001just uh consider us live until I tell you we're ready. As we're in process, things are uh we're active. That's all. Let me know. I'll let you know when we're synced up. Okay. Our webinar is live and our YouTube feed is also live. So, Mr. Rash, the meeting is yours. We all stand. The meeting is now in session. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes from the last policy meeting? So moved. Second. Any comments or discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. I. I. Um items working recommended for work session action meeting
002are policies 122, policy 123, policy 226, policy 317, policy 352, and policy 9004. Uh would you like to take over, Dr. Waters? Sure. Good evening everyone and happy Monday. Hope you all had a great weekend. Um tonight, as Mr. Res said there are uh six policies that we bring before you that we are recommending uh move to um the action meeting. Uh policy 122 co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Policy 123 is intercolastic activities. Uh policy 226 searches. Policy 317 conduct and disciplinary procedures. Policy 352 is use of personal electronic devices. And finally, policy 9004, public attendance at school events. Um, I am going to ask at this time that our solicitor, Mr. Summers, give an overview um of the revisions and maybe additions, I'll say, to some of these policies. Mr. Summers. Thank you, Dr. Waters.
003Uh, good evening, everyone. Um, so I think what makes the most sense is in terms of the six policies is to um take them kind of two at a time. There are are three sort of batches of of policies within these six. So, um to start out, I I'll just talk about policies 122 and 123. Um and those are co-curricular and extracurricular activities and then intercolastic athletics. I know it says activities in the uh agenda, but it's actually intercolastic athletics is is the title of that policy. Um so for those two policies, those are largely PSBA uh recommended updates to them. So um there are just some some sort of um minor adjustments to have consistent language with other policies that the district has. Um for in terms of more substantive updates in both of
004the policies, there was a change to um a section that talks about off-campus uh behavior by students and um what kind of uh instances in which off-campus behavior is governed or could be disciplined by the school. Uh and what PSBA has done is they've recommended removing from those policies examples of specific instances in which students could be subject to discipline for off-campus conduct and instead just refer uh everyone back to our general discipline policy which also has as part of it uh limitations or explanations about when the district can impose discipline for off conduct that occurs off campus. So rather than having disciplinary language kind of contained in a lot of different different places, PSBA is recommending um just having it kind of all refer back to our primary discipline policy. So um that's that's
005a little bit of a a substantive change. It's but it's more of just referring uh trying to limit the instances where policy language might conflict with other policy language. Um the other changes in 122 and 123 um one that is is in both of those policies is a change that's largely uh a a response to uh a court case that involved the PIAA. Um and and as a result of a court case that was brought by certain students in faith-based non-public schools, um they uh challenged the legality of PIAA bylaws which did not permit um those students to participate on athletic teams uh that were operated by their district of residents where they reside. Um, and as a result of, I think, some issues that came about as part of that those court cases, the
006PIAA has now changed their bylaws. They settled the court cases and they've changed their bylaws to allow for students who are enrolled in faith-based non-public schools if their school does not have a particular sport. Uh, for example, they do have the right now and would be eligible to participate on the athletic team of the school district where they reside. um which is is pretty much exactly the um the participation rules that apply to students who are enrolled in charter schools um as well as students who are home education students. A number of years ago, the Pennsylvania legislature uh required that school districts allow uh home education students to participate in extracurricular activities that districts offer. Um and and then also students who are enrolled in a charter school when that charter school doesn't have a
007particular uh athletic team for example um there's a right to participate on the school district of residences team. Essentially there were students enrolled in a private um religious-based non-public school that said we should have those same opportunities as well. And in response to to that uh position PIAA has updated their bylaws. And so our policy was revised to uh reflect that change as well and no longer just have a pure exclusion on non-public uh students like it did in the past. Um the only other uh kind of notable change is to policy 123. Uh toward the end of that policy there was language added that addresses name image and likeness uh rules which is also commonly referred to as NIL. Um that's a PSBA language recommendation um largely uh to ensure that the school district
008uh explains that district employees and coaches for example are prohibited from helping student athletes negotiate name image likeness uh deals. students are permitted to enter into those uh and benefit from their name immature likeness if they are particularly successful student athletes or or you know have significant name recognition for some reason. They can uh benefit from name image and likeness uh contracts, but the school is prohibited from negotiating those contracts or arranging for them. And so that language was added to the policy uh to make it clear that that's uh a current rule. Can I ask a question here? Yep. Uh I always thought that anybody in the school district was able to uh participate in our sports if they wanted to. But I guess what you're saying is private school students couldn't participate before,
009but now they can. That That's right. And actually, it wasn't even the school district's decision. It was that PIAA had a rule that said in order to be eligible to participate and be uh eligible for for competition under PIAAA's rules, you had to fall into certain categories, which included homeschool students, charter school students, but it did not allow for non-public school students um until now. They've recently, as a result, revised their their uh bylaws. And and I was surprised because I'm on the tech center and and uh uh kids from private school can go to the tech center and get an education at the tech center if they wanted to. Uh so I always assumed that it went across athletics also. Thank you very much, Kyle. You're welcome. Um any other questions on 122 or
010123 before we move on? Okay. Um so the next two policies uh that I'll uh discuss and the next one is is item C under three policy 226 searches. Um and as well as that one I'll also uh touch on policy 904 public attendance and school events because the changes that we're talking about in 226 are uh nearly identical to the changes in policy 904. So, the changes to policy 226, the student searches policy, um are primarily or or only in a section that has a heading of um administrative threat screening through the use of weapon detection technology. So, this is language that was added previously um specifically as a response to the district acquiring the evolve uh weapon detection system. And when um policy 226 was last revised, it was in order to explicitly
011authorize the use of of that threat detection um program or equipment. And there were certain instances identified as examples of when the district could utilize that technology. Um, one category was for large-scale events at Crawford Stadium or at other locations where there would be um significant numbers of people in one location. largely also uh many people from outside of the school community itself uh parents uh community members uh you know a large number of of different people coming together. Other uh instances in which that uh technology was permitted under the policy included where there was a specific threat uh of of a weapon uh at a particular school. So if there was information to suggest that someone could be armed at a particular location, the policy authorized uh the use of the system then. And
012then the last sort of example category was if uh there was a specific security situation or security threat at a particular school, the district could utilize it there. Um and those were were primarily the instances in which um the evolve system could be utilized. Um the reason why it was specific examples were given is that um there's a question of as to whether the use of that system constitutes a search um as a governmental entity the school district is subject to the US constitution and the limit on unreasonable searches and seizures. And so we do have to ensure that any any type of search that we conduct is supported um uh you know by applicable law or by reason. So um there had been over the past number of weeks some discussions about um expanding
013the number of examples uh for when the evolved system could be used. And so what language um is being recommended to to be added um to this policy is the following. Um due to compelling concern for the protection of students, staff, and community members and the immediate need to take precautionary measures, the board also authorizes daily arrival administrative threat screening through the use of weapon detection technology at specific school buildings as identified by the superintendent or coordinator of emergency management in safe schools. So that's the the most significant change to the policy. Um, in addition to that, there was language that said that the um use of the technology could only be um uh utilized by school security personnel um who had been trained in how to utilize the system. And I think in application
014it was recognized that um school administrators for example could be trained on how to utilize uh that technology. and we don't want to necessarily limit it to just school security staff who have the ability uh to assist in using uh the technology and processing students through it. So um that is also being recommended for revision to just say schools uh school personnel uh who are trained in the use of the system or those who would use it not just school security personnel although certainly I think there would be school security present whenever the system uh would be utilized. So that's the the main change in policy 226. 226 is in the student section of our policy. So that's really what governs um the screening of students who are coming to school or coming to some
015sort of activity where they might be subject to that. We also have policy 904 which is called public attendance at school events and that has nearly identical language in it about administrative threat screening through the use of weapon detection technology. um and had uh again nearly identical language as the student search policy essentially saying that community members or others who might be attending a district school they'll be subject to the same sort of screening as our students are. Um and so that uh policy 904 it's recommended to make the exact same changes to add that um the board authorizes daily arrival administrative threat screening uh using the evolve system whenever designated by uh the coordinator of safe schools or the superintendent. So um those are the changes to 226 and can I ask a question
016here? Yes and if anyone else Yep. Go ahead. So, so what you're saying is if we identify somebody with something in their backpack or in a in a on a person, we actually can't uh conduct a search. We have to pull if it's a student, we usually pull them into an office or something and call their parents and then ask if we can conduct a search or we ask the student right away if we can conduct a search. So generally the rule is that that as a governmental entity um we are are held subject to the same uh unreasonable search and seizure provision as other governmental entities. The exception is uh the general exception is unless we have reasonable suspicion that a student is in possession of something that they're they're not allowed to be
017in possession of. So if the school has reasonable suspicion that a student has a weapon, for example, we do have the right to go and search that student regardless of whether the student or their parents gives permission or not. Um those in our policy are generally referred to as uh searches with individualized suspicion. So we have information about a particular student or a particular group of students having something that they're not supposed to. we we can rely upon that information and conduct a search. The administrative threat screening is um more of a of a general threat screening. It's it's we're looking at individ we're looking at students regardless of whether we have any reason to believe that they have anything on them or not. Um it's just everyone goes through it. Um and and it's
018to, you know, to pro provide overall security um and in response to to certain concerns that might exist without us knowing for sure if there's a particular student that we're we're concerned about. Thank you for the clarification. Sure, M. Redneck. [Music] Yeah. Apologies to take you back. I have a question on uh 122 as well. So maybe I will just u make sure that I'm I'll do that one first if you don't mind. Apologies to take you back. This is the one on discipline if I understand. So I just want to make sure I understand what is being proposed. Um so in a scenario where we have reported we we are aware of behavior in the community that it is that is against our code of conduct. And this policy enables us to take action
019as if it were on the school property. Um it it would allow for uh in your example if the code of conduct violation that occurred were for example threatening the school. Um, so although it took place in the community, but it was a a threat that was directed at at one of our schools, directly at fellow students, um, you know, and the school, then the answer would be yes, that that language would give the school district authority to, um, impose, you know, school discipline against those students. It would not necessarily though allow the school to just apply any uh rule that you might violate in school to to off-campus behavior. So the example is you know we certainly prohibit profanity from being used in our classrooms and in our hallways. We don't have any authority
020uh over a student who is at home over the weekend or in the community doing nothing related to the school from using profanity. So, we can't, you know, but it does where there's a nexus to the school or it's something that's targeting the school. Um, that's the example of where it would give us authority over off-campus conduct. Yeah. Okay. Makes sense. I mean, we have cell phone cell phone policy right at the school. We're not imposing that in the community. Yeah. Um, yes. I think I I I am curious. I'll go back and take a look at, you know, what really what uh violations I in my mind would be relevant and what those that wouldn't. But I wanted to clarify that. So that's helpful. And then as it relates to the evolve system, I
021think as you said, this is both in 226 and 904. And I know we were focusing on um the the utilization and um changing the language to be clear that it's school personnel. I am curious and this I think will detail into the conversation we're going to have in safe school as written right now from what you stated and what we have as draft. It's specific to arrival. Should we consider perhaps not being specific to arrival at this point if we're going to move that on through to work in session? So I think that the the rationale for arrival screening or why that term was used is is um to generally describe the instances in which individuals would be subject to that screening. And certainly most of the time it will be in the morning
022or or where most of the screening would take place is in the morning but arrival daily arrival could also be a student who's scheduled for only afternoon classes or um you know we have we have other individuals coming throughout the day that upon their arrival they would be subject to that screen. Okay. I I did yeah that makes sense. I did take it very literally as arrival in the morning, but as you were saying it, I thought, yeah, as long as it's clear that it's arrival at the building, you know, whatever time of day doesn't matter. As long as it's clear that it's arrival at the building. All right, that that's helpful. Thank you very much, Mr. Sunless. Um, and before we move on, is there any additional comments that anyone from the administration wanted
023to make or anything related to these changes? I just also want to mention um for from our student reps, if you have a question or comment about this, you're welcome to also ask. Yeah, actually I do. Hi, my name is Alma. I'm a student representative. So um I just wanted to ask, are these new policies a part of the Alice programming that we're we're starting in the high school or is this just an addition to a policy? You want to take that Todd? Oh, Mr. Ran is on as well. I was gonna I was given a beat for Mr. Ran. If you wanted to reply, I'm happy to. Mr. Ran, would you like to reply or would you like me to take it? Sure, I'm I'm happy to reply. Um, they are I will say
024in ways connected but not specifically connected. So, what I mean by that is right kind of everything we do around safety um has its role in its place. uh while it's not like specifically connected from a a use of evolve um specifically connected to Alice, right? It's it's al it's all a part of that safety lens. So in a way, yes, but not directly. Okay. For sure. And then I also wanted to ask um I heard in a part of the policy you mentioned that the screening would be daily. Is that for the rest of the year? Yes. Okay. So I I feel like as a student um especially coming back from the bus in the morning or like going into the bus um like coming into the school it's pretty hectic and especially now
025it's getting colder and a lot of students have to stand outside waiting for students to be screened and it it's very timeconuming um especially if you're a later bus you know and night zone is going to start um so I don't think that there's a problem with screening happening because of our safety because it helps students get be safe. But I just think that it would if there's a better way for um the security team to do it because it's pretty cold, you know, in the morning. So yeah. Um I wanted to jump in on that real quick if that's okay. Um I was going to say a similar thing. I also did notice that when we when I enter from the front, the main entrance, that one usually goes by pretty quickly. But I
026noticed near the cafeteria in specific when um when I get dropped off my bus, I noticed the line goes almost around like the next like like if the building's here, the line extends really far back. And I was wondering if there was anything in place or being planned to make kind of that aspect more efficient. So yeah, I was just wondering that. So, uh, great questions, great feedback. Um, I don't know when you say you were dropped off on your bus, was that Friday or Monday or was it prior to that? I believe it was Friday. Okay. Cuz we added a second bay at the end of last week. There was one bay at the bus drop off. We added a second. Um, Mr. Ran is actually in the process of procuring I believe another
027bay. Um but that said I do think we have some training to do with students and staff. So for example and we're going to talk about evolve in the next meeting at the safe schools meeting. Um I went through on the first day this would have been Wednesday and my water bottle which is right here was next to me or it's next to me. It was in my backpack and I it dinged on my backpack and it is not just a metal detector. It has artificial intelligence as well. So if you take your water bottle out and it knows what that metal thing is in your bag, it's like, "Oh, that's a water bottle." Um, so it didn't ding on my backpack. We've seen a lot of umbrellas, a lot of instruments, and a lot
028of water bottles um get dinged. So we are planning to put something together, and I think kids are getting the hang of it. We've had far fewer hits as things have gone as it has gone on over the days, but we're going to put together a video for the morning show to kind of explain, hey, when you arrive, make sure you pull that umbrella out, pull that water bottle, walk through with them in your hands, then you won't have to stop. Um, so I think it'll get better. That doesn't mean there will never be a line. Um, and I know both of you are not of this case, but this morning there was a young man standing next to Mr. and I who was complaining about how cold it was outside and he had shorts
029on and it was 36° so we were like, "Buddy, you got to wear some pants when it's 36° out." That being said, I do think it'll get better. I hear your concerns. We'll continue to monitor it and see what we can do to make it a little more efficient. Great discussion. Great discussion. Thank you very much for that. Okay, before moving on to the next uh sort of two policies that we have left, any other questions on 226 or 904? Okay, hearing none. Um the next policy to look at is is there's two policies in the 300 section of our policy manual. And the 300s are our employee policies. So um generally policies that govern uh anything having to do with district employees, district contractors. So the first policy um up for review or revision
030is 317 conduct/disciplinary procedures and that um the what what is being proposed in terms of a potential revision to that policy is a language regarding employees and reporting of interactions with law enforcement. specifically any employee who is arrested for uh an an incident or uh certainly convicted for an incident. There's been some confusion or uncertainty um of when employees are required to report uh when they have an arrest or conviction. So, um the uncertainty is that there are certain types of arrests uh under the law that are mandatory uh report arrests where employees are required within 72 hours to notify the school district that they've been arrested for certain crimes. And those generally are crimes that if they were convicted of those crimes for at least some period of time, they would be prohibited from
031having direct contact with children and likely not be able to continue in their position of working with the district. So some of those crimes are very clear. They are particular uh types of crimes. Others depend upon the grading of the offense that someone is charged with. So, what um I think we've experienced is is and and other schools have experienced is employees just sometimes aren't sure if they have to report something or not um for for certain types of things that that maybe they were um had some interaction with law enforcement. So the recommended change to 317 is in addition to the mandatory reporting that uh is required under the law. This would require employees to report any arrest or conviction that they have to the director of human resources regardless of the type or
032grading of that offense. So rather than having uh uncertainty or confusion is just any sort of arrest that an employee experiences, they would need to report that to the director of human resources. It doesn't mean um necessarily that there would be uh you know adverse employment consequences against them or that they would be suspended. It just um ensures that the district is aware of what's going on um and that we don't learn about it too late or or too far down the road when we we you know could have um taken some sort of action upon learning of it. So um that's uh 317. Any questions on on that particular policy? Do do we run do we run that by the union or No, Dr. I don't know. Certainly the union um is aware of
033the reporting requirements. I know we've had conversations with them um about what needs to be reported and actually it's it's largely as a result of certain um questions that have come from union employee union members about uncertainty of whether they need to report something that that's where this change is coming from is to avoid kind of some of the confusion that we've seen and there's trust in the within the unions that when we get that information we're going to handle it correctly. I I take it. I would hope so. I mean, I certainly um if if there isn't uh that uh automatic trust. Certainly the unions um have representatives and are are are knowledgeable themselves about what the requirements are and and know what their rights of their members are and and can exercise those
034if if they would believe that a school would be stepping over the line in some way. Yeah. If if I may, I was just going to say this does not change uh employees rights. Um it doesn't change proceedings if there is a necessary disciplinary action. Uh rather it removes the ambiguity of what do I report, what do I not report. Um you know if it's a reckless driving, do I have to report like those types of things. Um it's it's really to remove the gray area and just if there is an arrest, report it and then we will proceed. So it's really yeah it was in collaboration uh with Mr. summers and some uh labor relation challenges that we've had over the years. Great. Thank you very much. Y a a second question. Um so
035we don't actually have an expectation of the law enforcement body that executes the arrest to inform us. We do not um there are um certain mechanisms that are in place um through the Pennsylvania Department of Education that we are are supposed to be notified of certain types of arrests that employees uh might experience, but it's it's not necessarily all of our employees. Um often times that's only certificated employees that we get those notifications on. So, this requirement applies to to all staff. Um, the other thing is that it's not always clear in information that's received from the Department of Education what offenses someone might have been uh arrested for or charged with. So um other than that mechanism there is no automatic um report that you know if a police department happens to have an
036interaction with a school employee um we're we're not you know necessarily automatically notified of that. Very interesting. All right. Thank you. Sure. One one quick thing on that question, Mrs. Rednick. Um I mean in theory they the law enforcement agency doesn't know where they work, right? So they don't know where they're employed, so they they wouldn't be contacting us, I guess, unless it was shared. Um, but we have, Mr. Summers, I don't know if the law changed in the last couple years, but I've recently been receiving notifications um if there is something and that was not always the case. Yeah, it hasn't necessarily been a change in the law, but um the Pennsylvania Department of Education recognizing that they weren't um perhaps sending out all of the notifications that they were supposed to. Um, so
037they've been um a little bit more diligent in in how they go about that. But again, that doesn't necessarily cover all of our employees um who we'd want to know, you know, if they had any sort of arrest or conviction. Okay. And then the last uh policy up for discussion tonight is policy 352, use of personal electronic devices. Um, and there were essentially two changes to this policy uh that are being recommended. one is the policy as it currently exists discusses the use of beepers and pagers. Um, and there was a belief uh that perhaps that's a bit outdated um that we we don't necessarily have widespread use of beepers and pagers and given that that we uh the district authorizes other types of electronic devices um such as cell phones that are certainly much
038more capable of communication and lots of other things than than beepers and pagers. um it was decided that that perhaps we no longer need that language. Uh it makes it look like we haven't looked at our policies in a while, which isn't isn't the case at all. Um, so in addition to removing references to beepers and pagers, uh, the the proposed language that is recommended to be added to this policy is wording that just makes it clear that the superintendent or design is authorized to direct district staff who have utilized their personal electronic devices to capture student related content while at work. um to require them to delete or transfer such content to the district when deemed necessary for the protection of student privacy. So um generally our policy allows individual employees to utilize their
039personal electronic devices while at work as long as it's not disruptive. it's um you know for workrelated uh purposes generally um the district has the right to prohibit uh staff from having those devices but by and large they're permitted to have them. Um there's also uh you know certainly instances in which staff might utilize their devices for um they go on a class field trip and the teacher takes photos of the students on the field trip or they have an Olympic day and the teacher takes uh photos of the students oftentimes maybe to send them home to their parents to see you know here's what we did during the day. Um there's a conversation about, you know, should there be a mechanism for if a parent says, you know, I'm really not comfortable with my
040child's photos of my child um being on personal devices or um you know, if there's a period of time has has passed since those images were taken, should the district have the ability to say, you know what, um if you still have images from last school year, you can upload them to a certain drive that the district has or they should really really be deleted if there's no you know need for them to be sent to students families or um to be kept anymore. So it was just an area where we didn't necessarily have any pol clear policy language in place um about u you know kind of something that's that's fairly routine which is um staff utilizing their devices for these sorts of of um certainly appropriate instances. But wanting to make sure that
041that there's clear policy language to point to to say in certain instances for student privacy, you know, general appropriateness, um that the the district administration can require staff to to delete that student related content that they created during the day or or transfer it to the district. Thank you. Any questions from the board of student representatives? No question on that one. Thank you. Seeing none, I would like to recommend the following PO uh policies for first read. Uh policy 122, policy 123, policy 226, policy 317, policy 352, and policy 9004. Do I have a motion to approve the policies? So moved. Second. Uh can I have a vote to approve the policy? I I motion approved. Are there anyformational items for the uh discussion? Seeing none, uh do the student representatives have anything for the
042committee? And I'd like to thank you for telling us about the uh weight at the doors. I was wondering if the evolve system was fast enough to handle 3,000 students. So, that was very helpful. Yeah, of course. No, nothing at the time. I was just surprised about the pages. All my friends have pagers. I was too when I read it. Yeah. Does anybody in the community wish to speak? Is there anybody? Yeah, I have one hand raised. Uh, and for anybody else there in the audience, if you'd like to make a comment, at the bottom of your interface, there's a little raised hand icon. Click on that if you'd like to make a comment. So, up first is Mr. Jason. But before we do that, I believe Mr. Res, you need to read the statement.
043So, thanks. Individuals attending this meeting virtually and intending to speak to the committee should be aware that they are being recorded. In order to meet the requirements of Pennsylvania sunshine law is necessary to record the names of all citizens and speak to the committee during the meeting. To assure compliance with this requirement, it is essential that those planning to address the committee raise their hands electronically and state their name in the municipality. As a reminder, the public comment portion of this meeting is designed for residents and taxpayers of the district to provide comment and feedback on matters being discussed at tonight's meeting or matters that may come before the policy committee. It is not designed for debate or discussion with members of the committee. When appropriate, committee members may choose to respond to public comments
044that have been made or request that a member of the administration follow up with the speaker after the meeting. To allow time for all those who wish to speak to the committee, the chair person may ask the individual to you yield the microphone to the next speaker. All righty. So up first is Mr. Jason Lir. Jason, I've enabled your microphone. So when you're ready to begin, please unmute your microphone. State your municipality for the record and begin your comments, please. Jason Lansdale. Um I do have some comments regarding the evolve system, but I'm going to wait post the uh next presentation uh see see what uh see what they have to say about that. Um but I do have sort of a general question regarding policy and the fact that you're you know you're pulling
045out the pagers and and uh and beepers. Okay, makes sense. I'm glad that you're actually revising policies which seem outdated or not working. In this case, very outdated. So, when will you be addressing the policies that we currently have which are causing some of the problems that we're seeing in the school district? And I I name um for you know behavior problems and I've I kind of articulated that at the last meeting in terms of the the middle schools having um um you know several times the violence as the county average. And we have policies clearly that are that are permissive of such behavior or the the buildup to such behavior. So why aren't those being addressed when when we're talking about policies? I mean, page is great, but sort of it's more of a,
046you know, clean it up because it looks silly to have it in there as opposed to being fundamentally problematic. This is more fundamentally problem problematic in that kids are having, you know, there's there's problems and they are not being suspended or there there's not a discipline because the county shows you guys are several times above in violence but right at average for suspensions and those seem that they seem to be disparent that don't that doesn't make sense. you know, bad behavior if left unchecked will will continue or foster more bad behavior and elevated bad behavior. So, that's one question. What are you planning to do regarding addressing that? And the second would be for education standards and in in the the the sort of you know past 10 years we've dropped 50% in in in
047mathematics in the Keystone exams. So, you know, the sort of the same group of kids took the Keystones 15 or 10 years ago in 2015 as they did uh this this se uh this year. So, what's what's the problem? Why are we seeing this drop in proficiency? And what is what are the policies you're going to put forward to address that? Because I you know I always talk about thinking that when you when you when you do policies which are have anything other than uh you know measuring proficiencies or or or uh behavior actually as a if you if you're if you're doing things to soft pedal problems you're only going to get more problems. And if you think just pushing people advancing people even though they may not be able to cut cut the
048grade isn't doing anybody any good. it's not doing the person who is receiving the the benefit or the school in general. So, what are you going to do to address this? And if it's not anything to do with their equity policy or whatever, what are you planning to do to address this in terms of a policy? And I'll leave it there. Thank you. Is there any other business? Seeing none, summary of item. Yeah, I'm sorry. There's nobody else has their hand up. Oh, sorry, Bob. Sorry. Uh uh summary of items for work sessions are policy 122 curriculum extracurricular activities. Policy 123 ines athletics. Policy 226 searches. Policy 317 conduct discipline procedures. Policy 352 use of personal electronic devices. And policy 9004 public attendance at school events. Um, next meeting is November 24th at 5 5:00
049PM virtually. Uh, and sorry for rushing to this. I know the next meeting starts in a minute. Motion to adjurnn. So moved. Have a