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WLWV Board Room: And welcome you to the podium, and we'll start with Westland High School sky gongs.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig. And School Board members. I just want to thank you again for the opportunity to share everything that is happening at Westlin. I don't have a time to update on, just because it hasn't been too long since I last saw you guys. but we do have a couple of things that happen in November. That's super exciting. And then some excited events for

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WLWV Board Room: December. So one of the really exciting things starting off in the top left hand corner is our boys football team won the 6 a State championships first time since 2,016. So that was very exciting for them. It was a great time, very cold, very rainy, but it was really fun.

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WLWV Board Room: and then we also collected over 50 boxes of can food drive items to donate to different local charities, which was also really exciting.

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WLWV Board Room: And then for December we have 2 really big events before our break. Starting with the it's a change from last year. It's the Westlands got talent pageant

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WLWV Board Room: which the big event is going to be this Saturday at 7 Pm. Everyone is welcome, but basically different clubs and teams. A couple are shown up here. We have robotics, the chair team, Thespians.

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WLWV Board Room: They get to participate in different games and dress up days, and then they collect points, and then the winners get

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WLWV Board Room: certain amount of money based on their points, and half goes to their club or a charity, and then the other half goes to a selected charity.

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so it's really exciting. It's going all this week. It ends on Saturday.

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WLWV Board Room: and then this week, and next week we have winner Fest, which is leading up to break. There's a lot of fun activities, including I caught chocolate candy canes, cookies all throughout the week for lunch, and then there's also dress of days on the right hand side. We have Pj. Hit the slopes hot day, Blanket day. Just

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WLWV Board Room: super fun exciting days leading up to the break. So that should be super super fun. but yeah, so that's this week, and next week that's all I really have for you this month. But I am excited to update you about next month.

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WLWV Board Room: Alright. Thank you so much. Sky, and from Wilsonville High School, Eli Sievers.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig, and School Board. As always, I very much appreciate the time I get to be here to discuss

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WLWV Board Room: events occurring at Wilsonville High School.

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to start off by congratulating our football team after their very long season for earning the second place title at State Championships. It was an exciting game, consistently going back and forth and score.

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WLWV Board Room: Our winter sports have kicked off with multiple basketball games. This past weekend we have seen some great wins from both our girls and boys teams with our boys team winning a recent tournament just on Sunday.

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WLWV Board Room: We are excited for other upcoming Richards sports, which include swimming.

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WLWV Board Room: wrestling, and snowboarding, which is very popular this year.

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WLWV Board Room: Next this Saturday we will be hosting a holiday bizarre, which is a great way to enjoy the holidays while connecting to our local community. I invite you all to enjoy lots of food, beverages, and fun activities.

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WLWV Board Room: The proceeds from the table rentals and the raffle will benefit Doran Becker, Dornbecker, Children's Hospital.

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WLWV Board Room: I'd also like to introduce 2 new classes coming next semester, which include child development and a dual language creative writing class

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WLWV Board Room: the new dual language class is a great opportunity for students to learn multiple subjects in both English and Spanish.

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WLWV Board Room: The Child Development class is the first in our education cte pathway

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WLWV Board Room: with hopes of providing more cte options in the future.

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WLWV Board Room: Finally, our leadership team has been working on creating a winter assembly and spirit week before upcoming winter break, and which you're all very excited about.

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WLWV Board Room: I can't wait to show you all the fun things that we come up with.

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WLWV Board Room: Now. I would love to take this opportunity to do my job as a student representative, which is to represent the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of all students at Wilsonville High School, including my own.

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WLWV Board Room: I understand that recently there have been numerous books being requested to be removed from our libraries for varying reasons

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WLWV Board Room: after multiple discussions with students at Wilsonville High School. I've come to the conclusion that these books should remain in our libraries.

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WLWV Board Room: I understand and appreciate the concerns of parents. However, it is not reasonable for parents to choose what other students can and cannot read

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WLWV Board Room: by removing these books from our libraries, is reducing student freedom and blocking access to books that some may find inspirational rather than inappropriate.

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WLWV Board Room: I found that some of these books include characters that students could relate to including myself.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the titles that was requested to be banned was Heart stopper by Alice Osman. I discussed it with 3 students who had read this title, and they insisted that there were no issues with it. In fact, they thought it had represented some of the population at Wilsonville.

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WLWV Board Room: By removing these books they'd be devaluing ideas and stories that some parents simply don't agree with.

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WLWV Board Room: Again, I appreciate the parents voice, but I care much more about the students

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WLWV Board Room: where I should be removed. Books that can help inspire students. Why should we reduce the freedom of choice?

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WLWV Board Room: Nobody is being forced to read these books, so we believe that we should let them stay. Thank you very much.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, thank you, Eli, and from

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WLWV Board Room: it's currently an eighth grader. But next year at Riverside High school

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WLWV Board Room: Charlotte Wagner.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! My name is Charlotte I'm. An eighth grader at Rosemont Middle School.

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WLWV Board Room: Next year I will be attending Riverside High School.

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WLWV Board Room: I believe that Riverside High School provide many opportunities for me and the students there.

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WLWV Board Room: Personally, i'm excited to meet new people. I'm also looking forward to academic opportunities, and having access to sports teams.

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WLWV Board Room: Riverside has finished the process of its new Logos. We're excited to share those with you today.

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WLWV Board Room: The logo process started last month

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WLWV Board Room: march with students from both high schools creating logo pitches.

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WLWV Board Room: Since that point the riverside team, along with the high school students have been working with varsity brands to complete the logo suite and get it ready for the unveiling.

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WLWV Board Room: Personally, I like all of them.

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WLWV Board Room: Riverside held its early enrollment window in November.

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WLWV Board Room: in December. Riverside will host a family social held on Tuesday, December the thirteenth, at 6 o'clock.

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WLWV Board Room: We're excited to come together as a new community and get to know other students and families that will be attending Riverside.

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WLWV Board Room: The next enrollment period will be open. In January

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WLWV Board Room: we're excited to continue to grow as a community. If students and families are interested. Please feel free to reach out to RHS for more information.

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WLWV Board Room: We will continue to hold community meetings each month as we move closer to the opening of the school.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Charlotte. and of course you students know you are welcome to stay as long as you'd like, and and no, you know you're welcome to leave whenever you feel ready as well.

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WLWV Board Room: and with that we'll move on to recognition. We have the K through 12 engineering and robotics program. representatives here today, and we have Dr. Jennifer Spencer, I am who's going to come on up and tell us about it.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much. I am just thrilled to be able to present to you a little tiny sliver of the amazing work that's happening in our schools.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm thinking about STEM as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics all throughout our schools. We're going to particularly highlight

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WLWV Board Room: one program tonight, but we wanted to give the context of what's going on in many schools around. in fact, in all of our schools

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WLWV Board Room: around STEM, it really fits with our mission about creating great

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WLWV Board Room: thinkers and thoughtful people and creating learning communities. So that kind of learning around inquiry and relevance really fits all the work around STEM engineering and robotics that we're going to fit to Look at today. So we're trying because i'm presenting about technology. I'm not the most techy person. But I thought, I can't just come with Google slides

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WLWV Board Room: when i'm presenting about technology. So hopefully, this will all work. It worked in the preview. So when I put my finger up. We'll advance nice.

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WLWV Board Room: So STEM-based education teaches children more than science and mathematic concepts

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WLWV Board Room: the focus on hands on learning with real word

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WLWV Board Room: world applications helps deliver a variety of skill sets, including creativity and twenty-first century skills, so that's what we're really focusing on. And we have representations of STEM all throughout all of our schools. So first let's just talk briefly about primary schools

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WLWV Board Room: and in Westland. Wilsonville

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WLWV Board Room: work at primary schools happens engaging students in STEM, both from classroom teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: but also through teacher librarians. You it's not uncommon to walk into a primary school and see some sort of inquiry. Science engineering projects set up in the library, and students may come in individually or in groups to participate and get their curiosity going and moving forward.

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WLWV Board Room: I here's a just a tiny clip of a student at one of our primary schools.

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WLWV Board Room: I think. Go ahead and push that one again.

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WLWV Board Room: So what that student is doing? She's exploring with what's called an ozo BoT, I believe, which is actually programming, actually coding by using different colors that Ozo BoT reads the colors and it teaches it different things to do so. It's a more simplified form, the very beginnings of that robotics thinking so. I just love seeing this student getting so excited, just exploring and seeing what might be happening there at the young child level around

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WLWV Board Room: moving from primary schools, all of our Middle schools have made an investment in creating both spaces and programs and amazing staff that are leading students through different sorts of STEM work. So we have a teachers that each

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WLWV Board Room: of our middle schools that are special specializing in hosting maker spaces that allow open-ended projects

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WLWV Board Room: inquiry and lots of learning that becomes very hands on and relevant for all of our students in middle schools. All take turns in those STEM spaces through different classes as an elective or related arts class

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WLWV Board Room: When we think about, where does the work of STEM fit? It fits in many places, so it fits in our traditional science classes, whether it's a physics class that might have some very engaging science experiments also true in middle school and primary school as well, or whether it's

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WLWV Board Room: math classes that are really doing applied learning whether it's computer science courses or specifically our cte career technical education courses. So just as a reminder for folks that are in the audience

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WLWV Board Room: we you can see that at Westland High School one of the pathways that they have is engineering and technology, and at Wilsonville one of the pathways that they have is computer programming. So those are

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WLWV Board Room: career and technical education pathways, meaning multiple courses that help a student. Both explore a subject and go deeper and prepare for post secondary learning or career in that area of work as well. Also, just shout out to remember riverside's got some exciting new cte courses coming on, and we heard from Eli that cte is expanding in education at Wilsonville coming up so

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WLWV Board Room: engineering can live in those cte pathways, but it also lives in co-curricular or outside the school day in some very exciting way. So we want to first head over to Wilsonville High School very quickly here

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WLWV Board Room: and talk about error code 0,

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WLWV Board Room: which was our original High School robotics program. And it is an amazing program that has been led primarily by community mentors who have given of their time and committed to supporting students.

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WLWV Board Room: really deepening their learning through robotics competitions. And I believe Tim Bennington Davis is here.

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WLWV Board Room: and they certainly collaborate with staff during the school day as well. But these mentors have been are people who work out in the community that are giving up their time and supporting this program.

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WLWV Board Room: so we thought it'd be fun for you to see when every year error, code 0 when they develop their new robot for the year they have an unveiling video. So this is a very short video when they unveiled Sparky last year. So here comes Sparky from Wilsonville.

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WLWV Board Room: If you've never been to a robotics competition, you might be going. What is happening here.

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WLWV Board Room: These are a 100% student designed and student built

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WLWV Board Room: every year robotics. Competition has some tasks

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WLWV Board Room: and at the competition you'll see robots performing in all different sorts of ways with some students

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WLWV Board Room: who worked on the software. Other students who are driving the robots, other students who have helped with some of the surrounding tasks.

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WLWV Board Room: So much teamwork happens in our robotics programs the kind of work that employers are always telling us that they want. They want kids who can communicate who can work together and moving into the work world. So big shout out to our Wilson Bells Team and Error Code 0.

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WLWV Board Room: And after we finish this presentation we'll invite all of them up here so you can cheer them on a little bit more and ask them a few more questions. So

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WLWV Board Room: it used to be that Wilson Bell hosted our only robotics

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WLWV Board Room: competition program, and so they were very welcoming and open. And so some students from Westland would travel over to Wilsonville and be part of your code 0 team, which was fantastic. but then along came someone really special that we want to honor tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: Mr. Tim Maine and he can scroll in there.

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WLWV Board Room: Tim really dedicated himself and had a vision, for how could we grow a robotics program at Westland High School as well. And what was amazing is that Tim has

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WLWV Board Room: mit ctl and grown it in a way of during the school day and after the school day. So he has students both in classes and coursework, where they may be building, designing, working on the skills 150

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WLWV Board Room: that then they can apply in the after school robotics, competitions as well. Tim is that kind of person who we might call him a student magnet. Someone who knows kids well taught math before he did. Ct: Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: and then was able to bring in this passion for engineering robotics and support that has really grown the program.

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WLWV Board Room: Just a quick shout out to remote Douglas, too, and one of the ways cross pollination keeps happening. Tim reached out to Remote to see if he could come and give a presentation about some of the many building projects that are going on in our district right now, and some of the engineering problems that happen between those

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WLWV Board Room: and remote came in, and they students really got to explore in real life. What are some of those engineering challenges, and how are they solved? So just love both that Tim reached out and that remote was able to make himself available.

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WLWV Board Room: So Tim has grown a huge program

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WLWV Board Room: they have a lot of fun again designing building robots with a lot of

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WLWV Board Room: creativity, teamwork communication problem, solving mentorship outside mentors that support and come in that are again recruited by Tim and the team as well.

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WLWV Board Room: It's quite a large team. let's go to the next slide

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WLWV Board Room: and they have performed extremely well at the State regional levels, and last year went to the world's competition and scored very high in the world's competition as well.

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WLWV Board Room: So one of the things that Tim says that is always struck stuck with me is that everyone on robotics can go pro.

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WLWV Board Room: One of the other things that we really wanted to highlight. Is that Tim, and there's a couple of members of to be determined in the audience here today, so let's give them a hand.

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WLWV Board Room: one of whom also designed that

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WLWV Board Room: riverside logo again. More cross-pollination going on so one of the things that we wanted to highlight tonight was how the members of this team are always working to be inclusive, to diversify and to bring more students into STEM into this kind of learning and that excitement. And so one of the things that was captured recently was a camp

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WLWV Board Room: that the high school students, under the support and facilitation of Mr. Manus organize. But really the students did a lot of the work in bringing younger students into the work here. So we just wanted to play that video for you really, quickly.

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WLWV Board Room: So I've been wanting to get up here and honor Tim for quite some time, because he's really just done amazing work getting this program up and off the ground, and of course honoring our amazing partners at Wilsonville as well. but this was the perfect week, because this, in fact, is the kick off of computer science Education Week, nationally. December fifth, through 11,

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WLWV Board Room: and one of the exciting things that happens is what's called hour of code, and I first heard about our code about 11 years ago from the man in the booth. Kurt Nelson up there. And who is our it?

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WLWV Board Room: Head Guru here in the school district, and he encouraged us to encourage all teachers to think about hour of code and have students get involved and just try it. Just try some coding, get get dip their toes in just a little bit.

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WLWV Board Room: and to just finish this off. I wanted to show one last slide. And this is if you Google hour of code.

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WLWV Board Room: you will come up with a wonderful website that has lots of resources on it. Many activities to do that. You could do it. That families could do at home with their kids or teachers could do in the classroom with students or students could just do on their own. And I just really appreciated that Nobel

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WLWV Board Room: our nontraditional students in STEM, which is now, I must say, in our district it's that's really not true. Non traditionally more. Our STEM is really equally represented, male and female, and a very gender balance. So that's a lot of hard work that has supported everyone feeling welcome

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WLWV Board Room: and engaged in this. So please join me in honoring Tim, honoring to be determined honoring error, code, 0 honor to be honoring our middle and primary school teachers, and having great STEM education in our schools.

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WLWV Board Room: It must be something about the name, Tim. Okay, to to lead a robotics group. Yeah, Jim and Tim.

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WLWV Board Room: I I don't have anything to say. I I will tell you that. we have an amazing group of students at Western High School that put in countless hours

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WLWV Board Room: during our regular build season. Each student spends about 30 h a week after school building a robot, and we have about 7 weeks before competition starts. Our competition season starts on January seventh. This year the whole world learns the game. It's new every year, and the students will sit down and

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WLWV Board Room: design their robot, and this is Anika Sukumar. She is our marketing lead. This is Max Dodge. She is the design lead, and this is Lauren Galt. She is one of the mechanical leads on the team.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah, so we can just tell you guys a little bit

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WLWV Board Room: about what we do. so i'm the marketing.

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WLWV Board Room: yeah. So like Mr. Maya, said I'm Anika. I'm the marketing lead for the team. i'm on a subgroup which we call the mob which stands for marketing outreach business

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WLWV Board Room: kind of the behind the scenes of the team. A lot of people assume that robotics is just engineering. but it's definitely more than that.

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WLWV Board Room: and I joined sophomore year. I wish I had known that there was kind of this side to the team as well. I probably would have joined earlier. But what I get to do is handle a lot of the communication that comes in and out of the team work with graphic design, designing the Logos and just branding for certain camps things like that.

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WLWV Board Room: And then, when we go to our competitions I get to tell some of the judges about all the community events that we do, and help plan camps along with the other leads in my group. and so we can kind of make things like the camp that you just saw happen which is really exciting.

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WLWV Board Room: So it's really cool when people kind of hear about mob when they come and learn about robotics, because, say, someone isn't interested in just the engineering side of STEM, they can come in and still learn about the or the communications, or just the people's skills side, too.

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WLWV Board Room: so i'm the design lead, and in robotics there is an insane amount of strategy.

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WLWV Board Room: all right, and by sure, Thompson, thank you. I just continue to visit ptas and pss, and all the different names they have. in my desire to get around to every single school and just interact with those volunteers that

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. So just a quick summary, and I I appreciate eli and sky bringing this summary forward to. So i'm going to be a little redundant. We've got winter co-curricular activities that have started and I was able to attend both football games. It was a long day at Hillsborough Stadium out in the rain, but got to

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WLWV Board Room: more than one person, which in this case there's quite a bit interest in a few of our books.

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WLWV Board Room: and it has been presented publicly. Then I will share those findings of the review group here with the Board in a public meeting

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WLWV Board Room: or relocating one or 7 of the text to other advisory locations. Does this book need to be with just middle or high, or middle and high? We'll. We'll kind of see

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WLWV Board Room: if there's any kind of advice on that. Or if there's an advice to remove a book or books, so that will be the determination of the Review group.

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WLWV Board Room: And then do you want to note, and just a reminder that the books that have been brought forward to the Board and to us those 8 texts in particular are not required reading books, so no one is forced to read the books. They are self selected. They're optional.

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WLWV Board Room: We have a few copies in the libraries. Students can select them on their own time, choose to read them or not.

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WLWV Board Room: and parents always have the ability to restrict any book that they don't want their child to check out.

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WLWV Board Room: So there shouldn't. If If a parent really does have a concern about a particular text, they can talk to the library and say, I don't want my child to have access to that text, even though it's in the library, and then through our destiny system, we can put a tag on that and make sure that that happens.

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WLWV Board Room: and i'll try it back over to you. Chair King, for the next item. All right, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: couple of items in there. Is there a motion I moved that we passed the consent of the we approved the consent agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: Excuse me, I second alright. There's our motion. Our second. Will you please call the vote

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WLWV Board Room: Kelly Slope.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, Chelsea King! Hi, Christie Thompson! All right, thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. Great. So we are going to move on to communications and comments from the public. And If you are here and you want to speak

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WLWV Board Room: then you needed to sign up on this sheet of paper. So if you're here and you want to speak, and you have not yet done that.

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WLWV Board Room: all right. So this is how this works.

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WLWV Board Room: Public comment has gotten to be an extensive enough process that we have a one page sort of protocol that we follow. So i'll update you all on that.

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WLWV Board Room: First of all, thanks for being here. I know it's cold and dark, and you're present to give us your opinions, and we want to listen to them. And that's basically what we do. As we listen. It's not a dialogue, so you won't hear us. you know we respond. we'll just listen.

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WLWV Board Room: we all go through the list and call people, and you'll come up we invite you to state your name and address. That's partially because we we want to hear from folks who live in the district first, so i'll be looking for that, as I call folks up

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WLWV Board Room: and of course we yeah, I just leave it there.

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WLWV Board Room: let's see here what else? oh, if you want to insult somebody or single out an individual. We have a different process for you to do that. so I I ask you not to do that, but we'll follow like a complaint process. if that's what what you want to do. that won't be something that happens at the podium.

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WLWV Board Room: I think it's a quite a good length of time. You can be quite effective in 3 min.

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WLWV Board Room: if you are done with 3 min, and that thing will be but you. I prefer not to have to cut people off. but I will. just for fairness sake, and also because we have 45 min allotted to this, and we have a lot of people signed up and we have more things on the agenda to get through as well after public comment. So that's why we have time constraints.

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WLWV Board Room: Second, folks up are people who live in the district, but are coming in remotely. Third folks up, or people who do not live in the district, and are here present, and the fourth wave of folks are people who do not live in the district and are coming in remotely, so that will be the process that I follow

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WLWV Board Room: yeah, that's I think that's a reasonable request. I'll say one other thing, and then i'll see if that person is here.

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WLWV Board Room: Some folks get nervous when they come up to the podium, or they don't want to do it. you can write us. We read all the emails. And so that's another option for communicating with us.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, Great let's start with you, because I remember you were here last time, and didn't get an opportunity to speak. We run out of time. come on up, and please state your name, and where you live, and then you're welcome to get started. Thank you. Oh, we i'm sorry. One more thing. I'm sorry to have so many rules, but I gotta try to like keep this we're not gonna boo or clock.

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WLWV Board Room: to keep facilitating this. Thank you. Go ahead all right, Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Dr. Ludwig. Assistant superintendents and board members.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Tammy Gatlin, and it is a privilege to be here as an educator myself. I appreciate all that you do in supporting students and families.

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WLWV Board Room: I was here last meeting. It was a very interesting meeting. I'm glad I experienced it, and thank you for letting me go first tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: I attended the October third board meeting when you approved or opened the Inner district transfers for the remainder of the 2223 school year.

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WLWV Board Room: Our family is hopeful that this is the first step in opening up the Antarctic transfers

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WLWV Board Room: for the 2,324 school year, which includes high school

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WLWV Board Room: you remember me through my email. I emailed all of you in September to share about our story.

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WLWV Board Room: my son is an eighth grader he is. He currently attends horizon. middle School. Michael. His name is Michael Michael attended Beckman Creek, K. Through 4 we loved Beckman Creek, especially Lindy's brow.

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WLWV Board Room: Miss Carleton, I could go on and on he we always plan to move Michael to Horizon for middle school, and then for him to return to the High School.

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WLWV Board Room: and very, very unexpectedly last year we had an opportunity that we did not expect that we moved across the river. We live on Prairie View Drive, which we were able to purchase a home with some land 150

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WLWV Board Room: So i'm here this evening to ask the Board and our superintendent's office to please open up the inner district transfer for next year for the 2,324 school year. One.

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WLWV Board Room: Michael has had a really great time and an opportunity. May I have 30 s since I wasn't here last night. The problem is that if I did that with everybody, then we would run out of time. So okay, can you wrap up, please. All right. Absolutely. Thank you. so I I was gonna just say that. we are. We we do have a

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WLWV Board Room: all right, so i'm going to go up to the top of the listen to start calling folks down. So if you live in the district. Great If you don't, then please pass, and i'll go on to the next person, Kara Clark.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! My name is Kara Clark, and I live in Westlin, and this is my daughter Madeleine, who want to stay up late to join me today.

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WLWV Board Room: I have 2 elementary school children in the Westland Wilsonville school district, my oldest, the fourth grader that got diagnosed with dyslexia, and was granted an Iep with the district. At the end of last year

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WLWV Board Room: My child is now expected to enter the classroom and start building knowledge without explicit intervention to mediate the lack of tools she has developed from the formative K to 2 years.

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WLWV Board Room: With the science of reading based approach with explicit and structured methods. My child might not be in the same situation that we find ourselves.

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WLWV Board Room: This should not be just a concern for dyslexic parents, but all parents, 75% of children who are not proficient readers by third grade will never catch up

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WLWV Board Room: on the 2,022 naep results for reading organ is 40, fifth in the country, and significantly lower than the national public.

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WLWV Board Room: Since 2,013 Mississippi made the decision to follow the results of the 1,997 national reading panel and transition into the curriculum that supports the science of reading

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WLWV Board Room: Our children deserve the best opportunity we can give them.

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WLWV Board Room: As a parent who has a dyslexic child. We understand personally the challenges and the impact of struggling readers.

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WLWV Board Room: We are asking the partnership with the Administration to be partners, and be included in any discussion on the upcoming curriculum adopted in February.

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WLWV Board Room: choosing to not include the families of the most at risk. Children is like having a diversity committee without any diversity.

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WLWV Board Room: We would also like to give all families a chance to voice their opinions to the administration and multiple community listening sessions with the superintendent

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WLWV Board Room: We are coming to you with open hearts and an understanding of the research

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WLWV Board Room: adopting the science of reading with that will benefit all children in the district.

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WLWV Board Room: We also want the teachers in the district to know that we love and respect them.

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WLWV Board Room: Every teacher I've ever met works with such passion and determination. But I also have the feeling that there are teachers who have more, and for the kids that they have tried and couldn't help.

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WLWV Board Room: Colleges are still even slow to adapting to the science of reading

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WLWV Board Room: with compassion and care. I hope the district will turn the page on this chapter, and embrace the curriculum that really will allow all children to meet their potential.

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WLWV Board Room: All right, Olivia Olmsted.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. My name is Olivia Omsted. I spent 13 years in the Westland. Most of the school district from Kindergarten at Stafford, near my graduation from Westland, in 2,018.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm here this evening to speak about the proposed removal of a number of books from those district libraries. I'd like to start by saying, I support keeping all of these books in our libraries.

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WLWV Board Room: before I continue. I would like to share 2 things about myself. I'm non-binary, and i'm gay.

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WLWV Board Room: I share these facts with you for 3 reasons: one they're an important part of my identity, and they're not a choice nor a political statement. Books did not coerce indoctrinate or trick me into believing these facts about myself. 200,

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WLWV Board Room: and I believe they provide an important insight into what i'm here to speak about.

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WLWV Board Room: I read heart stopper at least half a dozen times, and we read it this weekend to make sure I speak about it in an accurate way.

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WLWV Board Room: Heartstopper is a wholesome coming of age, graphic novel about 2 high school students navigating life and their new relationship

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WLWV Board Room: volume. 2 of the stories use the aftermath of their first kiss, a decision to keep their relationship a secret from their classmates, and one of the characters dealing with bullies.

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WLWV Board Room: This book was previously put forward for removal, based on having sexual graphics all the way through it. However, the characters are never so nude, or do anything more than kiss, making this a completely baseless claim.

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WLWV Board Room: Moving on from that. The one thing I haven't mentioned is who these characters are.

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WLWV Board Room: Their names are Nick and Charlie, and they are 2 boys, which is where this book becomes incredibly important to me.

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WLWV Board Room: as this book wasn't released until 2,019. I did not read it until I was an adult. But if I could go back in time and give this book to my twelve-year-old self.

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WLWV Board Room: at the time. I didn't know any out queer people, and I rarely, if ever, saw myself portrayed positively in books and media.

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WLWV Board Room: This, paired with the social culture I experienced at Westland led me to avoid coming out until after high school.

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WLWV Board Room: having heart stopper where queer characters are shown in a healthy relationship, stumbling through, coming out to friends and family, and just happy, could have helped me begin my journey of coming out, and self-acceptance so much earlier.

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WLWV Board Room: Every parent has the right to raise their children in the way they see fit; and if that means that they don't want them to read heart, supper, or any book in the library, for that matter, because the content makes them uncomfortable, or doesn't align with their values. That is valid, and a discussion they can have within their families. However, every student in this district comes from a different family and background.

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WLWV Board Room: and each has their own set of values and beliefs.

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WLWV Board Room: So, while the contents of this book may be uncomfortable for some they can be incredibly important, and life changing for others. So please don't take these valuable resources from everybody.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for your time.

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WLWV Board Room: Kirsten Groner.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening, Board Members and superintendent. My name is Kirsten Groner, and I per I represent Oregon Mom's Union.

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WLWV Board Room: First of all, with respect you cannot compare prayer to pornography.

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WLWV Board Room: There is no comparison.

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WLWV Board Room: I would like to read to you the definition of pornograph pornographic for the reason that we have presented to the problem that pornographic books are here in our district, and Super, the superintendent has not taken immediate action. Please correct me. If the books have been removed.

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WLWV Board Room: For me. The problem is not only super explicit books, but the entirety of gender theory which applauds such pornographic books in the hands of kids for the sake of public comment. I will limit my scope to porn material in schools.

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WLWV Board Room: pornography, definition, printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity intended to stimulate erotic feelings.

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WLWV Board Room: The Department of Justice states that obscene materials are defined as anything that fits the criteria of the miller test, which may include visual depictions. Spoken words are written text

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WLWV Board Room: punishable by Federal law.

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WLWV Board Room: You are prohibited from the distribution of obscene matter to minors

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WLWV Board Room: At what point does this sink in the fact that his parents we have to beg and petition the superintendent to take action, suggest that perhaps there is a problem with being afraid to seem political, instead of taking a real interest in the well being of children. If you are going to allow the more explicit books in the libraries. The burden of proof does not end up in the parent's lap, but in the gatekeepers of such material

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WLWV Board Room: This is not about your personal preferences.

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WLWV Board Room: It is about the entire district of children.

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WLWV Board Room: Is free speech. Really the problem? Is it within the bounds of free speech to make available such content meant to stimulate erotic feelings in children.

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WLWV Board Room: The argument some may have is, oh, it doesn't mean that anyone will check the books out, Principally speaking, that is a coward's argument at best that is grave ignorance. I've looked up every single question of a book, and more often than not the book is checked out in real time based on the school's catalogue online system. Has the district been using the American Library Association

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WLWV Board Room: as a guide for content? I looked at the current board and officers, Lesa, Emily, Patricia, Tracy, Peter, and they are all neatly, politically aligned in their beliefs. Beliefs that encourage erotic materials to minors.

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WLWV Board Room: The Ala is a criminal source for the district, and I do not believe you want to choose this hill to die on. Don't. Embarrass yourselves.

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WLWV Board Room: Clarify your position of current policy and layman's terms for everyone to understand. Remove books with explicit materials.

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WLWV Board Room: publicly engage with parents to gauge their thoughts and best practice, as well as give them 100% transparency of what is currently in place where I don't know what's in place. Keep the protection of children at the forefront. This should be an obvious stance.

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WLWV Board Room: This is not overreacting. This is not fear-mongering we are not crazy. We are not the ones owning burden of proof you are.

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WLWV Board Room: and this is not met with any disrespect to anyone or anyone's past. How they've experienced life, or how they identify. This is not a disrespectful comment. Thank you so much.

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WLWV Board Room: Tricia Britton.

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WLWV Board Room: and my name is Tricia Britton. I have been standing before both the Board and superintendent since 2,019. When my daughter was in kindergarten at Cedar Oak, I speak for myself and for other concerned parents, who have been requesting for you to choose education over a political agenda for over 3 years. One

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WLWV Board Room: So today i'm here a month after reading porn, and sexually explicit books about eating pussy sucking Dick rape, masturbation, pedophilia, and illicit drug use. While these books still remain in the libraries, 150,

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WLWV Board Room: and after 30 meal emails from parents were sent with disapproval of these books. The books still remain in the library.

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WLWV Board Room: It should not be this hard to remove porn from an Educational Library. It isn't very clear what we are up against. A public post made by a board leader embraces his content, and offers rave reviews to the very explicit book, milk and honey, which is not poetry. It's Porn.

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WLWV Board Room: This post is passive, aggressive, and it's a public display devaluing parental concerns in our district and endorsing the acceptance of pornography solely based on her personal experience. This is unacceptable.

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WLWV Board Room: We're also up against another leader, Our district leader, who justifies the very pornographic material read last month to that of the Song of Solomon in the Bible, and despite multiple emails regarding the concern of these books, response to parents by pushing the responsibility of filtering these graphic books on the parent and not the district. How can we push the responsibility onto parents when there is no active consent for them to fill out.

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WLWV Board Room: and it has already been proven that children can pass these books amongst themselves without parental approval. This is not a secure way of protecting our children to make it simple. Just remove the books. Let me ask you this.

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WLWV Board Room: if book and honey was formatted into a movie.

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WLWV Board Room: I think it would be x rated right, or even considered porn. Or if these words are in sexual images, we're on a teacher's desk. We're there be charges of sexual misconduct. Honestly enough, is enough. This political agenda has gone way too far to be accepted, and is gross, and

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WLWV Board Room: and it's grossly not diligent for our children, just because the alo cancels these literacy, You are the adults responsible to uphold the duty and deliver academic education while providing a safe and age, appropriate environment for students.

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WLWV Board Room: parents, and trust in you to advocate for the protection and preservation of their child's innocence as well, and well being the School Board's responsibility and role as as stakeholders is to implement policies and procedures then to be executed by the superintendent. It is then the job of the superintendent to oversee that these policies and procedures are in place. Therefore I'm asking you again, elected board members from the county before parental and community involvement to implement the library book selection process. Remove the books currently in the district that have sexually explicit content.

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and make sure to keep them out.

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WLWV Board Room: Work with the Board work work with the Board to form a policy that will adhere to all of the above, and prioritize protecting children. At the end of the day students go home to their parents. To remove the control at a parents's hands is a gross disservice to parental rights.

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WLWV Board Room: We are not asking a student's permission or thoughts on explicit books. We are asking the district to protect our children from this content. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Karen. So. But

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WLWV Board Room: all right. Well, my name is Karen already, and I have an 11 year old daughter in sixth grade at Rosemont Ridge, Middle School.

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WLWV Board Room: Me and many other parents and community members came to the November district meeting, and spoke on the overtly sexual books that are disgracing in our schools libraries.

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WLWV Board Room: I anticipated seeing this topic on the agenda for this month, but has gone unacknowledged on the agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, you won't bring it up on the agenda. We will continue showing up and bringing it to your attention.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm calling upon the Board to fix this oversight in our district's policies, we currently have no policy or procedure for choosing books for the school libraries. Yes, librarians, check certain websites and use those to choose books, but that is not a policy nor procedure. There are also no guidelines for what is acceptable, and what is not 100.

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WLWV Board Room: It is completely at the whim of one person. At each school

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WLWV Board Room: I asked the Board to create a committee, not a review group that changes. But a committee of school district employees and district parents that represent multiple viewpoints have this committee create guidelines to what is acceptable. Books for our school district

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WLWV Board Room: Have that committee create a policy procedure on how to choose. These books

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WLWV Board Room: have that committee, review current books and libraries keep or remove books that are in line or not with that policy, and all future books will go through this committee, this one select group to ensure that guidelines are being upheld.

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WLWV Board Room: The websites that are currently being used are not parents and members of our Westland Wilsonville school district. They are not raising families here and attending vents and living their life within our community.

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WLWV Board Room: They are sharing information they have, and their opinion.

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WLWV Board Room: But that does not mean. That is what the parents of this school district want hearing the voices of the actual members of this district is what this board is here for. I ask that you put aside your likes and political views and listen to the voices of this community.

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WLWV Board Room: The Board is not allowed to interact with audiences as we speak, or while you conduct your meeting. But after the last meeting a Board leader chose to interact with concerns via social media.

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WLWV Board Room: calling the book milk and honey, excellent, powerful, beautiful, and poignant

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WLWV Board Room: mit Ctl. And and expressing gratitude at the group of adults that angrily read it. I can't help but take offense to this underhanded slap at the brave parents that came here and took their time and money to show you all the filth that is in the library. 101

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WLWV Board Room: graphic images of women fingering themselves fingers with vagina juices. Ripping off of them is not any of those words that person use.

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WLWV Board Room: Pornographic images are not met for children period.

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WLWV Board Room: It is not on us as parents, to make you understand that it is on you to try and make us understand how porn in the hands of children could ever be acceptable.

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WLWV Board Room: Start explaining that, and i'm sure we'll come to the same conclusion. It's illegal, and it needs to stop.

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WLWV Board Room: Porn does not have a place.

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WLWV Board Room: My daughter is a sexual assault victim. Her story does not have a place.

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WLWV Board Room: She was

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WLWV Board Room: assaulted by a young boy who's addicted to Porn at 15 years old.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm guessing he probably had a book like this in his hand.

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WLWV Board Room: The books are not about being gay.

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WLWV Board Room: the books are not about being non-binary.

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WLWV Board Room: That's not the concern. The concern is the sexual conduct represent the gay community better.

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WLWV Board Room: Barbara Steinberg.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening. My name is Barbara Steinberg, and I am here on behalf of every student in this district who deserves the right to learn how to read. Professionally, I have trained more than 18,000 educators from 400 plus school districts.

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WLWV Board Room: in all 50 States, and in 17 countries, on the topic of reading, assessment, instruction, and dyslexia. I also happen to be a parent of 2 Westland students. So suffice it to say, my roots in this community are very deep one.

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WLWV Board Room: The National Association of Educational Progress reports that 64% of fourth graders are reading at or below basic levels, and there has been minimal growth in reading outcomes over the last decade

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WLWV Board Room: in a top ranked school district, such as Westland Wilsonville, you'd assume the vast majority of students are meeting benchmarks and reading.

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WLWV Board Room: However, 44% of third graders in this district are not meeting State grade level benchmarks.

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WLWV Board Room: There is very good news. However.

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WLWV Board Room: 95% of students have the cognitive capacity to learn how to read

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WLWV Board Room: decades of neuroscience research provide insight on how students learn to read.

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WLWV Board Room: and the science has implications for how to teach reading

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WLWV Board Room: and how schools can help struggling readers.

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WLWV Board Room: The research confirms that strong readers decode

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WLWV Board Room: a focus on foundational skills in the early grade is essential for future reading success.

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WLWV Board Room: In fact, 79% of the variance in high school reading ability can be accounted for by the intensity of foundational skills instruction in first grade.

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WLWV Board Room: The problem is that Westland Wilsonville's curriculum for beginning reading instruction fails to align with science.

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WLWV Board Room: Lucy Culkins, readers and writers, workshop and fonts and Pennell's level literacy. Instruction do not teach foundational skills explicitly and systematically

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WLWV Board Room: while these curricula have strength, and exposing children to a variety of text, and creating a culture that celebrates literacy, they do not teach children how to decode words.

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WLWV Board Room: A child who fails to read adequately in first grade has a 90% probability of reading poorly. In fourth grade.

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WLWV Board Room: 44% of Westland Wilsonville students are not skilled readers by third grade.

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WLWV Board Room: The delta between where we're at

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WLWV Board Room: and where science says we can be.

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WLWV Board Room: should implore us to take action. As we look at a new curriculum

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WLWV Board Room: for our beginning readers, so that we can get every child to be a skilled reader.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. I think this, says Paul RAM.

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WLWV Board Room: That's all right.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for this opportunity. I have 4 children in the Western and Wilsonville School district. I live in Westland.

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WLWV Board Room: We do have an opportunity to do a great thing for the children, families, and teachers in this district

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WLWV Board Room: in the spring, or sometime really. Next year we get to identify and implement a better-readed curriculum.

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WLWV Board Room: It's going to be the curriculum that effectively. Reaches the most children, and provides the best tools to

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WLWV Board Room: for learning how to read. Now it's important to do this right this time, because

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WLWV Board Room: for the last several years we've had a curriculum that doesn't effectively and efficiently teach our kids how to read.

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WLWV Board Room: Apart from many anecdotal stories from parents, we have this 56%. That was just cited

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WLWV Board Room: our district with all its advantages

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WLWV Board Room: only as 56% of third graders reading at grade level.

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WLWV Board Room: This contrast with the Lake Oswego school district.

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WLWV Board Room: which has

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WLWV Board Room: 76% of their kids are at the third are able to achieve that level.

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WLWV Board Room: and they achieve that

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WLWV Board Room: after train changing from a curriculum similar to ours to a different system.

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WLWV Board Room: So why are we failing our students, or at least the 44% right? What are the variables to consider?

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WLWV Board Room: One variable to consider would be, of course, the children, the kids themselves right?

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WLWV Board Room: We can't blame the kids. They want to learn.

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WLWV Board Room: It's our job to teach them. Let's have some accountability and not blame the kids.

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WLWV Board Room: And besides, our kids are probably statistically the same as any other kids in their districts.

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WLWV Board Room: The parents are also a variable.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't think we can blame the parents looking at the parents, for this is misplaced, even though parents do a lot if they help their kids, learn how to read

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WLWV Board Room: the teachers. Is that another variable. Yes, it certainly has a very direct variable.

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WLWV Board Room: I doubt that we can really point to the teachers as the fault here. This is an attractive district to teach it. I'm certain

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WLWV Board Room: that when we hire interview and hire teachers, we're getting some awfully good teachers.

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WLWV Board Room: but they largely have to work with the curriculum that's imposed upon them.

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WLWV Board Room: So what about that curriculum? Is that another variable? Yes, it certainly is. It's a fourth variable.

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WLWV Board Room: and I would contend that it's probably the most significant period.

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WLWV Board Room: and happily.

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WLWV Board Room: that's the easiest variable to change, and we get to look at that. We get to examine that.

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WLWV Board Room: Why is that curriculum failing our children.

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WLWV Board Room: if it one as curious about that, as many parents in this district probably ought to be, there is a lot of readily available information that can be reviewed.

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WLWV Board Room: My many media outlets have examined the question of the effectiveness of our

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WLWV Board Room: curriculum on balance literacy. You can find, like the articles in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Forbes Seattle Times, perhaps the most comprehensive and consistent with the others. That is, a 6 part podcast prepared by a reporter aid

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Emily Hanford.

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WLWV Board Room: published by American public media and title

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WLWV Board Room: Erez Agmoni sold the story again. That's Emily Hamford. American Public Media titled sold a story that's required listening for any district, determining whether they want to continue with this curriculum or change into one that's more effective. 150.

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WLWV Board Room: I only have 5 s left. I have plenty more to say.

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WLWV Board Room: but I would encourage anybody interested to please research the issue and this system.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Lennell

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WLWV Board Room: van der Molen.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! I live at 2, 2, 2, 6 to Southwest Stafford Road

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WLWV Board Room: and

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WLWV Board Room: i'm not one of the parents that has reviewed all the books.

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WLWV Board Room: but i'd like to say that there is no such thing as a pornography deficiency. There is no such thing as a child who needs to read pornography, either in images or in writing; and the most important thing for you to know

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WLWV Board Room: is that it's against the law, and

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WLWV Board Room: this precedent has not been set in Oregon yet, but in another state.

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WLWV Board Room: A parent finally took matters into her own hands

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WLWV Board Room: and went to the law and filed a police complaint against the school district superintendent, who would not remove pornographic material for their school, and that superintendent was arrested.

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WLWV Board Room: and I think it might have to come down to that in this state, but I don't think you want to flirt with that.

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WLWV Board Room: No child needs pornography as part of a lived experience. They can trade their lived experiences when they are adults.

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WLWV Board Room: This early sexualization of children is obscene, and it makes me question the mindset of of adults who want to do that to them

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WLWV Board Room: Now there's no there's no comparison between pornography

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WLWV Board Room: and this, and a prayer meeting at school just like a previous speaker had said. And if you think that they compare with each other, it's like you don't have any critical thinking skills, and you shouldn't be in academics, if that's the way you think. But you're flirting with taking this a step further. If you don't

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WLWV Board Room: do what parents want, you're supposed to represent parents, you're not supposed to represent your own ideology to us.

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WLWV Board Room: So that's your job. Thank you.

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You.

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WLWV Board Room: Yeah. Yeah. I just want to make sure I have my microphones on Charles Steele.

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WLWV Board Room: Oh, sorry

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WLWV Board Room: good evening. Distinguished members of the School Board. My name is Charles Steele. I'm a 32 year member of this community. I volunteer my time as a coach.

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WLWV Board Room: and I like like many parents I'm concerned. I'd like to share with you an obscene and pornographic passage from a popular book that is wildly, widely available throughout the district.

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WLWV Board Room: and they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay last yesterday with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou in and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father that is Genesis 1,933 to 34. That is the first book of the Old Testament that is incest and date rape.

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WLWV Board Room: apparently taking taking passages out of context, is no longer relevant.

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WLWV Board Room: I doubt. I need to remind you that no government who has banned books has been remembered fondly. You can ask a history teacher. The only thing Banning books does is benefit People like me straight white men. When a band, when you ban a book you silence a voice. You tell a speaker they are not worthy of being heard by those in power; and to quote the comedian, Bo Burnham, our country's constitution was handwritten by my race.

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WLWV Board Room: Go ahead, Ban Lgbtq voices it. Hasn't been a whole month since their blood was spilled as a reminder that they do not belong. Remove their voice from education. Improve my influence. Please take away the voices of Rupaul Milk, Matthew Shepherd. And now, Kotech, take their voice. So we do not have to hear them, because it won't be long until mine is the only voice you hear.

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WLWV Board Room: because this doesn't end, it will be too upsetting to hear the voices of those who are persecuted for their face, like Malala or we cell race will be too difficult for our students to face. We simply cannot hear from you, Maya, Angelou, Malcolm, Hayley, Baldwin, or James to Priest.

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WLWV Board Room: It's best for our students to never think too critically, so let's quiet down the likes of Susan Be. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt and Secretary Albright, after their all their lives, were extremely graphic and sure to upset the selective reader. You can always read about Clinton, Epstein, Chief Justice Taney, Jefferson Davis, and Tom Metzger, though.

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WLWV Board Room: make no mistake. These are bad faith arguments. You can ask a philosopher or a lawyer.

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WLWV Board Room: They're using rhetorical device to make you believe there is substance to their quote. I don't want our children to learn about this book. They are telling you, only I do not want our children to learn

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WLWV Board Room: the question reframed, how much of me will be taught at the sacrifice of you

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WLWV Board Room: paying the books. My influence grows doesn't. Harm me one bit.

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WLWV Board Room: or continue

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WLWV Board Room: to allow our children to be educated by the best professionals in the state. The professionals who challenge the preconception of the fully voiced, and let's speak those who are marginalized. I also benefit. I get to hear the voices of the marginalized, the disenfranchised, and I get to learn. I'm able to grow. I'm how I am able to make the world a better place for everyone, because I get to hear from everyone, especially if their stories make me uncomfortable.

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WLWV Board Room: It is either better for just me or everyone, including me.

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WLWV Board Room: How is it so easy for you to be kind to people? He asked.

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WLWV Board Room: Milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered.

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WLWV Board Room: Because people have not been kind to me.

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WLWV Board Room: That's Rooty core that is milk and honey. That is a book they want to ban.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you, Members of the School Board. I trust you will build a longer table and not a higher fence.

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WLWV Board Room: The Wilsonville High School Book Club.

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WLWV Board Room: Good evening.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Elliott Bartlett.

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WLWV Board Room: My name is Macy Moore. We are seniors at Wilsonville High School and founders and presidents of the Wilsonville High School Book Club.

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WLWV Board Room: We would like to make a statement regarding the list of books being challenged in our school library

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WLWV Board Room: as avid readers. We understand the power of a story.

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WLWV Board Room: Books allow us all of us to connect and empathize with ideas and situations that we might not otherwise be familiar with.

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WLWV Board Room: and it leads to a more emotionally intelligent population.

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WLWV Board Room: We have grown up with this truth.

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WLWV Board Room: We have seen firsthand the effect that reading a variety of books has on a student, as they are learning about the world.

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WLWV Board Room: Books provide a lens through which anyone can see these difficult topics which in turn provides readers readers with awareness and empathy

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WLWV Board Room: as students. Our goal is to learn

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WLWV Board Room: to expand our knowledge, worldview and to grow as people.

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WLWV Board Room: This is what most students strive for.

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WLWV Board Room: Reading is one of the best ways to do. Just that, and taking books out of our libraries will directly contradict

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WLWV Board Room: our desire to be well. 100 people.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, many of the books being challenged, deal with difficult, difficult topics, some even including sexual assault.

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WLWV Board Room: but censoring and ignoring them? Is not the answer. Exposure to difficult topics is the first step.

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WLWV Board Room: towards change.

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WLWV Board Room: We want change, and we want to make the world a better place.

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WLWV Board Room: And so we ask you not to ban these books.

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WLWV Board Room: Please do not take these opportunities to empathize with the harsh realities of the world away from us.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: There's the noise that you hear as part of the

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WLWV Board Room: inside of the building. So don't worry about that noise. It's not uncommon.

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WLWV Board Room: I can't read the first name, but it's Finky. It's the last name.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

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WLWV Board Room: Hi! My name is Wolf Finky I'm from Wilsonville and I originally came here with a full speech to give out that I pre-wrote, but I changed it to just a few points i'd like to speak from the heart.

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WLWV Board Room: I hope it goes well.

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WLWV Board Room: but for this first minute I just like to speak from the heart. The first thing my mom told me was be respectful. She had to whisper it to me before I came up here. I will try my best

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WLWV Board Room: first things first.

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WLWV Board Room: Sex is terrifying.

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WLWV Board Room: It scares me to my core.

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WLWV Board Room: And because of this, if sex is terrifying to me, I think we should ban sexual education.

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WLWV Board Room: We should not educate people that you should be safe in sex. We should not educate people about how babies are made, because sex is scary.

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WLWV Board Room: So i'd like to believe that I came from a store.

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WLWV Board Room: So if I read about sex, I will be scared. So please ban all books that contain sex

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WLWV Board Room: or gay people, or anything else that might scare me.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that out of the way.

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WLWV Board Room: Speaking here tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: I have the honor of speaking to parents.

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WLWV Board Room: guardians, and educators.

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WLWV Board Room: It is my understanding as the son of a parent and an educator.

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WLWV Board Room: that the duty of an educator and a parent both is to protect and to prepare for life.

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WLWV Board Room: However, the duty to protect interferes with preparing for life.

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WLWV Board Room: We want to protect our children.

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WLWV Board Room: and because of that we protect them instead of preparing them.

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WLWV Board Room: However, this is a mistake that is commonly made, and this is a mistake that harms our children more than anything else. And when that future comes in that day comes we failed to prepare them.

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WLWV Board Room: because we were scared to put something in a book.

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WLWV Board Room: What we do in the present determines the future, and I believe everyone on this board understands that.

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WLWV Board Room: I believe it is a well understood fact

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WLWV Board Room: that Banning, these books, robs our children of their education on real world subjects.

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WLWV Board Room: I am not alone in this thinking.

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WLWV Board Room: and I find it very evident

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WLWV Board Room: that most all those in support of not Banning. These books were students who spoke tonight.

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WLWV Board Room: and the majority of those who spoke, saying they would like to ban these books were parents.

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WLWV Board Room: The tapestry in this room says.

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WLWV Board Room: Listen to the children, learn about them and learn from them.

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WLWV Board Room: and I think I am confident in saying the children have said.

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WLWV Board Room: we don't want to ban these books.

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WLWV Board Room: However, the parents have said they do.

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WLWV Board Room: I think, as educators.

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WLWV Board Room: I ask you all, is it truly right to ignore the voices of children?

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WLWV Board Room: If it is truly right

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WLWV Board Room: that if someone is scared of something to subtract it. If it is truly right to rob our children of education on real world subjects.

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WLWV Board Room: if it is truly right to do this, please. By all means. Ban these books, because sex scared me.

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WLWV Board Room: By all means make the right choice, educate our children, or rob them of their education.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I think this, says Monica. Insign.

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WLWV Board Room: Hello, I'm Monica Andson. I live in West Lynn and I have 2 students in the district, and i'm curious what your stance is on the Cdc. Adding the Covid vaccine to the Us. Childhood

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WLWV Board Room: immunization schedule.

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WLWV Board Room: Do you know where you stand on them.

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WLWV Board Room: I got it.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, do? Well, I'm hoping before you make a decision. You look into the levels of myocarditis heart attacks and desks that have been happening to young people everywhere. It's very terrifying.

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WLWV Board Room: And

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WLWV Board Room: also I am.

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WLWV Board Room: I know you can't interact with me now. I didn't know that before. because I was curious who voted to bring the materials from rethinking schools into the classrooms that are proving to be

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WLWV Board Room: hateful and divisive rhetoric that is causing a lot of problems among the children.

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WLWV Board Room: and let's see, i'm a little bit nervous about the

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WLWV Board Room: I'm nervous about the vaccine. But because i'm afraid that you guys, Aren't, going to protect our children's physical health, because in my 7 years of experience in this district

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WLWV Board Room: I know for a fact that you're not protecting their mental health.

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WLWV Board Room: my son goes to Rosemont Ridge, and in the first 2 weeks kept having panic attacks, and

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WLWV Board Room: he was having a really hard time being at school.

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WLWV Board Room: and when I asked him why, he said, I just don't feel safe. I don't feel safe there.

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WLWV Board Room: and I said, Well, that's scary. So I talked to his counselor, explained all the different reasons why, and he said.

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WLWV Board Room: I don't see any

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WLWV Board Room: any reason for concern. But why don't you go talk to the principal. So I talked to the principal.

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WLWV Board Room: We spoke for 30 min, and she said, I don't see any reason for concern for this either.

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WLWV Board Room: And but why don't you have him talk to the counselor to talk about what's bothering him? And I said, Well, why would that help when she doesn't see any reason for concern if he feels unsafe in the current school environment. And there you smiled at me and said, okay, yeah, great

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WLWV Board Room: so i'm just curious. Why.

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WLWV Board Room: the principal, the vice principal, the counselor, a handful of teachers. No one seems interested in our students feeling unsafe, or my student, and I know he's not the only one, and to me it makes me very nervous that you all sit here defending a system

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WLWV Board Room: that doesn't seem to have their best interests in mind. And there's in my experience not a whole lot of education going on, but more.

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WLWV Board Room: You know, social issues and political issues and things that Don't seem appropriate for educators.

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WLWV Board Room: So thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: Natalie Ribbons.

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WLWV Board Room: Natalie. No one's going to be able to hear you unless you just please go ahead and approach the podium.

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Yeah.

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You like

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WLWV Board Room: those things are making you nervous? Yeah, okay. And I can you.

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WLWV Board Room: Natalie? Could you please confirm that you do live in Westland.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, yeah.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm here today, just talking to you guys real quick about

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WLWV Board Room: kind of the the and they're

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I will before the

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WLWV Board Room: I'll go in there too.

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WLWV Board Room: and all I want to say is, I

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thank you so much

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a lot longer

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we are

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we teach our children.

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WLWV Board Room: And i'm sorry the whole language.

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WLWV Board Room: And I remember

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WLWV Board Room: no idea.

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WLWV Board Room: All right.

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WLWV Board Room: Joe Gall, to signed up, but he's for robotics. I think he probably sometimes folks just sign in it's Joe here. Yeah, I think sometimes folks sign in. They don't really mean to sign up. So i'm gonna take his name off.

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WLWV Board Room: it appears we have 2 folks who don't live in the district, but I need to check in and see if there's someone within the district who wants to talk online. No? Okay. Great

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WLWV Board Room: All right. I think we probably around 45 min, but I wasn't even keeping track. We have 2 more speakers, so we'll just call them up.

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WLWV Board Room: and the next one is Josie Alexander

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WLWV Board Room: and I. Can you confirm that you live in like us we go. Is that correct.

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WLWV Board Room: Joseph Alexander? Like as we go

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WLWV Board Room: on November the Seventeenth Board leader said that.

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WLWV Board Room: Well, we said that we will be showing some graphic sexual scenes. and then the Board leader had decided that she's going to announce that if we were to talk about graphic sexual scenes that we need to announce to the adults in the room. let them know that they can opt out.

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WLWV Board Room: And she also said that this is a warning they provide to students in school. to let them to opt out.

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WLWV Board Room: heard the superintendent's own admittance. This opting out process for sexual library books is, has fallen to the wayside, and it's lapsed

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WLWV Board Room: and also proven. On November seventeenth. A sixth grader has gotten a hold of one of these sexual books by an older student, so no Students and parents are not warned about sexual content.

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WLWV Board Room: I'm not understanding why this topic of sexual books in the library is not on the agenda. We need 2 board members to get together and decide that it's important to talk about.

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WLWV Board Room: Maybe it's not on the agenda because after the November Seventeenth Board meeting, one of the the Board leader decided to post her opinion of these books on her social media.

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WLWV Board Room: She called these sexual books. Well, one of them she called Milk and Honey, excellent and beautiful.

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WLWV Board Room: The Board Leader also labeled us as angrily reading these passages you can review the video. We were not angry. We were calm and followed the rules

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WLWV Board Room: as we as we noted. That is a lie. We followed the rules. When we were calm.

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WLWV Board Room: the Board members. Please listen to the parents and community members. We are asking you to do 3 things very simple. One remove these sexual books to form a committee, one

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WLWV Board Room: and 3 develop a policy. No, superintendent, and by superintendent, we are not asking you to do this on the side without the board. hearing it without stakeholders. We want to do this as a community

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WLWV Board Room: also in the board leaders social media posts, who goes on to say, and, by the way, the camera wasn't, allowing me to show what the Board had leader had said.

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WLWV Board Room: But she talks about the book, milk, and honey, and how it captures her lives. Experience.

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WLWV Board Room: This book is a poetry book about rape and sexual assault.

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WLWV Board Room: It portrays it sexual assault and rape as sensual and casual. It has pictures of women fingering themselves and showing vaginal juices dripping from their fingers. I am sorry that that's anybody's live experiences, but this is not the book to educate on these sensitive, sensitive topics. You are 40.

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WLWV Board Room: You are in your forties in the fiftys. I don't know it's not for young kids

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WLWV Board Room: milk and honey, normalizes and desensitizes children, and to understanding sex better period.

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WLWV Board Room: And as far as eighth graders calling these books inspiring.

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WLWV Board Room: go to the public library.

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WLWV Board Room: We parents bring our children to schools, to educate, not to talk about sex.

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WLWV Board Room: and laughing out loud about books that talk about eating pussy.

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WLWV Board Room: concerning comparing porn to prayer is concerning

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WLWV Board Room: we have 3 simple requests. It's not hard, Thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right. We have one more speaker who is visiting from out of district, and I will invite you up, Janet Bailey.

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I would

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WLWV Board Room: all right. That concludes our public comment

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WLWV Board Room: period.

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WLWV Board Room: and I am going to call a short recess before we move on to the rest of the agenda.

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WLWV Board Room: and we will move on in the agenda to

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WLWV Board Room: board policy. Dr. Soyson.

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WLWV Board Room: please speak to us about board policy. Igb.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes, I received the

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WLWV Board Room: the copy of the policy, and this is an update to the talented and gifted program and or services policy, and it comes from having some updated guidance from Ode

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WLWV Board Room: and from legislation around talented and gifted education, and the

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WLWV Board Room: way the recommended language that we're giving to you does represent the goals of the school district, and we want to accomplish 3 things from this, and that is, first of all, we want to provide daily instruction that fits

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WLWV Board Room: the academic and social emotional needs of gifted learners. So it isn't a set of services or things that might occur in addition to the regular curriculum. But looking at instruction for students during the school day.

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WLWV Board Room: we are looking to improve the identification process, to ensure that gifted learners represent all students in Westland, Wilsonville schools.

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WLWV Board Room: and finally, to strengthen student voice in evaluating and continually improving the talented and gifted program

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WLWV Board Room: and some of the specifics in the policy, talk about formalizing the identification.

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WLWV Board Room: and talks about to identify and assess special talent and gifted programs and services available.

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WLWV Board Room: and to have the goals, and to be more descriptive of programs and services.

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WLWV Board Room: So this is what we are recommending, and with, you know, if the policy is approved. Then the description of these pieces will

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WLWV Board Room: come forward on our website. We would also like you to know that the district has already

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WLWV Board Room: taken some action in improving the program this fall. So, for example, the instructional coordinators in kindergarten through fifth grade have worked with looking at

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WLWV Board Room: identification

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WLWV Board Room: updates in looking at it to make sure that it's representing all students.

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WLWV Board Room: And they've also looked at. How are we actually making sure that we're making adjustments in the pace at which students learn the different content. Students need

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WLWV Board Room: how students learn and

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WLWV Board Room: the products to the ways that they show understanding. We, at the Middle level had, in professional learning on November 20, first and 20 s. Use this as part of this understanding of the universal design for learning where we looked at, how are we ensuring that

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WLWV Board Room: teachers understand this daily instruction in the classroom? How should we be differentiating for students? How should we be providing and ensuring that there is

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WLWV Board Room: challenge, not just harder or more, but what challenge looks like, so that work has already been underway in the work our high schools are doing both in looking at new courses and new courses that will be added in the next school year, looking also at

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WLWV Board Room: challenge and meeting the broader needs of

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WLWV Board Room: all students, but including talented and gifted students. They're also looking at with different lengths of class periods. How do we actually design the time to provide for appropriate pacing.

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WLWV Board Room: processing, and students showing what they know. So that's just if you know other than that, I will just leave it to see if you have questions about the specifics of this, but that's the rationale, both from the State and Ode level for an update to the policy and how we are already. working with that

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WLWV Board Room: checking. Do you want a motion first, and then questions. Okay. Great? I will move.

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WLWV Board Room: Hold on.

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WLWV Board Room: I will move to approve updated Board policy. Igb. As presented

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WLWV Board Room: my second.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. Great thanks for the motion the second. And do you want to? By sure something? You have a question. First of all, I want to say I I appreciate how detailed this for vice policy is. I think it's excellent. I mean when I look at the old one, and I just love every number that's down there that

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you know States goals related to such programs and timelines for achievement. Just how specific. It is, describes programs and services attended to accomplish. Stated goals.

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WLWV Board Room: describes how the district provides parents and opportunity to discuss and provide input on programs and services. I I could list each one of them, so i'm full in full agreement. I I just had one question at the end of the first paragraph that last sentence reads weird to me.

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WLWV Board Room: And so I just it says, with consideration given for variations in students opportunity to learn and to culturally what relevant indicators of ability.

778
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WLWV Board Room: Is there something missing there? Okay.

779
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WLWV Board Room: What is is recommended is that you? You know one has to be very careful in talented and gifted education. There's the academic identification. And then there's intellectual giftedness. Well at academics is in reading and in math and

780
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WLWV Board Room: in schools. We're familiar with ways to measure that. And look at that. The

781
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WLWV Board Room: okay I'm: sorry I it wasn't with the content. What it means. Well, it was just, it seems to me like there was maybe something missing like just a word missing. That was my more question. It wasn't about the con. I understand it makes sense to me about

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WLWV Board Room: to learn, and that it would be culturally relevant and to culturally relevant. I I mean, I just thought there's a comma after learn. Okay, yeah, that I just wasn't sure exactly. I understood the contact and agreed. Okay, it just read like, am I missing a word? Is there a word missing? I just wanted to make sure.

783
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WLWV Board Room: Maybe a comma there which would take care of that. That's it. But it's just saying, broaden the way you look at intellectual and gifted, which completely makes sense to me. Yeah, thanks.

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WLWV Board Room: All right. So it sounds like we

785
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WLWV Board Room: simple, and that probably doesn't need to change a motion or anything to add a comma because it's not really doing anything substantive.

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WLWV Board Room: Dr. Sloop, do you have anything?

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WLWV Board Room: I just we'll just pick it back on to Director Thompson, and that

788
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WLWV Board Room: I really liked the

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WLWV Board Room: detail in addition of a

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WLWV Board Room: also identifying and providing programs for students who

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WLWV Board Room: demonstrate outstanding ability in

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WLWV Board Room: program areas in addition to math and reading, such as dance, music and art, and that those areas are also

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WLWV Board Room: identified.

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WLWV Board Room: Okay, great. I think you can called the vote

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WLWV Board Room: Kelly Slope.

796
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WLWV Board Room: Hi.

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WLWV Board Room: Jessie King! All right, Christy Thompson. I thank you

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WLWV Board Room: all right.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you so much, Dr. Soyson, for that work, and we'll move on

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WLWV Board Room: 2

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WLWV Board Room: the department of operations, and that's you, Mr. Mcgath, to talk about the proposed res resolution of Declaration of surplus real property.

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WLWV Board Room: Thank you for for chair. Tonight we're before you. You have a resolution to declare

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WLWV Board Room: surplus. Real property related to the frog on property.

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WLWV Board Room: may have to give a little brief history. This property has been in the district possession since about 1,998,

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WLWV Board Room: originally all of the property. There was another 10 acres attached to it, that it fronted staff a road.

806
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WLWV Board Room: Originally the property was intended to be a middle school. Well, when we were able to secure property on advanced road

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WLWV Board Room: for the Middle School.

808
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WLWV Board Room: Then Frog Pond became a primary school site.

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WLWV Board Room: and of course we didn't need 25 acres. 10 acres was sold.

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WLWV Board Room: in 2,017

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WLWV Board Room: we retain 15 acres.

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WLWV Board Room: and of which we sold an acre and a half to West Hills development for the housing development around there, leaving us 150,

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WLWV Board Room: approximately

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WLWV Board Room: 12 and a half acres, 13 acres.

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WLWV Board Room: We have always known that the city of Wilson Bill has targeted that small parcel as a neighborhood park when the build out happened.

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WLWV Board Room: If you look, you'll see a memo from the city of Wilsonville back in 2,017, stating there's specific interest in this property.

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WLWV Board Room: We have asked them to hold off on

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WLWV Board Room: arriving at any decision on it until we designed fully Frog Pond.

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WLWV Board Room: We are in the final stages we have submitted for land use, so we were able to determine exactly how much property we needed for the new primary school.

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WLWV Board Room: With that

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WLWV Board Room: we have drawn a new partition

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WLWV Board Room: to capture just a little sliver of that lot. It was a flag lot that fronted

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WLWV Board Room: their entry was on Beckman Road, so there was 400 feet of driveway just to get to the property.

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WLWV Board Room: We captured that into the on a new primary school site.

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WLWV Board Room: and then, through negotiations with the city, we

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WLWV Board Room: captured a little more land on the rectangular piece of that lot.

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WLWV Board Room: So it ends up being 2.9, 3 acres of surplus land that will not be needed for the new primary school.

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WLWV Board Room: and there is no in. There is no need future need for the district to have this property.

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WLWV Board Room: So with that i'd answer any questions you might have.

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WLWV Board Room: Could you please speak to just the last paragraph on the memo that you gave us

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WLWV Board Room: around the intent with the city of Wilsonville.

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WLWV Board Room: with this surplus property

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WLWV Board Room: about the city's interest in the

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WLWV Board Room: so it it was always intended that there would be a neighborhood or small, what they call

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WLWV Board Room: a pocket and park

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WLWV Board Room: adjacent to the primary school

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WLWV Board Room: when we were talking about

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WLWV Board Room: getting the property of ready to increase that it currently sits on.

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WLWV Board Room: They expressed great interest in. If we didn't need the whole site that we had for a primary school. That would be an ideal location for their pocket park.

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WLWV Board Room: and it has been part of their master plan. It's adopted in the city of Wilsonville, Frog Pond, West Master Plan.

841
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WLWV Board Room: It has always been targeted by them as property that they desire.

842
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WLWV Board Room: and we have always there there, while there was never a formal mou from the district.

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WLWV Board Room: their intent and their express desire to have that property, we have always held it

844
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WLWV Board Room: and set aside

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WLWV Board Room: that property for their purchase at some point.

846
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WLWV Board Room: and done that before, where we approached the city for kind of a first right of refusal, we have some property. Would you be interested in purchasing it?

847
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WLWV Board Room: And in this case the city

848
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WLWV Board Room: did indicate an interest

849
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WLWV Board Room: great, and I know that's been

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WLWV Board Room: not uncommon that these types of agreements have. When you know 2 government bodies work well together. They, you know, are facilitated. So and so just with this resolution we're approving to the declaration of it being a surplus property, and we're approving for you to enter into those discussions for

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WLWV Board Room: purchase of sell with the city of Wilson Bill, both in this full disclosure. We've had discussions. We've only had to wait until this point to know exactly the size of the property. and we couldn't declare the property. Well, we might

852
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WLWV Board Room: want to sell

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WLWV Board Room: 3 acres.

854
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WLWV Board Room: We had to wait until we got to this part. This point in design

855
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WLWV Board Room: before we could actually do that. But the city and the district have been working together on this for over a year

856
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WLWV Board Room: we've been talking about

857
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WLWV Board Room: how this will unfold.

858
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WLWV Board Room: and the previous board has had these conversations. We've even shown maps

859
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WLWV Board Room: describing where that

860
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WLWV Board Room: pocket is, and

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WLWV Board Room: when it came up.

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WLWV Board Room: Got it

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WLWV Board Room: sorry. So I just.

864
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WLWV Board Room: I sit here and I do my math, and i'm like. So in the second paragraph it talks about the 9.6 acres that we're going to use for

865
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WLWV Board Room: the frock pond, and then it mentions the additional 3 point, 5 acre parcel owned by the district that won't be needed. But then, later, then you go down. It says

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WLWV Board Room: that the future primary school site this was in paragraph 4 would contain 9.6 acres, and the adjacent property would contain 2 point, 9, 3. So

867
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WLWV Board Room: what happened to the other point? 6, 5,

868
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WLWV Board Room: I got 9, point 6, 8 in there. That is the finished size of the new primary school at fraud.

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WLWV Board Room: Collectively we owned approximately 12.5 acres.

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WLWV Board Room: and we are divide 12 points.

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WLWV Board Room: I think it's a little more than that. I'm sorry.

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WLWV Board Room: 12 point

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874
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WLWV Board Room: but we are dividing it up. The city is

875
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WLWV Board Room: now accepted that they will get 2.9, 3 acres, and the rest of the acreage will be part of the new primary. Okay, so it's there's not a a separate parcel that's going somewhere. If there is an half a acre of

876
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WLWV Board Room: wetlands and set aside, that is part of what the city is purchasing.

877
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WLWV Board Room: that is not buildable, is not truly useful for anything other than wetlands and their setbacks.

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WLWV Board Room: So there is a half an acre in there that there they want, and they've asked for, in fact.

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WLWV Board Room: and identified it in their letter from the city

880
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WLWV Board Room: that they want those natural resources to be part of this.

881
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WLWV Board Room: Okay.

882
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WLWV Board Room: Thank you.

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WLWV Board Room: I I'll be voting in favor. I think it's a great

884
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WLWV Board Room: and intergovernmental arrangement if we can execute it effectively, and to have a park next to a school in the new neighborhood. It sounds like a lovely plan, so I have no concerns with this resolution. 100.

885
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WLWV Board Room: Are there any other questions or comments before we called about.

886
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WLWV Board Room: All right, please call the vote.

887
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WLWV Board Room: We don't have a motion.

888
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Yeah.

889
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WLWV Board Room: Oh, that was on the on the policy. One i'll make a motion. Okay, I make a motion that we ha approve. Resolution number 2,022 dash 0 5 declaring surplus of real property.

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WLWV Board Room: I Second.

891
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WLWV Board Room: Okay, great. Thank you for that motion. Second. Now we can call the vote

892
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WLWV Board Room: Kissy Thompson. I Chelsea King alright, Kelly Sloop. All right. Thank you

893
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WLWV Board Room: right. Thank you so much for your work on that. And then I think

894
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WLWV Board Room: remote. Douglas is up next. and

895
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WLWV Board Room: you are speaking to us about us proposed resolution. 2,022.0 6. The secure entryway at Trillium Creek. Primary.

896
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WLWV Board Room: Right?

897
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WLWV Board Room: Good evening Board.

898
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WLWV Board Room: As the chair mentioned. we have a project that's been put out for bid for the safety and security upgrades that are going across the whole district as part of the current bond program. This is all 4 of those upgrades for Trillion Creek primary school.

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WLWV Board Room: It is essentially the same work that occurred at Lowry Primary School 2 years ago.

900
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WLWV Board Room: and again it's working towards. We're now nearly finished with those security upgrades across the district.

901
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WLWV Board Room: We do have one other bid package coming out to do a few things at Westland High School, sunset, primary school, Emerid and Creek Middle School. Those will be the final items. We hope to bring that to you in January or February, so we can get all of the security upgrades done

902
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WLWV Board Room: by the end of this next summer.

903
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WLWV Board Room: so this contract again is for all of those security upgrades for for the Trillion Creek primary school.

904
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WLWV Board Room: we had,

905
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WLWV Board Room: a surprisingly large amount of interest from contractors coming out and looking at it. determining whether or not they were going to bid getting 3 bidders in this climate is actually quite good. these days. There's times depending on the economy. You get more or less

906
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WLWV Board Room: the low bid as well within the budget that we had allotted, and it's actually the same contractor that did the work at Lowry.

907
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WLWV Board Room: And so they've essentially done this exact project before on a different property.

908
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WLWV Board Room: so we're looking forward to. Should the Board approve moving forward that contractor, and getting that work done next summer.

909
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WLWV Board Room: If the Board has any particular questions about the process or the project. I'm happy to answer.

910
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WLWV Board Room: Great, Thank you. I'm. Since my mike is on, i'm just gonna go ahead and get a motion on the table to facilitate this, and all move that we approve. Resolution Number 2,022 dash 0, 6 for the security Upgrades of Trillion Creek.

911
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WLWV Board Room: Great, Thank you. Are there? Questions or comments for remote.

912
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WLWV Board Room: Please call to vote.

913
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WLWV Board Room: Hi, Chelsea King! All right, Christy Johnson. I thank you.

914
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WLWV Board Room: Very good. So we will move on to the Budget Committee vacancy Position 5 declaring that open. And Dr. Ludwig, would you like to speak to this

915
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WLWV Board Room: number 3, and inadvertently we had miscalculated. There's also one more budget vacancy position. It's number 5.

916
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WLWV Board Room: So tonight your task is just to approve that vacancy. Once we have the 2 of them, we can fill out the form of interest that has both vacancies listed on there, and get that out to the public and begin to See if there are folks interested in serving on the Budget Committee?

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WLWV Board Room: Very good.

918
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WLWV Board Room: Do you want to go ahead and make your motion? I move the board, approve the proposed timeline and declare Budget Committee position 5 vacant.

919
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WLWV Board Room: I'll second

920
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WLWV Board Room: all right, there we have it. And are there questions or comments, you know. Can we just state for the public, for anyone who's listening. Can you just remind them what are the requirements

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WLWV Board Room: of being on so? Who's eligible? I mean, I'm. Assuming you have to live in the district. You have to be 18 years old. Is there any other you have? You have to live live in the district? You do not need to have children in the district. You do need to be a taxpayer and a community resident in the district

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WLWV Board Room: and in terms of just

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WLWV Board Room: responsibilities of someone on the Budget Committee. They would be expected to attend the opening budget message meeting and then read the documents. We also offer a budget orientation for members who are on for the first time. So they understand what it means to read a public school district budget document.

924
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WLWV Board Room: how public schools are financed. give them some opportunity to ask questions just in terms of an orientation or onboarding

925
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WLWV Board Room: and then typically, there's 2 to 3 meetings, so they would come to the opening presentation the superintendent's message. They would leave with the Budget document

926
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WLWV Board Room: the proposed budget, and then study that and offer up questions, and then the committee, which is composed of the 5 Board members and 5 citizen members, would then deliberate with staff around the budget document and any questions

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WLWV Board Room: and give input and if there's an opportunity to approve the budget that night, or there, or the the group deals are ready. that can happen even in the second meeting, or an extended third meeting.

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WLWV Board Room: And then from there an approved budget goes to the board for an adopted budget.

929
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WLWV Board Room: Thank you. I'm glad you did it. Yeah, so it's it's it's for them to know what they're getting into to to the district to be on a committee that doesn't have too much of a labor intensive

930
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WLWV Board Room: requirement to serve, but in that month we do expect folks to really do their homework and

931
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WLWV Board Room: and to to work hard at it, understanding the budget and and do their due diligence. So the only real requirement is, they're in the district.

932
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WLWV Board Room: Correct? Okay, yeah.

933
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WLWV Board Room: And they're elected by the board.

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WLWV Board Room: Yes.

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WLWV Board Room: all right. Very good. I think that that's it. And you can call about. Can we slip?

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WLWV Board Room: Hi, Chelsea King, I, Christy Thompson! I thank you.

937
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WLWV Board Room: hey? That concludes all the items on our agenda. We've got some future dates, and noting to myself that the equity

938
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WLWV Board Room: summit was moved to march. So if you had the original February date that we had tossed around it's a little later. Now I just changed that on my calendar. So I think that's work. Yeah, go ahead.

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WLWV Board Room: We might need to have a special board meeting via Zoom in the near future. The Riverside High School bids are opening tomorrow, and just to keep us on the timeline. If we need that, it could be on zoom. And just as long as there's a quorum.

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WLWV Board Room: So just want to let

941
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WLWV Board Room: let you know that. we'll be getting back to you about that.

942
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WLWV Board Room: Okay, very good meeting is adjourned.