.5

003assessment and testing services basically thank you evidence Agency Insurance Support Services thank you assistant okay okay any comments or questions without objections instructions assistant for business and support services director of secondary education foreign officers designated education received thank you guys 10.41 a point assistance services information any comments or questions position s okay all right 11.2 other items objections together hold up 3.1 establish complete reimbursements foreign the draft is a bit so Peter industry the district-wide safety plan is inequalities with education and commission regulations and is designed to prevent unions and emergencies thank you comments exceptions are also being updated safety Consultants um 2016. all right hearing none um Association Amy from the Lancaster Central Station good evening uh just a couple quick things just wanted to congratulate Mr Sage on retaining his office as president

004and Mrs Cohen on her appointment as the Vice President also welcome to Mr Talbot to the board of education and um secondly uh lcta would just like to thank the district in the port last meeting improved our successor agreement to the CBA and I just wanted to take a minute and thank Ford thank the district um Dr Bailey Dr Poole Mr Tamiko for the meetings and it's always good to have a contract in place thank you thank you history Graham from the Lancaster Association of service personnel Lancaster Association without substitute teachers moving on to the 16. so we spend I'm sure a lot of simple things but um since our last meeting since together so I know I'm going very much challenge from different parents congratulations [Music] that's okay thank you on to 17.3 so

005far this project started arriving ly experience thank you very much thank you Dr Brown 18th announcements and 19th new business 19.1 items uh any comments or questions yes worked for a food service department since 2013. so um foreign okay anyone again congratulations okay all right moving on to 19.1.2 now I kind of emotion on the personal changes any comments or questions all those in favor anyone against motion carries 19.2 education points 19.2.1 any motion and special education hey what's your questions always a favorite anyone again any comments or questions what are you gonna guess promotion here 20.0 is business in financial aids 20.1 can have a motion from the financial reports of questions anyone against motion cares 28.2 has a motion of the policy adaptions of questions follow us in favor anyone again 7420 sports

006channel subjects 80.5 degrees follow those in favor anyone against motion carries 20.6 and I have a motion of the 2023 2014 course C fund favorite anyone against motion carries 20.7 can I have a motion with a bit of Summer transportation of students with special needs any comments or questions anyone against 20.8 we have emotionally contract with Summer transportation of students with specialties call the Supreme anyone against 20.9 except the option results any comments or questions follow us in favor anyone against motion clearance 20.10 it has a motion found in these Surplus or questions anyone against motion carries any questions answer questions any comments or questions and answers questions any comments or questions books 2015 no promotion of the donation acceptance any comments or questions properties 17. an evolution of the contract with the pbia advancement

007questions all those in favor officers thank God that's questions are you going against motion characters anyone against motion parents LLC anytime all those bigger motion carries 21.0 is fine speakers will support US president and then identify themselves three times welcome to all who have come to observe this meeting this evening this is the time to set aside here a time that we invite members of the community to share ideas we welcome this opportunity each person is too impressive this is a meeting held in public meeting which means the rest assured including the family education privacy foreign everything all right so I'm going to be talking a little bit about the difference between children and adults or questionable and contained pornographic passages just call it what it is result distinct cognitive emotional processes that shape their

008unique perspective here are a few ways emotionally charged perception the teenage brain is characterized by heightening position between team reactivity this emotional lens compelled how teenagers interpret and respond to events and experiences strong Focus on their own emotions an example would be a teenage test the emotional intensity and reactivity friendly lead them to interpret the Pacific as a personal failure triggering feelings of frustration disappointment even shame I'm sure that we can all agree the covid um remote learning it all did damage registration staff nobody involved by New York state but we can all agree that our kids suffered mentally definitely um so that you know goes into different state um first perception adolescents may have a different perception risk compared to adults due to the ongoing development of the three frontal interests involved in risk

009assessment decision making teenagers may be more inclined to take risks be great engage in the growth-seeking behaviors they might want to novelty is less likely to consider skateboarding down to CPL their teenage brains with ongoing preferential cortex development which does occur after a week after 18. um they've received the risk of society and freely focus more on immediatement and social approval that they might receive they may underestimate the potential dangers for long-term consequences associated with the activity I also think about this when breeding out to passages they might not know different skin ball you might say oh well you know I just want to try this you know I mean if you look up detransitioning that goes into that there's a lot of kids out there and I'm not saying it's a big deal right

010now I think it's very small percentage but de-transition once a kid starts to transition they might have regrets down the road whenever their adult brain is saying well at five years old I wanted to be Superman and you know well maybe today I want to be a girl well let's go get on those hormones um and they may regret it down the road there's that um perspective your relationships and social acceptance crucial proceedings the Adolescent frame is highly attuned to social their lovely environment um and the desire to fit in with their peers including like the month of Friday um this social perspective can influence how teenagers perceive themselves interpret social situations and make decisions um a good example for this is like if they see in their environment that they go to eight plus

011hours a day oh let's you know let's celebrate Pride let's celebrate this how I mean have I know for my me personally I have seen the rate of people associating themselves with being you know gay transgender at least and that has gone up to through the roof and a lot of that is associated with mental illness I'm not saying those kids are wrong I'm sure some of them are gay bisexual and whatnot but I do think a lot of that has to do with social pressure all their friends are doing it let's all try it you know and so there's that environment um and they can you know read that from books so I mean this is not like an anti-gay thing or anything like that this is more having to do with the passages

012of the books which leads to them wanting to try that go down the road and I think that that if you want kids to see themselves as books even gay lesbian bisexual can we try to take books that don't have graphic passages I mean that is kind of sad that there aren't like informational books appropriate to age without going into graphics sexual conduct in those environments same thing with you know Fifty Shades gray it's shade great but today it's great it's a heterosexual sexual book I do not want that in the library just like I don't want them talking about other forms of sex in the library I believe in education you know let's teach how babies are made heck yeah that's education that's school that's definitely school but outside of that I feel that

013we need to I feel like it's become a battle like it's parents I guess the administration teachers and the life I feel like I want all of us to come together we all want the best what's for the kids and I just feel that we should look more into this issue and I understand it's easy oh it's a policy I can't do anything about it but how can we do something about it how can we be the people that are Paving the way for other school districts who are scared and afraid but you know there's a lot of parents like hey I just am brave enough to get up here and speak my mind and my voice I know that there are tons of parents out there that feel exactly how I do probably even

014more passionate but they're scared they're very scared because it's it's intimidating not a problem um in the end I I love Lancaster and I want us to figure this issue out this is easy to solve we just kind of do it together I'm available Dr Valley I'm available I will head up whatever you want me to just tell me what to do and I know that there's behind me that will join me as well thank you thank you Mr Sterling Linden that's okay I wanted to oh Stephen Manuel 517 Central Avenue also the pastor Faith United Methodist Church in the village um I want to thank you for your response to our statement um I didn't want to respond to a couple of things one of the things you mentioned was that um I um

015asked I had commented three books obviously but uh um it's not it's not my job to investigate all the folks in the district once I've seen period another thing is um you you mentioned that some of these books that I read from that one of them is not available any of the districts one of them I read from is indeed available to teachers this is so uh this book is gay the one I read from three zero six seven six d-a-w it says there's two copies not in the non-fiction section two copies in the back office flamer uh is six n seven four one five c u r multiple section of the high school red white and royal blue uh f f i c m c u it says it's available in the romance section

016of the high school so uh it's all available in your high school um and also the one thing I want to comment too is you said no student is required to read any of the books mentioned in your letter students and parent Guardians have a really choose whether to read any follow or none of equals uh as Tara talked about come on kids and look at without principles uh and then lastly uh the books the books were selected clients with our policy and therefore will remain in the library your policy says uh that you've taken account uh maturity levels uh section a section B says look ethical standards like what your ethical standards are if you allow these greatly obscene reading materials in the library so I'm not talking it's nothing to do with sexuality

017we don't have r g for gay and R is straight all students all minors have this have to be protected people against uh materials that are if we we always scream materials it doesn't matter it's inappropriate people and um you say that uh um be you enable students to make intelligence judgments in their daily lives on books like this book is gay which I know there's two copies available for students or two in the back says teaches kids how to meet a trip online using grinders for sex maybe you know what a trick is somebody who pays for sex so there's a book in there that's telling kids how to go online and meet somebody who wants to pay them for sex that is not an intelligent decision in their life and um so but

018I am was happy to see section c in the second part which says materials will not be excluded because of race nationality political opinions or religious use of the office with that in mind I have a letter here for my church uh dear Lancaster Board of Education we would like to donate the following books Lancaster schools for the education of our children I was pleased to see that your policy states materials will not be excluded because of race nationality political opinions or religious views of the office if any of these folks are not admitted into the stacks which is now called a book Banning apparently please let me know so that I may use the book's Health Week first book Is Why Thanksgiving with Steve days second one as you grow by Kirk Cameron the

019third one Rush Revere the American Revolution by Rush Limbaugh love sex and God for young men by Bill Amos sex in the new you for boys by Daniel Weiss sex in the new you for girls by Daniel Weiss love sex and God for young women by Bill Amos Tyndale New Living Tran translation team Wipe Out the patient Study Bible the next one is the American story The Beginning by David Barton separation of church and state by David Barton and lastly the absent Bible God's Redemptive story respectively submitted Reverend Stephen Manny [Applause] thank you Patrick thank you 22 I told these are a German before we adjourn uh our next board meeting is going to be August 7th 2023 at 7 pm right here anyone against who she carries thank you all for coming

This transcript may contain errors introduced by automated or source-provided captioning. Bracketed descriptions such as [Music] are retained from the source. Passage divisions are editorial aids and do not alter the wording.