001foreign thank you thank you all for being here I apologize for standing but I feel so short and I sit behind this table um anyway um next item is consider changes and or additions to the agenda I would like to move that we move items J A and B of new business to become items a b and c um free a b and c so in order it would go 3A Spring end of Mr Jane Brower 3B EHS band trip to Florida 3C EHS girls basketball trip to Arizona yeah oh and um we will be tailing new business item e Chromebook purchase from the agenda this is the thing is we are awaiting updated quotes this will be reconsidered at a future meeting excellent we have emotion do I have a second second Ed any
002discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed motion Theory I think in that case then we'll move on to um item 3A scoring in of Jay brawler if you come forward a minute don't fancy suit and I'm wearing jeans he matched your shirts yeah all right um you will repeat after me your right hand by Jay Brower I do solemnly swear do Solomon swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and I will support the Constitution of the United States in the state of Washington for the state of Washington and will Faithfully perform the duties of superintendent and we'll face the future pardon the duties of superintendent secretary to the board of Eden Middle School District the secretary to the boardwill school district located in counties of Pierce and Lewis
003located in the county of Pearson Lewis state of Washington state of Washington according to the best of my ability according to best of my ability thank you all right we'll move on to the consented oh no the other items oh um we'll take um the band trip and the girls basketball trip let's put them separately okay oh wait okay perfect thank you all right so the EHS fan trip to Florida someone's presenting on that tonight it's way up there so my name is Aubry Meadows and we are both kind of these Juniors next year and it was super exciting proposal for you guys uh that we've been looking forward to basically so the info High School band would like to attend the Orlando flag next spring 2024 for a national band competition so this is
004going to be a concert band competition that takes place throughout the spring competing what the rules all across the country and it's not only an incredible opportunity for a band to prepare for higher level competition but also to kind of get a taste of what schools from around the country are doing and to see how we kind of add up to them and um this will teach other students discipline Focus teamwork sense of community and performance commitment responsibility being held to a higher standard for Academia and behavior preparation mechanic and of course more Mastery of individuals as well as Ensemble Mastery for performance now in the past Mr Danielson has competed in this competition with the high school ensembles on five different locations starting back in 2004. this is a top-notch quality run competition with
005collegiate my dedicators who get many master classes for their Ensemble after our performance and I just like to mention that this is something that would be a very just an amazing opportunity for our Band program and for all of you students it would give us travel opportunities and kind of a password maybe a career have the music so the company that we would be going through is Four Seasons tours and Mrs Danielson has worked with them every time she's gone to this trip and they have provided a really good experience for the students everyone involved this company will book everything from the flight hotel Transportation food meals and the competition and the other activities one of which includes a trip to the Kennedy Space Center Where Mrs Danielson and her students once witnessed a space
006shuttle launch just really cool and I thought totally awesome this is a thing that will be fishing every student's memory for first place trophies and a superstar award which if you have been in the Band Room you'll see the whole shelf where we have uh we currently have a large chunk of money in our ASP account we'll be heavily fundraising uh for the next year uh giving all the students an opportunity to attend um as well as seeing the expectation of participation um to raise most if not all of the funds to participate in this trip the money we currently have is also there to help students on free and reduced um the pre-introduced plan to supplement the rest if needed uh roughly 40 students and five chaperones plus a sustainable tent will be fully
007dedicated to make this trip a success yeah so some of the fundraisers we're planning on doing is selling at football games and made it plan on doing age Jazz night with an auction um aluminum aluminum can drive poinsettias during winter spring baskets and also full performances at record and music camp during the summer yeah to elaborate on some of those at the music camp would be like band camp which we did in the past where Covenant happened oh and this is something that we used to do almost every year but because of covet we didn't get the opportunity and so we are just really really ecstatic to have this opportunity and to be able to get Pros thank you for your presentation it was excellently done I'd like to Echo every are going to try
008to do this again because it is etched in their minds for the rest of their lives I would like to move that we approved the van trips for each of students to Florida discussion I do have some discussion in that um I can give High Praise to the program and to Mrs Danielson and the way that she manages the students I think of her five trips I've been on at least four of them and I'm super excited that the students are finding creative ways to support this and to support other students particularly those with financial need and I love the idea of music camp and I hope we can invite I'd like to come Pat all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed motion Perry you're gone and the next item is EHS Schools
009basketball trip to Arizona uh I'm Ella gendro I'm Sarah Smith all right and we're all seniors that are trying to get a trip approved to go to Arizona that's coming winter break uh so we're budgeting that it'll cost roughly 13 000 and we have just under 13 000 but we're still doing fundraising and we're like right there uh um it will be 10 of our Varsity players and then the two coaches and more all stay in an Airbnb uh we have more upcoming fundraisers and we have done like the stands at football game or basketball games and like over mayonnaise kids camps getting ready to prepare uh we've been fundraising to go to a camp or to like a tournament away in a different state because um in the tournament there's going to be multiple
010schools multiple private schools where they're in the same league or caliber of so it's going to be it's still going to be a stiff competition but it'll be good for our girls getting more experience yeah there's four games and then also some type of we'll do some type of activity that's like for the geographic around it or like uh the history of the area so and it would be from December 26th to the 31st yeah that's it thank you thank you ladies that was great it was good information do I have a motion to approve motion to prove the girls basketball teams a second so then seconded discussions I only have just one little question that is like regarding legality of Airbnb and students instead of traditional lodging I would just be able to look
011after what we could commend the motion to pending like legal approval um because I know there's a different safety requirements in Airbnb regarding standard s can we just a question have we ever experience to Airbnb is that something that um they recommend that we seek regular standard lodging where there's security cameras and all sorts of things okay does that mean one caveat would be without the Airbnb I'm more than happy to fully agree so I'm asking for an amended notion so you can say yes or no yes all right you have a motion that has been made and has been amended to um into risk management um preparing uh more secure type houses can I make a clarification if risk management does approve it then you're okay yeah with approval of risk management approval of
012risk management yeah yeah okay I was like all those in favor signified by saying aye opposed motion Perry good job ladies thank you and those of you who did presentations and Mr Crow or if you would like to leave you're more than welcome to do so at this point in time but you're also welcome to stay welcome to stay two goodbye but you can go if you'd like all right uh we have uh we have to vote on the other item we pulled it from yeah yeah okay we took it off okay all right then uh we will move on now to the consent agenda so I hear a motion to approve second seconded any discussion hearing none of those in favor signified by saying aye opposed motion Theory right um we will now move
013on to hearings of individuals and groups so we will start with Jessica Marsh es good evening my name is I'm sorry pardon me um in order to let me read my statement okay sorry I completely I've never done this before I think I didn't either in order to encourage participation while maintaining professionalism and respect during our business needs we ask that you sign in which you have prior to the start of the meeting on the sheet provided and print your name and other pertinent information and if you'd like an agenda item and an item considered for future agenda please contact the superintendent or board chair five different states for actual meeting and there will be a three three minute time limit on your presentations okay all right go ahead Jessica all right thank you all
014right so good evening my name is Jessica Morris and the helterated they'll address the fact that I was directed to put a pause on my teaching of sex ed this semester I want to clarify a few things I've been teaching in Needville for 26 years for the vast majority of that time I've taught Health which includes sexual health education this is the first time that I've been directed to stop teaching this year like every year I had a parent preview meeting so parents could view the curriculum and is if they choose they could opt out their child this meeting happened back in October because I teach two semesters of health and the preview meeting needs to take place at least 30 days prior to teaching the material I didn't require parents to come to the
015meeting in order to opt out opt-out forms were available in the school office and sent home as an email attachment every parent and student at the middle school was emailed about the parent creating I taught six Ed the first semester without any issues a couple of weeks ago I sent out another email to my second semester classes and parents I thought it would be a good idea to remind them this unit was coming up since it had been so long since they were first notified I invited anyone to come into the office and look at the curriculum if they didn't get a chance to come to the original preview I left the binder in the office so anyone could take a look at it if they wanted to see it again opt-out forms were in
016the office and I mailed the form home as an attached female to form home as an attachment I followed the law and the district policy to the letter I have never tried to talk anyone out of opting their child out of this unit I have never infringed on anyone's parental rights sex ed and HIV AIDS education are required by law it disappoints me that I was asked to pause this because of a few people complaining on social media and also because people can opt their child out um this wasn't an issue for 26 years and I don't understand why I suddenly become a problem now I do want to add one thing about um about that flash wasn't board approved at the time we were getting using a different curriculum when I first started here
017in the mid 90s and it was recommended that we switched flash because the curriculum we're using eventually became out of date because of the advances in HIV and AIDS research um and so the curriculum we were using at the time wasn't on the list for medical accuracy anymore and Flash was so our District administration at that time approved this switch and they considered it a supplemental curriculum so they told me that we didn't need to get it approved by the school where we didn't need to go through the regular adoption process um I had to understand that the current Administration does not view that this way but it's not fair to change the rules when in May when we're almost done with the school year is an equity issue students who have had helped second
018semester or who have health second semester are not getting the same education that's equal to the students that had Health First and needs to be corrected so thank you thank you okay all right semito good evening score Members First I would like to thank you and I want to commend you for your rapid response when dealing with the graphics and pictures and the dildo that were presented in front of children in the eighth grade health class thank you board members and thank you Lucy for taking this seriously and getting EMS sex education instruction halted immediately until you conducted further investigation thank you to those board members who reached out to me personally tonight I'd like to talk with you briefly about three things number one I think we need an opt-in policy versus an opt
019out policy for sensitive subjects and instructions throughout our school district we do it for movies we do it for walking field trips it can't be that hard the opt-out policy for sex ed isn't working as a school district was not transparent about everything that would be included in the sex ed curriculum presented to the 8th graders apparently this is also presented to ninth graders so I'm willing to that we have some ninth grade parents that don't know that this is part of the curriculum for their students how you choose to handle the distribution of an opt-in form is up to you however I recommend doing it like you do all of the paperwork that has to be signed at the beginning of a school year and the sports registrations it's all done electronically number two
020I think you need to create a policy that covers supplemental materials supplemental materials need to be approved through the same process as a core instructional material therefore there needs to be disciplinary action oh I'm sorry additionally there needs to be disciplinary actions stated within that policy for violation of that policy and only then can you ensure adherence this keeps things in mind with the other school district policies that we have on board and as well as Union requirements number three in order to put piloted material in front of students to see if teachers would like to consider the curriculum I believe the piloted materials need to go in front of the instructional materials Review Committee first before they are piloted and put in front of our children this is important because once materials are seen
021they cannot be unseen and as it stands now it really doesn't matter if the committee approves them or disapproves them after a pilot program because the materials have already been presented in use in the classrooms um I think this system is broken I think that is to be corrected so in brief what I'm saying is piloted programs need to be presented to instructional materials for your committee for approval of the pilot materials can then be piloted if they are approved among signal piloted teachers can bring their recommendation to the instructional materials Review Committee for adoption if their committee approves it then the board can choose to approve or disapprove those materials for adoption for the entire school district and it only requires one more instructional material review committee meeting and that would make it two
022per year I think we can do that so in closing I'm presenting and I'm just reflecting three things I would like an opt-in policy instead of opt out I would like the policy concerning the use of supplemental materials and I would like piloted programs um to need the instructional materials Review Committee approval prior to being piloted in front of our students thank you with uh the Indiana Burlingame my topic is on parental rights on April 23 2023 the Washington State Legislature has Senate field 5539 of titles 40 News young adults seeking protected health care services are gender affirming care or reproductive Health Services for minors referring to community blockers transgender surgery or abortion these are very these are permanent serious life-changing procedures Senate Bill 5599 was designed to exempt certain homeless youth shelters and host
023homes from parental notification requirements for the miners seeking or receiving these protected services the legislature intended to remove the barriers to such services or to promote them in my opinion the response to 55.99 has been referendum one-on-one for Parental notification the title is Washington parental notification requirements for homeless and runaway youth seeking gender-related or reproductive Health Care Services a referendum can overturn a bad law from the legislature in about signatures collected and representative 101.99 on the ballot for voters to accept or reject and will require multiplication and Signature Collection that we had this week thank you all right um Jill I'm sorry about that no we're good it's commonly mispronounced I'll take it all right thank you guys for letting me speak tonight um I don't think it's any secret that there has been a
024loss of trust between a good majority of our community and our school system over the past couple of years we could blame the handling of covid which somebody already was in or out of our control we could uh believe it on the delayed start to the school year that upset a lot of people to get publicly lots of different things but that's not going to solve our problem the the problem with the trust issue is there and we have to figure out how to fix it I think we're running 11 this next year and we're gonna need votes and if we don't have trust in our community we won't get the votes that we need to pass the levy and what has happened traditionally in evil and in other districts is we run it it
025fails and then the threats come out the threat said well we're going to cut this program or we're going to cut that program you better vote and then we get our way but when we run a levy a second time that costs money I believe I believe that's probably money we don't have because we are paying for two superintendents one who's no longer doing the job so I think that um you know we don't want to throw away any more money than we have to so so we need to work really hard to establish the trust back that we used to have in this community um and so I I really just want to encourage more transparency and I specifically want to encourage transparency with the sex education curriculum it is true that you can
026come to a preview I attended a preview last not last October the October before and when I showed up there were three long tables set up and there's a binder on each you could go through the finder at your leisure I know darn good well not everything in that binder is taught there are certain things that are and certain things that are not why do I as a parent have to go through 100 or 200 pages and think I know what's being taught nobody should have to it should be separate separated out by grade levels specifically what is going to be taught show parents what the kids are going to be showing that's where the disconnect is that is when people get upset because all of a sudden surprise I didn't see that in the
027binder because I didn't have three hours to look through the whole thing I've stood in the EMS office saw a couple of different parents come in and say I'd like to preview the curriculum they were handed a binder and a kid shot the binder was that thick they shouldn't have to do that this particular parent had a kid on his hip he's not going to stand there for hours in peruse that curriculum let's make it easy let's be transparent I'm not against teaching sex education at all because I know if there's something there that I don't want my kid to see yep I can opt them out but I shouldn't have to go on a wild use Chase to figure out exactly what's being taught so that being said well I think I've already kind
028of given the solution I suggested that last year when we had the round table event down at Eagle Middle School and I kind of thought that would happen this year but it didn't and I certainly hope that once we get our curriculum figured out that it will happen because the whole mess of people being upset with the curriculum being upset with teachers being upset with admin doesn't have to happen and the solution is simple the schools are the heart of our community at times and we need to reestablish the trust and that relationship between us thank you thank you Jake Paul hi my name is Jake Paul um thank you for taking the time for hearing about all the parents out to say um so I'm here today to talk about sex and it's an
029osci requirement um it's a gold standard in the state it's used in many parts of the United States also but it was developed here in Washington state of our peer districts around us use it uh it's been used in ESD for over six years plus so it shouldn't I'm confused by why the content would be a surprise because it's not only this year but it's been awkward to be reviewed looked at a quick Google search online you can find it on other District websites and they have it available to look at so it to me it's what I'm hearing Library even with Jill saying is make it transparent get it on the website like our peer districts around us uh and it has on the top and the bottom and opt out options great you
030know let people opt out if they want um but not pull it from the kids and make it so that they can't get the support education before the end of the year we've got kids that are not indeed that haven't gotten the training yet let alone ahead they didn't make it through all the kids that were so this seems weird that I'm kind of used by the deposit at this time it I know that uh was there and it was very aware of the Flash and Bill that was passed in the state um and that board was aware of it were involved in campaigning for or against it so it shouldn't be a surprise then that there's content in there um and so I would like it if we didn't pause things and would respondus
031has already been reviewed and a few of the concerns but not overreacting it needs to be thank you Rick that's it hey everybody I'm Rick Rosser sir address you guys on the board at the same time no I'm just trying to keep my the sun's right in my face I can't see so anyway like I always do even though I haven't been like super in love with all this decisions you guys have been making lately I still want to get everybody to give you a round of applause just to say thank you guys Community Services so much time thank you for doing that job there whatever it was called I didn't get a go I was in and out of town a lot I hope it happens again and maybe more notice next time from
032what I heard I don't know if there's like a bulletin board that can still be posted on for local employers or whatever maybe some somebody could help me in on that either thank you for doing the survey I didn't really care for it but I've been asking for it for a long time and I definitely appreciate that you guys have started in that direction I think the questions needed a lot of work um it was really the only question I felt like actually anything else and it's like everybody probably just spilled their guts in the service because everything else is just like generic do you like to eat yes or no kind of stuff I hope all of us love you so thank you for doing the survey this this debacle with the sex head
033thing that's going on right now I agree that we need an opt-in that does I remember it being that way not very long ago when I was um middle school or whatever it just makes sense and if if we need more expanded curriculum for people that want to learn more details about dildos and sex toys and weird stuff then maybe you can offer like an extra class that they can even opt in again before I don't know I think just a real basic curriculum like get it down to the very basic if you're not going to do an opt-in that needs to happen I thought that would probably help us you know the nice thing about going last is I can expand on like Jill's comments that I trust um communication is huge and if
034maybe we've created some how-to guides to give parents how to review curriculum not only success but all equipments if these guides were given out just to anyone can enrolled their kid here's your how-to guide here's how to file a complaint against your principal or teacher or whatever lay it out you know um welcome to the district of Mr Browder I'm out of time I'd love to keep talking I have some things to say I hope you can sit all the principles and teachers back tell them like this is a small town please help us keep it that way it's not Seattle thank you all right thank you all for your comments appreciate it um well I can report some presentations perspective for um our monthly payroll expenses are running with us just a little over
035two million dollars a month um we're two-thirds of the way through the school year and we've met about two-thirds of the way in our revenues and expenditures goal um just working on preparing the budget for next year about it right can I say something about Krista for a minute I was at a conference on this last weekend uh with several colleagues and um they were talking about the debacle that they're in with some of their Federal programs because of their accounting practices and so of course I immediately texted kristens and tell me what's going on in Eatonville School District around these programs to which she said we're all clear we have no problems and I was just so grateful so thank you Krista for keeping us thank you financially solvent and doing the right thing
036and avoiding some of those big Federal issues appreciate that thank you all right we have no unfinished business so we'll go on to new business and the first item is to consider approval of wiaa membership renewal salute any discussion oh what's in favor signify by saying aye opposed okay next is to consider the approval of the donation from the evil Lions Club is somebody going to speak I don't think there's anybody the Lions came to the school district after their casino night fundraiser and it was so successful um that they added on a bake sale and the alliance Club itself matched the bake sale part and they raised three thousand dollars and that three thousand dollars is being donated to the school district if you accept it to pay down um lunch charges for kids
037that are having some struggles with paying for lunch it was very very generous and wonderful donation I move that we accept the donation from the Lions Club of their deepest gratitude thank you all right um time and time again the Lions Club and other communities um organizations have stepped up and we're just so grateful and that's part of what makes you built us a tremendous place to raise children so thank you to them for all the academic support and this is a huge help for students I'll be able to think that we have for their lunches or maybe they're not in the free and reduced program but they they're struggling too and uh you know we don't want them to go about that much so great appreciate it very very much so also some papers
038thinking about by saying aye opposed motion carries consider approval of an HVAC system or okay there are three bits your pack a portable app warehouser so we can use it for classroom next year it is okay do I hear a motion to approve I moved okay seconded to approve the purchase of an HVAC system for one of those um any discussion hearing none of those favorite thing about it by saying aye opposed motion Perry all right we're going to consider policy now adoption of policies um do you want to take these individually I'm good to take them all because my work study where we had the opportunity to ask questions of unless there's others in the board that would like Partners hiding here yes okay well let's take the first two yes all right so
039the first one is um stability in the workplace and the second one is Staff expression their policy 5161 and 5254. do I hear a motion to approve d Luke and seconded uh any discussion on any questions like I said we did have a work study where we went over them in public work studies all right all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed period and then we will hear from our nurse on the um opium related overdose so thank you for having me I'm Heidi balcady I'm one of the two nurses in our district um so as everybody's probably heard in our area our County and our community we have an increased rate of good use and overdose um Washington State's currently the second leading uh Pro can be visited for resources that's a
040speedy 1.8 in the last year um we in 2019 Washington State Legislative passed Senate building degree which says that any school district that has enrollment numbers over 2000 are required to have Narcan which is an opioid reversal medication on hand um we are sitting at currently I believe Vista 20 1953 is there a typical enrollment number so we're kind of right on the cusp of that um so um a little background information on Narcan it reduces or uh excuse me it reverses the effects of an open related overdose it is a nasal spray it doesn't require an injection it's not invasive it will not hurt the student if they are not having an opioid overdose um and I am trying to get board approval to bring this into our Middle School in our high school
041um there's a policy that I put together and I'm not sure it was that attached yeah perfect um the way we were hoping to roll it out is bringing into our Middle School in our high school um we would annually train two staff members which um in our thought process do you see we would have to get a little bit creative with that but if we are two administrators um it would be housed it yeah it has to be in an unlocked well-marked cabinet so we could find a place in each building for that and then they would be trained or they would be the only ones that would be well the administrators changed that by myself would be the only ones that would be administering that medication so we went into the teacher staff
042anything like that and then the training would involve what we're looking for your requests as well so we would like to roll that out at our middle and our high school level and then I'm going to begin you know expand from that if we felt we needed to down the road um It's relatively inexpensive I was just talking to Kurt Hines um we can get it for our district it comes in a two pack um because a lot of times you have to repeat a dose and that you have kids running about 110 dollars that is with the standing order that Washington State put out uh we can we can get it from purpley they are that has been approved to be sold over the counter but we're not exactly sure when that's going to
043be so with our three buildings and we're looking at full package to start the program how long does it take before it expires usually well I just ordered some and it's good through January 25 so usually I would guess probably here and I know there are programs um that families can order and have it in their homes for free sponsored by Pearson King County we aren't able to also so the programs that I have found there's a caveat to those that you cannot be a business owner very personal and that applies to schools as well oops and I've talked to so uh South Pierce guy and rescue does carry it on their fire trucks um Eatonville police hasn't been their police station and they are trying to they're in the process of getting it into
044all their officer stands uh and we've talked a great length that they set in on one of our cabinet meetings you know police did to try and see if they had any other suggestions of how we could get it inexpensive and they really just don't because of the fact that we're a business is yeah it's it's compared to somebody's life it's not expensive I was just curious if we could you know yes and I mean and I don't know you know with it rolling out over the counter there may be other avenues that open up but as of right now I haven't found out it's down the road you know I can't speak to what will happen so I'm going to answer the question that probably everybody else is thinking can someone donate it I
045I can't almost I don't honestly know the answers that I'd have to look into it for excited appreciate it yeah yes my question is more back to the standing order and even if it's over the counter we can't just give students over-the-counter medications um do we have like a physician oversight uh providing medical Direction similar to how Fire EMS all paramedics at a medical director who gives standing orders like where are our standing orders coming from or is the RCW covered I believe the RCW covers to include Administration with two parents minus I believe so I will verify that but I believe I think it does just want to make sure that it's not just in public but also covers us as a business and a school and to minors the forward and you've checked
046with risk people on this obviously it must have school's over 2 000. it's approved their check they're checking on it okay okay I would make the motion conditionally to be in a professor's manager okay I'll second that motion motion has been made to approve um the adoption and policy 3424 for operate related overdoses um the caveat the risk management for our district would have to approve um all those papers and dogs all those in favor signify by saying aye opposed motion carry so thank you Heidi for taking us all right we are on to superintendent comments um I also want to say that we had an audit review today and these are the things that were said about our wonderful business manager we appreciate the additional time and effort the district's spent to prepare and
047assist with the audit we specifically want to thank Krista hersing Director of Business Services for her positive attitude and collaboration approach to the audit process we came through the audit with flying colors so I'll give her another yeah yeah the auditor sat in our office two and a half months it has its own little mask and then they turn around and Bill us he didn't know to do an audit so um I did want to show you the surface of the new pool deck I took the choices around the cafeteria and let the kids vote so this is going to be pretty exciting to have this new finish on our pool deck so I can pass that around um I just want to make sure to everyone that you are invited to all the spring
048concerts um we have some wonderful programs that happen in our schools Every Spring abandoned music um we also have graduations you're all welcome to come to those and we have a retirement celebration for three wonderful employees in our school district so you know join us and have a little fun Dylan or panics so the first thing I want to talk about is this track because there's some really cutting stuff coming up um this week is the biggest state and we have 16 kids going to sleep uh which is bigger than we passed last year um so that's really exciting uh two kids on the track team almost broke school records as well and one still has the chance to at State potentially so that's really exciting and both of them are a freshman and a
049sophomore so they'll have a lot of practice um and then also what we have ways took fourth at districts and girls surface so yeah that's what I really wanted to talk about you um so kind of going off of what Hannah was saying uh the the track team has done a very role this season uh like you said maybe by the bar athletes are going to the accent I just kind of wanted to talk about some of the other uh Sports and players on those teams um there was we had an assembly it was a sports recognition assembly with uh Temple and she talked about all the athletes that either got first team all League second Team all week for for honorable mentioned which I'd say that's pretty awesome especially with uh Swanson with that
050being said we had uh just a name to also stop I said Peyton handling was second Team all before baseball at the future and outfielder Bailey Anderson was first team all league in tennis and she also finished third in districts which is pretty amazing um yep so that was a sports part of it um I just want to talk about the job fair a little bit also there was many many kids that went to the doctor uh a lot of the kids was kind of skeptical about it almost there gotten into the comments and we were actually walking around it and uh visiting they were able to find lots of information that they wouldn't have usually been able to get a hold of um and so they were able to think about careers that they
051would have never thought to even try to to so I really appreciate that happening because lots of kids aren't wanting to go the college route so it's really good to say hey there's other ways to go now yes um senior presentations I'm not a senior but uh I've noticed that a lot of my senior friends their senior presentations are happening it's really cool to see them all dressed up and that um I hear how their presentations went and um it's just one more step to their graduation and letting them Groupons is bigger better thanks um the rest of the school maybe the kids are still pushing through freshman sophomores and two years pushing through to get through the last couple of weeks I just would like to also say that there's a ton of you
052guys here and usually that only happens when something bad happens it doesn't always happen to be everybody comes from something like that happens I guess we truly appreciate our student leadership and I'd like to recognize Dylan and Hannah at this time for being our board reps um Hannah is a senior she's going to Liberty University all the way on the other side of the United States and our hand is going to be a doctor so I think you know thank you no one has one more year to be awesome and we've done great things on the football field and other places that student reps on the board from both proud of them and the work that they do the actual work that they do with ourselves it's been fun having you here it really happens
053all right we'll move on to board Communists and I would like to um read something as we begin um last week okay last week it was brought to our pension that there were questions about the content and delivery of our health curriculum it was decided to put instruction on hold to better assess it if we were following District policy and meeting the guidelines from ospi we realized we need to make some improvements and we've given that task to our director of teaching and learning I will read this letter going to parents this week and assure you that the students in classes will get their credit and the requirements will be fulfilled while honoring the decisions made by parents this is a letter that's going out Dear families as part of the Eatonville School District's health
054education program instruction in sexual health and HIV AIDS prevention takes place as part of the health class listed in your students schedule we recently put a pause on the use of The Flash curriculum and reviewed recent parent concerns our decision is to go forward and complete the last three lessons of the curriculum the final three lessons for the eighth graders taking ninth grade health for the credit are abstinence birth control methods preventing HIV condoms to prevent pregnancy HIV and other STDs part of this lesson describes demonstrates the steps to using a condom correctly lessons for both high school and middle school can be reviewed by clicking the link that will be sent out with the letter and scrolling down to the current lesson in response to requirements of the Senate Bill 5395 all Washington Public
055Schools must provide comprehensive sexual health education instruction that is medically and scientifically accurate evidence-informed age-appropriate aligned with health and learning standards and inclusive of all students regardless of their protected class status in accordance with the Senate Bill 5395 healthy young youth Act of 2007 and the AIDS Omnibus Act of 1998. the teaching learning department will convene a health curriculum committee and will determine future pilot and adoption planning in the new school year parents May complete the form to have your child excluded from this instruction please submit or email opt-out form to the school office sincerely Sally Neely director of teaching learning and it's other board comments um I just wanted to say thank you all for being here for being concerned and active parents I appreciate uh regular Spirit of where you stand I appreciate
056that you're here and you're advocating for children that means a lot to me I want to thank the Lions Club again for being a constant support and I really want to talk about the job fair for just a minute um we were the mayor bobolitz and I toured all the Junior and senior classes and talked about civic responsibility and how they can as students could participate in Civic duties in the town of souls in the school and when we asked about what students needed um Matthew Moran said you know what I really need is I need a job when I graduate from high school and you guys do college fairs all the time but what I really need is a job fair and so we took that information to the Eatonville Business Association and I
057really want to give them Kudos and praise for really tackling that issue and supporting our students and providing what I thought was a really phenomenal opportunity um I had students come up one Mrs Powell met with our students and had them draft resume resumes and work on their their handshaking skills looking in the eyes interview and I thought that was phenomenal I had students come up to me just with this pumping saying I haven't interviewed for tomorrow which was really exciting we also had employers here that were looking for summer workers not just close graduation so it was I think a win for our community it was a win for our students um and I just want to thank you even though Business Association for partnering and doing such a phenomenal job thank you to
058both of our student Reps for the great work that you do we are very proud and honored to have you working with us your wisdom sometimes surprises but I always appreciate and thank you to all of our teachers who are really powering through the last of the Year here I know that the end of the year is the hardest part of the year so you have our support and we really appreciate it so okay um I would like to conclude the support comments by thanking Rhonda and the Business Association Rhonda put a lot of work into this job fair we haven't had one ever not a job fair not a job fair and this is the first of many this is going to be a continuing process because our kids need it and Honda and
059the Business Association knows things so we're going to see good things so we may be asking people to volunteer with their help next year so we they all the burden won't be on a handful of people you know so Thank You London and then I'd just like to announce it or let you know that the board has decided to adopt schools um that in which means throughout the year they'll be um we may go to uh events and things at any school but that certain board members will take the responsibility to get to their school as as much as possible and be an active part of their school so um um Ashley's going to be doing more Hauser yeah or he's going to be doing Columbia Crest I'm going to be doing Eatonville Elementary yeah
060from high school doing the high school Middle School the Rhonda's doing the middle school so we're going to we have officially adopted those schools and being there and and that school board does care what goes on with them is there any other comments if not we will adjourn the meeting yeah thank you