through the playoffs eight games thirty goals for two goals against in the eight games thirteen seniors on this team went through an entire season with only giving up six goals in closing i want to thank first of all the one also i think these guys would agree that they have the best assistant coaches in the state bar and i would be remiss if i didn't mention them by name so just thirty two boys are as great off the field in the classroom as they are on the field and that puts some of the best in the state i have never worked with a group of individuals that are more of a family that cares about themselves cares about the school district that they represent i don't think that you've ever hear that we've never done anything with class and this is an example of that took pride in beating teams we took pride in being teams the right way we received an e mail in the athletic department from a parent of one of the children that we beat in the states on my finals that complimented shawn harrison and his actions towards their players during the game and after the game we congratulated them somebody goes out of their way to recognize something that you've done i think that's fantastic and i also want to say that we have such a good youth program in this at this school district or this township and these guys have really taken on being role models for those kids signing autographs they go to little kids practices they donate their time that way and any time they see him they make sure that they say hello and i just couldn't be prouder of them as individuals on top of their accomplishments on the field and i think the hope that you would share that gratitude for what they've done or basically to be him became a stay at home father worked in the evenings try to communicate all the worse work that our business in two thousand and nine my wife asked me if i was ready to get back into teaching and i was so excited to get back into a building and you walk into a high school i may walk into middle school when they're maybe teach english when they meet on history when they did first normally we have about a half hour to learn a lesson plan a role know nobody knows about nobody knows that they're dangerous come on no i wasn't notified i want to know a couple questions i don't know why wasn't i notified parking this substitute teachers don't have unions they don't have any voice come in and they do their job and shoot i believe the night time and take their base away from them i think it's wrong i think mantras and why she is going on why we're limited i don't know why we weren't told because i know one thing every year like teach every di been interviewing students teachers parents and the like about what's going on and some of the frustration is on the substitute comes and these right now c district policy but to my it it's frustrating to the kids too because i don't know who get a graduation requirements for the current class  two thousand and fifteen i have policy number five one two seven and it's graduation requirements i didn't know if everybody had computers mine were made copies but my printer broke today fourteen fifteen and sixteen are high school students will successfully complete a board approved graduation project and demonstrate proficiency on all state required assessments or local assessments aligned with the academic standards and then it goes on to talk about for the class of two thousand and seventeen and beyond it refers to title twenty two in section four two four of the few a code or you can help me out with with this here section four point two four requirements through two thousand and fifteen sixteen school year each school district charter school including a cyber charter school and a v t s which is votes heck if out cold applicable shell's requirements for graduation requirements through the two thousand and fifteen sixteen school year must include course completions and grades culminating projects results of local assessments alive and with the academic standards and demonstration of proficiency in english language arts and mathematics on either the state assessments minister in grade eleven or twelve or look was assessed months along with academic standards and states assessments under four point five two relating to the local assessments this system at the proficiency level or better ok so right understand there are local local control over how we do this but also the key keystone biology is not even finished with the state there is no that were told this wasn't a requirement kind of like the old p s essays grown up just go take the test do your best and so forth and then they work this was laid on them so so we have that so that's four to four and then we have four five two talks referring to that is that we're two for reverse of four or five to zero by the way we also have one student in this group of seniors that is taking the course not with juniors trying to get this requirement we have at least one that i know of that in the attack that completely was not given any remediation before the third exam so there was no remediation done not there they were given before the second exam one day a week out of the study hall and then that and before the third one two days a week out of the study hall and it also talks about consistency with your other key mandated unfunded mandate id courses that it should be consistent and that is not consistent with what was done with literature and algebra and making those a requirement and again these are not required at the state level until two thousand and seventeen my concern is i know there is no ill will involved i know we got a great great group  of administrators and teachers and so forth the burnout rate it's its start at the kids and the parents don't know enough to email all the members letter from the superintendent dr scanlon in westchester who is also has made some really good points about this that the kids are at least for biology taught in ninth grade and you're two years out in giving this program to the kids they're burning up teachers the requirements burnet now we didn't get these tests that was started in two thousand and one with the this whole keystone program we did not and this i didn't research so this is from  are five years old now with literature math i'm not roll that's not my passion model of the sciences and when it comes to biology we don't even clone a sheep until you know like way after two thousand  like so there's there's a lot of things that my concern is us be unable to be leaders or teachers or great educators and administration to not be confined to the restrictions of this state mandated unfunded testing mayhem that we've got going on because for one it's kind of like a double edged sword we are moving so fast globally in technologically that we also have  access to our kids it's expanding them and our teachers are very well equipped they're absolutely very well equipped to to do this and and  i think that's what it is you bring it down to the most simple as part of and like let let's let it all fall down so we can get it back together ok that that's that is what that is there i don't know if i can and it also this was not this initiative this whole testing was not tested prior to implementation and now i know it's been going on for a while but the thing is is that parents don't know about it i have found that people are relaying information because i've gotten information and because you you might get it from an educator or someone within the system because it's been repeated to them with all of the research and then when i look at it myself and i've researched it it's in the chapter four for the keystone exams alone are four hundred thirty four pages so every one person can't know everything about everything and that's why we have a group and but when i look at it myself i'm like no it's you're repeating the wrong information so we need to look at that even as far as like our our excellence program our you know our performance excellence and mcmurtry and the mcmurry elementary and their scores would probably be higher if it did formula written for that school from what i've heard and if it was and first one of the brightest and best look at that for months and hey wait a minute we've got a problem here this is not fair the number should be higher for me mari i mean it's so it's going it's taxing in stressing on everybody involved and i think we need to step back and regroup and what i do is drug and alcohol interventions and what we do is you know you've got families come in and everybody's fall apart and stressed out and rob and everything else and  their mental health and this that and other and what you do is in my business you eliminate it from the equation the drugs and alcohol first you can find somebody he's got something else going on with and i don't and i'm not saying we eliminate this but i am you know it's because there's a lot of people across the state calling for this coing forward it's to restrict it and the flare and the knowledge of our educators needs to be expanded their winnings need to get you know be able to fly here with some structure of course that's what we have here so that's what i have so far if there's anybody who wants to address anything back at me i have all the other stuff here too you know what it all refers to strategic plans that were trained changed a comprehensive plan which i don't know because i focused on this right now but the other thing too real quick i got three minutes in searching for everything i don't know if we are like i know we bought common core textbooks i urge whatever but it so this is just kind of like a side note or a side bar what i had looked at as far as in our financial part of like where our monies go if we are invested in if we invest in anything and whether it's stocks and bonds or whatever number one like we can invest in foreign currency or so forth but one of the things is and like i said i don't know if this has anything to do with the other but if we're invested in this the with the highest credit rating available in such instruments and then if after purchase the rating of any instrument is reduced and no longer in compliance with this policy the individual responsible for district events vestment shall replace the investment immediately upon receipt of notice of the rating change and we've been downgraded a couple times i don't know if that has one thing to do with the other but pennsylvania has been downgraded standard and  so that's another thing like i said that's not i'm not qualified there but i thought i should bring that up because that could be something we need to look at i mean that and we can pay the substitute teachers more you know  which which that's a tough job you know and so and if there's any feedback i guess i only have a minute nineteen seconds to get any that i mean is there anything i do we have to we if we're going to do this it's kind of late for the seniors and we have to do better side just so you know i know you guys i mean honestly when i you're working so hard that so much on your plate it is so this isn't like i defend the defensive type of thing it's really i'd like to i think we can come to a solution  i'm not exactly sure at this time what's again the lead time i believe is what is going to drive this bro believe that's from our hill is the current one not working they have three lights are in the ground and over the years water has build up and rusted out those  motion toward the purchase for twelve and s s pacer one twelve you eat upgrade vacuum cleaner two d h urban fall and sons for a total cost of three thousand nine hundred  dollars and sixty eight cents this purchase is through the p a costars on track number zero zero five zero five zero zero funds are provided by the capital projects account the company under provided by the capital projects in the sector for discussion now this would be for installation over the summer time this project i'm not i don't believe that that was what the discussion was  second is ready for this question i'm guessing that these terms just more accurately reflect what they are aiming and keep being breached academic better in other one little thing that i wanted to bring up the procedural aspects slash i told you about potential law change with respect to clearances it was actually signed into law and it makes changes in clearances very important changes about employees and volunteers now will be required to volunteers now will be required to get  clearances but also the employees and volunteer clearances would have to be renewed every three years so the district will be working to see how we get all of that happening but the policy aspect is that those provisions of law i take back december thirty first which means there's very little time to go to a first read and a second read by december thirty first when we only have one meeting last coupled with the fact that p a has not yet released sample drafts of the proposed changes the good thing is is that all these changes are going to be statutory so we're not we're going to have very  before december thirty first and they suggested waving that policy provision for the meeting where those proposals proposed change in policy will occur so i just wanted to get a general consensus from you as to whether there is any opposition and that this sound or meeting that i would be coming forward with those proposed statutory changes i don't know how many policies will be affected he said i should get a copy of those drafts this week but my intention would be to put them on for a vote so that they become final on at the december meeting because otherwise we would fail to meet the statutory requirement of the effectiveness date of december thirty first bright line so that they know they don't have to and that's what we're trying to do with the current policy we actually tried to incorporate what direct contact was which i can't recall word for word but you know we defined it as unsupervised control supervision of children and that sort of was taken from the statutory definition of direct contact from the statute so i think that the interpretation is all it won't change under our current policy it's just going to be perceived really the three years versus the five years that we have our current policy the employees which never had began redone and then there is also this exception where for volunteers there might be a way to not require them to have the f b i or printing under certain starting circumstances like if they've lived in the district for ten years and and those kinds of circumstances you know we'll have to decide as a board to include those because those are minimum standards board that the next meeting will be held on the nineteenth and it will be preceded by a holiday dinner which is a very special event because it's actually provided by the students board i just had a question about number seven on the first person there is a school counselor in turn and it shows that it appears to me to show that the young lady will be going back and forth between two schools or half so he's actually an assistant coach and of volunteer maybe fifty percent of coach fifty percent  and i would like to add in terms of number five there are i believe thirty two professionals from the community who have donated a day of their time for the career fair on thursday and that's  church based organization whose got to appear nice facility and having the event there because it's a lot better in terms of space than the older high school which is what i was told of being and so is this just a point in factor we are approving this asking this too to ask you to not accept it i'm just it's a point in fact for me to understand that will me accept these things is just more a declaration because of insurance i mean what is the point of fact for us to be accepting the donation of a bill to use if it is important because there are certain rules with respect to the rules of ethics for public bodies of exacting anything in the form of a donation so it's always important to make  in a sense there are songs insurance implications as well because if that day were sort of like an embassy right or because this is our students are going there you know i was one of the reasons i assume and so there's a declaration of acceptance of point of clarification on the student trip solicitation on forty page thirteen i just want to check with the ministration because i think if there are some current policies like thirteen thirty point three where they should be putting a disclaimer on all the papers that they're distributing in connection with the traffic that says this is not a school district  sorts of things so i wanted to ensure this day we were going to start you know following the procedure just so that it's clear to everyone who would participate in there that it really has nothing to do with the murphy regarding the standardized testing data and if we would like to have the education committee meeting and after they look at their busy schedules the dates they have available are either next monday november twenty fourth or not until december fifteenth