001I want to thank everyone for coming. Um, this meeting is just to explore the option of a 4day um, school week. We don't have any opinion either way at this point. So, we would like to like to hear everyone's opinion and then um, you know, look at the pros and cons to everything. Um, I'd like to start the meeting with your guys's comments. So, um, I'll just go down through the forms as I received them here and, uh, if you'd like to stand up and say, you know, roughly two minutes or or whatever you have to speak and and let us know what your thoughts are and and we'll go from there. So, the first one I have here is Lori Logger. >> Thank you. So, um, my name is Lori Logger and I'm the
002executive director of Reconnections Counseling. I actually have about 45 employees in um at seven counseling agencies in um in in four counties in um the state of Oregon. And um so when I was actually reading about 4day work weeks, I was very concerned from an employer perspective. Um, uh, I will be honest with you guys. When I, um, when I have people that actually turn in their resume to me and I actually do a job interview, one of the things I actually have on that one of those questions is, "What days can you work?" And um and when they tell me that uh their child goes to work, goes to school four days a week and they can't work a 5day work week um as an employer, I actually put those resumes at the bottom
003of the pile because they're not going to be somebody that I'm going to hire. I'm going to hire somebody that actually can work five days a week and actually can be an employee of of my agency and work my hours. And so I that was a real concern of mine in the fact that from an employer perspective, I know that from a personal from a personal perspective, I you know I I have a 14-year-old. It wouldn't be bad if I had um if he went to school four days a week. You know, he could be at home on Friday. But I also am concerned about the fact that um we have a community of people that um maybe don't even work in our community. And um so so a lot of people work in Eugene,
004a lot of people work in Corvalis. They don't work in um in Monroe and they're going to be leaving their children with who um while they go to work on Fridays or or are they can go to work on Fridays? And um I I personally I will tell you that um uh and I I don't mean to say this in a in a way, but I think I think it's a real privileged thought to think that a 4 day a week is going to work for the whole community. um from a privilege perspective, yes, it would work for me. But from a from an employee perspective, but four days a week and um not being able to work on Friday or having to um you know, having to maybe find a job that's that's only
005four days a week because I don't have child care on Friday. Uh I think it's going to affect our community. I think it's going to affect um the our the parents and what they're able to do and um and how they're able to work and it's going to affect a lot of people financially. And I think that um we got to kind of step out of of of from a personal perspective of wow that works really great for me because I'm going to be honest with you, it wouldn't matter to me, but from an employer um like I said and I I wouldn't I wouldn't hire somebody whose children go to school four days a week because I don't that's not when my office is open. So that's what I my opinion. Thank you guys.
006>> Thank you very much. >> We appreciate your opinions. >> Uh Natasha Fry. >> Hi. I actually drafted something up after I heard that we were ins Hello. We are the students of Minro High School. Both we and our families have questions and concerns of this newly proposed 4day schedule. With this, problems have occurred with the possibility that there would be little to no incentive to do homework, especially with little to no time to do it if they if classes are going to be all day. Also, issues with child care as she said, and for like our siblings with like no school for Fridays and more. We and other people do not agree with this new schedule and detached things are things we have been discussing since we heard about this one. Students will have
007little to no incentive to do less. Students will have more incentive to do less work. They will have little to no time for homework Monday through Thursday and they will most likely be mentally checking out Friday through Sunday. The classes are going to be all one in all in one day. Homework for classes will be due the next day. that will be harder for students since they have already gotten used to it them having a one day day grace period to do homework especially for harder classes. Yes, students will have Friday to do Friday free to do homework. But how many will actually utilize this time? Aside from it's a three-day weekend, no more mental no more school mental checkout. How many students actually work paid or unpaid not related to school on Friday? Some
008students are considering other schools or online if this schedule changes to a 4-day week. For example, athletes and work release students. Each student equals a certain amount of funding for the school. And if students start leaving, less funding for the school. This will be a completely new change for to the schedules for both in and out of school. Five day weeks offer more resource opportunities such as breaks during before and after school for in-person curricular help. Yes, it would potentially be better for hiring staff, but A and B days are gone. How does this impact people who weren't working both A and B days? And how does this impact work students? Because some kids do they stay in school half the day and then they go to work for the rest of the day. Reduced
009days, longer hours may be detrimental to the students to adjust. As I said, they're already used to we have an hour and 30 to do and a little bit extra time at the end to finish and for our homework. Sport events that require Monday through Thursday will cut into more instructional time. Practice practices will be longer, meaning there will be less time to do homework and less time to do anything else. Issues with working family no school Friday means additional child care as she said. But this is more of an issue for the people at the grade school. What if they don't have any form of child care for Fridays? And what if for high school students, what if their parents can't trust them home alone? Outside of fuel for school buses and reduced driver
010hours, not knowing what the bus contract is at the time, what are the savings for this? Yes, staff will have to be paid and this is in theory the same hours for hourly staff and kitchen staff may be the only group in with with reduced hours but buildings will still need heating cooling heating and cooling reduction in power use would mostly be limited to light hot water kitchen appliances other than refrigeration Fridays can be used offer appointments but some professional offices aren't open on Fridays such as dentist orthodontist I have had braces I could not go to school their offices are not open on Fridays or weekends and like other point and Friday appointments may not be available or appropriate for in other situations. I have one last question. Why was this meeting and ty
011frost so last second? Why was the survey sent out March March 6th when we should have been talking about this at the beginning of the of the school year instead of six weeks before c calendars are finalized? Why were there no other deta details other than we want to do a 4 day week included in the survey? Eg hours if A and B days are going to continue scheduled tribes and more. And who does this benefit? This will not benefit students. This will benefit teachers, not the kids who are actually trying to learn. And why wasn't the survey sent to students in addition to parents and staff? And another keynote I heard that not all parents got the survey. An anonymous user comment on a post sharing the meeting on a local Facebook group commented,
012"I'm concerned the short notice means they will have made up their minds, but will make a token effort to your concerns. Why couldn't they have released more details about what about what the school schedule would look like during a 4-day week instead of weeks instead of a week survey announcing they are thinking about moving about moving to it? How long will the average day be? Will the will the overall school be longer? Will it be shorter? the same. What are they going to do for the kids with food insecurities that actually need lunches on Fridays? What about working families that still use school as child school the school day as child care? I show up to the meeting to get answers, but thanks for short notice. I can't go these short notice meetings. Not everyone
013has the luxury, such as my mother, to be able to come to these meetings. If it's if we only heard about this meeting today, students only heard about this meeting today. There were teachers with this new proposed with this proposed new schedule problems have occurred and well I already said that whatever basically this 48 week schedule it will not work for students. It is detrimental to students and you will lose funding if you lose students especially athletes. That is all I have to say. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Next one I have is Miranda Roberts. Do you have anything? >> Mostly I just have questions about when schools start and if it ends the length of the school day, you know, all those logistical things. Um, at this point I don't have
014a strong opinion one way or the other until those pieces of information really come. But also this wouldn't affect me negatively. So, I'm I'm kind of good with what you guys have said. >> Thank you, Miranda. >> I ask what the school year was a little longer or the day was a what what parameters would you be looking forward or close to? >> Well, from my kids perspective, they're okay with it as long as the school day doesn't go past 4:00. And um obviously I'm under the assumption if we're not going to school on Fridays, we're going to have to either start a little earlier or end a little later. Um I don't truly have a huge perspective on that. I was speaking with some earlier. We come from a school district in California. We
015started beginning of August, so I just don't want to go back to that. I do enjoy, you know, getting the summer through Labor Day. Um, but other than that, I don't have a lot of opinions until I know. I mean, my kids all play sports, so yes, they're going to have less time, but I don't feel like homework is given anyway, so there's not stuff, you know. So, it's kind of once we see a schedule, I might I might have another question or two, but yeah. Uh, Ethan Meyer. >> Hi. So, my main concern about the 4 day week would be just how would the scheduling work? I mean, you'd certainly have to change the entire thing considering you're shorting the weeks down by a whole day. Almost certainly, you'd have to completely abandon the
016AP schedule that we have currently. Well, that's going to involve teachers having to completely shift their courses around, you know, shifting their courses around, having to teach what what's been going around what we think is going to happen anyway. Classes having to happen every single day as a result of the AB schedule being taken out. Teachers would have to completely restructure their courses and students would have to adapt. I mean, a lot. And a lot of them, you know, the students, they aren't fools. They know what a 4 day week is going to cost. You know, they know that if we have classes every single day, that's just going to be more and more homework just getting piled on and piled on and that's going that that's going to really deincentivify students to even want
017to be here. I mean, I understand a excuse me, I understand that a issue that has been talked about has been students going online. Well, students don't go online because of a five day week. Student students go online because it's the easier option between the two. And if you do this four day week, it's going to be more homework and it's only going to incentivize students to want to go online more because it's going to seem like an even easier solution in comparison. In fact, I've already heard a fair number of students say that if this change were to come, they would go online. Like this would be the turning point for them. So, what you're going to see is you're going to see more students going online and it's just it's just not going
018to look good. Um, >> yeah. And I would even I would even disagree with what Natasha said. I don't think this benefits all the teachers at all. Take one Armando Martinez, the current algebra teacher at our school. He would most likely have to leave the school if this change were to come because as of right now, he's being paid part-time to come in during Aidings. But should the AB schedule get thrown out, he would have to come in every day and he's not being paid full-time. So unless he got paid full-time, he would have to leave because he can't just work for free, you know? I think yeah I think I think that if you were to for example send out some kind of survey to the students you would see a lot more of
019them than you might expect say we don't want a coordinated a week because we know what the costs are going to be and we don't want we don't want this to be any harder than it already is. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Good job. >> Uh Hayden Sliggel. Hello, my name is Hayden Slegel. Um, on the topic of kids saying that they would go online for if something like a 4day schedule were to happen, um, I happen to be one of those students. Um, I won't make assumptions on what the 4day schedule will be. I think there's certainly a lot of nuance that would come into changing the schedule so drastically from what it's been and a lot of people would have to adjust. But me personally with just the many rumors and
020well overall the idea of a three-day weekend sounds good on paper but a lot of the teachers have been saying that if their classes were perhaps shortened if we did every class every day then there would be more time in less spent doing things like notes and then classwork is more something to be taken home which would lead to increased homework. Um, if we kept the AB schedule, then I suppose classes would uh be longer um to help make up. I mean, I'm guessing the days would be longer um to make up for the loss time of no school on Friday. And either way, whether it's more homework after school or more time spent in school in really long classes, it sounds a lot more strainous than what one would think just a three-day weekend
021would give you. And if it were to happen, me and many other students have had the idea of switching to online as um many would agree the online program for this school is a lot easier than the in-person program. And if in person school were to be humble only harder, as the previous speaker stated, uh it would be a lot more persuasive towards switching online. And for any student who is wish uh hoping to get an I guess an an education that more feels right towards them not taking an easy route but not taking a strainous route then they might even take um switch to another school which might have schedules or things that more align with what they want. Overall, I think the current schedule is something that so many have grown accustomed to
022in this community for so long that switching to a 4 day week schedule has even though I don't doubt that there are some benefits that come with it, there's just so much that goes into making such a big transition that Um, it really brings into question how how much does it matter to switch it to something like this? What really are the benefits and are they really enough to warrant such big change? >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you. Think >> that's all our request forms. Um I think with that we'll switch to Mr. Kersonen here. He's been doing some research and hit on the high points and however you'd like to proceed. I shared with you a kind of a draft very much first look kind of draft on what
023employee week might look like. Um, I also shared uh 40week schedules for Harrisburg and 40 weeks for Oakland. Uh, both have been on a 40we for quite a while. Uh, it would be an extended school year by at least a week. Um, when we try to get our hours uh where we would want them to be, um, we would start the week before Labor Day, which has been unusual for us. We've always been a Labor Day start. Um, I don't know that we would have to go too much past the normal first week of June uh at the end of the school year, but it kind of depends on philosophically how it's probably want to stack the hours. Uh, it is a longer school day. Think I put that on on the second page. Um,
024the grade school schedule would increase by about 30 minutes. uh we felt like it'd be 3:30 3:35 uh would be the school day and then the high school schedule would increase to 3:45 350 depending on what we wanted to do. uh talking to the um on the high school side of it, they like they have an advisory period uh kind of at the end of the day where kids are able to check in with teachers, get homework, maybe do homework, um those kinds of things. Wouldn't be as long, but there would be a period there where we could do some things at a 20 or 15 or 20 or 25 minute period where we can do some things that are advisory like they have. uh it would change from a block schedule at the high
025school to a to a more traditional seven period day at the high school. Um we put in there 56 minute periods. Our periods right now are 90 plus uh which I started here in 1994 when we started the block schedule. Uh I remember the the shift from a traditional schedule to a block. Um it's evolved over that 32 years of time. Um there are benefits to the block. There are benefits to a traditional schedule. They both have equal you know um not equal but they both have their pluses and minuses as you look at them. Um a lot of schools have gone away from block but that's a different issue. So anyway that's kind of the the like I said a very rough draft that gives us uh one of the benefits of the 4
026day week is increased professional development time for teachers. Uh, so more opportunity. We talked uh a little bit about what a Friday would look like because there would be I got to find my notes, but we've got 13 Fridays in the school year uh where teachers would be working uh without kids. three of those days, uh, October 30, January 15, and March 19. Those would all be traditional teacher work days, grading days, end of quarter days where typically they come in and have a day of of time to get their grades in order and report cards and that kind of stuff. Uh, the other yellow days on here, uh, the 18th, 2nd, 16th, for example, those are Fridays where teachers are coming in working. Uh we talked about uh the benefits to that uh would
027be opportunity for uh we talked about like an open office hour type of setup where from say 8 to 11 teachers are here they're available. If kids need to come in and make up work if they need help with something uh if they missed a few days during the week and they come in and they can make up some time. Uh that would we would try to create that opportunity. None of this is set in stone. This is just us visiting about what this could do. Um, so they can come in and do that. It'd be an opportunity for staff meetings. Uh, it would be an opportunity for an ongoing professional development series. Right now, we don't have a lot of professional development time, it tends to be either at the front or maybe just
028a smattering in the middle. So, the challenge that you run into is if you want to try to implement something, a new reading curriculum or uh whatever it is, you're kind of focused on SEAL curriculum. Um, whatever you focus on, you're able to track it through the school year. And so you're constantly revisiting those pieces and and how's it going and re-implementing and changing and adapting as you go through the whole school year. Right now we get a big chunk at the beginning and then just a just a couple of touches during the year and it's it's gone. Uh so that would be a benefit on the on the PD side of things. Uh it would allow for some time for some common prep which we've been requested from heard the request from teachers to
029have that common prep time uh at the K5 level. Uh we talked about how many uh meetings they have that have to land during the week after school. Uh I see Jenna here. We have lots of title meetings, right? Constantly. Uh lots of title meetings, uh lots of PBIS meetings, lots of group work that happens throughout the school year. Those all have to stack up after school. And so they would have an opportunity at the K5 level to to have a meeting every every not every Friday but several Fridays through the year. So they could put those meetings on those dates. Uh and that would kind of be their morning session if that makes sense. I don't again just completely uh looking at it from what could be uh what we could gain from this
030schedule. Um the I tried in this example I tried to stick to as many four day weeks as we could get. There's only one week on the schedule that's not a 4 day week and that's Thanksgiving week. Uh everything else is four days. So if we miss Labor Day or if we don't go to school on Labor Day, which obviously we're not going to, we'd go to school on that Friday. Uh if we don't go to school Memorial Day, we're going to go to school on that Friday. If we don't go to school on President's Day, we're going to go to school on that. Uh so the 4 day weeks I in our example I try to keep as consistent as possible through um November's a little choppy which is always the case uh but
031Veterans Day kind of landed in the right spot in terms of scheduling our parent teacher conference days right after Veterans Day. Yeah. I don't know I don't know if there's other questions. We did come up with the the numbers that that we have there. We did come up with um the the required hours. We're not tremendously over the required hours. There was some there is some debate in my mind about wanting to finish on the the 4th or the 7th of June uh versus go ahead and finish on the 10th of June. Uh that would put us well ahead. Um, right now we would be in a situation with this particular schedule where if we had a snow day during the school year, we would have to designate some days to make those days up.
032That it's close enough that we would have to do that. Right now, we've got a few days built in, a little bit of slack. This wouldn't have a lot of slack in it. um talking to other uh folks in 4day districts um they uh have scheduled like pres-scheduled a Friday in April, a Friday in March, a Friday in May and just said if we miss a day because of snow in December, we're going to go to school on this day in we miss a day in January, we're going to go to this day in April. Um I don't mind that idea. Uh, I think with the way this laid out, I would probably designate like the 8th, the 9th, the 10th, and say those are our snow days. If if we miss any days here,
033we're just going to add on the on that week of June as an idea. Again, just trying to come up with different ways of looking at it. >> Uh, from any of the um more surveys that you got back, were there other than what we heard tonight, are there other concerns that you had? >> No, I didn't look I didn't look back at them. I looked at them last week. I hadn't received anything new. So, it was only a few more than what um I'd shared with you uh in the other meeting. Um certainly some of these same concerns u in talking with other and this is a little bit anecdotal uh Dr. Riley say and one interesting thing is that I don't know of any superintendents who have made this switch. all the superintendents
034I know they're on 4day weeks, which is Central, Harrisburg, Alcy, Triangle Lake, Oakland, Oakidge. Um there's more, but those are the ones that I've uh reached out to. None of them were involved with going from a regular week to a 4-day week. They all inherited that. Um I don't hear uh from them. I don't hear a lot of negative. Uh surprisingly um the comment has been made more than once that uh if we went back to a fiveday week uh our teachers would be very upset. Uh our uh parents would be very upset. Um I don't know that they had a feel for what the students would feel but uh interesting comments and you know that certainly would be a change if anytime you go from a block type schedule to a more traditional everyday
035schedule uh that would be change. U so yeah >> did you get much response about being concerned about like child care or food or those type of things? >> Very very little the food side of things. um be almost almost zero I think at or they were concerned about that but >> um childare was >> the option for home meals >> um we don't have anything in place right now but I know districts do do that and so it's something I'm curious about just in general whether we do this or not uh I have heard that that is a a program that some districts run I don't have a lot of detail about it right now they send they essentially uh send kids home with a food box. >> Uh it would impact the busing
036schedule. Uh it probably would impact the busing contract. I've not had that conversation yet because I didn't want to put the car before the course. >> Um it's certainly one that I could have uh before you make a decision. So you know what that kind of looks like. Um, from a teachers perspective, uh, it would be a it would be a right now they're on a 190day contract. Uh, they work I'm in a ballpark, totally ballpark, 1500 hours during a school year. Uh, this would be about a 174 day contractish. Uh, and they would work eight and a half hour days. So, they're going to work, I mean, the goal would be, and this would be un across the staff, uh, with a couple of exceptions. the goal would be to take that annual work
037hours and just reallocate it uh with a 4 day week if that makes sense because your days are going to be a little longer. Um so teachers are really quite uh easy in that way. uh same number of vac or paid holidays, same all they would really gain out of it from a a work perspective is a a bigger chunk of PD days, more days to uh to work in the rooms, do those things. Um the classified is a little trickier which um obviously uh because if you're if you're not open you don't necessarily need a secretary or you don't necessarily need a um an aid uh or kitchen uh those kinds of things. My goal on those pieces would be to treat them very similar to the teachers and just say right now your
038annual contract has x number of hours it from beginning to end and so how do we reallocate those hours because aids would have to work longer days secretaries would have to work longer days um you know talking to others uh really typical of teachers are here secretaries are here um you know that's a pretty uh normal uh situation uh the folks would be that I haven't worked out, you know, how I would do that yet, but you know, there's lots of opportunity to figure that one out. Uh this isn't tremendously uh we didn't approach this from a cost savings perspective necessarily, although there is a little bit of cost savings involved in it. Uh it was more about um just reooking at kind of how we do things and is there another way to do
039it? Because am I am I wrong to say that most schools our size are four days a week >> in this area? Yeah. Um yeah, everything around us is or that's our size or a little bit bigger. Um I I haven't done like a broad broad survey. I know a lot of Eastern Oregon schools are four days for a lot of reasons. short. Um I know southern Oregon there's a lot of 48 weeks in southern or but I could get that data if you wanted. I try I'm not sure I'll find it >> on the uh education side of the bill. I mean is there any data that shows if 4 day work week is is more productive for the student? >> No. Um you're really not going to find a whole lot of hard
040uh data on either side. Um there I think you can find articles that run both ways. I certainly haven't done a deep deep research dive into it. Uh but I think that from an a relatively obvious perspective if you have less instructional hours you're going to you know that's impactful in some way shape or form. It cannot be. Um how impactful I don't know. Uh and what the true impact is I don't know. uh sometimes when you have what is it Parkinson's law I think that says that you will fill up the time that you've allotted to to get this work done that you you need to get done so you wonder about that um I think the I had a thought I lost one sorry you touched on bunch of central Oregon schools are
041this way and >> my thinking is I mean the whole purpose for this meeting and I'm sure there will be more to follow because we're not make going to make a decision at the end of this is to figure out what's best for our community. >> So, so I mean any questions we can come up with? I guess it doesn't impact the >> uh going back to the staff. It wouldn't impact custodians. It wouldn't impact district. It wouldn't impact administrators. of an impact but in the same sort of way like you just take the total number and you just figure out >> how I don't think I don't think there's a ton of savings from a um I mean like as was mentioned we're still going to heat the buildings all that stuff still to
042happen um yeah had another one >> I don't want to step in on this place but as you guys are talking I did hear that Sarah had a question about the effect on daycare. And Bill, I didn't hear you answer that. Maybe you missed it. >> I don't have an answer for it because I don't know what the I don't know what the context is exactly. Um >> much. >> It was on the survey and it wasn't something that really popped up to the top of, you know, this is a big problem for us. And talking with other districts, uh because I asked that question specifically like is there, you know, do you do something on Fridays for daycare? Is there is there an issue with that? Uh and they the ones that I talked
043to um they said we don't do anything to provide any sort of daycare and it doesn't seem to be a problem. It kind of is a problem that fixes itself and I don't know what that fix is. Um >> what they do with their kids in the summer. >> Yeah. I I don't know. Uh I just know that >> days where they work and they don't have school. I mean there's many days on a calendar calendar regular like we're in right now where students don't have school but parents still work. >> So yeah. I yeah consistently heard from other superintendents that um that that wasn't a problem that crossed their plate uh and that it would be the parents who would be one of the most upset groups if they went back away because I'm
044just inferring. >> I know and I've heard that I heard that in discussions before here and that completely surprises me 110%. And I don't know in what city and places these people are at where they won't work on Friday. >> I just >> I'm talking from Harrisburg. >> Yeah, I know. Yeah, I Yeah, I would really I would be really interested in that aspect of it because I I really do think that that's the most effective part of the other side of the school and the administrators, the people who run the school and and the teachers that is the parents that work a five day work week. what are they expected to do >> right >> that can be a big effect on families I mean >> and I'm I think I'm the same it
045Miranda I think she said it doesn't affect it doesn't affect me I mean it could in a way but I I'm more concerned for the community if that's what we're talking about here who that affects in that situation so I'd love to be more informed on that and I don't know how that would come about but that would be interesting >> there's also um with the board week with my friends that go to Harrisburg, they rely on high schoolers to help too. So that's something we could reach out as a community like high schoolers that are at that age could be an an outlet for parents that came back to childare. >> Yeah, I think that's something we would have in our favor instead of the smaller community. So you hope that that would >>
046come together and maybe that's what the other superintendents are inferring that it just all panned out. But once again, they weren't ones that went to the they just inherited it. So it was, you know, they >> it was already there. >> If you don't have a choice, right, you have to figure it out, right? So I I would just be interested to see. I mean, I guess that a lot of people work after co maybe that's part of it, but I don't >> or they're all dentists and orthodontists that aren't on Friday. >> That's very frustrating. >> It's neat. Does anyone else have questions or >> um I'm I'm definitely not inside of yet and I do have questions I think that have been brought up. I'd like to have some more solid answers if
047possible before I before I could come to a decision. So, is there a timeline that we could get together again and get more answers? We can have a a more solid kind of info. >> I would love a list of questions that you'd like to have. >> Okay. >> I guess I'm going, but I will definitely email you some. >> Okay. Yeah. >> One thing I thought is is students here that spoke in the high school. It would be possible to do a student survey at the high school. >> Yeah. I'd like to see that. >> See that? >> And if and and how did we send out the first survey? because it was much >> sent it out via synergy which is our student information system. So if there was a parent email address
048in synergy >> they would have gotten survey >> they all would have gone. >> Yeah that's really the only otherwise >> that's where you register your student. >> So if you registered your student you should have gotten it >> if you put an email. >> Okay. So if then folks didn't get it. The best way is to contact the school figure out how to get in this way. >> Yeah. Make sure make sure their email address is correct in the Yeah. call the high school office or the grade school office and just Yeah. >> Okay. >> I don't know that they can access synergy. >> It might also be a spam issue from synergy. >> Yeah. >> All mine go to John. Every one of them. >> Yeah. >> Even Oh, yeah. Even though I've
049moved it to the inbox, it's still interesting. Yeah. >> Is there maybe a way we could have them come to the front office and have the paperwork and fill it out, hand write it, and hand it to us? >> Try. >> You know what I mean? if we can provide maybe the packets just as people are walking in to print out a bunch of them but if they come in we can provide them with one. >> Yeah, >> we had a question. Is there a way that a link to the survey monkey could be put on district website? That way everybody has access to it because there's going to be non-custodial parents who are going to be infected who may not have their email address and synergy, but they still need to have a say
050what's going on. And then also parents like you can go online and sign up for parent view and that will show you all of your information that is on synergy. I went in like I my email address changed. I went on to parent view and I updated my own information through that website. So you can go on our district website and you can either download an app or you can just log in from from there. You can update all of your information from there. you have a question. >> I was just going to say that I think there should be like a paper option for the survey because some people do have emails but not access to a computer like most of us do. So anyways, the paper option would be a good route for
051people that don't have internet options. Good. Yeah, definitely looks like I was just keeping a tally as we were talking of, you know, of the of the main concern points and daycare uh seems to be right at the top and then how is the school year going to look like? So, think those are our biggest concern. >> I guess dig deeper into the daycare piece. I can see what they know and ask more pointed questions. I did you did mention too that there is like an offset with the the holidays on a Monday like there's I think there is a perception that we're losing every Friday when in fact it's quite a bit smaller number >> and this is absolutely a rough draft >> rough draft portrayed a little more too I think that would
052>> well I guess maybe there's not many critics as I thought but the people that are concerned with child care that would help because if you're just filling And I mean a day or two is a big difference if you're trying to look for childcare. And if those Fridays are filled in different ways, >> we almost need a number of how many Fridays we have on a five day week and how many Fridays we would have on the uh >> on that was kind. >> Yeah. Yeah. in general right now, >> you know. >> But I think the question is >> days I can answer. >> Yeah. >> Specifically, you're thinking like Friday. >> Right now we have 170. We have 170 student contact or 168 student contacts. >> 68 >> and that's that's I
053think including trying to remember because I play with a lot of numbers but I think that's including the parent teacher conference. >> And then where would it go to? Do you know? Do you know what it would go to? >> 146. So it's >> on that draft. >> On this. >> It certainly could more. Did any of that information bring up any other questions? I guess my my how many students do we have in our school district and how many um how many uh people actually answered the um based on students and how many people actually answered the survey. >> We have 350 students. I think I had 120 parent responses. I would say a lot of those parents probably have multiple kids. >> Yeah, I I Yeah, I didn't didn't go through >> Yeah.
054Okay. Um, obviously we'll probably put I would like to put at least a short section in our next school board meeting. >> I'll try to answer some questions. >> Yeah. But then probably at that point we will reschedu another one of these, I would imagine. here next meeting Monday the 13th 13th 13th >> so April 13th will be the next time we even talk about this and then um we'll reschedu at that point anyone else have anything they want to add okay with that we'll call this Continuing journaling. >> Thank you guys. >> We appreciate it. Appreciate feedback.