001foreign welcomes public participation and asking the community the comments be limited to three maths the public may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them the board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or deflammatory comments about Board of Education personnel and students who are against any person connected with Danbury public school system charging [Music] good evening my name is I have three children and all attended to be a family for our international service I'm an instructional coach schools my purpose of her speaking tonight is to ask why the fifth grade graders at AAS are not attending Nature's Classroom for a week at the end of the school year this year and I've seen the leadership from the Indian great board of education is not as many of the professor of
002principal Jackson [Music] um my wife has sent emails to both principal Jackson will not answer questions there are questions about why the insurance has been changed from a long week to a day and my wife for superintendo diet so let's not apply um so I'd like you to please consider the following uh the day that a student sets but can be a very dais school they're doing a promise and every student knows this promise and talks to their parents about it for the years that they're there my wife just said has been one of those supporters she's been part of the PTO for the better part of 10 years as well as PTO president and treasurer for some of those years she worked with and supported our last principal principal rosh on so many different
003Industries I work see we're missing out on the on that trip is what they talked about and uh the next year persisted and they lost out on our trip again and that's what they talked about and however last year we truly focused on what was best for our students and we found ways to make it work so the teachers were scared parents were scared the costs were inflated we had everything working against us but we worked through each obstacle and that's what leaders do we travel to DC for three days with our 145 8th graders and for those three days in May Cove had disappeared and because of it our kids got to see the Declaration of impact on the Olympic Memorial and that was freshmen uh let me look back at middle school that's
004what we're talking about at AAS parents are offering support if you've got fundraising and uh before the surprise news of Nature's Classroom they had begun fundraising and the experience um sorry before the surprising news of our anxious classroom experience was sent out we even held a spaghetti dinner at AIS where we have as many as 400 people in antennas um and so I asked why don't we start giving back to our children and things that they lost during program I have some suggestions for you but I I don't want to go over my time so in in lieu of giving those suggestions I just want to say I I expect more from leadership than mitigated speech and avoidance or non-response and I expect them to do as best for students while taking into consideration of
005teachers and the parents I would hope that as important you work to promote field trips and enriching experience for our students through policy contract negotiations and impossible you know reward for people that look to do these experiences mostly our teachers that put these things together during that time um I'll close by asking this why are we taking away a program where in the words of the website the students develop a sense of community a confidence in themselves and an appreciation for others that is carried with effect of that school Community it really is an experience that way I hope that some of you here will set forward as leaders and hulkeep the promises we made thank you Chloe good evening Danbury Board of Education members my name is Chloe Jewett I am a fifth grade
006student at ARS I would like to ask you to think about letting us go to Nature's Classroom before a week at the end of this school year but I heard we weren't going to Nature's Classroom for a week I felt really bad but I didn't just feel bad for me I also felt bad for my classmates there are only 56 of us in the fifth grade and we've been together since kindergarten when I told my brother about how sad I do when covid ended last year we knew we'd be the first class in three years to go to Nature's Classroom when they told us we were only going for one day some of us were upset and some of us were mad but all of us thought it wasn't fair I tried to do something
007about it I made this petition with my grandmother's help but they made me put it away and some of my friends were told that they'd get in trouble if they signed it there are 12 signatures on it I want to be a leader or my classmate that's why I came here [Music] my dad told me that leadership isn't easy and if I came here to talk maybe someone could listen well let's go to Nature's Hospital thank you thank you Chloe you are a great leader thank you Jeff moving out to your consent calendar or would you make that motion and make a motion that the Board of Education approve these items on the consent calendar exhibits 22-131-22-134 as recommended any discussion all those in favor any opposed an extension and Carries unanimously some calendars that
008include the donation or should we read it includes do we have any student Representatives it looks like no okay action item a them um [Music] that's 2023 in accordance with exhibit 22-135 any discussion seeing none all those in favor any opposed any extension motion carries unanimously action B how would you do that October October 2022 for an education except the October 2022 financial report in accordance with exhibit 22-136