001I'd like to call the Park Board of Education Committee meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. on May 12th. I already said 5:30. So here and fortresses with notice. Um, she's in a important graduation for her son in Missouri. So, um, public comment. No approval of the agenda. Public comment. Nobody. Do we have to vote on the approval of the agenda? We No, you said just roll. Okay. Discussion on this agenda? I know there's Are we removing? Um yeah, if we could just table that therapy dog until Heidi's available. So I don't know how what I need. I'll second that. Okay. So you're making a motion to approve the agenda with tableabling that? Yeah. Let me try this. I'm making an app. See, I already messed it up. Go ahead. I'm making a motion to approve
002the agenda as written. Uh but tableabling uh B policy one therapy dog policy to a later date. I'll second. Okay. Motion made by Nate to table the therapy dog policy and second by Darren. Any discussion? Okay. Uh roll call. Becker. Yes. Fox. Yes. Beaten. Yes. The boys. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh, new business. Oh, public comment. Seeing no public comment. Nobody out there. We move on to new business. And we have personnel sick day payout. I don't know who's speaking. Anybody speaking to that? Um, I think this was just that you guys wanted to have further discussion about it. It was really uh Miss Fortress who was wanting to have more discussion about it. So, I'm not really sure if you guys have more questions. I'm happy to answer them. Does anybody have anything? I believe
003what it was is that uh Miss Misfortress wanted to make sure that we weren't going to uh continue the practice of adding uh central office personnel with the um vacation payout like we've been doing. But personally, I think we're just fine because it's going to come up for next time for voting. Um, I I don't personally see it being a problem, but um I I don't know if we should just take that off of the agenda. Could Could I offer a potential solution that we've discussed? So, if somebody goes from say being a teacher to an administrator, we would give them their sick day payout after they conclude their teaching contract. After they what? I'm sorry. So after they conclude their teaching contract, we would give them their sick day payout at that point. I
004don't hate that idea, but then they would lose all of their days. So at that point they, you know, in in say something happened where they required to leave or you know something like that, then they wouldn't have the time that they had saved up. I don't hate that idea. I agree. But I think that also at the end when you put that big chunk of money into a uh saving or a 401k pay or and you might not be able to do that. We don't have 401ks in education. Yeah, I know you you know what I mean though the 403b 403bs. Exactly. You know a retirement fund. I think that would be problematic. So, may I just suggest that we wait until Heidi is back to I mean, so we've we've cleared up the
005um current HBASA administration, right? We we've made an agreement anyone who's a building administrator who's moved up from the teachers group to building administrator. We've cleared that up. Um, I think our last real longtime employee who became a a uh central office administrator, we cleared that up at the last meeting. That that's done. As I think about the people who are in this building, I don't think that that is really something that's going to come up unless we have another teaching staff come up as we have any further retirements with the the principles. honestly like I don't foresee it hap like if you think about the people that are in this building nobody kind of really falls into that category at this at the time at this time um and we've cleared up the current
006building administrators I know we have a couple retiring next year but it was a big hit at first but now we've taken care of it but we're not we're not doing anything to any of these until their time of retirement anyways right exactly so Um, I don't I I don't I mean I can't predict the future. Be cool if I could, but um I don't foresee this being like an issue. Maybe if I could suggest if we could suggest maybe putting this on the next month's agenda. That way we can discuss it at the committee as a whole and then take it to the because this is something that doesn't have to be done right away. Right. Right. I thought it was just for discussion and that's why I thought if Heidi's back, we can
007get her. I I I would suggest putting it on the next month's agenda and then that way she can have her input. That's fair because I we voted on everybody that's up so it's not it's not a time-sensitive issue when there's no action item. What I heard from Miss Fortress was I think what I heard from Miss Forress is she doesn't want us she didn't want it to happen in the future. But just as it would be a financial, you know, thing that you guys are making decision on now, I think that to the to the opposite of it, who knows where we're at in the future and maybe it doesn't, you know, we're we're in a good spot and it's something that we can offer employees. So, I don't know that it's even something
008that needs to be decided at this time. That's just me. But you know, you guys do what you want obviously. But um I think that just something to think about. So we don't have a policy about this. We're going to correct. Sorry. We don't have a policy about this then. Obviously. I don't think so. This is covered by contracts, not policy. Okay. That's in the CBAs. So we'll put it on next month. Perfect. Perhaps. Can I make one more suggestion? Perhaps this is something that the um if it's going to continue for the building administrators that this is something that goes into the contract language or something that we talk about at that time rather than cutting it off at this point. That's just some that might be something to think about. All right. Well,
009we'll move it to June for discussion and we can bring that up when Heidi's here and she can hear too. That's what it does make sense I think to codify it into contract language so that way it's set for each individual but yes I agree not across the board to the point where we're Mhm. and it's a benefit to administrator contract is up at the end of next school year put I mean it feels more equitable to do it in their contract language than so maybe it's part of their negotiation. Well, I'm just saying and then it's then it's a benefit for faculty to want to put in for positions as administrators if they know that it's you know that's there's an incentive. Yeah. You know they're you know you treat you want to treat
010them well. So want to keep them here. Agreed. Okay. Athletic director moving on. So remove this June just so I can clarify myself. Okay. Thank you. Anybody have questions about the athletic director? I think this was just a general update. Does anybody have any questions? We have the meet and greet is happening Wednesday at the high school 4 to 6. Come out and meet our candidate. Okay. High school principal. Same thing. Meet and greet tomorrow from 4 to 6. We're we've decided we're going to do it in the cafeteria. Um, we'll have some cookies and water for everybody who wants to come out again from 4:00 to 6:00 and it is in front of the choir concert I believe is tomorrow. So, to try and garner some more attendance, um, anyone is welcome to come
011out and meet our candidates. We have two principles tomorrow. Principles tomorrow and directors Wednesday 25 Thank you Christie. 2526 extended school year. Jardan and I thought we already did this and I meant to check if we already did this. I thought we voted on it. We absolutely did this. Thank you. Um I just wanted to bring it back to your attention because on the last board agenda it was written the information the board memo was written for the district and the title was jardant. So we're going to bring it back correctly. So, we'll have Jardon with the correct board memo and the district ESY with the correct board memo. So, that we're we're writing the ship here. I Yeah, I was like, this is the exact same thing, but I realized it was different um
012positions. Yes, there was there was a slight error in how we put that board agenda together, so we wanted to make it. Well, thank you for taking care of that, making sure. All right. Thank you, Mr. Fox. Does anyone have any question? Even though we already took care of it, this is just for information. We're not going to vote next week or vote. We'll vote again. Vote again, right? Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Carriage room facilitator. Uh so, forgive me, my mama won't load now. Um so the car's room facilitator um cares room as you guys know is our um it's basically our in school suspension room that happens here at advantage. It's an option for the high school and the junior high to um uh so the students don't go home for a
013suspension. They can come here. They can complete their work. They can do some modules on the um you know items that perhaps their offense wasn't. Um we are asking to move this position from it has been staffed so far by district uh substitute teachers. Um so we're asking to move this position to be staffed by a pair of professional um and put them in under the class five uh pay rate which is the same pay rate as the behavior pair of professionals that are out in the district. Um, I made a couple of updates to the job description today and those were one under key responsibilities. If there isn't a student scheduled for the care room, then the pair professional would be expected to go to another pair professional position in the district for the
014day. um perhaps someone is absent or they need extra help someplace in one of the schools or they could go home but they wouldn't be here in this building. Um so we need to make sure that they understand that that is um the expectation that if there was no students that they um would work out into the into the district and um the other and then that they were able to travel to the various buildings on their own if necessary. And then under qualifications, basic computer navigation skills are required just to use the programming that they're going to be, you know, the navigate 360 to help the kids in the Chromebooks and the the Google Classroom, things like that. Just some real basic skills. Um but it is an a savings for the district um
015per hour from about between 1232 to 1572 per hour and that's just based on the class 5 um pay rates for the for the pair professionals versus the hourly rate for a district sub. Oh and one more thing. It is a it's a 7-hour day with a 30-minute paid lunch. The par the the facilitator does take lunch with the kids. So any of the kids that are here, they bring them down and eat lunch with them so they wouldn't be relieved for a lunch period. Um do we have any um current paras that meet I'm sure we do but yeah that meet these Yeah, actually we do have a few paras who are interested in the position. I do. Anyone else? All right, thank you. Uh we're moving on to finance. um 2526 junior high
016scheduling budget. Dr. Kesminsky. Yes. Good evening. It's my pleasure to see all of you again. I am here to um talk through the teaming scheduling model that we have been working on throughout the course of this year with a group of teachers at the junior high. Uh the memo that you received was specifically for um what we anticipate to be potential one-time costs associated with making a transition from a traditional scheduling model to a teaming scheduling model. Um the cost there in this um memo would be for some additional workday and work time for the junior high faculty to get needed training and um information about how to work within a teaming model. um the benefits of a teaming model for students and how the structure just in general would work for them. So a
017transition time um it's important to know that this is an estimated cost. If we were to do two full days, this would be the cost. It's the um overage rate per hour. However, teachers in the contract are required to do some teacher choice PD time each school year. So what we would do is provide this as an optional PD time for them in which case they'd receive credit for that work and we would not pay them for that time. So the cost would be significantly reduced uh during a transition to a teaming schedule at the junior high. It is you know a significant learning curve. So we anticipate that this would only be done in the first year transition. This is not an annual or repeating cost. It would be a onetime cost that likely
018would be less than this because when we talk to the faculty, the idea of getting their teacher choice PD out of the way is pretty appealing to them because it would be done in a meaningful way that was impactful to their day-to-day work and it would be a benefit to the district if they did that because it would cost us far less money. So, um this is something that has been ongoing. Uh just a little bit of background. So, that's the financial piece of it, but a little bit of brief background. Um there was a team of teachers and administrators formed at the beginning of the year back in the fall to examine the junior high scheduling and throughout this process um I have been in integral park Dr. Delmish has been an integral part
019Mrs. Beach, the principal at the junior high. She's been integral as well, as well as key teachers um from the core. We have a math teacher, a ELA teacher, a resource room teacher in the special education department, as well as a a support teacher who does MTSS support, all working in tandem to examine the junior high schedule. and we've brought forward a recommendation to shift from a traditional schedule to a more age appropriate middle level teaming model that is researchbased and best for students at the junior high or middle level. Uh we believe that it would create a sense of community in the junior high. Students would be on a team where they would build and foster genuine relationships with one another and their teachers. teachers. It's great for faculty because it allows them to
020work in tandem with their colleagues to plan and to support student needs and it would really create a sense of community which research says is great for students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade. So, we're bringing this proposal forward for consideration around the funding for the transition to educate and facilitate professional learning for the faculty at um the junior high which would take place over the summer. I have a couple quick questions, of course. Um, is this similar when I first started submitting here a zillion years ago, they had a house program where the teachers got a it's not really a second planning period, but for lack of a better term, a second planning period where they could meet and discuss the needs for individual children or the group as a whole. Is it
021similar to that? It is very similar to that. And yes uh so the faculty would have individual prep time that they're used to but the expectation is that when you're on a team you would be meeting with your team on a daily basis to plan uh and that's the beauty of it. You can really plan some great interdisciplinary activities. Make sure that all the content standards are being taught. We have some really great new social studies curriculum being rolled out next year. Math curriculum rolled out next year. So, it's a really a beautiful time to do this work and make that transition. Um, and it is exactly that. Yes. Perfect. I loved that program. I was sad to see it go. It helped me. I was that I first started subbing and I was doing
022a long term for the math teacher, the junior high and um, so it was very beneficial to me. Yeah. Because you're on a team and you're not on an island, right? It creates that collaborative environment. And the other thing was you're moving away from a traditional seven period two semester schedule. What do you What would it be? It would be the teaming model. So students would have their ELA, social studies, science, math every day along with their elective schedule. So it would be two semesters for the grading purposes. Um and it there would still be quarters. So stu parents would still be receiving feedback on their students progress on a traditional schedule of quarter and then semester, but daytoday the bell would not ring every period for passing. The bell wouldn't ring actually at all.
023It would ring to start and end the day, but there would be no bells ringing because students would move and do um the shifting from topic to topic throughout the day based on what their team of teachers scheduled and planned for them. Oh, that's kind of interesting. I'd love to see that in action. Yeah, it's pretty cool because even the house, we still have bells. Yes. But and our junior high was kind of built for that approach with the pods. Our junior high is exactly built with this in mind. So it would really be taking that beautiful facility and bringing to life what the facility was intended to house. Yes. So just a comment. Um I was so pleased to hear that that was coming back and it was so similar because that program was
024so successful for our students extremely successful and it was built that way to accommodate that program. Um so just it was a money issue right that that's why they had they disbanded it but the kids education needs to be first and foremost and we need to figure that out. Well, one of the benefits to the work that we have been putting to putting into this and and remember this has been done in collaboration with the teachers um which is best I think we get the best result when we work in collaboration and one of the parameters that we put on it is that it was costneutral as much as possible. So in other words we would be using the same amount of teachers to create the structure. Now, is there anything built in at the
025tail end to help prepare the students for when they do go to the high school and transition to the the traditional 7-hour schedule from transferring, you know, classrooms and everything? Is there anything built to help prepare them for that so they're ready? So, I mean, we certainly can talk about that, but teameing is is not a new concept as as as evidenced by some of the experiences that you've had. And so developmentally research says that it's the appropriate it's the most appropriate and most beneficial way is to put students on teams uh at the middle level to get that relationship built. And honestly, I believe that if we do that right, they will be more prepared than ever to make the transition to high school because they're going to get the most out of their
026education. And they're going to feel the most connected to their school community at large and in micro in terms of their smaller learning community or their team, their their junior high um as a whole. And so while the bells may not be ringing and they may not be used to, you know, walking during passing time per se, they're still going to be transitioning, you know, from their core classes to their electives. So they're still going to have to know how to walk appropriately and behave appropriately in the halls. Um, but it does provide a little more structure and guidance to their day by being on that team. So I believe that I I don't believe there'll be an issue with the transition. They're still going to have lockers and locks combination and all of those
027things that most kids have angst about in August when they're getting ready. Will they remember where their classes are and all of those things. We can certainly build that in in terms of the transition from 8th to 9th grade to make sure that students are feeling ready to make that transition. But I think if we can really make them feel connected and get deep learning out of their sixth, seventh, and eighth grade years, they'll be ready, more ready than ever to go to the high school. Great. Thanks. Anyone else? This, of course, will be uh budgeted for next school year, correct? In the budget, right? We wouldn't need additional teachers to do this, I remember that um the house program, you know, it started in both our junior highs, the web junior high and beach
028junior high. And that's why they built the junior high like it is cuz like was said here, they they wanted that house program. And it worked great. I mean, the the kids were coming out much happier, much more together, much, you know, just a lot better. And even uh if you go back in the 70s, that's why the rooms here have doors in them because they used to do team teaching in elementary school. So, I mean, it it it's a proven fact for Hazel Park. It does work. Yeah. Thank you for your feedback. We I think I think life tells us sometimes that what old what was old is new again. Uh and so, um I appreciate that support. We think it will be successful, too. Um, and and and we're hopeful for what it
029might look like. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. It's exciting. Very exciting. Okay. Number two, L 4029. I think that's taxes. Everyone's favorite subject. Good evening. Another exciting topic, right? Taxes. Um the L4029 is our annual um report of what we are going to assess for our taxes. Um and this uh was oh there's Crystal Crystal's first year preparing this and um for me I have not looked at one of these in about 12 years so it was a nice refresher to review it. Um we do not have really much of a change at all in the tax rates. Uh but the taxable values of the house, not just houses, but um commercial property and that as well, that's what uh drives the that's the determining factor of the tax rates. Any questions? I
030think it's still on the rise. Our property in Hazel Park is going up up up. Any questions? Nope. All right. Thank you. Okay. And this is the Chartwell contract. That's me, too. Oh, okay. So, this is our fourth and final renewal of the contract with Chartwells. Um, and so the rate changes were fixed in the contract. It's it's really just a renewal to keep them around for one more year. We will have to bid that out again next year. Anybody have questions? One question I have is that how can we start letting our uh athletic boosters and uh booster clubs start using or doing the concession stands? Has that been investigated yet? And can it be? If not, uh that would be something that we would look at next year when we're doing our our
031bid when we're rebidding. Um, that would be one of the terms of it, but right now it's in the contract that Chartwells would be doing it. We have an agreement with them. So, when we do our bidding next year, we would be able to change that. So, the contract that was approved by the board of education approved the fact that they have to do the concession. Correct. Um, I'm I'm looking at the questions I Sorry, were you finished? Yes. Um, I was looking at the questions that I did and I missed this question on here. I just have a quick question um that you probably have to look up. So, I'm not expecting an answer right now. When we redid the I think it was the kitchen portion, we borrowed money from Chartwells. Mhm. Um
032do you know if that is paid back? Um Chris, it was I did answer it in the email. Oh, I maybe neglected to paste it. It's not here. Sorry, I just thought maybe I didn't ask it. That was my fault. I apologize. Nope, I thought maybe I didn't ask it. So, it's um actually being paid on a monthly basis with our regular Chartwells invoice. They've incorporated it uh in with that and it's expected to end um June of next year. So, it didn't come out of this surplus of um food budget service money because I thought that's what we were using to pay it back, but that's not the case. No, it's coming out of out of that. I mean, I can get the exact coding for you. Um, but it is when we um
033pay the chart well, it is with that coding. So, it comes out of the food service money. It's just tapped onto their a bill. Yeah. So, they send us the invoice. Oh, so they send us the invoice every month that we do pay. And I can um I don't know if it's in the check register. I probably just misunderstood the way that I thought out of the surplus of food service money would pay that back because we could have used that food service money to that is what's being used, but they're um really they're giving us an interest free loan that we're paying back monthly. So instead of paying it back out of the fund balance all at once. Okay. And I'm sorry, since I didn't write down, when did you say it was done?
034June. June of next year. It's June of next year. Thank you. So, the end of our um contract and then we'll be all set with the 250. All right. Thank you so much. I have a question. It's okay. It says the district has an excess fund balance of $79,000. So, each month we get a bill that goes down. Like, why are we sitting on $700,000 if we owe that money? That was at the end of June 24. Um, and actually the balance is much lower now because we used some of that money to um redo the high school cafeteria, the seating and in that area. Um, so that was our last year audited balance for food service, right? For food service. Yes. When how far in advance of this contract ending does the rebidding process
035start? Um so like this contract would want run through June 2026. So a year and some change when February we would do that. Anyone else? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Micro reading company renewal materials grade 11. Good evening everyone. Good evening. I don't feel like this is on. Can you hear me? Okay. Push the button there. Make it red. Oh, there we go. Let you up. Look at that. So, um, we did not get the quote from American Reading Company. So, we will not be bringing that forward this evening. So, we uh again, we'll look at that next month because we know that you would like to have an opportunity to look at it and discuss it, but um American Reading Company was not able to come through with that and I don't want
036to quickly rush it through. I want to have the opportunity once I get the quote to review it and make sure it's aligned with where we need to go next year in terms of that purchase. Anyone? Okay. Thank you. We lobster smart table is you also It is. All right. Welcome to the podium. That's right. That's right. So, um, we are coming to the board this evening to purchase something that was actually written into the GSRP grant this past fall. We did not get an opportunity to act on that. So, we were coming to the board to ensure that we can purchase that smart table. An interactive smart table is essentially a big table. It's like a giant tablet. Um, some of the pluses are that you can do a lot of interactive learning games.
037You can do you can view videos. You can have the students collaborating on different types of things. You can have students creating things. And we feel that's going to be a very beneficial piece to add to our steam room at Webster. We've had our steam room open, I believe, about 3 years. And other than the first year, we really haven't added anything to that. So, we felt it really important to put that in there since we had the opportunity to put that into the GSRP grant. Those are really They had one at um one of the national conventions I went to. And they are huge and you could The cool thing is that several kids can work on it at one time. It's not just one kid, but all around the table they can all
038work on it. I wanted one then, so I'm glad we're getting one. So, I've used them. They're amazing. Will it be in a general area where classrooms can go down and use it? It's not in one specific correct room. Um the way that the steam room is at Webster, it's in that middle area. They actually opened up two classrooms. So, uh the teacher in there has a very big space and this is going to be a great addition to it. And all students in the building come to that space to have their steam STEM time. Perfect. All right. Thank you. Like a little baby elected. Web roof repair. That's a tongue twister. Web roof repair. They're the Maybe it was designed that way. Three times and then I'll talk. Um, this was just an a
039emergency repair that needed to be done. Um, and so that it didn't get worse and since there were loose pieces, we didn't want to risk somebody getting hurt with flying debris. Uh, I authorized that to be repaired. And so now we just want to bring it to you to to be aware of that. So yeah, we had that nice write up about it and that it was taken care of. But I think it was 2021 we did the uh scans of all the roofs and it was here and Roosevelt and there was one Hoover and here web has the not web. So yeah, so much for the scan. I think we should go back to that company that charges $20,000. They got the wrong roof. Thank you. Any questions? Anybody? Fox break. Is this Mr.
040Wilkins? Good evening. Good evening. Our website renewal, if you remember, back in 2019, we did a 5-year contract with Foxbrite. That ended in 2024. So, between 2024 and 2025, they didn't do a price increase. They're doing a price increase of $497 for the next three years, like annually. um if we don't sign up to do a three-year contract with them, then it's going up to $6,700. So, that's why we're coming to the board for request um a three-year contract for the hosting. Did we in the five-year contract, did we pay annually, too? Yes. Okay. Any money questions? Is on the storage is that unlimited still? Yes. Are you happy with all Are you happy with the service? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yes. Anytime we have any problems, we email them, call them, and it's fixed. It's
041a great company. Yeah. [Music] Perfect. Good. Nothing else. All right. I have six more questions. Okay. Not really. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for Thank you for getting us the lowest price. I was waiting for you. I don't know. I was looking forward to him. Just ask him how are you today. All right. Monthly financial report. Hello. This is amazing meeting here. Hello. Anybody have questions? I got mine answered in advance. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You're welcome. No one. No questions on the bill run. No. All right. Thank you. Moving on to public comment. Seeing nobody approaching for public comment, we will go to our um any board members. You have no idea. Um I do want to just take a quick thank you to Jen Adams. She
042helped me tremendously over the whole last week with teacher appreciation with the junior high and at web. Um we ended up doing really cute web throw blankets for their final day on Friday and then the junior high we had cups that had like u the patriot logo and then their last names on it. So that was fun. We did snack cards and took some dessert over to the high school. And um right now um our varsity girls are winning 12 and three. And if they win this, which they're going to because they're in the bottom of the seventh, they will be the outright Max silver champs this year. So, as of today, when they win, they'll be 23 and 0 over the last two years. Nice. So, that is super exciting. um yesterday after or
043not yesterday, last week after the um softball game, I ran down to JB cuz I haven't been able to catch a JB baseball game and it was the last inning and one of our freshman actually hit a really nice ball out into center field and got his run in to win. So, I thought that was kind of cool that a freshman did it. He was a little nervous, you could tell, but um that was awesome. Prom was awesome last week. Um the pictures were amazing. and I got to see a couple prom sendoffs like driving back to my mom's house from our neighbors. Um, and those are very extravagant. I've never really witnessed the crazy prom sendoffs, but they were fun. Um, I do want to say, um, thank you to Angel Hunter. She reached
044out to the community to make sure that our seniors went to Cedar Point without having to pay anything. Um, she it was supposed to be $60 a kid. She went and got bottles, um, community donations. people just donated $60 just to make sure the kids didn't have to pay. And she has said on her Facebook that she has got it all covered. Every single student that need that's going. Um I think that's it. That's very amazing. So yeah, I thank you Christie and Crystal for stepping in last week in Washington. I was just going to ask if I can come up and just mention something about it. As far as I'm concerned, but yeah. No, it was it was great. It sounded like the kids had a really good time. They actually learned some stuff
045and got to see some really cool stuff. So, preparing a video of compilation of things that we gave them. So, we'll play at a board meeting. Okay. Do you mind if one of them come up and just talk about it a little bit? I would love to hear. Yeah, that's fine. Come on down. Chris will have my spot. I love I love Crystal sitting at the uh at the desk signing bills in the Oval Office that increase federal state funding and you sign it immediately. That's the immediate executive order. Once you bring that gavvel, it's done. You um I would like to say that it is it is a packed full four days of activities for these kids. They see we saw three of the Smithsonian museums. We saw the Capitol building. We saw name
046a monument. We were there. Um the food was great. I think the kids really like that. Um and you are going from you are at breakfast at 7:00 a.m. and you do not get back to the hotel until 9:30, 10:00. Like you are going that amount of time. You are tiring these kids out. They still stay up past. Definitely tired out the chaperons. Um but yeah, it was it was an amazing time. Um our students were fantastic. really honestly uh they could not have been more respectful at the monuments, at the memorials. We're so proud of them that you could have heard a pin drop from our students at Arlington. Um I heard that in some other districts and some other schools that that has been problematic. Not ours. Our kids were wonderful. Our parents
047were wonderful. Huge shout out to Vanette Sephus. She's amazing. She was fantastic with these kids. Um everything went really smoothly. Um, no, you know, nothing to really write home about other than we had a great time. I think the kids did, too, you know. Um, like I said, we took tons of pictures. There's an album. We took some little video interviews of the kids about some end of the trip things. So, hopefully, you know, Chuck's going to kind of throw that all together as a little like compilation. So, for your job, Chuck. Well, he didn't want to come. So, so yeah, it was it was great. Um, again, like Krista said, the kids were doing um they did very, very well. I was actually surprised and I was kind of nervous on how I was
048going to be going with a bunch of eighth graders, so it was super surprising at the fact that uh they were all very well behaved. I would like to say the World Strides did a great job. Our um Why can't I think There you go. Jason was pretty awesome. Wellformed. um did take time out to stop, teach the kids, interact with them um in regards to, you know, the different um um places that we went and paths that we um took along the way and the importance of different things and had them um engaged. So, uh work did very very well with that. Uh and then just overall was really shout out to Dan, our bus driver. He you know had the world around. So, we had we had we started off with a driver,
049switched over in I think Pennsylvania and had Dan for the majority of the time and then on our way back switched over um again and that was about it. But Dan was called him Dan the man. He was awesome. So, and the kids love him. Yeah, they did. So, but it was awesome. About 20,000 steps a day, just so you know. How many students? Uh we took 26 students with us. The picture looked like a lot more than that. It did. It did. Um, listen, 26 was enough. Probably felt like a lot. I feel like it felt like a lot more than 26 at times. Constantly counting. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3. So, no, but um, we could not have done it really, honestly, without the help of Miss Cphus and the other
050parents that went with us. They were fantastic. Um, you know, shout out to them. They one wanted to take the time and do this with us. And it was, yeah, about 20 step 20,000 steps a day walking. So, you know, we got that in that week, last week. Those kids did, too. And minimal complaining and whining about that honestly like there was some but there was a few here and there especially on the day that we visited um Arlington Arlington because it was just hills probably complained in my brain a little bit too but it was very very hilly. So I think if any if any of the days we got probably a little bit more of the wines and whatnot that day but other than that they were they were awesome. But that was
051the day they did the barbecue. So yeah it tasted really good. I had a lot of fun. Me too. I did. I had a lot of fun. Would you do it again? No. No. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't do it with anybody else. I do it again minus Arlington. I just did my So, but everything else is great. So, thank you. Appreciate your work and your honesty. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Dr. Cos, do you have anything? It's hard to believe, but the senior's last day, if they are in good standing, is this Friday. Oh my god. Isn't that sneak up? There's going to be a lot of excitement. Thank you. It's a busy time. Yeah, busy busy time. Anybody else? Um, if anybody is listening or watching at home, I
052just want to say that um the summer discovery signups are open and it is an amazing program throughout the summer. um academics in the morning. Um kids are welcome to stay for enrichment opportunities in the afternoon. Fantastic, fantastic program. Um fully paid for by a grant, so they bring in like some really good stuff because Balmer Group has the money to bring in a lot of really good stuff. Um so if you're on the fence, sign up for that. Okay. I just have next week's meeting is at the high school uh recognizing lots of students uh on Monday. So, please come on out and cheer them on and shake their hand and give them congratulations. Exciting. Ajournment to I'm excited. This meeting lasts an hour. Less than an hour. We are