001[Music] Today we are reconvening an open session. The action that the board took. I will read our statement here. The board considered the parents appeal of the district's determination that student number 957789 does not meet the residency requirements of the district. In close session, the board members who were present decided to deny the parents appeal. Also, the board considered the parents appeal of the district's determination that students numbered 957182 and 957377 do not meet the residency requirements of the district. In close session, the board members who are present decided to deny the parents appeal. No other action was taken on close session items. All right. All all rise for the pledge of allegiance colors. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise to honor our nation in the presetting of our national color. The color bar represents the
002California Cadet Corps of the 412th Battalion of Wasuma Elementary School. The California Cadet Corps program offers leadership training and character development to students and their mission statement is to provide students with a quality educational and leadership program that prepares them for college and the workforce. Cadet Sergeant Michelle is today's color sergeant. Also in the color guard are cadets Cooper Newbie, Hunter Sanderson, Lucas Deine, and Tyler Carters. [Music] Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Excellent job. I wish we had more students that were part of the color. Okay. Uh we are on item number four, the consent agenda. Do
003I have a motion to approve? I'll move approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Discussion on these items. No discussion. Okay. And call vote, please. I I I I I unanimous. Item five, hearing a person's wishing to address the board. I do not have any slips showing anyone who wants to present comments. Oh, we do have one gentleman here. Thank you. Okay, we have three minutes for comments. Uh, as board members, this is your time and we do not comment on what you understanding. Hi, my name is Robert Guerrero and I I've come today in regards to transparency with the district. Um I don't know what your how you do this with your transparency uh policy, but um I've always been told you hear something, see something, say something. Uh, and
004when you're asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, where does the transparency go? If you see something, you're supposed to say something. And then you're told you're not supposed to say something. Is that how the board works? Is that how this district works? No. That's that's my concern because if something happens to one my child, I would hope if a if a parent, a teacher, an aid, any administration saw it, I would hope they would say something to me and notify me or any other parents with their children that was involved with something. But to be told to be quiet, I think is very wrong because I believe in hear something, see say something, say something. I do believe in that. So when you're told not to, it bothers me. Thank you, Mr. Groom. Excuse me.
005I said thank you, Mr. McGro. Welcome. Yes. comments. Okay. Item number six, action item, approve the non-public, non sectarian school/ agency services. Do I have a motion to approve? Approval. Second. Okay. Carries. I have a question. Uh I I noticed that the in the contract it goes uh from July 1st, 2024 to June 25th. I wondered why we were doing it at the end with only a couple months left of that. Yeah, that's a good question. So that agency um we had to contract with them for services for a student on a settlement agreement. And so since we like we contracted with them just about a month or so ago. So that's why so that contract is in place for this school year and then we will if we need to continue services then we
006would do one for the upcoming school year. Yeah, it just it looked like it was kind of in a rears or maybe we should have done it last June or something. We didn't know we were going to need the services from that non-public agency. Um so we could just continue to keep that on file down the road um and approve it from here on out for each year. um with the thinking of we might need to use those services down the road. Um but that was the first time that we were going to need to use the services um within the district and so we needed to get that contract on on file, but this was for last year. It's 2425. It had to be from July 1st, 2024 through June. Is that not what
007the date says on there? It says 24 to 25 for this school year. Yeah. Right. Okay. Right. But he's just making it end at it. It It began in July 1st when we're actually voting on it now. It didn't begin. We just had to use the services and their verbiage says you have to do the whole school year. Correct. Yeah. That's that's how they write their contracts per school year. So it's it's it's set up to correlate with the school year. Correct. Many school districts who use outside non-public agencies often will have these on file in case that's not been an issue for us. Um so that might be something we want to consider moving forward is just keep the these types of contracts on file in case we need to use their service. Yeah.
008Thank you. You're welcome. Anyone else have any other questions? Discussion? No. Okay. Roll call vote. I I I I I unanimous. Okay. Our next item is seven monthly items in financial reports. A is the monthly approval of warrants which requires action. Do we have a motion to approve this? I motion to approve. I'll second. Discussion on the warrants. I have a question. Um I just had Okay. On page one, the professional development, which I know Diane had a question about too, but discipline boot camp. I think it would be cool to hear about it. Oh, Ron, could could you speak up, please? Oh, sorry. I was just saying on page one um of the warrants there were many um different entries for professional development on discipline boot camp and I just thought it would be
009fun to hear an update on that professional development. Um my question on number two was clean truck check program on page two. Is that like an annual fee or I was just curious what that was about. Robert? And that one is um the new um smug checking for the diesel engines. So that's starting. Okay. We'll be in testing on them twice a year in CA 2027 and then four times a year that Wow, it's a lot. Okay. Um and then the last question I had was on page six. The absent I can't read my own writing. Absence management asset management tuneup is is that again is that like part of the like sub binder? Yes, we have um front line which all of our um employee absences are entered in as well as now all
010of our employee onboarding um in addition to subs are put into there and what we did um frontline worked with us to update it because in the past people could put in leave even if they didn't have a balance and then on during payroll it creates a lot of extra work for Lydia to have to go back um and dock the pay and keep track of all that. So Front Line had said that we could do this tuneup and add some features to our program. So it would pop up a message on the employees side. Um so if they were going to be out and they were out of leave, they wouldn't be able to proceed because sometimes people would put in many days that they didn't have. So they changed our settings and they
011updated um some other items, not not just that, so that um we'd have some more checks and balances in place. Um but we have an annual subscription with Friendline, so that was just an add-on for that. Okay. Thank you. And you wanted to know about the discipline boot camp that was attended by the um principles I believe and Michelle and you and Scarlet and Taran. Um, it was put on by attorneys that gave us information, old, current information, new information on the legalities around, excuse me, discipline when it um is related to students with disabilities. And what we need to pay attention to if like a student with disability has a suspension or so many days of suspension and you know is it an in-house suspension out of house suspension manifestation determinations all of the
012legalities around discipline and students with disabilities. Thank you. Welcome. Any questions? I had asked if either Michelle or Tara could share about the knowledge saves lives assembly. Yep. I can speak to that. So, we did that at um we had two presentations. One was at um OCI and the fifth graders from OES walked over and participated and it went really well. I think the presenters did a good job with explaining to kids how serious um fake threats can be for themselves and their families. And then when they were done with that um they headed over to Lassuma and did the same presentation for fifth through 8th grade students there and it seemed to go well. The students were really well behaved and paid attention. Um they had a lot of questions which I thought was
013great. They had a question and answer session at the end. So many many students raised their hand, asks questions, but just being safe online um using social media and the internet and um especially uh when they asked that question about how many kids had phones and seeing the littleer kids raising their hands and all the access that they have. So just how to be smart with that and making good choices. It's the same people who did our active shooter training for the staff. So they offer a lot of different modules for staff, students. So they had suggested that one. So you're happy with with the I think it did well. Principles, were you happy with the presentation? Yes. Timely as I said for sure. Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you for inviting us. I
014apologize I couldn't make it. Yeah, I could not make it either. And I just had one other question regarding the Aries conference. Um perhaps Stephan in the future when he's free u could share a little bit about that attendance. I know they go every year. You want to Aries conference? Yeah. What what you do there? Are you Yeah. So, um Nicole and I go to every year to Aries conference, which is our student information system. Um kind of different classes on what news coming up or kind of honing in our skills and networking with other database people and and getting ideas. So it really Aries is just this huge beast that um definitely is helpful to go and actually spend a couple days just focusing and talking about Aries. So yeah, I mean I would
015say it's exciting, but that's very necessary. Yeah. Keeping the student data safe and Yeah. making sure we have everything set up correctly. Bill Gates and Jane Fonda there again this year? No, not this. It was like uh superintendent of uh Diablo Blue Valley and you know just the big buzz word right now is AI obviously and so there's a lot of that coming down the line and how to prepare for it and what that means for student data and security and um so it's everyone's talking about it now for sure. So get ready for AI stuff. there's a lot of protection on our children's information. A lot of people don't feel very comfortable about that, especially with who's presenting that. Okay, thank you so much. All right, the next item, information items number eight is
016our academic achievement report and Mrs. Tansen is going to present. Okay, I'll read my summary real quick here. I ready diagnostic 3 has been completed. Attached you will find reports showing student growth in both reading and math from diagnostic 1 to diagnostic 3. These reports provide a clear picture of progress made over the course of the year. Additionally, I've included the IR proficiency projection reports for both reading and math. These reports estimate how our students are projected to perform on the CASP state test. The performance levels on the report are as follows. You'll see I think it says like L4 L3 and so those are the performance levels that are used for the CASP. So level four is standard exceeded, level three is standard met, level two is standard nearly met and level one is
017standard not met. So the first one on the top left as the supporting document is the IR proficiency projection in math. The first page just kind of gives a summary of the report. So if you scroll to the second page, you'll see the comparison for the projections from diagnostic one to diagnostic 3. And if you scroll down further, that does it by grade level districtwide. Important to point out that the reason it's grade three through eight is because those are the students that test for state testing. And you can see there on that u on page two the bar graph um the projections in the upper right hand corner it says it's projecting proficiency at 26%. Um last year our proficiency of met and exceeded was 25%. Just to give you a little bit of
018an idea there. Is now a good time for a question? Yep. So my question was on the um well this is the projected. Are you going to go over the actual growth as well? Can I ask the question? So my my um the um what was the time frame for one and then the three? Is it like first quarter and third quarter? Diagnostic one is right at the beginning of the school year and diagnostic 3 just wrapped up a week ago. A week ago. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I left diagnostic 2 out because I thought it would be nice to just look at like beginning of the year to like now, right? And we're ramping up our state testing. So there's a report for math and reading for the projections. If you are ready to look
019over at reading, we can kind of go back and forth. Give you some time to look at that and ask questions. Um, I got excited about this. The um reading profic projected proficiency was 47% and last year on the CASP our proficiency for met and exceeded was 32%. That's exciting. Yeah. Let me know when you're ready to move on to the next set. So that this is just projected proficiency. This isn't the actual data. This is like you know I read crystal ball based on where how the kids are performing now. where they've come, how much more time of course is is and how much more time for instruction between now and taking the test, right? So, they have very complicated and convoluted formulas. Um, but they're usually pretty close. So, it'll be good. It'll
020be fun to look at this after we get the CASP results to see how close they were. So, I just have a question again. Diagnostic one like um and this is in not the projective this is in the actual um so like a lot like all of them were 80% or more were below grade level when they started in every grade in math. Are we are we going to look at a new report? Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I'll wait. Is everybody ready to move on? Does anybody have any questions about the proficiency reports? Okay. I had just Yeah, go for it. Off the far right of all of them and there's a it's like um I'm still looking like just for example on the reading proficiency report for grade five it shows 72 out of
02190 students participated. Where were the other 18? You know and and then grade six only 75 out of 93. So that left out a bunch. Mhm. So um there are some students that don't test, right? Like some of our SDC students don't test. Some students maybe weren't able to complete the test because maybe they were absent. Um some of our independent study kids don't take the test. So there are some students in within those grade levels districtwide. Also, some of the students weren't here for diagnostic one, like they came to us later in the year, and so you don't have that comparison, right? Because they didn't take both tests. So, there are going to be a handful or two or three students that aren't they just they just weren't around for the they weren't around.
022Maybe they don't test for whatever reason. and maybe they didn't finish the test because during the testing window they were out sick and weren't able to to complete the test. So, there are there are different reasons why not all of our students would be represented on this report. Yeah, it's just a it's just pretty much a high percentage non- testers, right? I mean, I could drill down deeper and actually figure out which kids those were and we, you know, like we can look at that and ask ourselves why and maybe, you know, work on that. But those are the the main reasons why a student would not be on here. Yeah, I think to tie along with that because if you look at reading and they have students assess out of the total, you have
023580 out of 803. Is the total the school, the whole school? And then some of these kids don't test because they're not going to be doing the CAS score. Is that 580 out of 83 kids that could have tested? I believe that's the number of third through 8th grade students total total in the district. So they could have tested but they didn't test or didn't finish the test or what you had just explained to him. Correct. Yeah, that's a lot of kids. I mean that's like 200 over 200. See the math problems around here. I better not take the test. Yeah. And like that I noticed that also. So that's like a deeper dive into the Right. So we I can look into that and drill down and see okay like what's going on and
024is it something that we can do something about. Yeah. Because if you look at that, you know, over 200 kids, if they then take the cast, that's going to throw this whole thing off either positively or it could go negatively, right? And so I'm not sure that this data is is super reliable if we have a third of our kids aren't taking the test. Mrs. Townson, does the data only show like does it only show who the test is assigned to? Cuz our kindergarteners don't take it at the very beginning of the year. Well, it shouldn't. I would hope that it was um smarter than that, right? Because it's third through eth. Um, I wonder and I feel like maybe I misspoke originally about maybe the kids this I would hope that this only reflects
025students who did take diag who were here and did take diagnostic one compared to the ones that actually did but then that would not have a discrepancy. So I can look into that. I'll ask I ready and see like who are those kids right? like who are those kids that aren't represented and then you know ask the questions of okay what do we do about that I mean you think about it our whole district has 800 kids basically so K and one shouldn't even be in this right right and two but on so maybe maybe that's why they're saying the assessed and maybe it's the total all the schools that's why I I I will contact them and say like who are those kids? Yeah. Okay. What's that number? How do you get that number?
026Right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, should we move on to growth? Sure. Okay. Let's look at I already diagnostic growth math. Which which one? The first one on the left. There's two for math. the growth diagnos diagnostic on the left hand column the second one down it says I ready diagnostic growth this is actual growth from I ready so again when they take the test for one is it basing their n so because again according to like the numbers it basically says that almost 80 to 92% of our kids are one grade level or more below when they took the test at one. Is it testing them for that year or the previous year? Is it like they're coming in without a lack of knowledge or you know what I mean? Because it's a high
027number. It's like but I understand there was a summer break or whatnot but it was that that was like ouch that's a lot. Now have we had growth which is great but still over you know like I guess the best 70% 70% or more are one grade level or below uh no 63 68 okay so 60 so in fourth grade 63% of the kids are below grade level and it just goes up from there from the different grades you know what I mean so I'm just wondering is it okay Kath It's a better hand raised. I I mean I can only speak for my site, but when we took our first I Ready diagnostic, we're just kind of getting it done. It wasn't really until we took our second I'm ready diagnostic that like as
028a leader I was be able to talk to my site about having data chats and really like the meaningfulness of Ire and how it can be used. And so like looking at our first diagnostic like diagnostic number one honestly like a lot of students are just they didn't they don't try they didn't care and so it wasn't until we had diagnostic number two where students and really it's this what I'm speaking to is happening more in grades three through five but students are asking like I really feel like I couldn't like those data chats have helped them and they've looked at it and they're like I really feel like I could improve and so we have people on Friday of last week asking to retake a diagnostic and try and finish where first quarter or
029first diagnostic I mean like we totally didn't have that like I just I'm going to be totally honest we're still learning how to really apply meaning to the right and and leverage it for how it's intended. And so I think that that's part of it too. Now that our teachers and like our older students are kind of getting more involved in that, I think it I hope it it will that our te our students now that like have the buy in and see the buy in. I'm hoping that they will take the first diagnostic more seriously and that our like as a staff we have the in our in our tool belts we have the conversations ready you know to really explain the importance because you try in the beginning but it really it comes
030to those relational skills and just talking to your kids and really like hey this is what this says is really wearing hat so I can talk. I was just going to say Leslie on the bus with your hands. So as a teacher that first time around diagnostic is kind of from my classroom or a practice for our kids and and it's kind of like okay you come back from summer and here we're going to take this this is I ready this is what it's about. second quarter, I took those reports and shared them with my kids and said, "Hey, this is what happened." And I had kids looking at them and saying, "It says I'm in kindergarten, Mrs. Peterson." I said, "Well, what do we want to do about that?" So, some of them, like
031Kathy said, said, "I want to redo it." Okay. Well, we got to redo it. So, we do it. Or some of them say, "I'm kind of stuck. Oh, I kind of lost my thought. Darn it. Long game." Okay. So then we set goals and see what we want to set. And this third quarter, I gave them the reports again. And the fact that they got to see the arrow go up for growth was like, wow. I'm so proud of the way I took that test. But that first time around, I don't know. I don't know how we can do that. Do we do we not do a first one so soon for training or do we well it it's not even just about that because I get you know that was a high number and
032so it does look like we've got growth right because like let's just take second grade for instance that at the beginning diagnostic was 92% of kids were one or more grade levels behind and now at three we have 70%. So, we still have a huge number of kids in all grades that are that are way below where they should be. And I know that's what we're working on, right? But that is what we're trying to decide in the board like how do we move forward? How do we get, you know, but teachers don't we don't even understand what I already what the questions are? Like it says they're low in geometry. We don't even know what what are they asking them in geometry that we need to do. So, I feel like that's kind of
033like a weakness in that already thing. Well, and also just I'm sorry I'm totally interrupting you. Depending on when they take the diagnostic and the way like a math textbook is laid out, geometry traditionally doesn't come until the end of the year. And so we take diagnostic number three last week. We still have weeks ahead of us. And so geometry probably hasn't even been touched yet. So we have to look at it. We only have this certain window. So you got a kid who's out for a week, that window's closed. You can't. So, I mean, I know there's ways cuz Miss that we could open that window for those kids to finish, but I don't know. Maybe our window needs to be here. Okay. Well, this is why we're discussing it. Did you say 70%.
034That's what I got. So, if you add up the like if you Let me scroll down. So, if you go down to the Where am I? Oh, I have I'm Maybe I wasn't I'm on math. Are I We opened up math. So that's why I'm a little like I'm looking at math. You know what is weird? The growth like that those top two bars at the very top of the report. Do you guys see that? Yes. The color bar. Okay. So, I was looking at the at if you look at the at the bottom where it says grade two and then if you see the colors like there's the green green yellow red red, right? If you add up the yellow to the red cuz yellow is a greater more below, right? Um you were
035looking I was looking at like the district as a whole. Oh, I was looking at like just just curious out of each class like you know. So just added up the totals because I was like wow there's only like you know I mean if we have 20% well 25% were efficient or proficient anyway it's a low number of kids that are already on grade level at at diagnostic three you know which was just what I was looking at. Right. I think it's important to like look at the growth though, right? Like that's pretty significant growth if you just look at the top district wide, right? And you look at those numbers. Yeah, we're not trying to test you guys. So, you know, especially like for green, right? It says 67 students and that went from
036nine students, right? So, from nine students to 67 students. Which one are you looking at? The top. at the very top for all students for the entire entire district. Okay, got it. Yeah. So, mid or above grade level went from nine students diagnostic one to 67, right? And early on grade level went from 54 students to 98 students. Okay. One grade level below went from 254 to 261. And then two grade levels like we diagnostic one two grade levels below is 126 and now there's only 75 right I love it I think it's great and I know we have a lot of growth but even like if you look at like 8th grade diagnostic 3 said 70% in math of our kids are below grade level and 56% of them are below grade level in
037English and they only have a few weeks left before they move on to high We I was just we know there's work to be done, right? We've had those conversations, but I think it's important that we celebrate growth, right? I'm sorry to be down tonight. Didn't mean to be. Yes, we had growth. That's great. And this is the first like we're just getting into looking at the data and so that's why I was kind of like looking at all the numbers and anyway. Yeah. Yeah. It's just surprising and sad that we, you know, agreed. Mhm. I'm not saying it's your fault. I'm just saying it's just the way it is. Taking any blame. It's It's incredible, let me tell you. Okay. Any other questions about the data or anything you'd like me to drill down
038deeper on? I know of course the proficiency one all I think it's a good start. Yeah. Yeah. And now we get to quantify, isolate, and target. And you know, and that's the whole point of it. And uh and I think that's a good start. Yes. I think also when you look at the yellow band, right, that's 42%. That's a giant percentage of kids and we don't know how close they are to being in the green. They might be a couple points away. I just always feel like that yellow is a an opportunity. Not that the red isn't an opportunity, but the yellow is a giant opportunity. And I feel like we should really be those are the looking at that and trying to target those students pretty hard right over to get them over to
039the green. Yep. That's a lot. 44% on the map. It's a giant window. Agreed. Diane, did you have something you wanted to say? I just wonder what we could do as a district to talk to parents to alert them that they have to be involved in their children's education. You can't expect everything to be a teacher, right? And what what can we do to have an influence concerning for example children being on social media which we know is up to six hours a day that many are addicted or it's being used as a babysitter. When we try and give the information out, send the information out. Um maybe we can put together some data or some um flyers we can push out on parent square. Um that's what we you know we can we can
040give the information but we can't go home with them. But I mean giving them some statistics, giving them, you know, dad doing blasts on parent square or whatever. For example, telling them if a child doesn't read it by fourth grade, they probably won't graduate high school. I mean, that's a fact. Terra just volunteered to make them. I like I used to work in marketing. You're awesome. Make them fire. They could give me some data. Yeah. I mean if they if they knew if parents knew that statistic you know that might wake up you know and then practical ideas of how they can get involved you know just encouragement maybe care. Yeah but it means time good time face to face with parents time but I mean you know just parents square I believe our teachers
041do that. I believe our teachers and our administrators have a lot of conversations in lots of different settings with parents and encourage them and give them strategies and skills on how to support their children at home. That is happening. It might not be in a formal flyer. It might not be in a formal parents square. I know that that's happening. Um that's what they do with parents. So are parents privy to this information? Are they let them know exactly where their kids are at. So, are these the conferences that are happening in October or the one right now? Good. Thank you. and on the report cards that go home at quarter two. But I mean just little blasts that you could put on parents where you know for example I had that campaign that Stannis
042loss had did which I gave him a folder with I know I have that little guy sitting next to my computer screen my phone but it has a lot of statistics on there I thought would be really helpful just to put it on parent square you know hello there's your first wire you know there's your first wire yeah like that they spend this much time on social media they it could cause this, you know, decline in reading. Um what statistics regarding depression and all of that and u you miss one day of school or one one day a week is like missing two days and after you know by the time you would graduate you've missed a whole year of school. Things like that might wake him up you know just my two cents here.
043Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Are we done talking about that? Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh, next information item, enrollment and ter. So, um, not going to read them all in detail. It's kind of been the same the last few meetings, but um, there was a increase of a few students at OES and a decrease of a few students at Wuma and Oak Creek. Um, and as far as the, um, which it just tends to fluctuate monthto month. And then as far as the ADA report, you can see um we're hovering just above, you know, 90% um with our average daily enrollment versus our attendance. The P2 attendance is due um coming up in about a week and that's what our main funding is based on. So at P1, our um our overall
044average daily attendance was 749. So, if you figure we have 803 students, but we're only funded at 749. This uh lower percentage of attendance really does affect uh the funding. So, it'll be interesting to see what the number comes in at with P2 if attendance has been better. Sometimes the number can go up. Um and then um it's easy to do a quick math on that with it's about 11,000 a student. So if we have 83 students but we're funded versus 749, that's a pretty big significant decrease in funding having that lower ABA. So we're but I know everybody's working hard doing everything they can to get the students in seats. Uh it's just been more of a challenge over the last several years postco. So but it's across the nation. It's not just unique
045to our area. Right. Right. I'm sure we had a I think it was a CSDA article recently that some state that was like making a note that some states are trying to um charge parents who have chronically absent child. I was like, "Oh my goodness." Yeah. Yeah. Like how much it is per day ADA invoice. I heard that about that invoice the parents like actually talking about getting them arrested for like not sending their kids to school. I don't know. Well, I'm going to be part of a round table on Friday um where I've told you in past years they've tried to push legislation forward to get schools funded on enrollment, not on attendance. And so um the LAO office, which is a legisl legislative analyst office, is doing a round table with CBOS from
046all around the state. Um and they've provided me this lengthy questionnaire um to prepare for the round table. They want to hear all of our feedback. It's the first time where they've talked about that legislation and actually done something other than just talk about it. Yeah. And they're getting some feedback from all the districts and they wanted to include um on my round table there's a small district like us. There's big districts. So they're doing that right now. They had about 12 different roundts set up. And so I think it's making more traction in terms of the funding being based on the enrollment um not the not the average attendance because you still have to um have the lights on and have people here. So you should make a flyer and take it. I did
047one flyer today. get some t-shirts printed every day. So, we're picking up students from the new apartments. I think that's what that was at OAS. Yes. Because we got um some not all not a lot of new students, but not they're not all from the apartments right now. We're actually not. I would say only a third of about the 25 students we've gotten are well when I ran this this has been a couple weeks so maybe the number has gone up more because there's only four we've had more but we've also like had some leave but act like really the it's a small handful it's afternoon apartments it's kind of mindblowing. Well I don't think they're filled up yet. Yeah, they're not. They are not. All right. So, we move on to item number nine.
048We're opening up a public hearing regarding and our district has already. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry about that. That's okay. That's a quick one. No movement. Okay, there we go. Okay, so item number nine, Mr. Glenn Reed is here. He's our administrator. just starting to fall asleep there. He's going to be We're opening up our hearing regarding a renewal petition for the Yusede Walona Elementary Charter School. If you have questions, I could share with you a little bit about the charter, what's going on if you'd like. Um, and I'd be happy to do that. But first, I would like to thank Michelle and her team. We had a tragedy this year uh when our teacher passed away and she was kind enough to immediately get us up some counseling help for kids. Um and they came
049up twice. They came up once when we had to announce that the teacher wasn't coming back and then when she passed they came up again. And I can't tell you how supported the whole community felt because it was a quick phone call or email and on they came. So, thank you. That was a big help for us. Um, so we are looking for a teacher now and we've already had several good applicants and so our plan is to have that filled before the summer starts. Um, we finally have a commitment from the national park that there is a teacherage up there so they'll have a place to live. Um, and uh, it's just a magical place. We've got 13 students right now and two adults. And you're the teacher. Right now I'm the teacher. So,
050and the superintendent and the superintendent. It's keeping me busy. The custodian 5 in the morning I leave my house. I get home about 5 in the evening. So, um that's retirement for you. Yeah. There you go. Um we run a good program and our goal is to turn out good kids. Kids who are responsible, kids who take care of business and do things. um we're K6 and so when they get to seventh grade if they're in your attendance area they come down to OCI so last year we sent about three there uh most of our kids do not come from Baselic District we've got kids that come out every day from YOP uh we've got Malona families uh we've got a Mariposa family and so we do have about four kids that would technically come
051here but they won't come here because they're homeschooled families So really it's not any burden on the district at all. Uh you know we we do everything that you do. We have board we had a meeting last night. We do the LCAP. We do our budgets. Terra has been a tremendous help for us as we've struggled through this year because uh not only did we lose our teacher but her son does our books and works at the school. And so we kind of had a double whammy for a few months there because he was not able to come and do his things. Terry, you really helped us out there. So, that's much appreciated. We get every kind of kid that comes in there. We got some kids that are are good good students. We get
052some kids that we had one a few years back, fourth grade, and couldn't write their name. Uh, they wrote an X. And so, um, these are parents who are looking for something different for their kids, and that's something we can provide. That student, by the way, uh will be going to Riverbold next year as a sixth seven, excuse me, a seventh grader and is reading and writing and doing great things. So, and it's just a it's a unique atmosphere for kids and it's only for those people who want their kids to have that kind of atmosphere, but it's very successful. Again, our goal is to turn out good kids, responsible kids, kids who know that they matter. Um, our teacher was absolutely outstanding at doing that. She created such strong individuals that when they had
053to get the bad news, they really just leaned on each other. It was the counselor said, "I've never seen anything like this." Um, it's a magical place. It really is. And we'd like to continue operating. Um, because I know I was sitting where Michelle's sitting. You can't you can't solve every kid's problems and because of just the size of what you're working with when you got 13 you can really work on some issues for kids. So any questions I'm just probably confused. So your school is in Maraposa County, right? And so would wouldn't you be talking to Maraposa? So, do you want the long story of that or so? Years and years ago, we're talking back in the late 80s, early 90s, Mariposa County closed Wona School. Yeah. The superintendent at the time, Angie Bazello,
054said, "We'll take that school into our district, which was fascinating at that time." And so, you are a joint district. That means you have schools in two counties. We get taxes from Maraposa and right. And so now they're considered part of Bass Lake. And that was back in the late 80s, early 90s. Okay. It just seems like an odd It's an odd It's an odd thing. I won't lie to you. It was before I was here. I you know, I'm still kind of learning some of this. I still get a similar question like, "No, which one of your schools is at Bass Lake again?" Same sort of thing. And just a reminder, um, we have nothing to do with the funding and all that. You guys take it, your board takes care of that. There's
055no financial burden on us. We receive for their ADA, we receive the tax appropriations and then just in transfer directly to the charter um, every month. I approve the transfer and then they send to them. It's very minimal. Um, it's such a small school and the the funding that they received this year, I think it was 135,000 based on the ADA. In our budget, it's about 220,000. The community up there is extremely supportive. Uh last year we went to DC and the community paid for plane tickets for kids and their families because it's just it again it's part of the community out there and uh and so they are extremely supportive financially and so we get a grant from the use foundation um that is not a part of it goes to all the schools
056in that gives us a nice bump. We get a grant from we hope next year from the Department of Education because we're a necess we're we're a rural school with just a small number of kids. So um we don't have a whole lot of money to throw around. We do good things with what we got and we're renewing uh this is the um hearing to renew the petition. So it expires uh end of this school year. So it'll go from um July through till 2029 end of June. And the process is to do the public hearing tonight, kind of like what we do with the LCAP in the budget. And then the next meeting, we would approve the charter petition. And of course, there's criteria from CDE that needs to be followed and they need
057to be performing at a certain level and all of those things. And they meet all of those requirements, of course. um if there's sort of different qualifications. If they're like low performing, then they can be up for like a renewal but for a shorter amount of time, like a two-year renewal instead of maybe a 5year renewal. Um, and then it's important for me to point out to you that um, we also will have anou, a memorandum of understanding to the side of the petition that deals with special education because we are responsible for those types of services. And so currently we have legal reviewing that. and Glenn's been fantastic with having conversations with me about those expectations and and what we can do and not do. Um and so we are having that drafted and
058then the two of us will look at that and um I have you know the board has authorized me to move forward with anus. We'll agree on those get that signed off and then it'll come to you for ratification. So you'll see it um so that you kind of know, you know, how special that is going to be handled um as it relates to the to the charter. And we have we pay for it. Yeah. We have a Google sheet. So we track all the services. So like with the psychologist just went up there. Uh it's shared um districtwide with the staff. If it's speech pathology, psychologist, the special ed director, they put down their time and then at the end of the year, we invoice the school. um it's very minimal, but we invoice
059them for any services that we provided, you know, based on the hourly rate of those providers. And then we do the same thing with the budget um interims. They have those same requirements and they have us a person that a CPA that handles that, but then I also have to review it. The county requires me to review it and send them a form. So, there's the same amount of oversight in terms of um the budget, the attendance. Uh actually, I got that today. They started their attendance. Um so, then um I have it rewritten. It goes down to the county. So, it's just like they're like Wasuma or OCI or OES. It's just a different site per se by um them being chartered under our district. You'll also see a lot of language in theou
060for special education. That's obviously the finances involved in that are important, but there's also things that are going to be in there as far as obligations of notifications because there's child find issues and like Glenn mentioned, students sometimes will go to his school and then they come to us in junior high. So, we need to make sure that if there are any students that are struggling with anything that could be identified under special education that we're having good communication about that. And so that's all going to be in the MOU so that we don't end up um in any potential legal issues down the road with um parents or advocates as far as services. And we receive funding through the county sula. um there's a portion with their ADA that goes into um our funding.
061Um so that if for those services to take place um you know we if they did need the services it's pretty rare that you get a student there that's on an IEP but if they did we have funding that's available that would take care of um those if we had to like contract with salient and do speech or anything like that which we have done in the past that um how that's taken care of. Our goal is to be invisible to you. We don't want you to even know we're there. We I I will tell you right now, and I told Michelle this, and I told my board this last night, I will never agree to anything that's going to hurt Bass Lake because I have a lot of loyalty to this district. I was
062here for 20 years, and so that will never happen. Okay? I want to make sure you understand that. But we want to be as invisible to you as possible. We don't want to be a burden. We don't want to take your kids, unless they're kids that just are not thriving. Usually it's kids that aren't thriving here and they go up there and it's a whole different world. So it's just a different opportunity for kids. Thank you very much. All right. You can go to bed now. Late night for you. Long day. Good see you, Mr. Thank you. I sleep on the way home. He used to be our no other discussion. Do I just close out the hearing then? Okay. So, the public has an opportunity to continue to provide. Yeah. Email or bring it.
063Sorry. Email, bring it by the district office. Come have a convers. So between now and the next meeting, yeah, questions or concerns can be addressed and then um it'll be on the agenda next month as an action item. Okay, very good. All right, our public hearing is closed on that regard. And item number 10, we move on to accomplishments and other reasons to celebrate from throughout the district. We are celebrating Wasuma Elementary School. I should just hire her to follow me around so I feel good about myself. Personal journey. Money well spent. That's it. Would be it would be absolutely. All right. Let's get CC board. Okay. Um, do you actually I'm gonna I'm gonna hijack my own presentation for a second because I couldn't get this to transfer over to my Oh, you weren't
064serious. All right. I'm sorry. Um, now I want to show you this real quick. If you look back there, so this is Mr. Panita's fourth grade class. This was their most recent eye ready diagnostic and reading. So, I can't see it on my screen with my glasses. So, if you look, you've got the the 4% of his kids are three or more grade levels below in this most recent diagnostic. And I want to show you. So, look at you've got 36% in the hashtag green, which is mid or above grade level. You got 32% on early grade level. And I want to show you where that stand. This is his most recent diagnostic. And this was diagnostic number one. Where is it? What do I have to do? Scroll down. Bottom left. Yeah, there you
065go. Okay. Thank you. Oh, because I said growth. Dang it. Okay. I have it in my mind though. I can picture. Can you picture it? Can you picture it? Teeny bit of red. [Music] Diagnostic growth on the right. Reading. Reading. Okay. And that's going to be that's where I was. I don't think that's what we want. All right. I'll send it to you. Go to diagnostic reading. Go diagnostic results. Click that. And then click diagnostic. There he is. You got to do prior diagnostic. But this is this is diagnosis number one here. So look at when he started the year in August when they first took this you've got 7% two kids who were mid or above grade level and 19% were earlier on. So now when he did the third was 34% in that
066hashtag and what was it 32 in the full green. Yes. So we still have our 4% down at the bottom, but he has moved that huge yellow section of kids or one grade level below to green. So I just like to show it's kind of awesome. It's hard to see like on a on a micro level when you see all of it, but I wanted you guys to see that cuz he's amazing. I mean, we got to go, but okay, side. I digress. Uh, so it is definitely spring. I'm sure the other two principles will uh attest to that. The kids are feeling it. Couple good snow days and then pollen and spring and hormones and that's awesome. So, uh we're going to start our afternoon pentatlon kids. Uh they did amazingly in our first
067in their competition. Uh the team took second place overall. that that picture on the upper right corner was the moment that they realized that they had actually won something kind of big. Uh, and so I was so happy I caught that. Uh, the super quiz team took third place overall. There were 19 individual medals that included five golds, four silvers, and three bronze. Um, some fourth places, some honorable mentions, and they just it was super fun. They were so involved. It was great. So, um, kudos to, uh, Donna Springer and Becky Amati for all of their work with those kiddos. That was three afternoons a week that they worked on that. They had like three 40-minute per they did. So, it was great. So, when spring hits, everybody wants to be outside, including the kids,
068so it's the best place to get them engaged. Here are Mr. Ponita's fourth graders. They went to Millerton Lake last month uh, to observe bald eagles and their natural habitat and to learn about their migratory patterns. Everybody had to sign a waiver, Terra, and everybody had to wear a life jacket because they were on boats. Uh, and this is the second time they've done it, and we haven't lost anyone yet. So, we're feeling pretty good about it. Uh, they were freezing, though, because the weather had been amazing up until the day they left. And then it was sprinkling on them and it was freezing as they went up the channel and totally windy. They didn't care. The adults cared, kids didn't. They had some hands-on activities to learn about erosion while they were there. And
069um the fun fact that they learned is that the biologists there have discovered that the eagles that nest at Melin Lake are actually from northern Canada. I know who knew. Um so I see some erosion. Hands-on is the way to go for sure. They will remember it forever. We're out in the community everywhere. We have a field trip over to see Ryan Madison cinnamon roll shop. um former board member over in Mariposa. So kids are learning about small business, the community, we've been to the Oak Library, we've been to Round Table, they're going to the pizza factory and Rayley's um CHP stations, post office, get them out in the community and see what's going on. Uh fire station, obviously, why wouldn't we go next door? We don't have a lot of options in Aani, so
070we're going to use what we have. The best part about this is this first first grade group, the engineers and the fire crew that was there didn't look like they were old enough even to have licenses. Uh they did a great job with a bunch of six-year-olds and the kids had an absolute blast. Oh, and you see uh we've got Miss uh original Mrs. Ecklland up there in the back. She keeps getting pulled in. of retirement is about like Glenn's. Uh we've decided just to embrace the chaos because it's spring. Um so teachers are pulling out all the tricks. So we've got a STEM activity over here with jelly beans uh and toothpicks where the kids had to make a house for one of those marshmallow pee bunny things. Just uh and it was I
071just it grossed me out. Too much sugar smell in the room. But so they're learning. They have to they have to draw out their design. They have to try and make it stand up for x number of minutes. And so they're they're teachers just embrace the chaos. We had the PTA book fair last week. PTA has made it their mission to give every single student on campus a free book. And so every kid kinder through 8th grade was able to go in and buy pick out a book that PTA donated to them. And they still made over $3,000. So they bought books for next uh for the spelling bead participants that are coming at the end of the month. They are purchasing books for our library and classroom teachers also. So it's it's awesome. Uh
072the parent teacher conferences were last week and Diane I was thinking of you when you mentioned that. Um sadly our attendance in conferences this last week was the lowest it's ever been. Our middle school only averaged a 65% rate for conference attendance. And we have a number of teachers who have been very accommodating and rescheduling and rescheduling and rescheduling with parents and they're still not coming. So um it frustrating to say the least. Absolutely. We would we have an amazing group of volunteers, an amazing group of parents uh who are really engaged, but it is it is difficult to have everyone all the time, right? It's hard. We really try. Uh more gracing the chaos. Uh, how to get kids to write good sentences. How do you expand your sentences? So, they write on their
073desks with dry erase pens and they wipe right off so they can write on their desks and have certain words that they need to use. Were those the UFly words for that week? So, uh, they're using their Ufly words and it has to make sense. One of my favorites is up here in this upper leftand corner. He says, "Uh, I clean my tree a lot. I read my feet. I read my feet when they grow. May I smell your feet on my own?" It's a solid sentence. It is a solid sentence. It's just weird. Um, I fly. What is I fly? You fly. Oh, you fly. You fly. Yes. What is that? Uh it is a it's a phonics based program teaching kids um we use district we use a district science of reading the
074the train that we all did last year before it began. It's pretty amazing to see kids and and see what they're doing with it. They really are getting it when they're sounding out their words. You can you can hear them going oh it's down to kindergarten. It's awesome. So trying to keep everybody engaged and embracing the chaos. We're playing a scavenger hunt on campus of where is wildfire. Mrs. Mack and I hid 100 little pictures of wildfire all around campus. You'll see one at the bottom of that fire extinguisher. And every time a student finds one, they get to bring it in and we do a whole thing. I think there are 13 left to find. Um just trying to keep people again coming to school, getting excited, being there, right? Being pumped to be
075there for Dr. Seuss day. Some of you were able to see our uh Mrs. dance theater elective. They put on a performance of the Lorax and it was amazing. Uh OES brought over their primary kids and it was great. Our kids loved playing to a packed house. We got to see some of our old friends who we haven't seen for a while since the SDC classes moved over to uh OES. And so it was nice to get some of the kids back together again. When those two saw each other, I cannot even tell you the squeals. And then they raced their chairs at each other and we were all yelling, "No, slow down, slow down." But they were just squealing. They were so happy to see each other and um it was it was really
076awesome. They're all smiles. So um so we had oh my gosh, so busy garden lessons. Kids are learning about photosynthesis and how seeds travel. Our garden volunteers are amazing. We did actually have two nice days. They were able to be outside um celebrating Dr. Seuss fun. Everybody likes to get in on it because that's got to be there, right? Our middle school kids are super busy right now. Uh getting ready for high school. They did their tour at YS for FBI day. They had their very first ever PBS experience to John's Incredible Pizza and it was awesome. They had an absolute blast and it was such a great group of kids. What did you have? 50 60 kids. We all went together. We went together. Yeah. Yeah, we went together. We had um 70 70
077kids all together and 70 kids. They had an amazing time. They were so so no issues whatsoever. Just happy to be there. Lots of eating pizza and ice cream. Oh my gosh. And we like Yeah. And no. Yeah. It's great. So So many dances, right, Mr. Mcgru? So many dances. um they love them. Uh as you guys mentioned, we had our KSL presentation which was great, well received by our kids. A lot of great conversations back in classrooms with the teachers. So, and really great things for us to fall back on and use as teaching moments. Sixth graders are heading to science camp the week after spring break, which is great. Uh and then our eighth graders uh had a spaghetti spaghetti dinner fundraiser last week. It was ridiculously successful. If you ever need somebody
078to plan an event for you, call Tanya Hamilton. She will get you the most amazing raffle items. Uh spa day at the Chansy Spa with an overnight stay and dinner at Vintage. Um it was there was a leaf blower. Oh no, it was a weed whacker I was walking around with. It was great. Uh Tommy Wheeler came and was the auctioneer for the live auction portion of it. Sweet Dreams donated cakes. The kids did a great job. The kids had to serve us all. They did a great job. L had I should have worn my matching shirt. Um they they really they stepped it up that night. It was great. I think Tanya I think between ticket sales, the fundraiser, the auction items, I think they raised almost $7,000. So they're trying to figure out
079like what kind of a give back they can do with the kids and so it's they're super proud of themselves. Um yeah, so it was really nice. um our focus going forward, we are trying to support each other. We saw some of our OAS compadres at this um comedy show one night. So, we are working on supporting each other as March was a lot for everyone. Um April's super right now. It's great. We are hosting the regional spelling be on April 28 and 29th. I think this is the last year will host kindergarten through 3rd. will be there on the 28th and 4th through 8th will be on the 29th. If y'all would like to come, we'd love to see you. Fun starts at 5. I can I'll send you an email more formal invitation
080here in a little bit. Kindergarten roundup is April 30th. Super important day. All of our grade level determinations are based on our numbers for kindergarten. Um, and kindergarten roundup impacts us probably a little bit more than it does OES because we have fewer teachers. So the diff we have five more kindergarters show up in August than we were anticipating. It really can cause quite the ripple effect and create combo classes all the way up. So trying to get the word out to make sure people know that registration needs to happen and that school does not start after Labor Day. It hasn't done that in my lifetime. Uh we are planning for next year including incorporating the data talks like Mrs. was talking about talking about the importance of kids setting personal goals, class goals. Uh,
081and we are reviewing our curriculum. Steve is doing what we needed to do. Our fourth, oh, sorry, prepping, we're prepping for CASP testing, which is coming in May. Our fourth and fifth grade classes are piloting a new social studies curriculum for the rest of the year to see how we like it. Um, we are helping our kids navigate their springtime emotions. It's a lot. Um, somebody was crying today because they had the wrong color basketball in PE. So, it's a lot. Uh, and we have our Earth festivities on May second. I'm sure Mrs. Peterson will be inviting all of you, all of you to come. Yes. Do you have anything else to support me? Oh, it's busy. It's fun. And our little friend doesn't cry anymore when she wants to school. Yay. Improvement. Fair enough.
082So, that's good. It's good. I also notice she's not bringing her stuffed animal. Sometimes money is there. Oh, okay. Thanks, G. [Applause] [Music] All right, we're on item 11, our superintendence report. Okay. Um, before I go into this, Lana, did we get did they do an approval for the warrants on 7A? I don't Yeah, they did. Okay. I thought they just did the motion. I thought there was a motion at first. They did. They did. Okay. We didn't remember hearing that, so just wanted to make sure. Good. Okay, cool. Okay. Um, superintendent report. uh Q conference. I went with um teachers to that and that was fantastic in um Palm Springs computer using educators. Um so I think they're um putting together some presentations. I'm not sure they're coming to the board, but they're going
083to share with their colleagues on some of the things that they learned and I will be doing that as well. So that was a good time. Um started differentiated assistance for suspension rates. We had our first meeting for that and there were a lot of really good conversations, a lot of great wonderings. Um going back and going to pull some data for our next meeting to look at um specifically students with disabilities, but really overall suspension rates in general and um what we can do to um help improve that situation for next year and the years to come. So, I appreciate everybody that um I asked them if they wanted to be part of the committee and they they agreed and so they um have a few more meetings uh with us and Jim Sergeant
084from the county uh between now and the end of the school year. Uh we also I rolled out the workplace violence reporting um document um through Catapult. So, thank you Stephan for helping with that. Now all of our staff members have access easy access to that. So in the unfortunate event there is workplace violence that they need to report, they have a form digitally that they can um access in their BLD staff resources from their Chromebook so it's easily accessible and we're in the process of getting posters printed with QR codes for folks who maybe that would be easier for them to access. and we'll put those in the staff lounges and in um front offices for for our staff. That's going to be really great because um that program will give really good reports
085and information on what's going on so that administrators can look at that in real time and have conversations and react to what's going on and um help mitigate those situations. Also, um I wanted to announce our uh Madera County Excellence in Education um winners. So, employee of the year, Ivonne Horton from office manager at OES. Uh teacher of the year, Gabby Frank, Wasuma, third grade, and administrator of the year, Bailey Markley, who's a district-wide speech and language pathologist. speech and language pathologists and psychologists um are grouped in that category because there's not really a category for that. So, congratulations to all of them. Um we're super excited about that. And then, um I just wanted to say I'm sure everybody can smell spring break right around the corner and so enjoy your time. Welldeserved break
086and um I hope everyone has a has a relaxing vacation with their friends and family. So that's it. But you guys don't get the week off, but you get Friday, right? The district. That's good. Okay, we're on to board member comments. Julie, do you have anything? Yeah, I um I have my youngest daughter is an eighth grader at Wasuma, so a lot of what Mrs. Archer was talking about. Um I participated in um I was at the pentathlon. That was a picture of my daughter with her mouth like ah uh realizing we had gotten an award or a medal or third place or all of that. And then I attended the spaghetti dinner fundraiser and it was packed and nonstop and it Tanya did a fantastic job. Um and then what was the [Music] other?
087Hm. Oh, the spelling bee. She won her eighth grade spelling bee, too. So, it's kind of cool that it's going to be hosted um at Wigma as well. And so, anyway, I'm just like a proud proud mama right now. So, those are all my comments. Good round. Um, I just, um, I've been helping out west in kindergarten and I have a friend that we were kept talking about and it's really been fun to kind of connect to different children. At first, it was kind of, you know, I don't have kids that go to school anymore. I don't know any of these kids. And now, as the year has progressed, I got these little buddies and they're so fun and she thinks I'm going on first grade with her. So, I'm not sure what's going to
088happen or not, but it's been fun. Um, and also I got to help out at the book fair at West Suma and it was so cool. I don't know if you saw it, but those of us who've volunteered at the book fair before, it's all computerized now, which was amazing. And they also said, "Do you want to round up to help the book fair?" And everybody I asked said yes, and that's just extra money that goes to the book fair. So, it was amazing. It was great and fun. And anyway, so that's all I have to say today. Thanks for letting it. Yes. I just wanted to uh thank everybody for their efforts with that the I Ready reports. That was a a lot of work. I know it's a work in progress and uh
089it's it is progress and I I like seeing that. I I read those things really quick and I like them. So, I'll keep it up. Thank you, Denise. Um I went to the knowledge saves lives presentation and um it was really neat to see the kids asking a lot of questions and also them getting the knowledge that their digital footprint doesn't go away was a giant I think wakeup call to some of these kids when when that presenter said every photograph every text message every email everything you've done is saved and he said I can find in five minutes and the kids were like so yeah. So anyway, I think that was excellent. I'm really thankful that the district put that on because I think those kids learned a lot and I'm hopeful that that
090bears fruit um in the future with kids behaviors. So that was really neat. Um I also um on Eric McDonald's invitation went um to OES on the day that John Krypo came and um did his magic around the campus. So, I followed him around um for three different classrooms and got to have lunch with E and um actually Michelle's daughter was there um from Riverbold just doing a little cross-pollination and um and Garrick and we had lunch and talked about everything and so yeah, they're doing some really neat things with these edgy protocols and um some teachers are excited about it and you know, John always is like, "Oh, poor link deris just you just got to keep up. You just get on the ride and you just keep on. You hold on for dear
091life. So, I did that and uh but I learned a lot and um and it's exciting and and Garrick's really excited about it and wanting to learn more and so he and I had a few email exchanges and he wants to invite me back again. So, I'll be happy to do that. Um and I'm happy you guys get to house free break. So, again, I keep saying it. I said it last meeting. You're almost there. You really are. You're almost at the end of the school year, so keep it up. And last but not least, this is a fun fact to know about Denise Cut about spelling. So, you may not know this about me, but I'm going to go ahead and brag that I was the mountain area spelling champion two years in a
092row. 17th grade. That's right. I sure was. Of course, it was before the Washington DC trip that everybody got to go on besides me and it was a perpetual trophy. So, I got a thesaurus though and I will tell you something. I still have it and I used it all through college and it says I still have it and inside it has the Madera County because the schools Madera County schools sponsored and it still has my name Denise Gerard seventh grade. So anyway, for some like I wasn't a giant athlete, but you know, there's always an avenue for kids and so that was my strength. And so anyway, I think it's super cool that that you guys still that we still do those types of things because every kid has a chance of success. So
093So I'd be happy to be there if you need a word master. I'm an excellent word master. Anyway, that's all you guys. Wonderful. whether it's texting, you know, everyone has good things they share and I wish I could have gone to the knowledge safe lives. I was busy that day, but just enjoying uh Mrs. Gwyn's uh kindergarten class and I do that on Fridays and getting to know these little ones and see improvements every week is really encouraging their behavior and all of that. But there was something I I was reflecting on. Um there's a documentary called uh 22 Words. And you know, it's kind of a serious thing I was reflecting on, but um I don't know if you guys have ever heard about the 22-word prayer that used to be recited in public
094school for decades. And some people found it offensive. Uh and this was in New York. And so it was removed in 1963. And we have to look at how has society changed over the generations from that point in time 60 years ago to what it is now with I think we can all see there's been quite a shift in all of that and um not for the better unfortunately but I just wanted to recite this 22word prayer um and this is it was almighty God we acknowledge our dependence on thee and we beg thy blessings upon us our parents parents, our teachers, and our country. And that was it. Um there's a lot of power. I personally believe in prayer and I think there was a lot of covering that um God really blessed the
095schools in the United States of America. And um I just wanted to share I I think that becoming more secularized as a society has not been, you know, good for families. And um some statistics real quick, at least one, that uh 80% of single parent homes are run by a mom. And I think that's very very sad that we don't have, you know, fathers and mothers and married. So anyway, that's just something I wanted to share. And so I appreciate all of you and I hope and that's another thing with spring break is it used to be called Easter break. I'm thankful to Steve that you made sure that we got that particular week off. So, I hope everyone has a wonderful spring break and for those of you who, you know, celebrate Easter, it's
096a pretty pretty phenomenal history changing event. So, anyway, thank you everyone. Uh, our next item 14, our next meeting date, I have May 14th, I believe. Oh, future agendas. Any future agenda items anybody have for the next week? Okay. Reported. Okay. And then I have for the next meeting date May uh I believe it's the 13th. No 14th. May 14th is our next meeting date. Okay. So we are adjourned. 736. [Music]