##VIDEO ID:lp1YmMy6wzk## good evening can I have your attention please it's wonderful to see so many families here tonight and we will begin our recognition of your accomplishments in just a few minutes unfortunately we do not have a quorum present that will allow us to conduct our regular board meeting but we will still recognize our award winners and hear any public comment before we end the evening the regular board meeting will be rescheduled and that information will be made available on the district website I'd like to begin with Dr small will you begin the recognitions thank you Monday November 11th was Veterans Day this day resered for thanking those who fought for us and put their lives on the line for the sake of our country across our schools we hosted a variety of events including breakfasts for local veterans special tributes panel discussions guest speakers and displays the slideshow that was played tonight before the meeting specifically showcased our District 211 employees who have been active in the United States armed forces I would like to personally recognize a veteran who is here tonight and is part of our District 211 team Mr Patrick De George public relations specialist a member of the National Guard Mr de George enlisted as a stinger missile Gunner and has held multiple leadership positions throughout his career including media relations Chief in charge for Joint Task Force guantan Guantanamo public affairs he was deployed to Iraq in 2004 Afghanistan in 2008 and Guantanamo in 2015 he's been awarded numerous service and combat medals I would ask that any veterans who are joining us tonight please stand and be recognized along with Mr George uh you're more than welcome to join Mr George as he is going to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance 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 thank you for your service Mr wowski will you please come forward and we shall honor some of our fine athletes that are here tonight yes Board of Education and Dr small thank you for taking some time tonight to honor one of our talented golfers and a ihsa pioneering girls flag football team as your sponsor introduces you students please walk forward receive your award and stand here next to the podium additionally any family members that are here please stand and be recognized as your student is instruct as your student is recognized by their coach or sponsor helping present our students tonight is ConEd principal Julie Novak and athletic director Eric house and from Principal Mark Langer and athletic director Hamed Mar asy so we'll get started with our golfer Megan Hebert Megan Hebert starter to teaching career at Conan High School in the uh Conan high school math department in 2006 Megan has coached track girls basketball conent and has served as the head girls golf coach for the past 15 years Megan okay hello thank you board of education for your time this evening it is my pleasure to introduce meline Gutierrez the daughter of Jennifer and Omar Gutierrez mateline had an exceptional freshman year on the golf team achieving remarkable Milestones throughout the season she medaled at each of our 18 hole invitationals placed Ninth at the prospect Invitational tied for fifth in conference tied for fourth at regionals and finished tied for Ninth at sectionals with an impressive two overpar 73 at the state level she capped her season by placing ninth overall with scores of 71 one underpar on the first day and 77 five overpar on the second we could not be more thrilled with MD's incredible achievements this season and we look forward to watching her continue to excel over the next three years thank you all right Rebecca odet has been a member of the F High School science department since 2007 this year she was named the first head coach of the F girls flag football team Rebecca [Applause] this uh flag football season has been an incredible journey we watching each player grow seeing their commitment and practice and witnessing the teamwork that they brought to every game we played was been deeply rewarding it was a true honor to coach this team and we look forward to bringing home another state trophy next year I'd like to extend my gratitude to Mr Mar ASI for his unwavering support and to our amazing parents your encouragement and dedication have been integral to Our Success at this time could all the uh flag football parents please stand and be recognized thank you so much everyone now I'm going to introduce our first place ihsa state champs uh first up is Georgia [Applause] andrianopoulos next is Ree [Applause] Bennett sa Choy ch ch [Applause] sorry Bella [Applause] delmare yeah next is McKenzie Drake [Applause] next is Lily Meyer who is also um all state in football this [Applause] season next is Amanda peki [Applause] next is Asia poz who is also an all state and flag [Applause] football Jill simonian [Applause] Sam strowski [Applause] Ava studman [Applause] Gabby [Applause] Weber and Gwen Zimmerman who is also All State in flag [Applause] football thank you again everyone [Applause] [Music] Britney Metta will you please come forward to the podium Bry Metta has been named the 2024 art educator of the Year by the Illinois art Education Association Britney joined District 211 in 2017 as a teacher at Hoffman Estates and shamberg high schools she currently teaches courses at Hoffman Estates High School including paint drawing and print making as well as 2D 2D advanced placement studio and advanced placement Studio drawing the iaea award program recognizes art Educators throughout Illinois who are committed to their students and the art design and media education profession congratulation Britney welld deserved [Applause] [Applause] thank you to everyone we're going to pause for pictures but before we do I'd like to thank our our young ladies our Dynamic young ladies for this accomplishment our first flag football team and so much Hardware that you've brought to to show us so congratulations and I know it's taken a lot of effort um a lot of time and a lot of commitment thank you for for your commitment to that and thank you to the parents for all that you do to support our students to support your young ladies here uh it's truly appreciated couldn't do a lot of these things without all of the support that we have and to our staff for the uh um being there for them encouraging our our students and supporting the students so um thank you also to to our veterans Patrick and the the gentleman here that that stood up thank you for your service Britney's dad oh Britney's Dad okay and thank you to to Britney um you know the Arts are amazing you need that creative part of your brain also that's so important so thank you for uh your recognition and thank you for sharing your talents with our students so at this time we're going to pause for some pictures and then we're going to continue with the public comments so we'll direct them to the St we have three individuals who have signed up for public comments um we are live streaming the public comments I would ask that you follow the our standard procedures that are posted on all of our agendas and limit your comments to five minutes we'll start with Camille biss if you'd step forward forward good afternoon Board of Education I am back um I'm here to talk about um what I think as well as my opinion about how the school is treating my IEP meetings as well as my IEP stuff in school um they've been in my recent years because I'm a junior this year in the recent past years I've been treated very very like pushed off basically not getting what I needed in my IEP which half like teachers would read the IP maybe not like half time so most of the time I didn't get what I needed in my IEP and I'm just there struggling with dyslexia in all these problems and stuff as well as I want to bring up another fact um today um me and my parents were calling the school today they wanted to talk to us about um renewing our my paperwork for dyslexia which Unfortunately they said that they won't be able to do the tests which really angers me but what can I do um about that situation um I just want to say that they need to figure out a way to figure out um to find a way to solve problems faster than build up over time which I've as kind of would have been already known in because um dyslexia paperworks paperwork only last three years which should have been done eighth grade seventh grade which I don't blame the school here but they could have told me that we need those paperwork in freshman year which didn't happen in any way so it in my I never mentions the word dyslexia which aggravates me but I can't do anything about it it puts it as learning specific learning disability what you can Define anything with specific learning disability you can say you're slow that could be under like special learning disability you read differently or you have ESL it doesn't specify the thing I need as a student and going to college thinking about my future as so I don't want um my school district to think that I'm going to trade school because my school district feels like I'm get set up to go to trade school which I am not I feel like I want to go to college and I want to be a successful person which I feel like I'm being pushed into trade school thank you Board of Education I will really respect what you think about it thank you very much thank you our next speaker is Lee Bennett I'm sorry because this is UN official I'm gonna um I'm sorry camil camil uh this is not our usual standard procedure because it's unofficial public comment so if you do have time tonight once everybody's had an opportunity to speak I'd like to talk to you oneon-one if you have the time to stay along if you don't I'll reach out by other means okay okay Lee Bennett please hello Dr small present in online board staff and Community I'm Lee Bennett a local volleyball Advocate I remember two live TV events from my Early Childhood one was the last time men walked on the moon in the other at the Houston Astrodome a woman did even more to change life here on Earth at and since that event Billy Jean King has promoted Sports participation for women and girls her women's sports Foundation Remains the most prominent advocacy group for this cause in my imagination King is my to pay opponent on gender equity and sports I can SE the main thrust of wsf literature Sports participation is valuable for women and girls what wsf doesn't address is how valuable sports participation is for boys and men nearly any every benefit they tout for girls seems to apply to the boys as well some might benefit girls more than boys other however other benefits of competitive Sports likely have greater value for boys for example there's an element of assertiveness trainings which girls seem to need more than boys while many boys can benefit from channeling an abundance of assertiveness this is one reason why Sports is a common activity long used by those who work with troubled boys wsf does not research the relative value of sports for girls versus boys yet they advocate for equal participation Title 9 sets the standard for equal access it does not require equal participation girls have access to a significantly broader range of athletic options in District 211 the wsf claims growth in girls Sports has not reduced opportunities for boys they note that boys in NFS Sports is high the number of boys is higher than 50 years ago however because of population growth the boys participation rate has fallen as I noted last month the growth of girls participation has grown slowly over the last 45 years since implementation implementation of Title 9 regulations the girls great rate Grew From 27% to 39% while the boys fell slightly from 57 to 53 given previous circumstances growing girls participation five and a half times the rate of the decline for boys might be reasonable however much of this growth for girls happened long ago in the last 10 years there's been a slight decline in participation for both sexes boys participation declined twice as much of the girls is this still an appropriate trade-off the recent Paris Olympics is another place to look for progress in sports Equity the whole world strove for equal participation for both sexes but just fell fell just short of the goal to have as many women participate as men what does our US Olympic team need to do in order to address its 53 to 47% gender imbalance invest in our men's field hockey program so that it qualifies for competition and find another sport for men in order to offset the women of the artistic swimming team if the only practical way of achieving gender equal gender participation in inter Scholastic Sports is to provide boys fewer opportunities than girls then I disagree with the wsf that this is a worthwhile Pursuit you have one minute remaining such a solu such a solution is a bigger violation of Title 9 principles than the current imbalance in competitive Sports participation due to the interest of students I'm proud to live in a country where King advocates for more girls to play tennis and other sports based on my life experience I will continue to advocate for more kids of both sexes to play volleyball both causes are valuable our schools should provide these options to all and allow students to determine which te activities they value most thank you thank you next is Anna chuchula from catine Township can you fix this I think it's tripping a little sorry I'm shorter yeah that'll be there thank you thank you good evening Board of Education president Anna klimovich superintendent Dr Lisa small and District 211 School Board I'm here on behalf half of Andy John gel kunos the supervisor of Palatine Township my name is Anna chachula and I'm the administrator and I appreciate the opportunity to share some of the supervisor remarks with you this evening by law Illinois townships are charged with three basic functions general assistance for those in need including food pantry Mental Health Services and life-saving life sustaining and life enriching programs the assessor's office for the assessment of real property appeals and exemptions and road district for the maintenance of all roads and bridges outside federal state and other local jurisdictions in addition Palatine Township is the primary source of humanitarian Aid in your community we provide Social Services to eight municipalities including Arlington Heights Bearington Hoffman Estates Inverness Palatine Rolling Meadows shamberg and South barington we help lowincome residents seniors and people with disabilities live successfully within our community we provide additional assistance with our food pantry transportation and Outreach programs tonight I'm here to solve a problem on behalf of vulnerable kids in our Township our local award-winning back to school supplies program has been helping children at need in district 15 and District 211 schools for 36 years high school students are issued iPads by the school district the iPad Insurance protection plan is not covered and parents are responsible for the repair or replacement of iPads that can cost up to $350 Palatine Township's back to school program helps cover the cost of iPad insurance for qualifying high school students for example those students who receive free lunch or reduced lunch or demonstrate Financial need and live within the boundaries of palentine Township this year we're able to provide the cost of $25 of iPad insurance for 145 high school students we're able to do this with the generous support of the community and Community organizations this year the township received a grant from Palatine JC's for $1,000 and Palatine Township is adding $2,625 to cover the cost for the iPad insurance for 145 students on behalf of supervisor cunos I would like to present District 211 with a check in the amount of $3,625 to cover the cost of iPad insurance for those in students um who shall I present the check to thank you [Applause] thank you very much thank you very much for the donation that is amazing all right um I thank everyone for attending this evening as a reminder because there is not a quorum present the regular board meeting scheduled for tonight will be rescheduled and that date will be made available on our District website so again thank you very much for attending good evening to all