001Intended. And those we serve help us to bring wisdom and humanity to our deliberation and I spirit to our work. Thank We have a pretty big agenda tonight. So the Board of Education, uh, comments, we're looking forward to commencement and the prom and, uh, having a great year end. So I'll pass it on to the first vice president. So, Monica, Good evening everyone. Thank you for attending our meeting. I'd like to say thank you to the C-P-P-T-S-A for donating funds for the senior barbecue. I'd also like to congratulate Madelina Bino for receiving the Nassau Association of School Technology Award Recognition. Well, well deserved, well earned. She, um, takes leadership with Jen in our district to teach all our students about technology and, um, she's doing a wonderful job. I'd also like to share, um, my
002condolences and sympathy to the family of Tom Reddin if you are an alumni. Um, Tom Reddin was a, uh, phys ed teacher, and, um, he held a high bar for discipline, focus and inspiration so much that even alumni continued to be inspired by him. Um, he passed away recently and, um, one of his claim to fame was, um, he was a major in the, uh, um, US Marines and in the sixties for consecutive years, car Place High School was the, was the winner for National Competition Fitness Awards for the US Women Competition. So, so there's something to be said. I'd also like to share a quote from one of his former wrestlers, and this is what was said. Tom Redden was a great supporter of the friends of CP Wrestling. His lessons extended far beyond
003the wrestling map teaching us the values of perseverance, integrity, and teamwork. God bless. So as you can see that his legacy will be carried on for quite some time. Thank you. I'll now hand it over to you. Second Vice President. Uh, good evening everybody, and thank you for coming to tonight's meeting. Hi, I also wanna congratulate math for her receiving Master's Nassar Award. Our kindergartners just wrapped up an exciting project based learning unit on plans to animals. Your classes were transformed into a vibrant zoo with each class focusing on a specific class. Animal students created detailed dioramas and proudly shared, shared their knowledge with fellow Cherry Lane students and teachers. I fel thank you to all the teachers who brought this unit to life with such creativity and enthusiasm. I also, as we close our
004final Board of Education meeting Tonight School here, I wanna take a moment to thank our community for your continued support and partnership. And I wish everyone be safe and happy and happy, and I hope our seniors have a great time. But be safe to be operationally, To be safe. Alright, one good evening. Uh, I wanna congratulate all, uh, students and comments being recognized tonight. Take the shout out to, uh, when not third, third go around for Madelina. Um, big, big, this is big achievement. Congratulated her to James Park Place's first ever recipient of National Award, which honors innovation, education and technology. Um, Natalie has spent over 20 years in our district as a dedicated social studies teacher and tech leader, helping staff and students alike grow in their understanding of all things innovative. Um, she's
005also a craft graduate of our place, just like me. The class of 2001, which is, is, uh, you know, I, I think of Madelina as, um, well, I was home. Uh, I had a very, a medical issue when I was in a high school, was home for a few months. And as much as I didn't want my homework, I needed things from school, uh, she made sure I got it every day. Um, so that's what I think of. So if I have an opportunity to, you know, put the spotlight on her, um, and this is quite that opportunity, I'm make sure I do. But congratulations, Melanie. Uh, we're incredibly proud of you and, uh, you're just getting. So that's all I got. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Welcome to all of our folks. We're
006going to be honored tonight. Um, well, it seems like a long, long time ago. Now, I want to say again, congratulations to our varsity softball team. They had an incredible run. I see several of our players back there. A lot to be proud of and a lot to admire. So well done young women. Good job. I also want to say a big shout out to all the students who I have seen doing a ton of studying this spring, coming into the summer. They're still coming into school for extra prep classes. I know our younger students are studying hard at home and that's a really, really admirable thing to do too, right? That's why we come to school to learn and to grow our minds and, you know, keep doing that. You're doing yourselves proud, you're
007doing your family's proud, you doing that? Um, I will say you may have seen outside the document with the QR code for the thought exchange around the governor's cell phone ban. This is last call for thought exchange. I'm gonna send out one more reminder, um, tomorrow. The number of responses actually literally doubled overnight when I sent out a response. So thank you to everybody who has chimed in on that. And we will be contacting the folks who want to participate in our steering committee on that. Um, it's an important, it's an important piece. We're gonna have our final, um, academic presentation tonight, which is the portrait of a graduate. And many, many of our committee members are here tonight. And I'm super grateful for their presence. And as Mr. Zino said, we're looking forward to
008all of our moving up, um, ceremonies into commencement. And I want to remind everyone to have a great graduation season and for our seniors and our older kids make good decisions, right? Make smart decisions, be safe, be back in good shape the next day. 'cause we want to see you walk across that commencement and have fun. Just be smart about the way you're doing. Um, other than that, you know, we are always here in the summer. There are a lot of projects that go on construction, professional development, all of those things. We are here if you need us in the summertime. School never really closes even though our students are away. So thank you very much for a great year, everyone. And, um, that's all I have for 10. Thank you, Dr. Are There any,
009uh, public comments on agenda items? Only? There being no public comments on agenda items. We'll move to the, uh, recognitions. So we'll start with the reflection. State qualifier. Danielle Green. Hello. Good evening. Um, so today, uh, we are here, um, as a art requirement in the The DTA Music and Art Music Club to present a special award. So about, um, two years ago, I introduced to the high school, the national BTA reflection. And so I make all my high school and middle school participated. And this time for the, as long as I can tell, for the first time ever, one of all of our student was selected to, and it kept moving up. So first it's local, then it's, uh, long Island and regional, and now it's up to states. So it's still in the
010run in for national. Um, so, and I think it's the first time in CarPlay history that when our child gets to our student, gets to that level. And I'm very honored to present with our work to Daniel Green. I have here his artwork, if anybody wants to look at it later. Um, so the title was Accepting Perfection. So he looked himself at what things that he has to work on in his, his own life. Represent that through, uh, art. No, I have, I don't know if Daniel's here tonight, um, but I have his award, his national PTA award. Congratulations day. The next recognition is the AP capstone. Good evening everyone. Uh, thank you for having us. Uh, tonight is a celebration, uh, of our incredible middle school high school students and their academic achievements. I
011want to thank our central office administration and the board of education for your ongoing, uh, support and giving us the opportunity and the support of our STEM B and humanities departments. While I always love I'll end of the year, uh, awards for athletics and fine arts, I'm just excited tonight to be here to shine a light on the academic achievements that our students have earned. So we're gonna start out, uh, with Mr. Mailing in the EP capstone program. After that, we'll, Mr. Dko will come up and talk about our National Junior Honor Society award winners. Then Mr. Rubenstein, we'll talk about our seal of biliteracy and seal of civic readiness. Then Mrs. Re and, uh, Mr. Dema will talk about our Science Olympiad team. Mrs. Palmer will then speak about, uh, the decker and, and
012that competition. And we'll round it out with Mr. Lauren talking about our first in math competition. So, without further ado, Ms. Smith, Good Evening. Just A little few words about what AP Research is and what the Capstone program is. I teach the AP Research Board. So AP Research is the second course in the college board's prestigious AP capstone program. In this year, long class students design and carry out an independent research project on the topic of their choice, culminating an four 5,000 word paper and a presentation with an oral defense. Basically a mini dissertation. The AP capstone diploma is awarded to students who complete both AP seminar and AP research, along with four additional AP exams, all with scores of three or higher. The following students are candidates to be the first ever at Carl
013Place. Okay, so the following students are candidates to be the first ever to earn this honor. We'll receive the official results in July, but I am confident in their success and incredibly proud of their hard work and dedication. I couldn't have asked for better students. So please come down when I call you. Congratulations to Izzy Buscemi Maru for UR Andraos Medal. Thank you Mr. Mailing. Uh, Mr. Domingo speak on behalf of National Junior Honor Society and also with a co-advisor Mrs. Poll. We are proud to announce that ninth graders Renee Ra and Alyssa Oli have been selected as National Junior Honor Society Outstanding Achievement Award recipients, both Alyssa and Renee will receive $500 in a 5 29 college savings account to be applied toward their higher education recipients are chosen based on their demonstrated work
014to support the five pillars of NJHS, scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship. Join us in congratulating Renee and Alyssa on their Accomplishment. Thank you, Mrs. Palm. Mr. Dko. Next we have Mrs. Rubenstein And Mrs. Mailing As the medal holder. Good evening, everybody. So first, today we're proudly recognized students who have earned the New York State Seal of Biliteracy, a distinction that honors their high level of proficiency in English and at least one additional language. These students have demonstrated not only strong communication skills, but also an appreciation for the value of language, culture, and global understanding. Through Rigorous coursework, assessments, and culminating projects, they have shown that they can read, write, speak, and listen with confidence in more than one language, an achievement that will serve them well to college in careers and in life. This
015seal reflects dedication, perseverance, and a commitment to connecting across cultures. It's a powerful reminder that language is both a tool for communication and a bridge to understanding mothers. We celebrate these students today for their academic excellence and their role in building a more inclusive and connected world. So when I call your name, please come down, Roberto Abello for Italian. I'll give you the certificate. We were gonna have you kneel and be, but we didn't have a sword, so you'll just get, is that okay? No. You want kneel? You good? Oh, Elise Biggin for Italian. Jolie, also for Italian. Aria Chori for Spanish. Luna Cornell for Spanish. Olivia Dko for Italian. Christian Farina for Spanish. Adina Fier for Spanish. Amelia Fort for Italian. Evangeline Renoso Moya for Spanish. Nico Rodriguez for Spanish. Julia Rubin for Portuguese.
016And Jonathan Zoo for Mandarin. And for the first time, very proudly this year, we are awarding 27 students with the New York State Seal of Civic Readiness, which, um, will appear on both the seal of Biliteracy and the seal of civic readiness. Students will receive those seals on their diplomas. Um, the students who were recognizing for a seal of civic readiness have demonstrated not only academic achievement, but also a deep commitment to civic engagement and responsibility. By earning the New York State seal of civic readiness, these students have shown that they understand how government works. Not a lot of people do. So that's good. How to make their voices heard and how to actively contribute to their communities. They've completed rigorous course work, participated in meaningful civic experiences, and reflected thoughtfully on their role as
017citizens. This seal is more than a symbol on a diploma. It is a recognition of the skills, knowledge, and values that define strong civic leaders. We are proud to honor these students for their dedication, their action, and their example. Please, when I call your name, come up and accept your certificate. Adina Fier. Samira Za Roberto Abello. Olivia Dko. Matt, be Marissa Novi. Marfa Machu Luna Cor Kate St. Joseph Aquia. Jonathan Zu. Joey Beenbaum. Jason Pereira, Jake Santos. Jack Ano, Isabella b Hudson Shea. Julia Shalia. Evangeline Renoso, Moya Buron. Raj Amelia Johnson, at least begin. Daniela Falco, Ariana Pera, aria Chori. Amelia Fort Andraos Makis. Congratulations guys. You made every single social studies teacher so happy right now. Thank You, Mrs. Rubenstein. Next we have the Science Olympiad, Mr. Four Acre and Mrs. The Mayor. So
018Science Olympiad is a national STEM team. Competition stem, in case you don't know, stands for Science, technology, engineering and Math at the regional level. The high school team here at Farro Place plays 17th out of 41 teams and earned two medals. And our middle school team earned one medal. So meddling consists of getting first through eighth place in a number of teams. I wanna take a moment to acknowledge the dedication and effort of the young STEM team. So my middle school team, uh, predominantly the team was seventh graders. So they did amazing for their first time. And they represented Coral Place very proudly. Both teams worked hard and rose to the challenge of tough competition. We, me and Ms. Ker are very proud of their efforts and we look forward to even greater success for
019next year. Best wishes to our seniors who are graduating. We will greatly miss them, and Ms. Ker will call up our medalists. Second place for in Helicopter, David Kim Blake Eno and Eshawn Go. And in seventh place in air trajectory, Jonathan Zu and Hudson, she and for our middle school team, second place in potions and praises, violet O'Connor and Son Patel. Thank Mr. May, Mr. Next up, uh, to talk about our deck award. Mr Means, uh, Mr. Palmer. Good Evening everyone. Uh, Ms. PPAs is very sorry that she can't be us with us in person tonight. Her daughter is also receiving a very special award today. I know she works very hard with these students, so it's my pleasure to present these awards on her behalf. The DECA Emerging Leader Honor Award presented by National
020DECA is a prestigious honor reserved for graduating seniors who have shown outstanding leadership and commitment to the organization. To earn this award, students must meet several rigorous criteria, academic excellence, relevant coursework, and active leadership driven participation. This year, Carl Clay Deca is proud to recognize two recipients of this national award. Roberto Abello, our DECA president, and Samira Asam, our DECA treasurer. In addition to this honor, we had strong performances at the DECA State Career Conference in Rochester, New York, Samira, Assam earned top 10 overall in apparel and accessories marketing, as well as top 10 scores in both role play, one role, play two, and her exam. And Sebastian Renoso plays top 10 in role play, two in restaurant and food services Management is Sebastian here. Thank you Mr. And last, but certainly not least, Mrs.
021Lauren to discuss our seventh graders in the first in math competition. Hello. So this year, um, three of our seventh graders, um, won the regional math competition for first in math. And it was the first time, uh, this competition was open to, um, the seventh and eighth grade. So we're the first ever regional winners, and when you win the region, you win a thousand dollars for your school and you get to go compete at the state level. So we had three students, Nathan Bossy, Madeline Clancy, and Daniel Kovi that qualified. And so I accompanied them to Albany on May 31st. And, um, we competed for the states and we were very delighted. Uh, right before lunch, we found out that we placed in the top three and we got to go on to the final
022round. In the final round, the students had to explain their strategies and they had to prove to the judges that they had not only the best strategies, but they actually understood their strategy and they had to explain their equations. So it was very enlightening for them. It was really exciting for me. Um, those of you who know me, I definitely cried. And, um, it was, it was just such a great day. Um, the way they announced the winners, they announced their place and we're sitting there. They didn't say our name, so we're kind of looking and we're going, they didn't say our name. And then I said, well, they're gonna announce second place, so we're just gonna clap politely, whatever name we say, we're just gonna clap politely. And then second place, they didn't say
023our game, so we looked at each other, we went, we won. And so our first ever seventh grade, first in math competition team won $5,000 for the school. And, um, they got these wonderful trophies, but I'm very proud to have worked with 'em. Um, they were just a pleasure. They're so enthusiastic about math. Their numeracy skills are outstanding. Um, I was so proud to be there with you. Congratulations, Nathan, Madeline and Daniel. I also, because they don't get to keep any of this money, um, I reached out to some of my friends and my friend at Texas Instrument sent each of you a graphic calculator for high school. So come on up and get your prizes and your trophies Towards just in general. First and foremost, congratulations. I'm stuck one way at the corner of
024the school. I don't really get to hear about all like, the major accomplishments all the time if it's not sports. So it was really nice to see some of the awards and the certificates that were given out. Um, thank you to the board, thank you to administration, Dr. Ate re, um, parents, students, uh, everyone here that's made a sports season. In my first year, what I believe is a tremendous success and not my first year, tremendous success with sports and the programs and the kids and performance. And we had some major success on the varsity level. But, you know, just remember for every, uh, Marissa and Brian Lee, they started a room just like this in middle school saying, I one day get, you know, that opportunity to play on the big stage. I have
025to play for the eighth grade team. If I belong on JB better than that, I'm better than that. They worked their ways up, uh, the right way and they practice and they paid attention to their coaches and they learn skills. And, you know, they, they learn teamwork, sportsmanship, uh, leadership, the important roles that you learn at the middle school level. And now a majority of our senior athletes are not only county, wall Island and state champions, but they're great people. And it all starts from the skills and the opportunity that they have in sports. Every day that I walk to my office, I passed a, it's pretty polarized. Matt Snell football. Has anyone ever seen it back there? Matt Snell. The, they scored the one touchdown for the Jetson, the Super Bowl. He's a professional
026athlete. Went to the NFL, super impressive. Our Rushmore physical education teacher and also our varsity baseball head coach, Steven l Went to the major leagues, played baseball, was living out his dream. Super impressive. But when I look around and I study up about, you know, the history of Coldplay athletics and I, you know, look upon the wall and I hear stories, I don't see an overabundance of professional athletes or people that made it to the majors. Um, but honestly, it's totally fine with me. It's totally okay. Uh, it's not the point, it's not the goal. The goal is to become good citizens, good people to develop into the future, leaders in tomorrow. And sports, uh, this is where you learn those skills, the leadership and teamwork and the sportsmanship which are gonna propel you. So
027you're not just becoming better athletes by playing in our middle school sports and our varsity level. You're becoming better people, preparing yourself for tomorrow and preparing yourself to take on the competition. So for that, I just wanna say thank you to all of the middle school athletes, thank you to the middle school coaches. And uh, I'm just so proud and privileged to have this opportunity to present these sports. So with that being said, I'm gonna start with the boys middle school tennis team. I'm gonna first call up the coach Kevin Russell Snap for the, uh, the certificate for leadership. We have severe sync. We have Daniel, Unfortunately, You had a little bit of injury playing soccer today. Couldn't make it. But for teamwork, uh, once I'll say it, I'd like to call the a seventh,
028eighth grade baseball coach, Jose Espinal. Just so everyone knows, I'm not biased in baseball, we do have a few extra rewards, but we think we combine a seventh and eighth grade team. So for leadership, we have Daniel Kelly, Anthony Raa, spring Sportsmanship, Anthony Arveo, seventh, eighth grade, middle school softball coach, Marissa Che, Leadership Award, world Cole Group, horsemanship Victoria Pierce. We Were Lydia Ana. I'd like to call our middle school girls Lacrosse coach up Kaylin O'Brien leadership, Emma Barros and Teamwork violently. I'd like to call our boys middle school lacrosse coach up Mr. Ryan Johnson for leadership. We have Ben Hampton sportsmanship, Connor Recover, And Teamwork Vincent. And lastly, I'd like to call our track and field coaches, Lauren Queen and Christina Reso. She can't make it today, but for leadership, we have Ariel Lida
029for sportsmanship, we have Theodore Dumping. And for and for teamwork, we have Jalen. Woo, 1, 2, 3. All right. And lastly, you know, one thing I've learned also is that I'm, I'm fortunate for the company that I get to keep, you know, in this position. And not only do we have amazing coaches, we also have amazing people that volunteer their time. Um, lots and lots of hours, you know, for the success of our kids kids. So I just wanted to quickly appreciate that as well. Um, because thank you. What else can I say? But thank you for all the hard Work you do. First I'd like to pull up Jen Johnson, Christian Pellegrino Baseball, John Delio baseball, and Carl Ner. Thank you. One of the most important, uh, organizations in any school district is its
030PTA and its septa. And I get the privilege of working very closely with PTA and SEPTA every year. I'm happy to be a PTA De SEPTA member for probably the last 25 or 30 years. They're that important to the school district. So we have our PTA volunteer awards tonight, and first one goes to Ms. Kimberly Ridge, our PTA Council President and middle school high school PTS President. We also want to recognize Mrs. Candace Ley, our Cherry Lane, PTA co-president and Ms. Alexis candidates Archer PTA co-president. Also Ms. Jacqueline Kroger, Rushmore, PTA, president, and Ms. Anna, our sector president, special education. Okay, from here we move into our community member. Volunteer community members, for a variety of different reasons, come out to support Coldplay schools because they care about issues that are important to them and
031they care about issues that are important to students. So we want to recognize those folks tonight. And those are Luann Bon, one of our safety team members. Huff Council member. Also two people who I think need no introduction even though they might not be here tonight. And those are John and Barbara Heslin, the president and director of CarPlay Seniors. Now we come into one of the most important things that happens in terms of keeping our finances in order not as the audit committee school districts are ordered internally and externally. It's an important piece of keeping our records straight and being transparent to the community and to New York State. And the two folks who support us in that are Mr. John d Frisco and Mrs. Nancy Kingston. And last, but by no means least we
032wanna recognize five volunteers without whom none of this would be possible. And that those are the members of our Board of Education. So I want to start with our board president, Mr. Lawrence f Zino, Jr. Our first vice President, Mrs. Vanessa Don Monaco, second vice President, Mrs. Kathleen Rudin. And our trustees, Dr. Patrick Dfy. And is Jacqueline, thank you very much for all the hard work you do for the district. I believe that that concludes our awards for volunteers and for our students, um, for this evening. Thank you everyone for all that you do for the district. If there are any students still in the room, you're certainly welcome to stay for the portrait of a graduate presentation or if you want to go home and study, you're welcome to do that. We'll skip the
033book of the graduate presentation for the moment We Go to RESO five first rate policies. 5.1 is artificial intelligence. 5.2 is maximum 5.3 is investments. 5.4 is officio student board members. And 5.5 is education of students. In temporary closing, we move to six approval of of minutes. May have a motion to approve the May 20th, 2025 business meeting. All in favor, 6.2 may have a motion to approve the June 5th business meeting. Minutes Make motion. You all fair? Alright, I'll move to the uh, consent agenda. On the consent agenda. Rezo 7.6. I would like to remove, uh, Connor Rearden's name from 7.6 to be voted on separately since Trustee Ridin is on the, uh, on the board. Okay. And also I'm going to remove honor reading from seven point 10, uh, for boy's. So be,
034uh, that be voted on separately. But for the consent agenda, seven point 10 account, which Connor rear is in 7.6. Uh, con rear will be removed. So may have a motion to remove Connor rear from 7.6. Motion Favor. May have a motion to remove Connor rear from seven point. I'll make a motion. All in favor? Aye. We'll move to the consent agenda. Ma'am, we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended. I make a motion. All in favor? Aye. With regard to ZO 7.6, Connor ridden Ross City boys soccer head coach, may I have a motion to approve? Uh, Connor ridden I'll make motion? Yes, sir. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All abstained with regard to seven point 10. May I have a motion to approve Connor ridden as boy soccer? I'll make
035a motion. I am sorry. Do I have a second? Small Second. All favor a may I have a motion to approve Connor ridden as girls' basketball coach I in seven 10 I All in favor? Aye. All ab abstention. Okay, That's it for this part of the Meeting. Now we can go to the, uh, presentation. All right, Take just a moment for ourselves to get organized. Mark, go. So thank you very much to the board for the opportunity to make this portrait of a graduate presentation tonight. This is the fourth and final of our academic presentations for the school year. Um, each of them has built on one another and portrait of a graduate is no different. I wanna also say thank you to our committee, our presenters and our committee who are here. Um, many
036of them are with us. I would say much like James Brown's band, the hardest working committee in education. And we really, really mean that it's a privilege to be the superintendent of any school district. It is especially a great privilege to be the superintendent of a district like car place because of how much the community recognizes our schools as the hub of everything that goes on in this, in this area. Um, tonight is the culmination, like I said, of a four part series. Each committee is mutually supporting in each other's work and recommendations. They all have a lot of importance to what we do. Car play's, portrait of a graduate ties everything together for us. So why don't we pursue this work? We pursued this work because our students deserve the best preparation that we
037can give them. And having a locally controlled portrait of a graduate means that we get to determine what matters to us as a district. And we don't have to really worry about the positions from outside. New York State has its own portrait of a graduate and that is all well and good. This is Carl Place's Portrait of a Graduate. This is a reflection of who we are as a district. Um, we want to use these characteristics to help us set our own goals and guide our students development as scholars and athletes as healthy civic minded members of society. We saw our students were working towards those efforts tonight. Um, I wanna, I want people in the wider world when they meet our students outside of here to say, that's a call place graduate. That's a
038person who's significant and they already are. And this work will help build added significance to that. So the mission and vision is always our starting point. It is more than just words on a slide or it's more than just words on a poster. They speak, they speak to the tradition of car place. They speak to innovation in our district. They keep us focused and on task. We started our work with the mission and vision. And an essential question, do we mirror the future workplace? Because that's the name of the game. All of our students are going to go on to careers of one sort or another. And we want to make sure that the work we're doing helps mirror that. There is no easy answer. There are a lot of yeses and there was some
039nos. Our mission and vision and the essential question has helped us do the work that brings us closer to always being able to answer that question in the affirmative 'cause. We always wanna say we're, we're mirroring the future workplace. As we prepare our students. We also start our presentations with a quote, because quotes say a lot on a very few words. This one is extra special 'cause it comes from one of our committee members. And if you pay close attention to the italicized letters in the quote, they spell out something really important to us, which is a pretty nice feature. Um, but let's, let's look at it together. Portrait of a graduate means commitment to academic readiness in lifelong education, preparing leaders, learners for a changing error. So with that, I wanna hand things off
040to Mrs. Barbara Kelvin to talk about our charge to the committee. So, um, welcome and good evening. Um, our committee was, um, thinking that committees should always have a charge. We need to, we needed to keep focused and to keep honest, that's what committees need to do. So we refer to our charge throughout our work to remind us of our goals and to be sure that we were addressing those goals. We remain centered on the idea that our work needed to prioritize professional learning that was leading to outcomes to help the CarPlay students thrive in a world where the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity is the norm. So we aim to always produce students with the intelligence. We resilience, confidence and agency to thrive in any environment. In addition, we wanted to make connections. We
041wanted community involvement. We also wanted collaboration. So we deliberately said to ourselves that this work cannot be done alone. We deliberately set out to harness the power of the community through in-person and also digital information gathering. We did recognize that our car place colleagues and the colleagues across all Long Island could share the benefits of their learning and their experience. We felt that that was quite important. We sought the expertise of university leaders because they're the people who receive our freshly graduated high school, school students and who know what they need to know, understand, and be able to do. We certainly cared a lot about what our students had to say because this work has be done, has been done on their behalf. And now my colleague Dr. Ula, I'll continue. Good evening everyone. So
042as you can see from this list of committee members, we had a really great cross section of Carl Place, educators, administrators, teachers, general education, special education counselors, psychologists, ENL teachers, speech therapists, really great representation. It was wonderful to work across disciplines and grade levels with my colleagues, um, longtime frogs and also some newcomers. And our parent focus groups included parents of current CarPlay school students and parents who chose to send their children to private high schools. Everyone had a valuable perspective. Everyone put students first and everyone had a deep love for our district and our community. So tonight's presenters, myself included, chose to make the extra commitment to spend the evening sharing with you our process, sharing our work with the board and with the community. I am personally grateful and I know we all
043are to have been part of this Roles and responsibilities. We took our roles and responsibilities very seriously. We approached our work as learners with sincerity, with seriousness, and a healthy dose of joy. When we say we read, analyzed, and discussed, we really meant it. The community felt at times like we were taking a graduate level course. Um, but it was a lot of fun. It was cohesive and joyful as the best classroom cultures are. And our parent focus groups took a similar form. Parents approached their work with enthusiasm, vulnerability and intelligence. They quickly found common ground in working for better student outcomes. We are very grateful for their time and insights. And now my colleague Jen Bambino. Hi everyone. Thank you for coming. Um, so I'm gonna speak a little bit about the committee research
044that we did and boy did we do some research, um, from peer reviewed articles to mainstream media to high level corporate documents. We read deeply and drew meaningful conclusions that you will see borne out in our recommendations. We learned from other excellent school districts, but we didn't copy them. We just wanted to understand the state of the art regarding POG and to make decisions that are great, a great fit for us for car place and its culture chair. So how do we shape our learning? Each member contributed thoughts, insights in a small team or whole group. Uh, conversations and discussions. All of the members came, uh, prepared. Well-read, ready to work. Ms uh, Dr. Conone had very thorough agendas and homework assignments. We asked critical questions, displayed healthy skepticism and brought the kinds of curiosity
045and growth mindsets that the best educators model for their students. Our visual speak, uh, visual thinking work helped us make meaning of complex text and concepts. We drafted. We revised our thinking, um, until we were satisfied with the level of clarity, conciseness and rigor, the same things that we would expect of ourselves and our students in the classroom. And just as a side, this was truly one of the most rewarding professional learning experiences I've had in a long time. I believe everybody on the committee would agree. I would go into other school buildings and we would have side conversations when we were not in full committee mode about the work that we were doing. So, very proud and I know and it was awesome experience to work with everybody across the disciplines and the different
046buildings. I'm gonna pass it over to Roe Hunter. Good evening. So, um, the key learning and discoveries current co police parents and parents of called police youngsters in private schools shared their thoughts in honest and happy, in an honest and happy manner. They were honest about what we do well and what we need to do better. They had no illusions about the up ups and downsides of the parents' roles in the educational process. Regardless of what schools their children attended. Our parent members emphasized the need for rigor, strong analytical and communication skills, and good old fashioned common sense. Seeing their child master the characteristics shown on the slide would do any parent proud And they all have a place in our portrait of a graduate. For many years, educators have said that we have to
047change with the times change is accelerating. So we really cannot simply stand still. We learned about the implications of preparing students for the VUCA context, the need to be curious, flexible, collaborative, yet able to assert themselves and the need, the needs that they have, the strengths to work really hard and that they may get knocked down. But to get back up and keep going, the need to master concrete facts and concepts will never go away. How we access them and what we do with them, that seems to change every day. The final bullet on this slide does a lot to sum up what POG what why POG matters to our district. From the outset, our committee agreed that the characteristics had to be something that the entire community had the chance to weigh in on
048and they did so with enthusiasm. These thoughts, comments, and questions confirmed that we are on the right track. Our thought exchange data and our focus groups helped confirm that the POG characteristics were meaningful and that are something that our district can stand behind. I'll pass on to my colleague. Thank you Rob. So now here's the big review, the highly anticipated characteristics portrayed by a Carl Police graduate. You may have heard about them from a neighbor or a colleague, you saw them in dog exchange. But here they are officially for the first time. The 10 key characteristics of a call place portion of a graduate come from three perspectives. The longstanding values of our schools and community. The research our committee did to understand the demands of colleges and universities, the world of work and the
049ever changing realities of the future. Our experiences as educators, parents, and people with a vested interest in student success. We are proud of the portrait of the graduate characteristics. We look forward to actualizing them, making them real living features of life in cardale schools. Our recommendations section will provide you with more details on that And how have the pub to see the compassion and passion book in the community's ranking of characteristic importance. In some ways it's not surprising that these characteristics are the ones we settled on. The process was subject to much debate and considerable revision. In several cases, we discussed how one trait was encompassed by another so that we could have conviction in selecting that particular characteristic. A combination of research and direct input guided our work in designing learning experiences, clubs and
050productions, teams and organizations that help demonstrate students' mastery of these characteristics will be one of the great joys of being a car place educator. Over the next several years, Ms. Michelle Renia will take us through our committee's recommendations to see how we'll execute that. Good evening everyone. The first recommendation before we talk about it, recommendations need to be measurable, achievable, and clear. And we're meeting those criteria. This set of recommendations addresses our students the most important part of our community. Our goal is to make POG relevant and to create age appropriate ways for students to demonstrate that they are on the road to truly embodying the POG characteristics. The goals speak for themselves. They are inclusive of places where students typically have to demonstrate their next stage readiness and give them even more reason to
051want to distinguish themselves or call a police graduate. You'll make some sure the students understand what POG is, why it matters, and how mastering its characteristics will help them achieve significance and success in life. I'm gonna pass it on to my next colleague, Mr. Anthony. Thank you. Good evening everyone. And moving right along to our recommendations for the faculty and staff, our faculty and staff recommendation to prioritize clear messaging. Okay, Just stand here. Our faculty and staff recommendation to prioritize clear messaging and support for educators. We believe clear is kind and support is essential. We wanna emphasize the importance of portrait of a graduate without making it seem like just another thing to do. Therefore, we wanna be clear about where it dovetails with already existing work. Not every single assignment is portrait of a
052graduate writing. It fits where it fits and most educators will see that enhancing overlay to so much of what we already do. It also provides room for growth. We also recognize that our portion of our graduate work is, is inclusive of the recommendations of the three committees who preceded us presenting over the past few weeks, uh, to echo his bambinos, uh, comments and several of the other committee members. It really has been great work. Thank you Dr. Koni. It's been a, it's been a good run with this and I'd like to now turn it over back to Barbara Kel. Thank you. No worries. I'm not gonna put this on top of the not top. Well, I think I wanna start off by saying, wow, what a turnout tonight. To celebrate our students, our teachers, our
053community members who are volunteers, and our board of a and also those who are live streaming. Wow. Because our, our committee realized that a school district is nothing without the community represents. And because of that we needed community recommendations as well. We will use our many small and large engagement moments to make good on these recommendations. Conversations around the dinner table, on the athletics, or in chance meetings will be enriched when community members know what the portrait of a graduate is and how it's going to help students represent themselves and their hometown in, in the best possible light. And now we've come full circle. So serving, bring back to Dr. K. Thank you very much. So one of the things that we want to do as we're coming to the end of our presentation is
054that we want to hear from students. And I might need a little help for a moment just to get this video together. Um, Ms. Gage, put this video together for us and you'll just hear very briefly from some students talking about embodying portrait of the graduate characters. Let's just bear with us for a moment. I am openminded, I'm hard. I am, I'm a Critical. I am Brazilian. I'm compassionate, I'm collaborative. I'm a conflict resolver. I am. I'm intellectually, physically and emotionally I graduate. It's, it's a, it's a small thing to see something like that. But these are representative of our students and this is why we're doing this. 'cause you know, everyone in this room, everyone who was in this room today is committed to making them be as prepared as they can possibly be.
055And I wanna say thank you again to my committee. What a wonderful group of educators. Really, really impressive people. Seriously, thank you to the board for giving us the opportunity to have these committees in the first place. And we'd like to open it up for question, comment, or conversation. I'll, um, you can tell that you work, work together and how you network, pull all the information. So thank you. Um, I, I think, uh, parents and are are looking forward to progress on results of how you measure it and what you report. Not to update us with, because it sounds fabulous. Things Echo each one of these presentations, speeches, strong teams, and uh, show, you know, the work that's been really, well, obviously done the work. I, I love the idea of we celebrated a couple
056of, um, you know, new seal representing and achievement from our students. And there's so many to be, you know, we're represented in that and celebrated and that's, that's the best part of being in this room right? Together in that way. Um, I see this too as like, you know, core place graduates have a reputation that seed themselves, right? Like we know whether it's industry partners, post-secondary partners that we, we are sort of branded that way, right? You kind of know what you're getting in the car place, right? I think that's the, I would know I, that's what I get from this. What it's at the part of the division thank Us And our parents. Thank you all to the Members of this. We appreciate the time You put into this very much. You did a
057wonderful job. Very, very much. Amelia left us Alan, you take, you look sharp, super sharp. You got anybody from the committee? Didn't you wanted to be in the part of the team? Part of the team? I'm not taking, bring it in Jen. Ready? 1, 2, 3, 1 in school. At this point in time we can open up, uh, open up for any uh, questions or comments that anyone may have. Down. Hey everybody. Um, a couple things. Mind o'clock tonight because I got a few things to say that um, no understand. Gonna take some time. Um, first I want to uh, say to Joanna 'cause I miss the uh, tenure night. Um, congratulations Mothers group. Um, when I was on the board you did a great part for me. So thank you very much. I appreciate
058it. And I'm sorry we uh, I have not seen eye either here, but um, the majority of our relationship has been very productive. So thank you very much. Um, I already talked to Lauren and all I'll say is Cherry Lane is blessed. Um, couple things that are good, couple things that are still need to be approved in my opinion. There's people who were very, very con involved in trying to find out what that um, presentation was gonna be. You finally had it on the web tonight and thank you for putting it on the web. But it would be nice if we can get a presentation in paper to pick up. 'cause personally I can't print everything in color and everything at my house. And like I said before, I'm paying taxes, the least I can
059do is get a paper handout And I was very impressed by the committee because some of you might involve, no, I'm very involved with a coalition that uh, is fighting a lot of the state's regulations or um, demands that they put on schools and boards. And I was very happy that there was no state buzzwords in that portrait of a graduate. 'cause I gotta tell you, had there been, I wouldn't have been too happy because state doesn't define anything. They just put up a lot of stuff that sounds good but there's no meat and potatoes behind it. So congratulations on that. And to everybody who worked on the committee, that was great. There's a bunch of other committees though that you're, you are working that I've looked up for several reasons. Number one, a lot
060of people ask me some of my opinion since they know I'm involved with the state two, I'm gonna support some people in this town for reelection or new elections and three, who knows what I'm gonna do. So I'm following what goes on here. And Ted, when I clicked into certain presentations, I don't have a password because some of these you can click on a certain sentence and a word and I can get in. Okay. It would be nice if somehow some way we can see all the detail. Okay. Because those four committees as I approved when I was on the board, are important to the future of the school. And I would like to be able to support 'em and explain it to people who ask me questions like what's going on. Sure. So, and
061there are other people in town who might not have kids in school and might not have a password who either are going to have kids in school because they're young or are just concerned about what's going on at the school. It'd be nice to fill 'em in. I mean they are voting for the budget every year. It'd be nice to sing our praises as I said at another meeting. Um, then the last thing is I've got a concern about, you know, what you just put out in a letter. And again, it wasn't on the web, I guess it was a letter to middle school parents about where we're going with what I call putting school kids in lanes where you said there's some kids who are gonna go forward. There's 90% students, 85, 80% students
062go in this lane and 65% right? I don't have a memo in front of me. Number one, my concern is I don't know that the state is already approved. There are new no regents agenda. Alright? So I hope we're still preparing everybody for re Number two. If you have to cut off at 90% for kids to move into the upper echelon studies, let's say whether it's AP or um, I don't know what we used to call it Monday, but you're cutting out a large portion of students that before were not cut out. 'cause I checked and the way we did it before was we had a conference with the teachers, we looked at their grades and we placed students appropriately, but we weren't as restrictive as this memo sounds. So my concern is the following.
063How does a student who's not in the nineties today and put in the nineties but not put in the nineties lane, get back into the nineties lane once they hit seventh and eighth grade. That's number one. Number two, have you given the students and the parents, most importantly enough lead time to understand that when they're in Rushmore they better pay, pay attention to the i-Ready scores and whatever other scores you're evaluating for the kids to move into these lanes In middle school? I don't think we have, because a lot of parents have told me they have it and I think you tried, but parents don't pay attention to a lot of letters to, to them from the school unless they're called in to have a presentation in a formal, this is what we're doing. And
064I say I'm concerned because I sat on many scholarship committee meetings and I can't tell you how many students said to me, I was never serious about my grades until, and some was not middle school, some was the high school. So how do you assure that everybody has an opportunity to excel at this school and they're not cut off from it? And how do you explain that to the parents? So the parents ensure that their kids are doing the best possible because the parents are on top of them. Had my wife not been on top of my son, it might have been a different story. My daughter forget about it. She was going wherever she was going. So that's of big concern to me when we say we want to go forward and we want
065to go up. When we say that it's not the 90 and above students only, it's the whole grade. It's the whole a hundred, 110 that we have. So how do we do that and where are we going here? Because my sense is it's getting back to the old days of you don't need regents to graduate. You're in an accelerated class or you're in mainstream or you're not going to college. That was distinctly what I saw again from your letter. 'cause I went through it, The complaints that we had in those days from the parents, my wife being one had two and Mrs. Bki will be in three. And I say that because the board knows those names. We're always concerned about the students in the 65 85 range when they said they didn't get enough
066attention. And some of those kids could have gone on to greater things here if they got the attention. So tell me what the plan is. Who is, are we ready? Yeah, because I don't wanna Yeah, yeah, I'm done. Alright, So I'll I'll I'll try to go point by point and if I miss anything. Great. Um, I appreciate the point about having, um, printed copies. We did have a whole number of printed copies. I think probably people took them. That means we have to print more in the future, right? 'cause it's important that people have access to a hundred percent. Um, and we will make a point to fix any of the links. Right? I know Jen is already looking at me on that. Any links that aren't working, we wanna make sure everybody can get
067to them with Mark it works but it flicks me to a password. That's what I mean. Right? We wanna make it be fully, fully accessible and thank you for saying that. You can make that happen. No problem. I think that the letter you're referring to has to do with science and mathematics for middle school. Yeah. 100 more. Alright, good. So connected to that Mr. For Acre and I and Mr. DeBlasio and Ms. Fredericks have had several parent conversations. I know Alan has had a lot of them. Um, we had an in-person conversation with some parents in my office about it and we also did a new graduations measure information session last year. So I'm try to take those pieces one at a time. I think the 90 and above is, is a set a little
068bit higher than what we have it set at. So we might be a little bit off in terms of numbers on that. I'll start with this. All of our students matter, whoever you are, 100% means 100% right. And we are not trying to move back into some sort of tracking situation. It has become apparent all over Long Island that it's not always beneficial for students to start Regents exams in eighth grade. Some kids are a hundred percent ready to go in eighth grade. Some kids might do better for themselves if they start their Regents exams in ninth grade. Alan, can you tell me more accurately the right cut points on that? Yeah, That's fine. Um, it really said 90%, it's part multiple conversations. Parents passing weeks requiring value spoken dialogue. Yes. Quarter average is one
069thing. There's also Yes, not part of as well assessment part as well. Um, but I've had three or four conversations in past weeks and, and what drive the fact that just because you might not be in certain class seventh grade does not mean that keeps them in, that we have multiple students this year going seventh grade non honors are accelerated to Accelerator four equal. So it's not always locked into place. Yeah. The memo clearly has kids locked into place. So you might be evolving, but then I hope you make adjustments to that memo at some point in time. Right. Because you go to college b plus a pretty good grade doesn't get you into the a's here at Call Place though. And my other concern is this, how many kids go to private school this
070year? I'd have to look at the exact number. I also want to, somebody knows the kids hadn't registered in April. I I can get you the exact number, but I don't have it right now. I also want to put one other point in because you had asked about Regens exams as far as we have been told time, and again, even if the state makes Regents exams optional for students, they have told us over and over again that school districts will always have the option of requiring regents when we have parents in this room. The other night we said our intention is to make Regents exams continue to be the flagship, the main way that you demonstrate graduation revenues. We're not backing away from that. So just wanna make sure that's great. We're clear on that.
071That that's great. But here's, here's my concern with what's going on. Number one, the state has said regents are not that important. They're gonna phase them out. I hope we continue to push as many kids towards Regents as possible. But what's really critical is not the regents, but what the colleges are requiring and universities are requiring for students to get in. And that the parents know what those requirements are so that they could push their students to accomplish the rigor of colleges that they might wanna send them to or their students might be trying to get into in the longer term. I agree that some kids are not made for students and the idea that some are just going to go to work or the services is great. And I think that my concern is,
072I wanna make sure that call place has the rigor that doesn't turn parents off to say, I'm going to private school, I'm going to call place anymore because called Place only has a hundred kids in a STU in a class. We lose 20 kids. That's huge here. And the rigor that we offer will turn students and parents to this school versus private school. So connected to what you're saying is the idea that we purposely had a parent focus group for parents who chose to send their kids to private school, I wanted to hear from 'em, right? And two of our committee members sat in on that with me. Mm-hmm. And they talked about a variety of reasons why they chose to send their kids to private school. Some of them weren't that surprising, some of
073them are really kind of a surprise. And rigor is one of those things, right? We are on the same page as far as that goes. The board is on the same page as far as that goes. The work that we did in our four committees, curriculum alignment, stem, steam, literacy, portrait of a grad is meant to. And that's what our recommendations are all about. Continue to raise that level of rigor even as we think, even as we keep things accessible for all of our students. 'cause we don't wanna track somebody into something that decides their fate at age 10 or 11. And that means more and more thorough information sessions for parents starting in elementary school and continuing on through high school. Tailoring the understanding and the learning for kids who are going to particular
074types of college or who wanna specialize in something or who want to go on to career. I know that each year, each graduating class is a little bit different. If we look at the colleges that our students have chosen this year or the non-college career paths or the military paths that they've chosen. We have a really, really outstanding group in this class of 2025 that I, that represents a broad spectrum and and that's what we always, always need to be aiming at. And it is a hundred percent correct to say that keeping parents informed is one of the most important ways to do that. Like yourself. I had a student, a child myself, that I had to stay on top of to make sure that we have a good outcome. Smart person gives a lot
075of guidance. So I I feel you there, Doug. Well, parents need a lot of knowledge. That's the thing. So the other thing is the, again, push from the state to push more kids who are not going to college into professional roles is great idea. We had it when I was going to school, et cetera. But I hope if there are children that have to go to BO Cs for whatever reason, because academically they might be on the um, brink of not doing well or doing average and they choose, I hope the parents are involved in that decision to send them. And we don't take a position to push kids and to BOCES because it was being done here and a superintendent said, we're gonna stop it. Prior to you, one of the superintendents said, we're
076not doing that anymore. We're gonna challenge our kids to succeed. And then if they really want to go, they go. I think I'm on the same page. Okay. When you were on the board, Joe, we had the same issue with kids leaving the, uh, the school maybe eight to 10 kids a year and then some would return to the three return. It's the same issue every year. I know. Finish and then we'll, we'll give you a few more minutes then I'm gonna close the meeting done. Um, the reasons are we don't have religion here. Another reason is, is that there is no dress code here. Maybe they believe that there is more difficult classes or rigor in the private schools than there is here. But we've also had programs, I think when Tom De was
077here where he asked parents to come down and listen to what we provide the kids in high school and we provide a lot here. But uh, there's also the le also the issue of legacy. You know, uh, you know, I know a father, he has two kids. He went to Shaman, he wanted his two kids to go to Shamina. So you can stand on your head and uh, and and request, you know, why are you leaving? We provide equal or better than what the other schools provide, but they still don't go for all, all of those reasons. So Larry, I don't disagree with whatever you said I was part of that, I know that. But whenever curriculum changes and standards change, you've gotta watch that count again and make sure that the prior reasons are
078still the reasons versus they have new reasons. That's all I'm saying and that's what the administration is doing. Alright, that's good. Alright Joe, thank you very much. Thank you. And Eileen, congratulations our retirement and thanks very. Thank you. May I have a motion to close the pit? Thank you for taking my question. I actually wasn't here to talk about this tonight, but um, since it was brought up, this is something that is actually, I'm going to bring it up with what's happening with the school. Um, so I appreciate it, Joe, for you bringing it up. Um, but so I'm actually, I have three very different kids. I have a junior who was just recently diagnosed with a DH ADHD this year who just really started caring about school. Um, who is like flying and doing
079amazing right now when he was in eighth grade. I'm not a New Yorker. We knew nothing about the regents and I found out that my son was gonna be taking a high level classes. I begged for anything else besides my child taking a high school level class. And they're like, there's not an option. Everybody does it. This is what you do. You take this regent, um, you passed, thank God. Um, I don't know how much that he passed. Um, and like I said, to now he's moving forward and he, this year at the very last minute literally decided that he was not, he's literally August 29th, I'm being exaggerated. And he took, um, anatomy and physiology this year and he made him decide that he wants to be a nurse. So 'cause of that, he's
080now taking AP bio next year. So he is looking into nursing and he's afforded that opportunity to be able to look at nursing schools because he will have the AP bio. Now I have my a middle child who total don't even, it doesn't matter if that put my, my soon to be seventh grader is a child who has a a IS for math and reading. She's, um, average on everything now. She's aged out of that. Um, her scores, um, for science are a 99 2 9 4. Um, and she's not able to to move forward that on her side back and forth, literally since September. Um, that was, as soon as I learned September, there was not much I could do about the iReady scores at this point. At that point we're working on it,
081but the more just was, it was only one year of time and we worked on a lot. She made a ton of improvement, but obviously not enough to go into, into the matters. Um, so we're still, you know, we're back and forth. I know the conversation's still open and I've been short of that. Um, but for her, she's, you know, her other scores are for reading and math. She's in the eighties, mid eighties. And so she right now is not being written on her. So I have been back and forth on this as well because I feel like she, she's crying, she's asking me that she wants more and I have been told back and forth it's not, it's not the best thing for her. So I just feel like she's being pigeonholed into the
082seventh grade non honors class. And again, as a parent, I don't know what's best. I'm, I'm thinking that she wants to do it, so am I gonna hold her back. But I'm getting a lot of pushback. So I just feel like there should have been more time for parents to know. I feel like there's been, I don't know exactly what happened with it, with their current seventh graders moving into eighth grade, but they're not taking, lot of them are not taking it. So there's really only that small percentage that's taking it. So I just feel like it's, it, it is a problem. And there's a lot of parents who I, so I have opportunity have an older child right now, so I understood that I didn't understand any of this a few years ago. I'm
083learning this still. I really don't even a hundred percent understand exactly. But I do know that I, I work in the, because I know that she'll be able to take all the regents if she wants, but she won't have that extra flex here now if she does not take the Regents class. So that's kind of, so there, there's a lot of issues with it and I do think that a lot of parents have concerns and some parents don't have concerns yet because they don't understand it yet because they're not. So I do think that it really needs to be under explained to parents a lot better and an earlier age. So I just, I just wanted to thank Joe for bringing that up in, in, I was actually really surprised, like everything he was saying
084really didn't know that anyone else really knew a lot about this besides the current parents who're going through right now. So I just think it's a really, really important, um, topic right now. Um, um, and then just one more thing, I just wanted to bring awareness to everybody about the safety of the, um, because the meeting was closed early this time and I was here and I was not able to say it, but safety in the parking lot with the, for the, um, the, um, the, the, like the, the parking lot because it really concerns me when there escorts go on. So now that we closed the back, people are dropping off and picking up and people go all the way down, I pick up the 17 point turn to where they wait there and
085you the 17 point turn to get out and then there's like, it's just so dangerous. So I don't know what we can do, but I just wanna bring awareness to it. One of the things like, I don't know if there's a way to make an exit there or we lose a spot and there's already, you know, very precious spots that, you know, a lot of kids already don't have that are seniors. So I don't know, it's just something that I wanted to bring awareness 'cause I don't know if anybody's really noticed that, but it's so big since that back is closed. Especially like when there's sports going on. I understand why the back closed when the, when the buses are there, but it becomes just a bottleneck and it's so dangerous. Um, and even like
086I one day had to literally had to back 'cause their parents all waiting for their kids behind parked cars. So I had to, I wasn't room to make turn anywhere. I had to go all the way down that parking lot and obviously I stopped, but there was, there was, you know, walking this way. It was, it was just, it's very dangerous. So I just wanted to bring that up and bring it to your attention that that's, I know's a big problem. Thank you for allowing me to speak as such a Motion.