uh I'd like to call the order of the regular meeting of the bay on Board of Education could we stay please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all for the record this is a public meeting of the Bome Board of Education it is 6:36 the it 17th day of September and we are convening in the
Alexander X oconor Auditorium that Judy for the record adequate written advanced notice of at least 48 Hours giving the time date and location of this meeting was provided as follows notice was prominently posted in
City Hall at 6:30 Avenue C on the bulletin board reserved for such announcements of the Board of Education the board's secretary sent such notice to the Jersey Journal notice was filed with the municipal clerk of the city of
Bayon Miss meline Medina and notice was also posted to the Bon Board of Education website I'll now take roll call trusty bash is absent trusty Burke here trusty Desmond here trusty gesi
Rodriguez here trusty maio here trusty senola here trusty scane here vice president Gonzalez here president C here all right now if I can get a motion on the
approval of [Music] minutes I'm using you second okay truste Burke yes trusty Desmond yes trusty gesi Rodriguez yes
trusty maio yes trusty sanola yes trusty scane yes vice president Gonzalez president casayas superintendent oh before we start I just want in reference to uh to thank Mr Jean
Woods president of the Bea and Mr copz our Deputy superintendent for working out uh some lunch coverage questions we had at the start of the year so I thank both both of you for getting that done as fast as you did thank you all right good awesome all right
we're going to move on to the superintendent report which consists of A1 through A9 and B1 through B30 can I have a motion and got it all right trusty Burke
yes trusty Desmond yes trusty gesi Rodriguez yes trusty maio yes trusty sanola yes trusty scane yes vice president Gonzalez president Cas yes all right still
move all right we will now move on to the business administrator's report which consists of C1 through C15 can I have a motion make that move I'll move I get a second
second trusty Burke yes trusty Desmond yes trusty gesi Rodriguez yes trusty maio yes trusty sanola yes Jesse scane yes vice president Gonzalez yes president casayas
yes all right that's all the business we have we do have a card from Miran Ed our Bayon High School Board of Ed representative good evening everyone as this new school year emerges stuga is
very excited for this upcoming school year and to be hosting new and upcoming events for the students of Bon High School to start off with our past event um the freshman orientation was held on the 28th of August and happened to be an excellent success the event was able to
show our newly incoming freshman um around the school and help with help them with the navigation so they could have a smoother transition moreover the The Freshman were also presented with a little a little show regarding the high school's uniform policy many of our stug members
dressed up in good and bad examples of uniforms to display what should and shouldn't be worn during school hours finally The Freshman were also able to get a rundown of all the rules and regulations of the school and even um be told about opportunities that Bon
high school offers throughout this event we were able to provide the newly incoming freshman with backgrounds on their new school and help them with a smoother transition as for the new and upcoming events firstly we will be having a homecoming dat that has been set and decided to be on October
19th um the tailgate and homecoming game has also been decided to be on October 25th there will also be a pep rally held on October 25th between periods 7th and eth Suga is very excited to perform those upcoming events for B high school
students and create a more fun and engaging school year for everyone thank you thank you thank you okay you could just come up and speak that's okay you can come on up okay thank you go
ahead oh I can yeah thank you um my name is diela Bon I have a couple question questions if you could please answer them for me um with regards to the gifted and talented program I know that we did it way with oresco school and now every Elementary School in the district is supposed to have their own version of
the gifted and talented program my child was one of those children that participated in that program last year my question to you is are you going to have a more challenging curriculum for the kids that will be participating in the gifted and talented program and as
far as field trips for the kids the gifted and talented program um we have very talented children in art music Sports I think the coolest trip last year was to to meet a member of the Giants team um for music why can't we
send the children let's say to NJ PAC to keep them motivated rather I mean this the band The Orchestra B on high school is awesome but why can't the district send them to NJ Pack to see the New York philarmonic orchestra that would be awesome and I think it would be an
excellent stimulus to those kids that are really musically talented um textbooks is the second full week of the school year how come that there are children that still do not have a textbook to go home to to go home with
to do their homework like who's responsible for that how come that happen and what can the district do to ensure that next year we have a smoother roll out and that the kids can have the material that they need as well as the
teachers to start you know with the um education program summer Bridges assignment I'm sorry I know I have a lot that the time is limited but um summer Bridges assignment for the past couple years the children have been getting Scholastics
book bags I would like to know is that free to the children or does that come to a cost to the taxpayers in this District oh so a lot of the book bags to that specific question are donated uh for
instance at our last board meeting we had another 300 donated by Costco so a lot of them are donated to us so um some of those are free and at no cost of the to the taxpayer and to the superintendent um what percentage of the
kids in the district actually complete the summer Bridges assignment is there a place where we can find that information because if I my child complete the assignment how come the kids once school start they still get another 21 days to complete the assignment if it's Sumer
Bridges I believe it should be completed within that 8 week period if they haven't completed it within 8 weeks I highly doubt that within 21 days of the start of the school year they will do anything about it wait a second I would like to know
how is it District measuring learning I know that we did away with the district assessment um how are we measuring progress in this District as far as learning is concerned okay good evening hi so for g&t gifted
in talented in 2019 the law changed we used to have a stay alone school we made great strides to make sure we had a larger net to go out and capture more students all right we Al only had grades five to 8 g&t now we have K through 12 so this is wonderful thing you'll see tonight that in some of these
resolutions we are approving more field trips we are also working with Johns Hopkins University to provide more activities and if there's a specific question again with what's going on in your your child's classroom you need to start with a teacher that's differentiated instruction if you're not getting the challenging work that's
expected you'll have that you should have that opportunity to speak with them so I that's what I would say with respect to g&t with respect to textbooks I'm not hearing this districtwide this is the first time I've heard this I don't know if anybody else has heard this I I have not heard anything about if there's a concern in your building
have you spoken with the teacher have you spoken with the principal I spoke to the principal and the principal told me that the books were ordered late and that they would be coming here but my question is how come you have a whole summer for that correct the books were in how come the books are not present on
day one well the books were in in August if if there's a concern maybe you don't want to say the principal's name now but after you could we could speak afterwards okay um summer Bridges it an opportunity to close the achievement Gap or stop the summer slide it's voluntary it's not required uh we do it in math
and we also do it in ela yes um we did the STM this year we also did the the book bags that you referenced and those book bags were provided to all students it's a it's a wonderful opportunity to provide reading materials for students we've done that for two years now um why do you go until the 20 21 days well
because the population what happens is a lot of students come in over summer they get their assignments there students that come in we want to be Equitable and provide everybody with opportunities to complete those summer assignments now how do we measure it I mean we we give extra credit for that it's because it's
not required again it's not required and then finally how are we measuring progress we we are moving forward with the I ready program and math and Ela and that's what we're using for Progress monitoring this District in elementary school all right and the last thing and then I'm off your hair sure when it
comes to student conduct I would like to know what is the district doing to ensure that the teachers have the necessary tools to deal with kids that are unruly and that are disruptive in class my child goes to
school to learn she knows better what do you have in place there should be a zero tolerance policy for kids that are disruptive that are violent that are disrespectful to the teacher the job of the teacher is to teach and I believe there is a lot of
material that needs to be covered throughout the school year so what is the district doing to make it the parents problem to deal with their problem child because it shouldn't be my kids responsibility or the teacher's responsibility to deal with that
nonsense and that's all I have thank you thank you ma'am ma'am I have your information I'll reach out to you but uh the most important thing that we do is enforce the code of conduct and I think our teachers do a heck of a job with that but most importantly is we meet with our
teachers we meet with our guidance counselors our Mental Health Counselors the most important thing we can do is have restorative practices in the classroom and in the district but I'll be more than happy to meet with you to talk more about that of what we do for individual and if there's an instance
that you have to deal with that we don't you know that that's causing concern for your child we will take care of that immediately for my child but I don't think it's for a teacher to get AG for children that
are constantly dising in class if the parents are not listening to the teacher if the parents are not listening to the guid counsel why should children that are there to learn have to be you know like in that nonsense and like miss out
on learning opportunity a lot of material that need to be forward throughout the SCH years and let take a constant complaint yes I have great teachers I have no complaints about my teachers they have aome and at my school my principal everybody's grateful but
what are you doing to hold the parents accountable for children that are just going to school I tell my kids to listen she knows better if she do to listen she's going to get it at home will you come with me and we can do you can come we're going to have a we're going to have a
seminar you're coming with and we're I agree I agree with you want my school to be a j and quite frankly I L sleep at night thinking that I might have to send my child to B high school so what are we doing the parents
are the ones that are supposed to be held accountable not the teacher the teacher goes to the classro to teach and I expect that to be met from September to June to be the whole thing to be t for my child so she can do better when she's off hard or whatever you know um
things ass is given to that and that's not the case again K are being disrupted and the Cs are not being held at C and I really hope that you're going to come down with the hammer hard on those people so that we can have a better atmosphere in our school and if this
over all thank you Mr Woods i% SCH half of my teach it's not the same we're pretty good I just on behalf of the um B and Education Association
negotiations committee and our members we'd like to say thank you for ratifying the contract tonight uh the last time we went through negotiations for the 2125 contract we settled almost nine months ahead of time this time we settled
almost a year ahead of time with a lot of uh changes positive to bring more people into the district retain more people in the district and to continue to grow our Educators and everyone who uh takes part in our association so on
behalf of our members on behalf of our negotiations committee I want to say thank you very much for everybody who was part of the team thank you for the district and uh we look forward to continuing our process and making things better here and like superintendent said earlier today when there are issues that
arise you know we we're in conversations quite often sometimes we don't always agree on things uh but we work very hard to get stuff done so again we appreciate it very very much thank you all right can I get a motion to adjourn president
Casas yes I'm sorry I'd just like to um I think we all want to address what you just said Jean this is the I've been here a long time on and off this is the first time the first time since the
1990s don't start calculating that anything subsided has been done that benefits the teachers as well as the district at large I am very impressed with the work that was put into this and the resolutions found still more to be
done but this was huge and um all in the right direction so congratulations to you all right can I have a motion to adjourn second try Burke yes Ry Desmond yes Ry
gesi Rodriguez yes Ry maio yes s yes scine yes vice president Gonzalez yes president Casas yes all right 553 uh 653 and we are a jour