WEBVTT 1 00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:38.010 WLWV School Board: Alright hi everyone calling this meeting to order and Miss Douglas we please call role certainly director Kelly sloop here jack Douglas Taylor brother chair Chelsea King President vice chair, Christine Thompson director kitchen, while you're Thank you. 2 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:52.980 WLWV School Board: Great Hello everybody, the first thing that we're going to do tonight is hear from our amazing students who have been here regularly every month and. 3 00:00:53.460 --> 00:01:02.490 WLWV School Board: tonight is the final board report, so thank you for being here and we look forward to hearing from you, and please feel free to. 4 00:01:03.210 --> 00:01:13.590 WLWV School Board: Tell us your typical report and and, if you want to let us know what your plans are for next year we're happy to hear that as well, and so I will start with Wilson bill high school and Miguel to Haider. 5 00:01:16.410 --> 00:01:30.480 WLWV School Board: Good evening, Dr logic in the school board well pronunciation this he can has been crazy for me and so has this past month first he started off with spring fest and spring festival able to collect $9,000 from dorm Becker children's hospital. 6 00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:31.980 WLWV School Board: Now. 7 00:01:34.410 --> 00:01:43.290 WLWV School Board: So that was great one of my favorite memories of high school is definitely going around with like a sparkly fanny Pack and being like do you have cash give me your cash. 8 00:01:44.310 --> 00:01:58.770 WLWV School Board: But that was so fun today, as all of you know it's called decision day save seniors or their shirts for future colleges, or just future plans, and I am pleased to announce that I am committed to Stanford university and. 9 00:02:02.970 --> 00:02:11.310 WLWV School Board: Along with that, we also had from last weekend, which is so fun every student was safe, we had like staff there to ensure that every student was safe. 10 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:18.480 WLWV School Board: And then, it was monitored perfectly it was like perfect we had enchanted for us as our theme, and it was very fitting, as it was at the Oregon zoo. 11 00:02:19.410 --> 00:02:31.020 WLWV School Board: We also have sports this month, have been very active we've had a lot of lacrosse games and softball games, but fortunately, because it's Oregon we have rain so tenants, I just have been canceled very. 12 00:02:31.710 --> 00:02:43.380 WLWV School Board: Frequently, but we're starting to get back to that and then this upcoming month, which is may we have ap testing, which started off today and I finished my ap Chem test so that was very interesting very hard. 13 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:50.940 WLWV School Board: And finally, have choir and band going to state choir going to stay on may 5 and then being going to state. 14 00:02:51.390 --> 00:02:59.700 WLWV School Board: On may nine so that is what we have coming up, and thank you guys so much for your time and it was a pleasure presenting everything that has happened that will smell this past year. 15 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:17.580 WLWV School Board: Miguel, we are so proud of you i've had the honor of watching you in action it's the extra credit or co curricular events, because I have teenagers at Wilson bill hi and. 16 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:37.410 WLWV School Board: I know you've just brought a lot of spirit and energy, and so I have full confidence, you will just continue that and your next adventure and to thank you for so diligently arriving every month and letting us know what's going on, it will smell hi we are going to present you with chocolate. 17 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:45.360 WLWV School Board: And also, this practice plaque and then you can hang in your dorm. 18 00:03:50.010 --> 00:03:50.310 WLWV School Board: Good luck. 19 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:55.530 WLWV School Board: Oh yeah and a bunch cake. 20 00:04:04.860 --> 00:04:08.880 WLWV School Board: All right, great we'll move on to arts and technology high school Michelle Quinn. 21 00:04:16.260 --> 00:04:23.550 WLWV School Board: Good evening school board members and Dr ludwick i'm glad to be here one last time to update you on what's happening at our tech with the school year slowly coming to an end. 22 00:04:24.030 --> 00:04:31.830 WLWV School Board: Our counselor katie has been working with seniors to make sure that they've been caught up in their classes and ensuring that every student has enough credits in order to graduate at the end of the year. 23 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:36.450 WLWV School Board: Our tech graduation planning is almost done with the last few details are happening this week. 24 00:04:36.780 --> 00:04:45.000 WLWV School Board: caps and gowns have been delivered and students have the option of picking them up in the bookkeeper in the office or leaving them with her to get them steamed and picked up before graduation. 25 00:04:45.570 --> 00:04:52.710 WLWV School Board: seniors are also encouraged to pick up their senior sign from the bookkeeper as well, and on Wednesday will be taking our official art texting your photos. 26 00:04:53.130 --> 00:05:01.830 WLWV School Board: will be taking them outside it will symbol high school each student will take individual photos as well as a group photo with all the seniors and these photos will be used as the official ones for graduation. 27 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:05.910 WLWV School Board: Unless the senior decides that they want to use a different photo then they can submit that as well. 28 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:15.660 WLWV School Board: And then, our bookkeeper Michelle april's also asking all our tech students to submit their plans for high school to put in the graduation slideshow should they choose to share those plans. 29 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:22.950 WLWV School Board: And our graduation party committee is planning on meeting later this week via zoom to discuss and figure out details on the graduation party. 30 00:05:23.340 --> 00:05:30.000 WLWV School Board: they'll take place sometime in the following days after graduation and as i'm sure you're all aware, by now, this is our texts last year. 31 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:43.050 WLWV School Board: So I would like to take a moment to thank the school board for all for their never ending support for our staff and students in school in general, and not just this past past few years, but over the past, so I can't do math. 32 00:05:44.910 --> 00:05:58.890 WLWV School Board: For all the years since we opened back in 2005 2006 I know everyone at our tech is thankful for everything that you have all done for us over the years and we would like to say thank you and next year I will be going to Carol college and Helena Montana and. 33 00:06:05.370 --> 00:06:07.680 WLWV School Board: they'll be majoring in business management and marketing. 34 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:09.360 Thank you. 35 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.020 WLWV School Board: Alright, Michelle well, I get the opportunity, the pleasure of thinking you. 36 00:06:19.470 --> 00:06:28.620 WLWV School Board: And showering you with gifts and a double thank you because you have been with us for two years, so for two years, your Monday nights have been spent here. 37 00:06:29.250 --> 00:06:40.080 WLWV School Board: So anyway just thank you for always coming and just bringing the joy of what you're learning and what your classmates are learning and all the activities and it has certainly been a pleasure. 38 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:56.460 WLWV School Board: To just get to know you and hear you talk to us for all of us, I would say the student presentations are the highlight of what we get to hear, so thank you enjoy Carol college I guess here's your first as Chair King said right here here's your first decoration for your wall. 39 00:06:57.780 --> 00:06:58.860 WLWV School Board: Thank you so much. 40 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:12.390 WLWV School Board: And with Westland high school lucinda fine. 41 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:26.490 WLWV School Board: hi everyone, I have a slide perfect okay this slide is full of pictures today because there's so much to talk about as i've been talking about for the past. 42 00:07:26.760 --> 00:07:36.930 WLWV School Board: month or so we had made a and it was a huge success, so you can see the photo on the bottom there of our may court, and I was so pleased to see some of you join us at our made a celebration on Friday, the 29th. 43 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:45.390 WLWV School Board: was a huge success, and it was really special for the Community in Westland to be back together, as this is a century long tradition in Westland and then there's a picture of me in the corner. 44 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:52.200 WLWV School Board: there's a picture of me in the corner, I was on the Court and I had the honor of performing and I sang with some of my friends, and it was just really special. 45 00:07:52.500 --> 00:07:59.490 WLWV School Board: And then something else that happened this weekend was we had our senior brunch fundraiser, which is our fundraiser for our substance free all night Grad party. 46 00:07:59.670 --> 00:08:06.480 WLWV School Board: Which we're preparing for so Those are just some pictures and actually that top photo that's my kindergarten class and we're all getting to graduate together. 47 00:08:07.110 --> 00:08:12.360 WLWV School Board: So I just had to put that in because it's really, really special It makes me kind of sad that we're all going to different schools. 48 00:08:13.110 --> 00:08:23.910 WLWV School Board: But i'm just really honored to have grown up attending Bolton rosemount and now Westland and just staying in this district, and then, as I mentioned i'm going to university of Oregon next year and I have a slide after this if we could. 49 00:08:25.260 --> 00:08:25.860 WLWV School Board: move to that. 50 00:08:27.330 --> 00:08:28.920 WLWV School Board: Oh yes. 51 00:08:30.330 --> 00:08:39.570 WLWV School Board: curtis cheers and I know right behind you whenever you say i'll be attending University of Oregon next year to major in sociology and i'm really excited about that. 52 00:08:43.260 --> 00:08:53.580 WLWV School Board: Mr manages asked me to talk a little bit more about my future plans so i'm going to Oregon i'm really gracious to be a pathway organ scholar, so I have a full ride tuition covered Oregon which i'm really grateful for. 53 00:08:55.320 --> 00:09:06.240 WLWV School Board: i'm i'm planning to use my major either pre law pre therapy or pre social work i'm not sure what I plan to do, but I definitely want to work with kids youth and families in my future. 54 00:09:06.870 --> 00:09:12.690 WLWV School Board: I plan to rush in the fall and I have my roommate picked out we actually met this weekend and i'm just feeling really excited about that. 55 00:09:12.930 --> 00:09:22.200 WLWV School Board: And just a few other things happening in our school this past month was our robotics team went to our first World Championship in Texas, they played very well so that was amazing. 56 00:09:22.890 --> 00:09:30.450 WLWV School Board: And then we had choir go to state which they played very well, no surprise there we had band districts orchestra districts choir districts. 57 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:41.340 WLWV School Board: lots of things happening in the arts or shorts are along the way, and those are happening next week, their performances So things are in full swing, we have 39 days left of school or 39 days until graduation. 58 00:09:41.700 --> 00:09:47.910 WLWV School Board: And we're all getting super excited it's been an honor to get to talk to you guys every Monday and i've really enjoyed getting to know you all, thank you. 59 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.840 WLWV School Board: Well, you also get cake chocolate. 60 00:10:02.070 --> 00:10:10.230 WLWV School Board: For your journey, thank you for your last couple of years, and good luck go ducks and I recommend law. 61 00:10:21.990 --> 00:10:32.520 WLWV School Board: tricking going to say a word of course I, I just want to thank the three of you, you have been such a visible presence such a spirit of presence to your school communities. 62 00:10:32.910 --> 00:10:36.900 WLWV School Board: This year was really important, as we all came back together and. 63 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:48.570 WLWV School Board: That work of rebuilding community after the hiatus was really important and you each stepped into that leadership role and far exceeded above and beyond what I think anyone imagined. 64 00:10:49.500 --> 00:11:00.930 WLWV School Board: Miguel it's great to see you cheering and putting your whole heart into everything lucinda you've been such a spirit of presence in your school and I enjoyed hearing you sing I didn't realize, you have such amazing voice too. 65 00:11:01.410 --> 00:11:14.730 WLWV School Board: So and Michelle I can't just thank you enough for what you have done in this final year for art tech that you stepped into such an amazing role around keeping your Community intact in a different space. 66 00:11:15.420 --> 00:11:27.000 WLWV School Board: Caring for your peers stepping into leadership that you didn't even imagine taking this on two years in a row, you are the epitome of humble leadership and servant leadership and. 67 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:41.970 WLWV School Board: And you've really been a hallmark for your for your school this year and i'm really grateful all three of you, thank you above and beyond really appreciate you and good luck and don't be strangers come back and visit and tell us what you're up to graduation. 68 00:11:50.370 --> 00:12:00.540 WLWV School Board: Alright, and you know I say this, every time you're welcome to stay as long as you want, and also don't be embarrassed if you decide to leave your also you know free to leave whenever you would like. 69 00:12:01.620 --> 00:12:07.530 WLWV School Board: And so we will move on to recognitions and we have miss lauren briggs fee. 70 00:12:09.510 --> 00:12:10.440 WLWV School Board: Coming up to. 71 00:12:11.640 --> 00:12:17.520 WLWV School Board: Give us a recognition of school nurses speech language pathologist occupational therapist and physical therapist. 72 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:30.420 WLWV School Board: hi there, good evening, well, I am feeling so thankful this evening because i'm also here with my with our partner, my assistant director miss stephanie classes. 73 00:12:31.020 --> 00:12:39.930 WLWV School Board: And so we're going to do some recognitions here together tonight because we have some incredible staff members who we have this opportunity to share with you and to recognize with you tonight. 74 00:12:40.530 --> 00:12:51.210 WLWV School Board: So start with our occupational therapists and physical therapists sure so occupational therapy month is April, and we have some amazing occupational therapists in our district. 75 00:12:51.900 --> 00:13:00.270 WLWV School Board: Along with our physical therapists and physical therapist month is actually in October, but we're celebrating them at the same time, because there's such an amazing team together. 76 00:13:00.990 --> 00:13:08.610 WLWV School Board: So you can see up here, these are our providers and when we think about occupational therapy and physical therapy sometimes what we think about is just. 77 00:13:08.910 --> 00:13:13.050 WLWV School Board: muscle movements or handwriting and they do so much more than that. 78 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:23.760 WLWV School Board: They support student regulation, they support the actual act of handwriting but assistive technology being able to use speech to text for students who need that. 79 00:13:24.330 --> 00:13:32.640 WLWV School Board: acts of physical care self-feeding toileting skills for students who are still learning that so they just do such amazing work with our district. 80 00:13:33.060 --> 00:13:40.320 WLWV School Board: And throughout even the pandemic they'd created online toolkits for our teachers to be able to use over zoom with students. 81 00:13:40.890 --> 00:13:49.410 WLWV School Board: To be able to have some movement and regulation, even while students were learning from home, so we just wanted to take a moment to celebrate and honor them. 82 00:13:49.830 --> 00:13:58.710 WLWV School Board: Belge Joel and Chris Jones our physical therapist and debbie Solomon Julia carpools Karen beardsley and Leslie concert our occupational therapists. 83 00:14:09.090 --> 00:14:09.570 alright. 84 00:14:10.650 --> 00:14:22.140 WLWV School Board: The next slide awesome, it is also may 11 will be school nurses day and my goodness gracious celebrating our school nurses in this time is such an honor. 85 00:14:22.500 --> 00:14:32.370 WLWV School Board: And I think we can all Center so deeply and knowing that our school nurses have truly been working on bridging health care and education and wrapping around our community in so many ways. 86 00:14:32.790 --> 00:14:40.680 WLWV School Board: As we've been navigating the global pandemic, and that is on top of all of the incredible work that they do, and so, when I start to think about. 87 00:14:41.040 --> 00:14:45.600 WLWV School Board: The leadership roles that our school nurses have taken and the last couple of years. 88 00:14:46.560 --> 00:14:58.680 WLWV School Board: It is so humbling to partner with educators who are every single day listening and responding in really responsive ways because we're all navigating and thinking about what is this. 89 00:14:59.070 --> 00:15:09.540 WLWV School Board: What is my next step, what does this mean, how do I make this next decision, and they are right there partnering every single way and listening to students families educators. 90 00:15:10.380 --> 00:15:21.360 WLWV School Board: and doing it with such beautiful grace in difficult times, and so I can't say enough about their work and leadership during this coven 19 pandemic. 91 00:15:21.750 --> 00:15:28.890 WLWV School Board: And that is besides the partnership that they have done every single year, so deeply with our school teams. 92 00:15:29.730 --> 00:15:33.450 WLWV School Board: Whether it's supporting individual students with a new protocol or support. 93 00:15:33.780 --> 00:15:42.060 WLWV School Board: or being somebody who knows how to support and help us think about what does that mean in the health room, how do we navigate what does that look like when a student comes to the office because they're. 94 00:15:42.630 --> 00:15:50.100 WLWV School Board: working through Am I feeling sick is what's going on with my body, how do I navigate this through the day they do that. 95 00:15:50.730 --> 00:15:57.540 WLWV School Board: They respond and crises they jump in they are such an incredible team, who is thinking about. 96 00:15:58.110 --> 00:16:12.090 WLWV School Board: supports for all students and then really diving into where they need to for individual students and I am so thankful to be a part of working with this incredible crew of professionals and thank you so much for celebrating them with us tonight. 97 00:16:21.930 --> 00:16:30.690 WLWV School Board: And the last group that we're going to celebrate here tonight is our speech language pathologist, and so this is a another crew of fabulous educators and. 98 00:16:31.380 --> 00:16:41.160 WLWV School Board: Their particular day is may 18 coming on up here our speech language pathologist have such an intricate knowledge of so many things. 99 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:49.410 WLWV School Board: And so often we wrap around our students who might be identified for special education and working through a communication difference. 100 00:16:49.740 --> 00:16:55.500 WLWV School Board: And they are going to be navigating through what does that look like for articulation differences they're going to be looking at. 101 00:16:55.830 --> 00:17:03.630 WLWV School Board: What does this look like as we're sequencing reading, writing navigating through social social communication partnering with peers. 102 00:17:04.470 --> 00:17:12.330 WLWV School Board: They do all of those pieces for individuals and for students, I think, are for whole classes, so we will often see our speech language pathologist being. 103 00:17:12.630 --> 00:17:20.940 WLWV School Board: A really trusted person in the building and when we're working with students and we're knowing who will who's an individual who you're going to really want to partner with on this. 104 00:17:21.510 --> 00:17:28.350 WLWV School Board: We often find it might be these incredible these incredible professionals, that they have built meaningful relationships with their. 105 00:17:28.770 --> 00:17:39.930 WLWV School Board: Students with their colleagues and their trusted to be in the classroom and take a group and wrap around and work together, and I think they so beautifully. 106 00:17:40.380 --> 00:17:51.330 WLWV School Board: Partner around some of these pieces around social communication like hey we're partners, what does this look like now as we're navigating through this that recess in the hallway in the classroom. 107 00:17:51.810 --> 00:18:03.330 WLWV School Board: And they have such a depth of expertise, when you think about from that to articulation and everything In between there an incredible an incredible group of professionals and we're so thankful that you're honoring them with us tonight. 108 00:18:12.600 --> 00:18:18.420 WLWV School Board: Thank you so much for, and you can stay for just a moment in case anybody else i'll say something and then i'll open the floor but. 109 00:18:18.780 --> 00:18:30.330 WLWV School Board: You articulated very well the whole team that that our schools are you know operating within, and I know you just scratched the surface of the things that folks are doing. 110 00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:36.510 WLWV School Board: and definitely all all these groups deserve their own month and we're honoring them all right now and. 111 00:18:37.080 --> 00:18:47.190 WLWV School Board: it's not lost on me that it's happening at the same time as teacher appreciation week, because it really is all everybody working together to educate the whole child and all the facets of the child, so. 112 00:18:47.820 --> 00:18:55.890 WLWV School Board: yeah my my appreciation there, and anybody else on the board, who wants to say anything vice chair Thompson where you going for your microphone yes. 113 00:18:57.060 --> 00:19:04.200 WLWV School Board: I just wanted to share stories so when my all my kids are gone now, but when my daughter was at Wilson Vo high school and events happened. 114 00:19:04.830 --> 00:19:15.540 WLWV School Board: And she was fine, but I was so touched that a day later we got an a call from the nurse and just checking in and making sure that she was okay. 115 00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:27.000 WLWV School Board: And so to me it just was that reminder that they go above and beyond that she wasn't just there with my child that she was letting me know that she knew that she cared and she was following up. 116 00:19:27.510 --> 00:19:34.050 WLWV School Board: And those are stories that I think we don't hear a lot, so I want to make sure that that people know they're not just. 117 00:19:34.530 --> 00:19:46.440 WLWV School Board: they're not just tending here with your children, you know they're also thinking about Okay, once the event is done, how can I continue to wrap around that child so anyway, and that was nurse Mary grow. 118 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.650 WLWV School Board: Just to give her a little shout out. 119 00:19:52.230 --> 00:19:55.560 WLWV School Board: Thank you so much for celebrating okay great Thank you. 120 00:20:03.180 --> 00:20:08.580 WLWV School Board: All right, and in honor of teacher appreciation week I think it's Dr David prior. 121 00:20:17.250 --> 00:20:26.310 WLWV School Board: Thank you, I am subbing for shiloh water and our HR human resources, you can be here tonight, but she did prepare a statement i'm wintery to the board. 122 00:20:26.850 --> 00:20:38.040 WLWV School Board: Good evening school board directors and superintendent Ludwig we are excited to have the opportunity to recognize the hard work dedication of our licensed educators during teacher appreciation week. 123 00:20:38.520 --> 00:20:47.550 WLWV School Board: As we learn from the start of this year, our students were returning in person to us in very different places, with different needs academically and socially. 124 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:58.230 WLWV School Board: are licensed educators stepped in and met their students, where they were at to provide them additional social and emotional learning and high leverage instruction to increase their academic growth. 125 00:20:58.710 --> 00:21:06.570 WLWV School Board: We have been privileged to see amazing learning and personal development in our classrooms this year because of the wonderful educators in our district. 126 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:17.520 WLWV School Board: Each year in honor of teacher appreciation week we like to give special thanks to our wwe a president Jennifer sarason on behalf of the district, and the school board. 127 00:21:17.820 --> 00:21:26.160 WLWV School Board: She is under the weather tonight and not able to join us, but we would like to acknowledge the work Jennifer does in support of our licensed educators here in the district. 128 00:21:26.760 --> 00:21:37.740 WLWV School Board: In the role of the wwe a president Jennifer works collaboratively with district leadership to address concerns and look for solutions to enhance the workplace for our educators. 129 00:21:38.010 --> 00:21:50.130 WLWV School Board: We greatly appreciate jennifer's commitment to our educators and the students of the Westland Wilson bill school district, and we have a small arrangement and gift for her when we see her next that we will pass on to her. 130 00:21:51.300 --> 00:21:52.380 WLWV School Board: So, thank you very much. 131 00:22:01.140 --> 00:22:04.830 WLWV School Board: Should renewal resolution or get yeah okay. 132 00:22:07.020 --> 00:22:13.920 WLWV School Board: Alright, it looks like it's projected on the screen, but also read it, the teacher appreciation week resolution. 133 00:22:14.670 --> 00:22:28.080 WLWV School Board: 2021 dash 17 whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education, and whereas teachers and counter students have wildly differing backgrounds. 134 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:35.340 WLWV School Board: And, whereas our country's future depends on providing quality education to all students. 135 00:22:35.790 --> 00:22:47.460 WLWV School Board: And, whereas teacher spend countless hours preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students and performing community service. 136 00:22:47.850 --> 00:22:56.160 WLWV School Board: And, whereas our Community recognizes and supports its teachers and educating the children of this Community. 137 00:22:56.700 --> 00:23:09.240 WLWV School Board: Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Westland will symbol board of directors proclaims may 1 through eighth 2022 to be teacher appreciation week. 138 00:23:09.780 --> 00:23:29.970 WLWV School Board: and be at further resolved that the Westland Wilson build board of directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join us and personally expressing appreciation to our teachers, for their dedication and devotion to their work, adopted the second day of may 2022. 139 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:42.270 WLWV School Board: All right, very good that was a fun one. 140 00:23:44.310 --> 00:23:50.880 WLWV School Board: Now we will move on to the board and superintendent reports and I will start with Vice chair Thompson. 141 00:23:51.600 --> 00:24:00.120 WLWV School Board: is so I just wanted to get the Board and the Community and update on what we're going to do for the superintendent evaluation so. 142 00:24:01.050 --> 00:24:11.190 WLWV School Board: By the way, board members, I will be sending you an email that has more detail in it so don't worry if you know i'm not going to share all the detail now and, just in case. 143 00:24:11.850 --> 00:24:21.330 WLWV School Board: You don't remember everything I say it will be coming to an email form so at our next meeting, Monday may 16 before our work session we have planned an executive session. 144 00:24:22.860 --> 00:24:37.470 WLWV School Board: Which before our Budget Committee meeting and will hold an executive session to develop the board's final written summative evaluation of our superintendent and the Board is a whole, the goal at that time will be to decide. 145 00:24:38.520 --> 00:24:50.310 WLWV School Board: The final ranking for each of the eight standards and then discuss each standard and attempt to speak as one voice, so I want to make sure that we have time as a board to come up with that one voice for each one of those standards. 146 00:24:51.510 --> 00:24:58.500 WLWV School Board: And then i'll make that evaluation available to each one of you, once I have written it up, it will be in childless office, so you can go take a look. 147 00:24:58.830 --> 00:25:06.540 WLWV School Board: Once we're all in agreement, then I will present it to Dr Ludwig and then, with the goal that coming. 148 00:25:07.260 --> 00:25:25.800 WLWV School Board: At our next meeting or next regular meeting in June is when we would formally present that evaluation and then also be voting on the contract, so I will have more details in an email to you please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions, so thank you. 149 00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:35.790 WLWV School Board: All right, thank you for taking that on it's a big responsibility for the vice chair so thanks for being willing to do that and director Taylor. 150 00:25:39.030 --> 00:25:41.760 WLWV School Board: Seed my time to direct a sloop. 151 00:25:48.270 --> 00:25:50.550 WLWV School Board: I don't have any report tonight. 152 00:25:54.180 --> 00:26:01.140 WLWV School Board: For tonight okay great i'll just say a few things just some of the highlights from the past month. 153 00:26:01.950 --> 00:26:14.970 WLWV School Board: One was attending the teaching for excellence events where we honored our teachers who have been here moving into that contract status so just a chance to appreciate their dedication their perseverance. 154 00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:26.280 WLWV School Board: Many of them started teaching right before you know coven hit and all the remote learning and so just that was a fun fun events to be at and in celebration all together. 155 00:26:27.360 --> 00:26:39.450 WLWV School Board: I also had the pleasure of being in the rain, but it was still fun at CREST on Saturday I don't know if anybody else was there, but there was a another celebration, you could buy native plants. 156 00:26:40.230 --> 00:26:56.610 WLWV School Board: You know we're basically celebrating the crusts 20 year anniversary, and so there was music and children singing and music or me like dancing and you know all the festivities so another just fun opportunity to celebrate as a Community. 157 00:26:58.410 --> 00:27:07.680 WLWV School Board: robotics was mentioned earlier the Westland high school robotics team, I actually was able to go the Wilson bill high school robotics team and play Bingo with the teenagers there, it was a. 158 00:27:08.070 --> 00:27:15.600 WLWV School Board: Whole event that all the students put on as a fundraiser and I might even got to drive the robot which was harder than it looks. 159 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:24.480 WLWV School Board: And, but that was also very cool event is such an awesome thing that the mentors we have these amazing adult mentors who work in the field of technology. 160 00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:32.970 WLWV School Board: who come in and work with our students and so it's really a partnership between the school and you know these mentors from the from the workforce. 161 00:27:34.110 --> 00:27:49.320 WLWV School Board: And finally, I was at the public forum week ago tonight, where we had a lot of people and meridian creek middle school talking about one of the topics that's on the agenda tonight the comprehensive human sexuality education plan and just. 162 00:27:49.830 --> 00:27:58.230 WLWV School Board: as difficult as those conversations can be it's yet again, I was struck by the fact that our school district is hosting. 163 00:27:58.590 --> 00:28:10.800 WLWV School Board: One of the only real robust public forums where we all come together in person and speak often across a difference, you know it at a table making eye contact. 164 00:28:11.370 --> 00:28:24.750 WLWV School Board: Very different than a social media forum, and so I was just you know noticing that and honoring that and was thankful to be there, even though it was difficult it's also very important, so those are my highlights. 165 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.510 WLWV School Board: And superintendents. 166 00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:42.600 WLWV School Board: Yes, thank you and typically I have a PowerPoint presentation for each of you that highlights events and activities in the district, and those things that i've attended or upcoming news or legislative news or policy news. 167 00:28:43.110 --> 00:28:54.990 WLWV School Board: But I know it's a full agenda tonight and i'll have a budget message that will be sharing with you so i'm not bringing a report tonight, other than just to echo the many activities that have been brought up this evening, from our students. 168 00:28:56.040 --> 00:28:59.940 WLWV School Board: As well as the the event of CREST and our Community meetings. 169 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:08.160 WLWV School Board: And just to say that i'm just incredibly proud of our district that has so much going on in the life of its work. 170 00:29:09.150 --> 00:29:15.630 WLWV School Board: Tonight we're going to talk about a few topics, and yet we could talk about so many things that are happening every day in our schools where. 171 00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:24.960 WLWV School Board: Children are doing beautiful thinking and work and teachers are going, above and beyond, and educators, are supporting students in magnificent ways and principles are leading. 172 00:29:25.770 --> 00:29:33.360 WLWV School Board: At all hours of the day in the week and it's all because we believed in this incredible school district and we're proud of this Community. 173 00:29:33.930 --> 00:29:42.570 WLWV School Board: we're proud of the families that we serve and our students that we serve, and I think the crest event was a beautiful example of that of our Community coming together. 174 00:29:43.230 --> 00:29:55.770 WLWV School Board: to celebrate just joyful learning outdoors but also in the spirit of community so that's all i'm going to give tonight, but I will have a blessing budget message later in the evening. 175 00:29:58.140 --> 00:30:12.330 WLWV School Board: Thank you, I know, everybody who seated there time could have plenty of things that you could say that I know you all have been busy meeting and attending events and meeting with parents and it is such a full agenda tonight, so the time is also appreciated. 176 00:30:13.350 --> 00:30:24.630 WLWV School Board: And with that i'll move on to the consent agenda and entertaining emotion I moved that we passed the consent agenda all right nice your Thompson with emotion. 177 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:30.750 WLWV School Board: Alright director, why it with a second miss Douglas will you please call the vote. 178 00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:33.780 WLWV School Board: Certainly jack just loop. 179 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:45.120 WLWV School Board: get to tailor checking I I strike Thompson I checked away, I think you. 180 00:30:47.430 --> 00:30:53.250 WLWV School Board: Okay, great so here, is where we move to the communication and comments from. 181 00:30:54.480 --> 00:31:00.540 WLWV School Board: The audience and bear with me for a second, while I get organized we had. 182 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:04.620 WLWV School Board: Several sign up sheets. 183 00:31:06.360 --> 00:31:08.190 WLWV School Board: That are numbered for me. 184 00:31:15.120 --> 00:31:15.900 WLWV School Board: Okay, great. 185 00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:18.210 WLWV School Board: So. 186 00:31:20.610 --> 00:31:21.690 WLWV School Board: We have. 187 00:31:22.770 --> 00:31:25.830 WLWV School Board: We have guidelines i'm going to read the guidelines. 188 00:31:27.030 --> 00:31:43.800 WLWV School Board: And i'm going to follow the guidelines, because they help us be in Community together so first of all we're glad you're here, obviously it's a packed room I know the parking lot was even full and you brave the rain and everything, so thank you for being here you're welcome here and. 189 00:31:45.210 --> 00:31:55.740 WLWV School Board: We if you want to speak, the new needed to sign up on one of these So if you haven't done that yet, and you do want to speak, then come on up and I will hand you a sign up sheet. 190 00:31:56.580 --> 00:32:05.610 WLWV School Board: And this time for the public to come up to the podium and address the Board is really for the board to listen. 191 00:32:06.150 --> 00:32:14.580 WLWV School Board: We listened in a lot of ways we listen when you write us emails we listen when we pick up the phone when you call we listen when we meet you for coffee. 192 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:28.980 WLWV School Board: And this is another way that we listen we listen to the public forum and we'll listen here so it's it's just clear it's nice to recognize that this is not an opportunity to have like a broad audience so much as it is for the board to hear you to inform our decision making. 193 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:39.750 WLWV School Board: So with that we don't typically engage in conversation, so if we sit here quietly and listen it's because we're listening it's not for any other reason than just that. 194 00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:51.210 WLWV School Board: And if you are asking us to give you something really specific like you need some information if you could just make that really clear what your request is so that we can make sure we follow through with that. 195 00:32:52.380 --> 00:33:06.660 WLWV School Board: This is also not an opportunity to single out a student or single out somebody who works for the district, we have a separate complaint process to really be respectful for individuals so it's a chance to address the board, not to single out an individual. 196 00:33:08.190 --> 00:33:19.260 WLWV School Board: You get three minutes, I think that there's a timer that runs behind me so you'll be able to see and after three minutes if it starts flashing and you're out of time, then I will probably ask you to stop talking if you're still talking. 197 00:33:20.370 --> 00:33:32.430 WLWV School Board: We have 45 minutes, and we have a lot of people signed up so if you don't take the whole three minutes that's Okay, because it means there's more opportunity for more people to speak because at 45 minutes public comment closes. 198 00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:44.250 WLWV School Board: And we do also have an order which we follow this because it's so important to us to make sure we have time to hear from people who do live in the district that's the first. 199 00:33:44.550 --> 00:33:55.740 WLWV School Board: group of folks who I invite up or people who live inside the district, and the people who are present and live in our district get invited up first after that if someone is remote. 200 00:33:56.340 --> 00:34:04.650 WLWV School Board: Has legislatively now we need to help you know people come in remotely if they're coming in remote and they live in the district than there then next step. 201 00:34:05.010 --> 00:34:14.640 WLWV School Board: And then, if we still have time, then we move on to people who don't live in the district and are here in person, and then, finally, people who don't live in the district and are coming in remote, so the whole tiered process. 202 00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:17.610 WLWV School Board: let's see here. 203 00:34:19.230 --> 00:34:26.280 WLWV School Board: We did receive emails and have read those if they came in, you know by morning. 204 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.570 WLWV School Board: The other thing i'll say is just really about. 205 00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:44.820 WLWV School Board: civility and decorum as we're all you know Liesl standing room only in this room and we're going to be talking about I assume some issues that people feel very strongly about. 206 00:34:45.420 --> 00:34:53.760 WLWV School Board: And people have strong lived experience with, and so I asked that we don't boo. 207 00:34:54.570 --> 00:35:13.470 WLWV School Board: gear clap we had the opportunity to do some good clapping earlier in the evening, but what I know to be true is that the more that folks do that it shifts the atmosphere from one of listening and understanding and to one that has more of a stadium style. 208 00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:19.530 WLWV School Board: Experience that we wouldn't want in our classrooms and we certainly don't want in the boardroom. 209 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:29.640 WLWV School Board: So we're going to do, public comment in a way, where we're respectful and we're listening and I have full faith, will be able to do that, and if we can't do that then. 210 00:35:30.060 --> 00:35:38.520 WLWV School Board: We have other options, which would include a journey, the meeting and then having public comment happen in a different way, because our intent really is to. 211 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:45.540 WLWV School Board: be present and listening, but to do it in a way that you know maintain a level of discourse that feels. 212 00:35:46.170 --> 00:35:55.620 WLWV School Board: Safe and comfortable as much as possible for folks so if need be, if folks can refrain from cheering cheering you know clapping those things and. 213 00:35:55.890 --> 00:36:09.390 WLWV School Board: i'll close the meeting the Board will go to a different space and we'll invite people in one by one, to address the room, so that folks feel like they can be heard, so does that sound Okay, do you have like agreement, I see people nodding, thank you for the nonverbal feedback. 214 00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:17.310 WLWV School Board: All right, very good so with that I will just start with the first name here and it's. 215 00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:22.980 WLWV School Board: A Wilson ville resident our brand crouch. 216 00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.560 WLWV School Board: wow I get to be first less food side a. 217 00:36:33.270 --> 00:36:38.820 WLWV School Board: hello, members of the board and hello to the executive district staff, my name is aubrey and out. 218 00:36:39.240 --> 00:36:46.290 WLWV School Board: I have read the updated guidelines and I want to say a genuine Thank you to each of you for your willingness to make changes. 219 00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:59.040 WLWV School Board: I also want you to know that i'm aware of that you ran your campaigns on promises of quote being inclusive and tolerant i'm asking you to fulfill those promises. 220 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:05.910 WLWV School Board: I am asking you to be tolerant of me and the lived experiences of the people who believe, like I do. 221 00:37:06.900 --> 00:37:24.630 WLWV School Board: I spent most of my lifetime in a school district two steps from here, but now i'm concerned member of the Westland Wilson build community and i'm absolutely blown away by the radically inappropriate and outright scandalous material included in the supplemental curriculum. 222 00:37:25.740 --> 00:37:35.010 WLWV School Board: I understand that the original plan was to give parents three weeks to look this over and I appreciate that, but we were given one that's unacceptable. 223 00:37:35.580 --> 00:37:46.830 WLWV School Board: i'm also very concerned that parents are being made to feel terrified that someone could be sued for copyright by simply trying to see what their kids are being taught. 224 00:37:47.700 --> 00:37:57.630 WLWV School Board: This process feels like an effort to undermine parents rights, especially when you consider that students are being taught that they can hide healthcare decisions from their parents. 225 00:37:58.680 --> 00:38:13.590 WLWV School Board: In addition, we are being lied to when you say that what will be taught is quote medically accurate, the gender curriculum is not medically accurate, it is pure and simple ideology and it has truly no place in our schools. 226 00:38:14.310 --> 00:38:25.950 WLWV School Board: This is not about being mean, this is about truth, as I look through the 95 pages of supplemental curriculum abstinence was mentioned one time. 227 00:38:27.030 --> 00:38:43.920 WLWV School Board: When I was a student I was scarred by the step by step condom group activity in this curriculum after being put into tiny groups, the kids are told to read slips of paper that say words like ejaculation and erection and our first to put them in correct order. 228 00:38:45.000 --> 00:39:00.630 WLWV School Board: By the very nature of this activity, children are forced to admit their lack of sexual experience in front of their peers, do you not realize how mortifying, that is to be shamed for something that they should be proud of. 229 00:39:01.770 --> 00:39:08.250 WLWV School Board: These lessons in particular, many of the group activities are fundamentally in their nature, abusive to these children. 230 00:39:09.210 --> 00:39:19.860 WLWV School Board: After that happened when I did have the opportunity to opt out of the inappropriate curriculum, I was treated horribly by staff and was made to feel alone and excluded. 231 00:39:20.550 --> 00:39:35.460 WLWV School Board: i'm calling on each board member to not only scrap the inappropriate curriculum but also go above and beyond, to make the children who have opted out feel like the empowered children that they truly are Thank you. 232 00:39:39.750 --> 00:39:40.590 WLWV School Board: alright. 233 00:39:45.240 --> 00:39:54.510 WLWV School Board: So if a person did not right, where what city, they live in that i'm going to assume that they don't live in the district and. 234 00:39:55.170 --> 00:40:08.400 WLWV School Board: skip them because there's a lot of names here so i'm just going to move on to and i'll come back to them after i've gone through the folks who did right the city that they live in, so we have Westland resident cheryl Linda sorry. 235 00:40:29.430 --> 00:40:39.060 WLWV School Board: i'm a parent here in Westland I have a 17 year old daughter 14 year old daughter and eight year old daughter, I was on the task force this most recent. 236 00:40:40.350 --> 00:40:59.850 WLWV School Board: Task Force for the health and sexuality curriculum, there were three of us parents on this task force when it was promoted that it was very heavily parent participated, there are only three of us and out of a room full of more than 20 staff people. 237 00:41:01.380 --> 00:41:02.970 WLWV School Board: I felt like the lone ranger. 238 00:41:04.140 --> 00:41:08.850 WLWV School Board: who stood for what I believe many people in our Community value. 239 00:41:10.650 --> 00:41:12.570 WLWV School Board: There are eight standards. 240 00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.290 WLWV School Board: From the Oregon Department of Education, that we need to cover. 241 00:41:18.300 --> 00:41:24.450 WLWV School Board: Number one students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health number two. 242 00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:30.960 WLWV School Board: Students will analyze the influence of family peers, culture, media technology and other factors on health behaviors. 243 00:41:31.290 --> 00:41:37.080 WLWV School Board: Three students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information products and services to enhance health. 244 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:44.610 WLWV School Board: for students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. 245 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:54.030 WLWV School Board: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision making skills to enhance health six students will demonstrate the ability to use goal setting skills to enhance health. 246 00:41:54.570 --> 00:42:08.670 WLWV School Board: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks students will demonstrate number eight students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health. 247 00:42:10.140 --> 00:42:17.610 WLWV School Board: Did I see anything and the advocates for youth curriculum it's not curriculum it's online material created by. 248 00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:23.670 WLWV School Board: Individuals that value sexual pleasure and other. 249 00:42:24.990 --> 00:42:26.580 WLWV School Board: Priorities for students. 250 00:42:28.350 --> 00:42:35.130 WLWV School Board: they're eight standards, none of these standards actually say you need to teach kids that they need to. 251 00:42:36.390 --> 00:42:44.850 WLWV School Board: change their sexual identity to align with their feelings nothing says that here the indicators that. 252 00:42:45.870 --> 00:43:00.750 WLWV School Board: Oregon Department of Education has mentioned are only indicators, they are not requirements to teach and as Dr boyd sort bb swanson stated in the parent input meeting last Monday that we are not required to teach to the indicators. 253 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:16.230 WLWV School Board: And so, my concern is that we are not addressing especially number eight students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health, there is nothing in there about promoting family health. 254 00:43:17.520 --> 00:43:19.050 WLWV School Board: Nothing in there about. 255 00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:31.080 WLWV School Board: practicing health enhancing behaviors and avoiding and reducing health risks so advocates for youth I say don't know it is a dangerous set of. 256 00:43:32.430 --> 00:43:44.520 WLWV School Board: materials that is online it's not a science based curriculum and Oregon Department of Education and said, they have not vetted this material, so why are we even voting on it, if they have not vetted it. 257 00:43:44.970 --> 00:43:52.110 WLWV School Board: They have not put the science data behind it, they have not put their stamp of approval on it, why are we even voting on it. 258 00:43:54.750 --> 00:44:02.280 WLWV School Board: it's been three minutes all right great Thank you and Emily sheley from Westland. 259 00:44:15.450 --> 00:44:23.700 WLWV School Board: Hello everyone, my name is Emily sheley I grew up in the lesson lesson middle school district, and I graduated from Western high school in 2017 and I. 260 00:44:24.090 --> 00:44:34.410 WLWV School Board: am still living in the Community today and next month i'll be graduating from portland state with a bachelor of science and speech and hearing sciences and a minor in sexuality, gender and queer studies and i'm here to. 261 00:44:35.250 --> 00:44:46.110 WLWV School Board: show my support for the adoption of an equity and inclusion based sexual education curriculum in our schools that's based on a higher education and backed. 262 00:44:46.560 --> 00:44:57.750 WLWV School Board: By clinical and peer reviewed research, I spent 13 years in this district school system, and at no point was I ever talked to or instructed about my sexuality beyond heterosexual. 263 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:06.300 WLWV School Board: standards or hetero normative standards and the only sexual education, I received was an elementary explanation of menstruation. 264 00:45:06.900 --> 00:45:19.110 WLWV School Board: And, with only my peers and local organizations and churches to influence my understanding of sexuality, I developed extreme internalized homophobia and really radical Depression and anxiety. 265 00:45:20.190 --> 00:45:31.290 WLWV School Board: And hated who I was so much I moved to a State where it was physically dangerous for me to be who I was because I thought I was better off there and. 266 00:45:33.270 --> 00:45:46.350 WLWV School Board: My struggles for acceptance and my sexuality, resulting in constant suicidal thoughts a hospitalization and measurable i'm not a pain and this all happened without any education about diverse sexualities and. 267 00:45:48.060 --> 00:45:59.610 WLWV School Board: i've never felt a romantic attraction to men and in my higher education and sexuality and gender and clear studies, has had absolutely no influence over my sexuality or my gender identity. 268 00:46:01.170 --> 00:46:08.430 WLWV School Board: i'm a proud gay woman and I get to have the privilege of entering into a same sex marriage soon and that. 269 00:46:10.470 --> 00:46:18.210 WLWV School Board: And it's a more loving and healthy relationship that I was ever and I was ever instructed could even exist in the schools or from my education. 270 00:46:19.050 --> 00:46:29.310 WLWV School Board: So I had to seek out my own education to learn more about sexuality and gender I had to pay thousands of dollars and take on the burden of student debt that I will be paying back for years of my life. 271 00:46:30.090 --> 00:46:37.170 WLWV School Board: Just in order to learn about things that should be fundamental education standards and public school systems, the things that. 272 00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:48.720 WLWV School Board: I had to pay to learn, are the only things that allowed me to accept myself and be able to feel happiness I hated myself every day until I was able to learn these things. 273 00:46:49.950 --> 00:46:56.010 WLWV School Board: And i'm sure you've heard these statistics all the time, but just I want to end today with. 274 00:46:57.900 --> 00:47:11.460 WLWV School Board: My points with just leaving you with some statistics in the US, a suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people and LGBT Q youth are four times more likely to consider make plans for or attempt suicide. 275 00:47:12.930 --> 00:47:31.050 WLWV School Board: The LGBT Q youth who reported having at least one LGBT Q affirming space had a 35% reduced odds of reporting suicide attempt, and the strongest association with reduced suicide attempts was for LGBT Q affirming schools, having the potential to reduce the risk by 35%. 276 00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:32.880 WLWV School Board: All right. 277 00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:37.290 WLWV School Board: I think that's three minutes Okay, thank you. 278 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.790 WLWV School Board: Okay 10 Collins from Westland. 279 00:47:56.490 --> 00:48:01.740 WLWV School Board: hi i'm a parent of two girls that have come through the wesleyan. 280 00:48:02.970 --> 00:48:07.020 WLWV School Board: i'm school district wrestling Wilson your school district. 281 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:14.790 WLWV School Board: I was here a few years ago, when you had a really great public outreach on this very topic. 282 00:48:16.110 --> 00:48:26.040 WLWV School Board: of putting together curriculum for sexual education, I was very supportive at the time and i'm still very supportive of the curriculum that you're moving forward. 283 00:48:26.640 --> 00:48:49.680 WLWV School Board: I think it's a very important, knowing that my girls have been in contact with folks of alternative sexuality and also gender that this curriculum is really important, it could be able to have science based curriculum that moves forward, and I also wanted to. 284 00:48:50.970 --> 00:48:52.230 WLWV School Board: let you know that. 285 00:48:53.460 --> 00:49:02.280 WLWV School Board: The clubs, there are very important, along with this curriculum and also probably the most important to me is to be able to have. 286 00:49:02.790 --> 00:49:13.140 WLWV School Board: a really good conversation with students about what's appropriate my looked at some of the curriculum back then and i'm assuming it stayed the same. 287 00:49:13.980 --> 00:49:36.660 WLWV School Board: That being able to teach our students to stand up for themselves to be able to say no in dating situations to be able to have a full understanding of their sexuality and other sexuality it's very, very important so i'm very supportive of this moving forward, thank you. 288 00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:45.840 WLWV School Board: OK, we have Western resident buddy Reynolds. 289 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:05.850 WLWV School Board: i'm Barry Reynolds I live in Westland i'm here to speak about the arts and technology high school closure resolution Sorry, I have a cold. 290 00:50:06.510 --> 00:50:18.060 WLWV School Board: And these are students with unique needs that don't fit into a comprehensive high school, they may be homeless parenting foster children or other reasons. 291 00:50:18.690 --> 00:50:24.600 WLWV School Board: In the words of a student who gave arts art tech and outstanding rating and a review on niche. 292 00:50:25.290 --> 00:50:41.280 WLWV School Board: For those that may have struggled with bullying discrimination mental health issues traumatic experiences this school is very accepting accommodating and most of all familiar with people of these various backgrounds and more. 293 00:50:42.390 --> 00:50:51.480 WLWV School Board: But according to the resolution the school at the new school that would replace it would be a third comprehensive high school. 294 00:50:52.020 --> 00:51:00.570 WLWV School Board: Just like Wilson go high school and Westland high school it's further confusing because the new High School would be. 295 00:51:01.350 --> 00:51:16.710 WLWV School Board: has been presented to the voters for years as a CTE high school, not a comprehensive high school and I don't think these just type of student would thrive in a technical career and technical environment, you know larger environment. 296 00:51:17.730 --> 00:51:27.360 WLWV School Board: The resolution promises the district, who will provide a continuum of supports and personalized care at every con comprehensive high school. 297 00:51:28.530 --> 00:51:29.220 WLWV School Board: But how. 298 00:51:30.300 --> 00:51:45.750 WLWV School Board: In April op ED the board chair said the legislature head yanked quote student investment account funding for mental health and behavioral and behavioral health services and that's just the kind of support these students need. 299 00:51:46.800 --> 00:52:07.350 WLWV School Board: What i'm asking is that you not abandon these students and i'm also asking that when when it comes to budget audit enrollment bond ratings bond tax rates and other tough questions that you verify the information that's given to you. 300 00:52:08.610 --> 00:52:12.540 WLWV School Board: Asked Questions dig deeply do your homework. 301 00:52:13.620 --> 00:52:20.490 WLWV School Board: Keep the face to face with the voters of this district, and most importantly, do it for the students. 302 00:52:25.050 --> 00:52:28.050 WLWV School Board: Right Westland resident Paul spindle. 303 00:52:42.240 --> 00:52:42.960 WLWV School Board: Thank you very much. 304 00:52:45.990 --> 00:52:51.360 WLWV School Board: Thank you very much, I sent this to you earlier, but not as early as this morning, so i'm not sure how many of you have seen it. 305 00:52:53.850 --> 00:52:54.810 WLWV School Board: it's all about safety. 306 00:52:56.100 --> 00:52:59.460 WLWV School Board: School boards and parents should all be concerned about the well being of the children. 307 00:53:00.690 --> 00:53:03.240 WLWV School Board: I see this here think of the children first. 308 00:53:05.430 --> 00:53:07.740 WLWV School Board: We should support them as much as we can. 309 00:53:08.940 --> 00:53:14.280 WLWV School Board: is hard being a child growing up and trying to figure out who they are, and what they're about. 310 00:53:15.540 --> 00:53:21.930 WLWV School Board: They need support from school and at home kids like adults are different from each other and the differences are in bed. 311 00:53:23.100 --> 00:53:27.780 WLWV School Board: There, what makes our society wonderful, we need to honor and support these differences in our children. 312 00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:40.230 WLWV School Board: We need to provide learning and counseling and safe environments for the children, so they don't end up isolating using drugs and alcohol and potentially committing suicide, we need to support them and keep them safe. 313 00:53:41.550 --> 00:53:48.540 WLWV School Board: i'm asking the school board to vote in favor of the proposals to help save children's lives and encourage parents to support them as well. 314 00:53:49.590 --> 00:53:53.040 WLWV School Board: This is the safety for the safety of our children, thank you. 315 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:01.500 WLWV School Board: Okay. 316 00:54:03.690 --> 00:54:05.280 WLWV School Board: Palomino way I think it's. 317 00:54:06.330 --> 00:54:08.070 WLWV School Board: Well, I know that's that's in our district. 318 00:54:09.450 --> 00:54:12.150 WLWV School Board: Is Westland yeah tricia Britain. 319 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:30.060 WLWV School Board: Good evening, Dr Ludwig and board members, and thank you for this time to share my name is tricia Britain and I live on six 540 Palomino away in Westland i'm in Westland mama two children. 320 00:54:30.300 --> 00:54:35.130 WLWV School Board: My perspective comes in that have a dedicated parent and advocate for principal and children rights. 321 00:54:35.370 --> 00:54:41.640 WLWV School Board: In 2019 when my daughter was in kindergarten at cedar okay I applied and was accepted beyond the sexuality education Task Force. 322 00:54:41.970 --> 00:54:46.530 WLWV School Board: When I uninstalled my children and district to homeschool I was removed removed from the task force. 323 00:54:46.890 --> 00:54:53.880 WLWV School Board: As a Community Member I was no longer invited to have a voice in our districts curriculum and I was not the only parent that had been removed. 324 00:54:54.300 --> 00:54:59.280 WLWV School Board: The most recent tasks, for it was much force was much smaller and lacked equal representation among the group. 325 00:54:59.640 --> 00:55:05.640 WLWV School Board: With that in mind, please no i'm standing here to be a voice for both parents and children with regards to the CFC curriculum being proposed. 326 00:55:06.060 --> 00:55:14.670 WLWV School Board: In 2018 our board had made a health and wellness update and had three very specific commitments on how to adopt the odd standards of 2016. 327 00:55:15.090 --> 00:55:22.590 WLWV School Board: The curriculum used one the curriculum used or not from an advocacy Group to the curriculum us would not be from the. 328 00:55:23.010 --> 00:55:30.600 WLWV School Board: Of curriculum called flash and three, there would be no role playing or demonstrations, this is also reiterated at the recent Community meeting. 329 00:55:30.990 --> 00:55:39.390 WLWV School Board: These commitments were guided in an effort to make sure that the curriculum chosen with age appropriate safe and provide accurate information rather than value or belief based material. 330 00:55:39.900 --> 00:55:43.710 WLWV School Board: And appears this curriculum violates the original commitments that the board agreed upon. 331 00:55:44.100 --> 00:55:52.380 WLWV School Board: advocates for us, also known as three r's is an advocacy group and it's not an accredited curriculum, it is agenda based focusing on certain values and belief systems. 332 00:55:52.680 --> 00:55:58.860 WLWV School Board: The commitment of the board, as I mentioned previously said that they would not accept a curriculum, such as flash which is similar to the three r's. 333 00:55:59.370 --> 00:56:07.500 WLWV School Board: The three r's is available online to anyone who chooses to access it, how is online curriculum safe, given that anyone let's just give an example of sexual predator. 334 00:56:08.160 --> 00:56:12.180 WLWV School Board: can access the exact sexual content that children are being taught in schools. 335 00:56:12.600 --> 00:56:20.400 WLWV School Board: The 10th through 12th grade lesson using condoms effectively and three r's has a demonstration with the wooden penis and condoms demonstrations of material. 336 00:56:21.150 --> 00:56:32.220 WLWV School Board: was deemed not safe and not age appropriate with all the said, how can we even be considering the three r's curriculum and not having a lot of choices is not a good enough answer to allow this curriculum in our school. 337 00:56:32.790 --> 00:56:42.510 WLWV School Board: Is the cognitive emotional and social development and vast sensitivities experiences and traumas being considered when choosing to implement both great Body Shop and three hours as a supplemental curriculum. 338 00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:49.320 WLWV School Board: Because, as a parent and a foster parent, it would be impossible to guarantee the age appropriate in this of this material for all children. 339 00:56:49.740 --> 00:57:02.910 WLWV School Board: As a society truly knowing what loving a child looks like has been lost an education we are being deceived that loving a child is supporting all of their feelings and emotions, rather than guiding them with facts and truth. 340 00:57:03.540 --> 00:57:15.420 WLWV School Board: The bottom line is this supplemental curriculum is focusing its education on gender identity and over sexualized our children as an icu nurse, I understand the commitment of first do no harm. 341 00:57:15.990 --> 00:57:24.750 WLWV School Board: With and without careful consideration of this curriculum there could be significant harm placed on many children, I realized this is a difficult task, the Board has. 342 00:57:25.020 --> 00:57:33.540 WLWV School Board: But as a board, you have local control and an obligation to choose a curriculum that is safe age appropriate culturally, inclusive and medically accurate. 343 00:57:33.870 --> 00:57:40.860 WLWV School Board: As well as follow through with the commitment stated above, I trust you i'll make the right decision for the children of West one will symbol, thank you for all you do. 344 00:57:45.210 --> 00:57:47.220 WLWV School Board: All right, Westland residents summer tam. 345 00:58:00.570 --> 00:58:09.420 WLWV School Board: Good evening butcher kings vice chair Thompson members sloop Taylor and Wyatt my name is summer tan i'm living Westland and i'm a senior at wrestling high school. 346 00:58:09.780 --> 00:58:16.860 WLWV School Board: And i'm here on behalf of representative Rachel crews SEC, who is so sad she can't be here tonight, but as homesick and she's watching online. 347 00:58:17.490 --> 00:58:22.860 WLWV School Board: So now from representative per SEC i'm grateful to partner with the board on many things over the years. 348 00:58:23.250 --> 00:58:32.010 WLWV School Board: renew from the students access access school safety, the bone and levy and i'm hopefully we continue to work together to Center all students, when discussing the guidelines and curriculum in front of you now. 349 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:38.220 WLWV School Board: Thank you for valuing public input on the guidelines and the curriculum tonight hearing from everyone is important. 350 00:58:38.760 --> 00:58:45.480 WLWV School Board: Equally important is following the recommendations from a parent Task Force representing schools and the range of views on sexuality education. 351 00:58:46.170 --> 00:58:59.580 WLWV School Board: These Task Force members spend time, evaluating and making recommendations for the K five curriculum and also recommended revisions and edits to five lessons from middle school and five for high school the Board should follow the recommendations of those tasks with an in depth review. 352 00:59:00.780 --> 00:59:05.430 WLWV School Board: Two years ago I came in front of the sport to show my support for comprehensive health and education. 353 00:59:05.730 --> 00:59:15.300 WLWV School Board: system that are a curriculum that would provide complete medically accurate and inclusive information to students and I am once again urging you to follow the current recommendations put forth. 354 00:59:16.470 --> 00:59:24.540 WLWV School Board: The National Association of school nurses American public health association American Medical Association society for adolescent health and medicine. 355 00:59:24.870 --> 00:59:31.920 WLWV School Board: And the American association of pediatrics are just a few of the many medical groups who support comprehensive health and wellness education. 356 00:59:32.790 --> 00:59:43.860 WLWV School Board: They all agree sexuality education should be medically accurate evidence based and age, appropriate and should include the benefits of delaying sexual intercourse while also providing information about normal reproductive development. 357 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:54.570 WLWV School Board: Alongside nurses and physicians educators want students to stay healthy and meet their life goals and therefore want resources and support, so they can provide students with the tools they need to make good choices. 358 00:59:55.590 --> 01:00:00.840 WLWV School Board: When left on their own students will turn to their friends and the Internet, which as we all know, is right within misinformation. 359 01:00:01.590 --> 01:00:10.440 WLWV School Board: or educators, have the ability to break down complex issues into ways students can understand this is who should be talking to young people during a critical time in the development. 360 01:00:11.940 --> 01:00:21.000 WLWV School Board: i'm thankful the Board is moving to vote on adopting through the curriculum that includes information about gender identity holistic conversations about consent and practical information about contraception. 361 01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:32.280 WLWV School Board: As I stated, two years ago, it is critical that LGBT Q youth see themselves represented in our curriculum, because when we exclude gender data identity it sends a message that you're not welcome here. 362 01:00:33.210 --> 01:00:43.230 WLWV School Board: According to the CDC 33% of all LGBT youth attempt suicide compared to 6% of the peers and that number is reduced when schools ensure comprehensive health and wellness education. 363 01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:50.310 WLWV School Board: Talking about gender identity during health and wellness is one important way to increase acceptance and respect for all people. 364 01:00:51.120 --> 01:00:58.950 WLWV School Board: As a family nurse practitioner a State representative and a Community Member, I support the comprehensive wealth, health and wellness education curriculum before the board tonight. 365 01:00:59.730 --> 01:01:07.710 WLWV School Board: Thank you for all the work you do, and for your time here this evening and again my apologies for not making it in person i'm watching along from home, and thank you for me too. 366 01:01:15.630 --> 01:01:18.090 WLWV School Board: Mira jansen from Westland. 367 01:01:22.380 --> 01:01:31.650 WLWV School Board: hi i'm Mary Johnson i'm a current sophomore Westland high school i'm here with a number of my friends, representing our GSA our gender and sexuality alliance at school. 368 01:01:32.490 --> 01:01:45.690 WLWV School Board: were mainly just here to support the comprehensive sex ED plan, I know that throughout my middle school and early high school years I would have benefited greatly from more inclusive. 369 01:01:46.950 --> 01:01:49.590 WLWV School Board: education and health classes, because I know that. 370 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:57.270 WLWV School Board: While I was still in middle school I knew virtually nothing about anything having to do with the queer community. 371 01:01:58.170 --> 01:02:11.220 WLWV School Board: And therefore I was very ignorant and I was very not empathetic towards a lot of my peers, when I could have been it took a lot of personal growth and personal researching and asking questions that I had to do in my free time which. 372 01:02:12.810 --> 01:02:23.640 WLWV School Board: I think all of us should take our free time to understand and learn more about each other, but the fact that it was not taught in my classes was a big hindrance in my own personal self discovery journey. 373 01:02:24.930 --> 01:02:29.040 WLWV School Board: And just generally understanding my peers, I understand that. 374 01:02:30.720 --> 01:02:33.690 WLWV School Board: There are a lot of moving parts in this. 375 01:02:34.710 --> 01:02:35.910 WLWV School Board: plan to be passed. 376 01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:43.800 WLWV School Board: But we as students, just want to express our support and how much this will continue to benefit us throughout the rest of our high school years. 377 01:02:44.340 --> 01:02:56.430 WLWV School Board: As well as how much it could have helped us, I know I could have been a much better friend to my peers and I had, I simply know what they were going through so we just wanted to express our support for the bill, thank you. 378 01:03:08.490 --> 01:03:09.810 WLWV School Board: Westland resident. 379 01:03:10.830 --> 01:03:11.520 WLWV School Board: amy. 380 01:03:12.540 --> 01:03:14.550 WLWV School Board: Patterson sandy I think it is. 381 01:03:20.580 --> 01:03:23.760 WLWV School Board: Thank you, born superintendent for giving me the chance to speak. 382 01:03:24.870 --> 01:03:27.510 WLWV School Board: I just wanted men might get a little emotional. 383 01:03:29.070 --> 01:03:31.230 WLWV School Board: I just want to thank all of you and. 384 01:03:32.250 --> 01:03:36.060 WLWV School Board: Those in our school district for pursuing. 385 01:03:37.380 --> 01:03:45.120 WLWV School Board: equity and inclusion in every way um, I have three children who are high school or Southwest one. 386 01:03:46.230 --> 01:03:46.830 WLWV School Board: one. 387 01:03:48.690 --> 01:03:51.270 WLWV School Board: They are non binary and. 388 01:03:52.350 --> 01:03:54.660 WLWV School Board: I have had issues. 389 01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:59.340 WLWV School Board: Related to depression and potential suicidal thoughts. 390 01:04:00.510 --> 01:04:09.900 WLWV School Board: If we were to not adopt this comprehensive program and he were not to feel they were not to feel as welcome as they do now. 391 01:04:11.310 --> 01:04:13.230 WLWV School Board: i'm not sure what our family would do. 392 01:04:14.700 --> 01:04:21.510 WLWV School Board: I will do anything for my children and all children who do not have the support that are needed. 393 01:04:23.190 --> 01:04:27.390 WLWV School Board: Again, it just made me feel so gracious to have the opportunity to talk about this. 394 01:04:28.680 --> 01:04:35.490 WLWV School Board: i'm also special educator and I worked with kiddos you know, an occlusion is my thing. 395 01:04:37.260 --> 01:04:44.910 WLWV School Board: Inclusion as a bed Gordon but it encompasses so much inclusion tolerance Community love care. 396 01:04:45.990 --> 01:04:54.390 WLWV School Board: Those are my values and I just wanted to thank all of you again, it means a lot to know that we have support. 397 01:04:55.740 --> 01:05:00.690 WLWV School Board: In this Community where I know there are certain places, I would not take. 398 01:05:02.220 --> 01:05:05.010 WLWV School Board: My child, for fear of their safety. 399 01:05:06.750 --> 01:05:07.830 WLWV School Board: Thank you very much. 400 01:05:17.640 --> 01:05:23.220 WLWV School Board: Nicole reardon I think your Westland or parent yeah. 401 01:05:37.080 --> 01:05:44.340 WLWV School Board: My printer broke, so please my phone I apologize Okay, thank you board and superintendent Ludwig for. 402 01:05:45.660 --> 01:05:56.820 WLWV School Board: have listened listening to me speak tonight my residences 1410 Rosemarie drive, so I attended monday's meeting to hear listen to discuss the help it's actual hottie curriculum that. 403 01:05:57.750 --> 01:06:08.220 WLWV School Board: Many of us are here to speak about tonight we sat table groups, it was our understanding that this was the curriculum, the task force chose, yes, the task force chose this curriculum. 404 01:06:08.820 --> 01:06:12.870 WLWV School Board: However, it wasn't until I left that I learned that the various accredited publishing. 405 01:06:13.770 --> 01:06:25.530 WLWV School Board: Publishers weren't an option, the task was described to me as basically filtering out from the already chosen material from the district as to what the supplement material will be to meet the 20% needed of the State standards. 406 01:06:26.970 --> 01:06:34.200 WLWV School Board: To hear it was a district to chose the Youth for advocates as its supplementary material to teach our 60 12th grade students, I was surprised. 407 01:06:35.250 --> 01:06:42.240 WLWV School Board: Why are we allowing a pack fun to enter our classrooms advocates for youth is not accredited education, science for health. 408 01:06:43.470 --> 01:06:48.540 WLWV School Board: And a school district as well respected as Westland Wilson bill, why is it encouraging teaching, a subject from any group. 409 01:06:50.070 --> 01:06:57.840 WLWV School Board: At the December 2018 school board meeting then chair gender Fitch shared thoughtful feedback, which serves us well over these three years. 410 01:07:02.730 --> 01:07:09.390 WLWV School Board: So sorry some of the takeaways that so I quote her some of the takeaway that I want to share with my board members is a reminder. 411 01:07:09.720 --> 01:07:16.080 WLWV School Board: That we're mandated by the legislation to teach certain topics and by the Oregon Department of Education to teach the new standards. 412 01:07:16.530 --> 01:07:24.990 WLWV School Board: The district has all ready made some commitments that they're not going to have teachers locating their own resources and we're going to have cohesive plan lessons across the district. 413 01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:29.550 WLWV School Board: so that parents could rely on that also we have looked at what comprehensive curriculum. 414 01:07:30.330 --> 01:07:35.790 WLWV School Board: We needed to be used the Oregon Department of Education has determined that the comprehensive curriculum only covers 80% of the topic. 415 01:07:36.120 --> 01:07:42.690 WLWV School Board: So we need to seek out supplemental material and it's important to our district, that we do so from groups that aren't advocacy groups. 416 01:07:43.020 --> 01:07:46.320 WLWV School Board: And that limit some of our resources, the district has also determined. 417 01:07:46.740 --> 01:07:57.480 WLWV School Board: That they're not going to use it, the district wants to provide information rather than discuss topics from the value based or belief based system and so just taking a lot of care around those areas. 418 01:07:57.870 --> 01:08:06.480 WLWV School Board: And so that continues to be a time where we, as a board member as the Community continue to engage in discussion and conversation and district staff is listening, but. 419 01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:16.920 WLWV School Board: I stand here wondering as a district listening, because here we are talking again about using an advocacy group when three years prior was determined that it wasn't going to be used. 420 01:08:17.460 --> 01:08:27.390 WLWV School Board: i'm not asking for the board, not to teach the standards, what I am asking is it is within our power to choose what supplementary material and what resources we use to teach our students, thank you. 421 01:08:33.030 --> 01:08:36.090 WLWV School Board: Brian labelle from my son. 422 01:08:46.770 --> 01:09:04.740 WLWV School Board: Good evening, my name is Brian libel, I live in Westland Westland and I have three children, one of whom and 10s Westland high school, I attended the school meeting on comprehensive sex education last Monday and appreciate the schools attempt to inform and receive public input. 423 01:09:05.940 --> 01:09:13.890 WLWV School Board: This feedback is important as a school district partners with me the parents in the formal education of my children. 424 01:09:15.450 --> 01:09:23.700 WLWV School Board: Also, was important is the ensuring no part of formal education conflict for undermines with the morals and values I teach them. 425 01:09:24.180 --> 01:09:29.700 WLWV School Board: As it is my responsibility not to school districts, to get my children ready for the rest of their lives. 426 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:41.520 WLWV School Board: I asked the school board members to vote no on the proposed curriculum change this proposed material and lesson plans have content there's age inappropriate and not medically supported. 427 01:09:42.480 --> 01:10:01.830 WLWV School Board: Teaching middle school children about gender identity beyond a male or female, is both as an aside, citing the Center for Disease Control as an authority on it sexual education is misplaced and is like the Bureau of land management speak it out speaking out on space travel. 428 01:10:03.330 --> 01:10:04.920 WLWV School Board: Ladies and gentlemen. 429 01:10:06.090 --> 01:10:12.360 WLWV School Board: It is what it is we're all either a male or female or anatomy tells us this. 430 01:10:13.230 --> 01:10:22.440 WLWV School Board: Plainly adolescence brings hormonal emotional changes and the importance for parents to be steadfast for their children, affirming who they are. 431 01:10:22.950 --> 01:10:28.950 WLWV School Board: And how they're created and not leave them to their own ever changing emotions and limited understanding. 432 01:10:29.790 --> 01:10:42.210 WLWV School Board: Nonetheless, if a parent wants to teach or allow their children to be the opposite, gender or a third option that's their prerogative the school district should not involve itself and the teaching or promoting of it, thank you. 433 01:10:50.160 --> 01:10:51.090 WLWV School Board: Alright, this is a. 434 01:10:52.350 --> 01:11:00.210 WLWV School Board: Address so I assume that this is the wallet and it's in the West one Wilson middle school district it's Irene looks like maybe bank. 435 01:11:01.290 --> 01:11:01.830 WLWV School Board: What is it. 436 01:11:03.030 --> 01:11:03.510 WLWV School Board: OK. 437 01:11:08.040 --> 01:11:10.770 WLWV School Board: Good evening, and thank you for allowing me to speak. 438 01:11:12.180 --> 01:11:23.820 WLWV School Board: My name is Irene pop and I am a mental health and substance abuse counselor in the portland metro area, I have the honor of working with LGBT Q youth. 439 01:11:25.110 --> 01:11:36.150 WLWV School Board: and adults and their families, and what I hear on the daily for my clients is the struggles, they endure the depression, the anxiety, the stress. 440 01:11:37.530 --> 01:11:48.090 WLWV School Board: Because they don't they're not included there's so much fear and there's so many things they're subjected to, and this is around the entire area. 441 01:11:49.770 --> 01:11:59.490 WLWV School Board: And they have to learn that they're Okay, they need to learn that they are there's nothing wrong with them, you know and sometimes their families. 442 01:12:00.030 --> 01:12:11.550 WLWV School Board: Can they don't they just don't understand so educating these children to know that they're Okay, including them and their peers can make a huge difference. 443 01:12:12.150 --> 01:12:32.400 WLWV School Board: In stopping that that you've heard statistics of depression substance use suicide they're not going to go away them learning about children learning about it it's not swinging them it's letting them know they're OK so again, thank you for this opportunity to speak out. 444 01:12:35.250 --> 01:12:42.210 WLWV School Board: You know Inclusiveness is hugely important in their education, they need to know that they below Thank you. 445 01:12:52.170 --> 01:12:56.160 WLWV School Board: ginger Fitch know your will come on up. 446 01:13:03.510 --> 01:13:10.170 WLWV School Board: Thank you Tara King ginger Fitch Wilson, though, I have two children who are still in the school district. 447 01:13:11.790 --> 01:13:13.470 WLWV School Board: Both it was until high school. 448 01:13:16.170 --> 01:13:24.930 WLWV School Board: So, yes indeed, I was part of the conversations that we had in 2019 and we did a lot of listening and a lot of thinking at that time. 449 01:13:25.380 --> 01:13:33.120 WLWV School Board: And I want to remind you that we did that work then and that work has been ongoing since and. 450 01:13:34.110 --> 01:13:52.890 WLWV School Board: Today i'm in no different position than I was with the board at that time that this is still something we're mandated to do by the State it's something that is beneficial and the pandemic and a research piece of research that I learned about has highlighted it even more for me. 451 01:13:54.150 --> 01:14:08.760 WLWV School Board: You know I feared the algorithms that filter information to my children on the Internet and the pandemic has proven that I cannot control what information my children, access and in fact History tells us probably limiting. 452 01:14:09.690 --> 01:14:22.800 WLWV School Board: Information is not healthy you're helpful for society or for us as a district just why we have public comments and we engage our Community, you know. 453 01:14:24.150 --> 01:14:32.580 WLWV School Board: My children are I worry about the curriculum that they're going to get from the school district, and in fact it's welcomed by both of us, because we both. 454 01:14:33.180 --> 01:14:46.650 WLWV School Board: My children, and I can learn about their health and about their sexuality and about things that they're facing that I may not have been informed about when I was a young kid in central Oregon. 455 01:14:49.050 --> 01:14:56.490 WLWV School Board: And the other important research on want to share with you is that a 14 year old turns a switch off. 456 01:14:57.180 --> 01:15:05.610 WLWV School Board: And before that my voice matters, the mom voice matters, they listened to me they turn their brains turn on when they hear me speaking. 457 01:15:06.390 --> 01:15:16.440 WLWV School Board: But at 14 they're much more interested in what other people say and their their brains activate when they're hurting other people speak to them, I don't want that to be tick tock. 458 01:15:16.770 --> 01:15:26.460 WLWV School Board: I don't want that to be some algorithm pushing them information from YouTube I want it to be the Westland school district curriculum in this area, and I would ask for you to the. 459 01:15:34.410 --> 01:15:36.720 WLWV School Board: Cat black from West one. 460 01:15:44.130 --> 01:15:51.750 WLWV School Board: hi i'm not going to be terribly organized here didn't plan this out very well, but I have a couple of kids of the Westland high school student and. 461 01:15:53.400 --> 01:16:05.040 WLWV School Board: i've got a straight son and a gay son and they both feel very safe and included there, I think the atmosphere has been really supportive for both of them and i'm extremely excited that. 462 01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:19.530 WLWV School Board: they've been able to get through school both of them feeling very healthy and very included, and I want to just advocate for curriculums that have a lot of information, and that includes a lot of viewpoints and. 463 01:16:21.540 --> 01:16:36.390 WLWV School Board: I went to school in the 80s and I gotta say I understand why a lot of the kids I knew were closeted it was pretty hostile environment for people who didn't fit sort of a standard. 464 01:16:38.100 --> 01:16:46.890 WLWV School Board: set of norms and none of that information was included in any of the sexual education that I was exposed to at that time and. 465 01:16:47.970 --> 01:16:57.510 WLWV School Board: I had some friends who later told me that they felt that they had to stay quiet because they just didn't feel like there was a place for them in the school district. 466 01:16:58.680 --> 01:17:06.030 WLWV School Board: Now I think that's improved a lot, I know my kids both feel very included, and I just want to advocate for that kind of. 467 01:17:07.320 --> 01:17:13.620 WLWV School Board: Atmospheric atmosphere going on into the future, and I support the curriculum having as much information as possible. 468 01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:23.970 WLWV School Board: Cat rosen mom from Westland. 469 01:17:32.160 --> 01:17:42.180 WLWV School Board: hello, thank you, members of the board chair, my name is Ken rosen mom I live in Westland I have to fourth graders to go to cedar a primary love that school. 470 01:17:42.630 --> 01:17:48.540 WLWV School Board: One thing I especially love about it is the inclusive nature that they bring to every aspect of education. 471 01:17:49.530 --> 01:18:02.040 WLWV School Board: moved to Westland for the schools, one of the reasons why was the curriculum and I just want to give everybody a chance to speak, I really appreciate the opportunity for you, bringing this to the public. 472 01:18:02.940 --> 01:18:11.040 WLWV School Board: And I would hope that the board adopts the inclusive curriculum before you, so I would help you that you vote yes, thank you. 473 01:18:18.090 --> 01:18:20.670 WLWV School Board: All right, Joseph walters from muslin. 474 01:18:30.990 --> 01:18:43.380 WLWV School Board: Care King board of directors superintendent Ludwig staff faculty my name is Joseph walters i'm a longtime resident of Westland and I have four amazing children all previous or current students in the district. 475 01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:51.900 WLWV School Board: My family and I are proud of the leadership we have provided in our schools over the years, including participation and PTA and pto. 476 01:18:52.320 --> 01:18:58.080 WLWV School Board: The Middle school musical music and arts partners and the Westland what Wilson real education foundation. 477 01:18:58.860 --> 01:19:10.200 WLWV School Board: My wife, has been a proud partner with the district on diversity equity and inclusion, where we both attended the session in 2019 at meridian creek that other people have been talking about tonight. 478 01:19:11.460 --> 01:19:17.070 WLWV School Board: One of our core family values is to provide a voice for those in need and that's what brings me here tonight. 479 01:19:18.210 --> 01:19:27.570 WLWV School Board: i'm here to support a comprehensive sexuality education plan that includes consent and safety and gender and sexuality in an age appropriate way. 480 01:19:28.260 --> 01:19:42.960 WLWV School Board: I have known and trusted the administration and faculty of the district for over 15 years to provide a thoughtful and thorough process for developing curricula and I believe it is imperative for the safety of our children, that it is approved and implemented. 481 01:19:44.130 --> 01:19:49.560 WLWV School Board: Many of you know, the two of my kids identify themselves as members of the LGBT Q community. 482 01:19:50.190 --> 01:19:57.570 WLWV School Board: One of my kids came out in middle school and provided leadership and support to other students, through their middle and high school years. 483 01:19:58.380 --> 01:20:16.740 WLWV School Board: The other was harassed and bullied and lost a friend to suicide, through their experiences and those of my other two children also allies, I have gained an insight into the challenges that many of our kids faced when their orientation or identity is inconsistent with the mainstream. 484 01:20:18.180 --> 01:20:26.790 WLWV School Board: I don't believe that this curriculum will will indoctrinate anyone or give carte blanche to teachers in our district to turn our children into immoral monsters. 485 01:20:27.240 --> 01:20:40.920 WLWV School Board: It simply provides our kids control over their own bodies, so that they may grow up to respect themselves and others that I believe is an integral part of being a great thinker and a thoughtful person. 486 01:20:42.150 --> 01:20:54.450 WLWV School Board: If some members of our Community want to opt out of this important curriculum I respect their wishes, but I implore you to opt in tonight to keep our children, safe and healthy Thank you. 487 01:21:00.150 --> 01:21:10.890 WLWV School Board: All right, board and members of the public got husband 45 minutes of public comment and per board policy that is the amount of time that we a lot to it. 488 01:21:12.090 --> 01:21:20.670 WLWV School Board: i'm inclined to stick to that because we have an agenda that's going to take us up til 10 o'clock, even if we end public comment here on time. 489 01:21:22.500 --> 01:21:33.180 WLWV School Board: King, we can vote to extend Am I correct in saying that we can vote to extend public comment and how many more public comments do we have left, so the policy states that public comment. 490 01:21:33.510 --> 01:21:46.920 WLWV School Board: is limited to 45 minutes unless extended by the board and depending on the agenda any specific meeting, so we have we've had about 16 speakers, and we have about. 491 01:21:49.110 --> 01:22:00.030 WLWV School Board: say I did the math and it was 24 more speakers, my math tells me it'll take us up till about nine o'clock but just shy of nine o'clock, they will still be doing public comment. 492 01:22:01.140 --> 01:22:09.540 WLWV School Board: We have members of the Budget Committee waiting so I support sticking to our policy. 493 01:22:10.620 --> 01:22:12.630 WLWV School Board: But certainly i'm just one person so. 494 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:18.960 WLWV School Board: i'm happy to hear what everyone has to say so, if that's what. 495 01:22:20.310 --> 01:22:21.840 WLWV School Board: I have other Members in support. 496 01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:28.710 WLWV School Board: Okay, if you would like to turn that into a formal motion I make a motion that we extend our public comment time. 497 01:22:34.530 --> 01:22:36.660 WLWV School Board: right by cheryl Thompson has emotion. 498 01:22:39.810 --> 01:22:40.440 WLWV School Board: I second. 499 01:22:41.580 --> 01:22:54.240 WLWV School Board: Okay, we have a second director soup so are just for clarification, are you moving that we do another 45 minutes or that we do all the rest of the speakers so hour and a half or 45 questions. 500 01:22:56.520 --> 01:23:01.980 WLWV School Board: I mean i'm inclined to want to hear everybody who took the time to be here and to make a statement. 501 01:23:03.360 --> 01:23:07.410 WLWV School Board: it's going to be late night after this meeting i'm probably not going to sleep for a while, anyway, so. 502 01:23:07.920 --> 01:23:14.460 WLWV School Board: i'm committed to being here, as long as it takes to hear from all the members of our Community, but I can only speak for myself and for not are. 503 01:23:14.850 --> 01:23:22.680 WLWV School Board: Not I can't speak from other board members, so I would go ahead and make a motion to listen to all of the rest of the public comment. 504 01:23:23.070 --> 01:23:29.790 WLWV School Board: Okay, so point of clarification, we have a motion to finish the list of speakers and directors Luke. 505 01:23:30.570 --> 01:23:42.270 WLWV School Board: Your second still stand on that motion yep all right, Miss Douglas we please call the are can I can I say something before we call that I do know that it's going to be a long night and i'm okay with that myself. 506 01:23:44.430 --> 01:23:53.790 WLWV School Board: I would at least be open to extending it up to the time that we already had a lot of which was 7:45pm which at least gives us another 20 minutes. 507 01:23:54.510 --> 01:24:04.020 WLWV School Board: or 20 minutes ahead of schedule, so I and part of the reason that I can see did my directors report, so that I could hear more from the public, they don't need to hear from me. 508 01:24:05.760 --> 01:24:10.080 WLWV School Board: Until it's my time to vote on what they actually came here for but. 509 01:24:11.130 --> 01:24:21.960 WLWV School Board: i'd be at least open to going to net to 745 and seeing where we're at at that point, and if there's five or six people ever if people want to speed it up a little bit. 510 01:24:23.370 --> 01:24:25.830 WLWV School Board: i'd be fine with that too so. 511 01:24:29.130 --> 01:24:34.020 WLWV School Board: Now you can go and vote on what you motion but i'm just telling you what I would be okay with. 512 01:24:34.950 --> 01:24:43.890 WLWV School Board: Okay um well, technically, we have motion that is stating that we're going to hear everybody else who signed up so. 513 01:24:44.220 --> 01:24:57.060 WLWV School Board: we're going to need to vote on that motion, and if you go to know if you want to make another motion that we just we use up the rest of the public comment time that's a lot on the agenda, then we could also vote on that motion that motion can be on the table as well. 514 01:25:00.810 --> 01:25:12.330 WLWV School Board: Yes, correct away during discussion i'll just reiterate that I would support director taylor's motion if it is made, I think that that's a wise use of time, given that we have the budget announcement this evening. 515 01:25:14.640 --> 01:25:34.080 WLWV School Board: Okay, so we have one motion and did you want to make that into a formal thing or or formal motion or just a comment, what do we need to vote on the first one first or yes, although I find that you know note like knowing what the second motion is there is one, and we can. 516 01:25:35.370 --> 01:25:36.420 WLWV School Board: vote accordingly. 517 01:25:37.440 --> 01:25:37.710 WLWV School Board: Okay. 518 01:25:42.180 --> 01:25:53.790 WLWV School Board: I guess what my technical motion would be to at least give the Community up until 745 plus a few more minutes at this point because we're taking those minutes. 519 01:25:55.530 --> 01:25:58.740 WLWV School Board: To and maybe we call it 755. 520 01:26:00.480 --> 01:26:06.600 WLWV School Board: to at least speak to us in at 755 if there's only a handful of people left that. 521 01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:18.630 WLWV School Board: You know, it might make sense to hear everyone I would then be willing to extend that time again for another boat So how do I, formerly make that makes sense. 522 01:26:19.770 --> 01:26:20.580 WLWV School Board: for everyone. 523 01:26:21.990 --> 01:26:38.010 WLWV School Board: I think you know what I hear you saying is that you're open to extending it and particularly with them on a time that we have on the agenda a lot of for it with a little buffer Since you know we're taking some time to discuss it, so what we have on the agenda is until. 524 01:26:39.450 --> 01:26:42.900 WLWV School Board: 745 so I hear you saying, like a half an hour. 525 01:26:43.950 --> 01:26:49.020 WLWV School Board: Sure let's just make it a even 8pm I will make a motion to. 526 01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:55.470 WLWV School Board: To have public comment extended until 8pm. 527 01:26:57.330 --> 01:26:58.740 WLWV School Board: Pacific standard time. 528 01:27:02.820 --> 01:27:17.520 WLWV School Board: Okay, so director Taylor has a motion that weeks, then public comment for 30 more minutes, rather than big central time for everybody okay good point of clarification yeah i'm just kind of looking to see if we even had a second on that. 529 01:27:19.050 --> 01:27:24.000 WLWV School Board: But do we need a point of clarification on the motion before we go on vacation is when we get to that point. 530 01:27:24.540 --> 01:27:36.660 WLWV School Board: And we still have people can we once again vote to extend the time I mean, I think the board can at any point vote to extend time we would just you know need having a conversation again I could add an amendment. 531 01:27:38.910 --> 01:27:52.830 WLWV School Board: So okay how about this, I vote, I will make a motion to approve that public comment go until 8pm Pacific standard time daylight, with a three visitation. 532 01:27:53.610 --> 01:28:05.550 WLWV School Board: To the number of people remaining in consideration for another extension yeah, thank you for that point of clarification I don't even think we need that in the motion that we can revisit anything that revisiting sense but right now we. 533 01:28:06.060 --> 01:28:12.420 WLWV School Board: don't have a second, so I seconds are kind of second since I already second yeah. 534 01:28:13.830 --> 01:28:22.140 WLWV School Board: Okay, so director Taylor has a motion that we extend our time till eight o'clock and director soup has a second, so we have two motions on the table, one is that we. 535 01:28:22.650 --> 01:28:34.710 WLWV School Board: Go until everybody has spoke and one is that we go for an additional 30 minutes, and if people speak, you know that they don't use their whole time, then you know we get through. 536 01:28:35.070 --> 01:28:45.510 WLWV School Board: Also, so both those motions are on the table will vote on the first one first its diversity, please call the vote certainly kitchen way. 537 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:53.910 WLWV School Board: Yes, Christie townson yes Chelsea King know jack can tailor. 538 01:28:56.190 --> 01:28:57.210 WLWV School Board: Yes. 539 01:28:58.530 --> 01:28:59.190 WLWV School Board: jack to sleep. 540 01:29:01.110 --> 01:29:04.170 WLWV School Board: Number one number one, the first one that you seconded. 541 01:29:05.370 --> 01:29:13.620 WLWV School Board: The original Member body guys that will just go until everybody who signed up OK, so the motion passes and we will proceed. 542 01:29:21.540 --> 01:29:34.710 WLWV School Board: amy dresser what let's see that's out of district person so i'm going to skip the out of district people and oh sure the Sherwood addresses under district okay so amy dresser. 543 01:29:38.250 --> 01:29:43.290 WLWV School Board: Thank you, my name is amy dresser and I live in the Wilson, the school district with my husband and five children. 544 01:29:45.000 --> 01:30:00.090 WLWV School Board: I am a Christian and while it is not my job to convince you of my worldview, it is my right as an American citizen to request an amendment to the program of education, as expressed in CSE, since it is unambiguously contrary to my beliefs. 545 01:30:01.200 --> 01:30:11.010 WLWV School Board: The mind behind CSC and the Judeo Christian worldview offer alternate solutions to the abiding dilemma of pain in our human experience. 546 01:30:12.060 --> 01:30:23.730 WLWV School Board: We grapple for a pain free existence, a place in the world really a relationship and groups of relationships in which we can be unconditionally loved honored and accepted. 547 01:30:25.140 --> 01:30:34.860 WLWV School Board: And it is this great need as humans to be loved that drives our quest for a worldview that will open the door for us into the elusive prospect of a place of true belonging. 548 01:30:36.660 --> 01:30:46.170 WLWV School Board: The judeo Christian worldview maintains that humans all humans were created with love and intentionality by a God, who made them in his image. 549 01:30:47.190 --> 01:31:05.310 WLWV School Board: A God, who gave them everything and yet Let them choose what they would do with his gifts and a God, who, when they ruined everything loved them so excruciating Lee that he came down himself to pour out his blood to provide an eternal source of healing to them. 550 01:31:06.720 --> 01:31:18.420 WLWV School Board: And they're in his identity belonging and worth in the eyes and embrace of a maker, who makes no mistakes and has a place in his heart carved out for every single human he makes. 551 01:31:19.860 --> 01:31:29.820 WLWV School Board: However, it is actually not my right nor your right to decide for students, which worldview is accurate, it is the parents right and the students right. 552 01:31:31.050 --> 01:31:47.310 WLWV School Board: The only way for education to remain educational unbiased and religiously and politically neutral is this that to whatever extent parents desire CSE taught in the classroom the biblical worldview would also be taught. 553 01:31:48.990 --> 01:31:57.240 WLWV School Board: And both would be taught non and both would be taught as non-compulsory worldviews rather than dogmatic fact. 554 01:31:58.920 --> 01:32:04.350 WLWV School Board: Anything less is, in my opinion, a certain threat to a free society. 555 01:32:05.850 --> 01:32:15.000 WLWV School Board: Thank you for your time, and thank you for the concern I know you all carry to do what is best in navigating these difficult situations, on behalf of us all. 556 01:32:27.030 --> 01:32:33.270 WLWV School Board: Is in juneau mark Oh, you know I Ireland lane I don't know what city is that in. 557 01:32:35.250 --> 01:32:40.710 WLWV School Board: Okay, just I just have to make sure you're a resident of the district before I call it to Ireland Lee all right thanks. 558 01:32:42.270 --> 01:32:54.750 WLWV School Board: hello, I am a junior in high school and I also transponder in a student myself and I have volunteered for youth line, which is a team to team text crisis line for those who are. 559 01:32:55.290 --> 01:33:02.580 WLWV School Board: Having like mental crisis, and I can tell you handful of times I work i've been volunteering there for over a year. 560 01:33:03.120 --> 01:33:16.320 WLWV School Board: A lot of them have been students, such as myself that were queer that we're having a medical crisis because they their school that they went to was not teaching them about the sexual health of Jenner. 561 01:33:17.430 --> 01:33:22.500 WLWV School Board: Of like questions like them, so this would be important for all students so. 562 01:33:29.790 --> 01:33:42.210 WLWV School Board: Pardon me everybody for just a second miss Douglas, would you be willing to give me hot water, so I don't have to mock up leave my desk and walk Okay, thank you, Dr Spencer, I am actually maybe some cold to hot I like that. 563 01:33:44.160 --> 01:33:45.060 WLWV School Board: Please, and thank you. 564 01:33:46.920 --> 01:33:47.790 WLWV School Board: Thank you. 565 01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:54.810 WLWV School Board: Alright, moving on to Westland resident Robert Henderson. 566 01:34:00.030 --> 01:34:04.590 WLWV School Board: evening, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Robert Henderson, I am the proud father of a trans daughter. 567 01:34:05.790 --> 01:34:07.380 WLWV School Board: who went to was in high school. 568 01:34:08.460 --> 01:34:12.180 WLWV School Board: When she came out at 14 it was not really a surprise to me. 569 01:34:13.290 --> 01:34:17.310 WLWV School Board: it's sort of confirm some of the mannerisms and things that she had been experiencing or. 570 01:34:18.450 --> 01:34:19.650 WLWV School Board: Showing since she was young. 571 01:34:20.850 --> 01:34:26.760 WLWV School Board: She wasn't made trans from reading a book or something she learned in school that's the way God made her. 572 01:34:28.080 --> 01:34:29.910 WLWV School Board: The journey, for us, has been difficult. 573 01:34:31.770 --> 01:34:39.390 WLWV School Board: She was bullied and harassed in school, what did that lead to depression suicidal ideations anorexia. 574 01:34:40.440 --> 01:34:41.940 WLWV School Board: with another, and I have spent. 575 01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:46.350 WLWV School Board: hours in emergency rooms months in therapy. 576 01:34:47.940 --> 01:34:52.410 WLWV School Board: and endless nights waking up two or three times to sneak in and make sure that she was still breathing. 577 01:34:54.420 --> 01:34:59.670 WLWV School Board: I understand that some of the things that you're proposing to teach make some people uncomfortable. 578 01:35:00.750 --> 01:35:07.050 WLWV School Board: But I will tell you right now that the ignorance, that is generated by not teaching these is killing people. 579 01:35:08.370 --> 01:35:13.440 WLWV School Board: Ignorance is what schools are supposed to fight, so please accept this curriculum, thank you. 580 01:35:22.050 --> 01:35:22.410 Thank you. 581 01:35:32.910 --> 01:35:44.400 WLWV School Board: Alright, I don't know by brandon place Dr Carol should I skip for now, and come back I just see that indicator, and if you live in the district or not. 582 01:35:46.140 --> 01:35:49.230 WLWV School Board: Okay, so Dr Carol more Codex. 583 01:35:51.210 --> 01:35:52.110 WLWV School Board: still here. 584 01:35:54.000 --> 01:35:56.700 WLWV School Board: Dr Carl markovics right. 585 01:36:15.060 --> 01:36:22.590 WLWV School Board: Hello everybody i'm here to say that I am fully supporting the health and. 586 01:36:24.360 --> 01:36:28.500 WLWV School Board: Well, being curriculum that has been taught by the visible school district. 587 01:36:29.880 --> 01:36:40.230 WLWV School Board: What I feel is that each and every student should get the respect and the dignity of existence that they that they deserve, whether they are. 588 01:36:41.340 --> 01:36:51.120 WLWV School Board: gay or lesbian were there by I think every single person every single kid should deserve the chance to be the best they are, and it is the. 589 01:36:51.660 --> 01:37:00.390 WLWV School Board: job of the school district to support that and bring out the best in every single kid nobody should be subjected to bullying or harassment, just because of their. 590 01:37:01.440 --> 01:37:03.630 WLWV School Board: Something that they were born with that's all. 591 01:37:14.490 --> 01:37:15.600 WLWV School Board: pete postman. 592 01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:20.760 WLWV School Board: I think the address him, seeing as a Wilson email address correct. 593 01:37:21.840 --> 01:37:23.520 WLWV School Board: Right you live in Wilson yeah. 594 01:37:26.280 --> 01:37:32.700 WLWV School Board: Good evening, my name is pete postman my family does live in a Wilson Wilson Bella Westland school district I for school aged children. 595 01:37:33.210 --> 01:37:36.900 WLWV School Board: Thank you for your work on this board, thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. 596 01:37:37.290 --> 01:37:44.400 WLWV School Board: Tonight I ask that you do not approve the lessons from the three our curriculum the material you've been asked to approve for the six through 12th grade. 597 01:37:44.910 --> 01:37:50.160 WLWV School Board: ages, rather than being value free non political or neutral these lessons in there. 598 01:37:50.610 --> 01:38:00.480 WLWV School Board: And their developers and authors are selling their values and their morality in order to in order to advance their own political agendas reading from the three r's teacher's guide quote. 599 01:38:00.900 --> 01:38:09.420 WLWV School Board: Rather than attempting to be value free rights respects and responsibility consciously embraces a set of values that are widely accepted in society. 600 01:38:10.170 --> 01:38:18.810 WLWV School Board: The authors of the three our curriculum replan parent educators, the largest abortion provider in this country their mission statement includes advancing and political policies. 601 01:38:19.530 --> 01:38:29.850 WLWV School Board: The three our curriculum and the advocates for you support its use by stating it adheres to the national sexuality education standards, I looked up the standard, and I was really surprised by what I learned. 602 01:38:30.300 --> 01:38:36.180 WLWV School Board: it's not the national standard it's not a state standard or from the Department of Education it's not a government entity. 603 01:38:36.630 --> 01:38:45.480 WLWV School Board: Actually, it was developed by advocates for youth advanced and seek us I look those up and those are three special interest groups, they use this to advance their agendas. 604 01:38:46.350 --> 01:38:55.890 WLWV School Board: advocates for you say to three our curriculum meets these national sexual next next excuse me, national national sexuality education standards it's a circular statement. 605 01:38:56.310 --> 01:39:10.170 WLWV School Board: That amounts to them saying, our group approves of our own material, we approve of ourselves, so you can send me the other is the other developer of the standard secrets was formed by a planned parenthood director also and understand their values and agenda, I can simply read their title. 606 01:39:11.490 --> 01:39:20.160 WLWV School Board: secrets sex education for social change from other websites you kisses Dias include committing to the work into dismantle systems of power and oppression. 607 01:39:20.550 --> 01:39:26.880 WLWV School Board: See because advances comprehensive sexuality education as a means to a building a foundation for a long term cultural shift. 608 01:39:27.840 --> 01:39:38.400 WLWV School Board: Far from providing education for our children and how their bodies are changing these authors have explicitly stated their goal is using sex ED to advance their values and their political goals. 609 01:39:38.940 --> 01:39:51.840 WLWV School Board: I would ask that you not approve this lesson and thereby not allow these special interest groups to use our children as means to their ends, thank you for your work on this board, and thank you for doing your best to do what's right for our kids Thank you. 610 01:39:58.830 --> 01:40:00.930 WLWV School Board: Westland resident billy Henderson. 611 01:40:09.330 --> 01:40:09.600 WLWV School Board: yeah. 612 01:40:15.360 --> 01:40:27.090 WLWV School Board: I am billy Henderson, I am 19 years old i'm a former Western high school student I graduated in 2020 and now I am attending University in Salem. 613 01:40:27.570 --> 01:40:47.580 WLWV School Board: You just heard my dad speak not that long ago, and about some of the experiences, I had a living in Westland while being a trance non buying a person, and I just want to delve into a bit more about my experience that was in high school itself. 614 01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:57.540 WLWV School Board: For my first two years I was in high school, I was closeted I didn't dress how I wanted to dress I didn't act, I wanted to dress I didn't. 615 01:40:58.020 --> 01:41:08.730 WLWV School Board: paint my nails do my hair I had my hair cut and it was all because I didn't feel safe to be who I am and to express, who I am. 616 01:41:09.540 --> 01:41:26.760 WLWV School Board: I finally openly came out my junior year and, following that I was bullied and harassed and it led to us of anorexia I got pulled out of school for 100 days on medical leave. 617 01:41:27.630 --> 01:41:37.200 WLWV School Board: In order to be put into partial hospitalization because I was so malnourished is lead to use of drug abuse it still goes on today. 618 01:41:38.580 --> 01:41:46.410 WLWV School Board: Is lead to depression, anxiety i've survived countless suicide attempts countless overdoses. 619 01:41:47.460 --> 01:41:55.710 WLWV School Board: And i'm still here today because I have a wonderful and amazing family who supports me and everything I do. 620 01:41:57.360 --> 01:42:00.720 WLWV School Board: Many students on as lucky, as I am. 621 01:42:02.010 --> 01:42:14.190 WLWV School Board: They are able to openly be who they are even in their own homes because of the situation, the living situation that may be affecting them. 622 01:42:15.300 --> 01:42:33.240 WLWV School Board: And this comprehensive education is inclusive of the LGBT Q youth will save lives, I was able to survive my overdoses in my suicide attempts, because my parents care about me so incredibly much. 623 01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:47.040 WLWV School Board: Many students won't be that lucky, and if this comprehensive sex education is not past students will die because of it i've seen it before we will see it again. 624 01:42:48.180 --> 01:42:51.450 WLWV School Board: And I just want to thank you for taking the time. 625 01:42:52.620 --> 01:43:01.620 WLWV School Board: To have us talk about this and for pushing this education forward, it really is genuinely hope wanting to see Thank you. 626 01:43:11.250 --> 01:43:11.760 WLWV School Board: Jenny we. 627 01:43:20.640 --> 01:43:22.830 WLWV School Board: hello, I know many of you, thank you chairman. 628 01:43:23.970 --> 01:43:29.730 WLWV School Board: King, and thank you, everybody on the board i'm happy to be here today and i'm not only representing myself, I wrote. 629 01:43:30.060 --> 01:43:36.210 WLWV School Board: A letter and in the last two hours of the afternoon I have over 100 signatures supporting this letter. 630 01:43:36.600 --> 01:43:50.610 WLWV School Board: So this is not just my voice, this is many people in the Community and i've emailed it to all of you, so you guys have a copy of who is who is represented in this letter, dear the Westland Wilson bill school board board and superintendents, thank you for the opportunity to view the curriculum. 631 01:43:51.690 --> 01:44:01.560 WLWV School Board: On comprehensive sex ED last Monday, we would like to share why we are not comfortable with this curriculum and ask you to vote no on the approval of this curriculum for classrooms in Westland and will symbol schools. 632 01:44:02.040 --> 01:44:11.250 WLWV School Board: We want to make it very clear, we think it is essential that teachers demonstrate and teach kindness and love an equal acceptance for all in the classroom. 633 01:44:12.000 --> 01:44:16.830 WLWV School Board: The way kids are loved and accepted by peers and teachers and staff should be the same regardless. 634 01:44:17.190 --> 01:44:25.710 WLWV School Board: of any chosen identity, and it should not be the job of the schools to provide the list of options as each student is unique and different from every other student. 635 01:44:26.280 --> 01:44:31.200 WLWV School Board: These are the reasons that we would like you to vote no and the comprehensive sex and additions. 636 01:44:31.890 --> 01:44:38.760 WLWV School Board: the entirety of the curriculum was value based and bb voice and made it very clear, the meeting that nothing that has value base will be taught in the classroom. 637 01:44:39.270 --> 01:44:43.080 WLWV School Board: This is the list of some of the things that are included in the curriculum that are very much value based. 638 01:44:43.380 --> 01:44:49.230 WLWV School Board: and very much linked to a person's more personal and religious beliefs and therefore should not be taught in the public school setting. 639 01:44:49.800 --> 01:44:59.970 WLWV School Board: Gender as an option, and not a biological reality names and details of the continually expanding list of sexual identities abortion as an alternative to birth. 640 01:45:00.690 --> 01:45:07.020 WLWV School Board: Just as religion in prayer are not allowed in the schools, because they are centered around certain beliefs and values that not everyone agrees with. 641 01:45:07.380 --> 01:45:11.160 WLWV School Board: So also these sexual ideology should not be taught in public schools. 642 01:45:11.550 --> 01:45:21.150 WLWV School Board: These ideologies promote choices that have life changing outcomes and that the public school system should not be tasked with teaching these topics and asking teachers to teach these topics. 643 01:45:21.570 --> 01:45:28.560 WLWV School Board: They are potential liabilities for the school district and teachers, we, the parents are asking you to stop the teaching of these topics. 644 01:45:28.980 --> 01:45:39.690 WLWV School Board: These things are value based and children are not in an age to understand the outcomes of these choices, nor can we afford to comprehensively teach about all the risks complete details. 645 01:45:40.350 --> 01:45:44.340 WLWV School Board: or exhaustive and changing nuances associated with each of these topics. 646 01:45:44.670 --> 01:45:53.160 WLWV School Board: The statements here from the district, that the parents are not okay with these topics being taught in the public school system and we asked you to represent our board post voice voice to the state. 647 01:45:53.580 --> 01:45:58.740 WLWV School Board: The State made changes to our educational guidelines in 2016 and did not consult the parents. 648 01:45:59.070 --> 01:46:06.300 WLWV School Board: We believe these topics are tied to identity and when introduced, especially in younger ages and pre puberty can lead to these outcomes in our kids. 649 01:46:06.660 --> 01:46:13.860 WLWV School Board: Confusion experimentation bullying division embarrassment shame mental health challenges anger and emotional insecurities. 650 01:46:14.190 --> 01:46:21.330 WLWV School Board: They can also create this trust between the teacher and the students and children and their parents and they have never been taught before, and so the outcomes are not known. 651 01:46:22.020 --> 01:46:30.810 WLWV School Board: We do want, we do not want special interest groups with politically charged agendas like advocates for youth to be creating our public school curriculum. 652 01:46:31.110 --> 01:46:42.750 WLWV School Board: And we do not want the public school system to be where agenda driven controversial value based material is today i'm just checking in because it's time for but thank you for listening, thank you for your work, sincerely the parents. 653 01:46:51.150 --> 01:46:59.280 WLWV School Board: Right, we have a wallet and address and I can't read the writings swan way sovereign way. 654 01:47:00.480 --> 01:47:05.310 WLWV School Board: yeah and then this is the 12 minutes and within okay great Thank you yeah Laura come on up. 655 01:47:07.560 --> 01:47:21.000 WLWV School Board: Great hi welcome, and thank you for having us so incredibly honored to be here, this is my first board meeting and probably not my last I am the parent of a first grader IT staff with primary go tigers. 656 01:47:21.840 --> 01:47:34.350 WLWV School Board: couldn't be happier with the school so thankful for the entire experience at our elementary school, I wanted to say that I am in full support of the curriculum. 657 01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:52.740 WLWV School Board: As a parent i'm actually i'm held up to tell the include city at Stafford has been unbelievable and it's because other people have paved the way and I just want to continue that education within the school district. 658 01:47:53.850 --> 01:48:02.190 WLWV School Board: Again, full support of the curriculum and I do want i'm just gonna take my time here very briefly and just say, the purpose of a public education. 659 01:48:02.640 --> 01:48:19.740 WLWV School Board: In a public school is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught, it is to teach them what society needs them to know the client of the public school is not the parent at the entire Community, and the public, thank you. 660 01:48:29.160 --> 01:48:34.530 WLWV School Board: All right, some CREST Dr I do believe is Westland Bob door. 661 01:48:41.910 --> 01:48:44.700 WLWV School Board: Good evening, my name is Bob door breslin resident. 662 01:48:45.780 --> 01:48:50.790 WLWV School Board: i'm reading excerpts from the letter that I sent you in response to the meeting on the 25th. 663 01:48:52.050 --> 01:48:57.180 WLWV School Board: Read over a lesson plan for grades nine addressing the subject of understanding gender. 664 01:48:58.530 --> 01:49:16.980 WLWV School Board: flan was written by the publisher advocate for youth begins with the instructions to the student quote from the time we are born, we are told how we are supposed to act dress and speak, based on the sex, we are assigned at birth, according to the guidelines. 665 01:49:18.870 --> 01:49:27.630 WLWV School Board: For sexual education curriculum all lessons instructional practices class activities materials are medically accurate. 666 01:49:28.620 --> 01:49:39.060 WLWV School Board: Information and materials and lessons have been derived the scientific method and based on quantifiable results and can be replicated even accurately verified. 667 01:49:40.020 --> 01:49:54.180 WLWV School Board: there's nothing medically accurate about saying when sex was assigned at birth and your reading of the verb assign means a choice made by someone at the moment, this clearly does not happen, birth, it is not quantifiable and cannot be replicated. 668 01:49:55.290 --> 01:50:02.760 WLWV School Board: The agenda of the publisher to encourage gender fluidity is transparent by invoking the word assigned as a pejorative. 669 01:50:03.300 --> 01:50:17.130 WLWV School Board: characterizing is when sex and gender at birth as an imposition imposed by someone else instead of being the choice student, this is a made up proposition is not worthy of being deemed medically accurate. 670 01:50:18.570 --> 01:50:27.330 WLWV School Board: This makes me it brings me to the bigger question why are we going through this the curriculum of sexuality supposed to solve problems and meet needs. 671 01:50:28.230 --> 01:50:34.950 WLWV School Board: Can someone defined for me the origins of the problems and needs surrounding this massive effort towards sex education. 672 01:50:35.910 --> 01:50:44.940 WLWV School Board: can show someone show me the news clips of the desperate parents at meetings picketing the school board meetings are marching in the state Capitol pleading for help. 673 01:50:45.570 --> 01:50:55.650 WLWV School Board: Because they did not know how to talk to their son and daughter about sex and gender, why has the public school stepped in with such force to take over the role of the parent. 674 01:50:56.310 --> 01:51:02.160 WLWV School Board: When dealing with intimate subjects that have been the domain of the family unit for centuries. 675 01:51:02.910 --> 01:51:13.020 WLWV School Board: Now of all times when the students have lost the numeral components of learning due to the pandemic, we should be marshalling all of our efforts towards strengthening academics. 676 01:51:13.620 --> 01:51:20.160 WLWV School Board: For a state that ranks near the bottom of the educational achievement on several measures seems like a classic bait and switch. 677 01:51:20.730 --> 01:51:26.700 WLWV School Board: To push this curriculum to the forefront when our students needs to catch up and game what was lost. 678 01:51:27.420 --> 01:51:36.690 WLWV School Board: i'm asking the Westland Wilson bill school board to reduce its efforts and expenditures on sex education to the bare minimum and send this curriculum back to say. 679 01:51:37.560 --> 01:51:49.410 WLWV School Board: This is a State initiative and such statutes provide the school district to reject such an initiative based on budgetary reasons help our children, where they need it most, academics. 680 01:51:56.190 --> 01:51:58.080 WLWV School Board: Will simple resident alexa Craig. 681 01:52:08.370 --> 01:52:10.620 Okay, my anxiety attack. 682 01:52:16.980 --> 01:52:17.280 WLWV School Board: Okay. 683 01:52:18.390 --> 01:52:26.310 WLWV School Board: My name is alexa, I have three kids, two of which are in the school district one fourth grader at beckman and a kindergartner back. 684 01:52:27.990 --> 01:52:34.530 WLWV School Board: Formally, I wanted to be here tonight to support the approval of the health and sexual a curriculum, so our kids can learn. 685 01:52:34.980 --> 01:52:56.520 WLWV School Board: Basic medically accurate human anatomy I support our children learning about and understanding gender is not always binary we need inclusive lessons, so no child is felt left out our kids also need to understand that concern about consent, they need to learn empathy and understanding. 686 01:52:57.630 --> 01:53:08.160 WLWV School Board: that there are people who are different from themselves this curriculum might not be perfect i'm sure others who even support it can attest that there might be tweaks that could be made. 687 01:53:08.880 --> 01:53:27.180 WLWV School Board: But, in general, the curriculum accomplishes those learning objectives, and I hope there continues to be helped from gender and equity and sexuality experts to help create these lessons now informally, I wanted to add a few thoughts that I would be remiss of me not to include. 688 01:53:28.620 --> 01:53:45.420 WLWV School Board: You will undoubtedly hear many, many loud oppositional voices and I want to emphasize that those voices do not speak for everybody, they speak for the minority, the majority of parents want their children to. 689 01:53:46.590 --> 01:53:49.920 WLWV School Board: get a proper inclusive medically accurate education. 690 01:53:51.900 --> 01:53:59.520 WLWV School Board: Whether that majority is accurately represented here behind me i'm not sure of, but I hope that my words are not. 691 01:54:03.750 --> 01:54:20.790 WLWV School Board: forgotten the outrage that surrounds these lessons it typically tends to be manufactured there are teachers across the nation being accused of things and losing their jobs over things and knock you as innocuous as saying that boys and girls can both were nail Polish. 692 01:54:22.350 --> 01:54:26.670 WLWV School Board: If this outrage truly was a reflection of the care of the safety of our children. 693 01:54:28.230 --> 01:54:44.160 WLWV School Board: They would be in support of these lessons, knowing that trans children and teens are more likely to commit suicide from not being accepted and heard, we have people fighting to put a stop to this inclusive city, it is clearly not about the child's safety. 694 01:54:45.480 --> 01:54:55.710 WLWV School Board: For the people who want to take their children out of this of these lessons, by all means there's an opt out, but the loud voices demanding the entire curriculum and pull do not speak for the majority. 695 01:54:56.880 --> 01:54:59.970 WLWV School Board: I want my child he's right over there on my phone. 696 01:55:01.290 --> 01:55:14.910 WLWV School Board: I want him to learn that his experience is not the only experience I want him to know I want him to learn so much about normal bodily functions that it becomes mundane, it is not shock or taboo. 697 01:55:15.750 --> 01:55:28.020 WLWV School Board: I want my child to hear a million times that we respect the identities of others, whether or not I am here alone, right now, I know that i'm not the minority. 698 01:55:29.100 --> 01:55:29.700 WLWV School Board: Thank you. 699 01:55:36.420 --> 01:55:42.180 WLWV School Board: All right, another door cheryl door this time Westland resident. 700 01:55:43.650 --> 01:55:44.550 shorter door. 701 01:55:46.470 --> 01:55:53.790 WLWV School Board: I want to thank you for extending the time that was the right thing to do when the fair thing, so thank you for many of us who took time off to get here. 702 01:55:54.930 --> 01:55:56.550 WLWV School Board: It was the right thing to do, thank you. 703 01:55:57.660 --> 01:56:05.130 WLWV School Board: In the oregonian on February 13 2022 Betsy hammond a reporter for the oregonian reported. 704 01:56:05.700 --> 01:56:13.260 WLWV School Board: Leaders of the portland public school say they plan to cut teaching jobs and other positions in elementary and middle schools next year. 705 01:56:13.740 --> 01:56:29.400 WLWV School Board: Is the district grapples with steep enrollment declines, the projected loss of students in oregon's largest school district will be most dramatic and elementary schools, they estimate that portland elementary schools will enroll 20% fewer students in the fall of 2022. 706 01:56:31.230 --> 01:56:44.070 WLWV School Board: In wessling Wilson bill over the last two years we've lost hundreds of families hundreds of good families that have moved out of State have chosen to homeschool or if they were able to private school. 707 01:56:45.270 --> 01:57:01.500 WLWV School Board: If the board approves this curriculum West lindvall you'll lose hundreds of students and with that schools will close teachers and counselors and administrators will lose jobs for a completely unnecessary curriculum forced on our children. 708 01:57:03.390 --> 01:57:19.830 WLWV School Board: From the state, this was a rushed attempt to satisfy State requirements handed down in 2016 in the midst of a chaotic time there was a candidate running for governor in Virginia last year he mistakenly said parents should be out of the classroom he lost that election. 709 01:57:20.940 --> 01:57:22.080 WLWV School Board: parents do matter. 710 01:57:29.040 --> 01:57:30.960 WLWV School Board: Westland resident Aaron rough. 711 01:57:40.560 --> 01:57:53.430 WLWV School Board: Hello Terry King for, thank you for hearing us tonight, and thank you for extending the time, my name is Aaron rough my pronouns are she her I live in Westland and have two less than high school students who have been in the district since first grade. 712 01:57:54.900 --> 01:58:02.250 WLWV School Board: Much of the concern and consternation, I heard it prior to this meeting, although I have not heard it tonight is that from those who oppose the curriculum. 713 01:58:02.790 --> 01:58:13.800 WLWV School Board: Based on the words that appear sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and having a special concerned about whether those things can be taught in an age appropriate way in lower grades. 714 01:58:15.210 --> 01:58:22.920 WLWV School Board: First, I want to recognize that those words appear several times in the document and establish that as part of the mental social and emotional health curriculum. 715 01:58:23.280 --> 01:58:35.490 WLWV School Board: Every grade level will recognize diversity among people, including age, disability national origin, race color marital status and sex, sexual orientation and gender identity. 716 01:58:36.900 --> 01:58:48.150 WLWV School Board: I think a simple grammar change may help hear the words, age, disability national origin marriage of marital status and sexual orientation, gender identity are all nouns. 717 01:58:48.720 --> 01:58:57.420 WLWV School Board: race and color are both nouns and verbs, although I have not seen a single argument that those words should be interpreted as verbs in this context. 718 01:58:58.020 --> 01:59:10.410 WLWV School Board: The word sex, on the other hand, is a complicated word in our culture and as a word it has more definitions, as both a noun and a verb than any of the other words involved. 719 01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:22.530 WLWV School Board: What i've heard from opponents of this curriculum is that is a fear that schools and teachers will interpret the word sex as a verb including inappropriate descriptors of intercourse in early in elementary. 720 01:59:23.640 --> 01:59:33.300 WLWV School Board: I am confident that that is not what the drafters intended and it's looking confusion is costing time and emotional Labor and a lot of pain for everybody. 721 01:59:34.620 --> 01:59:43.950 WLWV School Board: I would like to propose that the content that in context of the sentence that all grade levels that recognize diversity is the word sex, sexual orientation and gender identity. 722 01:59:44.220 --> 02:00:03.450 WLWV School Board: be changed to romantic attraction, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression those words are clearer representations of the diverse experiences of LGBT Q students parents, teachers, staff and what SLIM wasn't built Community Thank you. 723 02:00:14.790 --> 02:00:17.340 WLWV School Board: Westland resident de Maria. 724 02:00:24.480 --> 02:00:33.060 WLWV School Board: Thank you, my name is Deborah Maria I live in Westland in the area where the school district cut down our dog for for. 725 02:00:35.340 --> 02:00:43.260 WLWV School Board: The site of the new at school replacement just to establish a connection and that's humor that obviously failed. 726 02:00:45.450 --> 02:00:50.640 WLWV School Board: I was going to pass in the interest of time, but I realized in listening to others, that I have something to say. 727 02:00:52.980 --> 02:01:09.600 WLWV School Board: To be very clear from the beginning, I am very much in support of the comprehensive sex education plan for the district, it is needed in all school districts, I am a mother a grandmother even a great grandmother hard to say. 728 02:01:10.620 --> 02:01:12.000 WLWV School Board: And a person of faith. 729 02:01:13.320 --> 02:01:25.410 WLWV School Board: I speak only for myself but to give you a little background I have worked for many years in the range of 25 to 30 years for in support of groups like basic right to Oregon. 730 02:01:26.310 --> 02:01:44.190 WLWV School Board: P flag I served on the clackamas county be flat board for uncounted years, simply because we forgot to count and i've also worked in the United Methodist church fulfilling excuse me for full inclusion of all people, particularly, including LGBT Q people. 731 02:01:45.840 --> 02:01:56.940 WLWV School Board: Those expressions are needed because there has been so much rejection, a lot of it coming from tricia church based organizations and faith based people. 732 02:01:59.490 --> 02:02:06.930 WLWV School Board: The young lady who was over here and her dad spoke more eloquently than I ever could about the need for. 733 02:02:08.130 --> 02:02:12.360 WLWV School Board: This education parents certainly can provide the moral. 734 02:02:14.370 --> 02:02:26.520 WLWV School Board: perspectives that they want to share with their children that come from the family, but there's so much education that needs to be done in these areas that the sexual education curriculum. 735 02:02:27.300 --> 02:02:35.340 WLWV School Board: identifies and I do believe in the professional nature of teachers do not bring personal agendas, but to teach from a curriculum. 736 02:02:37.470 --> 02:02:50.400 WLWV School Board: which will never satisfy everybody in the Community, but there is so much danger and not having some education and not having exposure to how other people perceive themselves and live in the world, thank you. 737 02:02:57.240 --> 02:03:01.170 WLWV School Board: Westland the resident pk rankles Pearson. 738 02:03:07.950 --> 02:03:14.490 WLWV School Board: Good evening board members, thank you for the opportunity I need say i'm a public employee but i'm here, speaking on my own behalf, this evening. 739 02:03:14.910 --> 02:03:22.410 WLWV School Board: I am an attorney by training, and so I usually try to put on my attorney hat and then my human hat, which sometimes are separate hats. 740 02:03:23.100 --> 02:03:30.390 WLWV School Board: When looking at problems, and you know, when I look at this from my attorney hat, one of the things I would be asking as a board member is. 741 02:03:30.780 --> 02:03:40.530 WLWV School Board: What is my discretion about what to adopt or not to adopt here and there is a good deal that is outside of the sports discretion because it's already been decided by Oregon Department of Education standards. 742 02:03:41.010 --> 02:03:49.500 WLWV School Board: And i'd urge the board to take a look at the faq put out by the Department of Education that has a good deal of information you've probably already seen it it's about four pages. 743 02:03:50.160 --> 02:04:02.760 WLWV School Board: Just based on this topic, and it makes very clear that gender identity education is an important part of education for all of our children, so this board doesn't really have the discretion, not to have. 744 02:04:03.570 --> 02:04:14.880 WLWV School Board: An education program that doesn't address these things, putting on my human hat, I would say that i'm proud that we have to address these things as a product of. 745 02:04:16.530 --> 02:04:27.930 WLWV School Board: of schools in the 1990s 80s and 90s, I grew up with many kids who were closeted I had you know in our society, the good fortune, I suppose, to be. 746 02:04:28.470 --> 02:04:36.840 WLWV School Board: SIS gendered and to be straight, but many of my friends did not have the fortune the privilege of their outsides. 747 02:04:37.560 --> 02:04:49.410 WLWV School Board: You know automatically matching with the with the universe expected of them, and I saw the kinds of depression and suicidal feelings and lack of belonging that my friends encountered. 748 02:04:49.830 --> 02:04:58.560 WLWV School Board: When I went to college, I saw many of those students who were at the attempted targets of conversion therapy, which fortunately has now been banned in our state. 749 02:04:59.490 --> 02:05:02.340 WLWV School Board: So i've seen what it's like when people feel like they don't belong. 750 02:05:02.790 --> 02:05:11.100 WLWV School Board: And as educators, which I know all of you would respect the good judgment of educators, I know that one of the great principles we look at is maslow's hierarchy of needs. 751 02:05:11.640 --> 02:05:18.780 WLWV School Board: kids cannot learn unless they are in a place where they feel safe and where they feel that they can be who they are going to be. 752 02:05:19.380 --> 02:05:30.510 WLWV School Board: And without that you have students who are who they are you've met some of them tonight i'm so proud of these students for coming forward in ways that they never could win these students from my peers. 753 02:05:31.620 --> 02:05:41.970 WLWV School Board: i'm so proud of them and i'm so proud that we live in a Community where we can support all of our kids so that they can learn, which really is what education is all about, so thank you very much. 754 02:05:51.630 --> 02:06:01.530 WLWV School Board: All up this person, if you could just let me know whether or not you live in side, the West one Wilson middle school district Ben burns was great come on up. 755 02:06:20.970 --> 02:06:27.900 WLWV School Board: Good evening, and thank you for your service to our Community, as a marriage and family educator it's my belief that many children. 756 02:06:28.380 --> 02:06:33.480 WLWV School Board: will suffer emotional and some even physical harm due to the sex ED curriculum you're considered. 757 02:06:34.260 --> 02:06:42.660 WLWV School Board: In particular, I asked you to drop the gender identity portion for three reasons first this curriculum serves a divisive political agenda. 758 02:06:43.590 --> 02:06:52.260 WLWV School Board: The curriculum cautions students about nonprofit organizations, because they may quote have an individual agenda, besides just education. 759 02:06:53.220 --> 02:07:00.540 WLWV School Board: Yet some of this curriculum was designed by the nonprofit advocates for youth their teachers guide for this curriculum states quote. 760 02:07:00.990 --> 02:07:08.910 WLWV School Board: The lessons in this curriculum are specifically written to challenge the gender binary rather than attempting to be values free. 761 02:07:09.330 --> 02:07:18.270 WLWV School Board: This curriculum consciously embraces a set of values that should be stressed, implicitly and explicitly whenever possible, unquote. 762 02:07:18.810 --> 02:07:27.840 WLWV School Board: Your approval of advocates for youth curriculum would endorse their divisive political agenda and demonstrate in bad faith, with many parents in our district. 763 02:07:28.560 --> 02:07:36.810 WLWV School Board: Second, this curriculum promotes a false understanding of gender it teaches that the terms, male and female are assigned at birth. 764 02:07:37.410 --> 02:07:43.320 WLWV School Board: The idea that a biological boy can actually be a girl is an extremely new notion. 765 02:07:43.770 --> 02:07:52.740 WLWV School Board: And denies the basic understanding of human beings that all cultures have recognized throughout human history that human beings are male and female. 766 02:07:53.520 --> 02:08:01.590 WLWV School Board: This curriculum teaches that gender is feelings based not by all biology based quote a person who is born a male may feel a female identity. 767 02:08:01.920 --> 02:08:11.340 WLWV School Board: The biological sex may not match the person's identity and that person may choose to live as a female so their inner feelings match their outside appearance, unquote. 768 02:08:12.270 --> 02:08:22.140 WLWV School Board: This denies basic biology it teaches that gender is determined by stereotypes if you're a boy and feel like a girl inside, how do you know. 769 02:08:22.830 --> 02:08:36.030 WLWV School Board: Because you like the things associated with girls, which are stereotypes, instead of teaching our children to question gender stereotypes this curriculum teaches our children to question their gender. 770 02:08:36.810 --> 02:08:44.460 WLWV School Board: Third, this curriculum leads to confusion and harm to our children it's confusing because it's contradictory. 771 02:08:45.090 --> 02:08:55.920 WLWV School Board: grades K through four are taught to identify boys and girls by their bodies, but grades six through 12 are taught that being a boy or a girl is less about their bodies and more about their feelings. 772 02:08:56.430 --> 02:09:03.450 WLWV School Board: This gives subjective feelings priority over biology and reason, if you feel like a girl, whatever that means. 773 02:09:04.110 --> 02:09:10.740 WLWV School Board: you're a girl, but have a child feels worthless, or they worthless if a child feels stupid, are they stupid. 774 02:09:11.250 --> 02:09:17.190 WLWV School Board: No let's acknowledge our kids feelings, but also help them to make peace with their bodies. 775 02:09:17.880 --> 02:09:23.640 WLWV School Board: it's harmful because it leads to the exploration of unnatural cross sex hormones puberty blockers and surgical. 776 02:09:24.000 --> 02:09:41.760 WLWV School Board: Radical surgeries and this goes against Oregon law that says when i'm materials and instruction well over sexuality education courses and I know that no form of sexual expression is acceptable when the expression physically or emotionally harms oneself Thank you all right. 777 02:09:47.940 --> 02:09:50.220 WLWV School Board: Westland resident Ryan brinkley. 778 02:10:01.590 --> 02:10:01.950 WLWV School Board: Thank you. 779 02:10:03.270 --> 02:10:07.590 WLWV School Board: i'm the father of a student at rosemount rich seventh grader and. 780 02:10:08.730 --> 02:10:11.640 WLWV School Board: graduate from Westland high school 2020 and. 781 02:10:15.000 --> 02:10:20.160 WLWV School Board: Well, we should acknowledge people's fears and their doubts about curriculum. 782 02:10:22.800 --> 02:10:28.320 WLWV School Board: And it's important to respond to those, the reality is this curriculum is definitely being misconstrued and. 783 02:10:29.520 --> 02:10:33.540 WLWV School Board: we're being misinformed about what its goals are and what it's about. 784 02:10:36.270 --> 02:10:45.180 WLWV School Board: families have enough challenges and kids already struggle with enough isolation and depression, without making discussions of. 785 02:10:46.050 --> 02:10:57.150 WLWV School Board: gender identity taboo, making it to where we can't talk about it and that people seem to one always put this back in the box every time it comes up and that's just not something that's healthy for our kids. 786 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:05.970 WLWV School Board: pretending that LGBT Q kids and families don't exist or that there's something wrong with them. 787 02:11:07.260 --> 02:11:12.480 WLWV School Board: is just unacceptable, we have to move forward and include these people. 788 02:11:13.710 --> 02:11:26.520 WLWV School Board: The thoughts of suicide that many people mentioned here today have touched our family and touch many people's families, you may not know the types of things that people struggle with. 789 02:11:27.990 --> 02:11:34.620 WLWV School Board: But please vote to adopt the curriculum and to help protect and educate all of our kids Thank you. 790 02:11:42.150 --> 02:11:44.850 WLWV School Board: All right, we'll still have resident Courtney neuron. 791 02:12:00.630 --> 02:12:08.220 WLWV School Board: Good evening school board directors and superintendent Ludwig my name is Courtney near on my pronouns are she her and i'm a former high school teacher. 792 02:12:08.610 --> 02:12:23.100 WLWV School Board: The current state representative serving will symbol and a parent of two students in our district, I want to thank the community at large, for engaging in the issue, and thank you, the board members for listening to Community concerns and support. 793 02:12:24.660 --> 02:12:33.390 WLWV School Board: I also want to acknowledge the diverse viewpoints of our fellow Community members and underscore my own commitment to building an Oregon that is inclusive and safe. 794 02:12:34.380 --> 02:12:41.580 WLWV School Board: I am testifying this evening and support of a curriculum that offers our students complete developmentally appropriate information. 795 02:12:42.360 --> 02:12:53.730 WLWV School Board: Students learn best when they feel safe and welcomed at school, I believe, and inclusive curriculum is an essential step in building an informed and strong community. 796 02:12:55.020 --> 02:13:00.030 WLWV School Board: Teaching inclusive information in an age appropriate way is both important and possible. 797 02:13:00.690 --> 02:13:15.600 WLWV School Board: Anything less risks disempowering children and unsafe situations further isolation and marginalization of LGBT Q plus individuals and leaves room for misinformation and intolerance. 798 02:13:16.500 --> 02:13:26.460 WLWV School Board: I urge your support of the curriculum under consideration tonight, it has been reviewed and approved with suggested revisions by Community members, and it is what our students deserve. 799 02:13:27.240 --> 02:13:35.880 WLWV School Board: I trust the process that has already taken place and believe the work done prior to the vote today will ensure that all of our students have consistent and correct information. 800 02:13:36.960 --> 02:13:43.260 WLWV School Board: I want to appreciate a local fathers powerful words or the earlier ignorance, is what schools are supposed to fight. 801 02:13:44.160 --> 02:13:51.300 WLWV School Board: As a parent who wants the best for my children i'm committed to, inclusive and comprehensive health and wellness education. 802 02:13:52.110 --> 02:14:04.200 WLWV School Board: As a teacher, I know that a strong curriculum with medically accurate and inclusive information about healthy bodies and healthy boundaries and relationships will be vital for educators, taking on the work. 803 02:14:04.920 --> 02:14:17.880 WLWV School Board: And as a policymaker I appreciate the alignment this curriculum has with State requirements and urge your support for the curriculum before you this evening, thank you again for listening and I he'll back my time. 804 02:14:30.780 --> 02:14:37.020 WLWV School Board: i'm gonna have to ask this person if they where they live, because I cannot read the handwriting here is it Julie widmer. 805 02:14:38.130 --> 02:14:39.810 WLWV School Board: Whitman is them. 806 02:14:41.310 --> 02:14:41.940 WLWV School Board: Could you please. 807 02:14:47.160 --> 02:15:05.760 WLWV School Board: Okay, great, thank you for clarifying that um first and foremost, I just want to say thanks for leaning into the tension with all of us here tonight I think most of us in this room desire that all students feel safe known seen loved honored and valued. 808 02:15:06.810 --> 02:15:20.850 WLWV School Board: we've heard words like medically accurate age appropriate ideologically neutral, I actually think that's what we all want in this room tonight, but the thing is is that's not what's on the table tonight with this curriculum. 809 02:15:21.930 --> 02:15:35.550 WLWV School Board: I asked tonight that you do not pass this curriculum, as I think back over the landscape of the last four years, as it specifically pertains to health and wellness and comprehensive sex education. 810 02:15:36.120 --> 02:15:52.920 WLWV School Board: i'm in disbelief as a parent that it feels like we're in the same place, we were four years ago, parents in this room parents who are listening only three people out of the 27 people that were on the task force were parents. 811 02:15:54.060 --> 02:16:13.050 WLWV School Board: I know that there were, and there were are still countless many, many people who would have served in that capacity if asked, and in fact in this room three or four years ago pre coven I was asked, but never offered to step into that. 812 02:16:14.370 --> 02:16:35.850 WLWV School Board: I hope that some of the people in this Community have felt heard, because I know many of us have not, I believe that all student differences can be celebrated and honored without the use of the proposed curriculum equity inclusion and si se are not mutually exclusive. 813 02:16:37.200 --> 02:16:56.730 WLWV School Board: Sadly, my historical experiences with this district mean lead me to believe that any statement or argument at this point will not change the course of your action I hope tonight that i'm wrong, so I leave you with some additional thoughts and suggestions as you consider the next steps. 814 02:16:58.230 --> 02:17:07.170 WLWV School Board: What are your plans for professional development for educators, so that they can understand your scope and sequence, and not just grab and go without training. 815 02:17:07.650 --> 02:17:18.360 WLWV School Board: There are so many delicate conversations that flow from the curriculum in place that you have decided on, and I hope that your educators are adequately equipped. 816 02:17:19.140 --> 02:17:29.970 WLWV School Board: As you move forward and teach this as a tier one level, I hope that you plan for additional tier one support that your counseling staff will have the bandwidth that's needed. 817 02:17:30.690 --> 02:17:40.680 WLWV School Board: And finally parent education opportunities to learn, along with you participate and truly partner are always warranted needed and welcomed. 818 02:17:41.730 --> 02:17:47.670 WLWV School Board: Finally, still have the opportunity to do the next right thing here your Community Thank you. 819 02:17:55.140 --> 02:18:00.060 WLWV School Board: All right, um again this person will have to say what city, they live in a Murphy. 820 02:18:02.850 --> 02:18:04.770 WLWV School Board: Are you here, not here okay. 821 02:18:11.070 --> 02:18:16.980 WLWV School Board: All right, john will symbol or wait what city, do you live in. 822 02:18:18.030 --> 02:18:21.510 WLWV School Board: Is it will smell Okay, do you live inside the district okay. 823 02:18:26.610 --> 02:18:37.980 WLWV School Board: Well, first off my name is john but do I pronouns are some of God has been Father coach scoutmaster green and, first and foremost, a friend. 824 02:18:39.660 --> 02:18:46.140 WLWV School Board: I was happy to see tonight that it's a little bit more civil than it was at the meeting earlier respect love life. 825 02:18:47.850 --> 02:18:57.030 WLWV School Board: I do sense that there's like a palpable anger in the air, and you know i've taught probably i'm not a professional teacher. 826 02:18:57.690 --> 02:19:07.650 WLWV School Board: But i've been a scoutmaster i've made 45 eagles i've helped about 45 of Wilson male students go into our service and i've probably seen. 827 02:19:08.400 --> 02:19:32.010 WLWV School Board: Over 400 students as a coach still today I get called scoutmaster coach Mr video as a sign of respect, but my respect to seeing them as an adult make sound decisions over the years i've lost many friends who hung themselves because they were gay in the military i've had. 828 02:19:33.120 --> 02:19:36.600 WLWV School Board: seen a lot of people ostracize each other, just because they're different. 829 02:19:37.890 --> 02:19:47.160 WLWV School Board: But tonight, one of the lessons that I usually give my scouts and students is that if you're angry step up go do something, have a conversation. 830 02:19:47.850 --> 02:19:54.690 WLWV School Board: i've lost many service members to suicide, because they didn't have that one person that talked to. 831 02:19:55.140 --> 02:20:01.680 WLWV School Board: And so, when I usually see a student i'm usually the one that bugs them ask them how it's going whether I know where they are in life. 832 02:20:02.640 --> 02:20:10.560 WLWV School Board: The strong individual and goals that i've created over the years, started with small conversations that i've had as a parent as an end as a friend. 833 02:20:11.520 --> 02:20:21.570 WLWV School Board: Each of us giving me the respect do as I read through the material that was presented at the last meeting I At first I didn't see anything that was wrong with it, I was. 834 02:20:22.200 --> 02:20:29.220 WLWV School Board: pleasant pleasantly surprised to see the diagrams and everything that was age appropriate until it came to the part. 835 02:20:29.880 --> 02:20:45.990 WLWV School Board: Where it had the teacher interaction with the students put on by youth advocates and it's funny that it's a youth advocate but it's the contradiction in terms, planned parenthood i've never met anybody who's had a parenthood come from planned parenthood. 836 02:20:47.220 --> 02:20:55.890 WLWV School Board: I came from a single parent family, we are poor, I I use school as an outlet to learn anything and everything I can I made sure my. 837 02:20:56.310 --> 02:21:04.380 WLWV School Board: My son's knew that they had to get above a master's degree, but at first and foremost, be a friend to each other, and as I look around, I. 838 02:21:05.220 --> 02:21:14.760 WLWV School Board: I feel it, but I wish people would just have the the Gray, I think, somebody used to the Gray or uncomfortable conversations because we're all here for what's on these walls. 839 02:21:15.060 --> 02:21:24.660 WLWV School Board: Think of the children first you know greatest thinkers most thoughtful people, but when I talked to students and they don't know what the state number is of Oregon is 33. 840 02:21:25.170 --> 02:21:33.030 WLWV School Board: And to learn something every day, I learned that we don't say the pledge of allegiance when we start our meetings, please think and listen to your community. 841 02:21:38.820 --> 02:21:47.820 WLWV School Board: Alright, this is, I can tell by the address this person lives in the district Lionel. 842 02:21:49.140 --> 02:21:51.420 WLWV School Board: Vander Mullen that I get that. 843 02:21:52.560 --> 02:21:56.550 WLWV School Board: l&l probably lineal vendramin wheel and. 844 02:21:57.990 --> 02:22:06.090 WLWV School Board: I would like to give you just a word of my experience in the the sex ED curriculum, as it affected my child. 845 02:22:08.820 --> 02:22:20.010 WLWV School Board: There are ways that this very dry academic scholarly sounding curriculum goes around what any parent would want for their child here's how they do it. 846 02:22:21.750 --> 02:22:30.210 WLWV School Board: They format, the job of educating the kids to planned parenthood, which in turn gets other people to come in speaking for them. 847 02:22:31.380 --> 02:22:41.460 WLWV School Board: And what they teach the kids so Volker it's so disgusting that if you were parents in the classroom at the time you'd probably try to stop the speaker here's what happened to my daughter. 848 02:22:43.950 --> 02:22:59.220 WLWV School Board: Planned parenthood came in and gave her a sexual questionnaire asking about what her tendencies were she finally got so angry she refused to answer any more questions which I respect for that's good, but then they decided to teach all the kids to go outside. 849 02:23:00.480 --> 02:23:07.470 WLWV School Board: their parents and even the school by going to pornographic websites that were designed for teens one of them was called ality. 850 02:23:08.610 --> 02:23:18.120 WLWV School Board: And it's not something that planned parenthood talks about it's not going to be in your bread Victor comprehensive sex ED but here's some of the articles that my daughter got to learn going to. 851 02:23:18.990 --> 02:23:29.010 WLWV School Board: scarlet team she got to find out how fun anal intercourse is at 14 because at least you don't get pregnant, that was a 14 year olds testimony in the. 852 02:23:29.580 --> 02:23:45.780 WLWV School Board: On the website and how bondage and saddle masochism furthers your trust and your sexual partner that's what that's about so every kid needs to know about bondage instead of masochism their articles on summer options for birth control, for your kid. 853 02:23:46.800 --> 02:23:53.460 WLWV School Board: This is the kind of stuff that's not going to be in the black and white version of the curriculum but that's how they go around. 854 02:23:54.480 --> 02:23:56.160 WLWV School Board: What parents would want for the kids. 855 02:23:57.360 --> 02:24:06.150 WLWV School Board: They farm out there they're teaching options and i'd like to not to pretend that somehow it's going to remain what's on that curriculum. 856 02:24:06.780 --> 02:24:14.640 WLWV School Board: They don't respect the parents, they don't respect children's innocence, instead, what we want to do is push not a scientific curriculum but up. 857 02:24:15.000 --> 02:24:25.680 WLWV School Board: A very values oriented agenda it's all about indulging your own whims of calling it sexual health and this thing that happened to my daughter that was in 2003. 858 02:24:26.370 --> 02:24:34.650 WLWV School Board: You can imagine what it's like now she's 35 and she still still thinks what she went through and the horrible question here, they gave her and the teachers constantly. 859 02:24:34.890 --> 02:24:40.440 WLWV School Board: asking them about their sexuality and might they be different than what they think they are it affected her. 860 02:24:41.220 --> 02:24:51.630 WLWV School Board: And it's going to affect more kids to these kids have no understanding of their sexuality, at a certain age, and if this is not scientifically oriented. 861 02:24:51.930 --> 02:25:02.190 WLWV School Board: it's not appropriate for their age, in most cases, and what you think they're going to teach you is not going to be what they're actually teaching they're going to farm it out planned parenthood and other very highly agenda as groups. 862 02:25:02.670 --> 02:25:11.010 WLWV School Board: So I advise you not to adopt this curriculum it's it's a it's in disguise there it's just a nice rather than more than three minutes. 863 02:25:23.760 --> 02:25:37.410 WLWV School Board: At this point, I have some names on the list that don't listen address and so i'm going to assume that they live out of district and come back to them and continue to follow our protocol. 864 02:25:37.890 --> 02:25:48.750 WLWV School Board: Which is that the residents who are in person will address the board first and then we will turn to residents who are addressing the board remotely and I have two who are signed up. 865 02:25:50.910 --> 02:25:52.380 WLWV School Board: There okay they're no longer there. 866 02:25:54.270 --> 02:26:05.820 WLWV School Board: or they haven't joined yet okay alright so, then I will move on to the folks who did not provide an address and who are here in person. 867 02:26:06.960 --> 02:26:09.090 WLWV School Board: And let's see here. 868 02:26:18.750 --> 02:26:20.520 WLWV School Board: emmerich Kennard. 869 02:26:37.950 --> 02:26:41.730 WLWV School Board: Hello Thank you so much for extending the time I deeply appreciate it. 870 02:26:42.750 --> 02:26:54.990 WLWV School Board: My name is Mr canard i'm a queer non binary transgender person, I attended the Western Wilson bill school district from second grade through high school I graduated from Westland high class of 2013. 871 02:26:56.370 --> 02:27:12.570 WLWV School Board: there's two things that I really want to emphasize to you tonight, the first is that inclusive education about the reality of gender and sexual diversity that has always been part of the human experience is, as others have named tonight, quite literally, a matter of life and death. 872 02:27:13.800 --> 02:27:24.660 WLWV School Board: But the second thing is that an inclusive education about these subjects benefits everybody regardless of that junk of that students own gender or sexual orientation. 873 02:27:25.260 --> 02:27:40.350 WLWV School Board: I believe deeply fiercely that this information that a comprehensive education about the incredible diversity of the human body and how it expresses itself will benefit assists gender boy as much as it will benefit a transgender girl. 874 02:27:42.210 --> 02:27:59.100 WLWV School Board: In the entire time that I spent as a student in this district, I had one curricular example of reflected back to me of anybody like me in this respect, and it was a single paragraph in a textbook during a high school sex ED class that defined me as being mentally ill for being transgender. 875 02:28:00.330 --> 02:28:10.170 WLWV School Board: I spent most of my time in the school district actively hiding from my community and my loved ones that I went to school every day wanting to die. 876 02:28:11.250 --> 02:28:18.570 WLWV School Board: My first plan to achieve that end which i'm very glad I didn't follow through with was made at 10 years old. 877 02:28:19.920 --> 02:28:40.800 WLWV School Board: And the level of incredible isolation and fear and pain that I experienced is something that I do not want any child or adult to ever feel again and I, I have heard so much fear in this room, and I think a lot of that fear comes from a genuine love for children and for. 878 02:28:42.810 --> 02:29:02.070 WLWV School Board: kids in folks lives for friends and family, and I think a lot of that fear comes from a deep misunderstanding of what these things actually mean a misunderstanding that a consistent inclusive kind curriculum like this one could start to shift. 879 02:29:03.210 --> 02:29:09.600 WLWV School Board: I have an agenda as a transgender person, I want to live I want people like me to feel that they can live. 880 02:29:10.020 --> 02:29:16.350 WLWV School Board: And I want anybody, regardless of their own gender to feel that what they decide to wear when they walk outside. 881 02:29:16.620 --> 02:29:29.580 WLWV School Board: it's not a decision, they have to make with an algorithm that anticipates the threat of violence, this is something that I do every day, something that many of the people in this room, have to do every day it's not necessary and it could change. 882 02:29:30.900 --> 02:29:35.430 WLWV School Board: And more understanding is essential to that change, thank you. 883 02:29:44.370 --> 02:29:46.800 WLWV School Board: Kathy grace Duncan. 884 02:29:50.010 --> 02:29:53.490 WLWV School Board: yeah go Please go ahead yeah we're we're at that stage now. 885 02:29:54.690 --> 02:30:06.000 WLWV School Board: we're at that stage now yeah my name is Kathy grace Duncan i'm here from portland Oregon I am not part of this Community i've never gone to school here, but I do have three cats. 886 02:30:08.220 --> 02:30:15.210 WLWV School Board: i'm actually here to talk as a D transition, or when I was three I struggled severely with gender dysphoria. 887 02:30:15.750 --> 02:30:25.710 WLWV School Board: And the at the age of 19 I was so desperate to live as a man that I crossed over and started taking hormones change my name and lived as a man, I did so for 11 years. 888 02:30:26.460 --> 02:30:37.200 WLWV School Board: I came out of that lifestyle 29 years ago and I, my thing that I want to talk about is I get why you want to teach this, but you also need to teach the other side. 889 02:30:37.590 --> 02:30:47.910 WLWV School Board: That there is another way I know because I came out change is possible, I I dealt with underlying issues like rape molestation. 890 02:30:48.390 --> 02:31:01.320 WLWV School Board: Rejection abandonment, so what we see I believe in the transgender Community or, at least in my life was dealing with those underlying issues, the deeper unmet needs that I was trying to get met living as a man. 891 02:31:02.130 --> 02:31:11.640 WLWV School Board: At our core value we all just want to be loved right we all want to be accepted, no matter who you are what you prefer that is our core thing is, we want to be loved. 892 02:31:12.150 --> 02:31:17.310 WLWV School Board: I think teaching a curriculum like this is actually very devastating for the children. 893 02:31:17.580 --> 02:31:26.610 WLWV School Board: i've heard all the testimonies as far as how they think it would help and I tend to disagree, because i've come out of that lifestyle, I am tremendously happy with the LIFE I now have. 894 02:31:27.000 --> 02:31:36.060 WLWV School Board: And i've worked through a lot of stuff a lot of stuff and I think living as a transgender it was actually just a fruit of a deeper wound that needed to be dealt with. 895 02:31:36.600 --> 02:31:44.340 WLWV School Board: I don't think necessarily passing this curriculum is going to help, I think we need to have better health care, I think what we're, seeing as a healthcare crisis. 896 02:31:44.910 --> 02:31:56.100 WLWV School Board: I know that people will disagree with that, but I know from my experience I dealt with the fear I dealt with the rejection I dealt with the anxiety I dealt with the depression and it was all very severe. 897 02:31:56.550 --> 02:32:02.790 WLWV School Board: I do not deal with that now living in the truth of how God created me to be Thank you. 898 02:32:26.490 --> 02:32:32.670 WLWV School Board: hi I just want to start and say that miss Ludwig you were my principal when I was in elementary school. 899 02:32:34.740 --> 02:32:36.120 WLWV School Board: So i'm back. 900 02:32:40.710 --> 02:32:43.260 WLWV School Board: congrats made it all the way up it's cool. 901 02:32:45.570 --> 02:32:53.100 WLWV School Board: So, forgive me i'm on like three hours of sleep, I came into this straight from an eight hour shift I work as a mental health technician. 902 02:32:53.700 --> 02:33:05.310 WLWV School Board: In the healthcare field, I work at a residential treatment facility for 11 year old to 17 year olds that are mostly coming out of the hospital from trying to kill themselves. 903 02:33:06.600 --> 02:33:12.600 WLWV School Board: I also tried to kill myself didn't work i'm here that's cool now but anyways I digress. 904 02:33:15.150 --> 02:33:21.210 WLWV School Board: I thought, a lot about what I wanted to say, and the three minutes that's taking down and. 905 02:33:24.000 --> 02:33:25.500 WLWV School Board: there's so much to this. 906 02:33:26.670 --> 02:33:33.690 WLWV School Board: it's hard to know where to begin, but the thing that I feel is most important for me to say right now is that. 907 02:33:35.430 --> 02:33:45.480 WLWV School Board: The hardest part about my job as sending kids back to homes, where they are probably going to try to go themselves again. 908 02:33:46.890 --> 02:33:49.290 WLWV School Board: They don't feel loved they don't feel seen. 909 02:33:50.970 --> 02:33:54.090 WLWV School Board: They can't be who they are, I. 910 02:33:55.500 --> 02:34:01.320 WLWV School Board: As a mandatory reporter, it is so hard to do these things and i'm sure you guys all know and. 911 02:34:02.490 --> 02:34:07.350 WLWV School Board: Sometimes the teachers are the ones that are safety it's not the parents. 912 02:34:08.760 --> 02:34:16.800 WLWV School Board: And it's a burden to take on and it's a responsibility that we have working with kids that don't have safety. 913 02:34:18.690 --> 02:34:30.240 WLWV School Board: We need to be that, for them, and we need to be that in ways that make it hard for us sometimes to say goodbye when they graduate or when they grow up. 914 02:34:31.350 --> 02:34:41.160 WLWV School Board: But that one person I have seen it in like a month happen that they get the light back in their eyes when I thought, when they came in there wasn't on. 915 02:34:42.630 --> 02:34:48.510 WLWV School Board: And having impact like that, being able to see that grow. 916 02:34:49.890 --> 02:34:50.370 WLWV School Board: it's. 917 02:34:51.780 --> 02:34:53.730 WLWV School Board: I don't have any words for it and. 918 02:34:54.810 --> 02:34:59.340 WLWV School Board: yeah i've never had to be that i'm used to being a kid so. 919 02:35:00.720 --> 02:35:09.120 WLWV School Board: it's cool now I get to provide that for the youth, but yeah I know it's all about the parents right now but i'm not a parent so. 920 02:35:09.690 --> 02:35:27.870 WLWV School Board: i'm i'm working with kids and the kids need other adults that aren't their parents, because sometimes their parents want them to die i've heard it from their mouths so it's a terrible reality to face, but we face it, and we can make the choice to do something about it, so thank you. 921 02:35:34.590 --> 02:35:49.080 WLWV School Board: Thank you so much to everybody or going through the such a difficult topic was so much respect and listening and staying present with it, I really, I am very proud of our Community right now. 922 02:35:50.190 --> 02:36:00.270 WLWV School Board: I believe I have called every name that has signed up if you think that you signed up and you can show me your name I have not called it, you can let me know now. 923 02:36:02.880 --> 02:36:13.950 WLWV School Board: All right, very good, then what I generally like to do after we've been sitting here for two and a half hours is take a break and so we'll do that and then reconvene so break. 924 02:37:23.910 --> 02:37:29.100 WLWV School Board: Alright, are we ready up there with the recording okay great I call this meeting back to order. 925 02:37:30.870 --> 02:37:33.810 WLWV School Board: And we'll move on to the next agenda item. 926 02:37:35.640 --> 02:37:41.610 WLWV School Board: i'll just go ahead and say this now, so you all can help me remember that the. 927 02:37:44.550 --> 02:38:01.140 WLWV School Board: agenda item for this item be the proposed resolution about the closure of arts and technology high school and unless there's any objections i'm just going to go ahead and move that to a June meeting to free up just a little bit of wiggle room on the agenda tonight. 928 02:38:03.000 --> 02:38:05.730 WLWV School Board: Okay, so great. 929 02:38:07.050 --> 02:38:09.330 WLWV School Board: And then we will move to. 930 02:38:10.650 --> 02:38:16.740 WLWV School Board: The discussion about our comprehensive sexuality education plan and all hand the floor over to you, Dr swanson. 931 02:38:17.760 --> 02:38:18.390 WLWV School Board: Thank you. 932 02:38:21.330 --> 02:38:26.340 WLWV School Board: So this evening, we are looking at an update of the plan and. 933 02:38:27.570 --> 02:38:30.180 WLWV School Board: The plan that was voted on in. 934 02:38:34.380 --> 02:38:49.710 WLWV School Board: And the first comprehensive sexuality education plan voted on in 2019 was one where it was said that we would our school district would teach to the health and sexuality education standards, the 2016 standards. 935 02:38:50.250 --> 02:38:55.440 WLWV School Board: And just a little clarification I realized that I might not have done enough of. 936 02:38:56.070 --> 02:39:06.000 WLWV School Board: A job in explaining what's a standard and what's a performance indicator, you know in math when you have something about develop algebraic thinking. 937 02:39:06.720 --> 02:39:14.730 WLWV School Board: that's a standard, but you also have standards underneath that that talk about how you have to. 938 02:39:15.180 --> 02:39:23.850 WLWV School Board: solve a linear equation, so the eight standards and health in sexuality education are really meant is overarching pieces. 939 02:39:24.330 --> 02:39:36.450 WLWV School Board: And we don't in our district, we made a commitment, mainly because of clustering looking at and interpreting the age appropriateness, looking at the amount of time we have in our courses. 940 02:39:36.750 --> 02:39:46.050 WLWV School Board: We are not teaching to every performance indicator So yes, we have said that not all of them are ones that we're teaching to. 941 02:39:46.350 --> 02:39:59.580 WLWV School Board: But the topics that are in health and sexuality, education, those are ones that we are committed to teaching and that has to do with the health and safety of all students. 942 02:40:00.390 --> 02:40:08.370 WLWV School Board: Understanding gender and gender identity is part of that so just if there needs to be clarification about that those. 943 02:40:08.850 --> 02:40:20.400 WLWV School Board: Performance indicators and the standards are at the very end of that long update of the plan that you received, and we have identified some, but we are not teaching to all of them. 944 02:40:21.480 --> 02:40:32.100 WLWV School Board: So the purpose of reviewing and revising every two years, if this was math or social studies we wouldn't be doing this every two years, it would be every seven or eight. 945 02:40:32.580 --> 02:40:43.590 WLWV School Board: And the reason the state of Oregon has committed to every two is because it's really focusing on how this is new territory. 946 02:40:44.370 --> 02:40:58.440 WLWV School Board: Teaching sexuality, education and, in addition to adopting actual materials, especially when resources, since the standards have come out are limited. 947 02:40:59.280 --> 02:41:09.150 WLWV School Board: There is, we would like to bring as we do another subject areas, three or four possibilities narrow it down for a word for a task force to look at. 948 02:41:09.480 --> 02:41:17.790 WLWV School Board: They are not available at this time we think that's going to change, we think that we are already seeing that there is more available than there was two years ago. 949 02:41:18.690 --> 02:41:36.150 WLWV School Board: And then another thing just to bear in mind is there are the standards but Oregon also has some legislation that talks about the purpose of having comprehensive sexuality education is to look at the power of education. 950 02:41:37.260 --> 02:41:49.230 WLWV School Board: To really look at how do we improve the lives, the outcomes of children and families and to recognize that sexuality is connected to overall. 951 02:41:49.680 --> 02:41:59.040 WLWV School Board: Well, being and when we look now and we recognize in schools that it's not just your academic growth but it's your emotional. 952 02:41:59.520 --> 02:42:16.470 WLWV School Board: Social physical well being and that's been the the health part before that that's been added to that recognition so again the updated plan now is really focused on the how how we are going to do this. 953 02:42:21.930 --> 02:42:34.170 WLWV School Board: So just a couple of things just the appreciation for the people who are here this evening and to our school board for staying in this conversation that. 954 02:42:34.650 --> 02:42:43.050 WLWV School Board: Our school district does believe the educators that sexuality education is something we do in partnership. 955 02:42:43.620 --> 02:42:56.100 WLWV School Board: With parents and we are acknowledging that part of having this comprehensive sexuality education plan is looking at how can we continue to build the process for knowing how to have. 956 02:42:56.700 --> 02:43:09.780 WLWV School Board: Dialogue with those who do see this topic very differently, we also recognize that parents are children's primary first teachers. 957 02:43:10.320 --> 02:43:32.040 WLWV School Board: And that they are the ones, especially with sexuality, that we do not want to overtake or in any way displace but part of the process here is learning how do we work with the parent or, in some cases, as we heard trusted adult in in children's lives to do this. 958 02:43:33.450 --> 02:43:46.980 WLWV School Board: And we also know that there's a range of views on this and we believe that part of education is not just what we learn, but how we learn to process it and work with it together. 959 02:43:47.610 --> 02:44:00.750 WLWV School Board: And so we are working towards productive listening and how can we plan together to bring the expertise that educators who have. 960 02:44:01.620 --> 02:44:09.090 WLWV School Board: This is the This is our profession, and so there are some things about working with standards and working with curriculum that are known. 961 02:44:09.510 --> 02:44:26.610 WLWV School Board: With the expertise of children who know or the expertise of parents who know their children, better than any of us can and who bring their own experiences and the work that they do and contribute to society, so we are looking to do that jointly. 962 02:44:27.870 --> 02:44:35.220 WLWV School Board: And we also want to say that we believe in our district when we compare and look at. 963 02:44:35.640 --> 02:44:56.430 WLWV School Board: We actually look at the comprehensive sexuality education plans of other school districts and the processes and we do believe that the parents in this Community have given significantly to this process in attending events in writing in staying in the conversation with us. 964 02:45:00.930 --> 02:45:02.580 WLWV School Board: So the content. 965 02:45:03.660 --> 02:45:06.870 WLWV School Board: Of the updated plan we have. 966 02:45:09.510 --> 02:45:19.770 WLWV School Board: curriculum materials and guidelines and the way to look at that is there's the curriculum there's what you teach and then the guidelines are how we do it and how we communicated. 967 02:45:20.700 --> 02:45:28.860 WLWV School Board: So the recommended curriculum materials that came forward are the great Body Shop for kindergarten through fifth grade. 968 02:45:29.790 --> 02:45:47.190 WLWV School Board: And then the five lessons and there are five lessons that the task force worked with, and the reason there's five is there were just topics that were not addressed by a comprehensive text that they've had since 2019. 969 02:45:48.870 --> 02:46:06.720 WLWV School Board: And they are, they have taken those lessons and downloaded them printed them and what we have would look different from what this task force came up with from what one would find on the website those lessons are from. 970 02:46:07.740 --> 02:46:11.970 WLWV School Board: The organization you've heard about this evening and that's advocates for us. 971 02:46:13.500 --> 02:46:20.190 WLWV School Board: there's also the revision of the guidelines and that would be like the instruction part. 972 02:46:20.850 --> 02:46:36.780 WLWV School Board: Of the agreements that we want to have something rather than having teachers find their own resources and materials for these topics we have the content and then we have agreements around the kinds of activities. 973 02:46:37.650 --> 02:46:46.740 WLWV School Board: And the idea is one of the things that came through really clearly, this time in our task force work was. 974 02:46:47.850 --> 02:47:08.400 WLWV School Board: Including and planning for students who opt out more than we had done so before and then also looking at how we can communicate in advance and have materials available for preview How can that be so that things are more available for people to see. 975 02:47:10.260 --> 02:47:17.940 WLWV School Board: The other idea is to think about that our school district isn't looking at doing this, just because it's the standards. 976 02:47:18.630 --> 02:47:34.980 WLWV School Board: And that this is something that to sign off on for state funding that this is what we want to do, but there is a belief in the children, you see, you know behind you and the rocking chair in the Center that acceptance. 977 02:47:36.270 --> 02:47:45.060 WLWV School Board: It comes from understanding factual information and students being included and comfortable with the learning. 978 02:47:45.990 --> 02:47:53.700 WLWV School Board: And that's the part that we are still have in our working on the most is the whole range of views. 979 02:47:54.120 --> 02:48:04.440 WLWV School Board: Of all children being comfortable and we heard that really clearly in the last set of discussions in the task force that maybe not all students. 980 02:48:04.950 --> 02:48:24.360 WLWV School Board: feel as comfortable with the curriculum that's an instructional piece, we believe we can work with that so just as in any other subject area there's what you teach and then how you teach it we're looking at how can we continue to improve that so it's two pronged. 981 02:48:30.000 --> 02:48:32.070 WLWV School Board: So the process. 982 02:48:33.510 --> 02:48:41.100 WLWV School Board: We did form a task force after the school board approved teaching to the standards in. 983 02:48:42.510 --> 02:48:57.330 WLWV School Board: and want to just clarify we had five people in the room, this evening, who have been on the task force, we had 27 people there were 13 of them who were district, educators and 14 who were parents. 984 02:48:58.620 --> 02:49:00.750 WLWV School Board: We started our meetings in. 985 02:49:02.580 --> 02:49:04.050 WLWV School Board: And we met three times. 986 02:49:05.400 --> 02:49:16.530 WLWV School Board: Then what happened is we had this pandemic and there was a hiatus and we lost Members, we lost staff members and we lost parent members. 987 02:49:17.250 --> 02:49:24.990 WLWV School Board: Some of the parent Members had moved away, there are also some we no longer had children enrolled in the school district. 988 02:49:25.320 --> 02:49:45.060 WLWV School Board: So, just to clarify that we know, though, that we couldn't just start over with forming a new task force after the pandemic, because we were meeting in person we watched videos we looked at materials it wouldn't work to do that or resume so in resuming he didn't start with a new group. 989 02:49:46.110 --> 02:49:56.610 WLWV School Board: But that is a piece, that we are really committed to is continuing with and looking at how are we going to make sure that that task force brings people. 990 02:49:57.720 --> 02:50:07.440 WLWV School Board: together and looks at this idea of how do we represent a range of views, while still teaching to what we're committed to teaching. 991 02:50:09.930 --> 02:50:18.120 WLWV School Board: It was planned so that again in February, March, it was advertised in all the schools and we actually. 992 02:50:18.600 --> 02:50:39.570 WLWV School Board: said yes to anybody who wanted to join the task force and we did find that we had more families who might not have been as comfortable with teaching to the standards, who wanted to be on the task force, the staff members were representing teachers counselors. 993 02:50:40.980 --> 02:50:50.550 WLWV School Board: Health teachers different subject areas, our physical education, so that we had a range and we had some from every level of education. 994 02:50:52.380 --> 02:51:01.170 WLWV School Board: Again, one of the things that we emphasized was not adding any more materials than we're actually needed. 995 02:51:02.520 --> 02:51:12.180 WLWV School Board: The goal, though, was that everyone's doing the same thing, because that was something that we heard very much you know from the. 996 02:51:13.170 --> 02:51:30.540 WLWV School Board: Discussions were, how will we know how Every teacher will know how to work with that topic with our students and there was a real ask for having more consistency and for having more common lessons. 997 02:51:31.560 --> 02:51:39.870 WLWV School Board: So again, the consistent practices for discussions and you'll see some of those things reflected in the guidelines from. 998 02:51:41.310 --> 02:51:47.940 WLWV School Board: Know role playing, for example, came forward the idea that these are not. 999 02:51:48.570 --> 02:52:04.230 WLWV School Board: Personal discussions about experiences or having children have those ideas brought forward in class, but it would be on information and processing information now when confusing point can sometimes be. 1000 02:52:04.830 --> 02:52:15.570 WLWV School Board: in classrooms now we generally in any subject area don't sit and just tell students information have them write it down and then maybe give them a quiz. 1001 02:52:15.990 --> 02:52:33.480 WLWV School Board: But there is processing and talking about information, but not about one's own personal experiences and so that was a key piece that came forward from the agreements with what's being brought forward this evening. 1002 02:52:38.190 --> 02:52:41.130 WLWV School Board: So they met three times prior to the pandemic. 1003 02:52:42.420 --> 02:52:55.290 WLWV School Board: We The other thing we reviewed is the Oregon student health survey data that did have data, including our school district about how students all students experienced. 1004 02:52:56.640 --> 02:53:02.700 WLWV School Board: feeling included feeling supported by adults and the effects of. 1005 02:53:04.320 --> 02:53:05.400 WLWV School Board: Not identifying. 1006 02:53:06.510 --> 02:53:18.060 WLWV School Board: says, gender and we looked at those statistics that was actually the first meeting with the idea that that survey is now being improved so we would continue to look at that. 1007 02:53:18.900 --> 02:53:36.870 WLWV School Board: And then forming of work groups, and then there were three times, where we had meetings, after the pandemic when we could take masks off and meet in person and that's when the group selected the K five curriculum and revise the additional lessons per grade 612. 1008 02:53:37.890 --> 02:53:43.980 WLWV School Board: One of the pieces of language that came out and again we give credit. 1009 02:53:45.150 --> 02:53:58.170 WLWV School Board: Those sitting in the room now talking about how are you going to normalize opting out if we're saying that families have a choice, how will that feel like my child isn't being excluded from the lesson. 1010 02:53:58.860 --> 02:54:07.050 WLWV School Board: And the idea of how would they still be learning health similar to sometimes children reading or not all reading the same book. 1011 02:54:07.560 --> 02:54:15.600 WLWV School Board: But they might be working on other determined ahead of time in the learning that we, the professional learning that we will be. 1012 02:54:15.840 --> 02:54:36.510 WLWV School Board: Hopefully doing this summer, where there would be planned lessons in agreement, using health materials, the great Body Shop, for example, has most of the topics are not sexuality, education, their nutrition exercise other aspects of health, but again, be consistent about doing that. 1013 02:54:37.710 --> 02:54:41.280 WLWV School Board: The other piece was how will we. 1014 02:54:42.420 --> 02:54:43.980 WLWV School Board: continue to. 1015 02:54:45.210 --> 02:54:57.030 WLWV School Board: emphasize your parents are the ones to go to to discuss this with and to provide guidance and one of the agreements that's added to the guidelines again. 1016 02:54:57.540 --> 02:55:16.950 WLWV School Board: came from those in this room, which said, you know that needs to be said more than just in a guideline, or more than at the beginning of the Semester, but how can we again make that more of the norm so that's another thing you may have noticed that's that's in the guidelines. 1017 02:55:18.660 --> 02:55:18.990 So. 1018 02:55:21.630 --> 02:55:36.540 WLWV School Board: So we then had a Community input session because what we are attempting to do in our work with sexuality education in our school district is knowing that even the language we use and we heard. 1019 02:55:37.830 --> 02:55:50.550 WLWV School Board: Differences in how we should talk about specific terms, this evening we're hearing things about maybe the word STDs is outdated now and what should we be using. 1020 02:55:51.030 --> 02:56:15.120 WLWV School Board: So we want to continue this process of a task force, and then the Community input session is when the recommendations that do come from a group that's a school district, educators and have parents, then we collect additional input to us in making revisions to what a task force recommends. 1021 02:56:16.680 --> 02:56:30.480 WLWV School Board: So the the session last Monday evening was structured so that all participants could discuss and provide input, again, we believe that if we can learn to. 1022 02:56:31.320 --> 02:56:42.810 WLWV School Board: share ideas trade ideas get information and, specifically, we did get information from that task force session, I think you all have the five pages of collecting feedback. 1023 02:56:43.440 --> 02:56:56.220 WLWV School Board: You got it verbatim as written and verbal comments were written down but also every one of those sheets was recorded and details on there. 1024 02:56:56.790 --> 02:57:13.860 WLWV School Board: check to see the opt out form for the rental school district, for example with something that was on the forum, so we did so not only did we want to record that, but we want what said at those sessions from the Community to be used and again. 1025 02:57:15.450 --> 02:57:27.150 WLWV School Board: You received those comments last Thursday and the input also reflected a full range of views and recommendations about sexuality education. 1026 02:57:27.600 --> 02:57:40.230 WLWV School Board: We heard pieces around specific things that we should be doing and lessons we should have that were not included, we also heard things that were not. 1027 02:57:41.700 --> 02:57:43.170 WLWV School Board: acceptable at this point. 1028 02:57:44.910 --> 02:57:45.510 WLWV School Board: Next slide. 1029 02:57:47.580 --> 02:57:49.020 WLWV School Board: So just to summarize. 1030 02:57:50.340 --> 02:58:03.180 WLWV School Board: This is what came from last Monday night, and these are the biggest ideas you know the most common themes and again this there was a lot about opting out that we heard. 1031 02:58:03.840 --> 02:58:23.070 WLWV School Board: is making sure that if opting out is a choice that students are not singled out, and also that it needed to be more clear how you could opt out, and how we would be notified so you'll notice in the guidelines that they were additions about that. 1032 02:58:24.330 --> 02:58:37.800 WLWV School Board: There was also a cluster of specific concerns about a fifth grade lesson in the great Body Shop being confusing about preferred activities and gender and that had come up. 1033 02:58:39.390 --> 02:58:52.080 WLWV School Board: The lesson had been accepted, but then, based on the feedback last Monday night we actually decided to eliminate it, because when it went to the Community, there were enough comments about that. 1034 02:58:52.380 --> 02:59:11.340 WLWV School Board: And some of those comments were along the lines of It could almost be stereotyping, it could also be an well intended gender lesson, but in taking it out, we limited that lesson in the fifth grade to one that's really about puberty. 1035 02:59:12.480 --> 02:59:27.900 WLWV School Board: And that would be something where in working with our teachers, this summer, would there be something that we would look at in looking at another way that we would discuss that but not using the lesson. 1036 02:59:29.430 --> 02:59:39.570 WLWV School Board: And again, there was a concern about classroom practice around gender identity, and that would be something where it was agreed that it would not be. 1037 02:59:40.230 --> 02:59:51.270 WLWV School Board: a place where you know, we would ask students, as a group, you know, in the first or second grade to talk about their pronouns. 1038 02:59:51.720 --> 03:00:00.840 WLWV School Board: To bring that up, you know that way that would not be something that was a concern again and we're trying to be really clear about some of the themes that were mentioned. 1039 03:00:02.490 --> 03:00:10.290 WLWV School Board: We also heard some participants do not want any materials from advocates for use just based on. 1040 03:00:11.730 --> 03:00:13.410 WLWV School Board: thoughts about the organization. 1041 03:00:14.820 --> 03:00:25.380 WLWV School Board: We also heard that participants appreciated advocates for us materials and saw it as a helpful start, and there were further comments about but. 1042 03:00:25.950 --> 03:00:32.130 WLWV School Board: There are other things that maybe this organization doesn't have right so keep looking. 1043 03:00:32.850 --> 03:00:51.000 WLWV School Board: And please know that that is the again the intent, we would prefer to have established publishers, we would prefer to have things where there is a range of high quality, materials and again, that is not available to us yet. 1044 03:00:52.440 --> 03:01:12.150 WLWV School Board: The curriculum that I believe you also heard mentioned, and I know in 2019 in looking at the Flash curriculum that curriculum also brought forward some concerns around and and that was from public health officials and King county in Seattle and it had. 1045 03:01:13.620 --> 03:01:20.910 WLWV School Board: similar activities in it, where there was some role playing with some personal experience, that was not comfortable. 1046 03:01:21.420 --> 03:01:40.800 WLWV School Board: But also now they're not updated enough, and so we are looking at you know organizations that do have that we did look at another curriculum besides just the advocates for us lessons and the task force had eliminated a lesson there. 1047 03:01:41.820 --> 03:01:47.880 WLWV School Board: Just based on the activities in the lesson, but it's from a publisher that. 1048 03:01:48.390 --> 03:01:52.830 WLWV School Board: We will continue to look at they might be bringing forward new material so i'm just kind of. 1049 03:01:53.130 --> 03:02:09.810 WLWV School Board: going over that again and again, because this every two years piece, and the feedback we heard, we do want to look at it, as that is where we are in this point in time and have things that we can use so everyone has common materials, but then going forward. 1050 03:02:10.980 --> 03:02:19.650 WLWV School Board: We also heard that some participants just believe that the Oregon health standards are what concerns them. 1051 03:02:21.090 --> 03:02:38.520 WLWV School Board: And some again felt that the lessons didn't go far enough in fully addressing misunderstandings about gender identity and wanted more information so that again summarizes what we got last Monday night. 1052 03:02:40.800 --> 03:02:41.370 WLWV School Board: Next slide. 1053 03:02:44.220 --> 03:02:47.040 WLWV School Board: So, again we remove the fifth grade lesson. 1054 03:02:48.540 --> 03:02:51.600 WLWV School Board: In response to the Community input session. 1055 03:02:52.620 --> 03:03:01.680 WLWV School Board: We added language to the guidelines to specify that optional lessons in a great Body Shop are not being used at this time. 1056 03:03:03.180 --> 03:03:10.860 WLWV School Board: Added more language to the guidelines about planning and grouping students, so those who opt out, are part of health learning and not singled out. 1057 03:03:12.660 --> 03:03:25.620 WLWV School Board: And further clarified how to participate in opting out and we rewrote the opt out letter and form and you'll notice in the guidelines there's a letter. 1058 03:03:26.550 --> 03:03:50.160 WLWV School Board: And then, for each level there are boxes with topics, some of the feedback we got last Monday night said that I don't always know what to put on that form and it's not clear, so that's an attempt to take the topics and just have it really specific so families can can look at it. 1059 03:03:51.510 --> 03:03:51.930 WLWV School Board: X. 1060 03:03:54.750 --> 03:04:00.090 WLWV School Board: So what we're bringing forward your two options for consideration. 1061 03:04:01.770 --> 03:04:07.800 WLWV School Board: When you're approving the plan and maybe Dr Ludwig would you hold up your plan. 1062 03:04:10.200 --> 03:04:21.660 WLWV School Board: That plan has those curriculum pieces listed, it has the guidelines and then it has a lot of reference pieces the standards, the legislation. 1063 03:04:23.460 --> 03:04:31.290 WLWV School Board: So there's an option to approve the plan with the curriculum as submitted in the curriculum that i've mentioned, and that would be. 1064 03:04:32.160 --> 03:04:50.370 WLWV School Board: The great Body Shop for kindergarten through fifth grade five lessons for grades six through eight that are lessons that are printed would be posted on the website and unique in that they're standalone lessons. 1065 03:04:51.780 --> 03:05:06.990 WLWV School Board: And the guidelines you would be approving because they would be part of it and they give the direction so that could be one option is to say the curriculum as submitted with the guidelines. 1066 03:05:08.790 --> 03:05:17.700 WLWV School Board: The other option is to approve the plan that give staff direction for making changes to part of the curriculum. 1067 03:05:19.650 --> 03:05:26.520 WLWV School Board: Core are supplementary and the core curriculum is the curriculum published by the great Body Shop. 1068 03:05:27.660 --> 03:05:37.320 WLWV School Board: that's published by you know children's health market there a health educator Shin publisher so that's core curriculum, they have a complete K five. 1069 03:05:38.580 --> 03:05:47.190 WLWV School Board: The supplementary curriculum that's what those five lessons that were adapted from advocates for us are. 1070 03:05:48.990 --> 03:05:52.110 WLWV School Board: So, in your discussion, if you would choose to say. 1071 03:05:53.340 --> 03:06:01.650 WLWV School Board: We approve the plan, but we're going to give staff direction about one part of it either the core or the supplementary. 1072 03:06:03.570 --> 03:06:24.840 WLWV School Board: Or, I guess, it can be both that you know there's the curriculum part but there's also those guidelines which say that we are teaching to standards that there will be this this curriculum in place, and right now, what we have in place is, we have a comprehensive textbook in middle school. 1073 03:06:25.860 --> 03:06:36.150 WLWV School Board: To publisher by good heart wilcox and a comprehensive textbook for high school we don't have any core curriculum for K five. 1074 03:06:36.900 --> 03:06:57.120 WLWV School Board: There are just the second step child protection units and that's part of the legislation around recognizing and reporting abuse and safe and unsafe, you know touches and anti bullying is that part so K five doesn't have a core curriculum. 1075 03:06:58.440 --> 03:07:18.750 WLWV School Board: Again, the ask in the the work to get a supplementary curriculum is if there's standards that aren't addressed to have something that is consistent and common across schools and across grade levels, you know for our teachers. 1076 03:07:21.150 --> 03:07:32.280 WLWV School Board: So the Those are the two options and then what we really are intending you'll notice that, at the very end of the plan it says, continuing to improve it. 1077 03:07:32.790 --> 03:07:43.530 WLWV School Board: there's the part about the continued work and forming of a new task force, which would be for the next two years because it's the partnership with families. 1078 03:07:43.950 --> 03:07:59.490 WLWV School Board: That you know built into this process that would look at professional expertise and the expertise of parents as children's ultimate educators so that's very last piece in there is how we would go forward and do that. 1079 03:08:00.870 --> 03:08:08.220 WLWV School Board: So I know again you've spent a tremendous amount of time looking at all of this material, you have the. 1080 03:08:09.240 --> 03:08:09.990 WLWV School Board: Actual. 1081 03:08:11.130 --> 03:08:18.000 WLWV School Board: This packet has all of the sexuality education lessons from the great Body Shop K five. 1082 03:08:19.170 --> 03:08:36.900 WLWV School Board: And it has the supplementary lessons, the five for middle school and five for high school, and these are the materials that were brought to the Community last Monday evening, the only exception is the fifth grade lesson, as a result of last Monday evening. 1083 03:08:38.010 --> 03:08:39.180 WLWV School Board: has been revised. 1084 03:08:40.530 --> 03:08:41.640 WLWV School Board: You have now so. 1085 03:08:43.410 --> 03:08:44.190 WLWV School Board: questions. 1086 03:08:48.600 --> 03:08:56.580 WLWV School Board: All right, thank you so much, Dr swanson for all the care and thoroughness and then the information here. 1087 03:08:58.320 --> 03:09:10.740 WLWV School Board: And for the you and your team for the forum last week as well, and so I am going to look around the table at my board members and see who wants to start us off with some questions. 1088 03:09:13.890 --> 03:09:14.670 WLWV School Board: And okay. 1089 03:09:15.990 --> 03:09:28.650 WLWV School Board: Thank you, Dr Tyson, so I do have a couple questions, my first question I guess comes from your memo and so i'm looking in page 23 a board book but it's the second page of your memo. 1090 03:09:30.240 --> 03:09:40.950 WLWV School Board: And in your memo and it's right under supplementary lessons for grades six through eight and you make the statement that core curriculum for middle school and high school included in the. 1091 03:09:41.820 --> 03:09:58.920 WLWV School Board: Comprehensive sexuality education plan did not have materials for addressing all of the standards and topics so i'm just wondering, can you be specific about which standards we weren't addressing that require we bring this supplementary. 1092 03:10:00.810 --> 03:10:12.330 WLWV School Board: That we bring we do the supplementary materials, so the standards about and I don't have the numbers in front of me, but there is a standard around. 1093 03:10:13.050 --> 03:10:24.690 WLWV School Board: Gender expression and that standard goes across in grades, six, seven and eight, so are those standards you're referring to different than the ones I have. 1094 03:10:25.110 --> 03:10:34.500 WLWV School Board: In front of me the standard 123456 like i've standard ones students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. 1095 03:10:35.460 --> 03:10:47.490 WLWV School Board: standard to students will analyze the influence of family Paris, culture, media tech So those are the eight standards, I have, I see, and those are the over arching standards, those are the. 1096 03:10:48.570 --> 03:10:52.110 WLWV School Board: You know, like in mathematics, saying that you would develop the algebraic thinking. 1097 03:10:52.470 --> 03:11:12.870 WLWV School Board: underneath those those would be some of the performance indicators to teach to those you have in the comprehensive sexuality education plan on page Dr Lego you have it with you, it has a page that has what the topics are on. 1098 03:11:18.180 --> 03:11:25.050 WLWV School Board: This quickly that has the topics and that might be an easy a quicker way for you see it. 1099 03:11:26.520 --> 03:11:31.770 WLWV School Board: it's on page 20 of the comprehensive sexuality education plan and. 1100 03:11:33.480 --> 03:11:46.500 WLWV School Board: For example, it would say in in there, like grades K through five it says acceptance respect for and individuals and families and gender orientation. 1101 03:11:47.910 --> 03:12:05.340 WLWV School Board: Okay, so so so it would be it's on page 20, and that is the state of Oregon and what would be the topics in sexuality education around the standards, but I think director Thompson what your question is, is why I went into the. 1102 03:12:06.390 --> 03:12:22.470 WLWV School Board: Little explanation of standards where those eight really are meant to be those are overarching, but you have to actually to teach some of those just as one could not teach algebraic thinking without bringing in some performance indicators about. 1103 03:12:23.280 --> 03:12:31.980 WLWV School Board: linear equations That would be an example of a chosen performance indicator that are listed in the back. 1104 03:12:32.640 --> 03:12:54.960 WLWV School Board: And the same thing with things around you won't see in those eight standards anything about STDs, but there is the language around safety and making safe decisions, and so one of the specifics that, then you get into is STDs to do that okay so just so I clarified. 1105 03:12:56.040 --> 03:13:01.470 WLWV School Board: So maybe what it should have said, is that we didn't have materials for addressing all of the indicators. 1106 03:13:02.700 --> 03:13:07.770 WLWV School Board: underneath each one of these standards, but then I also remember you saying that. 1107 03:13:08.820 --> 03:13:30.090 WLWV School Board: That we teach to the standards, not every indicator, so we don't have to teach to every indicator that you have to teach to the standards, you have to teach to those and also the legislation that has the pieces that are listed in, and this is from obe on page 20 it talks about. 1108 03:13:31.230 --> 03:13:45.570 WLWV School Board: It says the topics from the Oregon health standards and, for example, abuse, prevention is a large part of that and that's the aaron's law piece, and so that's where some of the. 1109 03:13:46.590 --> 03:13:54.450 WLWV School Board: Performance Indicators come from talking about human growth and development, like that fifth grade lesson, you know the one. 1110 03:13:55.290 --> 03:14:00.480 WLWV School Board: Just because you have it in every hackett and that's the one where there's the diagrams of. 1111 03:14:01.140 --> 03:14:07.830 WLWV School Board: The male and female in puberty That would be an example of human growth and development. 1112 03:14:08.130 --> 03:14:28.020 WLWV School Board: So I think what you said about every performance indicator it's the every that no, you do not need to teach to every but, just as in working with standards in any subject area educators are expected to take out the key smaller standards that fit with that overarching idea. 1113 03:14:35.010 --> 03:14:43.830 WLWV School Board: My other question and then someone else can answer some questions and I just want to clarify that, when we teach our puberty lessons. 1114 03:14:44.250 --> 03:14:49.200 WLWV School Board: In fourth and fifth grade that's when puberty lessons come correct in both of those crates. 1115 03:14:49.740 --> 03:14:56.280 WLWV School Board: Are they are boys and girls separated for those I know that was a question that I heard, and so I just wanted to clarify do we separate. 1116 03:14:56.670 --> 03:15:09.330 WLWV School Board: Yes, and that's actually in the guidelines, because that was a clarification that that came up from the task force and then also it was brought up last Monday evening, so I it says that. 1117 03:15:10.020 --> 03:15:15.090 WLWV School Board: I apologize that I missed that in the guideline So those are my two questions for right now, thank you. 1118 03:15:18.420 --> 03:15:18.960 Right. 1119 03:15:20.520 --> 03:15:24.270 WLWV School Board: To extend on her question just real quick so. 1120 03:15:25.680 --> 03:15:35.880 WLWV School Board: The problem that could exist in that separation of boys and girls is some of the families that we heard from tonight, now we have those people that don't identify. 1121 03:15:36.480 --> 03:15:43.830 WLWV School Board: As a boy or a girl or their non binary I don't know all the terms there's a lot of them, so if I mess them up. 1122 03:15:44.490 --> 03:15:50.580 WLWV School Board: You know, excuse me, but if you don't fit into that black or that white in your in the middle. 1123 03:15:51.420 --> 03:15:57.930 WLWV School Board: Is this an opportunity for the feeling is that we heard expressed by some of those other children this evening. 1124 03:15:58.860 --> 03:16:10.860 WLWV School Board: To have that anxiety and that pressure and those things creep in to oh my gosh now i'm singled out and everybody knows in on the two nuggets in the middle of the room. 1125 03:16:11.550 --> 03:16:21.720 WLWV School Board: That are struggling with how identify So how do we deal with that demographic yeah, thank you for that actually Dr Jennifer Spencer, is, I know. 1126 03:16:22.320 --> 03:16:43.680 WLWV School Board: spoke to that and her dad that task force and we were talking about that because there's a difference between saying we will offer this and offer it for for boys and girls, but we believe increasingly there are students who actually might choose do and not based on how you identify. 1127 03:16:45.120 --> 03:16:53.760 WLWV School Board: See the boys and the girls video also the information in the videos about changing and developing is actually. 1128 03:16:54.600 --> 03:17:00.420 WLWV School Board: Similar that you would go through in puberty so it wouldn't be something that would be. 1129 03:17:01.050 --> 03:17:09.870 WLWV School Board: That different for those fourth and fifth grade videos so there has been a lot of discussion about that about should we just let everybody choose. 1130 03:17:10.560 --> 03:17:22.920 WLWV School Board: Should we start with, we will offer it for boys and girls and start to see because there are those where they would actually like to have their. 1131 03:17:23.370 --> 03:17:34.080 WLWV School Board: You know the child be with boys or with girls and so that was going to be a place where we were going to start with that, right now, but it is a question that's been brought up. 1132 03:17:34.680 --> 03:17:44.850 WLWV School Board: It to say, should we move towards everybody just seeing that together, but the decision was let's not mandate that at this point, based on. 1133 03:17:46.290 --> 03:18:07.200 WLWV School Board: feedback that we got from parents so it's a difference between mandating choosing you know moving moving towards for individuals and that it would not necessarily have to do with again it, but that we are going to mandate that all students watch it together, is where we landed on that. 1134 03:18:14.160 --> 03:18:17.400 WLWV School Board: All right, Director sloop director Wyatt. 1135 03:18:21.030 --> 03:18:22.710 WLWV School Board: Dr Taylor anything else. 1136 03:18:25.680 --> 03:18:26.700 WLWV School Board: Is this is. 1137 03:18:30.300 --> 03:18:31.020 WLWV School Board: A lot but. 1138 03:18:32.460 --> 03:18:50.400 WLWV School Board: Is this just a Q amp a to Dr swanson write down that we're trying to figure out so that we can let her relax for the evening, or is this the part where we talked as board members amongst ourselves to maybe say the things that we want to see individually. 1139 03:18:52.800 --> 03:19:03.030 WLWV School Board: So that you all can now here since we're in a public environment we've never been able to have these conversations So are we just answering questions to let Dr boyce and enjoy the rest of your evening. 1140 03:19:03.540 --> 03:19:11.520 WLWV School Board: And then we talk amongst this family of people, or are we answering questions are asking questions in order to form as well. 1141 03:19:12.630 --> 03:19:23.400 WLWV School Board: yeah that's a great question I think it's something I often kind of hold myself when i'm guiding this, and so I think you know I would defer that to fellow board members like. 1142 03:19:24.510 --> 03:19:34.620 WLWV School Board: I have a couple of questions that I can ask to Dr swanson at some point we do stop you know when we feel like we don't have any more questions we understand the plan and we can just have a dialer. 1143 03:19:34.980 --> 03:19:44.520 WLWV School Board: So I just have to look to you to have a sense of where you are with that director soup, would you like to have an opportunity to ask any questions you feeling ready for dialogue. 1144 03:19:52.800 --> 03:20:09.390 WLWV School Board: i'm ready, I can pass on the questions because I talked to Dr source and i've talked to Dr Ludwig I had my questions answered previously so i'm just how shall I have a longer session but okay great and your wife. 1145 03:20:11.040 --> 03:20:13.140 WLWV School Board: are getting into prior to the meeting okay. 1146 03:20:14.370 --> 03:20:21.840 WLWV School Board: i'll ask just a couple questions here about the things that I heard coming up during public comment. 1147 03:20:23.430 --> 03:20:34.140 WLWV School Board: One is about professional development for teachers, when we ask our teachers to present this in the classroom, how do we help them. 1148 03:20:34.650 --> 03:20:49.110 WLWV School Board: With that process, yes, thank you for that that's the reason for getting this on the may agenda is the plan is when something is approved, we want to form. 1149 03:20:49.440 --> 03:21:00.120 WLWV School Board: Who will be part of pressure professional development, before the summer, because, and we need to do this more than once, so the idea is to have a group of kind of. 1150 03:21:00.960 --> 03:21:08.220 WLWV School Board: Teachers representing all grade levels and areas to start to plan, what would that look like to bring together. 1151 03:21:08.760 --> 03:21:20.580 WLWV School Board: As many as we can, as summer and then to have those teachers also when we come back to school and in service in the fall and continue it The other thing we did, and we did this in. 1152 03:21:22.920 --> 03:21:28.980 WLWV School Board: Also, with secondary we brought together the middle school and high school teachers say once. 1153 03:21:29.370 --> 03:21:39.240 WLWV School Board: You know, once a quarter, the health teachers are the wellness teachers, because you can't just do it once and especially because we have things there about working on. 1154 03:21:39.660 --> 03:21:46.080 WLWV School Board: Planned lessons for students who will opt out taking those lessons in any lesson is just. 1155 03:21:46.650 --> 03:21:57.540 WLWV School Board: The paper in the description and then what are teachers actually going to develop and what are the activities really going to work like we do this and other subject areas as well. 1156 03:21:57.900 --> 03:22:07.260 WLWV School Board: But that we would start doing that and get the group interested in actually being the lead, teachers and that before the end of the school year. 1157 03:22:07.620 --> 03:22:23.370 WLWV School Board: we'd run something this summer we sometimes call them camps, and we do them, for you know, several eight hour sessions, you know, in the summer and then we continue with how do we bring that back to everyone, because maybe everyone. 1158 03:22:23.850 --> 03:22:39.480 WLWV School Board: won't come, you know at the date in the summer, we also just see you know we use our professional development funds for that, so that it can be paid time for teachers who do that in the summer, but the main thing with this is it needs to be. 1159 03:22:40.650 --> 03:22:54.630 WLWV School Board: Ongoing and not just episodic where we do the regular check in the crafting of materials and communication that go out to families, I know that we did that in 2019 so that, when we started that. 1160 03:22:55.440 --> 03:23:08.370 WLWV School Board: Your teachers all had the same letters they had in the 2019 plan you saw a table that had this is the week in the Semester, this is when this lesson will occur. 1161 03:23:09.420 --> 03:23:15.930 WLWV School Board: Then we had the pandemic and so now, you know, regardless, we want to get back on track, because we actually. 1162 03:23:17.400 --> 03:23:25.950 WLWV School Board: kind of put on hold some of these lessons we decided at the time, not to teach some of these lessons over zoom. 1163 03:23:26.610 --> 03:23:38.280 WLWV School Board: Also, the Oregon Department of Education did put out something saying what are the most important topics during a pandemic and some of these topics, you know, is more around connection. 1164 03:23:38.880 --> 03:23:51.420 WLWV School Board: trauma informed practices those kinds of things that we that we kept on the forefront, but yes that's why we're looking for some guidance, this evening, because we want to start. 1165 03:23:52.650 --> 03:23:57.570 WLWV School Board: Getting the teachers together to do the professional learning and to actually work with the materials. 1166 03:24:00.120 --> 03:24:01.470 WLWV School Board: Okay, thank you and. 1167 03:24:03.390 --> 03:24:10.440 WLWV School Board: When a student is spending time in our classrooms about how much time are they. 1168 03:24:11.670 --> 03:24:20.640 WLWV School Board: Investing in our classrooms I heard people saying like you know, we need to make sure we're we're really like catching our students up and focusing on academics so i'm curious like. 1169 03:24:21.660 --> 03:24:26.430 WLWV School Board: What percentage of their time are they spending talking about these topics. 1170 03:24:28.140 --> 03:24:40.860 WLWV School Board: Well, again for K five you know you have we have the aaron's law which Those are the things that have to do with the Child Protection Unit, so that would be. 1171 03:24:41.490 --> 03:24:53.160 WLWV School Board: You know I think Amina percentage wise there's several lessons a year with that there's several lessons with the bullying the sexuality education there's you know, two or three. 1172 03:24:53.760 --> 03:25:06.360 WLWV School Board: There about 20 minute lessons on these topics per school year right now in K five when you get into so I had to do the math to figure with a percentage of that. 1173 03:25:06.990 --> 03:25:27.660 WLWV School Board: So easier when you get into middle school and they have a semester course and the courses are about an hour long and you have seven lessons at each grade level so that would be seven hours per semester health class in those grade levels it's about. 1174 03:25:28.890 --> 03:25:48.450 WLWV School Board: 12 to 15 hours, when you get into the high school courses so again i'll have to do a percentage, but it is a relatively small amount of the health curriculum, first of all in K five because again this the great Body Shop has many, many other topics. 1175 03:25:50.010 --> 03:25:52.320 WLWV School Board: and sexuality education is just one of them. 1176 03:25:56.430 --> 03:26:06.270 WLWV School Board: And thanks to helps keep it in perspective for me this is, this is not something that they're talking about all year long he is in one of the thing about the the task forces. 1177 03:26:07.290 --> 03:26:14.250 WLWV School Board: leaning towards the great Body Shop for K five was it's always helpful if you can look at things that. 1178 03:26:15.210 --> 03:26:20.760 WLWV School Board: integrate and cross subjects and this comes in the form of a little reader you know it's a little. 1179 03:26:21.450 --> 03:26:33.600 WLWV School Board: pamphlet for students that comes once a month and then there's also A newsletter for parents and just even the literacy work of students reading things in different formats, rather than just you know sort of a. 1180 03:26:34.170 --> 03:26:41.880 WLWV School Board: Page in a textbook with something that can be used in classrooms for that, and that was appealing about the materials. 1181 03:26:43.440 --> 03:26:49.680 WLWV School Board: And then, it sounds like that curriculum and comes up when I listened to folk say they. 1182 03:26:50.790 --> 03:26:58.710 WLWV School Board: Lets you know that the concerns are, and you know the source of the curriculum and. 1183 03:26:59.910 --> 03:27:13.800 WLWV School Board: So I was on the board, as you know, when we approve the first plan in 2019 and I recall similar process where curriculum was shown to parents and parents expressed feedback and then. 1184 03:27:14.340 --> 03:27:20.550 WLWV School Board: adjustments were made to the curriculum based on that feedback very similar to what the process has been this time. 1185 03:27:21.210 --> 03:27:30.870 WLWV School Board: And at that time it was flash that folks were concerned about and I, my memory tells me that that was a curriculum that was designed by the Washington. 1186 03:27:31.170 --> 03:27:38.160 WLWV School Board: Washington, the teachers in Washington, the Washington Department of Education, who designed flagships King county Seattle public health. 1187 03:27:38.910 --> 03:27:48.930 WLWV School Board: Okay, so it was a county public health department correct and flash did not make the cut their remember, there was no flash this time we didn't look at it, because. 1188 03:27:49.740 --> 03:27:57.330 WLWV School Board: flashes is also packaged differently it's a binder of activities and the The thing that. 1189 03:27:58.050 --> 03:28:06.900 WLWV School Board: We got feedback about last time was they had activities that included role playing, and you know pieces that we just put the whole binder out. 1190 03:28:07.770 --> 03:28:17.820 WLWV School Board: For the Community to see, and there are things that we probably would not do in classrooms we've said that we don't think role playing around sexuality education is. 1191 03:28:18.210 --> 03:28:24.150 WLWV School Board: The best way to teach that information, the only time where and I just want to be really clear. 1192 03:28:24.840 --> 03:28:30.870 WLWV School Board: Any kind of role playing and health education has been found to be advantageous is with refusal skills. 1193 03:28:31.530 --> 03:28:41.040 WLWV School Board: And practicing that is has been advantageous and that's, not always with sexuality that can be with substances, you know alcohol as well. 1194 03:28:41.460 --> 03:28:54.000 WLWV School Board: But yes and also flash hasn't been updated then since that time, and what is challenging is to find updated information that's why, for example, the. 1195 03:28:54.450 --> 03:29:07.050 WLWV School Board: The Oregon learning hub, which is a collection of resources in subject areas when you look they're in their health, education and they have lessons for six seventh, eighth grade. 1196 03:29:07.620 --> 03:29:22.170 WLWV School Board: Actually, they start in elementary school and you'll see that most of those lessons are based on advocates for youth lessons because right now it's a you know they have the public help authors who do that. 1197 03:29:22.860 --> 03:29:31.260 WLWV School Board: Again we suspect that that will improve, and we also suspect that it will become something that is more. 1198 03:29:31.890 --> 03:29:40.620 WLWV School Board: mainstream, we also want to be clear that you know there's other ways we can get curriculum, I mean we have written our own curriculum before. 1199 03:29:41.520 --> 03:29:54.600 WLWV School Board: In areas where we have taken and had public health experts work with us and that's something that you know, at some point if we're saying well we're rewriting these lessons anyway. 1200 03:29:55.710 --> 03:30:13.800 WLWV School Board: What would we do so just want to be really clear that the interest in that right now was the public health, you know sponsorship of it, and again with what we had available that it's supplemented this comprehensive curriculum. 1201 03:30:15.360 --> 03:30:22.260 WLWV School Board: And so, with advocates for youth is it who can you tell me more about that curriculum if I think you just did but. 1202 03:30:23.430 --> 03:30:34.170 WLWV School Board: advocates for us is a broad based organization and they have the three rights respect responsibility within that and the organization started in the. 1203 03:30:35.550 --> 03:30:55.230 WLWV School Board: And they have authors of, and I believe I that you have the the bios the biographies and the professional information about the authors and that's one branch of the organization and so they you know, sometimes if there's an organization that's been. 1204 03:30:56.520 --> 03:31:05.550 WLWV School Board: dedicating a certain amount of time to that they have developed a body of materials on these topics and, just as you know, we were saying that. 1205 03:31:06.330 --> 03:31:15.060 WLWV School Board: Last go round flash had the, the body and materials that seemed robust to us, you know we, we know that this is something that we. 1206 03:31:15.720 --> 03:31:33.750 WLWV School Board: Continually look for which is actually, that is the rationale kind of the lessons more we just looked at all right if we only have these gaps right now let's look at something that's current and that specific and that we can work with mm hmm. 1207 03:31:37.800 --> 03:31:39.420 WLWV School Board: Okay, very good. 1208 03:31:41.820 --> 03:31:50.250 WLWV School Board: anybody else have questions for Dr slay Center you want to just stay safe what you're thinking is also another option, and just as a reminder. 1209 03:31:51.780 --> 03:32:00.900 WLWV School Board: What we have before us is to basically two options, one is to adopt the plan as. 1210 03:32:01.800 --> 03:32:16.170 WLWV School Board: It has been delivered to us and just kind of read rephrasing this should somebody wants to get emotion on the table at some point during our discussion and then the other option being that we could approve the plan that. 1211 03:32:17.280 --> 03:32:27.780 WLWV School Board: includes like the guidelines for communicating with the parents and the you know, potentially, like the core curriculum for K through five, but with the supplemental curriculum. 1212 03:32:28.200 --> 03:32:40.680 WLWV School Board: that's addressing the six through, eight and nine through 12 additional kind of standards there that we could approve the plan with you know amending that portion of it as well, so. 1213 03:32:44.280 --> 03:32:47.820 WLWV School Board: Alright, looking at my fellow board members anybody want to jump in there. 1214 03:32:53.610 --> 03:32:56.100 WLWV School Board: i'm gonna grab a coffee, while you guys start. 1215 03:33:10.560 --> 03:33:11.520 WLWV School Board: No one else wants to. 1216 03:33:15.090 --> 03:33:15.690 WLWV School Board: hold on. 1217 03:33:21.690 --> 03:33:22.200 WLWV School Board: alright. 1218 03:33:23.490 --> 03:33:33.900 WLWV School Board: So, first of all thank you to the Members of the task force and think there's some of you still here who volunteered their time to review the curriculum brought forth by the district office staff. 1219 03:33:34.830 --> 03:33:39.840 WLWV School Board: I know this commitment required that you spend many hours away from your families, and it is appreciated. 1220 03:33:40.740 --> 03:33:48.990 WLWV School Board: I often say this, but one of our districts greatest assets is truly our volunteers and just so the board knows whoever's here in the room and hearing. 1221 03:33:49.320 --> 03:33:56.190 WLWV School Board: We really do appreciate our volunteers, you make such a big difference, and I also want to thank our district staff. 1222 03:33:57.000 --> 03:34:03.210 WLWV School Board: for creating the task force and giving parents and staff members, the opportunity to be a part of the development of this curriculum. 1223 03:34:04.020 --> 03:34:14.820 WLWV School Board: Thank you also for holding a Community forum last Monday and allowing parents to view and provide feedback on the proposed curriculum, we know not every district does that and I want to acknowledge that. 1224 03:34:15.780 --> 03:34:25.530 WLWV School Board: It is a blessing to serve on the board of a district that does allow that Community feedback, as stated and Dr citizens memo to the board on board book. 1225 03:34:26.220 --> 03:34:36.480 WLWV School Board: feedback from the Community meeting resulted in changes to the district's guidelines for sexuality education curriculum and instruction, as well as to some of the proposed curriculum. 1226 03:34:37.140 --> 03:34:52.830 WLWV School Board: I appreciate that our staff listened and responded to what they heard and you've heard that tonight as Dr swanson has spoken and I specifically want to thank Dr swanson for always being willing to answer my questions and it sounds like several of my colleagues questions as well. 1227 03:34:55.650 --> 03:35:03.060 WLWV School Board: Even into the late evening and early morning hours, so it sounds like other people were emailing her, I was emailing her this weekend. 1228 03:35:03.780 --> 03:35:18.090 WLWV School Board: late at night early in the morning and she was responding late at night in early in the morning, and so I think that shows the dedication of our staff members who are willing to do that sort of thing, and I just want to acknowledge and thank you so. 1229 03:35:19.800 --> 03:35:27.720 WLWV School Board: I want to start by highlighting the statements in the district's guidelines for sexuality education curriculum instruction that I appreciate and really. 1230 03:35:28.050 --> 03:35:36.930 WLWV School Board: i'm just highlighting a few there, I really do appreciate the these guidelines, I think they are great guidelines that we have come up with and they've gotten. 1231 03:35:37.230 --> 03:35:52.590 WLWV School Board: I liked them before the Community feedback and I think they've gotten even better, as a result of our Community feedback, so I really want to just and i'm sorry this is going to be a little boring but some people haven't heard these guidelines, and I want you to hear them so. 1232 03:35:54.540 --> 03:36:03.600 WLWV School Board: Number one and again i'm not saying all of them, but all lessons instructional practices class activities and materials are required to be age appropriate. 1233 03:36:03.960 --> 03:36:11.910 WLWV School Board: Culturally inclusive and medically accurate and we heard from people who have a varying varying views tonight that that's important to people. 1234 03:36:12.300 --> 03:36:21.360 WLWV School Board: and teachers are told to provide information from approved materials without adding their values and beliefs you're asking students to share their values and beliefs. 1235 03:36:21.870 --> 03:36:26.310 WLWV School Board: Number three students are directed to discuss individual questions with their families. 1236 03:36:27.030 --> 03:36:36.870 WLWV School Board: Number four teachers are told to plan and teach sexuality education lessons, with an emphasis on all students feeling safe and comfortable with the learning activities. 1237 03:36:37.680 --> 03:36:45.270 WLWV School Board: Five teachers will remind students to talk with their families about their beliefs and values before and after each topic or lesson. 1238 03:36:45.750 --> 03:36:51.540 WLWV School Board: Number six teachers avoid discussions about personal experiences and opinions for sexuality topics. 1239 03:36:52.290 --> 03:36:58.110 WLWV School Board: And seven there were quite a few just kind of in the cat broad category of communications with families, I feel like. 1240 03:36:58.980 --> 03:37:03.180 WLWV School Board: it's become very clear and transfer, we want to be clear and transparent parents and that was. 1241 03:37:04.050 --> 03:37:12.030 WLWV School Board: That shown in the in the following guidelines that the curriculum used and comprehensive sexuality education plan will be posted on the district website. 1242 03:37:12.570 --> 03:37:17.070 WLWV School Board: All notifications about sexuality education will be translated into Spanish. 1243 03:37:17.520 --> 03:37:25.140 WLWV School Board: The full text and sets of materials used at primary middle and high school will be available for parents to view at each school and at the district office. 1244 03:37:25.590 --> 03:37:29.160 WLWV School Board: Parents can preview any videos to be shown at their child's school. 1245 03:37:29.880 --> 03:37:34.950 WLWV School Board: Parents a fourth and fifth graders will receive a letter at least a week in advance about the puberty lesson. 1246 03:37:35.340 --> 03:37:40.950 WLWV School Board: In middle school teachers will post the sexuality education topics and when they will be taught on their web pages. 1247 03:37:41.310 --> 03:37:47.820 WLWV School Board: Or the school web page and send families and notice at the beginning of the Semester about when topics will be taught. 1248 03:37:48.660 --> 03:38:02.760 WLWV School Board: And finally, under communication in middle school, there will be summaries of topics and lessons that include key activities on the school or teachers web page that goes right along with our district goal number three to operate an accessible and transparent matter. 1249 03:38:04.080 --> 03:38:07.440 WLWV School Board: So really appreciate all those okay let's go back we're on number eight. 1250 03:38:08.400 --> 03:38:20.220 WLWV School Board: Of what I appreciate about these guidelines, all families can opt out of specific topics or lessons and opting out does not affect the students grade Course Credit or class participation evaluation in any way. 1251 03:38:20.760 --> 03:38:26.190 WLWV School Board: Teachers are directed to group students and provide health lesson so students may be working on different tasks. 1252 03:38:26.490 --> 03:38:41.010 WLWV School Board: But are still part of the Community and do not feel excluded and I feel like that is something that just came from that task force, so that even when students opt out opting out doesn't mean you're out of the classroom it means you're still a part of the Community. 1253 03:38:42.300 --> 03:38:45.600 WLWV School Board: And so you still feel that part of it and you don't feel excluded. 1254 03:38:46.080 --> 03:38:56.880 WLWV School Board: And then finally opt out forms are available on the district website teachers web pages and will be included in teacher communications to families about when and what sexual education topics will be taught. 1255 03:38:57.330 --> 03:39:07.440 WLWV School Board: I feel really good about these guidelines, and we have a great start, and I really appreciate the wisdom and effort and the listening that was put into these guidelines. 1256 03:39:08.070 --> 03:39:19.860 WLWV School Board: And it's because of my agreement with the above guidelines that I don't support using curriculum materials from the three r's advocates for youth organization for our sixth through 12th grade sex ED curriculum. 1257 03:39:20.700 --> 03:39:35.670 WLWV School Board: So i'm supportive of our great Body Shop and, but I have concerns about what we've chosen for our middle and high school curriculum my concerns are as follows number one on the final page of there was a fifth grade curriculum. 1258 03:39:36.690 --> 03:39:47.670 WLWV School Board: In the Fifth grade curriculum packet that was presented at Monday night's Community meeting was a lesson that was titled quote finding credible medically accurate resources. 1259 03:39:48.390 --> 03:40:00.900 WLWV School Board: The lessons objective to fifth graders was to quote identify medically accurate and credible sources of information about puberty growth and development and sexual health and of quote. 1260 03:40:01.500 --> 03:40:12.900 WLWV School Board: In the lessons discussion of Internet sites, the teacher was instructed to explain the differences between domains, such as com.org.net and.gov.edu. 1261 03:40:13.410 --> 03:40:23.640 WLWV School Board: i'm going to read verbatim from what that lesson said quote some domains, such as com.org.net can be purchased and used by any individual business or organization. 1262 03:40:24.270 --> 03:40:33.630 WLWV School Board: However, the domain.edu is reserved for schools, colleges and universities and.gov for government websites these two domains will have credible resources. 1263 03:40:34.320 --> 03:40:46.560 WLWV School Board: Use some caution with the domain dot orc and again i'm reading verbatim from what this lesson was this is usually used by nonprofit organizations which may have an individual agenda, besides just education. 1264 03:40:47.310 --> 03:40:54.900 WLWV School Board: They may be promoting services are giving opinions that are not in line with you or your family's beliefs and of quote from that curriculum. 1265 03:40:55.980 --> 03:41:01.170 WLWV School Board: That lesson has now been removed from the fifth grade curriculum it's not there anymore I don't know why. 1266 03:41:02.190 --> 03:41:02.700 WLWV School Board: But. 1267 03:41:05.700 --> 03:41:14.970 WLWV School Board: i'm wondering, you know it's not controversial about teaching students, how to find credible resources, I didn't hear any parents to express any concerns. 1268 03:41:16.740 --> 03:41:35.130 WLWV School Board: But you know this lesson was removed, and I can understand that we can't caution our fifth grade students against using information from.org sites and then turn around and use curriculum for advert from advocates for u.org for the next six years of their health education. 1269 03:41:36.390 --> 03:41:46.860 WLWV School Board: Number two in the teachers guide to the three r's curriculum by advocates for you, there is a section titled values and assumptions, the first paragraph reads as follows. 1270 03:41:47.700 --> 03:41:57.390 WLWV School Board: Quote rather than attempting to be values free rights respect responsibility consciously embraces a set of values that are widely accepted in our society. 1271 03:41:57.990 --> 03:42:16.890 WLWV School Board: It is important for teachers and health professionals to be aware of the curriculums point of view, in order to be able to communicate its underlying values, not only to students but also to parents media current and potential funders and other interested individuals and quote. 1272 03:42:18.270 --> 03:42:27.900 WLWV School Board: The three r's curriculum says itself that it is not a neutral values free curriculum it instructs teachers to communicate the organization's values to students. 1273 03:42:28.530 --> 03:42:35.970 WLWV School Board: The sounds like indoctrination not education, our districts mission question which is on the wall behind me. 1274 03:42:36.750 --> 03:42:48.180 WLWV School Board: says, how do we create learning communities for the greatest thinkers and most thoughtful people for the world, I don't think we do this by using a curriculum that encourages teachers to tell students, how to think. 1275 03:42:49.530 --> 03:42:58.020 WLWV School Board: Number three public school curriculum should not come from advocacy or special interest groups approving such curriculum starts has down a slippery slope. 1276 03:42:58.620 --> 03:43:06.600 WLWV School Board: Regardless of what you believe most people do believe that or political party or whatever you're a part of most people believe that school board campaigns. 1277 03:43:07.110 --> 03:43:18.270 WLWV School Board: have already become too political more and more candidates are receiving funds from special interest groups if boards begin approving curriculum developed by special interest groups. 1278 03:43:18.750 --> 03:43:25.350 WLWV School Board: This will only fuel the fire and invite more special interest groups into the arena of school board elections. 1279 03:43:26.640 --> 03:43:35.370 WLWV School Board: Number four, there are many in our Community, who have expressed concern that the three r's curriculum from advocates for you, this is not age appropriate culturally inclusive nor medically accurate. 1280 03:43:36.030 --> 03:43:46.980 WLWV School Board: They have also expressed concern that not all students will feel safe and comfortable with the learning activities for these reasons I don't support the proposed curriculum from advocates for you. 1281 03:43:48.480 --> 03:43:58.650 WLWV School Board: As I read through the Community feedback from last monday's meeting one comment struck out in my mind quote, I just want all students to feel seen heard and safe. 1282 03:43:59.670 --> 03:44:01.230 WLWV School Board: That is my desire as well. 1283 03:44:03.030 --> 03:44:04.560 WLWV School Board: So i've spent hours. 1284 03:44:05.610 --> 03:44:11.160 WLWV School Board: of my last week texting, I mean sorry not texting emailing barb I don't texter. 1285 03:44:12.330 --> 03:44:13.890 WLWV School Board: confirm I haven't text you barb. 1286 03:44:14.910 --> 03:44:27.240 WLWV School Board: That would be inappropriate, but emailing bar poring over you know the feedback reading through the feedback two or three times reading through every single public comment, we got and. 1287 03:44:30.150 --> 03:44:39.330 WLWV School Board: it's my desire that everybody feels seen heard and safe since coming on the board almost three years ago ago my desire has been twofold. 1288 03:44:40.410 --> 03:44:47.910 WLWV School Board: That all students would feel welcome safe and valued in our schools and that I would serve as a bridge builder in my work on the board. 1289 03:44:49.170 --> 03:44:52.470 WLWV School Board: I know each one of you who still here. 1290 03:44:53.580 --> 03:45:06.540 WLWV School Board: And many of those who already left for reasons I completely understand and for those of you who are listening, you are here because we share a common goal right a common goal that we care about our kids. 1291 03:45:07.080 --> 03:45:12.180 WLWV School Board: And I appreciate the fact that that is a goal that can bring us together, thank you. 1292 03:45:14.370 --> 03:45:22.050 WLWV School Board: And, as I look around the room that's what I want to focus on, I want to focus on that common goal that we all share of caring about cats. 1293 03:45:23.580 --> 03:45:26.880 WLWV School Board: We certainly all have different opinions and that's a good thing. 1294 03:45:27.960 --> 03:45:35.670 WLWV School Board: In my experience on the school board I have learned to value the opinions, the knowledge and the personalities that each of my fellow board members. 1295 03:45:36.030 --> 03:45:46.800 WLWV School Board: From the passport that I served on and the current board I serve on bring to the board, I am grateful for the questions they ask the thoughts they share that I would never think of. 1296 03:45:48.750 --> 03:45:56.100 WLWV School Board: coming up with a set set curriculum that satisfies everyone in our Community is hard work and maybe it's impossible I don't know. 1297 03:45:56.670 --> 03:46:08.610 WLWV School Board: But what I do know is that it's easier if we start by all trying to build bridges toward one another and focusing on that common goal that we really are here because we all care about cats. 1298 03:46:15.720 --> 03:46:19.710 WLWV School Board: Right, looking around the table seeing if anybody else wants to speak. 1299 03:46:24.090 --> 03:46:27.240 WLWV School Board: Right, would you like to direct away, I just have. 1300 03:46:28.530 --> 03:46:30.960 WLWV School Board: A quick question for Dr Thompson and that's a great. 1301 03:46:32.100 --> 03:46:34.800 WLWV School Board: So I have to admit that. 1302 03:46:35.820 --> 03:46:38.610 WLWV School Board: It seems like maybe this is an assumption, but. 1303 03:46:40.140 --> 03:46:44.580 WLWV School Board: I heard tonight that there, there is a lot of concerns with advocates for you. 1304 03:46:45.180 --> 03:46:52.110 WLWV School Board: And then i've heard that some of my fellow board members, perhaps received communications or feedback. 1305 03:46:52.500 --> 03:47:03.270 WLWV School Board: With with concern from families about advocates for us and I just want to state that that is not something that I had heard before tonight, and so I appreciate you going through and sharing some of that information. 1306 03:47:03.900 --> 03:47:13.890 WLWV School Board: And I can respect a concern with you know the origin of where some of these supplementary lessons are coming from from this organization. 1307 03:47:15.330 --> 03:47:26.820 WLWV School Board: And so I think I think my question is twofold, and so the first part would be you know beyond you know what you've shared and then hearing some of the things we heard tonight about this being an activist organization. 1308 03:47:27.420 --> 03:47:32.490 WLWV School Board: Like where does that information come from and then second part would be. 1309 03:47:34.230 --> 03:47:47.160 WLWV School Board: Is the concern more with the origin of the lessons and not the 10 supplemental lessons themselves or are the 10 supplemental lessons also a concern because. 1310 03:47:47.700 --> 03:47:57.480 WLWV School Board: I respect this organization this board enough that if option two is a best choice for us because we're worried about advocates for youth. 1311 03:47:58.680 --> 03:48:04.770 WLWV School Board: I am very comfortable moving ahead with option to assuming that these 10 lessons. 1312 03:48:05.250 --> 03:48:19.410 WLWV School Board: are what we want to proceed with but under the authorship potentially have an organization that we all feel comfortable with so sorry I was kind of a long question that's okay you're going to have to confirm so basically the two parts are. 1313 03:48:20.460 --> 03:48:27.900 WLWV School Board: More information about the concern with advocates for you and then are we comfortable with the 10 supplementals that. 1314 03:48:28.680 --> 03:48:36.780 WLWV School Board: advocates for youth put together, because we know, in principle, we want to have an inclusive curriculum that these 10 supplemental lessons include. 1315 03:48:37.020 --> 03:48:44.760 WLWV School Board: And i'll just throw it out there for the four of you, I mean I don't know if anyone else had more correspondence about advocates for youth, this is just this was new information for me. 1316 03:48:45.540 --> 03:48:59.010 WLWV School Board: And my son my statement came from my own research and my own looking you know I did attend Monday night's meeting and I heard you know I had people have varying kind of beliefs and thoughts and ideas. 1317 03:48:59.820 --> 03:49:14.040 WLWV School Board: But my statement just came from my own digging in doing research looking into things so it wasn't so much a it wasn't you know, a sway from I didn't have people yeah wasn't so much that does that make sense. 1318 03:49:15.360 --> 03:49:21.990 WLWV School Board: It does okay and and the only reason I wondered was because I had heard some of it from the audience tonight I wasn't sure if there was something. 1319 03:49:22.590 --> 03:49:30.990 WLWV School Board: Because I mean you know we saw that with Dr swanson sent us with the the biographies of the authors, and I mean that was it was tremendously impressive. 1320 03:49:31.410 --> 03:49:40.980 WLWV School Board: And so I just was wondering if there was something out there, that I hadn't seen so I appreciate that, so I just spent a lot of time on their website and looking at things and. 1321 03:49:41.400 --> 03:49:50.970 WLWV School Board: yeah so that's where that but so then my second question would be again like I respect that research, I respect if, as a group, maybe we have a concern with this group. 1322 03:49:51.420 --> 03:50:01.920 WLWV School Board: But are we okay with including these 10 lessons understanding boundaries everybody's got body parts one and two gender roles gender expectations protecting your health. 1323 03:50:02.220 --> 03:50:07.860 WLWV School Board: understanding and preventing STDs in grades six through eight and then grades nine through 12. 1324 03:50:08.400 --> 03:50:24.210 WLWV School Board: of whether you're managing STDs understanding, gender, we all have rights using condoms effectively my boundaries I would I would trust completely the abilities of our staff of our public health department to put together some changes to the supplemental curriculum. 1325 03:50:25.410 --> 03:50:29.490 WLWV School Board: Assuming that we are have the understanding that the supplemental lessons. 1326 03:50:30.090 --> 03:50:42.930 WLWV School Board: are what we need to create the inclusive curriculum that I think we heard tonight that we all want, and I would say what I haven't done is taken it, you know, my concern is just with I don't think this we don't get our information from an advocacy group. 1327 03:50:44.040 --> 03:50:45.300 WLWV School Board: A special interest group. 1328 03:50:46.980 --> 03:50:53.700 WLWV School Board: So that hasn't that been I haven't gone to that next step of you know, then that would be the point of okay. 1329 03:50:54.480 --> 03:51:13.320 WLWV School Board: How do we redirect the staff and maybe that means we redirect them to reengage another task force that would then start creating those units composed of again Community Members who are interested in staff and that sort of stuff creating those units and then bringing them back. 1330 03:51:14.730 --> 03:51:23.040 WLWV School Board: To the board, but something that I feel is more neutral in town versus an advocacy group that that that's really where my concern comes from. 1331 03:51:24.210 --> 03:51:31.800 WLWV School Board: And you know, there was one other thing and I didn't highlight it, but one of the things in the guidelines talks about you know cautioning teachers and saying. 1332 03:51:32.520 --> 03:51:44.550 WLWV School Board: You know, saying that the Westland will single school district doesn't we don't endorse these websites and please don't go back to these websites to get information asking the teachers, not to do that, and so my concern is. 1333 03:51:46.290 --> 03:51:54.960 WLWV School Board: Does that not raise concern that if we're telling teachers hey we don't want you to go back to that website and just pick up information and we are also are endorsing it. 1334 03:51:55.410 --> 03:52:03.720 WLWV School Board: To me, that just says, maybe this is not the right curriculum, the best curriculum because I want to feel good about the place that our curriculum comes from, I want to feel like. 1335 03:52:04.020 --> 03:52:15.990 WLWV School Board: hey if teachers want to go on that website and see what else they can find we all feel good about that and the district backs that so okay very good decide all your question okay what pages, did you get that those. 1336 03:52:17.610 --> 03:52:22.500 WLWV School Board: That list that you read read off, so I can see it too it's in the medical mmm great alright thanks. 1337 03:52:23.670 --> 03:52:37.320 WLWV School Board: Okay well i'm just gonna jump in here and offer my perspective, when I went through this process in 2019 and I read a lot of the Oregon healthy teen survey and also attended student panels here. 1338 03:52:38.910 --> 03:52:54.870 WLWV School Board: As well as you know, read the curriculum and did very similar thing this time around, there we didn't have a chance to do student panels, we heard student voices here tonight, but I did revisit the Oregon healthy teen survey, it is a source of data that folks can. 1339 03:52:56.220 --> 03:53:03.900 WLWV School Board: Look at speaker tonight said something about like where did the standards come from, why are we doing this and the truth is that. 1340 03:53:04.500 --> 03:53:12.210 WLWV School Board: there's quite a bit of data out there on student self report and a unanimous or anonymous self report. 1341 03:53:13.050 --> 03:53:23.850 WLWV School Board: So I fully unequivocally support our students learning about their reproductive health system learning about gender identity. 1342 03:53:24.210 --> 03:53:31.170 WLWV School Board: learning about consent and boundaries, I think this is very important, I support the legislation that backs the standards. 1343 03:53:31.860 --> 03:53:42.000 WLWV School Board: i've read the data and i've listened to the lived experience of our students and I take them seriously when they tell their story, so I support our students getting this education. 1344 03:53:43.980 --> 03:53:55.290 WLWV School Board: speaker said something about planned parenthood and just for what it's worth I mean I did access planned parenthood, to provide health care when I was a young person working and paying my way through college. 1345 03:53:56.370 --> 03:54:00.810 WLWV School Board: It was the only access to health care that I had so I just sometimes when I hear things being said and. 1346 03:54:01.260 --> 03:54:12.150 WLWV School Board: During public comment I think it's worth just adding that it doesn't really have much to do with what we're talking about here, but i've just felt like you know from my own experience to just speak to that. 1347 03:54:13.230 --> 03:54:27.030 WLWV School Board: i'm heterosexual i'm SIS gender i've received I don't know how many billions of messages, since the day I was born and that my gender identity and my sexual orientation is normal. 1348 03:54:27.390 --> 03:54:35.130 WLWV School Board: And so we get a lot of those messages throughout you know the entire span of our life so when I look at this curriculum. 1349 03:54:35.730 --> 03:54:43.260 WLWV School Board: What i'm seeing is our young people, learning about their reproductive health systems, and I think that that's important as part of their body they need to learn about it. 1350 03:54:44.070 --> 03:54:51.330 WLWV School Board: I see people learning about consent and boundaries and really thankful for that I wish I had had that education from a young age. 1351 03:54:51.810 --> 03:55:01.860 WLWV School Board: I see that we're teaching about gender roles and gender expectations, you know I remember learning about the social construction of gender back in the year 2000. 1352 03:55:02.280 --> 03:55:09.750 WLWV School Board: And the first time I learned about the fact that gender was a social construction, I remember thinking what I don't even get that. 1353 03:55:10.440 --> 03:55:30.600 WLWV School Board: But over the past, you know 2022 years I do get it, and I think a lot of our young people do as well, so just there's a lot of things in our culture that change over time our understandings about different aspects of identity do change over time and gender is was one of those. 1354 03:55:32.310 --> 03:55:41.430 WLWV School Board: So I support our kids learning about gender identity, and you know the difference between gender identity and biological sex. 1355 03:55:42.630 --> 03:55:57.930 WLWV School Board: So if it's not clear, I support the standards, I support the lessons I think it's important it's not just my opinion there's a lot of data that says it's important so and you can look at the Oregon health team survey if you'd like to pour into that data. 1356 03:55:59.160 --> 03:56:04.230 WLWV School Board: I think it's great parents can opt their kids out, and I support the transparency with that. 1357 03:56:05.010 --> 03:56:19.650 WLWV School Board: I just don't want an entire population of people to be opted out of their lived experience and to be opted out of the narrative and our public institution preemptively. 1358 03:56:20.550 --> 03:56:30.150 WLWV School Board: I would rather that folks opt out of an individual lesson than we opt out an entire group of people, and so I support those standards staying. 1359 03:56:31.560 --> 03:56:38.820 WLWV School Board: One of the things also that I really appreciate and I said this at the beginning of the night is that public forum that we had where we all sat down and talked about it. 1360 03:56:39.750 --> 03:56:48.510 WLWV School Board: it's better than Facebook it's important, and this curriculum will help our students do that, and if we know nothing else. 1361 03:56:49.170 --> 03:56:54.120 WLWV School Board: Then I think we can know this, we got to figure out a way to talk about these things. 1362 03:56:54.390 --> 03:57:03.390 WLWV School Board: In a way, that like honors and respects difference and to really you know see each other and hear each other, even if it's hard and even if it, you know hurts our heart. 1363 03:57:03.630 --> 03:57:18.090 WLWV School Board: So if we're teaching our kids how to do that in the classroom by teaching this curriculum, then I support that and I hope that parents do it at home to you know they find out that they're doing in the classroom and you know you we we do it at home also. 1364 03:57:21.600 --> 03:57:33.750 WLWV School Board: yeah I think that those are the biggest thing, so the final thing i'll say is that I don't know how many of you have kids to have these I tried to keep them out of the hands of my kids for as long as possible, but they have them. 1365 03:57:34.230 --> 03:57:42.030 WLWV School Board: And either they have them in your home or they have them in their friend's home and if they have access to the Internet they're already getting all this information. 1366 03:57:42.270 --> 03:57:54.960 WLWV School Board: Unless you've got some serious firewalls going on and like no no kids going to other kids houses, so the fact that you know we're talking about this in our classroom I think is important because kids are getting it one way or another. 1367 03:57:55.920 --> 03:58:02.970 WLWV School Board: So keep you know teaching it in my opinion, keeping really transparent, I hear parents, you want to be involved, you want to know. 1368 03:58:03.270 --> 03:58:12.840 WLWV School Board: You want to be able to opt out like yes, I fully support that so you know being as transparent as possible, so folks can have these conversations at home or opt out of the lesson. 1369 03:58:13.890 --> 03:58:17.400 WLWV School Board: Is you know I hear you saying that you'll do that and so. 1370 03:58:18.420 --> 03:58:29.250 WLWV School Board: I also respect the process that has gone into creating this plan, so I feel very comfortable with the plan that's where I stand and. 1371 03:58:30.660 --> 03:58:31.620 WLWV School Board: Now it's clear. 1372 03:58:41.340 --> 03:58:48.210 WLWV School Board: Sure, so in situations, you know where where things seem Gray and it's not black and white. 1373 03:58:49.290 --> 03:58:57.840 WLWV School Board: My preference will always be casting the widest and most inclusive net that we can, and I think after hearing tonight. 1374 03:58:58.350 --> 03:59:04.260 WLWV School Board: And, have you know sitting in this room and hearing stories from our kids and from our families. 1375 03:59:05.040 --> 03:59:11.730 WLWV School Board: I think it's important to just be the strongest advocate we can be for all of our kids who need us to listen and you just to be supportive. 1376 03:59:12.390 --> 03:59:19.890 WLWV School Board: And I think a word we don't talk about that often when it comes to public policy is really thinking about love and unconditional love. 1377 03:59:20.400 --> 03:59:39.720 WLWV School Board: and acceptance and hope, and so, for me, thinking about a curriculum adoption thinking about ensuring that we have lessons included that are hopeful and that are inclusive for our kids, I am very supportive of this curriculum and its adoption. 1378 03:59:40.860 --> 03:59:55.980 WLWV School Board: I think, as long as we're as inclusive as we can be we won't be failing our kids we won't be hearing stories that we heard tonight that frankly brought me to tears to think about kids hurting themselves and feeling unwelcome in our schools. 1379 03:59:57.060 --> 04:00:03.780 WLWV School Board: You know, we don't have an option tonight to not do anything we really do need to adopt a curriculum that meets the standards. 1380 04:00:04.170 --> 04:00:16.830 WLWV School Board: Our teachers need it desperately we don't want to send them into summer and into a new school year where they're having to cobble together, something that may be works it's not fair to them it's not fair to our students and our families. 1381 04:00:17.910 --> 04:00:27.810 WLWV School Board: And I think to you know we're often encouraged to listen to parents and I feel like the very creation of a task force by having a public hearing by having tonight. 1382 04:00:28.290 --> 04:00:36.300 WLWV School Board: You know we've we are listening to parents and we're you know committing to continue to listen to them with an ongoing task force and feedback. 1383 04:00:37.050 --> 04:00:47.250 WLWV School Board: And so, for me, you know, listening to families and that's exactly what I think we're doing and I also just want to call out and comment on the opt out process and how. 1384 04:00:48.120 --> 04:00:53.250 WLWV School Board: transparent and clear, that is, at this point, and thank you for the refinements that you made. 1385 04:00:54.150 --> 04:01:01.170 WLWV School Board: I felt like it was so compelling hearing about students that may be felt they would be left out if their parents opted out. 1386 04:01:01.770 --> 04:01:07.590 WLWV School Board: and learning and seeing how those students would still be included in the classroom and not feel left behind. 1387 04:01:07.950 --> 04:01:15.210 WLWV School Board: I think, is really important, and again it goes back to if we cast the most inclusive net, we can, if we include the most. 1388 04:01:15.900 --> 04:01:22.200 WLWV School Board: stories and lived experiences and if parents still choose to opt out that student won't feel left behind. 1389 04:01:22.860 --> 04:01:36.150 WLWV School Board: And again, I just believe that these guidelines in the curriculum are up to date they're developmentally appropriate and they reflect information that's based on science, as I mentioned before, I would be open. 1390 04:01:37.140 --> 04:01:47.430 WLWV School Board: If the majority of this board wanted to ask for staff to develop the supplemental lessons internally, but only if. 1391 04:01:47.880 --> 04:01:57.810 WLWV School Board: We can say that, yes, we are going to cover all of these critical areas related to boundaries gender roles and expectations managing STDs. 1392 04:01:58.680 --> 04:02:15.180 WLWV School Board: All of these lessons that we have here that are so important to add to the curriculum that we already have and if we're able to make that commitment again to cast that inclusive that I would be comfortable with that, however, as it stands right now, no prior to that discussion. 1393 04:02:16.440 --> 04:02:21.270 WLWV School Board: At this point I would love to see us pursue option one approving the plan with the curriculum was submitted. 1394 04:02:22.710 --> 04:02:27.630 WLWV School Board: Because I really think that at this point, time is of the essence and why would we. 1395 04:02:28.050 --> 04:02:34.770 WLWV School Board: go through the effort to develop a separate curriculum if you feel really good about the inclusion that we're seeing in here. 1396 04:02:35.160 --> 04:02:44.010 WLWV School Board: But i'll just kind of keep that out there as an option, I respect the sport I love working with all of you so that's the direction we want to head that's great, but again. 1397 04:02:45.180 --> 04:02:55.380 WLWV School Board: I just want us to be as inclusive as possible and to remember those messages of love and of hope that we heard today, and how important that is to have that built into the curriculum that we adopt. 1398 04:02:57.060 --> 04:03:09.090 WLWV School Board: All right, thank you, I board it's getting close to 1030 so happy to hear, if you have something you want to else you want to contribute, or we can get emotion on the table. 1399 04:03:13.470 --> 04:03:17.370 WLWV School Board: Care from director Lewis and director slip that they have something. 1400 04:03:18.720 --> 04:03:19.230 WLWV School Board: All right. 1401 04:03:22.620 --> 04:03:41.130 WLWV School Board: So um, I just wanted to say that the focus is on health and safety for all of our students and they need to be feel included accepted valued and know that they are special. 1402 04:03:42.870 --> 04:03:52.110 WLWV School Board: The lessons that are teaching to the standards and that not as mentioned, not every performance indicator needs to be covered or met. 1403 04:03:55.980 --> 04:04:02.160 WLWV School Board: I appreciate everyone's effort, whether you are a parent at the meeting or on the task force. 1404 04:04:03.210 --> 04:04:10.770 WLWV School Board: A teacher district staff bb soy son, who has answered everybody's questions and emails and Dr Ludwig. 1405 04:04:12.060 --> 04:04:18.780 WLWV School Board: I feel honored to be a part of a board where the district and board just values Community input. 1406 04:04:20.640 --> 04:04:30.930 WLWV School Board: As farmer chair fish said in December of 18 she stated that Westland Wilson bill would not use an ad of advocacy or a special interest group for curriculum. 1407 04:04:31.650 --> 04:04:45.180 WLWV School Board: And we do need to be consistent in that decision advocacy for youth isn't advocacy group they have a pack, they have a donation button they even have a list of campaigns and. 1408 04:04:46.290 --> 04:05:03.870 WLWV School Board: It is not a curriculum, it is a website it's a political activism website, and that is why I have issues with accepting that or six through 12 great body chart for K through five, I do not have a problem with at all. 1409 04:05:05.940 --> 04:05:15.450 WLWV School Board: I do, like the idea of having less than Wilson ville create their own curriculum that would meet the standards that would be in place for the. 1410 04:05:16.050 --> 04:05:28.230 WLWV School Board: pockets, that we had that we looked at from the task force that we could gear that is just specific for our district to select some other districts, have done. 1411 04:05:29.370 --> 04:05:34.710 WLWV School Board: Because I do want all students to feel included. 1412 04:05:36.780 --> 04:05:41.010 WLWV School Board: advocacy for your advocates for youth is not. 1413 04:05:42.930 --> 04:05:54.030 WLWV School Board: That solution if you have looked on the website, you will see that that's what they want the youth to do it is not about the curriculum. 1414 04:05:54.810 --> 04:06:05.070 WLWV School Board: They want you to sign up and then they say, I made the mistake, I made the mistake of signing up, and now I try and unsubscribe and I just get emails. 1415 04:06:05.610 --> 04:06:16.740 WLWV School Board: Every single day several times a day they have warnings, if you want to watch your videos please remove your safety filters okay that's a red flag to me. 1416 04:06:18.870 --> 04:06:26.610 WLWV School Board: there's also activism there's abortion on there there's defunding the police. 1417 04:06:27.660 --> 04:06:42.450 WLWV School Board: And again, they have all these different campaigns that you can follow, and I feel that, for the teachers, you know, yes, they can get on to that, even if we say this is the approved curriculum, they can still get on to that the kids see that that is what. 1418 04:06:43.620 --> 04:07:01.410 WLWV School Board: Our district is using they can get on to that and I feel if we have an approved curriculum that the district is made, then that is what is available for our district, and it will meet the standards, it will be inclusive, but it will be specific for our students. 1419 04:07:04.470 --> 04:07:06.060 WLWV School Board: Sorry, I lost my place. 1420 04:07:11.250 --> 04:07:12.600 WLWV School Board: And, as I said, i'm not. 1421 04:07:13.950 --> 04:07:29.640 WLWV School Board: i'm not opposed to making sure that what we are presenting it makes everything safe for those students, especially the students that feel oppressed that they don't feel heard, we do want that message to come across. 1422 04:07:31.260 --> 04:07:43.980 WLWV School Board: So I do propose or i'm in support of approving the K through five but creating a separate curriculum through the district our teachers are very well qualified, we can. 1423 04:07:44.790 --> 04:07:53.610 WLWV School Board: As Dr Lewis said, we have enough access through some county health professionals, that can help develop a curriculum for just six through 12. 1424 04:07:57.180 --> 04:08:01.620 WLWV School Board: Okay, very good and do you want to add to the conversation, should we get emotion on the table. 1425 04:08:02.760 --> 04:08:04.110 WLWV School Board: Okay yeah. 1426 04:08:06.330 --> 04:08:17.460 WLWV School Board: I guess for me i've always been a believer that i'm hard on the issue and soft on the person and, for me, if we look back to the work that the previous board did. 1427 04:08:18.090 --> 04:08:26.610 WLWV School Board: And they made some promises to these people, and I think those promises we have to honor, and so I made promises to these people when I ran also that. 1428 04:08:27.060 --> 04:08:37.920 WLWV School Board: That I will be transparent, that I will be inclusive, I mean hell i'm a black man in this room, and so, inclusive, it is really important to me and i'm not a fan of kicking things down the road. 1429 04:08:39.600 --> 04:08:53.130 WLWV School Board: Because i've seen what kicking history down the road has done to my people, and I know how we suffer today because people don't want to hear things the way that they really are and so, is it. 1430 04:08:54.150 --> 04:09:06.330 WLWV School Board: Are we, at where we're at right now, because we got to a why in the road and no one was brave enough to make a decision to protect these people that sat in the front and told you that they're on the verge of committing suicide. 1431 04:09:07.590 --> 04:09:16.080 WLWV School Board: Are they at that place because we didn't educate the kids that are seniors right now, when they were fifth graders I don't know that. 1432 04:09:17.280 --> 04:09:23.580 WLWV School Board: They could be if we had educated those children back there about this very topic that we're talking about. 1433 04:09:24.180 --> 04:09:34.650 WLWV School Board: With 25 less kids taking their lives, I don't know right that's the ambiguity in trying to figure out when you get to the y on the road, what is the outcome, going to be from a decision that you make. 1434 04:09:35.070 --> 04:09:41.220 WLWV School Board: In the future, so I struggle with that and i've spoken to some of the people in this room about my internal struggles. 1435 04:09:42.270 --> 04:09:43.530 WLWV School Board: With this topic. 1436 04:09:45.540 --> 04:09:55.290 WLWV School Board: And so I do believe we should teach to the standards we committed to that State said, we have to do that, and as a board, we have to do that now how we go about doing that. 1437 04:09:55.860 --> 04:09:58.200 WLWV School Board: I think there's a way that we can honor our Community. 1438 04:09:59.040 --> 04:10:11.280 WLWV School Board: We can stay true to to our promises that we made not to use advocacy groups teach to the standard and I understand that it's unfortunate that we've gone down a rabbit hole that has taken us to a point where. 1439 04:10:11.670 --> 04:10:26.790 WLWV School Board: We have a curriculum that is being presented, because there was nothing else, possibly right, I also know that unfair to Dr Ludwig Dr boyce and the teachers in the Community, that we had a pandemic that meant that no work was done on it. 1440 04:10:28.140 --> 04:10:30.480 WLWV School Board: So this was supposed to be two years of work. 1441 04:10:31.650 --> 04:10:43.140 WLWV School Board: With parents staff everybody giving input that got shoved into three weeks with three parents and 24 staff members let's just say, maybe my numbers are off a little bit. 1442 04:10:43.830 --> 04:10:52.770 WLWV School Board: And so you we've now had this long gap and we've had about three hours collective work between our parents and community. 1443 04:10:53.310 --> 04:11:00.930 WLWV School Board: And a bunch of our staff it just doesn't seem I mean just optics it doesn't look good, and so I think the process. 1444 04:11:01.680 --> 04:11:17.550 WLWV School Board: was thrown off because of a pandemic, I wish that the state of Oregon would have said hey, by the way, I know we have this two year rule but we're going to extend that to give people time to kind of catch up with this whole thing, and maybe the information would have been different right. 1445 04:11:19.110 --> 04:11:30.750 WLWV School Board: So I guess you know my thing is i'm looking to build a bridge for our Community, and if we approve something that one puts us in conflict with a promise that we've already made that builds more distrust. 1446 04:11:31.530 --> 04:11:40.950 WLWV School Board: We already have enough problems I don't need an advocacy group to create more problems for me, I can create my own problems, so you know I got that going for me. 1447 04:11:43.560 --> 04:11:55.530 WLWV School Board: I didn't have a problem with a lot of the content that was in here, but I did have a problem, after hearing from our community that this group is a problem. 1448 04:11:56.520 --> 04:12:02.340 WLWV School Board: And the advocacy group is really a big wedge between this whole thing, and I think at the bottom of that page that's something different. 1449 04:12:02.940 --> 04:12:09.960 WLWV School Board: We wouldn't be sitting here, having this conversation, and I think that the little pieces of the curriculum that I don't agree with can be tweaked. 1450 04:12:10.740 --> 04:12:19.680 WLWV School Board: Or that they don't agree with could be tweaked and we could come to a sense of okay great I don't like I don't think it's necessary to tell a little boy. 1451 04:12:20.130 --> 04:12:35.550 WLWV School Board: You know you got to get an erection before you put a condom on I think every little boy knows that right, especially when you're a junior in high school, so I mean I think some of that stuff can be maybe watered down a little bit I mean some of its just you do know okay. 1452 04:12:37.440 --> 04:12:45.180 WLWV School Board: However, for me, as it stands, and as the promises that were made by the previous board for no advocacy groups. 1453 04:12:46.290 --> 04:12:54.960 WLWV School Board: i'm all about inclusive it i'm all about protecting these kids in fact my previous boards experience with the university system, we only serve the kid I prefer that. 1454 04:12:56.100 --> 04:13:02.400 WLWV School Board: Because when we have to serve the kid and we have the master as a parent, then it gets all over the place, because. 1455 04:13:02.820 --> 04:13:08.490 WLWV School Board: Parents want what they want, for their kids Our job is to give them not just what they want, but also what they need. 1456 04:13:09.090 --> 04:13:21.240 WLWV School Board: And kids need to be respectful of people that identifying different ways, people need kids need to be respectful of people that don't look like them and what is obviously happening is that it's not happening in the home. 1457 04:13:22.320 --> 04:13:24.690 WLWV School Board: Or else we wouldn't hear these stories of people being bullied. 1458 04:13:25.830 --> 04:13:32.430 WLWV School Board: Right, so we think that Westland will still go is so great, this is why we live here, we got problems. 1459 04:13:33.270 --> 04:13:38.550 WLWV School Board: We got a lot of problems we got kids and can't go to the bathroom because middle schools have kids or baby. 1460 04:13:38.970 --> 04:13:45.270 WLWV School Board: We got kids at the high school can't go to the bathroom because high school kids are invading we got a bunch of problems. 1461 04:13:45.870 --> 04:13:59.670 WLWV School Board: And so, when our Community wakes up and says hey you're a little girl who's making tick tock videos because you go well i'm a Christian church you don't know everything that your child is doing right, so we have to find a way to give the. 1462 04:14:00.780 --> 04:14:14.520 WLWV School Board: Teachers the district a platform to teach what needs to be taught because it needs to be done, but also trying on our communities wants I just think we messed up when we chose Oregon youth. 1463 04:14:16.170 --> 04:14:23.850 WLWV School Board: Are ya so because of where the information is coming from, and because of the. 1464 04:14:24.930 --> 04:14:27.120 WLWV School Board: All of the issues we've heard with their site. 1465 04:14:28.470 --> 04:14:30.510 WLWV School Board: i'm not on board with approving it. 1466 04:14:31.920 --> 04:14:38.670 WLWV School Board: But the material coming from that organization, but i'm on board with everything that says, we need to teach to the standard. 1467 04:14:38.970 --> 04:14:48.750 WLWV School Board: i'm on board with honoring our promises that we've made past board and current board and i'm on board with with honoring what I told the Community I would do, which was provider inclusive platform. 1468 04:14:49.110 --> 04:14:52.200 WLWV School Board: try to make sure that everybody has a place where they feel safe at school. 1469 04:14:52.680 --> 04:15:07.350 WLWV School Board: and being transparent and including our Community and something there's a solution out there, it might take us a little bit of time and i'm okay with doing it right once that's what i'm okay with so i'm a no on this based off of. 1470 04:15:08.730 --> 04:15:09.630 WLWV School Board: What I just said. 1471 04:15:12.480 --> 04:15:18.720 WLWV School Board: All right, thank you and your no one option one i'm hearing you say i'ma know on anything that has. 1472 04:15:20.250 --> 04:15:24.000 WLWV School Board: The Advocate is why i'm a no on anything that hasn't been so. 1473 04:15:26.160 --> 04:15:34.200 WLWV School Board: helpful to get them because we've we've talked about it, for I think about an hour so maybe we need to get emotion on the table so that yeah when. 1474 04:15:35.430 --> 04:15:36.150 WLWV School Board: We speak. 1475 04:15:38.850 --> 04:15:41.040 WLWV School Board: yeah to describe I think it's worth Thank you. 1476 04:15:43.560 --> 04:15:48.960 WLWV School Board: Thank you you're welcome I haven't spoken in a while I didn't realize that I should probably drink something for speak. 1477 04:15:51.330 --> 04:15:54.960 WLWV School Board: So I think, as we look at option two, and it was kind of. 1478 04:15:57.150 --> 04:16:05.370 WLWV School Board: I think what I hear folks saying is that there is perhaps consensus from this group around the K five great Body Shop. 1479 04:16:05.880 --> 04:16:12.990 WLWV School Board: But that the advocacy even in the title of advocacy for youth and some of where the leanings are. 1480 04:16:13.590 --> 04:16:31.500 WLWV School Board: give pause, especially as Director Taylor mentioned to that promise around advocacy groups and vice chair Thompson to your comments to when you talked earlier around the nature of the breadth of the website versus just a few specific things in option to. 1481 04:16:32.700 --> 04:16:41.700 WLWV School Board: What staff would be able to do is to create is to take the 10 lessons five middle school and five from high school. 1482 04:16:42.720 --> 04:16:43.950 WLWV School Board: And then work with. 1483 04:16:45.180 --> 04:16:57.360 WLWV School Board: A curriculum developer, that we would bring in work with public health officials in clackamas county public health, so we have nurses and doctors, because we do here, medical accuracy is important. 1484 04:16:57.870 --> 04:17:09.630 WLWV School Board: work with our professionals our health, teachers, our staff and develop lessons that we believe can meet the standards meet those 10 lessons that you were talking about director Wyatt. 1485 04:17:10.260 --> 04:17:17.550 WLWV School Board: But wouldn't come from advocacy for youth, but we would create that we're we're skilled at developing curriculum we do it all the time. 1486 04:17:18.210 --> 04:17:25.650 WLWV School Board: The summer camps that Dr boyce and mentioned are all about that we're social studies teacher science teachers language arts teachers get together. 1487 04:17:26.040 --> 04:17:33.240 WLWV School Board: Look at a standard and topic and develop units and lessons that is our professional we're very skilled at doing that. 1488 04:17:33.810 --> 04:17:42.360 WLWV School Board: And if that's the direction the board with like is to charge the staff to develop these 10 lessons that fit these 10 topics. 1489 04:17:42.900 --> 04:17:53.910 WLWV School Board: We can do that, and we can bring in also the outside expertise around public health officials from clackamas county public health and a curriculum developer to do that work in the summer. 1490 04:17:54.420 --> 04:18:00.090 WLWV School Board: and have those lessons ready to go and they wouldn't come from advocacy for youth, but they come from. 1491 04:18:01.230 --> 04:18:11.160 WLWV School Board: district developed curriculum, we would still keep the textbooks for six to 12 we would still keep great Body Shop for K five we're just talking about. 1492 04:18:11.730 --> 04:18:22.230 WLWV School Board: Those five lessons in middle school and the five lessons in high school being developed by our staff in conjunction with other health experts. 1493 04:18:22.980 --> 04:18:28.110 WLWV School Board: Can I ask a question would parents be involved in that I thought at one point I had heard that. 1494 04:18:28.470 --> 04:18:41.580 WLWV School Board: that there would be parents involved like there would be it was somewhat of a task for I think the next role within when there was developed to take them back to the task force, just like took the original curriculum and say here now, the 10 lessons. 1495 04:18:41.880 --> 04:18:55.590 WLWV School Board: Give us feedback does it meet the guidelines, does it meet the standards and we've tried to take the best of what we heard and develop our 10 lessons and then using that task force to be that feedback. 1496 04:18:56.130 --> 04:19:05.160 WLWV School Board: And would there be opportunities for you know we've seen a Community parents with lots of different opinions and views for people, maybe, who came tonight. 1497 04:19:05.640 --> 04:19:13.860 WLWV School Board: who are interested to possibly expand that task force now that and give new parents, an opportunity to be a part of that. 1498 04:19:14.370 --> 04:19:18.960 WLWV School Board: Since you're kind of at a new place would that be something that would be I think what we're. 1499 04:19:19.650 --> 04:19:32.340 WLWV School Board: What we'd like to do is we're at the tail end of this two year revision as Director Taylor mentioned it did get interrupted by the pandemic, but that group of folks did a lot of good work before the pandemic they've done some good work after. 1500 04:19:32.550 --> 04:19:42.570 WLWV School Board: it'd be nice for them to finish the work that we're not directing them to do, then we go into the next two years of review and that's where I hear Dr Susan say then we just start a whole new. 1501 04:19:42.960 --> 04:19:48.120 WLWV School Board: Task Force, but I think, to start with midstream is not what we're looking at here we'd like to finish. 1502 04:19:49.380 --> 04:19:59.400 WLWV School Board: This review with this current Task Force, so there will still be the same parents that were on this task force will still be involved in the process to finish this process. 1503 04:19:59.670 --> 04:20:07.050 WLWV School Board: We get it in front of the teachers, we get the training and then we start the next two years review and we will develop a new task force. 1504 04:20:07.500 --> 04:20:23.760 WLWV School Board: Who will be on board for those two years what would be a realistic timeline for you, knowing that you already all have a heavy workload and I apologize for creating being a part of creating more work for you. 1505 04:20:25.320 --> 04:20:33.900 WLWV School Board: But what type of realistic timeline would that create for you, knowing that you kind of have the the guts of it right. 1506 04:20:34.950 --> 04:20:38.940 WLWV School Board: You have the meat is just trying to figure out how much fat you put on it right. 1507 04:20:41.490 --> 04:20:50.670 WLWV School Board: How much time would that take you well, I think if you're going in option to to approve at least the K five with great Body Shop and we can get. 1508 04:20:51.060 --> 04:21:05.640 WLWV School Board: That professional development going right away, and what we're just be looking at with 612 are those lessons that we could even maybe I don't know if we could even start this spring, but definitely we could finish it by the summer, we can have two lessons ready, can you put your microphone. 1509 04:21:10.200 --> 04:21:16.890 WLWV School Board: Yes, we can have the lessons ready to go in in the fall, we will start with you know working. 1510 04:21:18.630 --> 04:21:28.890 WLWV School Board: getting people together now, and I think, because there is a skeleton with what the topics are and we've actually before we even embarked on this, we have been. 1511 04:21:29.880 --> 04:21:39.030 WLWV School Board: collaborating and consulting with WHO Dr Ludwig is is talking about is a curriculum expert in this area, just so we've been knowledgeable enough. 1512 04:21:39.510 --> 04:21:46.680 WLWV School Board: To even make the selections we brought forward so far so having camps, we usually have in a subject area. 1513 04:21:47.130 --> 04:21:54.720 WLWV School Board: You know we'll have a variety of teachers and they'll come up with five units for middle level five units for high school so. 1514 04:21:55.290 --> 04:22:03.390 WLWV School Board: We can do that, we do you know you do you do paid work in the summer to get that done and then you have to then start work with. 1515 04:22:03.960 --> 04:22:16.110 WLWV School Board: rolling it out and you're not going to teach all 10 lessons all at once, because I think what we've also talked about is the professional learning to know how to use them well, but we would have them ready for the call. 1516 04:22:17.190 --> 04:22:30.540 WLWV School Board: Once they're created would there be another opportunity for the Community to do kind of like what you did that other night we did last Monday night for the Community to take a look at them and get feedback on those units that were created. 1517 04:22:32.370 --> 04:22:38.940 WLWV School Board: Well, as Dr Ludwig said, we do want the the current task force to look at them and. 1518 04:22:39.570 --> 04:22:50.940 WLWV School Board: Yes, I just I want to make sure that if we do something where we're doing the work this summer and we're planning to have it for the fall to realistically get feedback on lessons and say we're going to use it, we don't want to. 1519 04:22:51.120 --> 04:23:00.660 WLWV School Board: Not share them that to actually have input into shaping them, you know i'm not sure that the role of the Community would be into designing the lessons that we can. 1520 04:23:01.440 --> 04:23:10.680 WLWV School Board: You know, certainly share and get feedback I that's where I get a little worried about timeline if we say we're going to do it in the summer and then we're sharing them with the task forces one thing. 1521 04:23:11.850 --> 04:23:17.280 WLWV School Board: Sharing them with the Community is fine, but saying we're going to actually take in and use feedback I just. 1522 04:23:17.760 --> 04:23:22.500 WLWV School Board: don't want to be disingenuous about that and then change them it's out I would be worried about. 1523 04:23:23.220 --> 04:23:33.450 WLWV School Board: Totally appreciate that, but I think about all of the changes that we made as a result of the Community feedback we got last Monday, and I think we made a lot of really good changes, especially to our guidelines. 1524 04:23:33.900 --> 04:23:44.400 WLWV School Board: And so I just wouldn't want to not to miss out on that opportunity for our community to once again give that give you good feedback and possibly help us improve a curriculum. 1525 04:23:45.420 --> 04:23:47.910 WLWV School Board: So one option is that. 1526 04:23:49.080 --> 04:23:51.810 WLWV School Board: We get emotion for Option two. 1527 04:23:53.550 --> 04:23:56.910 WLWV School Board: And that that motion will approve this. 1528 04:23:58.080 --> 04:24:04.050 WLWV School Board: Well, I don't need to say the motion i'll say it if I need to after i'm done saying this this point that I want to make, and that is that. 1529 04:24:05.160 --> 04:24:22.650 WLWV School Board: I think that it's worth extending trust to our administrators and our educators to we're charging them to develop curriculum after a second really robust public input process about curriculum they've listened to what parents want and don't want. 1530 04:24:22.950 --> 04:24:32.820 WLWV School Board: Can we extend some trust for them to write a curriculum that applies the feedback that they've got about other curriculum, so we and run it by the task force it's been in place. 1531 04:24:33.240 --> 04:24:43.230 WLWV School Board: get their feedback, so we can go forward and have something to begin teaching within the fall, knowing that again this whole process will happen again in two years. 1532 04:24:43.530 --> 04:24:51.360 WLWV School Board: So that's what I would help us if we move forward with option to that we extend the trust that they'll work with the task force they'll apply the feedback. 1533 04:24:51.660 --> 04:24:57.930 WLWV School Board: And that we don't need to like do another process that's going to mean like teachers are starting to fall, without a curriculum in place. 1534 04:24:59.640 --> 04:25:00.270 WLWV School Board: So. 1535 04:25:02.910 --> 04:25:10.320 WLWV School Board: It would be great to move this conversation ahead, we still have half of the agenda to go So are we to feel ready. 1536 04:25:11.760 --> 04:25:12.900 WLWV School Board: So I can make a mess. 1537 04:25:14.220 --> 04:25:14.940 WLWV School Board: We. 1538 04:25:16.290 --> 04:25:22.530 WLWV School Board: approve the revised guidelines correct is that part of what we're proving tonight as well. 1539 04:25:23.880 --> 04:25:27.030 WLWV School Board: Is the revised they don't have guys. 1540 04:25:29.700 --> 04:25:44.520 WLWV School Board: That were proving the guidelines for the the revised guidelines for the sexuality education curriculum and instruction and we're proving the K through five great Body Shop curriculum. 1541 04:25:46.380 --> 04:25:48.030 WLWV School Board: And then we're tasking. 1542 04:25:50.070 --> 04:25:51.330 WLWV School Board: Go ahead and give me the words. 1543 04:25:53.160 --> 04:26:01.170 WLWV School Board: Directing staff yeah to make changes on to the supplementary curriculum, thank you, would you like to yeah. 1544 04:26:02.490 --> 04:26:02.820 WLWV School Board: yeah. 1545 04:26:04.650 --> 04:26:10.950 WLWV School Board: Okay, that was a joint effort and we work with emotional tie both direct Roi and Thompson yeah so. 1546 04:26:12.300 --> 04:26:23.610 WLWV School Board: I think that we probably need a repeat just a really clear what we're directing stuff to do so, whether it be director Wyatt who says that or Dr Thompson one of you restate that very clearly. 1547 04:26:25.980 --> 04:26:30.330 WLWV School Board: So we I mentioned that we approve the revised guidelines. 1548 04:26:31.620 --> 04:26:40.650 WLWV School Board: And the K through five curriculum, the great Body Shop I think it's the revised guidelines it's getting me i'm not sure what you mean because they guideline stay in place. 1549 04:26:41.370 --> 04:26:51.060 WLWV School Board: yeah so it's it's not the guidelines that are revised what i'm understanding is that we're just asking the advocates for us curriculum to be removed and for the staff to develop our. 1550 04:26:51.510 --> 04:27:03.300 WLWV School Board: own curriculum to meet those standards that they're trying to meet in the six through, eight and nine through 12 okay guidelines, I had to apart, I thought we had to approve the guidelines. 1551 04:27:04.080 --> 04:27:13.680 WLWV School Board: yeah because the plan the guideline to synthesize all the like transparency and opting out and all the things will start we're not revising the guidebook okay go ahead because. 1552 04:27:15.240 --> 04:27:17.010 WLWV School Board: I still want to say, the guidelines, because i'll. 1553 04:27:18.720 --> 04:27:26.490 WLWV School Board: lose that we approved the plan and direct we approve the plan, including the curriculum great Body Shop for grades K through five. 1554 04:27:27.030 --> 04:27:40.560 WLWV School Board: And then we also provide direction to staff to make changes to the supplementary curriculum for grades six through 12 to represent the supplemental lessons included in the proposed plan. 1555 04:27:42.000 --> 04:27:43.110 WLWV School Board: And then, in addition. 1556 04:27:44.490 --> 04:27:46.830 WLWV School Board: That we will use the curriculum and partner with families. 1557 04:27:48.750 --> 04:28:05.220 WLWV School Board: Okay, and to be clear with that motion what you're saying is to remove the use of advocates for us as a curriculum and to charge the staff with developing our own in house curriculum to meet the standards that are in the plan comprehensive sexuality education plan. 1558 04:28:06.570 --> 04:28:17.640 WLWV School Board: And I think that's important because you're not charging us to go find another organization you're asking us to develop the 10 lessons that fulfill those 10 standards. 1559 04:28:18.300 --> 04:28:20.040 WLWV School Board: So I say another time. 1560 04:28:20.550 --> 04:28:31.650 WLWV School Board: Okay yeah no, I think I think you got, I just wanted to make sure we still get advice curriculum that what we're actually saying is to remove a curriculum yes and develop our own curriculum in partnership with educators. 1561 04:28:31.950 --> 04:28:43.920 WLWV School Board: and public health authorities to meet those standards and that the same task force will be used as hasn't been used throughout this whole process up to this point and then new tech new task force when we do this again in two years. 1562 04:28:45.930 --> 04:28:49.170 WLWV School Board: Okay, so director, why it has the motion do we have a second. 1563 04:28:51.240 --> 04:28:54.450 WLWV School Board: All seconds all right any further discussion. 1564 04:28:59.670 --> 04:29:06.660 WLWV School Board: I just want clarification on as you go forward with doing the curriculum. 1565 04:29:07.920 --> 04:29:15.900 WLWV School Board: kind of just explain a little bit about the process and how you'll do it and and the lessons that you will put together. 1566 04:29:19.020 --> 04:29:34.350 WLWV School Board: So what we're hearing is that we will take those topics that meet the standards because the only those five lessons at each level came from gaps, so we will develop. 1567 04:29:35.610 --> 04:29:36.660 WLWV School Board: own lessons. 1568 04:29:38.100 --> 04:29:42.540 WLWV School Board: On those in those areas, and you know the. 1569 04:29:44.580 --> 04:29:44.880 WLWV School Board: excuse. 1570 04:29:47.970 --> 04:29:56.730 WLWV School Board: me, I will this we've been doing so good so we're not going to start taking stuff from that the audience right now, so those lessons that are there, represent. 1571 04:29:57.120 --> 04:30:09.390 WLWV School Board: Standards and and performance indicators that are part of the standards, so what we will do is look at the topics that Oh, we need one around. 1572 04:30:11.280 --> 04:30:21.780 WLWV School Board: Rights we need one and responsibilities, which is actually we're not going to use the same titles, but we will look at addressing and what we actually did. 1573 04:30:21.990 --> 04:30:36.870 WLWV School Board: Is we wrote in the standards and performance indicators on each one so that's what we will look at that's that's what I heard you saying director wide actually I heard each of you saying, have a version of that topics is a safe word to use. 1574 04:30:37.980 --> 04:30:42.480 WLWV School Board: And we will take and develop those and start doing Ludwig said with. 1575 04:30:43.830 --> 04:30:56.490 WLWV School Board: Public Health input because that's the one piece with sexuality education that you know when we're doing math we have we bring in people who have a math background and so that's what we will be doing. 1576 04:30:57.300 --> 04:31:10.980 WLWV School Board: And we will be looking at that, with regard to the kinds of classroom experiences and activities and that's I think what we've heard you say director Thompson that we've agreed to in the guidelines. 1577 04:31:13.980 --> 04:31:28.020 WLWV School Board: i'm hearing that it'll be a team of folks who are developing Korea will take middle level, you know middle level team to do those middle level lessons and we will have a high school team to do the others to do the high school lessons. 1578 04:31:29.130 --> 04:31:36.660 WLWV School Board: And you know if it ends up being four lessons instead of five we don't have to just make an exact lesson and we might do some combining. 1579 04:31:38.790 --> 04:31:42.720 WLWV School Board: Okay, it looks like so well that people are going to want our curriculum. 1580 04:31:45.330 --> 04:31:56.190 WLWV School Board: Well, and actually we there are others in the state who are working with this, so we have stayed in contact and work collaboratively with others, so this is something that will will resume. 1581 04:31:57.360 --> 04:31:59.130 WLWV School Board: I think that's what we're hearing correct. 1582 04:32:00.900 --> 04:32:06.390 WLWV School Board: That and then the tab is a force to be involved, the current Task Force in. 1583 04:32:07.260 --> 04:32:16.860 WLWV School Board: Looking at those and then we actually started, right after 2019 we don't want to wait to a right before it's time to bring another plan to put a task force together. 1584 04:32:17.250 --> 04:32:29.370 WLWV School Board: But we had started that knowing that we didn't even have a K five curriculum and that's what we'll do then with with a new group so that those who are interested in may not have had an opportunity can can join. 1585 04:32:34.830 --> 04:32:36.780 WLWV School Board: All right, do we feel ready to take a vote. 1586 04:32:38.040 --> 04:32:40.830 WLWV School Board: Does anybody need anything else before they feel ready to take about. 1587 04:32:43.380 --> 04:32:55.680 WLWV School Board: Now you're ready all right looks like director kayla is ready take about all right, you ready to take a vote okay miss Douglas with you please call the vote Kelly sloop. 1588 04:32:57.660 --> 04:33:09.510 WLWV School Board: I Taylor JESSICA King I christy Thompson going to vote no, and the reason is just because I still don't have complete clarity with where it might go so. 1589 04:33:10.560 --> 04:33:12.690 WLWV School Board: justin why Thank you. 1590 04:33:17.910 --> 04:33:21.180 WLWV School Board: Alright, thank you, everybody who stuck around and. 1591 04:33:22.650 --> 04:33:28.740 WLWV School Board: lasted through the whole conversation to hear all the details, thank you to staff for putting this all together. 1592 04:33:29.580 --> 04:33:45.390 WLWV School Board: we're pushing 11 o'clock and we still have a few more items to go through so i'm just going to probably one take a break, but before even doing that I just want to check in with folks around. 1593 04:33:46.110 --> 04:33:55.230 WLWV School Board: I know we have the budget message, and we had members of the Budget Committee who are present or word President. 1594 04:33:57.900 --> 04:34:01.500 WLWV School Board: How are we with any flexibility with any of this stuff on the agenda. 1595 04:34:02.640 --> 04:34:14.280 WLWV School Board: So, must do eat, we need to give the budget message, because it's part of the timeline and there's some statutes around how that's delivered yeah um, but we can go quickly uh huh and. 1596 04:34:15.090 --> 04:34:22.290 WLWV School Board: I think in that break, we can set up the chairs and get people up here and then we gavel out the regular meeting bring them in. 1597 04:34:22.710 --> 04:34:33.210 WLWV School Board: There might be a couple folks zooming in so the right oh we've got to do the Budget Committee, I am going to take a break before we do that, though, so we don't need to lay out the whole prior to take a bio break so. 1598 04:34:35.910 --> 04:34:39.540 WLWV School Board: curtis is letting us know a couple people left because it got too late yeah they went to sleep. 1599 04:34:41.040 --> 04:34:48.630 WLWV School Board: So, but it sounds like we need to work with it, so we what else so it's flexible on the agenda we're going to can move the policy to June. 1600 04:34:49.440 --> 04:34:51.960 WLWV School Board: Is bricks can we move the policy to June. 1601 04:34:52.650 --> 04:35:03.420 WLWV School Board: yeah OK, so the last item that's on the agenda will go ahead and move to June and the declaration of the three long range planning committee members actually very quick easy yeah okay so we'll do the. 1602 04:35:03.960 --> 04:35:14.490 WLWV School Board: The budget message and the election of the officers for the Budget Committee so they can do their work and then we'll do that long as you have a quorum of your Budget Committee so Members have not able to attend anymore, but you have. 1603 04:35:15.330 --> 04:35:20.370 WLWV School Board: A hot one there we go we've done okay great now got a majority okay. 1604 04:35:21.360 --> 04:35:33.510 WLWV School Board: Thank you, oh good I didn't yeah moved over there all right, thank you to the Budget Committee members who stuck around we're going to take a five minute break and reconvene promptly at 11 and mini Office here with the third I didn't see you behind. 1605 04:35:39.420 --> 04:35:41.430 WLWV School Board: Great i'm calling the meeting back to order. 1606 04:35:43.980 --> 04:35:48.540 WLWV School Board: And the next item on our agenda is to. 1607 04:35:50.730 --> 04:35:55.020 WLWV School Board: Do the budget message and. 1608 04:35:56.100 --> 04:35:57.000 WLWV School Board: I think that. 1609 04:35:59.190 --> 04:36:10.320 WLWV School Board: We will start by following the budget this separate agenda now, at this point, since we're moving into that topic, and we will do the roll call of the Budget Committee members, and then we elect. 1610 04:36:10.590 --> 04:36:15.960 WLWV School Board: Budget Committee officers and then the Budget Committee officers will lead the meeting during the. 1611 04:36:17.340 --> 04:36:25.110 WLWV School Board: yeah okay so miss Douglas will you please when you're ready called role for the Budget Committee members. 1612 04:36:26.310 --> 04:36:31.500 WLWV School Board: Certainly ginger Fitch yeah many. 1613 04:36:33.660 --> 04:36:36.570 WLWV School Board: halina job here, thank you. 1614 04:36:38.970 --> 04:36:40.650 WLWV School Board: Do we have anybody coming in remotely. 1615 04:36:41.970 --> 04:36:43.470 WLWV School Board: Okay i'm sorry Kelly sloop. 1616 04:36:48.630 --> 04:36:50.340 WLWV School Board: Here, Miss Taylor. 1617 04:36:52.290 --> 04:36:57.690 WLWV School Board: Just came here Christie Thompson here kitchen way there, thank you. 1618 04:36:58.920 --> 04:37:00.300 WLWV School Board: All right, very good. 1619 04:37:01.320 --> 04:37:09.840 WLWV School Board: The first thing we will do is to elect the Budget Committee Chair and we'll do that first and then second will do the vice chair. 1620 04:37:11.100 --> 04:37:15.360 WLWV School Board: So for the election of Budget Committee Chair. 1621 04:37:16.680 --> 04:37:21.360 WLWV School Board: Will entertain motions and nominations your financial be me to it. 1622 04:37:23.010 --> 04:37:23.790 WLWV School Board: A second. 1623 04:37:26.220 --> 04:37:36.990 WLWV School Board: Okay i'm and i'm going ginger Fitch Thank you so much for being here and I know you've served on the board and a lot of different capacities and so please take this nomination as. 1624 04:37:37.590 --> 04:37:45.750 WLWV School Board: A gesture toward welcoming new you know, new and other forms of leadership and so i'm going to nominate many Agha. 1625 04:37:52.230 --> 04:37:53.580 WLWV School Board: Okay, so we have. 1626 04:37:55.380 --> 04:38:01.110 WLWV School Board: You know, we could vote on the first motion, but our would you like to decline the nomination, or would you like me to vote okay. 1627 04:38:02.130 --> 04:38:09.000 WLWV School Board: Alright, so thank you for that, and so we have emotion for many Agha do we have any other emotions. 1628 04:38:10.020 --> 04:38:15.900 WLWV School Board: Okay, if not we can call the vote anybody not in agreement, say no. 1629 04:38:17.820 --> 04:38:34.320 WLWV School Board: Thank you okay great and then i'll pass the gavel to i'm sure our God now and then you can run the election for the vice chair just a similar way by entertaining emotion for a vice chair and then calling the vote. 1630 04:38:43.080 --> 04:38:45.000 WLWV School Board: So we need the board members. 1631 04:38:46.740 --> 04:38:53.070 WLWV School Board: to share their microphone so you have to take it off your ears and pass it to you know we actually need in the microphone. 1632 04:38:54.180 --> 04:39:06.390 WLWV School Board: it's for its for people viewing at home to speak into the you don't need to put on your ear just into the the earlier, I, like the motion to nominate the vice, Chair of for the Budget Committee. 1633 04:39:08.190 --> 04:39:10.830 WLWV School Board: ELENA did I say your name correctly i'm always worried. 1634 04:39:12.870 --> 04:39:13.680 WLWV School Board: All second. 1635 04:39:17.310 --> 04:39:26.100 WLWV School Board: And then you can call the boat oh i'd like to call a water nominating Holiness the vice chair to the Budget Committee anyone not an agreement, please say no. 1636 04:39:27.510 --> 04:39:28.140 WLWV School Board: Thank you. 1637 04:39:29.940 --> 04:39:30.750 WLWV School Board: Okay, great. 1638 04:39:31.920 --> 04:39:35.580 WLWV School Board: Now you do the tough day I stopped you just do this. 1639 04:39:41.400 --> 04:39:48.900 WLWV School Board: So next on the agenda chair Agha is for you to ask the superintendent to present their message. 1640 04:39:51.600 --> 04:39:54.960 WLWV School Board: So can the superintendent please present Her message to the board. 1641 04:39:56.040 --> 04:40:05.550 WLWV School Board: i'd be honored to do that I know it's been a long evening and I just want to direct everyone has their blue binder. 1642 04:40:06.570 --> 04:40:07.920 WLWV School Board: All committee members. 1643 04:40:09.750 --> 04:40:13.110 WLWV School Board: it's in your bag, if you don't have it in front of you. 1644 04:40:14.490 --> 04:40:14.790 WLWV School Board: Okay. 1645 04:40:16.350 --> 04:40:25.350 WLWV School Board: So what you have in front of you in these blue binders is the proposed budget for 2022 2023. 1646 04:40:26.040 --> 04:40:40.740 WLWV School Board: When you get these home you'll have lots of opportunity to thumb through it read through it will give you some homework, when you leave tonight, but if you get to the tab that says executive summary. 1647 04:40:41.790 --> 04:40:51.120 WLWV School Board: And you flip a few pages, I think it's about three you'll see the superintendent's budget it's also above the screen for those who are at home viewing. 1648 04:40:53.190 --> 04:41:11.880 WLWV School Board: And typically on another night I would read every single word of this budget, but tonight, I will read some select portions and you can follow along and the parts that i'll skip I am trusting that you will read at home. 1649 04:41:13.290 --> 04:41:19.590 WLWV School Board: And it's very self explanatory, but I do want to read some of the components of the superintendent's budget message. 1650 04:41:22.440 --> 04:41:38.550 WLWV School Board: Dear Westland Wilson bill school district Budget Committee members and Community I respectfully submit the Western Wilson bill school district proposed budget for 2022 2023 in accordance with RS 294 point 391. 1651 04:41:39.750 --> 04:41:59.190 WLWV School Board: The proposed general fund budget of 130 $3,018,549 accounts for a balanced budget that aligns with the school board and school district goals these goals are identified prioritized and articulated to maximize student learning. 1652 04:42:01.110 --> 04:42:10.530 WLWV School Board: The Western Wilson will school district 2022 23 budget proposal is based on a $9.299 billion state school fund biennium. 1653 04:42:12.930 --> 04:42:23.790 WLWV School Board: Is an increase from the past biennium of 9 billion, it does not adequately accommodate roll up costs to maintain current programs and personnel. 1654 04:42:24.330 --> 04:42:37.470 WLWV School Board: And it is well below what is needed to adjust for payroll increases increases in insurance costs increases in materials and utility costs and the national rise inflation. 1655 04:42:39.030 --> 04:42:50.400 WLWV School Board: And the next sections are about how public school budgets sources and that's the part i'm just going to let you read on your own about how we receive money for the state school fund. 1656 04:42:50.820 --> 04:43:02.730 WLWV School Board: Special revenue in turn in forms of federal and state grants the high school success grant the student success act student investment account grant the local option levy. 1657 04:43:04.050 --> 04:43:05.850 WLWV School Board: And on the next page. 1658 04:43:06.960 --> 04:43:13.380 WLWV School Board: You also can read on your own about how, when the board oh in the district assembles a school budget. 1659 04:43:14.010 --> 04:43:29.820 WLWV School Board: The district maintains a theory of action that investing in diverse and challenging learning opportunities for our students leads us to achieve our goals, and then we have enumerated some key investment strategies that we have identified and you'll be able to read those on your own. 1660 04:43:31.980 --> 04:43:34.830 WLWV School Board: How do we measure the outcomes of our investments. 1661 04:43:36.300 --> 04:43:46.080 WLWV School Board: From our compelling board mission, the question emerges around district goals and a district work plan that identifies and outlines action strategies and measurable outcomes. 1662 04:43:46.500 --> 04:43:58.470 WLWV School Board: to align and allocate resources towards meeting these goals we measure the outcomes of our investments by collecting analyzing and utilizing a broad range of evidence. 1663 04:43:59.250 --> 04:44:12.570 WLWV School Board: And you'll be able to read on your own, you can see the bullet points of areas that we look at such as graduation rates dropout rates regular attendees and other measures to measure our investments. 1664 04:44:14.190 --> 04:44:19.950 WLWV School Board: And now i'm in the middle of page 1.6 in developing a balanced budget for the. 1665 04:44:21.780 --> 04:44:25.710 WLWV School Board: school year we have made the following working assumptions. 1666 04:44:26.730 --> 04:44:29.400 WLWV School Board: revenue for 2022 to 2023. 1667 04:44:30.510 --> 04:44:34.620 WLWV School Board: A state revenue of 9.299 billion for the biennium. 1668 04:44:36.300 --> 04:44:39.780 WLWV School Board: Last year 49% of the biennium allocation was in. 1669 04:44:42.360 --> 04:44:49.950 WLWV School Board: So now we are in the second half of the biennium with 51% in 2022 23. 1670 04:44:51.450 --> 04:45:07.260 WLWV School Board: Our ATM or average daily attendance projected at approximately 9121 students and this ADN that's weighted would be projected at approximately 10,373 students. 1671 04:45:08.820 --> 04:45:13.050 WLWV School Board: The utilization of regional ESP funds appropriated to the district. 1672 04:45:14.130 --> 04:45:21.540 WLWV School Board: The carryover of approximately 16,000,750 1600 and $29 of our. 1673 04:45:23.370 --> 04:45:24.630 WLWV School Board: Ending fund balance. 1674 04:45:25.740 --> 04:45:34.350 WLWV School Board: A projected local option revenue of $10 million 890,000 $257. 1675 04:45:35.460 --> 04:45:48.240 WLWV School Board: High School success grant of 2.5 million student investment account grant of 7.2 million and the addition of an educator recruitment and retention grant of 1.13 million. 1676 04:45:50.250 --> 04:46:01.080 WLWV School Board: And then, are working assumptions for expenditures increased personnel costs to honor negotiated contracts include increases in cost of living and health insurance. 1677 04:46:01.800 --> 04:46:13.170 WLWV School Board: increased costs in pace insurance increased cost for utilities transportation materials supplies and purchase services for all buildings and adjusting for expansion across the district. 1678 04:46:16.710 --> 04:46:32.400 WLWV School Board: Some challenges with the current state funding level of 9.299 billion, as mentioned before 9.299 billion from the state does not adequately fund the roll up costs of the current operation and staffing from the 2021 2022 school year into the. 1679 04:46:34.260 --> 04:46:44.340 WLWV School Board: school year it absolutely does not provide enough funding to offset tastes insurance increases transportation increases and payroll benefit increases for the school district. 1680 04:46:46.470 --> 04:46:58.320 WLWV School Board: We are committed to maintaining a school year and targeted support for students, the district will continue to support a full academic school year and full academic schedules with targeted support for extended learning time. 1681 04:46:58.890 --> 04:47:05.100 WLWV School Board: The district will sustain the strategies of targeted support for students, for whom we have identified opportunity and achievement gaps. 1682 04:47:07.590 --> 04:47:09.810 WLWV School Board: So, based on what I shared with you. 1683 04:47:10.980 --> 04:47:14.160 WLWV School Board: We have a reduction plan that we proposed if needed. 1684 04:47:15.360 --> 04:47:22.740 WLWV School Board: While the district has estimated a budget that reflects current enrollment numbers an estimate of payroll costs with cola factored in. 1685 04:47:23.370 --> 04:47:35.070 WLWV School Board: It is possible that either of these two significant streams of revenue or expense could be less or more than estimated based on enrollment and payable factors. 1686 04:47:36.150 --> 04:47:46.440 WLWV School Board: If the district realizes impacts in either of these areas that negatively affect the budget, the following reductions may be made not necessarily but could be. 1687 04:47:47.730 --> 04:47:52.950 WLWV School Board: And these are some of the areas under personnel reduction of licensed staff. 1688 04:47:54.030 --> 04:47:58.440 WLWV School Board: A reduction of classified staff reduction of administrative staff. 1689 04:47:59.460 --> 04:48:12.240 WLWV School Board: We would look to reduce school budgets and reduce district office operation budgets, and you can see the estimated amounts there and what the savings would be if need be, so that is factored in. 1690 04:48:13.890 --> 04:48:17.010 WLWV School Board: And then, lastly, do want to recognize our Community. 1691 04:48:18.000 --> 04:48:27.720 WLWV School Board: The leadership of our school board members, we appreciate your volunteer service, especially on nights like tonight it's very clear your commitment and your dedication to this Community. 1692 04:48:28.650 --> 04:48:33.120 WLWV School Board: Countless hours meeting with patrons and attending school and district events, while leading the district. 1693 04:48:33.450 --> 04:48:44.400 WLWV School Board: We appreciate your belief and support in the professional expertise and commitment to students by our staff and administrators, we appreciate your courageous advocacy for the inclusion of all children. 1694 04:48:44.820 --> 04:48:58.530 WLWV School Board: In a general education learning experience, while speaking out on issues of race, equity and sustainable funding for public education we appreciate your priority and persistence and advocating for adequate and stable school funding. 1695 04:48:59.640 --> 04:49:06.450 WLWV School Board: And I wish to recognize our Budget Committee and all who participated in this budget development process by sending us your feedback. 1696 04:49:06.960 --> 04:49:16.770 WLWV School Board: And you'll notice in the binder in the very back under the tab that says informational section you'll see the results of the survey of the Community, and you can look at that when you're at home as well. 1697 04:49:19.290 --> 04:49:28.620 WLWV School Board: We want to thank parents patrons and staff for providing us feedback on the budget process the interest support and advocacy of our community towards our school district is deeply evident. 1698 04:49:29.400 --> 04:49:36.240 WLWV School Board: The strong investment of parent volunteers and Community partnerships in our students is a hallmark across Wilson bill and Westland. 1699 04:49:37.290 --> 04:49:44.040 WLWV School Board: I wish to recognize the excellence of our teachers and staff in our schools, who bring their best professional selves to work on a daily basis. 1700 04:49:44.610 --> 04:49:57.240 WLWV School Board: Our teachers and staff seek out professional learning that addresses race and equity reform research based best practices and high leverage instructional strategies that move the dial in eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps. 1701 04:49:58.140 --> 04:50:05.910 WLWV School Board: And lastly, I wish to recognize and thank our communities generosity in supporting local option levies and capital construction bonds over the years. 1702 04:50:06.510 --> 04:50:10.800 WLWV School Board: Our local option levy helps us currently fund approximately 80 teachers. 1703 04:50:11.340 --> 04:50:21.210 WLWV School Board: And our most recent capital bond in 2019 allows us to build a new primary school and middle school remodel and existing school to open our new riverside high school. 1704 04:50:21.570 --> 04:50:27.060 WLWV School Board: and add a new auditorium to Wilson build high school expand the stadium and parking at Westland high school. 1705 04:50:27.390 --> 04:50:41.580 WLWV School Board: upgrades safety, security and technology at all schools and attend to district wide improvements, these are significant contributions, and we would not be able to provide the level of service and learning to students, without the support. 1706 04:50:43.050 --> 04:50:53.100 WLWV School Board: So, in closing this budget budget message is presented with appreciation to state legislators who passed the high school success grant and the SI K grant. 1707 04:50:53.670 --> 04:51:04.740 WLWV School Board: That provide targeted resources for essential programs, a new funding resource to the educator recruitment and retention grant and the second allocation of funding for summer academic programs. 1708 04:51:05.610 --> 04:51:15.450 WLWV School Board: However, there remains fiscal conservatism this year with our school budget as we continue to operate at high levels within an inadequate state school fund allocation. 1709 04:51:16.260 --> 04:51:31.530 WLWV School Board: I hold a spirit of optimism that our state and elected representatives will recognize the increases in CPI and cola nationally and statewide impact school districts and should therefore prioritize and appropriated increase to the. 1710 04:51:34.110 --> 04:51:37.470 WLWV School Board: By any and budget that reflects this reality. 1711 04:51:38.550 --> 04:51:48.480 WLWV School Board: As a last word, I am proud and humbled to serve the West, and most of the school district, and to bring forward a budget that supports the mission and goals of this school district, as we lead forward. 1712 04:51:49.560 --> 04:51:51.900 WLWV School Board: respectfully Kathy ludwick superintendent. 1713 04:51:55.980 --> 04:51:56.670 WLWV School Board: And now we'll. 1714 04:51:57.780 --> 04:52:12.000 WLWV School Board: turn it over to our CFO Dr suddenly Hughes, who just has a couple of items about some changes you'll see in the budget, as you do your homework and then directions for. 1715 04:52:13.350 --> 04:52:24.240 WLWV School Board: leading up to the work session yeah good evening and I will try to be shocked, too, so you have the PowerPoint with you that you can review that. 1716 04:52:24.660 --> 04:52:36.450 WLWV School Board: On your own time and if you would like to schedule a time with me, I would love to walk it through in detail with you, but this is one page that capture. 1717 04:52:37.170 --> 04:52:56.400 WLWV School Board: Most of their changing in the future for fiscal year 2223 compared to the prior year so on the left hand column, you will see four items that you do, but just under 200 plus or up a new one or into. 1718 04:52:58.350 --> 04:53:06.540 WLWV School Board: Yes, it on the left hand side at for item but practice in under revenue so revenue on 200. 1719 04:53:07.710 --> 04:53:22.080 WLWV School Board: From 2021 22 and prior but going forward 22 and 23 some of this fun will move into channel on pan and some of the fund will move to the capital. 1720 04:53:22.650 --> 04:53:41.610 WLWV School Board: For assemble number one leader school musical and primary school trying that used to be in fun to 32 in special revenue going into 2223 will put that into general on fun. 1721 04:53:42.960 --> 04:53:53.790 WLWV School Board: The primary school trying will go under function one 120 and the new sets of middle school will go under function one one to do. 1722 04:53:55.560 --> 04:54:03.420 WLWV School Board: This April tire it used to be budgeted and recorded under fund to 91 special revenue. 1723 04:54:05.190 --> 04:54:09.900 WLWV School Board: Next year, we will move it under function one to two one. 1724 04:54:12.060 --> 04:54:30.420 WLWV School Board: Number to a l'enfant to 94 that's voice, but check and record it under special revenue and put a recommendation up the auditor will will move that to one 470 under capital project for land. 1725 04:54:31.440 --> 04:54:38.220 WLWV School Board: Last but not least, we have Community services that purchase it under fun to 98. 1726 04:54:39.270 --> 04:54:48.240 WLWV School Board: go into 2223 will bring it into general fund and budget that under function to a to a one year old. 1727 04:54:50.610 --> 04:55:12.090 WLWV School Board: We have several news item function 360 that is a new program for family empowerment Center is new, this year, so we did not have a real function for that program but now that program is well established so we're going to have a home for that in a bathtub book. 1728 04:55:14.070 --> 04:55:31.980 WLWV School Board: function 1272 has been close this money had been setting aside under general fund to support tiger one but going forward or title one is funded through special revenue from 200. 1729 04:55:32.820 --> 04:55:50.790 WLWV School Board: In fun 700 we say the Trust Fund, we used to have massing scholarship and superintendent scholarship they to fund will be moved to dispersal revenue and where will you'll find to 11 for that. 1730 04:55:52.170 --> 04:56:07.710 WLWV School Board: Last but not least, we had an attorney to education, after and technology high school, this was budgeted in the general fund, but now they're screwing up and close so that function will be. 1731 04:56:09.030 --> 04:56:10.050 WLWV School Board: In activated. 1732 04:56:11.250 --> 04:56:16.260 WLWV School Board: So that's a couple of housekeeping just you know so when you look at a budget book. 1733 04:56:16.620 --> 04:56:32.640 WLWV School Board: You you see what going on, I tried to put a lot of detail information on the description, so you will see, on top of a function, you will see the description and as they move it to general fund or move it today, and here, and the reason why. 1734 04:56:33.060 --> 04:56:38.820 WLWV School Board: And if you if the reason is not clear enough to you please feel free to reach out to me. 1735 04:56:39.480 --> 04:56:51.690 WLWV School Board: So that the timeline for us is this eight of us making that we make to get there to receive the budget message from the superintendent to receive the budget acumen. 1736 04:56:52.350 --> 04:57:02.400 WLWV School Board: fund the business office our second meeting will be on may 16 at five o'clock so you will have from now until May 12. 1737 04:57:03.210 --> 04:57:21.750 WLWV School Board: To send a question to me, and then we will respond to, we will gather the facts and to get there and and reply, but when I reply, I will send it out to all of you, so you can read the question and an answer, because sometimes we have similar question to save time that way. 1738 04:57:23.730 --> 04:57:34.320 WLWV School Board: So you can have questions, can I ask a quick question this the slide up here so is all of this information in here, so when we look it'll say. 1739 04:57:34.740 --> 04:57:45.240 WLWV School Board: It shows the changes that were made it does yes perfect it's not in this format, so I can get there would be helpful for us to send you a copy of this slide. 1740 04:57:45.630 --> 04:57:53.280 WLWV School Board: As long as it's noted within where we find it just so as we're comparing year to year that's so helpful to know okay why. 1741 04:57:53.490 --> 04:58:05.850 WLWV School Board: This increase or why this to increase so that's as long as it's noted in here that i'm good I just predicted that these would likely be the most common noticing by all 10 of you, and to just upfront that you know. 1742 04:58:06.870 --> 04:58:11.070 WLWV School Board: That these 10 changes had been made, and then after that or eight. 1743 04:58:12.210 --> 04:58:21.570 WLWV School Board: Then, after that you'll find different things that you'll have questions about likely, so let me give you a quick assemble so under Section three a general fun. 1744 04:58:22.950 --> 04:58:26.490 WLWV School Board: And you look at page 3.1 euro. 1745 04:58:27.810 --> 04:58:30.270 WLWV School Board: And function 11123. 1746 04:58:31.470 --> 04:58:39.420 WLWV School Board: that's a primary string program that move here, so in this description, you will see. 1747 04:58:40.530 --> 04:58:42.750 WLWV School Board: At the end, the function purpose and. 1748 04:58:44.880 --> 04:58:48.570 WLWV School Board: Pay 3.10 under the financial. 1749 04:58:49.980 --> 04:58:57.360 WLWV School Board: Under under general funds so first you go to the tab general says yeah. 1750 04:59:12.120 --> 04:59:13.110 WLWV School Board: front and back side. 1751 04:59:27.240 --> 04:59:32.310 WLWV School Board: So you'll first find the tab that says Roman numeral three dash a general fund. 1752 04:59:33.480 --> 04:59:36.240 WLWV School Board: And then, when you lift that tab you'll find. 1753 04:59:37.380 --> 04:59:57.450 WLWV School Board: Three dash so what that description is say this function purpose and a primary program which used to be, but check this in dispersal revenue upon to do so, so then you'll go when when you go to the special revenue fun, you will see the history of that. 1754 05:00:07.380 --> 05:00:15.660 WLWV School Board: But please feel free to connect with me i'm willing to go through the purchase of one one on one or in a group together. 1755 05:00:19.980 --> 05:00:23.400 WLWV School Board: So your homework is to finish reading the superintendent message that. 1756 05:00:24.600 --> 05:00:34.050 WLWV School Board: I let you read on your own work through this book and then send us questions send them to Dr Hughes and the reason we asked for may 12 is that. 1757 05:00:35.190 --> 05:00:41.640 WLWV School Board: Monday the 16th is when you get together for the work session we often use that whole day of Friday, the 13th. 1758 05:00:41.970 --> 05:00:50.130 WLWV School Board: To get responses back to you, so at some point we need to stop receiving questions, so we can work on responses will try them do that do them as we go along. 1759 05:00:50.520 --> 05:01:00.060 WLWV School Board: But if we can give that deadline of Thursday, the 12th that'd be great gives us Friday the 13th to get as much information back to you, so you can digest it on Friday over the weekend. 1760 05:01:00.570 --> 05:01:12.990 WLWV School Board: And then we'll go into the work session on Monday, of course, you can always bring questions to the work session you don't have to send the questions ahead of time, but if you'd like to get responses back before the work session then send them ahead of time. 1761 05:01:14.430 --> 05:01:19.380 WLWV School Board: And that i'm sure that that concludes our presentation for the evening. 1762 05:01:31.650 --> 05:01:31.950 yeah. 1763 05:02:01.800 --> 05:02:17.640 WLWV School Board: All right, thank you so much to those Budget Committee members, all of you who have volunteered and a special thank you to those of you who stuck it through tonight, so we could conduct our business and yeah, thank you for taking on the leadership position. 1764 05:02:19.440 --> 05:02:31.350 WLWV School Board: And we will move forward with our next agenda item, and I can tell by the looking at the podium one it is it's going to be, Mr Pat mcgrath's and talking to us about declaration of long range planning committee. 1765 05:02:31.680 --> 05:02:51.090 WLWV School Board: openings moving forward make this short as provided under policy BC EA we have three positions on the long range planning committee that have become vacant their terms have concluded and it is an item that requires board action to open up. 1766 05:02:52.710 --> 05:03:02.610 WLWV School Board: An application process for the long range planning committee members positions, two, four and six are currently the positions that are open. 1767 05:03:04.140 --> 05:03:13.650 WLWV School Board: At the bottom of the memo there is a proposed motion by the board to make to open this process up i'll answer any questions you have. 1768 05:03:15.480 --> 05:03:20.910 WLWV School Board: Now, but I think we did have some comments from are not comments, but request. 1769 05:03:21.750 --> 05:03:32.040 WLWV School Board: From Kim Jordan yeah and I don't know do I suggest these now, but I did think she made some good comments and she sent the board, and I believe. 1770 05:03:32.700 --> 05:03:44.550 WLWV School Board: That staff to district staff get that email as well why don't you just go ahead and tell us tell us what it is so she sent an email, and it was not only from Jordan, but it was also from Mary pet injure and. 1771 05:03:45.900 --> 05:03:53.010 WLWV School Board: And I apologize if I pronounce her name wrong Paris Paris a PR Rasa Sean Sean Rami Thank you. 1772 05:03:53.460 --> 05:04:07.320 WLWV School Board: And, and so they just have some suggestions just based on just some concerns, maybe that some people didn't realize when they applied for the long range planning Committee, the commitment and so could we possibly add to. 1773 05:04:07.830 --> 05:04:18.570 WLWV School Board: The application she made some suggestions Committee meets quarterly in January April July November participation one project is I don't need to speak, but if you got I believe you got them. 1774 05:04:19.860 --> 05:04:36.330 WLWV School Board: The email from her as well, I did, and then the application that candidates would submit to you it's underline, as you consider volunteer this volunteer opportunity, please recognize the regular attendance at these meetings is important and necessary. 1775 05:04:37.440 --> 05:04:46.380 WLWV School Board: we've had committee members that made their first meeting and never showed again and so that commitment was not. 1776 05:04:47.640 --> 05:05:04.110 WLWV School Board: carried through, we are trying to be graceful and understand that it was during a pandemic period as well, so perhaps there were other priorities for those Members, but I think the overriding message from the current. 1777 05:05:05.370 --> 05:05:16.770 WLWV School Board: Long Range planning committee members are that they were hopeful that the board would emphasize that is part of the duties is to show up to the meetings and participate. 1778 05:05:17.610 --> 05:05:39.480 WLWV School Board: One of the things also is to remind the applicants, they are as a long range planning committee Member are also appointed as bond oversight committee members as well, and so that's not clear in the application on, but I think the board would be well served to remind applicants of that. 1779 05:05:40.590 --> 05:05:51.360 WLWV School Board: yeah I actually bring a suggestion from the board that in the application, we also include a sentence that speaks to how often the Committee meets. 1780 05:05:52.320 --> 05:06:08.400 WLWV School Board: There was a time when we were meeting more regularly, and now it has shifted to quarterly and part of the regular meetings, because we were gearing up for a bond and it required that group to articulate the projects and meet more frequently. 1781 05:06:09.720 --> 05:06:18.210 WLWV School Board: So we can certainly put in the application, we could add a line that says this Committee meets on a quarterly basis and that the meetings generally run. 1782 05:06:20.130 --> 05:06:21.780 WLWV School Board: One and a half to two hours. 1783 05:06:22.800 --> 05:06:27.060 WLWV School Board: If that would help the applicant better understand the nature of the commitment. 1784 05:06:27.360 --> 05:06:35.820 WLWV School Board: yeah I actually really liked the three suggestions that they gave that the Committee meets quarterly January April July and November in the evening for approximately two hours. 1785 05:06:36.150 --> 05:06:44.670 WLWV School Board: Their second suggestion was participation in one project as a knowledge expert, which may include additional visits to the work sites meetings with the project coordinators. 1786 05:06:44.970 --> 05:06:54.030 WLWV School Board: Reports during school board meetings and conversations with interested Community members and then their third suggestion was to let them know, as you said, Mr mcgrath that. 1787 05:06:54.510 --> 05:07:09.960 WLWV School Board: Member serve on the long range planning and bond oversight committee, we could also add that to our website under the description of the long range planning committee and then make that link known on the application. 1788 05:07:10.560 --> 05:07:16.620 WLWV School Board: So that those who want to learn more about it can go to the website, despite would remind the board that. 1789 05:07:17.760 --> 05:07:26.250 WLWV School Board: That is not always they are not always the same Members on was the board chooses whenever there's a bond oversight that's appointed. 1790 05:07:26.700 --> 05:07:44.400 WLWV School Board: And you make the choice to have the long range planning committee members be the oversight committee as well, so if you're choosing to do that that's a choice you get to make, but they are not automatically linked together, thank you for that clarification I appreciate that. 1791 05:07:46.830 --> 05:07:49.050 WLWV School Board: Okay, so I think the main thing we're doing tonight is. 1792 05:07:49.350 --> 05:08:00.840 WLWV School Board: Declaring these positions open as we've heard feedback from our committee members have some additional clarification on the role could be useful, whether that's an addendum or actually built into this application. 1793 05:08:00.960 --> 05:08:09.630 WLWV School Board: I don't think we actually we need to take action on that feedback we announced the feedback all right, then, but right now, what we need to vote on is. 1794 05:08:10.620 --> 05:08:16.920 WLWV School Board: Declaring position to position for a position six open so i'm just going to make the motion. 1795 05:08:17.280 --> 05:08:29.160 WLWV School Board: I moved that the board declare positions, two, four and six open for application to the long range planning committee as of July 1 2022 folks if you apply for the committee, please plan on attending the meetings and. 1796 05:08:29.880 --> 05:08:36.060 WLWV School Board: Do we have a second also all right great things for the second, and is there any further discussion. 1797 05:08:39.720 --> 05:08:42.450 WLWV School Board: Okay, you can call the vote carry slip. 1798 05:08:46.590 --> 05:08:51.780 WLWV School Board: hi let's Taylor JESSICA King I christy Thompson. 1799 05:08:53.100 --> 05:08:57.420 WLWV School Board: And kitchen way, I think you all right very good Thank you pat. 1800 05:09:00.300 --> 05:09:01.530 WLWV School Board: And I think. 1801 05:09:02.970 --> 05:09:07.260 WLWV School Board: We moved the policy, update and the. 1802 05:09:09.390 --> 05:09:26.490 WLWV School Board: What else did we move we moved a couple things to June oh yeah the art tech, the resolution on our tech, high school so that means we are next time we'll be together will be on the 16th at five o'clock yeah no we don't have an executive session that we know of right now so. 1803 05:09:29.370 --> 05:09:29.940 WLWV School Board: yeah. 1804 05:09:31.350 --> 05:09:31.950 it's not. 1805 05:09:33.930 --> 05:09:41.640 WLWV School Board: session before work session for you, oh that's right super I knew something was floating my brain around that so that means we're meeting before five o'clock. 1806 05:09:42.030 --> 05:09:49.110 WLWV School Board: Yes, and I would like to propose, possibly 345 just because I feel like this is really important work that we do. 1807 05:09:49.860 --> 05:10:04.470 WLWV School Board: evaluating our superintendent and they don't want to rush it and, and I want to have a chance to really have time for the board to speak as one voice and here's one voice and put our input together, but I also understand that's an early time in the day. 1808 05:10:06.120 --> 05:10:12.900 WLWV School Board: I just want to the board and superintendent know that I will be out of the country. 1809 05:10:14.310 --> 05:10:15.660 WLWV School Board: In Scotland golfing. 1810 05:10:17.190 --> 05:10:22.320 WLWV School Board: Okay, so here's your tailor will not be present this can everybody is that all you wanted to let us know just so you won't be here. 1811 05:10:23.250 --> 05:10:33.330 WLWV School Board: Sorry, something else, am I interrupting you're doing whatever you're doing OK OK it's not it's just you wanted to yeah this one, let me present and then say to. 1812 05:10:34.800 --> 05:10:48.990 WLWV School Board: christy that if you want to connect with me one on one for the evaluation piece, I can give that to you before I leave that as well, so do we have everybody else can be here 330 or three 330 I mean, I have a thumbs up the 16th. 1813 05:10:52.650 --> 05:10:54.930 WLWV School Board: Well folks are checking that director tailored. 1814 05:10:56.190 --> 05:11:03.480 WLWV School Board: We just feel free to give us the questions before you leave and we'll try and get you responses back will work with your schedule it wasn't originally. 1815 05:11:05.550 --> 05:11:17.970 WLWV School Board: coconuts yeah great with your schedule, we starting at 330 with executive session and then five o'clock with Budget Committee so any are we good yeah all right meetings adjourned. 1816 05:11:20.520 --> 05:11:21.330 WLWV School Board: Thank you, thank you.