001e e e president castiano live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and start the meeting good evening and welcome to the July 17th 2024 regular board meeting of the cistron Unified School District the meeting is now in session and the time is 5:05 p.m. Miss please call the RO trusty bullus here trusty Davis here trusty Jones here trusty Pritchard trusty hich here trusty Parham is absent at this time trusty cast casanas here miss before the board recesses there any speakers there are none okay the board will now recess to close session to address the following agenda items student expulsion B conference with labor negotiators C Public Employee discipline dismissal release D public employe employment appointment board will now recess to close session thank you e e e president casianos the
002live stream is now in progress you may turn on your mic and open the meeting okay good evening and welcome to the July 17th 2024 regular board meeting meeting of the castano Unified School District the meeting is now in session and the time is 6:05 p.m. please note we have Spanish interpreters attending this evening's board meeting and they are available in to anyone in the back of the room oral Communications is an opportunity for the public to comment on issues that are not on tonight's agenda her board policy the total time allotted for oral Communications is 20 minutes with a maximum of three minutes per speaker the per speaker time may be less if there are a large large number of speakers speaker cards for oral Communications will be accepted until oral Communications portion of
003the meeting begins if we have students registered to speak to this evening on any agenda item we will hear them before adult speakers purpose of a school or school district is to teach in addition to typical academic subjects we want to teach young people appropriate behavior and respect all points of view our students are watching the and listening to us tonight we appreciate your support tonight in modeling respectful and productive public discourse for our students and our entire Community all right Miss Hayes please call the rooll trusty bulus here trusty Davis here trusty Jones here trusty Pritchard pres trusty hanich here trusty Parham here trusty castanos here okay tonight the Pledge of Allegiance uh will be held H by Mr Bob Presby are you are you good with that Mr Bob I okay let's go
004place your right hand over your heart ready begin United States America stands na okay trustees I need a motion to adopt the agenda moved by trustee Davis seconded by truste Parham all those in favor say I I okay motion carries 70 to adopt the agenda Miss Hayes can you please read the report out from closed session on agenda item A1 trustees voted 601 to approve staff recommendation on the following case case number 2024 035 on agenda item 3B conference with labor negotiators no reportable action on agenda item 3C Public Employee discipline dismissal release trustees voted 601 to approve stack staff recommendation on the following case resolution number 01c on agenda item 3D Public Employee employment appointment trustees voted 601 to appoint Dr Kimberly Jenkins principal Capistrano un cap estano Union High School effective July 18th
0052024 this concludes my report thank you at this time I'd like to recognize Dr Chris Brown to present superintendent opening comments good evening everybody uh welcome to the middle of summer break in July and in July we have a light agenda but it doesn't mean there's not a lot going on in the district so actually I wanted to highlight a few of our summer facilities projects that are going on during the summer is when we get a lot of work done on the facilities because the students aren't in session um obviously the big one construction is ongoing for our new building at Dana Hills High School as you may know we broke ground in December and the new uh classro building will be two stories with seven classrooms on each floor and about 33,000 square
006feet uh really a 21st Century Learning space it's being funded with State matching funds that we were able to leverage from the state based on previous projects that we had done uh the building is scheduled to open in August of 2025 so for the 2526 school year RH Dana Elementary is getting a new roof with construction to be complete before we open school next month funding for the roof is coming from the district's deferred maintenance budget uh Toro High School's track is being resurfaced funding uh provided by the Los Flores cfd dollars uul Elementary is getting a new HVAC system scheduled to be completed in September funding for this project is through the tior and Whispering Hills cfds and dist and the district's deferred maintenance budget uh additionally 19 schools across our system are receiving
007asphalt repairs and Replacements over the summer while our maintenance and operations teams and Cilia teams are working through hundred hundreds of work orders cleaning repairing and preparing for the school year so when the kids come back their schools are ready to go uh in the very near future we will also begin a stadium modernization product at Kappa Valley High School using the Mission Vio RDA as well as really leveraging again State matching funds from previous projects uh and a new gymnasium at San Clemy high school again using RDA pass through dollars and state matching fund and seismic dollars so we have a lot of work going on the district um I say that and many of you have heard me say this before so I'm I'm uh repeating myself but it Bears repeating that uh
008our facili budget when it's compared to our facilities needs over the 60 different physical plants we have is not anywhere near sufficient the state of California does not provide direct funding for school facilities outside of matching funds uh which the district must have in order to access state dollar so even with these constraints our facilities team is doing a really really good job of matching funds and and utilizing what we've gotten in the past to to spiral to matching funds for new projects uh really to and to pick the projects that allow us to access the matching funds based on what we' have done in the past so we can continue to invest in our campuses uh with the limited funds that we have and then I wanted to to also bring up something so
009July is the time when data starts coming out and and literally there's some data that hit my desk about an hour and a half before board meeting started so I looked at it and it was worth sharing so this year in in uh korono unified we had 9,873 AP exams taken by our students that's a lot of a stand that's a lot of high level course work and what's really really more impressive is that the pass rate of those was 85% for students so um our teachers and our students worked really hard last year and and the results are paid off for those kids who depending where they go to college may have earned college credits and successfully passed a college level course in a discipline this year so hopefully we'll continue to boost those
010numbers up next year and as I dig through the data I'll be able to talk about individual high schools in the future but that concludes my report thank you okay trusty hanich thank you and thank you Dr Brown for sharing that good news I'll look for the deeper dive too it's really exciting um I just wanted to share that I had an opportunity to attend supervisor Foley's round table on teen girls and I was there with other school districts such as newart Mesa and Irvine and the topic definitely then segue to cell phones and you and I have had this conversation I shared that finished study with you which is exhausting I think I didn't make it through the abstract but um the anxious generation so it's very much on everybody's radar and I know
011it is for you and for staff and I and I I know that you have schools at different levels um so I just wanted to um give my uh support for you know like a study group or whatever you uh bring together because we do need all the voices I hear from teachers students parents everybody's at kind of a different level so if we can bring together a a working group to see how best serve the learning environment for the kids I mean just some of my observations are that uh young people will override it when it's something they love to do right and no parent will text their child when they're in football um or wherever it or dance or performing um and we see it summer right now on the beach those lifeguards
012are 6 17 and 18 year olds and they are they don't have their cell phone and they can't and they will get they will get fired so I think there's a wonderful uh median we can see we see that our children can go without cell phones and I think it's a disservice to them to say that they're somehow terribly addicted I don't like that discussion but we also need to bring that voice of our parents along so um I want to continue that work and thank you so much for starting it thank you okay JY Parham um yeah I I appreciated your report about facilities and um one of the things I learned yesterday was the County Public Works has hired a consultant to update the general plan and there will be uh Community involvement
013over the next couple of years and and quite a bit of work is going to go into it uh one of the things that dawned on me is that there may be some Surplus properties at some point um and to the extent that we can have a dialogue with the county as they go down that process uh to put you know community centers there's a lot of different things that they'll be looking to do and and maybe that's a a part A partnership that we can look at as well as as they reevaluate some of the the traffic and school drop off situations um regarding OCTA this is an overarching um General Plan update so this is our chance they're this is for the next 30 Years um so and they're going to make these
014decisions in the next two to three years so we want to be close in in that discussion thank you JY bolus yes thank you um happy summer everybody I hope you're having a good summer season uh tonight I'm I'm very excited to share with you something um we just have as we've heard about our AP um test scoring and all but we've just got really terrific students that do great things um and one of the things not too long ago it was students who brought to us the idea of getting solar at our schools and that's why we have solar coverings in our parking life here in the district office and at our high schools and then sometimes we have individuals um that have experienced something and when someone experiences something that uh is very
015difficult but they take that in their lives and they want to share it so others don't have to go through difficulties so I want to share a story um I had a student high school student reach out to me um in April and wanting to build awareness um in terms of scoliosis now I don't know if you know what scoliosis is but my oldest brother had it in the 60s and it's curvature of the spine and I grew up with my older brothers where my mom was always checking our backs um my brother unfortunately was in body cast most of his um childhood and this student unfortunately had it diagnosed later on when it is more serious and it was then a surgical procedure that had to be done and it's very painful um scoliosis
016of the spine detected ear um can be treated and I was speaking to a Middle School PE teacher today who told me oh yeah we have students that have worn braces and all and um you know they are eventually um able to have a a have that apparatus help them to have a a normal um spine in terms of redirecting it I want to share with you um a couple of things that uh parents can look for in terms of what scoliosis is um uneven shoulders or hips uh mild ache in the lower or middle uh of the back area tilted or uneven shoulders with one shoulder blade protruding more than the other this affects three million youth in America each year um and that equates to 270,000 surgeries and ually in California we used
017to do scoliosis screening through our Public Schools um and another story I have is um I used to take my children to the pediatrician regularly every year but in 8th grade when my daughter was attending newart she was sent home with a note that I should take her to the optometrist and I said Jennifer why didn't you tell me you couldn't see very well and she's a bright student she got all A's and she saidwell mom I thought everybody saw like that I didn't know I had a problem I like whoa so when this student came to me um and shared with me that the public schools stopped mandating the scoliosis screenings seven years ago and I really feel that's a disservice because parents like me that take their kids to the pediatrician and think
018they're going to pick up on these things um we need to be in tune to these things out there um that are happening and so tonight we have with us the Torro high school student Brook Walker can you stand up Brook please Brook has uh came to me in asking if there was a way to build awareness within uh capistran Unified School District so in turn we agreed to reach out to um Renee Johnson who's also in the back of the who is our safety and student uh Services director number two who in turn in the last few months reached out and has been able to identify businesses that are going to give all cusd students uh annual screenings free of charge so two of the locations we know of uh one is in Rancho
019Santa Margarita and one is in um San Clemente um um but we're going to be meeting um and Mrs Johnson has offered to meet with Brooke and myself because Brooke has been volunteering with multiple member um mentorship programs um and has a good relationship her surgery was at chalk and feels that there are volunteers there that might want to volunteer for helping to do screenings so I think when we have a student who cares enough about others and wants to bring awareness and again approached her school district and in turn our District staff turned around um to see what we could do and now that we're going to be able to provide that they're working on a flyer that will go out and we will let uh parents know about it but we do want
020to see if we can get businesses or possibly chalk hospital or hog or Kaiser um that we might have people who are willing to come to our schools provided that our principles um would like to have that at their school and just so you know early detection is important and it's generally through the ages of 9 through 12 um and so we would be focusing you know we'd be looking at the middle school students to try and identify um early on but I just want to share and to praise um kudos to Brooke for caring enough and seeing it through and asking what we could do and that our school district was very responsive in wanting to do this for our students and for our families so thank you and thanks for being here tonight
021Ruth that concludes my comments for the evening okay trusty Hanah thank you Judy I can I ask clarifying question obviously it's been a while since uh my my sons did the athletic um exam and in order for the waiver so we at that time they would catch scoliosis often so has it been so we don't ask for that anymore on our athletic waiver that you know of I mean that's something that I would was interested with the conversation so that we always did so I would have to look at the athletic physical form so athletes do have to clear a physical before they can be high school athletes and all those doctors would do it at that time because it was it was there and that would and to Judy's point we were catching at
022least those folks those young people that were uh you know trying out for a team or on a team and and I think both trustees buus and trustees Davis have asked about this as well in the past about the the younger group The the middle school kids who who aren't there so it's not the 14-year-old athlete but yeah so so we are giving physicals to our high school athletes this would be an additional resource for our community excellent thank you so much but if I can respond to trustee hanich again what they're saying is the early detection before you need that serious surgery and that really happens between ages 9 and 12 so that's what we want to do detection okay trusty Davis yes so thank you Brooke thank you for being here I love
023that thanks for folling through on that and making it come come to fruition um Clark Hampton and I worked on it beginning last year when he was interim superintendent with um and DSC Physical Therapy down in Stan CL with Kevin Dean who's offered his Services free of charge and has been diligently navigating that for this last year so thank thank you and thank you to the organization up in Mission bill that's also going to handle that and that I also want to comment on and duvail on to um trusty Han's comments regarding phone free zones and uh superintendent I've been speaking about that this whole year and it is it is something that children parents community members teachers have been asking about so I a great I'm so grateful for the work that's being done
024in that regard to help that come to pass so I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July we're so blessed to live in the United States of America the land of the free and the home of the brave in honor of parents day which is coming up on July 28th I want to wish every parent a happy Parents Day in 1994 Congress unanimously passed the Parents Day resolution establishing the fourth Sunday of July as a day to celebrate the important role of parents in their child's life unfortunately California has moved further and further away from respecting the role of parents in fact California recently became the first state in the nation to Bar schools from notifying parents about their G their child's gender identification change Governor Nome signed AB 1955 into law which strips
025away parents ability to stay informed about their child's education healthy safety and Welfare the bill creates a wedge of mistrust between parents and teachers and between parents and their own children nine months ago I brought forth a parental rights policy to ensure that our schools are transparent in their relationship with every parent in the district this policy would allow families to be a part of all conversations in schools regarding their child's health unfortunately it felt short of passing by two votes the defeat of the parental rights policy and the passage of ABY 1995 leaves teachers in a terrible position of having to conceal information about children from their parents leaving parents unaware of important aspects of their children's lives my message to parents is clear do not lose hope this is not over we are
026fighting for you keep praying and getting involved I will not stop until the rights of parents are fully restored thank you okay pusty Jones yes so very quickly I want to um welcome uh Dr Kimberly Jenkins who will be our new principal of Union High School I don't know if she's listening but um trusty hanich and I were on the interview panel and she she's gonna be I'm sorry Gano sorry um looked in that direction um and uh she gave a great interview I think she's going to be a wonderful uh addition to our district I don't know if she's listening but if she is welcome to CD um I wasn't going to talk about this but I'm going to do that anyway um I was listening looking today at an article about the enaction
027of ab 1955 when the governor signed it um and that article includes a picture of adults with signs saying protect family bonds and I think this was uh I I saw the picture before it was at a uh um board meeting in another District I am a huge believer in uh supporting parents and all families and students and staff members um and I believe in family bonds and the importance of family and keeping families together all this is so important to me but I I don't think involving School Employees in an issue that belongs within the family is effective at maintaining the family bond and as a matter of fact I think it is it is against family bonds to involve the school in something that is is a family issue and belongs in the
028family it's my hope that all parents will tell their children that they will support them and love them as they go through ad adolescence which is a if all of you remember a very tumultuous time and and tell them that they want to hear what's happening to them during these years of self-discovery and figuring out who you are and if families do this I think the Bond of family has the greatest chance of being maintained and even being strengthened thank you okay we are now moving on to oral Communications the total time for oral communication shall be 20 minutes individual presentations are limited to a maximum of three unless we have a larger number of speakers so complaints regarding District employees should be addressed by completing the district's formal complaint form available on the district
029website all right Miss Hayes how many speakers do we have for oral Communications um we have 21 speakers so normally we would only take 20 at one minute each would you like to hear all 21 now at one minute each yes instead of waiting till the meeting hey I'm going to call up and I ask that you line up in the order and then state your name and we want to keep you in the order of the cards so I thank you for your support tonight and doing this quickly and efficiently our first speaker is Pam following Pam we have Walt Baxter Shireen Smith Margaret moodon Linda Moore Sandra cup Veronica Yap Lisa h and Sarah Phillips and Luca clouse will be speaker number 10 and then I'll call the next 10 Pam please come
030forward this is an acronym for family F stands for the fact that God created male and female to procreate and have children creating the family Unit A stands for anchored in unconditional love through mountains highs or Aly Lowe's the family unit m stands for meeting the needs the parents financially emotionally mentally support their children through all their developmental stages the family unit I stands for each individual person making up the unit to Blossom again the family unit L is leaning on each other speaking truth growing in character and finally at 18 leaving the family and becoming the IND independent adult that is the goal the family unit Why stands for you are you on the side of the family unit the strong family unit that represents 98% of your constituency please support the parents and
031the family unit our next speaker is Walt Baxter Walt go ahead hey thank you for a chance to speak to the board and the public here today I just wanted to highlight another positive thing about our School District that's coming up we are about one month away from kickoff which you've probably noticed if you've driven past a high school you have seen band cheer football three football teams at most of our high schools prepping for the upcoming season I just wanted to say uh we're all very proud of all of our student athletes coaches staff and certainly the teachers that get everybody ready for for the season I wanted to give a special shout out to my high school uh their high school that our son went to it's uh St Clemy High School in
032case you don't know the Orange County Register Steve frier who is a uh well-renowned local sports writer has picked s has named San CL as a top two or three high school as the best environment to watch a high school football game year after year so if you come for the TR tip sandwiches or the desserts at halftime whatever you come for get your tickets soon they're they're going to go quickly um and I just want to hope that I can see everybody out there thank you Shireen Smith hi Dr Shireen Smith retired superintendent Laguna Beach and longtime San Clin resident first I want to say kudos for those AP test my husband was an AP Euro teacher at Alisal high school for over 30 years and always had amazing test scor worked really hard
033I wanted to talk about school safety tonight which we all worry about I'm grateful that cppo has heavily invested in safety training and resources for many years this month marks the 15th year the Orange County safe schools Conference was held held um it was held in Garden Grove this month through the efforts of former executive director Mike beakman and the Orange County Sheriff's Department Kappa was instrumental in launching this uh conference when it first started 15 years ago over the years it has become one of the best in the nation and I'm just going to read off a couple of the topics that were um in the workshops this year breaking the social structure of bullying in schools help students navigate social media challenges and stay safe the evolution of active shooter threat response please
034continue to invest in Safety and Security at our schools thank you Margaret Moody hi everyone great to see you my name is Dr Margaret moodon and I live in brancho Mission Vio my son goes to ambul in San Juan Capistrano he's there because he's in the Stars program when I told him that I was speaking to the board he asked me to share photos of him I am here to share my support for the board and I'm very grateful for cistron Unified School District and all of you for making good decisions that are supporting our wonderful District I'm grateful especially to Amy hich for being such a wonderful advocate for my son thank you Dr Chris Brown you've done a wonderful job so far so um just want to share my appreciation and I hope
035to continue to see you in the upcoming upcoming year thank you our next speaker is Linda Moore Linda please come forward hello my name is Linda Moore I'm a retired cusd teacher and I would like to quickly address a comment made during open Communications at last month's board meeting this comment stated that our school district was in reality controlled by the teachers union now being a longtime teacher it was hard not to laugh at that um and it brought back memories memories of my 30 years of teaching in which contract years I watched as our teachers union essentially had to beg for small salary increases and minor improvements in working conditions for teachers does that sound like a powerful all-controlling organization no because it isn't really our Union the capistran unified education Educators Association works
036hard with the district to better the lives the teachers hi I'm Sandra cup I'm a former teacher and administrator at cusd and last night I went to a concert at San Juan Hills High School it was a wonderful concert I have some programs here for you to see it was alumni and students and the alumni came back and wanted to participate because they felt strong about the program so I thank the board for their support of music education throughout our district from primary on up and I also want to thank the board for their decisions in allowing students to feel comfortable where they can talk to a teacher and feel safe and supported and I will mention one other things I belong to AAW American Association of University women we send girls going into eth
037grade to a university stem Camp every summer we sent 10 girls this year and we have no cell phones and the parents sign and the girls say it was nice not to have the phone so thank you so much for your support our next speaker is Veronica y good evening superintendent Brown president ctios and trustees I have a junior at anhs and an eighth grader at djams this will be my sixth consecutive year at djams I want to give a special shout out to Amy Verio the djams principal my son's three years at djams were easy for my family because of the type of learner and the type of student that he is my daughter on the other hand's experience at djams has been more challenging her mental health has affected her learning my husband
038and I have gotten her the support she needed outside of school but we were not sure how to navigate her support at School Mrs verico was instrumental in helping us navigate this new journey and she's gotten us the support that my daughter has needed Mrs verico worked closely with my family so she can have a successful and positive experience at djams she is Al also her leadership helps her staff follow suit because her teachers were helpful as well she leads by example and her focuses students and families great things are happening at cusd our next speaker is Lisa H Lisa please go ahead hi I'd just like to share a message from Jess Jessica toia to the Educators in this room and the Educators watching at home let the passing of ab 1955 only confirm
039for you how deeply Your Voice of Truth is needed at such a time as this what good parent or Guardian wants critical information withheld from them about their very own children lying is a moral issue who dictates your morals will it be the government or will it be God advocates for Faith and Freedom the pro bono firm who fought for her case partnered with her and after her settlement their Victory they launched teachers don't lie we are they are ready to stand with the next Brave teachers who refuse to forsake his or her morals at the schoolhouse Gates she won her suit for 360,000 thank you our next speaker is Sarah Phillips happy summer break and good evening to everyone I'm Sarah I have two kids in the district for some reason they wanted to
040come to the board meeting tonight so I've got him here with me um and I attended cusd schools K through 12 I want to give a shout out to my daughter's teacher from the 2324 school year Mrs Anderson of trian Benedict she's been emailing parents weekly all summer with activities for us to do with our daughter to minimize learning loss she is a real treasure and my 7-year-old is definitely looking forward to the new school year I also want to express my relief that Governor Nome signed the bill to ban outing policies I know some school districts will waste money on lawsuits opposing this leg legislation I'm glad that cppo won't be one of those districts I'm probably dreaming but I hope the hateful anti-trans rhetoric uh is abated at least some but again that
041probably won't happen I'm grateful that our California lawmakers believe in protecting student rights and privacy and that Educators and staff are trusted to act in the best interest of students in their care and I'm grateful that the majority of our board believes that too thank [Music] you Luka please go ahead good evening my name is Luca and I am the capista unified Council parent teacher Association PTA advocacy co-chair we're volunteer based organization anyone can join parents grandparents aunts and uncles here in capist we ask each School PTA unit appoint a representative to attend monthly advocacy meeting we advocate for parents and students at local state and federal level congratulations to capestrano on receiving a certificate of recognitions for being named to the 2023 honor role by assembly member Diane Dixon I am extremely happy that
042the assembly woman looked beyond politics and recognized the hard fact that cap asron academics are outstanding the academic success is backed up by the hard data available to anyone for viewing at California dashboard thank you I'm G to call the next 10 speakers next um I'll call the next 11 speakers Amy Baxter Linda Jamie Trudy Amber Shelly Shan Nancy Amy capella Candace Boren and Mary Amy please come forward good evening my name is Amy Baxter I'm a resident of San Clemen and a cusd parent it seems that just as we settle into the summer routine here in South Orange County the time comes for us to start thinking about the school year ahead back to schools displays are out at local stores much to the sugrin of kids the sun is starting to set a
043little earlier and the walk through registration days are appearing on the calendars at home I for one am so excited about the school year ahead I am excited to see the continuation of the upward tra trajectory that cusd is on I'm excited to see what amazing things cusd students will learn build create accomplish and celebrate in the 2425 Academic School year thank you for your continued dedication to our students thank you for pushing out the noise and focusing on the business of the district enjoy the rest of your summer and we'll see you all in the new school year our next speaker is Linda good evening the transgender movement is an agenda promoting the mutilation of children under the ban Banner gender affirming care it's a political movement that is standing against the naturalized heterosexual
044order and traditional Family Values some even call it transgender Marxism because it abolishes the distinctions between a man and a woman transcends the limitations established by God and nature and uses the struggle of trans individual individuals to transform Society in a radical way it has been revealed through foyer requests that the America's leading pediatric medical association American Academy of Pediatrics the AAP has quietly partnered with transgender activist groups to push child sex Changes Worldwide but let us not call it sex change but sexual mutilation no wonder the cration business is is booming how can our publication be complicit in this we need a parental notification policy speaker is Jamie hi thank you um I'm here as a parent my daughter is going into fourth grade at RH Dana and I wanted to just say thank
045you first and foremost for the facility updates at rhd especially to trustee hanch um that they are fixing the roof because um now they can learn in a dry environment which is wonderful um we also just broke ground on a brand new community garden that the parents have worked really hard in the PTA to raise funds for we're super excited about that in September we're having it might be October but during Hispanic Heritage Month we're having our second annual um Hispanic heritage festival I'd love to invite you all to come tons of great food music dance everything it's wonderful I also just wanted to Echo what Sarah said um that I am really grateful for the trustees who voted against the outing policy um and that just to remind uh all of us here that
046we are a public school and so to continue to bring God into the conversation is not inclusive of all of us thank you our next speaker is TR hi there I'm Trudy at 27 years s Clemy resident and involves cusd parent thank you superintendent CD staff and the leadership of this board for all you do to continue to make cusd one of the highest performing school districts in our state thank you for choosing and supporting the leadership and teachers at our school sites under Chris Carter's Direction at s Clemy these past nine years he's continued to focus on excellence in the classroom and I know fellow s Clemy resident Brad Baker will do the same and continue that tradition in all nine years of my son's education here as well as at 13 years of
047my daughter we had the most extraordinary of teachers like many of our site administrators these teachers are parents too and strive each day to provide my children with the highest level of knowledge they were always open communication I know my children could go to their teachers in our house we instilled in our children the highest level of respect for their teachers our next speaker is thanks to you for making Children First go ahead Amber okay this district has stated that they are not transitioning children well in a recent publication by the daily signal there were emails from counselors and teachers in this District going back several years in regards to transitioning children without parental no knowledge there is even an email from a counselor asking teachers for names of their gender confused students so she
048can set up meetings with them to help them start socially transitioning at school mind you this is all without parental consent so this district has been lying to parents for years I want you to know you are not on the right side of this gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder with a high suicide rate and it's not because of the parents these kids need therapy not secrets I'm disappointed but not surprised that only two members of this board wrote letters to Nome asking him to not sign this bill every District should have sent him letters against ab1 1955 if you think your enrollment is De was declining before it's only going to get worse you can only blame yourselves for not doing more to protect your students and this District B please come hi
049I'm Shelley welcome I came here tonight to thank CD for the incredible education my four children received most of their teachers and school administrators are still here they are amazing there's one in the audience out there thank you my four Sons were in the two-way ersing and they were involved in arts ASB and Athletics so many of the educational opportunities offered to my sons and and to C USD students are unique and excellent teachers taught my sons to be curious to work hard to be creative to be respectful and to be kind in UCSD and in cusd they applied what they learned at universities they attended and now their careers our nation is so divided right now but our schools and children do not have to be it saddens me that CH that people who
050are funded outside of our district are pushing misinformation or are trying to use our our schools and our children for political gain it sad me that our district our teachers and our school administrators and staff who work super hard are being attacked by people who want to push a political agenda speaker is Shan I want to address the parent teacher relationship from the time kids were in preschool parents tell teachers if their toddler is experiencing something outside of their typical Behavior special needs parents are in Daily communication with special ed teachers as our parents of children with IEPs and 504 plans with a team of academic advisers and teachers in middle and high school parents of neurotypical students receive communication from teachers principls and School nurses and conversely involved parents proactively reach out if concerns
051at school involve depression anxiety suicidal ideation Eating Disorders or learning disabilities all included the in the American Psychiatric association's diagnostic man manual just the same as gender dysphoria is parents will be notified gender dysphoria is defined as a feeling of distress it does not mean every person experiencing this will become transgender the progressive political cartel and the majority of this board have chosen to latch onto this as an lgbtq issue detransitioners are surfacing those on this board who voted against parents will be responsible for the collateral damage last month I asked for clarification as to how the cap how Capo came up with the identity support plan sorry your time is up Nancy Roar uh parent of two former cppo School District students uh in a perfect world any student questioning their sexuality could go
052to their parents and would talk to their parents but it's not a perfect world if you remember several meetings back here a retired um man who had been a teacher told the story of when he as required by those times outed a student to his parents about that student's sexuality later not long later he found that student had been beaten and bruised and it devastated him if you heard that that evening it had to devastate you too I personally uh some years ago I worked with an Associate oh by the way that was not the work of God when that student was beaten that was not God's hand later on I worked with a associate pastor and her daughter found out what a friend was thrown out because of their sexuality that associate Pastor took
053that student in her house and let him live with her that was God at work if we want to discuss God thank you Amy Amy go ahead hi I'm Amy Luna Capell and I'm a resident of sanan Capistrano I just wanted to come here today to say thank you to the board for doing this especially important and sometimes difficult and mostly thankless job of being a board member uh I want to thank you all for taking into consideration all student needs their diverse backgrounds religious beliefs economic situations learning styles abilities and disabilities and using um and making decisions on what is best for students based on research data the experience and expertise of our teachers and the input and viewpoints of our students and parents as a homeowner I appreciate all that you do to
054maintain and improve the quality of our schools and on staying centered on students so thank you than you our next speaker is pandis Candace go ahead hi thanks for the opportunity to speak tonight I see a few new faces in the crowd so a quick welcome from those of us who have been here regularly for months and years invested in this district and all of the business that is conducted here not just one manufactured issue I just like to thank District staff and our outstanding principles for leveraging proposition 28 funds to staff dedicated art teachers and provide regular art lessons at are elementary schools art is important students involved in the Arts are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement and twice as likely to earn a college degree we are so
055grateful that the district is now able to provide it within the curriculum I'd also like to thank this board for maintaining the Integrity of this District following the law and keeping us out of expensive lawsuits that only hurt our students and their education as the parent of two kids in this District I appreciate you and I thank you for always putting academics over agendas the final speaker is Mary I don't know how this could be called an agenda but the family bond will not be destroyed by ab1 1955 if they are not brainwashing the children and confusing them at school with the so-called safety act um people don't realize that the American patriotic um American Pediatrics Association has joined with a group called wpath and you can see their website and it's a a agenda
056that has helped them to Define what sex is as if the Pediatric Association would not know as scientists they have to go to a transgender site to find out a new definition which is absolutely ridiculous in the lifetime of a student who's been transgendered it means $1 million profit for all the pharmaceutical companies the the surgeries and everything else they do not care about children they are cat cows for our society and everything else you say about curing about the children it's caring about the number one money and people on the school districts and things are being paid money to support this thank you that concludes our speakers okay all right we are now moving on to discussion action items so our first item 11a first reading board policy 1325 advertising and promotion may have
057a motion to approve board policy 1325 advertising promotion on the first read and wave the second so move okay trusty Hanah and a second second seconded by trusty Parham okay at this time I'd like to recognize Clark Hampton Deputy superintendent to present the item thank you president casianos trustees so the purpose of this revision is to clarify uh in our policy that there's no advertising on District property for for non-district schools and that there was also some language cleanup punctuation and grammar adjustments to the policy thank thank you okay Miss Hayes any speaker cards okay trustees discussion no discussion okay um all those in favor say I I any oppose okay motion carries 70 to approve board policy 1325 advertising and promotion on the first reading and wave the second we're now going on to
058the next board policy 11b board policy 6146 point1 High School graduation requirements at this time I need a motion to approve board policy 6146 point1 High School graduation requirements on the first read and wave the second may I have a motion okay moved by trusty Davis seconded seconded by trusty Parham okay at this time I'd like to recognize Carrie Johnson assistant superintendent curriculum instruction to present the item thank you president castanos and trustees um staff is bringing forward this these revisions to board policy 614 6.1 some of the key um changes include bringing align into alignment with California Education Code adding ethnic studies for the class of 2030 revision of language for independent study physical education to include team sports under certain conditions also aligning with State language regarding high school equivalency testing and then
059finally um based on local decision about um High School graduation requirements for non-public schools and residential treatment centers myself Dr eres and uh Clint Collins are here to answer any questions okay miss any speakers okay trustees questions discussion trustee Jones so I'd like to see this brought back and the reason is I have some concerns with it still um one thing was that it's the second uh paragraph there was something taken out which is uh a student who wishes to take a course from an entity other than the district for credit to applied for a district transcript must obtain prior approval um and uh that was deleted it is mentioned uh elsewhere in the policy I believe but the reason we added that it was actually in the last revision was that it's something that
060a lot of people Miss um you cannot go to Saddleback and take a US history class and have that uh count for your US History graduation requirement because um that's not a a high school and in order to get a high school diploma you have to take a class that is um is uh is takes the high school US History curriculum we also have to approve um electives um um that you want to take so I was concerned at the time when we approved it last time that we really needed to get that upfront in the policy so that people uh had more chance to to notice it and not AC L take a class that they thought might count for something when it wouldn't so I'd like to see that back in but there's
061another issue in the one semester course in health item number seven um let's see um let's see it let's I'm sorry hold on a second it mentions that you can take courses over the summer through District summer school ocde summer school programs or any other institution recognized as accredited by the unal University of California approved accreditation provider well I reached out to admissions in um the University of California at well UCI and they do not have an approved accreditation provider um so I got some language uh that describes what they would require basically they want you to take classes from an accreditor high school and there are some private schools that are not accredited um so that's what they're looking for so I think we need to bring this back next month with some revisions
062I've talked to Dr Johnson about them and uh not pass it on first read okay so but we have a motion on the floor so then I would need an amendment to that motion trusty Davis or trusty Parham do you want to amend I think if we don't that's correct we don't need to can I just get some clarification of what um trusty Jones because she's been thinking of this um and it's the first time I've heard it because we can't of course speak to each other we have you know so can I just have what what she's saying and if there's you know obviously there's validity to it I appreciate you um to see where we're going with this what we need to do for next steps what do I look for Terry yeah
063so we're we're more than happy to add that language in about uh to make it more clear and up front approval ahead of time before students take courses outside I think there's some the reason that we uh included about accreditation is because we want to your point we want to make sure that the students are actually getting courses from an accredited institution and we're going off of the UC portal which um does list a list of accreditation agencies around the the United States and specifically was um in California that's why we made that reference yeah so really it's some clean up langu which to be clear on what the accreditation institution would be and to reorder so staff has no problem making some changes and bringing it back as a second read on concern yeah
064so this policy will come back for a second reading okay [Music] okay got it we are now moving on to 11 11c which is first reading board bylaw 9110 terms of office may have a motion to approve board bylaw 9110 terms of office on the first reading and wave the second a motion so move okay moved by um trusty Jones seconded by trusty Parham at this time I'd like to recognize the superintendent to present the ad yeah this is uh just some language Cleanup in response to a law change that was done by the California Department of Education uh so the a few grammatical fixes were changed and um the language that says the term of office for members elected in regular election shall be four years commencing uh it used to say on the
065first Friday in uh succeeding their election in December now it says on the second Friday succeeding their election December and this is just a response to a law change that we must make okay Miss hay any speaker cards okay trustees any discussion on this item no okay all those in favor say I I okay any oppos okay carries seven motion carries 702 approve board bylaw 9110 terms of office on the first reading and wave the second okay we're going to now move to consent Calendar please uh please note per board policy 9323 in accordance with the law the public has a right to comment on any consent item at the request of any member of the board and any item on the consent agenda shall be removed and given individual consideration for Action as a
066regular item each speaker is allotted one and three minutes per item depending on the number of individuals who to speak okay miss hce any speaker no speaker cards on consent okay all right trustees any items you'd wish to pull tonight off consent okay trusty Davis 14a 14 okay any other trustees okay may have a motion to approve the consent calendar with the exception of 14a I move okay moved by trusty Jones second sorry didn't miss I missed that seconded by trusty Davis thank you Miss A please call the trusty bulus hi trusty Davis trusty Jones hi trusty Pritchard hi trusty pich trusty Parham hi casanas I okay motion carries 70 by a roll call vote to approve the consent calendar except for the exception of 14 a so oh sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry did
067I I I think you said 14 guys I'm I meant to say 15a if I did not say 15a okay Miss A did you get that 15a 15a all those in favor all those in favor 15 D 15 D okay to bring my glasses in here sorry okay 15 D could we read what you can you can yes we can do a voice vote but just for clarification trusty Davis you said d d and Davis got it okay so all those in favor say I of approving the consent calendar except 15D I okay any oppose okay so that motion carries 70 except for 15D on the consent calendar which I will now allow trusty Davis you want to speak to that item thank you 15 D so a a second reading on board policy 4040
068employee use of Technology my question is for staff regarding it's on page 197 or page one of3 the very last paragraph which starts with harmful matter includes matter taken as a whole it's under the use I don't know how to best explain it is I mean it's just okay online Internet services the third paragraph I just want a better explanation on that paragraph harmful matter includes matter taken as a whole that the average person applying contemporary Statewide standards would consider to be appealing to their um parent interest or depicting of describing in a paternity offensively way sexual conduct that lacks serious literary artistic political or scientific value for minor can someone best explain that yes that's taken from the penal code that's listed there 313 okay and so this whole section would apply to our
069staff members using District provided either internet service or technology that this would not be allowed and this would lead to further discipline if any of that were to take place so it just further clarifies where that would cross the line where it was not be um it lacks serious literacy artistic political or scientific value for minors great thanks for highlighting that thank you okay uh I need a motion for 15D so moved okay moved moved by trustey Davis seconded by trustee bolus all right all those in favor oose okay 15D passes 70 okay um there being no further business of the board um before we adjourn tonight um I'd like to um pause here and and um thank you to our electronic specialist in the room Corey stand up Corey we we truly appreciate everything
070you do for us in these meetings and Corey has served the district for 33 years and tonight is his last meeting so um we are going to adjourn tonight in your honor Corey but um we have a card for you we'd like to take a picture so you want to come on up go ahead and adjourn and then we can do that you can do that you want to do that okay can I have a motion for adjournment moved okay moved by trusty um param seconded by truste second Davis all those in favor okay motion carries 70 the time is