001[Music] okay okay good evening i'd like to call the order of roland wilson regional school you all surprised me indivisible okay so before we get going with public comments just one update i want to a little far away we did have a resource lined up to help us with that unfortunately we lost that resource but uh thank you to joe delay who showed up and helped me i did only ask the school committee as well as uh superintendent zane to be on the stage tonight that's the other coach to sit at the front two rows only to give us some space so that any of us will wear masks have the ability when we're speaking to pull them down um so that folks can hear more clearly as that was one of the some of
002the feedback we bought at the last meeting was there wasn't a challenge just hearing some of the folks so i want to make sure everybody didn't know and at the end of the audience can uh hear the scene so with that being said i have a list here for public comments uh as always just an update um we do pronounce the public comments requests to be sent in prior as always those folks yes um of course privilege if we have a long evening or anything that's a lot of public comments typically we don't find that having an issue i do like to keep everybody for three minutes or less just for the purposes of moving this along i don't think people have to have anybody go over that time frame i typically run with these
003uh it's first request first in and then the folks come in who are here in the public account as well we did have a request to an individual who wanted to do a public comment and then policy of our school committee to read public comments that are sent in ahead of time to this point uh that's something the school committee can discuss in the future for purposes of keeping streamlined and time efficient uh for everybody here we have typically not done those i would not start that process just out of the whim there without giving anybody an opportunity to have that so something school committee can discuss looking forward to the future coming up with reading that submitted i do want to confirm thank everybody who submitted emails there were a number of them you
004should imagine i responded to many of them i'm sure i missed some so i apologize if i missed anybody's email communications so with that being said uh first up this evening of comment is uh jessica deglibern hey bernie i think i did that every time [Music] um so greetings to the boys and girls school committee superintendent principals and school staff i would first like to say that my goal like yours is to have all the children safely returned and qualified in person instruction in school my name is jessica moore douglas alberti i grew up in boylston i went to dupontco i had mr sarah as a teacher i'm also a family nurse practitioner and primary care provider at the kennedy community health center i moved back to boylston to give my children the same awesome
005childhood and education i was fortunate enough to have i have an upcoming third grader in boylston elementary school and i'm very very concerned about the last of that i was very concerned about the lack of mass mandate for the upcoming school year at in boylston berlin i'm so thrilled with the announcement that the education commissioner was to mandate mass across the state for k-12 i still find it necessary to talk tonight so the town can continue to protect its students especially those who remain unvaccinated due to the age under 12. we need to continue to wear masks past october 1st from the high school even if we reach the 80 percent we need to keep the windows open we need to run the air purifiers we need to maintain outdoor lunches and snack time as
006long as the weather allows there was a concern that the principals would have to police the wearing of that mask and so if you keep masks for everyone you don't have to police it although i argue that mr is excellent at the dress code of no spaghetti straps in the length of shorts the cdc guidance clearly states that given new evidence of the delta variant they recommend universal indoor masking for all teachers staff and students and visitors to k-12 stools regardless of vaccination status children should return to full-time in-person learning in the fall with layered protection strategies in place not just masks with the mask mandate our students have a fighting chance to stay in school but we need to stay vigilant now with the delta barricading the dominant token 19 strain that has at
007least a thousand increased viral load delta has changed the game this means vaccinated can spread the virus just as easily as unvaccinated this is the one main reason that the who has continued to recommend masking for the vaccinated the mandate says that once the school's population reached 80 vaccination rate that the vaccine can go unmasked does not agree with cdc or the world health organization guidance and it does not go what we have learned about delta from data from our own providence town on the cape with an outbreak in july where many of them were vaccinated it taught us the delta was very contagious airborne not droplet and gives vaccinate the same viral load in my nose as an unvaccinated person that means our vaccine students in the high school can spread it to our
008unvaccinated siblings of people kids in the elementary school pictures are worth a thousand words so i wanted to remind you of the new york times article that i sent back in march obviously it's smaller but i want to remind you of the augmented reality article that we saw in dr zhang's presentation in march of how quickly the rooms would fill up with coven with masks and so the windows the purifiers eating outside still has to happen remote learning was less than ideal for students parents teachers schools staff alike we have seen in the southern states like mississippi alabama schools having to go remote because of how many kids are quarantined and some without any remote options to learn in the two weeks that the whole school has shut down as much as we didn't like
009it we do need to come up with plans where students will need to quarantine they should not be allowed to lose time on learning when we have the technology to have them to zoom into class while at home and i know how much work it was for the teachers so i know what i'm asking is not a small task i'm so happy about the upcoming education commissioner's announcements of course it just happened but we'll need to think about the children with asthma developmental delays other medical conditions that make them more vulnerable complications or unable to wear maps we need to continue the mass mandate for k-12 until all of our students are eligible for vaccines people claim that the covid is not dangerous to kids however in the south we're seeing the pediatric hospitalizations skyrocket
010we need more data on delta and we honestly don't know about the long-term effects on children it's too soon to know definitions of long phobia don't exist and so depending on what your criteria is it's low as one percent or as high as 20 percent the boston children's hospital our own not far away their website mentions that one recent italian study found that about half of kids with proper 19 still have one lingering symptom four months later typically fatigue even if they are initially asymptomatic nearly 23 of at least have three symptoms such as headaches joint muscle pain fatigue brain fog and respiratory symptoms and we don't know some day is covered going to be the chicken pox that then leads to shingles or is it going to be oz timers which some scientists are
011wondering so we don't know about long covid what we define it but in boston children's hospital they have formed a post-covid clinic formed in march 2021 and the clinic offers evaluation referrals to specialty care for kids and teens with post-profit symptoms there are clinics like these all over the world and throughout the united states i'm not trying to fear longer i'm trying to show you the dangers that we know and the possibilities of things we have yet to learn about delta variant over 19. i know the limitations of data that i've presented but i've done my best you can enter into decision release some of the data so please please keep the cdc and workbook organization's recommendations that we all need to wear masks even if we're that's in here again we need open windows
012air purifiers outdoor lunch and snacks remote options are quarantining children and continued mass even if we hit the eastern scent we're all tired we're all weird but our visions cannot wane after all of our efforts to keep our children safe this whole time thank you for your time so first i'd just like to thank everybody on the stage and the audience on the effort excuse me as well so just for putting in the effort beyond the school committee being involved it's often very close it's very hard so thank you i'm writing this note in an effort to communicate concerns and goals i and my family have for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year and voice some thoughts as to how we as a community can best serve and protect each other and especially our children going
013forward as a town in the state we have made tremendous progress in our collective fight against government and as a father and a member of this community my primary objective is to ensure we as a community have a plan and means in place to ensure our children are in school learning and interacting every day possible in a safe and protective environment we have learned a tremendous amount over the past year and we were successful as a district keeping our children in school in the spring as of today it appears as though we have abandoned all of the layer protections that we put in place last year excuse me as community we have a responsibility to look out for the welfare of those most vulnerable and at this moment the majority of those most vulnerable are
014our school-aged children with roughly half of the population unable to be vaccinated this is precisely the same situation we found ourselves in last fall yet the adult school community and those over 12 have the ability to be vaccinated today and the vaccination vaccination rates in our town are strong however the majority of our students are not afforded that luxury the delta variant is known to be more transmissible and affects children more adversely and more often than the strings circulated in the 2020-21 school year removing protections for our unboxing control when we have the same case loop as we did this past april is a recipe for inviting turbolog and chaos into our children's schooling we must step up as a community and lead where our state's leadership is not and use the tools available to
015us to protect this vulnerable population last year my family went through at least six changes in the education process through a combination of covet-based quarantine school shutdowns and the overall hybrid full-in transition i'm certain the majority of the school community community went through as many if not more transitions we must use all of the tools available to us to keep our kids in school and we must have a plan that includes the following universal masking on school drives social distancing guidelines and common areas clear protocols and distancing guidelines in the cafeteria joining the state run testing no cost to the testing program tracing communication and quarantine protocols that are enacted swiftly and include provisions for continued learning while i see we must build a plan for this coming school year that creates the strongest opportunity
016for every child to experience every day possible info in-person education we must be proactive in this plan and leverage the vast learnings of the pastor not abandonment the american academy of pediatrics the national community of physicians focused solely on the health of our children recommends the fault that everyone older than to age two wear masks regardless of vaccination status the aap also amplifies the centers for disease control and prevention's recommendations for building ventilation testing warranty cleaning and disinfection in the updated guidance so far the communication from the superintendent's office has shown mobile proactive planning or applied experience from the past year and no regard for the recommendations of our medical professionals focused exclusively on the well-being of our children it is naive to think that our district can somehow deploy the odds and keep going
017out of our schools this lack of preparedness opens the doors for all of us to be helped to the fluctuations and whims of desi and state policy makers we control our own future best when we employ all known tools and our leadership must be able to make the difficult decisions to take these steps opt-in policies of these natures shift the burden of enforcement from leadership to individuals in the community which in this case is our children an opt-in policy fundamentally adds safety risk to the community and impacts everything if we wait for the first of the 19 days to appear in our schools this year then we've lost our greatest advantage to keeping our children safely in school which is the vision of our vbrs the organization and the desire and expectation of all the
018parents in the system and taken from the vision statement from this organization as an inclusive school community instruction will be provided in a caring safe and healthy learning environment responsive to each student in collaboration with families and women we must have a plan designed to keep our kids in school as much as possible and minimize the risk of forced warnings school closures for works we have many tools at our disposal not using them is simple since sending this letter and opening it open on august 18th i've received much support expressed to the message and as of this moment 24 families representing 36 students in the district uh have added their names to this letter as we go forward in the school year please know that our goal is in keeping our students and staff in
019school safe and healthy and we ask for transparency in the planning process and expect flexibility and compassion from all thank you i have a uh an updated note with the additional signature system thank you so much thank you welcome next up is the real third good evening everyone um can everyone hear me all the way back all right so thank you so much for the opportunity uh to briefly speak this evening i'll say that i agree with the prior speakers and many of the points that have been made already so i'll keep this for you so my name is muriel my son will be starting fourth grade this fall i can say he absolutely loves bes he adores his classmates we very much appreciate this wonderful community um these past 18 months have been very
020difficult for everyone and number one their ways i think our children have been amazing and resilient through it all the school system has been forced to pivot repeatedly as conditions have changed and i appreciate the difficulty in balancing safety with our children's education and their happiness so i thank our teachers and thank our committee i think our administration and our families in our community but i really think that we need to have foresight and participate we've learned a lot from these past 18 months and we should use it to make sure that we have success in the year ahead so i'm a pediatric surgeon during the worst of this pandemic i witnessed the frightening rise in patient admissions which is the inundated emergency rooms i just use the scarcity of space and equipment that was
021truly unprecedented um i've had to cancel surgeries postponed patient visits to ensure events and personnel for pediatric emergencies that continue throughout this pandemic as a pediatric care provider i've been tracking this delta variant the rise in national and our community numbers our infection rates i've witnessed these trends in my own hospital amongst the children that i'm caring for and i cannot over emphasize the importance of maintaining masking maintaining distancing maintaining all these precautions that have been already spoken to as people particularly for children under 12 who are not yet eligible for vaccinations and in those older children as well studies show that they appear to be more susceptible this recent cover variant compared to what we experienced last year so while overall rates have increased to those seen at the peak last winter in overall
022rates of infection the recent rise in infected chosen and hostilized children is over double what we saw last december there's also good scientific evidence that's been alluded to this evening that the delta variant can be acquired and transmitted even amongst vaccinated individuals you know we see this in the literature we may have personal experiences with that in friends and family members it is a fact this should not undermine the importance of vaccination to minimize serious serious illness hospitalization or worse but again i think places an emphasis on masking distancing testing measures that we can use to ensure safety and minimize the risk of transmission and the possibility that our schools will need to shut down again and again over this school year as outbreaks occur i think i speak for many when i say that
023my strongest wish is for our children to be safe for them to be able to attend school and to learn in an uninterrupted fashion this year and for them to be able to spend time with their classmates and their teachers and their friends please please continue to be vigilant in monitoring this changing situation and use this evolving scientific evidence that we have at our disposal to make the safest and most responsible decisions to both protect the health and safety of our children and our team thank you so much [Music] hello um i'm happy mary i have a third grader in a candy partner at the gas i'm an eight month old i'm a family medicine physician my husband is a surgeon and so i think a lot of importance is that i don't want to
024be redundant here i was really relieved to see the updated demo from from you um saying that we would be hopefully following the new recommendations the previous um demo that you've sent came on the same day the patient that i've been close with that it has to be optional so this really does get homework with your professionals um which is why i submitted to the community a letter that was signed by 16 healthcare professionals i don't think it's worth reading the whole thing i think you all have it and a lot of the points have been made but one thing i will say is that it is our job to keep the children our community safe both emotionally and physically and the guidance on how to do that for medical authorities is really uncritical so
025to reopen schools and to keep them open as a priority universal masking needs to be implemented regardless of vaccination status and that's consensus from the american academy and physicians organizations what i would also encourage you to do is there's a large amount of expertise within the community that can allow us to be really proactive and not reactive to various changing recognitions and so i think forms like this which can be done before decisions are made are helpful to hear kind of the expert voices that are indicating as parents in this country go on uh have to make you have to wonder which 50 percent of the time is going to be accurate so i appreciate that uh you know i'm not here tonight to give my opinion on asking or to tell or testing or
026to tell really anyone how to do the job um personally you know i don't believe it's the government's place to tell people what's best for them but i do believe that politics has gotten us into a position where we're willing to hurt ourselves and potentially our kids because we believe that we're taking a stand or making a point but this situation is so much bigger than politics and you know i can guarantee you that none of the politicians that we all see on tv are comfortable to save the day this pandemic is truly it's a generational event and we shouldn't be reacting to it in a way that we react to any other events in our lifetime it calls for us to get out of our comfort zones and just do what we need to
027do one of my biggest fears both both personally and as a selector is that when this is over we're going to look back and say i wish we had done more maybe that would have made a difference but we don't need to do that because we have the tools not only to keep code in check but to beat it and we have the tools right here the town of oyster is committed to providing those tools and all we ask is you're willing to use them i can promise you the results of using the tools we have will get us much further than telling political lines or googling code stats and sharing them on social media we're all frustrated but the fighting and anger with our own community does nothing to get us through this our
028kids are watching how you handle this and they're listening to what we say and seeing what we do instead of seeing friends and neighbors arguing they should be seeing us banding together and leading our community through this to keep them in school we should be their example of how to handle difficult times we have the tools we simply need to use them and just hang on a little longer thanks thank you man moving into the next portion a couple things i want to cover one in the communication section i'd like to i have some um thank you for all of you love to see the folks and all the communications that that percent did it was you know i wanted to uh mr meadow made some excellent points and i wanted to share some um
029some feedback there are a lot of few backwards the takeaways that i took from sort of preparing myself quite honestly i was preparing myself diligently prior to the announcement by the department of education today this meeting was going to be a lot more difficult right um so my preparation was for a different conversation but in just some some takeaways that i took from everything that i've read particularly not just communications and some of the well-thought-out and wonderful information shared by some of the folks in our community to the point of one of the speakers we should be leveraging some of these some of these folks in our community and i think one of the things that we would do you know encourage jeff to do to do that in the future and i think that's
030that's a great thing to add to certified discussions you know also looking watching uh social media right so who's making a great point in terms of how we uh communicate with each other the things that we're that we're doing you know all that information gets provided very very elegant way it's very important information and then i see things like you know statements like this is in the best interest of all of our children and you know to protect all of our children these are things that we need to do i i hope folks and i i sort of i i warn folks the lack of better terms just be careful in terms of what we're saying and how we're communicating we don't know what's in the best interest of every student not everybody knows what's
031the best interest of every student we don't know what other health concerns a student might have we don't know um what social emotional challenges we have wearing a mask we're not wearing masks we don't know um linguistic challenges of learning that school that they have the administration's role is to ensure that yes we keep the kids in school safe and healthy but also provide the best education some of these kids are in years that are extremely important in their life it's very important so when we make statements publicly that we're making a decision best interest of all our students i almost feel this is more of a personal opinion that's a very dangerous thing to say because we don't we don't know what's in the best interest in their industry you know i look at
032jeff's first communication when he talks about the survey that he put out and i believe you know the numbers that we just looked for to answer question one regardless of your feelings around that right i mean again this is parents responding for students like and where would say 300 decisions stupid settings because it's raising parents but almost half of our school community that responded to the survey had some concerns or some interest in not asking the children to go to school so it's not in that decision then it's very interesting decision and what the jeff his administrative team needs to do to understand how to support those students and those students parents as well so i just when we're on social media and we're sending emails i'm just you know let's the information is terrific
033all factual stuff all these important informations everything is great for everything right i'm wearing when folks get too involved in making decisions or not making decisions but expressing interest in what they believe is the best decision for every single person that should be left up to those individuals so that's a personal take away i had from some of the feedback that i got i was concerned about some of the purpose of some of the emails i've got from that perspective so um any other comments or response uh from the student community yeah jen i think uh i thought it was well said the one thing you mentioned about the survey which you could have not wanting to mask i think you have to understand that the half issues the way the guidance came out it
034makes it seem like you know regardless of anything else unless there's one of a few select uh exceptions it would be forceful so i think half of the people that respond to no at least of unfortunately wasn't that they don't want their kids everybody understands what the statistical bond was like it was the mandated public the option parent option that people have for the sake of their own child whatever lots of kids have other reasons that at this point with the numbers the way they are it might be more more risky but yeah it's interesting people it strongly recommends strongly follows the health guidelines and even cites the many of the health guidelines that were cited today in the recommendations it purely was stated when we were operative thought guidance and strongly analysis so i
035just again just bring you back to i read all the social media i see that i shouldn't for the first three and a half years um and you know it just um we have to be careful with some of the things that we say and make sure what we're saying is true or natural factual encourage people if they have concerns or questions something that jeff puts out or releases from the administration go directly to the source and ask the question right don't ask facebook what he meant or something like that go directly to the source i know jeff i know what he's done in the past as many as all the apparent communications and any other school communications mr that's lewis you said you know i had a lot of notes prior to today's mass
036mandate um but you know the one thing that i i did like you know you know just as because i don't go on the social media but i certainly hear about it i can't get away from that and the one thing that i've taken away from them is you know everybody needs to be upset with code not with each other and that's the blanket that everybody really needs to focus so it's all those people that do social media i don't um but that's that's that's my butt email code not the show anything else uh okay so in terms of processing for this evening and the agenda uh mr danny uh just so everybody kind of understands the process you know everything is policy as it relates to the calling of this meeting jeff is not
037presenting his entire back-to-school plan at this meeting we'll be talking more about more intricacies and follow-ups in our meeting next week we schedule this meeting to cover the topic of you know mass mandate the way we handle those things is jeff's going to provide his update we're also going to have all the calls and subcommittee chair do a quick update a policy that directly reflects where we would put into our policies how we will handle the masculine mandates uh the school committee will then go to our voting section where we will uh we will then call to uh call for a motion to discuss that policy once we have that motion that's when the school can make it there's any questions or deliberations that would occur so just a procedural standpoint kind of how that
038works okay so uh one of the better reports superintendent i also want to say about some of the comments that we've made you know it seems to me that in 18 months we've suspended reason you know when i started 58 years i send out communications someone didn't understand something that's one i don't know where to plan to perform comments tonight about who've abandoned all their adventures how do you know you ever release the plan how do you know what i'm working on communication shall move forward and how do you know everything is the plan you know physicians respect what you do leverage us in the community i don't know you don't need 18 months reach out except jesse did you get parents i think you would love that you know a good child you know
039what you know there's a thousand people there's a thousand kids in the community a whole district is the size of most high schools what stops i know you're dizzy i got it but if it is concerned say something let's do it i'm not a doc right you know we're not physicians we don't get that so we're we're not educators so i think we appreciate the difficulty in the decision making and i agree really with how things were managed was so challenging and over the last school year our kids went back to school and they were in person the last several months of school and that was managed and handled very well i thought so it's not indictment i'm just i'm just saying you know you know i came here from 17 2017. i can't tell
040you how many people just reached out and said you know sometimes i purposely made an email because i don't know what i can say but if you call me i'm telling you and this is one of the things was this this idea about mass maybe it's logically impossible that was written purposely i i get a whole email we respect what you do but in the next two days is based on you know you disagree with it i think having um opening the slide of communication with everyone when it comes to public health concerns and medical issues we do we have many you know other folks within the community so happy to offer opinions present recent data you know things that maybe don't come to the forefront in many of the conversations necessary i look forward
041to talking to you i really you know a lot of this stuff i given that the status quo at the end of the year when the numbers were better was still an excellent job was done masking was done outdoor eating you know when my baby was nine days old there was a copic case in my then second graders class they were masculine spread it was great and then to have a change to the status quo and no forum like this scheduled until after the first day of school did induce a little bit of not just parental panic but physician panic because public health doesn't you know you know they all go on the first day of that mass that's it so i'll go through the presentation here and then i'll take some questions but i
042just want to type in so i think our goal is to say so just in terms of jeff goldblum's presentations uh from our presentations just purposes if our meetings can get really long i do believe that jeff engages the audience he always deserves the ability to respond so i'm uncomfortable with that [Music] from that standpoint and then we do have that sub square it wasn't that we weren't ever going yet it changes daily you can see just the more we first schedule the meetings the week after the changes so i worked closely with jeff i wanted to schedule those meetings and the recently should go and publicly announce a meeting and you're going to schedule a meeting and then something changes that day that hour where you're not prepared to present at that time that
043that's a conflict so we sort of tread lightly i agree about concern about it before it starts to i should have known [Music] so our goals are pretty much the same when we go back full time i will tell you in general we have a governing device department of education and that's the guidance we follow and whether it's on lasting or anything else and usually that bustling stuff we do and that's that's the guidance we follow and i want to talk a little bit about college masculine guidance development july 30th of education released a communication it said that it strongly recommended mass effort students it's changed today uh but i want to talk about the rationale for all the strongly recognized because i'm going to tell you to be honest if it goes back to
044that it's what i would recommend it is not done anymore you know people don't like it that's that's the guidance for power so let me tell you the rationale and it might help you understand why we're working in that direction the first thing and i think it was touch them as the committee stopped doing my presentation this idea is strongly recommended there's a difference between strongly recommended options and you might say well it ends up in the same place it most likely does end up in the same threads but not because those two things are synonymous now get to life for the most likely place but one of those words options complies that we don't believe that is not true you've never said and it's not that we don't believe i was in the hospital
045i'll tell you that experience to get as much mileage as i can so it's not that myself or the leadership team doesn't take the stairs we do the second thing is the science you know i always give you guys to say you've got to follow the science you're not a doctor again more health professionals on the leadership team why don't we follow the guide but honestly the messaging from the health community the science community has been mixed at best maybe not again tonight but in general most scientists would like us to follow the science that says couldn't students friends it wasn't now how many vaccines do i need when you choose when you're free and i'll say this stuff i get things all the time that to me look like that makes sense too it's
046confusing years into this basic questions still do not have to be implied there might be a legitimate reason and now we think some politics i've heard someone a couple days ago and say this this is not science this is a political science that i believe one thing i think all fifty percent of the people responded that they wanted to max i can tell you that fifty percent of students in three schools are not their own matters because striving not the quality not the fit i'll tell you my own experience i spent seven days in hospital seven days in that room i never wore a mask once probably i've asked those doctors and these nurses about the master here they seem also the same thing you helped the group the company thrown in five touches five
047six options that's not happening so the idea that they weren't safe right doesn't it doesn't mean true either you can't protect yourself if somebody else doesn't obviously if everybody's protected themselves it's better but again this is the kind of things that confuse it for people [Music] i lived that experience the other part is the legal part of this this this comes with the big remember i said lodging it's our understanding that that if it wasn't a mandated statement that even if this committee can actually create it would be largely unfortunate if it were challenged at the state uh please defend not at all that lord has been settled a kid comes in with a shirt completely and appropriate they take it off leaving places in two months we end up in the same place for
048the mandate the local landed first of all usually strongly recommended land yeah so as the superintendent you know what that means if we didn't follow the language in the department of education we would end up in the same class but it would be two months of fighting it would be two months of teaching in a classroom losing instructional time the child can cost a mandate that they can't enforce principles or parents who don't model their masks and know that if they push a problem but once that two three months however long it takes you calculate the amount of instructional time that's wrong and we end up in the same place that's the decision we faced not that we don't believe in the past that we're going to end up in the same place with two
049three months of fighting that doesn't make sense to anybody and that's what we're trying to avoid just like in any profession we juggle a lot of wealth it's not just mass it's not just you put this mass mind mistake it's all the other pieces that surround you it's all of those things that you simply give your fault i'll tell them so even if they didn't change the language today and this committee decided to whatever you might would imagine put them in the same place one would have brought a lot of fighting and lost some structural time one would not but we already ended up in the same place and believe me because the other piece of posture is madness if you're unaware of the mask and is this tied you're probably not effective so what's
050the other forty five percent happen what are they gonna say no it's a fight we don't need to have because it takes away from the normal trumpet so it makes it a little easier because now they made a mess in the nation and we make which says that now we have to do it doesn't make a difference we do not and we're fine with that fighting at all so that's the issue that's why we want to be stronger and it's just going to resolve i want to talk about the latest strategies that we've had in place now some of them have one man i will be disappointed the specifics of the mass candidate for can't talk about it um but i think the commission says so we have a mobile vaccination clinic be able to
051attract students eligible to for one reason they're not but if you don't if you don't like technology you can't although vaccination list so that when um when the elementary students are available to hot on me it would be a lot easier for us to get more sites or at least that one but that would be i just think you good me some more information the department of education has a few different testing options you can get tested it's a graphic test it's negative least we can give you some additional information and you can test it i know that some of the officials in the community are working on other testing sites and more more accurate tests that's an effort to keep our kids who normally have to quarantine in school so the way that works
052is if you are designated as someone that was in close contact normally you have to get sent home 10 days in this case you would come to school every morning you would be tested for the nurse's office um and then if you're negative you go to class if you're positive you'll be quite proud and get sent home so that's seven days for example the seventh day falls on the weekend for example you get tested when you come in on monday so we just want to make sure that that's the place before you go to class so both of those need consent you know principles will be sending that that stuff up in their pockets um we can't test you don't get consent that's for adults too so if you if you you don't you know
053some people won't be sad you expect that the old consent to get sent home that's the option and also if you take part in the program there's also uh the other thing we found is ventilation jessica did send us that the guide man the working guy didn't i could use it in a presentation for that and one of the things that pretty powerful is that there will be three different scenarios a lot of them with the scenario the ventilation um the infiltration what we did last year this building is new and it has all ready very efficient and effective filters in the hvac that's not as as true in the elementary schools and when we had the companies come in to to upgrade or to get them working to the to the best that we
054could we couldn't change the problems out to more efficient ones because it you know changes how quality um how efficient these systems done so we purchased each of the classrooms in the elementary school you probably remember just approaches standalone filtration units and we won those we run those 24 7. it was something we thought about anyway somebody with pretty bad allergies and i know the strength you know if you feel it when you're going in there's a kid's eyes in the water it's one of the things we wanted to do just in general to improve the air quality of the elementary schools and so with great money last year yes we'll be able to do that so what we will do is we'll go through now and make sure that all the filters and those
055units have been replaced and along with everything's working effectively so we do have laid strategies in place in addition to some of the cleaning strategies and we'll see that we're not playing when we release it we don't want to be able to be able to have it out tomorrow but the commissioner said that tomorrow they will be releasing the specifics of the mandated mass issues so we want to get that all planned but you'll see most of this and at the next meeting i'll be going over just the highlights but you'll have it you should have it hopefully you're hoping to get it out like thursday or friday and then you can take a look at it and uh you know if you have any quality questions shoot me an email save everybody with a
056lot of problems to get there for us she's probably gonna know the answer so that's uh that's the that's the whole pizza i'm asking i hope you at least polly understand that you know as a superintendent same thing for the leadership like yourself we don't deal with one issue at a time and then we have to sort of say okay what's the middle ground here what's the middle ground what keeps our students safe but also allows us to normalize the environment and so you know those issues i had with myself this is not the best situation but it explodes down the arguments i don't know i think we made the right decision um what yeah we have the link again we followed the dds so we'll put the links in there so that if anything
057if it's in the plan you might just have a small just a highlight you can go to the link and you can find out where it came from and the guidance is the department of education guidance put out in conjunction with the massachusetts it has been as far as i know so yeah hopefully if there's anything in there that means it was in my letter but i didn't see it was double printed on the back so you made a comment that not all maps are made equally and it's true glock masks are not effective as surgical masks surgical mass have 63 protection if there's no gaps on the side if you want to get up to 83 protection you wear surgical masks with a cloth mask over it and the vests are kn25s or kf-94s
058so you know i think we all have choices of what we send our kids into school and if you truly want to try to protect them as not only others that there are more protective options out there [Music] we've done this in the past up with an opportunity to just maybe take some of that education and provide that back up to the community and do that in terms of just massive levels i think we have done that in the past i i you know i got something from the school committee and put it out without me if you have that stuff especially if you're young because i can tell you that you know everybody's not about last year and i've been in other buildings not in this district the universe these masks you know they
059all fit i mean if your kids wearing a diamond that's one thing to teach so that stuff can be done but if they're just not a great quality or just or they don't fit the parents don't take is that if we communicate what you just described to the community at large as soon as possible i think you would do everybody a great service in terms of the planning right so the communication of the plan right you made an excellent point earlier about communication and this is what we're all trying to do and so my feedback would be that i think at least in part some of the reactions here tonight were given the context which was very minimal that everybody had to deprive communication right and so from i think there was a comment earlier
060we left in in june right with a certain level of expectation and then there's no communication until one note uh very close to school starting with the scheduled school committee right not happening until school starts so it's very important i know i want to just acknowledge the work that you and the staff and everybody's doing right i get it then you don't think about this and you know so it's it's it's tuesday not teachers come back on thursday the guidance doesn't come out from the governing body so yeah a lot of times we get information and then we have to process it i mean i i talk to our attorneys about it i want to make sure that we're in line with that and then you know we need so that takes time but if
061you think about think about what happened leadership or not so just fair enough but it is the job of leadership to drive thank you uh [Music] to revisit two policies that are already in our policy manual to update that the first recommended policy has to face currency and instead of all the details that are in today going to policy we've simply said that we will follow essie diabetes that way as this changes we're not revisiting the policy all the time we'll follow up guests and guides if the committee wants to revisit that uh guidance if they don't agree with it in some way we can have a policy meeting to address that or many other people can vote to overturn it or to revise it within their regular school committee meeting although we recognize they
062go through the policy so that's the first one up that simply has changed to say that performing destiny guidance with base coverage and the second policy was instituted last year also called udc supplement which is a rather long policy that is was intended at the time of the continuing this to give the superintendent certain authorities without having to stop all the time and bring them to the school committee we give them some authority to act more swiftly when situations arise that needs to be responded so we mostly updated that policy the content of the policy is pretty much the same as last year we've just updated the language of it and taken out the travel restrictions because we don't have travel restrictions at this time but otherwise the way it operates into production savings last
063year okay so could i please have a motion to prove policy has provided the district has so let's say that let's say the guidance [Music] that we so what happens is says they might not they might not support the fact that we've been suspended that's a possibility that's not the case here because now the state of state mass mandate um we have followed this guidance so policies will be masked [Music] just i don't know i don't know specifically what happened the is thing closed completely motion to appropriate edc supplements questions comments okay our next meeting is august 31st a week from today um i suspect uh jeff's targeting to release prior to that um we will be voting again on that on the full plan on our august 31st [Music] for those candidates who put
064can i please have a motion to [Music] thank you thank you everybody uh oh