##VIDEO ID:IdLjJtbgMRA## e e okay please rise for the salute to the flag in a moment of silence plge ALG to the flages thank you do I have a motion to reconvene so motion good you have a second second okay motion by Mr Tree waser seconded by Mr Sana all in favor I I any opposed carried roll call Mr secretary M Anderson here M bouran here M Perez here Mr mohamd here Mr sedon here Mr treaser here Mr valz here Mr Harris here will someone make a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting motion okay do I have a second second okay any additions or Corrections seeing none I have a motion by Miss Perez a seconded by Miss Anderson all in favor I any opposed no seeing none carried Mr secretary please State for the record any notices of Bill or proposals received by the board thank you Mr President no bids were received thank you Dr mamino please stay for the record the superintendent reports for the month of December 2024 thank you Mr Harris I present to the board the following reports for the month of December 2024 register statistics register of report of fire drills student suspension report for the elementary student suspension report for the secondary bomb thrat report in the monthly report of the attendance officers excellent thank you Dro uh the wber stship Board of Education welcomes and encourages active productive and respectful participation by members of the public and seeks to protect the First Amendment rights of those who engage in the exercise of free speech at this Board of Education meeting members of the public are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of those whose legal rights may be impacted the public is now invited to speak regarding the agendas being presented this evening when you come to the microphone please provide your name and the section of the Township in which you reside along with the specific specific agenda item and item number you wish to discuss as per regulation 1100d comments must be limited to no more than five minutes no response will be given until you have completed your opportunity to speak if you're wishing to speak on an agenda item this evening please come up to the microphone with your name in the section of the town and the agenda item okay all right seeing none uh superintendent's agenda Dr mamino do you have any recommendations for us thank you Mr President I have 28 items to present to the board this evening excellent thank you so a motion hang on John do I have a motion I have a motion by Mr tree waser do I have a second second all right motion by Mr Tree waser seconded by Miss bouran are there any comments or questions from the board see none roll call Mr secretary Miss Anderson yes M bouran yes Mr Mr Muhammad uh Mr President I I vote Yes on all items except number 28 in the name of rers University you're abstaining on 28 I'm abstaining on 28 yes all right thank you m Perez Mr President I will also be abstaining on item number 28 yes to all other items Mr Sedana yes Mr Tre waser yes Mr valz yes Mr Harris yes thank you communic ation policy and planning agenda Mr Muhammad okay Mr President the communication policy and planning committee on recommendation of the superintendent of schools presents the following seven recommendations uh before I move for the foregoing just want to let everyone know that item number seven which is the policy is in process so there will be some more changes in the next reading to this document uh I move for the adoption of the forgo thank you Mr Muhammad I have a motion do I have a second second okay I have a motion by Mr Muhammad seconded by Mr sedan other any comments or questions from the board to the public just want to note two items on this agenda we have the board calendar for the remainder of the the calendar year that's in the packet that will be published on the website shortly uh as well as next year student calendar uh for uh beginning September well officially beginning July 1 but for uh most residents September onwards we have our 25 26 student calendar you know a lot of people like to make uh plans when to get back from vacation when to start their vacation so on and so forth so please take a look at that actually there was a third item as Dr masino knows it's uh item number four here uh important for us this school year the uh June primary has been moved from June 3rd to June 10th thus uh what was a non-school day on Tuesday June the 3 that will now be a school day and Tuesday June 10th which is now the primary election day that will be a no school day so please uh note your calendars parents uh we look forward to having your students on the third all right any other comments or questions roll call Mr secretary M Anderson yes M Bordan yes Mr mohammd yes M perz yes Mr Sedana yes Mr treer yes Mr valz yes and Mr Harris Mr oh sorry you got to my yes I apologize next up uh before we get to curriculum I'm going to go to Mr Pino Mr Pino please provide an overview of the Fall 2024 NJ GPA report thank you Mr President the fall 2024 NJ GPA is a test that is administered to our 11th grade students but it's also to important for the public to understand that this group of students represents those who were unsuccessful during their junior year so we give this test again as a means to help them meet their graduation proficiency requirements so while we are talking about um a test that is given to 11th graders to graduate this is something that is given to them again um as a 12th grade student um it's also for any student that has transferred into the district um where has not taken this test so in terms of a cohort of students the percentages that are represented in this test Administration um are really only a fraction of those students who test you know for the Public's U perspective there are currently 1173 students in grade 12 so when we're looking at this some of those numbers we are talking about a percentage of a percentage versus the students in each school thank you any comments or questions from the board on the GPA results okay all right Mr P the when is the test typically administered in the spring semester students aware of when when that comes up I'm sure they're aware but could you share um the test changes um to speak off the top of my head it's usually in the spring I would say it's usually about April April off the top of my head so somewhere somewhere about there it usually predates the AP testing and th in May got um and again this is a requirement for graduation so every student has to sit for this test until they are successful or until they have um neared the end of their senior year where they can be portfoli right great thank you very much okay we're going to head to the rest of the curriculum agenda curriculum extracurricular activities and Technology Mr Sedana thank you Mr President the curriculum extracurricular activities and Technology committee on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction presents the following three items and move for the adoption of the foregoing excellent I have a motion by Mr sedan do I have a second second I have a motion by Mr Sedana I definitely heard a second from Miss Anderson are there any comments or questions from the board three items seeing none roll Mr secretary Miss Anderson yes M Bordan yes Mr Mohammad yes M Perez yes Mr sedon yes Mr tree bosser yes Mr bz yes and Mr Harris yes finance and insurance Mr tree bosser thank you Mr President the finance and insurance committee on recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the business administrator board secretary presents the following 13 items I move for the adoption of the forgoing I have a motion by Mr tree waser do I have a second okay a motion by Mr Tree waser seconded by m Perez are there any comments or questions from the board seeing none I just want to highlight item number 12 uh is required by law we have to have an independent audit conducted of our books uh each year following the conclusion of our fiscal year Mr wolferman want to give you a shout out here to you and your team uh we've received a clean audit with only minor uh clerical errors to uh to address so Mr Wolf thank you to you and your team for keeping the books clean and doing right by our taxpayers thank you very much any other comments or questions from the board I would also like to add to that and commend the financial team under Mr wolferman and also Dr mamino supervising the team thank you all so much great job okay thank you good roll call Mr secretary Miss Anderson on item number one I'm going to abstain in the name of Marie Anderson yes to all other items M bouran yes Mr Mohammad yes Ms Perez yes Mr sadonna yes Mr treaser yes Mr valz yes Mr Harris and item number one I'll be abstaining the name Daniel Harris voting yes on the remaining agenda right we moving on to dining and transportation Miss Perez thank you Mr President the dining and transportation committee on recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the business administrator board sec secretary present the following 10 items I move for the adoption of the forgoing excellent thank you I have a motion by Miss Perez do I have a second second okay motion by Miss PR seconded by Miss Bordan are there any comments or questions from the board seeing none Roll Call Secretary Miss Anderson yes M Bordan yes Mr Mohammad yes Miss Perez yes Mr sadonna yes Mr Tre Bon yes Mr valz yes Mr Harris yes all right substituting in for Mr delip this evening doing the Personnel agenda is Miss bouran thank you Mr President the Personnel committee on recommendation of the superintendent of schools and the assistant superintendent for human resources present the following 43 items I move the motion excellent I have a motion by Miss bouran do I have a second second okay I have a motion by Miss Bordan seconded by Miss Perez are there any comments or questions from the board seeing none roll call Miss secretary Ms Anderson yes M bouran yes Mr Mr Mohammad yes M Perez yes Mr Sedana yes Mr tree Blaser yes Mr valz yes Mr Harris yes is there any old business that should be brought before the attention of the board anybody no seeing none any new business Mr President yes Miss Anders yes I'd like to make an announcement so the office of the mayor Woodridge Township municipal Council the Interfaith clergy Council of Woodbridge the Woodridge Township human Human Rights Commission the independent Club of Colonia and the wber high school choir will host the community remance service honoring the memory and Legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr this will be on Monday January 20th at 6pm at the Woodbridge oasia Center and that's 95 Port Reading Avenue in Woodbridge also in celebrating Dr Martin Luther King Jr our student essay contest program will be on January 27th at 6: pm at the oasia center thank you Mr President thank you Miss Anderson anybody else uh Mr President yes as I um await some information uh on February 12th there will be uh the spring president's council meeting um we encourage all uh families to try to log on it's a zoom from 6 to 6 to 7 it's 7 7 to8 7 to8 I apologize I don't have my flyer in front of me um but just keep a lookout for uh the information on how to obtain the zoom information um we'll have um Dr mamino uh mayor McCormack and um whatever board members um can be available to get on say it will be an hour going on in the district and the township uh the other um thing was any uh special education parents received an email or will be receiving an email that on February 4th um Miss Bear's office will be holding a meeting for uh CPAC meeting uh at The Rise building um please take a look in your emails and uh try to join us for very valuable information on any and all um uh portals and and information that we use for special educ education thank you thank you anybody else no just want to make a special recognition this evening uh one of our own Miss Jenny Perez was recently recognized with the valley Leena service award this award is a prestigious award given out by the Boy Scouts of America and Jenny will be recognized for her uh giving of uh youth uh youth Latino uh St boys and girls opportunities and uh for anybody who knows Jenny you know her heart and soul is in David's touch a nonprofit she co-founded with uh with her son uh she raises money uh gifts to provide to uh families in need as well as children who are sick in the hospital uh you're very very deserved honory and we're we're very proud of you and for those of us sitting up here that there's a dinner that Jenny expects you to buy a ticket to and that'll be April uh and we have to go out and support her she's very deserved and uh I can think of a long distinguished list of honoraries who have received it before you I've been to the dinner previously for people like speaker Coughlin Councilman Greg fera you're you're joining um a long uh uh fraternity or sority of really great people so congratulations welld deserved thank [Applause] you okay thank you uh moving on uh we will head to the public comment section of the port portion of the evening we will now open the meeting for public comment if you wish to say something please come to the microphone provide your name and the section of the Township in which you reside for the record again members of the public are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of those whose legal rights may be impacted please limit your comments to no more than 5 minutes in accordance with regulation 1100d no response will be given until you have fully completed all of your comments so as not to interrupt your five minute opportunity to speak as we're already ready with Mr Maris welcome back thank you sir it's good to be back it's been several months since I've been here um I wanted to thank uh those who ran for reelection the past election and congratulate you on being reelected thank you for your service continued service and interest in our community and the school system and again I wish everybody a very healthy and happy New Year in the times ahead obviously this Monday is going to be a major important day we're honoring um the swearing in of a new president which I think is going to Clause the paradigm shift in the way this country is operating and will be operating in the future we also honor one great man who I had the honor of at least knowing him well in my lifetime and that's Dr Martin Luther King and everything that he brought to the development and Improvement of life within this country um God Rest his soul and thanks him so much for what he has done but moving into what I really want to speak to it's back to Dei it's something that I've talked about many many times over a number of years now and I think we and correct me if I'm wrong I think we really initiated uh the role of uh Mr Ali probably about 2021 if I'm correct yeah so I about that yeah yeah um since that time um I'm really interested to know how much we have spent on Dei in total and what I mean by that is aside from Mr Ali's uh salary and I think he's the only one paid directly now for that specific role but we've had a lot of educational time spent and I say educational I'm talking about the money spent on instructing training sessions for teachers staff and of course uh the indoctrination of the the children with the uh Dei philosophy and I'd like to know where we're going to go with that in the future since right now we're seeing a major shift in corporations which is no surprise to me uh in our government going away from Dei deemphasizing in fact not just deemphasizing neutralizing it which is going to take a lot of time and I think it's something the public would like to know about how the school will phase it out how will you help to if you will um deprogram those who have been been programmed by it and is it your intention to do so and if not why not um the other question I have too is where do we stand on the new schools be it avanel hopon or anywhere else as far as major expenditures are concerned um essentially that is the questions that I have thank you all right you're you're right back in the saddle after being out a little bit uhk you uh thanks for being here and thanks for the question so uh first off on our Personnel agenda this evening I don't know if you had a chance to see it uh we are over the course of time since we created the director of Dei the position has taken on new forms new roles uh and Mr Mr Ali or uh Dr masino or I can speak to it um that includes you know a Ser so finish my my thought we're actually changing the the title of the name uh title of the position to the director of student access and engagement and that's that's not necessarily a reflection of politics of the day but a reflection of where where the job has has been trending in recent years it was created in um in response uh to to some of the Civil uh upal we had at the time following the the murder of George Floyd and has since taken on different roles I know Mr Lee I often sit on his Equity commission meetings where he handles everything from our uh our tutoring program we have a high impact tutoring program that was first supported by a Federal grant Now by state grants as well as by by District money uh he's our he works with our we have a homeless coordinator a homeless liaison a role he's he's been heading up and actually transitioning out of because of unfortunately well he's been a credit to his position no doubt sure and um you know the need for it and then you know he's doing an innumerable number of things relative to students food drives coach drives um you know uh he's second as our human resource Resources officer he's a head of our new teacher Mentor program so in light of all that that diverse group of uh uh tasks we're changing the name today so that is where we're headed I I don't know Dr maso I spoke about this he was ready to answer in Greater detail Mr Maris we've had discussions about this so we're we're probably going to disagree on on how you may Define Dei and how I may Define Dei um how you would apply it in a political sense and how I would apply it to a school system so I'll I'll respectfully disagree with anything that you know um insinuates indoctrination because I I find that to be obviously wildly insulting because that's not something that I would advocate for um we change job description all the time right we've changed our supervisor job descriptions based on the changes of of the school district so uh if I said to you and and and you would have to take me my word so that's your choice if you do so that I was having conversations over the summer and in the fall with colleagues and and the county superintendent that's assigned to us it's not middlex County because obviously um there's conflict there to talk about how I feel the need has evolved with students um you know when Mr Harris talks about translation services and high impact tutoring and food drives that's not specific to a subgroup right that's all of our students everybody benefits and I and I've had this conversation with a number of parents um my job is is to not be political right my job is to figure out what is the need of the of the student body and what are the resources we have what are the talents of the Personnel that we um employ and and how do we best leverage that to to provide for our students so you know the any change I think you make now to a uh anything referencing the EI is going to look like a response or reaction there there's no control for that I don't um I don't defend things that I do in in support of students um so the idea of his job progressing the same way we used to have a director personnel and now we have an assistant superintendent for human resources um I I see those things as consistent um again we'll agree to disagree on the definitions that's okay that I think that's part of what what makes you know the world go around um but I I am proud of the work we have done I'm proud of the work we are doing I am excited for the work that we will do um I think Mr Ali talents lend themselves to doing those things um you could see there there's some responsibilities that were never put in here right we nobody ever knew that he was the homelessness nison for the mckenny vento ACT and that's something that he did helping any family that that needed that help that's not something that'll be celebrated when we talk about the EI but it is something to be celebrated so uh all I would say is you know the the changes that we make you know I spoke with with Miss Anderson spoke with Mr Harris we we had good discussion I spoke with Mr Ali I would say this position like a lot of positions you know being a teacher now as opposed to 25 years ago I'm I'm sure is very different um technology coordinators before iPads and Chromebooks everything changes and everything shifts um I believe this is more accurately reflective of the work he's going to do um and and really does encompass the vastness of of students that he supports so we're looking forward to that and and obviously the goal is to always help as many students as possible I appreciate I'm glad I asked the question I like your answers very much it's insightful I think it's enlightening to a lot of people that are listening right now too and forgive me if I said anything that I was looking at the broader Contex across the whole country not specifically just the school and obviously you're going to be shifting resources to accomplish what you want to do going forward which is a good thing which is financial as well and I did ask the question about how much money was spent on it over the course of its let's say fouryear life right now sure um and I think that's a fair question because that'll be shifting hopefully bringing it back into like I the old three Rs and getting the kids up to speed in Reading Writing math and all the essentials as businesses walking away from Dei that's not what they're going to be looking for people with degrees in that they want competent Engineers they want doctors lawyers and I think that's where the school is make that's the product the school has to put out is kids that are capable of filling the positions that this country is going to need but thank you yeah and then the my other question was where do we stand on the new school the school so um if you've driven by you can see the progress on avanel 4 and five um there's a a fair amount of Steel that's been put up so that that's always a good sign um obviously you know being the construction industry uh concrete and certain construction activities in the winter are uh a little more challenging sometimes impossible um so you know we'll we'll navigate the weather as everybody does in New Jersey when you're building um The Hope launch School we're still waiting for the state um we've submitted all our applications obviously anytime you're dealing with anything Green Acres there's quite a bit of um I hate to use the word red tape but but it's we just go up bureaucracy um and there's a lot of different agencies and obviously you know with with the change in in you know our our president and obviously there's a lot of things going on in the state we will uh we'll wait patiently as as everybody else does but we've we've submitted everything that we can submit and you know we'll work with whatever we get back and and take it from there but I'll certainly have be happy to provide updates you know when I get them we haven't gotten thank you absolutely thank you Mr May yeah and just uh putting a finer point on avanel Street School four and five the original School four building that will be coming down this summer not to be disruptive to the current school year uh structures on time on uh on budget which is always great and then should be opening for September of 202 six so still another year and a half to go correct barring any any issues it's good to see you all again and I I do tend to get back here a little more often but yep thank you thank you good evening good evening Dan finny I'm actually from Colts Neck my son lives here in Station Drive Avenel he was going to try to make it but he doesn't look like he did so I'm going to speak on his behalf and for all of my grandchildren I have uh six kids five grandkids and a foster daughter Dei can be simplified didn't earn it and strip away I would encourage you to strip away all the pretense and The Virtue signaling as I know everybody wants respect everybody wants to succeed everybody wants to see our kids succeed but you need to understand what Dei represents and what it's part of there's several planks revisionist history social justice CRT climate change I would love to have five minutes talk with you about that 30 years in the military I saw the standards go from here to here my son now has been in the military for 17 years my oldest son and I could spend five minutes telling you what he told me let me tell you if we don't take a hard turn in our education system that's been liberalized you won't have a voluntary military force and right now only 30% of the kids graduating from high school are able to get through the greatly reduced basic standards that's not even talking about the success rate in advanced schools or Elite Warfare programs okay what I'm here to talk about though is your transgender policy in spite of growing mountain of evidence and nearly daily relev Revelations to the contrary some still think there is no need to do anything about the lgbtq policy or woke agenda because people don't perceive there is a problem and they state that hey it's been in place for several years I am here to say there definitely is a problem starting with the fact that the vast majority of parents still have no idea what was concocted in the dark of night and sent out by Strauss Esme without public transparency we had no idea our inali rights were being subverted fundamental biology ignored traditional Faith values thrown out and common sense when went the way of the dodo bird by the very public education system that was instituted to serve us and our Endeavor to raise our children here is the irrefutable truth the lgbtqia A++ plus narrative policies influencers and various Avenues of indoctrination yes it is indoctrination and grooming will and are ushering in an epidemic of gender dysphoria and confusion among our youth consider holidays like celebrate lgbtq I a month we have Memorial Day Martin Luther King Day Independence Day Etc but we've got lgbtqia a month we've got Awareness Week Day of Silence and several more actually I can't even remember the number it's a bunch of them throughout the year being infused into our young impressionable children we don't have a large population of students with gender dysphoria now but some adults want to live vicariously to facilitate conditions to make it easier for kids to go down this path of harm and Devastation I think they have a psychological need to be validated and that explains why they are on a mission to radically change social norms redefine gender marriage and host of other things the lgbtq policy serves to valid validate all of the cumulative messaging and amounts to Flatout indoctrination and an attack on the hearts and minds of our children everything about it is harmful some say conservatives are fearmongering as they claim it is without about providing a safe place for children to be autonomous in their gender identity from bad parents so policies based on words have consequences okay words have meaning the policies have consequences what are the implications of a student centered policy that excludes parent if young children even from kindergarten are granted rights by the state that contribute parental rights what does that mean and what will that lead to if administrators and staff affirm without question diagnosis or any other criteria what is the potential harm to children who would have embraced their birth gender otherwise I'm going to read that again what is the potential harm to children who would have embraced their birth gender otherwise if you really want to protect our children and provide a safe place for them to learn and grow as children you'll redirect this reject this divisive and dangerous policy that tries to create special rights for 1% at the expense of the 99% but actually harms that same 1% while providing no real benefit to anyone I know that's a head Bender Mr phen I apologize your time thank you I pray this board will use discernment and intellectual honesty on Dei and this transgender policy to move with conviction and conscious to abolish abolish it and if I had another five minutes I'd talk to you about the standards academic standards are just the tip of the iceberg for preparing these kids for life and competing with our adversary okay yes hi hi uh my name is Ron Mack I'm from Oldbridge and I'd like to thank you for all your for your service I know you put in a lot of hours here um I'd like to uh I agree with the first you're you're already talking about we in four days we have a major change coming and you all know that regardless of where we stand on the Spectrum I appeal to the board attorney I assume you're a JD and uh that uh some of these things are going to be drastic especially in regards to 51 45.7 and some of your policies you're under right now which will be under which your JD needs to uh inform you or prepare pre- Advance perform I'm going to read these are not my opinions these are not my words this is 100% of the man who's going to become president in 4 days from right now and I'm going to read the words he said just as an advance for what's coming the left-wing gender Insanity being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse very simple here is my plan not mine to stop the chemical physical and emotional mutilation of our youth on day one January 20 I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender affirming care ridiculous a process that includes giving kids puberty blockers mutilating their physical appearance and ultimately performing surgery on minor children can you believe this I will sign a new executive order instructing every Federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age I will then ask Congress to permanently stop Federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohi prohibiting child sexual mutilation and in all 50 states it'll go very quickly I will declare that any hospital or health care provider that participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare and will be terminated from the program immediately furthermore I will support the creation of a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have unforgivably unforgivably performed these procedures on minor her children the Department of Justice will investigate big Pharma and the big hospital networks to determine whether they have deliberately covered up horrific long-term side effects of sex transition in order to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients in this case very vulnerable we will also investigate whether big Pharma or others have illegally marketed hormones or puberty blockers which are in no way licensed or approved to use this my Department of Education will inform state and school districts that if any teacher or School official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body they will be faced with severe consequences including potential civil rights violation for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding again these are not my words at all as part of our new credentialing body for teachers we will promote positive education about the nuclear family the roles of mothers and fathers and celebrating rather than erasing the things that make men and women different and unique I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female and they are signed at Birth the bill will also make clear that title 9 prohibits men from participating in women's sports and we will protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender which is new and an identity without the parents consent the the identity will not be new and it not will not be without the parents consent no serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender a concept that is never heard of in all of human history nobody's ever heard of this what's happening today it was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago under my leadership this ma Madness will end thank you very much Donald J Trump thank you thank you anybody else wishing to speak this evening Paul lopon there is a contingent of people who feel what was just stated by these gentlemen was hateful was phobic um some even call it violent if I if I say that a man can't get pregnant some people would accuse me of violence in this day and age you say that you try not you're not political and yet if we go back before uh President Obama made gender identity a protected class from an employment standpoint by the way gender identity is still in the psychiatric Handbook of psychiatric disorders a protected class where employers can not consider that in their Employment Practices that's what Obama Obama set up back then but before then would anyone of you had thought that we would promote even down to the second grade the idea that gender was a choice so that there were 77 of them to choose from and Counting I don't think so these weren't your ideas these wouldn't have been things that you'd consider absolutely necessary for the children and parents of Woodbridge Township and yet here we are you're you've got the option to resend that policy which we we know is not mandatory and you're standing by it and I can't understand you're all intelligent caring people you have access to the same uh information that we do maybe you have some inside information studies that that we you know we're not familiar with experts that have proven that affirmation is the way to go whatever the child wants is the way to go the child should be in control their health care and yet we wouldn't want them in control of our finances at home their diets but yes they should have control over their medical care and their sexual Freedom comprehensive sexual education is a perversion they want to teach kids from an early age how to pleasure themselves and those rights for freedom of sexuality even Trump parental rights even parents of uh faith ath parents of Jud Judaism parents of Christianity parents of of Muslim faith who wouldn't want their kids exploring sexual until they're married it sounds very oldfashioned doesn't it but shouldn't we have some say in that especially since we're funding we're footing the bill for all this as far as de is concerned you can change the name it's still trying to make one group feel like they're oppressors and another group feel like they're perennial victims which is cruel you're robbing children of agency when you tell them that it's systemically racist and biased against them even if that in this day and age it were still true even if we were like back in the 60s the 1960s the 1860s no parent wants their kid to feel like they don't have any self-determination I brought up Frederick Douglas we know him still today because of the heroic work he did along with Christian abolition s to undo the shackles of slavery and yet people want to still dwell on the slavery rather than the freedom we have in this country I love this country I still trust in God and the government schools are trying to undermine that don't tell me you're not political you guys go along to get along maybe because they control the purse strings you do what you got to do and you rationalize it somehow bad policy we see it in in the rates of mental disorder suicidality depression uh proficiency rates which I just got a load of we need an alternative school system a parallel school system if I'm going to pay $7,000 a year for this I need choices and I'm going to push for school choice I'm going to push for a rational Governor that is not in the pocket of the radical pedagogy Institute and the radicals who are dictating policy in this state and in this country thank you good evening good evening I'm a little smaller than these gentlemen hold on one second hi my name is Kim Linley I'm from an album I'm former special ed teacher so dear Woodbridge Board of Education members thank you for your time effort and commitment to the students of wood Township School District tonight I would like to highlight some facts of why suggested policy I got the number wrong so please forgive me I have 5756 but I believe it coincides with your policy of um 51457 um should be removed the development of the brain and the increase of students on attending public school policy 5756 or your policy sorry has many ramifications that go outside of the classroom your policy breaks down an integral part of the teacher parent relationship there is no longer trust where than the teacher does not have to provide Vital Information information about their children child example the children's identity in school a separate School file is kept on the child another example the social worker can stand in front when the parents may not be favorable of the child's choice of identity parents are able to be informed of this crucial information when the student is ready to share with with his or her parent when did the school become the moral compass of our families children do better in life with a consistent routine they need to feel loved have a secure Foundation consistency is one key element which is incred ult in a child's development emotionally and academically our these policies create confusion and division within the teacher parent child relationship this is more concerning in elementary years the teacher and the parent are the two most important people in young child students life lastly the importance of the teacher parent relationship greatly impacts the students learning um an article parents teacher relationships why they matter and how to build them is one of the article that helps provide examples of how to because the development of the when is your brain fully developed from adolescence to adulthood by Heidi mid a doctor has written this article which provides tremendous facts about the development of the brain and what ages develop they develop the brain does not fully develop until around mid 20s the brain developed at different rates various sections develop at different times one important fact that provides reasons why these policies should be resented is that sex hormones can affect men and women different differently the development direction of hormones which girls and boys are different this is important due to the growth rate in various regions of the brain another article what age is the brain fully developed by mentalhealth da.com some important facts about the brain from this article are decision making is a skill that should improve with age a child does not have the ability to make long-term decisions due to the age and the age and the development of the brain stages another important factor for this is the prefrontal cortex which helps us make more sound decisions the pre fundal region is responsible for helping one to understand more complicated planning these two these two statements alone should resend these policies which do not include parental involvement I mean I don't understand how that alone children have no um they don't have the knowledge they don't have the wisdom to make these decisions they're not the same at 13 as they are 20 as they are 29 at 30 I mean children are your children so in in in having the child as a student um my goal as the teacher was I would have the ability Inspire them to learn on one second a teacher is given the opportunity to inspire teachers to learn they instruct how to socialize with others and more importantly how to think and solve problems when students require more emotional support a teacher is able to call on the school social worker or school psychologist when needed these students who may be in need of these Services all students have hi policy in place to help them if they're experiencing any building or example all children are important each learns different and grows in different various rates a child changes their mind all the time even as they grow into adults they continue to discover new things about themselves my kids are 26 and 29 still asking for help still trying to find themselves so how in our our right Minds can we allow a child in five five years old to say who they are as far as a girl or a boy I mean that's not your job as a teacher you have the social worker you have the counsel I don't understand mean the the facts of the brain alone there's too much science to say that a child is not able to make those decisions they may not be the same person as I get said at 13 as they are at 20 as they are at five so I just want to thank you for your time and I I hope you re these policies thank you so much I appreciate it bye thank you hello good evening Tony pesky from Oldbridge uh thank you for serving the district although the internet has been scrubbed with this little known fact in 1798 Benjamin Rush had the original idea to create taxpayer funded public schools in order for children to be able to read the Bible he wrote that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion without this there can be no virtue and without virtue there can be no liberty and Liberty is the object and life of all Republican governments small R look how far we have come is there even a Bible present in your school library the number one bestselling book year after year since book records have been kept we all have with all these complex issues how do we determine what is good and what is bad bad what Foundation does the district use to determine what is right and what is wrong about 2,000 years ago uh the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob The Great I Am sent his son Jesus to live a life we could not live and die a cruel death we all deserve the Bible says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God pride is the original and worst sin we need a savior and when we turn from our sin except Jesus the Savior our eyes will be open and we will be born again we can now see what is right and what is wrong Jesus said you must be born again to see the kingdom of God sexualizing children is wrong if you can't see that is wrong your eyes are not opened and you're most likely not saved Luke 17:2 says it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea then that he should offend one of these little ones if you are talking to children who are not yours about sex and sexuality or sexual orientation and hiding it from their parents while encouraging them to hide it you are sexual predator and should be dealt with as such God loves us all so much that he sent his one and only son to die for us God loves us God loves you I love you the reason why I'm here is because I love people and if I didn't I would have stayed home and watched TV the left is using the LGB community and when they are finished with you they will discard you if you accept Christ into your heart turn from your wicked ways and believe in him God will not discard you you will have tremendous you have tremendous value and are created in His image it is not loving to affirm a lie God's word is truth and is the standard of all that is right and wrong God designed each person with a beauty purpose and equal value God created US male and F female please consider these words today thank [Applause] you hi my name is Gerald Mago director of the Dolores turo foundation and uh I'd like to Begin Again thanking you for your service uh in the past I spoke about topics of Truth and wisdom today I'd like to discuss the topic of love the source of all love is God and there can be no love without God when he's removed from the equation nothing is left but false attempts to gratify the senses the opposite of love is not hate but to use another person for one's own satisfaction marriage is the ideal context for the sexual relationship and the best context to raise children the vast majority of parents and teens agree this is supported by Professionals State laws that stress absence and government agencies but that's not what we're teaching in our schools instead we teach them sex for pleasure and as long as they don't become pregnant anything goes we teach them anal oral sex contraception and that children are burdened to be avoided at all costs contraception doesn't protect their hearts and it doesn't protect them from STDs then we wonder why they're sick mentally physically and emotionally we're puzzled by the STD epidemic 20 million new cases each year half between between the ages of 15 and 24 we question why they're depressed anxious why they turn to drugs alcohol and other escapes and while more and more drop out of school and end up poor but there is a solution to all these problems and it's rooted in God's design for love research shows that teens that graduate from high school get a job get married and then have children there's only 2% chance they'll end up in poverty and this is known as a success sequence research also shows that married couples are the happiest healthiest most prosperous and have the best sex lives there are compelling reasons to return to the true meaning of love these kids want love and those of us that know true love know it means sacrifice but the rewards are Beyond any Monet mon momentary gratification instead there's a push to commodify the body where becomes a product for sex sex without love leads to every kind of human misery porn diseases rape sex trafficking where 50% of the victims are children the average age of Entry is 12 most of them these involve harm to women and children porn is not harmless it teaches men to treat women as objects instead of human beings created in the image and likeness of God it teaches boys that when girls say no they really mean yes and gives them permission to rape and sexually assault girls sadly one in four and one in seven girls and one in seven boys are sexually assaulted before they're 18 today there exists an agenda to replace the spirit of life and love of God with technology and materialism there's a connection between the transgender ideology and transhumanism Tex wants to replace genuine Love by twisting the sexuality of the human being created by God's design to love and be loved and consummated in a union between a man and a woman as marriage and God wants to have that intimate relationship with each one of us in cont uh we have techn a technological society that replaces enduring love with sex gratification and children that don't know better are lured into believing this lie transgender is a technological problem to response to a heart problem um the heart is broken and needs repair and we offer children muiz and sterilization instead and lead them to believe that this will replace the longing in their hearts but this opens the door to transhuman is M the more we use technology to replace human interaction the more we become dependent upon Tech and more isolated from the love of others and love of God and become less human in our interactions and more capable of atrocities accepting atrocities against humanity such as the mutilation of children trafficking of women and children and sexual exploitation it's obvious that transgender policies have very serious and expensive remed ifications for anyone that enforced them you heard about uh our president-elect's policies also the House of Representative past a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls sports that receive federal funding stating that Americans are united in our belief that men have no place in women's sports whether it's breaking records entering locker rooms or stealing scholarship opportunities um I just wanted to point out that transgender policies uh will jeopardize Federal funding and expose school boards to litigation in federal court where the majority of these cases are educated or settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars for each case that violates freedom of speech freedom of religion and or parental rights transgenderism sterilizes the body just as transhumanism sterilizes the mind and opens it up to control by a power greater than oneself you can choose God as your higher power or you can choose technology they both affect relationships one leads to love and Abundant Life the other to isolation and dependency it's my hope that you will choose love and that God will bless you and your families abundantly and bring success to all your endeavors and thank you for the opportunity to address this [Applause] board anybody else who has to spoken seeing none uh the chair will enter main a motion to adjourn so motion okay do I have a second second motion by Mr Tree waser seconded by m ban all in favor any opposed no this meeting is ajour we'll see you in February thank you very much oh it say [Music] will than