001Uh good evening everyone. Uh thankfully the air is working in here. We're going to get started. Uh today is June 24th, 2025. We are here for the rear board of education regular meeting. Uh Mr. Pdine, will you please call the role? Mrs. Brackett here. Mr. Hy here. Mr. Malik here. Mrs. Rainey here. Mrs. Stein here. Okay. If I could ask everybody to stand up for the pledge of allegiance. I'll be leading today since we don't have a little rotation. Should we clap for you? I pledge allegiance 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. All right. So, we have uh no presentations uh this evening. We do have uh public speaks to agenda items. So,
002if there's anybody that would like to speak to any agenda items, uh now is your time. We don't have a podium, so you can just probably speak from your chair if you want to. We I'm sure we can all hear from here. Just I just ask that you identify yourself and Yes. Yes. So I'm have a question comment from somebody a different somebody else who's wasn't able to speak. So it's regarding the retirement um or the Yeah. retirements of two administrators. So that would be appropriate. Sure. You'd they'd like to make a comment about Yeah. Comment question which I know questions won't be answered but just to kind of like put it out there for the board to think about maybe how to present it to the public. Okay. So Lori Langford um again this
003is a question from a community member. Um, with the retirements of two of your top three board office administrators, what is the process and timeline for hiring these two key positions? And are there plans for any community involvement? Well, it's not a board function. Uh, the board doesn't hire these individuals. That's superintendent function. Okay. Um, and it would be based upon his timeline. So, Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, I'm sorry. Is there anybody else that wanted to talk? I assume that you what you said. I said I thought I I figured it was just you, but I want to speak for everybody else. Okay. U board of agenda items. We do not have any at this time. Uh, I do see Miss Burke in the audience. I know she has an update. So, um,
004just a couple. Yeah. So, the CBCC board met on May 22nd. Um and prior to the meeting, we celebrated uh several things. We celebrated adult diploma recognition, um scholarship recipients, new staff, retiring staff, and other students um achieving student recognition through competitions throughout the school year. Um Superintendent Mangus reported 407 completers this year um at the high school level. And my notes say that there were program name changes. Um, I think I may have alluded to some of the program name changes at prior meetings. It also says see agenda for six name changes. And of course, I did not burn the agenda. So, my apologies. If you're interested in this program name changes, I'm more than happy to get those for you. Um, but the name changes to the program were driven by the advisory
005councils that they have for each of the programs. And then also in the interest of creating a clear pathway for students. So, for example, there are two programs, transition to work and sales and service that are essentially catering to the same student population. They're combining them all into transition to work so that there's less confusion about what those pathways are. And our next meeting is this Thursday um at 6:00. Can I ask you a quick question? I'm just curious. You said 407 completers, I think. Is that like is that a normal number? Is that up or down or Yeah, that's a great question. So, um I was thinking about that on the way here. I know that um superintendent his goal is a thousand high school students, right? And so if you cut that in
006half, juniors and seniors, 400 is inching closer to that number. We know that there's some attrition that happens from junior to senior year. So I don't know how 400 and some compares to past years, but I think it's relatively on the way to what you want to achieve there. Cool. Perfect. Thanks. I have a question. What is the how many kids from our school system now have you seen an uptick in percentage that are utilizing? Yeah. So I I'll get those numbers. I have them at home. Um, we're here is seeing an uptick. It's a slow uptick. We are one of the smaller representative schools. We typically have about 60 students or so that attend. So, I would split that between the grades just depending probably more juniors than seniors. Um, but what you look
007at for the attendance is that it definitely bottomed out in COVID and we are seeing a steady increase every year since co of attendance going up. Okay. Thanks. Nice. All right. Um, thank you, Miss Burke. Mr. Berdine, treasures agenda. Thank you. I would propose we take all of Roman numeral 8 1 through 7 as one action item, please. So move. Second. Minutes from the two meetings you see listed. The financial report was sent out to you in advance. Revenue um was pretty close. We're about 22,000 off my estimated mark. Short on that. The bulk of that is my tip payment estimate was slightly elevated from reality. Usually I'm ultra conservative, so I'm a little surprised myself that I missed that. But it's not a lot of money when you look at nearly $50 million. So,
008um the expense side, we are running through 11 months slightly negative $200,000. Again, the supplies expenditures, we typically spend about 82% of budgeted funds and we're we're trending right now about 92% for this fiscal year. So, that's uh creating a bit of the negative variance in there. We certainly have sufficient cash reserves to cover that. And then the uh county fiscal officer tax collection fees were higher as our tax collections continue to increase those dollars are high. So I was slightly off on that estimate as well. So that's the bulk of of that story. Asset deletions. We have outdated social studies materials, uh, math materials that were submitted by our curriculum department. We also had some library materials that are have been purged from the shelves at the middle school. And I think that might
009that's all of that for those those three items those lists or attachments in the agenda. The fourth item or the not enough purchase orders that list is in where the POS were were not submitted in advance of the invoice date. So then if they're over $3,000 I'm required to bring those here for your approval. The donations if you bear with me I like to read these a lot. uh RMS PTA $3,000 for the Washington DC trip the legacy projects for our eighth grade students and sixth grade field day $3,000 from Edward and Kathleen Butler and Carol Anders for the RHS Pette Memorial Scholarship Richfield Library $1,000 for the Friends of Richfield Library scholarship Henry B and Francis W. Christensen Foundation, $3,000 to the Christensen Foundation scholarship plus prop $1,000 from Plus Properties Limited to the
010Barona and Long Memorial Scholarship. $500 from Steve Holly Widow for the R scholarship that was presented. $2,000 from River Youth Football for the Pana Memorial Scholarship and the Eric Morant Memorial Scholarship. River Schools Foundation for their series of scholarships, $8,000. Bath Church, $330 um for students um needing assistance for lunch and other fees. That's I think second month in a row they've donated money for that cause. Carson Strong Foundation to the Carson Strong Scholarship, $500. Protein Partners of Ohio LLC, Joy and Charles Loper, Lucille Loper and Khloe Bear, $1,500 for the Lisa Loper Scholarship, the Ben Chrisman Foundation, $4,000 for the Ben Chrisman Memorial Scholarship, and ID Bailey LLP to the Apple Gross Scholarship, $500. So, um, it wouldn't be me if I didn't say for probably the I don't know 40th or 50th consecutive
011month that we're very fortunate with the generosity that comes from this community to this school district. So, thank you to all of those groups, individuals, etc. And then the last two documents, FY26 additional appropriations measure I mentioned last week. Um, this has all funds in it, but you know, most people focus on general fund and the numbers we work off of are what you approved in that May forecast to build these budgets that we allocate to our departments and buildings. Uh, feel comfortable with that and as I mentioned last month due to the attrition savings. I think we'll see a downtick in that. Might see some adjustment because of my misses on my estimates this year before that again in the fall. And then the item seven is the amended appropriations measure for this year
012which through each of these monthly financial reports the budget adjustments that are part of that financial package. I like to package those into one neat document at the end of the year that I can then hand the auditors and they can see the culmination of all those changes throughout the year and it saves time and money in those audit costs when we can do that in two documents essentially. So, uh, there's nothing new in that other than what you've seen across these months of this fiscal year, which will close on Monday. So, we're almost there. Uh, any questions for Mr. Berdine? Just to echo what you said, Mr. Bine, very appreciative of all the u financial contributions that our donors provide to this district all year round. So, thank you to them. Um, you want
013to call the RO please? Mr. Malik, yes. Mrs. Brackett, yes. Mr. Hyder, yes. Mrs. Rainey, yes. Mrs. Stein, yes. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh, Mr. White, superintendent's agenda. Okay. New rule 9 number 1A. I'm just going to stick with that one. I recommending it. It is not with my heart. We make this recommendation for Mrs. Gas and Miss CR. So, but they thanks STRS change with the 32 years have situation now where they can submit resignation for the purpose of retirement. That would be my first recommendation today. Okay. Um I have a motion and a second please. Motion. Second. Congratulations to both of you, but you know, we're not happy to see. Thank you for everything. Thank you both so much. We're going to miss you. Yeah.
014Won't be the turn. Thank you. Um, Mr. Mr. Haidu, yes. Mrs. Stein, yes. Mrs. Bracket, yes. Mr. Malik, yes. Mrs. Randy, we have to Yes. Okay. I recommend Roman numeral 9 uh letters B through I's consent agenda. [Applause] Uh so moved. Second. Thank you. Letter B. We have a leave of absence for Kaxel. C is a change in position for Meredith Wooly. Seventh grade mathematics, eighth grade mathematics. Mhm. We have some new hires under letter D. Ellie Trumble, Isabelle Droia Parish, Chamilleia as well. Letter E, we have the additional hours for some of our staff who will be working through a kindergarten early insurance appeal. And then we have letter F, the co-curricular non-athletic supplemental contracts. and G is the athletic supplemental contracts for fall 2526 school year. We have a salary increase at letter
015H for Allen. Letter I the resation of Ryan Warner intervention specialist at River Middle School. He's going to become assistant principal at Falls. All right. Are there any questions for Mr. White? I just want to welcome the uh two new teachers and two new uh intervention specialists uh to rever and then thank uh Mr. Warner for his time at the middle school. Mr. Verdine, Mr. Pal, yes. Mr. Hayen, yes. Mrs. Bracken, yes. Mrs. Brady, yes. Mrs. Stein, yes. All right. Then recommend a consent agenda for numeral nine, number two, letters A through H. So moved. Second. All right. Letter A, we have extended time for Ellen for athletic department secretary. Letter B, we have co-curricular non-athletic supplemental contracts. C are the athletic supplemental contracts for this fall. Letter D, we have some sub substitute custodians
016for this school year. Letter E is then substitute custodians for this summer. Go to E. Thanks. And then F, we have the summer 2025 paint crew. And then the letter G is some resignations that we have a couple David Camille and Evan Morrison. Okay. Uh, are there any questions for Mr. White? Okay. Mr. Bern, Mr. Mr. Malik. Yes. Mrs. Stein. Yes. Mrs. Bracket. Yes. Mr. Haidu. Yes. Mrs. R. Yes. Okay. All right. Number three, student services. Um, with the Kids Link School District contract. Um, you know what? I'm going to recommend letters A number, let's go. Roman numeral consent. Roman numeral number nine, number three. letters A through N as a consent agenda. So second. All right. So number three, letter A, we have the Kids Link School District contracts, uh, personal students in Kids
017Link. And then letter B is PSI associates as our nursing services. Letter C is the Green Leaf Family Center services for the deaf. [Applause] And then letter D is the Guru Garf Boost. It's our music therapy agreement. Letter E is our cross thread solutions interpreting services agreement. F is our TES. That's our BCBA behavior specialist agreement. Letter G, we have a Summit County ESC for student placement. H is our contract for extended school year vision services during the extended school year. We have letter I the Thrive Early Learning Center for student placement. The same red J for Applewood centers and then Morgan E amend is al is a individualized structured literacy program. Okay. In the L, we have the U LLC, the Tundence LLC is an option for translation support if needed. All right. And
018letter M, elite program intent for one of our students. And then N, we have the SLP extended school year services for our extended school year speech needs. Okay. Are there any questions for Mr. White? Okay. Mr. Red, Mr. Haidu, yes. Mrs. Stein, yes. Mrs. Bracket, yes. Mr. Mal, yes. Mrs. Rain, yes. All right. Number four, we have other business. Letter A's, policies, second and final meeting. We have the revised policies listed there. You know, there had been a question. Jump into that. Sorry. Yeah. So, why don't we do the revised separate than the new? So we'll do um we'll break those down into 4 A I I guess and I will be all the revised and then AB will be or let me see how do this do A one and A2 A2 will be
019the new okay so we'll do that separate um so regarding the revise I need a motion and a second for 4 A1 motion. Second. Okay. Did you want to add anything to those or does anybody have any questions I guess from on these? I just have one comment on 605 just because we got some comments on it at our last month's meeting and I just wanted to comment that we did reach out to our um legal council and to get explanation from that and the way that that is written and what it includes it has to include. So I just wanted to clarify that the the I don't think anybody liked what how it was written. Yeah. Right. Right. And so we just clarified with legal counsel and they confirmed and um that that's the
020way it must be written and must include that language. Right. Because if we didn't it would take us out of compliance. Right. Okay. Thank you, Miss Bracket. Um Mr. Berdine. Mrs. Brackett. Yes. Mrs. Rainey. Yes. Mr. High. Yes. Mr. Malik. Yes. Mrs. Stein. Yes. Okay. Uh, next is the uh new parents bill, right? It's uh 9.39. Um, I'm going to make a motion to amend the um parents bill of rights, specifically paragraph two where it says parent in writing um to delete uh the word writing and add in uh or in writing and add in verbally. um of any substantial change. Uh so I'll need a second for that. Second. Uh is there any uh comments or questions regarding uh this policy? No. Sure. Okay. So I would like to speak on the policy. Um
021I had emailed Mr. white several weeks ago with um a number of changes that I'd like to I just wanted to communicate my desire to make some changes. One specifically was kind of related to this um part. And while I think we're going to have some additional discussions and kind of um tighten up this policy and get additional input, um my concern is the safety of the kids and what I see as the the way to make this policy safest for the kids. And while I can appreciate the fact that changing it from written to verbal is definitely an improvement for my own personal um beliefs and feelings on this policy, it didn't take it quite far enough for the students. Um, I was hoping for more of a policy um that provided that communication
022in person um with parents and counselors or crisis counselors or psychologists um to ensure the safest possible um situation for the students and it just doesn't quite get there. I do understand that there are some complexities and always having to do it in person. So, I look forward to as we dive more into this policy and kind of help clarify things both for our students and for our staff that these will be conversations that we can have to tighten it up. But I just have additional concerns that I would like to continue to talk about. Have any more comments? No, I would just add to that. I mean I know Kasha and I have discussed this but my concern is if we put too much of a restriction on it then it could make it
023very difficult for families who are separated you know um custody issues or parents who are not in in the town or whatever when that communication takes place that if we limit it to just in person if we will make it too restrictive where then we actually can't get the information across. So, I agree. I think it's worth conversations and I think we'll do that through the listening and learning and find a way to do it, but I just want to make sure we also don't um make it so specific that we then restrict ourselves from being able to actually share the information. So, yes, just something that we'll work through. Thank you. We've had good conversation. Yes. Um so, I'm going to talk a little bit about it. I I've talked to Miss Bracket as
024well. I've know I've received three emails from people regarding the policy. All three are here present today. Um, so I do appreciate uh what you guys have provided. I've read it. Um, I understand the viewpoint. Um, I agree with some of it. Um, I know that we are under some restrictions as far as the state goes. We have to have this in place before July. I've had communications uh with Mr. White. He has pledged to me that he is going to do his listening and learning tour as it relates to this particular policy because I think it's important that not only do we have our community weigh in, but we have our teachers, our counselors, and perhaps even our students uh give their opinion. Um because I think that's important. And while though this may
025not be uh our best work, I guess I could say, um I know that it's something that the state's requiring us to do. Um and uh knowing that Mr. White has promised to go out and uh find out what everybody wants and what might be best for our uh district. I anticipate that there will be amendments done uh hopefully this fall. Um I know that when did you say you were going to start the August and do it early September because I know a lot of people would like to see us make those changes as soon as possible but we know too like July and August people are traveling. So our plan right now is to put dates out. like that August 4th, 11th, and 18th on the calendar right now for like a noon,
026Zoom, 5:00, and 3:00. And then we'll get dates like in September, as soon as we get school started, get something some dates in there early in September. Hopefully have something for you by the September board meeting. And you know, obviously we've we've seen as a district how sometimes this stuff can divide our district. My hope is that we talk as a community. We are open about it. We try to eliminate the divide and know that ultimately we're here to protect our students, protect our families and our uh staff. Um so with that goal in mind, um you know, that's that's where I fall. I I can only speak for myself. Um, but I depending on where everybody votes, uh, we'll see if this passes, but, uh, that's where I'm at right now. So, Mr. White,
027I just want to confirm. So, you're thinking we should have this all in place that we could potentially have a vote at the September meeting. If we have any amendments. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, first read. Right. That's what I That's what I should have said. Sorry. That's what I should have said. iversary. When is our September meeting? So, I can tell you no guarantees, but that's that's that's the hope, right? Uh September meeting will be the 16th. I do also want to thank I've had individual conversations with everybody on this and I just think like as a board, we've been able to have some really constructive and um lovely conversations around this and I'm very appreciative of everybody's willingness to listen. It speaks to the divide and I don't I did not feel it on
028this policy. So I appreciate that. [Music] Okay. Mr. Bine. Mr. Malik. Yes. Mrs. Stein. Yes. Mrs. Brackett. No. Mr. Haidu. Yes. Mrs. Rainey. Yes. Okay. Thank you all. Uh stay tuned as I anticipate there will be more. Mr. White. All right. So 4B we have no action is the curriculum recommendation second and final reading. I did speak with Mrs. Roach today. She's not heard from anybody had any questions or anything of that nature. And then so wait we we are voting on that. Yes. So we have to vote on B. I apologize. It's a second and final reading. Right. Right. A motion. Thank you. I'll second. No action. Did you want to comment any further? No, I just wanted to put no action. Sorry. Yeah, that's good. Any questions for Mr. W? All right. Mr.
029Bine. Mrs. Styles. Yes. Mrs. Bracket. Yes. Mr. Haiden. Yes. Mr. Malik. Yes. Mrs. Rainy. Yes. We'll keep you in check if they're not. Let's go for CD and E is a consent. So move second. All right. So data is sharing agreement with summit education initiative is letter C and then we have a memorandum of understanding for the school resource officer uh Summit County Sheriff's Department and letter E is the NEO net shared services agreement questions on any of those Mr. Verdine Mr. I do. Yes. Mrs. Stein. Yes. Mrs. Bracket. Yes. Mr. Mer. Yes. Mrs. Rainey. Yes. Hesitant to say before F I have no action as notes, but I did ask Miss CR if she would just take a moment to speak before F. Sure. I'll come. Sorry. Everybody. So the CCIP that's on the
030agenda is just it's a historical funding platform for the state of Ohio. That's true for all schools across the state. Over the last few years, the state has created a different structure and different system for what that looks like. It's through a program called Edsteps. Each school is in a cohort. And so it's been kind of a layered cycle about where each district applies for the one needs or works through their one needs assessment, then creates a one plan. that one plan then drives your funding platform. So that funding platform for us um well for everybody it's a newer funding platform. The allocations are a bit delayed this year. It's a new platform so it'll take a little while to get that worked out. So the funds that come through there that you see delineated
031there's actually lots of federal funds that come through that platform. So when those those are open every year and we write those we have to have those in by the first substantial date of the end of June. And what that looks like is we have funding allocations for title programming. Title 1 2 3 4 5. It's not just one, but title one would serve students who are struggling maybe in math or reading. Title two we can do lots of different things with. It might be a class size reduction. Um title three, title four, they all are different things. Title four is for a whole child. We also have u funds that I that Abby and I collaborate on Mrs. Castle around IDA and preschool. So what those funds do is not only help our students,
032but the IDA B funds also supports um and our preschool, it supports both salaries and it also supports some of the um purchase services as well. So when you see those referenced, that's what it's referring to. And that's our funds. They're pretty usual and customary every year. Title funds go, for example, title ones go a lot to our salary. And I also was just at our we have one of the coolest by the way if you don't know this. We have one of the coolest Title One funds I think in the state of Ohio. Some of our teachers have come together at um Richfield and most schools do like a literacy night and a math night. They actually work with our students and families all throughout the summer. So every Monday night for about six
033weeks in the summer, students who have been been identified with data needing some support, they go with their families and they go in small groups and they work around phmic awareness and phonics deficits. So I was just there last night and the teachers do an amazing job. So I want to give kudos to them for committing to that all throughout the summer and help preventing that summer slide and getting them proactively ready for the next school year. So I really say heads hats off to them. But anyway, that's in a nutshell what that is referring to. And every year we need to make sure that we lift that up in our community so that we have the opportunity to talk with you a little bit about it and to take any questions that you might
034have in regards to that. Does anyone have any questions? No. But I will say I love that Monday night program. Yeah. having been a first grade teacher and those young minds in the summer do have a big slide. So that's a great program. Great job. Yeah. And I actually asked them to present at a federal programs um conference a few years ago and I mean it's just impressive because like I said it's not a one program and done. It's an ongoing program. So um thank you to Miss Castle for great collaboration and Mr. Berdine, Miss Evans. We collaborate on that CCIP. Like I say, that's changing over now towards the one plan and it's going to be lots of fun, but um we'll get there and that is that's forthcoming and the allocations should be
035hopefully all dropped soon and we'll get that all ready to go. So, thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Letter G is our high school volleyball team's overnight tournament trip to Cedar Point for July 25th through the 27th. Uh, I'll make a motion. Second. Any questions? That sounds fun. Yeah, hopefully they do well. Yes. All right, Mr. Mr. Malik. Yes. Mrs. Brack. Yes. Mr. Hyu. Yes. Mrs. Rain. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. All right. Thank you, Mr. White. Uh, someformational discussion items. Our July work session will be held Tuesday, July 8th, beginning at 5:30 here in the uh admin building. Uh the regular meeting will be held uh Tuesday, July 15th at 5:30 here also in the admin building. Uh at this time, we do open it up to the public and community for
036any announcements. Uh, so if anybody has anything to say, uh, just one other thing I wanted to make sure I said again was to thank, uh, Miss Arvagast and Miss Kron for their, uh, dedication to the district and for your hard work. And we wish you the best in your future endeavors. And, uh, enjoy the summer, too. for next month. Well, you're gonna have to come back. So, we'll see. All right. Does anybody Does anybody else have any uh committee announcements or comments? I was gonna say something. Okay. Where do I stand up or can I just sit? You can sit. Okay, that's fine with me. Awesome. All right, let me um I just really quickly want to talk about the culture at Richfield because I think it's sort of something that we're not directly
037speaking on in in our in our district and I feel like we really need to just because my experience at that has been very different than my experience at Richfield. Um and so I want to just Like personally, when I moved back to here, I realized how lucky I was to grow up here. It's not just the strong academics, but we have a strong community that we love. And I came here and I found so many amazing people in this community. My children started in this district when everything was starting to open up against CO and I admit as a first-time parent like I desperately just wanted my kids to be okay social and so there were so many I bought into all these extra events, extra planning things because I think that's what all
038parent young parents were hungry for. Unfortunately, I think that I played into the culture of like more access for adults that can come at the expense of teachers and students. Um, I wanted to add more events so I could see my kids be happy at school. And I willingly sent money for extras, not realizing that not all the kids were getting to buy the Kona ice cream truck, buy the Swenson's truck when it come like it was only for certain kids. Um, and I wanted to teach teachers to have events that let me in not realizing how much and how seriously they take their academic schedules and their milestones. I wanted people to tell me my kids were okay. As I've watched the culture become more fractured over the four past four years, I just
039wanted to find the words that say stop. I've reviewed board policies and realized what we're not putting. I've realized some of the boundaries that I've pushed as a result of my needs. For example, I volunteer all the time. When I see my daughter at the school, I can I could just wave hi and it's great. If my son sees me and I wave hi to him, he is devastated the entire day, right? And I had a experienced veteran teacher that was super willing to tell me, hey, Carter doesn't, you know, if you're volunteering, it's great, but that's not awesome for everything, you know, and it's great. Somebody should be willing to tell me that I think that there needs to be a culture shift at Richfield where we realize that we're supporting the teachers first
040and foremost. Um I am asking that we review our school safety plans. I have no interest in seeing them, but just make sure that they're following board policy. Um, I would suggest that we also get the sheriff's department now that we have weathers to look at our school's policy because they actually see lots of districts. Um, and we have only people from copy and bath. So, I don't know how feralons read it. I don't know how copies read it when we have things like custody cases. My dad worked in as he wrote school policy stuff that's uh for safety. Um, I also want to directly address that there is a school board member here, Natalie, and we've talked about that that I do believe is in the building too much. And I it doesn't have
041to be that she means harm. But if you are a schoolboard member and you are talking to admin, head admin in the building the day after the last board meeting, that's a problem because you're not being treated as a parent. You're being treated as a school member there. And so I'm just going to I think I've talked for way more than five minutes, but I think that we have amazing teachers. I think we have amazing teachers. There's some that were really good coming back from COVID because of their ties to the social and community. And I think they maybe got held above some other teachers that are really good at creating that quiet safe space. The teachers that are from the outside that can say, "Hey, stop. Maybe this is not a good idea." you
042know, and so I just it is a wonderful place. I just want to empower the teachers. Is there any other comments? Yes, I would like to piggy back off of that being a teacher myself. Identification. Oh, Cyba my address. um that access to the building. And yes, I'm I'm a middle school teacher and we know like my daughters both went through River um Elementary and it was a lot more limited then because again I had a child that was a leg clinger and it would throw Khloe into next week if she saw me and I I couldn't stay and I had limited time. I was teaching at River Middle School at the time. Um this you know in regards to the parent bill of rights as well like we are we are designed as educators
043we have your children's best interest is one of the best districts in the state of Ohio and you hire the best. Okay. I'm all about a mentoring program. We have young teachers coming in, some which are my former students, which deserve a chance and not be held over or being told on or all of this bullying per se or what's happening. I mean, it's just absolutely inappropriate. We bring a brand new administrator in and on day one is is met with PTA resistance. You weren't our first choice. I who had to relocate my life from River Middle School to Aurora Harmon middle school if I was me with you weren't our first choice. How that would have had impacted me a great deal because trust me Harmon was not my first choice. River was my
044first choice. And therefore, we set up the building right there as an automatic divide in what parents want versus what our administration hired people to do their job and to not even allow someone to get the benefit of the doubt. And I know firsthand my one of my really close friends worked over Tara. She was assistant principal at Hudson and had nothing but kind and wonderful words to say. I think it's different when it comes to women. Me being a strong woman, a head girls basketball coach, we are viewed totally different than men and that is held against us. A woman that is stern, that has standards and expectations. All the women, which we know that is Richfield Elementary's climate along with PTA members, will all get all up at Keeble because somebody's being rubbed
045the wrong way because somebody's being professional. And I think that does an injustice for our teachers, for our staff, and for our students. Our students are there to learn. If we look at test scores, there aren't times for, you know, all of these extras. We do the best that we can, but I know as a teacher, we are under the gun constantly. And the amount of stress it is, even in our moments of like middle school, when we have grandparents, tease, things like that, our whole day is just shot. It's shot. Discipline is shot. Trying to maintain a regular schedule is shot. And we are under the gun for state testing during those times. And this is a part of allowing our kids to grow. Trust that you have chosen this district because of great
046teachers. And trust me, when I was a Christian middle school, sometimes it wasn't because of amazing administration. It was because we have amazing teachers that kept that ship float. And I will stand by that through the end. And I will continue to do that with teachers here in River local schools. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay. Uh, thank you all for coming. Um, enjoy this the uh nice warm weather and uh I need a motion and a second to adjourn, please. Oh, we do have I'm sorry. We do have a need for executive session. So, discuss the uh employment of a public employee. Sorry, Bo's going to have to stay a little longer. There will not be any action when we come out. May I have a motion and a second, please? Motion. Second. Mrs. Yes.
047Mrs. Bracket. Yes. Mr. Mrs. All right, we're in executive session. Thank you all.