I'd like to call the September 12th,
2022 meeting of the Derry Township School District Board of Directors to order
and announce that this meeting is being livestreamed and audio recorded.
This meeting is being conducted both in-person and virtually, and I
would like to request four board members to please state your name when speaking to
Mrs. AG.
For the record, please note that Mr.
Rizzo is participating electronically this evening, and this permitted
virtual attendance is in accordance with board policy.
Could you please take roll call?
Mr. BENNETT.
President.
Dr. KERNAN.
Mr.. Here.
Dr. COOK. Here.
This is many here.
Mr. RIZZO. President.
Mrs. SCHMIDT. Here.
Mrs. Singer.
Mr. Singer. Here.
Seven present.
One virtually two absent.
Thank you.
Please rise if you're able, and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.
To the life of the United.
States of America.
For which. She says.
One nation.
It is the liberty and justice.
For all, but.
May I please have a motion to approve this?
September 12th, 2022 Board of Directors Meeting Agenda.
Served Maria Mimi.
Second.
Terry Singer Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I.
And I know.
Agenda is approved.
I would like to announce that the board met this evening
in executive session prior to this meeting to discuss informational items.
Moving on to our first recognition of citizens for agenda items.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address
the board on matters related to the agenda.
Citizens wishing to speak
should come to the microphone or raise their virtual hand.
Once recognized are unmuted.
Please state your full name and address.
For the record, this is a reminder that public comment is not a forum
for personal attacks, antagonistic behavior or harassment.
Please be advised that you are accountable
for any legal ramifications and liability resulting from statements
that misrepresent the truth, defame individuals,
or disclose personal information not of public concern.
To provide other residents with an opportunity to speak.
Each speaker
during the public comment portion is limited to 5 minutes of speaking time.
One is recognized
and one opportunity to address the board during each of the public comment periods.
If necessary, the board may set a maximum time
for the public comment portion of any meeting.
I will ask Board Vice President Mrs.
Miami to please keep time.
Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to comment on agenda items
at this time?
I'll begin with those who are joining us in person,
seeing none.
I will invite anyone who is participating virtually
to please raise your public or raise your virtual hand
at this time.
I do not see
any virtual hands raised, so I'll close the first public comment
period and move on to standing committee meeting reports.
The Curriculum Council and Policy committees met today.
Dr. Cronin did not designate who would provide the curriculum reports.
Do you know who should be doing that?
The principal or anyone on curriculum able to provide that update again?
Sure. Yes.
So we shared the 2022 2023 meeting dates.
There was no new business.
The old business was to approve three textbook recommendations.
Believe it was the second.
Yes, the second read
and the they were eighth grade read aloud.
The Bronx Masquerade passed with a vote of 3 to 1
orbiting Jupiter, passed with a vote of all four.
Yes. And the Marcoses passed with a vote of 3 to 1.
And that was it.
Thank you, Dr. Cook.
I'm the policy Committee met today as well.
I was elected as chair of the Policy Committee
now through as we had reorganized
through January.
So I'll provide that report.
Our first item of unfinished business was a review of board
operating guidelines and the local board procedure policies.
It was something that the committee had been discussing
for a while that we wanted to make sure that language in our board
operating guidelines matched the language in policy
and vice versa because they had not been compared for a long time.
So we went through a number of those and the committee discussed
some of the items and made recommendations to move that
on to the full board
for recommendation and approval.
We then had some reviewed and revised policies
policy to 36.1 threat assessment that was approved and recommended
by the board that had some updated school code language from SBA
to address that
threat assessments be completed annually.
It did not have the annual language prior to that policy.
805 Emergency preparedness was also approved four zero
to move on to the board that just updated
some definitions and citations
within that policy and was approved policy. 805.
to school security personnel.
This also was revised with new requirements for the role
of a school safety and security coordinator.
There was also some language in there to update definitions
that was in alignment with PSB.
Previously, the board had
opted to not accept some of the language considerations that PSP had proposed
because it referred to various types
of school security personnel outside of a schools resource officer.
So whether it would be an independent
contractor, a
security guard that's not a member of law enforcement,
those definitions were all
included in this recommendation to bring back in.
The committee discussed and approved this with the amendment of removing
all of that language and leaving it as just
the school resource officer, because it is the practice
and policy of Derry Township School District to have a school resource officer
which is a member of law enforcement in partnership
with the Derry Township Police Department as our school safety
officer.
And so we didn't want to have any confusion or potential,
you know, opportunity for members that are not of law enforcement
to be able to carry weapons on police on district campus.
So that was approved with that amendment
policy.
808 Food Services updated language regarding
alternative meals in accordance with the USDA
regulations.
It was just some added note language.
It didn't change anything in practice of what the
the district already does toward policy.
So that was also approved for do zero
policy 913 on school organizations, groups
and individuals was accepted with one amendment.
There was just a number of recommendations
that had come out in May from SBA to change
definitions of distribution and posting to dissemination.
It just talks about the way that we are able to transfer information
that comes in from various community organizations and groups.
Some language was changed as well to refer to
to align the titles of our internal district employees
and the way procedurally things are approved.
The Policy Committee also approved this 4 to 0 with an amendment
to include one layer of requirement in procedure
that there's a section of the policy that addresses that.
Any time a district employee or board member is involved
with a request to come through for one of these
information dissemination of materials.
Currently it is able to follow the normal process.
We just ask that that be elevated to have superintendent approval as well,
to make sure that there is compliance and no conflict of interest
that would be posed for that.
So it was moved out of committee to the full board
with that amendment and full agreement of the committee.
And the final policy was policy.
918 Title one parental and family engagement
that was added in on here this year as it's required to be annually reviewed.
And there was no changes to the policy that was approved by the entire committee.
So all of these, including the updates to the board
operating guidelines and the related board policies,
will now come to the full board for a 30 day review and then final review
following the dates of our meetings.
And that is the policy.
Before
moving on to community correspondence. Ms.
Karpel, do you have a community correspondence support, please?
I do.
Okay.
For the month of August, the district received 17 community correspondence
missions, comments and questions for this month include.
One Transcript Requests three Enrollment Questions.
A question about a job opening.
One question about sorry one class assignment question.
Our requests for contact information.
Three submissions about students missing the first week of school.
Our request for information about morning meetings on request about reimbursement,
a question about a library book, one comment about a local newspaper letter
and a suggestion about athletics,
and one submission for school information.
Thank you.
Recognition of Club Name change. Dr. Vincent
Listed High School Student Club Name change is recognized.
No limited service contract is associated with this club.
The club has a student activity account.
They would like to change their name from helping women period to helping people.
Period. Thank you.
Anticipated agenda items for the next Board of Directors meeting are listed.
These will be for the September 26, 2022 Board of Directors Meeting Agenda.
There is no unfinished business this evening, so we'll head into a consent
agenda which contains routinely adopted items and items
normally do not require public deliberation on the part of the board.
A board member may pull items which will then be discussed and voted on separately.
May I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as listed.
So moved more about me.
Second, Lindsay Clark. Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor please say. I.
Say no consent agenda is approved.
Moving onto new.
Business.
First item is a van purchase.
Dr. Winslow.
The administration recommends the purchase of one 2022
nine passenger Ford Transit School student van through Whittemore
Auto Group to replace our 2004 school student van
used for custodial purposes in the amount of $44,235.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve the van purchase?
So moved to Miami
Second, Lindsay Clark.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say.
I. Know
and purchases approved
Title one Non Public School Instructional Service Agreement. Dr.
Windsor.
The administration recommends the board
approve the title one Nonpublic School Instructional Service Agreement
with the Capital Area Intermediate Unit for the 2022 2023 school year.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve the title?
One Nonpublic School Instructional Service Agreement.
So moved where I am at my second Lindsay Clark.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say. I.
Say no.
It was.
Approved.
Tax collection agreement. Dr. Winslow.
The administration recommends the approval of the tax collector agreement
with Derry Township, tax Collector and Dauphin County Office of the Treasurer
for the collection of school district real estate taxes beginning July one.
2023.
Thank you. May I?
Please have a motion to approve the tax collection agreement.
So moratorium on May 2nd.
Lindsay Kirk.
Is there any discussion?
This is standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say. I.
See no
school district tax collection resolution.
Dr. Winslow.
The administration recommends the adoption of Resolution 2020 2-01
authorizing and designated designating Dauphin County
and the county Treasurer for the collection of school district
real estate taxes beginning July one, 2023.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve this school
district tax collection resolution?
So move. Teri Center.
Suck it. Maria. Mimi, Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice.
Okay, this is Ed, you.
Can I have a roll call, please,
Mr. Bennett? Yes,
that's true. Yes.
Dr. Cook?
Yes, this is Manny.
Yes, Mr. Rizzo? Yes.
Mr. Schmidt. Yes,
Mr. Singer? Yes.
Thank you.
Dauphin County Software Usage Agreement. Dr.
Enzo The administration recommends the approval of the software usage agreement
with Dauphin County to view and generate reports of real estate tax payments.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve the Dauphin County Software Usage Agreement?
So moved Emmy second Lindsay Cup.
Is there any discussion?
This is standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I.
I see no
item as approved.
By. Issuance of request for proposal
for local service and occupational tax collection documents in.
The Administration recommends the Board approve the request for proposal
for local service tax and occupational tax collection.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve the issuance of
request for proposal for Local service and occupation tax collection?
So moved Brahimi Second Lindsay Cup.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say. I.
Any personnel.
Imposes.
Personnel resignations. Dr. Bond.
So the administration recommends the approval of the personnel resignations.
Thank you.
May I please have motion to approve the personnel resignations?
So move Lindsay Cook.
Second, about me.
Is there any discussion?
This is standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I say no.
That could be under personnel.
General Dr. Windsor.
The administration recommends the approval of the list of personnel
and recognition of any listed transfers.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion
to approve the list of personnel and recognition of any list of transfers?
So move. Lindsay Clark.
Second, Erica Schmidt.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I.
I say no.
Personnel General is approved.
That concludes our new business.
Moving on to delegate reports, the SIU report is attached.
Mr. Schmidt, do you have anything you'd like to add?
No, not this time. Thank you.
Are there any board members who would like to give a report
for this evening's board member?
Reports?
Dr. Winslow, do you have a superintendents report?
I do not have one this evening. Thank you.
I do not have a board president's report either.
So we will move on to recognition of citizens,
which, as a reminder, is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address
the board on matters related to the agenda
or matters of district governance that were not on the agenda this evening.
Those who speak are asked to follow the same guidelines
outlined at the initial public comment portion of our meeting.
I once again asked for Vice President Mrs.
Memory to please keep time.
Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to comment at this time?
I'll start once again with those in the audience.
Mr. Miller.
Hello, John Miller 329 Kirkham Avenue.
I wanted to talk about
some things I've learned recently.
I do not have a background in educational philosophy.
I don't have a background in philosophy.
I studied rocks and dirt and water from undergraduate
and that's what I would prefer to be talking about, to be honest.
But I am requesting
a workshop, a work group or something
that we can just have a discussion about what
I see as philosophical
two philosophical viewpoints
that can't coincide with each other,
particularly
the equity policy of our
of our policy manual.
It's very ambiguous, It's very open ended.
And I'm shocked that there's not a standard set of metrics.
So I went online to look and I'm looking for
in my world would be ASTM standards.
So it's a recipe that I would give it to somebody
and they could come out with very similar results to what I would come up with.
And to my surprise,
it's best of my knowledge is that a set of standard
processes do not exist
within social emotional learning
and some of the other components to the equity policy.
So I'm not trying to imply anybody's
bad intentions.
I think
I think we want the same thing,
but specifically some concerns.
So that I have would be the alignment
of a educational agenda with an economic agenda.
So the world Economic Forum, which I'm sure
of you're familiar with,
they they have
a path to
mold, that they have a vision of the future economy.
And that's in part what we are trying to establish with social emotional
learning would be to provide students this skill
sets for tomorrow's economy.
And it's really terrifying, to be honest with you.
The fact that social emotional learning is it's kind of a
subversive doctrine, to be honest.
My my humble opinion, there's multiple variations of it.
There's transformative, there's systemic.
It goes back to, I think, 1968 with some discrete work
in a focused therapeutic setting.
It has some success, but a widespread
broadcast application.
It's probably enticing things
that have the ability to mold children and
other states.
North Carolina, they just came up and they actually have something here.
It says
this is a permissible use and seclusion and restraints
to improve the student achievement attendance, promotion and graduation rates
by employing positive behavior interventions
to address student behavior in a positive and safe manner
so that essentially it's my untrained eye says that that gives teachers liability
protection to engage in psychological
therapeutic sessions with children.
So I would keep my eyes out.
World Economic Forum, I'll leave you with us.
The skull measurement.
Sorry, that's not what I said for
this is this is a paper called Psycho Data, disassembling the psychological,
economic and statistical infrastructure of social emotional learning,
the skull measurement infrastructure in in.
I want to be quiet because I can't say that word with my
my mind.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, psychological governance with the education
one underpinned by a political rationality in which society is measured
effectively through scientific fact finding in subjects subjects
not children are managed effectively
through psychological intervention.
That's to me, that's scary.
And I just want to make sure that we could have a workshop
where we can make sure and confirm that we have mechanisms in place
to make sure that that brand of ACL is not going to be implemented here.
So again, apologize with the reading glitch, but
I hope you can tell my sincerity
and willingness to talk about this in an open manner.
So thank you.
Thank you. Mr.
Miller, is there anyone.
Else in the audience who would like to speak at this time?
Good evening.
I'm Larry Marinovich.
345 Best Borrowed.
I moved here in 1971
and I worked in the township my entire career.
Hershey, Hershey Company
and lived in the township 45 of the last 51 years.
I come here as a concerned grandparent in taxpayer.
I have been proud of our school district and its reputation
and have bragged to my friends over the years, but not so much now.
I read an article in the Hummelstown Sun,
dated August 18th, 2012.
This year
in the column Shine a Light
by a Derry Township parent.
I don't know this person. Excuse me.
I hope you're aware of this article as it describes
the parents feeling about the progressive culture
and teaching that has crept into our school district.
This parent has withdrawn her two kids
from Hershey High School.
She conveyed a partial account of both
of her kids experience from last year's school year.
What really caught my attention was not only the messaging
that is taking place in the classroom, but also the manner
in which this is being done.
It appears that her kids
were intimidated and bullied
when they gave their opinions on certain topics,
and most of their teachers did nothing to stop it.
How is this behavior now acceptable?
Derry Township has well-established policies for bullying
and related behavior.
So the question that I posed to the board of directors is,
is this type of activity being addressed
or is it now the way of life in our school district?
Thank you.
If you
haven't read the article, you need to read it.
Thank you
to anyone else in the audience who would like to speak at this time.
Good evening.
My name is Bob Welch.
I live on Hilltop Road.
I've lived here in Derry Township for 50 years and both my kids
went to school here and I thought they they did a great job here.
And we're proud to go to Derry Township School.
Having said that, for me, I was at a meeting here on December
the sixth and I don't come to all these meetings as coincidental
I was in and there was one woman who at the end of the meeting
was talking about her
student.
I don't remember if it was a boy or a girl.
And the woman was was starting to cry.
She was crying and she was talking about how her student was being bullied in the
lavatory, was beaten up or whatever.
But I was I was caught by her sincerity
and the fact that she was going to,
you know, bleed her heart out.
And I didn't I didn't get much of a vibe
in terms of the school board's response to that.
It was just very blasé then for me.
The other thing that
kind of in line with that was
the previous speaker, Laurie, referred to the Shine
a Light column that was in the that was in the Sun in August.
I read that and I was I was just amazed.
And the bottom line was
that this woman told her
kids, avoid it or pull four kids out of school.
And she didn't she didn't really comment
that much about bullying or kids getting beat up or anything.
But it was very
disappointing to
read the fact that she pulled her kids out of school.
And there was at the end of it said the Sun requested
a reply from the school and they heard nothing.
Okay.
Having having said that, then the last party
I was here on the August 22nd,
the August 22nd meeting of the school board,
a man whose name I don't know stood up and said how he moved.
He moved here from New Jersey and he he was told
by the realtor that the schools in Derry Township were very good,
and that was his main reason for
moving here.
And then he commented about his son, volunteered to be a manager
on a basketball team, and for whatever reason
it was deemed that it wasn't a good fit.
And so his son and I don't know
how many of you, if any of us played sports, but I,
I can't remember any kid that was pumped up or cranked up
to be a manager, pick up other kids, dirty, sweaty clothing.
But this kid was he he was he was denied being a manager.
But then addition to that, he commented about the fact that his
son was afraid to go
into the bathroom because of drugs and getting beat up.
Okay.
Which is a terrible indictment on the school.
And having said that, then
the next thing, the next response
that I anticipated, the board would say, we've got to get our act together.
We've got to do something about that.
We're just not going to tolerate that kind of crap. Okay.
The next thing was,
do we have a motion for a German?
You've got to be kidding me.
You've got to you've got to come up with some empathy.
You just can't do that.
You can just blow that stuff away. So
unrelated to Derry
Township, most of you, if not all of you familiar with the
what's happened at Middletown School, there's probably
no way that any school district could get more bad
negative vibes than what's happened at Middletown School District.
It's everywhere. Okay.
And this past weekend, I was with some friends of mine
in Middletown, and they were talking about everything.
They were just embarrassed and they were hurt.
All the kids were blown away by what happened.
Okay.
And in the in Pennlive from yesterday, the Patriot
The Patriot had a
column about talking about the Middletown schools specifically.
And then I'm quoting here.
So they say adults in Middletown community
are equally responsible for tolerating a culture of bullying
and aggression that inevitably hurts both the bullies and their victims.
Kristina Williams told the board bluntly that
none of her four children feel safe in Middletown.
That's a telling statement. That's horrible.
Look, these kids, we're not talking about learning.
We're talking about these kids are physically afraid.
So having said all of that, I call upon the
the school board to do something about that, take some kind of action
as opposed to just sitting around waiting for it to hit the fan
because it's going to hit the fan. It's only a matter of time.
And you can't you can't have this kind of apathy or turn
turning away from it
and expect anything but negative results.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Is there anyone else in the audience who would like to speak at a time?
Yes, sir.
Good evening.
My name is Marty Staveley.
I live at 241 Hilltop Road.
Hummelstown.
39 year resident here of the township and
put too fine children through the school district
and very proud of that fact.
I just want to take a moment this evening.
I appreciate you letting me speak and all the service you do
for our community and represent everyone in this community
in the educational process.
I too would like to draw some attention
to The Shining a Light
article there August 18th that I read, and
upon reading it,
not not very, very unsettling.
Very unsettling.
I know you guys have read it also.
I mean, you were contacted at about it and didn't have a comment at the time. But
and many people I talked to in the
in the district lot.
A lot of disappointment, a lot of anger
and a lot of disgust, really.
If if this is true, you know, I don't I don't know for sure.
And that's that's part of the reason I'd like to
maybe more than just have a comment this evening,
maybe get some answers or get some reaction from the school board,
maybe since that article was published
when you didn't have a comment on it, maybe you'd have issued a comment
or you have issued public statements on this.
And if that's the case, if you can let me know where I could find that
maybe I don't need to say much more until I see that.
But I don't know.
Has there been any public reaction from the school
board to that article or investigation
into the validity of it or.
Dr. Windsor, if you'd like to say something.
I will say on behalf of the board, it is not the practice of the board
to ever publicly comment on anything about a private matter
for an individual student in a public forum.
So here, you know, we are here to hear the comments and receive those.
But it would be entirely inappropriate of the board
to comment on an individual student matter.
Can you?
That's exactly what I was going to say.
That's why we did not respond when the paper reached out to us.
That's an individual family student matter and it would be very inappropriate
for us to speak publicly about minors and their families.
Oh, I have a
I'd like to say something, though.
I know that that is the practice.
But if it's a parent and she's making it public,
wouldn't it be?
Yeah,
I will just I wasn't asked, but I will weigh in anyway.
Regardless of whether a parent says to the to a paper
that they can discuss the matter, there are further implications.
There are a lot of legal implications to speaking
regarding a student matter in a public meeting or to a newspaper.
So when we want to comment on our
how Derry Township, you know, runs the education
and what if somebody wants to meet with me privately to talk about concerns
about bullying or anything like that, I'm more than happy to do that.
But I would never discuss a particular family in my conversation.
But I'd be happy to meet with people and answer questions.
But maybe not
relating to that particular family
and those particular students.
Is the school board concerned about things like this?
And do you when you hear things like this,
do you say
we need to take action, we need to look at this
and and see maybe if there is validity to this,
How does this square up with your educational equity
policy number 832 that I've printed involved here?
How how does something like this,
if it's not going to do anything or take a look at your policy and.
Any time that a parent brings
a concern like this to us, it is absolutely addressed.
And it is it's investigated
as this was all there were a lot of the school board.
The school board.
The school board doesn't come into the schools and do those things.
That's my job.
So that is that is what I do.
And I meet with individual school board members then.
And in regards to student behavior,
we had a we had a really rough year last year in regards to student behavior.
We were very open about that in several different forums.
And we have a new high school principal who has implemented
some phenomenal policies and revisited the student code of conduct
and things are really great at the high school.
I'm very proud of what's been done.
Boundaries have been reestablished.
Students came back from pandemic learning and it was really hard.
It was it was a really big adjustment for them and for
they had not had to answer
to other grown ups besides their parents for almost two years.
And it took a while to get things back in line.
But things are looking really, really good.
They've implemented reimplemented hall passes.
Grown ups are in the hallways all the time.
I just talked to a teacher last week who was on hall duty
and I was like, How's it going? And she was like, It's.
She's like, I'm just getting my steps in.
Like the kids are where they're supposed to be.
It's not like last year at all.
So we are we were very aware
that there were some some pretty serious behavioral challenges last year.
And we are seeing a completely different environment this. Year
so far.
Right.
So far.
I mean, kids are kids are going to make mistakes.
But but it's a different attitude and a different environment
that we're seeing from them and from the staff
as they're helping them to reestablish those boundaries.
And then I mean, not to get into this particular situation, I apologize.
I don't mean to cut you off, but in the interest of equity
and making things fair for everyone, this is not a question and answer forum.
I would encourage you to speak with Dr.
Winslow one on one so that she can answer any of your questions specifically.
But that is not what the public comment forum typically is for.
And we don't typically allow that.
Just in closing, then
I'd like to encourage and and ask the school board,
new school board members that were elected to represent us,
to engage with your superintendent on these things to
to a greater degree than I feel in my gut.
You are currently.
Thank you.
I would encourage you
to listen to any of our standing committee meeting reports or our ongoing meetings.
There are a lot of conversations that happen outside of it,
and I know that this board is very open to speaking to constituents
and members of the community.
So if you have any specific questions, we'd be happy to talk to you about that.
Thanks for your time.
Thank you.
We will now move
to public comment for virtual attendees, as I do not believe there's anyone
in the audience physically who has not spoken so.
Mr. Allawi, please go ahead and
invite this.
I did see one, but it is not there anymore.
Yes, the hand was lowered.
At this time
I do not see any virtual hands raised.
I'll wait just a moment in case there is a technical difficulty.
There we go.
There's one.
Jennifer, you.
Have been given permission to. Speak.
Please state your and address for the record.
Hello.
My name is Jennifer.
Ends 322 Cocoa Avenue.
Can you hear me okay? Yes, Thank you.
Please Go ahead. Sure. Thanks.
I just want to say my ninth grade son is in the high school this year,
and I'm aware of a lot of the
disruptions and issues that went on in high school this year.
Last year. Pardon me.
And he's having a great school year so far.
He comes home happy every day.
So I just thought some of the people should know that
not all the experiences at the high school are bad ones.
He's a happy student.
I met many of his teachers back on the 17th,
and I think it's going to be a great school year.
So I'd like to thank Lindsey Schmitt
for the great job she's doing.
I read a lot of the handbook and the letter
she sent out about the changes at the school this year,
and it seems like they're working pretty well.
So kudos to her.
That's all.
Thank you.
Kim O'Connell, you've been given permission to speak.
Please state your name and address for the record. Hi.
Tim O'Connell, 2405 Rally Road in Hummelstown.
Can you hear me okay? Yes.
Thank you very much. Okay.
I just also wanted to comment on the shine a light article
that was based obviously
on one family's experience.
And we I have two children in the school
district, one in middle school and one in high school.
We've had some bullying issues
that we've brought to the attention
to, you know, the principal
and school counselors that have been addressed.
You know, fairly well, I will say.
But I also just want to comment that there are many, many parents that feel
the same way, that that family that wrote the article
for The Sun is feeling.
There are things that are happening in school,
in the school that's very one sided
from a lot of the teachers
that just really, really needs to be addressed and looked at.
I know you can't comment or, you know, answer,
but there are many other families that feel like that family and
concerns need to be addressed and
that's all I want to say.
Thank you for your time, Thank you for your service.
But overall, it is definitely something that needs to be looked into.
Thank you.
And again, I would encourage, you know, any parents
who do share those concerns or would like to make any specific comments, you know,
for their children to do, please contact the high school administration or Dr.
Winslow directly so that that can be most appropriate.
We discussed.
Is there anyone else attending virtually
who would like to participate in public comment at this at this time?
I do not see
any additional Henrys at this time.
Is there anything else from the board for the good of the order?
The next Public Board of Directors meeting will be held on September
26, 2022, beginning at 7:00 pm here in the District office.
Please refer to the website for information
on how to register for virtual attendance as the meeting draws closer.
May I please have a motion to adjourn this meeting?
So every second.
Lindsay Kirk.
All those in favor say I. I, I.
Say no.
This meeting is adjourned at 7:47 p.m..
Thank you and have a great night.