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Is there a public comment? That's me.
As I've made aware of everybody, I just want to give a shout out on this.
It's that my son's been running into some trouble.
It kind of started with the football and he broke his leg.
I guess I do remember this from back in 2011.
My daughter had a similar seven day rule and I guess I wasn't even thinking about it.
I'm just trying to get him back up.
Hopefully it's just a high angle shot and he gets back on the field.
That was right before Thanksgiving when Mrs.
Vera got caught in a foul.
I'm just trying to get him back on the field.
Hopefully it's just a high angle shot and he gets back on the field.
I was digging into it more.
I didn't understand how to get you to act like that.
I don't know. I've seen him stumbling around with crutches.
This is something they may be not aware of. Not for that.
I don't know if that's just a process.
I don't know if that's the process that you have to go through.
I was a parent working in the school.
I was wondering if there was some way.
I talked to Mr. Hardy about this and thought about it for a while and that was an important part of the special.
It kind of starts with a major medical injury or something.
Just to say, hey, what does that look like?
It was the last one with my daughter. She had surgery.
I was also kind of surprised that there was no consideration of the student's rights.
I got that letter that next month.
He had six A's and 20 B's. That's right.
Of course, it's your homework. You get caught up.
You're going to be behind.
He's always been good about that.
I don't know if I got any answers when I came to talk to you, Caitlin. I showed my frustration. I'm sorry. I won't find solutions.
I spent a lot of time in this place.
I think back and I just want to tell you something.
I don't know if I'll ever get you to this point.
Some disconnected, not visiting with each other, having a little bit more deeper conversations about what's going on.
We're working off the system here.
It was adopted by us in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution.
It was for creating soldiers and now creating factory workers.
That's why the bell rings.
We're definitely in a dynamic world right now.
Super static system, I guess, is what I feel.
I don't have any answers.
I really think that we need to start having deeper conversations about the complexity of the world.
We talked about that with social media and internet.
We still haven't figured that out, really.
We're already getting hit with AI and quantum computing. That's cute.
It's not going to make things better.
I don't know about that.
I think what I'm looking forward to in the future is young public speakers out in the dry.
You have to set out and ask for it and understand your taste.
Because nobody trusts them anymore. It's sad. It's really sad.
I'm going to go into the last incident.
I was looking forward to the conversation.
I got a call on Monday that some students reported that they had a great pencil.
At that, I went to the principal's office.
You guys searched him and didn't find a great pencil. I didn't search him. Caitlin didn't search him.
Caitlin didn't search him either.
We asked if he would. He didn't make it. They can.
Because it's illegal. Yeah, I know. It's a probable cause.
It's not a probable cause.
It is a probable cause. That's not the wording. It's reasonable suspicion.
That's a lower bar than a probable cause. From my understanding.
I've thought a little about that too, Paul. It's not our fault. It's not your fault.
And I hope a lesson is learned and he moves forward.
And the bigger picture is that he doesn't ruin his life when he's my age.
That's what concerns me and keeps me up.
We asked him who he would like to call. He said his mom.
Yeah, when we were done with our investigation.
Made sure we were doing things correctly. Then we called.
If you guys don't know. Reach out.
I don't expect you guys to.
Reach out and find out. Our parents.
I would imagine that our parents.
Want to do the right thing. Sorry.
Break a little. Close it. Just. There. That's how it happens.
I understand. A little terrified. I've been here. I started in 1982. Graduated in 96.
It's in the school system. Graduated by 2003.
You know, and I've heard the horror stories of people coming in.
Board members screaming at the superintendent.
That his kid would never do this.
Show it in the video.
You know, I get that. But, yeah. If you.
I just think if you can reach out and maybe find. A lot of work.
More people might be like.
Maybe I want to be on that team that's looking for solutions. Not seeming to constantly. Come after. You know.
I think there's a misconception.
And I'm not going to speak for Caleb, but myself. Am I hated?
The most thing I hate in this job.
Is disciplining other people's kids.
But unfortunately, we run into that all the time.
Because I struggle with that just as anything.
And this was a perfect world.
And this was a perfect school.
And we live in a utopia.
I'd never have to discipline a kid.
There's no need to look at it. There's no solution, really.
It's just trade-offs in life. And you can. Choose.
You can choose at that point to be like.
Alright, we didn't substantiate this claim.
Now we're going to put it on his parents and see where it works.
I know, but I asked him.
I asked him and what was his answer. I know. I know.
And like I said before.
You don't have to go that.
You might not see it.
But when you see the pattern of it.
It's like, well, what are they doing?
Are they coming after my kid? The kid. You know, he.
He was totally in the wrong when he got kicked off the football team. For weed last year.
And I was telling him the whole time.
I knew he was doing it during summertime.
I said, you got to realize sacrifice.
You want to play football.
You got to put this stuff away.
It's shipped out, you know.
And you're going to lose something.
You're never going to get back.
And you learn that lesson the hard way, too.
I was also by a parent of an ex-girlfriend.
And that's what, you know, we don't have the names.
But everybody talks to the town.
One of the girls that reported him was an ex-girlfriend. You know. It's.
Rumors and stuff like that, too.
To try to be as clear as I would think. It's not. Is this truly something?
Or is it a feud that they're going to exploit the system? Did you seek vengeance?
I guess, was that the world we're going to live in? You know, and we're. We're on.
I've been on the receiving end of this, too.
Because we've had our kids throughout all those years. Do stupid shit.
We try to reach out to the parents.
And we can say, hey, you know.
We ran into our kids doing this.
We ran into Irene's mom doing whatever.
All the way, you know.
All the way back to 2003. To get them involved.
And we've had the same rollback.
All of my kids have never done that.
I literally seen them doing it. You know.
I'm not trying to lie to you.
I'm just making you aware. And I felt involved. You know.
One of them was on medication having seizures. We were like. You know. We got them doing. You know. Drinking and stuff.
My kid would never do that. This is pretty important. When it's on medication.
You know. It's. Like I said.
I'm not saying I have solutions.
I'm just saying I'm making them aware. I mean. I guess. And I.
I guess I remember my high school experience too.
And actually it was probably quite a bit different.
By the time I was a junior.
My wife was still in school at that time.
But I had five classes in the shop. You know.
You and I talked about. You know.
I enjoyed going to school. Especially in the beginning.
Because I got to the point.
Where I got good enough grades.
And I did have to course Mr.
Wall because he didn't think that.
It was a path choice that I had five.
Classes in the shop for two years. But I was like.
I'm not going to be no rocket scientist Mr. Wall.
You can see that I'm not at all student.
But I don't really think I'm going to college.
And I've already signed up for the. You know.
I'm going into the Marine Corps. You know.
And go down and I'm going to make a living with my aunts.
And that's what I'm doing. You know. Paths are different.
It's not all one channel. These are all. They're individuals. You know.
It seems like the system is crushing. And it's not. It's bigger than that. I've seen. And this is.
But I've seen it because I travel all over. Like most of my. From my work. And I just see. Just a mullet. With people.
That just kind of go through. Motion it's not.
Interacting with other people anymore. You know.
They look at me like I'm an alien. So I should burn. Hey good morning. How's it going? You know. It wasn't like that. You know.
Are we chilling that I don't want.
I don't think that's a world to me. That's one of them.
And we don't want to be having our kids grow up. And we. We understand.
There's guardrails and boundaries and stuff.
But it doesn't always take a hammer.
Sometimes it just takes a little nudge. And direction. I guess is. All. It's not.
Go to the extreme of everything. All the time.
I'm trying to hammer it out of them. You know.
Another thing in the school system. And I probably.
I thought was very odd. That's for our class.
Art class. It was. A testing artist. Creative person. I mean. We not quite understand. The creative person's life.
I don't want to be locked down with a desk.
I know I was one of them. You know.
Denver Institute of Art. And that was one of my reasons for not thinking about college. Was.
Or just leave me away from college places.
When I think about it as a whole.
In college degree and art. That kind of defeats.
The purpose of the creative person. To get back into. Standardized system. Most creative people.
If you get to know them. They'll go nuts.
Chained down to a system.
Is there any questions you guys got for me.
More than open to have a. Conversation with anybody. I appreciate your comments. I'll say that.
And we hope we can certainly. We can't make any.
Can't really do much for comments. Because our hands. About the public comments.
And I appreciate your thoughts. And I. I fully. You know, I have. Some that obviously.
They didn't fit the mold of a school. Around the pier. It's kind of. About the zebra experiment. About camouflage zebras.
Scientists trying to figure out how. Zebras are camouflaged. So. Study of these. Zebras.
And the notes that they would be. Watching through binoculars. And every time they. Look down. Right on the notes. They look back up. Zebra. Study. So they got. The idea of scientists. It's a scientific. Engineering behind.
It's a little bit more. Straight and narrow. Find a solution. So they went out. For the red stripe. Zebra. They're trying. They're going to study. Why it's capable. Until that's. Equal.
About the students. This whole. System throughout. The career. That don't. Necessarily. Fit exactly. You know. You can speak. That they think. I said. I said. Twenty five years. You know. I know. You end up. Way more. The creative. Some of each. I had. Rule breakers.
No matter how many rules. I mean. I have that. Driving demolition. Every year.
We run into somebody bending. Rules. And their idea. Was this. You know. Structured person. Is this. Let's create. More rules. And keep chasing. This rabbit hole. All of a sudden. It just becomes. An absolute. And you're. Running around. Constantly. Trying to. Whack them all. You know. Oh. A lot of. You do. But. You know. I mean. We have. Things. Once in a while. That you can. Come and. You know. Have some ideas. And it'll probably be. You know.
I don't. Any solutions. To anything. I just. I just. Thought I'd. Think about this. A lot of times. People can get. I think. Maybe. I was called. This situation. I'm. And we do. Have policy. Committee meetings. And I guess. We can. You know. Talk about. If there's things that. These will be. On that committee. It will. When the policy committee. Well, maybe. Start looking at. Well, maybe there's. A better protocol. To reach out. To parents. Sooner. Maybe not.
A lot of. Conversation. Expressive. That's tough. One. But. I think. I feel.
On. Parents to care. About. Such.
Care. Enough. Give up. Mom. Responsibility. I don't. The answer. Is. My girl. Mom. It's. It's. It's. I don't know. To get people.
Positions. Reach out. And get out of our bubble. To people that. Might think. A little different. About some. Might talk. About. Helping. For the ones. Okay.
Thanks. Thank you. If. You guys. Structure. Or rest.
That's.
What about the minutes? I moved we. November 19th. But it just. Motion in a second. Any discussion.
I.
That's. All right. My student staff spotlight is my.
My boss can hide his face.
And my brother, which is fabulous.
I told the kids when we did it, I said, like, the.
The food banks are the ones that won.
I mean, 2500 items between they have two over there and we have one.
We alone gave 1600 items to the food bank.
I have a picture of the kids bringing.
I should have put that in there.
But it's like the cupboards were covered.
The floor was covered with bags. I mean, it was.
Bev always tries to get this big.
And I was like, are you sure you don't want to help putting it away? No, we're good. So that's the.
They're the ones that win food banks.
Bev wants to know where everything is. Yeah, exactly. She's there in particular.
So, I mean, our communities are the ones that need it, especially through the holidays.
And that's why we do it when we do our food drive. That's really important.
Yeah, it was really fun. And my brother, Mr.
Olson, even more Spartan here, which is kind of cool.
I need to get that back to you. So the evaluation tool.
So I'm in the middle of the evaluations.
Bainville shared their evaluation tool. I don't like ours.
So I'm working with the union because in the master contract, it talks about.
A lot of the union has saved the tool for evaluation. Bainville shared it.
I tweaked it to fit us.
It's a little more specific instead of like a broad.
Oh, you get proficiency in classroom management.
It narrows it down to specifics of classroom management.
They might be fabulous in one part, but need work on this.
So I think that you want to tweak it. Yeah. Mark everywhere. Yeah.
I've never seen a school with a good one. No, exactly.
So I emailed it to Kyla and Amanda, and they were going to find a third person that we can sit
down and kind of go over it to see what they thought before we change that parent community forum.
We had that December 1st or 2nd, that first Monday.
We had nine people that came.
So that was better than the first time. So that was good.
Some hot topics that they talked about, technology, some transportation questions, talked about
like licensed teachers and how to attract them here.
There was some concerns about the longer day and bus, kids on the bus.
We talked about AP honors courses and like online opportunities.
We just leave it open to the public.
Greg and I just say, you have things to say, I take notes, we'll comment, have a discussion when we can.
I think it's a good use of our time to kind of get.
It's always the same people. Let's be real.
But they usually have some good ideas.
Yeah, I think that I think what was cool from that meeting is that one of the people in the
meeting pointed out they thought that we almost covered everything from the last meeting.
They're really impressed that we touched on all these topics and they saw improvement in those areas.
So that was nice to hear. Yeah, that was. And then accreditation updates.
So that is due the end of February.
There's seven areas that we have to submit things.
I have three already finished and working on the remaining four.
We have a lot of the evidence already.
It's just putting it into the correct format and putting it how the state wants it and making
sure we have all the specifics.
Many of them will be added into our integrated strategic plan, which you guys have already approved.
But we'll probably bring that to you again.
We'll add it in there and then we'll bring it to you to look at upcoming Christmas. Great.
And the semester is January 16th.
So kids will take semester tests. Those two days.
And then we have a 17th is a PR day for staff.
And then we already start our second state testing window.
Middle of January, which I felt state testing went pretty smoothly.
The stress did a great job.
So we'll do the second one now that we have our feet wet. Know what we're doing. Well, it's smoother.
Okay. I mean, just say you guys probably already heard this in the regular board meeting in November.
Ultimately, we redivision the whole state for class C and basketball, volleyball and track.
So we this will be for next year.
We incorporated that south eastern district.
So we have broadest carry those teams.
Dodson will be going to the north.
So we'll have no more dots.
This is also an action item, but we're just talking to you about it.
So we got we'll have 19 teams. This is really great.
I think it balances the state.
Everyone will have 19 or 20 teams, because I think the argument that was coming from planning.
What goes up to me next year is that we've been down 14 teams.
The north had 24 representation. It's tough.
Then how do you guys take to you take to get 10 more teams?
I think that solves this problem that I saw coming.
So where we're at now is basically tomorrow.
I'll be getting this circle for reading.
So this local control piece is how we make our districts in the 19 team division.
So we're looking at three team districts, like it was back in the day.
Team super conference, all that kind of stuff on the table.
You'll see an action item.
What I really like is a pretty team basketball, ultimately, and then two districts for track and volleyball.
But just other things, you know, Westby should be moving back update.
Then they got the ultimatum.
They can either go or they can stay fixed.
If they choose to stay in six, they can't be postseason eligible.
So hopefully they will be moving up, which keeps us the same number and brought us six.
So that trip to brought us in time.
So that's kind of just a little bit going on with me.
Just say other than the students, I have it.
I'm worried they're not going to get it to us again.
But we've got things coming down the pipe, like NIL for high school students.
Would be a big target point in January and then buckling down on the transfer rule.
NIL is another name, just like college.
So I guess we're one of the 12 states that don't do it, is what we were told.
The NIL deals basically for you.
You can't wear a school logo or anything like that.
But ultimately, a Fox board wants to pay Carney after he gets called to do a commercial.
And he just can't wear a scarf.
Someone's really big and strong. You're drinking Tim's milk. You might want to.
OK, I kind of feel like I lied to you, but I guess we're just going to see where this Wild West goes.
So this is STARS funding.
I know I told you last month I didn't think there would be any money thrown towards schools and this legislation.
They're going to wait for this study and see it the next month.
Well, there's been a big push.
I'm going to very summarize this because there's a lot to it.
I think it's going to change, get tweaked, change and get tweaked.
And then maybe not even pass.
But ultimately, they're trying to raise the starting base teacher salary.
For us, it would be right around $41,000.
It's also a different funding idea of how many quality educators you have in your building.
That dollar amount goes up.
So A and B is still part of the equation.
But there's a component now of quality educator payment.
I think the one thing that as long as they hold true to the tweet is if they accept emergency authorizations, go for it.
If they don't, they're going to bankrupt the schools.
But that's in there as far as I know at the moment.
This, just to give a heads up, we'll probably have to open the negotiations piece on our salary.
And I've already talked to two of our union members that sit on that just to let them know this may be coming.
And what I'm really pushing for, if this goes through, is that we basically just blank out the
lanes and we just get it to that number.
So our matrix doesn't change.
So, see, the problem is if you go $41,000 here and you switch the matrix to the bottom now,
we can't afford that influx. That's $330,000.
Like, where does that come from?
So really the discussion is, and I've said it, and I guess I'll say it here, it's like older
teachers don't eat the young.
Because what we're trying to do is raise that base.
We've already agreed it in two years, what I've said.
So let's finish what we've agreed on. It was good.
We all work for it. Blank it out.
Fix it in two years.
And then we'll also have an idea of how the payment's working exactly, how much revenue, that kind of thing.
Is it really a nice increase or not?
So that's kind of star-splitting in a nutshell. I know Mrs.
Durie's been involved with her organization. I spoke to you.
Is it okay to reach out to our legislators before they take off?
And maybe you bring them in, or you and Plentywood and O-PIME and bring them in and say, Okay,
you've got these classy schools that are concerned.
Talk to Sherry and talk to Greg and say, Sherry,
talk to them and say, no, you're going to go and you're going to be drinking through firehose. And legislate.
We both knew you need to reach out and talk to people like me that have been around.
I know Greg reasonably well.
You know him real well.
And you probably know Val pretty well.
And reach out and just say, call us. Call Mr. Hardy and Mr.
Buehler and say, how is this affecting your classy schools?
Because that's all you have here.
That's the same thing I was going to ask.
If there's some means for the school similarly situated to SCOBY, I was visiting with my dad about this.
And it sounded like a school like Plentywood doesn't have as many concerns about this as anything
smaller than Plentywood, whether or not the legislation is actually going to work.
Is there any means for the smaller guys to have a concerted effort to get our representatives
before they go there to say, hey, you aren't going to understand this because nobody understands this.
But this is the big concern.
If we don't get this, everybody smaller than a borderline B school is going to be shit out of luck.
Yeah, I really think the big thing is, in my opinion, I think it's not a bad thing.
I think what they're not thinking about is that, OK, now you have a QEP, but you have to go renegotiate.
And if you can't settle on the matrix, that's the worry.
What they see is that they're raising it 7% from 34 to 40 or whatever that is.
They don't see that it's actually 30% on the bottom end.
Teaching's a great job once you have 15 years in.
It's getting somebody who wants to put 15 years in.
Yeah, tell me about it.
And honestly, the push isn't necessarily coming from the legislation.
It's coming from the NTSB and our actual, like, Nashville big camps, whatever it is.
It's actually the push is from the office.
Well, the pit got put in the sand for so long.
We're painted into a quarterbacks against the wall.
Well, and the governor has made it, since the beginning, a priority to raise starting teacher salaries.
That's right in his agenda since the beginning.
And what this legislature, what the governor wants, the governor gets.
They just do what he says.
And they don't know what it stands up to.
I'm involved in several organizations, and nobody stands up to them. I guess so.
Well, I mean, they don't.
That must be the reason.
I guess the only big point I'm trying to make is to ascertain whether or not there's some concerted
effort among the squarely seed schools to impart on our legislators that, hey, this is what
we ought to be looking for.
If it's the emergency licensure component or elsewhere up the creek, then you've got to make
sure that gets in there, guys. And that's what MRE. And Crowder. I suppose that exists. Hopefully push that.
And Crowder has been around a long time and taught in a lot of small schools, so he has an understanding.
Have they been reaching out at all or saying, hey, this is on our radar?
It'll pick up here in January, right, is when we start getting a lot of emails.
And I can send you all.
I've got the actual wording of the bill. I've got the LC. I've got it.
And if you want to get an email to read through it.
But the gist is not under attachment. It's.
No, I'm fine with a nutshell.
And I want to run a whole bunch of acquaintances and or friends in the legislature that I mean,
that I can call on the phone.
And Debbie's father is one of my former students, and he's just born into the Senate from that area down there.
So that's another possible connection.
So I hope it turns into something good. Yeah.
And just one last time, if you do talk to the legislators, the biggest problem that I see right
now is that more money coming from the state's going to lower our pace.
So the taxpayers are the ones that are going to have to leave this.
Now they're going to let us ask for more.
So, I mean, as taxpayers, that's where the concern goes out at the state level. Rather than the county.
The county would still have to make the over base up.
So it would be trickle down.
There's still got to be a way to fund it.
So there's that's where my concern is that at the higher end, you're talking to teachers over base.
It's basically what we'll get our base budgets.
We'll get a little bit extra from this, and then we can ask for a whole lot more to finish paying
the rest of the teachers.
The whole bunch more is going to come from local.
That's talking about the teachers who have been here. Yes. Everybody else to finish. So, yeah. All right. Three mill levy.
It's really time to start figuring this out.
Maybe we need to have buildings and ground, however we want to do it, but we've got to start pushing this.
Honestly, I love the way Tara did it.
It was my idea in the beginning.
I would probably plan on calling Sophie again, running some sort of campaign.
You just got to figure out what the dollar amount we're going to ask for.
I still have not heard anything from field brothers or Rasmussen.
I don't think he's shown up to look at.
He said he was going to, but I do know they said that we should get five more years out of that, at least.
So they said it was in pretty good shape, but it's just that music rooms leak in.
You guys see the commons leak in.
Yeah, it's mainly that, which I'm assuming would be a cheaper budget.
So we've got to come up with that, and I know you guys have been in the lock rooms.
Those need to be fixed up.
Lockers and junior high lockers are horrific.
I'm just waiting for them to fall out on the floor. They do fall out.
So there's things that I think we have to keep improving.
You need some building or it's going to just deteriorate. It's important.
And I think as we do this, we need to say this, and you got that point, too.
Look at all we got done by managing COVID money well and all of this.
Look at all the stuff that we managed to get done in the last five years.
We didn't just waste it away. We improved.
So basically, we need to get a dollar amount.
We're going to run another 500,000 like we did last time.
Start getting it out there.
Talk to all those players to get our message out.
And then not to put more meetings on, but I think we're just going to have to have a policy.
Look at some sportsmanship policies.
I think that needs to be looked at and possibly tweaked a little.
I also honestly think, guys, after running in these, I don't want to say it, but it comes down
to one person is why I'm learning there's a lot of these policies in place.
And I'm not going to lie.
I really struggle with our drug test policy anyways.
Is that just that it's at your? Yeah, it's random. It's random. Here's my thing.
I think if they're caught doing it in here, that punishment should be pretty severe.
If they're doing it at home, that's a parent problem.
I mean, that's my thing.
I don't know why we as a school are taking on the parent role if they're smoking it outside
or doing whatever they're doing outside of our jurisdiction.
With Spartan Standard, it's still the exception.
If you get caught out of school and it is a police thing, you're still going to get some consequence for losing.
But my thought there is, and this is what I'll kind of pitch to that policy, thinking about
this, I think we get rid of drug testing.
And with those funds, we get a drug dog in here.
We have a drug dog come through one to three times a year to make sure there's nothing in here. Through the school?
Yeah, or you go on the soft lockdown, if you remember.
We used to have, you just kind of sit here and get the drug dog.
Drug dog goes around every locker, your cars in your parking lot.
Yeah, that's the only one on the policy.
I don't like the vehicles because they're a firearm dog as well.
And I love the idea that every kid in smoky schools is going hunting after school. Yeah. I don't like that.
I think that rule changed where we can, like we wouldn't necessarily use automatic suspension.
You know, we can look at it and go, you had a shell casing.
We understand, like we're not going to suspend you for that. Yeah, that's good.
The dogs found an empty beer can in the trunk from our garbage probably in the car.
And Chance wasn't even driving it.
And they called Chance out of class because the other boys were gone. Yeah.
And they called Chance out of class to get him in the car. I mean, that's how.
It was stuck under the seat or whatever. Yeah. I don't like that. Which I probably did.
And we can talk about absences too since that's came up.
But I think, I don't want to sit and argue, but I think the big thing is you have to have kids here.
It's important to have kids here.
And the more I've been thinking about that, it's really more important they're here because
half of our accreditation is how they're testing now.
So if they don't test well, that can become a problem for SCOBY schools.
And, I mean, the extreme is to become uncredited, which has never happened. Potentially it's expanding.
I mean, that's the worst case scenario.
But the other scenario is we're sitting in here working on a strategic plan on how we're going
to get better with an LPI.
And there's some sitting right there.
And this is, I don't think, I mean, I don't mind.
I don't want to ever get there.
Well, five-day week and they miss one day, that's one thing.
But a four-day week and they miss one day, that's a significantly amount, larger amount. Well, it's all documented. There's nothing.
There's no issue at all.
So isn't that issue resolved?
That's what I was going to say. Bring it up.
But I think I don't know how to.
Our community really, you know, they really struggle with the concept that it doesn't matter
if you're medical, excused, or unexcused.
If you're not in the seat, you are absent.
Now, where it comes into play is that you've missed your ten days and then you have surgery
and you have five medicals.
Then we understand that and work with you.
But if you have five medical and then you just skip a day, then you're going to fall into our, you're losing privileges.
Or going to a family reunion.
They're trying to figure out how to do the medical thing.
Is there some kind of communication we can have?
Because I ran into it once with my kid.
He couldn't come to the next one because we needed to go to the next one. It's already been cleared. It's been cleared.
But we did a little research.
So we can sign the cost review file.
I don't have it in my pocket.
I know we have a strong team.
But we want to see what happens.
I will sign this piece of paper saying it's not on you. Yeah.
I mean, that's something we can look into.
I just think that's your problem.
We just did it because that's the rule. I know.
But you got to think of the other side, too.
The flip side of that is you have a really smart parent that knows how to work your system. The kid gets hurt.
Says they're good to play.
So you've got to play with them. They get angry.
And then it's the LR. Yeah. It's our problem. Yeah.
I just don't understand it. Yeah.
So at the end, we'll set up some.
And I'm going to say one thing about the attendance.
It is like 10% of our kids that are the problem.
And they are the problem every year. 10% of our kids are here right now.
So I just feel like these kids have to realize if you're going to have a job, you can't miss 10 days. You know?
And not even a 90. It's a 75-day period. You're missing 10 days.
Your boss is probably going to say, well, why are you gone so much? Like chronically absent.
The goal is to prepare them for real.
And that goes back to what graduates need.
And it goes back to, I just read an article about soft skills that people don't have anymore.
One of them is get to work sometimes. Every day.
And we want to speak to it. We're late. We're not there.
I see some of the younger generation.
We're coming in at 805.
One old baby. All right, we'll be moving on to financial claims.
Move to approve the claims for November 15th, December 12th.
Second. We have a motion, we have a second. We have a discussion.
The activity counts as presented.
We have a motion, we have a second. We have a discussion.
No,
no, I thought it went well.
I mean, there were a few people that had come in that back way, but they stopped and paid. Minus.
No, no, no. Yeah. I said, you're not.
Unfortunately, I would say probably 75% of the people on the other side that have actually been. Right.
I mean, there's very few. Yeah, so I know. I know. It's not. I know.
But I know that's a worry, but you got it.
So just so you have. So you guys.
Kind of have a better understanding.
You know, everything that's done in that kitchen. Is outside organization.
So that none of that goes back into the school. Any activity.
I think the other thing is our concessions that our kids run.
That's a fundraiser for their class.
So that doesn't go into our activities either.
So our only moneymaker is that gate at our home.
And that's where I think I'm going to really dive in.
I mean, I don't have any data. But we're not.
I think our last check.
Just was like a year ago for 300 bucks. And.
I really feel like since they put those cameras in.
Our numbers have dropped crazy.
When I first got here.
Even on the walking track.
And I'll just say it.
I think our teams are going to be just as good as those guys who. For me and Gracie. And.
We have the same type of teams. Is what I think. Right now.
And there's just not a crowd.
And the only thing I can think of. So.
You got a sick kid.
Oh, yeah. I totally understand it.
That's what he did on Friday.
I was like, you're not going to watch Rob.
He's like, no, I'm going to turn it on in the garage. Having beers.
Well, you can go watch it over. Yeah.
So I think there's some things I know.
I was talking to Scott.
Because he is noticing it too.
And you're talking about this.
He had a great idea. You know, maybe. Our. Basketball lunch program thing.
We probably should push to get someone to do that.
And his thinking was, if you did a game during the girls. Half-time. Right.
You're going to get grandparents to show up.
Because they're going to come watch the full court game. Of their grandkids.
I thought that was pretty. Yeah.
Like maybe do one or two of those.
And then, you know, the practice and then you play that.
Could you run a longer intermission between the varsity games?
And do something in between that. So. Even to half court.
Because our best nights last couple of years in football.
And this is my gymnastics this year. Yeah. Yeah. When something's going on.
We make it a priority. With the gymnastics. Especially now.
Did we get a motion on that? And second. Any more discussion.
All right. No, I'm taking. Action items. Graduate. Profile survey.
So, this came from our.
I'll move to approve the spokesman. Graduate profile as presented. So, yeah.
I took like the parents.
You guys and the staff. And like combined. And then.
I think it looks good. Developed facts. What's it. What's it for? Essentially for accreditation. But I think.
I mean, it's something that we can put up in the hallways.
I know I was busy with the Brockton principal.
He uses it when he has kids in his office.
Like, are you by doing this? Like, breaking this rule?
Are you being like the grad?
You know, do you have these qualities? Well, no, you're not.
So, I mean, he's I think there's lots of different ways.
Some of them even have adapted their graduate profile into.
Like a more age appropriate for the elementary.
So, it's the same thing, but it's different.
Level it's level based off of.
So, I think that's something that we can.
Develop, but essentially it came out of that.
We have to do it for accreditation.
I think it could be the thing.
Yeah, I have some things that I don't.
They are great points, but I'm not going to get into it. It's for accreditation.
Overall agree with it. Minor things.
Motion and a second to any more discussion. Okay.
Moving on to the impact. A policy. So, we are.
So, we have a, we have 10%.
Okay, 10%, 3% of students that have native American affiliation or work for.
A federal entity on tribal lands.
Right, the parents have to work there, or the kids have to live.
Basically, I'm just going to mention.
So, basically, what we're doing is we're super close to that number.
Mrs. jury has reached out.
We've kind of sat down. Okay.
If we hit that number, it'll provide more funding.
That will come into the school and we've looked at this for a number of years and just haven't
qualified and we are right there at this moment in time.
So, this is basically these policies go in place so we can apply for impact.
If we don't have the policies, we can't even apply for it.
So, you have to live.
So, you have to live on tribal land.
So, if you live on, if you have deep land and that's where you live and you own the land, it doesn't count.
But if you actually live on trust land, excuse me, it's called trust land, not tribal land.
Then you can, those number of students can qualify. We need seven kids.
I'm having trouble coming up with seven kids to actually live on. Yeah.
So I contacted the curriculum recorder here, and I have to contact curriculum recorder down
in Roosevelt County and see where we're at, but the ones in Daniels County do not qualify.
They all have, it's all on David Land right now. So I don't know.
I don't know if it's even worth our time.
It's about $8,000 a student, and it's just, it's just money.
It's why, it's why they talk about Indian schools having a lot of money.
That's why the so-called Indian schools have all the money, is because they have impact aid.
That's why it won't point to them in praise or they have money.
And our turnarounds are pretty close, but before we can even get started, we have to have this
policy in place, and we can, we can scrap it. We can wait whenever.
I don't know if we're going to actually qualify this year, but it's kind of up to you guys.
Well, and if the policy's in place, then if it doesn't work this year, it's in a year next year.
It's already there, and you can work on it.
I move we approve the first reading of policy seven. Second.
We have a motion and a second.
Do we have full discretion on that?
Seems like there's no doubt today.
Well, the thing with employees that work on tribal land, anybody that has the state office or
NRCA, that's, they're all working with tribal land.
But all those have to have kids involved.
But that's one component that you can easily count on.
It's 10% of your student population.
And it's just, it literally becomes a fund just like Interloper.
You can use it for anything.
It is just any money that you need to.
Yeah, but we just looked on the reservation.
We got that easily covered. Sorry. Any more discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.
Moving on to see redistricting.
I don't even know how to explain this.
Okay, so you scroll down. There's all the options.
I'm just going to go.
I'm just going to tell you what I think, and then you guys can make a decision here.
I think for basketball, the three districts is great.
I think the important point is, even if volleyball goes three districts.
I argued and I have enough that we're going to have 19 division tournaments.
So each district will take three and be equally represented.
So it's not a 3-3-3 rotation.
The north is done, 19 divisionals.
You just basically add two teams.
And so is the south.
So that's not a big deal.
I think this is, I think this is where you guys got to come in and think about maybe financial things.
I can tell you right now, I am for the three district basketball, and I'm for the two districts. Volleyball and track.
The argument for the three district basketball is that you can go and schedule like opponents,
instead of being in a super district, where maybe you're going to play eight games.
You can't go outside of your conference and they're all four going to be blow up, or all eight
games are going to be blow up.
I think it's fair to say, however, if you go to the two big districts for everything, you probably
are going to save money.
And my reason for that is you're going to have a full schedule.
You're not going to have two $3,000 journey trips.
You're not going to be tempted to go play Millstone or someone on some more mileage, more money.
So I think that's what you got to weigh.
Is the financial thing important?
Or does that outweigh the importance of being able to find good competition for our kids to
play that might be better for our kids?
And you have to remember that those two ways, if we ever get really bad, we're going to be the
one that gets beat up.
That's good for them, too, that they're not getting completely blown out and they can find teams that are liking them.
So basically, if you see the two districts for volleyball and track, it's everything north of
Highway 2 and everything south is how they broke it up.
So you guys can think about it.
You can make a motion.
I move to allow Mr.
Hardy to vote on behalf of Shelby Schools on which option will be best in the school district.
We have a motion and a second, we have a motion. One discussion, one vote.
Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye.
And just so you know, I have talked to our three head coaches, all our coaches. There's just their perspective. What were they saying?
They like, our basketball likes the three district as long as you can take three, and volleyball
and track likes the two.
And now they're saying volleyball likes the two, because remember when we were at three and
Nashville didn't have a team and Frazier didn't have a team, so we went to a district tournament with like three teams. A day.
Yeah, so there are nine teams.
So three from here, three from here, three from here, nine teams.
No, eight, no, eight, nine.
And then the winner of that would play the one seed.
No, because it's still double.
A true play-in would mean that whoever lost that game would be out of the tournament. It's a true double.
It'd be like empty bracket almost.
Oh, and then also I would just expect one year that Divisional will be in a file sitting here at Glendive type area.
So, sorry, but we'll probably get kicked out of the rotation just because of hotels. Yeah.
So, because we'll be bringing teams from the South.
Oh, we went to Glendive for Divisional basketball tournament for a hundred years. All right.
I'd recommend we raise the, oh, excuse me.
I move to increase the regular hourly substitutes 1055 and the certified 1305 beginning January 1.
Second. We have a motion and a second.
Do we have any discussion? Seems necessary. Moving up.
And the only reason we brought it is because it's budgetary.
All in favor? Aye. We do not.
24 board expedition purchase. I'm going to purchase the 24 board expedition. That's correct.
Fox 436 kilogram. 282 as presented. I second. Motion and second. Is there any discussion?
Assuming we're for the budget, everything's fine.
Yeah, we met on transportation committee on this. Perfect. Push on.
And are these just to use for route or are they used for athletics too?
Well, that's, we, we, we didn't really, we kind of talked about that as well in our meeting
because we ran and we'll buy it and figure that out.
I first, I personally think they should be used just for routes because the situation that's
happened is we sent it for athletics.
We hit a deer and now rightfully so we kind of have an employee that would probably be angry
because they don't have a gap.
They're basically not working until this other one's fixed. Right.
So, I think if they are, if they're on a bus route, I feel like it should be a bus route vehicle.
If they're not on a bus route, then send them on athletics fine or for PD for staff is how I think.
I don't know if you guys agree with me, but we would have. What's this? Yeah.
So you could have to, you know, absolutely. That's the bus routes. Right. Right. Yeah. I believe.
Yeah.
So, I give it. So, where do you get this for?
We probably did it today.
If you guys approve it.
I think it's sitting in Troy. Right. Or like, order this. Yeah. For whatever reason.
Wasn't our first one from them. I didn't take it. So.
And they basically said, if you want it, they're holding it for us.
If you don't want it, then no.
But it's what did Sean say?
A small yellow one is 120, 120, 130.
And you got to have a license driver to drive it.
Sadly, I think this is the way we're going to probably continue.
And then the other thing we talked about too, is that, you know, we've tried to sell or trade
a yellow bus off and they give you like eight to 10 grand for it. Yeah. Yeah.
So, I think, you know, we're going to continue to do that and suburbans will have a better.
Any more discussion on that. All in favor. I.
Okay. I did. Sorry. Okay, this is a, this is that 55 inch kiosk that we have a community member that's donated.
I'll just kind of do this.
We have a community member donate three grand.
We have $9,000 and our fingerprint.
Greater facility, we thought maybe this would be a good upgrades right there.
We've got 12 this quote for this machine and 17,745.
So, that's what you are motioning on.
It's a 55 inch, right? It's got.
So, basically, think about all those trophies, anything in this school class pictures that put
thing all be downloaded into this kiosk and then we set it up by years.
So, people can go right there and location and search it.
So, I went and got the quote from Mr young blood.
John Youngblood and this is what it came out.
Well, you should be able to easily then start going back and some of the archives and pulling
out even activities from the 70s and 80s and some of that kind of stuff.
You can find that stuff and even, you know, I think the big thing is, though, even when we get this as well.
I mean, I'm not going to lie to you.
It'll be a summer project.
It'll be pretty time consuming.
So, there's a really cool.
Yeah, I'd move to spend up to 17,745 to purchase the hall of fame kiosk. Or wherever it is.
2nd, get a motion and a 2nd discussion.
Be nice to have at least sit there and start of it.
For this summer for the whole idea ready.
Well, I mean, I would say that would probably be the 1st thing that probably would be so bad.
It's just taking pictures of classes and and kind of worry about all the trophies that are stuff.
Different last summer, but with that coming next summer and just like, yeah.
It is really cool, but it's. I don't know.
I get where it serves a purpose too, but it seems like a lot of persons in need.
You're talking about, you know, not having any money and stuff. I don't know.
We did pass on $3000 shot clock.
So, also, and this is, I don't know.
Like, Gary said, but it seems like, what do we do with that?
Just don't talk to Gary if we didn't pass on.
It is actually, it's 3000 for me. So, it's 12. Yeah, so it's 5000.
Yeah, I guess that's a big thing for me.
That's a bunch of it's covered because I agree with Garrett that otherwise it would be a faded
by just a little bit.
I've been around the school.
It seems that trophy situation is really.
You can talk about that since you've been there. Yeah, I just felt.
I mean, I just haven't felt comfortable taking it completely out of an inner Velcro or general,
but like you said, it could build up.
But that's why I'm bringing it to you.
There may be more donations come in. It seems like it.
I could understand if the perception from the community was, oh, that's a frivolous thing to spend money on.
But the other side of me is thinking that.
Oh, we should go to that.
I want to see that in the kiosk there.
I heard they have all the stuff put in.
We could go see that game or that trophies and look like there were newspapers on that thing.
Boy, that would be cool if you graduated 76 and you wanted to go and see the old headlines and trophy and whatnot.
And that's why we that's why we're like that nine from the community.
We figured that was it's a community thing. So, yeah, but.
All up to you guys.
I mean, it's one of those.
You're not going to kill me.
Or that's what I'm sure.
Yeah, I mean, more discussion on that. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Of those I think
the importance of Ticeley-Moore and any other sub-substantive applications.
Employees need to have background checks completed prior to contact with students.
I move to include Ticeley-Moore and any sub-substantive requests for a 24-25 year.
Second. Do we have a motion and a second? Is there any discussion?
I guess it would be pending.
Is there ever an issue where we can't find a sub? Probably not. There's a huge list.
There's a large list but only a handful that do it regularly.
Two out of that list? Would it ever?
Have you ever seen Mrs.
Cook give her a hug?
She was in high school.
She was a full-time teacher.
She was here every day.
Has it ever been contemplated having a full-time sub position? We've talked about it.
We've talked about that, especially for Mrs. Cook. She likes the freedom.
If you sign up as a full-time sub, then it's like you have to have a sub if you need a sub.
I don't see the grandkids.
I know when my wife was working in Frenchtown, I think they had two or three full-time subs
that just showed up to school every day.
They always had somewhere to put them.
I don't know if that's the case here or not.
There's occasionally. For instance, today we were not supposed to have any subs.
We got an email saying if there's a sick kid, one teacher's got to go.
They put it on the front line, but Brenda took it right away. Thank goodness.
Otherwise, it would have been one of us. It happens quite often.
I didn't even know it was a thing.
I thought, oh, that's a need. I'm aware of it. It depends. Any more discussion?
I apologize for putting notes in her name. I'm in trouble. I'm not sure. I honestly don't know.
I think she dates one of the oldest Bilberry boys. She has subs.
She's subbed in the past.
I'll give her a call today. All in favor? Aye.
Moving on to personnel recommendations for cheerleading advisor.
I move to approve Bridget Kallenberger as volunteer cheerleading advisor for 2024-25.
Second. We'll have a motion and a second. Any discussion? No concerns? No. This is just coming.
Long story short, they got a pretty good job opportunity. It's taking more time.
So she's kind of, Bridget will phase in, hopefully, and take it over.
And Lindley will slowly phase out. All in favor? Aye.
Moving on. Okay. So, policy committee, let's meet after the new year sometime. I heard that word. Okay.
Just pick that date later. If you want.
Or you can look at it.
You can tell me what works.
And then I don't know if the mill levy is that finance. What is that? It's already there. Or is that? Yeah. Okay.
So, either one of those two. And then what?
I have a few things through the month of January, but relatively open.
By the end of January, we should probably start working on that.
I'm hoping I'll be gone. You will.
I think the 13th is the only day that completely doesn't work. Otherwise, regular. Talking policy. Sorry.
Yeah, I'm policy and building. So, same day. It worked.
Any day, really, other than the 13th.
Outside of just, you know, an hour here and hour there doesn't work for me.
Once our next board meeting. Scheduled for the 13th.
And that doesn't work for you. I'll be gone.
The one I was supposed to be gone.
My schedule is pretty free. After that. Like, yeah.
Do you want to meet?
And then we can have some. Other than that. Great.
We won't be back yet. We're driving. Oh, yeah.
Because we have to have it on. Posted Friday. Oh, sorry.
Otherwise, the 8th works for me.
And then I don't know if it came down to it.
Today, if we're going to be able to make that. Yeah, we did. You can always change.
Yeah, you can schedule for the 8th. we'll know after this. I'll know. I'll know after Saturday.
And then, of course, if we're really going to go.
It doesn't matter to me. I always appreciate that.
The earliest being like 730.
And I don't have to find something.
Like I said, in my office in the dark.
Or right as the day ends. I can do it.
I can do it at the end of the day.
Anywhere from 4 to 5. That's for building. For that policy. Forward for me.
We'll do building grounds first.
And then go right to policy. 5 o'clock. Perfect. On the 8th. Yeah.
The first meeting being in 4. We'll be at 5.
So. Anything else.
13. The only one.
First. Okay. With us.