001we apologize for our tardy um beginning we had a little bit of issue with our live stream so we were just waiting to make sure we have that up and running so at this time um I will welcome Mr Bohanan up to lead us in our vision and mission statement thank you so much yes Dr Wimberly Dr Robbins board members and everyone here I'd be so happy if you would join us in our vision and mission statement gester School desires to be recognized as a world class school district expecting each student to achieve at his or her optimal level in all areas and providing all members of our district family with an environment that permits them to do their personal best and our mission leading the way every student every day through relationships relevance and
002rigor thank you thank you all right board members at this time I would ask for a motion to approve our consent agenda so moved okay motion made by Mr guthy do I have a second second seconded by Mr Lee any questions or discussion okay hearing none we will call for the vote the motion carries seven in favor all right and the next item on our agenda this evening are our district highlights we will welcome Mr bannan again thank you greetings again uh two wonderful Highlights today and I don't get to talk because we have some wonderful Representatives I'd like to First welcome the executive director of our dd2 Educational Foundation Mr Ralph Hayes welcome Mr Hayes Madam chair wh superintendent Robbins members of the board just a few quick updates of things we wanted to
003highlight the board on tonight um I'll get to the big event in a second we're really excited about that but the first thing we wanted to talk about is our employee giving campaign that has grown tremendously over the last year a lot of that is thanks to the help of Miss Kim Cahill who does a great job of engaging with our Educators in all of the buildings and um tomorrow is actually teal Tuesday and I just want to make sure everybody understand what that is so once a month it's usually the second Tuesday of each month we have something called teal Tuesday any employee through the district who is giving a um payroll deduction to the foundation every pay period gets a teal t-shirt where they get to wear that on that Tuesday and it
004basically just represents that they stand with the foundation they're supportive of what we're doing and that they're a member of what we're all trying to do in making sure we're lifting each other up so when you see those teachers Educators district office members and everybody else wearing those teal shirts make sure to let them know that you support the foundation as well um through that we also make sure that each month we give away $500 to an educator from one of our wonderful sponsors and so that person each month is recognized and has the opportunity to to really be showcased amongst their peers for being a part of that um so we're really thankful for that I just want to say when you see those people who are supporting we have everyone from custodial staff
005to District leadership who is involved in that and it really is something that we're proud of because we're pushing it not as a forceful expectation but hopefully as something that people have seen the impacts that we're making and they want to be a part of it um and actually our $500 winner this past month was one of our secretaries in the transportation department so we're really proud of that um another thing we wanted to touch base on is some professional development opportunities that we're going to be taking part of over the next two months um locally we're going to be attending a conference that's going to be hosted here in the Low Country thanks to our friends with the Larry and Rebecca Colette Foundation it's going to include the Disney Institute and Franklin cvy and
006we're really excited about that specifically geared towards educational leadership at the state level we're going to be attending the together SC nonprofit Summit this is a Statewide conference for nonprofits to basically get best practices and Industry Knowledge from all types of nonprofits throughout the state and then um at the end of March I will be presenting at the National Association of Education foundations impact Ed conference so that's the National Conference that's hosted each year for the industry of Education foundations for people doing what we're doing all throughout the country um but ultimately what we wanted to take an opportunity tonight was just to make sure everyone who was aware of the big event that is upcoming as many of you know this is the largest fundraiser to support Dorchester School District 2 each year we
007are making a big transition this year and moving from our historical location at the ponds to the Exchange Club building in front of the fairgrounds I know that's a transition for some people but we do feel longterm it's going to allow us to be weather proof um it's got some upgraded bathroom facilities and some parking and so we're also hopeful it's accessible to our friends and supporters who are from the North Charleston side of the district trying to be a little bit more centrally located for that but we are closing all sponsorships this week so if you or anyone you know has a business that wants to be represented to our district and making sure that they're supporting our district we ask you to reach out and then um obviously if you would love to
008just come enjoy yourself and celebrate our Educators um purchasing tickets is a great way to do so and it should be a good night to like I said celebrate our Educators and also gain resources that we're able to use throughout the entire year to help fund projects and initiatives thanks guys great thank you so much we appreciate you looking forward to the big event too thank you Mr Hayes and now uh to talk about some outstanding achievement at oook Middle School please welcome principal Miss Bentley Lewis good evening Dr Robbins Madame chair and members of the board I am so excited for the opportunity to share with you all and introduce Mrs Rebecca Webb the media specialist here at Oakbrook Middle School Miss Webb came to Brook just 2 and a half years ago um
009after being stationed overseas um in Germany with her husband who actively serves in our country's military even from just our virtual interview I knew she was just what our school library needed in her short time with us she has breathed so much life into our school library she has imparted her knowledge and passion of Education into our classrooms by partnering with our teachers and their instruction while also creating initiatives and spaces for our students to grow in their love of literacy and learning her efforts have not gone on unnoticed and it is a true honor to share with you all that Miss Rebecca Webb has been awarded the South Carolina 2025 School library of the Year award by the South Carolina's Library Association [Applause] all right the next item on our agenda this evening are
010our public comments on agenda items and just as a reminder public public comments on agenda items are um addressing items on the agenda um and speakers May address only items printed on the agenda for that particular meeting so at this time we have one speaker and um I will welcome Mr Jason brocker good evening I would like to discuss agenda item 5A events overview but there's no amplifying information so there's just a subject line so I went to agenda item 6A and there was just a subject line and 6B subject line and then agenda item 6C just had a subject line 7A and 7B same story when I got to 7c which just showed up today by the way on board docs because I've been looking at it all weekend there was also no additional
011information Beyond a subject line so I have no idea how a member of public would be able to get up to this board and speak about a board item when all of the items in board docs are devoid of amplifying information so similarly when I spoke at the December 9th meeting about cell phone policy because that was an agenda item and I could talk about what I really want to talk about and not be shoved to the back of the meeting which is arbitrary I was told at a meeting that any member of the board would be willing to speak to me Mr rocker I'm going to interrupt you I'm sorry if you would like to speak on an agenda item you're welcome to if if you would like to just make a public comment
012that's number eight and you're welcome to wait and do that then this is is still pertinent to agenda items I'm sorry to which agenda item agenda items 5A through 7 C devoid of information as previously stated okay a recurring problem at previous meetings which I'm relating to a previous meeting at which I spoke on an agenda item do we not see a connection I'm finding it odd that there are many connections that this board will not see okay if you would like toit many voices that will not be allowed I've been very respectful I would challenge every last one of you as to whether or not I have been respectful at this Podium for multiple years shake your head at me go ahead I understand that you we absolutely want to be respectful of your
013time and hours and everyone attending and watching this meeting so I'm going to ask you if you will please hold your comment to item number eight which is public comments that are not on our agenda item thank you very much we appreciate your time honoring julian.com all right the next item on our agenda this evening is our board chairs report and again um I just want to remind everyone of our upcoming events um the S csba annual convention February 20th through the 23rd and our kaspa national convention in March uh March 21st to the 23rd and then I also wanted to um go ahead and put out an update of our town hall meeting dates um April 25th at Fort Dorchester High School July 17th at Ashley Ridge High School and October 24th at Somerville
014High School um a couple weeks ago we had our first town hall meeting here at the district office and um so I I appreciate those who came and asked questions and showed an interest um we enjoyed having that dialogue and we are hopeful that these Town Hall meetings will continue to gain interest and members of our public and Community will put these on their calendar and plan to attend so just an update for our board to save those dates right okay and now we will move on to our board committee reports first up this evening we have our policy committee Miss Bates yes thank you madam chair at this time I don't have anything new from policy we do um if you take note on the screen have a series of meetings coming up uh
015February 24th April 28th May 19th and June 9th you'll see the varying times based on um other schedules going on and other meetings so I that's all I have for today so I look forward to seeing youall there okay thank you Miss Bate um and next we have our finance committee Mr Guthrie do you have anything nothing to report this evening this evening okay all right and then we have facilities Mr Farnsworth um thank you madam chair we did the facilities committee U met this evening prior to the board meeting um great information want to say thank you uh to all those that were able to present at that meeting um you'll see on the screen there upcoming meetings uh for anybody interested in uh what we've got going on in facilities um for sure
016and and I mentioned it last board meting we we've got a lot of projects um going on right now got a lot of shovels in the ground um a lot of really exciting stuff happening in the school district um so anybody um that that is looking for more information or just wants to be excited with us as as we get into those Projects please feel free to come to those meetings and then the last thing I will leave uh with everybody for the board if we can and and I'm looking at Mr frell and and Dr Robbins um if we can get the walkthrough schedule sent out to all the board members um so we do have our facilities walkthroughs that will be starting at the end of this month so for folks who have
017not uh Taken part in that process um it's a great way to get into the schools and and really just help the facilities committee as we move into more so of the financial needs um as it comes to as it relates to facilities within our district so lot of lot of stuff coming up for facilities busy busy and uh that's all I have miss poell anything on on your side from facilities beautiful thank you all right thank you very much all right next item on our agenda is our superintendent report Dr Robbins thank you madam chair um we're going to start off with our academic report and tonight I wanted to present to you the attendance lab initiative that we applied for and to present that process and the fact that we are one of
018only 10 um schools in the country to be awarded this is Miss uh Tina Bohanan so if you would come up and present for us Tina Madam chair board members Dr Robbins um in your board docs I had Miss Thomas put um the initial um invitation that we got from the education oversight committee um the letter that awarded us to let us know that we had been selected as one of 10 districts Nationwide um to do this and a little bit of an overview um about all of the benefits and we're excited about getting this um it is free totally free um the American Institute of research um has uh are the ones that have developed this and we will have um a in onsite visit at a minimum of once a month they're going
019to work with we have a district team in place they're going to work with us and everything is to combat chronic absenteeism that has been a real problem since the pandemic um with students not attending school um one of the benefits of this also Al is While We're combating The Chronic absenteeism it normally goes hand inand with our truancy so um hopefully we we're going to do it twofold um but it is totally free it will be for a whole year until December of 25 2025 um and we've already got our girls Terry wox which I'll get to meet her um in a teams meeting on Wednesday I'm looking forward to that the snow sort of got us off schedule she was supposed to be here this month but she's not going to be able
020to be here until March 11th but um you know for the last 15 years I've been doing attendance so when they uh dissolved the department and I've just taken it over so if you have any questions or anything um hopefully once I talk with her in that and as we proceed in the process then I can give you guys updates on on you know what we're doing and that um one thing I will say is the state report card looking at it from the 2020 203 24 school year we did drop our chronic absenteeism rate districtwide 5% so we're looking to improve on that working with this company any questions well I'll make a comment and I will say uh Miss ban brought this to me and was very excited about it she is the
021person that spearheads uh chronic absenteeism she's knowledgeable she is very dedicated um to making sure we do the best we can so um Tina just on behalf of the board and our team thank you for bringing this somebody's got to do it well thank you doesn't fall into a little Nook so that's how I get things if it does fall into a little Nook well I definitely appreciate your effort so thank you the next thing we have is our annual CTE audit and I do know that um Emily detis was a little nervous it was her first audit um but um she's here to present tonight the findings and I think you'll be very pleased with what she's going to report thank you Dr Robbins good evening board members thank you for having us as
022Dr Robbins mentioned um you did hear a CTE update today but we saved um the update about our CTE audit which took place in January um and Dr Duplantis is here to just tell you the FI share the findings of that audit with you good evening great to see you all again and that is true um after 5 years of not having an audit I was the lucky one who got to guide our district through the CTE audit this year um but I am very pleased to provide you with the results of that audit this evening um give you a little bit of background on the audit process it is essentially a three-step process um Step One is the desk audit and that started in December where we had to supply the state with a
023whole plethora of documentation that they had requested um audit inventories all of our financial documents work-based learning documents and the list goes on at the conclusion of getting all of those docents submitted the um Tuesday we got back from break I had to go through a virtual audit so I was I definitely enjoyed my break preparing for that um but the virtual audit is it through teams and you meet with the state department Auditors and they can ask you anything under about 13 different categories so we had to be very well versed in the history of CTE in the district and all of the different procedures and policies that we have in place after that meeting concluded then Thursday we did a face to-face what they call an equipment audit and that was held at
024Fort Dorchester High School to give you a little bit of insight into what that looks like we were there for 4 hours they go into a teacher's classroom and they say show me XYZ they just pull something off of the inventory list we have to find it we have to make sure the barcode matches up and then they check it off the list so after getting about 30,000 steps that day I am very pleased to report we found every single item on on their list uh we were prepared for them to go back about a year they went back seven years and we were pulling items from seven years ago so we were very excited to have those results at the conclusion of that meeting we were told we have to wait 30 to 60
025days for the audit report to come back and within two weeks we actually had this piece of paper um in our possession the state did come back with one finding of non-compliance is what they noted in in the report and I'll just read that to you it says Dorchester District 2 does not have an established CTE local advisory Council or committee um composed of appropriate members on file now what that means is that on our sign in sheets for our advisory Council meetings we neglected to have a gender or ethnicity column on the signin sheet so in our response to the state we have added those two Fields into the signin sheet so we hope that we are in compliance on that during our next audit but I would like to share two um additional
026pieces that they did put in our letter says Dorchester District 2 exemplifies the best practices model addressing the following areas local application clna which stands for comprehensive local needs assessment equipment professional development industry credentials POS which stands for programs of study special education and work-based learning in addition to that they added an additional note uh Dorchester District 2 has gone above and beyond in ensuring that special population students are aware of and engaged in academic and Technical opportunities that lead to Student Success in meeting career goals by partnering with Goodwill and the economic development center so we are very excited that um the findings that they had were very easily ified and controllable and we uh thank you all for your continued support and if I can just have one second because it's National CTE
027month I just really want to shout out all my teachers um also misse Stamper who is my right and left hand uh when it comes to CTE and making sure that all those books stay in compliance um so I'm happy to answer any questions that y'all may have on the audit process well congratulations for surviving the first audit after five years I a little touch up on the root after that but we we made it through and I appreciate everything yall shared earlier today bringing us up to speed I I do uh I love audits uh I'm being factious in case anyone doesn't recognize sarcasm uh but I I do kind of struggle with what the two columns missing has to do with whether or not you actually have a panel so that's just commentary
028uh would love to hear if there is any other sorts of nonv value ad activities as part of the audit yeah uh and it sounds like the on-site visit was to test your asset management program which is good I I think you use a lot of technology and assets as part of CTE but I think the emphasis of CTE is more than having equipment sitting on desks or properly inventory but rather how are you using it and how is it benefiting our kids and preparing them uh to be workplace Workforce ready so I'd appreciate any comments you might have on that but uh thank you yeah absolutely so we were able to address a lot of the how we use our our technology and how we Implement best practices in that virtual audit and so
029a lot of that information was covered on that Tuesday meeting that we had that was virtual so when they were on the treasure hunt on Thursday that's truly what they were doing is making sure that what we say we're spending our money on is truly their benefiting students and still in place and I would invite any of you to come join us for any you know any CTE walkthroughs at any time if if I can just add and and I want to say I'm I'm proud of of not only what you do Dr dlan asend in the entire CT department but of the district um and and this predates pretty much all of us um but the vision for dd2 to create a very very robust CTE program um well above head and shoulders above
030other districts um in the state and and it's really proven um to be very valuable for us and and I think the the real value ad and and I had the opportunity um as Matthews and I walked around with representative Brewer a few weeks ago and and had the opportunity to look at a lot of our CTE offerings um and and I think what it does is it's very eye openening because the the discussion unfortunately discussion at a very high level um talks about school choice and and I would be willing to argue um till I'm bleue in the face uh that we have school choice and and we do a a phenomenal job right here in dd2 of providing exceptional exceptional school choice within our district um and and I hope more folks see
031that and they feel it and they're able to uh take advantage of it so again thank you for what you do thank you I would second that anybody else okay thank you very much next up we have uh Student Services report Mr dhy is going to provide you a little bit more detail and followup to some information on discipline that was presented last board meeting uh good evening Dr Wimberly board members uh Dr Robbins uh this evening we have some more data and uh Miss Thomas if you could click on that link thank you so much and this gives you a little bit of more information in this evening I also have three principes with us one Elementary principal Mrs Hayes um from William from William Reeves Elementary I also have uh Mr Ted Brinkley
032from deos middle school and also uh Miss Brooke Matthews from Asher Ridge High School so they can give a little perspective to this data um I know that's something that the board would like to hear but the one thing you can we'll start with a high school you can see one of the questions was um you know what percentage of our students are getting referrals and you can see there by that breakdown um I believe that's 80% um only have one or zero to one referral uh 14% have two to five referrals and then you're looking at only 6% have have six plus referrals and so again discipline is to change behavior and when we look at that um and you can also see that uh also up here the biggest offense is tardies the
033other column we have in there are merits and this is all pulled from Educator's handbook merits are things of good things that students are doing in in our schools um some of those are not always um captured in our Educator's handbook and so uh but you can see there there where a lot of our discipline is um and I can let Miss Matthews come up and talk a little bit about since we're on on the high school um page as well is about referrals um but again you can kind of see the biggest offense that she is having Ashley Ridge is tardies and so Brooke did you want to talk and maybe a little bit more depth on that so we'll leave it up for some questions real quick before you continue so is this
034just ninth grade data or is that not correct no is it 9th through 12th grade it's 9 through 12 okay I just wanted to make sure 9 through 12 okay I was like that seems weird for just nth grade okay yeah so at Ashley Ridge we really believe in um just positive referrals um and it's it's not indicated on there under merits we do what's called a classy Fox um so we have a form that one of my assistant principles fills out or sends uh to our teachers and they fill that out and we sell our classy foxes that's that way that's why you don't see merits um unfortunately tardies are um a big issue um you have to look at that from a lot of ours come from first period uh we have a
035lot of drivers we have a lot of car riders um if there's a wreck if there's weather issues we do tend to put those as excused U but then unfortunately they are tardy to class sometimes you don't have the data in front of you probably wouldn't be able to answer this but are some of those even like six plus tardies like it's not necessarily they fighting or something else it could just be three cell phone violations and four tardies four tardies or two bus referrals and four tardies um some obviously could be fighting um or you know major issues but a lot is you're exactly right Miss Bates yeah do you in your I mean and you and phone and then see what we're left with okay because I feel like I mean I'm not
036saying those things aren't important obviously they are but we're and dress code yes like dress code tardies phones which are all we're glad you're enforcing that that's our expectation but I'm curious like what's disrupting the learning environment what's making teachers have a difficult time educating students like really we're talking about those yeah getting down to the nitty-gritty the real disruptive behaviors yeah so are because I guess are those the type of things that would send a student to a hearing like do you see what I'm not necessarily though the tardies the phones and the dress code is that right like that's correct okay so it would be interesting to see um I guess how many of our students are ending up going to hearings and then at that point what's happening are they coming back
037into our schools or are they going to rise are they being expelled just a breakdown of that as well which I mean I'm not putting that just on you obviously Chad this is great information don't get me wrong um but I agree with Miss Bates that we're um we we want this to be um these to be enforced and to have these consequences but we also want to make sure that um we're we're looking at the offenses that are disrupting our academics and I agree and those offenses we take very seriously of course absolutely and I think that's our point is if we can get down to like what percentage of the population that is if it's 3% committing something like that three or more times then we can do a deeper dive into how
038we're falling through on those discipline actions like whether they're going to rise and all that more on that so they're not just automatically back in your school creating issues for the rest of the student population so it's really getting those numbers are helpful for us to figure out what what we're doing is working as well to better support you guys well you know thing I wouldn't want to minimize and maybe I'm hearing this incorrectly if there's a violation of the phone policy that's a violation and so therefore I you know I think it's very important that we address that and if they're repeated offenders then there has to be a consequence other than that what the use in having the rule if we're not going to follow it so yeah Miss pal that's not I
039agree with you I think that's what we're saying is that's important but I think what I guess my question is and what I'm trying to get to and what and why I'm asking the question is because I'm curious like I don't while I expect that to be enforced and I do think that's very important obviously I Revisited cell phone and dress code policy because I strongly believe in in those being enforce I'm just curious because I think certain behaviors are a lot more disruptive to the learning environment and I think it also has a different effect on the classroom instruction when a teacher is dealing with students that are fighting spitting you know stuff like that verse maybe just having their belly out which I'm not saying that's not okay or that's okay I just
040for me it helps to have that breakdown to really get to the nitty-gritty of what's really disrupting in structural time and our teach well I may be a little different about that um because having exposing certain parts of your body that should be undercover I have an issue with that as well when I walk down the hallway and you know I'm a G it looking and saying where are we are we in school and believe it or not no offense to the males but they're very visual people and so if you expose all of that I mean and then you wonder why some of them are not mature enough to know to keep the hand to themselves so I'm I know it may seem like it's a little off of what I'm saying but the
041bottom line is we want people to respect each other when we are at school especially and so we cannot say well just a little bit of body showing I don't want to see just a little bit of body and Miss pal I'll tell you we we take all referrals if you're breaking a policy you're you're going to be addressed so I just want to make sure that that's clear too I mean we're we're taking every referral seriously all right because the fight is important we want to deal with that as well but at the same time we don't want to give the kids it's almost like if you give them an inch then they'll say well let me see maybe just a few more right and next thing you know then we have an issue
042well you didn't do this to that person why do I get in trouble for way I think we 100% agree with you I think we're just misunderstanding each other a little bit but that's okay I love you any other questions pertaining to high school just a a quick question um can you explain to me the rationale around the green and zero to one is that implying that we have a bunch of people who don't have any uh infractions and is that the majority of them and it is it is it is wa what what's the rationale of including those who are obeying the rules and attending school and being there on time and and whatnot and including them in the same Heap you want to speak to that yeah I mean it's it's the expectation
043it's it's setting the high expectation so it's really just one correct yes not zero not Z Z to one zero to one yeah that means in the grade level that is the grade level that we're having the most offenses in so most offenses in so it's just not ninth grade if that makes sense to everybody nth ninth grade is is an issue in all three of our high schools that have the most referrals so um and the other thing about the green yellow and red that kind of does mimic our mtss Pro process so when you're thinking of academic that is also our Behavior issue as well so when you see those students are in the yellow those are students we're trying to address behaviorally wise on that Continuum so I hope that makes sense
044as well so we'll move on to middle school and we have Mr Brinkley here um to kind of give us his perspective on middle school but again you can kind of see again um what grades um are we're particular having more issues with and you can see it's kind of a uh a little bit different in our middle schools okay and and then also you can see the offenses um which the the top offense is and again merits those are positive referrals and those are put into Educators handbook and again not all schools use Educators handbook uh as Brooke mentioned earlier she doesn't use that she does does it different way so you can see those merits there and again you can kind of see the green and uh Miss Thomas if you can kind
045of scroll down you can kind of see the triangle there um you're looking at 80 I can't see that 84 thank you sir 84% there that have zero or one referrals and again you're looking at 11% two to five referrals and again 5% have six plus referrals so again um it's a little bit better um as you go down in grades and so I'll let Mr Brinkley kind of come up and give a little bit of his perspective and if you have questions we'll be able to answer those good evening I appreciate the opportunity to to speak speak with you all tonight um as you can see uh the the number of referrals in the in the offenses that are most common is different in most of the middle schools um speaking for deos ours
046is the bus referrals um but but but those are difficult to to for us to control as as the students are off out of our sight out of our um our control uh but we we take every every offense very seriously um but what I wanted to share is that talking with most of the Middle School principles these numbers are down from last year for mine they're down almost 50% from last year and we we all when we discuss this we kind of give the give the um give the uh um reasoning for as the Renaissance program that we are all implementing and Renaissance is is a is a not really a program but it's more of a a way of thinking a way of running your school where you reward students for doing things
047reward teachers for doing things you build culture and Community within your classrooms um and and you don't focus on the negatives you focus more on the positives and it's really done a good job increasing and improving our community Oakbrook has done an excellent job with with Bley Lewis um she's really spearheading the effort in Middle School um but it's really done a great job along with other things like um increasing um increasing communication between the admin and teachers uh letting parents hear from the teacher first so they can have a chance to um take care of the disciplined behaviors before we take care of it at school we want to we want to bring the uh parents and involve them as much as possible so that they can take care of it at home um
048before we have to have to enforce a rule here at school or enforce a consequence at school uh but it's really gone well for all of us in Middle Schools um and we really uh appreciate the support of the board um in our efforts with Renaissance um and look look forward to contining to to implement that in the future any questions can we get a little Clarity on the um where it says inappropriate um and then refusal inappropriate behavior is one of the categories in Educator's handbook uh it could be a variety of different things um refusal would be more of refusal to obey so if I if I asked you to do something and you refused and it wasn't a simple request it was something that's could be a safety request it could be
049something else U the the teacher or admin any comments about what's going on at Rawlings what was thats comments about what's going on at Rawlings yeah yeah I like to think because and I don't care I can talk out of turn if it's fine but I would like to think it's because I think parent involvement directly correlates to Student Success and when you have a school that is a designated school where your parents have to take you to audition sometimes for multiple times and you have to be involved in playing an instrument and choir or what all these different things that take a lot of parent engagement you're probably going to see a lot less discipline issues and I would agree Echo what you just said Miss Bates uh you know if you talk Mr
050Pi principal Pi he would say the same thing their parent involvement is very high at Rawlings Middle School um when they do all types of activities after school they do a lot of different events um they do a very good job about calling home when there is an event parents have high expectations not saying all of our parents shouldn't have high expectations but again again echoing your sentiments what you saying I just think naturally with the process in which you attend Rawlings you're already ensuring that your parents are going to be very very proactive very engaged parents so you know that's just and I I know they do sign kind of a contract for their code of behavior in order to go to that school they have to behave I believe um when they do
051that that's part of the part of the process so thank you very good question any other questions for Mr Brinkley or anybody at the middle school thank you Mr Brinkley we'll go ahead and move to Elementary and we'll pull that up and kind of look at that data if we go down to to the triangle there you can kind of see a big change in only 0o to one referrals uh is over 93% there at the elementary and you can see the two to five referrals um very very small 5% and in 2% are six plus referrals and again this evening we have Natalie Hayes principal at uh to come up and speak in behalf of her building William Reeves thanks for having me here tonight um I would say with all elementary schools we
052get the youngest of young they start when they're four years old um but we are definitely a teaching platform teaching kids right from wrong teaching how to share teaching how to take turns teaching how to keep your hands to yourself teaching not to spit like Miss bate said um so it's just a lot of teaching that goes on I will say all of our schools now are capturing kids heart schools which is a fantastic training just teaches about loving kids first and then they're able to learn um at ree specifically I can tell you that we really push the positive we're also PBIS rewards so kids earn certain things by doing the right thing we have a segment on the morning show called that's good stuff kids are recognized for um picking up trash on
053the playground or help helping a friend or helping a teammate helping out a teacher so I would say at the elementary level it's really all about the positive I'm honestly proud of our data any questions for me okay thank you that's all I have this evening so thank you okay the next I have on uh the superintendent's report tonight is our student transfer recommendations for your consideration and they were in your board packets okay thank you Dr Robbins board members um is everyone okay with proceeding with that in Open Session okay motion made by Mr Farnsworth do I have a second are we motioning to do an open session or to the recommendations yes motion made by Mr Farnsworth to approve the recommendations as presented in our packet do I have a second second seconded
054by Miss Bates do we have any questions comments okay hearing none we will call for the vote all right we will be voting manually all in favor signify okay and the motion carries seven in favor thank you madam chair that's all I have tonight all right thank you Dr Robbins um and we have no public comments at this time I'm just making sure okay and so then at this time I would ask for a motion to adjourn so moved motion made by Miss Bates do I have a second seconded by Mr Lee any comments questions all right hearing none we will call for the vote okay and the motion carries six in favor one extension we are adjourned we just talking about discipline huh I might the int for